the best week ever

so this week was Homecoming week, so that means Spirit Week for the school and lots of work to be done for Student Council. i was on formal committee which meant that i- along with several others- had to put on the formal assembly on friday where the court was introduced and such. we started work on monday and stayed after every day til as late as possible (10 or so) but i had to leave around 8pm. so we built and painted and cut and drilled and spray painted until we were all a little crazy (possibly a bit high from spray paint as well) and had an absolute blast doing it all! i cant even describe how fun it was working with everyone! i figured out that i had spent almost the equivalent of 2 weeks that week also! then our assembly came and went perfectly! we were all so happy! and the dance that night was even more fun! good times that cant be described are the best i'd say!

homecoming, auditions and parties oh my!

okay which to start with... well first: today was an audition day for the play this November (second day is thursday) and even though i had to leave early for piano i got a chance to get up and read a part! i felt pretty good about it, im sure i could have done better, but i was loud, had a pretty good British accent (if i do say so myself!!), i think i looked pretty confident- i wasnt like rocking back and forth or shaking or anything, but i think i was a little red faced- especially afterwords when i actually AM really nervous! but day two will be even better for me!
PS- Thanks for the tips Aunt Lisa!!!!

second: homecoming is on the 26th and guess what... i have a date. now keep your thoughts to yourself until after you finish this though!! in science monday my friend was saying that he couldn't believe i didnt have a date yet and i said that no one has asked me so he was like 'you wanna come with me?' and i was like "sure!'' and the end. well not really but i dont want to type the rest of it, it would take to long, but that's the gist of it. so yeah we're just going as friends
-britt he's still all yours!- and today i asked him if he was really serious about going and he still said that he was so i guess that means i still have a "date". (the fun part is dress shopping! im going saturday!)

third: tomorrow there's NO SCHOOL!!! so jared, caleb, heather, dani, julie and michael (i think) and i are having a party! jared, caleb and my birthdays are all 9 or so days apart so at band camp we were like "hey we should do a party for the three of us!" and now are! so that'll be fun.

have a good wednesday!!

perfectly curly

so after i cut my hair it wasnt curling like it used to, but yesterday (14th) i put it up in a clip for church and when i took it out at home it was curly!! so i had to get some pictures of myself :)

i have another one but my eyes look really creepy so im not using it!!


PS- i wore my hair like this today and got compliments even!! fun fun! :) * (:

My Schedule

Monday (15th)- student council meeting/ drum line (meets EVERY monday)/ cell group (which i cant go to because of drum line)

16th- AUDITIONS!!!! for Emperor Exposed written by our very own Mr. Dyer (im so excited i cant even describe it!)/ piano lessons start (almost every tuesday till June)

17hth- NO SCHOOL (not a 1/2 day aly!!)/ party

18th- AUDITIONS part 2!

25th- my awesome cousin Jessie's birthday!

26th- football game/ Homecoming!

27th- Parma Day (i guess the band does the parade)

October 1st- Vandercook invitationals (marching band)

and that's whats coming up!!

rain rain go away...

friday was a football game so of course i had to go...

so i get there around 4pm or so and kind of hang out and make sure i had everything and what not and then we all reported to the auditorium for warm up. then our director went to check if it was still raining... it was! anyway we had to be on the field for pre game so we all walked out of the nice dry auditorium into the wet and foggy outside. we walk around the track surrounding the field and waited (in the rain) for directions. minutes go by and i can barely read my music because the rain was covering the plastic and going through to ruin the highlighter marks i had made! but we play and we march off the field. we sit in the bleachers and i get my drum situated and then our director says okay its raining hard enough we need to go to the gym. so we went to the gym. drum line went to the small gym and practiced a cadence and then hung out there while everyone else was in the big gym, we had lots of fun though :) but then half time comes. we walk out to the visitors side to get ready with 5 minutes and some odd seconds on the clock (and anyone who watches football knows that 5 minutes = about 10 minutes. especially here.) so we are getting soaked! and so are our instruments. but then our moment finally comes. we walk on the field, drum line playing the beginning to "Respect" (one of the two songs we were going to play) and then we begin the show we have been working on since band camp. now we (concert band) hadn't done it with the symphonic band since... our first show, but that was in blocks so really the last time we had done formations with them was band camp (concert band had practiced formations during band 2nd hour though) so it was a relief to have the full band to play with! especially for us drum line members! we did really well in spite of the rain and marched off field on clicks and went back to the band room and we were done. after the game was the Yearbook Dance- which i was planning on attending, but i ended up spending the night at Heather's (HR) instead :) but yeah it was a pretty fun and wet day all in all, and i think we did pretty well so im happy!! our next game is the 26th- Homecoming!!!

weekend

so this week end i planned on just hanging out at my house doing nothing, but that didnt happen! friday around 6 or so my friend Caleb called me up asking if i wanted to come over and hang out at his house with Haley, Korynne, Toby, Molly and Thomas. so i asked my mom and she said i could! my mom picks up haley and drops us off around 6:30 and haley's mom was going to bring me back around 11 or so. well we played ping-pong, pool, listened to music, hung out, ate pizza and the best watermelon ever, and then settled in to watch a movie- Sweeny Tod (!!). caleb's parents watched it with us and his mom didnt like the blood too much! but we all agreed that the music is amazing. after the movie we went back down stairs and played more ping-pong until haley's mom came to get molly, me and of course haley. so we said our good byes and got in the car. on the way to my house we decided that i should spend the night at haley's with molly and my mom actually let me so i got my stuff and we went to haley's. we stayed up late talking before finally falling asleep. i got home saturday around 10 and then slept practically the rest of the day! but it was lots of fun. today is Gear Up, but i think i might have gotten out of going and other than that i am really going to do nothing until i have to get ready for bed and school tomorrow!

stuff

i know i know i was supposed to post this last night but i couldn't :( so Aly i am sending you an email instead ok?!!

so our church does this thing every year called Gear Up and it's tomorrow. i have worked the last... 2 or 3(?) but this year i decided that i wasn't going to so i'm not! but any way... i am going to get ready for bed. NIGHT!!

TGIF :)

IT'S FRIDAY!! i have spent 3 1/2 days now as a highschooler and it's pretty sweet! i have at least talked to all my friends (older ones- i am lucky enough to be with all my awesome freshman friends almost all day!!) at least once and have had only... 4 comments about my dad [none of which were like mean or anything :) ] but now i'm glad it's the weekend. i have just a little bit of history homework that shouldn't take too long and i should probably do soon... but other than that i will just hang out and relax, finally. today was a really good day, well they all have been, but anyhoo, in math today we had a funeral. yep a funeral. "I CAN'T" died today. what she had us do was write down all of our "i can'ts" and put them in a shoe box, then we went outside and she had three holes dug (one for every class i guess) and we put our shoe box in one of them and she read a(n) eulogy and everything! it was pretty funny. also it was picture day (my picture isn't horrible but not as good as i wanted) and so i took extra care to make sure my hair and what not were all pretty and good only to get to band 2nd hour and have to go outside in the WIND!! so my hair- i think- looks kinda funky or whatever, like it kind of flips out along the sides or something, i don't know, but it's not as straight and pretty as it was in the morning. oh well...
oh to keep you all informed of my busy life:

• there's a drama meeting on Wednesday the 10th (it will be the 2nd one i go too)
• my birthday is the 11th (go me!!)
• football game and yearbook dance is on the 12th (marching band...)
• no school on the 17th (yeah!!)
• football game and homecoming on the 26th
• Parma Day on the 27th (parade, marching band...)

yup that's what September looks like for me!

ps- i will have a bday list up by tonight aly!!

first full day of school

so it's just the second day back and today i've already stayed after til five because of a student council meeting! i'm not complaining because i really want to do council but still! tomorrow i'm staying after again because i am already signed up for the homecoming "formal committee" which is meeting thursday. but my first full day was good! it drug on like no other but then again once it was sixth hour i was saying "man it's almost time to go already?" i really like all my teachers especially my last hour history teacher! he is SO much fun :)!!! i still don't really know what to think about my english teacher though... kind of strange but at the same time sort of cool... i don't know. well my sister is bugging me for the computer so i guess i'm done now!!

A New Chapter...

i like to think of my life as being a big book being written by God. so, like in every book, there are chapters in my life: infant, toddler, walking, pre-school, first day of kindergarten to the end of 2nd grade, 3rd grade to 5th grade, middle school, and today marked the beginning of the chapter i want to call "the best days of my life (aka high school)". YEAH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



today was the first day of school. something i've both dreaded and longed for all summer. but now it's here! i- being the organized and paranoid person i am- have gone through my schedule several times and even more times just in my head (weird yes, effective YEAH!) so i was on top of things knowing exactly where to go when and how to get there. but let me back up a bit. so i wake up an hour or so before my alarm but i think i fell back asleep eventually and then at 5:43 my phone alarm goes off telling me to do my devotions (something i want to do every morning from now on) and radio alarm as well (i like music!) so i do my devos and then my phone alarm goes off again telling me to get in the shower and start getting ready for the day. im ready to go around 7am or so and we left around 7:15. Tessa was practically hyperventilating she was so nervous and Brooklyn- though not as bad- was pretty nervous too. me? i had butterflies and my stomach kind of hurt- which happens all the time like before i go on stage for example- but i didnt show it. i was excited! so i get there and go to the auditorium lobby to get my final schedule which luckily was exactly the same as before. after that i went to my locker and talk to some friends. the Student Council President (a senior guy who happens to be one of my friends) came along so i said hi to him and gave him my "application" for council then i ran into one of my other senior guy friends who walked my 1/2 way to my first class. but then the day really began. as of this moment i like all my teachers. my history and geography teacher is so funny and so cool, by math teacher is awesome, my science teacher is funny, and my English teacher seems really cool also. i already know that i like my choir and band teacher.directors so i have all great teachers this year! (PE is the only exception, but not as of now). i am so excited about finally being in the high school! i heard that there's a drama meeting next week and try outs are soonish after so i am SOOO super excited that im surprised im not jumping out of my seat! and thats it for now.