"I can't help it, I'm growing."

Yeeee-haa!

2009-03-06T19:21:00.001-08:00

On Tuesday mom and Claire went up to Oly to go shopping; they came back with some awesome shoes, for example, mom got an adorable pair of boots for 40% off of the already-marked-40% price. When they came home buried in bags and hollering about the great prices at Macys Melina and I, refusing to be outdone, looked at each other and said, "Tomorrow."
So, Wednesday found Nina and I in Olympia and I found the CUTEST boots! I love them so much! I don't think I've felt this way about a pair of shoes since I bought my blue wedges. I like to think of them as my inner cowgirl coming out.

Nina found some beautiful purply-ish boots, too. She said yesterday (Thursday), "Man, I feel like Peter Pan in these things. Avast! Hoidy-doi!" Er, something like that!
*model: Wyatt Backholm

Some sweet and tender thoughts. Ha!

2009-02-28T18:35:00.000-08:00

YES!! I'm the last person to do this...right? :)

Rachel: I love how you look at dancing when you are wearing your skinny jeans and converse and those big, elegant earings and you flip your bangs back! You look like a movie star.

Kynsie: Possibly the person i am most jealous of for naturally looking French. dang.

Dana: Okay, he's practically my brother...except we have different parents...

Spud: such an imagination! (i mean, come on, he probably thought this thing up just to get all these cute girls to say nice things about him! hehe. ouch.)

timothy: Great at being a cool nerd. :)

Hannah: Really, very...spunky! 2nd place winner of being the person I was most afraid of after meeting.

Sarah: Haha! the person I was most terrified by after meeting! But she's actually really neat and her hair is always (grrrrr) perfect.

Brett: I don't really know you very well, but every time I'm around you you say something REALLY funny!

Piper: definitely the sweetest person I've met. (she's my role model)

Little brother, Spuddy

2009-02-27T18:36:00.001-08:00

Most of you know my brother Wyatt. When he was a baby he was my worst enemy (kicked me out of "the baby of the family" spot!) when we were a little older and he had no idea what it meant to hang out with cool people he was my best friend, now that he's the best soccer stud on the Harbor (and probably the best looking) well, we're still friends, secretly. I really think his soccer cleats are awesome and sometimes, if I make him a latte, he will let me hold one. Wow. All around he's pretty neat, and someday he's going to be a dreads-wearin' lead guitarist for the next Toto and I'll get to hold both of his cleats behind the stage while he gives out autographs to Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce. He's that cool.

I'm sorry you have no fashion sense, Spud, but at least you have me, right?

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Amazing book!

2009-02-08T15:55:00.000-08:00

I just had to take a second and write about this book I just finished. It's actually an incredibly long poem called Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It was really good and I thought it had an interesting message. I'm not going to tell you what it is though...you have to read it!

God is so great!

2009-02-07T15:17:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, Friday, I was having one of those "life sucks" kind of days but then, while doing the dishes, I realized: hey, you live in a completely free country, you have a great family, and God is alive and loves you and you need to knock it off! And it's true! I do have freedom and a great family and my Father God is so amazing! He is all powerful, all knowing, loving, forgiving-hallelujah!-and he wants us to love him. I suppose I could at least be grateful for the great stuff he's given me and stop having a bad attitude. Thank you, God!

Needles

2009-02-04T11:33:00.000-08:00

I am not a woosy about blood and needles and that kind of stuff, buuuuut, I kind of have a problem with people giving me a shot. Well, on Monday I sucked it up and went to get my blood drawn. I was really nervous and couldn't watch her do it, now I'm really sad I didn't watch because it didn't hurt at all ( actually, it felt good) and I'm really curious what it looks like. (I'm not one of those weird people who like blood and guts but it's so interesting!) Hey, does anybody know how much they pay you to donate blood? :)

Color Crazy

2009-01-28T20:44:00.000-08:00

I just took this how many colors can you name in 5 minutes quiz and, well, I didn't do so hot. here's the list I forgot:

Alice blue, Alizarin, Amaranth, Amber, Amethyst, Apricot, Aqua, Aquamarine, Asparagus, Auburn, Azure, Beige, Bistre, Blue green, Blue violet, Bondi blue, Brass, Bright green, Bright turquoise, Brilliant rose, Bronze, Buff, Burgundy, Burnt sienna, Burnt umber, Camouflage green, Caput Mortuum, Cardinal, Carmine, Carnation pink, Celadon, Cerise, Cerulean, Cerulean blue, Chartreuse yellow, Chestnut, Cinnabar, Cinnamon, Cobalt, Copper, Copper rose, Coral, Coral red, Corn, Cornflower blue, Cosmic latte, Crimson, Cyan, Dark blue, Dark brown, Dark cerulean, Dark chestnut, Dark coral, Dark goldenrod, Dark khaki, Dark pastel green, Dark pink, Dark salmon, Dark slate gray, Dark spring green, Dark tan, Dark tangerine, Dark turquoise, Dark violet, Deep cerise, Deep fuchsia, Deep lilac, Deep magenta, Deep peach, Denim, Dodger blue, Ecru, Electric blue, Electric green, Electric indigo, Electric lime, Electric purple, Emerald, Eggplant, Falu red, Fern green, Flax, Forest green, French Rose, Fuchsia, Fuchsia Pink, Gamboge, Gold, Golden brown, Golden yellow, Goldenrod, Grey asparagus, Green yellow, Han Purple, Harlequin, Heliotrope, Hollywood Cerise, Hot Magenta, Klein Blue, Islamic green, Ivory, Jade, Kelly green, Khaki, Lavender, Lemon chiffon, Light blue, Lilac, Linen, Magenta, Malachite, Maya blue, Mauve, Mauve Taupe, Medium blue, Medium carmine, Medium purple, Midnight Blue, Misty rose, Moss green, Mountbatten pink, Mustard, Navajo white, Navy Blue, Ochre, Old Gold, Old Lace, Old Lavender, Old Rose, Olive, Olive Drab, Olivine, Orange Peel, Orange Red, Orchid, Pale blue, Pale brown, Pale carmine, Pale chestnut, Pale cornflower blue, Pale magenta, Pale red violet, Papaya whip, Pastel green, Pastel pink, Peach orange, Peach yellow, Pear, Persian blue, Persian green, Persian indigo, Persian red, Persian pink, Persian rose, Persimmon, Pine Green, Pink orange, Powder blue, Puce, Prussian blue, Psychedelic purple, Pumpkin, Raw umber, Red violet, Robin egg blue, Rose Taupe, Royal purple, Russet, Rust, Safety Orange, Sapphire, Salmon, Sandy brown, Sangria, Scarlet, School bus yellow, Sea Green, Seashell, Selective yellow, Sepia, Shamrock green, Shocking Pink, Silver, Sky Blue, Slate grey, Smalt, Spring bud, Spring green, Steel blue, Tangerine yellow, Taupe, Tea Green, Tea rose, Teal, Tenne, Terra cotta, Thistle, Turquoise, Tyrian purple, Ultramarine, Vermilion, Viridian, Wheat, Wisteria, Zinnwaldite,

I had no idea there were so many colors. Huh.

Dinner Time!

2009-01-26T16:57:00.000-08:00

Okay, so mom and Claire took Jia Tai up to Children's Hospital in Seattle for the whole day that means that Melina and Spud and Warren and I got to make dinner! For starters, Melina made country spare ribs with home made barbecue sauce, roasted broccoli with shallots, and some buttery risotto with little vegetables in it. Spud made the excellent Caesar salad (who made the salad, Stephen? :D sorry, inside joke.) complete with croutons made by Warren and anchovy dressing! And I made the mean Northern Cornbread. Then we all pitched in to do the dishes. Even Spud! hehe. It was a lot of fun and we listened to Adventures In Odyssey the whole time! (I love those!) Spud was kind enough to take some pictures for me so you can see how delicious it was!

Yum!

Lights, Camera, Cheese, Action!

2009-01-22T20:02:00.001-08:00

Last night us kids and mom watched for the first time in a long time: Star Wars, A New Hope. It was really fun; at first we were just going to watch half an hour but we (gasp) finished it! (I know, on a school night!!!!) It reminded me of when we were little kids at our cousins' house, they own (owned?) the Starwars Trilogy and we would watch it every time we visited. It also reminded me of a sleepover I had with Kaitie Wrightould and we watched the whole trilogy in one go! (We had this thing for starting really long movies-think Lord of the Rings, extended version- at midnight)

I was shocked at how young Harrison Ford was-maybe I'm just used to seeing seventy-year-old Indy! And there is some great dialogue, like the part about halfway through the movie when Princess Leia gets done throttling Han Solo about how he only cares about money and it goes something like this:

Pr. Leia: exits cockpit and runs into Luke: "That's probably the only thing he cares about!

Luke: cues really cheesy, Swiss-Family-Robinson-Voice, "I care!"

Isn't that lame? =)

I really would have that thought that Luke's actor was taking acting lessons from the guy that plays "Anakin" if he hadn't been around first! But I guess the cheesiness is what makes these movies so entertaining.

Game night!

2009-01-20T11:21:00.000-08:00

Last night, Claire, Spud, Piper, Becca, Chase, Shawn, and I drove up to Stephen and Paige's to have a Settlers of Catan marathon. It was really fun. I have only played the game three times before and this time, like all the others, I lost. I don't think I have even taken second place in "Settlers". Oh, well. This way no one else has to feel bad about coming in last because I'm always in that spot! Hehe.
Stephen and Paige had a big pile of peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chip, nut cookies and only 4 and a half gallons of milk. Apparently, someone miscalculated how much they needed!

Impressionism

2009-01-19T10:51:00.000-08:00

Last week, Melina asigned to me an "Informative Essay...due in three weeks." I was having a really hard time deciding what to write on when it came to me: I remember Melina telling me a long time ago, "It doesn't matter what you write about, as long as it's something you're interested in, that'll make it interesting to others." (er, something like that!) That got me thinking, "how about writing something about music or art?" Anyways, I finally decided on the Impressionistic period and some famous artists, musicians, etc. of that time. It's so neat! I have already learned so much! And, I have definitley decided that Impressionism is my favorite style of art.

One of the people I'm doing is Claude Monet. He did such beautiful work! Poppies Blooming is my favorite work by him (or anyone else, for that matter).

Isn't that nice? :D