The Ending of White Christmas...

As I mentioned in my last post, I was in our local play White Christmas. Well, Sunday was the last night and that made me really sad.  Here are some pictures from the closing show.

Dilyn my faithful partner in crime.

On the last two performances we ran out of snow to dump on the audience so we improvised---we made it ourselves.  Let's just say I never want to make snow again and that will never be my profession.  :D

Oxydol, For Purity!

Paige and her Oxydol box.

Tara giving Doug a hug.

Dilyn the princess (i think) and Ben goofing off during "Falling out of Love can be Fun."  I love their faces!  Don't even ask me what Bed is doing!

Tara apparently forgot that this chair fell back when you sit in it and went feet up and came down laughing!

Justin is my tap and Irish dance teacher and Tara is his wife.  They're the ones who got me into this amazing show!

Tara and Robbie having fun backstage!

Sharon and Dilyn posing for their closeups!

Sharon (Betty) and Tara (Judy) doing "Sisters."  This was one of my favorites!  Backstage Dilyn and I have our arms in the sleeves of their next outfit and are dancing away!

Justin (Phil) and Travis (Bob) on the train to what Bob thinks in Florida.

Tara and Justin singing about SNOW, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!

I love this!

What in the world is Justin doing?  Checking her wig for lice?

 

Love!

Rita and Roda showing Phil their new "costumes for the show."

"We're bells!  Ding dong ding dong!

Tara and Justin singing in "I Love a Piano!  This is where I come in!

We all decided to get amputations...haha.

What's up with their faces?

Travis and Justin's version of "Sisters!"

Daddy and me at the end!

Don't go outside for a picture in bare feet---you can't feel them afterward!  haha!   This is still my favorite shot!

Giving Ben a hug!  We always were joking around!

 I think they were around Ezekiel a little too much.  Thanks you two!  You were great!

And that was my amazing White Christmas experience!  I had a great time getting to know you all!  Love <3

November is flying by!

Since the last time I posted (more forever ago than forever) A LOT of fun stuff has happen like Camp Your Face Off, Spirit Week, and basketball started!  Well, from this picture, you can tell I didn't get any less weird.  :)  Come on, it was tacky day!  Give me a break!

Okay, I'm going to start with my favorite:  CAMP YOUR FACE OFF!  If you're thinking along the lines of she's crazy or she needs to get out of the sun, don't worry.  It wasn't my idea anyway.  My youth group spent a weekend in the "wild."  By wild I mean the church's lake property.  Only two words describe this retreat: cold and epiliptical.  Now for those people who don't know me personally, you probably don't know what epiliptical means.  It simply is every word that describes something more than awesome/you love rolled into one.  We played capture the flag in the dark and froze while we had tons of laughs together.  The speaker, Jay, and the music guy, Forrest, were awesome!  <3  The picture below is my amazing kickball team, The PINK UNICORNS!  Do not ask me why that was our name.  I have NO idea.

And this was our cheer squad.  They cheered for us because we are awesome and they didn't want Rob's team to win!  I mean come on!  Who wants Rob to win?  Just kidding.  His team won anyway.  :P

All of us Pink Unicorns in our losing picture.  

Front row:  Cody and Spencer
Middle Row: Jamima, Tessa, Katy, can't remember her name, and Josh.
Back Row: Luke, Alex, Daniel, Logan (I think), and Michael a.k.a. awesome hat dude.

Kick, Michael, kick!

Then it was SPIRIT WEEK!  I got to take pictures of our basketball teams.  You all are awesome!

Hope and Morgan crack me up!  You are strong girls!

Hillbilly Day was really fun!  Hopery, my bestie, making a weird face at me before art!

I don't know what I was shooting for in this picture.  Gangsta?  I don't think it worked.  LOL

Candice, Danielle, Karlie, and Morgan wanted a picture; and Mr. Lawson and Luke decided they'd just jump on in! 

I don't think this is a good message to be sending.  I guess this is what we do in our spare time: we strangle friends and teachers!

Then it was TACKY DAY!  My absolute favorite.  It even beat Disney Day (that was weird! I was so mad because I left the camera on the table at home!)
Back row: Mr. Lawson, Andrew, Isaiah, Josh,  and Andrew.
Middle row: Karlie, Hope, and Courtlyn.
First row: ME!

And my little cutey nephew Jet-ster!  Doesn't he look smart?

I have no idea what Isaiah was trying to be right then.

Basketball started and since I'm one of the biggest loudmouths going, I am the cheerer.  I like my job!  Ross looks so focused!  Go Ross!

The older boys stretching.  I love how Ross is leaning on Luke instead of balancing!

Running to meet and beat!  We won by  a lot!

It's been extremely busy around here since I'm going to be in Encore's White Christmas!  I don't have an acting part, but I do two dances.  Justin, my tap and Irish teacher, asked if I wanted to do it and since I was the only one who wasn't in Nutcracker, I said yes.  If you have been in a show before, you know how much work it is and how late you have to stay, so I am extremely sorry about not posting in so long!  Our opening night is the day after Thanksgiving and it goes on for two weekends after that!  I'm so excited!  I love my cast photo!

Jett Alexander--my new nephew!

A week-a-go tomorrow my sister's little boy Jett Alexander was born!  I love this little guy!  I praise God that both he and his mother are both safe.  Isn't he the cutest little baby EVER?!

I love the expression on his little baby face.  His nose is SO tiny and his fingernails are almost non-existent!

Look at how tiny his toes are!  And he sure can curl them up!  I love you Jetster (he has many nicknames: Jettster, Jettpack, Jettski, Jetti, {like Jedi} and many more!)

Katja's visit part 1

Katja was a German exchange student who stayed with us for six weeks for those of you who haven't heard about her yet. Well, in this first picture we're in Knoxville with Katja and Kristy.

From left to right:  Abby, Katja, Kristy, Tessa.  We're walking downtown Knoxville.

Katja's first volleyball game with the Lady Warriors!  Go Lady Warriors!!!!!

Making Spätzle (a German noodle.)  It was extremely cool!

We went to Washington, DC for the rally.  It was really cool hearing Glen Beck and Sarah Palin!

This was as close as we could get to the Lincoln Memorial.  It was a dum idea to try and get that close.  Trust me!

Isn't Katja pretty?

I love this picture of Katja and the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool!

Okay now this is a VERY interesting story!  My brother had an army friend who was in the hospital in DC and we were going to visit him.  So, we got on a bus and asked a bunch of poeple if they knew which stop we had to get off at.  Let's just say they weren't very helpful.  One said this and the other said that and so on ans so forth.  Finally the hospital's name came over the speakers and we thought "Yes!" and we got off.  You want to know what?  WE GOT OFF AT THE GATE THAT WAS CLOSED ON WEEKENDS!  So we start lugging our chairs up the hill to find another gate.  Well, this guy in a 1980 something Mercedes and asks if we were at the rally.  We say yes and tell him we're trying to find the open gate.  So, he said that we'd never make it and to climb in.  And, of course, we all pile in.  My dad jumped in the front and the rest of us climbed in the back.  Okay, imagine playing twister with four people in the back of a car with a bunch of chairs.  That's what it looked like.  I'm on my mom's lap, legs everywhere.  Katja's squeezed against us and Mike, my brother climbs in.  HE CAN'T CLOSE THE DOOR!  Then this guy decides he's going to give us a tour too!  Finally we get to the gate and the guard asks for the parents IDs and mom tries to reach her backback which was under me, two chairs, and who knows how many legs!  The guard looks in, looks at the ID, looks back in and says: "What you trying to do?  Play Twister in the back seat?"  Needless to say, I'm still laughing about it!

Then after we visited we walked out and walked up to two police men and this black guy.  We told them all about getting picked up by this random guy and they laughed thinking it was a joke and we asked them where the metro station was.  After talking for a bit he offered to take us to the metro in his new white van that he transported the veterans in.  He informed us that we could only use it if this was "Official Government Business."  We told him it was official government business (with our fingers crossed) and we drove on.  He was SO funny!  We got two rides in one day.  One in the lapse of luxury and the other--not so much!  LOL  This would only happen to MY family!  :)

For this trip we stayed at my Uncle Mike and Aunt Mary's house (right) and hung out with my Aunt Pat (left.)

I love this picture of the Washington Monument.  So pretty reflecting in the reflecting pool!

I'm so sad!!!!

Katja left to go back to Germany today!  I am so sad!  Yesterday we took a ton of pictures with her and her friends!

From right to left: Kristy, Katja, Danielle, Candace, and Haley.

(sorry if any names are misspelled!  :P )

I love this one!  

Katja and Luke.  :)  I think it's funny cause she's laughing and he's SO much taller than her!  LOL  Miss You Katja!

Mrs. Castle and Katja. :)

Ach! I've been gone a long time!!!

Yes, yes, i've been gone for the LONGEST time!  Well, here's why...my computer CRASHED!  Quite aggravating to say the least! LOL  Well, now it's all fixed thanks to some people at school and my mom.  I'll post something interesting later because I haven't uploaded the pictures from D.C. (yes, I got to go to the rally!)  and school and camping!  So here's two random pictures...

It reminds me a lot of Camelot...