A Week without Mom

well my mom left me at home to take care of the house by myself.....my dad's here too,  but he doesn't get home from work till like 6 or 7, so.. i've only been in school for what, TWO weeks??? and i already want summer to be here! :P i've already had about four quizzes, and i think i did pretty well on them. my physical science teacher makes me feel like i'm always wrong....but he makes up for it by his funniness. my geometry teacher is the same way, except he is such a confusing teacher!!

while my mom is going away, i hope to move the furniture in my room around with the help of my dad, and i ordered a new duvet comforter for my bed so i'm pretty excited! :D i'm also happy to say that i'm getting into running on the trails near my house, and is getting a move on my quilt :) 

First Day of School

so first two days of school went as expected.  a bunch of syllabuses were read, and we were off with a great start of a couple of papers to write, and geometry problems to answer. since we only have four classes a day, we really had two first days of school because they were completely different. my favorite teacher is my history teacher, so far. he made me realize that i guess i need to start watching the news....heh heh heh...

anyway, i have started to run on the trails near my house, and while i went running a few nights ago it was getting dark, and it was just a little creepy. i kept thinking somebody was behind me.....NOT to mention all the spider webs i ran into!

The End of Another Summer

oh wow! i haven't written a post in a while. well, anyway, it is time for the end of yet, another, summer. i've laughed, i've cried (mostly the cause of my horse bucking me off XP...), i've done just about everything. i'm very proud of myself that i didn't have to spend the last week of summer, reading! :) i finished those books in July.. 

today was an excellent, almost last, day of summer. i started it off by riding my horse, and she did PERFECT! i was so proud of Genie :) i then continued the day by goofin off and doing nothing. at 6, i went on a run and rewarded myself with frozen yogurt! and to finish off this day, i am now watching "Hillbilly Handfishin", which is where two....hillbillies show people from the city how to catch 70 pound catfish with your bare hands! (a couple people lost chunks of flesh from their FINGERS) so that's what my summer days have basically looked like, and now, on Wednesday, i will start my school year as a sophmore, heyo!

Girls Night Out

since school starts in seven days, the girls and i (the five of us) decided it was high time we met up together after haven't seen each other since my birthday party at the beginning of June, so we met at a stir fry place and stuffed ourselves; while sharing gossip, and talking about our summers.

we then were driven by my friends mom to Coldstone, and stuffed ourselves even MORE with ice cream! :) since i was the only one that had brought a camera, we used it to take multiple shots of us posing together happily. 

Backflip Blobbing

my sister and i, without my parents, joined my cousins up at Camp Vesper Point for family camp, where we were really "rough-in it" in an air conditioned cabin. we ate delicious food (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), and swam most of the day. the great thing about CVP is that it is a Christian camp, and at family camp, my family and i got to worship and hear testimonies together. 

one fun thing you can do, is jump onto a big inflatable thing on the lake called "the blob". it's about thirty feet long, and jump onto it from about five feet above it. you jump onto it, scoot to the middle of it, and then let another person jump onto the blob and try to bounce you off. and then if you still survive, you scoot to the very back of it (with a person a few feet in front of you) and then usually a really big person jumps onto the blob and you go twenty feet in the air and fall into the water. 

well, i was on the back and then a really big person blobbed me, and then i did a backflip off of it, and i almost broke my neck. but...i still blobbed.

Life continues

instead of making at least five more post about the last days of my trip, i will sum it up for you in a few sentences. we left Williamsburg, and had a 30 minute tour of Yorktown. we soon drove another two hours until we reached D.C!! the next few days were filled with more art than i think i have ever seen, more walking (including the walking we did in Williamsburg; which about killed my knees) than i have ever done, and not enough time at my favorite store in the whole.wide.WORLD!!! (aka...urban outfitters). but....i did get to spend those few days with my brother and his wife. :) it took us 11 hours to get home, and  we arrived all in one piece! i was sooooooooooooooooooooo glad to get out of that car, and sooooooooooooooo glad to not have to use a public restroom! XP

since school is starting in a couple of weeks, i should probably finish my (possibly) last summer reading book! but....i'll save that for tomorrow! :) the highlight of today was when my horse put his head on my shoulder, and left it there for a while... :)