Maymont Picnic Of Sorts

Yesterday our family and a few families from our Community Group we attend ventured out to Maymont Park for a picnic of sorts to socialize and catch up on life. When we first arrived it was only Mr W,his daughter Chelsea,Mr D and us. Therefore,not wanting my delicious Arby's chicken,bacon,swiss sandwich and fries to get cold began to consume my food as well as everyone else theirs. Soon after eating our food,the W's and the B's came along,so we moved our swaray out onto the grass area near a nice shady tree. Then the two families who hadn't eaten,ate and those of us who had,basked in the glow of the wonderful sun. After thirty minutes or so,Chelsea,Natalia,Mariana,Amy and I went over to a grove of trees and commenced to attempt to climb the trees. I preferedly,stayed on the ground,except for sitting on a rawther low tree branch on one occasion. More than once Amy,Chelsea and I had to rescue Natalia. She kept getting stuck in trees and not being able to get back down. Interestingly enough,Chelsea was the best tree climber out of the five of us. We soon got tired with our escapade and asked the adults if we all could go check out the gardens on the lower surrounding hill-like landscape. It was quite a feat keeping up with two active little girls on the way down. On the way up on the other hand is a different story. Mariana on the way back up the hill kept laughing with grand vigor over things being said and done. Thus collapsing on the ground laughing so hard to the point of loosing her breathe and then crying. It was quite an interesting sight to behold. Most surprising was Natalia being exasperated from the heat declaring "I am so dehydrated,I need water" but once we got to an area of drinkable water she declared it unfit. The thing that made it surprising is that,that is what I was like a few years ago. I could only shake my head and laugh. When we did get back to the picnic area Natalia got rehydrated and we all relaxed and laughed a lot about the whole thing. Melissa,Nikki and Mr.J showed up a little while later,so we talked a hanged a little while longer. Soon it was rawther late in the afternoon and I needed to read God's Big Picture for Teen Community Group so we started homeward.

I Am Happy

Today I found out that I may be able to take Lyrical along with Ballet during the Summer. You know that music that was a constant factor during the last episode of Phil Of The Future? It's like that.

Do I Decorate Well Or What?

If you haven't noticed there has been quite a change on my blog,mostly template. I was bored so I thought,"Hey,why not do something different!". Although quite glad of my eldest brother Mark's wonderful ways with computers. I can confidentially say that I changed the template all by myself and managed not to do any serious harm or sudden death to Vivian(the home computer....Mark named her not me) in the process.

You Know What Is Funny?

Little,old supposedly "nice" grandma's fighting and pushing themselves through a mass of people to a front of a line to a get a little,itty,bitty cup of luke warm, free soda....and then standing there as they slowly,carefully immovably take every little sip til the last drop. Thus throwing away the cup and continuing to stand in place wondering "How am I supposed to get out of this mob" for another ten minutes.


In every other booth we went to today,someone spoke a completely different language.....talk about a melting pot of twenty-six countries plus a bazillion people!!!


For lunch I had Enchilada Ranchera(four chicken tortilla's with ranch sauce on it). The sauce was brown and sorta nasty but the chicken was good though. Dad couldn't help to comment that "The sauce was the chicken's diarrhea" (sadly enough it resembled such thing,thus making it rawther funny).


OoO the interesting things we ponder at NATO Festivals

Virgina Weather

Is INCREDIBLY RIDICULOUS. So the day before Easter.....it's snowing. Yep, a nice run of the mill white falling fluffy snow that is visible. OoO but we are a group of smart individuals who thought ahead for the Easter egg hunt later today at church by moving it inside so those poor little kids wouldn't get frost bite on their poor little noes,toes and fingers. I personally think that this is one of the weirdest weather "phenomenons" I have ever experienced. I mean isn't supposed to be warm...maybe a little sunshine the day before Easter or something along those humid lines?!?

Shots

Today I had to get not one but TWO shots(one on the left arm,one on the right arm) for my Mexico E-Trip. Thankfully I had my tetanus shot last summer so I didn't need that....thank goodness. All I got out of the deal besides being protected from disease was two Little Pony band-aids and a High School Musical sticker with "Taylor" and "Chad" on it. I couldn't help comment when I got it "Wow, they have a HSM Stickers?!?". I knew that HSM was popular but not THAT popular. On the way home Jamie was saying how much I like to use band-aids on little,barely there cuts and the occasional scrape and how he never does. I told him "Well at least I wear my band-aids with pride". Ya, I know I am a dork.

I Hate

I hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate(infinite hate) math with a passion.

"Mommy Moment" #2

Apparently Gabbie is reveling in the fact I had one puke moment last week,that she wanted to give me another one. This time her acts took place three times on my bedroom floor.....and I having to clean it up....while I slightly gagged. I wish she wouldn't eat dog/(Michael)cat food or both cause I REALLY love her but I DON'T love cleaning up her throw-up.

Annie:The Human Scratch Post

So this afternoon Gabbie is behind the computer chair I was sitting in,with the back of the chair veered to the right. Apparently Gabbie was trying to get to the top of the chair. Missing,sadly and used my back as a scratch post. OoO did I yell,it took her a few seconds to dislodge her wonderful claws of pain from my back and shirt. After I told her what a bad kitty she was for doing such thing she casually walks to a chair a few inches away,plops down and SLEEPS!!!! One minute she is psycho kitty and the next she acts like an innocent little angel. Is it possible to get cats to wear kitty mood rings or something?

Trial By Error And My "Mommy Moment"

My trial by error this last week was getting a Neutrogena acid acne wash. The acid was the lowest you can get,2. So I applied it on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning only to figure out that the acid in the wash has turned my face red,itchy,dry and flakey. Thus I stopped using it and it took from Wednesday to Sunday for my face to turn back to normal. Lesson learned:NEVER use any kind of acne wash that has acid in it cause it hurts and is not very fun.

So on the way back from Chatham I had Gabbie in my lap. She started convulsing into fits,which thus leads to hair ball or food throw-up. I put my hand quickly infront of her mouth and she hit it exactly right. Then I thought to myself "Mommy will be so proud, I just let her throw-up on me,just like a Mommy would do for a baby". My second thought was "I NEED A NAPKIN OR I AM GOING TO THROW UP!!!". I gagged a bit but once Dad gave me a napkin and some disinfectant it was ok.

Praise

Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye Heavenly hosts
Praise Father,Son and Holy Ghost
AMEN

I have been accepted for the E-Trip to Mexico with my church in August. I am so grateful and happy... I can't wait!!!

Amazing Grace And Basketball

Another movie was seen with my family (minus Mark of course) yesterday. It was about William Wilberforce and his God-given mission to stop slave trade. The actor who portrayed Wilberforce is the same guy who played Horatio Hornblower in a PBS movie. Anyway,the movie was ok. There was some funny parts,but it wasn't actioned packed excitement. My Mom liked it though,she is a big lover of "Inspirational" movies.


So Jamie had a basketball tournament. The game that was supposed to have started thirty minutes before we got there hadn't,so I ended up watching three games. After an hour or so it was time for Jamie and his teams' turn to play. I had a father of one of Jamie's teammates sitting a row or two behind me who HAD to scream at the referees about what a bad job they were doing the whole time. Also there was another father from the other team doing the same thing. I told Mom the two guys should team up and have a grumbling/screaming at the refs section all to them selfs. I was so annoyed the whole time having to hear all that crap coming from the father sitting behind me,sometimes I felt like turning around and slapping him. I didn't but I was sure tempted. The game was pretty tight all the way through,Jamie's team the Patriots won which meant they would be playing another game in thirty minutes against Millwood Gold. So once the game started it was real tight all the way through. The father who wouldn't shut up moved down wind and to the lowest bleacher so I couldn't hear him so much. I did get to hang out with my favorite little guy at KCC so far:six year old Micah. Micah,his brother,his friend and I played "guess what I am drawing". It was fun,it kept my mind off of the game and made it all pass by faster. Well Jamie's team lost but they got a runner up trophy. It was too late to "celebrate" (as in go to a restaurant) so hopefully we may do that today.....

Bridge To Terabithia And Previews

Today with my whole family(except for Mark of course) went to see the book movie that is called "The Bridge To Terebithia". Believe it or not it isn't that bad of a movie. It was sorta sad,creepy and a little weird but it was good. I had read the book,maybe a year ago cause I had heard it was "one of the classics". So I went to the movie expecting several clauses from the book prospective. The movie followed very closely to the book. I could have sworn the ending wasn't as depicted in the book but Mom looked it up and it was the same. The boy who plays Jess in the movie is going to be in a movie coming soon called "Firehouse Dog" or something like that. Also a Nancy Drew movie with Emma Roberts and that blonde haired dude from "Catch That Kid" who's-name-I-don't-know.



(EDIT: The movie's end had scenes in a different order than the book,that is why it seemed "fishy")

What Up With Virginia Weather?!?

Ok,honestly people,everywhere else around us had some form of snow. We have had two half inch "snow storms" that lasted for like a half an hour so far this Winter season. I mean I don't want a horridnessly large snow storm of great proportion or anything. Just a few inches or more of nice snow to eat for snow cream. Mom said that it snowed a whole lot in March one time. Maybe there is still hope of a decent snow this year....

Ski Trip 2007

So we started out in KCC parking lot freezing our butts off waiting for everyone of the ninety people in our group to get there. Mom baked a batch of her cookies that morning so I was handing them out to my regular cookie monsters. Eventually everyone got there and Mrs H started the normal run down on things. Then we prayed and got in the cars that we were carpooling with. I was with Mrs. B,Amy and Anna. That was interesting. Amy sat in the slightly squished front seat and Anna and I was in the back. I did my latch hook almost the whole time while Amy and Anna played against each other on their DSs'. Then Amy got bored and watched "The Incredibles" with head phones on while Anna played her DS. We talked a little but there wasn't anything to really talk to. When we got there everyone met in front of the lodge to get ski passes and our papers to get skis. I went in,got in line and asked for boots three sized bigger than it said I was supposed to. Ended up I only needed two sizes bigger. Amy went across the way for free ski lessons and I went down the ski slope with Mrs W,who is the Mom of Neil. Eventually she had to go find her child Nathan so I headed back to the lodge and waited for someone. I don't think I was with anyone for any long period of time the whole time. I was with Kelsy,Jorie and a lady from another church group I made friends with. So my last time down the mountain I was with Jori, I had to encourage her down the mountain the entire way because her feet hurt so bad. She almost made it but by the time we were a few feet away she fell and it hurt so much she couldn't move any more. So I skied the rest of the way to the ski lift told them that "There was a girl in a light purple coat and the near end of that slope who who wasn't hurt but too sore to move and that she couldn't get back to the lodge so she needed Ski Patrol. So I got a lift up and went to the lodge where I found out that one person broke their arm,another a broken arm and possibly a messed up shoulder, a girl with a broken collar bone that was bad enough that they couldn't move her off of the stretcher and a lady who was throwing up from supposed "Preservative" poisoning plus Jori. Once I found Mrs B I got my papers that I needed to give my skis back and my boots. It took a while to leave so I took out my bag of cookies and gave the rest away. Then we left and I was quite bored in the car cause it was dark and all. Finally we got to the church parking lot where I waited outside for my parents cause my legs hurt to much, Eventually my Dad got there.

OK EWW:Man Leggings

http://news.yahoo.com/s/fwd/20070117/en_fashion_fwd/marnileggingsarethenewmusthave

OK so,

I thought "Sunshine" was a peculiar name for a person...what about "Taco"? Yep,that is right the beef,cheese,onion,tomato etcetera Mexican food as a name for a actual person. Even I,the person who likes interesting names thinks the name "Taco" is a little over the top and maybe a whittle weird. What is the world coming to naming children after food???

Wedding And Stuff

So ya my brother Mark got married to his best-girl-who-is-a-friend Cassie last Friday. The "main part" of wedding went well and stuff,but the excitement happened afterward. It's a VDH thing to totally trick out the car with anything and everything under the sun. Mark and Cass had the privilege of having their "get away car" decked out with a whole twelve pack of toilet paper,balloon string,duck tape (sticky side out),masking tape and a whole bunch of balloons. It was so much fun decorating, I don't think I have ever seen so many family members help with such vigor and devilish grins in my life. When VDH's decorate a car it is not just playful fun,but an event. Dad cheated and gave Mark scissors to get in the car...but I forgive him. Jamie had some of his older bigger cousins hold Mark down before he got in the car as Jamie dumped half a bag of birdseed down his pants. I have a feeling when Jamie is older and gets married he will be paying for that deed...hehehehe. As the car went driving away,toilet paper flapping in the breeze,it reminded me of a big rolling ball of toilet paper. Hahahahaha.


Happy Marriage Mark and Cass!!!

Ballet Song 2006

Ms. Stefanie has FINALLY picked our Ballet song we will be dancing to for Recital in May. It is called "Only Hope" by Mandy Moore,who sings it in the movie "A Walk To Remember". It is a bit slow but is very beautiful sounding. So far we have only danced to forty-five seconds worth of it though. I am VERY excited about class now that we have started doing our dance. I can't wait to "show it off" to other classes when we learn more and get better at it.

"Christmas Is A Gift" by Betty Steele Everett

WRAPPED...
Not in brightly colored paper and ribbons,
But in swaddling clothes.

NESTLED...
Not under a green-needled tree,
But in a manger.

GIVEN...
Not by earthly parents or friends,
But by our Heavenly Father.

SENT...
Not because it was expected,
But from pure love.

PLANNED...
Not as last minute,
But from before the creation of the world.

GUARANTEED...
Not for a year,or even five,
But for eternity



If you haven't figured out who this poem is talking about it is about the reason why we celebrate Christmas(at least to a Believer anyway). It's how Jesus came to earth born to die for our sins so that we may become right with God. Merry Christ-mas!!!!


(SIDE NOTE)
I got this poem from Focus On The Family's Brio magazine,December 2006 edition. Website is www.briomag.com