Of Water Parks

Blog post

Sorry, but I have to make this quick. Yesterday morning when we came back here after going to the water park Friday, I forgot my charger. It's a new charger Apple came out with, and we don't have any others in the house. So my battery is almost dead. I'll get it tonight when we go back in for church, but I didn't want to wait. I figured I needed to get a post up pretty quick.

The water park was pretty fun, but guess what? I left my iPad in the car. :( oh well. My aunt took pics.... I'll ask her to email them to me. 

Anyway, it was fun, although truthfully I was lonely most of the time. Everybody had their own "groups" that they were hanging out with, except me. Every time I turned around the person I was hanging out with was gone... Plus not to mention the fact that I could never find anyone. You'd think with 19 of us altogether I'd be able to hang out with someone... The person I'd normally hang out with didn't come, so.... It was still pretty fun though. The slides are awesome, although after taking a ramp up, and then climbing 2 flights of stairs to get to the top of the slide... By the end of the day I thought I might pass out. :D I'm actually amazed my legs weren't screaming yesterday. :D

We went out about noon and ate lunch in the car. Everybody had different stuff, and we shared a bunch with each other. Pretty much we just had a bunch of snacks, which was neat. After lunch we got cupcakes and sang to Mrs. MacDonald. It happened to be her birthday that day. :) 

We went back in the park, and played for about another hour. At about a quarter to 2, all of the lifeguards started running and blowing their whistles all at the same time. It was pretty freaky actually. Turns out there was lightning less than 10 miles away, so everyone had to leave the water for at least 35 minutes. We were planning on leaving at 2 anyway, but I have to say it was a little disappointing to have to leave early because of lightning. 

We got back to the town house late, and Mom and Dad were both worn out and decided to sleep there instead of going back home like we had originally planned. So we rented some movies, and just relaxed.

In other words, it wad a pretty crazy day. :) I was so happy to just be able to relax yesterday. I got 2 blankets done, which was nice. I only have 14to go right now. That's the fewest I've had in over a month and a half, which makes me pretty happy. :) I think it makes my parents happy too, because it means just that many less trips to Walmart. :D

Ok, I'm done rambling now. Adios!!!

My birthday and other random stuff

So, I got my new iPad a few days early!!!! When I was in town with Dad on Tuesday, we had time between appointments, so we went by to get it. I love it. :) I'm still trying to get everything set up right now.... My Safari bookmarks, my Bible app, my Etsy app......... It's kinda fun actually. So anyway, like I said, it's a lot easier to blog with. Hooray!!!! 

My birthday was amazing. I wish I had a bunch of pictures, but I only have a couple. Like I said in a previous post, I has a chocolate peanut butter cup smoothie for breakfast. Ah was it amazing!!! Anyone who knows me knows I L O V E chocolate and peanut butter. So that was like heaven. 

Anyway, not much actually happened on my birthday. It was actually a pretty normal day. School, weeding the garden, devotions... But we did get to go get fudge. Hahaha :D There's a little country store down here that makes amazing fudge, and I convinced Mom to take me. :) I got guess what? Chocolate peanut butter fudge. :D I actually wanted orange cream, but they didn't have any that day. So I went with that. 

Oh! I never talked about church! So at our church we always make sure to sing to anyone who's had a birthday in the last week, or has one coming up. Well, Dad always makes sure to do announcements (the time we do it) when one of us kids has a birthday, because he loves making jokes about us and embarrassing us and stuff in his usual Mr. Cameron way. So of course, he did them this time. I was actually pleasantly surprised when instead of making jokes, he brought me up, read some scripture, and them gave me my purity ring. It was pretty sweet actually. I wasn't expecting it at all. I knew I was getting a purity ring, I even knew what it looked like, but I wasn't expecting it yet. It was pretty sweet of Dad. I'll have pictures of it at the end.  

Yesterday was a pretty nice day. I got up, got ready, and Dad and I left at 6:30. We went to 2 houses, and then my voice lesson. It went well, although it was uncomfortable at times. What he's trying to do is get me more comfortable singing in front of people, so he decided to video me. Yeah, I kinda hated that. I'm just not that good at singing in front of anyone, and it was really weird to have him video me singing. But hey, at least I was singing my favorite song ever at the time. :)

After lessons we went to Walmart, where I got yarn, something to fix my ring, (it's a little big) and I looked for a new swimsuit top, but the only ones I could find went down way too low in the back. I don't get how people could wear that stuff. :(

Hmm... Let's see. After Walmart we had another appointment, and then we went to get the iPad. We weren't there very long, so I just had time to pick it up, drop off the check, and pick up my violin. I had sent it with them on Sunday because there was something wrong with it, and I couldn't get it to work. But thankfully Will fixed it so everything was good.

After we left there we went to another appointment, and then to Walmart again to get a case for the iPad. Then we went to dinner. Dad decided to take me out for my birthday. Well, we couldn't decide on where to go all day long, so at the last appointment Dad asked the people there. Well, they both (the realtor and the home inspector) came up with a steak house close by. So, we went there. Felt kinda stupid actually, because I had never been to a steakhouse before, and so the menu meant nothing to me. Dad had to tell me what was good. I ended up getting a Filet Mignon (I think that's how it's spelled) with a baked potato and a salad. Then we got ice cream for dessert. I was so stuffed, but it was good. 

And that was my Tuesday. They're always so busy. Sorry if I bored you with it. It's interesting to me anyway. :)

Um, I guess that's it. Here's the pictures!!!

Update

(I wrote this Saturday, but I'm just now getting around to posting it)

Ok, so ya know what's kind of really awkward? When you go to your grandma's house, and she reprimands you for not posting in awhile. :)

Yeah, I know it's been awhile. Things have just been so crazy hectic lately, and it's been difficult to keep up with things lately. I've had 15+ blankets to make at all times, I started voice lessons again, plus just the regular goings-on when you're in a family of 9.

About my Etsy shop: I had a huge order last month, (I don't know if I posted about that or now) and that put me pretty behind. At one point I had 19 blankets to make. I was so stressed out, but I couldn't do anything about it. Normally when I'm stressed I just shut down. But unfortunately, I couldn't do that this time. I had to just keep going. Which I suppose that was good for me, but I still didn't like it. :) Right now I have 15, but that's not too bad. I just have to keep telling myself to just do it one blanket at a time. I'm really grateful for all the orders though. That's what's giving me enough to get my iPad. :)

Danielle is 6 months old now, and she is the cutest baby ever. Seriously. I love her to death. She "talks" all the time, which is so cute. She can almost sit up by herself, but not quite yet. And she's just learning how to roll over. She can't do it all the time, but she can occasionally. Of course, once she gets on her stomach, she's kind of freaked out by it and not sure what to think, and then she start's crying. :( It's still rather cute though. She slobbers all. the. time., and she chews on everything she can get her little hands on. :)

Like I said, I started voice again this month. So far my lessons haven't been too great, but considering I had a 6 week break, I have a little catching up to do right now. It has been nice to go with Dad again. I love getting to go with him and meet all the people that he knows. Although I have to say, sometimes, when I'm following him around, I get so bored out of my brain I think sitting down and watching golf for 12 hours straight would be more interesting. :) It still is nice to be a part of something that he does.

My 16th birthday is on Monday, which I'm pretty excited about. That's the day when I get to 1. Get my purity ring, and 2. I get to start painting my fingernails. Right now I can only do clear. It's not going to be too big of a day, in that it's a Monday, so Dad'll be at work, and we don't do presents or anything on b irthdays, (we wait until the birthday party) but I'm still looking forward to it. I decided this morning what I want to eat throughout the day, and it all happens to be healthy, although when I tell you what I'm having you won't think so. For breakfast I'm going to have a peanut butter and chocolate shake, for lunch pizza, for dinner enchiladas, and cheesecake for dessert. Yup, none of it sounds healthy, but I happen to have recipes for all of this stuff that are. Mwahaha. So I can have all of this stuff and not worry. ;)

Next Friday us, my cousin and aunt, our pastor's family, and some other friends are going to a water park. I'm SO looking forward to it. Normally we wouldn't be able to do this kind of thing, except our library's summer reading program has the tickets as prizes for finishing, and we all did the program. It's gonna be so much fun. I'm a little concerned about my bathing suit though. I know that sounds stupid, but I think some girls out there would get it. See, I have this one piece bathing suit that I like, but I really wanted a skirt with it. So I went on to Etsy and found a seller who made me a long, modest skirt, but it looks funny over my one piece. So I think I'll probably just end up wearing my skirt (that happens to have shorts built in) and a big tee shirt. The skirt is a little tighter than what I would like, so that seems like a good way to balance it out and make it more modest. I don't know what I'll do. What are your thoughts on keeping swimsuits modest?

My driving is going well. I drive us into town every week (unless I have blankets I have to get done, and then I crochet and Mom drives), and I've started driving in town now, which is a little stressful at times, but I like it. I'm only about 2 months away from being able to get my license, and I'm glad I'm finally driving in town, because I was worried that if I didn't start soon, once I did get my license Mom wouldn't even let me drive to town by myself. But you know what the good thing is? Since I got my permit here, I'll take my road test here, which is going to be pretty darn easy. ;) I've had so much time driving here, I pretty much don't have to think about it anymore. :) I'm so grateful for that. If I had to take my road test in town, I might not get my license.

The day has been spent in various ways by various people. Mom has spent most of the day cooking and cleaning, I've spent it crocheting, cleaning, doing laundry and now posting, the little kids have been playing, and Dad, Jonathan and Hannah have had their own project. A guy that Dad works with had all these metal panels, and he sold a bunch of them to us. Dad's going to use them to make a fence for cattle. So he's been doing a lot of welding today. He got the first load of panels a couple weeks ago, and I guess he's going back this afternoon to get some more. I'm probably not going to be able to get any pics today, but I can guarantee you there's going to be a lot more weekends spent like this, so eventually I'll get some.

Hmmm. Anything else? Oh! I am hopefully going to get a new outfit post up soon. I already took pics for one, but I didn't like the way they turned out nearly as much as the first one. Besides, the only background I had was our wall, which didn't look very nice. But with all the rain we've been getting lately, we actually have some nice grass growing all over the property. It's turning rather green. :)

Oh! See, I keep thinking of stuff.:) We've gone to the movies 3 times in the last month, which has been awesome. Twice we went to our little theater down here, and once to the one in town, because they didn't have the movie in our theater anymore. That's been fun. Before this last month I havent' been to the movies in years. The first time we went to see Monster's University, which was fun. I've seen Monster's Inc. more times than I can count, so it was nice to see the prequel. :) The second time we went to see Man of Steel, which was awesome, (Us older kids went with my aunt and cousin) and the third time (Wednesday) we went to see Turbo, which had just come out that day. It's been pretty nice to not have to go to church and hear all these other movie-goer familes talk about all these movies that they've seen recently and you have no idea what they're talking about. :) Have you ever experienced that? People are all talking about this thing that you have NO idea what they're talking about, and it's driving you crazy? Yeah. Well, now I know about some of the stuff they were talking about. :D

Ok, now I think I'm done. :) At least I can't come up with anything else to post about... So, until later!!!

Eeep!!!

I am SO excited. I'm getting an iPad next week! A friend of mine is going to the U of A this fall, and they're giving him one. Well, since he already has one, he's going to sell his new one to me, and I am SO EXCITED!!! I've been wanting an iPad for a long time now, but the opportunity to get one has just never arose. Oh, and have I mentioned that I'm excited? ;)

Anyway, this'll make blogging so much easier. I try to do it on my phone all the time - I really do - but it's just such a pain to try and do it. Most of the time it won't save, or I can't load pictures, or this or that. It's just a nightmare. But I'm really hoping that it'll be a lot easier on the iPad. Plus not to mention the fact that it'll be bigger, too. Sometimes the little screen on my phone drives me insane.

I've spent the last week thinking about what all I'm going to put on the iPad, and what I'm going to leave on my phone. It's a wifi iPad, so I'll have to connect to the hotspot on my phone to do anything internet wise, but that's ok. I'm probably so overdoing it here, but like I said, I've been wanting one for awhile. So this is pretty awesome to me. So basically, expect more posts! I'm getting it next Thursday, a day before we go to Breaker's Water Park! (so basically I can take some pictures)

Right now I'm going to go do another post with an update, but I was so excited about this I wanted to leave it with it's own post.

4th of July coming

So, Mom took pics, but unfortunately, I have no idea where the chord for the camera is so I can actually post them. :( Normally I take pics on my phone. So, I'll just have to talk about it until I can find the chord. But, it's late today, so I'll work on that tomorrow. I just came on to update my 103 in 2013 list, and figured I'd let ya'll know that I'm still here! It's just been a crazy past few days getting ready. I think we had 80+ people over yesterday!