ok ok a new post

alright so ryan asked for another new post so i suppose im obligated to post bout somethin new. =)

sooo.....lets see...I guess ill give a brief overview of my mexico trip that i went on way back when. So we left on a friday. The bus ride was excruciating. Drive for over 6 hours straight with 30 plus high schoolers and you'll know what im talkin bout. You deffidently havn't heard loud till you've been on a bus ride down to mexico. Ok, no, it wasnt that bad. In fact it was actually alot of fun, dispite the fact that my brother and his friends decided it would be fun to get candid pictures of my. I.E. pictures of me in the middle of saying something, or better yet, of me sleeping. Ugh, didnt like any of those so =) i deleted all of them. Or at least i thought i had. Half way through the week i decided, "You know, it really just isnt worth it." So i stopped trying to delete every single picture someone took of me. So i guess its tradition to throw all the girls in the pool at the hotel. I think thats kinda funny, but was determined that i wouldnt become one of the helpless victoms, and, im quite proud to say, i wasnt thrown in. =) Unfortunately, others were not as lucky. But anyways....so skipping straight to vbs. I was in ejido puebla and i swear, there were NONE of my friends in that village. Literally. NO ONE. No Catie, No Michelle, No Atalie, No Michaela(sorry if i spelled that wrong), No Erin, No One. It was most depressing, but hey, i cant complain anymore because it gave me more time to be with the kids and i did actually end up getting to know a few of the people in my group really well so that was cool. There was one girl in particular that completlely stole my heart. Her and her little sister were absolutely beautiful. I had never seen a child as gorgeous as little Naustia. Her little sister, JoAnna was so sweet. She couldnt have been more then 2 or 3 but she was beautiful too. I dont even know how many pictures there are of my with JoAnna asleep on my lap, and me, asleep with her on top of me, in a church pew. They were probably the best part of my trip down there. God totally provided for us in crafts. Thats where i was helping out. We had prepared for 110 kids. The first day we got 78. The second day...there were 120. Liz and i were just a lil bit stressed out, but she was resourceful and we were able to keep all the kids happy. So ya. That was my trip.
Hope your happy Ryan ;)

Princess Pink

....a new post....

Ok so sense ryan asked for a new post because of his brothers misfortune, i guess i have to have a new post so here it is.

i cant really think of anything special thats happened in my life so lets just give a quick update on whats going on in my life....i now play tennis with catie and atalie, its alot of fun. im going to mexico over spring break with my youth group and its going to be really crazy cause i have a huge project for english due RIGHT after i get home which means that i have to finnish it before i leave which means i have to start on it right now which means i have no time to do any of the other stuff i want to do. man that was a long sentence. =) so mexico, tennis....ummm.....ya, im sorry but thats pretty much it. oh ya. yesterday i went to go check out nordquest(its a dance place) and it was incredible. there were about 1000 people there, all in suits and ball gowns dancing all these really cool dances. i was very impressed. so yup thats about it.
theres your post ryan.

Princess Pink

My misfortunes on my Snow Trip

Last friday, saterday and most of sunday, i was up at tahoe. Its really beautiful this time of year and we were blessed with great weather. I really only had two misfortunes on this trip and one of them wasnt even really mine, wait no, i had three for me and one for my bro so that would make 4 misfortunes altogether. The first thing that went wrong, happened while my brother was driving me, my mom and dad up to the snow. As i looked around outside the window along the freeway, i spotted at least for policemen who were pulled up along side a car giving them a ticket, or standing between the two people who's cars had smashed into each other. As Justin came to a gentle stop behind the line of cars stuck in traffic i again looked out my window to see a cop on a motercycle directly across from me. "Hmm, thats funny that we stopped right across from a-" CRASH!!!!!!!! A huge semitruck came careening down the highway to smash full speed into our tiny honda.....!!!! Just kidding. ; ) it was only a land rover going half speed but he hit us hard enough for me to jerk slightly forword in my seat. My mother gasped, justins eyes went wide with panic and my dad started twisting around in his seat calling, "What was that?!?!?!" Remembering the police man across from us i quickly looked over at him. He had seen the guy rear end us and was writing down, i guessed, the guys license plate on a yellow notepad. We pulled over on a shoulder of the highway and i heard the cop tell my dad that they had had 8 accidents in the last hour. He's certainly got his work cut out for him today, I thought pityingly. So the next three things happened on the slope. My family used to ski, but this time, we decided to all try snowboarding. I have been snowboarding once before, with Catie and Michelle and let me tell you, they are great teachers. As soon as i got up on my board i remembered everything they had taught me and made it down the slope in a record breaking 30 seconds. (I just won't mention the fact tat the slope wasnt very long) The second day is when it all happened. We went to north star and man was it packed! Everyone spoke a different language; Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Germain, Spanish and a whole lot more. The people who did actually speak english spoke it with a british accent which i thought was very entertaining. So anyways, the first thing that happened was when i was half way down the slope(this slope being VERY long) and was waiting for the rest of my family to catch up with my. I began to feel a little bit worried when an asian boy who was seemingly having a hard time steering, started coming directly at me. My fears were justified when right as i decided i had better get out of the way before he completely took me out, he regained enough balance to steer around me, but unfortunately, not enough to not clip the edge of my board and send my flying down the hill. " Sorry!" I heard him call as he continued zumming down the hill. The second misfortune was much like the first, except this time the positions were reversed. I was the one who actually lost my balance and starting flipping down the steep slope twords a guy who was sitting in the middle of the snow, probably waiting for someone. i managed to stop myself before i hit him and i could see the relief on his face that i was feeling. "Wow, im sure glad u got that cause for a while it was looking kinda ---" for those three lines just use your imagination and you'll probably come up with what he actually said. The third and last thing that happened was probably the worst. My brother and i had decided it would be fun to go to the back side of the mountain, so, seporating from our parents, we took a different lift and started over to th other side. There came a part when it was flat and we had to unstrap on foot to propell us onto the next part. Watching my feet to make sure i didnt slip, i saw a drop of red appear on the white snow. "Oh no...." i murmmered hoping with all my might that it wasnt what i thought it was. To bad. It was. I groaned as a fountain of blood burst from my nose and stained the snow crimson. Staggering over to a wall of snow i dropped to my knees and watched with disgust as all the snow around me was dyed a bright red. Justin stumbled back to where i was and sat down next to me. "Here" he said, stuffing a fistfull of snow in my hand and motioning for me to cover my nose with it. So thats how it went for about 25 minutes. Justin would hand me a handful of snow, i would stick it under my nose and when it became too saturated with blood, i would toss it away and he would give me another clump of snow. By the time it stopped it was getting late and we only had time to go twice down the mountain. So those were my misfortunes on my snow trip.

Princess Pink

Beth's home!!!!

As you can most likely gather from the title, my sister Beth is home from college. She's only home for a little while though, *tear* and will soon, as of this tuesday be going to the San Fransisco airport(i think) to be getting on a plane to Ecuador. She is going to be spending her whole 5 weeks of christmas break down in south america in a country named Ecuador in a town called pifo with the Baez family. Two summers ago our whole family(and the rowlands family) went down with other families from our church on a ten day mission trip. The men and boys helped build and construct a new classroom, while everyone else ran a 4-5 day VBS for over 400 mexican children. It was so much fun, even though i had no idea what the heck they were saying. Almost everybody came home sick, but it was worth it to look back and see the things we had accomplished and the lives we had touched. And now my sister is going back, by herself to get better at espanual( thats spanish for those of u who didnt understand) = ).

Pink Princess

Funny things that happen at School

Well, by monday i'll actually have something interesting to post about cause i'm going to help out at hartstone(a bible camp) but i guess until then i'll tell y'all about some things that have been going on at school.

There were two things that i found worth my while to post about so this is going to be a very short post.

The first thing happened in science yesterday. Because we don't have school tomorrow, fridays schedual was moved to wed, which means that i had an hour and a half, or something like that, of english, bible and science. Of the three science is by far my favorite class, not because it's easy, cause believe me, it's not, but because the teacher lets us basically do anything we want. Now sometimes, him being so lenient causes major problems. So, a couple days ago, we got a new seating charter. Now, i like my seat in the very back corner next to the door very much, so i came up with a good enough reason to be allowed to remain in my seat. I now sit with a guy in front of me that always asks THE randomest questions in the history of mankind, and a guy beside me that always finds the wierdest ways to entertain himself. Not a very good combo to be stuck between. But i've gotten used to it now, and it's not so bad. OK so i dont know why, but for some reason, everyone says that i laugh ALL the time. Sometimes, that can get me in trouble, not only with teachers but also with fellow students. So there i am, sitting in the back corner of the room, laughing about something, i dont remember what, when one of my friends gets up and comes across the room to throw something away in the trash can next to me. "You laugh to much Kayla." she told me. In the middle of the period, the teacher allowed us a break to do whatever we wanted. The same friend came over with a water bottle and while i was laughing about something said, "Dont make me do this." i continued laughing because i knew that she wouldn't actually poor water over me. Wrong. My laughter, and the laughter of those around me imdiately vanished when i felt cold water gushing over my head and down my back. Luckily it missed the front of my shirt, but my back, and by this time, jeans, were soaked.
Everyone looked at me to see what i would do. Not wanting to cause friction between my friends, i just laughed and said nothing to the person who had drenched me. So, that was kinda funny. The second thing that happened happened to me today in chapel. I had a short sleeved shirt on, but a big furry jacket on over it. I had completely forgotten that hoods, which i had, were not allowed in chapel, so i had to take mine off. As the speaker was speaking, i moved down in my seat and drapped my coat across me. Slowly, my eyes began to close and, as you can probably guess, i fell asleep. I was in the middle of a strange dream when i felt something brushing under my nose. It freaked me out and i jumped so bad that all the people in my row and the row behind me started cracking up. (remember this is IN chapel) Teachers all around us started turning around to stare at us, so everyone started coughing to cover their laughter. As we were leaving, these were some of the coments i recieved. "What happened?....Dude, are you ok?....Oh my gosh! It looked like you were having a spasam!....(hahahaha) You should have seen how high you jumped!....Oh wow, your eyes got SO big!....I wish you could have seen the look on your face..." along with others i've forgotten. So those are some of the funny things that happened to me at school. = )

Princess Pink

Rock of Ages

I have been asked repeatedly(sp) to write a new post so, heres one.

Last Saterday, was a festival called Rock of Ages. It was over in calistoga, so it didnt take very long to get there thankfully. Some of the bands that played there were MxPx, Phil Joel(who used to be with the News Boys) and Jars of Clay, who were probably the biggest attraction there. Phil Joel was the first of the three to play. He played lots of good songs and gave his testomony along with them. It was really cool how he told us about the songs he had written and how a certain event in his life had inspired him to write it. Next was MxPx. I cant say that i liked them, because really, i didn't. I didn't know any of the songs, and it really didn't seem like they were a Christian band. Jars of Clay was really good. Even though i only knew one of the songs that they played they were still alot of fun to watch. In between bands playing, I walked around with groups of friends, and looked at the stands that they had around the property. There was a place where skateboarders could go and do tricks, a shirt shop that had shirts with sayings like, I lost my mom in the mosh pit(to those of you who dont know what a mosh pit is, it is where people go way up front and all crowd around the stage.) I'm the Christian the Devil warned you about. And then my personal favorite, Jesus love you, but I'm his favorite. =) I thought that that one was funny. Another place was selling Christian books, clothes, cds and videos. And throughout the field there were food venders. So, it was a really fun time and I had lots of fun.

Princess Pink

babysitting....or, petsitting

Alright, alright, everyone has been asking for a new post so here you go. Now Catie, this is mostly about your rat and the beginning may sound bad, but everything turns out fine, so don't worry. =)

Thursday evening, I got a call from my friend, and neighbor, asking if i would be able to watch their pets for the weekend while their family went camping. Of course i was happy to oblige, but then, i got a tiny piece of news that didn't excite me quite as much. I was also to be taking care of lucy, Caties rat. Now I have an incredible dislike for all rodents and reptiles and this one was no different. I was having my doubts as i was walking down to the Rowlands, but when they pulled the critter out of the cage, i saw that it was quite harmless, and maybe, just maybe a tiny bit cute. So the next day...well, acually it was probably night by then, when i had to go down to feed the pets I took one of guests from dinner. Cassie, our high school pastors wife. When we got down to the house i walked into the living room where i had been told by Catie herself that the cage would be there. I was stopped in my tracks by a most destressing sight. The rat was not there, neither was its cage. Oh great. I thought, where in the world is lucy? "Umm, I can't find the rat Cassie." I told Cassie as i walked back to the front door. Now i wasn't worried at all because i knew that the rat couldn't have just vanished WITH it's cage. But Cassie did not share my confidence. She began to look nervously around on the floor which i thought was funny, but she obviously did not. "This is not cool Kayla" she told me. Thus began a VERY thorough search throughout the house, including the garage, with the exception of the parents room, for the missing pet. But she was no where to be found. By now i was getting frustrated, finally i picked up the phone and called my mom asking if she had any idea where it would be. She said she didn't but she sent down my dad and OJ to help us look. After a while i told them that they could leave, i would stay behind and look for the rat. Well, i finally found it after they had left. She was in Caties room, where i had already looked about 1000 times, sitting on a shelf. I was greatly releaved and after that had no further problems.

Princess Pink