Ewwwwwww Bugs!

I'm generally not one of those girls that squeals at the tiniest bug. *cough*Jami*cough* However, I am becoming increasingly perturbed by the Bug Project I have to do for Bio. Having to pin dead insects to a piece of Styrofoam is not exactly my idea of an ideal project. Look how nasty these things are!



For some unknown reason, I had the sudden urge to take a ridiculous amount of pictures of flowers today. Here's a particular favorite of mine:



On a completely different note, here's a pic of Zach's hat for science camp. He refused to smile... how depressing. Fortunately, he's promised to let me "borrow" it for Winter Camp. :D



Tomorrow is Halloween; a ridiculous, pagan holiday. I found this great site explaining the origins for all those who care to know: http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/halloween.html. The only truly redeeming quality that I can find about it is.... HARVEST FEST! I'm going down to the church at 3:30 to help set up and should be there until it closes. Afterwards, I'm heading over to Jami's for a sleep-over with "the girls" and some old "scary" films. I still don't know exactly what I'm going to dress up as. (to be allowed in Jami's home I HAVE to be in costume) I may utilize some of the old dresses I have lying around or come up with something simple and pwny. We'll see. I'll probably post some pics of Harvest Fest and Jami's sleep-over Saturday so check back soon!

post script: PLEASE comment! It dosen't even have to be more than a "Hello"! Goodness gracious people! I get plenty of site-views and NO ONE has commented since Sarah right after she returned from Nationals! Sheesh! :P Anyways, just comment so I know who's reading, k? Gratzi!

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Just wanted to test this new poll feature...

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Just In Case You Thought This Blog Fell Off the Face of the Earth...

As the incredibly long title of this post stated, this post is just to inform you that "this blog HAS NOT fallen of the face of the earth" and is in fact just... um.... sleeping? for awhile. :) Actually, this morning at church, I was chided by Jonathan for not having posted anything new in a month or two so I figured I might as well. Anyways, this post shall be devoted to a recap of the beginnings of Sophmore year in PICTURES!! :D Alright first off....

When I got back from THE ROAD TRIP I went with Mandy and her parents down to their time share in Laguna Beach for the weekend...



I have no clue what she's saying at the end of that video... if you can decifer it, please let me know!

That same weekend, Mandy decided to go emo/gothish... the outcome was... intriguing to say the least.

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 Maggie's 16th birthday just past (My, Maggie! How old you are! hehe) and we celebrated by kidnapping her at 6:30 that morning and draggin her in her pajamas to IHOP for birthday pancakes. Later that night her parents took us down to the beach for dinner... To save the dignity of all, I won't be posting pictures of everyone in their PJ's, half asleep at IHOP but here's a pic of us all down by the beach...

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Oksana and David Orlik were BAPTISED!! I do have several pictures of each of their baptismals but they are horridly grainy and not worth posting. =/

And then there was HOMECOMING! Anyone who knows me in the least knows that I don't particularly like dances... at all. But, after avoiding them all freshman year, I finally gave in. It went well and we all had a lovely time despite the fact that I ran around barefoot all night. Nefarious heels....

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We adopted an adorable little creature named Miss Frizzle. (like the wild, red haired teacher from the Magic School Bus)

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I FINALLY got a picture of David smiling.... almost.... close enough?

Meaghan took me to a USC football game... They won (of course) but it was really just hanging out that made the day so much fun. And just in case you were wondering, I CAN actually follow a football game. :P



And for Zachary's birthday we took him and Daniel to Dave and Buster's at the Ontario Mills Mall. However, I shan't post a picture of THAT because it is MUCH too disturbing. :)

So, that has been the photographed events between our ROAD TRIP and now... pretty exciting? O_O