One of the Chain Letters I really Enjoyed-

A Child's View of Thunderstorms
A little girl walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school. As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with lightning. The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school and she feared the electrical storm might harm her child. Full of concern, the mother quickly got into her car and drove along the route to her child's school. As she did she saw her little girl walking along. At each flash of lightning, the child would stop, look up, and smile. Another and another flash of lighting followed quickly and with each the little girl would look at the streak of light and smile. When the mother's car drew up beside the child she lowered the window and called to her 'What are you doing?' The child a answered 'I am trying to look pretty because God keeps taking my picture.'

May God bless you today and everyday as you face the storms that come your way...

Whats Up?

So, I have been bored lately, especially today because it has been raining. The last time it rained, it blew through a cold front! It has been pretty chilly (brr!-to me at least).
Any who, I'm going to post a video soon of Caitlin and I finally mastering our flip and landing it, also of me FINALLY landing my Front Handspring- YEAH!

Ok, now, my mind went blank, and I don't know what to write about :)

Oh, and one more thing...

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Back Again...

I've been trying to post for a while, but even with 2 classes, I've got a lot of homework and projects, so does Caitlin, because we are in switch classes, so we have the same teachers, same homework, and same projects, (which is really helpful). Well, we have been spending time with the Taylors :) and here are some pics. of the fun times:

Anyhow, Caitlin and I are doing a service for the street and neighbors, a dog walking service. We have made flyers (<----Is that spelled right?)on Microsoft Publisher, also we made a blog. So, we'll let you know how that goes. We are trying to save up for a Nintendo DS Lite, Like this:

OK, so tomorrow is a half day and we have Monday off, so maybe I'll have time to upload my pictures from my camera and post about stuff. Oh, yeah, and by the way, my Toe is fine (If you look back at my last post, you will know what I'm talking about)

Yes, I'm Here...

Since school has started, life has been CRAZY! They pack you with homework from the first day to the last. I would of blogged during the hurricane, but there was almost no way, so here I am now. I want to say (a very belated) Congratulations to Fionna for finishing up chemo and being Cancer-Free! Anyway, I had a hard time surviving the Storm and had a little issue that I couldn't play Mario Kart the first few days we didn't have the generator, but I would have to admit: I AM ADDICTED TO MARIO KART. Caitlin and I would explore and find ways to see the power lines, and we finally found one. Our old neighbors moved out, so we would go through their backyard, and we would climb the fence and "Wal-la!" you are right in front of the power lines. We would go check daily, and see if they had done anything, truthfully, the only thing that I thought changed was that the grass had gotten greener, but besides that nothing had changed over the past 2 weeks until they came. When we were climbing the fence, I fell off and hurt my toe. Some say its Broken, some say its sprained but you know, I will live.

Off to School, No time for Blogging-

Everyone,

Since I'm going to school in 3 days, I will not be around for a while. It's kinda nerve racking when you are thinking in your head: Lockers, a New School, New Teachers, New Time, New Year, New People, New Friends, and so on. So, just so you know I wont't be around much but I will be Totaly be back next Summer.

Best Wishes,

Courtney

Up in Iowa....

In Iowa, there is so much to do! First we went to a water park, because belive it or not- Its hot up there. There was 3 waterslides, and lot of fun stuff like a Lazy River. I went on the Waterslides with Grant, my dad, and Caitlin. It ws really fun we would do trick off the waterslide and stuff. We didnt get many photos because you had to have a "Photo Pass" but we snuck a few.

We just kind of hung around after we went to see and do everything.

We had a Crazy Cousins Club, climbed trees, played outside, ate ice cream, and swam.

Field of Dreams

Sorry I have not updated in a while, Ive been really busy getting ready for school.

I would have to say Field of Dreams was so cool. We watched the Movie before we went. We acted out some scenes. I loved disappearing through the Corn Fields, then "having a catch with my dad."

Mall of America

Mall of America Sign

While we are here in Iowa, we decided to go visit the Mall of America. We drove for 31/2 hours until we finally got there. On the way there, we stopped for lunch and saw this truck with a trailer filled with over 1000 empty cans of soda. It was so cool! At Mall of America we got lots of souvieners and rode the Nicklodien Univerise rides over and over! I went on this rollercoaster with Grant, Mom, Dad, Caitlin, and Victoria where you would climb to the top of the celing then drop straifght down, do a loop-de-loop drive really funny around then do a corkscrew.

Here is some pictures:

This is the trailler that was filled with cans.

Here is at Lego Land

And Here is at Nickilodien Universe

A place in the mall

A raffle in the middle of the mall

RainForest Cafe

Our Birthday

This year our Birthday was Awesome! We went to Del Plebulo, then we opened presents. Thanks everybody who gave us presents! We loved them all! We are so exited to get a Wii Fit or get Mario Kart. Its a late Birthday present because Wii Fit and Mario Kart is rare!
Sorry this one is sideways!

My Lighthouse Painting

I am very bored this summer, so I have to get creative. This week, I took a shoe box lid and cut it. I went outside and started painting. I used Nail Polish and some paint, (We don't have much paint). This is how it turned out: