Ok, I haven't posted anything in a looongg time.

I'll just write a quick rundown on whats going on lately.



I'm learning how to play "Think of Me" on the piano and it sounds really pretty.


My church is putting on a Christmas play for the first time in like 10 or 100 years.


My brother is getting married to a girl named Katrina. And I'm being a bridesmaid.


We just finished an awesome 3D 500 piece puzzle.


I'm having trouble with friends.

I don't have to wear anymore bands on my braces!! yay!

I'M GOING TO BED!!!

New Hampshire and scary moment of today

I'm leaving tomorrow morning at 6:00 to go to the airport to go to New Hampshire, so that means I have to get up at 5:15. We're going to see some people that my parents met at Shannon's funeral and to see the fall colors in New England. We'll be back Saturday at around 4:00 p.m.

Today I babysat Kelsey and it was normal until she wanted to go outside and blow bubbles. So okay I got the bubbles and opened the door to go out, shut the door behind me check to make sure it's still unlocked to see if I could get back in and guess what? It's locked! I don't know how. When I opened the door to go out it was unlocked, then I shut it and it was locked!! And of course I didn't have a key or anything. The back door was locked, too. I got really like, scared and I didn't know what to do so I was gonna knock on one of the neighbors' door to use their phone then I realized I didn't know Mrs. Kathy's cell number. Then I was kinda shaking sort of cause that's kinda a bad neighborhood and I didn't want us to be kidnapped or something. After I relaxed and started to blow bubbles with Kelsey I thought *well at least its not like 10 or something* So I said to Kelsey "Well, Kelsey, it looks like we'll be outside til your mom gets home." So we went to her park and played with bubbles and swung on the swings for a little bit then we went back to the door step waiting for Mrs. Kathy to come home. But, thankfully Kelsey's mom always comes back at around 1:00 and when we went outside it was about 12:15. I was so glad we were safe when she finally came back, and I hope that never happens again. =O

Some pics of changes with my yard, and me talking about family retreat. please read

pool open...=]
we closed our pool =[
we're changing our porch....











This weekend is the family retreat and I am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cherise is coming home tonight and she's coming, too!!!! The only bad thing is I have a cold/allegies every year the same week/weekend as the family fall retreat! It's really annoying but I always have a great time. I love mountain view. I know that place by heart now. Every year I feel more and more at home when I get there. And having a lot of people that I love thats also there makes it even better. I love the campfires, songs, man hunt, cabin time, swinging on the swings, talking, playing, eating with everyone, family fued, square dancing, getting to know people better, and fellowshiping. It is just about the best weekend of the whole year! I hope it's as fun this year as its been as the last year and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that and the year before that! This will be our churches 9th time going there! Cherise hasn't been there in like 6 or 7 years I don't think. It will be awesome with her there. I wrote some letter to some of my closest friends that I'll give to them when we're there. I hope that will give us a chance to talk about how much we love each other and help us not get on each others nerves...as much. I hope to see most of you there!!

Put this together and u get me!

Amanda - 2 heaping tablespoons of honesty - 1/2 a cup of crazy - a pound of playfulness Combine all stirring until smooth.

'What is your personality recipe?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Some of the 56 things my team got on the Scavenger Hunt

Lightrail
Fish
Spanish sign
md flag
crab

climbing tree
golf clubs
skate park
house mailbox
corvette

Phone booth
Ambulance
Dinosaur egg
Yeild signs
Sunset

Speed limit sign
Horse and carrage
Lighthouse
Huge clock
Playplace

there was a hole bunch more but i didn't want to put them all on. My team came in second. but if we had gotten 1 more thing then we would have beat the winning team by 1 point. =[ it was still really really fun.

Camping was fun. except now i have this thing about killing a certain kid with a certain weapon with a certain way to cause the most pain and embarrassment ever. jk. But this kid can really make me so mad. u might have guessed who this kid is, but then again u might have not. if u have then u know what i mean, and if u haven't then u'll find out if u spend any time with the kid.



Seriously tho camping was fun. It was really nice to be camping again. Brought back many memories. Some good, some bad. Like waking up and having a camp fire.(good) having to walk a ways to get to the bathroom that doesn't have any soap. (bad) since I've been home I've done the following: Sleep, eat, talk, school, babysit a lot, think, think about how much i want to hurt this certain person, talk about that certain person i wanna hurt, dream about somethings that i can't get outa my head that i want to, and swim.

I started school yesterday. so far this year it hasn't been hard, and its been fun and easy and interesting. So i know it won't be like this the whole year but i hope it last most of the year.

Tonight, my small group starts meeting at the church. The way they have it set up for the kids is good and different. all the older kids can play in the multi purpose room, and the younger kids (kyla, kristina, samantha, and felisha) will be in the toddlers room having a bible lesson and stuff. The only thing is we need someone to watch them and teach it to them. So the adults were gonna have julia, betsy, charolatte, and I switch off and on babysitting them in pairs of two every other week. but then we remembered that betsy and charolatte dont come during the school year. so idk what we're gonna do.

This weekend is the kickoff, and Sunday I heard from someone that we're doing the song in front of the church. So it was kinda a surprise about doing the song made to love THIS Sunday but I'll do fine. I hope.

Pray that i wont go insane with all these sorts of things happening.

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Gone again

I'm going camping!! Woot woot! I haven't been camping in two years!!!! We usually went at least once a year but then things kept happening so we didn't go. So I'm really excited to be going camping again!! Cherise, Julia, Dad, Mom, Alina, Jeremiah, Jesse, Mrs. Penny, Mr. Bob, Mr. Millard, Mrs. Kathy, Joanna, and her cousin are going, too. My mom, Mrs. Penny and Mrs. Kathy are going to finish the MD part of the Appellation trail while everyone else goes swimming, play games and do stuff together. It should be very fun. My family will probably leave in about 20 min. We'll all get back on Monday sometime. Pray it will be fun and no one will get hurt. Bye!!

I finished the book "Paige" and started reading "Sherri". I finished Paige on Tuesday afternoon. I feel so proud of myself for actually getting interested in a book and finishing it in 3 days! Yay!

I started my new once a week job yesterday babysitting Kelsey. It went really well. And she didn't go poop! Yay, I didn't have to change her diaper! Anyways, I got some really cute pictures of her that remind me of Beccah and Noelle's cousins sort of. Here's a few of my favorite pictures.

pictures of saturday and a book i started reading yesterday

I've started reading this.
peter is wet because he asked me and julia to splash him then he went up to people and said "look what they did to me!" He likes to tease peoples. lol
Hans yawns really big
People!!
Cherise, Peter, and Lydia


In my last post I told u what was happening with Seth and Noah and the new time. Well, I'll be babysitting Kelsey, too. Every Wednesday from 9-1 pm. So that should be fun. I'm starting this Wednesday. =)

New with me...

here some pics of things that have been either the same or new with me!


Kyla has been here everyday this week.
Monday Tuesday and now today all day from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. and i have been spending a lot of time with her. Playing games watching movies, drawing and so on.
I've been drawing and copying and coloring lately....I drew this one last night. I drew this one in inspiration of myself. lol.
This one i didn't draw completly. I have a post in my room with a fairy on it so i copied it from there but then i added and took away a bunch of stuff.
this one isn't very good but i was talking on the phone when i drew it.

Lisa came and spent the night Sunday night into monday.
We're getting our driveway redone.
Seth and noah
Noah laughing
Seth telling people what to do. lol i love this pic he looks so evil.

More info on the drawings:

I draw a picture, copy it in a copier machine, and color a few different copies different ways and diff colors. I only put one of each pic on here tho.

Noelle, i dont have a scanner for my pics so i have to take a pic of it then put it on. Maybe one day i can use ur scanner =D

More info on Seth and Noah:

They will not be coming at 5:30- 8:30 am every morning anymore.....But they will be coming from 3:00- 6:00 pm!!!!! Yayy! starting in september we wont have them so early!!! yay!!! i am really happy!

Thursday...and more

On Thursday I went over to the Pruitts house. Beccah and Noelle came to pick me up cause my parents were getting new lisenses, so we stopped for gas at the wawa near my house and Beccah put gas in got in the car and turned the keys and the car wouldn't start! So to make a long story short we were at the wawa for about and hour I believe. But it wasn't all that bad. I got to spend some time with Beccah and Noelle. :) Mrs. Barb and Corrie came to jumpstart the car but it didn't work she Mrs. Barb called auto sense and they got a bigger car jumpstarter thing and it worked. Once we got to Noelle's house she showed me the new rooms and then we got started on making Pavlova. It was really fun. And I want to do it again sometime. =-] We made a double batch so her family could keep one and my family could keep one. My family and I LOVED it! The second piece I had, had a staple in it! I don't know how it got there, but when I was chewing I felt something metal in my mouth and I thought my braces had come loose or something but then I took it out of my mouth and it was a staple! I was really glad I didn't swallow it.

Here are some pics.

noah's hand without the bandage on it. Eww. it got caught in our treadmill and it pulled the skin off. Ouchy

$6,300 in $100 bills. OoOoOoO.

we match!

one of my creations (outfits) for Seth

Noelle!!!!!!