1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (In a tent in your friend's back yard counts right?)
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain (Does that driving up to the tip of Pike's Peak? Two times in 2 months?)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (BLEK!)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community-from a car
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79.Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited a theme park
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem (People from church have!)
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House (We were walking to it when police came up and didn't let anyone past a certin point....)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Seen a wild bear (We had a little cub run out in front of our car--no, we didn't hit it though!)

Pumpkin & Vader

<3

Nails

For weeks I had been begging my parents for black nail polish. Finally I got it. I painted my toes and my fingers. I like it....One night I was bored and put pink stripes on all my fingers and one on my big toes. Now I know my fingers look like fat little sausages but they're not. And the reason my foot is so pale is because the flash was on. So....

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I'm not feeling 100% today so I hope I get better tomorrow. I'll write about Thanksgiving later. Like Saturday maybe. Or Friday if I'm bored. Which I probably will be.....

;)

Randomness

Underneath my top layer of hair it's all afro-y and curly. If I don't blow them down straight (which takes a lot of work!) they stick up. So I rarely pull my hair back cuz they pop out. They're horrible!


And this....house is on the way to riding. Talk about a hillbilly place! In the summer, they all sit under a tree in their yard (what's not pictured) holding a fly swatter. No joke. See the part of the shed on the far left of the picture? Often when we drive by, we see the guy standing in the open doorway, watching us. It's weird.

My week

I know I have a lot to catch up on. OK. So first I'll talk about Friday and slowly move my way to tonight when everyone at my soccer team went to a pizza place, Bellacino's, for dinner and so our coaches could hand out awards and stuff.

FRIDAY: My horse back riding lesson was canceled on Thursday so I had it Friday morning. The horse I ride, Flash, stays up in a pasture that is on a hill. The day before it rained and rained and rained so the hill was way muddy. When I had got Flash and was leading him down the hill, trying to go super slow so he wouldn't slip, he slipped (go figure). I let go of the leadrope and he skied down the hill about 20 feet. When I walked back up to him he wasn't spooked at all. Good horse. In my lessons I'm working on jumping courses--which is a series of jumps in an order. One jump I did was so adorable! It was a few hale bales laid out next to each other. On each side was a hollowed out pumpkin with yellow and orange flowers in it and on top of the jump was a small pumpkin with a drawn on face. It was cool.
That night we went to a 'bonfire and hotdog roast' at a friend's house. My mom came home early from work sick so she couldn't go (I'll be a nice daughter and not mention the part that her boss drove her home and my mom threw up on her car....lol). But me, my dad and Trevor did. It was fun. We had hotdogs (Duh) and dessert and ate it up by the fire. Which wasn't exactly a bonfire....more like a camp fire but whatever.

Nothing happened Sat, Sun or Mon so I'll talk about today.

TUESDAY: We left to go shopping at about 1 in the afternoon. The soccer thing wasn't until 6. First we went to Hamrick's. OK, no offense if any of you like that store but talk about a grandma store. I mean, seriously, everywhere I looked there was that cute little puff of gray or white hair all old ladies have. My mom bought a few things but not me. Me and Trevor sat in the car for like 30 minutes when my mom was in the store. It even smelled old lady-ish and I have a cold and a headache and that smell...ugh...anway. Then we went to our mall. We wandered around a little. Lately I have wanting to have my ear pierced up high on my ear. 'wanting to' as in changing my mind ever other minute. But I did it today! It looks so cool! I don't have any pics at the moment but I'll get one. When the girl did it I didn't even flinch. It didn't hurt...nearly as much as I thought it would anyway. But now it is soooo tender.....

Then we drove to the pizza place.

My team eating pizza. I'm the one on the left, looking at camera. Behind the guy in front.

My team after getting our team pix and ribbons. I'm on the far left

It was a great soccer season. We came second over all. Oh, in that pic above, notice how all the girls are wearing green. Weird.....

Oh and before I forget:
We actually go snow! Well not us personally but only about maybe a 30 minute drive from our house. That is sooo awesome!!


;)

Quick Update

We have had a busy week and we still have a few busy days ahead of us. Every day this week we had to drive somwhere:

Sunday: Church
Monday: Bible club for kingergarteners-5th graders we volunteer at
Tuesday: Trevor's chess club
Wednesday: Trevor's bookclub
Thursday: My riding lesson
Friday: Some hotdog roast thing some people from church are hosting
Saturday: Trevor's chess tournament
Sunday: Church

and then the whole thing pretty much starts again.
I plan to post on Friday or Saturday about the hotdog roast thing. If we have it. We're not sure what the weather will be like.

:)

AWWWW!

OK, I know some of these pictures are fake--but boy are they cute!!!

Friends helping friends


"Yummy!"


"Like my hat?"


OK, the monkey looks like a mirror image of Trevor! (Except cuter....lol)


"YAWN!"


"Who? Me?"



"Say cheese!"



"Maybe they can't see us...."




"Atchoo!"

"Aren't I gorgeous, darling?"

That horse is a horse I used to ride--Buddy. He would seriously smile at my mom's camera! :)

Sports I Have Done Over The Years

Over the past few years I have played certainly my share of different sports. The sport I remember earliest playing was T-Ball. I don't have any pictures of that, but I have pictures of the next sport I did--soccer, which I started in kindergarten. Me in my final season of soccer in Spring 2004. (I'm in the front)

I tried swimming. But I CANNOT I repeat CANNOT swim under water without plugging my nose!!!!

Me and Trevor at YMCA. I had one long ponytail back then in 2003!

I did volley ball with two friends for a week long day camp. I really liked it!--Until the ball banged into my face and after one day my wrists were all red and swollen form bopping the ball around..... I'm on the far right. Look at all the balls laying around. Laying like bombs, waiting to slam into my face! (just joking ya know!)

In 2005 I took a horse back riding day camp. I liked it! And totally fell in love with that horse. Her name was Flash.

Me and Flash. I was almost 11.

A few months after that I joined my friend in figure skating. We were good. Good considering we were only like 11 and 10 and only one of us had lessons! We were doing actual jumps and stuff! I'm the tall one. (Oh, for you who have never met me...I'm tall. 5'6 1/4'' to be exact! Luckily I'm about done growing....)

We couldn't stand this ice rink--but our favorite one closed down. Aren't our costumes great?

Just weeks after that skating pic was taken, that girl moved. I had no one else to skate with and just...stopped. My mom had me back into horse riding. This time a tad more seriously too. I love it!

Me on Eclipse, July 2006.

I started taken private lessons. I switched to an English saddle so I needed English riding clothes. Aren't they cool! They are sooo comfy!!!

Me on Big Mac. One of my first times on English saddle. This was November 1st, 2006. I hair is curly cuz I was a hippie for Halloween. ;) (Peace, man!)

I did dance for a school semester. That was fun!! See the girl on the far right with the head band? I'm the one next to her in glasses.

My dance class right before our recital. We danced to a Rachael Lampa song.

I kept riding until we moved from CO to VA a year ago. It took us awhile to find a new riding place, but once we did I loved it! The place was much more focused on jumping than dressage. My first lesson I was cantering over 2 feet jumps. Which is good since I had barely cantered at the the old place!

Me on Frankly Awesome (AKA Buddy). He was such a dorky horse. I love him!

In August, my parents signed Trevor up for soccer. I was thinking about when I used to play and wanted to do it again--plus everyone I know from church plays on pretty much the same team. Any of you who know me personally know it's not like me to go out and try new stuff. But I asked my mom if I could sign up too. We had practice after practice and then our games. We won all but 2. And only lost 1. We tied one too.

Our team seriously practiced when it was this dark out. My mom took this pic at one of our practices. You couldn't see the ball unless it was right in front of you!

Our team is the Rams. I play defense, sweeper and mid field. We have 13 people on the team--7 boys and 6 girls. I'm the youngest girl....and the second youngest on the team but I am the tallest girl. Thankfully all the guys are taller than me--except one and he is younger so....

Our team had the best defense and goalie in the whole league. I'm the second from the left.

I still ride, but at a different place. This place is jumping too, but they focus on showing and competing.

Me on the Appaloosa gelding, Back In A Flash (AKA Flash), I competed on.

A had my first riding competition early last month. I finished 2nd out of four riders in both divisions. Not that bad if I do say so myself...lol

My ribbons and my number.

So, all of you, what sports have you done?

Opinions

As many of you know who read my blog I love to write. I write and write and write. I have over 100 notebooks spread across my floor and broken-leadless-mechanical pencils all over (I found one in my bed last night....) Anyway, I recently started a story. Each chapter will alternate from one character's point of view to the other's. (First chapter will be Claire's point of view second will be Brayden's, then Claire's and you get the point!). Here is the introduction for each character. Tell me what you think:

FIRST CHAPTER: CLAIRE

To be honest, I have never been more relieved when the bell rang, signaling the end of my first day at Benjamin Franklin High. I know that seems cheesy, but it's true. For the first time in my whole seventeen years of living, I, Claire Tennyson, am an outcast. I know that sounds cheesy also, but guess what? Yep, you're right. It's true. At my highschool in Oregon, I was head cheerleader, straight A student, a jock, always got the leads in the musicals. I could go on, but that would seem big headed and I think you get the point--I was popular.
Then my dad got layed off and we moved to my aunt and uncle's house in the country. My 19 year old brother, Hunter, got to stay there in Oregon, because he was going to college.
A few days before my junior year started, which was also going to be my first say at Ben Franklin, my annoying cousin, Cici (Like, what kind of name is Cici anyway?!) asked me if I could ride her horse. 'Sure,' I told her. Besides, how hard could it be to ride an 8 year old girl's horse? Well, it turns out, it's hard. Bronco through me and I broke my ankle. I had to start junior year on crutches and listening to snide remarks I just as soon not repeat.


OK, that was Claire. Later on in the chapter this guy comes up and starts talking to her. Here's the beginning of Brayden's point of view.

SECOND CHAPTER: BRAYDEN

There was a new girl in school today. Her name's Claire. She has long brown hair and green eyes that send shivers up my spine. She looked right at me. But only because I was making a complete idiot of myself. Who was I kidding when I tried to be cool and talk to her? It was the first day of my second year of being a junior in highschool and nothing has changed. I'm still a skateboarding freak; I still have that tatoo on my upper arm of a thunder cloud my brother, Dylan, gave me; I'm still trying to hit it big in the music business with AJ, Ollie, Gannon, Jake and Ryan and I'm still deathly shy.



That's all. Do you think that both of them are normal? Tell me what you think.....

One Word Challenge

1. Where is your cell phone? Kitchen
2. Your significant other? Somewhere....
3. Your hair? Brown
4. Your mother? Dorky
5. Your father? Dorkier (haha, just kidding!)
6. Your favorite thing? horses
7. Your dream last night? movie
8. Your favorite drink? Starbucks
9. Your dream/goal? journalism
10. The room you’re in? kitchen
11. Your church? awesome!!
12. Your fear? embarrassment
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? college
14. Where were you last night? movie
15. What you’re not? squeamish
16. Muffins? lemonpoppyseed
17. One of your wish list items? iPod (desperate!)
18. Where you grew up? Colorado
19. The last thing you did? read
20. What are you wearing? PJs
21. Your TV? music
22. Your pets? best!
23. Your computer? enjoyable
24. Your life? OK...
25. Your mood? thinking
26. Missing someone? Someone...
27. Your car? used
28. Something you’re not wearing? shoes
29. Favorite store? Hollister
30. Your summer? hectic
31. Like (love) someone? Yes
32. Your favorite color? blue
33. Last time you laughed? today
34. Last time you cried? Saturday
35. Favorite song of the moment? Thunder

Things I did today

A. Went to church (usual)

B. Went to go see High School Musical 3 with friends (unusual)

C. Stared at the wall (usual) ;)


Like every Sunday morning we went to church. And I can't tell you how happy I am that we moved the clocks back one hour!! YIPPEE!! One whole more hour of sleep! Which is nice--it made it feel like we left for church at 10 instead of 9. Since we live an hour away from our church we have to get up early to get there on time.

Right after church, all the kids gather in the parking lot or a strip of grass behind the parking lot and kick a soccer ball around. Almost every kid at our church plays soccer in the same league. We just had our last game of the season Friday and it didn't go great--I could go into detail, but I could go on forever how the other team was using elbows in ways they shouldn't and that I thought two of our players almost passed out. :P. Need I say more?? A few of the girls were talking about going to go see the new High School Musical movie that came out one or two weeks ago. Now, I'm not a big fan of High School Musicals, but me and my little brother, Trevor have watched the 2nd one on TV whenever it's on and we had really been wanting to go see the third one. I like to go just to make fun of it! ;).

15 kids from church ended up going to go see the movie. And 5 of them were boys.....who laughed and made fun of everyone in the movie the whole way through but they're boys-what else do we expect? :). I thought the movie was OK. Certainly cheesy in parts and Troy is a bit obsessed with Gabriella!! (Anyone else think that??). I don't think it was a good as the second High School Musical, but better than the first and I have to admit parts were funny. The movie went longer than I expected. We got into the theater after 1:30 and there wasn't too many previews before the movie and we didn't get out of there until 3:48 to be exact.

After we got home it was already dark. It's half nice having it get dark at 5:30 and half annoying. We ate dinner and now I am so bored! I finally sat down and started a blog. Yeah, I've had blogs before but they never seemed to last longer than a few weeks. Probably because I pressured myself to post everyday, which I couldn't do now even if I wanted to...well I guess I could since soccer ended..but I have nothing really to write about!

I'll be back.