mmmmm... yay!

I think the best sleep I've ever gotten was when I was sitting in a rocking chair holding my little Elsa. Mmmmm good times.

My Adventures of Aunthood

It has been incredible being up here in Seattle and seeing this amazing little girl. she is starting to form more of a personality and is cuter than ever!!



She has been really much more responsive and active in perceiving the world. She really likes to look at windows and light. I can't wait until she figures out more of what she likes in the world.




She is also the biggest ham baby I've ever seen. I mean, as soon as I pulled out the camera she was just posing for me. I was looking at her through the viewfinder and she looked straight at the camera and had this little grin. It was great! I just love this baby!

Guess what!

Yup, that's right. I'm in Seattle! CHYESS!!!!! We drove to Kansas City Tuesday evening so we could catch a plane yesterday morning. Everything went really really smoothly with our travels. We stayed with my grandma, which was really nice to visit with her, and went to the econo-parking lot. We found a parking place about 6 feet from the bus stop and right as we were getting stuff out of the trunk here came the bus down the aisle. It dropped us off right at the terminal, and we found the area for our gate and went through security right at our gate. That's one thing that I love about the KC airport, it is EXTREMELY easy for the travelers. Also, we had printed off our boarding passes at home, so that took out a bunch of time. From the time we left Grandma's to the time we were sitting in front of our gate only took 45 minutes. That was pretty awesome. Dallas was easy, and (!!!!!) I had a really really really yummy sandwich. Mmm, it was good! It had pretty good bread, tomatoes, and then it also had really good pesto and FANTASTIC mozzarella. It was a cold sandwich, but I think that was the best airport food I have ever had in my entire life. YUMMY! So, we're taxiing into the dock so we could get off, and mom was checking her voicemail and found out: Nathan could pick us up!!! YAY!!! It turned out that he was only about 10 minutes away from the airport and could leave work. Also, we didn't have any check baggage to get so we just walked right out to where Nathan could pull up and about 5 minutes later there he was! We got home and Elsa was sleeping, but that didn't stop Mom who was on a mission. Almost immediately, Elsa was in the arms of a very happy grandma. I've held her a couple of times, and I just love her. To hold her little body close is enrapturing. She is absolutely adorable. I love love love love love her. She's just so amazing.

A wee bit of an update!

So the things that are going on:

My friend just turned 18 which is amazing to me. We've been best friends for 13 years now, and it still feels like we're supposed to still be in middle school. We're becoming adults which is exciting and kinda scary at the same time. After this year, both of us are moving away and moving into a brand new chapter of our lives. I'm worried (just like I worry about every single other thing - ever), but I'm sure everything will be okay.

I finally have the a-okay to get a real job other than babysitting (which is nil to live on). I'm going to be going to a ton of places on Saturday to apply just about anywhere and everywhere I can. Granted, I really don't want to work in food. There are a couple of places that I can apply though that have just been built and are hiring. Thank God for construction in my town!!!

School will be interesting. So, my schedule is on day 1's I have US Government, AP English, French 2, and AP Statistics, and on day 2's I have Choir, Seminar (study hall), Photography, and AP Clay. I absolutely LOVE my day 2's. They are the coolest ever, but I do enjoy the majority of my day 1's, too. Government is really the only class that I kind of have an issue with, and that's because I don't really have anybody in there that I know well enough to band together with. I WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT ENGLISH TODAY THOUGH!!!!!! I was actually able to write an ENTIRE ESSAY in 30 minutes!!!!! I finished 20 minutes before we had to, and I was actually somewhat proud of what I wrote because it was a fairly cohesive thought throughout my paper. So, I spent another 10 minutes going over it about 5 times and then I had 10 minutes of free time. That was the coolest ever. Granted, the essay was very short, but I have never written that fast or somewhat well at the same time. It was absolutely amazing. LOVE IT! AND!!!! In French class, we have this new teacher and I think the entire class time, she spoke MAYBE about 3 phrases in English, and I UNDERSTOOD ALMOST EVERYTHING!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I am actually learning!!! It's totally mind blowing. AP Statistics is strange. It's easy and really hard at the same time. Right now it feels like I'm taking another English class because all of the questions have essay answers, and all our teacher is doing is reading out of the book to us for our notes. A lot of it, we just have to figure out for ourselves, but there really is no way of teaching some of the stuff in there. Like, one example is figuring out if there is a bias or not on a radio station survey where people call in for their answers. Seems pretty fair right? Well, there could be a bias because the radio station itself could be a 80's rock station that the majority of their listeners are around 40 years old and if their asking about whether or not the the age to get your drivers license should be raised then 40 year olds won't really care. So, yeah, that's the kind of stuff we're learning in there right now.

So, I think I've rambled on long enough....

*sigh* Happiness is indeed a fabulous friend.

School has started again. That's ok. I love seeing my friends again, and my classes are the coolest classes in the world (well, except for one, but I can deal with one). Really, the only thing I don't like about being back at school is being thrown back into the throng of the crowds. Lately I've been feeling a bit antisocial in that I really only feel like spending time with a select number of people. Plus, it never really feels like I belong anywhere. I always seem to be surrounded by people I don't want to be around, but ya know, that's life. Despite this, I'm really happy. I had a really great summer. St. Louis was absolutely awesome, and now we're seeing the results of the weeks when I was there. I spent 9 days in paradise, Haifa, Israel. I just have this overwhelming feeling of happiness. I really love just sitting and listening to music, letting the notes and words wash over me. That is way cool. Everything is fantastic right now.