Back to the ole Blog..

For my memory, here's what I did over Spring Break...(which was April 6-10)

Starting Friday, April 3, 2009:

Drive down to Birmingham, we meet Brett, Blevins girls, Emily and Whitney at P.F. Changs, afterwards we go to Emily's apartment (which is SO cute) and watch Mulan!

Saturday...uh....lets see...We probably just hung out , oh! Uncle Benny's birthday party!

Sunday, I went to Vestavia, then I went to go visit with Maw-maw for a while, then Maggie, Mary-John, Whitney and I went to the Porter's church, then went back to spend the night at Maw-maws.

Monday-woke up, headed back to Franklin, (I drove for the first time on the freeway...ahh!)

Tuesday- Amy and I took my friend Kari out for her birthday to a local coffee shop. Worked on a school project all day :P

Wednesday- Got ready to go back down to Alabama, but did a bunch of stuff that morning, went swimming, got up to 7 laps... haha.. ( I WILL get back up to 16 laps, and hopefully further )

Thursday- Did school with Mary-John (well she did school, I worked on a poetry project), then later we went to Montevallo to see Morgan get inducted into the Honor Society! (go morgan!)

Then we went to O'Charlie's where the waitress says (to MJ and I) "Y'all are twins aren't you" and we ate a ton of rolls, and laughed when Jessica thought Mary-John called someone "defective" instead of "afflicted".......yeah........you had to be there....

Friday- More school and projects, then later Whitney, Mary-John and I went back to our lakehouse and hung out and made (beautiful and interesting) cupcakes!

like these (sorry no full shot of all of them):

........................Needless to say, we went a little crazy.

They started out as sunflowers, but that didn't go over to well... you get the point. :)

And Saturday. Saturday was. Saturday was my birthday party!

We got up, got ready and prepared to party. It was cold. so so cold outside, but that didn't stop us. The party began at 11 a.m. It was 11 a.m. and only one person was there.....Morgan Reaves (of course, the first one to show up) anyways so nobody showed up and there was no party and I cried. But really, that's a lie... People started showing up and then we all just hung out for a little bit. Then the boys went to the fire and tried to start it up again (they did it eventually) and then you know how parties go, people came people had to leave. We opened presents (which were great by the way, and I'm writing thank you cards right now!) and ate cake and partied and just had a good time with each other.

(Lake parties are fun, especially during the summer, so if anyone wants to come....just give me a call ;D)

Sunday we had to go back home and off to school...

So, it was a very fun spring break, a quick taste of summer, and now I'm just waiting for school to be done with so we can enjoy it!

Folding Fitted Sheets

Funny title, but true that it's SO difficult.



As of today, Monday, April 6, 2009, school has decided to take off a week in honor of spring.

Who knows why?

Not really sure about that.... but boy are we thankful for spring breaks.

Ours is very late this year, but it sure came at a good time...

Not that we were really doing anything productive at the moment anyways, but now I can sleep in and go to bed late and...and.....work on projects. fun. (but that's partly my fault)



My parents' 30 year reunion was this weekend, and so we headed south for that, where i was dropped off and they "partied" and reunited with their fellow classmates all weekend.

AAAAAAAAAAH

There's so much random junk I want to talk about...

Just complete randomness..

Jordan chased down a guy that had his stolen bike.
His bike was stolen 6 months ago, and he couldn't stop thinking about.. it was well deserved to get back.

Spring break decided it would turn cold on us. It snowed. yep. snow. flurries.
BUT it is warming up.
hopefully Saturday at the lake will be a beautiful day! :)

Uh, I'm writing poetry for school... poetry can be a beautiful thing.

I need to clean my room. badly.

I swam 4 laps at the pool yesterday, then started feeling nauseous. I hadn't eating in a couple hours... (and i'm out of shape)
I was actually super dissappointed in myself, because this summer when I went to work with mj, and being at the lake i had gotten up to 16 laps... It's a good incentive to go swimming more often!

And now. I have to go see if the cats have food.

Oh and a side note, i'm wearing my favorite green on green striped sweater!

Reflections...

I really need to release my inner creativity for my titles....
and also for all of the poetry I have to write and design pictures by wednesday.

My birthday was one week ago today.
I have been 16 years old for a week.....
I don't feel any different... except maybe a bit more sad because I'm in need of my best friends company... I miss them so much :)

A thought just struck me....

Isn't it a great thing to miss somebody or be missed?
It's a sign of love,
it means someone has been thinking about you and they just.... miss. you.
and you miss them.
And there's meaning.
It's just love.
love :)

anyways.......

Phone calls are nice.
People are great.
(if they're good people)
Pictures are good too...
I'd like a better smaller camera, a faster one, to take pictures with... I used to take pictures all the time, but in recent months, I haven't taken many at all... It's sad really...
But no worries, we rely on whitney for all the pictures!

Basically, this blog is about nothing...

Oh my dad and I have made a deal that I can get my drivers liscense soon, but I am restricted to the store (1 mile away), close friends (within 1.2 miles) and school.
But that is totally fine with me :)
I'll keep you updated on that...

SOoooo have a wonderfully beautifully gorgeous day, no matter if it rains or not, it can still be pretty :)

About time...

I've been meaning to post..
and then after reading the breakfast table and then conversing with my dear johnnie, I realized I should post more often than I do.
If one is on the computer, one should perform productive tasks, but why not also have fun also?

Blogging is fun, right??

See, that depends on how you look at it (as with most things)

It's all about keeping up the routine... let's see, I once heard a statistic that if you keep up a certain routine for (i think it was) 30 days, you're more likely to keep that routine constant..... I'm sure it works with just 14 or 15 days also...

So what exactly am I trying to say?

Blog.
Blog often.
And then eventually it will become so much easier.
And not so much of a chore!






(inspired by johnnie... whose name i can never spell right when typing... it always comes out as "johniie" or "joniiee")

About time...

Triple Threat

So one day Katie gave her wedding rings to me to hold before she cut hair, and being silly I put them on my own left ring finger.
Weeeeellll, then I guess that idea at all frightened JD so much that he somewhat angrily said, "Take that off right now."
So I did.
But then that started the conversation of what it would take for a man to be able to marry me:

1) He must outact Caleb

2) He must outrun Jordan

3) He must beat up JD

With these musts I don't know if I'll ever get married....
Oh well, and I guess I have to love him, that would be helpful
So if y'all know anyone would could possible reach these requirements please name them in my comments :)

Have a beautiful day!
Enjoy the warm!!

Infant.

Sooooo......................

To all who do not know yet....

J.D. and Katie are expecting a baby!!!!!!!!

I've wanted to tell so badly, but we were suppose to keep it a secret. And so I did. It was hard not to tell my closest friends.. but I did it.

And so, my brother is going to be a Dad.
That is so weird to me... I'm going to be an aunt and Jordan and Caleb are going to uncles.
Odd. very very odd.
but.
OH SO EXCITING!!!!!!

I'm so happy for them!!!

I think they will be great parents.
Add them to your prayers too, because right now they're going through some issues with Katie's godson. Right now they are taking care of him because he has a rough family and they just feel like he shouldn't go through this.
But so far everything is going well, and the baby is due, Lord willing, in late September.
It looks like they're following the paths of my parents :)

Parents: Mama is 15 months older than Daddy
JD & Katie: Katie is 15 months older than JD.

Parents: Became pregnant 3 months after they got married.
JD & K: Became pregnant 5 months after they got married.

And we'll see how it goes!

It was a beautiful day outside today!

Prayers

If y'all would please pray for two people at my school.

The first girl is a senior and last friday she was in a majorly awful accident.
They're not quite sure what happened, but they think she swerved to miss an animal and overcorrected. So she's broken her leg and arm, in several places I think, punctured one of her lungs, the seatbelt cut her small intestine, and she will have to have reconstructive surgery on the right side of her face. I believe she's still unconcious. Her family fosters many children, and currently one of the newer foster children is having their own medical issues, so this family has been at the hospital enough. Thank God she is alive. But please, please pray for her and her family.

The second, is a boy that is in my grade (sophemore) was upstairs with his dad watching tv, and when he walked downstairs, he found his mom on the floor. I think she was already dead by the time he found her, but he still tried to give her CPR. I just can't imagine how terrible that would be... They're not quite sure what happened to her, but they are thinking either she choked or had a heart attack. It has to be just so so hard on him and his family.. So pray for him also.

These terrible things happen everyday, but sometimes when it happens to people we know it hits closer to home.. But we just have to trust in God to bring us through the trials, and He can.

So keep them in your prayers please.

Vingt-cinq!

1. I've decided to do this on a blog because I'm not so sure I want all of my facebook friends reading these...

2. My mind just went blank.

3.My worst fear is that i will never find that love and get married and be pregnant and have a big family of my own...

4. ...If that does happen, I want a big family and have a house on a lot of land

5. When I'm by myself, I'm weird. I dance like there's no tomorrow and sing and talk.....and if you walk in on this event, you may just be scarred for life (and yeah, if y'all read whitt's i basically stole this one from her)

6. Someday I'd like to be fluent in another language... Spanish or French...but I think Spanish would be more helpful in the longrun.

7. I often wonder what it would be like if I had never moved to Tennessee, if we had stayed in Alabama...Where would we live? What would I be like? What would my relationships (with my friends) be like? I think about this constantly, and wonder if it would have been better or worse...but since I will never know, I realize still how incredibly blessed I am... If we hadn't moved my brother JD would never have met his wife, I wouldn't have (some) of the friends i have, or my mom wouldn't have her amazing job.

8. My mom has an amazing job.

9. I wish I could stop time when I'm with all my best friends, just so nobody would have to leave and we could stay there being with each other forever...

10. I absolutely love getting emails from people, and I love even more when I get a letter in the mail.

11. I'm terrible at giving advice, but I still love to listen to you and it makes me feel SO good when you can trust me to tell me your thoughts or secrets. I love to be told things. I'm a good secret keeper.

12. I really like looking at people's lips.. okay, that sounds so weird, but I love seeing all the differrent colors and shapes of lips, it's just so fascinating...

13. It makes me so happy when people tell me about a new artist they found, or when I find new music. And when I get new music, I tend to listen to them over and over again.

14. I have never flown in an airplane. And because of that, they scare me SO badly...but someday I will have to get over this and fly. I'm looking forward to that day.

15. It's hard to get started, but I love the feeling you get after you've accomplished a task... for example, cleaning the house!

16. I absolutely LOVE the smell of the detergent aisle. I will sometimes walk past it at the store and have to turn around and walk through the aisle [slowly] to enjoy the scents...it's just so fresh.

17. I love cooking/baking, although I hardly ever cook, which is sad because I wish I cooked more often........(so if you have any suggestions or recipes feel free to give them to me :D)

18. I'm almost completely convinced that I will have to marry a man who is similar to my dad. Someone who can build and construct and work with his hands. A man who likes to work hard or work outside...do you know what i'm trying to say? I don't think I could stand being with a man who has to wake up at 5 put on a suit and get home at 9. That would bother me.

19. And on that note, (my cousins all love this too) we love the smell of dirt or when our dad's come home from working all day :)
And I like when guys have rough hands.

20. Okay enough about the males. I like to talk to people. Wait. That's NOT the right way to put it... I'm shy. Yes. complete opposites, I know... But I'm shy around either large groups or when I don't know the people/person that well. If I'm comfortable around you, I will not be so quiet anymore. Ask mj, whitt, or maggie....they'll tell you.

21. I love music and drawing.

22. I need to do homework.

23. I am officially 90 pounds. (according to the scale)

24. My feet smell after wearing shoes.

25. I do push-ups.

26. I love strawberries

27. I'm not stopping now!

28. I feel like I need to make up for the last 6 numbers because they were so short and meaningless, so to equal out, I'll put more than 25.

29. Me and my cousins are so close, it scares me sometimes. You would be terrified.

30. I want to be able to do the splits.

31. For Mary-John- "I LOVE RUNNING!" (hey girlth)

32. Okay, so I forgot to mention my brothers... I'm terrible at these things..

33. I love being around my brothers because when all of us are together it's crazy..mainly just the three of them, but they're always goofing off. and there's usually picking up or throwing very very large pillows at me :)

34. I always laugh at the little things Jordan does...even when he's not really trying to be funny... I laugh SO hard.

35. Me and JD have good fake fights... it's so much fun

36. Me and Caleb used to have daydreams of things riding to school every morning. Like one time we were stuck in traffic and we were thinking about how awesome it would be to ramp over the cars and then drive on the roof and then just drive through the halls to our classes...(except imagine this much more dramatically)

37. I love looking at the stars.

2 Dolla! 2 Dolla!

Okay, once again failing with a title...


But here is a message to all you pessimists out there:

I, Max-frederick, arrived at the door of the infamous (or lack there of) Blevins' house
at around 5:34 on Friday, January 30, 2009.





So, I received two dollars.

Which i spent the next day on Milo's. :)



Thanks maggie!