Sarah's in Ethiopia

My sister Sarah has been in Ethiopia for the last month working at a school called, Kechene, the kids are all either orphans living with relatives in the community, from destitute families, or from families whose parents are HIV/AIDS positive. But I am MAJOR jealous. I want to go to Ethiopia and work in the orphanages so bad. Can't wait till God reveals and provides his plan for my life. For now all I can do is hope and Pray. :) Anyways, you can read all about Sarah's trip on her BLOG, she has been posting journal entries from each day. She comes home on Wednesday! I can't wait to see her and see all the pictures, and hear all her stories. I did end up getting a call from camp to CIT, so I'll be there when she gets home :(, but I'll get to see her on Friday. :)

Storage Unit ...Bed Room....Same Diff....

My bed room is a wreck. And not just like a little messy. It looks like a bomb went off in a storage unit. and then a bed and a bunch of pillows were thrown in the corner. You would think that the cause for this would just be laziness. I mean there might be like a 5% laziness factor in there some where but that's not what we're focusing on right now,what we're focusing on right now is the other 95% :) 75% is because it's summer time, and summer mean that Sarah is home from College. With allllll her stuff. And I'm tellin' ya, her stuff has like quadrupled in size and quantity since last summer. We've got suitcases, duffel bags, laundry baskets, shelving units, rubber maid drawers and containers, full of stuff allll over the room. not to mention all the clothesss! and most of it I can't even borrow, cuz a majority of it is winter clothes because it's always cold in Boone.(major bummer) I can barely even make it to my closet! haha, it takes a lot of agilty and perservearance to get something out of the closet. And then the other 20% is because I'm always packing or un packing, so I can re pack! I get home from somewhere and there is a day to only a couple days till I have to leave for the next "adventure" So I have bags and stuff laying around and trying to laundry and stuff ...And don't take me wrong I love "traveling" and vacations, and I love having Sarah home. But my room? I don't think it's too happy right now.

SUMMER 09...So Fineee?

so during the school year (especially towards the end) your start getting anxious for summer, for the days by the pool, the family vacations, going to camp, and just a break. Well every year I seem to forget just how "busy" summer can be. So far (since the the beginning of June) I have worked as a CIT at New Life Camp for a week of over night camp, gone to NLC as a camper during high school week, and have had I think 3 sleep overs with friends. This is all with in a little more then three weeks! Well right now I am home for the week, and we are trying to Paint the kitchen and and the cabinets and such. And for those of you who don't know, our kitchen has looked the same basically my whole life (the whole time we've lived in the house), and the wall paper that has been up, in my taste is just, well plain ugly. Two words to describe it: Pineapple and Alphabet. I'll just leave it at that and let you guys imagine the rest, haha. So I am VERY happy that we are finally redoing the walls and such. So the last two days I've been washing and scrubbing the cabinets getting them ready to prime and paint. Hoping to have them painted be the end of the week?~maybe it's wishful thinking, but I think we can do it! :) The walls will come next after the cabinets are done. I'll post before and After pictures so you can all see the glorious transformation! :)

Anyways, enough about our kitchen. Back to summer. So like I said, this week I'm home, and then next week I might be CITing at NLC again, I'll find out tomorrow for sure, ~the call the CIT's the Wednesday before the week they want you to work ~ So hopefully CITing at camp next week, and then two day after I would get back from camp, our Family is going camping for a week. Where? we haven't decided yet, everyone wants to go somewhere different (I don't really care, as long as it's not Boone because we go camping there during the school year) all we know is that we're going camping, and then when we get back from camping, two days later is my birthday parttyy :) I'm not doing anything big for my Sweet 16, just a park day with a bunch of friends, we're gonna play capture the flag, sardines, flag football, basically what ever we feel like, and are just gonna hang out and have a good time. Pray for good weather please!!

Then a couple days after my party we are going to the beach for a long weekend for my birthday!! I'm soooooooo exciteddd! Some friends of ours graciously are letting us stay at their beach house. So the whole family is coming, plus Eric's girl friend, plus four of my friends. So we're gonna have 11 there. I CAN NOT WAIT. I have been looking forward to this weekend for months! and it's finally weeks away!!ahhhh! :) :) :)

Thennn after the beach we're home for a couple of days and then we are all going to MA for our annual summer trip, to visit all the relatives. I'm excited about that trip too. MA is always fun, and this year Sarah gets to come, cuz years past she's had to work. So that week should be fun.
Oh and did I mention that as soon as I get back from MA, volleyball will be in full swing? I didn't? well, when I get back, volleyball season will be in full swing.

So I sit here laughing at my self that only a month ago I thought this was actually gonna be a relaxing, peaceful summer. HA! man I got that wrong. But it's all good, cuz all the stuff that is taking up my few weeks of summer I lOVE, and it's all the stuff that we don't have time for during the school year to do. And this summer is sooooo much better than what I imagined at the end of the school year. And don't worry I'm still getting my pool days in, even with the crazy schedule ;)

Allergies shall be the death of me....

I don't think I can say it enough...I hate allergies!!! They havn't been bothering me until today. And boy, did I forget how much allergies are a pain! A box of tissues are new best friend :) The weather is gorgeous this time of the year! but could do with out the coating of yellow everywhere. haha I washed alexs car a couple days ago and after I was done washing it I went inside to get a towel...and by the time I came back out the car was covered in more pollen then it was before I washed it!! That is just wrongg....

OH!! Today is Alex's 24th Birthday!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX!!!
We've been able to talk to him 3-4 times through Skype (a web cam!) and have emailed back and forth a little. He said his days are pretty muched packed and he doesn't really have that much time for the computer, which I mean is understandable. But we have sent him two packages, and a a lot of our friends have sent him letters and packages. He said that receiving the packages and letters are bright spots in his day :) I sent him his second letter from me 2 days ago. It only takes about two weeks or so to get there.

Last night I went to Coach Kyles church with Erica to play basketball. They have pick up games every Tuesday night for teens and grown ups. Phew, I haven't really played b-ball for a couple weeks, but it only took me seconds to get in the grove again :) It was fun! haha Erica and I were always on the same team, and we lost all the games we played, oh well it was fun though! After that I spent the night over at Ericas house, and then we went to Geometry this morning. It was fun! the sleep over part that is...not the geometry part...yuck.

Summer is almost here!!! I can see it, and I just can't grasp on to it yet!! :(
It's getting harder and harder to concentrate on school and stuff, when all you can think about is the summer coming up, and all your plans! a few more weeks and I'm free! well mostly free....I'll be doing Algebra through the summer (long story haha) but other then that freedom. This summer hold some exciting things! My sweet 16, I get my license, going to camp, going to MA for a couple weeks, and just hanging with my friends and family making memories that will last for ever! :D

I have the bestest friends in the whole wide world.....

I can't even begin to express how blessed I am to have the friends that God has placed in my life. I love them to death!

I've known Ellie aka "Ellers" since I was like 2, and we are still best friends, and I hope that never changes. She's hilarious, caring, has an enormous heart for orphans, and can always make me laugh. I think I spend more time at her house then I think I do at mine!:) haha you know your friends when you have no problem just walking in to their kitchen, open the fridge and get your self something to eat haha....I don't know what I would do with out ellie! she's my other half hahah...

Emily, I'm pretty sure she's been at every single one of my birthday parties since we were like 5 :) She is super sweet, shy, caring, and Smart. I know I can always call her when I need help with any kind of school work!haha and we have had MANY good times together in class, just hanging, and at New life camp during the summer!
A lot of my childhood memories have Emily and Ellie in it. They just make me memories even more better!!

Erica aka Erkle...oh man where can I begin with this girl..haha...I only just met her two years ago at Lighthouse basketball tryouts. She was trying out and I was working the registration table. I wasn't gonna play, but then when the team needed another girl to have a full roster, I volunteered. And boy an I happy I did!!! But I've gotten to know erica really well this past year. We were on the same team again this past year (we were the only returning Jv players) and we were in Geometry class together. I spent around 5-6 days a week with Erkle between class, basketball games and practices and just hanging out, and we never got sick of each other! haha...but now that basketball season is over, that only leaves one scheduled time..Geometry...but that's ok cuz it just forces us to get together more often for fun!:)
Erica is super crazy, hilarious, caring, and can always make me laugh!

Me and Morgans aka Mo Mo story is kind of funny. I've know Morgan for a couple years. We were in choir together, and our brothers were on the same baseball team together. But I had no clue at the time that she would be come one of my bestest friends! I hadn't seen her in a while, but then me, ellie, and morgan were volunteers at a Steven Curtis Chapman concert, and that was the start of an awesome friendship! Mo Mo lives like 45 minutes away, so we can't get together as much as we would like, but when we do it's a BLAST. Mo Mo is superr funny, nice, loving, crazy, has a great sense of stylee, and I know when I have a crummy day I can always call mo mo and she'll make it all better! haha.

I am soooooo blessed that God has put these ladies in my life. We have the absolute greatest times!! and have gone through so much together! They are my bestest friends in the whole wide world, and I love each and every one of them to death. I don't know what I would do with out any one of them!!


Me and Ellers


gangsta Erkle and ellers haha


Mo Mo, Erkle, Ellie and I....Love themmmmm


Me and Mo Mo...:)


ellie is just a little shorter then erica haha


Emily and Ellie.....FABULOUS


Me and Erkle...haha the ceiling was kinda low


moveis with Morgan!


YAY! :) MoMo, Ellers, Manda


Me, Morgan, Ellie and Morgans adorable little sister Amber :)

Here is a little adventure we all went on during a basketball tournament...they all came to watch me and erica and then they all slept over at my house! :)

My mosaic

I really like this! it's so me!! :) and sorry for not posting in forever... I'll try to post a real post as soon as possible!


a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search (http://www.flickr.com/)
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s Mosaic Maker (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php)
d. Save the image and post it.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your favorite color?
4. Favorite drink?
5. Dream vacation?
6. Favorite Hobby?
7. What you want to be/do when you grow up?
8. What do you love most in life?
9. One word to describe you?

One Heart Beat... One Team

We went to the State Homeschool Basketball Tournament a couple of weekends ago in Greensboro, and my team came home as the JV Girls State champions! WHOO HOO! So not only did we come in 1st at the Eastern Regionals the weekend before, but then managed to win state as well! We played a team from Surry county, and then played Fayetteville again.
Funny story......So we beat Fayetteville for the Regional title after they had beat us twice during the season. So my DAD (being the funny guy that he is :p haha) goes and tells coach Kyle, to tell us, that he heard that the Fayetteville coach said that we didn't even deserve to be on the same court as them, and we were just lucky to have won at regionals. So needless to say when coach told us this, boy, did it tick us off. We already didn't really like Fayetteville, they didn't have very good attitudes on the floor and were snobby....to say the least :/ So it didn't surprise us that the coach could of said that. Anyways we came into that game ready to kick some butt :) and man did we! Well after the game, on the way to the car dad tells me that he made that whole story up and it was just to get us motivated! haha, well it worked! But then we kinda felt bad for being kinda cold to their coach at the end of the game. I'm just glad we didn't do anything we would of regretted! :/ haha but that was a great way to end an awesome season!


this one is a tad bit blurry but you get the idea...haha...


Victory taste oh so sweet! :)


yeah, we're crazy....and I love every single one of them!!

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We all go together like two weeks ago and made tee-shirts. :)


trying to stop long enough to get them done! lol


uh-oh....watch out...:)


It was a blast! :)


the back of my shirt in progress.....we put our nick names on the backs of them...then our number on one sleeve....and team name on the other.


The front of our shirts.....One Heart Beat, One team was like our team logo this year, compliments of coach kyle. :)

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This is something that I wrote after the season that I think fully sums up this season up.

Some say team mates........but I say FAMILY
Others say coach.......but I say MENTOR
Some say losing........but I PAST
Others say Win......but I say NOW
Some say one team.....but I say ONE HEART BEAT
Others say the the most Amazing, Loving, Funny, Talented, Hardworking, Determined team in the whole world......... and I say......
LIGHTHOUSE EAGLES JV GIRLS........NCHEAC East Regional Champions...........NCHEAC State Champions.....
....but to me?........ BEST IN THE WORLD! :)
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Can't wait for next season!!! :)

More Snowwww!

We got more snow! That's twice in one winter!! what's this world coming too! lol We never get snow, and no we've had two good "snows" of about 3-4 inches. That's big here! The roads didn't get to bad, I actually went over to Ellie's house to do geometry homework. But the snow is beautiful! and COLD! That's the one thing I could do with out the freezingness. Like I don't mind cold, just not freezing! I don't like to feel like I'm frozen, no thank you, not for me. But I do LOVE snow. Yes, I know I may sound like I confused. But everything looks so peaceful when it snows! well everything in the yard that it, not so much when you try to drive in it. lol