My hair!!!

I think by now almost everybody knows that I got my hair cut....(it was during Easter Vacation)....but it's mainly for Erika. Here is a picture of my hair. I have like super short bangs and super short hair! I don't think I'll ever have my hair this short ever again, so I at least have to show you a picture. Next time I plan on having it like this would probably be when I'm like 25 and have kids and just throw it up in a pony tail every morning! :D Anyways, you saw a picture of my bangs in the Easter picture, but I like never wear my bangs down and my hair up...seriously! And in that picture, my bangs are all floppin' in my face and look retarded....but they're actually pretty cute...idk about on me, but whatever!








Ok, I did my first french braid in some super snarly and greasy hair(Sarah's) this afternoon! But, I was pretty satisfied, for the condition of her hair...I mean, it was seriously a disaster! I've done two french braids in peoples hair, but never just one. Common, this is a HUGE deal, and that's why it made it onto my blog!! lol, jk! Ok, I gtg!














-Amy/Ames C:

Some pretty pictures!

This past weekend we went up to Columbia, CA for Sarah's "field trip". We went up Sunday morning with the O'Dells. The DeCarlos went up Saturday and we met them when we got up there, the Singletons went up Sunday afternoon and we met the Goldsmiths up there Monday. Anyways, the O'Dells, DeCarlos and us went to this place and it was like the prettiest place I've EVER been! Seriously! It' was so stinkin' pretty! I mean green, and flowers, and ADORABLE!!! Here's just a couple pictures, I took like a hundred! Dude, how could I resist! Oh, and this place was HUGE!!! I just asked my dad, it was called Ironstone Vineyard. Yes, it was a vineyard, but I honestly think it was my favorite place I've ever been!! It had this creek that was gorgeous and a path all over the whole place, and this little hike, and a huge outdoor amphitheater and seriously, there's not even words to describe it! That would be a perfect heaven, although I know heaven will be a whole lot better, but it would suit me! :) Oh! And it had this pond/lake thing and Omygoodness, I could go on forever on how perfect it was! Well, write more later!
-Amy(aka...Ames :P)

The girl in the pink shirt is Lexie Decarlo, her sister, Kennadie, is in the yellow shirt, and Ashley O'Dell is in the blue shirt. Sarah, my sister, is in the white shirt (with the brown striped jacket on...in some pictures)!

Bunches of pics.

Here's a bunch of pictures from our play Adventures in Neverland. I don't have any soccer picture downloaded yet, but I should soon! So.......here they are,

My play tonight!

Well, tonight I'm in my play with the awesome Valley Oaks Drama Club! Woo hoo! Last night we had a performance and it went wonderful and everybody did a GREAT job! Seriously, I can't believe that this time has come! It's all going to be over with in just a couple of hours! Anyways, I'm pretty bored so that's why I'm finally posting. New topic....Today I had my second soccer game with F.U.N. sports(F.U.N. stands for Faith Unity & Nurture). Anyways, it's like a non-competitive organization that is just for fun. But some people on my team are pretty competitive and pushy. Anyways, there is only one other team in the same age category so we play them every Sat. We won last week 1-0 and this week 5-0. Man, I feel extremely bad for the other team, especially for the goalie. Today, on the other team, there is this one really good forward, well, he's actually pretty good everywhere, but....they put him in goalie, and we kept scoring on him. It totally wasn't his falt at all though, because their defenders were not playing very good and it's almost impossible for the goalie to block it when it's just him and the forward on the opposing team. I mean, he did GREAT and blocked tons of MY shots(and everybody elses), but I know, from my past expericences, that it's really discouraging when like 3 ball get by you, so I kept telling him that he was doing great, but seriously, I feel so bad for them! Anyways, I'm spilling out my whole life that's actually pretty uneventful and not worth your time, so when something more exciting happens, I'll have to write more! I'll also post pictures from our play in just a couple of days, and hopefully some soccer pics. too! Tomorrow I'm going out of town for a couple of days for my sister's field trip, so I'll post them when I get back! -write later! :)
-Amy :P

Acting!!! :)

Well, my interest in acting has been for quite sometime. It started out when I was...hum...probably about 4, standing on stage at our Church singing in Christmas programs. The most recent program was at Stars Dinner Theater singing in a Christmas Play! All the shows between go from, being a pirate (spaghetti) in Pirates of Parody, to starring as a girl in Honesty(I don't remember my name), to being a Capulet (Bobbi) in Romeo and Winifred, to starring at Miss Collins(the dorky teacher) in School House Rock(& singing a solo), to being Hark (the main character) in Hark the Harold Angels(and singing a solo, for the first time!), and MANY MANY more! -those were just some of my favorites! I absolutely LOVE acting in every play possible, and hope to be in TONS more. Right now I'm working on a show that we're going to be performing in the end of April, and it's going very well and it's going to be one of the best shows that I've ever done! :P It's goin' to be very funny as well as a great performance! The dates are April 24th and 25th and you should totally come! It's a contest for whoever sells the most tickets...so buy them from me plz! They're only 2 bucks!
One of the things that I like about being in shows is dancing(and fighting). I really enjoyed how in School House Rock, we had a choreographer come and teach us dances in the dance room and omgoodness, it was SO very fun! The dances turned out awesome and we all had a blast learning them! :) Play practices are like the funnest things ever! gtg
-Amy :)

Reading!

I've finally found my interest in reading! It took 13 years though. I used to read 2 chapters of a book, and have no clue what I just read! Finally, in the past couple of months I read this really good book, and it was the first in a series...so then I read the other five books in like 2 weeks! My mom got me a bunch of other books from Valley Oaks and now, I'm totally into reading! It's crazy, nobody thinks of me as a reader but now I read all the time in my spare time! I've discovered that I read best listening to my i-pod though...kinda weird, but it drowns out all the background noise and voices. Anyway, I don't know why I'm posting about me reading, but I don't have anything else to talk about...so, the main point of this post is to learn that I love reading! idk, gtg, write more later!
-Amy :)

-In the picture, I wasn't very happy that my dad was taking the picture so I stuck my tongue out and I look very dorky!!! My hair is all over the chair and WOW! That's a LAME pic. of me!!

I finally put Skiing and Snowboarding pic. on!

Timmy and I waiting for our lessons :)
Timmy's waiting for his turn to go down the hill!

We're all waiting patiently for our turn to go down!
Thomas resting...and ME in the background, w/ my hand in front of my face!

Resting and waiting for my turn to go down the hill!
I finally get to go down!!! Yeah!


Sarah S. and my sister Sarah going down the bunny hill!



Megan and Katie going down a slope!


We all had a VERY fun time at Sierra Summit!

-Amy

Skiing/Snowboarding!!!

Ok, so yesterday we went up to Sierra Summit with bunches of friendies. I decided to try snowboarding for the first time...Wow! People make it look SO easy!! I took this lesson(with Timmy and Thomas, bc they were doing it for the first time too!) for an hour and a half. I barely did anything. ...and they didn't really teach me anything. So, that didn't help that much, but it definitely got me started! Then I went up the magic carpet and then after I could go down without falling I upgraded my self to the bunny hill. woo hoo!
The bunny hill wasn't that much of a challenge!! I went down with Katie and Megan and Sarah S...so much fun!! One really hard thing about the bunny hill was the rope lift thing. Timmy and Jesse were both left footed so it was super hard for them and they kept flipping over it and then getting all tangled up, very funny! But I still fell down tons going down. The bunny hill was part of what made my day a blast cause I got to hang out with MY friends! (instead of my brothers)
My dad finally convinced me to go down half of Academy and Oh My Goodness....It took me like 10 min. to get down the first little slope thingy!!! My arms were crazy tired!! (from getting up...) My dad was like, didn't they teach you how to turn and stop in your lessons. Nope, they didn't! So I was all on my own. I didn't really know how to turn or anything so I kept getting stuck in the soft snow and I couldn't get out!!! That was such a challenge! But I got back up and kept going and made it down the rest of the Academy. Fortunately, I kept improving down the rest of the hill. One thing I like about falling on the snowboarding is, it's normally super easy to get up! I don't like falling forward, like when you catch the front of your board and it just whacks you forward and you go straight down. That's no fun! The good thing is, it doesn't hurt very much. I went down the bunny hill a couple more times and then went down Academy and a little ways down we found some friends! So I went with them and rode back up with Jesse. Then Jesse, Luke, and Jacob finally convinced me to go down Fire Bowl, YIKES!!! I was snowplowing like all the way down(which took me a while to learn how to do)...They were all skiing, so I was a bit behind them. (Jesse switched to skiing after about 3 or 4 hours of snowboarding) I was totally surprised bc I only fell down once and (fortunately) that was a easy fall and get back up! But it took me a while to get down, cause I went really slow.
For those of you that have been down Academy, you know the long straight part at the end??? Well I had to walk almost that whole thing bc I couldn't get enough speed to make it all the way, bc I was a scaredy cat and had to slow down!! Anyways, I had a total BLAST snowboarding and will totally do it again next time! ...it was so much fun!
-Amy

-I forgot to say, I'm right footed for those of you who want to know... I know I'm weird!
-Today I'm CRAZY sore in my arms! My legs aren't that sore but my arms hurt to do anything. Opening the frig was the worst thing I've done today!
-I'll put pictures of us on here is a couple of days!

Tennis!

Today I'm going to write a little bit of why I love tennis! I don't have any pics. of me playing tennis, sorry! Anyways, I've played tennis for 3 1/2 years now. I started out horrible and have improved a little since! Every Friday morning we meet for a hour and a half and our 3 awesome coaches have us do a bunch of drills. There's three groups of kids and we rotate so we're with all the coaches. There's this "challenge" where you can "challenge" somebody in a different group and if you win you get to go into their group and they have to go into yours. To "challenge" somebody you have to win three matches against them. Katie and I "challenged" two people in the highest group and beat um so now were in the highest group! Katie is the only other girl in that group so when she's not there, I totally don't like it...cause I'm the only girl!!! I'm not close to the best in my group, and it's cool because then I have a hard time beating people in the drills! I always look forward to going to tennis on Fridays and I'm very bummed when they cancel it(because of the rain). I love tennis and I hope to continue playing it for a very long time!
-Amy

Skiing!

Like 2 or 3 weeks ago my family (except my mom) went skiing up at Sierra Summit! We had a blast. It wasn't that crowded. It was pretty nice weather up there. At about 2:00 it started getting pretty chilly and we put on another layer of clothes and were fine. A bit later in the day it started getting a bit more frigged and we were a little cold. It started to hail(except it was like really small)! It was like totally awesome cause when we were going down the slopes the hail was like slapping us in the face. I absolutely loved it! The other really neat thing was when we were going up the ski lifts the snowflakes were landing on our pants and we could look at all of the different shapes and sizes and I was in awe bc all of them were different! (duh) But it's so cool to look at all the stuff that God created and EVERYTHING is an individual! Anyways, I look really cheesy in these pics. so ignore me! :p
-Amy

I've gone skiing about 7 or 8 times, I love every trip to the snow and love skiing! When we go, in about a month, I'm going to try snowboarding (for the first time)...if you have any tips, at all, please let me know! :)

Christmas!

I had a fantastic Christmas and loved every single bit of it! I am so thankful for all the wonderful gifts that I got! I got some clothes, games, shoes and lots more! I luv all of it! Our family was blessed with so much "stuff"! Here are just a couple of pictures of us on Christmas. We all have sleepy faces and look, lets say...not our best. It was so nice to take a brake from school and all the busy activities. It was also nice to have Grandma with us and Andrew back from college.We had family over for a wonderful Christmas dinner, cooked by my mom :)
Thanks mom!
-Amy