First day of Winter Break- Emergency Room

Hey guys. Winter break has finally started!!!!!!!! and I got to go to the ER room at Littleton Adventists Hospital. My dad was making chex mix/ party mix and he was putting the bag in the microwave and then took it out and the bag got caught on the glass microwave plate and it hit the granite counter and shaddered. One piece hit his leg and probably caused at least 1/4 inch deep and about 2 inches long cut. The other leg was cut, but not enough to need stiches. He got blue stiches, (the color I got on the first set of stiches I got, I was also allergic to them so the cut just fell open when the nurse thook them out) in his right leg. We spent about 2 1/2 hours there. Which is better than the last time we we're there with my brother, which took about 4 1/2 hours. We took pics, but I didn't post them for 2 reasons. 1) I didn't feel like uploading them from the phone and 2) I wasn't sure how many of you actually wanted to see them, but while I was there i made a list of theing to do at the hospital and was super bored. Here it is:

15 thing to do while being bored at the hospital with your dad:
- Count how many people walked through a hallway ( I did and counted 158 people)
- Tell your dad to give his iPhone to you
- Skip around (no matter how much room ther is, I did)
- Count your steps around the room/ curtains (we had a "curtain" room with curtains as the walls)
- Listen to other people's conversations
- Look at your dad facial exspressions while getting the shots (sometimes they change. sometimes they don't)
- Whistle/hum to a holiday song (jingle bells is great for that)
- Listen to your dad and brothers conversations
- Wish you could call your friends
- Think of what kinds of dogs you want when you grow up (IDK, couldn't come up with any and got bored)
- Dance to a song (inside your head, because the hospital doesn't play any music)
- Make up a survey for the pateints incase you become a doctor
- Learn your way around the hosptal for going to the cafeteria ( my brother and I got lost coming back)
- Tell any body who looks at you or someone in the room/curtains what happened
- Listen to music on your dad's iPhone

TTYL

Turkey Day 5k

HAPPY THANKSGIVING everybody! Hope your having fun on turkey day! The day started out okay and then got great for me. It was only okay because my dad woke me up at 7:30 a.m! I was so not ready to wake up yet. My whole family did a Turkey Day 5k. 5k is 3.1 miles. My dad and I WERE going to run together. I started running at the beginning and we lost each other, I say he left me but he says I left him because I was always in front of him and i told him to catch up. But anyway my goal for today was to break 30 min and get a pr (personal record). I did! My time was 28:59. I'm also going to do the Boulder Bolder.

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Here are some of the actual party pictures. We hired Becca, she also came to my birthday party, to come serve.

Hey My mom's birthday party was on Sat. There were about 50 people there and it took so long to set up for. Here are the pictures from setting up.

Veteran's Day- Travis

Hey guys, My cousin Travis was in the Iraq war ( the United States Marine Corp) and got back last February, unharmed! For a school project I decided to write a thank-you note to him for serving our country (Travis is on the left):

Dear Travis,
Thank you for serving our country. It takes a great amount of courage to do what you did. You sacrificed a lot for us; time away from friends and family, home cooked meals, and risked your life. Sometimes I bet it was really scary. I hope to see you soon. THANKS
Love,
Melissa

Halloween

Hey, on Halloween I invited my soccer team over to have dinner and go trick-or-treating. Only part of them came, but it was still fun. The hand is made out of jello (my friends mom made it) nobody wanted to eat it. I was..... I actually don't know what I was because i just went down to our costume closet and put something on an hour before we went trick-or-treating. So it's your choice of what you think I was.

Birthday Party

Here are more pictures of the party.

This afternoon was my 12 birthday party, we had our friend Becca who's in a senior in high schoool come over and do everybody's hair. We also bought hair dye and diyed most of the girls' hair.

New Basement

So over the summer, we renovated our basement. From a ltttle kids room (when it was clean) and a storage room to a teenage game room. As we did this I took pictures along the way. Here they are.

Hey guys, sorry I havn't blogged in a awhile, school's been busy. These are the things I've done since the last time I've blogged. I'm now officially able to babysit, but i havn't yet, unless you count playing in the front yard with neighboghood kids. Sometime before school started in August my friend Ashlyn and I did a triathalon together, it was my 4th and her 1st!! My dog turned 3 on the 22nd, and school started on the 19th. I switch classes this year and have 8 blocks. Soccer also started 2 weeks ago'. We've had 2 games the 1st one we won 2-1 and the 2nd one we tied 1-1. Earlier today we (my mom and I) we're online (belive it or not) looking for another dog! I'm guessing we probably won't get one, but I'm pretty close to convincing her. My birthday is in 2 weeks, so I'll probably blog then if not sooner. See ya

Steamboat Springs

Hey guys, sorry i havn't blogged for awhile. So, over the 4th my family went to Steamboat Springs. We went on 1 hike to the Falls. It was pretty fun. Also we shopped and went to the parade that they had then went to see fireworks. That was awesome. Also on the 4 of July while Brett (my brother) and my dad were mountain biking I went on a horsebackk ride and my mom just kinda hung out.

Here are pictures from my swimmeet on sat. I swam the 100 meter free and the 100 meter back and then a freestyle relay and swam 50 meters. Our team lost by 300 points, but we did really well. In the picture of Abby and I we had "Eat My Bubbles" on our backs.

The people on the motorcycle, we don't know just liked the dog. They lived in Mexico.