I have started guitar lessons

I have a guitar lesson every Monday @ 4:00pm. so far it has been really easy except for the scales. Billie thinks scales are the easiest thing but for me, they're the hardest. After my lesson I go directly to the Academie for my modern class that I wish was an hour longer.

Yea my dad is coming home today and he is going to stay home for at least two weeks! Right now he is in Salt Lake City and he went there only a day after he got home from Denver. Before that he only had one day with us after he and my mom went to Seattle! My family's lives are crazy right now. I feel like I hardly have time to do school. I have a lot of stuff to catch up on like geography. I am supposed to be on week 11 or 12 and I probably am only on week8 or 9. I pretty caught up with everything else though. Doing this at 8:44 in the morning is probably why I am behind!

Prayers Please!

I just found out that my grandma Elmhorst is in the hospital. I don't really know what is wrong. I am going to see her on Sunday so I probably will not be at Pulse.

Dance has started!

Last night I had my first level six ballet class! Miss Marlene said it would be an easy class, but usually when she says that we're having an easy class, it is really hard. Last night was hard because instead of doing quick hard stuff, we did "easy" slow strength stuff. I could hardly walk this morning. This year I will be dancing four days a week! On Monday I have Modern, On Tuesday and Wednesday I have ballet, and on Friday I have ballet and Character.

Haircut!

Haley and I got our hair cut today! Haley has really cute layers and I got mine cut like an inch and I got bangs. The lady also made some of my layers shorter in the back and It looks really cool! I'm not going to post any pictures because I haven't taken any yet and I will probably see everyone before I have time to post a pic.

John 2:1-11

Jesus Changes Water to Wine

1On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, 2and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine."

4"Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied, "My time has not yet come."

5His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

6Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.^[a]

7Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to the brim.

8Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet."

They did so, 9and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."

11This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him

Last day of Summer Vacation

Yesterday to celebrate the last few days of Summer vacation, My cousins, Emily, Marybeth went to Wazeetcha (spelling?) with me and my sisters. We swam and after that we went to get slushies at the place accross from white sands. We probably stayed there for a an hour! We each got a slushy except for Haley, who got a drumstick, and we ate every single ice piece. After that we talked for a while and then we each decided that we needed another one. We overheard the people talking about us in the building. They were saying that they were having amazing buisness today and that a group of girls kept coming back for more. Today, Aunt Jenny and Helana are coming over for supper after Unlce Mat finshes working on our basement. My dad is painting my new room on Wednesday!!!!!!!!

Please help me come up with a name!

Kittens!!!

We got two new kittens on Wednesday!!! Their names are Emmett and Edward. (they are named after the twilight characters) I'll post pics as soon as I can!

My camping trip.

Wow, you guys must think that I don't keep up my blog very well. I haven't blogged because I was camping at Trout Lake for two weeks. Camping was so fun this year. Here are the best things that I did: Two days after we got to the campground, a old clouple my aunt Pam knows, brought all of their seven kyaks to the campground and gave us kyak lessons. It was really cool because my aunt Pam and my cousin Sierra have kyaks and so do Jake and Cherrie a couple we met at Trout quite a few years ago. It was really cool to all be able to kyak together. A few days after that my cousins, Emily, who is 16, T.J, who is 15 and Bethy, who is 14, came to the campground and I got to share a tent with Emily and Bethy. When the Messings (my cousins) were there we biked to the near by village every day until Emily fell off her bike and got hurt really bad. She skinned her knee and her hip so bad that blood was seeping through the gause. The day that Emily fell off her bike we had a Birthday party for Bethy and my grandma. After my dad came up to the campgroud we sang around the campfire with my dad playing the guitar. We could only sing a few songs a night though because his caluses on his fingers were gone. One night it was raining and my aunt Lori cooked some really good steak. She let me have some because my uncle wasn't there and she had an extra steak. I have no idea why I put that in. We also went to the beach every day that it wasn't raining. One day, Becca forgot t put sunscreen on and she got so burnt that it recked the rest of the trip for her. After a week, the Messings left and all I had to do was play with kids 11 and under. So I was pretty much bored until the day we came home. Yesterday, before we left, we went to the nature center and made animal track t-shirts, and you will never guess who I met! I met Cana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I actually met another person with the same name as me. She was about three years old and she looked just like I did when I was three! Bleach blonde hair, and blue eyes. Her name is Cana Lee Smith. That pretty much made my day! Well I would type more but I probably should start helping my mom clean.

Sorry to keep you waiting for and update on my boring life.

Hey everyone, I haven't blogged in a long time. We are very busy right now with redoing our house. I am going camping on Sunday for two weeks and when I get back I will almost have my own room!!!!!!!!! A few things that have been going on in my life are: Olivia, my best friend in Kindergarden, is moving to South Dakota, Miss Dodd, my new ballet teacher, quit because she is moving to Florida (she was an amazing teacher), Becca is now driving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I am now going to type about my day, I got up at 9:00am and I DIDN"T go to dance. Then my mom took Becca to go driving, Then Haley's friend Hannah came over, then Haley and Hannah went swimming and a unknown dog came to visit us. (I called the Carlsons and they said to check the neighbors that live on the other corner of 80th and Evergreen She said to call the pound. I ended up just leaving him and eventually he left.) After mom got back Haley went to Hannah's house to play, then Dad, Mom and I went to Home Depot, Ace and Walmart. Then we came home and Becca and Haley started a movie and I came down to the basement to blog. Whoever is reading this must be very bored because my day was pretty boring.

New: The word to describe what's going on in my life

Well, as you already know, we moved into a new house. Next, we got a new van, and we just put new paint on the walls. Today, my sister had an appointment in Marshfield and my family came home with a new car and next week we are getting new floors. The house, van and car are not really new but they are new to us. If you are wondering why we got a new house, van and car in the same month here is the answer. We bought a house so we could have more land for Prince, we bought a new van because are old one was having problems and we gave one away and we got a car because Becca is getting her temps next week and my mom didn't want her to learn to drive in a big van. That was a really long sentence! I can't wait until Summer Intensive!!! Jean Paul is doing the Fairy Doll with us and we are going to perform it this fall!!!!! When Miss. Marlene called me I am pretty sure she said to be at the Academie at 9:00 but I don't remember for sure. I am going to e-mail Hannah.

Good News!!! Cloud is acting like her normal self again. Right now I am very annoyed because my dad and g-pa are sanding the walls and that sound gives me the shivers. I am also bored 'cause it is storming and it is going to storm all week!! (hopefully not for lunch by the river) Sierra is here because we surprised her yesterday for her b-day after the planetarium. Hope you understood my quick typing!

Cloudy girl

Tuesday, Cloud , who is normally so hyper we wonder how she doesn't run out of energy, was sleeping on my mom's bed all day. Then she got up to eat or something and we noticed that there was bloody diarrhea on her tail. Before this, she had been throwing up around the house but we didn't pay any attention to that because we just moved and she always throws up when she is stressed. After we saw the mess on her tail my mom called the vet and we took her in. When we got there the vet said she had lost two pounds and she had a fever. The vet took some x-rays and she found out that her small intestines are all twisted up funny. The vet said she either are something like a string caught in ther, or they are just like that. She gave us two options: Surgery to find out why she is like that or to give her fluids and antibiotics and a special diet and wait it out. Since the surgery would cost around $700 we chose the special diet. If this doesn't work and she gets worse, we might have to put her down. If there is a string or something caught in there she might die on her own.

HELLO

I am finally posting again!! We just moved in and we didn't have internet and then after that I went to Billie's house to help her take care of the dogs when her family went to a Brewers game and then we finally had internet when I got home. I was typing in babble language.

The Maattas

Yesterday, we went to visit my cousins at Trout Lake, the campground they are hosting. While we were there, it was so cold I was wearing five jackets! Sierra had an idea of what we should do and it was to have a talent show. One of the things she did was sing the Phantom of the Opera. It was so funny that I almost wet my pants! ha ha. At the end, for the grand finale, We sang Dan Dan the maitenence (spelling?) man and we used buckets for drums and brooms for guitar. My grandma and my aunt were laughing so hard they couldn't breathe. After we were done, my aunt told us to stay where we were and she came up and sang I love my maitenecnce man. That time we were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. If you are wondering what those songs are they are songs we made up about my uncle because he is the Trout Lake campgroud maitenence.

Recital

Recital was a blast! This is the first year that I wasn't nervous. Hoe down was my favorite peice. I will post some pics when I get home from my grandma's house if I can. My family is very busy right now because we are in the process of moving and we just got the keys to our house. I was supposed to be staying at my grandma's 'till Friday but we are leaving tomorrow because when my parents got to our new house they noticed that their were leaky faucets and one of the toilets dosen't work. Also we are going to rip out all of the carpet because it stinks. I think my mom is very stressed right now. Oh by the way I love my new fishing stuff. It works great! I really love the weedless frog bait!

Recital!!!!

I haven't posted in a while and I don't even know if anyone looks at my blog. Please comment if you have been here. Anyways, I am really nervous today because of recital. Dress rehersal was on Tuesday and I probably will forget all of my spacing. This is my first year having more than one dance. I hope I don't get them confused.

I didn't post for a while because Becca hogs the computer. I am so nervous about dancing at Centralia. Lately my back has been hurting so bad that I can hardly move. Saturday at 1:00 in the morning, I had such terrible pain that when I got up to take Advil It probably took me five minutes to get to the kitchen! I hope it gets better before Centralia.

I have officially started a blog! today is going to be a boring day! Last night, my mom signed me up for a modern class! I love exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!