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more holiday pictures

2009-12-28T21:17:00.002-07:00

Here are just two more pictures :D

Holidays

2009-12-28T21:00:00.004-07:00

These are just a few pictures from my winter break. We made 407 pepper nuts at my grandma's house, like we do every year, which is so much fun. Brett and I sang in our church youth choir Christmas Eve and our neighbors came with us. Then my neighbors, my grandparents, and us all ate dinner and exchanged gifts. It was so much fun. On christmas day it was just my grandparents and us, that was great. I got a new bike and a bunch of other too. Thank you to everyone who made this holiday season special to me.

Number 5

2009-12-18T21:20:00.002-07:00

Soccer:
"Just let the feet do the Talking"

Life:
"Gratitude Should be your first Attitude"

Number 4

2009-12-13T21:29:00.001-07:00

Soccer:
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees, and then coming back harder"

Life:
"You might not be a shining a star, but you don't need to be a dark cloud either"

Number 3

2009-12-12T16:54:00.002-07:00

Soccer:
"A lot of soccer success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are"

Life:
"Be civil to all; social to many; familiar with a few; friend to one; enemy to none"

Number 2

2009-12-11T16:56:00.002-07:00

Soccer:
"It’s the way you feel when you step on the field that lets you know you couldn’t live without this sport"
I love that feeling, it's the best.

Life:
"Wether you think you can, or think you can't, your right"

Quote!

2009-12-10T18:26:00.002-07:00

Soccer:
"life is a game. soccer is serious"

Life:
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of fight in the dog”

New Quotes

2009-12-08T20:06:00.002-07:00

Ok so I found a bunch of new soccer sayings today...i was bored. But i am going to post one soccer quote per day/week now, and i might also post another one not relating to soccer.
Soccer:
"Soccer is a simple game. It's the players that make it complicated."

Life..i guess:
"Don't bother another person when you can do something yourself"

Kansas- Thanksgiving

2009-12-06T11:11:00.003-07:00

For thanksgiving we went to my grandma's house in Pratt, Kansas. There were 21 people plus a dog. It was so much fun!! I love going to Pratt, love the small towns. We arrived late Tuesday Nov. 24 about 11:00 p.m there. On wednesday Katie, Dan, Colby, and Uncle Bill came in the afternoon, Aunt Pam was already here. At about 9:00 p.m Uncle Mike, Aunt Lynne, Jennifer, David, Jerry, Eliot, and Bethany arrived from Texas. Aunt Pat, Uncle Don who live in Pratt. Their two son's John and Travis came too. We had people from California, Colorado, Kansas, Texas, and South Carolina, i think. Our family came from the east and west. It was great. So wednesday we just waited for people to come and chilled all day. Thursday we had our Turkey Trot that was about 1 1/2 miles, twice around Lemon Park. I finished 2nd with John and Brett of course won. John Keller and Barbara also ran with us, even though they are not technically family. Then Kiley arrived Thursday afternoon and we had a delicious turkey and ham dinner. We played games after that. On friday the girl cousins did a fashion show with my grandma's old clothes and then she told stories about each one. After the fashion show my grandma got out all her jewelry and we got to go through it and take what we want, there was a bunch of cool things in there. We all hung out on Friday too.Then Saturday we left but first we went shopping! We left at 1:00 p.m there time. This trip was so much fun!!! Thanks Grandma!

Facebook

2009-11-08T16:09:00.003-07:00

I have a Facebook now, so I spend time on that and that's why i havn't been taking care of this for awhile. Sorry. and don't forget to scroll down to look at Halloween, Fall Retreat, and State posts.

STATE!

2009-11-08T15:58:00.007-07:00

Brett was able to run in state yesterday!! After months of running more than 5 miles just about everyday, he would run everyday but sometimes i think only like 3 miles but anyway Brett's been running everyday since August and finally in November he could run in state. Since he did that I had to give up my last soccer game of the season and the end of the season party which wasn't much fun but i got a t-shirt that on the back says "proud sister" from him running in state, so i would've rather gone to my game and be running around but oh well. I guess i just have to suck it up and deal with it, cuz there's nothin' i can do now about it. :) oh ya, Brett and some of the other top 7 on the team shaved their legs for state. eww

Fall Retreat

2009-11-08T15:49:00.004-07:00

Today I just got back from our youth groups Fall Retreat. We met Friday night and got back Sunday morning. We stayed in two different church's and did a bunch of fun stuff plus 3 sessions. We went to jump street and Casa Bonita! Both fun places. We also handed out lunch's to the homeless at a park downtown.

Halloween!

2009-11-08T15:26:00.005-07:00

Happy Halloween, i know it's late. Sorry i haven't blogged for a while. On halloween i had some friends over for about an hour i think, i'm not really sure, then the guys left and went somewhere and the girls stayed at my house and we went to 2 houses in my neighborhood and the rest in one of the Homestead's. There were 5 of us. We stayed out till about 9:20 and my hands were cold, wonder woman was the only smart one who brought gloves. We all went as super hero's there was superman, bat man, spider man, wonder woman and me, Super Bam. My nickname is bam or bamer slamer so I was Super Bam.

X-Country

2009-09-19T11:50:00.005-06:00

These are pictures of Brett's cross country meets. They are so much fun to go to and cheer. We went to one last night and there were 89 teams there!!! Wow. Hope you like the pictures. Yesterday he broke his PR (personal record) for a 5K and now it's 17:27.

The First Track Meet

2009-09-19T11:40:00.005-06:00

My first track meet was last Monday. It was so much fun. I ran the 4x100 relay, 1600 meter (one mile), and the medley relay. Here are some pictures from that.

First Day of School- New backpack

2009-08-18T20:52:00.003-06:00

Yay!!!!???? Today was the first day of seventh grade. We went two hours later so the sixth graders wouldn't get swarmed with older kids, ha ha. I didn't get a new backpack this year because if I did I would have to pay for it, so I splatter painted my old black one. Everybody was gone and I was home alone. My mom said it was okay to do it as long it was outside in the rocks. Well, bummer, it was raining and thundering and lightening. So that was a downer. So i just decided to splatter paint it in the kitchen. Heck, why not, nobody was home to stop me? My mom found out, but she wasn't mad (thank goodness) because I didn't make a mess! I laid down newspaper and put it up the cupboards in a corner. When I told brett and my dad, I got a really funny picture of them searching the ceiling looking for paint, which there was none. It was great, and it looks super cool! I would have pics, but only one would upload and it was of the newspaper. So i just decided not to post it. I will try again sometime.....maybe. See Ya!

More Tri Pics

2009-08-03T10:28:00.012-06:00

Here are some more extra pictures that were taken at the Triathlon. So the very bottom picture is me with all of my "fans". There's my dad, my grandma from Kansas that was staying with us, Brett, Tyler, and Edwin. The teenage guys all rode their bike which was a 30 mile ride round trip. They left at about 7:00 (oh ya i woke up at 5:40 a.m.) and got there about 8:30 I think. The next one up is me waiting to get called over to the start of the 12-14 year-old triathlon. Then the next one up is my transition area that you set up before it starts. Then the 2nd picture down is me right after the race drinking a gatorade. I hadn't had anything to drink during that except for one sip on the bike, but then when I was putting it back the water bottle fell out, so I had to stop to get that. When i got back on my bike my shoe came untied, and I was scared it was going to get caught in the chain, but I didn't do anything about till the run. The top picture is me right after I received my award, the second place ribbon. Scroll down if you want to learn about our stay-cation, or more triathlon stuff. Thanks.

Swim, Bike, Run, Soccer!!!!

2009-08-03T10:12:00.006-06:00

On August 1st, I competed in my 5th Triathlon!!! It's called the Fall Frenzy for kids 6-14. My age group did a snake swim for 200 meters, 8 mile hilly bike ride, and 2 mile run. I finished 2nd in my age group which was 13-year-old girls. I compete a year older than I really am. The girl who beat me was on a competitive triathlon team, that basically means they train, I don't really train except for swim team which ended about 3 weeks before this. My soccer coach had called the night before and said she was scheduling a practice tomorrow afternoon. So we left right after the triathlon awards, came home, was home about 5 minutes, and then we were on our way to an hour and half of soccer. Wow, I was tired, but I love triathlons and soccer so even though my dad didn't want me doing both, I couldn't miss either soccer or the tri, so ya i did do both. I'll post more pics in the next post.

Stay-Cation

2009-08-01T16:45:00.004-06:00

Last week, i think, we went on a stay-cation, which is a vacation without going away. They are actually more fun than they seem. We went to the movies, up to Estes Park, climbed a fourteener, and went to the mall. We saw UP in 3D, which I don't like animation, but this was okay. In Estes Brett and my dad, went mountain climbing and my mom and I went horseback riding. Then m brother and I went go-carting, which was super fun, Brett won. Then on Wednesday Mocha, Me, Brett, my mom, and my dad climbed Mt. Shermon. So it was fun, and if you are looking for a way to save money and have fun, try a stay-cation.

Finals!!!! and Brett gets home

2009-07-13T14:19:00.009-06:00

So prelims were last thursday, then 2 of my relay teams made it to finals, but one of them was was disqualified (DQ) because our coach made a mistake, but my first one got to go to finals. And we got a medal from that. Brett got home that night from Belize so we went to the airport to get him. The on sunday I went to church then Brett, Tyler, Eric, Edwin, Brandon, and me went to the park to play Ultimate Frisbee just with ourselves and then that night we went to my swim team banquet. So the first picture is of all the 11-12 girls on the team, which we won the finals in that age group, i'm pretty sure. Then the next one, the next 3 are of me actually at finals. WHich were hosted be Stonegate with 18 different teams. And the last one is me and my grandparents at the airport with the sign i made for the teens coming back from Belize. TTYL

Catching up..

2009-07-05T14:08:00.004-06:00

So here are some smaller topics to get caught up on. Right now Brett is in BELIZE!!! with our church on a mission trip. They are building a pre-school. We have built the 1st story 2 staircases and now Brett's group is working on the 2nd story. He has been there since July 2 when he left at 3:30 a.m and I went to say bye. He'll get back...well I don't know when but he's there for 10 days total so. In May I tried out for Colorado United Soccer and made the U-13 Girls Red team. I have been swimming a bunch and prelims are on Thursday then Finals are on Saturday if I make it. I don't know what to say except if you want you can scroll down because I think I have posted 5 (including this one) new posts in the last 2 days. School starts in about one and half months, so not ready for that, and officially my summer is busier than the school year.

Happy 4th of July!!!

2009-07-05T13:54:00.004-06:00

Hope you all an AWESOME 4th of July!! Mine was pretty amazing, and it was good to be home (we have been out of town for the past 5 years on the 4th). So this year my friend Amy and I made t-shirts and then wore them in the parade that my neighborhood does every year, and we also dribbled the soccer balls. So I woke up got dressed then went over to our neighbors house and I have been kitten- sitting for the last few days. There are 2 kittens, Bella and Ruby who are absolutely adorable, with very sharp claws. They are about 12 weeks old the owner said. Then we went to the parade and it ended at our Park so I stayed there for about 3 hours. In the afternoon my grandparents came over, we had B-B-Q then they left and we went over to our church to watch fireworks. Except we got there early so me and 3 of my friends played 4-square which was a lot of fun and we played volleyball, and rolled down the hill which was wet. Then it was cold, but still the night was fun. So the pics are of Amy and I at the parade, then there is one where I'm holding the kittens which at that point weren't as excited to be held, and the one with the ladybug I just took, because the lady bug was climbing on a bush in out yard so I took a picture.

Choir Tour- 3rd Post

2009-07-04T15:38:00.018-06:00

MORE PICTURES!!!!! 1st one; Max (left) Me (center) and Rachel (right) at the Grand Canyon. The 2nd one my friends and I in Sedona, AZ we were all shopping around. 3rd one, Jill (sitting up) and me (on her lap) just chillin' on the bus we were probably waiting to get off. 4th pic, the cake my parents and grand parents bought for us to have after our homecoming concert. The last one My friends (rachel, jill, and aly) and I were probably talking on the bus. Remember to scroll down to see more Choir Tour.

Choir Tour- 2nd Post

2009-07-04T15:18:00.013-06:00

Here are more pics from the CHoir Tour. The first picture is of me sleeping on the bus, and no i was not faking it because i was surprised to see the pic, so one of my friends must have taken it, but that position in very comfortable.
:-) The next one is of Me (right) Jill (center) and Aly (left) having fun on the bus. The third one is my friend Shannon and I one the bus with Mr. Floppers (my most awesome bunny). The next one is my friend Jill being carried by me, we were just goofing off before a concert. The last one is Brett and his friends at this spiritual place sitting looking at a river.

Choir Tour- 1st Post

2009-06-25T16:54:00.009-06:00

Hello All, from June 13- June 20 Brett and I were on a choir tour. It was a 13 concert, 7 day tour. Somedays although we would do extra concerts that were not planned, but on those we usually just sang 4 or 5 songs. So we probably did about 15 1/2 concerts in 7 days. This is where we were. JUNE 13; San Louis, CO JUNE 14; Santa Fe, NM JUNE 15 & 16; Albuquerque, NM JUNE 17; Flagstaff and Sedona, AZ JUNE 18; Grand Canyon JUNE 19 Grand Junction JUNE 20; Highlands Ranch, CO (homecoming concert). This was an awesome trip, and the games with our family groups and the dorms in Grand Junction were fun, seeing what college life felt like. The last 3 pics are at the Grand Canyon, I loved spending the day there with the views. The one pic of me with Brett and a bunch of other guys is me with some of Brett's friends. When i showed my mom this she was just glad they didn't push me off. The first two are of a concert in Albuquerque.

Swim meet #2...Franklin vs. Homestead

2009-06-08T13:40:00.012-06:00

Here is some pictures from the next swim meet. We lost, but we kinda always do to Homestead. This meet I swam a medley relay and did the freestlye (50 meters) leg of it, the 100 meter freestyle, the 100 meter backstroke, the 50 meter freestyle, and a freestyle relay (we each swim 50 meters). So my event numbers were 8,24,46,66,and 86. Now I will explain the pictures: The first one (top) is me getting ready for the backstroke with my really awesome friend Abby leaning over the starting block giving me my pre-race talk. ha ha :-) The 2nd photo down is me getting ready to dive, but I'm not sure what race either the 100 free or the 50 free. The 3rd photo down is me swimming one of the freestyle races, I have no idea what race. And the last picture is me and my totally awesome and amazing friend Abby (we've also been friends since we were 2... really....no joke) And we were relaxing in between races, and that really gross greenish thing on my foot is athletic tape (it's holding a band-aid in place, but whatever).
:-)

TTYL

Bolder Boulder!!

2009-06-02T10:03:00.005-06:00

On Memorial day my dad and I ran the Bolder Boulder, even though I got up at 4:30 a.m to go run 6.2 miles (which some people call crazy) was one of the most awesome things I had ever done. There's this one quote that I found on the internet and it says "I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing". That is not really me, but sometimes it helps. Our overall time was 00:59:28, SO under an hour which was my goal for my first Bolder Boulder. We ran the first 5k, and then we took little breaks, but overall I bet we ran 8K and walked 2K. I think I like doing 10K's better than 5K's because in a 10K by like the 4K mark you have your rhythm down, and then you can run for a longer distance and in a 5k by the time you get a good rhythm it's the finish line, but that's just my opinion. I also ran a race on Sun. It was a sprint of only a mile and I did TERRIBLE, and HORRIBLE. But I still have more races to come so whatever. The picture is me walking down to my mom right after the race with all my goodies! TTYL

Swim meet #1...Franklin vs. Forest Park

2009-05-30T17:42:00.008-06:00

Today was the first swim meet of the year. Ben Franklin Fish vs. Forest Park Blue Fins, Franklin won but I'm not sure by how much. At one point the score was 366- Franklin to 187- Forest Park. I signed up for one event- 100 freestyle, but ended up competing in 4 events. The 4x50 meter medley relay which I swam the backstroke leg of it, (but we got DQ in that race) then I swam the 100 freestyle which I came in 10 out of 19 and added about 20 mili seconds onto my seed time, then I swam the 50 freestyle and took off 5 seconds and came in 8 out of 22,(on this race Brett brought his friends and they all cheered for me, and I won my heat in that so maybe their cheering helped :-) ) and then I swam on another relay team. It was 4x50 meter freestlye relay where we all swim the freestyle stroke. This was a home meet so I got up at 5:55 a.m left at 6:20 a.m so I could check-in at 6:30 a.m so I could warm-up at 6:45 a.m.This was a fun meet because I knew a lot of people on the other team.

Becca's Graduation

2009-05-22T15:21:00.007-06:00

Sorry I haven't blogged for a little bit, but SUMMER IS HERE!! and I noticed I hadn't blogged since I think April, so I thought I should probably blog again. I didn't know what to blog about.. so, this is Becca's HS graduation party.It was really fun, they had an italian buffet. Just me and my dad went because my mom was in Boulder and Brett was sick???hmm.... sick?? I didn't believe because until we had to leave he was just great and when we got home he was "much better". But he was the one who missed out, after that we we're leaving the neighborhood and got lost (it was her friend's house so we went familiar with the neighborhood) then ended up in this other neighborhood that had some of my dad's friends in it so he called told them we were lost and "how do I get to your house cuz' I'm comin' over" so we went over ther for an hour and that was really fun even though there WHOLE house and I mean ALL of it is under construction. and incase you're wondering Becca did hair at my birthday party, helped at my mom's b-day party, and is a family friend.

Livin' the Dream!!!

2009-04-28T15:37:00.004-06:00

On Sunday at 5:00 p.m It was a dream come true. Now some of you might be thinking back to what you were doing at that time and you recall that it was rainy, well yeah it was pouring. I was playing soccer in the rain with mud on the field and you were sliding all over the place. It was AWESOME!! I got tripped a few times, but most of the time it was just me sliding and falling. Now my whites; white cleats, white socks, and white jersey..... are NOT white anymore. I was wearing my friend, Alex's shirt and it wasn't like the kinds that gets rid of water, so I was freezing, but that was ok. After we had warmed up my friend Madison who has a semi-heavy coat bunched up under her jersey with her hood on yelled up to me "Still livin' the dream, Melissa?" and I just replied "oh yea, it's just getting started" then the other team kicked off. The final score was 1-1. It was the best game of my life. I popped my knee out when I was turning around and I fell, but It was still A DREAM COME TRUE!!!!

Popcorn and Snuggles

2009-04-26T20:09:00.008-06:00

On sat. I was sitting at the computer and the Snuggles was sitting with me, which doesn't happen very often because of the dog, but she was kinda in a funny position and stayed there for a while. So my mom took a picture and I thought it was kinda cute. On Sun. my dad was making popcorn and he forgot to put the lid on, so I also took a pic because it was funny, he's mad about it, but he'll laugh later. I just too a pic of the counter but it was all over the floor too! and then he finally put a pan over the popcorn after it was all done popping.

AZ-Dinner Out

2009-04-12T19:47:00.004-06:00

On the night before we left, Friday, we went out to celebrate my grandpa's 80th b-day. His real birthday is in May but since my uncle, his son, lives down in Arizona we were going to celebrate it with him too. We went to this restaurant called... well I forgot. But it was really nice. My brother was sick. lucky for us because the KU and Michigan State game was on and we are HUGE KU fans. So my brother was home watching the game and every time the score changed he would text me. My dad was checking the scores on Yahoo! on his iPhone. So we were still following the game. Unfortunately they lost, but it was because they all wanted to go home and go sledding, that's my brother's theory (because at that time Pratt got 28 inches of snow, no joke). The desert at the restaurant was good, but they ran out of the cake that we ordered and so we just ordered off the menu. That's what the picture of the chocolate cake with a saguaro cookie.

AZ-Hike

2009-04-12T13:33:00.006-06:00

Hello!! sorry about taking a few more days to blog more, but I got really busy and lazy, oops, mostly busy. Ok well anyway we went on hike in Arizona in White Tank Mountains. It was a short 2 mile hike. We ended at this cave where a bunch of water comes down it's supposedly a huge awesome waterfall, but only after a big rain. Which they didn't have so the water fall is now water "fell". Ha ha. There was also a dead bat that drowned, and I took a picture, Hey how many times in a lifetime/day do you see a dead bat? But see I'm being nice and not showing you the picture. So here are some more pictures of the hike.

AZ- Extra Pics

2009-04-03T17:50:00.009-06:00

Here are some more pictures of us at my Uncle John's house and some extras of us hiking at White Tank Mountains, which you can learn more about at the above posting, but it may not be there till a few hours or minutes. Oh gosh, I sound like I'm writing a fancy, serious paper or something "you can learn more about at the above posting" sorry

Arizona- Uncle John's House

2009-04-03T17:28:00.010-06:00

Hey, sorry I haven't finished my Arizona trip blogging. I was posting the previous stuff on Sunday night and then I had to stop and then on Monday night I was really sick. But anyway, That night (same day of race) we went over to my Uncle John's house like we do every year to eat his AMAZING home grilled burgers... yeah, we also go over to see his pets....and ok, to see him too!! Jk, we love him, (i have to say that, he's gonna be reading this, Jk..again sorry) He has 2 dogs, Milo he's a yellow lab mix and Harley who's a black lab. They are both adorable, as you can tell by the pictures. My Uncle also has a very beautiful backyard with a lemon tree. He let us pick some lemons and take them home. Oh yeah so we were eating our burgers and just my mom, Brett, and I were out there (we were eating outside) and my dad came out, set his plate down and went back in. My mom and brother noticed he had 2 slices of bread! Yeah it's really no big deal to and NORMAL person but, he's on diet and not supposed to have that kind of bread. So right when he stepped back outside I took off the top part of the bun and threw it at the nearest dog. It hit Milo in the face and once he knew he could eat it, he did. It was funny, you had to be there. I have more pictures, but they are in the next post.

Arizona- Race

2009-03-29T20:43:00.006-06:00

The day after we arrived on Sunday March, 22 Brett and I ran in a 5k race. This race was good because I got my best time on a 5K ever. It was 24:48 which means my pace was 7:59, which isn't bad for going longer distances. I finished 2nd in the 12 and under female division and my brother finished 3rd overall and 1st in the 13-19 male division! We both got medals! The t-shirts we got are pretty awesome too. It was in a nice park and the route we took was a concrete path.

Arizona

2009-03-29T20:31:00.008-06:00

Hey, so for Spring break we went down to Arizona. We do that every year because my grandparents spend 3 months down in Sun City West so we always go visit them. I took a bunch of pictures so i was just going to blog by event and this was kinda like the "intro". Even though the pool hours are great, kids are only allowed in the pool from 10 a.m- 1 p.m and then from 6-8 p.m. but you find other things to fill up time. We shop, run, the guys play golf, girls get manicures and pedicures, homework (ugh), soccer, etc. You find other things to do beside swim. :-)

Skiing at Breckenridge with Family

2009-03-17T15:48:00.009-06:00

So Brett, my dad and I went skiing with my cousin John, my cousin Kiley, my cousin Colby and My aunt Pam and Uncle Bill. We met them up at a condo in Breckenridge and then headed out for the day. It was really fun since I hadn't been to Breck in a long time and I liked skiing with people other my immediate family. We went skiing on March 8, but then I didn't take a lot of picture on my camera so I asked Kiley if she could e-mail them to me a week later, so she did and then I am posting them now. The only picture that I took on my camera was of me, Brett, and my dad standing by Mach 1. It's a double black at Breckenridge, but would only be a black at winter park. It's like Outhouse at Winter Park. I loved it; half of the way I was on my stummy (stomache and tummy; I don't like the word stomache it sounds old and tummy is just weird, so it's stummy. but anyway) and I was head first, rolling, flipping, It was really fun except that I got a huge bruise on my hip. Ouch! The other half I skiied, YAY!!!! At the top my ski hit a mogul and then I flipped. But if I could do it again, I so would. THANK YOU JOHN, FOR BUYING ME AND BRETT'S LIFT TICKETS! It was overall a good, scratch that, awesome day!

K-Life Sleepover; more pics

2009-03-14T12:09:00.009-06:00

Here are more k-life photos. The one with the girl in the white sweatshirt is our small group leader, Brittany. She's a freshman in College. The other pic where I'm sitting there with my head on my friend Ashlyn's shoulder is right after they all woke me up. I just decided to sleep on the carpet without anything except a blanket, ( I was to lazy to get anything else out). Note to Self: Sleep with something more than a blanket, you'll wake up sore otherwise. To get me up they took the blanket off and then it was cold, but I still wasn't up and then they started trowing stuff at me! It wasn't nice, so if you're trying to get someone up, DO IT NICELy!!

K-Life Sleepover

2009-03-14T11:48:00.009-06:00

Hey, ok it was really fun because on friday our small group from Denver K-Life had a sleepover. We talked about stuff and did activities and just had fun and hung out. We made capes, they are pretty awesome. Here are some pictures and I'll post more because they couldn't all fit on one post. We also made 2 videos, they are also awesome, but I can't figure out how to post them. I think, maybe they will be put on youtube. So I will tell you if they are and you can see them there. Ok the picture with the blue and white flower, I did on their chalkboard wall.

Ski Day with Dad

2009-03-05T18:26:00.013-07:00

On March 5 my dad let me skip school and go skiing with him. He also let my brother in February so he had to let me. We went to Winter Park and skied 20 runs. We skied Outhouse, which is a black, 3 times but now it should maybe be a blue black. It was really fun and not many people there so there were no lift lines, We were also the very first people on the lift! We went above timberline and were going to do the Parsenn Bowl, but we didn't for 2 reasons 1) it was closed and 2) it would be like suicide because Winter Park hadn't received any snow for the last 2 days. Up above timberline the wind was 50 mph so we only went up there twice. My dad forgot our poles so we had to rent and I got these pretty awesome green ones, they were my irish ski poles. :-)

Happy Valentine's Day!!

2009-02-15T09:01:00.006-07:00

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone! I took some pics of my dog in her Valentine's Day bandana, on friday I drew that picture because I home sick, and I found the top picture on the internet. Hope you all had a good day. We did, except that I was sick (I almost always get sick on Valentine's Day) My mom and my brother went to a track meet in the morning and my dad and I stayed home. I was supposed to baby-sit that night, but since I was sick I couldn't so my brother who hates to baby-sit took the job. It turned out to be ok because around 9:15 (the people we were baby sitting for lived right across the street)my brother called us and said " Someone was just shaking the door yelling 'Help, Help me'" so we all went over there and one of the kids, Kyler heard it to. If that was me I probably would've of been freaking out. See ya later.

Crazy Hair Day!!!!

2009-02-11T17:52:00.012-07:00

On Tuesday, well let me start from the beginning this week at my school is spirit week. On tuesday it was crazy hair day. On mon night after gymnastcis my friend bre came over and we did our hair, except only i ended up doing my hair because she was working on a knot in her hair the whole time. I took some pictures and my hair was pretty awesome. I had 3 ponytails, one on each side and one in the back. Along with those i put beads and scrunchies and barrets and clip and all that junk in my hair too. My bangs, and the two side ponytails were cripmed and my bangs were dyed green and pink (it was left over from my b-day party).

TTYL

More Choir Retreat photos

2009-02-10T20:39:00.008-07:00

Here are more pics. from our retreat. The picture where i'm like holding on to a railing, yeah well i was climbing up to the 2 level from my friend Jill's bed and we were just taking pictures of ourselves. The camp also had 3 camp dogs. 1 was a black lab named Luke (he was the calmest), there was whos name no one figured out and she was a border collie who liked to play fetch and the other one was crated (well in an outdoor cage) the whole time so no one really saw that one.

Chior Retreat

2009-02-10T20:08:00.007-07:00

Hey guys, this weekend (Feb. 6 6:00 p.m- Feb. 7 9:00 p.m) my brother and I went with our youth choir at our church, The Holy Pretzels on a choir retreat at Deer Creek Camp up in Bailey Colorado. We were all going to get ready for our tour to Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and places down there this summer. It was really fun and we did alot of practing, get-to-know-eachother games, and my favorite improv games. I slept in a cabin with all the 6 and 7 grade girls (about 15 girls and 2 adults), our cabin was really sweet there were 2 levels. Once on our free time my friend Jill and I sprinted all the way up the mountain and then charged down it at full speed. After doing that like 5 times I realized we should make a video on my camera, so we did. But we we were already late for dinner so we didn't go all the way up. I really want to figure out to import it to my computer and then upload it here so you all can see it, but i havn't yet. I'll try later. See ya later

Melissa wore her hair down!!!!!

2009-01-29T17:54:00.008-07:00

On Mon, I wore my hair down for a full school day AND i wore jeans!!!! Some of you don't know me as well and anyboy can tell you (even if they known me for my whole life) that maybe they've seen me wear my hair down 5 times. I sometimes wear my hair down to sleep, but hardly ever outside the house. I also hadn't worn jeans since the beginning of 5th grade (I'm in the middle of 6th) so my friends had been bugging me about how I never wore my hair down and never wear jeans. Then my friend Madeline said she'd give me $4 to wear my hair down and jeans for a day. I had to go and buy jeans (I didn't even have any) and then I did it and came home and put my hair up and changed into shorts. :-) So these pictures are me with my hair down and jeans and then how my hair looked up (it was after gymnastics) and how you'll see it for the few months! See ya later

Skiing

2009-01-24T15:35:00.010-07:00

Today my family and I went skiing at Winter Park. The snow was awesome since they got 11 new inches of snow in the last 24 hours! At lunch, well let me start from the beginning, ok, so we all agreed to meet at 11:30 for lunch and all went seperate ways. My dad and I both went in at about 10:30 and then I texted my brother and he came in, but my mom was still out there. My dad went to get our lunch out of the locker and when he came back we started eating and my brother got us Chile Cheese Fries, which were awesome too. But my dad took out the lunches and he pulled out something that looked like green beans, which my brother and I did not want, so Brett said joking "Melissa quick go through it away", but I didn't and Brett set it down on the tray. And then a guy that worked there came and said "Can i take that tray for you?" and we were all like "sure". After the guy walked away my brother looked at my dad and went "yes" and said that guy just through away the green beans and i started laughing. Then around 11:20 my mom came in, opened the bag that our lunches had been in and said "Oh no, I think i forgot to pack my aspargous" and I started cracking up for like 5 min. Then I told her we accidently threw it away. AND now she's mad us. so the green beans were actually aspargous wrapped in this turkey, and it was her lunch! It was really funny, but my mom doesn't see that yet. :-) Hope you like the pics.

Winter Break

2009-01-06T20:02:00.012-07:00

Hey everybody, Hope you had a good winter break/holiday/New Year!!!!!! I sure did, Well, as you know I wen to the ER with my dad, but the next day my mom, Brett, and I went to my Grammie and Pa's to make peppernuts (as we always do) then on the 23rd my friend and I went skiing at Winter Park. My Grandparents and neighbors came over for Christmas Eve, and since Brett and I are in our Church's Choir we sang on Christmas Eve then came to our house and just hung out and opened presents from our neighbors. For christmas I recieved a digital camera and gymnastics class (yea!!!!!! another new sport to try) and our family got the Wii game system. So far we only have Wii Sports. On New Years Eve I babysat, but only till 11:00 P.M so I came home and stayed up late, c'mon you always have to stay up to welcome the new year. School started 2 days ago and it was really great to see my friends, but my brain was so not ready to start all the homework and thinking AND actually working part!!!! The picture with me kinda like raising my hand is me playing the Wii, The one with Mocha lying on my bed is what we all kinda did the whole break (relaxed, except for when my mom told us to "Pick up the snack dishes, put away shoes, help with the laundry") The bubbles are catnip bubbles that we got my cat, but she didn't really get the whole point of them so Brett and I had fun with them and realized they last a really long time. Oh yeah, my brother and spent some of our Christmas money on the new iPod nano's, I got the green one and he got the yellow.

First day of Winter Break- Emergency Room

2008-12-18T21:17:00.005-07:00

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

2008-11-27T12:30:00.005-07:00

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.

2008-11-23T16:53:00.008-07:00

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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.

2008-11-23T15:01:00.001-07:00

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

2008-11-11T18:18:00.005-07:00

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

2008-11-03T18:22:00.006-07:00

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

2008-09-27T19:38:00.005-06:00

Here are more pictures of the party.

2008-09-27T19:15:00.002-06:00

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

2008-09-27T18:43:00.006-06:00

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.

2008-09-14T20:05:00.004-06:00

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

2008-07-31T21:15:00.004-06:00

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.

2008-06-22T12:35:00.003-06:00

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.

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2008-06-18T17:10:00.001-06:00

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

2008-06-18T09:01:00.002-06:00

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2008-06-16T20:11:00.002-06:00

I also have a baby cousin who i'd never met before. His name is Elliot and he's 14 months. He was my little brother for the time. oh yeah the younger girl in the picture is Jenna Charbonnet i met her at the club i was in.

Our Cruise '08

2008-06-15T15:58:00.000-06:00

For my Grandma's 90th birthday she took part of my dad's side (36 people) on a cruise. We traveled with Carnival and rode on the Ectasy. Here are some of our photos taken.