Blog Party!!!

Lucy is 11!!!!!!! Well, really not until tomorrow, but it may as well be today!!!! So, welcome to your blog party Lucy!!!

Thought we'd spend the day here:

You get to wear this!!!

Gorgeous huh? Well, anyway, what do they have for food around here...

Only the cutest birthday cake known to man!!! Oh gosh, we're gonna be late! We have tickets to a private concert, but it's only...

Tobymac. Yeah, sorry, we couldn't find anything better. When we're done, we find somebody that you know you've seen before, but you just can't place him until a little yellow guy comes waddling up behind him. It is...

Strong Bad and the Cheat!!!!! It's really awesome to finally meet them, but we gotta go. It's like 2 in the morning and we've got to go home and watch our own private viewing of...

Oh yeah!!! Well, now it's about 5 the next day, and... it's not your birthday anymore. Hence, your party has come to an abrupt end.

Welp! Hope you had fun at your Blog Party!!!!!! Hope you have fun for the rest of your REAL birthday!!!! I love you!!!!!!

Stop eating glass!!!

Yistaday we played flag football with our wonderful new homeschool group teens!!! And Cherry was there!!! We didn't get to talk much, but we passed some interesting, TOP SECRET notes!!!!:P It was a lot of fun and I feel like I'm getting to know and like everybody much better (even though I did have to suffer humiliation on account of the COLTS:P) I made some good flag footbally plays though. Got penalized twice for unnecessary roughness to my sister:P And NOW Cherry Luthien knows how to play football!!! It was quite lovely all around!!!

We went home, ate lunch, and found out that Grandma and Grandpa were coming that very day!!!!! Hooray!!!! They came and it was very happy!!!!

Ended the day by going to a Rockies game!!! Ya know how much more fun baseball is when you're actually AT the game? Insanely a lot!!!!!

Oh yeah, and Lucy made some cookies that turned out to be mush and were REALLY good!!!

Tonight we're going to my great-aunt's to celebrate my grandma and aunt's birthday with some home-cooked Korean food!!! Yum!!!

(Note to self: Defend the Colts from my Uncle's booing at all costs:P)

Expert Analysis

Tommorow we have gym day and I'll probably post about that, but now for a little Tagg NFL talk. Read this exclusive article on the experts' Superbowl XLIII picks!!!

Dad Picks: The Oakland Raiders. What with the excellent, unstoppable, Adrian-Peterson-beating rookie Darren McFadden at RB, they're bound to get some high scores. Their current state: 1-1, decent for Raiders, who haven't done so well in the past.











Sticks Picks: The Chicago Bears. He's not guessing - he's 100% sure. With coach Lovie Smith at the helm and a new starting QB, the Bears look more explosive and seem to want it more already this season. But the big reason for the pick - Lovie Smith is a good Christian coach, and there's no way he can't win a big one doing it God's way. ESPECIALLY when Tony Dungy believes that the Bears will get a set of purty rings!!! Their current state: 1-1. Two pretty good games.





Meggy T picks: The New York Giants. It took her awhile to pick, but these guys are looking loaded this season. Even after the last Superbowl win, they are not getting any attention, nor are they expected to repeat. Meggy's reasoning is: "WHY NOT?" Despite Umienyora, the Giants have shown the world that they are a good team, and the fact is, they are STILL a good team and they're STILL proving it! Their current state: 2-0, and both games won with pretty big scoring margins.

Sometimes... things happen.

I hath done it today.

It is finished.

What is finished you ask?

Or maybe you didn't.

Well, I'll tell you anyway.

Anybody know the word.... SAXON?

As in, MATH?

After 10 years - that's one-zero YEARS (which are 365 days each and maybe two or three leap years)

I have DONE IT!

I have finished the LAST Saxon Math lesson I will ever do!

The last lesson of the last book.

I have done it.

I tied up ten years worth of math by drawing a graph on problem 25.

Just that simple!

Ten years!!!

Ten years all done.

Comment and congratulate me, all you jealous people!!!

On yet another school note, I have found that I have enough credits to graduate in the class of 09 and go to college next year. Whoa. But we decided to wait and concentrate on ACT prep, and CLEP prep, and driving. CoOoOoOoOol.

Well, that's my school life. Now to all my other lives.

My writing life is going quite well. Preparing for NaNoWriMo, which you should all do. I am writing many things. Be sure to participate on the ongoing comment story hosted by our dear Pip. Post a comment with your next part of the story! Be creative, yet stay with the storyline somewhat remotely.

God is showing me little new things every day in my spiritual life. I've been thinking a lot on the subject of worship, as has been everybody else on our church worship team. I wrote a post on it here. I'd like to know what YOU think worship is!

My football life is depressing.

My fantasy football team hasn't won yet because I have good players that are performing badly. But Tom Brady's out and the Giants are on a roll.

Hate the Cowboys.

Love their QB.

Complications out my ears.

My movie-making life is rocking. Hear now a top secret, never-to-be-revealed, 100% classified set of lines from one of our not as lame movies, THE SECRET LIFE OF DARTH VADER!!!!!

"Where ya goin' with those chips Darth?"

"Jedi Santita. It would be better for you if you let me and my chips pass. I must get back in time to force-choke Rex Grossman."

"I can't let you do that Darth. Rex Grossman is on my fantasy team!"

And a heated fight ensues. And the crowd goes wild.

How many other lives do I have? I know not. But if they cause trouble, I'll be sure to let you know.

Comment me, people of the world!!!

Indianapolis, we have a problem.

I am quite depressed, for I have just witnessed something no living person should have to witness. The Indianapolis Colts lost the Grand Opener at Lucas Oil Stadium to the Bears in a remake of Superbowl XLI.

Dallas Clark was again hit and taken out in his valiant attempts at tight-ending.

Joesph Addai was wounded in battle.

Peyton Manning - now there's a 300 page tragedy story in itself. It was his first game since his knee surgery, and I was expecting the Peyton that had been ancy to get back the whole season. The Peyton with that "I'm the real deal" swagger and the southern drawl. The risk-taker Peyton. The Peyton that I like. Instead I see this alien that's happy to be playing, yet unsure how this thing's gonna go down. There was all this uncertainty and doubt in his eyes! He only threw one touchdown pass. He did nothing out of the expected. He didn't throw a crazy Hail Mary during the last few seconds even though they couldn't win. He didn't stamp his feet and throw up his hands screaming when the ref made a bad call, or even when he himself threw something that looked like a drunk bat. He called timeouts and huddles in the red zone. Oh well, it was the first game and he'll find his groove. It just took him a little long. Like, more than one game. Which is uncharacteristic. That number 18 didn't even LOOK like Peyton Manning - it must have been his evil second-cousin. Sticks and I were passing the empty Quakers bag around for most of the game.

What shall become of us? What to do, what to do...

Happy Birthday EMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My awesomest friend Emy is 16 today!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to your blog party Emy!!!!!!!!!!

You're just having fun hanging around your new house and your mom goes out to check the mail. There's an envelope addressed to you from me! You open it up and it is....

A plane ticket to Colorado!!! You pack up fast and all of a sudden YOU'RE THERE. And guess who's there to pick you up from the airport - me!

Hooray!!!!!!! We go to my house and talk a whole lot. Wait, time for birthday cake!

It is a Bee-You-Ti-Full pink one! And yes it's chocolate and we ate the whole thing. THEN we can go to...
The coolest cheap store in North America!!!! And we go a dozen other places and everywhere is having a sale because you're there. Now it is almost night. We go in my room and watch:

and

and

All of them!!!!!!! Finally!!!!!!!!!!! Now it's about... 6:00am. But not too early to have visitors... guess who's here to say happy birthday?

Anne Hathaway!!! We spend about 3 hours with her, then get an hour of sleep. Then we must drink

because it will keep us alive for our very own private just us...

BARLOWGIRL CONCERT!!!!!

Now you have to go home. It's not even your birthday anymore, it's the next day. And all of a sudden YOU'RE HOME. It's already over.

Ahem, THAT was an unexpectedly sad ending to an otherwise perfect party! Well, one of these days you're REALLY going to come and we'll do all these things and a lot more! Hope you have a wonderful year being 16!!! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!