Wednesday, November 17, 2010

My Trip to Florida :)

(I apologize for the length of this post!)

In September, I flew all by myself down to Florida for the weekend! Mrs. W and Glenna were at the airport to meet me, and Bekah surprised me by coming too! I was so happy to be with some of my best friends again!

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And of course, we had an awesome sleepover that night. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

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I don’t even know what’s happening here.

The next day, there was a party at Natalie’s house! She arranged it just for meee :)
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We played Apples to Apples. Have you ever played Apples to Apples with 10 teenage girls? You should try it sometime. It’s a good time.   
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Then we had lunch and no bakes!
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Yay! It’s Bekah! :)
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Love that one. :)  
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Me and my bestie :)
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Glenna and Grace cuddled. ;) 

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Natalie stole the camera.

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Suddenly everyone started doing each other’s hair.
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We discovered that Acacia is reeeaaaalllyyy good at hair. She knew how to do all sorts of styles!

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Fun fun! We couldn’t stay very long though, because Glenna and I had to go get ready for Night of Joy!

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On the way home :)

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 All ready!


When we got to Disney, we were riding the the monorail to the ticket place thingy to get into Magic Kingdom. Glenna texted Emily to find out where she was. Turns out she and The Guys were just ahead of us. Glenna told them where we were. Here’s how the conversation went:

Glenna: We’re right behind you. We’ll be there in about 10 minutes.
Emily: Umm…ok?
Glenna: You know, in case we wanted to, you know, meet up???
Emily: Oh. Well, we’re going on Space Mountain.

So they definitely ditched us. Well, Mrs. W worked at Space Mountain at the time. When we finally got to Space Mountain, she took us through the Fast Pass line, without even having a Fast Pass. We passed Emily and The Guys in the 70 minute line. :D SUKAHS!

Sorry.

Anyway, we rode the roller coaster. It was my first time :) I loved it! But I love pretty much all roller coasters :). Well, we got off, and then Mrs. W started taking us through some back hallways that were cast members only. So we rode the ride again on the other side. It took us all of 15 minutes to ride the ride twice. :)
Then we had to wait in the gift shop for another 20 minutes before Emily and The Guys even got on the ride. :D

Here we are on our two trips:
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I looked at the wrong side. Of course.

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Yay! Got it right!
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Woohoo!

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While we were waiting, we played an awesome game of air hockey. I won :) It was close though!    

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We FINALLY met up with them and went to grab so food. There was a scary rabid singing muppet at the restaurant where we ate.
 
After we ate, we headed to the Cinderella castle, because that’s where Family Force 5 was playing!

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It started to rain! The robot voice lady was so suspenseful. She kept coming over the intercom, saying, “The following performance has been…*suspenseful pause while we all hold our breaths*…temporarily delayed.
But here’s where the story gets sad. After waiting an hour and a half in the rain, and being told repeatedly that FF5 WOULD be playing, the band came out to tell us that they would NOT be playing.

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There’s the terrible picture I got of them in their ponchos. Stupid flash.

We were so disappointed! We had been waiting for this for so long!

Well, we decided to head to the People Mover. Which isn’t a very creative name for it, if you ask me. But it’s catchy.

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Since we couldn’t see FF5, we instead decided to belt out their music while riding the People Mover. That was pretty darn fun. And we probably really annoyed the people in the cars next to us. :P

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There we are, all soaked!
 
After that, we went on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and hung out in the gift shop at the end of it.

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This picture makes me laugh. :D

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Even though we couldn’t see Family Force 5, we still had a blast!


Sunday night, after AWANA, Bekah, Natalie, and Acacia came over, and we played Spoons. And had a dance party.

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Glenna finally won one!

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Bekah and Acacia started fighting over the spoon. Now THAT was entertaining.       

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Cookie dough ice cream!! :D

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She throws her hands up in the air sometimes…

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I had so much fun in Florida! I wish I could have stayed longer. But we’re coming again at the end of November!! Mark your calendars. :)

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Birthday! :)

Here’s some pictures from my birthday back in August. I’m scheduling posts ahead of time for the next few days since we’ll be really busy moving!

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We went to Horse Creek with the B’s and our family!

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Of course, Josh fished :)

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Isn’t it a cool little swimming hole?

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There’s my dad and me at the bottom! It was sooooo cold!

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Look! He caught one! :)

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Mollie loved playing in the water :)

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Jonathan did too!

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Mollie also liked playing in the dirt.

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Aww :)

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That’s my little sister, Kacey. We were separated at birth. And she’s not taller than me, just so you know. Which makes me like her even more. :)

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There’s this cool log that you can ride on, but it’s really hard to keep it from tipping over!

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Dad barbecued chicken :)

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Don’t mess with him.

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Birthday pie!

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<3 her :)

Afterwards, we went to the property to check out our house, and The Boys and I got this ingenious idea…

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Wheeee! (:

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:)

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Our House is Almost Done!

We’re so excited! We’re moving on Thursday! Today we did a whole lot of packing. Here’s some pictures from back in October. My camera ran out of batteries, so I don’t have more recent ones. The next ones you see will be of us all moved in! :)

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Here’s the finished front of the house, except for shutters! The grass has also grown a lot, too.

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Our very very dusty laminate floors.

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My closet doors—aren’t they cool? That’s what all of the doors look like. They’re white now.

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The cute pantry doors :)

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Our back deck!

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This is the tile in the downstairs guest bathroom and in our bathroom upstairs.

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The beautiful red on the kitchen walls!

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The Boys’ room, all painted!

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Here’s my room, painted! I thought this color was way to bright, though, so it’s a lot lighter now. And my window seat is in!

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Our lovely lovely kitchen! I love the cabinets my mom picked out :) They also have crown molding on the top, and the countertops are on.

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Check out our cool fireplace and mantle! I love it.

The H’s are coming on Thursday, so they’ll be our first guests! I can’t wait! And I can’t wait to see their cute little James kid too. :)