here are some pictures of my easter.

okay i found my camera this morning. yay! so here are some pics.


katie had fun looking for the easter eggs, but she thought they were balls and kept throwing them.





yeah, i had fun climbing trees and making strange faces at the camera....don't ask.

but i think my cousin, justin, like hunting for easter eggs even better than katie. :) yeah, he spent easter with us since his family is in utah. it was fun. we were up until 2:00 on saturday night catapulting stuffed animals across the room with a ceiling fan and painting his toe nails. he wanted me to paint them purple and gold because those are his school colors for whitter. here is a pic....am i good or what? :)

he is so strange. the funniest thing was that we went to a country club for brunch and all he had was flip flops. he kept curling his toes under and hoping no one would notice. it was hilarious. :)

yep yep well i'm off to go pack for tomorrow! :)

happy easter!

well, i was going to post some pics of the day's events, but my mom lost my camera. i don't even know how. so, instead i think i will leave you with this verse i just read and really liked. it fits with whole theme of easter. i also really liked how this version was written for this particular verse.

By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

1 John 4: 9-12 New American Standard version.

happy easter!

maybe i'll have some pics for you all tomorrow if i ever find my camera. :)

wait, is this spring BREAK???

i cant believe how much homework i have over spring break! i have to write my history research paper, which is supposed to be five pages. then i have another history study guide thing that is mandatory to do and mr. rhodes says "this should take you a good two to three hours to complete". yikes! so that's like five hours right there just for history! i also have to make a spanish book; that will probably take me an hour and a half to two hours. boo! i have to waste my whole saturday on homework! i'd much rather be doing what i did yesterday.

yesterday was my first trip to manhattan beach! it was so fun! between playing frisbee golf in the house, almost turning on to one way streets and chinese fire drills; we had fun! not to mention insanely funny moments about BMW's and me completely not understanding this card game, mao, (spelling?)...but i guess that was the point. awesome day yesterday!

happy easter sunday tomorrow everyone!
i'm back to my homework now. :(
my goal is to finish it all before i leave for the grand canyon so i don't have to worry about it when i get back! :)

i'm suffering from short term memory loss

so i'm sitting comfortably on my bed in sweats when i hear the phone ring. my mom answers it and then goes "oh no! i think she forgot". i'm thinking forgot what? then it clicked i was supposed to be at a tennis lesson at 7:00 and it was 7:05 oops! i jumped up threw on some shorts and a t-shirt grabbed my pair of tennis shoes and i was there by 7:11 AND it took 5min. to get there. i got dressed and ran out the door all in 1 min. flat. come on that's impressive. i was ready before my mom was off the phone with my tennis coach. sweet! that's a record! :)

oh, and something else that made my day. i played better than i have in probably a month! i was super excited! okay enough about me!

i'm going to go take a shower because i smell. adios amigos! :)

SPRING BREAK!!!

yes! finally! i'm so excited! yep yep not much else to say now! have a good friday off tomorrow! :)

oh we did have to take team pictures today. we took a high jump picture that was pretty much awesome! we made the three guys lay down on the grass in the front and then put the four girls back to back sitting behind them....it should turn out good. i hope! :)

yet another productive day for the high jumpers

i think today was quite productive anyway. you know we did some walk through, laid on the mat, pop ups, laid on the mat some more, j's, and laid on the mat some more. well, all this laying on the mat can make you hungry for a rather tasty treat! golden spoon of course! yep yep so we left practice and got golden spoon. oh, and it gets even better than just golden spoon! i know what your thinking: how can it get any better than that???? well even better than just golden spoon is, free golden spoon!!! actually FOUR free 8oz. cups of it! a couple of weeks ago i was looking through a catalog and came across a golden spoon coupon. the deal was for four 8oz cups of the delicious frozen yogurt to a party of four, and all four people had to be present. no problem; there were four of us there. almost thinking this was too good to be true i asked the guy "does this work?" he looked at it and gave us our four free small yogurts. how awesome is that?!?!

oh, and something creepy that happened today: so the track meet, tomorrow, is at la habra high school. (aka. the worst high jumping pit in the world) so mr. hogan was there at practice today and he starts talking to me. he grabs my hand, holds it and says "so you know where your jumping tomorrow right?" (all i'm thinking is please let go of my hand!) but i nodded, and he was like "just do your best"
"ummmm... yeah" let go of my hand!
"it'll be a tough one"
okay just let go of my hand; your creeping me out!!!
wow, he creeps me out!

anywho...have a good night! dont let the bed bugs bite! :)

three days left...

only three days left until spring break!!! yes! and only seven days left until i leave for the grand canyon!!! sweet! i'm so stoked!!!

oh, which reminds me....so i though i would be back by the 14 to go to the track meet in carpentaria, but it turns out our flight gets in around 3:oo so i'll have missed it! so the other day i went and told mrs. hogan and she puts her left hand on my forehead and then hits her left hand with her right hand. she did this three times...awkward? yeah. she was like "danielle, don't expect to just take off a week and then come back and be able to start it up again." okay....first of all start what up again? i really haven’t been jumping well at all, which she is also on my case about. she was like "alright we really need to get it together and jump higher. i expect you to qualify for c.i.f this year" i was like "ummm yeah that’d be nice". you know because i'm trying to completely stink. i didn't think the idea was to jump high at all; i though you were supposed to knock the bar down….silly me! (sorry i'm kinda in a sarcastic mood) and second; it's totally all my fault i'm not going to be at the stupid track meet on the 14th and that i'll be gone so i can’t come to practice over spring break. i mean it's not as if i will just be sitting around doing nothing all day. i'll be hiking and stuff...some physical activity anyway. okay thanks for letting me vent a little. although, i'm not actually upset....just amused. i think it's kinda funny. :)

adios mi amigos! :) off to hw land! oh joy, oh joy!

how NOT to drive

well well, today i got yet another example of how not to drive when in a hurry. some of you already know this but my step dad is a maniac driver! yeah and those maniac driving habits are just enhanced when were in a hurry to get my cousin from dinner on a 7:45 flight and it's 7:15. not that i would ever drive 60 on a 40 mph street any way, but after riding with him for the past 10 years or more, i defiantly wont. i should say something in his defense though. you see, i wasn't really worried about us getting into an accident (we were moving so fast any car would have a hard time hitting us...ha ha just kidding) as much as i was worried about the cars around us. he is a safe driver, just insane. he keeps telling me it's from years of experience. hmm? although i wasn't scared, (i have since become immune) it was hilarious to watch my cousin, justin, clutching the seat and muttering prayers under his breath....and the look on his face? lets just say i wished i had my camera with me. :)

school tomorrow!


cherrio! :)