Concert

Last night I went to a concert at the local middle school. It was pretty good. I was surprised how good they were since it was a middle school (5th-8th grade). The 5th and 6th grade choir did some Disney songs, along with some others. The 7th-8th grade choir did a WICKED melody and a whole lot more songs. There was a swing choir there that did several songs, including the Spiderman theme song. That one was quite amusing. :) The only big difference from the swing choir is that they danced. Overall, the concert was really good.

Sweater Picture

Here is a picture of the sweater Mom knitted me. In the picture me and Caleb are getting ready to walk out the door to go to church.

Homeschool Expo and Miracle League

Thursday we went to a homeschool expo about half an hour away. It was REALLY small. There were probably only about 15-20 venders there, if that. Anyone who has been to a convention knows how small that is. There was one vender that had stuffed animals that you could put scent packs into so they smelled good. (The main thing they sold was the little wax melters and wax to go in them.) Okay, so something you have to know about me is I love stuffed lions, elephants, and llamas. I find them extremely cute. So at this specific vender there was a stuffed lion. There was a big one and a little one. I got the little one. All of my stuffed lions have names that start with Sa. I do not know why this is, but it is so. My new baby lion's name is Salahi. It is said like salami, except with an h instead of an m. It means excellent in Swahili.

Saturday was opening day of Miracle League. It is baseball for special needs kids. There is a little boy at our church who is autistic and he asked me to play with him. I basically just keep him focused on the game so he does not get hit and tell him when to run. It was really fun. Other than the fact it was raining on and off the whole game, we both had a really good time.

Quite a while ago, Mom found a pattern for a ballet sweater that I fell in love with. She said she would make it for me eventually. I patiently waited, and it paid off! I now have a blue-ish ballet sweater. I might put a picture of me in it up here later if I think about it. I am not the best at remembering things, if you have not figured this out already.

LLAMA!!!

Like it says, no time to explain.

Bat in the Belfry...well...Sanctuary

At choir Monday night, there was a bat flying around in the sanctuary. It freaked me out a little bit, but then I started to enjoy watching it. Bats are really amazing creatures. They can fly around with hardly any eye sight and do not run into anything. With all the pillars and people in the sanctuary, I thought it would run into something, but it never did. At first, I thought it was a sparrow that had just gotten into the church. Then I thought it was Pastor Greene's bird that is in his office had maybe gotten out. At this point, everyone said "BAT!!" The reactions were pretty funny. On the way home. Caleb, Dad, and I decided to name the bat Belfry. This is the second time that there has been a bat in the church. Once was before the hymn sing, which I was not at, so I only have stories about that time. As far as we know, Belfry is still flying around in the church building somewhere.

To work on our annunciation, which our choir is not good at, we were walking around the sanctuary (before Belfry was discovered) and moving one arm around. This was to keep us moving. One reason that we are not having great annunciation at practices is because it is 7:30-8:30 at night, so we are all really tired. This is why moving around was supposed to help. Unfortunately, it did not help much because we were all laughing too hard. The boys looked like they were doing ballet. :) It was a good attempt, but we were really slap happy.

The Avengers and Small Group

Friday night we went to the movie theater to see the Avengers. It was sold out. I do not think I really want to go to any movies, but the Hobbit. on opening night. It was insane! When we got home, Mom reserved tickets for Saturday. It was a really good movie, compared to the other superhero movies. I would actually watch it again, which is saying something for me. :)

Yesterday we also had small group. Kylee and I went down to the creek by our friend's house we were at and adventured. We were barefoot and there was a lot of poison ivy and rocks. My feet are a little scratched up, but I do not have poison ivy, so that is very good. There was a log laying over the creek and we sat there for a while throwing leaves into the creek and watching them float as far as we could see. It was really fun!

Music Man

Today I went with a bunch of my friends to watch my best friend, Sharyssa in CYT's production of Music Man. It was really good!! Sharyssa did amazing and I am quite proud of her. Afterwards, we went out to lunch with some of our friends that we were riding with and then came home. I wish that I could see their curtain call though. They had to cut them off because the schools had to get out on time. Sharyssa has informed me that they are cool to watch. That is pretty much my only complain from the entire show. :)