WOO HOO FOR YOUUUUU !!

well. what a day. right now i'm listening to "if ever you're in my arms again" by peabo bryson. oh man i love that song. it like gives me the chills. those were the days when people with record deals could .. i don't know .. sing ?? hah. these days its like if you can scream without getting a sore throat, your songs are on the top of the charts. besides all the trash these people sing about, they may sound good on the cds or radios, but when you hear them sing like live on tv or in concert they are flattttt city. i remember i used to be obsessed with O-Town and they sang on some awards show and they were sooooo bad. but they were cute so i gave that to them. hah those were the days when like all the boy bands had a guy with freaky hair.

but anyways at practice today we were supposed to run half of the 4 mile fun run (thus being 2 miles) and meeting at the shelter next to alder pond. well i got lost to say the least. i was running up and down all of these hills looking for ANYBODY. i found this one guy and i'm like "how can i get to the pond" and he was spanish or whatever and he barely understood me and i didn't understand him at all. so i said gracias and kept on running. then i ran into (hah. what a pun. sorta.) these 3 people who told me to turn around to get to the pond and they gave me a map. hah. the thing with maps is you kinda have to know where you are to begin with to use it, which i didn't. so THEN i found this guy in a bandana who gave me the right directions. until i found audrey and rakia, who were both looking for me and lost themselves. so again we were supposed to meet half way around the pond trail and were totally confused about what to do. it took us about 45 minutes to get back to the shelter where Cochran was a little perturbed to say the least. but we ran around the pond for the one mile cool down and called it a day.

as we walking back, melissa and i got into this discussion about kindergarten. wow we remembered like so much. i remember i sat at table 3 with the purple square with lettie smith and jeremy morgan. but i really wanted to sit at table 4 green rectangle table which had all the "cute boys" and kirsten vaughnn. melissa choked on christmas raindeer cookies my mom made the class for christmas. apparently i brought air for show and tell. mrs. spalding would give us team cheerios while we watched teletubbies every day. our specials schedule was monday: music; tuesday: gym; wednesday: free day; thursday: art; friday; lrc. melissa lost her hercules toy because these toy kids were playing with it and wouldnt give it back. we had this one guy sub two days in a row and i remember he wore the same pants both days because he had a hole on his behind. cody chambers brought keys and a permanate marker for show and tell. mrs. spalding would sing us a song when we got new shoes. i was the second person to enter the 100 club by counting to 100 at the learning circle. melissa couldn't pronounce 40. (i can't stop smiling .. these are great memories). at nap time mrs. spalding would put hershey kisses on our backs, and me and melissa would pretend to be asleep during learning carpet time. the school passed out these cool keychains to kids who's parents were divorced and i was mad because i wanted a keychain. haha. and a bazillion other things. but this has taken up a lot of space anyways so i will stop. :D

thanks for reading all that !! hah. and i put a new chatterbox up if you would like to use it.

what did the banana do when he spotted the monkey ??

HE DID A BANANA SPLIT.

Hah. I told this to Cuyler yesterday and got the blankest stare ever. LOL I guess there's only room for one joke guru at Brown Street, and that's def Mr. Cuyler. :D

Today has been longggg. And (wow) it's 4:44 as of this very second. Well, the second I write this, not necessarily the second you read this. Since Audrey has been gone I've been missing her like crazy. Two more days .. :(. And as the summer passes on, I can feel some of my friendships going along with it. I mean I haven't gotten any fights with anybody or anything like that, it's just like I guess the absense of eachother calls for the lack of a relationship. Which is sad :(. I know it's just as much my fault, but it seems like I try and talk but get little or no response. Everybody is out doing their own thing, and there is nothing wrong with that, but I just miss them.

Well, anyways, as you can tell I remade my layout. The other was just so gaudy and ugly. I didn't like it. I guess I was in a weird mood when I made it. Hah.

Well, I've been recorded stuff today and I think I will go and do that yet again. Leave some beautiful comments ;)

Camp Patmos Oh Six

I took this while waiting to go sailing. It definatly represents my week at camp: POWERFUL.

The whole entire week was amazing. God really worked in me to get closer to Him. P.D. spoke about building your life on the right principles. His messages really help me put my life into persepective, and his humor really brought all of us in and kept us attentive.

Camp for me has always been something I look forward to. This year, I'm looking back on Camp because I realize how blessed I am to be able to go to this awesome place. Besides all of the staff being nothing but purely amazing, the activities all being a ton of fun, and the atmosphere being absolutly beautiful, I enjoy being around everybody there. I don't think a single camper there was mean or anything. It's like right when you get on that tram and drive into the camp, your mood is set to happy for the whole week.

And although I miss Patmos and can't wait to go back, I'm excited to be home and be able to share my faith with the world. I know that with prayer, devotion, dedication, and the knowledge that I have the creator of the universe, the King of kings, and my Savior on my side, I cannot and will not fail.

But just like a guardrail, I need you guys to be my friends and keep me accountable. I don't want this to be like every other year when I fail to be go out for Christ and set an example.

&& iM OFF !!

Well, I just got done ALMOST packing for like my favorite week of the year. I thought I would leave you one last post until I get back. Camp Patmos is sure to be an amazing expirience this year. The entire surrounding atmosphere is just full of pure fun, friendliness, and God himself. What I love about Camp is that they don't try and hide the principles they are based on. Everything is applicable to Christ, yet not a boring sermon all the time. I can't wait to grow this week.

I feel like I'm missing something but I have no idea what. I mean, I guess that's the feeling everybody gets when they are going to be gone from home for awhile. I had to smoosh 6 shorts, 8 t-shirts, 2 nice shirts, capris, sweats, pajamas, toiletries, towels, bathing suits, and a millinon kajillion other things into this little roll along suitcase. I jumped on it and still had a hard time zipping it up.

But yes, I'm mos deff looking forward to this week.

Oh && I would like many beautiful comments when I get home :D

HOLA

Well, it's 9:09 and Myspace isn't working yet again so I thought I would post. Philip being away at camp has made our house way to quite. I honestly never thought I would say this but I miss my brother so much it's driving me crazy !! I can't wait until he comes home tomorrow.

So, cross country started up and I am without a doubt the slowest girl on the team. During track, it took me about a month to build up some blisters, but I got blisters the very first day of cc. From Tuesday-Thursday I could see some pretty good improvements in my self. I guess I had more will and was more determined to keep going. My knee has been giving me problems yet again lately, and yesterday while doing a sprinting/stride excersise it popped. Oh wow it hurt. Coach Cochran told me to take today off, which I am so glad I did. My knee doesn't hurt thta bad any more, but my blisters are swollen and infected (ew gross I know ...) and they are making walking pretty much not an option.

So yesterday after practice, I came home, took a long bath, put on my scrub clothes, and the Hembree girls headed out to find a quince dress. First we stopped at the China King Buffet and had the coolest waiter guy. I love their vests !! I got like 5 egg rolls, won ton soup, chicken, hash browns, cream puffs, and these absolutly amazing flaky/sugar cookies. Yes, I was in heaven :]. Audrey and Mom were making fun of me because I couldn't walk. LOL I looked hilarious though.

So about that dress : We first went to Kaufmens and I fell inlove with this red dress that had a V-neck, haulder straps, and sequins. I felt like it was made for me. But we put it on hold while we hit some other stores. I'm not too crazy about DEB but Mom wanted us to look in there. And wow, that is where I found my dress !! It's rasberry colored (I know I wanted plumish but I figure that color would be out around winter, not summer) and very hard to describe. It has sequins, strapless (with optional straps that I will deff use) and some other fancyness. I love it :)

YES I AM STILL BREATHING.

Hah. I realize it's been close to forever since I posted. Well a week, but that's a while for me. Long time ago I would post like once a day, if not twice a day. I don't know what's up with me lately. Probably the fact that I have nothing to write about. But that's a lie because I have a weeks worth now. Let's just see if I can remember without making this super long. I hear people don't read my posts when they are long. coughtyleshacough.

The 4th of July was great. We rode on the firetruck and had super funness. Surprisingly the rain held out until of course we were walking back to the car, when it pretty much poured. We watched the works with the fabulous Keys clan and they were amazing to say the least. We sat super close and they were huge. I got ash in my eye and wow that hurt like ahh.
Wednesday we crushed pop cans and watched vegetables.
Thursday, like I told Emily, I totally forget !! I think it was one of those days where I just sat around and did nothing.
Friday I spent the night at Sam's house and had a lot of fun. We laughed at the picture at the top for like ever. Hahahahah.

SUNDAY : Went to church and it was great. Me and Emily chilled in the nursery until no kids came, so we decided to be part of the Back Row Baptist group and sit back there with only the coolest people in the church. But we were sort of in the middleish/back. It had a weird echo back there hahah. Audrey drove us home and she did a great job for just getting her temps like Thursday I think it was. I was only scared for my life twice. #1: When she started heading toward a fence and wouldn't break. #2. When we bottomed-out in the driveway and almost rammed into a thorn bush. But she looked so cute in that boat we call a car. hheh I love her.

We cross country starts tomorrow. Not too thrilled about that. But I'm sure I will have fun .... and Philip is going to camp tomorrow. He'll be the only boy from church. But atleast Stephen will be his counselor. I just can't believe he's leaving me :'( I'm going to miss him soooo much.

:)

So I'm going to make a little post before I have to go and do the dishes. UGH. Last night after church I tried to persuade Dad to let us put his old stero and cd player in our room, which was easy because he was all for it. The speakers are absolutly huge and it comes in the big glass cabinet thing. You probably saw it in our living room before, but we moved it downstairs and its been sitting there unused for months. This thing is ancient though, like from the 80's. Hah. It could give a retro feel to the room .. or not. I had to clean out the corner with the white bookcase that we don't use for anything except to store junk. Wow. I found everything back their. Notes I wrote friends inthe 6th grade, letters from my family while I was at camp last year, baby books, lots of dust, and a bunch of other stuff. I put it all "nicely" into a storage container and put it in the green room. It looks pretty nice over there, and I'm not too sure the stero thing will fit. Oh well.

Audrey and I went running this morning. We ran up Wedgewood, Daniels, all of Eastgate Commons, and back. Hah. It was only about two miles, but I was pretty exhausted when we finished. Cross country starts in a week and I want to get SOME running in. Like a week will really do anything though ..

So today I think I'm going to go up to Hyre to practice basketball (another sport I haven't been involved in forever) with Jessica and Kayla. Only problem is, none of us have a ball. Oh well, I'm sure that won't be a problem. Balls are over-rated and imagination isn't used enough. We can pretend to be bouncing and dribbling. Hah .. And then tonight we're going bowling with the coolest people ever the Keys'. I'm so excited :) I've been wanting to go for like a year and never have. Plans always get broken, not allowed, no money, and so on.

Well, a sink full of dirty and grimy dishes is waiting for me so yeah .. better get to that ..