At the Subway near our house there is a bird nesting in the "Y".

Today when we were driving to York Redoubt we saw a guy riding his bike. Now you must know, this route isn't for the faint of heart; it's very hilly and quite curvy. BUT the guy was riding his bike and smoking a cigarette at the same time. How's that for a contradiction.

The leaderquesters (girls that worked with Dad this year) are all leaving. Zoe already left, and Christy and Susana are leaving tomorrow. Christy is coming back, but I am really going to miss Zoe and Susana.

OH! I forgot to tell you guys. I tried to go waterskiing today, but I was an abysmal failure. So I went boarding instead. The reason I couldn't waterski was because I hit my foot with the water ski when I was trying to get them on (IN the water), plus I had already boarded so my hands were so cramped I couldn't hold onto the rope. Anyway, one day I will learn.......

Cold sore

I have a cold sore. I hurts really badly. Can't wait until it's gone. I am probably going to go waterskiing today for the actual first time. I have never been skiing yet, just aquaboarding. Aquaboarding is a lot easier. Melanie, your recent blogger fan Susana is going to leave for Mexico tomorrow. Lets all give her a big hand from whereever you are.

She will probably still be blogging at Her Blog.

So in the hussle and the bussle of vacation packing, it's been kind of crazy. Ruth is now visiting a lot to keep us occupied. I must say she is doing a pretty good job. Can't wait to see her again.

It is REALLY sunny here in Halifax.

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No $ Yes

This is Matt. Well a couple of days ago I came up with this idea. I was thinking I could PRETEND to close down Deep Sea Chicken and LET Burger King copy my ideas. But I won't REALLY close Deep Sea Chicken down. So when they are finally done copying my ideas I'll re-open and then I'll sue them for copying my ideas.
When I said I would sue them for copying my ideas I was actually yelling. THAT's why I used the big letters.

zoinks!

So I did those last couple blogs because I wanted all the letters of the alphabet to have a turn to be in the beginning of a title.

Our soccer coach can't do pushups because he has a pain in his shoulder. Ya right!

Get Real. He says he needs to have a bone removed. Yeah. Take a bone out of a weak shoulder. Sure. That'll work.

Our team captain isn't the captain that I like. A captain is a player that is appreciated. This captain (Cameron) is a big boss. Me and Jacob can't stand him. He isn't very mature. Very immature if you ask me and Jake. Anyway, he is like the next step down to Tiree (our coach)

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Y

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Mystery Guest #1

Last night my cousin Susan dropped by for a minute. She was here for about 15 minutes & suddenly Dan yelled with delight, "OH! I JUST FIGURED OUT WHO YOU WERE". He had met her just once before so that is understandable. I thought this was very funny because only kids would get away with something like that. Adults would never ADMIT they didn't know who someone was.

I was at a party the other night with our Chinese friends - people we have been helping with English & Canadian culture for the past year. They are an extremely grateful bunch & can't thank us enough for helping them. One Chinese guy, Jason, brought me a gift. It was a red bracelet. However, when I went to put it on it was too small. Jason showed his disappointment by saying in a loud voice, "SHE-IT" with appropriate mannerisms. I thought this was very funny - he is learning the subtleties of Canadian culture!

What a week

This week was and is crazy. My tendonitis stretches are having an effect. I think it's growing pains because I feel like I'm on a rack when I do my stretches. Anyway.

So I am doing decimals now. It is pretty easy but it will get hard. I just did four pages even though it is summer. Anyway. Nikki (a great friend of ours) has come to visit. Not really for fun, more like a business trip. unfortuanatly she is leaving tomorrow. Oh well. Vacation is coming up. I'm not sure when, but I hope soon.

So I had a soccer practice last night. I had to do a drill where you are constantly on the move. you always try and pass the ball before getting chased down by your opponent. I didn't even sweat, because my opponent had was whining that he had a blister in his foot. It must have hurt, but it was getting on me nerves.

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Hey every night I read 1 book I read Arthur sometimes And all cines of books.
I have not bin doing eny art werck. Iv go to go good bye

Dan faces foot amputation?

Dan started complaining that his ankle hurt after playing soccer. It would hurt for the entire day & he was having trouble weight-bearing on it. We took some days off from soccer to rest it. But in the next game he started limping in the second half & then had the same 24 hours of pain. There was much discussion about the cause. Ron feared a bone infection - Katelyn had one in the same spot when she was 9 & Ron's nephew also had one in the same spot. Susannah, who has a nursing background, said that if there was no fever (there wasn't) that we should just ice it or if it was really bad alternate heat & ice. Since we just finished reading a book about Terry Fox, Sarah wondered out loud if Dan was going to have to get his foot amputated. I thought that with these wild rumours of amputation floating around I should take Dan to the doctor to put everyone's mind at ease. The diagnosis? Tendonitis. He has to stretch 3 X per day & before each soccer game. My doctor noted that his feet are flat & wide & said we need to buy him 'good' shoes - think supportive, think New Balance or Saucony, think big bucks for shoes that he may grow out of in 2 months. In my naive youth I thought kids didn't really cost that much money. Now I think differently. You can't buy 'good' shoes at Frenchies!

Blah

Today is yet another cloudy day. Things are looking up though - Mom said we could maybe go on a hike later.

I tried to eat the hardest kiwi ever this morning - I mean, I know they're expensive, but this thing was SO sour and SO hard that it was like eating a cross between a lemon and a rock. I'm serious. So I had to throw it out. Maybe when they ripen I will try to eat another one.

Mom had to take her blender in to get fixed a while ago, and she makes herself a shake every morning so that is a bit of a problem. Now she uses a little gadget she bought who-knows-where (probably canadian tire) that does the job. But she uses our one and only pitcher, so we have nothing to pour our drinks from. It's getting very annoying. I hope the fixing people take a look at it soon - they have no idea.

Today I feel like signing off on a salad dressing sort of note (or taste). It just looks cool.

Vinagrette
Katelyn

Cloudy and Humid

Yup, that's right. It is cloudy and humid and I have a soccer practice tonight. Plus three games in the annapolis valley. The place is like a ghost town. Hardly anybody there, thanks to the fact that it is far away from any civilization that I know of. The place is really silent most of the time. But there are good views. I can't wait to play soccer there. It probably won't happen, but it is possible that we won;t have to cancel it.

So I went to the docter the other day. She said I had a little bit of tendenitis (or however you spell it). I need to strech on the stairs. It wasn't as bad as I thought it what. Dad thought it was Austio Militis (or however you spell it(I don't have a P.E on grammer!)). My heel has gotten better over the time.

I am finally done my math. I battled hard. I finally get a new book.

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I wish it wouldn't rain

Dad took the van in for a checkup today so he had to take the bus to work. He had to run all the way to the bus station because if he missed the bus then there wasn't another one for a whole hour. Mom got a little bit confused because it said in Susana's bus schedule that the bus stopped running at 10:41 - the time when Dad had to get on. Then Susana told her she was looking at the PM times. Ooops. Anyway, I'm pretty sure Dad got on the bus.

It's raining again. I guess that's good though - it's better for it to rain than be cloudy and humid for a week. Then again, for it to rain after it being cloudy and humid for a week.....well, lets just say that we get a lot of that in halifax.

Dan has a soccer tournament all day on saturday down in the valley (it just occured to me that only nova scotians will know what I am talking about. I mean the annapolis valley - pretty far away). The first game is at 8:00 and it takes at least an hour to get there. Oh boy.

I put a sheet up on the window

so that I could sleep in, it would be darker. It worked. A bit, then Sam wanted me to watch Bob the Builder witth him so I did. I was satisfyed. now I have three favorite bands. Great Big Sea, U2 and Queen. Even though Queen isn't singing anymore because their lead singer died of AIDS, I still really like their music a lot. Their lives were screwed up and they did drugs, but their music is still the best. Their outfits on stage were awful but they still were great singers. It's really wierd. Anyway, At least I don't have to see them in concert. I don't know of any band that stoned that makes that good music. I read their biography yesterday and it was sad. But some people have bad story's.

So it is raining which probably means that I won't have soccer tonight. blah.

Does anybody know how to make the star of david out of 7 pennies?

I will tell you in a few days. You can guess if you want to.

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Soccer

Yesterday's soccer game was so terrible I could spell it with three r's terrrible. We lost 1-0 mainly because the ref was actually watching the little check that one person recieved on the other team and IN our 18-yard box. This means that everybody needs to be behind a guy who has a free direct shot on only the goalie. As you may know, our goalie is very short so the ball went over his head and into the net.

Well after that we managed to get the ball, down into our opponents goalie box. somebody kicked the ball into the air. it hit the ground and bounced up and hit a guy's hand and that would have been a direct free kick for us with everybody behind him only the ref didn't call it. Plus she called it like it was a handball when the ball hit somebody's stomach. it was SOOOOOOOOOOO ANNOYING! But they still won.

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ANOTHER Game

SO today is going to be crazy. We are playing another game tonight and tomorrow night, and them three on saturday. Our goalie (brendan) is a great goalie and he is adapting to the huge nets that we have to play with. I is getting a lot better and if he gets a growth spurt he will be the best goalie of his age. His drop-kick is improving a lot and every game we play he always makes at least three great saves. One guy on our team is named Russell. He has a good kick but has a problem with actually kicking it. When ever he kicks it it always spins backwards and so when it hits the ground it goes backwards and we have to get rid of it again.

Malcolm and Aaron (strikers) have problems with passing the ball. We just need to correct all the mistakes and we will be agreat team. I am getting more sweaty with the warm-ups. The warm-ups involve running around half the field twice and doing six crossfield runs. Ankles, Knees, Field Touch, Backwards, Sideways right and sideways left

Ankles: running while kicking your ankles backwards and touching them

Knees: Slapping your knee with every pace. Your knees are supposed to come up and hit your hands. YOur hands need to stay still

Field touch: Run and every 3 seconds dip your left hand and touch the field. Then wait three seconds and touch the field with your right hand and so on

Backwards: Run backwards across the field.

Sideways right: Skip sideways across the field with your body facing right.

Sideways left: Same thing only reversed.

I am tired almost always after the warm-up

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I know...

I haven't blogged in a while. But for the record I HAVE been sick. On top of that I have gone to every one of Dan's soccer games since Friday (4 or 5 of them) so I haven't really had time...

Anyway, Dan won the bronze medal in his soccer tournament, I got a really bad sunburn and now my nose is peeling, and Dad turned 37. Hmmmm, what else to write...

OH! Finkelman's 45's is going off the air this month. The CBC describes it as such:

"Audiences take a trip down memory lane with host Danny Finkleman as he plays hits from the `50s, `60s and `70s. But it's not all nostalgia, as he always finds room for his personal observations on modern times."

I'll say! That is a very good description. As well as playing old music (most of which I don't really like, but that's besides the point) he rants and raves about funny things from the lights in elevators, throw pillows, toothpaste, cottage cheese and more. It's kind of like an oral blog. I don't listen to it much, but when I do, it usually entertains me. Anyway, I'm kind of disappointed that Danny Finkleman is retiring.

I have to go do some chores now, so I'll see you guys later.

Warning: post contains bathroom body functions

I apologize for my lack of blogging lately ... no great excuses. I will try to summarize our lives for the last week. At church a gracious elderly gentleman named Eric was telling the children's story. He asked if anyone was sick and needed prayer. There was a long silence. Then Matt felt he should help Eric out. So he said, "well I've been feeling constipated". Of course the entire church exploded with laughter. And Ron & I were laughing even harder. I do not remember ever laughing so hard in church in my life. So we prayed as a congregation for Matt's constipation.
On Saturday night we had a birthday party for Ron. We were busy with a soccer tournament for Dan all weekend so Ron suggested keeping it simple. We had barbequed lemon/oregano chicken, asparagus & 2 salads. Strangely one of our dinner guests made a loaf of bread shaped like a butt, because she claimed Ron was a butthead. The kids were all very excited & were fighting over who would get to eat the piece that was the butt crack. I asked Susanah, who is staying with us this month, to make a cheesecake. She said she would cook the entire day if we wanted her too. She is a GREAT houseguest. I highly recommend that if you have the opportunity to have her stay with you, you grab the opportunity. She made a berry cheesecake for Ron with mixed berry/Port topping for Ron. And she made a flourless chocolate torte with raspberry coulis for me & Kate (since we are allergic to milk). It was divine. Tonight we went to our final Bible Study/dinner party with friends from church. I baked another torte & took some leftover grand marnier & port to the party. It was a big hit.

Where can you buy decent t-shirts

OK bloggers I need your help. Where can you buy decent basic t-shirts that last? I've been buying BUM ones from Wal-mart but they get out of shape quickly & lose their colour.

Hey good job kathy sorry every one els thet enterd the contest
I do not now wen we can send it to you it mite be after our vacation good bye






ps sorry iv have not bin bloging

6:33 in the mornin

Had a nightmare. Luckily I woke up before anything bad happened. I had a dream that a bunch of two headed circus performers were chasing after me and wanted me to jump of a really high diving boards into a really small swimming pool. They managed to do that and I nearly drowned if it hadn't been for the attempt to breath in. I breathed in the swimming pool and that is when I woke up. I was sweating and The sheets were all crumply. So I got out of bed and sat down thinking of what a ridiculously bad dream I had. I went to mum's office and started to blog. So my legs are extremely sore. I had to play the whole game yesterday and I was midfield the whole time. Which means I have to run for a full hour with a five minute rest in the middle. I don't think I am going to go to tonight's practice because my legs are really weak and need resting. I hope that I get a lot better. because I have two games in the next two days and 3 games on saturday.

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Soccer

So we won bronze medals, against the team that beat us twice before.

The first game they hammered us 5-1. the next day they crushed us 3-2 although one goal wasn't supposed to count but the ref was either very dumb or related to one of the players on the other team.

So after learning a lesson twice we decided it was over for the other team. We scored two in a row, than they managed to score one. In the second half it was a free kick very close to the net. he kicked the ball and I tryed to deflect it of my foot, but the wind made the ball hit my toe and in bounced into the net. I wasn't praised but the team didn't get too angry at me. Later on there were five minutes left into the game. Brendan (our goalie) kicked the ball up to field to the other teams offence by mistake, but Devin (brendan's twin brother, the good midfielder but a natural goof) managed to get the ball to Aaron (a great striker but a big ball hog) who manged to get it a little ways up the field before being attacked. He booted it up the field to Malcolm (another striker, which is also a ball hog), who gave it his all. He HOOFED it up and in narrowly missed the goalie and barreled into the net. People from the other side of the world could hear our screams. We stalled the rest of the game kicking it around and the ref blew the whistle and the game ended 3-2 for us. We all got bronze medals and Malcolm got a ten dollar gift certificate for any music he liked to listen to. Nobody was jealous and Tiree (the hothead coach) was very happy. I would like him to be like that every day

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Soccer

I'm tired, After playing soccer all week I am really tired I have to play another one today, but not until 1:00. I had to play two games yesterday, and next saturday I have to play three games. It isn't going to be pretty. Our soccer team is all sore and the soccer coach is a hothead. I did this trick on brendan (our goalie) probably the best soccer player on our team where I do something to make him feel as though is feet were sinking into the ground. It's supposed to relax your legs and make you feel good and freaked out at the same time. So I began to gather attention with this amazing mind trick and soon my whole team was arguing on who would go next. After doing the fifth person our coach came and screamed at us. He went like this. THIS IS A TIME FOR SOCCER TRICKS NOT THESE DISTRACTING MIND TRICKS!!!!! And he was MAD.

When he's coaching he will get angry at anything that doesn't have to do with soccer. When he is happy he is fine, but when he is angry, he is definitely NOT fine. I really hope that I don't have to spend three months getting trash talked by my coach

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winner

kathy won

Yesterday Dad took away the table that the computer was on because he needed it for something else. So I am propped up on my elbows on my belly blogging.

Yesterday I had to play in band at the school... it was ok, except that we had to wear the dumb red vests. Oh my, we were warm. Besides - even though red is my favorite colour - I hate wearing it because of my red hair. (Ironically, I'm wearing a red shirt in the picture of us at the top of the page, and you can hardly tell that my hair is red, but believe me - it is.

Anyway, unlike last year we did really well. No mistakes. Unfortunately the choir got more applause than we did - but I'm willing to accept that and move on:)

Not much more to write about, maybe more later.

The winner of the what was she thinking? contest

Kathy and Ruth battled hard and one won. To see the winning quote on the duck picture just put your mouse over it. Here are the two entrys

Ruth said: Does this beak make my cheeks look fat?

Kathy said: You CANNOT be SERIOUS. I would, I would never, never commit such a shameful act. The audacity. The nerve. The complete lack of respect. My dignity, MY dignity. I would, I repeat, I would never, I repeat NEVER, poop in a public park. Read my lips - NEVER.

Most of you would say Kathy would win. We shall see!

So we got the weedcutter out a couple days ago, and I had to do it. I think it is really fun watching the dandilions get decapitated but you don't see any thing touching it. It is a great tool. Well I gotta go.

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A Bug and a Bag of Weed

They're filming a movie down in an abandoned (well, I guess it's for rent, but it looks abandoned) portion of the mall right next to a frenchys. A frenchys is a second-hand store exclusive to Canada's eastern provinces - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. I just had to tell you that because some people don't live in Canada, and would not know, and some people just might want to know. Moving on...
So this film is called "A bug and a bag of weed". I googled it and found the - oh so interesting and witty - plot.

"A bug and a bag of weed is a comedy about three debt-ridden computer store salesmen, who find themselves the unexpected owners of a hockey bag full of weed."

TACKY!!!

Actually the actors look pretty tacky too, with bleached blonde hair, weird fishnetty things, and some of them look like they have used the "three day setting" on their electric razors. HAhahaha.
While I was in the frenchys looking through the shirt bin, so big guys came in and made a beeline for the skirt bin!! They proceeded to have a VERY LOUD conversation about the skirts. "Will this fit?." "No, not short enough." "WHOooooooooooa, this one is really good!" I didn't know they were from the movie, so I was all I could do not to ask them where the cross dressing convention was organized.
We did meet a very nice German (that's German, not Swedish) chef who was cooking for the crew, and asked Matt if he was enjoying his sucker. Matt - with the sucker still in his mouth - replied "No, it sucks."

Today I got some new sandals. They were on sale - because they were last years stock. They are very comfy, plus they even have a "foot odour combator"!! I couldn't be more happy with them, and I've been wearing them all day.

In other news, today we had Ruth over to do some odd jobs - things like filling in holes in our walls and mowing our lawn. We were extremely surprised (not) to find that our lawn mower blades needed sharpening. So, we decided to go and get them sharpened. Mom called around to find a place to get it done and when she asked the guy who answered the phone how often you were supposed to get your lawn mower he said "Every year". We have had that lawn mower for 10 years, and we haven't ever sharpened the blades. Oops.

Today I was looking at one of those annoying popup ads on our computer. This particular one had a picture of some celebrity with her eyes covered. Then they tried to get you to tell them who it was "enter for your chance to win a $100 dollar gift card". Underneath it said "HURRY!! This offer expires June 4th 2002". THEN, off to the side a little it said "Copyright 2005 Whateverthecompanynamewas". Hahahahahahaha, I think this particular company is going for the confusion factor.

Anyway, my post for the day.

Katelyn

P.S. Platinum Blonde,

When you get some stuff unpacked I would love to see pictures of your new apartment!

Star Wars

So since Melanie is so frusterated that she is missing out on the star warsstuff I will dedicate a whole blog to her.

Melanie signed the guestbook. I will make your mistake in blue

Nathan hates watching Star Wars with me because I just don't GET IT. Boba Fett is especially confusing to me. Then in episode one where they go to the clone place and his dad is there or whatever, I just didn't GET IT and Nathan was gasping in the theatre like "*Gasp* it's Boba Fett and his fatehr - so that's how....". And I didn't understand teh significance at all, and was whispering fiercely "What?? What?? I don't get it??" which doesn't go over well at all in a theatre of psychotic Star Wars fans. So when you ask "Who doesn't know who Boba Fett is?"....ummmm....me :S

It was episode two that you were watching. Episode one doesn't have Boba Fett at all.

Let me start from the beginning.

Boba Fett is a bounty hunter, A person who hunts people down for money.

Boba Fett's FATHER was also a bounty hunter. His name was Jango Fett

Boba Fett was a clone of his Jango Fett AKA his father. Boba Fett would grow up to look exactly like his father.

Nearing the end of the movie, Jango Fett's head got snicked off by a lightsaber.

But Boba Fett was still alive.

Boba Fett grew up and became a bounty hunter in the last three movies. He was killed in the beginning of the 6th episode


Jango Fett

Boba Fett as a kid

Boba Fett as an adult

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Boring Sorta Sunday

After 5 days of BEAUTIFUL it is finally cloudy - and I must admit depressing - again.
Dan and Matt and I went to the park to try and fly the kite, but it wasn't windy enough. We ended up running around the park about ten times trying to get that dumb thing to fly, but it was hopeless. There was one funny episode that happened when Matt decided he wanted to be one of those guys at the airport with the two sticks who direct planes. He did a marvelous job - until the kite hit him in the head.

I am getting a new homeschooling book that I checked out yesterday when we went to the "cirriculum fair" in sackville. In it it says to write everyday, so I may as well try. Of course, it's not exclusive to blogging, but the only other time I write is when I journal - and mostly I just write things in the blog now. I never write long stories - I can never think of anything to write. Short stories without too much detail are good though. So get ready for a lot more bloggage....I hope.

Anyway, this sunday is pathetically boring, so I'm going to sign off for now.

Katelyn

Sarah mentioned in her earlier post that we were going to the beach today. Turns out, we went twice! The water is still very cold, so, although Dan and Sarah bugged me until I was ready to smack them (which is REALLY something I don't have the urge to do very often;) I only went in once on a bribe.
While we were there Matt started fraternizing with some of the guys and girls on the beach. Some of the guys he was talking to had a Star wars box kite with pictures of all the significant figures from the original 3 movies. (If you haven't seen the originals, you should see them. The new ones are just not as good). After watching Matt run all the way around the beach repeatedly on a still day trying to make the kite fly and laughing really hard they finally decided to give Matt the kite.
Dan took this oppurtunity to quiz Matt and Sam about the identities of the people on the kite. They got past Luke and Leia, and then came to Boba Fett.
(I know the rule "assume the reader knows nothing" so if you don't know who Boba Fett is, then he is a bounty hunter. That means, that if a person owes somebody money, (or something), the bounty hunter will track them down in exchange for bounty. But like I said, who doesn't know who Boba Fett is. Anyway, here is a picture of him.

Anyway, when Dan asked Matt what his name was, Matt said: "Baba Ganoush"

(You might not know what Baba Ganoush is either, but it is a middle eastern food. It's a dip, made out of eggplant, garlic, tahini, and whatever other spices you like in it. It is almost comparable to hummus in the way that is is made. There are lots of recipes for it out there on the internet.)

Anyway, I thought that was hilarious.

hey .wear going two the beach today if we get our work doun yestrday at the beach sum stoodints tot matt haw to play volleyball he did a prity good jobgot to go pste woter is really cuold

Tears over Medical Repairs

Dan had soccer tonight and I was going to take him and then run while he played. As it turned out I was on the phone when I was supposed to leave so Marsha decided to take Dan with all the other kids. When I finished my call I decided to run over to the field and meet them there (about 6 km). When I arrived Sam was quite captivated by the fact that I was all wet. As we were leaving he asked, "When you ran, why did your tears come out all over?" What could I say? I told him running makes me cry - which is not far from the truth.

Later as I was putting Matt and Sam to bed, Matt was dawdling. He had been complaining of an injury received while riding his bike. After settling Sam I called out to see if Matt was in his bed like he was supposed to be. He wasn't. He was sitting on the bathroom floor with his pant leg pulled way up and dabbing his knee with a wet piece of toilet paper. He looked up at me and said, "Sorry Dad, I'm just doing some medical repairs."

Wait!!!!

Ruth made a last minute entry and managed to tie with Kathy.!!!!!!!!!!! So there will be one more contest for the final tiebreaker. So here is ruth's last minute entry

it is a long-distance jellybean throwing and eating contest. Someone has just thrown a jellybean into Carissa's mouth from 100 feet away, and she is cheering in victory at the same time as trying not to choke. Red shirt girl has the job of collecting jellybeans which did not make it into the contestants mouth's and is blindfolded just to make it a little more interesting.

There will be one last picture. Kathy and Ruth are squared off against each other. Other people can make entrys too BUT not until BOTH kathy and ruth have put in their entry's. The Sample thought that I put on the picture DOES NOT COUNT!!!!

The end of the contest

So today is June Third. The end of the contest. Melanie hasn't done an entry, which is very sad. I hope that on our next contest she will read our blog more. So.

There were four entree's I will rank them with one two three.


Red Ribbon: Trisha!!!!!! With Carrisa's "A viking song"

Bronze: Ruth with "ruth, get those stinking long underwear off your head and pay attention!!!"

Silver: Aimee with "AAHHGG, THEY'VE GOT ME BY EACH HAND AND ARE GOING TO PIN ME DOWN! ONE HAS LATCHED ONTO MY HEAD AND HAS BEGUN TO SUCK OUT MY BRAIN!!!! ANOTHER IS SLIDING IT'S WAY INTO MY POCKET. I DON'T HA83J *sadywacap (3M sippydut ?.,KO;!!!!!!!"

Gold: Kathy with "Vorrei un kilo de pesche" (opera)
Otherwise known as :I would want a kilo of peaches"

So there you have it. Kathy, you may be in for one of sarah's creations. We will have to see
Don't keep your hopes up though. All though, Melanie can still do an entry within 3 more days. If she has a certain rank the ones before her will all go down one to let her squeeze in.

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I went to Monkey Town

hi I went to moncton to visit my frends Renee, Nathalie & Monette. We went for 2 days. It was really really really fun. I walked their dog a few times which was pretty fun. I did a lot of sidewalk chalk drawings. We went to a store where they had a lot of prom dresses. We tried on a lot of dresses. But I looked ridiculous in all of them. Except for the white wedding dress. It looked good on me. I might go to the beach today. We went to the beach yesterday. The water was freezing. But me, Katelyn & Dan got in. There were a lot of girls in bikinis. They were scared to get in because it was so cold. But all the teenage boys just dove in. I might go today but I have to get my chores done first.

Grouchy and in Pain

On tuesday I got to go to Moncton with Dad and Sarah. We had to leave a 5:00 am so that Dad could meet someone at 8:00. Then I stayed up really late and only got 7 hours of sleep the next night. So it was understandable that I went to bed on Wednesday at 9:30, and slept until 10:20. That would have been ok, except that I had an orthodontist appointment at 10:30 that I forgot about. Oops. So it turned into a marathon. Get your clothes on, brush your teeth, and hop into the van. Unfortunately I didn't really have time for breakfast, and today was the day when they moved a tooth that had not already been moved before. (In case you have never had braces before, then the first time you move a tooth is always the most painful). OOOOOOoohhhhhhh. This is not fun. I also have to have elastics, which is pretty annoying, AND I'm supposed to increase the tightness of elastics after one week which means I will be sore for 2 weeks instead of one. On the bright side, at least they didn't put me on the heavier elastics first.
Anyway, I'm just glad we have some Ibuprofen kicking around the house. It helps A LOT. Mom says my cheek is a bit swollen, but I haven't looked at myself.

In other news, if was VERY hot yesterday (27 degrees) so we went to the beach. Unfortunately the water isn't as refreshing as it looks, and I'm positive I turned blue. After we gave everybody else a show of us going into the water, we watched other people on the beach try to get into the water and made bets on whether the big macho guys showing off their muscles or the bikini clad girls were going to get in first. It was fun.