My Christmas Message to You

12.21.07_Christmas party group pix

I had to lighten them up a bit--when I use the flash, it tends to make the pictures dark. [Not that you really care...]

Group pic #1

Group pic #2--I notice someone missing--Parker where are you? We miss you!

12.21.07_Christmas Party!

The Christmas party last night was awesome! We had a "Dirty Santa" gift exchange, played musical chairs, ate snacks, and played a couple games involving cotton balls, duct tape, and spoons.

Here we are sitting around, waiting to begin "Dirty Santa"

Katie and Sprite
still waiting...

Mrs. Sheree explainging how Dirty Santa works
Oh, decisions, decisions, decisions! What to choose?!

Choosing a gift...
Alex stealing a gift

me trying to savor the moment where I had the Starbucks giftcard, cute mug, and minty chocolates. [James ended up with that one while I ended up with a fruitcake mix...huh...]

Ryan opening his gift. [Some salt and pepper shakers in the shape of cowboy boots--needless to say, I don't think he was ever able to get anyone to steal it from him.]

Katie in the green hat.

Ryan in Erica's springy hat by the Christmas tree

ERICA!!!

Okay, I'm embarrassed--what is his name? [Sorry, if that's you!]

Boys playing pool...

Garrett and Parker

Me & Sprite

James...???? (evil grin???)
James & Josiah

JOSIAH! HA! (I'm so good!)

Video from Teen Game Night

Here are a couple videos of a fun thing we did at teen game night. Watch!

[Behind the scenes of] The MAD Adventures of Mr. Toad!

November 9th [pretty sure I got the date right] I and several other people from CHEER went to see the Mad Adventures of Mr. Toad. It was so fun! Ryan and his younger sister, Aleigh were in it and I think Sprite's entire family had some part in the production or was a part of the production some how.

after the show [from left to right:]

Cat [yours truly], Katie, Sprite, Lindsay, Erica, Ryan, and John

Lindsay and Sprite in the car! LOL

[in the green room] Erica, Sprite, and Lindsay


Katie and Aleigh

Abyni [the cutest mole you ever did see! LOL] and Sprite

Erica and Lindsay goofing off

Katie, Erica, Aleigh, and Lindsay ALL goofing off

Cat and Sprite

aren't these cool?

You guys [in the play] all did a great job! Thanks for putting on such a great show!

my birthday and my other blog...

Well, tomorrow is my birthday and I'm excited. :) Tonight is teen game night so I'm even MORE excited. [I love teen game night!]

Also, here's the link to my personal blog.

Hopefully, I'll see you all tonight!

Sprite's pictures from the fall barn party

Sprite's Peter Pan costume [oh, so lovely and colorful!]

Thanks for sending me the pictures, Sprite!
Ryan in HIS Peter Pan outfit [a bit more realistic--except for the jeans...]

Mandi [last year's yearbook club leader] as Eowyn from Lord of the Rings! AWESOME!

10.12.07--Fall Barn Party!

Oh my gosh! I had a blast at the barn party last night! It was so fun! I dressed up as a pirate, several friends of mine came, we "socialized"--it was just wonderful! [Don't you wish you'd been there?]

Rachel, Jenna, myself (I didn't know what to do with my arms!), and Sprite [PETER PAN! awesome!]
James, the cowardly ninja [LOL]

(on the hayride) James, Sprite, and Jenna
(still on the hayride) Rachel, myself, and James

James [the ninja], myself, and Rachel

(out by the bonfire) Sprite, myself, James, and Rachel

9.21.07--First H.S. Game Night of the 07-08 School Year!

Well, last night was, like the title of this post implies, the first H.S. game night of the school year! I was so excited. I wish I could have stayed until it was over but my sister's game night ended an hour before mine did so... :P 'Twas a big bummer.

There were several people who came that were new to the game night and that was cool.

Erica... LOL

Ryan talking with his hands...

[little blurry] Katie, Raquel, and Lindsay

James, John, and [shoot! what is his name? he's Josiah's brother but what is his NAME?! HELP!]

Laughing people--James, what's-his-name, John, David, Andrew, and Josiah
Ariel [pronounced "ahr-ee-ell"]
a candid shot of the camera-shy Rebecca

First H.S. game night of the year!

tomorrow's the first teen game night of the year--please come, everyone!

High School Yearbook Club, Anyone?

Would any of you, my fellow CHEER high schoolers, be interested in joining the High School Yearbook club this year? If you are even slightly interested in joining and being a part of this year's WONDERFUL yearbook, then come to the first meeting on September 16th at 3:30pm.

We need people who will/who can:

Take pictures
Do reports/ask questions/do mini interviews
Use the computer
and/or
Scrapbook
(Eat snacks & talk!)

If you are interested, please call or e-mail me to get info on where (didn't want to post the address, etc. online). If you don't already have my phone/e-mail then either ask Mrs. Sheree or see if you can find my family in the CHEER roster--we're in the B's. I want to get a general idea of how many people will be coming so I know how many snacks to bring. You can comment on here, too, if you want.

At least come to the first meeting to see if you might enjoy it. Plus, once we finish the yearbook and you're having friends sign it, you can show them the stuff you did and say, "hey, look what I did!" Maybe you'll get to make new friends or just spend more time with the ones you already have.

I hope you can come!