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templates

just a totally random thing i've noticed....everyone seems to be changing around their blog templates lately...they've found some pretty cool ones, too...i kinda wish i could do that too, just change my template on a whim, but i can't...i guess i just like mine and like the way it's set up and don't want to touch it...maybe i just don't like change...oh well, this is me, take it or leave it!

anyways...here're 2 cool avatars...

I GOT TO MEET BARLOW GIRL!!

the concert was just stinkin' AWESOME!!! tfk was pretty good, they're pretty hard rock, and i couldn't really understand a thing they were saying, but it was awesome anyways!! barlow girl, man, they TOTALLY ROCKED MY SOCKS OFF!! they were awesome!! they're my favoritest band ever, and i was soooo excited to see them!! they were really awesome in concert!! during one of their songs, sophie and i went up to the front, and i took a couple pictures. when we first got up there and security guy told we could take a couple pictures, but then we had to go back to our seats. i was just like, "THANK YOU!!" it was a great concert! toby mac played after them, and he totally rocked, too!! it's so hard to describe concerts, other than they totally rocked...ashlee and i took a lot of movies, so we might be able to post some of them on our blogs...that would be awesome! the lights and music were awesome!! after toby mac was "done," everyone cheered for something like a whole minute +, and he came back out and did something like 4 more songs!! it was awesome!! the last song was "Jesus freak," and during the last chorus, he went out and rand through the audience, and he was literally 2 feet beside me, and i didn't see him until he was in the middle of the chairs in the middle. :( oh well, he was awesome!! i went up to maine with caleb, joel, their parents and caleb u, and it was pretty fun! we listened to veggie tales, toby mac and switchfoot, and it was funn!! :) anyways, after the concert, we actually got to meet the barlows!! they are awesome!! they're really nice! lauren shook everyone (except for my) hands! dad told them that we played for our youth group and becca wanted to know what instruments we played!! they were really cool and down to earth! they signed a big poster i had and the book i had, too! they thought reuben was really cute, and they really liked him!! :) oh, at the beginning of the concert, i discovered that i didn't have any batteries!! so, ashlee kindly lent my some of hers, and she and i shared them for the whole concert. i got them for barlow girl, and she got them for toby mac. so i only have pictures of tfk and barlow girl, and ashlee has pictures of toby mac. anyways, here are some of them...

thousand foot krutch

barlow girl!!!

i had so much fun, and praise God that we got there and back safely!! oh, lauren talked about how we are a "chosen generation" (-1 peter 2:9), and how we are called to shake the world up and not just wait for someone else to do it for us (i taped half of her speech, so hopefully, i can share it soon). it was a really good message!! praise God for people like the barlows and toby mac who are willing to shake things up for Him! :D

operation ks successful!!

last monday, kaeleigh, ashlee, naomi and i went and we kidnapped sophie. yes, i know, gasp! lol! so, yes, we were the culprits. it was a lot of fun!! i had been talking to soph's mom beforehand, so she was in on it with us. we dressed in black and covered our faces and everything! so, sophie was at the computer, so kaeleigh and i snuck up behind her and covered her eyes and tied her hands up with a bandanna, and ashlee and naomi stuck a pillow case over her head. then we carried (sort of) her out to the car. we sorta dropped her at one point, but you didn't need to know that!! she was kind of annoying to kidnap, because she wouldn't stop talking and laughing!! she even offered to walk!! i mean seriously, how many kidnap victims offer to walk?! lol!! so, anyways, we got her to the car and buckled her in, and then we took off her blindfold and said happy birthday!! isn't that nice of us?! we took her to the mall and we all had a lot of fun!! we went to mr. tux and the lady there seriously looked like she wanted to kick us out!! lol! we went to the apple store (that place is so cool!!), payless shoes, the pet store (it's so sad...), deb's and a couple other places!! it was a lot of fun!! we wanted to go on the merry-go-round, but it closed right when we got there. :( we got something like a quart of ice cream which was sophie's birthday "cake," and ashlee, soph and i ate the whole entire thing!! we all had a a lot of fun (i hope), i know i did!! love ya soph, hope you had a good time!! :) (oh yea, and if you want to hear sophie's version, here it is!)

the culprits
the ugliest shoes in payless...
kaeleigh's crazy shoes
sophie
kaeleigh and her way awesome outfit!!
kaeleigh
sophie and i
all of us
sophie blowing out her "cake"
me soph and ashlee with her "cake"

*ks-kidnap sophie*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIKA!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ERIKA!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!


i hope you had an awesome birthday erika!! i love you very muchly!! :)

aaaaahhhh!! i'm soooo excited!!!! :D

aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i'm sososososososososososososososo excited!!! tomorrow we're going to a barlow girl, toby mac and thousand foot krutch concert!! i've wanted to see barlow girl for a long time, but they never come around here!! sooo, now i finally get to see them, and i am so excited!! you have no idea how excited i am!! so, hopefully we'll get there safely, and have an awesome time (and meeting them too would actually be pretty awesome!)!! so, hopefully soon i'll have tons of pictures and an update!! yeay!! :D

fyi

just to let y'all know, my mom totally rocks!! she's da bomb!! and i love her very muchly!

elle es tres bien!! (for all you french speakers out there!! that's some of my limited knowledge of french!! :D) (and for all you non-french-speakers out there, i think that's "she's very good!") (or at least i hope that's what it is! :/ anyways, that's what it's supposed to say!)

:D

oh no!!

what happened to sophie?? will she ever be rescued?? check out this post from ashlee's blog if you have not idea what i'm talking about--


sophie (by Diane the csi person)

posted at 10:53 am. tuesday, october 9, 2007


"OK. if you read on Sophie's blog, she was waiting for something to happen. well, at 3:30 she was kidnapped and sent far far away! can you help us find her kidnappers? we have a picture. hang on i got to get it.


these are the criminals. we also have a picture of them taking Sophie out of the house. one moment please.



a crime scene investigator was on the scene so he saw it and was able to take these pictures, but alas, couldn't help. he radioed for help, but by the time they get there, the kidnappers were gone. if you see anything that looks suspicious, please call, (111)123-4567 thank you sooo much. Sophie's friends are very worried.
(more details coming soon)"


O_O gasp!! please let me know if you have any valuable information!! :)

get real!

why does everyone have to make fun of president bush all the time?? his ears are too big (according to almost all cartoonists), and he's absolutely clueless about almost everything. i mean, seriously, can we get real please?! everyone has something that's not perfect about them, and we all make mistakes. i really don't think that all the people who bash the president would do a better job in office then he is doing!! they would probably do a horrible job!! i don't even want to think about what would be going on right now if john kerry had been voted into office. let's just be thankful for the president God blessed us with; he's doing what he believes is right! God bless president bush!!


...that's my rant for the moment...

pancakes and apples

my family (everyone except for me and my dad. :( ) went apple picking a couple weeks ago, and they got a lot of apples, and since we had a 3 day weekend, we made apple stuffs on saturday afternoon!! it was sooo awesome! i love apples! :) they smell sooooo good, and they taste good, too, which is always a plus! lol! anyways, we all had a lot of fun making apple pie and apple sauce, and it all tastes really yummy, and you're all probably getting really bored, because i can't write!! anyways, kaeleigh slept over last night, and we're having a very fun time with her!! last night, we watched the first episode of lost, and it's awesome (and scary and gory!). it's perty good, though! this morning, kaeleigh and ashlee made pancakes and they were really yummy! they put 4 cups of milk in the pancakes, so they made quadruple the recipe! so, now we have a lot of left over pancakes, so if anyone wants pancakes, just let us know!! lol! yup, that's what's going on in my life at the moment! this friday, our youth group is going to a toby mac, barlow girl and thousand foot krutch concert!! i am so pumped!! :D yeay! :) i can't wait!

dream deferred

dream deferred
langston hughs

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

*deferred means put off

that was the poem we discussed in literature class today. i though it was pretty good. we have been learning not to just read something, but to read it and dig deep into it to find a hidden meaning to the words. the part i really liked in the poem was how the author sort of described the different things that could happen to a dream that has been delayed or put off. i liked at the end where he says "or does it explode?" to me, that's like if you delay a dream, while you're waiting for the opportunity to carry out the dream, determination and excitement to carry out the dream to your fullest ability grows inside of you. i just thought it was a pretty cool poem!

ashlee's blog!!

ashlee finally (according to her) got a blog. my parents said that she had to get a 90% on a math test to get one (this happened last school year), and she finally got one wednesday, i believe!! yeay! good job, ash! :) well, anyways, without further ado, here's ashlee's blog!!!! *insert trumpets* for some strange reason, you can't post a comment, i'll have to talk to her about that after she gets home from practice...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOPHIE!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SOPHIE!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!

hope you have a absolutely wonderfully awesome day soph!! love ya!

(i'll get a picture soon!)