what a day!

so, i know you are dying to know the outcome of tennis today. laney and i lost first round, which kinda stinks, but we do get to go tomorrow and support! :) jane and amanda did awesome and are advancing. both brittany and alicia also did really well and actually have to play each other tomorrow to find out the winner. intense! so, yeah today was awesomely fun! we got out at 11:15, got subway and since it was only the six of us (seven plus coach) we took the van! what could be more fun?

so, halloween: i mentioned on here a little while back that julie and i were devising a top secret plan. now i can tell you all about it! :) we wanted to do a surprise attack on ms. admiraal and see if she would recognize us if we dressed up. after we got back from our tennis match i headed over to julie's house. oh, side note: we also heard that chipotle was having a thing if you dress up as a burrito you get a free burrito! how awesome is that?!?! we went and bought tin foil at walgreens and wrapped me up in it, so i got a free burrito! sweet!

anyway, after our chipotle experience we headed over to ms. admiral's house, where we spent 10 min. in the car trying to get my box out of julie's car and on me, cover my face, and get julie's ninja mask to work for her. i was a christmas present and julie was a ninja gone terrorist just to let ya know. ha ha! no, julie just happened to look more like a terrorist than a ninja. anyway, after some thinking of how i was going to hide my face we decided i should just keep the tin foil on. random, but hey it works.

we weren't entirely sure which house was hers and were discussing this as we walked up. next thing we know she comes running out her front door and just says "hey guys!"...didn't even fool her for a minute! her windows were open and she recognized our voices. she's good! oh man, so funny! we just went inside and talked for a while...fun stuff!

oh, and since we were over there, we had to try and stop by to say hi to mrs. fieldhoust too, but they weren't home. it was ms. admiraal's brilliant idea to leave my box one their doorstep with no note or anything. so, mrs. fieldhouse, if you read this, that was my box and just know that julie and i wanted to say hi! see this picture is at your house! :)

after that i didn't have a costume; julie decided to use the rest of the foil all over me and thus...they outcome you see in this picture. people's responses were the funniest things when i answered my door. one kid goes "can i have a piece of your foil?"

"uh, sure" the next thing i know i have like 10 kids all tearing pieces of foil off of me. so crazy!

well, i hope you all had a happy halloween! :) i know i did.

some pictures

here are just some pictures i've been meaning to post, but just haven't gotten around to it...enjoy! :)

here are some of when we took katie to the pumpkin patch a couple weeks ago...what a cutie! too bad she is getting into the terrible two's. can you believe it?!? she will be two in november! crazy how time flies and how much changes with babies! she is chatting up a storm. she understands a lot more than she will say, but right now we are really working on pronunciation. some words she doesn't quite have down and they tend to sound like some words we definitely don't want her saying...for example "sit". she tends to add an "h" sound...yikes! frog is the worst. she doesn't really pronounce the "r" and the "g" sounds more like "k" so...well you get the idea... pronunciation. always a good thing! :)

my mom was having a lot of fun with the camera...

a little too much fun...oh! look at that evil glare i've got going on! :)

this one was from when we went down to city hall over the weekend. i just liked the view...

well, better get on that homework and get a good nights sleep...big day tomorrow! plus i'm sick so it would be a really good thing to get some sleep. how icky is that?!

today was much better than yesterday, so all is good!

i'll keep you all posted on the outcome of tomorrow! :)

wasn't the best of mondays

today was not the best day to start off the week. i woke up this morning and felt incredibly dizzy when i got up. at first i thought it was just that feeling where you get up too fast and that it would soon go away...not so. i tried to just get ready and just ignore the dizziness until about the point that i was becoming sea sick when standing on solid ground. on the orders of my mother i went back to bed for about an hour and a half, then woke up and decided that i had to go to school. i felt better as the day went on, so no idea what that was all about.

in the world of school...i don't even want to think about the mass amount of things due this week. and tests...just mentioning it stresses me out! plus the fact that i'm missing our essay portion of my apush test wed. for tennis (i get to come in 7:30am thursday to take it...just what i want to do when i wake up: write a history essay). needless to say school is not going well at the moment...i'm so over it, yet we aren't even half way through...ick! but, it's all good! i'm still smiling! :)

in the world of tennis, things are a bit less depressing. our individuals match was moved from tuesday (tomorrow) to wednesday because so many teams still had to finish up playing due to all the canceled matches last week from the ash. laney and i found out that we will be playing the #1 team from L.A. Baptist, so i really don't know what that means. i can't remember if we beat them or not...i'll find out more tomorrow. one of the best parts of making individuals is that we get out at 11:15! crazy!

thursday we are supposed to go on a spanish field trip to olvera st., which i'm still not sure if i will be going on depending if we win or lose on wed. it's driving me nuts not knowing, since we all know how good i am about suspense, but whatever. no matter what thursday will be a good day...either i play tennis or i go on a field trip...hummm not too bad of a draw, huh? :)

well, that's whats going on in my life in case any of you cared.

blessings on your weeks everybody! :)

what you can find in costume shops

so, friday julie and i went on a quest in search of cheap halloween costumes. i normally wouldn't be doing anything for halloween, but we have a top secret plan that i'll say more about after it takes place this wednesday. it is something we needed costumes for so, after much searching we have two perfect ideas. oh, and want to know the best part? since i am making my costume it only cost me $2! how's that for cheap! :) i'll post more about this later...for now here are some crazy pictures we took while in party city.








yeah, we're freaks...i know.

UNDEFEATED!!!!!

that's right! girls tennis team went 11-7 against archer yesterday! :) i cannot contain my excitement! laney and i beat both the 2's and 3's, but lost to the 1's. our last match against the 3's we seriously played in the dark. i could not see the ball for my life, but we won it! :) good stuff! to celebrate being undefeated the team all went out to olive garden...delicious!

well, i'm off to the football game...homecoming! :)

bye for now...sorry for my lack of this important info yesterday...things have been crazy! good, but crazy. i'll post more later!

fires are icky!

hopefully they will clear up soon! i'm missing tennis! practice was canceled yesterday because of poor air conditions, but some of the team (obviously including me) did go to the golden spoon...quite delicious!

our match also got canceled today, which was a big bummer, but what can you do? we were going to have practice until we walked outside and realized that ash falling from the sky probably wasn't a good thing to be breathing in, so... anyway, we were supposed to play winward, who are up in LA, but apparently we aren't going to reschedule with them since we go into individuals next week. the only way we would play them is if we lose to archer on thursday, which better not happen!
oh by the way, i get to play in individuals this year!!! i'm pretty excited about that, except for the fact that if we do well on tuesday we will play again thursday, when i'm supposed to go to olvera st. for spanish. but, tennis ranks above fieldtrips in my book! :) well, we'll see what happens...

here are two pictures i stole from julie...aren't we so cute! :)

awww! i do actually really like this one. :)

that's all for now!

random post about pretty much nothing...

i have the song "any way you want it" by journey in my head, which is quite annoying after 10 min. since i only know the chorus anyway...

this is going to be a big week. this week holds our two last league matches of the season...i'm actually quite sad about this. not that this cane as a surprise, i didn't want it to end last year either. it just seems like it went by so fast! well, we still have CIF and league individuals, so i won't get to down yet.

also this week is homecoming week, meaning we get dress up days! tomorrow is class color day, so no big deal...i think i can find something green in my closet. i just don't know what to do for tuesday...career day. how random is that? anyway, if anyone has a suggestion, since dressing up beats uniforms any day, i'm open! :) ideas please!

well, that's pretty much all i have to say (nothing very interesting, i know) maybe i'll get some pictures up soon so my blog isn't so wordy and boring...we'll see.

i'm off to go finish some last minute homework. actually i'm not procrastinating...its not due till thursday; i'm getting a head start! :)

how much better can a day get?

today was full of little surprises! seriously those little things are what make a day i think; just the little things that make you smile. just little surprises like getting a note of encouragement and a bag of treats in your locker from your coach right before your big game. surprises like my aunt, coach jim (my high jump coach), and mrs. fieldhouse showing up for our match. stuff like being able to worship this morning in chapel. and surprises like getting tackled to the ground by julie after we won overall! (actually that one kinda hurt...must have been pretty funny to watch though)

yes, indeed! we beat whittier 10-8!!! laney and i didn't do so hot, but we tried our best and that is all we can ask for. we did win one 6-3, but lost the other two. oh, well!
i can't contain my excitement about still being undefeated in league!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

well, one more week of league play and our last match is against archer, who, we found out today, beat whittier! so, we will again have to work extra hard next thursday, but all will be good!

my day seriously couldn't have gotten any better! hope you all had awesome days as well! :)