homecoming week!
this week is going really well right now. on monday was twin day. some girls dressed as siamese twins. other people did a really great job too! erin and i were totally the sameee! even our jeans looked alike even though we didn't really plan that part. then today was generation day. teachers were teenagers, seniors were elderly, juniors were adults, sophomores-toddlers and freshmen were babies. us seniors were awesome! :) a ton of people got really into it. i got some really cute pictures of zoe today too!
tomorrow is pj/robe day, then there is superhero day and school spirit day.

ok im going to finish up some cookies for extra credit and then i gotta check over my homework. ill write some more in the coming days...

oh here's a picture of zoe from today!
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teia

cookies! michael came over today looking for isabel and she wasn't here. so he hung out for a while. we decided to make cookies...yum. we made some snickerdoodles. love them.

kellen has a bone bruise. he has crutches but right now at home he's just hopping along on one leg because i guess he doesn't feel like using them. whatever. the doctor said that he's out for at least 2-4 weeks. we are blessed. i know everyone especially dad and kellen are happy that it's only a bone bruise opposed to a broken leg because then he'd be out for basketball this season also. so those are the details as we know them right now.

i think what really bugs me about the whole kellen thing is that there are so many rumors going around. everyone always knows everyone else's business. sometimes it is an okay thing. other times is just annoying.
then i think about the hospital. right after the "project" fiasco happened on tuesday we told dad. he said that it would really hit home if something actually happened this week where a person had to go to the hospital and was hurt. i know this is totally different then what "happened" on tuesday but still. someone was hurt and now maybe people will be more careful about the project choices they choose.

i doubt that that whole last paragraph made any sense but i'm just putting it out there.
ok. i'm watching selah, elise, ethan and aidan right now.
otherwise, everything else here seems to be going alright...i guess we'll see about that in a few hours....

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teia

you know when there's a tv show that you watch and it has the voice-over at the beginning or end of the show? i think those are cool. they change your perspective on what happened in that 1/2 hour or hour. and they get the view from an outside source most of the time. on tuesday, i was writing and i re-read over what i had written and it sounded like i had written a voice-over. it was about being tested and what we will do about being tested. i would type it up and put it on here but i left it at school. so we'll see when i bring it home next time and maybe i'll put it up.

i'm glad it's saturday because this week was just not a very good one. so hopefully this weekend will be better although it's going to be tough because kellen got hurt last night at the football game. at first they thought it was broken but i guess it wasn't...i'm not really sure with specifics because i was somewhat sleeping on the couch when dad and kellen got home. when i woke up all i said was crap. dad asked me what was wrong and i told him that i had really wanted to finish watching the pursuit of happyness. i've tried watching it probably 3 or 4 times now and i keep getting interrupted or falling asleep. so maybe i'll watch it today or something. after saying crap i got up again and started washing dishes. this is the second middle of the night dish-washing i've done. i end up being wide awake at 1 in the morning so i wash dishes.
ok i am going to get some coffee and see what is going on for today besides work later in the day.

come what may...
teia

right now i am so exhausted. this morning i woke up at like 430 part of it might have been from the fact that i'd thought i'd slept in past my alarm clock and the other part was probably that zoe was crying.
on monday zoe turned 6 months old! we had a little birthday party for her. ethan and aidan wore birthday hats. aidan sang happy birthday in a video. :) i made brownies and some tacos for dinner. it was just a birthday fun night. but zoe was just having a hard night. she's been trucking through the past few days. i keep praying.

fall is finally here. the leaves on all the trees seem to be changing colors all at different times. some trees were already changing colors a few weeks ago and now some are just starting. i know...i'm pretty observant. here's a picture of aidan from our walk yesterday:
this was his "i really dont want my picture taken" face.
here's a picture i got of the sunshine and some leaves that had fallen:
and finally here's a picture of me and the new haircut! yay!
ok now it's getting late. and im getting tired once again. so it's time for some sleep, so i can get up in the morning and learn some wonderful things at the "el-dub" .
night.
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teia

today was an exciting day. erin and i went homecoming dress shopping. she found two dresses. i found 0. gr. oh well. i got some other real cute stuff. including a sweater dress that i might wear tomorrow and some amazing shoes. kristin's got me hooked on shoes!im pretty psyched.
and i got my hair cut! ahh. it's short. we'll seee what everyone else thinks...eeek. i'm a little scared. and i can't believe it's this short. oh well. anyway. i made this awesome comic book thing on my computer and it turned out really cool. what else. i dont know i've just had some really awesome days. ill post pics of my hair cut and some things i bought soon. i have to finish this project and then i have two more tonight! ah. oh and tonight we went to borresen's bible study. it was noah, kelsey, kellen and i. it was a really good time. we talked and got into the word. awesome time. i can't wait till next time.

ok. well im off.
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teia

happy birthday josh.
love you.

so it's late and im kinda tired.
i'm tired but i dont want to sleep. which really sucks because i know that tomorrow is going to be a pain in the butt day then.

we have a shortened day because it's ALREADY mid-quarter.

at work i was talking to some people telling them i was excited for our shortened day because it was short. :) and that it was already mid-quarter. dad told me that it meant i was 1/8 done with my senior year. these people at work were like really? you're only a senior? what?
i guess at work people think that i'm older than i actually am.
so yeah. that's kinda funny.

friday is josh's birthday. he'll be 22.
and it's dad's cousin's birthday too. lauren...i'm not sure how old she'll be ...19 i think.
anyway i was starting something for josh's birthday but i don tknow when i'll see him so it's pretty pointless as of right now.

homecoming is also coming up really fast. it will be on oct.4 !
i really have to find a dress. erin and i might look around this weekend if we really feel like it. ;) but i guess we'll have to see how we're feeling.


oh and lastly before i crash.
i love fruit. it's like all i'm eating these days. today i had 2 plums, a peach, and 2 kiwi. it's awesome. LOVE IT>

ok i really have to go sleep.
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teia

ironman, the dells and madison...oh my.

this weekend has been insane. on friday over 23 people called in "sick" for school. all these people that signed out of school attended the McCain-Palin speech. so far i've heard from many people that it was pretty awesome.

after school dad picked up me and isabel and we drove home to hang out with michael hennessey. he's this really awesome guy from TX who is trying to set the world record of ironman races. meaning in one year he will swim, bike and run in 23 races. the race altogether is a little over 140 miles long meaning it will be 3,220 miles...i think if i did the math right. :)
he hung out with us on friday night. we talked and then sang some...of course. hahaha for some reason i busted out "think of me" and he' slike i love that song. so we listened to it on the computer while michael made us cookies.

it was really confusing because michael maziarka was over and then so was michael hennessey. so we started calling m.m. = michie. haha. cause josh calls michael, michelle. so running michael made us some amazing chocolate chip cookies. then he's like hey teia. do you know this song that won best song of the year? i was like umm. i dont know maybe..whats it called. so he youtubed it and played it. i was like I LOVE THIS SONG! it was falling slowly from the movie once. he said that it's one of his favorite songs. ;) yay.

after talking and hanging out with him. yesterday morning we got up and said bye and good luck and that we'd meet him at the finish line.

then we all quickly packed up and drove to the dells where we stayed at the wilderness. it was ablast. we had access to a ton of waterparks- indoor and outdoor. yesterday it was pretty chilly so we stuck to the indoor ones. we went on this one ride called the hurricane. it was amazing. then i ended up falling asleep pretty early. i was so tired and for the rest of the night i was in and out of it. this morning we got up, ate, and got ready for more waterparks. we went to an indoor one but the water was kinda chilly so we decided to try an outdoor one today. it was a great idea. the breeze was somewhat cool but the water was really warm and the sun felt wonderful. they had a two-story lazy river that you had to take your tube on a lift thing to the upper level and then a slide down to the other level. it was awesome. there were also 4 body slides, where you would grab a mat and run to the top. at the top of the ride all the people would get in and race to the bottom, while laying on your stomach.
we all had a really nice time at the place and are exhausted now.
on our way back we detoured to madison to see the end of the ironman race. it was an awesome experience. we were able to see the end of the marathon and the race had been going for over 12 hours when we were leaving. i cant imagine being able to swim, bike and run for over that long amount of time. we met up with michael at the end of the race and took some pictures with him. he was tired- duh and we were really excited to see him.

then we came home.
the end.

sorry bout the abruptness of this post. im exhausted and my eyes hurt. time for sleep.
ill post up some pics soon.

come what may...
teia