Painting

We are at the painting stage. So far we have painted our main area of the house and the powder room down stairs. The main area is a grayish green colour and the bathroom is a orange.

I am pretty sure that I have decided on my bedroom colors. My theme wall is going to be white with black flower/vine stencils and the other walls will be a rose pink. I am thinking that my bathroom will be a pearl white since I am planning on my room being quite flashy.

If you are a paint expert and have any tips for me please let me know. It would be a great help.

A Great Video

I was at my cousins last weekend and we watched this youtube video over and over!

I love his accent!

The Worlds Hardest Game

This is a great game that you can play on addictinggames.com. I have made it to level eight. This game consists of many blue dots that move back and fourth and you are a red square that has to move through them to get to the finish line. It is super addicting and hard.

I tried to add it to my blog but it would not work so just go to the URL to play this awesome game! http://www.addictinggames.com/theworldshardestgame.html

I saw Twilight!

So as I promised I saw Twilight and now I am going to tell you about it. It was good but not amazing. This was actually the first time that I had ever read a book before seeing the movie and now I see what people mean. Like, the movie wasn't horrible but as expected some parts were just different than I had imagined them. We went for Miranda's birthday so I was with them at the time and at some parts of Twilight we just busted out laughing because a few of the lines just sounded so cheesy. I was disappointed a bit but overall it did capture the main essence of the book.

Some other highlights of Miranda's birthday were
*getting ready in my holiday trailer
*eating tons of popcorn at the movie
*playing with hedge hogs in pet land
*buying grills (fake gold teeth) and wearing them in Safeway and to Joel's hockey game where we bopped our heads to the music. lol
*Going to Joel's game (they won)

Ya, so as you can see this weekend was one to remember.

Raiders Gear and the Weekend

 I just got my outfit that I ordered a couple of weeks ago! I got a raiders track suit with my name and an volleyball on the arm. They are really nice even though the pants are a little big. 

 

 OK... the weekend just keeps getting closer and closer and I keep getting more excited! It is Miranda's 14th birthday and we are going to Twilight the movie! I know that I have already posted about this but I can't even stop thinking about it now so I just have to write more. We are so crazy about Twilight and I even had the great idea of making t-shirts that say " I love Edward"!

 So I will totally tell you what I think about the movie so if you go to see it please tell me what you think!  

 

7 days!

Oh my gosh! I am so overly excited for Twilight. It is a movie that is coming out in seven days that is based on a great novel. Twilight and its three sequels are books about vampires and werewolves and the are amazing! Edward the main vampire sounds so hot but in the movie trailers he doesn't even live up to his description. :(

I just can't wait!

25-0

Wow! :(

That was the score of our last game. I actually started to cry because we were losing so bad. It was horrible. Our team just fell apart and I felt like I was trying to hold it together but I just couldn't anymore.
The team we played had about twelve players and six of them were in bare feet.
It was a really sad day for us but next year will be better since we get to go to senior! I am so excited for the new opportunities that it will bring!

"Travelin' Soldier"

Two days past eighteen
He was waiting for the bus in his army green
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gives him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
And talking to me,
I'm feeling a little low
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
I got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you

Chorus: I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter said
A soldier's coming home

So the letters came from an army camp
From California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of
He said when it's getting kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin' down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for awhile

[Chorus]

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the Anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For a list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read but nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

[Chorus x2]



To me this song is very touching. Even though I have never lived through anything like it I just love the story in it.

This song is about a young girl who meets a "traveling" soldier and they fall in love. The soldier goes to war and in the end he ends up dieing. Its a great song that I love to play on my guitar every now and then.
One of my favorite lines is "And he told her of his heart, It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of."
Traveling Soldier is a magical love story. If it was turned into a movie I would definitely go see it. The tune of the music is a perfect fit for the story.

All together I really enjoy Dixie Chicks.

Electric or Acoustic ? ? ? ? ? ....

 I play guitar but I have a problem at the moment.  My guitar that I have right now is a junior acoustic guitar and it is too small so I need a new one. I can't make a decision though. I love the look of the electric but I think I like the sound of the acoustic a bit more. Lately I have been playing country songs but I would also like to play rock so I just can't seem to decide! 

 I actually had a dream the other night that I got the perfect guitar! It was an electric guitar on one side and a acoustic on the other! lol I wish they had those in real life. :(

   I have been debating over this for a long time so if I could get other guitar lovers opinion it would be great! Well even if you don't play the guitar please give me some advice. :)

Highland Dance

If you didn't know I dance. Miranda and I are in the same dance class and its great having my friend in my class because then we can dance all the time- at school and anywhere else. This is my seventh year in Highland Dance and I still love it as much as I did when I started!

Highland dance is not river dance. Its Scottish dance. We get to dance over swords and we wear kilts. Its so fun!
Many of the dances are about being strong but some are also about being graceful. In Highland Dance there are many techniques that you need to perfect and I still haven't perfected all of them. I know eight dances and they all in time from about 2-4 minutes.

Miranda and I also compete. The competitions are so fun and we try to go to as many as we can.
This summer I ended up getting two fifths and a fourth. Miranda got her first stamp which was great since you have to get a third and that's what she got!

I plan to dance for at least two more years.

Art

I love anything that has to do with creativity! That's why I can't wait until the second semester of school because that's when I get to start art class's with Mr.Shell.
Last year we ended up making masks and then painting them. It was so fun but the bad part was that I had to re-do mine. :( I used pink and blue acrylic paint and made flames going up the mask and water running down it. It turned out really great and I think I am going to hang it in my new room.