Hundred Acre Wood

Hey peoples. I'm really excited because I never noticed the add more pictures link so you don't have to just put one pic up at a time when you post. And I've been blogging for how long now?? No wonder I always have trouble getting up more then one picture. You guys have been missing out on so much because I didn't think my computer was cooperating!! Sigh. Well, anyways, here are pictures of Jeremiah's nursery. Robbie did the characters and props out of paper. Leah, Sharon, and Katie cut out hundreds of leaves from paper, so that they're actually coming out at you with a 3-D affect. I did alot of the painting/background stuff. Peggy from church helped out with some painting too. Let me know what you think!!

Watching the dogs and school

The day after vacation I house-sat and dog-sat for this lady my mom works with at the hospital. It was great fun running the house and pretending to live on my own for a while. She has 5 dogs and 4 cats. The dogs are all inside and they are a handle full. Well, not really, but compared to my one little cat. I mentioned before that I was scared about sleeping with all of them, but I ended up sleeping with only 3. The little one, sparkles, kept wanted to get under the covers, and once I let him and he turned around and poked his head out like a human and kept sighing these sighs of relief. One had legs so short he couldn't jump on the bed so he cried and cried until I finally lifted him up and then he cried louder. Once he got settled it was ok. The older one laid at the foot of the bed and the two others were content on the floor thankfully! Well I just wanted to briefly mention that just in case anyone was wondering how that all went. It went very well and I'll probably be doing this again once a year or so for this lady.
In other news, school started today. My first class was kickboxing at 8am. We didn't do any labor yet, just introduction stuff. Then I had a break until chapel. Kimberly and I walked there and took our assigned seats next to each other. We sang "Higher Ground," a well known hymn, and it was nice to be singing that next to her again, since bible school. All our classes were in the same building today for the rest of the day, then we came back to my house for lunch. The rest of the day went well. My voice class got cancelled and then I had old testament poetry left. I'm leaving out alot of details. I suddenly feel very tired! Here is just a quit update. I'll be back with more =)

vacation continuation

...here I am 5 years later to tell you what I did on the rest of my vacation. The next big highlight of the week was our camping trip! I've always wanted to go camping. Not the park at the campgrounds type camping, but real camping. So I was excited to go with some procampers so I didn't have to figure things out,and it was also nice going with some not so procampers, just take a guess who. So I waited around and packed up Friday morning for Sara and Melissa to come back from volunteering at the PRC. When they got back we packed up into Melissa's car and Sara's dad and her brother Chris pack the canoes and such and got into their truck. We followed them to the Merrimack River in NH. I didn't really understand the whole plan of drifting but I didn't really care to know because it makes it more of a surprise. So I didn't know that we were loading up canoes and kayaks then just drifting down to our site, then doing it again the next moring, then again the next day. But it sure was fun and very relaxing.

Here I am in a canoe with Melissa who didn't have a hat, so the next best thing is a t-shirt of course.
We came to our spot after about 3 hours of drifting. We pulled ashore and set up camp. There was a path leading up to a field of squash above us, where we went later that night to gaze at the stars. It was nice to see them again. We made us a fire and had hamburgers for dinner and then I listened to everyone talk about the good ol'times and the pets they use to have running around. Us girls tried to position ourselves in the tents so that we weren't getting jabbed by a rock or a root in our backs. It worked out pretty good, and I felt like I got the best sleep ever, even if I felt like I was lieing down hill a little bit. In the morning some of us heard a beaver splashing its tail in the river.
After breakfast we packed up and drifted on the down the river. I was amused how I made use of the time and started to clip and file my nails. Now thats a Mary Kay consultant camping for ya. I just felt a little too distracted to burying my nose in a book, especially when the little rapids were right ahead.
The next place we set up was bigger and the ground more smoother. I think we got a better night's sleep. A rope swing was right across the river so people kept coming and using it so it wasn't the quietest place. We swang on the rope 2 times or so but there were alot people waiting around so we were done.
One cool thing was when I got in touch with my old love of fishing. My dad and I used to go when I was younger but its been a while. Sara's dad gave me some pointers and let me use his fishing pole. Once we went up to a rock across the river where there were supposibly a plethera of fish. Sara, her dad and me went and I caught 4 fish! Sara's dad did all the dirty work and threw them back in. I think maybe it was the same stupid fish latching on over and over, but thats just my opinion. That evening one of Sara's cousins joined our group of campers and it was fun watching her dad and him go at it with each other with their talk,just messing around. The next morning we packed up for the last time and drifed down to our cars. I fished a little as we drifted but with no luck.
Camping was so much fun. I kept saying that I was born for this. I guess now I have no more purpose in life. We talked about making this a yearly tradition. Maybe they'll come down and camp in Florida next time.
After camping we dropped by Fairwood to watch some of the digging up the frong lawn excitment and then went to the Lyman's to have a backporch dinner.
Monday In Rhode Island Sara, Amy and me met up with Elizabeth and spent the day with her. It was great fun and we introduced her to The Office, hehe.
I came back Tuesday and Wednesday went to a lady's house to housesit and dogsit while she went on vacation. We'll save that for another rainy day.
But the greatest current news of all is that right across the hallway is my old room now filled with Kimberly's things!!!!!!!!

The End...Or really, just the beginning.

New arrival

Here is my new cousin, Jeremiah.

This is the only pic I had of him not covering his face. I'll keep trying to get some good ones.

Boston

I've been home for about a week now and I had such a wonderful time in up north! I'm going to be posting alot in the next few days so keep checking my blog if you care to see pictures of Leah's baby, of the nursery, and some dogs. First is first though.



The first big excursion was our trip to Boston! We took a train (SL,MB, and me) in the morning. Our trip's focus was to look and explore art. And we sure did. We went into about 5 galleries and at the end of the day went to the Museum of Fine Arts. We were thankful it wasn't boiling hot or hailing rocks on us, the latter was predicted, but it was a beautiful day and even got nice and cool in the evening. We wondered the streets, sat at the park, and took the T. I was so confused about what the T was for the longest time before I rode it. The museum was awesome. I was really tired at that point but it was still fun to walk around with SL. Four hours later we left and went out into the empty streets of Boston again. This is the most exciting part of the day because as we were walking water balloons came flying at us! Not only water but sand was packed into the balloons as well. Yeah, we were attacked pretty much by some gang of boys across the street. We weren't too happy and just kept walking. We were too tired to take on some gang at that point, so we just let it go.

Well I need to go and celebrate my cousin's birthday. We'll just call this part one of my trip. Tootles.

YaY

I found my camera! It was a miracle. I was in bed and saying a last minute prayer that I would find it. My mind then started to trace back when I last saw it and all that. I knew it was when I took it to Walmart to get some pics developed but then I didn't know where I put it after that. Then it hit me! It was in my mom's car in the consule. I checked there before but I forgot that it's two consules (sp?) in one and I forgot to look in the bigger one. I got out of bed, went outside, and there it was! So thanks for your prayers. Ok..now I'm off.