School has officially started!

Today was 8th and 9th grade day and it was so cool to see all of my friends again! It was kind of a long day other wise because we have to go to all eight of our classes and you do the same exact thing in every class! You go over the emergency procedures, you walk out to where you would go in case of a fire, you go over the rules in the planner, and then you talk about the grading policy for that class.... and so on! Super boring!!! But it's important so you just have to deal with it!

I'm really excited for the classes that I'm taking and some of my teachers are so funny! My yearbook teacher of course is amazing! (you'll never be bored in her class) My science teacher seems pretty nice and he has a good sense of humor.... my english teacher is really funny! She's totally into fashion and our classroom is decorated like some fancy house! With a big mirror, gold drapes, a little fountain, lots of plants and wall hangings...... I'm sure you can imagine! It doesn't even look like a classroom! Then there's my algebra teacher........................ that class will be very entertaining! She's not the most positive person in the world, but she's pretty funny! We had some people absent and she said, "Their friends must have warned them and they already transferred out of my class." And we were talking about who leaves first in a fire drill and this is what she said, "Of course the students go first because no one cares about the teachers!"

Anyway, I'm also taking French 1 and Ashley and Amber are both in my class! And I'm being a peer leader. That's where you help out in the office and do service projects.... It should be lots of fun! Here are some pictures from today-

Celeste, Ashley, me, and Sadie! Brittany's in the back not knowing about the picture...

Lunch is always a fun time! That's Natalie in the middle telling a story with lots of facial expressions! :)

Olga, me, and Amber!

Celeste and Tiffany! I'm so sad because Celeste is moving to Washington around December!!

Tomorrow is when it's all the grades together at school! It's going to be sooooooo crazy!

Yearbook staff and 7th grade day!

Am I the only one that can't believe summer is already over!?!?! That's nuts! Well anyway, there's nothing that I can do about it, and I've had fun so far! Amber and I had to go on seventh grade day because we're on the yearbook staff this year, (WAY EXCITED!) and there was a huge training meeting that day! I have to say, "Holy cow there are so many seventh graders this year!!!" That's why some of the ninth graders had to go to westlake..... I feel kind of bad for them becuase they're all so lost and nervous being at a new school, and then it definetly does not help having all the eighth and ninth graders making fun of them!

Amber's mom came out and took our picture before we got on the bus....... Finally we're all three in the same school again! But unfortunetly not for very long becuase next year Amber goes to HIGH SCHOOL!!

It seems like whenever I try to take a picture of all three of us I always cut Amber's face in half! I'm really sorry Amber!

Anyway, I am way excited to be on the yearbook staff!!! The yearbook is going to be awesome this year and I'm so excited to help make it! I'm in charge of the school dances page, the faculty fun pages, (wierd funny pictures of the faculty) and also the foreign language pages! And then of course we all help take lots of pictures for the various pages and the cover and back of the book too....... Some things that we did all day- We learned some picture taking tips, we talked about the book, (obviously) we checked out the yearbook room, we assigned pages, we played games to get to know each other, and we practised taking pictures! Here are a few of them....

Practicing shooting from a "birds eye view." I LOVE this picture! I think that it's way cute!

One of the things that we talked about was using the surroundings as "leading lines" to your subject. In the picture above I was trying to use the bleachers, and in the picture below I was using the track and the bricks on the wall.... They're definetly not professional, but I think they're kind of cool...

Cassie and Elora, some other awesome girls that are on the staff!

The girl in the light blue shirt that's talking is hilarious! She was telling us stories from yearbook camp (only the main editors get to go to that) and we were laughing so hard!

I also LOVE this picture! It's so cute!!! I'm way glad that Amber's on the staff with me, we're going to have so much fun!!

Sydney and I

Sydney and I have been hanging out together (as usual) for the past few days and we've had lots of fun! Of course taking lots of pictures and laughing! We had a sleepover last night and watched movies on her bed. I had a ton of pictures of us together so I put them in kind of a comic strip and it's really cute.......

We put headbands around our heads and we looked like hippies, but really wierd. I don't know why I turned this picture black and white, but oh well!

Don't ask...

Sydney's dog Jasmine was hanging out with us. We were eating popcorn and she kept jumping on Sydney trying to get some even after we gave her one of her treats! She's so cute!

Sydney can be a little wierd sometimes..... just kidding! I love her!

Sleepover with Olga!

I had a sleepover with Olga last Tuesday and it was lots of fun! We spent lots of time just sitting in her room talking and laughing about the summer and all kinds of other things, then we watched "Just like Heaven" before we went to bed. In the morning we watched "Bride Wars" with her nieces and little sister and then she made us pancakes for breakfast. Her little sister had this rainbow blanket, so we wrapped it around our legs and pretended that we were mermaids! It was hilarious and her little nieces were getting a kick out of it! After that Olga curled my hair for me, and since I have so much hair it ended up taking around 2 hours! But she did a really good job and I absolutely loved it!

Those are Olga's two nieces at the top right. Sofia is the oldest and Sky is the little one. They are so cute and Olga is such a good aunt! They really wanted to come into Olga's room, and when Olga would say "no," Sky would get really mad and say, "Olga I'm not going to let you come in my room!" Then she would slam the door and walk away. About three minutes later she would come back and say, "Olga, I'm not going to give you any of my baby food!" And then slam the door and walk away...... She did that a few times and it was so funny! Olga and I were trying not to laugh, but it was just hilarious!

Olga curling my hair! I do curl my hair sometimes, but I never do ALL of my hair, becuase it would take way too long! I just do the top layer, but Olga wanted to do all of it, and even though it did take a while, it looked so cute when it was finished!

Blog makeover!

I was getting sick of how my blog looked before, and then I saw Senja's blog and it inspired me! :) So, as you can see, I gave my blog a makeover! Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

The clowns are in town!

I had this really funny picture of me and Syd, then I went on picnik.com (where I make all of my collages) and I doodled all over us!

BEFORE:

The little worm guys are getting beat up by the tombots at the bottom! I haven't decided what my clown name is yet, so if you have any ideas.............. :)

AFTER:

Kadee's birthday party!

I went to Kadee's birthday party last week and it was lots of fun! We had a BBQ, then we played lots of games and roasted marshmellows over the fire! This is everyone that was there... Kadee is the one sitting next to me on the ground.

My friend Ashley was there too so we hung out most of the time. She had p.e. with Kadee and I last year.

Ashley is so awesome!

Kadee opening her presents... she's wearing the scarf that I gave her.

She got so many cute bags! My favorite was the one on the left, and the one on the right was really cool becuase it folds into a little pouch thing. (Sorry you can't see them that well.)

I think she liked the scarf...

Happy birthday Kadee!