Idaho

Ok, ok I know I haven't been to faithful for a while to my blog, but hey better late than never! Quite a few things have happened since I last posted like a trip to Idaho, hurricanes, and the general may hem of staying busy! I'll start with being in Idaho.

Once apon a time... Well maybe it wasn't that long a ago but it has been a few weeks ago now that we were on a plane for about a two week vacation to visit family and friends in Idaho. Lotsa fun! My grandparents live a there so thats the only time we get to see them since that aren't able to make it down here now.

Wow look at the rockies from up here. They don't look quite as tall from up here.

and these are the farms we passed. I love the way they "dot" the landscape!

My grandma LOVES to garden so when we go out there I usually do quite a bit of weeding, which I like to do. But it makes you wonder sitting out under that hot Idaho sun, if things don't start going to your head. . . or on them.

I must say they have some pretty interesting hats out there, or would that be the people that wear them?

Scrapbooking

Here are a couple of pages I did a while back. I have yet to get the journaling done on them though.(ugh!:) The journaling part isn't my favorite. The pics were taken last year when, as part of my birthday present, Lauren invited me to her house for a very special time. Everything was so much fun... from spa night, shopping, a tea party her mom surprised us with, to the very special surprise... a night at the orchestra. She wanted to do my hair in a curly bun, which is what the first page is about. The second is when we went swimming in her grandmother's apartments at night when we where the only ones in the pool.

To see the picture up close click on it.

For more crafts go to Chari's blog.

Blueberry Picking

Well, today we went blueberry picking! Dad, Mom, Chari Regina, the girls, and me. It was really fun although it can get pretty hot, even in the middle of the morning. Gracie enjoyed finding the "humongous" one's:)

Here's Gracie and Me with one of our humongous one's

Fathie enjoyed eating the blueberries while we did all the picking. Being a princess is such hard work :)

Gracie picking blueberries

Mom and Regina helping Gracie find one's that she can reach

Chari taught Fathie how to find the blue berries:)

Watch out Gracie's behind the wheel!!!

Recital

Well, I had my recital last night, and I'm so glad it's over! Recitals can really stress me out, but I've been doing better the past few years as far as the stress goes.

The recital was at a beautiful recital hall. I had my recital there last year and it is really a neat place to perform. Chari will have a video clip of my song. I think I did pretty well. The song is called Georgiana, and is from the Pride and Prejudice movie. I really like the new one they put out with Keira Knightley in it. We would get it from the library, but last night my family gave it to me! I was really excited about that!

Here I am at the nine foot Steinway grand piano. It has a really good touch, and is fun to play when I'm not so nervous.

Mary came and gave me these really cute daisies. I love them!

Here is me, Ashlynn, and Kaelin. You can see the piano and stage pretty well in this picture.

Here is my teacher and her happy little girl!

E.T.A. Chari's video clip won't work for her blog because it's too big. Sorry!

Twosies

Well, I did it again, I haven't written in over a month! Where does the time go! Oh well, better late than never I suppose.

Chari nominated me for this one.

The Two's
Two names I go by:
1.Angie
2.Angela


Two Things I Am Wearing Right Now:
1.My London England shirt
2.a jean skirt

Two of my favorite things to do:
1.Hang out with friends
2.Go shopping:)

Two things I want very badly at the moment:
1.To be done with school for the summer
2.To have an easier way of seeing friends and family that I don't see very much

Two pets I have/had:
1.Scamp-dog
2.Turpy-turtle

Two people you would like to fill this out: (if you want to)
1.Mellisa P.
2.Jenae

Two things I did last night:
1.Played in my recital
2.ate ice cream afterwards

Two things I have eaten today:
1.Cap'n Crunch
2.Part of a Pop Tart (aren't I healthy today?:)

Two people I last talked to:
1. Mom
2.Dad

Two things I am doing tomorrow:
1.Going to church
2.Singing in church with our trio

What was my longest car ride:
1.East Texas to Idaho via California Coast (I was only 10 months at the time so I don't remember it too well:)
2. East Texas to Seattle, WA

Two favorite holidays:
1.Christmas
2.My b-day( wait a minute thats not a holiday is it;)

Two favorite beverages:
1.Does starbucks frappucino count?
2.limeades

Two things I have done today:
1.Got up(now there's an accomplishment:)
2.blogged

Iv'e been tagged!!!

Wouldn't you know it somebody actually wants me to write on my blog. hmmm... now isn't that strange;) Yep I'm still alive! Actually things have been pretty busy around here, and I'm just too lazy to write a new post:) Well I got tagged by Chari so here goes!

1) What I was doing ten years ago:
Well I would have been 6 years old at the time and can't remember a whole lot of what I was doing, so I'll talk about my case of the chicken pox. We found out I had them when we went to Branson for a vacation. On the way there I started feeling sick, and needless to say I really didn't see much of Branson outside of our hotel room. Chari, Mom, and Dad would take shifts taking care of me, and would bring me back something special.

2) Things on my to-do list today:
Well, since to day is half over I'll tell you some of the things I've already done. I went to church this morning, and came home and had a really yummy dinner. I'm blogging right now, and I'll be going to church tonight

3) Snacks I enjoy:
turtle chex mix
ice cream
Chocolate!

4) If I were a billionaire I'd...
Give money to the church
go on a mission trip
give to the orphanage our church supports
travel
save
GO SHOPPING!!!

5)My 3 worst habits are...
procrastination
not drinking enough water
not saving my money

6)Places I have lived:
TEXAS!!!!!!!

7)Jobs I have held:
bread maker
babysitting
cleaning lady

8) People I would like to tag
Brittany
Jenae

So getting caught up on the current events. I've added a playlist to my blog, I like all kinds of music, but one kind I really enjoy is Celtic music. Are my Irish roots showing or what? I also like Josh Groban and Michelle Tumes,who are both on there. BTW Orinoco Flow is done by Celtic Woman not Enya like the pic says, and the ones that are listed under bluestnow are also Celtic Woman. Anyway, I'm really excited about the playlist. Well, since Chari has blogged about most of the things that have been happening lately, I'll show pics from when I went to the zoo. I haven't been there for years, so it was fun going back. Lauren,Dustin,and a friend got to come down, so I got to be with them. Now are you ready to tour the zoo? I'll be your tour guide for this trip, and there will be so much info that you will probably go from my blog with your head spinning. So read carefully and slowly to make sure you get it all.

Our first animal, I think this is a white tiger. It is really big kind of like a big house cat, but I wouldn't suggest petting it.

Next,I have no idea what these birds are, but they have really long, flat bills and are pink. Are you able to keep up? If not start with the big house cat and review.

and here is another type of kitty cat I wouldn't suggest petting, I think they call it a lion.It has a big mane and pretty much likes to soak up the sun, although it generally doesn't prefer the beach.

this is called an elephant. It tried and tried to think of a way to stuff the whole bale of hay in his mouth at once, but he finally had to give up. I think his eyes were a little bigger than his mouth!:)

and finally we come to the monkey exhibit, just kidding(I think:) me, Lauren, Dustin, and Dan is the friend that came down with them.

Hope you enjoyed the tour, and if you have any questions leave a comment:) Thank you and please come again!

East Texas Squirrel Revival

Wow! This morning Chari was teaching Sunday School when she looked up to the door and gave a startled gasp. There was something crawling under the door. Then it started running to our part of the room! It was a flying squirrel! We're used to these little creatures in our back yard, and have spent some fun times seeing them come to eat out of our squirrel feeder, but I have never seen one in the church!!! Needless to say things got pretty exciting around there! He seemed to like the dark keyboard cover, but he kept on wanting to escape through the door which was now blocked. I just started laughing because I could just see this in a scene in a book. Chari thought it was pretty funny too. Poor thing he was so scared! He was running all over the room trying to get find a way out and away from the two laughing giants. We finally got him cornered and into a coffee can, and outside were he belonged!

here he is posing for the photo shoot

Where's the squirrel?

Here's one of the ones that would come to our feeder. They are only about 4 in. or so from the head to the bottom of the tail, and are nocturnal. They will make these high pitched noises and we didn't know what it was till about a year ago. They have this flap of skin between each leg they spread out when they "fly"( you can see it in the picture), and they'll glide from limb to limb which gives them the name flying squirrel.

they are really cute!
(this isn't my picture I got it off a google search)