spring break to now!

i went to DISNEYLAND for spring break! it was so cool. i got to meet all the charachters. My favorite was meeting the princesses, that was so cool, CINDERLLA was my favorite.DISNEYLAND IS A MAGICAL PLACE! We took a shuttle to Disneyland and on the way there a little girl was about 3 and she kept saying "EVERYBODAY HAPPY TODAY!" she was so cute, her mom was shaking her head. i did not go on many rides my favorite rides were:
Pirates of the Carribean
Haunted Mansion
Grizzly adventure(water ride)
TALKED TO CRUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! from FINDING NEMO~

I also got to see the sifontes, Juan,Deborah, Johnny, Scottie, Matthew & Steven. I had so much fun, Steven is into choir so much, he play the piano and he taught me songs and sometimes he would play them and i would sing for him. it was so sweet. i think he is in 1st grade. I had a ton of fun.


RECENTLY:
This last weekend we had a Girl Scout sleepover, it was origionally going to be here but my mom felt sick so we did it at emilys house, only i came late because i was babysitting Garin and Garrett. I came back Saturday aroud 3 o'clock, and we stopped and talked to JIm and Joe as we were driving home, they planted in a new tree(it looks pretty) and Joes like Riley was looking for you, she wanted to do the play. My mom told them i have been really tired and need to relax for a while and Jim was like well no worries the play can wait, Riley loves you. that makes me feel good when i know babysitting kinda pays off, i love to do it, i have fun, i can be a kid and act responsible at the same time, and they will mostly remember me for a while and hopefully for their whole life. so later that day i went and in the play i was the announcer and the teacher....The play was called 'TODLERS AT DAYCARE" Riley wrote it all by her self. it was cute. and later that night Kendall came over around 5:15 and we left at 6;30 with my Dad to go to a Blazer VS THE SEATTLE SONICS blazers won like 108 to 102. GOOD GAME! we got FREE CHALUPAS(even though i do not eat them) when we got back i found out my mom was going to california to go to my grandpas funerul and i was sad because i wanted to go, so i cried, and I am glad kendall was there. SHe makes me very happy and comforts me when i need it. Kendall if your reading the I LOVE YOU!!!! On sunday, we slept in until 10 ish i guess and decided to go to the Minute Mart and we got soda and chips. when we came home she was telling me for dancersize, she has to make a mix of songs (routine style) and preform infront of her class solo, with a backdrop. so we were trying to find music and i was going to help her, we kinda ran out of time. Later we played basketball outside and the ball was up in the air and i had my hands up ready to catch it and i jammed my right index finer. I was like OUCH!!! and i looked at it and it was a BIG PUFFBALL!!!!!!! i named it FAT LOUIE like from the princess diares, the cat is names F.L. it is still really stiff
TODAY:
Durring 3rd period, i freaked out, (i have not moved my finger most of the day so far or at least tried not to) and i am like OMG my fingers blue, and i told Laina and Bailey and Elise i was scared i might loose my cirulation in it, and Laina asked me if my finger was cold and i said no, so apparently i was not. I asked the teacher to go to the nurse, but she said no, just wait a while longer. so i did and knowing me i freak out easily so i got a pass and walked down to the office and the nurse was not there, so the lady gave me a bag to put ice in and i had to go get ice from the cafiteria. after a while the ice metled so i threw it away, i was still freaking out and on the way down to lunch i was going to ask Mr.Gray what to do, but he was not in his classroom and i was like darn. and i panicked and thought OH NO WHAT IF MY FINGER FALLS OFF! lol. but i saw him pass by and i yelled his name and asked him about it, i told him how i did it and stuff and he asked if i could bend it and i said yeah, so its not broken but either sprained or badly bruised. i think i sprained it. idk though i am not a doctor. i am not able to bend it fully and i can not straighten it. so it sucks.
-my cousin is not moving( i understand why) :( but i'm sad hopefully mpm and I can see her graduation.
-I talked to maddy and Jeanene today(morgan was gone at a movie) and maddy was a chatter box and being goofy as usually. i have not talked to them for a long long long time. Jeanene asked me if i had any plans for summer and i said no( and at that moment i got excited! i knew what she was going to ask) and she asked to talk to my mom, but my mom is sick so my mom said she will call jeanene back another time, and she asked me if i wanted to come down to texas again and i am like i would love that containing myslef! when i hung up the phone i was jumping with joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-last night i went to dinner with my dad and brother but before we left i was in a sad mood because of my grandpa and as we were driving to Beaches for dinner we stopped up by Uncle Dicks old house to look at the sunset over the river (the whole car ride i have been biting my lip holding it all in) and i started to cry. Its seems like all my family is gone. My grandpa, My auntie K.K.,Uncle Dick and its hard i don't want to believe it.
-sometimes it would be nice to get away. i love everyone in my family but every now and then i feel like i want to be alone or i wonder what it would be like with another family's that i know. i WOULD NOT i repeat WOULD NOT trade my family for anything. i just have that feeling sometime.
-the other day in 2nd period we were supposed to have a sub. but the person never showed so Mr.Silby showed up and when he came in the classroom hes like "EVERYBODY HANDS UP! FACE CENTER! TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF THE KEYBOARD"(he was being silly) as he took roll he was calling peoples names wrong and i am thinking in my head o great he will probally mis pronounce my last name wrong, and he did'nt. He asked my "Is your father an Attoney?" and i said no but my uncle was (Uncle Dick, he passed away) and hes like "What was his name?" i said "Richard" then My.Silbey was like "He sued me once." i GASPED biggly, so i waited until he was done and asked him if it was my cousin James because i thought it might have been recently because my uncles gone. but it was my uncle and he sued Mr.Silbey for some land property i guess he was on the council of battle ground. idk. i have met 2 teachers who knew my uncle. one worked with him the other got sued. i guess thats something to be proud of? lol.
- we had 2 hr late starts the rest of this week because of WASL but i have a choir rehersal in the morning. all of the skyview Choirs leave for PASCO on friday! YAY! its a overnight trip until sunday. I am excited. I am Rooming with Sarah(emilys older sister) and two older girls from concert choir and vocal jazz i think.
- I was doing tennis for school but i quit because i did not like it and it was not what i thought it would be like. but hey, i gave it a try and having pract every day after school was hard. i have other things i have to do.
-I just looked out of the window DARK DARK DARK cloud comming, BRING ON THE RAIN, thats all we see, i can't stand it. you think i would be used to it by now. but i'm not. i would rather have Hawaii weather or be in Hawaii.
-one thing i have learned about High School this year is that people change. I can't stand cliques and i don't try to make myself someone i'm not unlike others i know. I am sure every now and then i may act like someone else but its only we forget who we are.
-FAVORITE SONG NOW: LAST DOLLAR- Tim Mcgraw
well i guess i am going to go only because my brother wants a turn on the computer to play some game. so its probally good but i could go on and on and on. Well yeah.
Everybody meet Mini COOKIE MONSTER, is'nt he adorable. i love little kid things, sometimes i want to be a kid again, or just have the same joys as a little kid. the world it so big and opinionated its hard to understand. there are some things that i used to enjoy but now i don't because well really there is no explanation. its just the way life is.
-WHEN i get older and get a job i want to help people who are sick, maybe work at a mental home and help the elders or help kids with autisim like my cousin does, i love things that make a difference in a world. Thats another thing i like about babysitting i get to watch the kids grow and watch them learn. Before Maddy and Morgan moved i always thought i would be like their big sister and when they needed help with homework i would be there, like a superhero. Hmmm, i had something else. the kids i babysit are like my brothers and sisters and their families are so nice. do you think i have written enough~! i still want to go on and on and on.
WORD OF ADVICE: THINGS TURN OUT OK LATER ON, but when you emotions run inside of you set them free.

One thing i like to do when i'm sad or just don't have someone to talk too i write to god. its a very good thing to do.

ENJOY THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE.(give me a pair of wings and watch me soar. like a buttery i glide, like a bird i sing knowing the breeze and God will take me to a safe place!)

WOW this is a lot of info. i am in a expressive mood today i guess and using only 9 fingers to type. i am not using the finger i jammed. *tee-hee* i'm sure no one will read this all. this is a lot to take in. for me it feels good.


CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IF YOU READ THIS ALL LET ME KNOW AND YOU GET A SURPRISE> A GOLD STAR!

RASCAL FLATTS!!!!!CONCERT!!! yah!

I WENT TO THE RASCAL FLATTS CONCERT!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ahhh OMG wow. that was amazing

Well first my mom and i were not going to go because of expense wise so what happened is My dad (who works for Spring Air Matresses) and his Co-worker knows Mike & Amy who are the talk show hosts of 99.5 THE WOLF and they were giving away FREE( FREE people FREE) tickets, so we just thought we would call and ask him if he had any extras he could give us, and it turns out HE DID! they did not want to go. Wow- shocker i know. And i was going to babysitt last night and the parents were going to pick me up but mom and i left to go find their house about 20 minutes before they got there, we searched and searched.... it was crazy! and it turns out they came to our house and we were not there and Steven( my lil brother,) did not listen to what we said, we wanted him to wait there and steven said they are driving home to you house. so he( allen-dad of boy who i am babysitting) and we finaly found their house. They were sick so it all worked out kinda. but that was pretty hectic.

The down side of the concert was the tickets were in WILSONVILLE so we had to drive all the way out there to daddy's Co-Workers house( you would not believe it. its HUGE and pretty) and then we were stuck in the heaviest trafic but seemed to make it ok. Wow that was like the best night of my life( not really- but it was awesome) I also had a sore throat, i am getting sick but that did not stop me from screaming and singing at the top of my lungs. :) so this morning when i woke up my voice was gone. lol- Jessica went to the concert too only i did not see her. So yeah that is my exciting news. I wish i knew we could bring cameras in there, I would have showed you pictures of everything...... you'd be amazed. yup yup yup.

Well talk to you guys lata,

-Amanda-

I am taking piano lessons!!!!

I am taking PIANO LESSONS! just wanted to let ya'll know. i had my first one today! I am excited about that!!!!

I honestly don't know why i colored this, But i felt like it, i made it up tonight, like now. What do you think? leave me a comment please!

Do you ever wonder if something is wrong?
Do you ever ask why?
Is there a way to fix what is broken?
Thoughts for someone,
Curiousity tells the tale,
Beginning and End,
Like a boat without its sail.
Do you ever want to help?
Do you ever hold back because you hesitate?
Is there a way to fix what is broken?
Emotions For them and you,
Expressions leads the way,
Weather you go North.East.South or West,
There will always be one place that you can rest,
Hide out from you troubles,
And escape to a land that is free,
You may be blind,
But I will guide you. You'll see!
I am here.
I am there.
I am anywhere you want me to be.
I am a heart who gives love,
When the sail is not at sea.


By:Amanda Elizabeth Howsley

Love,
Amanda Panda Mandy Moo!!!!

I am taking piano lessons!!!!

I am taking PIANO LESSONS! just wanted to let ya'll know. i had my first one today! I am excited about that!!!!

I honestly don't know why i colored this, But i felt like it, i made it up tonight, like now. What do you think? leave me a comment please!

Do you ever wonder if something is wrong?
Do you ever ask why?
Is there a way to fix what is broken?
Thoughts for someone,
Curiousity tells the tale,
Beginning and End,
Like a boat without its sail.
Do you ever want to help?
Do you ever hold back because you hesitate?
Is there a way to fix what is broken?
Emotions For them and you,
Expressions leads the way,
Weather you go North.East.South or West,
There will always be one place that you can rest,
Hide out from you troubles,
And escape to a land that is free,
You may be blind,
But I will guide you. You'll see!
I am here.
I am there.
I am anywhere you want me to be.
I am a heart who gives love,
When the sail is not at sea.


By:Amanda Elizabeth Howsley

Love,
Amanda Panda Mandy Moo!!!!

poem/slight past information

Here Is Where I Want You(Please Stay):

By:Amanda Elizabeth Howsley

Febuary 4th 2007

Please come back to me,
Please don't fly up away,
Here is where we want you,
Please stay.


Your past has caught up with you,
God is ready to let you in,
But i don't want to let you go,
Please stay.

Remember me as you rise,
because I never said good-bye,
You mean the world to me,
Please stay.

Maybe I can re-assure you,
That everything will be okay,
"Your going to get better"
I wish thats what they'll say.

Please come back to me,
Please don't fly up away,
here is where I want you,
Please Stay.


Dedicated to: My Grandpa



he has lung cancer and hes not doing very well right now... thats why my mom went to cali. and the last time i saw him was on thanksgiving and my mom told us that last night that it was probally the last night we would see him. Thats hard to hear and when we found out that he had lung cancer we started to cry and just hugged each other, imagine not having a mom or a dad. Wow. that would be very hard. my grandpas spouse also has cancer, i honestly don't get it. I love him very very much. My Auntie K.K passed away from emphysema, and my papa( not my dad he's my uncle, i call him papa) he has emphysema, My uncle Dick really did not have anything, just high blood pressure from eating so much candy and not taking good care of himself. He passed away peacefully in his sleep. Its just a very scary thought to lose someone. Well enough with my depressing story, i am going to go back and finish cleaning my room. I know its a shocker. lol.

Respectfully,
<3♥Amanda Elizabeth♥<3

today is Febuary the 3rd

OKay so its been a bit since i have written, I just go a new myspace and i am so happy about it. But then again i honestly don't knwo why i have it... It's so addicting its bad.
~So its just me and my dad today my brother is helping a friend with their cows and my mom left for cali. this morning. My grandpa is really sick he has Lung Cancer and he is doing very poorly. :( sad too say. My dad found a bunch of old cd's stored in the garage so i took like 26 that sounded good and now i am listening to them and adding them to my ipod. Cool huh? Our family is all music. That would be the deffinite word I would use to discribe our family.
*YAY finals are over, what a relief. I am hoping i did good. Tonight i am babysitting Riley and Joe from 5-11:30 ish because its winter night at our school...(nobody asked me so yeah) and then tomoarrow is the SuperBowl party at our neighbors so that will be kinda fun.
-OKay so at lunch the other day it was Ali's birthday so she brought Krispy Kremes for everyone, and OH MY GOSH! YUMMMMMM! so we all grabbed one and started to eat them, then Mr.Little(Prinicipal) came over to our table and he was right behind me, so i had not idea the expression of his face, He said " You know your not allowed to have those on campus." and we just stopped eating the doughnut at mid way and then Mr. Little said " I am going to have to take those in my office and eat them...." and then we knew he was kidding. He scared us to DEATH. seriously. It was funny though hes a cool guy. Hmmm, what else is going on, i don't knwo not much. I am listening to a great CD I strongly reccomend it

Sade-Artist
Love Deluxe- CD title
1992-Year made(when i was born)
Genre- R&B ( i disagree, i don't think it is.)

Have a good Valentines day! even though its like 11 days away.lol.

last friday & Today...short version

its my mommys birthday tomoarrow. YAY!

OKay so on um, last FRIDAY:

we had a two hour late start (when we had all the SNOW) and i got up early and packed my lunch and had everything ready and went back to bed. On my way to the bus stop i slipped so many times, because you could not really see the ice and to add on to that i was wearing my converse(rubber on the bottom of the shoe) so yeah. And i was in a hurry so i left with out my lunch, and once i realized it I was like oh my gosh, what am i going to do? so i asked Tori, Kendall, Emily and then i called my mom and she said she could not bring the money. And I saw Jim(Mr.Gray/hes a teacher at SHS also my neighbor) when i came into school and then he went upstairs and was well yeah, nvm ... and so later on that day before 3rd period i went to ask him if i could borrow money for lunch( for some reason i was nervous but then i thought why should i be, when he is my neighbor and a really nice guy!) So yeah, he told me to go to class then he would bring it to me. When he came into class to give it to me, He told Mr.Selby ( Jokingly) "I had to give her some money, she lives in the poor part of town..." I laughed and said "YEP, i am just deprived of money." :-p and that was the first day i bought my lunch. I got a Cheese Burger w/ fries( it was good, Skyviews fries are so goooooood!) and i bought Pizza today. Well i am gonna go, just wanted to post a little update. So yeah-
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Love Ya'll,
♥Amanda♥Elizabeth♥

snow update!

SNOW DAY! SNOW SNOW SNOW~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love snow; We have had 2 snow days in a row. Yesterday i was up for school @ a regular time 5:50, go downstairs and as i did i was like hmm "Why is the neighborhood all white?" and i thought nothing of it, so i went on eating breakfast and making my lunch and as i put it in my backpack i was like OH MY GOSH! theres SNOW! so i ran upstairs and woke up steven.
conv:
Amanda: "Steven! STEVEN! wake up its snowing!"
Steven:"Huh, are you serious?"
Amanda:"Yes why else would i be waking you up this early?"
Steven:"SERIOUS?"
Amanda:"YES YES YES!, c'mon and look"
Conv:end
so yeah we played in the snow since 7Am-about 4pm and my arms are sore.

Thank God i did not take the bus, it got stuck on our BIG BIG BIG hill and that would be scary. and like all the kids got transported to school and then had to evacuate the building because they closed it around 7:30 when school starts) so because it was closing everyone had to get out of the school and wait outside. and yeah thats it for the snow day yesterday! Nadine came over for dinner last night and we had spageitti yummy!!!!!!! and i colored nadine a curious george picture.( i got a curious george coloring book from target in the $1 section) YAY ME!

Today:
I slept in until about 10:30 did not go outside until about 1 and then we had a snowball fight! it was fun except for i got hit in the eye with a snowball. :-( It stung really bad and my eye was watering a lot. I made a miniature snowman for emily!!!! (don't worry em' i took pictures) I just got back from the snow about 3:30 PM and now i am going to have some Hot Choclate. YUM! bye bye!
Love ya'll,
Amanda!

SNOW = NO SCHOOL!

Burrrrrrrrrrr, its so COLD! it snowed! YAY! it was so cool, yesterday as i was walking to the bus stop i snowed. and then it stopped and after a while it came back, emily and katherie, tori and some other people did the snow dance with us.....lol, oh and FYI: if it is a possible chance of snowing or is snowing, sleep with your PJ's inside out and a spoon under your pillow. the you get more SNOW!

School was canceled today. That was nice. I slept in and then woke up to a text from tori, and i don't even have texting on my plan yet....uh oh! *GASP* well thats about it, i just wanted you to know that it snowed. Today is thursday. BYE BYE!

Luv,
Amanda

Correction, this is now the shortest blog i have posted, unless maybe my 1st blog was the shortest!

Runthrough of the weekend to today!

OKAY!!!!!!!!!! i'm here, Its been a while since i have typed.

NEW YEARS:
Well lets start off with New Years. It was soooooooooo much fun!
Danica and her family came over, we had most of the neighbors at our house... and just some family friends. It was awesome. Danica finally slept over( everytime we see each other we wanna have a sleep-over but it never seem to work out) and we stayed up until 4 AM and yeah we were so tired the next day it was sad. Danica brought over some silly string so we had a silly string fight. Anthony cam out later and started playing with us and we were chasing him and he fell in like this sewer thing in the ground and cut his leg and tore something in his knee. I offered to help him but he was being stubborn and said no. I know if that was me i would be crying so hard. (sometimes i don't like that i am so emotional but then again i don't mind) and it turns out he got a staff infection that is in his blood( if he did not get anti-biodics for it, he could have died in a month) i really don't know what it is but then again i don't know a lot of things.

Random Info:
I am babysitting garin for the next 15 weeks....about every friday....only i think i won't have to some days because they will be gone.

Saturday:
I babysat Mattea Saturday night. She was so cute, She always kept comming up to me and giving me a hug saying "I LOVE YOU~" and then i was trying to get her to go to bed, so we watched 2 movies.....One was the Little Mermaid and i am not sure about the other one. I fell asleep (as usual...lol) and yeah. I was tired from the night before. Chris walked me home and before i went in, he said "I really was the best" that made me feel really good and happy but i think i was so tired i really diddint say thank you in as much of a caring way as i would if i was more awake.Before i went over to Matteas mom and I went shopping at um,,, i don't know somewhere far-ish. We had fun, i got some new make-up i got....
Fresh Lipgloss-Satine(satine=name of color & Fresh is the brand)
2 eye shaddows (soft gold and a really bright awesome blue)
and that was about it, we were going to see the movie Dream Girls but we did nto have time.

Sunday:
I slept in and just chilled at home. I will admit at times it was boring but all in all it was fun. we cleaned the house. re-aranged stevens room, and fun stiff like that. Then we went to IZZYS for dinner. i did not wanna go but it was not that bad. I decided i need to get in good shape when i try out for my High School Varsity Cheer Team. I am hoping i get on it, but if not i will try for JV also. Morgan and maddy called me. I was so excited because i always call them, it was nice for a change! I told morgan i missed her so much and she said " I want to see you soon." that made me happy, i wish i could too, hopefully i could see them in the summer. :-) i am still a minor for one more year and OH MY GOSH I CAN DRIVE THIS YEAR! AHHHHHHHH well get my permit this year and take drivers ed.

Today:
I stayed home sick-ish. I woke up with an upset stomach and slept in until 10. It is now 11:52 AM lol, i also have a very annoying hand cramp from typing. I'm hungry.....hm, what should i have to eat? I decided last night i want a LITTLE MERMAID birthday party. :-0 lol. So yeah but i am only going to invite my close-est friends to that, lol. so thats about it. i will have major Homework when i come back tomoarrow. Thats the only part about HS that sucks, you get a lot of Homework.


Well i am going to go eat. BYE!

Love,
Amanda

Christmas DAY

Gifts i got:
♥♥♥♥♥♥ luv ya!
Victorias Secret Love Spell spray, lotion and body wash
Victorias Secres Strawberry Champange, spray, lotion and body wash
Rascal Flatts Cd- Me and My Gang
Lonnon Legend-The best of John Lennon
Sugar Land Cd
Itunes gift card for $15.00
Scene It-Disney
Dance Dance Revolution Super Nova
DOODLE BEAR!
The Notebook DVD
The Devil Wears Prada DVD
An idiots guide to write good poetry(something titled like that)
A charm for my gold braclet
A Big Hair Straightener ( i had a small travel size)

I feel very lucky but i almost feel bad because our family went over-board, and got a alot of presents. Sure its great but it just proves that "money can't buy happiness. Always remember that."

I hope everyone else had a awesome christmas. I can't wait until New Years. Were gonna have a party! I love neighborhood partys.


oh and the best gift of all guess what i got.....................................

A CELL PHONE! (Yay, it is so cool.) it looks like a Razor, but its a sprint phone. Sprint does not have razor i think only verizion and cingular does.

~~~~So like i mentioned earlier our family reads "The Polar Express" book then we watch the movie. Everytime i watch it, The movie puts me in tears. It brings back great memories. I know I still believe. We stayed up until 1 watching it and then dad woke us up around 8:30 ish.... we were so tired. i felt like a walking zombie.
This year was a very good christmas!

Merry Christmas to all! I hope this next year goes great for you.

Love,
Amanda Elizabeth♥

Christmas Eve

*GASP*

OH MY GOSH! its christmas eve.

My Tradition:
Every christmas eve i watch the Polar Express and then read the book to my family.

and in the month of december we always watch
Christmas Vacation
&
Elf

Well i am gonna get ready for dinner. Merry Christmas
.....to everyone.

I love you all. Bye!


oh yeah and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Love,
Amanda Elizabeth ♥
P♥S
(I think this is the shortest or 2nd shortesest blog i have typed.)

I'll tell you what i got for christmas later. Bye
its 5:35

I am going to give Emily a call. To bad its a trial call and i can only talk for 15 minutes. Its our christmas eve and their christmas.

BYE!

PIctures/ AKA 24/7 Today

I am really feeling Lazy right now and don't want to write a blog but just because i am so excited,

So today i slept in until about 10:45 ish, I took a shower and got my hair cut. (I will post pictures later.) Its awesome, i got it layered, with bangs and shoulder length. YUP! after that Mom and I went to Safeway and got food for dinner....As we came home about 10 minutes later the phone rang................
"Ring..........."
"Ring"...................

My mom answered and she was like
Mom: "hello?"
Emily: "Hi this is Emily, Can i talk to Amanda please."
Mom: "Emily who? Emily davis? Westmorland?(sorry if i spell your last name wrong)"
Emily: "Yeah."

So yeah i won't post our conversation but it was cool. I was so excited i got to talk to her. She beat me, I was wgonna call her first on Our Christmas Eve and their Christmas. Were 17 hours apart. But really all you have to do is count 7 hours ahead or backwards from your time.
That made my christmas 100% better.(not that it was bad, it just made my day extremely better) I got an early christmas present and i get to call emily once a month and each month has certian pre-paid minutes. So thats good and we can keep in contact more.When Emily called it was about 10 in the mornin and 3 in the afternoon here My fact is proven correctly if you minus 3 from 10 you get 7 hours. even though its a 17 hour differenct all you have to count if 7 hours ahead or behind.

A cool fact she told me was that in Austrialia they go by Celcius instead of Farenheit. um, Instead of Inches they use Cinimeters. And they don't celebrate Thanksgiving because its an American holiday and the last time they celebrated thanksgiving was with my family when we were really little and ate ice cream turkeys.

----Did i tell you all it snowed? i'm sure i did, I am just very forgetfull and sometimes i relate my personality to Dory, from Finding Nemo.
I wonder if i cna post a video in my blog somehow. I can try.
I'm sure most people i tell to read my blog don't because it is so long!...I am going to post a new blog after christmas with pictures, but i betcha i will post one before then. I don't know.
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PICTURE 1:
So what you see right here is my Ice Cream Turkey.

Flavor: Choclate Chip Cookie Dough

Same as always.

Their cute arn't they?
You can buy them at Basket n' Robbins.
(i wonder why thats the name of the store,) i am spacing lines because i want it to be as long as the picture so you won't have to get confused on what is what...but i bet it will get mixed up when i publish the blog, i don't know.
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Picture 2 & 3:
Theres me eating my Ice Cream Turkey.

That was for you Emmy.
Every year i think of you when i get my ice cream turkey.

What flavor did you get?


okay moving on to more pictures.......................




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Picture 4: See it snowed! This was on my back deck. My finger became numb after writing all of it.














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Picture 5:

Heres my school picture. I don't mean to brag but this is the BEST school picture i have ever had!!!! I am so happy and proud of it. The people who took it were so fast and it was so easy, Our High School gets their pictures taken in the Summer when we pick up our schedules.









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Picture 6:
This is not really an exciting picture but i was so happy, i put on fake nails. They look pretty. Someday i will put them on like acrilic. These were just stick on, the glue was already on them. I don't want to use glue because i don't want to accdently rip my nail of and have it break.


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OKay well as much as i am having FUN with all the pictures and stuff, i am going to go downstairs and eat dinner. Its 5:37 and stuff smells good downstairs!
Maybe i will try posting a funny video or good video later tonight.
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Love Forever and Always,
Amanda~Elizabeth~H.

There will be more pictures later.
I love ya'll
(ya'll is so much fun to say)
bui bye!

weird mood, just felt like typin 2 ya'll

*UGH* i feel like i just need to let somehting out but i can't exactly find it....Its hiding from me. I am in a weird mood, I am also sick to, So that has to do a lot with it. I have a soar throat, stuffy nose, little headache and yeah thats it, a little cough too! I was excited because i got an e-mail from emily saying she sent me a letter and asked if i have recieved it yet? and i have not, we did not get our mail yesterday so i was like just going to get it now and then my dad said he got it but there was nothing from emily. Then i had like this Magic Eraser thing that gets dust off of doors, so i was stuck with cleaning that. It was not that exciting. Mom said "I looked like Cinderella"
(AHHHHHHHH THERES MONSTERS COMMING TO EAT ME! lol, just kidding, that was random)
What does RADOM mean?
There really is no answer Or atleast thats what i think.

So how is everyone? I am bored.....la,la,la,la, Its CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomoarrow, For Girl Scouts were going to ellens house. All of us are doing this thing that apparently gets to know ourselfs better, This will be intresting. I am listening to a weird songright now, Its "Take A Chance With Me" By:Avalon
I found the song that i never knew who sang it, The song is titled "Can't get you out of my head" By:Kylie Minogue She is like a Techno artist That song is on the CD "FEVER", My friend EMily from austrialia told me about her and also another good singer she toled me about is "Delta Goodrem" and one last person/artist is "Brian McFadden, the CD is Irish Son"
So yeah thats my update on things.
I am just on IM and pretty much doing nothign else. BYE BYE BYE BYE BYE!
only
8 more days till CHRISTMAS!
7 more days till CHRISTMAS EVE!
16 more days till NEW YEARS EVE!
woot woot! and the count down begins NOW!

BYE!
Love Always,
Amanda
Or as Kendall says
"Your's Till Pigs Can Fly"
Thats cute!

all about yesterday and today!

Today was the last day of this year! well I mean Christmas Break- January 1st ( i am pretty sure) Is NEW YEARS EVE! YAYAYAYAYAY! its so lame we can't have fireworks!
The LAW is there can be NO fireworks on New Years Eve enev though its the rainest time and they allow it on the fourth of july! when its extra warm and humid..... YUP!!!!!! CHRISTMAS is in 10 days!

So today after school i went home with Sara & Emily (sarah is her sis) and we got in a car crash. it was very small. it was like just so bluarry it was weird, like we were comming down the road and its a downhil(very small down hill) road and there is a stop sign and all the cars stopped fast and we all did not notice and we kept moving while all the cars are stopped and we hit the car infront of us. Honestly there was only a scratch on their car and sarahs car is somewhat ok- Thank goodness it was very very minor and then the lady who we hit called the police when there was nothing wrong. The weird thing was is that i noticed we were moving and the cars were stopped but it was like a delayed reaction. It was weird. I just thank God that he protected us all. And don't get me wrong and think i am saying sarah is a bad drvier, SHES NOT! shes a GOOD driver but mistakes happen to all of us! thats just life.

okay, so enough about my depressing random story that happened to me,
hmmmm...... what else can i think of saying

I quit cheer! it turns out we never were going to go the the JAMFEST competiton and the Tigard one. we did not go because we were not ready. Neil was starting to get really rude and treating us in a way we should not be treated. I had to leave. I was miserable! So i decided i am going to join High School Cheer next Year, I want to get on VARSITY!(Varsity all the way bebe)

Um, we had our winter assembly at school the orchstra and band played and we sang, not offens to Band and orchstra i was about to fall asleep. lol.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE CHRISTMAS! its a happy season even though its cold

okay it was scary this morning at the bus stop i heard this chopping noise(sounded like a guy chopping wood w/ an axe) and then later after that i say this guy on the roof(where i heard the noise frrom) and he flickerd the light off and on 1 time and then dissapered slwoly, i thought I was gonna die, just kidding. it was scary though. We had a BIG BIG BIGGGGGG wind storm last night. it was scary! I got my bowling t-shirt! it says "Sweetie" and Kendalls says "Pie"
So while i was waiting for the other teams to get dones tori, rakia and i and some other people were on the bus and the wind gusts were fast and the bus was rocking. and when we got to school dad picked me up and i ran to the car it was so windy that i almost could not get to the car.....plus heavy rain. I also saw Mrs.Leblanc at freddy's(Fred Meyer)
Thats all for now.

Love Always,
Amanda Elizabeth!

Been a long.........time!

Okay, so it has been a while since i have logged on here, I wanted to type stuff earlier but i was too lazy and tired to do it. My Semister Grades are the foloowing: Science-A Adv. Tech-A English 9-A Math- B- Choir-A ASL-A My GPA was a 3.765( how come they don't round it to 3.8? or is it already rounded?) and then i learned in tech class that if we keep a A Average this whole year we get 7 credits towards college! Cool huh? and i think if you get a certian score on Mycrotype(a typing program) you get 3 credits towards High school.

I can't remember if i told ya'll... I'm on Skyviews BVowling Team :-)
I guess its not the coolest sport but at least i get to be with my friends. My highest score is like a 96. Somedays a good somedays are bad....such as our last pract. i got a 45 on my first game and like a 62 on my second. i got a stike on my frist bowl. : ) YAY ME!
Well its getting kinda late, i should go to bed early and blow dry my hair and copy the John Mayer CD for Kendall and Tori.

Sorry this is a boring one,
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I GOT TO SEE MORGAN AND MADDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They surprised me! My mom and dad and steven knew for like a week and kept it a secret(it was morgans idea) and stevens like HURRY COME DOWN QUICK.... I saw them and i just started crying. So i went with them to a friends party where Morgan and Maddy got to see their other friends. WOW! that was so awesome. I can't wait to see them again!
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MMMMmmmm.......Fajitas from Chilis sounds sooooooooo GOOD! they have the best Fajitias!
------------------------------------ For all of ya' who have'nt seen my hair dyed here it is:
Its not the best picture of me but it will do.... U like?
This was m natural color, my highlights were getting ugly because they were starting to grow out and thats never pretty.








These are two girls i babysitt:Kylie(Far right), Riley( Middle) and Me~















I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving! I did, I was so stuffed from the food. *UGH* Oh my gosh! it was yummy. MEET TOM THE TURKEY!(I made him myself, on paint! cool huh? )




and then the next day we had a tradtitional CIVIL WAR PARTY(OSU VS UO) GO DUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woot. woot.
We (DUcks)lost by 2 stinkin points.........GRRRRRRRRR we were so close. There was a winning field kick (goal thing) and this guy was only like a frosh(freshman) or soph(sophmore) and he barly kicked it over the people garding the goal post....That was a sad but very close game!

Okay its later now its 9;43 ahhhh goodnight!

MUCHO LOVES,
Amanda Panda Mandy Moo


P.S
I forgot to add,
IT SNOWED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW COOL!
Emily and I made up a Snow Dance(start facing each other and chant this:)
SN-(Hands above head)
-OW(Hands low by your hips)
*REPEAT 1x
SN-(Hands shake to the left)
-OW(Hands shake to the Right)
*REPEAT 1x
WHAT DO WE WANT?(Hands over head)
WHATS DO WE WANT?(Hands low by hips)
SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jazz fingers together in the middle)

Thats pretty sweet huh? we had fun! its almost christmas.....I can't WAIT!


My cousin might move up here!
Well she will look for ahouse in the spring and then hopefully she will find one and move up a couple months later. :) YAY!
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I have my ASL Presentation tomoarrow, I am siging a song "Life Is A Highway" by: Rascal Flatts this will be fun, it was challenging, i should have picked a slower song but i managed to get it memorized! YAY ME!

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I get my permit this year! Grrrr, Anthony can drive 4 months before me, but that is only if he gets his permit.....lol. I can't wait to DRIVE on my own!

I tried driving m dads stick shift.........yeah lets just say that was not pretty. I can not get the clutch on it, otherwise i can do anything else perfectly fine! I can drive my mommas car. The only thing that will be really hard is Parallel Parking........ KK, seriously i said good-bye a long time ago, gotta dry my ahir and go to bed.
NIGHT NIGHT!

*Don't let the Bed Bugs Bite UNLESS ITS ME!*

This morning when i woke up and ate breakfast i could have sworn my Auntie K.K. Was talking to me, and telling me that she was there and she loves me a whole lot. it was weird but very special moment. I love memories like that! AHHH *GASP* its 9:54 I should not be up this late, CURSE U COMPUTER ADDICTION!
I have 2 disorders
CAD=Computer Addiction Disorder
ABCD-Always Being COld Disorder

:p lol okay BYE!!!!!!!!!!! FOR THE FINAL TIME until when-eva i write again!

skyview WON!!!!!! And other stuff~~~~~~~

WOAH~ my blog is cool now, I just changed my um what do you call it. hmm, I think its a template.
I got to go SHOPPING! today. I love shopping, I mean what girl does not love shopping?
SKYVIEW WON!
N.B.L.C (nothin' But Lead Champ's!)
Next we are going to Semi Finals and I think we have to win 3 games to make it to state! That would be awesome. I missed Trey the other night. It feels weird that he is not at the games anymore. But his mom was there cheering the team on!

Okay so when I went to the game I went with Lauren & her friend Megan.. I stayed with Riley and joe and Carly and somehow my wallet fell out of my purse when I did not notice and apparently they announced " There has been a unidentified wallet, so if its yours come and get it." and later on they confirmed it was a skyview Student, so before the game was over I was with riley and I was like " Do you have my wallet?" and she said no... Then I asked Jo and Carly and they both said no, and then I asked karla and she said no.... lol ( get the pattern) we looked all over and then this lady was like well there was an announcement that there was a lost wallet found and I was like OH MY GOSH! Maybe its mine, and it was. Thank God! I was so scared!

Well yeah so that's my story about the game, and threes not much new around here. Except for more and more and more and more than you can think of RAIN!!!!! Boring.... Its so depressing.

Did I ever tell you how tall I am? I am 4'11.5 I mean C'mon only .5 more to grow to be 5'...... That's not cool! :( oh well. I decided I am going to go to bed early tonight, even though I get a ride every other morning... ( I get one tomorrow, I can never spell that word right! Did I spell it right? I hope so!)
there is more I want to say but I can't think of it. Well I will talk to you all soon.
BYE BYE!

Love always,
Amanda Elizabeth
A.K.A
Amanda Panda Mandy Moo

my trip to the dentist!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guess what happend to me today?

I went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned and then later on i pulled two for my "I Teeth" out. I was so surprised it did not hurt that bad. :) They gave me Laughing Gas(only it did not really make me laugh, it made me happy and relaxed.) and then my dentist (Dr. Pete) told me a poem about clouds. and he stopped in the middle of it and asked, "Are you sure you want to hear the rest?" I said " YES!" so he went on and on and on until i was about numb enough and relaxed. It was a awesome poem, i enjoyed it! and he told me a quote, ( i was scared to get my teeth pulled because i have never done that before and i have had 0 cavities! go me!) and it was by Martin Luther King "Those who are scared of Death, are afraid to live their life." and when you apply it to your own situation it gives you confidence,(well at-least for me it does.)

My mom was scared for me. But Dr.Pete just kept telling me to trust him and he would never do anything to hurt me, he is realy nice. (He wants to go see one of my choir concerts sometime, cool huh? I have been going there since i was 2)...Honestly i would not have trusted anyone else but him to do it.i am proud of myself! I did not cry!!!!! thats pretty good for me, considering( if you do not know this already about me) I am terrified of Doctors Offices and Hospitials. Even though they are there to help me i can't stand going there. I think it is because form when i was a baby i was born 2 months early(pre-mature) i got pricked with needles a lot reason 1- so i was healthy and reason 2-so i did not have any illnesses. so instead of being born in August my birthday would be in October, burrrrrrrrrrrr!

just kidding,
okay well i am going to go now. Goodnight everybody!

Love,
Amanda!

take me away fomr this computer, i am such a staller.

I am on skyviews bowling team.....cool yeah? its actually considered a sport now? can you believe that? and its sooooooo stupid they make u get a physical for bowling? i mean c'mon people. yeah thats my story.
OH MY GOSH i almost have straight A's
sci-A
Tech-A
L.A-A
Math-B+
Choir-A
ASL-A
i might have an A in math now i got 4 extra credit points today. someday i'll get a 4.0.......maybe this year or the next i dunno. i gotta take a shower. i said I was going to but then i got on the computer and talked on IM...............*shame,shame* ok seriously ya'll i am leavin. i feel bad this is such a short message thing-e that sucks huh? okay bye!!!!!!!!!!!
bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

NBLC
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GO STORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

see i am stalling, again. i don't wanna take a shower so i am stalling and thinking and typing all at once. OH MY GOSH, i am turning into a blonde. jk..... nvm that was a stupid joke.actually it was not a joke, ijust made it up......................... OH MY GOSH! someone take me away from my computer. grrrr, ok i am leaving in....
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height- 4'11.5 i am almost 5'' just .5' more to go!


goodnight everyboday,
-Amanda-!

wow- it started out about nothing and turned into something, how cool is that?

I wanna say something right now, but you see the thing is, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO SAY! i am sooooooooooooooooooooo tired. It finally started to rain today. *sigh* welcome to Vancouver Washington in the winter.......its freezing COLD! i wake up early so when i walk to the bus the coldest its ever been was about 24 degrees. yeah thats cold!

School:

Our Varsity Football Team is................... N.B.L.C (nothin' But Lead Champions) yayayayayayay!

We made it to state finals and i think we are 4th in state! *Achoo, Achoo* (Excuse me, i sneezed.)

Random:

What would you say if someone asked you what random means? there is really no explanation for it...... even I the one and only GREAT GREAT AMANDA does not know. (lol, sorry i was having fun)

You know what i just thought of..... I am pretty much talking to myself when i am typing this because i don't think anyone i know reads it frequently enough to keep up with me. lol- hmm, i wonder if anyone reads it.... well i know some people do because i ask them 2. and see here i go again just rambling(*tee-hee* i got that from emily its kinda fun to say and type, i LUV U EMILY!) on and on and on and on.

Cheer:
It turns out we have our first Cheer competition on either Dec.2nd or 12th something with a 2. that is awesome! we are doing a JAM-FEST COMPETITION! OMG THAT IS SOOOO COOL! JAM-FEST is a BIG BIG BIG competition. we have never gone before. and were also going to nationals. i will type the list of them later.

Homework:
I really don't have a lot of homework. Its the end of this Semister already. instard of having trimesters we have semisters. I really don't see why the VANSD changed it but who cares.

School/Classes:

1st-Science/ working on a color lab, we have color wheels and we spin them and observe what color we see and write it down, we have to do a whole Lab write-up those are not fun espicially when its a lot of pts.

2nd & 3rd-Tech & Lit/ working on a project. (book project) its a really fun project though, i don't know how to explain it. and in Lit. we have a test, STUDY!!!!!!

4-th-Math/Have a Test tomarrow on Module 3 GOTTA STUDY!

5th-Choir/ there is like no Homework in that calsee, the songs we are singing is..... "Harambee", "Carol of the Bells", "Winter Carol" , " O come, O come Emmanuel" yeah thats it. their pretty coolsongs, i don't really like "Harmbee" its swahili(jamician sound to it)

6th-ASL/
We just finished our quarter projece, we had to memorize a SCARY Urban Legend(for halloween) and present it to the class, you take out words such as, like, it, to, he, she, the, they, ect. and yeah i went up and presented and i did horible! well it was not that bad, we had to present it infront of a camera, YIKES! Camera+me=BAD, very nervous.
We had to write a 1 page reflection because my teacher did not think i did it, but right as he said that my video came on the T.V. and he scored me and i got a 90/100 halleiugh. i got saved by an angel. i thought i was going to get only 50% because i did not know the whole thing or all my words. yeah i was really scared about my grade today. so i hope it all turns out good.

As far as GRADE wise i am doing realy good in all my classes except for math i think. i have like a C- or C+ i am not sure. but we have a test tomarrow and i am praying that i get a much better score on this one than my previous tests.

I will chat with ya'll later,

Sorry if i bored you with school stuff in all.

School Sports:
For Cheerleading we have to try out this year to get on the team next year. the tryouts are in May. i wanna try out for VARSITY but i am not sure if i can make it on there or not. i have cheered for 4 years....and i don't know. There was only one sophmore on it this year..... so i am going to try out for Varsity and cross my fingers i make the team.

Skyview also has a compettive Cheer team, so if they are good i will probally join skyviews cheer team, and compettive and quit VCA.

But only i really don't want to quit VCA because its where i started from and i don't know, i like it there. but you never know skyview cheer might be more fun. Varsity is a really good team!

OK seriously now i will shut up! BYE BYE!
-Amanda-