End of the Year

Well, I hope you all had a "joyful" Christmas, I know I did. I have finally got an mp3 player, a device formerly unknown to me. I am still having trouble figuring it out. I also got the Sillmarillon. I will now be able to read it without having to turn it in to the library every two weeks because someone else is waiting on it!

Right now we have family in town with us, and so far we have had fun with them. Yesterday me and my cousins made petit fours (sp?) and had great fun decorating them. They also tasted pretty good ;) Today we might be going the the Cowboy Museum. It's been a few months since we've been there, I'm looking forward to going again.

This will probably be my last post of 2007. Time has passed so fast. Last year around this time we were all franticly packing and looking for houses. In a few weeks it will be a year since we moved (and what a trip up here it was, smoking cars, ice storms, slick roads, air bags...) If you had told me before all of this happened, what was going to happen, I probably would have laughed at you. This next year will probably be just as exciting and surprising.


Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you,"
declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, plans to give you
hope and a future."

-Ellentia

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Cristmas Day!


Isaiah 9:6 (New International Version)

For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.


-Ellentia

Christmas Eve!

-Ellentia

2 days till Christmas!

-Ellentia

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This video was made by comedian Tim Hawkins. How is that for a stereotypical homeschool family?!?!?!?

3 days till Christmas!


-Ellentia

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Yes, I know, I missed the 5 days till Christmas mark! Yesterday was so crazy though that I literally had no time to do anything. Yesterday our homeschool choir had it's Christmas concert and I was in a dress rehearsal from 9:15 to 4:15. And since it was at a church that was a 20 min. drive from our house we left around 8:45 and didn't get home until after 5 (we had to stop on the way home to drop off some girls that we drove home). We were supposed to be back for the concert by 6 meaning that we barely had time to go home and get ready, eat dinner and get back on time. The concert started at 7 and lasted till at least 9. And because the choir wears 2" heels my feet were ready to fall off at the end of the day.

After the concert there was a cookie and punch reception. Mom and the little ones and my grandparents went home after the reception but dad and Nat stayed to help clean up. Where were Jc and I you ask? Well, after the reception everyone was invited to go out to eat at a place called Interurban. However, a lot of people decided to go to IHOP instead. Jc and I got a ride and had a ton of fun. We didn't get home till about 1:45 and I still didn't get to go to bed yet. I had to take down my hair and brush my teeth. I had fun (ha ha) trying to undo my hair because I had so many pins and so much hairspray (I hate hairspray, it's gross) that my hair practically stood on end!

Overall, it was a good concert. Jc and I were in a ladies ensemble and during the dress rehearsal we all completely forgot the words to one of our songs. Thank goodness we remembered them for the concert! Both our songs went well, so I guess you could say I had no reason to be nervous. Well, I have to go now, Goodbye!



4 days till Christmas!

-Ellentia

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Well, more winter weather. Yesterday it was foggy all day, but the fogg was definentley the thickest that I have been in. Visibility was down to a half a mile I think. Last night Jc and I stayed up late watching a movie called Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. It's a good movie. I would put a picture of it on here but right now I don't feel like it. When I woke up this morning (very unwilling, mind you) it wasn't snowing but a few minutes after I woke up it started to snow and hasn't stopped yet. It is supposed to continue snowing for awhile and hopefully accumulate a little bit!

*15 min pause*

Well, now everything outside is looking a little white-ish. So next Wednesday our youth group is having a gift exchange Christmas party. The gift must cost $5 or less and it can't be a "gag-gift". I asked my youth minister why we couldn't make it a white elephant party and he said that it wouldn't be any fun! That everyone wants to get a good gift! Tell me, if it costs $5 or less, how can it be that great? I guess it's been a few years since he's been to a white elephant party ; )




10 days till Christmas!


-Ellentia

Ice Storm 2007

Allright, here are the pictures that I promised:



This was once the side of our pool. It now has a frozen layer of ice all the way around it.



This is the tree from across the street.



This was the fence that all the squirles used to run across. They probably skate across now!



This plant is completely encased in ice, it happened so fast that it is still green too!



I hope we won't be needing this trash can any time soon. . .



I'm almost done now. This is (was) our grass.



Last picture. This is a crepe mertyl. I think that the individual branches in ice is a very neat looking effect.

Tonight we went to my brothers court of honor. He went from the rank of Scout to 1st Class. He also got several merit badges, weather and aviation, I think. Congratulations! There were also three Eagle ranks awarded (I'm not sure if that's how you say it). I didn't know any of the boys, I really don't know any of his troop, but getting your Eagle is not easy so I will say congratulations to the three boys who got their Eagle awards. That is all I have for now, so, goodnight!

Ellentia

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To answer your question Uncle Dave, no insect bites! I got the name of the mountain from the movie Finding Nemo. Spelled phonetically it would be wan-uh-hawk-uh-loo-gee. If you think about it, it's kinda gross!

It has been really bad here. We've had a big ice storm come through and everything is completely encased in ice. Our basketball net is now a net of ice. The tree across the street has lost it's top branches because of the weight of the ice. Tomorrow we were supposed to have a choir concert but it has (thankfully) been canceled. The people on the news said that the storm has caused the most power outages in Oklahoma's history. We lost our power about 10:30 and didn't get it back until around 4:00. We could lose it again at any time. Thankfully, the gas still works so we can stay warm around our gas fire-place. I will try to post pictures but right now, for some reason, the computer is jamming up whenever I try to upload pictures so y'all will just have to wait impationtley.


15 days till Christmas!

-Ellentia

Jc's marvelous pictures

So, as I said on Jc's blog, I will post some of Jc's marvelous pictures of the botanical garden:

The beautiful-pink-begonia-type-flowering-shrub/plant

(breath)

-organism-from-the-kingdom-Plantae
(sp?)

The "Garden of Poinsettias"

Mt. Wanahakalugi

Now that I have had my fun of lableing all the pictures I will depart!

-Ellentia

So here is the picture of the cake that jc and I made on our last trip to Nac. I know, it has been awhile but I wanted to post the picture showing our wonderful cake-making skills ; ) Not really, I just wanted to post the picture because I could. I don't even really know what it tasted like because I didn't get a piece! However, Specter, you can ask your brother if it was any good, he's the one who cut it up!








-Ellentia

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20 days till Christmas!




-Ellentia

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25 days till Christmas!





-Ellentia