The Crazy Life of Kirsten

An this is what happens when...

2010-08-09T13:25:00.006-04:00

... me and best riding buddy Mollie spend an afternoon at the barn with a camera. This was before the horse show, actually, we were practicing for it. I would post pics of the show, but they would be duplicates of my mom's blog, so you can just see them there.

This is Mollie, riding Cassidy over a course of 2' jumps...

... and this is her second attempt on the last jump- which was 2'6'' high.

And then it was my turn.

Both of us did really good in the show, each bringing home a handful of ribbons. Looks like all our practicing payed off!

2010-04-01T15:17:00.012-04:00

Okay, so it was a gorgeous day (maybe around 70 all day but kinda windy) so me, my bff Maddie, my sisters, maddies sisters, and both moms all went to Washington dc to see the cherry blossom trees bloom. We were all expecting a pleasant day, wandering around the city under a canopy of white blossoms that were showering petals from above. Sounds like heaven right? Too bad that was the exact opposite of what happened. So we decided to all fit into one van, meaning that two people would have to double buckle (Hannah and Julia cuz they have the smallest butts and don’t use carseats) our van has a built in dvd player so I assumed I would be able to have a peaceful drive. So. Wrong. At first everyone was quiet and content with watching who knows what movie. Soon the youngest girls were complaining that they were hungry. It was 10 o’clock. After they were satisfied with kit kats me, Hannah and Julia played Mario cart for, oh, like and hour or more. By the time we were actually in the city my brain was fried. Anywho this whole time out gps was yelling at us for not listening (I swear aunt webb knows more than that electronic device does) so we finally are approaching our first destination- the zoo. Too bad for us the zoo parking lot was COMPLETELY full (I didn’t even know that was possible!) so forget that idea. After about another 30 mins of looking for a parking spot, we decide to go and see the cathedral (im sorry but I forget its specific name) at this point we all had to pee. Bad. So we conveniently find a spot right smack in front of the cathedral and only have to walk a few yards to the entrance which happened to be huge glass doors that must have been cleaned very frequently because I honestly didn’t notice them until I almost ran into one of them. we all filed in, ran to the bathroom as fast as possible, and then walked into the chapel. I seriously felt like I had been taken back in time. Here are some pics:

This is my view as soon as we walked thru the doors. People were actually having like a church service when we walked in.
It had the most beautiful stained glass windows that cast colorful patterns onto the floor...… and on maddies face.
Anyway, so there was gonna be this organ presentation thingie where some guy was going to actually play the gigantic organ which I failed to get a picture of-sorry! We were sitting in these chairs off the side of the worship room thing where the organ was, waiting for the presentations to start. Me and Maddie got bored and decided to go explore. On the side of the chapel we found this: Its kinda hard to see cuz its dark but it was like this tunnel with all these different stained glass pictures on the wall. I felt like I was entering a different world.
So we reached the end of the tunnel and turned back, only to find that our families had disappeared. Apparently they had gone into the little (well, more like huge…) worship room to see the organ presentation. Me and Maddie didn’t want to walk in front of all these people to get to the moms (they had chosen the very front- how smart of them) so we sat back down where we were before. The organ player dude was talking on and on about the history of organs and how they were played and stuff like that. So me and mads were talking the whole time, completely unaware that the dude had stopped explaining the organ and had sat down to play. As soon as he struck the first, and extremely LOUD, chord, we both practically jumped out of our skin!! It sounded like something out of a horror movie! Maddie leaned over and said ‘it’s a good thing we weren’t in the tunnel when he started playing or else I would have screamed and run for my life.’ The tunnel was kinda spooky- it reminded me of the volturi in the new moon movie and I almost expected a vampire to jump out around the next corner. But, of course, nothing out of the ordinary happened, except the organ dude scaring the crap out of us.
So after that, since it was around 1, we went across the street to the ‘bishops garden’ which had to be the most beautiful place I have ever been in my whole entire life. It was like a combination of Narnia and the secret garden. If the cathedral was a different world, this was like being inside a book or something.
This is the legit entrance to Narnia, or so I think.

My mom thinks this picture it postcard worthy :)

This is maddies entrance to Narnia

Maddie has died in Narnia. Lol
Ok so that was the garden- pretty, huh? So then aunt webb and mom wanted to go to the verrrrrrrry top of the cathedral, which, by the way, can only be achieved if you ride this rickety old elevator up seven floors and its going like, faster than I can run, up and down. I thought I might die. Oh, and it doesn’t help that theres a window in the door so you can see whenever you pass a floor. It was very frightening.

Hey, you can see my van from here!
It was very narrow and claustrophobic, but the view was great. Although I was ready to walk down 7 flights of stairs (which were emergency only) rather than ride that death trap back down at 100 mph plummeting to my death…….
Ok, so next was the zoo. It was crowded and the ice cream cost 3 bucks. So did the soda. And it smelled like sweaty guys. Ew. its simba!!! or maybe not......Ooo look, overgrown chipmunks….i mean, prairie dogs……
So then we wanted to drive to the cherry blossom trees and take some pictures. We never even got out of the car. I think we spent about 2 hours driving just to see some trees. We started out going the wrong way, but that ended up taking us thru Georgetown which was pretty awesome. About halfway thru the car ride I finished my soda and then reeeeeeeally had to pee. Like the im-gonna-explode-if-we-don’t-find-a-bathroom-in-the-next-5-minutes. But apparently we were nowhere near a bathroom. Oh, joy. The next thirty minutes I spent in that van were the most uncomfortable and agonizing 30 mins of my life. Everyone was screaming, my mom was losing her mind having to drive thru that traffic and on top of on the verge of exploding, I had a massive headache. Not. Fun. At. All. So we finally find a parking garage and guess what? No bathrooms. We had to walk down the block (well more like sprint for me) to the nearest bathroom and then the security dude (because it was a bank- I think….) had to show us where they were. I just about died.
After everyone had used the bathroom, we were all starving so we walked around looking for food. There was a chipotle across the street (I hate chipotle) a mcdonalds (ew) and some Chinese/Japanese restaurant. Across the street was the national portrait gallery with a food court. Father down we had ruby Tuesdays, some Mexican place, salad and sandwiches and another Chinese place. We wanted to go to the national portrait gallery food court because aunt webb said it was big, airy and quiet. We did not know, however, that practically all the food was gone. There was a few sandwiches and some pudding left. I was so starving that I didn’t care. I had taken one bite of my sandwich when Hannah exclaimed ‘my pudding is moldy!’ I dropped the sandwich and immediately inspected it for mold. It was mold free, but I still refused to eat it because what if it was contaminated? So mom got her $32 back and we left the peaceful sereneness of the café and went back to our first options. We decided on Mexican (after maybe another 30 mins). it was delicious. So after we stuffed ourselves with food, we walked back to our parking garage, only to find that the entrance we had come out of was locked. And heaven forbid we walk down the ramp else we get hit by all the cars that were just zooming in and out of there. for a minute we thought we had the wrong garage. Thankfully, we found our van thanks to a friendly (or, not so friendly) parking garage guy (do they have official names?? Hmmmm…..) who pointed us in the right direction. A number of times. So we all climb in and me and Maddie were watching the lion, the witch and the wardrobe earlier (when we were stuck in traffic and I had to pee like crazy) but the little girls didn’t want to watch it. So for the sake of my mothers sanity we had to watch the Hannah Montana movie. The little girls weren’t even watching it! And we didn’t even get to the good part in Narnia L after about 15 mins of the little girls incessant chatter, I was seriously willing to walk home. Or ride a bus or hitchhike or an-y-thing to get me out of that van. Yes, it was that bad. Thankfully after a while they settled down and I could think clearly again.
All-in-all it was a pretty good trip, minus the traffic, getting scared out of our pants by and organ, moldy food, and screaming children. I do know for sure that we will not be going back anytime soon.

Skiing Trip

2010-02-08T20:57:00.003-05:00

Yay! I'm back from my skiing trip- and i didn't die!!!! It was soooooo much fun! Our cabin was amazing and gigantic- with a hot tub!! The snow was perfect for skiing- really fluffy and soft so I didn't hurt myself when I fell and didn't fly down the hill because it was icy. The lifts were my least favorite part- I normally fell while getting off. Keeping your balance is harder than it seems and horseback riding skills doesn't come into play here. I wish I had pictures to go along with my post but I forgot to bring my camera (read: couldn't find my camera) so check my mom's blog for the pics.

More Sketches

2010-01-27T11:39:00.003-05:00

Here are some more sketches I've done in the past few days.

Horse Sketch

2010-01-26T17:31:00.002-05:00

I drew this today while watching Anne of Green Gables- which, by the way, has become one of my top favorite movies! Sorry about the slight glare from the flash on the horse's front legs. I tried to scan it on our printer but it wasn't cooperating so.....

New Haircut

2010-01-24T14:49:00.003-05:00

Maddie's Blog

2010-01-17T16:58:00.002-05:00

Hey its me again- and i updated 2 days in a row! Yay! I just wanted to share my BFF Maddie's blog with you:

http://velvetdiarypagesofthemind.blogspot.com/

I'm on my blog again!

2010-01-16T17:46:00.004-05:00

Hey I'm sorry I haven't updated in, like, forEVER, but this time I'm going to *attempt* to keep it going. Since the last time I updated was last year, lots of stuff has happened. I was homeschooled but I'm returning to New Covenant February 1st. Last summer I was in a horse show with my BFF Mollie and won 5th- she won 3rd. Here are a few of my favorite pics from that show:

This is my ribbon- which is now hanging on my wall!

Well, keep checking (if you want to, that is!) because I'll try to update every few days. Thanks for stopping by!

Another Weird video

2009-05-07T18:01:00.003-04:00

this is our first video, its pretty much the same but with no maddy( for the first part anyway)

Enjoy!

Crazy Videos

2009-05-06T20:01:00.002-04:00

yes, this is what me and my friends do for fun......

The Best Present Ever

2008-12-02T18:29:00.003-05:00

So, today I took my BFFAE, Maddie, a double chocolate-chip frappacino from Starbucks since she had four teeth pulled yesterday (I've been there, done that, not fun). When I got there, the look on her face was soooo worth it - but then I had no idea she had gotten me this poster. She told me not to open it until I got home. Mom ripped the tag off so I wouldn't know what it was. When I finally got home after going to Chik-Fil-A to get some dinner (yum), I called Maddie and went upstairs to my room to open the poster. I ripped open the plastic and unrolled it find this GORGEOUS picture of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, characters from Twilight. (Enter Mom's Disclaimer HERE - Mom does not actually approve of these books, even though she actually enjoyed reading them too (and the movie) - still, not so much approved - we have come to a truce on this subject, after beating it like a dead fish, mind you). The poster earned the place of honor on my bedroom door for everyone to see (because I absolutely LOVE Twilight and Maddie is my best friend forever and ever). BTW, I took this picture after lots of trials and errors. Did I ever tell you I am in the photography club at school? (it's in my blood).

Horse Show Pictures

2008-08-16T07:20:00.002-04:00

My horse's name is Know No Limits, Know No for short. This is a picture of when I was headed for the dressage arena.

Going over the dressage test in my head...

Then galloping through the cross country course!
Over the last jump, then a race for the finish line!
Horses always keep your sense of humor!!!!

We finished with fifth place, and I was very pround of Know No!

Horse Show

2008-08-14T20:52:00.002-04:00

Tomorrow, as some of you may know, I will be in my very first horse show!!! It is held at Olde Hope Farms ( www.oldehopefarms.com ) and I will be entering the Elementary Division in Evening Shade III on August 15. If you go to their website you will see the words "our 2008 eventing schedule". Beneath that it says August 15 2008- Evening Shade III. If you click on "times" right below it it will bring up a different page. Click "times" again at the bottom of the page. Then scroll down until you see boxes. Go five boxes down and I am number 64. The horses name is Know No Limits, and they spelled my name wrong. It's a lot of steps to follow, but I think it makes everything look so professional when you see my name on the website. I can't wait until tomorrow. I'm not sure how I will sleep tonight. I will post pictures tomorrow, and so will my mom.

RIVER VALLEY RANCH

2008-08-13T14:52:00.002-04:00

I was so excited to finally go to RVR - I have waited SOOOOOO long for camp. My really good friend Jordan was able to go to -we are both crazy about horses. Here are some pictures my mom took. I had the most AMAZING ever time - the best week of my life. I will definitely be going back every summer - and when I'm old enough I will be a counselor there. I could live there.

Cookie Disaster

2008-07-29T19:08:00.002-04:00

Since everyone has been nagging me about updating my blog, I will. Today me, Hannah and our neighbor Lindsey decided that we wanted to bake a nice batch of homemade cookies. So we pulled out all the ingredients and started mixing them together. It took a while because I rarely cook and I had no idea where anything in our kitchen is. When we finally found the brown sugar, which by the way has a tendency to blend in with its surroundings we followed the directions on the back of the chocolate chip bag perfectly, except for spilling flour on the floor and almost forgetting the sugar. The batter was done, and we where about to put it on the tray but first we had to taste test the cookie dough, and it tasted horrible!!! Hannah said it tasted like play dough ( I wonder how she knows what play dough tastes like? hmm... ). We found out the flour we used was very very old, and after a few desperate tries to save the cookie dough from being disposed of, it didn't work. Our cookie dough ended up down the drain. The moral of this story? Never bake cookies without abult supervision ( or maybe always check the expiration on the flour bag before you dump it in the bowl ).

Heat Lightning

2008-07-02T09:41:00.003-04:00

You might have already seen these pics on my moms blog, but they are so amazing that I had to put them on mine. Its called heat lightning, which is pretty much cloud to cloud lightning. The weird part is that you can see the lightning but you cant hear any thunder. I looked it up on wikipedia and it said that either there is a thunderstorm that is too far away to hear (which doesn't make sense because if you see the lightning you should hear the thunder) or the air is too dense and traps the sound, which kinda makes sense, but I still cant fully comprehend a silent, rainless thunderstorm. Mom tried to get some pictures, but they didn't turn out so we found these on Google.

Highlights

2008-06-08T09:46:00.001-04:00

Do you like my new summer look? Me and mom went and got highlight together.

I got mine cut and I love it!!!

My Boys

2008-05-21T17:23:00.001-04:00

Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com

My Horse Friends

2008-05-21T16:35:00.001-04:00

Tango
Me on Buck
Buck

CAN YOU RAED TIHS?

2008-05-21T16:31:00.000-04:00

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe can. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. If you can raed tihs cpoy and ptsae tihs on yuor porflie

Update on Bailey and Brody

2008-05-21T08:46:00.002-04:00

Here are some pics of my boys- there all of them sleeping, its hard to catch them in action!

Bailey

Bailey and Brody

Brody

RVR

2008-05-21T08:25:00.004-04:00

Last week the 6th and 7th grades went on a 3 day long field trip to River Valley Ranch, home of about 60 horses, 3 half mile long zip lines, 1 quarter mile long zip line, high and low ropes courses and much more! There was beautiful weather (until Friday when it rained) and the talks were amazing. Here are some of the many pics I took.

Of course we had to have games, this is Syd's mom trying to maneuver an Oreo into her mouth without using hands.

Kathryn and Abby eating a delicious lunch in the tent

Victoria and Kathryn- notice the shirts? Our small group custom made them
I'm guessing Catie isn't a morning person!

Having fun in the creek with the annual "river jumping" contest

SURPRISE!!!!!!

2008-04-11T07:50:00.003-04:00

As most of you probably know, we have been waiting to get a puppy since last Sunday. After having to take our old dog, Spencer, to the Humane Society we (more like me and Hannah) have been wanting to get another dog. Last Sunday we visited a breeder who had Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppies- perfect dogs for family life. As soon as we saw them we all feel in love. We knew we had to get one. Mom and Dad said we would get one on Saturday (secretly planning to surprise us after school on Friday with the puppy). Well, Thurday afternoon I was walking to the car after a long day of school. I tossed my backpack in the car and my mom told me to look down. I looked down and all I saw was a box. I thought it was just a regular box, until it moved. I slowly opened the lid to reveal TWO adorable puppies!!! You have no idea how excited I was! I immediately went to show my friends the puppy I had waited for and then had the whole school surrounding me and my little dog. After school we went to PetSmart to get all the supplies. Once again, almost everyone wanted to know about the two brothers. We decided on the names Bailey and Brody, and they are already learning their new names.

Sorry there aren't more pictures. I'm doing this before school and I don't have enough time. I'll make sure there are more by tomorrow.

Relaxing in FL

2008-03-21T16:52:00.001-04:00

I am very sorry I haven't been updating my blog, but I've been very busy! For spring break we decided to drive to Florida to visit family. Here are some pictures my mom took with her camera ( as usual!). Yum... boiled peanuts...
Me and my cutie cousin Tanek

Yes, Florida does have alligators. What a surprise.

Check out my Guestbook!

2008-02-22T08:27:00.000-05:00

Hey! Sign my guestbook, but make sure you don't put you're real address (just put your state) or your last name.

BRACES!!!

2008-02-16T13:38:00.004-05:00

Well, today I got my braces. It took FOREVER to get them on! Then they had to suck the spit out of my mouth it was not a relaxing or enjoyable experience but I had Maddy by my side umm just... well being annoying jk!! Then they put this wierd thing around my lips and personally I think I looked like a duck. The cement tasted horrible and it hurt when they put the rubber band color things on. Then we went to Boston Market and I got mashed potatoes(yummy yummy in my tummy!lol) and macaroni and cheese. We went to the mall and bought mom some jeans. Maddy kicked a soccer ball the whole time in Old Navy and ran into people who looked at her like she was wierd or something (now where would they get that idea??). We went to the bookstore and got frappacinos(once again, yummy in my tummy!)

Off School for SNOW?

2008-02-12T09:03:00.000-05:00

Yes, we are off school for snow. So if we don't have school, why isn't there snow? We haven't gotten a decent snow all winter! I really want to go outside and go sledding and fun stuff like that. Maybe this time the snow will stick for more then a day and a half!

Superbowl

2008-02-03T22:18:00.000-05:00

Okay, I know all you guys are probally either stressing out or cheering you heads off when I'm writing this right now about the Superbowl. But guess what, I think the Patriots AND the Giants did a really good job (and I also think Patriots should've won.Yeahh!!! Go Patriots!!). And Maddy, I DON'T CARE!!! The only reason why the Giants won was because of that last touchdown. So please don't rub it in my face that I wanted the Patriots to win.

Winter Formal

2008-01-25T15:07:00.001-05:00

Hey friends! I hope everyone had a good beginning of the week! I'm not sure about all you school friends, but I can't wait for the formal! My mom's pretty excited that she was chosen to take pictures,and I can understand why they chose her, she's a great photographer!

These are my first pair of heels, and the background is my dress.

I OFFICIALLY HAVE A BLOGSPOT!!

2008-01-25T15:07:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone! It's me Kirsten. I officially have my own blogspot!! I'll put cool things that are going on in my life here, so check back often!! Glad you stopped by!! SEE YA!

Ahhh, remembering the warm days right now in the middle of January..... sigh.....