Oh Abigail!

Lately, Abigail has found a new hobby; destroying everything in sight. Almost daily I come home to find that my room has been destroyed, and that some things are beyond hope of fixing. Already she has broken two of my necklaces, dumped out my dried flower petals more times that I bothered to count, and almost broken my dresser drawers. Yesterday, she colored on my homework that I had spent over 15 minutes on. Today, although she didn't destroy anything of mine, she did take Ryan's stamp and "decorate herself with it." This drives me crazy, but like my mom says, "At least that she should be past this phase by next year." I eagerly await the day when I can walk into my room without fear of what Abigail has done to it!

Power Outage

Today there was a huge power outage in the area I live. It only lasted a little over an hour, but it made me realize just how dependent we are on electricity. It was in the evening, so it was quite dark without any lights on. Also, I was babysitting my siblings at the time, and I sure did miss being able to just let them watch TV while I did homework and such. Even the traffic lights were out, so the police were there trying to direct the traffic. I guess that you have to have something taken away from you before you realize just how important it is!

My Busy Day

Yesterday was Saturday, a day that's normally pretty busy, but especially this week. My day started at 6:45 when I had to wake up and get ready for a tennis tournament that I started at 8:00. I left at 7:30 and then stayed at the tournament until about eleven. I won my first set, but lost my second. After that I went to Tyson's soccer game (sadly they lost.) Then we went home, and I baby-sat for my mom. Shortly after we went to the Fall Fest ( a school Halloween event.) It was pretty fun, I was in charge of Abigail, so I got to help her play some of the games. I had to leave early though, because I was baby-sitting for the Stevens, a family in the ward, at six (my first time to baby-sit a family other than my own!) I got to the Stevens' at 6:15 and stayed there until exactly 11:05. The baby-sitting went well, and I enjoyed it, but by the time I got home, all that I wanted to do was go to bed!

Marshmallow Guns

This Friday our friends the Hardys and us made marshmallow guns out of plumbing pipes. We had a lot of fun. After we made the guns we spray-painted them. We all had big plans, but one by one the spray paints ran out. Let's just say that we ended up with some interesting multi-colored guns! It doesn't really matter though, we still have big plans! We have lots of ideas for games, such as Capture the Flag, Hide-and-Go-Seek Tag, and more!

Ouch!

This Thursday, I jammed my finger really bad! My mom was visiting teaching and Landon, Miller, Tyson, and I were playing Three Flies Up (a game played with a football-similar to Jackpot)in our backyard. We were having a lot of fun! But then while I was running to catch the ball, Tyson and Landon ran into me. The football hit my finger and I then fell on it. Well, it was all down-hill from there. I ran into the house, and waited with an icepack on my finger for about two hours until my mom got home. It's better now, but still bruised and a little swollen. I guess this is just one of those things that hurts now and you laugh about later!

Birthday Time!

Yesterday was my birthday, and the day before that was my party. I had a ton of fun! I had a candy themed party Saturday, July 10th. It was a small party, only me, and my friends Somer, Rachel, and Mikaela, but it was still a lot of fun! We started out with cake and ice cream, my mom had made the most amazing cake! After that, we played a game where there's a sandcastle of flour with a whopper on top. You take turns cutting the mound of flour until someone make the whopper fall, the person who made the whopper fall has to pick it up with their mouth, while in the process, inevitably covering their face in flour. We payed this game many times, often with numerous whoppers on top. Throughout all of this, I was the only one who didn't once make the whopper fall. My mom suggested that I become a surgeon instead of a lawyer, I denied her suggestion. Next, we played a game in which you put socks on your hands and see who can unwrap and eat ten candy bars the fastest. I won that game, but regretted doing so when I started feeling sick. We then played a game called the Skittle Challenge. In this game, you take turns drawing two skittles out of a bowl without looking. If you get two of the same color, you can eat them, if you get two that aren't the same color, you have to put them in your mouth, but can't chew or swallow them until you draw two of the same color. You continue doing this until you have only one person left who hasn't spit theirs out. Rachel easily won this with a grand total of forty-six skittles in her mouth at one time (the highest number out of the rest of us was twenty-four.) We then did our last thing which was a candy scavenger hunt in the dark. We used flashlights to find the candy. Once we had all found all of the candies on the list, we made candy trains out of the candy we had gathered. After we were all done, we played on our Bonzai (an amazing blow up water slide) the rest of the time.
The next day was my real birthday, we started out the day with presents. My favorite was the iPod touch which was awesome! After that my parents and I went to pick up my grandpa and Annabell so we could all go out to breakfast. Annabell's birthday had been the day before and we had had a family party at her house. We went to Cracker Barrel, which has surprisingly good breakfasts. After that we had to rush to my brother Tyson's basketball game. We pretty much hung out at my house the rest of the day until seven-o-clock when we went to see Ice Age Three: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was REALLY good, and the perfect end to a great day!

Tennis Camp

For the past four days I have been going to Tiger Tennis Camp from 1:00-4:00. I loved it! I got to work with the coaches that I will have next year for my middle school tennis team, and a lot of my friends were there. The coaches were really nice, and I learned a lot! Today, since it was our last day, we did a doubles tournament, where you play with two people on each side. We played six original rounds, and then about three or so tie-breaker rounds. In the end, there was an individual winner, a second place team, and a third place team. Believe it or not, my team won second! I was very excited(and hot and tired.) I had a ton of fun at the camp, and I can't wait to play next year!