Pictures!!!!

We just got our pictures developed!!!!! I don't like blogger picture uploads though so i'll just post 2 good ones:
Me and some friends at camp














Tolmie state park



















Check out becca's blog for 1st place pictures in moses lake.

Thanksgiving

Yesterday we upacked the thanksgiving box. It was brimming with holiday goodness. Mom asked me to unpack it so I went to work pulling one thing after another out of it: Pillows, tablecloths, napkins, stickers, and easter bunny hat (how'd that get in there?), wooden toys, candles and banners from the Kirsten play. (Man, those brought back funny memories.)

Then at the bottom of the box was the indian corn and papers. One of these papers talked about a certain thanksgiving tradition. The passing of corn around the table and giving thanks. As I looked at the paper I thought about all the things in the past I'd thanked God for at thanksgiving; usually something simple like: I'm thankful for my family, or I'm thankful for this food. Which were both true, but, just a preprepared speech. I started thinking about the things I'm truly thankful for and lost count after a few minutes. God is so great and we should remember it more then a few times a year during holidays. Just a thought to take with you through the holiday season.

This wasn't going to be a serious post when I started out.

Schriiiiiip

I made a ductape envelope today.

And I cut my thumb with scissors.

Curls, curls, curls!

Today after we ate lunch becca said:"Hey Kaitie, can I curl your hair?"
"What?"
"curl your hair! Let me try."
"okaaaaay."
So she started to curl it. We were in the Kitchen and my brothers kept coming in and giving us wierd looks. Well, finally we got the front done and the whole bottom layer and becca decided that she didn't want to finish. To be sure it looked great in the front- although a little strange on me. So now I have curly hair. I wonder what everyone will think at quiz practice tonight. :D
I kept joking that I should do it for a meet and see if anyone recognizes me. But becca vows she will never curl hair again. That's what she said the last three times. :P

The Dryad's Bubble

I just finished Anne of Green Gables. It was a wonderful book and I enjoyed it immensely. If you haven't read it, you should.


That is all.

Rain on the window

is so comforting. Earlier I was home alone sitting on the couch, sipping tea, working on a puzzle, and watching Pride and predjudice. It was immensely delightful. I didn't get any trick or treaters, and even if they came I wouldn't have answered the door.

When my mom came home we went out to get some dinner, just the two of us. I like doing things with my mom a lot. We always have a lot of fun. So, we went down to Pizza hut and then realized it was a delivery place so we ordered anyway and decided we would take it home and eat it there. When told that it would take 15 minutes we left and walked to Fred Meyer's to get something to drink. It was pouring rain but we walked nonetheless. When we got home we decided to watch a movie and I suggested The Santa Clause. We had a very nice evening together.

Halloween

Today is Halloween. I think I'll sit inside and eat all the cheap candy my mom bought.
I don't usually do anything for halloween. When I was little we never dressed up or went trick or treating. All we did was give out candy becuase we lived on main street.

The last three years though, we've had quizzing dress-up partys. Those were loads of fun. We're not doing one this year on account of my switching teams and other things. I thought we might have one so I considered costumes and figured out that the only things I can make out of clothes in my closet are either a pirate or somthing I've done before.

Today I built with legos. Legos are so cool. You can do anything with them.

I'm bored. Maybe I'll go find something to do.

Speaking of halloween. It's exactly 55 days until christmas.

Cookies!

Today was a good day.

This morning I slept-in til ten and took a shower. Then we all cleaned until noon, whence we ate lunch. After our meal I was working on a puzzle in the front room when my mom told us that we had to hear this book. So while she read aloud to us from this book about homeschooling, (which was very intresting.) Josh and I worked on my puzzle.

I then decided to bake some sugar cookies. So, I made the dough and promised Matt that he could pick the shapes when we made them in three hours. After I had finished Barganing with him and put away the last of the dough into the fridge I got on the computer. I was not on it for more then ten minutes when becca drove up and asked if I wanted to play some tennis. I was
delighted! We went down to the park with Matt-who came along as the "ball boy"- and began to play, despite the fact that other people were already there playing which always makes us feel self-consious.

When we came home we had some dinner and then we proceeded to make the cookies. Matt, losing intrest now that there was work to be done when he could be playing video games, informed me that he would help decorate and I could do all the cutting and baking. (Oh, joy.)
I baked for a while burning myself twice and getting flour all over my pants and lo, and behold, they were all done! While I wated for becca to make the icing Matt and I had the broken cookies.
"mmmmmmm. Parrrrrrrtay!" He exclaimed as he ate a squirels tail. I laughed and told him it would go on this blog. (haha!) We finished icing them and put flower sprinkles on the "little women" cookies. Naming them that started us on making many stupid jokes all ending with:"You eat little women!" >_<

I learned 9 verses of romans 1 today. only 7 more to go.

Quiz Meet

Best meet Ever!!!!!!!!!!.......but I guess I say that everytime.
I guess I'll just post my memories from the quzzing boards + A few more.

-Driving down early and baking cookies.
-Getting to see the new "Mac's Pizza".
-Beating Kaelyn at Ms. Pacman.
-Getting to see everyone!!! (Of course!)
-Quizzing out in all my quizzes on Friday.
-Quizzing out more then one time at a meet.
-Wearing ties for friday and championships.
-Seeing all the new rookies.
-Aurel quizzing out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-My drawing of Andy.
-Trevor's spanish homework. (Stickfigure skills.)
-The "Possum fighting stance".
-Asking people from Moses Lake if they knew the Moses Lake handshake.
-Singing and playing tambourine for worship.
-Almost getting a ribbon.
-Lilly's partys.
-Going swimming in the pool on Friday.
-Seeing the Moses Lake teams and the Holes at Taco Time.
-Wearing all my Gryphon buttons.
- "C'mon, she's a professional baker."
- Shhuyck, Andy and David "proposing" to me all because of some comment of my brother's.
-Singing "Tofu of the Opera" really loud whenever he walked by.
-Talking about bed and breakfast rooms with Christy and Kaelyn.
-Kerri and I making jokes during quizzes.
-Hannah and I talking about Pickles and how I should make some.
-John's Super secret Rookie training in the game room.
-Infiltraiting John's supersecret Rookie training.
-Fox Island having too large of a cheering section.
-Cydney being so far away during overtime. heeehee.
-Playing T.J.'s guitar.
-Playing Think of me on guitar.
-Remembering When Paul was in cubbies at woodiville.
-Remembering charlie from sunday school at woodinville.
-Going to Mac's for lunch. (Of course.)
-Saying goodbye to Bethany and putting our names in Phantom songs.
-"Kaitie I loooooove yooooou."
-Trying to make a three syllable name into two syllables.
-Shuyck Prancing onto the bus.
-jumping onto the bus and yelling:"BYE FOX ISLAND!!!" and having more then half the people shout back:"BYE KAITIE!!!!" (Weow! I didn't know you all knew my name. )
-Going window shopping with Kaelyn, Christy, and Allyssa.
-Trying to buy a $15 kite for under $5.
-Almost zipping up the sweater on the dummy at the pharmacy. XD
-Watching "What not to wear" on Friday until 12:30am.
-Sarah and Leah telling me I know too many people.
-Putting my stuff on the homework table.
-almost going to the beach.
-GETTING FIRST PLACE!!!!AHHHHHHH!!!!
-Waving to Carl and Andrew through the window and them closing the curtians.
-Getting the wrong sandwich for Friday dinner and eating jalepenos.
-Jumping on the bed.
-Skylar giving me a hug when I left.
-Cheering for woodinville!
-Bethany and Wendy's $1 store finds.
-Keeping my record of never erroring out.
-Bringing 53 chairs to the meet.
-Going home with 55 chairs.
-Bethany and I having the same thing for breakfast.
-Wearing becca's international outfit.
-Kaelyn, Christy, and I having Mcdonald's chicken selects for the first time.
-Learning how to tie a tie.
-Telling the stupid tie joke to my team in the car.
-Driving back with my family.
-My mom freaking out when my medal hit the window.
-That guy at the taco time. O_o

I had so much fun. I can't wait til December.

Sunday Schedule

Ahhhh. I haven't been online recently because of the move, but we're pretty much moved in now. I don't really have anything to say right now but I wanted to post. So I'll tell you what I did yesterday:
I woke up and went to church where I precided to make coffee for the service. (Like I do every week)
Then I went to the nursery and I watched the babys. (Like I do every week)
After church we went back to our house for lunch along with Tyrone and Joe.
We went to the old folk's home after that and sang hymms for them. (like we do every month.)
Then we went home and took a break, I played through the entire phantom of the opera score and then becca and I went to quiz practice. (Like we do every week) What a great end to a great day.
Pretty much routine stuff.

I love sundays.

Moving

I'm sitting on a chair at the computer in our almost empty house. My mom and I are doing laundry and this is the first I've been online since last wednsday(?).
Moving is so weird. you'd think I'd be used to it by now, after all it is my seventh time.
This move is different though, Because the new house is only three miles away, and we are already living there. Everyday we've been moving stuff from our old house to the new one. trying to fit as much stuff as possible in each load. It's always strange to see your once full-and I mean full-room completely empty. Maybe I'll get some pictures up of our new house soon.
we don't have internet at the new house yet. We should within the week I think. So I might not be on for a while. we have until Friday to be done moving, so any prayers would be great. thanks to anyone who has already been praying for us. I just hope it goes even more smoothly this week then it has the last.

Scramble meet

We've been working on stuff for the scramble meet all week. I had a really bad cold, but it's going away. It's been crazy at our house what with moving and all. Oh, I didn't tell you all that we're moving.

Yes we are moving to a new house. but fear not, we shall not leave beautiful Washington behind us again. We've been paking and cleaning like crazy, but it's worth it because our new house has a really nice kitchen. I can't believe how many times I've packed up boxes and eaten off paper plates. This will be my seventh move, you'd think I'd'ave gotten used to it by now. But it's always strange seeing your house empty and then going somewhere else to fin all of your things there. oh well, that's enough for now I have to go take some cold medicine.
I'll see some of you today,
~Kaits

Books, books.

I read a lot of books, and recently I've been reading whatever looks intresting on the shelf at the bookstore my mom works at.

I read two the other day, the first was: June 29 1999. by David Weisner. It's great. Go and get it from the nearest library, bookstore or secret underground collection.

And the other was: Bill Peet an autobiography. It was really intresting and the pictures are great. It even won a caldecot.(I'm a book nerd.:rolleyes.gif:)

My mom taught me to knit the other day and I'm almost halfway through a scarf. I decided yesterday that I'm going knit a picture of Homestar on the other end. It's gonna be awesome!

Links!

I finally asked someone - who will not be named - how to add stuff to the sidebar, so now I have links! You can now look at all my alternate blogs or my weirdo friend's blogs. But I'm pretty sure that only my weirdo friends are reading this so: You can look at your own blogs. :D

I wrote a big long post yesterday and then my internet went out as it was publishing. Stupid connection.

I'm bored. I should go make dinner or something. I'm goning to stop writing because I'm just making this post worse by the minute. Hey, I just remembered that this is my 20th post. *bows*

Sports and a preformance.

So, I've started doing some athletic things. It kind of started this year when I took up tennis. Then I went to camp and went walking by mmyself everyday and played an awesome hour-and-a-half game of ultimate frisbee. Now becca and I play tennis quite often and the other day we played Basketball. It was really funny because niether of us can trash talk to save our life. ;D

My Puppet/Drama group has been practicing for today for about a month. we did this puppet show with a puppet that is 5'4 (About). It is a very cool show, we lip-sync to Bethany Dillan's "You are all I need". I love the reaction we get everytime. At first people think it's a person pretending to be a puppet and then they just watch, entralled and encaptured. It's so awesome!

Well, I'm tired. I'll post my 20th post sometime soon if I feel like it.
night all,

Weather, Music and a lesson.

It's sooooo hot! I was like over 80 today and It's still warm now. It's really nice though because I love hot weather! It was nice also because my mom decided we would eat dinner outside and we had a lovely time. It was realkly nice sitting down to dinner together appreciating God's creation.

I've been playing piano a lot recently. I normally play guitar but becca took the 6 string to Canada so I had to use the heavy electric. I've been playing Phantom of the opera and worship songs and Godspel and it's so much fun. I love to sing. I was just thinking of the song High of 75 by Relient K. Now I'll probably have it running through my head til I go to sleep and It will probably still be there tomorrow.

I'm teaching a bible lesson tomorrow, Samuel. It's my favorite story from this year's curiculum. Some people think the bible lesson is the hardest part and it's almost like a chore to do it. I think about it differently:
1.this may be the only time these kids hear about Jesus and what he did for them.This could be life changing.
2.I learn a lot about these well known stories by reading it from the bible and teaching it I just learn so much about it.
3.We are telling the most important stories in the history of the world. It's such a privelidge to be able to share with people how they can have a second birth through Jesus our Lord.

I was only planning on talking about the weather when I started this. Funny how that happens.

Matt

I guess I'm only on the computer to entertain my little brother. Or at least that's what it seems like. I'm sitting here on the computer (Obviously) at my mom's work and he keeps walking up and if I'm doing something intresting, he stands there for a while until I start reading a blog. It's kind of funny. I keep telling him to go away because I know he'll start a crowd of all the kids who come into the store (It's happened before. :roll: ).

He's a neat little kid though. He's really excited about being able to quiz at the scramble meet this year that he hardly studies for it.

Oh, and I'm guessing that if he were watching me he'd say: "Tell Cory and Brian "hi!" :lol:
So Matt says Hi!

This week

A lot of stuff has been and is happening this week. First, something really quite odd; My mom and I went to the store and I opened the car door and there lying on the pavement in front of me is an AC/DC CD. It was just kind of weird, so I showed it to my mom and decided to throw it out. (We thought it strange that the title of the CD was "Highway to Hell" O_o)
Then Today I went to the Tall ships in Tacoma. (Very cool) It was really hot today! REALLY hot! One of the "Tall ships" there was the Lady Washington (The intercepter in the movie: Pirates of the Caribbean.) and it was the only ship you coulnd't go on and look at!!!!!! so we didn't actually go on any of the ships.
Augh, I've had Phantom of the Opera songs stuck in my head since days ago. They are pretty though.
Happy 4th of July everyone who reads this. ^_^ It's been 329 years exactly since the declaration of independace was Written? signed? I can't remember which right now. (It's late. :D) Well, happy monday and Farewell.

Thankfulness

I was just thinking about how good God is.

Ok, so I got back from camp on saturday and it was great! I got to teach the Bible lesson three times. They had a great speaker and It was loads of fun.
And this week I'm doing VBS at highlands and I got to lead a little boy to christ! It was so cool! He knew the answers but had never accepted Jesus, so he prayed and now there's one more going to the kingdom of heaven. Praise God!

I'm so thankful for everything I have.
My mom and I were talking and I have 5 great siblings,(even if we do dissagree. :D)two loving parents, a nice home, and a beautiful new niece!

Just a reminder to thank God in everything!

1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.

Summer

I looked out the window this morning and it was SUNNY!!!! It's been so overcast lately and I was happy to be able to wear shorts. :D I also wanted to post because I'm going to be gone from the 17th to the 25th. I'm going to CEF (Child Evangilism Fellowship) CYIA (Christian Youth In Action) camp. It's a training camp for youth to learn how to present the gospel to kids through the wordless book and "5-day clubs". It would be great if everyone could pray not only for me but for the kids and the other youth. We will all greatly be in need of it. Thank you so much.


~Kaits 8)