Ketchup Time!

What happened in the last few weeks...

CJ graduated! I'm going to middle school this fall. On the last few days of school, everyone celebrated with a bowling outing, a picnic with pizza, and goody bags stuffed with pencils, goodbye DVDs, gum, candy, and (sigh) advertisements from local sponsors. Then, school was finally over! Done with! Gone!
After that, I took a volleyball camp (OK, I guess) and a water camp where we got to play with sprinklers and slime and bubbles for a few hours (fun fun fun!) After that, my cousins came to go to our annual family reunion at a beach house at the Outer Banks!
We had a great time! We swam in the ocean, which was incredibly freezing for about 5 days in a row. We swam in the pool, forever playing Category and Shark. Later, we'd get in the hot tub. This year, we had color-themed days. Our family had Green Day (not the annoying, bad-word-using band). Mom made Mexican tacos! There were also a lot of games of Beano, Solitaire, Dutch Blitz, Pokemon Monopoly (with powers when you rolled doubles), and Werewolf (a slightly scary\gruesome but fun card game). Add in some "oranges" (parts to a game), a sudden rainstorm, lots of glow sticks, water balloons with smiley faces, a walk on the beach at night, volleyball, homemade board games, and our cousin L's return from a wedding in Wisconsin, and it was a memorable vacation! I'm still trying to cover everything in my sketchbook.
Cousin Studios Update: We recently started shooting our 5th film: Woman versus "Wild." Abby Sunlaw is a typical ten year old girl, but when she spends a night in her backyard, she'll face incredible challenges. Jumping off the bottom step of her front porch, fending off wild mosquitos, and finding some salt for her dinner are just some of the obstacles in her way. Can she do it? Find out-after the commercial break.
After getting home, 4 of our cousins stayed at our house, where we had more adventures. We headed to a baseball game\ fireworks show and were up until 12:00, saw Toy Story 3 (it has a shocking ending, but my lips are sealed), went to Sonic, and had feetball tournaments. I'll have to post the beginner's guide on this blog sometime around. Plus I got my Tdap shot, which didn't hurt as much as I thought it would.
And now that everybody's left- and that I've concluded this post- I'm just sitting around, folding origami dresses ( THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOME KIT GRANDMA AND GRANDPA!!!), reading, sketchbooking, writing letters, and dreaming about our upcoming ultimate 10-day road trip in August....

Unforgiving Rain

Rain, rain, I thought you were done-der,
But I'm wrong, because there's thunder.
Why you are mean makes me wonder!

And After Tiring You Out With Stupid Weather Updates..

Mom wouldn't let me
Go out and play.
"After a rainstorm?"
"The sun just won't stay!"
So thanks a lot rain,
You are such a pain,
You ruined my day.

Another Weather Update

The sunshiny shower
Didn't last half an hour.
The rain has let up.
The sun's here to stay.
Now I've got to go
So I can play.

Oh Great, Sun AND Rain

Well, as they always say....
"A sunshiny shower
Won't last half an hour."

oh no! stuck in font....

Too many weather posts. Will wait a while...

Good Weather!

Rain, rain, I guess you weren't here to stay
Now don't move back so I can play

Bad Weather?

(Read Post no.1 first.)

Rain, rain, quit playing pranks
The sun might be out but we won't give our thanks....yet

Bad Weather

Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day
CJ and friends want to play
The skies were so nice on Memorial Day
How can you betray us this way?