yaaaay summer vacation!

It's just a week til SUMMER VACATION!!!!! Isn't that soooo exciting!? And just two weeks til summer camp!

Sand and Stone

Two friends were walking through the desert.
At some point in the journey, they had an argument
and one friend slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying
anything wrote in the sand:

"Today my best friend slapped me in the face."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where
they decided to take a bath.

The one who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire
and began to drown, but his friend saved him.
After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:
"Today my best friend saved my life."
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend
asked the other, "After I slapped you, you wrote in the sand;
and now, you write on a stone. Why?"

The friend replied, "When someone hurts us, we should
write it down in the sand, where winds of forgiveness can erase
it away. But when someone does something good for us, we
must engrave it in stone, where no wind could ever erase it."

Learn to write your hurts in the sand, and to carve your blessings
in stone. It is said it takes a minute to find a special person,
an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but an entire
lifetime to forget them.

VAC

I actually finally got my vacation.
My dad’s account of the trip:
Dad was the best daddy ever, he bought us this nice comfortable van. He gave us plenty of time to finish packing, he went out of his way 40 miles to get my sister’s inhaler, he didn’t complain until the kids started screaming (and we were complaining brats) Mom took an hour shopping for food, well maybe 45 minutes. She bought us nice fake meat. They said we were silly for putting three naughty kids together in the middle row and one in the back with the dog.
And until he gets the computer so he can check his email, he’s going to annoy me like only he can. oh shut up

just 88

only 88 visitors?!! I need to do something about that!

I know... I'll get a new site meter and start it at 100,000!
nevermind

snowmen battle!

hehe what do you think of that? =D

TRABAJO!!!!

that's a little something I had on my old blog.

Right now I'm taking a short break from my babysitting job, as I'm actually sitting down! Well I wrote a bit of a something, and as I said in the last post I took a bit of a trip, so tomorrow, or later today, whichever floats my boat, I'll try to write about them. To see pictures and what my sister wrote on it, you can go to her blog :

http://alyssas-place.blogspot.com

she has tons of cool pics of our trip, most of them she took (mine are probably the blurry ones!)...

I'm almost done with middle school, can you believe it?! Three more weeks, just about! And this summer I'm planning on starting high school, I want to graduate at 16. more on that later...

anyway I'm going to the park so catch u folks later...

Erie... how eerie

Hey just to let you know, I didn't dissappear completely, I disappeared to Erie... tell you more about that later...

park trip

Well I went to the park again yesterday. The goose eggs are still intact but when I checked on the killdeer nest, there was only one egg left. I guess that one was the dud or else it was the last one to hatch and the mother decided to reject it. Anyways, last year a robin built its nest under our deck, in the rafters just under it. It came back this year and is using the same nest. We can peek through the cracks and see the eggs inside. Each day there is one more egg inside, so now there are four eggs. I can't take any pictures because the camera can't really peel through the cracks in our deck, but I'm still going to watch the robin nest anyway.

My tadpoles are almost frogs; they are so cute! There's only seven of them left, but they're doing fine. All of them have their back legs, and some of them have their front legs too. All they need to do is get rid of their tails.

I've been working really hard in school for the past week and a half, so I can go to my grandma's house. I'm almost caught up, I think. I finished all that I need to do in art, PE, tech, social studies, and science, and now I just have some English (a research paper), Algebra, and Spanish to do. I really cannot wait for this school year to be over!

Vacation

I was hoping I could go on a vacation in May, to my grandma's house. It won't exactly be a vacation, since I'll have my family all coming along with me, but it'll still be a bit of a break off school, etc. I hope we can stay for at least a week, maybe two. I've been working real hard on my school to make it a possibility. My goal is to get 21 days ahead, right now I'm at 10. I just have to keep going and maintain what I already have.

Pues, manana es Sabado, y yo soy confudado. Yo nesecito a sabo cosas muchos, pero no cosa es trabajante como yo quiero. yo necesito ayuda fecha aglo o alguien hacer mi como yo fue cuando yo gustaste viva.

Feliz Sabado!

Today was an awesome Sabbath! I went to church, and when I got there (almost late!), I found out that I was supposed to be a greeter! Oh well whatever.

On the way home, we saw smoke coming from a mountain! It was a big fire in the woods on the mountain. Then we drove by and as we did, a plane flew over the fire, and dumped a lot of water on it! It was the first time I've ever seen something like that; it was really cool! My dad said they started the fire on purpose, so they could burn away the brush and prevent accidental fires in the summertime. And also so that some person could try out the plane that dumped the water to make sure it was still working fine.

After we got home, I listened to all my favorite Chirstian radio dramas and talked on the phone until my dad got home. At about 4:00 or 5:00 we left for this park that is close to us, the Ountalaunee Park. It's a big piece of wooded and ponded (is that a word?) and swamped land. When we first went to it, it was a new park and pretty crumby. They were still building these buildings (look at the pictures). The college students are fixing it up and building a lot of cool stuff. They rebuilt some cabin and fort that used to be there. The fort was called Fort Everett. The cabin and the fort were locked, both the doors and the gate to the fort, so I just peered through the windows of the cabin. It looked really nice inside, I wouldn't mind living there, lol! The bed looked really comfy, not; it was made of ropes! The fort, well, I looked through the cracks, but my brother crawled under the fence! I could have fit, but I didn't want to get in trouble, but most of all, I didn't want to get my jeans dirty!

So, after we were done looking at the buildings, I ran over to look at the ponds. They have three little ponds, which would be nice if they could get some more of the cattails and algea out and build a newer bridge. I was stading on the bridge looking for frogs and fish. I saw some frogs, and a few minnow-like fish, but I didn't see any of the koi they had in there last year (they must have died). Anyways then my dad gets on this rickety bridge made of boards, and starts to jump on it. He's like, this bridge isn't very sturdy! Someone could fall in! And then I said that if he didn't stop trying to break the bridge, that someone would be me and him. He explained that he was trying to break the bridge, because if we broke the bridge, then noone else would be able to go on it themselves, and fall in. But I think I'd rather have someone else be as silly as us and go on that bridge, and jump on it and break it and fall in themselves. That pond water suddenly looked really icky. So I got off on the other end (they weren't very big ponds, in fact, the were rather samll round ponds, about10 x 10).

Then I heard something. It was the familiar sound of a killdeer bird, when they are trying to ward you away and around from your nest, by feigning a broken wing. This bird had just stood up, and had her feathers ruffled. Killdeer hide their nests cleverly on the ground, like in this picture. so I looked, and right under her was her nest! It had four speckled eggs in it! That was just the first thing I found.

Next There was a goose nest! It has six eggs in it! I am looking forward to watching the goslings, when they hatch, grow up!

Last of all we played frisbee for a while in the soccer field there. My dad threw a frisbee to my little sister Lanaya, and she actually caught it! I was surprised... I think if she tried she'd bee pretty good at frisbee.

Well, this is mandy, signing off!

new vehicle

Our family purchased a new vehicle! Our old van died, and now I'm glad of it, because our new van is a whole lot better. It's a white Toyota Sienna, with 8 seats, and a spacious enough trunk so I can pack as many clothes as I want when we finally have our vacation (that is, if we ever do). My dad already had a white toyota avalon car, so now we have two white toyotas, lol!

school

I don't know where I'm going to school next year. Either public school or Blue Mountain Academy. I'd much rather attend BMA but that hope seems pretty dim right now.

Why is each little bit of life so complicated? Right now I'm getting straight A's in cyber school but it seems like there's more to learning than just typing things on a computer. I want to try reality, instead of a virtual school life.

Peeps

I now have 14 tadpoles! They are so cute; I think they will turn into Spring Peepers.

April 5

Today has been pretty uneventful... I haven't got into any mischief yet, I'm satisfyingly ahead with my schoolwork, etc, etc. Last night, or evening, should I say, we went to Pathfinders. We didn't actually go for Pathfinders, but we ended up going there anyway since we were early for choir practice (I don't even know why I went, since I know the songs well enough). But I ended up having a better time during the Pathfinder part anyways. I love to sing, but not particularly the songs that our choir does. We did marching the whole time almost, and I was wearing flipflops... my feet were frrrreeezzing! It was very cold, and it still is! In fact, it's snowing! And when I went out to get the mail, there was a bitter cold wind! We ended up getting almost as bad weather as Erie.

Spring Break

I made this post just to lament my so far lousy Spring Break... :( *sniff*