Well, long time no post (again).

I joined Myspace with a friend, so we have a jointed site, pretty cool!

Last week I took Driver's Education with Katie Lynne. We both passed with an A!!!! :-) A lot of the kids were depending on their final to pass, but not Katie and I.
I think the best part (other than now being able to get my permit and driver's license) was the lunch break because Bob Fink's driving school is right next to Yaks koffee shop. Yaks is SO cool! Katie and I had a lot of fun hanging out there for 4 days in a row. They have tables and couches and a bookshelf full of games and a really cool old Monopoly table. Their coffee and sandwiches are good.

For Christmas my mom and I went to my Pop and Nana's (her parents). My dad and brother couldn't come because they were both working. It was okay, but pretty boring. I was glad to be back home on Monday because then we had our family Christmas with my dad and brother. It was so fun! I gave my brother a new air guitar, I thought he might be disappointed, but he REALY liked it! :-) And he has been using it a lot since he got a video ipod from Dad. I got one too! It was so funny how dad gave them to us.

First we had no clue that we were getting ipods. So, Dad gave us these presents and made a big deal about them, like they were really special. We open them up and they are big books. And not just any books, thick random used books that say $2.00 in the cover. I flip through mine, which is about symphonies, and try to look cool like it's a cool present, right? Then I get to the middle and a rectangle in the middle if the pages is cut out. I was like "What? Part of the pages are cut out!" Then I notice an ipod in the hole. I was so surprised! I love surprises. Dale said that he wouldn't have found his if I hadn't kept flipping through and found mine. It was like the recent LOST episode when Lock finds part of the video reel in that Bible.
It's probably that best present I've received. And Dale's air guitar is probably the best present I've given. :-) Besides Lynda's falafel mix and canned snake (the other other other white meat). That was pretty fun to give too.
Well TTFN, Ta Ta For Now!
~ Jamie

P.S. with all this deal about saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." I thought you'd all like to know that the word "holiday" comes from the Middle English word holidai, meaning "holy day." So I hope y'all had a great Holy Day and remembered that Jesus is the reason for the Season.

Yah Baby!!

Yay!!! Today it snowed at least 2 inches at my house! It was awesome. To see snow falling is so glorious and beautiful. But then it started to rain which makes me cry. I hope it snows more.
My thanksgiving went well. My family and I went down to my Mom's parent's house, so it was small, but nice. Usually we go up to my Dad's parent's house, but my Pop's (mom's dad) health isn't doing so well so we wanted to spend time with him and my Nana. We don't really know if he will get better or not. Would you pray that they become Christians? That would be so great.
Have a wonderful and happy week!
~ Jamie

And in all things pray

"Pray without ceasing." ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:17
"Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer." ~ Romans 12:12

Please pray for my family, especially my dad. We are going through a hard situation right now with my dad's job. Yesterday the hospital where he works fired his boss/supervisor out of the blue. They don't even have a back up plan or someone to replace her! Dad said that by the end of this year he might not be working there anymore. Recently the hospital changed hands - they switched owners - and these new owners don't care about the people at all. We are not really worried about it. Worrying doesn't get people anywhere. I just hope and pray that everything turns out okay.

~ Jamie

Well, I have a cold AGAIN! :-( Pray that I will get better and not use it as an excuse to goof off. :-)
Have you heard about the golden retriever puppy that was born green - yes, the color green - in Southern California? They say it was just the mother's placenta that stained it and the color should go away. His name is Wasabi! If you don't know what that is - it's a green Japanese mustard that is REALLY spicy. (My dad really likes it.) :-)

Life is Like a Toilet Paper Roll

Well, it has been a long time since I have posted. Time flies, but life is good. I heard somewhere that life is like a toilet paper roll - the less there is the faster it goes. That is so true.

4 weeks ago our dear friend Caleb got married to a wonderful woman named Becky. They are the perfect couple - Christ just freely emanates out of them. Their wedding was awesome and probably the best one I have been to so far. It is sad to lose Caleb, but it is even sadder to lose Caleb and Becky because they have moved up to Kelso, Washington. Caleb got a job at a church up there as the youth/worship pastor.

Tonight Sunny came over with 7 week year old Joy Anneliese. She is such a precious baby; it was so fun to hold her. She has dark hair like her dad. Life is so precious. It made me look forward to motherhood someday in the far future.

~Have a great night's sleep! Jamie

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hip hip, hooray!!!

My dad got home yesterday!! I am so glad to have him back. He got me this really cool necklace from Africa--black seed beads and a black and white striped tear drop stone in the middle. Also some really beautiful beads from The Lourve in Paris.
That's probably the best part of my week. I had food poisoning on Sunday and now I have a cold so I am really tired and my body feels worn out. No fun. Plus I feel overwhelmed with school work. Ugh.
I hope the rest of you are having a better week!
~ Jamie

Refreshed

My dad called yesterday from Africa. It was so cool! It was good to hear his voice. Yesterday was his birthday, so my mom, brother, and I went out to Cheveys to celebrate! It was fun.
Night of Worship was SO powerful! I feel refreshed. The worship was great and the calls down to the front were great. I went both times. GOD IS AWESOME!!!
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Here is an email that a freind sent me that I really like:


Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot,
who calls you back when you hang up on him,
who will stay awake just to watch you sleep.

Wait for the guy who kisses your forehead,
who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats,
who holds your hand in front of his friends,

I thought this was cute, at least the top part. It really is true...

Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of
how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you.
Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says,"...that's her."
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At the end it said,"in 5 minutes your true love will call or message you."
Well that didn't happen to me!:-)

have a good day, All Love, Jamie

Hi all!

We have heard a lot from my dad. He emails a lot. He said that they got there safely. He has been doing a lot of construction and the guys he is working with speak mainly French so he said that the "French to English is fun." He and some people went exploring in some caves and saw "really big bats." He also said "they went down there to heal people, when really it is them being healed." No specific stuff, but I thought that that was pretty cool. He gets home in 13 more days!!! Yay!
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So, Wednesday night there was a big youth rally thing for "Inundate" (a week of prayer evangelism put on by Redding Transformation led by my worship pastor Jon). I was really cool. There was worship and then Jon and another youth pastor spoke about God and us changing our city.
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I caught the last 20 min. of LOST last night and it was too weird! I can't wait til next week!!!!
That's all for now!
All Love, Jamie

Here I am, finally posting!!!

Hi y'all. I have not posted much in a while. Labor Day weekend we had our friends Peter and Denise from the Bay area come up and we had a lot of fun. Their newly married son Chris and his wife Lea came too. On Saturday Peter, Chris, Lea, my dad, and I went hiking practically all day and saw a bunch of waterfalls, they were very cool!
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School started on Wednesday the 7th. It's just not the same without Dale and Brandons' loudness. It's really small and very quiet. Elyse said that everyone's probably just on their best behavior for the first day of class. Hopefully that is true. Anna did try to liven it up by opening her fizzy water during lunch and having it spray all over her. It was really funny. (I love you Anna.)
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This Saturday, the 10th, my mom and I drove with my dad and another doctor, Mark Nicholes (also a good friend of my dad's) to the San Francisco airport. We dropped my dad and Mark off and came home. There was another car with 5 people in it that were going too. My dad is going to Gabon, Africa for 26 days on a medical missions trip. (For the very few of you who don't know - my dad is a nurse) Although they will probably be having him do more construction work than medical stuff.
I miss him. It didn't really hit me until today when I was cleaning out my desk and I opened one of the drawers and there was a hidden note for me from him. It was really sweet and it made me all teary. I'm even teary just writing about it. :-) The cool thing about the note was that he had photo copied a doll that we have and that was the front of the note. Now I must tell you about the significance of the doll: When I was a baby my Aunt Sharon gave me this cute little stuffed doll. It looks like a dwarf - with the beard and the pointy hat. My mom liked the doll and kind of adopted it. So years ago my parents started this tradition that whenever they (we) went on a trip (together or apart) they would take the doll (whoever could get it first!) and hide it in eachother's suitcase or if they were going separately they would hide it under the other's pillow or in their drawer etc. So when I opened my drawer and there was a photo copied version staring up at me I was just pleasantly surprised. He hid the real doll for my mom, but we haven't found it yet!
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Today is my half birthday! I am officially fifteen and one half. Yay! :-)
*<:-)
birthday smiley

~ Have a good rest of the weekend! Jamie

Happy September! Youth group started on Wednesday. YAY!!! It was fun. This year is going to be good. I start school after Labor day. GTG, Jamie

Catching up

Okay peoples! You need to comment on my vacation posts! Comment comment comment!
Anyway, this week has not been as busy as last week. Last week I babysat/watched Lydia Staeck ALL week except Sunday and Thursday. From 12-5 except on Saturday I babysat from 6pm to 9:30pm. It wasn't that bad except I basically non-stop played with her the whole time during the week. Then on Saturday I went to Katie Hemeon's b-day party and had a blast. It was fun. We slept on the trampoline and didn't actually sleep until like 4:30 in the morning. Can you imagine 7 girls on the tramp? It was cozy.

This week I am doing a MAJOR cleaning in my closet. I took EVERYTHING out and assembled some new shelves and stuff to put in. It's looking pretty good, but my room still has half of my closet contents strewn about.

What else is new? hummmm... I know! I decided (yes, to follow Jesus, but that was a while ago) to do the year around program with Turtle Bay. So starting mid-September I will be volunteering 3 hours twice a month hopefully on Fridays.

~ All love, Jamie

I got a cell phone!

Well, not really... but it's the thought that counts! I finally got all my vacation pictures posted, so you have to go down like five posts and read them all. ~Jamie

ARE WE THERE YET?So, my uncle, aunt, cousin, mom, dad, and I went on a side trip for 3 days. We try to do this traditionally to see new places and spend more quality time together. In 2001 we went to Yellowstone National Park, in 2004 we went to Mt. Rushmore, and this year we went to Bozeman and Virginia City, Montana. ("Bozeman!" you say? Yes, we named our loverly dog after this city because we loved it so much. His middle name is even Montana! In fact, years ago we almost moved there. My Dad was offered a job at a hospital there, but our house never sold and some other things happened too.We still love it though.)

FIRST DAY:Bozeman is a charming old town with lots and lots of very fun shops. So, when we arrived (it's about 4 hours from our cabin) we parked and walked the streets looking at shops. They have an awesome toy shop! I remember Dale and I always going in there. After shopping 'til dropping, not really, we went to dinner. Then we drove by The Museum Of The Rockies (which we were planning on going to the next day) to find out where it was and check out the exterior. Well, they have this HUGE replica of a T-Rex in the front of the museum name Big Mike. So we took a bunch of pictures of it. :-)

Did I say it was a replica? I didn't mean that. It was alive! A stalking skeleton:


















It almost ate Ross and I. We barely escaped by the skin of our teeth:












































The caveman in Ross is coming out:















This horse is made of chain:



















SECOND DAY:THE MUSEUMWe went to The Museum Of The Rockies. It is known for it's dinosaur exhibit. In fact, it's dinosaur exhibit and it's dino guy were the inspiration for the movies "Jurassic Park."First we did the 2 exhibits that were outside because it was going to get hot, and it did.~We started with the Lewis and Clark Challenge. You go around reading about their voyage, and doing things that they did, and seeing a lot of replicas of boats, teepees, their camp set-up, etc. At one point they had this circle of about 6 binocular/telescopes which when you looked through you saw the hills, plains, and mountains that they traveled through and over, etc. It was pretty cool. If you want to know more about it, just ask me. ;-)~The second outside exhibit was this old "living" house. It was this old 2 story house with a garden and a bunch of sod sheds etc.. which had people dressed in period clothing who "lived" and "worked" there. They had cows, chickens, and a couple of donkeys. There were about 5 men who were working in the huge garden, chopping wood, and working in the tool shed. There were 3 women who were cooking in the kitchen and later on they did crafts and weaving up stairs in one of the rooms. Upstairs they had a children's room with toys you could play with and clothes you could try on. I had Ross try on a bonnet. :-) The family that actually lived there had like 11 kids. It was really fun to explore the house and all of the rooms which were set up like people were living there. Like I said before, if you want to know more about it, just ask me. ;-)~After all of this fun it started to get hot so we ventured inside.These are the exhibits we went through: *Dino exhibit, [They had replicas of a ton of dinos. It is so cool and scary to see how BIG dinos were.]*an exhibit on Native American Indians,*an exhibit on the time period of early Bozeman (Lewis and Clark's time period), [They had fun hands-on-history things like a water pump that you could pump, duh, and water would come out. And a western horse saddle that you could get on; at this point Ross and I were starting to get a bit tired and board so we had lots of fun riding on the saddle. :-)]*an exhibit on Outer Space, [This was fun, everything was hands on. Most of it was finding certain things, stars and planets, on computer screens. It was very much to reach out to the kids.]Again, like I said before, if you want to know more about it, just ask me. ;-) [A.K.A. I have no time or desire to type out every detail.] IT WAS AN AWESOME MUSEUM!


Lewis and Clark miniature golf:













A ship that Lewis and Clark built:




















A canoe that the Indians carved:













This was a bear run. You had to run the length of the fence and back in like 30 seconds (as fast as a bear). Let's just say that Ross and I would be eaten!:




















Ross in a T.P. (Just kidding! I meant a teepee!):




















Outside of the old house:
















The family that lived in the house (they posed for me!):

















Ross and I playing dress-up (I Can't believe he actually wore the bonnet for me!):
































You get to guess what this is!:




















This is for Jordan and Cassie:




















The garden:















Stereoscope (they have one at Turtle Bay):





























Sod roof shed:















ith shop, Barber shop, Shoe repair. You couldn't walk in, you just looked through the door or window. Some even had it where you could walk in a little ways and then it was glassed off, some had picket fences instead of glass. They were all set up like they would have been, with goods etc. and some had mannequin people in them. All the shops were so fun! Most of the shops that you could buy stuff in were owned by people because the shops had all kinds of stuff that the owner had made. It even had an old Opera House that people actually still performed plays and stuff in. I wanted to see a play that was showing so badly, but it was too late in the day. The highlight was buying and eating homemade ice cream. Yummy, yum!!! It was so good. My flavors were chocolate and cowboy coffee. Delicious! I hope I am not making your mouth water! :-)


I got one for all the girls!:






















































Motorized ice cream maker:
















Yum yum:




















Ross got three scoops:




















Ross holding up the safe:

UMMM.....WHAT WAS THAT?1?3 nights before we left for our 3 day side trip my Dad and I went stargazing. We left the cabin at 9:40 and hiked up the trail for about 25 min. until we got to the perfect spot. We had to walk up this little cow trail off the main trail. We got to this spot that was AWEsome. It was really dim, so everything looked black or gray. We were in this big open gray plain that dropped off after awhile surrounded by black canyon and mountains. It was so.........quiet.We couldn't even hear the river we were so high up. (The trail is along and up off of the Little Big Horn River and it is loud.)It was, I don't want to say, erie, but it was beautiful in an erie way.I saw 10 shooting stars and a ton of satellites. We saw the Big Dipper and the Milky Way and WAY more stars than you would see in any city or town. We also saw some things that we have no clue what they were. 2 things were like satellites, but instead of a constant moving faint light, they moved and blinked (in no kind of pattern) REALLY brightly! They were weird. We also saw some military jets. Hmmm....It was really fun and cool.

OH THE DEEP DEEP LOVE OF JESUS!The second Sunday we were there at the cabin we had a little church service. It was really good!~My dad opened in prayer~Ross and I read Psalm 100~My mom, dad, and I sang "Oh the deep deep love of Jesus" (a good song)~My Uncle Steve gave a little sermon (he is a pastor. He was a wine maker and now he is a pastor. :-) Kind of funny.)~My Aunt Brenda closed in prayerUncle Steve's sermon was good, it was about the importance of reading God's Word. I liked what he said about Matt 5:13-16 ~ how we as Christians are Salt, and Salt preserves, heals, and irritates. We preserve this world, through God we are healing, and it's okay if we occasionally irritate non-believers. Because it's going to happen. It also convicted me to spend more time in God's Word, which I still haven't done much of. :-(

*CHICKENS WITH CHOPPERS: This post is really about cows. No, there were no cows with guns! 3 days almost in -a -row groups of cattle came down the trail above us and went straight to the cabin above us. (The fence WAY up the trail had a hole in it or something.) They would eat the "lawn" (clover and weeds that they watered 24-7), and attack their salt lick, and leave big steaming piles of cow pie. Okay, not steaming, that's gross! So, because the people who owned the cabin that the cows enjoyed where not there, Ross, Mom, Aunt Brenda, and I would "herd" them out of the yard and down the trail. (They would not go back up the
trail.) Combining the days, there were about 40 or more cattle in all!
Too bad for those ranchers.
One of the times, Ross and I were herding 1/2 of a group because the other half tried to get away up a hill - dumb cows! Well one of our cows was a mama whose baby stupidly was with the other half of the group. She kept giving us the slip trying to get back to her baby and mooing forlornly. While this is all happening, there is a group of teen boys who had come back from backpacking I guess and most of them were standing around their cars parked to the side. (At this point I feel really stupid; I'm sure Ross and I look real professional especially him with his flip-flops.) But there was one SUV that was going down the road followed by 3 boys. These 3 boys were watching us and teasing the cow (or us! I don't know) by laughing and mooing like her. Well, Ross and I finally got her back on the trail and she was going toward them and they were like, "Oh shoot!!!!" And Ross and I said to ourselves, "Ha Ha!
That's what you deserve!" Unfortunately there was no massacre or any thing. JK! We ultimately let the mama give us the slip because we knew that we would get her in the 2nd half of the group!!! Wah ha ha ha!!!

*……………SNAKES! :
(You have to be a ReliantK fan to understand. Katie H!) Here is my rattle snake story:
It's a nice afternoon and the men are back from fishing all day. We are all sitting in chairs in a circle on the lawn. My Uncle Steve notices a harmless water snake (except to birds) on our bird feeder which is attached to a tree surrounded by 3 or less feet of bushes. So, my uncle gets up, grabs a hoe, and tries to pick up the snake off the feeder.
(This whole time I am filming this on our new cool little video camera.) Well, my uncle is proving a difficult time so my mom says, "Oh, just have Jamie go and pick it up with her hands" (I was wearing shoes, my uncle was not.)(I like and don't mind water snakes.) Therefore, I turn the camera off and walk over to pick up the snake, but before I get there the snake falls off the feeder into the bushes. My uncle starts beating at the water snake to kill it (You must understand that we are killing all water snakes because we are protecting the baby wren birds) and finds that there it a larger and darker snake at the base of the tree!
Yes, it was a rattlesnake! :-0 Consequently, my uncle starts hacking furiously at the rattler and kills it. Phew! I was disappointed that I did not get it on film, and than I realized that I was just about to walk into those bushes right onto that rattlesnake! I rejoiced that the water snake (which got away) dropped off the feeder and that I did NOT walk into those bushes. Thank God! Even though I regarded my situation seriously, the whole thing was really funny and my cousin Ross and I laughed the whole thing off.
After that there was a plethora of water snakes. We killed 2 or 3 water snakes 5 or 6 days in a row. The funny thing was that the Wren bird parents would chirp agitatedly and warn us where they were! Like, if there were a snake by a rock, the wren would be ON the rock chirping at it. J We had teams: The Lady Snake Slayers = my mom and aunt spotting the snake, myself grabbing and holding it and my Nana killing it with a hoe.
The Snakenators = Ross grabbing the snake and my Uncle Steve killing it (or my dad). And the Younglings = Ross grabbing the snake and myself killing it. And then my mom decided to do something drastic and put foil around the tree that the wren birdhouse was on so that the snakes couldn't get up. We don't actually know if it worked.

*Whizzing, Whirring:
There have always been a TON of hummingbirds when we go to our cabin so there is no surprise when there are 15 hummingbirds at their feeder at a time. There is just wonder and amazement. One day when Ross and I were board we put our index fingers on the red perchy things and waited. They whirred around like crazy and didn't care how close we were. (One of those little birds can give off a lot of air! They feel like big fans.) Then they actually perched on our fingers and drank their nectar! It was SO cool! They are so light and you can barley feel their little talents, it just lightly tickles. It was really awesome.

Cabin

I had fun just hanging out and reading or being crafty. (Like making jewelry and stuff, not doing bad things!)J I did paint over the newly chalked window frames.
I also hung out with my cousin Ross who is 12. He is cool. Last year it took the whole time to warm up to him because we hadn't seen each other for 3 years. But this year we hit it off right away and joked around and had fun. His family, my Uncle Steve and Aunt Brenda, flew in from Virginia.
I didn't fish this year. The weather was not as nicely cool as last year. Last year it was in the 70s during the day and in the 50s at night. We would get an occasional 80 and 90 day. This year, every day was in the 90s………and we have no AC. L It would cool down at night though. J The last 2 days we were there it got really cold and rained almost all day. We even made a fire in the fireplace. What a change! I saw a bunch of deer. Big whoop! One day a cow boy was coming up the trail and told us that he saw a big bull moose at the Fish And Game cabin down from ours. My parents and I drove right by there on our way to town and didn't even see it! Grrrr! Ugh! That would have been cool!

This is my family:














These are all of Ross's dirty socks:














Like father...















...Like son!

Pictures...Finally!

here are the pics of the shoe tree and the wiener mobiel.

Yesterday

So, yesterday...Thursday...I worked at turtle bay and then from 4:00-8:30 I went to market fest and worked at a children's booth for turtle bay. The theme was archeology. There were 3 other teen/volunteers and 2 adult supervisors. It was so much fun! At the beginning I was slightly people watching and I saw all of these teens that were dressed all punk you know and I was like, "I wonder were Drew is, he would fit in perfectly." A couple of hours later I was with this other girl, Riana, getting something to eat and I saw Drew!!! I was like, "DREW!"and he turned to look at me. I said,"I saw you in the paper, did you see yourself?" And he nodded yes. I though that was so funny that I saw him and I was just thinking about him. Of course half the reason I even noticed him was because of his mohawk! lol
It is fun to people watch. :-)

NICE MOHAWK DREW

Did anyone else see Drew Fink (Lynda's cousin) on the front page of today's Record Searchlight? He had an awesome red mohawk. (I think it was red) :-)
Well, the highlights of my week have been:
~Talking with God in a way that I haven't in awhile
~Swimming in Anna's pool twice in two days (cannonball!!!)
~Throwing Conner into the pool after he dried off and running inside with his towel, he he :-)
~Seeing CJ jump into the pool fully clothed
~Spilling nailpolish remover on my bedroom carpet
~Pulling weeds in the front yard
~Teaching myself how to say, "Of course I will do it, father" in Spanish, "Por supuesto lo hare, Papa" [ironically I learned it right before my father said that I would be nice company for him pulling weeds in the front yard. So I was able to say what I learned right away! :-)]
~Accidentally turning the showerhead on when I was washing my feet in the tub. Let's just say more of me than my feet got wet
~Being board

Elephants never forget
Oh! I forgot, At the wedding reception we met Michael Toy, one of the four founders of Netscape! He worked at a ranch/camp with P and D and knew Chris when he was a little boy. Mr. Toy and his wife have an 8 or 9-year-old boy who has really blond, long, curly hair! :-)

all love, Jamie

I do!

Yesterday I got back from a good friend's wedding.
Friday:
My mom and I drove down to Saratoga. We stopped at our good friend's the Commandeurs. Peter and Denise. They are the people who call me {still:-)} Snowflake, hence the name of my blog. Their son Chris was getting married. Peter's sister, Deb, her husband, Jim, and their daughter came from New York to attend the wedding. They adopted their daughter, Justina, (a cool name) from Poland; so P and D (that's what we call Peter and Denise) call her Polska. So we were Snowflake and Polska. :-)
Anyway, we visited, took D to her "up do" hair appointment, and then checked into our motel to get ready for the wedding. Our motel was SO COOL!!! It had a little kitchen and everything was so nice. It was fun just to hang out and relax there.
THE WEDDING:
Was very nice. It started 45min late, but there was a lot of stress going on so it was okay. It started with this awesome guy named Danny who lead 4 worship songs and then the ceremony started. It was weird seeing Chris get married, he seems so young! 21 isn't bad I guess. I really liked the Pastor's message. One part was about how God took a bone out of Adam's side to make Eve. God didn't take it out of Adam's HEAD so that the woman wouldn't rule and be over the man. He didn't take it out of Adam's FOOT so that the man wouldn't walk all over the woman. And He didn't take it out of Adam's BACK so that the man wouldn't always be in front of the woman. God took the bone out of Adam's SIDE so that the man and woman would be side by side throughout life. I thought that was pretty cool.
Right after we went to the reception across the street. They had set up a big tent frame outside and strung it with lights. It was very cool. The food was good. My mom and I hung out with Deb, Jim, and Justina. We got back to our motel at 11pm.
Saturday:
We went over to P and D's for breakfast at 10:40 and stayed until 3:00. That cool guy Danny and his adorably cute 4-year-old son, Daniel, were there too. We all talked (except maybe me) :-), Danny led a couple of worship songs and we all sang; it was fun. What really hit me was that God was really evident in all of our conversations. It was really cool. After that, mom and I made a stop at Trader Joe's and headed home.
Well gtg.

~ all love, Jamie

SHORT AND SWEET

Hello, hello all. I am going to break my vacation tellings into categories. That way it will be easier for me to tell about my vacation. :-) all love, Jamie

*CAR TRIP:
The car trip up and down was very uneventful, half boring, and toward the end of each day - very uncomfortable! (Besides all of the things we COULD HAVE taken pictures of, BUT WERE TRAVELING TOO FAST TO GET THE CAMERA OUT AND TAKE ONE.) Oh well! The highlights of the car trips were 1) we saw a wiener mobile! They were having this contest where you could win a day riding around in it. Now that would be a fun youth group activity! Some may think that's corny, but I think it's cool.
And 2) on the way home we were driving through Idaho and passed this tree FULL of shoes. So we turned around and stopped to look at it. The tree was literally COVERED in shoes! It was so weird and cool!

I have really cool pictures, but Caitlin and I have not figured out how to post them through my computer. :-( So, Next week I am going to her house and we will post them there. Hip Hip Hurray!!

patience is a virtue

Hi all! Thanx for being patient. Though I really don't know if you're actually being patient or not, but no one has commented about me not posting about my vacation.
Well, I am having Caitlin over tomorrow so that she can help me post pics along with my tellings because I am too lazy to figure it out on my own.
Today I played mini golf at Oasis Fun Center with Rachel, Hannah, and their Aunt Michelle. Big surprise that I lost! I prefer volleyball.
Anna is home!!! We talked on the phone. I am glad she is home. Her pool is full, but no one can swim in it until Thursday.
All Love, Jamie

P.S. Take my quote quiz!!!! Unless you want Rachel to win.

I'm back!!!!

Hi y'all! It is 10pm on Sat night and I'm back! We got home @ 8pm. Our trip was nice, we listened to The Chronicles of Narnia (all 7 books on CD!) all the way up and back.
It's late and I have to go, but I will definately write later. I will also try to post some awesome pictures too!

~~Phobias ~~

1~ aichmophobia = fear of needles (I have this one)
2~ arachniphobia = fear of spiders (Mike has this one)
3~ myxophobia = fear of slime
4~ helminthophobia = fear of being infested with worms
5~ nucleomituphobia = fear of nuclear weapons
6~ coulrophobia = fear of clowns (Anna has this one)
7~ placophobia = fear of tombstones
8~ hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia = fear of long words
9~ sesquipedalophobia = more fear of long words
10~ stygiophobia = fear of hell (all non-Christians SHOULD have this one)

LOL

Last night our family dog Bozeman slept in my room. He only sleeps in my room like once a month because Dale likes him in his room. Anyway, Bozey barks and whines in his sleep and everytime he does it I just have to laugh out loud. It is not even that funny, but it makes me laugh so hard.:-) He makes this muffled bark sound and then he will growl and then he will yelp/whine like someone in his dream hit him and then he will bark again. All of it is muffled because he doesn't open his mouth. It cracks me up.

Have fun while I am gone!!!!!

I read this quote in a book:
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away and you have their shoes. LOL
My mom laughed really hard.
Well I leave in 4 days! On Wednesday we are going to Portland. Then from Portland 2 1/2 days to Wyoming. FUN. (That was dripping with sarcasm.) Actually it is not that bad. :-)
Under this post PLEASE COMMENT on your wonderful summer adventures, or whatever. Tell me all about Family Camp, and the youth group overnighter! I will return on the 31st of July. If you want to write to me here is my address:
Jamie Blankenship
c/o Warner Canyon View
Wyola, MT 59089
Please pray for my 12 year old cousin Ross. Pray thet he would accept the Lord. And pray that my Pop and Nana would accept the Lord as well.

War? Of The Worlds

Yesterday I went to see War of the Worlds with Dale, Michael, and Anthony. Well, more like tagged along because my parents weren't home! It was good, and very suspenseful. (I had my hands ready to cover my face many a time. I did jump and cover my face once. I don't even remember on what part now!) But it did not captivate or capture me. Even though it was suspenseful it kind of board me. And it wasn't really a war. Like they say in the movie it was "an extermination." The little girl played by 'Dakota something' did a very good acting job.
The trailers in front of the movie looked good! "Elizabethtown" with Orlando Bloome and Kirsten Duntst looked cute. "Four Brothers" with Mark Wahlman looked good too. It looked like it had some questionable content in it, but it looked interesting. I think Mark Wahlman is a good actor. I liked him in The Italian Job.
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Today I am tired and have been lounging around and reading. (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) I am almost through the whole book and I started today. Right now I feel like I should be at Hannah's house playing Nancy Drew mystery computer games.

~ Dale just shot a woodpecker at our bird feeder with his air soft gun. Right under the wing. The woodpecker fell/flew to the grass and Bozey ran down and attacked it. We called him off and the woodpecker hopped under the trampoline. Dale went and grabbed it with a towel and plunked it over the hill. It wandered off. It should be okay; Dale probably stunned it more that anything. Here is a direct quote from Dale himself: "I don't think we'll be seeing that bird at our feeder again!" Boys will be boys. You can't live with 'em and you can't live without 'em. No, I love my brother.
So those are today's exciting events!
Tonight at 8pm Dale, Anna, Hannah, and I are having pizza at Uppercrust to visit with Rachel. Then we are planning to rent The Pacifier and watch it at my house.
I leave for vacation in 5 days! I cannot get ahold of time. :-(
Have a good day,
All love,
Jamie

RANDOM COOL QUOTES

Guess what movie each of these quotes is from.
You get bonus points for guessing who said them!
These points will add up to some kind of prize!
Have fun!:-) ~ Jamie

1) "Now that's what you call ironic."

2) "So, should we tell him?"……"Nah!"

3) "Stop blowing holes in my ship!"

4) "But what are the French doing in England?" "Mind your own business!"

5) "He was the best watch moose ever."

6) "What? You mean Mr. Prince who ate my Triscuts and didn't replace them?!"

7) Top 10 quotes from WHAT MOVIE? (This is a given, but I don't care!)
10. Matt…buddy…
9. Thanks clown.
8. How many times!?
7. The pine nut machine is broken.
6. Matt!?!
5. Uhh, is there any possible way this could be attractive?
4. Put it on standby!
3. Any canned fish products?
2. You just got decked my man!
1. For the love of doughnuts let's go!!
Bonus: I hate to be the voice of reason here.
[You don't have to guess who said all 10 of these, just the bonus quote.]

8) "And if she floats, she's a witch!"

9) "I suppose you didn't deserve that one either?" "No, that one I deserved."

10) "Behind the rabbit? It is the rabbit!"

11) "We got the radish!"

12) "Mr. Cotton, answer me man!"

13) "Bring out cha dead!" "I'm not dead!"

14) "Dude that was the best paintball war we ever had!"

15) "I said no lies." "I think he was telling the truth."
"If he was telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us."
"Unless of course he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you."

16) "Gentlemen, we do not stop 'till nightfall."
"What about breakfast?"
"You've already had it."
"We've had one yes, what about second breakfast?"
"Don't think he knows about second breakfast."
"What about elevensies, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, supper? He knows about them doesn't he?"
"I wouldn't count on it."

I so meant to post this yesterday :-)

Because I so meant to post this yesterday, I have updated it to post it today. If that makes any sense.
SATURDAY: Luke's party was fun; I got to meet some more cousins! I knew all of them except Alicia, Ester's older sister, and Abigail, the Mintz's new baby. We had lots of fun playing toothpick in the pool and volleyball in the front yard. Fun Fun. :-)

SUNDAY: Was slow. I went to church, and then during second service I taught crafts. Crafts were fun. Kalyn and I agreed that it was nice to have a non-messy craft! Usually we work with glue and paint pens and glitter-glue. This time we made beaded crosses. It was nice to have a break from all the mess! When I got home I lay down to rest on the couch and I ended up sleeping soundly for 3 hours! I never do that! It was nice, but then I had trouble sleeping that night.

MONDAY: HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! My family and I went to the church picnic @ 6:30pm. I hung with Anna, Hannah, and the other awesome girls. Later Anna, Katie F, and I played volley-tennis with the boys. Then @ 10 when the fire works started my family and I left because my mom hates the traffic afterwards. So I watched the fire works from the car and mom caught glances at red lights. :-) When we got home the fire works were still going and we could see the grand finale from our back deck! Awesome!
TODAY: I woke up at 11am. Whoa. Nothing happening today. I'm just staying home.
Have a wonderful day, Jamie :-)

Happy July!

Last evening I went out to dinner with Becky to Tecate Grill. Half the reason we went was to see Christina! ;-) (She works there) The other half was because Becky had a coupon! :-) It was fun and the food was good. Afterwards we waited for Christina to get off work and then we came to my house and watched a movie. "Spanglish" was the movie we picked out. It was pretty good. I liked it because it was so real, the way the actors acted and it didn't have a ton of music. So, it seemed more real, not all doctored up. We stayed up until midnight watching the movie and I got up at 10:30 this morning!:-)
Tomorrow I am subbing at Turtle Bay for a girl named Rebecca. So, I will have gone and worked twice this week. It's all good though because then I am working out part of the time that I will miss when I am gone in Wyoming for 2+ weeks.
Have a good rest of the day ~ Jamie
P.S. Please Pray for Lynda's dad. He is at a hospital in Chico and will probably undergo surgery on his back tonight.

Mmmmm............delicious?

A couple of weeks ago I made a cake for the graduation party we had after fair parking. After frosting the cake I had like half a can of frosting leftover so I just put the lid on and stuck it in the fridge. Over the following days the frosting disappeared. Though I do admit to taking part in snitching the frosting, I did not have as much as Dale did. My Dad had some too. Anyway, my father was finishing up what very little was left when we decided to pull a prank on Dale. We smeared the bottom of the can (with an equal amount to the frosting that would have been there) with Crisco®!!!!! A couple of days later we discovered the EMPTY can in the trash. Today my mother and I finally remembered to ask him about it. He said that he "thought that the frosting had gone bad" and that "it was really gnarly." LOL. What fun my family thinks of!
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Tonight my mom and I will probably go watch Dale play volleyball at Big League of Dreams. He is on a team with Mike, Michael, Luke, David, Amelacar (Luke's friend from South America), and once and a while Karl and CJ.

AAHHHHHHHH!

Hi y'all! I haven't posted in a while. I got my ID, it looks cool.
Turtle Bay has been going well, yesterday (Tuesday) I subed for a kid named Hayden. I usually work on Thursdays. It was fun; I got to meet some new volunteers and a different shift leader/"mentor" who was really nice. He kept calling us his "Amigoes" and then he would add "Amiga" (I was the only girl). It was funny. I also talked a lot to the head tech person in the Butterfly House. His name is Thom. We talked about school and art. He calls himself a baby artist. Which brings me to:
I entered 5 art pieces and my "Taming of the Shrew" costume (the awesome 3 layered skirt + white shirt + brown vest from my last play) into the fair. I won first place on a watercolor of a sunset/palm tree/mountains. Second place on a colored pencil of 4 strawberries, kind of techno/different colors. Second place also on a colored pastel of Claire Pella's face (for all of you who remember Claire, she came to youth group for a while). Third place on my costume! And participation ribbons on both another watercolor and pastel. :-(
I went to GREAT AMERICA this last weekend with most all of my pals and had a BLAST!
But I must go so I will write more about my trip later.
:-) :-) :-) :-) ~Jamie

TB-MTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was my first day of training to be a Summer Museum Teen Volunteer @ Turtle Bay Exploration Park! (TB-MTV) We had a tour of the whole thing: the museum, Paul Bunyon's Forest Camp, the mill house, the butterfly house, and we crossed the Sundial Bridge to eat lunch in the new Arboretum. One of the best parts was getting to go into all of the STAFF ONLY rooms. :-)
Tomorrow we will be trained in six stations (the little temporary booths of fun stuff to learn from). Then my first real shift is on Thursday the 16th from 10am to 1pm. Each hour I will be at a different station. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time! The people in charge are really nice though so I shouldn't have any problems. My Shift Leader is really nice, his name is Wyatt, he has been volunteering for 4 years, and he's about two heads shorter than I am! He's probably only 13 or 14, I don't know. He certainly knows a lot about the stuff in the museums though! And another Shift Leader is Jessica! At least there is someone I know! (Jessica was in my play; she was Miss Gribsby and Moulton the gardener.) She is really sweet and nice. I was so thrilled to see her! I also saw Hannah's friend Callie, but I don't know her very well.
I met some new people too! Briannah and Katarina are sisters who are 14 and 13, home schooled, and they live in Bella Vista. They are very nice and both VERY talkative!:-) I also met another girl named Katy; she is 13 and goes to Shasta High. Her mom is making her volunteer, but I hope she enjoys it anyway. Jessica, Briannah, Katarina, Katy, and I had a grand time eating lunch together! It was lots of fun!
We also saw the new frog exhibit (A Chorus of Colors). It was sooooo awesome. Frogs are so cool! There were the tiniest little yellow frogs to the huge fat greeny brown frogs. And each container where they were kept had their own little natural habitat going. It was fantastic. I highly suggest that you go see it! Especially on any Thursday from 10am to 1pm. And If I am not at the museum, run around and try to find me somewhere else!!! I will be wearing a green Turtle Bay Volunteer shirt. :-) [I already saw the Williams today. (Tyler, Lindsay, Natalie and Mrs. Williams)]
~ much love, Jamie

Important facts that you never want to forget :-)

1) A dime has 118 ridges around its edge.
2) Triskadekaphobia is fear of the number 13.
3) Guinea pig and rabbits can't sweat.
4) On average there are 333 squares on the toilet paper roll.
5) Almost all the villains in the Bible have red hair.
6) Scooby Doo's real first name is Scoobert.
7) In Cleveland, OH it's illegal to catch mice without a license.
8) Giraffes can't cough.
9) On the new $100 dollar bill the time on the clock tower on
Independence Hall is 2:20.(not 4:10 like I said before)
10) 4,000 people are injured by tea pots each year.
11) A Virginia law says that bathtubs are to be kept outside not inside.
12) If you earned $20,000 a year, one minute of your time is worth 17 cents.

"What's in a name?"

"That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
--From Romeo and Juliet

More questins!

What were your childhood nicknames?
What are your nicknames now?

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What does your (real) name mean?

Questionnaire

Hello hello. Last evening at Lynda's was fun. It was nice to just hang with friends that I haven't hung with for a long time!
Any way I have a question for you ---
What were your parents going to name you before they decided on your name (the
name you have now)?
Are you glad that they changed their minds? Why or why not? :-)

Welcome

Hello hello fellow human beings. My mother told me that I should make my own blog. So here I am. Today I am going to Lynda's house to swim. Fun Fun. Becuase nothing else exciting is happening today I will share about my eventfull week.

SUNDAY: I skipped church [I'm sorrrry Lord!:-)] to do a runthrough of my play, The Importance of Being Earnest. We did 2 performances. They went well, but our audiance consisted of 12 people each time, oh well. Afterwards our acting group went and hung out at Red Robins. Fun. Earlier in the afternoon my father proceded to break his bed room window. By accedent! The window is double paned (so there is a sheet of glass, an inch of spaceand another sheet of glass.) and there was moisture in between the panes, so he drilled the tiniest hole to let the moisture dry and then he was goingto seal it up agian. Well, he hadn't quite gotten all the way through and he stepped back to think and servey his work when *WOOOOSHHHH* the first pane shattered into a million little pieces and fell to the floor! Project number 1,549. :-)

MONDAY: We did our third (and last) performance of the play. It went the best, I think, except Brandon Gray cracked up in one scene with me becease he broke his shoe. I could have killed that boy!!!! After cleaning up, I went home and relaxed.

TUESDAY: I went to Hannah's 8th grade graduation with Anna. GO HANNAH! That was fun. Then we went to Hannah's house for dessert and took a ride through their "neiborhood" in the back of Jeff's truck.

WEDNESDAY: Dale started his training at Starbucks! I went to Anna's house early in the morning becuase my mom had jury duty and I would have been home alone. My mom got out of jury duty, HALLELUJAH!! She picked me up and we went grocery shopping. We went to the new WinCo, It is really nice.

THURSDAY: I went to the DMV to get my picture taken for an ID. My mom wanted to get me one because whenever we go to the bank to cash a check or something they always want some form of ID and I don't have one. At least not until another 2-3 weeks!

So, that is my week. Please comment on what you thought of my play, if you saw it that is! I hope you have a good day. ~ Silent J (Jamie)