Tomorrow

Tomorrow, our family is going on vacation at last. Amy already had her breath of vacation when she went to Utah for EFY, but I've been stuck at home all summer. It's been extremely boring. At last we are going somewhere exciting as a family! Marching Band Season has begun too, so it's going to be soooo fun! Finally my time will be taken up doing something worthwhile!

We are going to Pennsylvania tommorow, to random museums everywhere. We're going to a railroad train one, a clock one, and others. We're going to visit Grandpa, too, if he's well enough. I'm sure it's going to be fun. I wonder if I can bring my laptop...

Lots of love to everyone everywhere! Give a big kiss to all my nephews and niece! Love you!

Summer

I know it's July and Summer's half over, but I just remembered the last time I wrote on my blog. The school year went so quickly, over in a split second. I had my graduation on the last day of school, but it didn't feel like it was summer. Maybe it was because it was chilly and wet. We had the ceremony inside because it was raining. At least I didn't trip going up the steps or down the slope. The slope was so long, it took forever to walk down. I was in the back rows when sitting down, and the slope had looked so small from there. I saw one of my highschool friends there. At the end of the ceremony, as we were all walking out the big double doors, I looked back at her. She waved, and I waved back. THEN I tripped. At least no one saw me!

I've got to do my Math Summer Assignment. It's due by the end of July, and I don't understand half of it. It's really hard, and all the stuff I've always hated. I don't want to do it. I also have to read 1984, the most boring book EVER! It goes on forever, especially about Winston's (Weston? Whatever the main characters name was) job at the Ministry of Truth. So stupid and annoying...

Love you all! Can't wait to see my nephews and nieces! Especially Samuel, whom I have not seen yet. I am very unhappy about that point. See you all soon!

Band Room Mayhem 3

Mr. G has just started using his new catapult! He's flying little balls of paper around with it, trying to hit Nehi. The paper ball doesn't go very far though. But he's a great influence on the band kids! Now, he's letting them take turns!

To make it even better, Mr. English put on Bugs Bunny for everyone to watch. Considering both conditions combined, it's yet another hectic day in the band room.

Love you all!

Band Room Mayhem 2

The Band Room is so fun! Mr. English yells multiply at lots of little children, this time Neeraj and Kwame. Neeraj wants me to go on to youtube and play our concert.

Mr. English wants me to help him with something, so I should probably go.

Bye!
hearts to all!

Band Room Mayhem

Very busy week this week! A couple concerts, and one award ceremony, and marching band stuff, and school, and afterschool programs, and all that stuff.

I have good news! I got a B+ on my Language Arts essay from a teacher who rarely gives A's! Yay! And I got a B on a math test! Yay!

Today I have to play at the vocal concert. Mrs. Matola, the choir teacher, wants me to play for the little 6th graders. They are so sweet though! One kid even offered to help me carry around the bell set! It was sooooo nice! Band kids are so different than that though. They aren't so nice, but maybe thats because everyone knows me because I'm in band. Whatever, they're kinda cute and short too. But my nephews and nieces go far beyond either of them!!!:)

I got to go. Mr. English wants me to leave. Blah.

Tickle Guns and Freeze Rays

So, I'm enjoying my holiday. Joseph is running around freezing everyone with his freeze ray so no one can use their extremely powerful tickle guns on him. Oh, it's great to have the advantage.... I'm not ticklish (for the most part)! It's great to see Meredith run around tickling Joseph and Joseph run around freezing Meredith. I love the holidays especially this one. Not only did I get a digital camera, but a laptop too! I am spoiled so bad. I wasn't even expecting either of them! Wow, my parents know me so well.

Anyhow, I'm at Joe and Tina's here in Utah. It's been fun. They have some really great games for the PS3 and Xbox 360. I like Dark Kingdom and Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii. So, life is great, until I have to go to school. Ugh, even the thought brings me down. I don't want to go home, but then I do, because I have my laptop at home. Complications..... They ruin everythin.

Also, I got an MP3 player from Adam and Meredith. Yay! More spoiled-brattish for me!!

Well, a Happy New Year and Happy Holidays for one and for all! Enjoy your break!

Saturday Speaks!

It's Saturday, making it a great day, plus Christmas is coming up. I still have a million presents to buy (and create-shh!), so it's been pretty busy in the Rankin household. It's enjoyable, though. What's really great is that I can get my share of the computer now. For some reason, Amy isn't as over protective of it. I like to believe it is the Christmas Spirit that is "haunting" her. (:

It's almost Christmas, and only a week of school to live through, thank goodness! It's great to be off for a while. Even this weekend feels good! I have barely any homework, and I'm working on it right now, so it's all good. Also, I just went to The Twelve Days of Christmas for my Math Teacher, Mrs. Yuhas. The twelve days of Christmas is when 13 days before Christmas, we follow along with the song. For instance, on the seventh day of Christmas, or seven swans a swimming, then we make seven origami swans, then give them to someone who you think needs a bit of excitement or something. You have to deliver it on secret every day, though. That is what makes it so fun. It has always been a family tradition to do it every year. So, on the very first day, I was my ultra too exciting self and insisted upon driving around the block after delivering the gift to see Mrs. Yuhas face. The expression of the first day is always the greatest. Well, this year I definitely got a good look, that's for sure. Too good, if you catch my drift.

We, my mom and I, drove around the block. When, we come around, Mrs. Yuhas and her daughter are on the porch, and as we drive by, I insist upon mom to drive slower, so I can get a good look at her surprised face. So, here we are driving slowly in front of her house, so slow we are almost stopped. I guess that's what caught their eyes, because as we slowed, they looked up.

The thing with our car is that the back seat windows, no one can see in them because of the type of glass, whatever it's called. But, however, the front seat windows aren't like that. So, I was staring at the window, and Mrs. Yuhas looks up, and whoopdedoo, she's staring right at me. I hear mom say, "look away,", but I don't. I can't because I've now made direct eye contact with my teacher. Yipee!

The next day at school, I'm freaked out about what to do, cause I can't go to math or else she's gonna be like, "hey, why were you at my house yesterday?" Well, I didn't need to worry, because she didn't say that. She said something more like this, "...". So, I'm sitting down, and we usually have a great conversation, but there wasn't anything. So, now I know she's suspicious, and she knows that I'm suspicious because neither of us are approaching the other. Wow.

But anyhow, it's even more fun, because now I have no idea whether she really suspects me or not. She could even know it is me, but I don't know, so yeah. It's so fun. I've always enjoyed doing it every year. I remember last year we did it for the coach of the football team, Mr. Selover. He is also a Social Studies teacher, and was Amy's. That's why we did it for him. One day, (it was night thankfully) he sat up waiting for me. I crouched down to put down the gift, and what do you know, the door opens and standing over me is Mr. Selover. Of course, I follow my first instinct and ran. However, I took the present with me. Since he is the coach, he is very athletic (and much more so than I), so of course he ran after me. I screamed. I screamed my head off as I ran. Luckily for me, mom was pretty close by where she parked so I got in. Mr. Selover actually thought it was Amy because of my hair, which is sorta the same color, but my voice wasn't the same, making him puzzled, which is good, because he didn't have any clue again. But, we had to go back that same night to deliver the present again because I had never let go of it.

All in all, have a good Christmas everyone! Hearts for all!