Volleyball camp

Hey Guys! I'm headed to volleyball camp at the University of Florida this morning!!! I'll be home Saturday!

The Beach

We went over to the beach Friday! I hadn't been to the beach all summer, so it was nice to go over there. The Winders were staying there in a condo, so our family and some friends went to spend the day at the beach. Bryce, our friend Lauren and I ended up spending the night with them over there Friday night. It was tons of fun! We didn't get much sleep because we were so busy catching up on everything.



The condo was in between the intercoastal and the ocean on the 9th floor, so we could look out one side and have a beautiful view of the intercoastal, and out the other and see the ocean!

The Intercoastal

The Ocean :)

Bryce surfing

On the way home Saturday we had a bubble gum blowing contest! I don't think we ever determined at winner, we just had fun taking pictures!

More Nebraska! :)

We got to spend alot of time with the Wissmann's while we were in Nebraska. We had to take advantage of our short time together and get in as many activites as possible! :)


I got to do something else I had never done before... Josiah took us flying! It was so neat! I have flown before in a big airplane but it is nothing like this! We flew over our house in Seward and our farm too! It was really cool!

Daniel and I

Our Farm from the air!

On our trip back home to Florida we had to fly to Minneapolis where we had a 6 hour lay over. This gave us enough time to go visit the Mall of America! It was ridiciously huge! It is 4 stories high, but there is nothing on the 4th floor! AND an amusement park in the middle!!!... like I said-- ridicioulsy huge! :) It was still really neat to walk around!

Home Sweet... Nebraska

I just got back from Nebraska late last night. I had a ton of fun!!! I miss it alot and I can't wait to go back! Here are alot of random pictures of my trip...

Alaythia and I

I got to go mudding for the first time! It was more fun than I expected! Daniel was a crazy driver! We went in a little pond in our pasture. My dad and Uncle also made a big mud whole in one of the old cow pins! It was really big-- I never got to go in that though.
Daniel and Bryce muddin' in the pasture

I Just love Nathanael's face :)

Silly FredPainting with Light pictures! How Cool!!!!!

(Bethany is a Genius! --Bryce)

Hmm it is not letting me upload anymore pictures so I'll put some more up later!! :) I have lots!

NEBRASKAAA!!

yayyy!!! I'm headed to Nebraska tomorrow morning!!! I can't wait! I'm going to have so much fun!!!!! I'll be back the 6th of July!!!

Daniel Jr. :)

Daniel and Bryce found a couple duck eggs yesterday! When they found them one had already started hatching so we put them under a desk lamp to keep warm until they hatched.

It took a while and a little help but the little duckling finally hatched! The rest of the eggs are still under the lamp and we are hoping they will hatch, but it doesn't look like they will :(

But we still have one little duckling! And of course since Daniel "found him" guess what he had to be named..... Daniel!!! :)

But even though Daniel found him, and his name is Daniel Jr.... He likes me better :)

SENIOR PICTURES! :)

I got my senior pictures taken yesterday! It was so much fun! Some of them are blurry for some reason but oh well they will look better in normal pictures :)

Picture for the yearbook

Off to FSU!

I'll be up in Tallahassee at Florida State University for a basketball tournament/camp untill Friday!!!

Video!

This may not work, I just wanted to try it. It is of BB, Lauren and I putting vasaline on Bryce's hand, then tickling his face so he wiped it all over his face. I know, it was mean, but it was soooo funny! And he defiantly got his revenge!

Katie's Graduation

Katie Graduated today! At graduation she was awarded with the "Rose Award." I'm really sure why it is the "rose award" because it is something they give to the student that they faculty and staff think was a role model and a great student. It is a little more complex than that, but that's all I remember. :) It was an event filled day. After Graduation, we had Katie's party. It was lots of fun! There were a lot of people there from Katie's class, people from church, family, and many many friends.

Katie's cakes and Diploma. Isn't her cake cute!!!

Katie's Award. And look! It even explains what the award means! :)

Daniel signing Katie's picture

Kaitlyn and Lindsey

The theme of the party was something that had to do with Oriental stuff because everything was Chinese! There were fortune cookies everywhere! (I don't think I've ever eaten so many.) There were so many that Lindsey and I were playing air hockey with them! :) It was lots of fun!

Senior Step up day!

We met this morning at Chick-fil-a at 7 to decorate our cars and eat breakfast. Today was our first official day as a Senior at school so we all decorated our cars with streamers and balloon and writing. One of the boys that had a pick-up truck made 3 big flags and put them in the bed of his truck. When we were all ready to go we followed Andrew and his truck to school . It fun to see all the people staring at us as we all drove down the road. When we got to school we had to do the "victory lap" so we all drove around the loop road in our cars honking our horns. All the lower school kids waved at us when we drove by. It was so cute. The funny thing was our principal joined in and decorated her car too! She wrote "Her Royal Highness" on the back window and on the sides wrote "the best principal in town"

Andrew's Truck

Putting Streamers on the top of the car

The Back of my Car

Jaimie, Molly, Allison and I by Jaimie's car

School is out, but we exams until Wednesday. We only have to go when we have exam and we can leave right when we finish. Today I had my English exam at 9 and I'll be leaving soon to go take my Math exam at 1:30. English was very very very easy. I was finished in half an hour. I didn't expect to finish that early so I decided to come home before Math. I studied so much I knew every single answer by just looking at the first word of the question. My teacher let our class make up the questions for the exam and then copy them all down for a study guide, so I basically studied our exam. It was great because I use a good grade in English! :)

Graduation weekend

It's been a busy weekend with graduation Friday night we had the actual Graduation Ceremony and dinner. It was so much fun! We had dinner before the ceremony in Faith Hall, and then we went over to the Church and had the service. It was wonderful, they had 4 senior girls sing a song to their class, and they had the kindergarteners sing to them as well, it was adorable. My class had to sit on the side so I didn't get very good pictures of the people on the stage and the seniors walking across to receive their diplomas. My school has a tradition where the graduating seniors light a candle of a rising senior. It represents handing over the responsibilities of being a senior and being the example of the school. I think its pretty neat. So my class had to sit together on the side so we could all walk up together when it was time. Our head master challenged us and told us all of the responsibilities of being a senior. Then when it was all over we had time to visit with everyone and talk to the graduated seniors.

Ashley and I

I'm going to miss her :(

Christina and I

My Favorite Cuban

BB and I

Today we had graduation parties! Two girls that play on my basketball team had their party at our lake house. My family was out there for most of the day. It was a lot of fun, we went tubing and had a big barbecue. It was a beautiful day too!

I was trying out the "bright beach scene" mode on my camera

oh yeah and did I mention... I'm offically a SENIOR!!!

(how wierd is that?)

My first day of work

So today was my first day of work at Disney as a Lifeguard. BOYYYY was I in for a surprise. I guess because I've been raised in a home where I was taught not to swear, or smoke or drink or anything stupid like that could hurt my body, I was oblivious to the fact that everyone else in the world does it! I was in shock when I heard the person training me start cursing every other world in their conversation with me. I was in such shock that I guess they noticed it and asked me what was wrong. I told them that cursing bothered me and that just made him laugh at me. I mean I've heard people swear before, but not like this, this was just ridiculous. I just sat their in silence for a while until he asked if I was "religious or something." I told him about Christ and what I believed-- which just made him laugh at me more. Later he was telling me about how he goes out and parties every night and gets drunk and I just sat there in shock listening to all the stories he was telling me. When I didn't say anything back to him he said in a thick Columbian accent "oh I forgot you were religious." This went on all day long and he was asking me questions that really offended me in a lot of different ways. I can't even begin to explain how weird I felt as he was saying all of this stuff to me. There are so many things he told me about himself that made me extremely uncomfortable. He kept telling me that I didn't talk at all, but all of you that know me, know that I talk ALOT! Kind of like now, even though I'm not really talking, just typing. I'm just glad I have God on my side, because with out Him, I wouldn't have made it through the day.

Praise be to the Lord, for he has heard my cry for mercy. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.

Psalm 28:6, 7

Sneak Day!!!

Today was 5th grade Sneak Day! It was at my friend Lauren's house because her sister is in 5th grade. They live on the lake and they have a great set up for it, so they hosted it. None of the 5th graders knew it was today and they were totally surprised! Lauren and I got to stay home from school and help life guard, but by the end of the day none of them wanted to swim anymore and they just wanted to do the awesome blow-up slides and so Lauren and I got to do them too!!!

It ended up getting really really muddy because there was so much water, so the kids ended up going on the slide backwards and sliding into the mud! I never did that but I got plenty of the mud and grass on me when I was on the slide. They boys would slide into the mud and then just get up and run and slide back through it, so it got pretty messy.

Lauren sliding on her feet!

and falling