I went to the dentist yesterday. I might need braces. I need to floss more. I have no cavities. I'm gonna need fillings on my twelve year molars.










Wednesday night was small group at the Van Epps house. I took random pictures.


This is my toe. The toe nail is coming off. I hit it on a chair at 4:21 a.m.

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Sick, sick, sick

Im sick, Julia's sick, and my mom is sick. We're all so weak, tired...and sick. bleh.

Phillip and Aleno

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Will

I think he looks a lot like Jeremiah in this picture

The Manns came over for dinner last night. We had spaghetti. We played "party", a game where you gather a lot of something, we used bears, and say ready, set, go, PARTY!! He kept saying 'ready, go, set, PARTY!" He's 3 and a half now. He knows a ton of bible verses and he likes American Idol a lot. He knows all the judges names first name and last! It was fun.

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Pop, Noah, Moon

I got ice cream from the ice cream truck! I haven't gotten any for a year! Bubble gum swirl. Yummm.


I love my Noah!










The moon was orangy on the ninth. And the night before that it was almost blood red. Did you see it? It was cool. I remember a while ago Josh said that the moon had turned blood red before and I didn't believe him...until I saw it.

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Quilt Squares

These are the squares! Mine says "by Amanda Sillaman" at the top and Julia's says "Julia Sillaman" at the bottom and the one that has mom on it is moms. Make sure you look at everything!

Kick Off and Family Retreat

It's Thursday! I'm at Kelseys house, babysitting her. Well Julia is at the moment but still. Tomorrow I leave for the kick off! Mom and Dad are going to go to the Van Bracles. I have no idea how to spell their name. Mom and dad are gonna drop Jul and I off at the Juricks house in the after noon sometime because they want to be at the Van Bracles by dinner time and people don't leave to go to the kick off until 6:30 p.m. Its at Mountain veiw bible camp this year. It will be my first time going to a kick off 'cause last year they did have one. Its going to be so much fun! I want to take the camara but mom says we'll lose it or something. Maybe I can get a throw away one. I'll talk more about stuff when I get home. Bye!

Seth and Noah

This is so cute!

Eggs

I started school this week! I had Monday off cause well...you know. I finished my school in like an hour and a half-2 and a half hours everyday. Julia and I were at the library yesterday, with mom, and got some dvd's and Julia got this weird dance exercise thinga-ma-jiggy. It has a girl from "The Cheetah Girls" teaching the dance's to you. We did that last night for 25 minutes. Julia's knees hurt from doing the squats they have you do on the video.

For the Family Retreat mom is doing a quilt square thing. Whoever wants to do it gets a piece of fabric and they can write anything they want to on it. Either something that happened during the year of 2006, or a design, or anything else they can think of. Then the next Family Retreat in 2007 mom will have put all the pieces of fabric together into a quilt that they're gonna hang in the dining room, hall thing, at the retreat, so everyone can see people memories and designs and stuff. Julia and I made a square yesterday. Mom wants ours and hers to be a sample for people doing it at the retreat. Mine has a ton of different memories on it. Maybe I can take a picture of it and post it for you to see. Well thats it for now. Bye!

Grandparents

Yesterday, (friday) I went to my Grandparents house until today at like 4:00. I got up at 6:30 to watch Seth and Noah then we left 3 hours later! I wanted to sleep more. I didn't sleep in the car because I hate doing that unless I'm sooo tired I could fall asleep anywhere. It takes about an hour and 20 minutes to get there. They live in Pennsylvania. They live an hour away from hershey park and chocolate world! We went to chocolate world about 3 hours after we got there. They added stuff to the "ride" that goes around in a circle that substitutes the factory tour. We bought chocolate too! Yummm. On the way to chocolate world there's a really hilly and turny part and at one part on the other side of the road a car had gone into a deep ditch. I have a picture of it.
That's about the only exciting part. Oh! I saw the movie Cars for the first time Thursday! It was really good. The animation was incredible. If you haven't seen it you should. That's it. Sooooo bye.

Sight and Sound

I got up at 5:30 this morning to watch Seth and Noah. Seth is 2 and Noah will be 1 on Oct. 4, I'm tiredMy mom, Julia, Mrs. Lynette, Bekah and I left my house at 9:00 to go pick up Mrs. Karen Cave, and Ms. Belle to go to Sight and Sound. It's a place where people act out and sing bible stories. We went to see Psalms of David. Thats not really a story but it was really good. I've gone to see Noah's Ark, and Ruth at sight and sound so this one was my 3rd time seeing a Sight and Sound play thing. It takes about 2 hours drive to get to Living Waters theater (where its being shown). Then we ate at Fuddruckers after the show. We stopped at this farm place and Bekah chased chickens, and tried to pick up a baby goat. Then we got back at my house again at 4:30. I've had a long day. I'm having small group 2nite and it's at my house. At Living Waters theater in the gift shop i got a joke book. Its called Awesome Good Clean Jokes for Kids. Bekah, Julia and I read the jokes all the way home for 2 hours. Thats all for now. Bye!

Xanga Blog

I got a xanga blog today. http://www.xanga.com/Jesusluvsu32494I just started it so there's not really much on there yet. So go and check it out now and then!

Flordia pics

Me and Jul on the beach.
The veiw from our condo window.
Me alone on the beach.
Me playing at the golf course there.
Me behind a curtain.

Not being able

I don't like Bsafe. It all of a sudden decided to block the page where I sign in to make a new post and edit stuff!!!! So I'm at the Wayne's house now and Bekah just like set up the page and then told me to type. So I am. I have lots to say but I can barely remember what has happened since I went to Cherise's place a while ago, so I'll just start with what happened recently. I went to FL for week the 12-19 of August. I just got back today! I have picture's from Flordia but their not on this computer obviously. I got stung by a jellyfish twice. The first time was on Wednesday, and the second was on Friday. I got stung on my left leg below my knee and again near my left elbow. The one around my elbow I had felt a sharp pain so I looked and I had a stinger right where it hurt. Not knowing what it was I started to get it off like get off dirt...by like brushing it off but it's more like rubbing it off...it's hard to explain. But anyways my finger started to hurt and my arm hurt even more in a bigger area. I rubbed sand on it cause its supposed to help. I got a really big welt. I woke up one morning, I can't remember which, and my lip was really swollen. I don't know why but it was and when I went in the ocean it hurt really bad. Oh yea! We rented a convertible! It was a silver one with a tan top. It was cool. I got a little sunburned. I swam a lot and went in the hot tub a few times. They had 4 pools (counting a kittie pool) and 3 hot tubs at the place we stayed at. That's all I can write now I have to leave the Wayne's. If I can get to the libary I might be able to write more. Did I mention really don't like I Bsafe? I can't use my computer at home anymore. I'm at the libray now. My computer is broken at home it won't turn on. So I won't be posting for a while. Bye.

Thursday night - Saturday

So I went to Corbie and Deans house again to play Succatosh. Geaff, Mindy, Walter, Corbie, Dean, and Carrie were there. I know you guys don't know any of them, but I might forget later. I was feeling really bad before we left. My stomach had sharp pains. I almost didn't go, but Cherise said it would probably feel better once we got there. I didn't notice it as much for about 10-20 minutes, but then it came back. I didn't play for the whole game except for my last turn. Thankfully they played another game of Succatosh.
Friday morning I slept in 'til 10:00. Cherise had to work until 10, but it takes her a half hour to get home from work. We went to the park and hiked a little bit on a trail. We took pictures of us there but they're on Cherise's camera. She's gonna send 'em to me soon. Then after that we went to Olive Garden. We got seated, then waited for our waiter and waitress to come ask us what we want for drinks. We waited, and waited, and waited, and waited for 15-20 minutes before anyone noticed that no one had come to take our orders or anything. Finally another waiter asked us if we had a waiter yet. We told him that we didn't and had waited for 15 minutes, then he went in the back of the restaurant and came back with and waitress who looks a lot like Beccah Butler, Amanda's friend. She kept apologizing. And then after we ate we came back to Cherise's apartment.
And then mom and dad got there. They had left Friday morning to come down and pick Julia and I up. It took them 5 hours! When it was dinner time we went to Texas Steakhouse where Josh works. We saw him there and he came out twice from the kitchen to say hi. He fixed our meals, too. We went to a snow shake stand after that. Have you ever had a snow shake? Yuuummmmm. It was soo good. I had cotton candy ice and vanilla ice cream.
We got back and watched Monk on TV. Cherise has cable so we could watch it on USA. I love Monk it's funny and really entertaining. Saturday morning Josh came over for breakfast until he had to work. Then at 12, Cherise went shopping for something to wear to the wedding she was going to that night. Mom, dad, Julia, and I watched a little TV and then left to come home to MD. It took like 4 hours and a half. I think.
And then what has happened since then had been almost the same as it was before Julia and I went to Cherise's. Except that my family went to a memorial service and I went to the caves house. I saw a big dead turtle in the water, helped a cat kinda, Lisa found a dead bird and almost stepped on a alive bird and then we thought its wing was broken but it wasn't. And we also played on her I-Toy thing. So yea that's mostly it. Bye!

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Dogs and People

Just in case anyone was wondering, this is what Jessica looks like. The little white dog is Scooter, and thats Corbie and her dog Caiden.

Wednesday-Thursday

Yesterday Josh was supposed to come over at 3:00 but he got caught up in watching The Longest Day. So he came around 4:20. And then sometime after that Cherise came home from work. Cherise lives in a townhouse and across the road there's a church. We took a walk up there behind the church, there's a road behind it that leads to the pastors house, and a paintball course thing. We walked for about 20 minutes and then came back to Cherise's townhouse and Josh showed Julia and I this awful thing on You Tube.com. I like You Tube but not that thing. It was this Rick James thing. SO much language and just really really dumb to me. But after I left in the middle of it all four of us watched Just Married. A few things really not needed in it but atleast it came out to show the loyalty to each other. After that we watched So You Think You Can Dance on TV. And a little bit of America's Got Talent. Josh left after the shows and we girls went to bed.

This morning Cherise went to work and I woke up at 11:00! I love sleeping in. But when I come back home I'll have to get up early again to watch Seth and Noah. I did all the normal stuff like eating breakfast and stuff until Josh came around 2:30. Josh, Jul, and I went to this really neat place. It's called Amazement Square. It has a music room that has a guitar, a bass, fake drums, and a piano. People on the outside can listen to the music played in there. They have a big green room where they have a virtual video game where you can see yourself on TV playing the game. It was really cool.

There was a big jungle gym that took you to the different levels of the 4 story building. It's the tallest indoor climbing tower in the country! There was a golfball room where you dropped golfballs onto a track that does different stuff before the ball dropped into a bucket. One of the tracks had moving cups at the end. There were also other rooms... an electric room, an indian room, an architecture room where you could design a house, a doctor's room, an observation room and look at the whole thing, and an interactive 3-D map of Lynchburg. We were there for about an hour and a half and had lots of fun.

Then we came back here and had dinner. Next we're going to Dean & Corbie's to play Succatash again. Mom and Dad are coming down tomorrow, so we only have two more days left! I'll write more later.

At Cherise's Monday - Wednesday

I left off on me on the computer until 2:13 so far. Well I stayed on the computer until 3:15. Then Jessica (next door neighbor) came over and saved the day from being bored. A few minutes after she came Josh came to Cc's place. We played a little bit of N64 then watched some of Spiderman 2. Josh had to leave to go to work at 5:00 so he left. I called mom and talked for about 15 minutes, then mom wanted to talk to Julia. While they were talking Cherise came home.

Then Julia, Jessica, and I played Phase 10, we played until we had to eat dinner. Then she left. We took a walk after dinner, and found some flowers along the way. When we got back Cherise went on the computer and Julia and I drew. She started talking really really funny. I'll have to try to imitate it when I come home. Hans came over at 8:00 and played Phase 10. My life seems to be in phases now, I've played it sooooooooo much. Just kidding my life doesn't feel like phases. That was weird. Anyways, Julia won cause she had the least amount of points when Cherise, Julia and I all finished the 10th phase. Hans was on the 9th phase, cause I knew what card he needed so I didn't put it down. But I should have. Hans left and we went to bed.

Yesterday was KINGS DOMINION!!!!! Its was funfunfun. We left Cherise's apartment at around 7:40, and got there at 10:10. The first ride we went on was The Italian Job. It's a new ride, it was good but it wasn't amazing. Next we went on was the Anaconda, Volcano, logs, bumper cars, swings. Then we went out to the car to eat lunch. It felt sooo good to sit down and hae something to eat. My feet were hurting, and I was tired and hungry. After lunch we went on the Afile Tower then the Rapids, then the ride I don't know what's its called but it turns fast, and its yellow and blue. Then the Grizzly, then to the car again to get towels and change of clothes and water bottles, we already had our bathing suits on, and went to the water park.

Julia and I had never been to a water park, ever. We went on the lazy river first. Josh was way behind Julia, Cherise, and I. When we got out we had to wait for like 5 minutes before he got to where he had to get out. Next, we went on the tube water slide behind the lazy river.

After that, Josh and Julia went on the water slides next to the river, and I went to the light blue water slides. When I got down off my water slide I couldn't see Cherise, Josh or Julia anywhere. I went over and stood in the place I had seen Cherise last. I had waited atleast 5 minutes before I spotted Josh. He was all wet. I said, "Where were you?"

"Waiting in line for the slide" He replied.

I thought that he had gone in line a few times cause when I was in line for my slide, way up high, I didn't see a line. But his line was really long. Julia came out or the slide in a few minutes. We couldn't find Cherise anywhere. Then we found her or she found us or something. She was tanning like 10 feet away from us. Then we went over to the bigger part of the water park. Julia and Josh went in the black water slide in a double tube. And Cherise and I went in the water house thing. Josh and Julia came over and found us after they got out of the water slide. We got wet in the house thing for a little bit then went over in the wave pool. We were in for like 10 minutes.

Then went back in the house thing for a while, then went to get our stuff out of the locker and got changed into dry clothes. Then got funnel cake and went out to the car at 5:30. I had my other sandwich and a few chips to tide me over for and hour and a half until we came to Charlottesville and eat at Red Robins. When we got there we ordered our drinks and food and went to wash our hands. Our food came a little bit after we came back from the bathroom. The food was really good. Then we hit the road again. An hour more to drive. We got back to Cherise's at around 9:00. I got in bed at 10:30. And today I woke up at 9:00 and called mom. And decided to blog now while my memory is still fresh. I hope you have a great day, I'll keep you posted as the week goes on. See ya!

At Cherise's up until Monday

Hi! I haven't been blogging at all for a while so here's a long one for you to read. I'll keep you updated on this week hopefully if I have time later in the week when more things have happened. We left my house on Thursday about 6:30p.m. and got at cherise's at like 10:00. It only took Josh 3 and a half hours. Normally its 4 hours.

Friday was fun...Probably not as fun as it would have been at the party, but still pretty fun. Cherise worked until 1:00 p.m. she took a half day. And then we hung out until 2:30 and we saw RV. It was...Well, different. Did you see it yet? What did you think about it?

Then after the movie was done we went over to the student center at LU (Liberty University). And went to this race track thing inside. It had big mats that Julia and I could do gymnastics stuff on it. Then we went to look at the pool and see when we could go during the week. We got dinner after that at Little Ceasers. And then we came back and watched so you think you can dance from Wednesday night. Cherise taped it. And then Michelle came...She spent the weekend with us. And we watched Aquamarine, and stayed up till 1:00 a.m.

Saturday was dogful. At 1:00p.m. we went to borrow Cherise's co-workers dog. A little toy poodle. Its white, pretty small, and full of energy. Ryan came over at like 2:30. Ryan is a friend of Josh and Cherise's. He's going to China for a year soon. He stayed for 20 minutes. Then Jessica (Cherise's next door neighbor, she's 12) came outside when we were outside playing with Scooter, the poodle. Jessica came inside and played a little bit of phase 10 then left. And then Corbie came with her dog Cayden for like 30 minutes. After she left we went to take Scooter back to his house, then we went to wal-mart, then taco belle then back to Cherise's apartment to eat.

At about 9:00 Bana, (he now wants to be called Ben) Josh Carl, and Josh my brother came over. And remember Michelle was there too. We played N64, and phase 10 and talked until 12:15 a.m. Cherise had to kick them out cause all four girls were really tired. I didn't get in bed until 1:00 again. Sunday morning we went to Cherise's church. It was good. We got home at around 1:00 p.m. I had a bagel. Then at 3:00 we went to red lobster for a goodbye party for Ryan. There was 18 people there. 3 married couples in the group. Julia and I were the only kids. After that we went to Corbie and Deans house (they're married) and played games. We played Swap, Cranium, and Sacatosh.

You probably haven't heard of Sacatosh. Neither had I until last night. It's really really fun. When I get back I'll have to teach you. All you need to play is paper and something to mix the pieces of paper up. Then we got home last night at 9:15. And went to bed. And now today (Monday) I woke up at 11:15. Nice to sleep in. I had lunch and watched TV and now I'm on the computer. Julia was trying to fix the mouse cause it was going slow, and she took the ball out and was cleaning the inside and she broke something inside by accident. So now it doesn't work. It's 2:13 now. Hans is probably gonna come over tonight to hang out. Maybe some other people too. I'll tell you about that and this week when I get a chance. Bye!

Big Storm

Right now there's a really big storm going on. Seth and Noah are still here. Mrs. Debbie is looking at Julia's picture's from camp woodward. Mom and dad are going to pick up a truck from somewhere then going to see Ms. Kay German's dad's veiwing. Please pray that they will be safe. Tonight is small group. I hope that it will be fun. The Juricks won't be there cause their gone...I forgot where. It's about 3:20 p.m. Seth finally got into the pool today...happyily!! He's been really scared to go in for about a month. Noah got in the pool, too. Seth is scared to death of the storm. Hope your safe. Bye

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My lip

Yesterday Julia and I were in the pool making a routine. I was on the wrong side of her and she moved me in the right spot. While her arm was moving back in front of her, her elbow hit my mouth. BAM!! I just sunk into the water, stunned, I couldn't breathe under water but I wouldn't be able to breathe out of the water either...It took my breath away. I could feel the freshness of the pain of my teeth being jammed back. And my lip stung like crazy. Finally I came up out of the water and could feel my lip bleeding. Julia was yelling "Ewwwww ewwwww!!!" And that confirmed that I wasn't just feeling like I was bleeding, I was bleeding. She was also pushing me backwards...Into a huge beetle! I screamed, she screamed. We all screamed for Ice cream... Just kidding. But we both did scream. Then we got out of the pool, for 2 reasons, bleeding lip and big bug. My lip was so big from swelling I couldn't fit it inside my mouth! So now I have a cut on my lip that looks purpleish.
Here's some pictures of the bug.

Optical illusion's!

Cherise sent these to me in email. I thought I would put them on here cause their soo cool.

If you take a look at the following picture , let me tell you ... it is not animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it.... Weird

Are these lines straight or bent?

You should see a man's face and also a word... Hint: Try tilting your head to the right, the world begins with 'L' Do you see gray areas in between the squares? Now where did they come from?

Is This Possible??