today! 10-28-06

Hey!

so today was Trey Footes Memorial, (Emily came with me, i also saw mrs.Shilling there.)

It was sad and yet they who cried were crying tears of joy! Trey is no longer in pain. I even cried just watching the slide-show. it was very sweet.

85!Trey Foote is SKyviews Angel!85

I babysatt Joe & Riley tonight.

so i wanted sometheing choclate and i was like o00o0o i want brownies! but we did not have any, so i made choclate cup cakes. and i don't mean to brag but they were goooooooooooood! and so i took the cupcakes out of the oven and burned my fingers, lol. they hurt! o well! nvm me,what up? lol, its late. its 12:09

I got to help @ a Haunted House at the WSD (washington School for the deaf) it was cool, i was in the kitchen. i will tell more 2 marrow my fingers hurt really really BAD!!!!!

Last night:Trey Foote

Last NIGHT:
It was tori's Birthday party.
Before that: I had a chior concert to go to. It was fun! and after that i left early to go to toris house so we could go to the skyview V.S. Battle Ground game.!!!!!!!!!!!! it was so sweet, it we came at like the middle of 3rd quarter only because my chior concert was late. and i think they should have canceled it because of whats going on this week and the football game is important!
At the end of the game everyone ran out on the field! and we got in this BIG CIRCLE (more like a huddle with 100's of people!) and we nealed down so Mr.Little could say a few words. It was sad. We took a moment of silence for Trey. after that treys dad Jim Foote said " Keep him in your hearts forever." so their idea was that we(everyone 100's of people) got flashlights and shined them up to trey and as we were doing that we were singing
na-na-na-na na-na-na-na hey-hey-hey goodbye! and then we got quieter and softer and then we all just started to hum it. and i am pretty sure i was the only one who saw it but i saw a shooting star in the sky. I wanted to cry more but for some reason i couldn't, i don't like that feeling.
Once we got home we watched the news and they all had brief news stories.
Honestly i did not know him but form this week i fell like i have known him for most of my life. The Foote family is so brave. Their family is really nice.

Friday at School:
At 1:00 (almost end of 5th per) we had a circle assembly.
circle assembly-where the whole school gathers around the balcony and downstairs floor. we all listen to Mr. Little, normally its before a game.
That day we took a moment of silence. you could just tell that everyone was sad. then at the end everyone got in a big circle in the middle of the cafiteria around the football players and at first i thought they were saying.....
"We will pray, we will prey, we will prey, for God."
and then they started to get louder and louder and i thought they were saying
"we will prey, we will prey,we will prey for trey!" (i started crying)
but what they were really saying is............
"WE'RE READY, WE'RE READY, WE'RE READY FOR YA'LL" After we were done chanting that Mr.Little said "okay lets give a Skyview shout-out to Trey one last time! GIVE ME AN "S" (S) GIVE ME AN "H" (H) GIVE ME AN "S" (S) WHATS THAT SPELL? SHS,SHS,SHS,SHS. GO STORM!"
I was so sad i could not even chant. this week has just been really rough alone. not very fun.
so yeah, aparently i have bad hearing. and it was sad. i cried going to 6th period.
It was all over the news. its pretty cool in a sad way. and then also in the huddle we started saying
"WE LOVE TREY! WE LOVE TREY WE LOVE TREY"
Last night was a very special night.
We love you and miss you trey. :)
-The skyview family.

Thats all for now.

Love,
Amanda

R.I.P <3Trey Foote<3 WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!

Today was a sad day at school.

Trey Foote passed away, : ( But we know he is in a better place now where he is free of pain, and happier where he is now. He will be watching down as we look up.

It was hard to get through the school day today. He will be a LEGEND in SKyview History Forever!!!!

thats really all i have to say today.

I have such a busy schedule today well to start off,
School gets out @ 2:05
I have cheer pract @ 4:30-6:30
Then go and Babysitt our neighbors (tori and kylie) from 6:30-(about) 9:30ish
Sleep!
Wake up for school the next morning.... lol. *sigh*

I have MAP testing in tech tomarrow (its some kind of placement test that is required for everyone to take. i think we started taking it in 6th grade.)
A sci Vocab test (only know 5 words) I NEED TO STUDY!
A Lit. Vocab. test (10 words) I also need to study for that too!
thats it!

I'll talk to ya'll later.

:)

-Amanda

It makes me feel sad that i never told Trey or Amanda what that guy said, if you look at my blog the previous page, or under this one... i don't know.

Coach Kiezer(Head football coach) and Mr.Little (principal) were very sad. I wonder how Mr.Grey is doing- he also coached football.

I send my BEST OF WISHED to their family. Were all here for you! :)
*Hugs*

today=tired=me=bleh=sleepy=today

10-17-06
I went over to my aunties house last night and i had a lot of fun. brings back good memories! hmmm, we
Watched T.V, Colored, Ate pizza for dinner, did homework (*sigh*)and played sorry(Board game)
See for me the whole story behind sorry is that #1- i am really bad at that game, #2- always lose, #3- takes me forever to get pawns out.... well this time #3 was true but i ended up WINNING! how sweet is that? i have never won sorry before, i swear its a game of sweet revenge and Karma. What goes around come around!
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I am so tired. i hate waking up at 5:50 in the mornin' its not right! and then be ready by 6:27ish leave around 6:30ish even tho the bus comes at 6:40 you never know, we've been having so many different bus drivers and busses its hard to keep up!,
Today Emily and I were trying to find our but so we asked this one bus driver, and shes like " oh bus 62 is # 158T" she pointed over there -> lol and it was our old bus driver from last year. shes awesome. shes also a G.S leader. Emily and I like her. yeah thats a random story.
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I am soooooooooooooo tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am not even joking! OMG Yessss we get a 2 hour late start. halleiugh! we cna sleep in for a couple more hrs. i think. *sigh* but then i have science 1st period. i can't stand my science teacher! shes crazy, i swear she has a Bi-Polar personality( for ya'll that don't know what it means its for example: You ask her a question and she says "Sure i would love to help you!" then next second she turns on you and is like " you shold be paying attention and know that! what kind of question is that!") mean huh? well its true!
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So how has everyone been? you know what i don't like, its getting darker later and then i am not sure when but we turn our clocks back and it gets really really dark! :( its depressing and so is rain, sorry. i got to go eat dinner! :) bye!
Love,
Love forever & Forever Love







^_^ Meow^_^ (awww, cute kitty,) its a random picture that i found on google i think.

weekend update!

*sigh*(of relief! Finally its the weekend!)
Friday-
I went to the last home game for SHS, it was sweet. i have 2 stories to tell you.
#1- it seems like every time i go to Kiggins(home to SHS), i have tripped on the stairs, last time i fell on my butt and then tripped going up the stairs and THIS time i tripped down, like i went down slowly. it is hard to explain becasuse i did not really fall i just stepped wrong.
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#2- There is this Varsity Football player named Trey Foote, he has cancer and about a week ago the doctors said he was fine until this week and said he was not doing well and would not have long to live, he goes around in a wheelchair most of the time. Because of his cancer he can't play football so about 3 games ago they retired his jersey and he was done for the season. But he comes to everygame and sits in his car watching. Its really sweet. Everyone bought these t-shirts at school (including me) that says TREY(in white and navy-dark blueish color background, of the other way around, blue words and white shirt) and it was $12.00, the money went to MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION!!!! so i bought one. :) honestly i have never met trey in person i have only met his sister, Amanda Foote(tee-hee, she has the same name...) she is so nice. She is Proud of her brother and thinks he is a wonderful inspration.
I went to the game with Kendall, KImberly, and Ashley, then met up with Savannah and Sarah, after the game is over everyone runs across the feild to the players who are VARSITY IS UNDEFEATED!!!! GO SHS!!!! N-B-L-C (nothin but lead champions!) after that all players run over to treys car and one by one they shake his hand and people form a line that can go across the whole field to say hi, its sweet. and people were chanting "WE LOVE TREY, WE LOVE TREY!" and it was cool. he will be a legend in SHS for a long long long time!
When KImerly, Kendall and I were walking back to the car this random guy asked
"Hey!, ya'll know Trey?"
"Um no, but we know his sister." said K,K,A(Kimberly,Kendall, Amanda=me lol)
"Well, can you give him this message and say it was from Miko?"
"Yeah sure!" K,K,A
"Please let trey know that i'm praying for him and i hope when he dies he goes to heaven and god will take care of him. I am thinking about him, GOOD Luck. !"
"Aww that is so sweet, we'll tell him that."
That made us all want to cry. There was even a news special about him, it was touching.
Oh yeah, Kendall slept over...we had fun!
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Today-(Saturday)
Kendall and I slept in till about 10 surprisingly, it felt gooood! then we went to stevens soccer game, then to costco,then home, then to the schools so my dad could run and kendall and i could walk the dogs and play on the playground, came home, were bored for a while, and ate a yummy dinner!
Because it was my grandmas( we call her nonnie) birthday October 10th, but we celebrated it tonight, and a bunch of our family came over,
Nonnie,Annie Granny & Papa, Uncle Tim and Susie, stevens friend Kyle and my friend Kendall and mom, dad and steven and me! My mom made her yummy yummy yummy lasagna. and then we had a really yummy choclate cake, OMG its the best, normally i don't like rich choclate but that just hit the spot.
***OMG when we were @ costco they had free samples everywhere, and one of them was Fried Potstickers, those are da'bomb! OMG i have never had a fried on before. i love chicken potstickers. a great place to get them is Henrys Tavern(restruant downtown).*YAWN* i am starting to get tired. its 11:55 PM lol, i still have math homework to do..... sigh, i will do it tomarrow. Here are some pictures of Promotion for 8th grade last year, sorta... its not new years yet. :p lol!


This is Emily, MRs.Hanson and me, she was our Kindergarden and 1st grade teacher, we like to go and visit her every now and then. We <3LOVE<3 her!
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This is Mariah and I, after promotion was over, i miss her. She goes to Columbia River,




This is Mrs.Shilling and me, She is sooooo sweet. i like her a lot, I remeber on that day she said " I don't know if anyone has told you this but your a very special girl who is so nice, and she added somehting else,i forgot" she is so nice. i miss her. someday i'll go say hi again when i have time or how about when i can drive, yeahhh that would be good. thats gonna be sweet when i drive!!!!!!!!!
This is Max and Me, he was really funny, i was taking pictures of my friends and he randomly decides he wanted to take a picture so i am like okay....? what ever, so yeah he is always hyper. He was in my choir class for two years, i think 7th and 8th grade.





Hey look at me, woo-hoo i am upside down, lol that was before we were going to see Mrs.Hanson i think i can't remember, Emily and i were haveing fun,

okay now that time is 12:07

you know i should go to bed, but here are some Skyview Cheers.!!!!!!

S-H-S SHS

GIVE ME AN S "S"
GIVE ME AN H "H"
GIVE ME AN S "S"
WHATS THAT SPELL?
"S-H-S(4x repeat)"

Hey! Hey you! you know what'cha gotta do you gotta ROCK with the WHITE and ROLL with the BLUE!

GO STORM!

yeah thats all i can think of right now, GOODNIGHT! *hugs*
-Amanda- (12:10)

You know what i could never figure out what this ( <3 ) meant, but i get it now, its a heart....can u see it?
Or next time you see a FEDEX truck see if you can fins the arrow inbetween the words. it took me forever, but i see it every time now. okay officially i am going to bed at.............. 12:14

tired and felt like sayin hi *(Again)*

I am tired........... and i really don't know why i am on the computer.

I watched Mattea for a bit tonight. I watched "Curious George The Movie" with her. I LOVE THAT MOVIE. its so adorable! and after that we went upstairs and started to watch "Dinosaurs" but she was getting scared so then we decided to put in "Blues Clues Sing Along" so i was on the couch and she crawled up on my lap, and started to fall asleep. Chris said i could leave any time just let him know, so i was like "Ok" and then Mattea started to drift to sleep and i was like i will just wait until she falls asleep to leave because i was tired, so i kinda went to sleep. but then i woke up and they walked me home. I did not turn off my Alarm Clock so i woke up at 5:50!!!!!!!!!!! OMG- that is so not cool when its a weekend... then i got up and turned it off and woke up again at 10:40ish.
(I am kinda going Backwards in the day)
Mattea and I did a lot of Chalk and it was soo cool. We filled up the whole driveway pretty much. it was fun. and we played Hide-n-Seek and yeah just had a lot of fun!

I called Morgan and Maddy today,They all seem to be doing good. It was nice to talk to them. I honestly wonder if they think about me as much as i think about them. i think about them everday and miss them, when i went to texas i did not want to leave because i already felt like i was living at home. its nice to know i have support everywhere from family-to-friends and i met another family that was their neighbors and they are so nice.... almost like a family to me too. okay i am like seriously tired so GOODNIGHT!
Love,
Amanda
9:56

SKYVIEW!!!!

Yeah!!!!!!!!! so i went to the SKYVIEW game tonight agaist EVERGREEN(booo, evergreen=our Rival, River is our other rival) the sad thing is that this was the 1st game i have been too this year. sad huh?? (Varsity Game, skyview 36 evergreen 14 HAH!!!! we UNDEFEATED! GO SHS)

** one of the varsity football players is sick, his name is Trey Foote, I am not quite sure about how long he has had cancer but yeah. its like in his leg and he can't play...but he goes to every game only he sits in his car and watches it. I have been hearing people say he has not been doing well. :( so they (people @ school) are selling Trey shirts that have his Jersey # on the back. so it was like $12.00 and i said the only several reasons i will get it is because Trey, SUpport Make a wish foundation( i believe thats what its called) and to just have School spirit! honestly i don't even know him, but just from the stories i have heard he seems like a nice guy. :)

***Skyview chant thing: oh yeah its called a FIGHT SONG!( i forgot for a moment!)
Hail! To the Victors Valiant,
Hail! To the conquering Heros,
Hail! Hail! To Skyview High,
The Leaders and the Best!
Hail! Brave defenders,
Hail! To the storm so mighty
Hail! Hail! to skyview high,
The CHAMPIONS of the west!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
S-H-S, S-H-S, Go-FIGHT-WIN*repeats all over and over again till we wanna stop.!*
Its stuck in my head.
Tah dah-pretty sweet huh? yay i am so happy its the weekend. i am like mega tired, school is too early and it should have never been made this way to be so early!!!!

Oh and i think tonight SHS is going to be on FOX News or umm what channel, o darn i forgot. for our spirit assembly today they were filming us and they said we were going to be brodcasted on T.V cool huh? this is awesome!!!!! maybe i should turn it on and go see. i dunno.

Later i went and sat with my neighbors, Marty,Karla,Carly,Joe,Riley,Jody,Brenda and Gairn, and yeah thats it, and every time the fight song would come on riley would get up and dance shes so adorable and cute! she knew the cheers too. it was funny.
I am thinking about doing cheer next year at SHS, like all the varsity are seniors and they are all leaving so they will need more poeple, and this year there is one sophmore on there and i think i can make it on the VARSITY TEAM, and hopefully by next year i will have a round-off Back-Handspring- Back Tuck!!!

Well yeah thats my story for tonight. BYE!!!!!!
-Night night,
Amanda
time: 10:29

Just my life and I

Camping was pretty fun with the Girl Scout Troop. We got to see a 600 year old tree. it was HUGE!!!!!!!!! um, we did this awesome hike, i think it was called mire Lake(Pronounced- Meer)and apparently it should be a mild flat hike, psh, what ever. i found it kinda hard. even mom and the other girls hotught so too.
Its our Tradition on the way to Girl Scout Camp to stop at The Toilgate Inn, for dinner, they have the best burgers. Mmmm, i love them. and on the way home we stop at A&W's. i love that place. its so awesome.
School was fun this week,(1 day left, lol) its SPIRIT WEEK!
monday-Layers Day
Tuesday-Personal Flotation device day
Wednesday- Wacky Day
Thursday-COLOR WAR (Freshman=Orange)
Friday-Power day(wear school colors)
hmmm, its kinda late so i am losing my train of thought. :( its 9:22( i know, i know... your all thinking its not that late but when you wake up at 5:50 AM it sure is)
Tomarrow is a BIG game for Skyview Football we going againist EVergreen, Its played somewhere called the Kiggings Bowl.... i have no been to a game at all this year. i know sad huh? well i have either been babysitting, Cheerleading, or who knows what. and my brother got to go to the 1st big game of the year. (CR VS SHS) i was so mad about that. but o well....
I want to write more, but i have nothing really to say.... well i do but i can't think at the moment. i will put some more pictures up soon!!! so yeah. um, i think i am going to go to bed. o yeah Homecomming is this weekend. i did not get asked, but thats no surprise right now, but i did not really feel like going.*sigh* i'm getting sleepy, but i don't wanna go to bed but i should, ugh....so many decisions! well really this time i promise i am for sure going to bed.

Hey, guess what? i wrote a song yesterday. I am so proud of it. i wrote it in 1 day! i think i called it "Watching You Sleep" its always hard to get the right pitch when you can't write music.(well i can, i can also read it but i don't know exactly what keys are what...) i will try to post it later.
see i forgot again.................... *sigh* i swear i am like dory, i want to be dory for halloween! cool huh?
um yesterday i got locked out of my house, someone left the key pad open to the gorage(can't spell) and all the doors were locked so i went over to my neighbors and chilled for a bit and played with Mattea. i had fun. :)
Its so hard to picture little girls i know grown up, i wish they would stay that way. like morgan and maddy and mattea just everyone. i'm sure thats how parents feel. and like its sad because i don't get to see morgan and maddy on a daily or every other day basis and watch them grow, i will only see them about once or twice a year. possibly 3, you never know.....Yup, this is when i know i am really tired, i can't think and my hands hurt!
*WAIT* thats it! i REMEMBERED!!!!
Last night at tumbling i was so close to my backhandspring alone, Tynia was spotting me, i just need to push harder off the floor and *BAM!* i got it. wow i have typed a lot,,, hand-cramp......... and we did this circut and neil was like okay a round-off back-handspring. and i was like O CRAP! and kinda freaking out but in my head i was like :NOPE! i won't let this syke me out, so i did it like really good, and we learned a power hurdle, it was cool. i will get pictures and more info tomarrow or this weekend.
final thing, The VCA gets to preform at the BLAZER GAME again,,,, suh-weet! and this times its at HALFTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how cool ans scary fun will this be?
*Hugs*
luv ya'll
Amanda
I like to say ya'll, i think its funny.
Tech calss had payed off i can type so fast now! woot! go me. okay seriously bye! its 9:46

Ok-ish Day~

Well my day has gone Ok-Ish, i have been in a somewhat BAd mood, like before school(in the mornings when getting ready) and someitmes at random i'll be fusterated. like in science teacher. (Mrs.Farnsworth) shes crazy!!!!!!! here are some of the things on how class goes;.......
1-If anything is written in pen its a ZERO 2-only use pencil and colored pencil 3- does not explain directions well 4-IS MEAN~ yeah , i have science 1st per. and when i am in a bad mood science is not a fun way to start the day. :(
Cheer Practice- Practice wasn't that bad tonight. We Jumped,Stunted,Danced, typical stuff. Its all good. : )
I am missing my M&M's sooooooooo much tonight. its weird. sometimes i will just have my moments. when i am like i just really need them here with me. It takes a lot more than words to discribe what their family means to me. Everyday i think about them, i remember to a special moment and play it over in my head again like it was happening now. (I wish)
I have been like listening to my ipod soooooo much. i don't know why i am just like in this music crave. i don't know what else to call it.
School- Tomarrow is a 2 hour late start. yesss, that rocks. so school starts at 9:30 it origingally starts at 7:30 that is crazy early.
Classes-
1-Science 2-Adv.Tech 3-Litature 4-Math(i swear he reminds me so much of morgan and maddys dad, he even loks like him, its kinda cool and weird in the same way,) 5-Choir 6-ASL

Yup thats my schedule. i eat lunch around 10:35-11:05 I have 1st lunch. High School is pretty cool..... i guess.lol.
Our Girl Scout Troop is going camping this weekend. Some-where by Mt.Hood i think its called road-ah-den-dron i can't spell it. :p lol, yeah, its always fun camping with the troop. we have so much fun. Many people quit by HS. but i am proud to say i am a Girl Scout. i have been in it for 8 years. since I was in 2nd grade.
hmmm, what else to add....*gosh I don't know*
I wish our neighborhood was still the same as it was 4 years ago. we all knew each other so well( we kinda do now) But so many people have moved and everything has changed. ( I am NOT a persone who likes CHANGE) i miss the old bench under the trees, Our old neighbors, and when you would come home from school you could look foward to seeing little kids that adore you. like one time i was comming home form school and Morgana and Maddy ran up to me and gave me a BIG hug. awww, those were the good old days. yepp, I am not complaining with my life now, i am just putting out there that everything is different.

Well gotta go, I have to watch the Season Primere of Gilmore Girls!!!!!!!!
-Mucho Loves,
Amanda

Sheryl Corw and John Mayer Concert

I AM SOOOOOOOO EXCITED! Kendall, My mom and I are going to the Sheryl Crow concert, and John Mayer is there too. Its going to be so awesome. Kendall slept over last night, we had fun. we made an interpative dance to Hercules. lol, then danced some more. ummmmmmm got the mail, Ate dinner, Checked on the neighbors kitty, Danced again, went to her house to pick up her stuff, Went to Hollywood Video and we got " Just my Luck" we wanted "Stick It" sooo yeah- and they were out and we went to go pay... and this guy who was also paying said do u have any "stick it" left and the guy who works there was like "Yeah, we do" truth is(well kendall and I figured this out in the car) it was JUST OUR LUCK that "Stick It was out" and its JUST OUR LUCK the other guy got the video and we got the movie, "Just My Luck" it was cute. um,

today i really don't know what i am going to do, Lauren left yesterday for college:( but it was all good because i got to talk to her on IM last night, :) i am watching her kitty while their gone. She has the most *ADORABLE KITTY* ever.
Luvs,
Amanda

-I wanna see the Dixie Chicks in Concert.

(Bui bye)
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Today Jerry Passed away, Yeah i guess he passed this morning. Its so sad. If this is Jordan or anyone else who knows jerry i am sorry for his pass. I miss him 2, i love you all and i hope you can all stay strong!
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Um, today i hung out with savannah, and then came home. After that it was really nice outside so i went over to carlys to fill up water baloons. then Riley and Joe came out and rileys friend courtney and we played football, 500(u know where you toss the ball and yell Ex: "JACKPOT-ALIVE" or you can say dead... yeah i'm sure u know the game.") Then we went inside(Jim and Carlas house, Riley's and joe's parents) and had some cake, and played more. Cheer'ed, Danced, Played Board Games, ummm thats it. They were having a baby shower for someone and i saw Mr.Little(School principle) and Mrs.Botnen(The head cheer coach and my advisory teacher) yup yup yup. It was fun. Its 11:11 now, how weird. Cool huh? I had a great time. I was over there for like hours. we all had fun!!!
okay gooooooooooood NIGHT!!!! it is now 11:17
bui bye(again)

I miss Morgan and Maddy. They are so cool! i luv you girls!

sad day- we can only hope for the best.

So about 2 days ago i found out my cousins Grandpa-Jerry, is not doing ver well. he is sick. He has Stomach Cancer and by the time they found it it was to late and he also has alz timers.(can't spell) so yeah. And yesterday i found out that hes not strong enough to live. so now were all waiting. I feel so bad for Maxine(his wife), Uncle Rick(Jerrys son) , and jordan (jerrys grandson), and cassie and Auntie Ven and Uncle Walt. Honestly i only met him a few times and i am not related to him, but still. Family and friends are all the same. Its hard for my cousin because He lost his mom(my auntie) and its so hard to explaing the feeling in words n a blog. Cause i know who's ever reading this probally does not understand how i process it in my mind. I miss my Auntie K.

I wrote this for Jerry:

If only you knew what it feels like. To have a secret you can't tell. You have a life filled with joy until now. its hard to imagine how many years life can overcome. With love and compasion you have friends all above.A prayer each night can only give us visual sight,
A intake on what its likfe after we rise to the clouds. Why now? Why you? At this time love can only be spread by a prayer that sends a letter to the heart. We can only wish for the best.

Dear Lord,
I pray that everyone who is with you to be safe.
To give people a second chance in life.
I pray that our hidden secrets will be revealed,
To all be taken seriously.
Give those who rise a second perspective of life.
I pray that you teach people to have no regrets,
They were not the cause.
The effect was so sudden.
There are things in life we can not understand,
And thats why we come to you.
In you name we praise.
Amen.

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Tonight we(My mom, Kiki, Lauren and Nadine,) are going out to dinner cause lauren is leaving this friday. aww i am gonna miss her. I love her so much. Were going to McMinimums. something like that. it will be fun, so i have to go straight from tumbling to there. YIKES- my hair will be yucky. :( well thats okay. i'll live. Well gotta go, BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Amanda Panda Mandy Moo-

9-16-06( I have no idea what else to title this so yeah,)

well it finally started raining about Thursday. We have not had rain for a long time so it was pouring really hard and then Hail.... Even some Thunder & Lightning. I am scared of it. its still going on today(Saturday)....but only the rain. there are dark clouds, a slight drizzle, and yeah- i find it depressing weather. I might as well get used to it I do live in a state that rains all the time.
I was so excited the other dya i came home from school and thought well- i will Give calling M&M one more time.(Someting was wrong with their mechine) and they answered! I was happy. I sure miss them. I wish we had weather like they have in Texas. Its so nice.
Last night i watched Mattea for about 9 hours. I think from about 5-1:30 ish Kiki was in Vegas and he plane got delayed...so thats why i was there till 1:30 and Mattea fell asleep about 10:30ih-11 so i decided i would go to sleep too. Only i was not comfortable in the chair i was in so i slept on the couch and around 12ish she woke up wandering where her mom was. so i let her sleep with me. I was really tired because its hard waking up at 6 every morning so i was tired at about 8. and when kiki came home i was asleep (mattea fell asleep on my arm.) so when she knocked on the door i sat up and was like whos at the door this late...and as i was walking to the door my eyes were like barly open. So i went home, went to bed and sorta slept in until 8:40. I guess thats considering sleeping in for me now.Yeah- thats the story about last week,

I am so so so so SO happy its the weekend. YAY!!!!!!! soooo yeah. BYE!!!!

today will forever be remembered!!!!

We all know that today is the 5th year in rememberance of 9/11 attack. Millions of people around the U.S were effected in all kindas of ways. I know i was and heres my story:
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In my last blog i told you about my Auntie Yolie and that shes a flight attendant and she lives in hawaii,,,, so yeah this is about her. Her flight pattern (i'm guessing... i don't really know for sure) is from Hawaii, To Boston, To New York ( she goes all over.... this is just what i think the pattern was) and she was going to be on that plane that crashed into the Twin Towers but at Last Minute the night before they had her switch to a different flight. She lost a lot of her friends. I am very greatful that she is still here and its amazing that she got a change at last minute. But why? how come all the other people wern't safe. It makes no sense. Well thats my story.

I honestly think we should have this day off as a holiday.None of us really know what happend that day except for one. This guy documented a film about 9/11 he had a camera with light and was able to get footage and follow the firefighters around. it was on ABC and was a special and i was in tears. its crazy. You know what i never really realized that so many people and families lost each other. Not just the firemen, but the thousands of people that were in both of the towers and the plane and all the families that never found out or were able to have a funeral for their loved ones.
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I'm sick. I stayed home from school today. I have a stuffy nose and yeah- i am just a little out of it. Being sick is not fun. theres not much to do either. For this year at school i am taking classes:
1-Science
2-Technology
3-English 9
4-Math
5-Choir
6-ASL(American SIgn Language) its really cool. the only reason i am not doing spanish is because in 7th grade we had a option if we took Spanish for 7th and 8th grade we would get 1 credit in foregin language. but i decided i did not want to do spanish so i took art and choir(7th) and choir and Drama(8th) and ASL is really cool. I recomend it to any one who has the option to take it.
hmmmm, what else is there to talk about...gosh, i can't think about anything else.
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Yesterday or waityesterday was sunday it was saturday!(2days ago) we had a party and a neighborhood clean up thing. so after we had a BBQ and everyone was hangin ous. Jess came over to laurens that night and Lauren, Jess and myself were just hangin out with anthony. We went to his backyard and we decided to teach jessica how to do a cartwheel. NAd she was SO CLOSE. we had fun. then later lauren and anthony left so it was just Jess and I so i kept teaching her and telling her different ways and she almost had it. it was cool. She taught me how to do a back-bend so now its my turn to teach her. Yup we had fun. that night was when i started to get sick. Yeah..........it sucks!
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okay so i decided i want to put some random pictures so here they are.......................


So yeah thats Steven and I for yah- That was at the Portland Brew Pub only its owned by a different company now. its like pyrmids. i don't know...... we had fun. i think it was my moms birthday!

This is Chesse, He is this really funny character on Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends.

I want to be him for halloween! lol, i don't know how i am ging to pull it off but somehow i will. :)

Okay for the I pooted video heres the link becasue i can't get it to put it on here so yeah it is..............................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjmtvbylye&mode=related&search=fosters%20home%20Imaginary%20friends%20cheese%20bloo%20mac

Yesterday and Today

<-- Me at my birthday dinner at the Olive Garden. Yummy. I love their Bread Sticks!! i like this picture its very funny.... Heyy yall' School: Well i have survived the 1st week of school and waking up at 6 is not that bad. High School is pretty FUN! and again i have Science 1st per. but i have it with Kendall so thats worth it. Now: Ewww- i see a Bee on the window(outside) its just sitting there. YUCKIE!!!!! o wait hes gone. lol. sorry it was something random i just saw so i felt like mentioning it. Yeah today i slept in it felt very nice!!! i slept in to about 9:30 normally i cna sleep in till 10-10:30ish but i heard my brother so i woke up. Its sooooooooooo annoying i keep trying to call Morgan and Maddy and when i call this recording says " SORRY YOU CAN NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE!!!" and then dis-connects. SUCKS huh? its been weeks since i have talked to them. :( i wish i was with them,Jessica is comming and staying for the weekend. Yeah- so that will be fun. It was like a week or 2 before school started and i forgot to mention that Auntie Yolie got to spensd a day with us. She lives in hawaii....and she is a flight attendant for continental.(i flew that to texas-Good airline) and yeah it was wonderful to see her. we see her pretty much when we go to hawaii. we went to Tommy O's for dinner. YUMMY Hawaiian food....even though she lives in hawaii we still took here there and she liked it. :) I LOVE YOU AUNTIE YOLIE AND UNCLE DON. oh yeah- GO BLAZERS.(hes a Laker fan) Last night: We(Family) watched a funny,sad,chick-flick movie. it was made in 2005. It is called " Family Stone" its with Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, ummm i can't remember any more. it made me cry. take my word for it and go rent it or buy it. Its predictible but good. Dad kept giving away what was going to happen because he was not into the movie and it was funny. : ) Mom made her YUMMYYYYYYYYYY Enchiladias.(Is tht how you spell it?) they are the BEST!!!!! i could eat so many of them but i decided to stop because i know i would have gotten a tummy ache if i ate to much i think i at at least 1. so yeahhhh thats pretty much yesterday. it was Friday and woot. its the weekend. well i think thats all really.....so bye bye Have a wonderful day! Luvs, _Amanda_ Pictures................... This is my dog sadie. How cute is she. This was on the drive up to ummm Bend i think. We just got her last year we have had her for 2 years. Shes is sooo adorable!Okayyy, well this is Steven and I in the car being very very bored. and goofy. we like to do that when theres not much to do!i wonder why its typing blue. i did nto set it too. o well. bye!

See oh yeah were cool.--------------------->

Tumbling=I have my backHandspring but....

OKay so now i have my Back Handspring this pretty well. but guess what, when i do my back Handsprings with Coach Jen i like bring my right leg up as if i was doing a LIB.(Liberty) on my opposite side. And i like try to focous on it as hard as i can but its like weird. i can't get it to be straight. GRrrrr, its annoying. And she Laughs when i do it because i have been doing it for a while and yeah.... You get the story right? I really don't know why i don't have a standing alone- i SHOULD! i am just gonna push myself until i can do it and then take it to the next level by doing a round-off Back Handspring then a Roud off Backhand tuck then( if i ever get that good) a round off Backhand Tuck Layout- then there becomes a Full, Doubble twist, Like somehting called an arabian. its really cool, and hard! it takes a lot of DERTIMATION~COURAGE-BELIEVE IN YOURSELF--TURST -TO BE FIT(eat good and exersize right! ;p) but for me i am sure not the best at eating right...but i do like to do like cardio stuff(Aerobics is fun) Cheer, Dance all kinda of stuff. okay well thats my short story for the night. GOOD NIGHT! *Hugs*

Luvs,
Amanda 10:57


P.S
Really random quote idea thing:

If i could ever change my name it would be.........................

*Kristen*Elise*Cougar*

do you like???yeah i'm talkin to YOU! lol, later. goodnight.

just me and my life sayin hi!

UP there^ is me faking a smile that i was happy and excited when i was liek AHHH *MY head was gonna blow off my head* too many emotions!*
Yesterday~
SO yesterday i went to my grandmas(nonnis) and went to the Kite Festival! Its this really awesome thing. People fly their own kites for like a whole week. there are so many varities.! i got some italian charms for my braclet one says luv my beagle, a carebear and um a sand dollar to remind me of the beach. I luv my grandmas house, its like 1 or 2 miles from the beach. cool huh? and its only like 2 hours away, 2 1/2 if you go the long pretty way! the short way you cross over thie BIG BIG HUGE! bridge thats really scary but cool at the same time. i'm just blabbing- sorry!
Today~
Today before we left i was looking at some pictures there was some before i left to texas well it was the day i left and i was hugging my mom good-bye crying and omg my heart just sank whith emotion, i am so LUCKY to be able and go places, have a life, a home, friends, i am LUCKY to have go and see Morgan and Maddy, I was thinking about them today. i have not talked to them in a while. normally i call them once a week and 2 weeks is the MAX limit. its way to long.....Life is amazing. Honestly i have to re think that i am real or like shake myself out of this feeling. i feel like i'm not real and were like a myth and its weird. here are the pictures.

What i want to do in life and become:
Photographer
Poet
Publish a book of all my writings
Turn my writings into songs
Singer
go to college
finish college
Coach Cheer
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If any of my friends/Family are reading this now i just want to THANK YOU for being in my life. You are all wonderful people and i am glad you understand this side of me that is not always shown. i am very kept quiet about my writings i don't share a lot with all, it depends. I could not have become who i am without you all. we learn from each other and become a post of each other to rely(rest on) on. Well its getting kinda late. GOOD NIGHT! (time:10:27)
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TUmbling was really good tonight- i got a alot better at my round-off Back-Handspring! this new girl tynia has been helping with tumbling and she reminds me so much of my cousin cassie its wierd in a good way. She was at Cheer Camp too. Cheer camp was fun(all VCA teams even minis)- only i had more fun last year this camp was only VCA last year it was VCA(jr. and Sr. teams) provided by Pac West so yeah- i have no idea why i don't have a standing back handspring by myself yet.... kinda stupid really. Coach Jen said tonight when i was doing my back handsprings with her i was lifting my right leg up like i was diong a LIBERTY in the air while doing a back handspring,,,, make sense? no? yes? well thats okay! my mommy watched tonight yay!
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Me crying~ aww i am gonna miss my mommy~ but i had a great time once i was there!!

Me crying before i left~

When i was in TEXAS! i miss them all tons! see no worries at all. they take away everything that i am scared,sad, or having a bad day about. just hearing their voice is calming! if your(Mark,Jeanene,Morgan and Maddy) reading this... I LOVE YOU!xoxo kisses xoxo
What Cuties!

< Just the girls being very funny, ya gotta love them!


well i think i am gonna go to bed NOW! for sure this time,,,its 10:48

I love you all,
GOODNIGHT!
Love always,
Amanda panda

Days are going by so fast now that my birthday is past....like after my birthday *POOF* Schools here!!! oh what joy. I am oging into 9th grade this year. Its gona be awesome. okay like tomarrow is monday but i could swear today feels like a tuesday. i don't know.... i'm just tired right now. Kendall and I had a double sleepover. it was fun, hmm what else have i don like in the last week, also just being bored at home and doing nothing which is always doing something and i find it kind of fun every now and then. The family drove to Medford(like 5 hours away) and then we went all over. we went to JAcksonville(10 min away from medford), to Brookings, Coos Bay, Euygene, and Home, i swear we drove like a totla 15 hours. thats a lot!!!!! We went camping on the Oregon Coast and it was so pretty. A lot cleaner than washingtons beaches. lol, and leaving there we drove through the red woods (BIG BIG BIG TREES!!!!) and drove through california.... well thats all for tonight. Hered a random quote i thought of....or made upilike just now.
" Our world is amazing, Life Is priceless. How did we ever start to become? The thousands of beliefs, to our life we over come. Challenges starve for defeat unlike the Bells that ring for Freedom."

~Good night~
-luvs,
Amanda

My birthday is in 4 days!

Wow- I am like so bored.... My Birthday is in 4 days! HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2 ME! The 27th was Stevens birthday and our family,Susie, Marty and Carly all came and we ate dinner @ Joes Crab Shack. and surprisingly I like the shrimp! I got chicken and cheese sticks. Yummy Then yesterday the 28th Steven had his party and he went to the J.P.C(Jim Parsley Center) and Lauren came along. The Boys went swimming first and we went rock climbing. It was so cool, first we did the easy side twice, Because the was on rope where the guy pulls you and the other one is automatic so every step you take it pulls you up more. That one was scary! And I got to the top, both times. When I was on the automatic one I was scared to come down! #1 reason was because I looked down and #2 reason you had to let go at the same time other wise if you didn't and went one at a time you would fall the length you pulled down faster. So Lauren was like on the count of 3! I grabbed it with my right hand then on 3 I let go and after I came down I was shaking~ then we went to the mild on and I made it to the top and then we climbed the hardest and I made it to the top. Lauren gave up on the last one. She made it up all the other times though. It was awesome. I want to do it again. You just have to trust yourself.
Much labs,
Amanda
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Texas:
So I went to Texas 6 days after school got out it was so cool. There is so much to say about it I am not going to even start to explain. I met their nice neighbors. Danielle, Caroline, Rodger and Claduette.
What we did:
1. Went Swimming
2.Went to D&B(Dave and Busters)
3. SHOPPING at the Galleria, IT WAS HUGE! ( you can barley do the 1st floor in a day!, there were 3 floors)
4. Watched their swim Meet
5. Jumped on tramp
6.Played games, Watched movies, hung out at home,listened to music.
7. Ice skating
8.Went to Church
I miss Morgan and Maddy and Mark and Jeanene so much. I just feel so comfortable with them, they are all so sweet. Maddy always makes me laugh. I wish you could hear morgans laugh, its the sweetest thing ever!
It was like 2 days before I left and we were driving home and it was just Jeanene, The girls and me. And i was starting to cry a little bit because i did not want to leave. Only they did not know it. So Morgan asked me a question and I turned around and they knew something was wrong and they asked me what was, I explained to them what was wrong and then I think Jeanene felt a little sad 2 she held my hand the rest of the way home. It was so sweet. *( I LOVE YOU JEANENE!)*

Recap on the weeks i missed!

Last Weekend:
Jessica came over and we(lauren,Jess and me) just chilled... we went to Taco Bell and had so much fun. it was like almost 11:30 and we were there until like 12:30 idk why. and yeah!
Our Girl Scout troop went to Vashon Island(u take a fairy from Tachoma to the island) and it eas a lot of fun.One night they ran out of dinner. OMG~ and then Cassandra wont be cahir next year because she is going to college to get her degree (shes a nurse) and she will be a nurse that can do doctor stuff. don't ask me what u call it because idk! and it was only EMily,Elin and me who went, it was weird. and elin met these girls who went to her school and she was with them the whole time and it was just me and Emily.

This week:
Okay so our 8th grade graduation is this thursday. we have our run through tomarrow in the middle of 6th period till 7th~ i am excited. YAY~ i get to go to high school!
Lauren's graduating party is this saturday. and it just like our neighborhood and some other people i am guessing. And Brandies end of the year party it the same day so i am kinda thinking that i am gonna try and go to both...idk.
TOday i got a manicure and Pedicure with Kendall. and we each got flower decails on our ring finger. It was he birthday yesterday. and this is CRAZY! when i was getting a pedicure this girl i guess he name was christina, that what kendall said. she SCREAMED and shes like OMG there is a spider behing you chair. and i loked around for it and did nto see it so i am like o what ever, and sat back in the chair. then later on(a couple minues later) she screamed again and said its on you chair so i scooted up far and i did not know if it would bite me or not. or if it was posionious. creepy huh? and the lady got it. it was funny!


Summer:
This summer 6 days after school gets out on the 16th i leave the 21st to go fly to texas! to see morgan and maddy! YAY! how cool is that? all by myself! sweeeet! i am staying for a week. and them um.
OUr family might go to FLordia but we do not know for sure~

NOW:
Um it is 9:53 and i am going to go to bed. night~ now its 9:54~

ONLY 4 MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL!

i hope this works! i think it did..hmmm, I LOVE FAITH HILL!!!