PLEASE! LET IT SNOW 'TIL THE DAD GUM COWS COME HOME!!!!!!!!!

I wake up. I look at the clock. It reads 6:03. I wish I could sleep in 'til nine, I think. But then I think, Just two more days. Then you can sleep in 'til the cows come home.
NOT!!!
I get out of bed and gather up my clothes for today. I walk into Mom and Dad's room, where they're watching the local weather. I ask, "So is it a snow day?"
Mom replies skeptically, "Not yet." I grudgingly enter the shower. Mom knocks on the door and opens it just enough to let me hear her voice.
"You can go back to bed. It's officially a snow day."
"What?!" I cry.
"Yup. It's a snow day."
After a hurried shower, I run into their room once more. "So it's really a snow day?!"
Dad says, "The first snow day Clark County has had in 29 years."
So all I have to say is let those dang cows stay out as long as they want.

The Choir Concert

Wow. Julie's concert was (and I hate to say it) way way way way way way way way way way way way way cooler than our concert. They had "snow", candy canes, and even Santa Claus! But Julie was the best part. (And for Becca's sake, the advanced choir was awesome as well.) Although, I believe Whitney was the only good soloist. The others were profoundly terrible. (I feel like I'm a review/critic/thingy) But now I'm just rambling, even though Whitney was obviously the best one. Okay, goodbye now.

P.S. No one gave us a standing ovation at our concert.

Living La Vida En Pointe
(It wouldn't let me italicize en pointe in the title bar)


I have finally gotten around to taking pictures of my real, live, pointe shoes! Also, FYI, Russian sizing is weird.


Ahh........... Aren't they pretty?

Can you this with your feet?

One last pic. I just love looking at these things.

THE END!

P.S. I discovered size and color today!

A Very Charlie Post

I came home from my piano lesson to find Charlie sleeping on the high chair, not unusual, (make sure you wipe it off before you use it) except he was cuddling my stuffed mouse, Mo.

How funny my kitty is.

Also, I took this picture of Charlie's foot and I think it's pretty freakin awesome. :)
Ah, how much my kitty has grown...... maybe that's not a good thing. Charlie now weighs 13 lbs. He's gonna be a big boy.
Somehow the subject of boys came up today at dance (shock!) and I said, "The only boy I like is my cat."
Charlie's the only boy for me.........:P

Um, hi, my name is Cory......

Last night whilst watching The Sound of Music, we got a phone call from a nervous sounding voice.
"Um, hi, my name is Cory, and I found a cat named Charlie...." were the words Allyson told me afterwards. I thank my lucky stars for that collar and license that I just got him last Saturday! (by the way, to all you worried about the collar strangling him, we got this "safety collar" that breaks apart if it catches on something)
Oh, but not only was Charlie running amuck, he was on HOPI STREET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm so glad that somebody took the time to call us. Thank you, Cory.

Say Hello to Sammy!

While on an excursion to the Galleria Mall yesterday, we found out that some of the animals in the Build a Bear Workshop were able to be made for just ten bucks(!). I said, "Shoot, ten bucks, why not?"
Sammy has a purple heart that cost an extra dollar to be donated to the Junior Diabetes Foundation (something like that).

He looks so much cuter with his argyle sweater, I think.

Check out the link. I only have one post, but it's awesome.

So I've Been Thinking...

Mom has sometimes looked at this one blog that has movie reviews on it. What if I and some other kids reviewed teen/junior/whatever type books? I was thinking about enlisting Julie and maybe some of my other friends. If you would like to participate, please comment. Well, off to create it.

Finally!

I'M GETTING POINTE SHOES!!!!!!!! I'm so happy. Miss Vicki told us she had an assignment for us and gave us all a piece of paper. We were kinda scared. But then, she said, "Your assignment is to go and buy pointe shoes." So we're ready, basically!
I'M SO STINKIN HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just wanted to say that I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy because I found out today in English that if you hadn't turned in your report yet, you didn't have to do the essay!!!!!!!! HOORAY!!

This means that I don't have to write a 350-word summary on Twilight!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!

Which also means that I could turn it in today. What a load off my shoulders.

I'm so happy. :)

We've Had a Close Encounter

Devil's Tower, anybody? With a cucumber space ship, of course.

Mutant carrot.

Don't You Just Hate It?

Sorry I didn't change it on my blog, but I've been reading the Princess Bride by William Goldman.


I hate the man.

He completely ruined the ending! Don't you just hate it when you're reading an incredibly good book and then the author goes and ruins the ending? Plus, the book wasn't enough pages to count for my English class reading without having to read the boring, stupid narration thingy he put at the back. Maybe that's part of my anger, but I still wish the end wasn't so dumb. If you read the book or have ever read it, please comment so I know I'm not alone.


Plus, Florin's not a real country. And S. Morgenstern doesn't exist.


Phooey.

Like Cat, Like Master

They were actually asleep....
(I miss you, Amy!)

New Poll

I would like everyone to know that there is a new poll on Madison's blog. (This is Becca by the way because Madison won't ever update her blog!) The question is what is the best tv show. I also want everyone to know that by far Sabrina the Teenage Witch is the best tv show, but that is just my opinion! Oh and by the way Julie PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEEEEE!!!!!!! UPDATE YOUR BLOG!!!!

My Mosaic

To Create: First you go to www.flickr.com/search. In the search box you put your answers to the questions below. Once you have chosen your fave pic, copy and paste the URL to the mosaic maker found at www.bighugelabs.com
1. First Name - Madison Wisconsin
2. Favorite Food - Hot dog
3. Your School - Garrett Bobcats
4. Favorite Color - Red
5. Who is your Celebrity Crush - Thomas Sangster
6. Favorite Drink - Sprite
7. Dream Vacation - Venice
8. Favorite Dessert - Black tie mousse cake from Olive Garden
9. What you want to be when you grow up - author
10. What you love most in life - Charlie Brown the cat
11. One word to describe you - Smiley

12. Your Nickname - Maddie Cat

Way to Keep Dad Awake

I am currently in Mount Pleasant, Utah right now. We didn't take the van up here, we took Dad's truck, and I feel like a dope for not bringing a camera after what Dad was doing on the trip!!
Dad's truck just happens to get satellite radio, which officially makes it the only car that receives Radio Disney. So, after listening to Huey Lewis for the entire trip up here, I pleaded to listen to Radio Disney. Dad agreed. (Well, he didn't have a choice. We didn't know what station it was, so Mom kept turning the dial 'til she found it. Thanks, Mom. :))
Unfortunately, out of the whole hour I listened, the best songs were only as we got closer to Mount Pleasant. The rest were mostly hip-hop or rap.
So what do you do if the songs are stupid? You keep Dad awake! Dad make-fun-of-danced to all of them. Especially "Dance Me If You Can" from the Cheetah Girls One World.
"Dance me! Ooh! Dance me! Yeah, yeah!" Dad's lyrics. It didn't help that Mom really had to go to the bathroom and Dad was making her (and me) laugh so hard. The host of the radio station made up a word, "cheet-awesome" describing some Cheetah Girls thing. We used the word the rest of the trip.



Good times, good times.

Well Then..

Funny enough, Mom had the same thing.
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Remember the earlier version of Syd typing?

All About Me

My new header describes me in a lot of ways. It has my favorite animal, the giraffe; my second favorite animal, the lion; my cat, Charlie Brown (although it doesn't look like him at all); and a monkey, snake and elephant for good measure. Also, the vine with the flowers sorta matches the theme of my room. I like to think that the fact it's drawn on lined paper sort of describes me too. And the ballet shoes show that I love to dance!

Polled?

I would like to point out the poll that is now on my blog. If you know anything about me you should know the answer! I'll try to have better questions in the future...

I'm so sorry to everyone, but I have some bad news. The video that was going to be on the "awesomely rad post" was uploading, but it didn't finish. Apparently there was a problem. I tried it again, but it didn't work that time either. Sorry about the post. Sorry to Becca, since we spent like an hour on it (even though it's about two minutes long).
Sorry! :(

I just want everyone to know that this is Becca. I am doing this post because I am at Madison's house and I really need something to do. So far we have just played with Madison's new cat Charlie Brown. Charlie lost his first tooth. On my shirt. It was not really enjoyable. Madison was so excited though.
Madison for some strange reason had a towel on her head.

I was deep in thought.
This post is going to be followed by the another post that is SO awesome!! Watch for
it. It is going to be so awesomely rad!! You must see it!!

The Charlie Files File One: Sleeping

The most we ever see Charlie doing is sleeping. He sleeps all day sometimes and leaves us wondering what he's doing at night in the garage.
Here are some images of Charlie's wonderful world of sleep:

I don't think he really fell asleep in that little curled position. I'm pretty sure I moved his legs.

But you never know with Charlie....

This was on the first day we got him. Such a cutie.
Here is Charlie sleeping in one of his favorite places: the chair Dad usually sits on at family dinners, the one closest to the back.
Sleeping on a table in the family room with Mom's scrapbook stuff on it...
HE WILL SLEEP ANYWHERE! It cracks me up.....:)

Insanity to the Fullest

These people have to be insane. Really insane. I would never do anything like that. This is crazy.
E.T.A.(Sorry about the second big square. You can watch the video without the plugin. I'm sorry, it appeared after I published it.)

Complete and Total Awesomeness!!!!!!

WARNING:
IF YOU HAVE NOT YET VIEWED THE MOVIE
STAR WARS EPISODE VI:
RETURN OF THE JEDI,
DO NOT READ THIS POST!

Announcing: The movie listed above is listed in Maddie's brain as awesome.

We have been watching all of the Star Wars movies since I have never seen them. We started with four and did those three first since they came out first. I like six the best because everything comes together and it ends well. I was just so happy that Darth Vader was good again and Luke and Leia were twins and Han Solo and Leia could be together forever and Luke is a Jedi and Leia will be one too and the Emperor was dead and the battles were cool and everything was just so COOL!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE MOVIE!

Thank you.

Good Grief, Charlie Brown!

I wanted to wait a while before I posted this, but I think it's safe to say this as Dad seems to like Charlie.
Anyway...
MEET CHARLIE BROWN!!!!
This little stray (we think) wandered into Susan's house, dehydrated and hungry. He slept for most of the first days when we got him. But now he is a fiesty, frisky, wild little guy!


I think it's rather funny that the only time I can get good pictures of Charlie is when he's sleeping, or waking up. Otherwise he's too fast for my camera.

What are you looking at me for? (He has such pretty eyes)

I'm glad I have this kitty in my life. He might be a little trouble sometimes (clawing my arm while we bathed him, trying to steal my breakfast, climbing on the counters) we love him and hope he's here to stay!

Rumor Has it the Stork Brought Me...

Well, here you go, folks. She'd rather play in a cardboard box than with our gazillion toys.


And don't worry, she has a diaper on.

I Love These Little Cowboys!

A friend of mom's gave her this brilliantly red cowboy hat that says "Pirate Princess" on the front. It was discovered by Tyler...and the Deebs.


Look at that kid. He kept saying 'boo' right as I took the pictures, so he's not smiling in any of them. (Aubrey was on the couch behind me.)

This was as far as I got to actually getting the hat on her head. She didn't like the idea too much. But so cute anyways!

And this picture of Aubrey is just for good measure. Look at those eyes!

Beestinger

I found this and other pictures on my camera and can't remember if I took them or not. Aubrey had a teeny tiny ponytail, and you can just barely see it here. The others you can't really see it at all. But, isn't she cute anyway? With her Beestinger Ponytail?

Sydney + Scarf = Cute!

Sometime last week, Syd and Allyson were over at our house. Sydney's pants were too big and therefore were falling down. I used this pink scarf to create a sort of belt to keep the pants up. But, Sydney didn't really go for that idea.
Instead, she danced and played around with it! Luckily I snapped some pictures . . .

Super-Syd!

Where'd I go?

Look at me-I'm soooo cute!

Even though her eyes are closed, this picture is way hecka cute!

Cats

Well, I decided that since I did a dog post, I better do a cat one.

I don't know what breed this is, but isn't it the prettiest cat you've ever seen?

A tabby cat waits in the grass.

Aren't calico cats pretty? This one is so...relaxed-looking.

I really wish I had a cat. They're so majestic. If I died and could come back as an animal, I'd come back as a cat.

2008 Intermediate Orchestra!

This is my Orchestra class at the Orchestra Festival.
Back row: Corbett, Danielle, stupid smelly Cole, Jena, Tino, Aaron, Ryan M., Willie, Jeremy & Harrison.
Middle row: Mr. Schutheis, some band percussion girl, Ryan S., Me, Alyssa the Snob, Justina, Amy, some other band percussion kid, Jack Bauer, Tim.
Bottom row: Jayd, Avalon, Emilia, Sean, Justice, Austin, Ian.
This was certainly an... interesting Orchestra. We have had fun this year and I'm (not) really looking forward to another FIVE YEARS with them! ;)

Dogs

Okay, now you gotta admit. That is a really cute dog up there. It's called a Chinese shar pei. (funny enough, it's said like Sharpay in High School Musical....)

This one is for Julie. In case you don't know she really wants a pomeranian (which is what that dog is). I gotta say, the poofy-ness makes up for the RIDICULOUS prices you gotta pay for these things. (Although they are pretty cute.....)

Beagle'd! So cute. I like how he's just chillin' out.

And so concludes the dogs!!

Mom, We Missed You

As many of you may know, mom got back today from her annual retreat to Pine Valley. (Well, now it's Fairview... but whatever.) So just a few minutes ago, mom was in the kitchen and hit her leg on the step-stool. She says, "Shiiins!"

Mom, we missed you. Its true.

(Amy couldn't stop laughing.)

Becca's Photo Shoot

On the same day Becca slept over, she discovered my camera.
The rest is history.........

Rock Painting Rocks!

A few weekends ago, Becca slept over at our house. We needed something to do on Saturday so we painted rocks from the rock bed out front! The fruits of our labors.......

My rocks: butterfly, Dad, Phantom of the Opera, flower, and fruit.

Ally's rocks: Jake, and Ally.

Becca's rocks: Nomi, person, flower, Becca.

We had a great time!

Cute Kid Pictures

These are just some pictures I found on my camera. They are very cute. Enjoy!

Sydney in the Cinderella wig.

Cute! Two little buddies.

Best buds-Tyler and Deeber.

He looks like he's posing for a magazine!

In case you can't tell, that is black licorice-and black licorice drool.