The Best Present Ever

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I got mine cut and I love it!!!