A Big Catch Up Post

So it's been awhile since I last wrote (or typed depending on how you look at it...) and so much has happened worth writing (typing haha) about!
First of all I got my license!! Apparently I "just squeaked by" according to my driver tester or whatever you want to call him. In fact I believe he used to be one of those old gangsters that had one of those gangster accents but that might be just me. Anyways I got it and thats all that matters!!! Now the only thing left is getting a car! haha. That'll be the day....
Also, I went to Mexico in February for a week to go build a school down there. That was the most amazing experience I have ever had. Seriously. We traveled down there on a bus all the way from Saskatchewan, Canada to the Baja area in Mexico. Needless to say, it was an extremely long trip. We slept on the floors of the bus. Most people thought that was the best place to sleep.....I highly disagree. The one time I slept down there I was claustrophobic.
When we got to Mexico we went to this place called La Bufadora near Ensanada. It's an outdoor market where people barter for their items. I was the WORST at that. Eventually though I figured it out and I got a bracelet down to two dollars. I was very proud of myself :)
When we started building the school there were so many kids who wanted to play with us! I loved it! You had no idea what they were telling you but it was so great to see all their smiling faces. I made this one little friend named Pedro. He would run up to me and then I would make a crazy face and he'd run away laughing. It was so cute. Then I would do an action like waving my arms and he would copy me. I loved little Pedro. He was like a little ray of sunshine :)
We finished the school in 3 days which is crazy! It was a two classroom school. I swear I have never painted so much in my life! Every piece that went on that school had to be painted....twice. It was crazy. Anyways, in the end I had such a contented feeling about it all. It was so worth it.
After Mexico, we had a fun day in Disneyland on our way home!! I got to hug Pluto! That was defineately one of the happiest moments of my life! haha. I went on California Screamin too. Just so everyone knows, that's the biggest rollercoaster in Disneyland. It was amazing! I had such a good trip it's unbelievable. There are so many stories I could tell but this is all I'll leave you with for now :)
Oh! One more thing! I got a small job at our church. I'm what I would like to call a cleanliness technician or a custodian in other words....but hey! It gets me $100 each month....so it's something.

Happy 2011!

It's a new year!! It's a time for resolutions, party hats and appetizer-ish food.
My New Year's Eve was pretty eventful if I must say so myself....
There was a LOT of food. It was almost scary how much food I ate. First there was appetizers and I probably ate about 5 of these little hamburger pocket things. They were so good....you just can't stop eating them. Then at 12:00am they decided to have a midnight lunch! There was roast beef and ham and potato salad and oreo salad and all sorts of things that made my stomach pretty much explode. And if all that wasn't enough, at 1:00am they decided to bring out cake! Well that was pretty much all I could handle. Is it even possible for a person to explode? I was almost believing it that night.
Also, New Year's Eve was the first time I had alcohol. All the adults there were set on "christening" me. So they forced upon me a jello shooter. (They actually taste pretty good!) At first I was completely clueless on how to eat them. I mushed it all up, thinking it would be easier. That didn't work. The second time I had one was much easier. I also had a fruity drink. Small version though and that's when my mother cut me off.
I ended up having a pretty good New Year's! I wish everyone the best in 2011!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Merry Christmas! Like I promised here are a few Christmas presents for my readers!! :)

                  

1. Changing Color Falling Snow Effect for Blogs!

2. Festive Blog Templates

**Remember when changing templates, save your current template before you put on your new one if you aren't permenately keeping the festive template**

3. Christmas Cursors for Blogs!

4. This funny video made me laugh out loud! Have a good chuckle this Christmas! This will also be in the Video Gallery.

Almost Christmas!!

There is two days until Christmas and the tree is trimmed, the tabletops are covered with Christmas cards and most of my presents are wrapped. (Very nicely, I might add....)

I don't think the reality of Christmas has hit me yet. It probably won't until Christmas Eve. Our yard is full of snow and our puppies are going pretty crazy chasing every snowflake thinking that somehow catching that snowflake will change their lives. This year for our puppies we got them HUGE rawhide bones. Not big, HUGE. They're probably a good 3 feet. Well over the average size of normal rawhide bones. haha. But then again we're not a normal family. ;)
Mom has given me a project this year. She's told me to write our annual newsletter. I'm pretty excited about this for two reasons:
1. I Can Show the World My Writing Talent! ~ It gives me good practice since I plan on becoming a big shot journalist or at least work for a newspaper.
2. I Get to Represent the Family! ~ My mom has always been the voice of the family but no longer!

Two days until Christmas! Check my blog on Christmas Day for a few Christmas surprises for all my readers!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! (Well I guess not everyone,,,,,the US for instance...) I love having Thanksgiving at this time of year! I'm almost positive that Canadians gain the most weight in this month because not only does it have the main meal, Thanksgiving, but also dessert, Halloween! So stuff your faces and be proud!! Well Thanksgiving at our house has always been a family affair. But since it's just my mom, dad and me and my brother, my mom bought a smaller turkey. When she was stuffing it she happened to accidentally break its back.......and now it's all floppy. A floppy turkey. So she did eventually get the turkey in the oven. Soon though we hit another road bump. I smelled smoke. I told mom to go check the turkey and a little bit of turkey had fallen out of the pot and onto the oven floor. It was sizzling and smoking and it almost started on fire. If our turkey had burnt that would have just been heart breaking. But no it didn't and I'm thankful! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Happy October!

It's October so Happy October everyone!!! October is black cats, witches, the occasional snow, bad luck, the color orange and also National Sarcasm Awareness Month. So my challenge to all of you is to yell 'SARCASM!' if you hear anyone use it. I know half of the people who read this won't but that's why it's called a challenge! ;) And let's make this even more interesting.....so whoever yells out 'SARCASM!' when somebody uses it in a public place and comments their story about it on this post, I'll make a post all about your story! So let's get cracking! October doesn't last all year!

Band Trip 2010!

↑ Hailee, Sam and I on the rollercoaster!!

I have so much I could say about Band Trip!!! I'll give you the highlights so I don't get carpal tunnel.......
Well I guess I should start with Bill. Bill was the bus driver. Good ol' Bill had no idea where he was going I swear. First of all, we go down a one-way street the wrong way. (How he managed that, I'll never know...) Then we go into the parking lot of a hotel we're not staying in and we stay there for a good fifteen minutes. And the best blunder of all, we were driving around and we saw the stadium where the Edmonton Eskimos play and everyone was all amazed and everything. Then a few minutes later we're back at the stadium. Fifteen minutes later we're back at the stadium again and people are starting to wonder if Bill actually knew where he was going. Sure enough, fifteen minutes later we're back AGAIN! It was so funny.....
And of course, we went to the West Edmonton Mall and that was soooooo AWESOME! Me and Sheridan were on a schedule! We had mapped out all the places we wanted to go and we got everywhere in record time considering we only had 3 hours there!! So not enough time but anywho.....
And pretty much my favorite part of the trip was Galaxyland in the West Ed Mall!!! Let me just tell you, Mindbender (the largest indoor triple loop roller coaster in the world!!!) was AMAZING! It was funny because Me and Sam wanted to go on it. So we were almost at the front of the line and we were kinda getting intimidated by the bigness of it. I turned to Sam and asked her, "You know....maybe we should go on something smaller first....." and she agreed right away. So after our "smaller coaster" we told each other, "If everyone can do this than so can we!!" and we did. It was so nerve-wracking waiting for it to move. We expected the worst. So it started moving and me and Sam started screaming. It was absoluetly crazy! When you went over the loops, it was as if you blacked out for a second! Sam had felt it too! After the ride we went on it again right away! Soo fun! Then we made fishy lips for the camera on the coaster! haha

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mom's out there!
Me and my brother decided to make mom breakfast in bed for Mother's Day. Surprisingly, we hadn't thought to do that before....It went well except for the fact that mom heard the noise we were making and went to investigate. She figured it out but we told her to go back to bed so she did. I made fried eggs for the first time and well....let's just say they weren't quite top notch. Tyler made the toast (he was very proud). We also made her a bowl of fruit. We were just going to give her her favorite drink, Grapefruit juice but Tyler decided it needed a twist. I told him it didn't need any "twist" but he put ginger ale in the drink anyhow. Mom didn't end up liking the drink too much. I hate to say I told you so but I told you so. haha Basically, our little meal for her went well!

I Saw Alice in Wonderland!!

↑ Me with my 3D glasses and their lenses popped out :)

I went and saw Alice in Wonderland! Finally....although not with my friends. Oh well, it was still REALLY good! I've got to say, I'm a fan of that cat. There's just something about him......oh that's right, he evaporates. Anyway when my Aunt and I decided to go to this movie it was going to start in 15 minutes and we were 20 minutes away PLUS we didn't have our tickets yet. So we drove, surprisingly staying at speed limit (We didn't have time to get a ticket). When we  got to the theatre we were running all over the place trying to find the place where we got tickets. APPARENTLY my Aunt hadn't been to this theatre before! So we got our tickets and went into the theatre. And we only missed 10 minutes! Which was like the previews and 5 minutes of the movie! Wow! It was a great show!

Hoppy Easter!

Hoppy Easter everyone!! (Get it? I'm sure you do.) It's the wonderful holiday filled with bunny chocolates, Peeps and animals trying to become bunnies. Well, I know one thing for certain. Easter didn't come from bunnies and eggs and chocolate. It came from God. He died for us, need we be reminded. He saved us so we could go to heaven! Don't get me wrong, I love the chocolate eggs and bunnies. Personally though, I'm more of the hollow chocolate bunnies person and not bite-into-a-brick-of-chocolate-and-break-your-teeth kind of person. But that's just me! Hope everyone's Easter is filled with fun! (and the plastic stuffing you fill Easter baskets with!)

Good Friday Breakfast

As always, the Good Friday breakfast was a huge hit! Especially with all those crapes! (Don't know what crapes are? Please refer to the picture above ↑ ) There was one strange thing that happened with the food though. The eggs turned gray. It was so weird. It looked like silly putty. Not very appetizing.....
We had a great band! They are called the Hunter Family. They sing western gospel music. They were absolutely hilarious and so talented! The whole family was hockey players. The Good Friday breakfast was great!

April Fool's!!

April Fool's Day was a success this year! Sorta...I hadn't remembered it was April Fool's until I got to school. However, I pulled a bunch of random hilarious stunts. Well sorta...They were kind of spur of the moment so everyone thought they were pretty bad but I got a good kick out of them. When I went to my friend's house for lunch, I stole probably everything and hid it. haha. I also made her toast burn....cue evil laugh. Not the best jokes but still a great day!!!

What a Day!

Ok, so I went to town this morning with my friend Arielle. (She's got her license now so she can drive me places haha) She took me out to lunch at a fancy place called the Star Cafe and Grill for my birthday. (The party is tonight! I'm so excited!) And let me tell you, it IS fancy. They had a thirty dollar steak! That is ridiculous. But before you all think I'm insulting the place I'm not, because they have amazing food! It is SO good! She insisted that I dress up and let me tell you, that is NOT an easy feat for me. I'm really more the jeans and a sweater type of girl but I humored her :) I curled my hair. If I don't say so myself it looks pretty good!
Now, guess what I did in the place? I spilled my mango iced tea on the table! Of all places to be a klutz, why there?! Oh well, you got to embarrass yourself in public sometime! (And for me that seems to happen more often than not!) I had a pulled pork BBQ sandwich and mango cheesecake. It was so good.
After that, we had a few errands to do. I was supposed to rent a bunch of movies for tonight but, of course, the store was closed! Grr...but then Arielle pulled through for me and told me she'd bring a bunch of movies!
And I swear her family has so many movies and all the new ones too! They could run their own version of Netflix straight from their home!
On the way home I was wearing Arielle's bright purple sunglasses. I was talking about my orange ones at home and then she told me she had bought me some that would "supposedly" replace those. HA! Nothing can replace my orange sunglasses but we'll see.....
It all turned out to be a great day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Yaaah! I'm finally fifteen! And you know what that means?! Learner's license! Woo! The school buses didn't run today so that's another birthday plus!

Back at Home!

Yes! Finally back at home! My brother and I spent a week at my Grandma's. Very low tech so you can imagine how I feel to be back on the computer! :)
My Grandma is the type of Grandma who plays electronic versions of her favorite game shows. (Deal or No Deal, Wheel of Fortune) It's kind of funny in a way because she plays those games when she watches the shows!
I don't think my Grandma has packed lunches for a good while because I opened my lunch at school and what do I find? Cookies. Cookies lose in my lunch without a bag or container. I laughed so hard pop came out of my nose! And the next day, crackers. Without bag or container. Once again I laughed. It was hilarious!
Overall though I had a good week and got a taste of town life and I've got to say I like farm life a whole lot better! :)

Times Like These

You know those moments in life where everything seems to be working in perfect harmony and nothing seems off-balance? It's times like these I love, the random and the miscellaneous.
Our family had a nice walk in a park in a nearby city the other day that was full of lights. It was amazing. The weather was quite cold and I dropped my camera a few times but hey! It was definitely a moment of perfect harmony for me, that walk in the park.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! :)

Crazy Comforting

The other day my dog past away and I was in a really sad mood. (Don't ask about how he died, i don't want to talk about it....) So my friend called me up and told me to come over and bring the rest of the family. It happened to be my dad's birthday. She told me she was going to cheer us up with cupcakes! Yum! When we got there she introduced me to "Ingrid". Before you all go and think this is an old lady I will tell you it's not. It's a huge bowl of icing. HUGE. She told me to taste it and you could feel the sugar crystals crunching in your teeth. Yikes. But anyway she had made baby Ingrids (chocolate cupcakes with Ingrid icing) and cinnamon apple streusel cupcakes. There was also "Betty". That was the chocolate icing. We ended up having to make more Ingrid because the first one was a flop. And you all know how cooking with one of your best friends can be. Let's just say I had chocolate all over my face and there was chocolate covered tomatoes and yeah. NEVER EVER try chocolate covered tomatoes. Take it from someone who knows.....In the end it did comfort me...strangely. We didn't leave empty handed. We got to take some Ingrid babies home!

Father's Then and Now

Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there! Here's what father's did in the 1900's compared to now. Hope it brightens your day! (I dedicate this post to my dad!)


In 1900, a father's horsepower meant his horses.Today, it's the size of his minivan.

In 1900, if a father put a roof over his family's head, he was a success.Today, it takes a roof, deck, pool, and 4-car garage. And that's just the vacation home.

In 1900, a father waited for the doctor to tell him when the baby arrived.Today, a father must wear a smock, know how to breathe, and make sure film is in the video camera.

In 1900, fathers passed on clothing to their sons.Today, kids wouldn't touch Dad's clothes if they were sliding naked down an icicle.

In 1900, fathers could count on children to join the family business.Today, fathers pray their kids will soon come home from college long enough to teach them how to work the computer and set the VCR.

In 1900, fathers shook their children gently and whispered, "Wake up, it's time for school."Today, kids shake their fathers violently at 4 a.m., shouting: "Wake up, it's time for hockey practice."

In 1900, a father came home from work to find his wife and children at the supper table.Today, a father comes home to a note: "Jimmy's at baseball, Cindy's at gymnastics, I'm at adult-Ed, Pizza in fridge."

In 1900, fathers and sons would have heart-to-heart conversations while fishing in a stream.Today, fathers pluck the headphones off their sons' ears and shout, "WHEN YOU HAVE A MINUTE.."
In 1900, a father gave a pencil box for Christmas, and the kid was all smiles.Today, a father spends $800 at Toys 'R' Us, and the kid screams: "I wanted Sega!"

In 1900, if a father had breakfast in bed, it was eggs and bacon and ham and potatoes.Today, it's Special K, soy milk, dry toast and a lecture on cholesterol.

In 1900, a Father's Day gift would be a hand tool.Today, he'll get a digital organizer.

In 1900, a happy meal was when Father shared funny stories around the table.Today, a happy meal is what Dad buys at McDonald's.

In 1900, a father was involved if he spanked the kid now and then.Today, a father's involved only if he coaches Little League and organizes Boy Scouts and car pools.

In 1900, when fathers entered the room, children often rose to attention.Today, kids glance up and grunt, "Dad, you're invading my space."

Thanks to http://www.ahajokes.com/ for the great jokes! Happy Father's Day everybody!