18!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is my 18th birthday! Cool cool cool!
My aunt bought me a digital camera that is the neatest thing since sliced bread. (You know, before sliced bread, what did they compare to?)
I want to buy myself a rabbit for my birthday; I think it would be cool.
Jonathan had a baseball game, we watched that. They actually played really well!
We had two apple pies for dessert, and we watched Mission Impossible during lunch and supper! (That was too cool!)
I have to go to bed now because it's 11:30 PM, but I'll post later if I think of anything else.

4th of July!

Here are a few pictures from our Fourth of July/Independence Day celebration!

First of all, Hannah and Alicia set our table all pretty and patriotic-like.

We had CHERRIES! I LOVE cherries!

Dad grilled brats. I don't like brats.
We had corn on the cob! I LOVE corn on the cob! But, it gets stuck in your teeth . . .

We also had watermelon! I like that too.

Here is our whole feast! Makes you hungry, huh?
And, all the people!
After supper and a Mission Impossible movie and a game, we went to Legacy Park and watched fireworks!

That was about it.
Impressive, huh?

Senior Outing!

The homeschool group that I graduated with, MPE, held a senior banquet for any student who wanted to go. Well, I wanted to go, but the banquet was during Bible Quiz Nationals, so I couldn't go. (I'd rather quiz than go to a banquet anyway!!) Dad said that to make up for it, he and Mom would take me out to a nice restaurant for dinner after graduation. So . . . last night Mom did my hair up all fancy like and we went to the Cheesecake Factory out on the Plaza! I wore the dress that Mom made me for graduation, so I felt all pretty! (totally a girl thing, I know . . . ) :D
Here are a few pictures.

So first, Mom did my hair up all nicely!

Someone called that hair style the "up-do" but I think it should be called the "bouquet of roses."
Me and my awesome Daddy!
I ordered a chocolate cheesecake, but I wasn't sure I'd like it! (I'd never had cheesecake before)
Actually, it wasn't that bad.
It was really good, but I was too full to finish! (no fair!)

Almost ready . . .

We just took a trip to Branson Missouri, and we had a BLAST!!
Ok. That's all I'm going to say.
WHY?????????????
Well, because I want to post pictures from the trip with the post about the trip, but I don't have any of them downloaded off of the camera yet. And of course, I'm too lazy to go and do that right now, and I would have to download them onto my laptop instead of the family computer because the laptop's faster, and then I would need permission to connect the laptop to the internet and get the pictures uploaded. Lot of work, isn't it?
LAZY BUM!!!!!
Ok, ok, you don't have to shout! I heard you loud and clear!
Our phone connection went out today, and the phone company said they couldn't possibly make it out here before the 21st. Oh great. We have go for a whole week without a phone!!!!!! Oh well. We'll survive.
I hope.

Now it's officially official!

Last Friday, I officially finished high school!
I had already had the graduation ceremony on May the 8th, but I still had schoolwork to finish. I had piano Keyboard Merits to prepare for, and I had history to finish. Both of those were completed on Friday, and that is WAY TOO COOL!!!!!!
I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

ha ha

It will not help

The news headlines in KC today were reporting the murder of an abortion doctor. Now, I always think the world can use one less abortion doctor, but think of it this way. This doctor was probably (and most likely) killed by someone who was pro-life and hated abortion. But does that help the pro-life cause? Not really. Now, the abortion doctor and his cause are viewed as "victims" and pro-lifers are seen as the aggressive nasty dangerous people. People would think of us as insane. After all, if we're campaigning so hard to save all these babies from being murdered, why do we think it's all right to murder abortion doctors?
Some things are worth fighting for, but if you use violence in your fight, no one will listen to you anymore, and you will be fighting for a lost cause; a cause that you just lost.

Random ramblings . . .

Hi. It's me. I know, not that interesting. :)
I have a piano recital today. I don't want to have a piano recital today. I want to sleep today. I think I'm still recovering from graduation and open house. Mom and Alicia have come down with bronchitis, so their hacking away nicely.
We've been watching the old Get Smart. It's pretty funny, and poor Max has no more brain than a chicken. :)
I got the first four chapters of First Corinthians memorized! We're having a family memorizing challenge to see if we could have the first 4 chapters of 1st Corinthians done by Friday (yesterday) and the first 4 chapters of 2nd Corinthians done by next Friday. That shouldn't be too hard.
I'm about to murder the official BQF quiz committee! They made all the verses quotes! I think they're trying to make the quizzers slow down their jumps, but you may as well try to make highway drivers slow down. Ain't gonna happen. :) I think they think it'll cut down on errors, but I think it will make errors skyrocket! (If you're not a quizzer, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about.)
I want to buy paint stripper so I can strip the paint off of one of our dollhouses. It has old gloppy white paint on it, so I want to strip it, sand it, and re-paint it. Someday I hope to build a dollhouse and make everything that goes inside of it. I wish I was better at woodworking so I could make really pretty furniture for it. It would be neat to be able to make fancy beds and tables and chairs for the house.
I wish I had something else to say, but I don't.
Oh well.
Woe is me.
Poor me.
Tee hee.
:D