Blane's Visit
It's 9:30 in the morning, and I hear the phone ring... Turns out, it's Blane (my cousin) and he's on his way here!
Blane got here around 10:45, and stayed until about 2:45. When he first got here we talked and he talked to Mom and Bailey and stuff. We played with Dad's electronic 20 Questions game and had lots of fun. Then Blane and I went outside and passed the football around. We jumped on the trampoline a little and jumped the fence to get the keys to his truck. After about an hour or two we went upstairs to the computer (of course!). We played The Sims and ate lunch until he left to go bowling with his buddies. It was really cool! He said he'll try to come over more often!

Lisa's House
On Thursday I spent the night with Lisa. We had lots of fun. We climbed on top of her shed roof and played with styrofoam boards. We jumped on her trampoline and ran around with the boxer next door along with Lisa's pom, Snuggles. At night, Lisa, Lisa's older brother, and I watched Kronk's New Groove. It's funny! The next day we went to a couple stores and ate lunch at Sam's Club. It was fun.

How I Saw The Ring
When I walked into the bathroom today, what I saw in the water flashed one sentence through my mind...
YOU WILL DIE IN SEVEN DAYS...
Hahaha! Here's the story, it's hilarious!
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I was folding laundry in Mom's room when I stepped into her bathroom to do something. I forgot what I was going to do.... Mom and Dad are the only ones in the house with bathtubs, so when I walk in, the first thing I see is large, calm bathtub. Total silence chills the air. Bailey is upstairs, Mom is vacuuming in another room, and Dad is on the computer. I noticed the bathtub had water in it from where I was standing, which was pretty far away. I took a step closer, and a sort of circle rippled through the water...the shape of a ring.
All of a sudden, a giant rumbling sound echoed through the room as a pale hunched forward figure with dark long hair in it's face rose from the water. It slowly turned it's head toward me and tilted it's head closer to it's cold body. I screamed so loud I almost busted my own eardrum... My mouth was wide open and so was the figures. I screamed until I could feel no breath in my lungs and I watched the creature straighten up and back towards the wall, arms open and palms backwards, fingers spread out. I still coudn't see the face through the dark hair, but I saw the mouth. When I couldn't breathe anymore, the "thing" in the bathtub moved it's hair from it's face...
What I saw was scary...
horrifying...
It was my sister Bailey! She had been taking a bath and I didn't know it. I started laughing so hard I couldn't breathe, which didn't help the fact that I couldn't breathe anyway after screaming. I went into the living room and saw Dad going upstairs to find whatever was screaming. I told them the story and could not stop laughing...
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Now you see why the first thought in my head was
YOU WILL DIE IN SEVEN DAYS...

Study Study Study
It's the last day of school before the holiday vacation...(Picture It)
A ton of brainiacs are being called to the office... I think it's a GT or OM thing, neither of which I'm in because I don't want to be. I block it out and continue my work. Then they call my name... Oh boy!
Turns out, I was being called to the office to be given a long 14 page study guide for the spelling bee. I won my class spelling bee, so I'm moving on... I will not get 2nd place this year... I will win or lose...
I'm so excited!!!

Busy Week
Check out the weekly calendar thing on the right side of the webpage. It's going to be a long week. And check throughout the week because I have things in my schedule waiting to pop up. I'll be with Aunt Cindy, (Yay!) Mom, (Yay!) Lisa, (Yay!), possibly Keaton, (Yay!), and possibly Blane. (Yay!)

Little Things
My neck hurts, Bailey's sick, Dixie came back after 5 years of being "dead" when she really wasn't she's just been in surgery and stuff after a car wreck and Di finally broke the news to JR, Tad, and Jamie that she's not Dixie because Dixie's dead but she's actually not, they only think so--Dixie made Di promise not to tell anybody and Babe gave JR a picture of when he was a baby and Dixie--the real Dixie--was holding him. This was on my favorite soap opera. Also, (in real life), Mom hasn't been feeling good, so Dad and I are the only healthy ones. We go back to school on the 5th and I'm half excited, half not.

Be Sure To Read!
Be sure to read my blog on January 4th. It's important, you'll love it!
Mark your calendar! I'll mark mine when I get one!
Remember, the 4th!

Merry Christmas!

The Best
I had a great Christmas! See pictures from previous years at my picture blog.
My Christmas was wonderful! It was Birkleigh's first and I bet he loved it. I got a call from Lisa this morning. She got some good stuff, check it out at her blog.
It was great hearing from her and she told me to tell my aunt (our 4th grade teacher) "Hi". I wore Blane's hat, as always, it's practically tradition. We ate bon-bons and turkey, and chocolate chip cream cheese dip on graham crackers. Excellent! The presents were awesome! I got a video game I've been wanting, a couple DVDs, a book I was wanting, and a ton of stuff. Of course, I didn't get most of the things on my list, but I don't want what I put on my list. I like for people to take those ideas and get me something else. Grandma Judy loved the shadow portrait (silhouette) I made of myself. That's what I had framed. She has Dad's and Uncle Rob's from when they were 5, and she's going to put mine with them. I think everybody enjoyed their gift! That makes me happy!

The Worst
We thought we were going to have to cancel Christmas. Mom and Bailey have a stomach bug that have kept them puking alot. They were sick today and couldn't really enjoy Christmas. Also, Grandma Wanda was sick with bronchitus! She couldn't come today and we were really sad. Also, this is our 2nd Christmas without Papa. He passed away October of '04.
Even though all this happened, I still had a pretty good Christmas!

3 Days!!!
I am so excited! In 3 days, it will be Christmas! Merry Christmas! No, not "Happy Holidays", "Merry Christmas!". I do not celebrate Hanukkuh or Kwanzaa. I see no point! Christmas is the celebration of our Savior's birth!
So, Merry Christmas!!!!....too be.

Morgan's Present
Ding-Dong
Morgan came to our door today with a present for me! i had already given her a jewelry box and she brought me a little teddy bear with perfume! It smells good!

Cleaning
Today I had to dust, swiffer, scrub sinks, clean mirrors, and try to listen to my music. I was playing 5 different CDs. It was on shuffle, so it was all random. I played The One That You Love, Slippery When Wet, a CD that I burned, a CD that Mom burned, and a CD that Dad burned for me. I scrubbed my fingers to the bone and vacuumed everywhere.

Tomorrow
Can you believe I haven't gotten Blane's present yet?
The game plan for tomorrow is for Dad to take me shopping for Blanes present. While there, I will also get a picture frame for the ****** ******** I made for Grandma. It is her Christmas gift from me.

Visit from Aunt Cindy
I saw my car come by to pick me up and take me home, so I started walking towards it. Then a large figure pressed against the window with a pig nose and I knew it wasn't Birkleigh... It was Aunt Cindy! I got in the car and talked to her and we went home and talked more. We told stupid blonde jokes and mind-bender-ma-bobs. The stupid stuff like "The rooster laid an egg when the wind was blowing north. Which way did the egg go?" "Rooster's can't lay eggs." and all that jazz. It was fun and she left after a few hours.

Visit from Blane
Dad and I went to get Chinese food after coming back from Paxton's house (below) and when we came back, we ate and heard that Blane had called. He had asked if I was home and Mom had told him I wasn't because I wasn't. He came over at 6:30 after dinner, just like he had said. I was so glad! Blane is my 16-year-old cousin who I haven't seen since my recent birthday (8-18). We did stuff on the computer like taking pictures of his house through satellite (Google Earth) and I showed him this blog and my picture blog and all my graphics that I made. We went downstairs and asked Dad when the Super Bowl is. We went to the espn website and found it's in February. We're hoping Blane can come like he's done every year except earlier this year. Bailey made him a "surprise" with sugar, sprinkles, and melted chocolate syrup. No, he didn't like it. Dad went to the store and we talked to Mom after Bail went to bed. We discussed stupid movies and everything else. He left at 9:05 and said he hopes to come again soon. YAY!!!

Paxton Projects
In a few weeks we will be having a product market at school. Our project is to make multiple products and sell them for a sum of fake money so we can by products from other students stores. It's really cool. Anyways, yesterday I went to Paxton's house to make picture frames with her. We are partnered (from choice) to sell things. We went to Hobby Lobby and came back to her house where we painted canvases and decorated them. We put boas on them and will be selling them for 75$. Remember, it's fake money.

The House Is Decorated!
Mom got around to decorating and now she's sick. Way to go... We have Santa's and reindeer everywhere and our nativity scene is up. There are already some presents under the tree.

Traditions?
We really are not very traditional... We don't have turkey on Thanksgiving, we don't trick-or-treat (never have), and we don't where red white and blue on Flag Day. But we kind pf have little traditions we formed on our own for Christmas..I think... One is, every year Bailey and I make a Christmas movie with a Santa and stuff, usually during Christmas break. Also, Dad usually makes Bon-bons or chocolate pie. Yum! And, of course, we always open 1 present on Christmas Eve. Oh yeah! We also put up the tree on Black Friday every year. I guess they're traditions...I'm not sure.

Buying from Barbara
The GT kids were selling stuff they made Friday during lunch. Barbara was selling "Half-Time Huggers" which are those things that keep you're bottle warm turned into jerseys. Jordan (Gooby) and I went around asking everyone for $2.50 to buy from Barbara. Eventually we did and were out of breath, but we got to buy from Barbara. Then we were happy about getting to buy from Barbara not really caring about the half-time-hugger, which is actually very cool.