And a Little Bit of our Darling Lucy :)

This was on her blessing day awhile back :)
me (emily) and lucy on her blessing day
she's about 4 months old in this picture :) it was a surprise for mom :) we flew amber and Lucy out here to see us :)
We were at Edward's Apple Orchard
and this is me and Lucy before I went to homecoming :)

the dreadful number

the flags team is unfortunatly down to 4 people. it's sad. i'm choreographer and we are so close to being cut out of the school's program. we are going to have tryouts and hopefully by some miracle the flags team will stay in tact. i hope so.

A side note....

Me and dad have the great opportunity to go spend one more afternoon with my flag girls <3 I'm so excited!!!! we haven't had time together since march!!!! it seems like forever ago ha ha but it was almost just a month ago! I'm so excited for the new season coming up...it seems like we are going to have alot of girls on the team this year. Julia and I have been helping some RMS girls get some skills down. As of right now 4 of them are trying out. We also found a bunch of girls at HHS already who want to tryout because they didn't make Varsity Dance or JV drill. It's exciting because as of right now i have come up with a total of...drum roll please...14 girls trying out (or thinking about trying out)!!!!!!! It's so exciting because of the fact that last year we had 12 girls to begin with but 4 had to quit and then i injured 1 by complete accident. yes, stay away from me if your on the team, i fractured a girl's hand!!!!!!!!! I felt terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( anyway...can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!! Lot's of new friends and a brand new season!!!!!!

2 months...

I haven't had time to update...ha ha so here is a quick update. Amber graduated college :) exciting stuff :) my flags team went to state :) Stephanie and me got to go to a Carrie Underwood concert :) My flags team went to state :) we placed 5Th place in tall flag (Love Story by Taylor Swift) and got green ribbons and we placed 3rd place in lyrical (White Horse by Taylor Swift) and got a trophy and silver medals =D :) :) :) <3>

Mike went on a mini mission in march, he said that it was an awesome experience :) Stephanie got a job at Dairy Queen. She has been working a lot lately and that is awesome for her :)

Mom is now the miamaid advisor (1st counselor in YW presidency). I am no longer in the presidency so i don't get the privilege to work with her :( I'm sure the new girls will do great :) Dad got released as Deacon's quorum advisor...we shall see where he goes next :)

All in all we are all doing pretty great here in IL!! we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of summer. It is going to be a very eventful year :) looking forward to a lot of great memories to be made :)

Edited pics, competion, and birthday

on the bus

our trophies

1st place for both routines :D

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so cute :)

HHS Flags

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awww

Piano!

I've been so busy lately. For Christmas we got this new photo shop program. I've been experimenting alot with it and these are some of the pictures that I've edited. They aren't that good because I've just been introduced to this program.

I also had my first flags competition. We got first in both our routines only because we were the only "AAA" division there. The other team was "A" division. It was either win or win ha ha. We are supposed to have a competition today, but unfortunately one of our teammates quit the team. We were then down to 8 people and needed to redo some of the formations. Then I got a new solo part in White Horse, and my first try doing it I hit Kelli, who is behind me, in the arm. I didn't think it hurt that much but she was in pain all night and ended up going to the ER after practice. She came to school yesterday with her arm wrapped and her fingers. I broke her pinky and fractured her ring finger and bruised her arm pretty badly. I'm sooooooooooo sorry Kelli. I even offered to do her homework, I feel awful. She said accidents happen and she wanted to break a bone eventually this was just really bad timing. Now we are down to 7, possibly going on 6 depending on if anyone else drops or gets injured.

and....

HAPPY BELAYED BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE!!!!!! <3

ThAnKsGiViNg!!!!!!!!!

Wow, with all this christmas shopping and festivities beggining i begin to forget all about this blog. The past couple of weeks have been so much fun, that we've been having too much fun to even think about this. Haha, Amber and Ryan came down for thanksgiving week. It was so much fun to have the family together again. But before thanksgiving, the Tuesday was Dad's 49th, sorry 48th, birthday :D. We got him all sorts of stuff, but the highlight of his birthday probably had to be the NEW SUPER MARIO BROTHERS that we got him for the Wii. We stayed up late almost every night playing that game. The last night before amber and ryan left we played it till about 1 am. We had so much fun. We got to world 5 i think... the Wed. before thanksgiving we also had the chance to go to Mideval Times for me and dad's birthday dinner. (I turned 15 on the 18th). That was so much fun. You literrally had to eat with your hands and got to watch this show. They joust and they acted. My favorite food was most definetly the chicken. MMM!!!! it was so delicious!!! For thanksgiving itself, dad's old friend from high school (Mike lefver (??) ) and his family came over. Or as my dad called him Boo Boo and Skeeter got together again :D. We had alot of fun and the food was amazing! Saturday, amber and ryan left for home! We had so much fun spending time with them and getting to celebrate thanksgiving!

Last night, was my first basketball performance, and lets just say it was very tiring. The begginning was perfect, the middle was ok, but the end was horrible. We had to sit there before half time and get the end together the best we could. It was so nerve racking, because people were walking in front and behind and litterally right through our rehersal. Coach and captain told us to hit them if the got in our way, and that's exactly what we did. I was in the middle of doing an around your body spin thing and Mr. Wiestman walked by, he goes to our church so he knows me. He smiled and waved, so i smiled and tried waving while the flag was in my other hand, but it didn't work that well, i ended up dropping it. That practice was so tiring though. Then after half time i went and sat down and these girls behind us were all like "excuse us but we need our leg room so you shouldn't have sat there." i was in such a bad mood i turnded around and said "Loose the attitude i'm not in the mood. if you want leg room, don't come to these games cuz your not going to get it, look around." and i turned around feeling proud of myself. I felt kind of bad about that haha.

But ya, now that competition season is coming up, we have to get alot of practice in. And if we don't get it perfect, we have to do it again, over and over and over. And we have to review like there's no tomorrow. Our first competiton is in January. There's alot on our plates and we have to get this practice in. It's going to become harder, but we gotta get this done.

Anyway, hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving, and i'm going to promise to try and update more often!

blog procrasinator

i procrasinate blog posts too much :) i am going to try to update more often. school, flags, school, flags, church, my schedule every week... i'm gonna try to do this more often. fun stuff to share :) and i promise it's coming... i will probably do it one saturday night when i have nothing to do :)