Esplode This Whole House

Title courtesy of adorable Bri~.  We were playing with Legos, and he was telling me about his Lego guns: 
"This one is so huge it can esplode this WHOLE HOUSE!!"
He says many cute and funny things, most of which I forget before long, but they still make me happy - and this one has relevance to the rest of the post. Hey, sometimes things actually make sense. What a relief.
My family is in California this week.  Why? Because some of us are moving there.  Jules' house in Utah is all cleared out.  The Muffin described it as a carcass. Some things were sold, some given away, and most loaded into a UHAUL and totted across the state, er, states.
After a very long drive, and very much wanting to plop down on the first bed or couch I could find, I was told we would be unloading this UHAUL - tonight.  A little flustered, and definitely more than a little impatient, I dutifully trudged outside to help, probably mumbling about my anger and fatigue...
Jules: "Kiki, chill out."
Kiki: *exhales* "I'm chill."
Jules: "That's my girl."

And so, we unloaded.
Then, when we were done, the house looked like, well,
ESPLODED.
(Heh, I rhymed.)

Boxes. Furniture. Bags. More boxes. EVERYWHERE.
But it was all inside. Well, except the stuff that was put in the shed... or on the back porch.
I was so so tired and frustrated.  When we were just about done, I sobbed out of exhaustion. The Muffin plopped down a mattress that we had just dragged in amongst the other furniture, slapped on a sheet and a blanket, and I went to bed.
It's been a little crazy trying to organize things and function in this little "esplosion", but my family is a group of troopers, so we're doing okay.
At the same time, I feel like I'M going to esplode.  There is so much going through my head.
Decisions to make.
Things to convince myself I'm okay with.
Things I'm really *not* okay with that I need to figure out how to fix.
Worry about things that may soon change.
Peace from the previous worry because of the powerful comfort of the Lord through the Holy Ghost.
Conversations with Grandma (who I am very grateful for, by the way).
Trying to concentrate on only the good.
More decisions.
And a heck-of-a-lot of self analyzing.

Esplode This Whole ME.

But it's all going to be okay, because even when it seems no-one else GETS IT (and trust me, it seems like this a lot), I know one person who does.  He is the one who has given me the consistent, unceasing, and powerful comfort I have needed in this crazy life.  He is, or rather, they are, Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. How grateful I am.
"And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times,
It's YOU, it's you,
You make me sing.
You're every line, you're every word,
You're everything."

(This song just esploded with meaning for me.)
He is everything, and I could not, COULD NOT go on without Him.

I also could not go on without my friends who cheer me up and support me. Thank you.
Onward and upward in this esploding life of mine. Cheers.
<3Kiki

Being Right

Just ask yourself if you find this situation familiar: You are in an argument. You KNOW you are right.
"I am right! You are not! And I wont stop talking about it until I convince you I am right, too!!! GRAH!!!!"
And here's the kicker - the person you're arguing with is thinking the exact same thing.

I do this a lot.  There are a lot of times when I'm fully convinced I'm right, and I'll be incredibly stubborn about it. To the point of yelling at and being bitter at those I Love and cherish.  I got to thinking about this last night, and then I thought:

Is it really that important?
Being right, that is.  Even if you are in the right, and whoever you're talking to is in the wrong...

Is it more important to be right than to keep others from hurting?
Is being right more important than a sibling?
Is being right more important than a best friend?
Is it so important to be right that you would risk a day, an hour, or even a few minutes of time that could have otherwise been a happy memory - merely to prove yourself?
Is being right more important than being Loving?


So what if I prove myself right -  if I hurt someone I Love dearly in the process? 
So what if I think my undeniably "right" answer needs to be realized? Is that need so much that I would make someone else dislike me, be bitter, or even cry?

That's when it came to me.  The people I hold dear are much more important to me than that. Much, much more.

So next time I'm being accused of saying something I know I didn't... "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way - I meant it like this."
Next time something is taken from me without my permission... "It's just a thing. You're more important to me than that. Could you ask next time, though?"
Next time I have something oh-so-knowledgable to contribute, I will refrain - if what I have to say is going to spar a hurtful fight.

Being right is not more important to me than my sisters, my parents, my friends...
If being right will cost me a relationship, or even one could-have-been-happy moment, it's not worth it; that cost is something I'm not willing to pay.
Are you?

Belated Christmas

RAWR!! hahaha. SO! Today was belated Christmas for the WBP family.  (That's us.)  It's been really fun!!  We got Just Dance 3 for Dangerous D's Wii, and us kids have been playing it for.. a while now haha.  Just Dance is the greatest thing ever invented.  True story.

I got a GPS!  Haha.. those who know me know why this is funny.. :)
Wheat. Thins. Favorite cracker ever! And my mom got me a family box of it. ^_^ Happy.
Yaker's present was really cute.  Of course. :) He's an amazing gift giver. :)  He gave me a journal with an adorable note in it, and a framed picture of us.  I Love it. 
Er.. baby food.  Family tradition for Christmas breakfast.
Chocolate oranges, DUH. :D
Other stuff.. :P haha I don't really want to list all the gift's people got, that's lame.

Last night we played 'fill in the blank' for the Christmas story with D and the boys.  It's so fun to have Christmas with young children.  They are so excited about everything.


I Love having a VACATION.  I've had lost of reading time and lots of just.. playtime.  It's been great.  Tomorrow?  Shopping day with grandma!!  Super excited.

I know today's post is small and random.. BUT!  Oh well.  Vacation posts usually aren't themed.. ok that's a lie.  I usually theme them.  And I guess this one has a loose theme.. :P

Maybe I'm not in a creative blogging mood right now.  But still happy, definitely.


<3 K

Odd Me

Time for another semi random post, as most of my posts are. :)
I don't know exactly, but this may be the last post you see here for a couple months. Why?
Oh..... here we go.
--ACT in less than a month. 600+ page book to read. Gotta stay on schedule with that.
--Guard three days a week. My days are booked until' around 6PM on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
--Oh, plus personal practice. Which is absolutely necessary.  I feel really bad when I don't.  Though I can't on most Wednesdays.
--SCHOLARSHIPS. Yes, I need to apply for those.  Make time, make time.
--Applying for COLLEGE. AH!! Not. Ready. Oh, and "Letters of Recommendation"?? Vat ees thees?
--AP Art History: Why am I taking such an overwhelming class on top of the rest of my life?  Because I want to learn about art. It's really really interesting and I like it a lot. However, this class happens to have a lot of work... it's all interesting (except the cutting and gluing of flashcards), just time consuming.
--IB Math SL. Again, WHY am I doing this to myself?  Because I'm insane.  SO glad I have Simons.  He rocks.  Oh, and I wouldn't be surviving that class without Dream and Silverlight.  And Jen, Smiley, and Ch~, sometimes.  But mostly Silverlight and Dream.  Thanks you two!  You keep me alive in there!
--CHOIR! (I'm in AWE. And Concert, but I'm not in the class for Concert.  I'm learning the music on my own time - which I have little of, but it's very very much worth it to me.)  Which I Love. That and Guard are my outlets in all of this craziness. I ADORE all choir people.  They help me VERY muchly much to survive as well.  Some of the ones on the top of the "Helping Kiki stay alive list" are:
Kenna (nickname to be determined..)
Silverlight
Dream
Scales
Gladiator
KGreen (need a better name for you too... but OH goodness I LOVE her!!)
ZachO
Twin (I would be dead without her. Seriously. I NEED this girl!)
LittleSis
Poker
Sleepy (I think you need a new name again.  I know I've changed it many times, but this one doesn't quite say YOU.)
Jendley (hahah! I just came up with that! I like it!)
Tueller (who I recently remembered I'm related to ;) Through Muffin)
Potatoes
um.. there are probably more. I Love them all. Oh, and these are only the ones in choir. Though that constitutes most of the list. :D

--AP English. So far the workload hasn't been too much.  I haven't had a whole lot of worry about this class. Maybe I will though.  Hopefully it wont get too bad, especially in the next two months.
--Physiology. Not TOO bad of a workload, but it's one of my more heavy classes
um.. I think that is all.  It's a lot.  And that is why this will be the last post for a while.  I'm surprised I have some free time today.  It's a blessing.

Throughout the list I just typed up, you may have noticed I seemed quite calm.  I can assure you that was not the case yesterday.  I've been super duper emotional lately, and yesterday EVERYthing I've been stressed about, sad about, mad about, or any other negative feeling about came CRASHING down on me.  I literally could not make myself be put together.  Even after I got a hold of myself, 20 seconds later I broke down again.  I'm apologizing now for those I've snapped at or will snap at throughout this whole thing.  Though I'll probably apologize again.  Thanks for putting up with me, I'm very very much in debt to all of you.

Ok. Next item of business..
Not really business.  Business isn't attached to emotion.  Which I always always am.  Very much so.  It's part of the whole human thing. :) But anyway, this next little part is so attached to emotion that it's pretty much ridiculous.  I was having some ridiculous thoughts on Friday, and wrote them in my journal.

So, I've been strangely sad. Kind of pathetically so... and something that happened on Saturday night.  It reminded me what makes people genuinely happy when they're bummed.

I tried to help someone else be happy.

I'm not going to say who here.. though they might have figured it out.  I'll just say this person has helped me SO many times and in so many ways that neither they or I can think of them all. 

And it made me feel a lot better.  Even though I didn't do anything extravagant.  Maybe it's something about knowing someone needs you that makes you feel better.. or something.  I don't know how to describe it, I just know it works. :)  I was feeling way super duper down, and I put aside my problems and tried to make them feel better.  Thanks a million. :)

Last night, I opened up my box and read those words that usually make me feel better.  Some of them.. actually made me feel worse.  And the rest of them neither hurt nor helped, really.  This. Is also very odd.  Hence the title of this post.


I know I say this a lot, but I just keep thinking about how I'd be SO much worse off if it weren't for those people I Love and cherish.  Most of them were mentioned in the choir list, but there are a few who aren't there who also have helped me more than I can even comprehend.

Mr. Smooth
Naomi
Mrs. F
Muffin
Mom
Padre
Shendley (Jendley's little sister. Love. Her.)
VedySmot
ESoza
Wes
MLE
Nattle (Nat. L... just in case you don't recognize your own nickname ;))
McAllen (I met him recently, so he's a new addition to the blog. He's one of Dream's friends and he makes me smile.)
Brother Little
And I like to remind you of the choir people, too.  They help me SO much.

You all are literally my happiness, sanity, and life savers.  I'm not trying to be queso here.
My heart is full of so much Love (on top of all the other emotions) that it may burst.  I. Love. You. SO MUCH!

--Kiki
AKA Odd Me. A very emotional girl right now.

Filled

A flutter of emotions enters into my heart
When wanting to express them, I think: Oh, but where to start?
I cannot always figure out if it's good or bad to reminisce
Is it happiness or sadness I feel when I read of that bliss?
Does anything I hold dear last?
Will everything repeat the words "It's only in the past" ?

I then remember that glance of genuine care and worry
Those words that tell me you will hurry
To stay up late and listen
To advise and console
And all those things I'm truly missin'
Feel like less of a black hole.

Maui!

I've now realized I didn't ever blog ANYTHING about Hawaii.  Bad Kiki. No cookie.
SO!! This post is about Hawaii! :D (I'll probably be copying out of my journal for a lot of it.. edited, of course.)

Thursday, July 15 2010.  Reno, Nev. to Sunnyvale, CA.
Day of the Dog Lufa
This morning we were in Reno [not Rino] at Steve's house.  We started traveling just after 10 AM and arrived in Sunnyvale (close to San Jose) around 3:30 PM.  I got all sicky in the car.  We think it was sour milk... whatever it was, it wasn't fun.  We arrived and were attacked by Sheila and her boys.  Grandma came out too, but she doesn't attack.  TallTanGeek [I know, uber creative nickname.. I'll think of a better one when I feel like it] isn't here, he's working... at a big state scout camp or something.  I MISS HIM!  It's enough to almost make me cry.  I LOVE my geeky cousin. :)  He'll be here when we get back from Hawaii :)
We went to the park with Ben, MasterMind, Sam, and OBaby.  They were playing Lava Tag (or something of a similar title) and.. a 'new friend' joined in.  Definitely a very.. friendly.. friend.  We didn't stay long.
We then went to Sweet Tomatoes.  YUM!  I ate too much.. but not as much too much as I usually do there.  And of that I was proud.

Friday, July 16, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Warm Ocean
 We are IN Hawaii!  In an island called Maui.  It takes all day to drive around it, but we're only going to go that far when we go to the other side of it to the black sand beach.  It's black because of lava rocks :D  Anyway I'm SUPER excited!  Sometime, The Muffin is going to take my senior pics outside in the beautiful flowery/ pooly area.  Yay!  And the ocean is WARM!  I heart it!  I want to spend a LOT of time on the beach.  We went to a fish restaurant today.  The Sands of Kahuna [spelling may be incorrect] and I had swordfish!  It was tasty.  And I discovered that I like shrimp (after years of not liking it at all).  I wouldn't try mushrooms though. No, no.  I already get easily queezy these past couple days.  P.S. I need more sleep.
Oh, P.S. again.  I wrote a postcard to my friends, I just have yet to send it off because I need to look up the address and get a postage stamp.
Another P.S.  Plantation.  Tour. Learned a bit about different foiloage here.  Coconuts actually have coconut water, not milk.  If it's white [instead of clear] it will give you diarrhea.. eeew..

Saturday, July 17, 2010.  Maui, HI.
The Day of Water in My Air.
...and cute boy :D
Today we went to a boring orientation at the hotel... but they had pineapple and fruit drink and donuts.  After that we went to the beach!  Yay!  I Love the water here!  So warm and stuff.  And the sand isn't all ouch to your feet like it is in Oregon... After beachness... oh wait, go back.  While we were enjoying the ocean, we got salt water in our eyes and mouths... "Salt water on YOU, salt water on ya FAMILY, salt water on ya COW!..." hahaha :D
Then we went shopping.  I bought a sarong (which ripped D: exchanging it tomorrow) a shark tooth necklace, a plumeria ( a flower that's like a frangipani only I learned frangipani's are Tahitian, not Hawaiin) bracelet, and we got shell necklaces free when we walked in with a friendly Aloha.  I Love Hawaii. :)  At random stores around where we ate I got an Abalone necklace (very pretty) and two aqua marine shells to put on necklaces for Twin and I (at the Lahaina Scrimshaw - carving of ivory ~ bone of elephant, mammoth, walrus and such) the shells screamed Claire. :D  I also got pineapple keychains for friends and a surfboard keychain for LittleSis at the ABC store.  While shopping downtown Lahaina, we passed a fiddle player.  We gave him our spare change.  He made his fingerboard out of abalone! So beautiful!  He also let mom play his fiddle!!  The fiddle had a place for 5 strings.  there were 4 on it.  We saw a painter, too.  He asked if we were from 'parkasity' ... huh?  OH, Park City... haha. He painted very well.  Another incident down Front Street... :) ... as we were walking we hear someone say "Aloha" and my grandma says "Aloha" back.  I turned to see who it was and.. well refer to the subtitle of today :D  Yes, he was really cute.  Muffin agreed. :)  She "took a picture of me" [but was really trying to take a picture of him] but we were too far away by then to get a good one and then he walked away.  Sad day :(  It was a puppy pout moment.  Muffin then resolved to take pictures with every cute guy she saw there.


Monday, July 19, 2010. Maui, HI.
The Day of Happy Milk.
Why?  Mostly because MasterMind waster feeling good and she thought RiceDream would help.  that, water, and deep breathing DID help.  But Mind said it's her happy milk.  Also!  We had fresh coconut water (which people think is milk.. but if it's not clean it will actually make you sicky.  Although!  The meat in the coconut can be made into a milk.  And THAT isn't the sicky stuff :))  It was good!  We also went to the beach. Again. :D  And... lunch at the plantation.  But we all agreed it wasn't very good.  Grandma said it used to be much better.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Maui, HI.
Picture Day.
Senior pics.. were like any photoshoot, really.  Some shots I liked a LOT and some.. not so much.  but it was good :)  Later, we made leis and had a pro photoshoot here at the resort!  It took a laaarge chunk out of our beach time, which The Muffin was really unhappy about.. but I liked it.  We even bought the photos.  Well, grandma did.  Thanks grandma :)  We got the CD too, so I'll be posting later.. some in my senior pics album because we took some individuals.  :)
Later we went to K... something beach.  It was kinda rocky but cool  Muffin and Mind swam with turtles! Awesome!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010.  Maui, HI.
Snorkel day! 
Now I've swam with turtles too!  :D  I got really tired and sore though.. we went to another K... something beach.  It's been my favorite so far.  Sand - not rock - even in deeper water.  Soft on the feet :D  That night was.. some preteen drama.  Oh MasterMind...

Thursday, July 22, 2010. Maui, HI.
Trip to Hana!
We went to the black sand beach!  It was cool!  We also went to Ohaio [spelled wrong I know it..] Gulch.  Otherwise known as the seven sacred pools.  COLD and windy.. but so so beautiful and fun to climb!  The road to Hana is a hard one.  Narrow, up the mountain, windy, makes you very carsick, scary, people needing to pass on a one and a half car size road.. it was quite the adventure. :)


Saturday, July 24, 2010.  Sunnyvale, CA.
The Day of the Opera Truck
So we have now come back to California!  It was sad to leave HI... but I'm going to be glad to be home.  AND while we're still in CA for a day I get to see TallTanGeek!  [That name keeps making me laugh.. maybe I'll keep it after all :D]
We attacked TTG as soon as he was in the garage :D  We talked for a bit and got on the subject of Toy Story 3.  TTG had seen it, but Muffin and Kiki had not!  So....
"I have a truck!"
"I have money!"
"I have money too!"
And we were off :D  I absolutely adore last minute adventures! :D
On the way there Phantom of the Opera music came on TTG's Mp3 and Muffin and I sang with it.  We had the windows down and TTG told us later people were looking at us really funny.  :D
This reminded me of an earlier incident that I don't think I've written about yet... We were coming back from shopping or something and we drove through a smallish parking lot.  I see this guy (a couple of guys, actually) and I don't really look at him [note to self, smile at all cute guys while on vacation.  (or anywhere..) Especially if you know he's looking at you. Eedoy.  Now if I could actually have the unshyness to make myself start doing that, that would be an accomplishment.] but anyway the next I really see of him he's bumped into his friend (who was right in front of him...) Muffin then laughs and says
"That guy was was totally checking Kiki out, didn't pay attention, and ran into his friend."
my mom added
"That's what it looked like to me, too."
It was all rather flattering and thinking back on it I do kinda remember him looking like he was looking at me.  Woah run on sentence. :P  So he could have been looking at me.  Now you understand my note to self from earlier.. :)
Hang on. Wrist stretch.  Ow.  Don't wanna get carpel tunnel.. or however you spell it..
Anyway, back to Toy Story 3.  SO GOOD!  It made me cry.. but I'm such a BABY lately that that's not much of a surprise.  It was all so cleverly made and the dialogue was bery bery goot. :)  Great job Disney Pixar!
I'm going to miss TTG.  A LOT!  I don't know when I'll next see him.. probably years from now!  He's moving!  And going on his mission probably soonish.  I Love this guy :)
I miss my friends at home!  I can't wait to see them!!
That's the end :D There's your HI and Cali update.  I Love you all!
--Kiki

Stomach Bone Stew

or Pig Limb Stew
My mom told me to help make dinner. Ok. What do I need to do? Well, you chop up some of the usual stuff [carrots, celery, onions] and then put the ham bone in. I did a double take - wait what?  Ham bone. Seriously? She showed it to me.. yup.  A ham bone.  So later after the beans have soaked for two hours - yeah, this soup is weird - I chop up the stuff (well, The Muffin does as I got sharp pains in my wrist every time I tried to chop.. THAT'S from my rifle, but I Love Colorguard anyway.  Plus I'll have super strong wrists!) and take the ham bone out of the bag.  Yummy! :P I held it over the pot and told The Muffin to look over.. 'ew.'  So as I stirred the stew and ham bone, I commented
"This bone looks like a limb... because it is!"
That cracked The Muffin up a whole lot, as most of you can see by how she put it as her status.  Then, my mind already in rediculous mode or something, I said
"At first I thought it was like, a stomach bone, but no, it's a leg or something."
THAT really got to Muffin as well.  STOMACH bone?! BAHAHAHA!  Hey, I meant rib okay??  It's kinda close...

And thus the beginnings of the Stomach Bone Stew!  Doesn't it look so good?
Yeah, not really, I hope it'll taste differently than it looks... :)

Thank You's

Basically, life is great :)  I'm not saying there aren't bumps in the road, but overall it's been quite enjoyable :) I Love my friends!!  I'd like to give a thank you to:
ChuddaChudda, who makes my day, everyday.  There are so many things I could say here, but I'll just sum it up by saying he's my everything. :) He always knows how to make me smile and helps me be happy - even when he doesn't know he's doing it. I Love you :)
MomWebb, who is my inspiration and my hero.  I Love her more than I can say.  She always knows how to make things right when everything is falling apart, and she's one of my best friends :)
Michilli! [sorry if I spelled that wrong] My gorgeous little sister, I'm so glad we have become such great buds :D
Twin, who lights up my world ;)
LittleSis, who is always eager to Love.  And gives some of the best hugs ever!
Gladiator, who laughs with me [not at me] when I'm being a dork, and smiles at my randomness.
Tiave, who makes me smile.. despite how ridiculous he is to deal with, sometimes.  Love ya :)
SilverLight, Eli~.  I just came up with this, because she has like water-blue-silver eyes, and she.... just glows.  She always says hi to me when she see's me, and smiles.  She has a way of making you feel wanted just when you really need it.
KyDancer, who gives me reasons to laugh all the time.  I'm much better off because of her bright pretty face :)
Wall, who also makes me laugh.  Everything about this amazing gal puts a smile on my face :)
Katie J., just adorable in every way!  She really hasn't changed since we were six.  Her smile is SO contagious.
ZANK! Because he always knows just when to be a dork, when I really need to smile. Hey hey hey ;)
Soza, who is courteous.  He always says thank you, even for the small things, and always says hi to me.
Poker, who is good at making me smile.. most of the time :)
Jareth! Isn't that one of the coolest names you've ever heard?? He's an upcoming freshman, and has decided to join the lovelyness of guard!  I've only known him two days, but so far he's made me smile :)
Sketch.. Wow.  She attacks me everytime I see her, and makes me feel SO Loved. 
Scales. Always excited to see me. :)
Dream, who I can trust, and can trust me. Great listener :)
There are probably many more people who do little things to make me smile, but these are the ones I remember the most right now.  Thank you all so much!  You are the ones who make my life happy :)

Blushing Smiles

So, I think I've figured out the person who makes me blush the most. Whenever I'm with this person, they always seem to find some way to make me squeemish. This person must really know what would do that, because some things that others get embarrassed about don't affect me... but pretty much any comment this person makes about me or something I did gets to me. Ok, so I'm pretty easily embarrassed, it's my shy side... but for some reason I'm always MORE shy and blushy when I'm around this person. Can anyone guess who it is?

My mom's best friend, Lo. (Oh and Pflower too)

Yep! I dunno how she does it, but it happens. Every time. Like tonight, oh gosh nevermind I'm not sayin'.

My mom says it's because I'm growing up, and they feel they can treat me like a 'contemporary'. Haha, right. I think by now they can just tell what I'd be embarrassed about, grab hold of it, and run. But maybe my madre has a point. Are Lo and Pflower treating me like they would one of their other gal friends? Maybe so. Does that lessen my chances of going red? Nope. Not in the slightest. Aaaand of course my mom goes along with it.
I do admit it makes me laugh... but in an "Oh my goodness gracious change of subject please" kind of way.

The Tale of Lady Corin

My little cousin Sar told me a story. Actually, she told me a few stories and weaved them together somehow. But, I'm going to put down the biggest part of it. It was really, really funny. Sar is super cute! Hopefully I can remember enough to recount the cuteness.

First, I gotta show you what she can do. [Sar moves to the stairs and has her Masquerade barbie walk down them. Doing flips and such.] She can jump and step like this - barbie steps allll the way from the ground to the doorknob - but she always falls down if I don't hold on to her.

-I don't remember exactly what she said next, but it led to this:
Then she got turned into Lady Barbeque! She has this dress, and pink tights. But you can't take the pink tights off [Sar began to whisper] ***because they're painted!***
-Sar walked Lady Barbeque around for a bit, narrating.-
Then she was sitting like this -Sar helps the barbie sit, as well as barbies can.- at a ball. She got up and they called out "Laaady Barbeque!"
[Sar whispered again] ***but her name was really lady Corin!**
-Sar then brought Lady Barbeque-Corin back to the top of the stairs, set her down and:
Then she went down like this -Sar sat on the stairs and slid down, bouncing every other step. Once she got to the bottom of the stairs, she sang a song and did a little discoish dance. I wish I could remember the tune.
"Lady Barbeque!"
one step up
"Lady Corin!"
one step up
"Lady Barbeque!"
one step up
and on to the top of the stairs. I was smiling and laughing the whole time. It was great.
I apologize for not recounting all of the story.. a lot of it was rambling. Cute rambling, but I couldn't remember it all.

Spaghetti Day

There needs always be a day where Spaghetti is served for dinner when the family gets together. It cannot be avoided. It's almost like a tradition, now that I think about it. [Well, something with spag. sauce anyway. My cousin Al just corrected me there. He says his dad's side doesn't always have spaghetti, but they do have lasagna!] So today was that day. But that is all about spaghetti this post contains. :)
Oh! Yesterday was... The Speedy Day. We stayed at Sheila's for most of the day, came to GMa's for a couple hours, then went to this really cool mexican resteraunt. Guess what? There was a balloon artist there! She was SO talented! It was super awesome watching her skills. I got this really super awesome balloon hat. The Muffin took pictures, and they'll be facebooked later. [Haha, my mom thinks it's a little rediculous that facebooked is now like a verb. :)] I meant to call Cl~ and Scales yesterday, but - as obvious in the title for this day - yesterday went by rather quickly. So.. maybe I'll call them today.
Back to today now! The Muffin and I now have dance cards, all ready! We also resolved the fact that the dance in casual, fewf. I only brought one "sunday outfit" and I'd have to wear the same dress to the dance that I did today. *gasp!* We can't have that, now can we? :) Hm, what else about today? Oh here's a little advice for you: If you don't want to be made busy, don't stand idol where adults are doing things, especially dishes. Not that I didn't want to help :P
Yipes, I am now being dragged from my post at the computer by my cousin and The Muffin. I have like no time. Byyyyyyye!

The Day of the Gingersnaps

Ok so this title isn't partially as entertaining as the other ones... this one could actually be figured out pretty darn easily :P Oh and I just realized I didn't explain the other titles at all.. did I plan to? I don't remember. But I'm not going to. Haha. So be confuzzled all you want, you'll know how I feel pretty much all the time :)

Today. More traveling and then WE GOT TO SHEILA'S!! I love my family. A lot. HUGS! Haha. Gotta love those :) I was all smiles, especially when Alex showed up. He's my geeky cousin, and he's amazing. Favorite geek evers. =D
We are now at my grandma's house and have eaten yet another big meal... I'm eating way too much... doncha LOVE the holidays?? Haha I know I do :)
I miss all you of my awesome friends at home. Cl~, Lemons, Gordo, Gladiator, The Queen, Mr. Smooth, Sync... sigh... but I PROMISE I'm having an awesome time here! I'm tired at the moment but that's just from all the awesome that's happened :) TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS EVE DAY! AH!

love you all, more fun later.
BYE! <3

The Day of the Wannabe Mermaids

Oh. So, yesterday was The Day of the Iron Turtle.. but we were traveling most of the day so there's not much to say about it. Well kinda. I drove for about 2 hours, but it was all stop go traffic. Easy and boring. AND it's so so funny how dumb people are when all three lanes are going slow. Every space they see they move into it... cause they think that will get them going faster. Really, people? So I left a cushion of space at all times, for all the ding dongs. I gave them all names too, based on either their license plate or some decoration on their car. But most of them we just called DoDo [like the bird, pronounced Doe-Doe. Refer to the Willoughby's.. we listened to that book on tape while traveling. It made me laugh! Good story, weird, but good :)]
Once we got to Danny's we had a very large spaghetti dinner.. then later went to bed.

Now for TODAY! SOOOO FUN! =D
We went to the beach. In the WINTER!! It was like 60 degrees today. So so so nice! It was funny to see people wearing coats and boots.. some even LEATHER coats... you California people don't even know what COLD means. Haha jk some of them really do. Seriously though. Leather. In 60 degree weather?? And BOOTS! Hahaha.
The Muffin and I played in the water. It was so great! I couldn't stop singing "I LOVE the ocean! I LOVE California!!" Because I do. It was amazing. :)
We made another SuperSister video. Yeah a CALIFORNIA ADDITION!!! It was way awesomeness.. like WAY awesomeness... you all should be really looking forward to it, it's.. amazing. :) We are total spaz's I love it :)
We saw a couple really strange things at the beach. Two more memorable ones..
Strangeness #1: The dancing man. He had some old music with a good beat on.. and was dancing. He did the same basic move during the whole song, then changed what he was doing for a new song. People looked really confused at him. I know I was. The Muffin took videos, facebook! Haha :) OH! K, but he was just warming up. After maybe 15 minutes he started getting into it. His 'moves' became more.. interesting, and hilarious, and he did maybe two or three of them repeatedly for each song. The sleeper! Oh and don't forget to fluff the pillow.. now wake up... floss.. and so on and so forth. Holy fun! :D
Strangeness #2: The flock of gulls. Ok, so at the beach there are usually a lot of gulls, right? Well, randomly a huge flock of them came toward the boardwalk, strangeness.. then I noticed something even strangnessER. There was this guy.. and he had CAUGHT one! AH! He was holding it by it's wings and showing off how oh-look-at-me-I-can-catch-a-gull-and-withstand-it's-pecking he was. Emma kept saying "Let it go!" It was pretty cruel. Yeah, so those are the strangenesses.
Another big huge meal at Danny's... oh and we're making cookies. And apple pie. I got to ride in Danny's Corvett!!! Holy amazingness! Actually, it's a restored red Corvett Stingray. He restored it himself and is very proud of it. It's way cool.
Done blogging for now! More as these superawesome days continue :)

Christmas #1!

So I get to have three Christmases this year. Yeah I feel pretty darn lucky! =D One at my mom's house before we go to Cali, one in Cali with my awesome extended fam, and then one with me padre once we get back! Amazingness!
Christmas #1. Small and beautiful :) Straightener, for one thing. Haha my hair is soft :) Awesome hat too.. one of those cool ones that has flaps over your ears.. and it has little fuzzy pom pom's on strings! K, that's just cool. :) I gave my sisters and my mom fun stuff too. Can you believe Mastermind asked for Mascara??? Well, for "playing" but she did. SOO I got her some. Haha :) I got The Muffin bright pink tights! Yeah I know, I'm amazing :) She picked them out. But still!
I need to go pack now. Yes, getting ready for Christmas number two already. Talk to you all later! :)

Druuuuuuuggedd......

As most of you know, I got my wisdom teeth out on my birthday. Don't feel sorry, it's not so bad. Here's what I was acting like just after I woke up at the hospital, my mom told me all of this.
"We waited for nearly an hour for the doctor to come in. When he did, he put in the IV so quickly and smoothly, you didn't feel it at all. (There's something in my arm??)

He gave you valium through the IV, which he said would make you feel loopy. Then he gave you the sedative, and said you'd start to feel sleepy. Your speech started to slur almost immediately. You said, "I don't feel sleepy, I don't think it's having any effect on me." The nurse smiled and said, "You don't think it's working?" No, you answered. Then the doctor said, "Well, try counting backward from 100." "Okay. One hundred.....(long pause)... 89... mumble.... mumble..." The nurse laughed. "Did she just say '100, 89'? You eyes fluttered, you mumbled very softly, and you were gone.

It only took them about 30 minutes to pull the teeth. It took you at least another 30 minutes to wake up. When I came into the recovery room, you said "I was thinking about JB. You know, the one who plays the guitar?" You made an air guitar gesture under the blanket they'd covered you with. Then you mumbled really fast, and Icouldn't understand you. I heard "Christmas" and "Facebook", but that's about all I could get. A few moments later, you said "Is Potatoes here? I though he was here." You made blinking motions with your hands in front of your face, and asked if you could open your eyes now.

You were confused that you couldn't close your mouth all the way, that something was stopping it. I told you it was because you had gauze in you mouth. "I have gauze in my mouth?!?" That conversation was repeated at least five more times.

You told me I looked like Turtle.

With your eyes closed, you asked "Am I on facebook? Because I swear I'm looking at the Facebook page, and I'm scrolling down with this hand."

You were worried that you coulnd't feel your feet. [Insert! I remember thinking "This remind me of The Princess Bride, when Westly had just taken the Resurrection pill and couldn't move yet. End of insert.]

The nurse was giving me all the post-op instructions, and you wouldn't stop talking. She kept trying to tell you that you needed to stop talking, because it was moving the gauze in your mouth. "I have gauze in my mouth?!?"

You told me to film you, and I told you I hadn't brought my camera. "Is it in the car?" "No, I left it at home."
"Then I'll film myself whie you drive home." "Honey, I didn't bring my camera." "But it's in the car, right?" You asked me two or three more times where my camera was.

The nurse had you sit in a wheelchair so she could take you out to the car. You seemed mostly awake when you got in the car. I covered you with a blanket and turned on the heater. I told you it would be best to just stay quiet and rest for a little while. "But I'm not tired." You fell asleep almost immediately. Once we were nearly home, you woke up and said, "How did I get in the car?"

By the time we got home, you weren't very "funny" anymore. You ate some mashed banana and a yogurt drink, then you fell asleep for a couple hours. Around 8:30, you woke up in a lot of pain. You ate small survings of tomato soup, mashed potatoes, mashed avocado, ice cream, and applesauce. "Whoah, that's a lot of applesauce." Sixty seconds later, you'd polished the whole thing off. I gave you Lortab and Phenergan, and you were geeling much better within about 15 minutes.

I really do wish I'd had my carea at the doctor's office. You were hillarious."

Yeah, I wish that too, mom. :P

I can't post the vids of me once I got home yet. They're on the computer at my moms house, I'll post them later. They're funny :) and a bit embarrassing, but hey, I was on drugs :)

....The Teddy Bear Ones... (:

I was such a silly little kid. Still am a lot of the time :) My mom told me this story just tonight, and I have to post it 'cause it made me laugh.

Little Stripes is sitting behind the banister upstairs, at eye level with mommy. It's time to get ready for bed, actually, probably past time, and what is little stripes doing? Playing with toys, off in her own little world...
Mom - Are you getting ready for bed?
Little Stripes - Yes mommy.
Mom - Are you putting your PJs on?
Little Stripes - Yes mommy.
Mom - Which ones are you putting on?
Little Stripes - .... The teddy bear ones.
Mom - Kelsey, look at me.
Little Stripes then realizes that mommy is looking straight at her while she's playing with her toys. Woopsie (:

My Sister: the GARGOYLE!

So, last night my sister and I were really really... really.. hyper. She was taking random pictures and dancing around.. it was so much fun! Anyway, I went out of the room for a sec, and turned the lights off as I went out.. for some reason. Haha I don't know why ^_^ and when I got back in the room, I was expecting B~ to be laying on her bed, about to make some funny face at me. But when I looked, I didn't see anyone on it, and there was this distorted face with glowing eyes between our beds!! It freaked me out SO bad! I screamed, no joke.

Anyway, just now, my friend Je~ brought me a smoothie.. lol.. I am pretty much addicted to his smoothies. Plus, it's his 'stalker' thing :) Bri~'s thing is slurpies, J~'s is cookies, Sh~'s is doughnuts, and um.. I don't have one yet. Hehe. So I am sitting here having this DELICIOUS smoothie and wanted to blog!

Turkey Burp!

Sorry it took me so long to post this.

Thanksgiving was awesome! haha little cousins are fun, so roudy, though.

I love this one! ^^ C~ jumping onto J~, A~ climbing and... biting? haha:)

Pictures are worth a thousand words, eh? These little ones didn't stop jumping around for quite a bit, and then...

CRASH!! A~ does this every time, play play play.. then BOOM! sleep:) poor little guy, all tuckerd out.

Oh ya! It was also Emi~'s bithday!

FOOD! Of course, one of the most looked forward to (and most prepared for) aspects of thanksgiving: turkey, potatoes, yams, stuffing, mmmmmmmm...

and then PIE!!! What's thanksgiving without pumpkin pie? I don't know.. something weird:)