sunny with a high of 75//

I hate when people whine or complain. So I am going to be mad at myself later for being all sad on here.




I really miss Alabama. Washington is pretty and my family is here, but I miss Alabama a lot. Today Katy and I developed our pictures and basically cried looking at all of them. Then whiel driving we heard a million songs that reminded us of our sweet car rides with Matthew. That made us sad too. Then we went to Wal-Mart, which is where we spent a lot of our time in Alabama [[haha it was great.]], and that made us sad too. I wish all my Washington friends and my family would all migrate. That would be so nice. So who's with me?

:[[

Today was really random and it was totally sweet. I woke up and took a shower and right when I started helping cleaning up, Matthew called.So we decided to go to the mall in Montgomery and meet up with Shea. We all [[me, Matthew, Shea, Katy, talicia, and Cameron]] had lunch at the mall and went ice skating. Of course, since we were all wearing flip flops we had to buy some socks, but that is the good part of having an ice rink IN the mall. After that we went go-carting and watched Shea hit in the batting cages. I got owned teh first round of go-carting, but my cart was like, rigged. The second rounf I owned everyone, and lapped Katy adn Matthew. After that we had to go to Wal-Mart to get the ingredients for dinner. yummm. We also bought a lot of candy. Other ingredients for dinner were chicken, pasta,a nd alfredo sauce. Yes I made the awesome pasta dinner. It was better than ever, and we also had PINEAPPLE!!! yayyy. lol. Then when the guys left to go to Chris' house, we had an awesome girls night. We, being me, Katy, Talicia, Shea, Trudy, and Farah [[and Cole]], watched a total chick flick, then went searching for scary places around Alabama. First we went to the house of crosses. This house is supposedly very scary and it had 1,000 crosses over their whoel property. We got out, all besides Farah and the baby, to look more closely at the crosses and all the writing. then all the sudden this guy starts walking out, and Trudy and Shea just about left me and Katy to die at this scary house. We leaped over the backseat into the Durango and discovered the guy was actually nice. Except we realized all teh guys in scary movie start out being nice, but then they kill you. Or in Shea's case they ask for your number. Yeah he wanted her. lol. So then we went searchign for this white lady, and this hill. We found neither. Now we are all back at Shea's watching her comedy tape and I am pretty much tired. Like really tired. Anyways tomorrow we have some planned randomness with Matthew and Cameron. I am pumped. More later...

Yesterday we finally had a day that was sort of "unplanned". Since we've been here we've had set things we have had to do... they were all fun and amazing but it was a good change of pace to sleep in. Matthew picked us up after he got out of school around noon, and we went to his friend Mitchell's house. That's where we went fourwheeling. It was AWESOME!!! Okay so... me and Matthew got owned by Katy and MItchell. We were going through this deep mud puddle which was bad to begin with, and then Mitchell and Katy came up behind us and splashed us with a HUGE "tidal wave" of muddy water. We were totally soaked with brownish orangish muddy water, even in my hair. It wasn't even that hot outside, so when Matthew decided to full throttle down this red dirt road, I felt like I was in Alaska, not Alabama. We decided that we could only handle that coldness for a few seconds and then we had to slow down. So besides getting owned, I like fourwheeling in the mud a lot. Later, after we took showers went to Chris and Trudy's house so everyone could play poker. That's when me, Talicia, Katy and Farah decided to play this sweet game counting how many doors were unlocked and led into the house. It sounds dumb but it was really fun. [[There are six total unlocked doors]]. Then we also counted stairs with Dax, watched Cameron Chris and Matthew play Xbox in the movie theater, searched the entire place for Talicia [[Matthew spotted her on the security camera but we thought that she was a tree because there is this tree that looks like a person]], had a great BBQ chicken dinner and on the way home had a talk about air quotes, which you can offically do ten of them before you will go off teh road driving. It was a fun day. We won't be here very much longer. Sad.

So far we have been non-stop laughing this entire trip. Mostly thanks to Cameron's one-liners and Talicia's stories... here are a few.




Me- You played soccer Cameron?


Him- Yeah until I got cut.




Talicia- I can't wear my kicks then I look emo.




Katy- What's a doob? Oh wait that says door.




Cameron- It must have been the dipping sauce.




Katy- David!!! Talicia is on drugs.


Me- THATS what her "mystery" bag was for!!




Matt Lord [[youth pastor at this church]]- You eleventh grade girls need to get involved!!

Cameron- I need to go find those girls!!!!




David- Is it all right if I walk around with this mike?


Matt Lord- Yeah. He likes to be mobile.




Me- Most people just sit in the corner reading poetry and drinking their coffee.




Talicia- The cheetos are a lot bigger here.




OKay so there are a lot more than that. But right now we are about to go 4-wheeling with Matthew so I have to end this post. More to come later. :)

well... so far alabama is pretty much the coolest place on earth. of course i miss everyone back home but thats about it. saturday we went to bryan and karen's wedding, which was beautiful and so much fun. then we headed up to birmingham to go to this hugeeeeeee church there. oh and everything in the town of birmingham and hoover have teh name riverchase. even the mall. [[actually its riverchase galleria]]. so we went to this church sunday morning and met a whole bunch of really cool kids that we went out to lunch with [[tyler trey jared danny and courtney]]. they think its hilarious that i say pop. but then again i think its funny that they say y'all so it all works out. anyways we hung outwith them, went to the mall, and then headed back to the church for its evening service. then we left and went straight for auburn. which i forgot to mention this whole time since the wedding it has been just me katy talicia cameron and david. so we went to auburn and stayed with the devenneys... who are the NICEST people i have ever met in my life. then today we saw the sights of auburn. it isbeautiful and so amazing to see all the places david and farah and all the reeves girls tell us so much about. we went to parkway[[ the reeves old church]] and we also saw their house. it was really cool. now we are at david's parents house just hanging out with david cameron and matthew. oh and did i mention it is 79 degrees outside. pretty hot for march. anyways i love you all and miss you too. especially jessica because... well duhhh when was the last time i got to go drivign down meridian??????? well when i get back i am doing it so be prepared jess. and gene and dylan. now i think we may be going to a movie or something so i will write more later.

well... we arrived at the birmingham airport at 10pm... thats about 8pm for all my wonderful friends in washington. we were picked up by most of the isbell family in a limo. [[oh and both flights were very good... the dallas airport is HUGE]]. so we drove to david's brother chris' house... which isnt even reallya house considering it has a movie theater in it. now we are chillin' at shea's. her house is pretty amazing too. now we are a little tired from flying all day... so i will update this later.

for the record i tried to upload pictures but since it is 1:22am and we are tired... i gave up. tomorrow though, prepare to be amazed!!!!

My brother is much better at snowmobiling than me. He pretty much a stud at it. I couldn't find the picture of him basically doing a wheelie, but this one is cool too :)

Yesterday was awesome.




A bunch of us [[La, Nat, Meg, Talicia, Brian, David, and I]] drove up to Sumner in the Reeves van and got ice cream before 222. While we were there, we heard MANY funny stories from Talicia, and pretty much got the weirdest combinations of ice cream ever. [[Rainbow sherbert and chocolate fudge??]] I pretty much had the best time of my life. We are definitely doing that whole ice cream thing again... and anyone who wants to come is invited, so save your money :)

With only two days until we head to Alabama... I guess you can say I am pretty excited, but also extremely stressed. All these days we have been counting down, first 70. Then 56. Then a month. Then a week. The day is RAPIDLY approaching. I feel like I have soooo much to do and definetly not enought time to do it. I have to pack. I have to wash clothes. I need to find some batteries for the camera, and a charger for my phone. I really need some more socks, and above all that I need to get all my school assignments figured out. Earlier this month I couldn't wait for March 9th... now I am wishing I had like, just a week more to get ready!!!




I think a teeny, tiny part of me is also scared... but only for the plane ride. Yes imagine that, there is still someone in the world over the age of 2 that has NEVER been on an airplane. Actually there are two [[me and Jarvis]]. I am really excited and have never been afraid of flying, I just haven't had the oppertunity to fly somewhere.




Man... I definetly am excited, but all this time it has never really seemed like we really are GOING to Alabama. We talk about it and think about it, but its just kind of like a picture in our heads. Anyways today I think it finally sank in a little. I am so pumped :]]

Reasons why today was sweet:

1. I woke up on time and was ready early.

2. I didn't have to drive Jarvis to school :)

3. Me and Lauren went to Starbucks and it only cost $1.44

4. My classes went by fast [[since we didn't have first or second barely]]

5. I actually had money to buy a smoothie for lunch and not have to borrow from Jarvis, Jarvis's friends, or anyone else.

6. I got to go shopping after school with Jess.

7. I found like, the best sales ever. And got sweet sunglasses.

8. Jess and I [[with the help of Lucas and Mackenzie]] had the best prank ever on Dylan.

9. It turns out we didn't break his CD player.

10. I got home at a decent time after watching a movie!! [[this is definetly a first]]





So as you can see today was pretty cool. :]]

So many things are coming up in the next couple months... it is just CRAZY. But right now all I can think about is the trip to Alabama, which I am totally pumped for. It is going to awesome!!!! I can't wait to go on the plane [[which is dumb but hey I have never been on a plane]]. Then we get to go to Bryan and Karen's wedding :). We get to eat at like a million places David says are the best ever. We get to go to Auburn [[the school]] and see it like, in person. lol. As Katy and I were just talking about.... we haven't fully comprehended that we are actually going to go to Alabama. It's like this imaginary thing we talk about but don't really THINK about. I am so excited!!!! It's basically going to be the coolest thing I've ever done in my life. :]]