My many blonde moments

2007-05-10T21:43:00.000-04:00

A lot has happened since my last post. I have turned 16, (thanks for all the birthday comments) started driving, participated on my school's track team. I had terrible shin splint this year so I didn't get to do as much as I would have liked, but I did get to do the 100 meter high hurdles. And I really enjoyed them. Here is a picture of me at one of my meets. (that's my coach in the background)

Track is now over, but I really enjoyed the experience and hope that my shins get better so I can do it again.

That's all I have to say right now. Have a good weekend!

Zarah.

2007-03-15T20:54:00.000-04:00

my really great friend zarah wanted me to update.
I know she wasn't expecting me to update about her, but that's what i'm going to do.
Zarah is an amazing person. She is one of my best friends. She is always there whenever I need her. I like the way she is always so excited and loves life. She is makes me want to do better. Zarah is an awesome athlete and I'm so proud of her and her cross country skills. She is amazing. Zarah is also a beautiful girl. Not only on the outside but on the inside too. I respect her and am so proud of the way she has let God work in her life. He is her number one and that's how she lives her life. I love you Zarah! You're the best! Keep up the great work!

Stephanie Rae

Knowles. Yup we are the coolest family. :-)

2007-02-27T21:40:00.000-05:00

I love my family.
Today after school Kate came and picked Kim and me up from school. She took us out to dinner at our favorite, taco bell! :-) I love my sisters.
Then I wrestled with Chuckie and Alli. Of course I beat them. :-)
My dad is amazing. I love talkint to him, and laughing with him. He picked me up and rocked me like he use to when I was little. I'll be very sad when the day comes that I'm too big for him to do that.
I love laughing with him mom over little things. We both laugh very easily and have fun watching tv and doing stuff together.
I just love my family. They are amaizng and I don't know what I would do without them.
<3Stephanie Rae

Dogs. Sometimes I hate em and sometimes I love em

2007-02-14T12:03:00.000-05:00

so my dog is pretty dumb. i mean i love him to death. but guess what he just did?he just came running down the stairs and i looked at him and he had white stuff all over his face and all over him. i was like what the heck is that? and no it was not snow. i smelled it and it was fluff! zeus, being the bright dog that he is, got into the pantry and got the fluff out. then he chewed off the cap and ate what was in it. yeah, that's pretty annoying. so me being the nice person i am took him outside first. lol. i thought that would be better than making him go out after his bath and freezing his butt off. lol. so after i brought him in i gave him a bath.

now i have this pathetic, wet thing sitting on my lap shivering. haha.

the joys of having a dog :)
steph

Hair cut

2007-02-05T21:15:00.000-05:00

Yup, folks. I got my hair cut. I have worn it long for several years and wanted a change. So I donated it for a 3rd time to Locks of Love. I actually like it too. It's gonna take some getting use to, but I like it.

Tell me what you think
Steph

Jeff and Fritha....I will miss you!

2007-01-18T22:19:00.000-05:00

Two of my favorite people are leaving me. Jeff and Fritha are moving to Florida. I'm am very sad about this. I've shed tears and I miss them already. (they are leaving Saturday but I won't see them before then) They have been great infulences to me. They have also shown me how to live your life for God. They are great examples. I love them so much and am going to miss them terribly.
So tonight we had a going away party for them. Of course, I took pics, I just don't want to forget them

Here is the cookie that I made special for them. Ethan gave me 1 7/8 thumbs up

My gorgeous friend Zarah. I love you girly!

I love you Jeff and I am going to miss you so much.

Fritha you are an amazing woman of God and I will always think of you as my big sister. I love you!
I'm praying for you guys!
steph

Spring?

2007-01-06T16:59:00.000-05:00

That's what it feels like outside. Today my family and I were all sitting out on the patio drinking coffee in t-shirts, and listening to music! It's crazy! It doesn't feel like January 6th, it feels more like a day in May to me. But I can't say that I mind this weather. I got to see some snow while I was in Maine and that was good enough for now
Well I have been missing taking pictures. I love my camera and photography so much so today I took some time and went around outside and took pics. Here are some of them.

Comments would be lovely!
Stephanie Rae

2006-12-05T16:51:00.000-05:00

I'm updating again.
I think everyone has given up on checking this. Oh, well.
My life right now is going great. I'm still enjoying school and looking forward to Christmas. The day after Christmas my family is going up north which I'm excited about. I haven't been up there since August and I miss everyone. I also hope that there is a TON of snow up there so I can snowmobile! Yeah, baby! lol.
One of my goals this winter is to go skiing. I've never been skiing before and I want to learn. So anyone interested in teaching me, I'm ready to learn. lol.
I haven't been using my digital camera as much as I should. Whenever I've been doing anything with photo I've been using my 35mm for photo class. But I will try to take and post some pictures soon.
Stephanie Rae

update

2006-11-04T12:24:00.000-05:00

i don't know if anyone reads this anymore but i thought that i would update anyway.
school is amazing! i love it. i have made lots of great friends. they are so awesome and have made my transition very easy.
monday was the first day of the second quarter. it's hard to believe that that we are already a quarter through the school year. it has gone fast. monday was fun because we had a half day because of the quarter change. so after school on monday my mom picked us up and we headed out to new jersey. i hadn't seen the demmes in 5 months so i was excited that we were going to be able to spend the rest of the day with them. mrs. demme wanted to take the kids trick or treating so she bought them costumes. she also bought kim and me hats to wear. i wasn't planning on going but she bought me the stuff and i thought it could be fun so kim and i went along with alli and chuckie. it was a little weird because i felt like i was too old but whatever. it would have been awesome if i went with some friends but it was still pretty fun with my siblings. another good thing was that i didn't know any of the people so it didn't really matter if i looked like a dork. lol
then tuesday we had another half day because we had a half day social. so we had our afternoon classes (that we missed monday because of the half day) in the morning and then after lunch we had our social. it was so much fun! i got to hang out with my friends and just chill for several hours. one of the activities we did was go on a hay ride! that was fun. i just had a great time with my friends.
so this week has gone by pretty fast because of the half days. so that was nice.
one thing that would mean a lot to me is if you could pray for my family. my dad is working in boston right now seeing if he likes this one job. he comes home on the weekends but is gone from monday-friday so it's tough with him not being around. so just keep him in your prayers that he will adjust to the job, be safe with all of his traveling, and know if this is the job that he wants. and pray for us at home without our dad/husband. that would be greatly appreciated.
steph

Black and White Day

2006-09-01T17:22:00.000-04:00

Here they are. The last photos of color week.
And by the way I didn't copy Aaron, I had already taken my picture when I saw he had one of a piano.....oh, well.

Here is a thing that is called a photogram. I made it in my photography class. You actually don't even use a camera just an enlarger. It's very cool. It took me a few tries but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Blue Day

2006-08-31T18:09:00.000-04:00

Here is my picture.

This one is actually in color. It kind of looks like black and white but it's just they way the sun was hitting the lens. The swing is still blue so I thought I would put it up because I was very happy with the way it came out and I like it :-)

Red Day

2006-08-30T21:28:00.000-04:00

Here is my picture for the day.

Green Day

2006-08-29T20:34:00.000-04:00

Here is my "green" picture of the day. As you can tell it has been raining down here.

Yellow Day

2006-08-29T18:41:00.000-04:00

Here is my yellow picture....yesterday I got bumped off the computer so I couldn't finish my post. So here are the pics from yesterday.

I took this one a while ago but I didn't have much time yesterday to take pics.

I did manage to take this picture yesterday. So there ya go.

My First Day of School (EVER)

2006-08-23T21:12:00.000-04:00

Today was really my first day of school. For those who don't know, which would be about all of you except select few I am now going to Lancaster Mennonite Highschool! It's so cool!
Yesterday morning my parents called me into the family room to have a talk with them. That is when they proposed the idea of me going to LMH. I was shocked and it took me a while to way the pros and cons out of homeschooling and LMH. I decided in the end to got to LMH. So since the first day of school was the next day my mom and I called to make an appointment for me to go in and pick my classes. They were booked so we set up a time for today at 10:30. So I would go to Chapel in at 8:15 and then have a little orientation meeting and then a tour of the school. By the end of the tour it was about time for my appointment. We picked my classes and then I ate lunch. After lunch I did my three remaining classes which were, Writing Skills, Geometry, and Photography I. I am so excited about taking the photography course. I had to take Photography I which I will have to use a 35mm camera in order for me to be able to take Digital Photography next semester.
I'm also taking AP European History, Driver's Ed/Health, and Phys Ed. Then next semester I will be taking Chemistry.
I'm very excited about this and my first day went well. It will be better tomorrow now that I know what my classes are and where my homeroom is and everything.
I will keep you posted on my exciting school days ;-)
Please keep me in your prayers!

I'm home!

2006-08-16T20:54:00.000-04:00

Can you believe it? After being gone over six weeks (45 days to be exact), I'm finally home! Hurray! Yeah, so I got back last Tuesday but I've been lazy and not updating.
So last week we went to my Dad's Mom's house which was fun. We got to see our family and stuff. Then on Monday we went to Boston with my dad's brother, Favorite Uncle Mike. So that was wicked fun! I had already been to Boston while in New England but it was great going with my Uncle Mike. He all bought us souvenirs too which was cool. I love my new sweat shirt, thanks Favorite Uncle!
Yeah, so not much has been going one. Today I volunteered at the library. I know call me a geek if you want. I really love books and the library so I thought I would volunteer. And it was actually kinda fun. I liked checking the books in and out. That was the best part. Shelving was ok. It was just time consuming. But the people at the library apparently liked me because they want me to help out tomorrow.
Nothing much else has been going on, I've been cooking, playing sudoku, watching tv (omgoodness I love Monk SO much! Kim and I have watched the few episodes we have on demand. That show is so funny!), and just chillin'
School starts in 1 week! Ahhhhhh! Summer has gone by WAY too fast!

2006-08-05T22:21:00.000-04:00

I've been having a really great vacation. Tomorrow it will be six weeks that I have been away from home. It has been nice but I'm ready to go home.

Today we all went out to dinner at a place called, The Lobster Shack. It was very cool because we sat at picnic tables right by the ocean. After dinner we all started walking around on the rocks. It was so beautiful! We got some nice family pictures too!

Here is a picture of us cousins....we were missing Alex, Meg, and Rachee :-(

Lighthouse.....man Kayla and I are cool with our lighthouse pictures! ;-)

Another view

I finally have an adventure to write about :-D

2006-08-04T17:44:00.000-04:00

Today I went with my kayaking with my family.

Just ignore the water droplets on the camera....Zeus fell in the water and got the camera all wet....luckily it was in a water proof case.

Here is me and my puppy!

Here is Zeus before he fell in....

....here he is after!
But that is not the adventure I'm talking about. Kate, Kim, Amanda and I all jumped off a bridge!!!! It was AMAZING! It was very exciting and fun!

Me jumping...

...Amanda jumping...
...Kim jumping...
...and Kate jumping!
It was really awesome!

This time I brought my camera! :-)

2006-07-23T21:11:00.000-04:00

Tonight we all met Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Bob and Aunt Pam at an ice cream place. It was fun. They didn't have my strawberry cheesecake or shortcake so I went with the next best thing....something with coffee ! So coffee heath bar it was.It was fun all being together and watching the little girls as their ice cream got all over their faces!

Becca with her Cotton Candy Ice Cream

Eva.....she is always making that face and I was told that I had to get a picture of it while I was here. Looks like I did!

I wish I brought my Camera

2006-07-22T16:33:00.000-04:00

Today was the first time that I, "wished I had brought my camera." I usually always bring it everywhere because I knew there would come a time when I would, "wish I had brought my camera."
Today was the day. With 20 minutes to get ready, Uncle Tim, Aunt Carrie, Becca, Eva and I all left the house. Aunt Carrie had an eye exam so Uncle Tim took the girls and Me to breakfast while she was at the doctor's. After Aunt Carrie was done we decided to go to the fair.
Once we got out of the car and started walking to the fair we felt the rain start. It was only sprinkling so it was no big deal. The girls had fun riding the carousel. Then Becca and Uncle Tim went down a pretty big slide. Becca loved it!
As we were walking around that is when I, "wished I had my camera" and could take some, "spy shots." You know pictures of funny things or random people. There were two min pins that I wanted to take a picture. They made me miss my Zeus. Then there was this bull dog that was walking around the fair with a tennis ball in his mouth. Then just random people or things that caught my attention. I also wished I could have taken pictures of the girls enjoying the rides and cotton candy.
Then the rain started coming down harder. So we decided we should go back to the van. That is when it wasn't so bad that I didn't have my camera. I have a case for my camera but I don't know how it would have kept my camera dry the whole time.
So I can look at it this as:
A blessing in disguise:
1) I didn't have to haul my camera around the whole day
2) I don't have a wet camera
or
A pain:
1) I missed some entertaining shots
2) I'll have to use my memory (with out pictures) to catalog all of my memories from today

I guess I'll have to bring my camera absolutely everywhere now!

Lucky Me

2006-07-19T09:20:00.000-04:00

Well as it turns out I didn't have to go home with my family! I am in Maine right now! Last week I was at Uncle Mike and Aunt Tara's house. I had a good time. I got to hang out with Alex, Meg, and Rachey. Then for one afternoon I got to go hang out with Cara. It was lots of fun. We went swimming and just talked, and hung out. So last week was really nice.
Now I'm in good ol' Maine! Hurray! I love Maine. So now I'm staying at my mom's other brother's house. I will be here at Uncle Tim and Aunt Carries for 2 weeks! I'm staying here to help Aunt Carrie out by watching the girls and helping her wherever she needs it. I'm having fun. I usually get to go over to my grandparents and hang out with my cousins at some point during each day which is nice.
On Monday I went over to my Grandparents house because Meg called and asked me if I wanted to spot for them while they tubed (and of course I would get to tube too:-)). So of course I said yes. It was blast! I also got the knee board out and did that. It was fun but pretty choppy so I didn't do it for very long. We had lots of fun. Have any of you ever been tubing?
Then yesterday Aunt Carrie, the girls and I went to the library. It was a super nice library. It was fun and the building was air conditioned! It has been scorching hot up here! But I heard it was scorching hot everywhere in the country so I guess everybody is suffering.
I'm sorry this is all pretty boring I bet but I don't have anything super exciting to tell you. But if something happens I will be sure to write about it. ;-)

My trip to Canada

2006-07-13T22:53:00.000-04:00

On Tuesday I went to Canada. It was really nice. I didn't think it was exceptianly beautiful but it was nice. We were going to my Aunt and Uncle's house to for 4 days.

When we were about a mile from our Aunt and Uncle's house there was this car that was really tailgating us. My grandma (who was driving) was getting a little upset. Then we turned onto our road and the car behind turned to (much to my grandmother's dismay). Then the car turned it's lights on! It just so happend that the car behind us was a cop car. The "mountie" got out and said that we didn't use our blinker when we turned. Then we found out that the light on the back was broken. So he didn't give us a ticket. Instead he say my mom's dive flag on the back of the van and started telling us all these dive stories. He was really nice but we were all quite tired from the long ride and ready to be out of the car.
Then we finally made it to our Aunt and Uncle's house!

The next day we drove over to Prince Edward Island. It was really cool. The bridge we had to go over (The Continental Bridge) was 9 miles! Very cool. There was a strip of shops for the tourists when you first get on the island. In one of the shops there is a place where you can dress up like Anne from Anne of Green Gables (Anne lived on PEI in the book and movie). It was fun.

Then we went to see the play, "Anne of Green Gables." It was really great! I loved it.

The one of the days we went to the beach. Guess what color the sand was? It was red!

It was fun my Mom, Kim and I played hopscotch on the beach. I wasn't very good at it! She won both times!
Then one morning I was woken up by my mom who was telling me that there was a bear out side. So I crawled out of bed, grabbed my camera, put on my telephoto lens and started snapping away. I was still half asleep but I did manage to get this pic.....then I went back to bed ;-)
Blogger is being dumb and won't load my bear pic....I'll try again later
Well that is it. It was a nice relaxing time in Canada. I got some fun pictures and had fun with my family.

more to come soon...

2006-07-11T16:58:00.000-04:00

I just wanted everyone to know I am back from Canada and had a great time. I will be posting an update soon.

Here we are on Prince Edward Island.....I'll update more soon!

Maine...My home away from home

2006-07-04T09:43:00.000-04:00

My family and I have been in Maine since Friday evening. We are staying at my grandparent's (my mom's mom and dad) house. My mom's two brothers also came up here for the weekend. It has been a lot of fun.

My grandparents live in a house on the lake. It's really beautiful up here! My grandparents have several kayaks so some of us will just go out for a nice ride around the lake. My little siblings and cousins like to swim of shore. I don't really like swimming there because it's all covered in weeds and mucky at the bottom. But Kim, my cousin Alex, and I all took the kayaks out in the middle of another lake. We tied the kayaks together and jumped off! The water was great and we had fun swimming. I would guess the water was about 10 ft. deep. The weeds didn't reach where we were swimming so that was cool. We had to have one person holding the kayaks at all times but it was fine. Until one of the kayaks got away. But Kim swam out to get it while I held the other two. So it all worked out fine
I really love it when my mom's side of the family gets together. We all get along really great and just have a fun time. We played several games together which was fun. Part of the fun was winning!
My dad really loves to fish and my brother has been getting better at it. My dad caught a 16 3/4 inch bass the other day which was the biggest this year (last year he got a 21 incher). But yesterday Chuckie got a 15 inch bass! He was so excited. He did it all himself. My uncle made him reel the thing in himself. Once it was out of the water Chuckie didn't want to touch it! But we got pics of my uncle holding it for him

My grandpa also has a speed boat. We went out on the lake a couple time and tubed. It was lots of fun! The first time I just went to take pictures. Most of them didn't come out but I got a few good ones.

Yesterday we went out again and that time I went tubing. It was wicked awesome! I got some huge air! There were lots of boats out on the lake so there were some nice waves! My uncle had the boat going about as fast as it could while pulling some one (a little over 35 MPH). It was fun.
Last night we had a camp fire which I always love. My grandma bought sparklers for us to play with. I tried taking a picture of them but it didn't really come out like I wanted it to, but here it is.

Now I'm off to Canada! Hurray!
Happy 4th of July!

i'm back!

2006-06-03T19:39:00.000-04:00

florida was awesome! i had a blast! the wedding was great! i took lots of pictures. so check those out. i have a nice tan too!
my vacation was just awesome. we just hung out around the pool alot so it was just a nice and relaxing vacation. i also got a lot of reading in so it was cool.....the only sad thing was i ran out of books....i read the 4 i brought but then i had nothing to read for like the last two days but i just had a great time!
i'm really tired right now because i went from the airport to caitlyn's birthday party-sleep over which i stayed up till 5! yeah.....i'm tired!

2006-05-20T19:33:00.000-04:00

life is good.....nothing like super amazing has happened but i'm just happy. i LOVE my camera, school is almost over (that is kind of an annoying thing, because all of my days are in but my mom is making us finish up all our books ), and i'm going to Florida!!! yay! so that is exciting! i can't wait to go! i'll get a nice tan and take TONS of pictures!
on tuesday i went to our homeschool group and took pictures for the year book....i got some awesome shots while some people were doing the high jump! it's cool
then after school my gym class went to a park to have like an end of the year party....it was fun! i took some cool pictures there too
well nothing else is really happening.....i'm gonna try and finish up all of my school tonight (i'd be lucky if i could do it)...but i don't want to have to do school when i get back from florida
here are some pictures I've taken in the last few weeks...This is taken from by back door....there is acually another rainbow above the one you see but it's really hard to see in the picture.

I just went to Philly and here is a picture of Independence Hall.Here is just pretty flower!

stephanie rae

My big news!

2006-05-09T14:14:00.000-04:00

Hey everybody!
Guess what? I just bought the Canon Digital Rebel XT! It is so amazing! I am soooo happy! Here it is!

I am so happy right now.....you guys have no idea! The cool thing is I ordered it yesterday morning and just got the ground shipping because it was free. The site said it should take 7-10 days and I got it this morning! It was amazing! I am just so excited (as you could probably tell because I use an exclamation point after about every sentence)! Be sure to keep checking my photo site for pics....the site is http://community.webshots.com/user/stephanepha

stephanie rae
~edit~
Here are some pics I took today!

Basketball stats

2006-03-04T18:46:00.000-05:00

Well today was our play off game in basketball. We won!!! So we're going to the championships! We are undefeated right now! We're 8-0 so it's really cool. This was my first year and I'm having lots of fun. The girls are all really nice and I have a great coach too. So I think I will keep playing. Well I don't have much to say....well if I think of anything else I'll post.

2006-02-27T15:17:00.000-05:00

hey y'all,
saturday i had another basketball game...it went really well...i had lots of fun! i scored 6 points and got 2 fouls...i also started for the third time in a row! yay! it was cool!
so lately i've been deprived of interesting picture topics! it's so annoying! so today i bundled up and went outside to find something interesting to take a picture of....so i took the pic of the tree...
then i took some pics of my my plants that she has for her science class she teaches...so here are some of them...

this is called a banana plant...notice the spot right at the top of the water ^^it's a snail!

well there ya go....

2006-02-16T20:18:00.000-05:00

Here are a couple of pictures I took from Valentine's Day....me with my rose!

2006-02-16T20:15:00.001-05:00

Me again with my rose

2006-02-16T20:15:00.000-05:00

My B-E-A-U-TIFUL rose!

Quiz

2006-02-10T17:48:00.000-05:00

You scored as Cara. You are Cara. Bouncy and happy (most of the time), you love art (whether it's creating it or critiquing it) and movies. Especially movies...and art.

Cara

92%

Aaron

83%

Duncan

75%

Alison

67%

Earl

50%

Ryan

50%

Ian

50%

Bria

25%

Which Sandford are you?
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2006-01-06T22:45:00.000-05:00

Hey y'all. Everything is going great in my life. School was ok on Tuesday. It was pretty boring becaue I didn't get to hang out with Alexis cause she was sick ....I lived though.
I got my new beanie today! I ordered it off ebay with my Christmas money! I loveit so much! Here is a pic...

I had basketball practice tonight and then again tomorrow...I like it a lot...it's really fun....I'm getting better than when I started. I hope that I get better and am not a hinderance to my team. I practiced my shooting a little so I was better than last practice but I have to keep practicing so I get even better.
Please comment me....ttyl!
Stephanie

2005-12-29T20:02:00.000-05:00

I did a very nice pretty long post but I my computer was being really dumb and the internet stopoped working so my post was lost. I'm very sad....well I'll write sometime later.
Stephanie

2005-12-17T22:16:00.000-05:00

So I went to an open house at the Post's today and it was really cool....there were lots of people there. I was making a cooking with my friend and I asked Jeff if he would make one with us and so he did. Here is his work of art....my cookie took about 1 or two to make and then about 30 seconds to eat....and Jeff took about 5 or more minutes to make his cookie and Fritha ate it in about 30 seconds...lol

Well here is a picture of Jeff and his cookie

Guess what else everybody? Jeff and Fritha are getting married! I'm so excited and happy for them! Y'all probably already knew that but it's ok....and i took some pictures today so here ya go...

Here is the BEAUTIFUL ring that Jeff gave Fritha! And here is the cute couple! They are so awesome!

So today we had a pot-luck which was really cool. The food was yummy! lol....anyway we were eating and as we were finishing up I took one of the empty Sparkling Apple Juice bottles and blew into it and tried to make that whistle noise. I couldn't get it to work...then Jeff did it and it worked (of couse...lol). Then Jeff and I had a contest with shots of Sparkling Apple Juice....it was fun! It ended in a draw.

Then once we were cleaning up Fritha came up to me and we had a contest with Sparkling Apple Juice and we drank a lot! 8 shots and 1 mouth full of bubbles each! That contest ended in a draw too! lol

Today was fun other than the fact that I messed up on my piano majorly, but I had fun other than that.

Well Merry Christmas everybody!

Stephanie Rae

Weekend fun

2005-12-11T09:22:00.000-05:00

hey everyone,
nothing much is going on right now....i'm just watching tv with Kate. I went to see Narnia today!!!! It was AWESOME! I loved it! I also hung out with Zarah today at the mall....it was fun.
after i got home from the mall i had to go to a swim meet and work....it was kinda fun....and kinda boring....i have to go back tomorrow which isn't that cool but i'll live...
well that's all leave me comments!
stephanie

Attack of the Animals

2005-12-03T10:49:00.000-05:00

Ok, so I was going shoe shopping with my mom on Thursday while Kate swam...Kate was driving and we were going to pick up Alex (a guy who swims with Kate). On the way my mom was doing her make-up and I was in the back not really doing anything but not looking out in front....All of a sudden Kate slams on the brakes and I hear, "Holy Crap!!" I quickly looked up and right (I mean right) in front of our van was a dear running across the road! I was really scary! Luckily the person behind us was paying attention and didn't rearended us. Kate and Mom were really shaken up about it....me, well I just thought that Kate handled it really well....but my knees weren't shaking like theirs or anything. Kate said that she has "cat like reflexes"....lol! So also said that her perifial vision (which she spotted the dear with) was really good because "she's a lifeguard." lol! so that was really cool and adventurous!
For another animal story...yesterday we had just finished reading our history lesson as a family and my mom went out of the room....all of a sudden Kim screamed! We were all like, what? what? She said that a mouse had just run across the family room! eeeeeeeeewwwwwww!!! It was pretty gross! Zeus had seen the mouse too so he ran over to where the mouse went and was sniffing around (the min-pins were raised to kill rats, so he was really into this). Then Alli went over and lifted the blankets up that the mouse was hiding under and the mouse ran all the way over to our kitchen and under the refrigerator! Zeus was chasing it and then trying to find it! Sadly we couldn't get the mouse to go out from under the fridge....Zeus was like sniffing the whole trail from where the mouse had run to the kitchen from the blankets! Sadly we never found the mouse and Zeus didn't get to kill it (like I hoped he would).....
Those are my adventures.....my life is so exciting! lol
stephanie rae

Thanksgiving Week

2005-11-27T16:05:00.000-05:00

Hey y'all...
My grandparents, uncle, aunt and cousins all left wicked early this morning....I had a blast with them here! Thanksgiving was awesome! We had really yummy food and fun just being together as a family. I made four pies and they were delicious (if i do say so myself)! We had friends over for dessert which was cool...I had fun hanging with Tyler and Alec. I played UNO a lot this weekend! It was fun....I did win quite a bit so that helped make it more fun! Well tomorrow starts another week of school ...it stinks... oh well...at least I got to get several days off!
Hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving!
stephanie rae

I'm back!!!

2005-11-16T20:05:00.000-05:00

I hope y'all didn't worry too much about me. I'm still alive and well. I'm especially happy because I'm on the computer again! My family took a whole MONTH break from the internet!!! A MONTH!!!! Holy Cow!!! That was the longest month ever! lol! So school has been taking up most of my time lately. I've had 2 presentations and lots and lots of work. I'm just happy I'm in highschool and only have 3 and 2/3 years left of school! lol! One of the exciting things I did while I was absent from the computer was go to a high school football game! My friend's dad is a coach of one of the New Jersey teams. So I went with my friend (Hannah) to the game! It was a blast! Hannah and my other friend Brynn came too! We had a blast! We were the water girls! It was so much fun! We would run out on the field during the time outs! It was soooooooo awesome! We would also stand on the side lines and hold the freezing cold water bottles while we waited for the time outs and let the guys who were thirsty drink. It was so much fun! Then to top it off I spent the night at her house then went to her swim meet in the morning! It was a blast! (Me, Hannah and Brynn)
(To make things even cooler I was number 12! I mean really how cool is that! Go Tom Brady!)I don't know if you guys can handle it but I had another fantastic weekend too! Kate had a swim meet in Penn State last weekend! Oh, my word! It was sooooo cool! Kate, my mom and I all went! It was so much fun! Penn State has a huge campus! I mean it's huge! Our friend drove us around it and then we watched Kate, Alex and Joe swim. It was lots of fun! The only sad thing was I didn't get to see Hannah swim :( It's ok though. So we had a great time! I had never been to Penn State before and it was awesome! It's like it's own little world. It's in the middle of mountains and there is like nothing else there! I saw the stadium and everything! I had so much fun!

(Kate and me with the Nittnay Lion)

Well that is enough info to keep you updated for a while. Comment back!

Have You Ever...

2005-10-14T17:54:00.000-04:00

Dumped your contacts into the sink...
Brushed your teeth with a cleaning toothbrush...
Played a funny yet kinda mean joke on your sister...
Watched a really dumb movie yet laughed hysterically...
Cut somebody off while driving a go-cart...
Fallen off a horse...
Sung along badly to the radio or a cd...
Had a really bad picture taken of you...
Tried to take a contact out that wasn't even in...
Messed up on a piano duet...
Choked on a piece of cheese pizza...
Shot your dog with a rubber band...
Chased a baby loon around a lake…
Kinda, almost flipped a golf cart...
Glued your fingers together...
Screamed through a whole rollercoaster ride?
I was just thinking about some really stupid, weird, and just plain blonde moments I have had and thought I would post them. Some of you have witnessed these moments so they will be funny memories for some of you. :o) Tell me if you have experienced any of these or if I’m really just a weird person…you can also just laugh at me if you want!

Nothing interesting

2005-10-06T20:55:00.000-04:00

I don't really have an interesting news or storys. So I'm just posting to say that I'm still alive! lol! School is going well. I'm enjoying being down at my homeschool group again.

I'm sad that the Patriots lost last Sunday. It's so sad. I feel all alone down here in a world of Eagles and Steelers fans! Help I need some Patriot fans down here! lol!

Well I'll be waiting for something interesting to happen....

Blonde moment

2005-09-15T19:23:00.000-04:00

The other night I had a really scary moment for like a spilt second. I was getting ready for bed and I went into the bathroom to take my contacts out. I opened my contact case and saw nothing! I was like freaking out in my mind but then I relized that I was taking my contacts out not putting them in! My contacts were in my eyes! So that was my blonde moment of the day!

Home again

2005-08-30T15:49:00.000-04:00

Yes I'm finally home! It's kinda good but then again I had such a good time I didn't want to leave.

I stayed in Maine for a little over a week and had a blast! The girls are so cute and very fun! Becca talks a TON!!! It's so much fun. She had a really cute way of saying my name too. I don't even know how I would try and put on here because you just have to hear it.

After my great time in Maine I went to meet Cara at the outlets in Kittery. We shopped there and had a blast! My fun with her had barely begun and I got an awesome new skirt and jean jacket! It was so awesome! The perfect start to a long weekend.

So I hung out with her from Thursday afternoon to Tuesday afternoon. We had a blast! We did things like, swim, go-cart, watch movies, play games, and ride around on the golf cart! We did lots more but those are the highlights!

My flight was good and now I'm home doing the same old stuff. I started high school yesterday. So that's new. This first week is going to be pretty easy because 3 of my major courses don't start until Tuesday, when homeschool group starts.

Kate started winter swim team already so I went to the first practice and watched with my friend Hannah, who's older brother is doing swimming also.

So Kate and I walk into the building and go into the locker room. She had to go to the bathroom before she swam so she went in the stall. I'm standing around, not really doing any thing just getting water out of the water fountain and stuff. Then I hear Kate and she's like, "Steph come here." So I walk over to the outside of the stall and I'm like what. She's like, "I'm stuck. I'm locked in here." So I started trying to help her out. The little circle lock thing wouldn't turn. The whole thing was loose. So I'm holding the outside part to make it tight and she's trying to turn it and it wasn't going anywhere. It was pretty funny. I was laughing like the whole time. So we try this for a couple of minutes and the my mom comes in and she's like, "Kate where are you?" So we told her that she was stuck and my mom just said that she should just crawl under the door. So she did that. So that was pretty exciting! lol! Then Hannah and I played cards as we watched Kate and Joe swim for like 2 hours straight (almost).

That's all the exciting stories I have for now.

Homebody or World Traveler?

2005-08-09T23:11:00.000-04:00

Well I've had at least 2 people tell me that to make an interesting post I will need to make a post that people will have to have an opinion on. So here it goes.

I'm leaving tomorrow morning for Maine. I will be there until the 18th and then I'm going to Cara's house till the 23rd.

So far I have been away from home for 29 days this Summer. And I have been home 31 days. Once I get home from Maine and New Hampshire and school starts, I will have been gone longer than I have been home. I love traveling! Tomorrow is my 4th flight. So I will have been on 5 planes and gone for 43 days by the end of the Summer! Once I get home I will have 5 more days of Summer. So my total number of days at home will be 35. So I have been gone longer than home! yay! It's a new record! lol!

When we are on vacation I could stay forever. I don't get homesick. I mean some times I'm ready to come home. But I just love to go away. I love to travel! New England is one of my favorite places. Even though I like Pennsylvania and the scenery, I like the people up north better! When I grow up I want to travel farther than just up and down the East Coast. Even thought I've gone as far as Colorado and Key West Florida, I want to go out of the country!

So which are you? Are you someone who could stay away for a long time like me or are you more of a person who likes to be home. Comment away and give me your opinion!

Homebody or not?

I'll post when I get home! Maybe even before!

my life of late

2005-08-09T10:41:00.000-04:00

hey ppl,
i haven't filled you in on all of my fun lately.
well my cousins were down and we went to hershey park and it was awesome!!! i had a blast! they have this new roller coaster that rocks!!! the lines were pretty short too which rocked!
on friday night i went to joe and hannah's house for joe's birthday party. it was so much fun! my whole family went. and all the girls were hiding from the boys! we thought that they were in the corn in front of us and they snuck around to the corn behind us and we didn't even know it! it would have been so scary! but joe's dad was calling joe and so he had to get out of hiding and so they didn't get to scare us. too bad for them but awesome for us! hannah, kim and I are so good at the Navy Seal move! it was so much fun! i had fun talking and hanging with hannah.
then on saturday kate, kim and i went for a 6-8 mile bike ride. i don't know how long it was yet. but we went to get an italian ice. it was really good! but on the way we stoped at joe and hannah's house. we hung out for 15 minutes so we could rest for a little bit before moving on. they couldn't come with us because they had stuff to do. it was a long but very fun ride.
well that is pretty much all the fun that i've been having and i'm leaving for maine tomorrow and i will still be on the internet some (i think). but i really would like a high number of comments! hopefully in the double digits! well ttyl!
Steph

...

2005-08-03T17:52:00.000-04:00

I'm here at my house with lots and lots of stuff going on. Uncle Mike and Aunt Tara and their family came down for several days. It's lots of fun! We went to Hershey park yesterday. It was awesome! We had such a blast. They have really awesome roller coasters.

Today my parents and Uncle Mike and Aunt Tara went out for lunch. So I am watching the kids. Kim, Alex, Meg, Alli and Chuckie are all playing together.

I'm watching Rachel. She takes the most work out of all the kids. So I'm here with Rachel and she is watchhing a movie with their portable DVD player. It goes from Elmo to Barbie to Barney. She gets really into it. Sometimes it's hard to get her attention. She sometimes even talks to the movie. It's really cute. Well that's all I have to talk about right now. I'll write later after they leave.

Prices

2005-07-27T21:56:00.000-04:00

Today I went shopping. I was just doing random shopping with my mom for things like shades, lamps, food, and all sorts of things you need to get to make your house look beautius for family coming. So we dropped Kate off at work and then went to the library to get the books that were on hold for us. Then we went around to random stores that were all within a couple minutes of each other.

So we went to a store called Good's. It has all sorts of things in it and in one of the sections it has few books. Just some random books (all Christian books I think). So I was looking through them and found a book that I was reading. So I sat down on a bench that was for sale and read while my mom shopped. The book by the way was $3.75. I didn't buy it because we had just gotten it out of the library a couple minutes ago.

Next my mom and I went to a plaza. She went to Family Dollar and I went to The Shepard Shop. It is a Christian book store. So I went in to look for more books in the series that I got out of the library (the book I was reading in Good's was in the series). I just so happend to have a $10 gift certificate for The Shepard Shop so I was looking around at all of the different stuff. Mostly just the cd's and the books. The only problem was the same book that was at Good's was for sale here for $6.99 and I didn't have a gift certificate for Good's! It is just weird to me how big of a difference there can be in price for the same thing. I mean I've looked on the internet for the book and it is around $3 too. So I kinda wish everything could be the same price. I just lied. I don't don't wish that because I like finding good deals. But I wish that the good deal was at the Shepard Shop! lol!

Bees

2005-07-22T17:01:00.000-04:00

Ok my family has had enough bee stings in one week to cover for a whole year.

Ok so I was down stairs with my mom and we heard this blood curdling scream from up stairs. We quickly ran up stairs and saw Chuckie just screaming and crying. So my mom asked him what was wrong and he said he got stung by a bee. We thought that he screamed way to loud and needs to calm down because it was just a little bee. We didn't tell him to be quiet yet because then he showed us a few more stings. So we knew it really hurt and he had multiple stings. So my mom got some stuff to put on them. Our neighbor came over because he got stung at their house and she told us to put Adolf's meat tenderizer on the stings. Luckily she had some of it on hand. So we put that on but they still hurt like crazy. We counted and there were a total of 10 stings! That is a lot and they were hornets or wasps. I forget. But they are the kind that sting like crazy. Chuckie is fine now and playing outside as much as ever.

A few days later my dad was working in our back yard and he got stung by a yellow jacket (I think that is what it was). He said he was surprised how much it hurt for just a bee sting and that he couldn't imagine getting 10 of them.

Alli got stung also by stepping one one. And then the other day I was weeding and I got stung by a bee. All of a sudden out of no where I feel this really sharp sting. And then I felt wings. So I yelled and ran to the middle of the yard. The girls told me that is was following me. So I quickly ran into the garage and closed the door behind me. It hurt like crazy! I didn't cry though. lol.

So I think that we had enough stings for the summer. We had a total of 13 be stings in less than a week!

Later y'all!

2005-07-17T17:31:00.000-04:00

This is one of my favorite pictures! (In case you don't know I'm on the far left then Kayla, Cara and Klara! ;)

2005-07-16T22:12:00.000-04:00

Here are some pics from Girls Week! I had a blast!

2005-07-16T22:11:00.001-04:00

Krista!

2005-07-16T22:11:00.000-04:00

Heidi

2005-07-16T22:10:00.000-04:00

Meredith!

2005-07-16T21:49:00.001-04:00

Here we are going in to see the Coronet! hehe

2005-07-16T21:49:00.000-04:00

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Don't hurt me!!!

2005-07-16T21:47:00.000-04:00

Cara and Me!

2005-07-16T21:46:00.001-04:00

The water was so pretty!

2005-07-16T21:46:00.000-04:00

We had a blast together!

2005-07-16T21:45:00.001-04:00

Pig pile on Cara!

2005-07-16T21:45:00.000-04:00

Cara!

2005-07-16T21:44:00.002-04:00

Kayla!

2005-07-16T21:44:00.001-04:00

Klara!

2005-07-16T21:44:00.000-04:00

Here's the AWESOME girl who put the whole thing together! THANKS SO MUCH ANDREA!

2005-07-16T21:42:00.000-04:00

Cara modeling in the store

2005-07-16T21:41:00.001-04:00

Look at my hat and shoes! Wow! lol! (Those shoes killed my feet! It was all for the picture! lol!)

2005-07-16T21:41:00.000-04:00

Klara and her hat and shoes!

2005-07-16T21:39:00.000-04:00

Can you see the feet beside me?

2005-07-16T21:38:00.001-04:00

Hat shopping!

2005-07-16T21:38:00.000-04:00

Girls Week rocked!

I hate thinking of titles

2005-07-11T09:26:00.000-04:00

Hey ppl,

I'm in Maine right now. It's really nice out. I had a great week in R.I. with every body at Girls Week and at Fairwood. It was a blast. Maine is really great too. It's nice weather and good fishing. I haven't been fishing and I don't know if I will because I need a licence. My dad caught a really big fish though. So I'm happy for him. My little cousins are so cute! I've been having fun playing with them and watching them. It's been a long time since I have been home. But I'm fine with that. I like being away.

Mr. Collins and Alec came over really early this morning before I woke up and went fishing. So Mrs. Collins, Tyler and Emily are gonna be here pretty soon. So that will be fun because we are going to be doing some water sports.
Well I might post some pictures for you guys. I'll c y'all around.
Steph

Our Eventful Night

2005-06-25T19:48:00.000-04:00

Ok, I know I haven't been on in a while. I was in Florida. That seems to be where everybody is going lately. So I had lots of fun. But I'm not going to tell much about that because I have an awesome story to tell that I didn't have time to write about before I left. Ok, so here it goes.

Our friends the Collins (my dad plays hockey with Mr. Collins) gave us some really good seats to the Orioles vs. Astros game. So my mom, myself, Kim, Alli, Chuckie and Bethany all went to the game. My dad and Kate were both working so they didn't get to come.

Our trip started out with my mom in Lancaster doing some errands. She was running late and then she had to pick Bethany up. So she called me and told me she would be late when she came and picked us kids up. So we got all of the stuff together that we needed. It seemed like my mom was taking longer than it would have so I called her and asked her if she was almost home. She said that she was at a gas station and the van was over heating. So that wasn't good. My mom called Mr. Dengler (our mechanic) and asked him about it. He said he wanted my mom to come over and let him look at it. So my mom had already gotten Bethany and she came back picked us kids up and then we headed for the Denglers. Take note that Kim and I kept saying that we were going to blow up because our van was overheating. It made it more of a dramatic problem!

On the way to the Denglers we had another mishap. My mom was at an intersection and was looking both ways and there was a person in front of us. My mom was looking both ways and there was a big gap between cars. So then she started to go and then slammed on her brakes! She realized that the person in front of her didn’t go even when there was a huge gap! It was a very close call and we all were a little scared.

We got to the Denglers and Mr. Dengler said it would be fine to take to Baltimore. It was a hot day so the heat made our van hotter than usual. So we were off again.

*Let me look at my notes here. Note I was taking these notes on the trip which made it even more fun!*

Next problem was we were pulling out of an intersection and everything was good until this truck passes while my mom is right by him. She had to quickly get onto the side of the road because this guy was passing in the middle of an intersection! We almost all died!!! It was very scary!

As we were going to Baltimore another thing happened. This one didn’t really involve us but it was cool. We were driving and we see these two cars that were racing really fast. They were using both lanes and then they went around a corner while they were still racing. It was very dangerous because it was a double line on the road and they were flying around the corner. That was a little fun yet dangerous thing to see.

Here goes problem number five. This is a funny one. We were on the high way and there were around 3 or 4 lanes. I was looking around and see this car of 4 guys looking in our direction and laughing hysterically. I thought that it was really funny and that they were laughing at our van (Our van is kinda old). So was laughing so hard. Then when we get to the stadium we were parking and all of a sudden Bethany is like, “Steph what color was the car the guys were in?” It just so happened that the same guys who were laughing at “us” were right behind us!!! It was so funny! We didn’t see them after that but it was pretty wild.

That was pretty much it. We had an awesome time at the game. We had AWESOME seats! It was lots of fun. I was routing for the Astros because the Orioles are ahead of the Red Sox. Bethany was actually routing for the Astros too! It was the first time I can ever remember that Bethany and I actually agreed on the same team! It was also fun watching the scores of the other games that were going on. Bethany and I were both happy yet kinda sad too. The Red Sox and Yankees both won there games but the Orioles won there’s too. So it didn’t make our teams gain any faster. We still had a blast. Kim and I were really hyper on the way home and had fun laughing hysterically about really weird stuff. We had fun. It was a great night!

I won’t be writing in my blog for a while because I’m going to the Girls Week then the Family Convention and then Maine. So leave me lots of comments please!

My awesome weekend

2005-06-12T15:05:00.000-04:00

Lets start is Thursday.
On Thursday I went to my Aunt Pam's and got an awesome treatment! It felt so good! I was so ready for one! So that was a great start to my weekend.

On Friday i did school, which was my last day of school! So that was wickedly exciting! (Any guys that are reading this may not get too excited about the next couple sentences) Then my mom and I went shopping and got me an awesome bathing suit! It's so cute! I love it! So then we also went to Bath and Body works because they are having their semi-annual sale when things are wicked cheap! I got some cool stuff! So I was really happy! Then we came home and I did my Friday chores. Then we ate and did some stuff for my mom and left for Wittness.

At Wittness I didn't have that many people to hang with. I hung out with Kate and Kim for a little while and then Kim left and hung out with her soccer team mates. So I was with Kate and some of her friends and then Kate and I saw Devan and talked to him for a while. So that was cool. We cought up with him and his news. Then I went and hung out with Zarah and helped the lady I babysit for with her kids. We took the kids up to the playground and played with them. So that was cool. FFH wasn't there this year but I heard Rebecka St. James and she was good. I liked her. So that was Friday night. I had fun.

Then Saturday morning one of our family friends came over. They have three kids. Tyler is 15 and Alec is 13 and Emily is 10 (those are all what I think they are. If not exact they are close). So we had my dad's famous waffles. Then Kim and I cleaned the kitchen and then went down stairs. Then Tyler, Alec and I played LOTR Risk. It was fun but we didn't get far at all. Tyler was the only one that got a turn. We all went over to Wittness and hung out. Kate wasn't with us because she was at her life guarding course. So I sat and listend to the music and watched Tyler, Alec, Chuckie, my dad, and Mr. Collins toss the LaX ball around. So that was fun. Then we played cards. The Collins had to leave because Tyler had to go to work. So then I hung out with Zarah when they left. We walked around and were kinda bored. I later layed in the sun. Then my parents wanted to go home for an hour or so. So they took Kim and Chuckie with them. Alli and I stayed with the Posts. Zarah and I were just sitting there bored and so I layed down in the sun trying to get some more tan (which I did succeed at). Then Alexis got there and we hung out with her. Kim showed up later and hung out with us too. We had fun by playing little games like, we would all be walking and then all of a sudden someone would peek around their shoulder and look at the person behind them and then keep looking at them until they noticed. Then we would run. When the person behind caught up we would do Dory's lines and go,"Stop following me! What the ocean not big enough for you?" It was lots of fun. As you can tell we were kinda bored. We were taking pictures with Alexis' dad's phone and stuff. Then Point of Grace came on and we watched them. We were really close to the front. That was cool. They were really good. So I had fun.

So far nothing big has happend yet. We had Church and then Kim went to Caitlyn's house and now I'm home with Alli and Chuckie because my mom and dad went out to eat. So nothing that big yet. The good thing is I don't need to wake up early tomorrow! I can sleep in! Yayness! So I'm happy! I hope I didn't bore any of you with this post. Well ttyl.
~Steph~

Another boring post

2005-06-08T20:39:00.000-04:00

Well today has gone pretty good. I had a piano lesson and that went bad. I didn't have fun at all and I also got upset. I don't like being mad though so I won't go into it.
I had a really bad sleep last night. I was sleeping with Zeus. He was really bad! He kept me up for 2 1/2 hours! I was really mad! I won't go into any details of that either. It's very frusterating.
I went to my Aunt Pam's yesterday and worked for her. I'm getting paid with a treatment! I'm so excited! I've never had one before! I'm going in tomorrow morning and going to get it! I can't wait!
Well ttyl!
Steph

Yay! Yay! Yay!

2005-06-01T19:40:00.000-04:00

I'm so happy! (if u can't tell) well i talked to my teacher and asked her how my school was coming and when i would finish. she told me i'm doing great! and that i will be able to finish on June 10th! I'm so happy! and i'm excited! i can't wait. i was a little worried about school and stuff and now i'm perfectly fine with it. and i'm mostly done with the stuff so i don't need to do alot of work. so i'm happy.
i'm also going to florida. i know it's confusing. i told u i wasn't but it was too late to cancel so i AM going to florida! i'm so happy! i can't wait! i'm going on June 15th or 16th i think and i get back june 25. so it will be fun! i have to sell lots of pizzas though. well i'm gonna go and watch the best movie in the world that my dad just bought! C ya!
steph

Life is Good

2005-05-28T14:12:00.000-04:00

Hi y'all!
today was cool. i went rollerblading with my fam. that was fun. my dad took his stick and flung the ball at me. it hit me right in the leg. mind you it hit bare skin too! it hurt! well it left a little mark for a little while. he has hit me worse before thought. so last night i went to a flea market with julie (neighbor in case some of u don't know) it was fun. i got this HUDGE jaw breaker! it's so cool! i have like almost half of it gone. i'll try and get a pic of me with it! lol! i had fun walking around with kim and julie and playing "under cover." lol!
well i'm gonna go watch fat albert with kim, zarah, and kate. c ya!
steph
P.S. the weather is great!

Today!

2005-05-24T21:07:00.000-04:00

"...I love our family!" In case u don't know that is from the Incredibles. Any way...I love my family! Today my parents were out and I got this phone call. It was my parents and they were trying to tell me to measure some space in the basement. It was very confusing. I was having trouble but figured it out eventually.

So my mom came home and nothing out of the ordinary. so we just went on with life. and then something about the measuring came up and i asked what that was all about. my mom just kinda smirked and was just like, i'm not telling! so i was very curious! I kept asking questions and joking about it but didn't really know much. kim and i made some guesses but didn't really dwell on it.

My dad came home later and he brought chuckie this putting hole thing. my dad has been teaching chuckie how to golf so he bought that for him. so we were watching and my dad is like i bought a family present! and we were all excited! he's like it's an air hockey table! i was so excited! we had been hoping for one for a while and it was soooooo cool!

so we assembled it and that took a little while. i played a little with my dad and he won. then i played a real game with my mom and she is really agresive as am i! so we had an awesome game! of course i won! lol! i think the score was 12 to 6 or 8. so that was awesome!

i played some other games. i won some and then other ppl one some. then we added another puck! that was cool! it was a little confusing too but still awesome! i had such a blast! so i'm happy!

well ttyl!

-steph

2005-05-21T18:56:00.000-04:00

Today has been a good day. I went to see Sar Wars Episode III. It was good. I liked it. I'm not gonna give anything away. So I won't talk much about that but it was lots of fun. My Dad, Kate, Me, Joanne (Kate's friend), Fritha, Isaac, Ethan, Joseph, and Jonny all went to see it. It was lots of fun.

I don't have much news from down here right now.

Well I'll post later when I have something more interesting to say.

~Steph~

Happy Sabbath!

2005-05-20T22:13:00.000-04:00

I just love the Sabbath!
I'm so ready to crash! I had a hard week this week. I had tons of school and we had to clean, paint, paint and paint. then move furniture and such and such. So I'm ready for a nice Sabbath evening!

My mom and I went shopping for a new piano and we picked one out! I'm so happy! It's so pretty! Then after that I went to Old Navy with her! I got some awesome skirts! I'm so happy! I also got some more of their awesome flip-flops!

Well I'll write again! C ya!
~Steph~

2005-05-16T12:24:00.000-04:00

I had fun the other day digging out my American Girl clothes and putting them on Zeus! He loved it because I gave him lots of treats! This is my favorite picture of them all! lol!

2005-05-16T12:22:00.001-04:00

This is a funny one!

2005-05-16T12:22:00.000-04:00

He was too embarassed to look at the camera!

2005-05-16T12:21:00.003-04:00

Here's just the shawl!

2005-05-16T12:21:00.001-04:00

He didn't really like the bonnet!

2005-05-16T12:21:00.000-04:00

This one is one of the bests! I have the skirt, underpants, shawl, and bonnet!

2005-05-11T21:32:00.000-04:00

Kim and Kate again

2005-05-11T21:31:00.000-04:00

Kim and Kate

2005-05-11T21:28:00.000-04:00

Poor Alli! (Zeus doesn't know what is wrong!)

sadness :(

2005-05-11T20:37:00.000-04:00

It's very sad. I'll just start the way I heard it.

I was icing Alli's cake because it was the day after her birthday and we were planning on having her cake today. Alli was over at Vontoria's house playing. So the phone rang and I answered it and it was Mrs. Post and she was like, "Hi Steph is your mom there?" The way she said it I could tell something was wrong. So I took the phone to my mom and my mom's voice cracked as she was talking and she got teary. So I knew something was wrong. Then my mom said, "Take her to Dr. Samburg's." I knew something was really wrong when she said that.

When she got off the phone she said that Mrs. Post said that Alli fell out of a tree and broke her wrist really bad! I was praying like crazy. My mom was going to meet them over at the doctor's (which is only across the street). My mom got back a couple of minutes later and rushed in and said to go get Alli in her seat belt. They were going to the hospital. Then my mom told me to get in the van and go with them so I could comfort Alli. I was looking franticly for my flip-flops and then Kim told me that Kate took them to school so I stole hers and ran out the door.

I went to the van and I saw Alli. She was crying and whining a lot. It was kinda scary because she was really scared and yelling things like, "I don't want to go to the hospital, they can't make me go! I'm not going! I don't want to go! I don't want to go!" I set her up with her arm up and put her seat belt on. I still hadn't seen where it was broken because she had the ice pack on.

So we started for the hospital. It was the bumpiest ride ever. Not really it's just you really don't realized those little bumps but with Alli's arm so bad every bump killed even more.

We finally got there and we waited in the waiting room for about 20 minutes and then we got in. While we were in the waiting room I saw the wrist. It was wicked bad! It was all curvy and stuff! They took Alli's blood pressure, gave her an IV, gave her morphine, and took an x-ray. My Dad and Chuckie were at a job and they came to the hospital. They got there after the IV was in. After the x-ray it was going to be a long time until a doctor saw it, so Dad took me and Chuckie home.

Then my dad when up there again. After a while my mom called and said that everything was good now. The doctor got there and put the bone back in place. She didn't need to have surgery or anything so that was an answer to prayer. So once Alli woke up they could come home.

When they got home Alli's arm was in a cast and everything. She was really tired because she had been asleep. So that was our night.

Today hasn't been much better. She has been in terrible pain. Crying a lot and stuff. I don't blame her. It was bad!

Well I'll c ya later! Please pray for Alli!

-Steph

P.S. It was the day after her birthday!

2005-05-09T10:23:00.000-04:00

I was going through some pictures yesterday of our time in Maine at my Grandparents and all the fun we had! I was just remembering some of the things we did such as me tubing!

2005-05-09T10:22:00.001-04:00

Zeus being small...

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and cute!

2005-05-09T10:21:00.002-04:00

Alex, Me and Rach sitting around the campfire

2005-05-09T10:21:00.001-04:00

Alli and Chuckie hanging in the hamock!

2005-05-09T10:21:00.000-04:00

Going for long boat rides! (I love this picture of Chuckie!)

2005-05-09T10:20:00.002-04:00

Kate knee boarding

2005-05-09T10:20:00.001-04:00

Alli kayaking

2005-05-09T10:20:00.000-04:00

Warming up after our water war!

2005-05-09T10:18:00.000-04:00

Campfires!

2005-05-09T10:17:00.000-04:00

Me towing Alli because she was sinking and Meg trying to get a ride! I had an awesome time at my grandparents! Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for an awesome place to hang out at!