Plays and Trucks

Hey everybody!
So yesterday was an awesome day! First, mom and dad pick up my truck (I'll post pictures later) and then at call backs for The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy, I got Raggedy Ann!!!!!!!!!! So I just thought I would tell y'all that , hope y'all all have a great week!

FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!

I"M DONE WITH MY SCHOOL FOR THE YEAR......FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas tree!!!!!!!!

Today we finally got our Christmas tree and decorated it. Here are a few pictures from this evening.

All us kids in front of our tree!

Our first fully decorated tree!
Our second fully decorated tree!

Our AMAZING tree topper.

All us kids enjoying some cookies and milk after decorating our trees!

Acting Up!

Our home school drama club (Acting Up) had two Christmas performances this week. Here are a few pictures from them!

Thanksgiving

All of my mom's family came here for thanksgiving. Here are a few pictures from thanksgiving's photo shoot!

Sarah's Birthday Party!

I know it's been like a month since Sarah's birthday party but this was the first chance I got to update. Her birthday day party was absolutely amazing! All the girls at her party were divided into 3 different teams. My team was named the Peppie Polka Dots, and my team members were Awesome Abby, Outstanding Olivia, Retro Rachael, and me Beautiful Bekah ( It's not vain if its true!). There were five different competitions throughout the party. The first two competitions were the name and t-shirt designs this was one by.... The Peppie Polka Dots!!!!!! The next challenge was the How Well Do You Know Sarah challenge. Sadly this was won by the Sweet Potatoes. The third challenge was the Gingerbread village challenge. All the teams made their own gingerbread village, and this took until 1:00 a.m..... not fun; but in the end it was worth it because the Polka Dots and Rabid Bunnies tied for first. The final challenge was the photo scavenger hunt. This challenge was probably my favorite, because for one hour we got to run around a strip mall taking pictures of random stuff, and act crazy with my friends. What made this even better was that The Polka Dots one, thus making The Polka Dots the winners for the entire weekend!

The Polka Dots hard at work creating their t-shirts.

All Of us Polka Dots Displaying the front of our t-shirts...

and the back.

Me and Abby hard at work trying to decide what to do with our gingerbread village, and I'm not sure what Olivia is doing.

Still try to decide what to do.

Our completed lovely gingerbread village.

All of us crazy girls about to do the photo scavenger hunt.

top left: Abby, Bekah, Hannah. the birthday girl (Sarah), Katie, Elizabeth

Bottom row: Abby Olivia, and Me!

Back From the Wilderness

Sooooo,

I know this is a little late (like a week late) but this is the first chance I've gotten to update. I had an AMAZING at Fall Retreat this year. The first thing we did was discover what team we were on and decide what are team name was. I was on the black team and our name was the Ligers (not my idea), and we came in fourth out of four in creativity in our flag and name.

Then we went to the food challenge. Somehow I always ended up eating fish. This stuff was worth ten points ( the most you could get). It consisted of a bunch of different kinds of fish that nobody has ever heard of and its consistency made me think I was eating a brain.

The food challenge ended the first evening, after that we went and ate supper, had a devotion, then just hung out around the camp fire.

The next day we had the water challenge ( yes the water challenge means we get in the lake... in the fall) during this challenge I managed to get my pants completely soaked! In this challenge we tied for third. After we all got into dry clothes we went on to the scavenger hunt, then the riddle challenge. We came in second in the riddle challenge. Then we had a challenge made up of a bunch if different challenges which were worth various amount of points. that ended the second day.

Day number three brought the fire challenge, the raft challenge, the ball challenge and the trivia challenge. Now during the entire trip we got a roll of duct tape and some twine and we were supposed to make a raft using the tape. twine, and the rest of the stuff had to be all natural. These rafts were judged by two things, durability and creativeness. Black team's raft was won fourth in durability and first in creativity ( our first win!). After we got all pumped up about our first win we went on to win the fire challenge, ball challenge, and the final challenge... the trivia challenge. All of these challenges were won by the balk team!!!!!!!!

When we got back to the church we were all anxious to hear who won the the entire thing. And guesse what BLACK TEAM WON!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOOOO LIGERS! Our prize was we all got to sign the golden paddle, and we got cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory! So that ended my awesome weekend. This weekend isn't shaping up to be as great as the last one unfortunately, I'm siting here watching the Georgia game right now...... sad times. But I haven't lost hope, I still have faith that we could turn it around if our team would start playing football.