Pictures!

My little sister Maleny with her snowball. :)

More to come.... a lot more. :D

My goodness..

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I can't say it's because I've been busy. cuz I haven't. Ha. :D. I really don't know why I haven't posted. I guess I just haven't thought of anything to say.

Well, it is now 12 day's till Christmas. I still need to go shopping for everyone. But I still got time. I'm really excited. It's such a peaceful time of year. even with all the getting ready and stuff, it's still very peaceful. It's been a wonderful few weeks.

thanksgiving weekend was simply wonderful. we had a very peaceful thanksgiving and it was just beautiful. it was sooo cool because we went up to my great aunts house who lives an hour north 0f my house, and everything was COVERED in frost and it was just BEAUTIFUL the whole day. I took a ton of pictures. (which I will post sometime soon. ) It was so cool. I've never seen anything like it. it was amazing.

The sunday after thanksgiving was the beginning of advent. my favorite time of year. it's the time when we prepare our hearts for Jesus to come in to. On the first day of advent, we go to mass and then we bring up all the Christmas music and we pretty much listen to it all day. and then before we go to bed we light the first advent candle and we read a bible story (usually the Creation) and then we say the rosary. I love being with the family and praying. my dad also has the best reading voice. It's so warm and comfortable. I love hearing him do the different voices and everything. :) It was lovely.

ooooh I am so tired. Last night I went to the symphony with my friend Lucy. It was beautiful. we had a very good time. I'm pretty sure we were driving the lady next to us nuts tho.. lol we were being goofs and having a good time. We didn't get home till about 11:00 so I didn't get to bed till 11:30. But it was worth it. I also got to see Lucy's sister Mara who is my very very good friend. I miss her so much. she goes to highschool so she doesn't have a lot of time to hang out with me. it's very sad. It was so nice to see her yesterday. tho she seemed a little stressed. But I was expecting that. dumb highschool. :P *sigh*

Oh yeah. IT SNOWED TODAY!!!!! I am sooo happy. I love snow. Even if it's not very much, it's still beautiful. But oh my goodness it's soooo cold. I think we may have to bring in my rabbit so it doesn't turn in to a frozen rabbit. :)

Peter Pan

Oooh my gosh it was amazing. I had SUCH a good time. The sets were beautiful, the choreography was awesome, the acting was MORE then fabulous. I was really impressed with the girl who played Peter Pan. I've seen her in other plays and I haven't been so impressed, but she was just AMAZING! she was PERFECT. The flying was fabulous. I didn't see the cords till the second time I saw the show. ( I got to go twice. Hehehehe...) Captain hook was just brilliant. the whole casting was perfect. I was really really impressed. It was just a beautifully put together show. Everything was perfect. I couldn't stop grinning at the "do you believe in fairies?" scene. It almost made me cry. well, kind of. It was just so cool. I really wish I could have been apart of it. even if I was just on crew. *sigh* I got to see most of my friends so that was awesome. I miss everyone so much. I really want to do Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. They are doing that one in the spring and a TON of people are doing it. Hopefully I'll be able to do it. ugh. I miss theater so much. :P
Alright! What to talk about next.... hmm.. Well, life has been pretty crazy. I've been really quiet lately. I'm not really sure why. I've just been very deep in thought. I'm not really all there at times. I don't know whats going on. I just hope it ends soon. I don't feel depressed or anything. It's just weird. I've been spending a lot of time in my room just thinking. or reading. :) but yeah. blaaah. I'm really tired. I've been sooooo tired lately it's soo weird! Maybe I'm growing.. something like that. ha.

Fuuun stuff.

Let's see... I discovered something this week. I'm really interested in photography. I love going around and taking pictures of random things. I've always thought it was a really neat hobby to have. so every few days I will walk around the house or the yard taking pictures of things that I think are beautiful. And I'm haveing a really good time! I've been experimenting with the different settings on our camera and trying to fix things on Iphoto. I really enjoy it a lot! Maybe thats something I will get in to when I'm older. I just think it's cool. so here are a few of the pictures I took yesterday. It was terribly rainy out, but I actually thought it looked pretty neat. :)













:D Yup. I'm having fun.
I GET TO SEE PETER PAN ON FRIDAY!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!! I am SOOO so so so so excited. they opened last week on friday and since then I've heard nothing but awesome things about it. I've seen a lot of pictures from it too. I found this picture on this blog.

:D EEEEE!!! I can't wait.

Woah.

So I was looking up some songs by one of my favorite artists Bebo Norman and I found a song that I didn't recognize called Brittany. ( it's the song your listening to right now if you have your sound turned up. :P ) so I did some research on it and I found this article. I think it's pretty much amazing:


“Britney” is a song about what our culture says and does to young women these days. It’s a collective apology for the struggle girls face growing up too fast in today’s overly adult-oriented world. The song confesses, “I’m sorry for the lies we told… We took you into our arms then left you cold/I’m sorry for this cruel, cruel world… /We sell the beauty but destroy the girl.” It’s about the lies we tell them about fame and money and what’s beautiful and what will give them life. It’s an apology for those lies. But more than that, it’s an invitation to the truth about a God who is bigger than the pain this world so often leaves them in.

I was up late, couldn’t sleep, watching some news channel, when yet another story about Britney Spears came on. My first instinct was to scoff and write it off, but then there was this freeze-frame shot of a look on her face of utter and absolute despair and confusion and brokenness—a look that I recognized. And I remember thinking “This girl is a child of God.” Suddenly, I saw her story not as something to mock, but as a real-life tragedy that is desperate for redemption and hope—a story not so different from any of our stories. Take away all the lights and cameras, and it’s really just a narrative of a girl so clearly in need of love, so clearly in need of the redeeming love of our God. And suddenly, all I wanted to do was just apologize, over and over. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry...on behalf of this fallen world, on behalf of our consumerism that so consistently devours what it wants and leaves the remnants in the wake of the search for the next fix, on behalf of believers, like myself, who mock and hurl stones rather than scribbling a message in the sand. I think that night I saw her through the eyes of Jesus for the first time. I imagined what Jesus would say to me in my darkest hour and realized that those are the words we should speak to this world, to this culture, and even to Britney Spears in their darkest hour. “I’m sorry. Hope is here.” –Bebo Norman


Isn't that cool?! I love Bebo. He's awesome. :) here's the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Q_wVfGAfA
Enjoy!

oooh so tired.

It's been such a long day. I had a piano lesson. It wasn't bad. it was just really really long. My hands were really cold so it a was pretty hard to play. but I got through it. I'm glad I have a new week to start fresh. *sigh* I'm getting along a little better with my teacher now. I don't dread lessons like I did a week ago... lol funny how fast things happen huh? :)
Anyway. It was Dana's birthday yesterday. It was a very fun day. I cleaned for most of it, but it was still a lot of fun. in the afternoon my cousins and aunts and uncles came over. And guess what we did? we played Improv games!! It was soo fun. We've never done that with the family before, so it was really cool. I love improv. it's just so fun. :) so yeah. that was awesome.
uuuuuugh so much is going on. inside and outside me. I would like it all to calm down for a bit. *SIGH* it was a very good day today. I did a lot of school which always makes me very happy. It's really cold outside, but I kind of like it like that. I think I prefer cold to hot. hehehe..
I guess I need to go to bed. I need to journal a bit. as I said, a lot is going on inside me. I love journaling. It's good for that kind of stuff. : ) I just dread the day when someone actually reads them other then me.... lol

Note to Kathryn: Sorry I haven't commented back! My computer is acting up and it wont let me comment. I hope it comes back soon. I'll comment as soon as it will let me! Sorry about that!

Aarrrrg

(this was written last week. I just forgot to post it until today. :D )

I am soo frustrated right now. I'm really not feeling good. I really want to be standing up and moving, but when I do I just feel worse. I am so silly. I can't stand sitting down for more then 15 minutes. so it's a real problem when I'm sick. Mom keeps telling me that I should do my math, But my brain just doesn't want to work today. I don't know what to do. I've pretty much been in my room all day reading. It's driving my mom nuts cuz she really wants me to be doing something worth while, like school. But I just can't do that today! I'm also really upset because I have a piano lesson tomorrow afternoon and I am sooo not ready. I didn't practice yesterday because it was just so beautiful out side, I didn't want to be doing anything inside. So now I'm in trouble. It's just crazy. I'm pretty frustrated with life right now. I don't know what to do.
One of the reasons I'm upset because I really don't like my new piano teacher. She's not a bad person. she's nice.. I think I don't like it because we're not friends or kindred spirits or anything. The last two teachers I've had were people I really loved and could be around for a whole hour. I would feel comfortable talking to them about my day and what is going on with my family. When I talk to Chelle about my family I get kind of nervous because I get the impression that she doesn't like kids very much. one time I came in to my lesson and one of my pieces had been drawn on with a pen by my little brother. she looked at it and made some remark about how destructive little kids are. It made me kind of mad because I really love my siblings and I didn't care if they wrote on my music. And dude, I could still read the music, so why does it matter. But in any case, maybe that's not it. Maybe I don't like her because I don't WANT to like her. See, we know someone else there who also teaches piano. And when we first signed up we asked to have her teach me. Latter, the teacher called us and told us that she had too many students and couldn't take me on. So I got pretty upset. But I figured that God had something in mind and maybe the different teacher that I was going to get was even better then our friend. So on my first lesson, I walked in expecting to have a great time and to really get along with her really well, and I walked out feeling really depressed. Nothing had clicked like I thought it would. And ever since then I've been trying to figure out why it didn't. I still believe that God has something wonderful in mind, but I'm kind of getting inpatient.
Another thing is, is that I don't know how much I want to play the piano. I mean, I LOVE playing it, don't get me wrong, I just don't know if I actually want to do it for life. Clara wants to play the flute for life. She wants to become big and famous and make CD's and stuff. I'm not sure if I want to do that. If I wanted to become big and famous, I would much rather be an actress. There is a BIG difference between the joy that I get from being on stage, and the joy I get from playing piano. And I just like acting better. or, I think I do. I don't know. I love them both so much. I just seem to be happier when I'm on stage. Ugh. it's all really confusing. I'm not sure what to think. I probably shouldn't worry about it and just leave it in God's hands. It just doesn't seem right to be spending a tun of money on one thing, when I could be spending it on something that I want to do more and I enjoy more. *sigh*
So yeah. that's my rant for the next few months. it probably doesn't make any sense to anyone but me, but that's ok. :)
I better get going.

~Cecilia

I'm super girl!

Yesterday was a really really really long day. My mom woke me up at 6:00 and asked me if I wanted to go to mass with her at 6:30. My first thought was "uuuugh it's sooo early. my bed is soo worm. there is no way." And then a second latter I was on my feet getting dressed. God pretty much pushed me out of bed.
The mass was beautiful. There were actually a lot of people there which I didn't expect. It was nice just to be at mass with my mom. Even if I did have to get out of my nice worm bed and walk in to freezing cold weather to do it. :) I'm glad I got to do that.
And as it turned out, it would have been a very bad thing if I went to a latter mass. cuz right after we got home and had breakfast, me and my dad drove to the middle of no where and chopped wood. well, he chopped the wood, I staked it all in the car. but it wasn't bad. I actually had fun. it just took FOREVER. we were out for about four hours, but it felt like a whole day. But now we have lot's of wood for the winter. So all is good.
When I got home I hopped in the shower and then pretty much conked out. except I never did get to sleep...
Everybody else hadn't gone to mass yet, so they left me with David and told me to make dinner. the good thing was that they told me what to make and gave me a recipe. I wouldn't have been to happy if they didn't. Not like I was very happy that they had me make dinner in the first place... I was rather annoyed. but it turned out ok. David was awesome. he was being very sweet and played by him self for most of the time they were gone. So that made me VERY happy. I turned on my music and made dinner which didn't turn out too badly. (oh and by the way, my mom left for her uncles funeral, so that's why she wasn't at home with me. )
So yeah. it was just a really long day. Not a bad one, just long.
I'm super girl.

Oh, and one more thing..

I forgot to put this in the last post... :)

A walk in the park

Yesterday me and my older sisters took a walk around the neighborhood to take pictures of fall. it was a perfectly beautiful day out. Everything was just gorgeous. we took a TUN of pictures. :) Here are just a few.

My foot.... :)

My lovely sisters




That's me and Clara. I'm the one who's not wearing a hat. I think I was laughing....

God is so wonderful. :) I'm probably going to be posting a lot of pictures soon. I've been going crazy with the camera lately. haha.
Oh! by the way, It's my parents 20th anniversary today! YAY!!! :D I'm going to go make a cake now... :)

Name's and other things

For the past few months, my dad has been trying to get me to start spelling my nick name ceci, instead of just CC. He says that now that I'm older, it would look better. But I don't know. I've always kind of thought that spelling it CC kind of showed off my character. I am very childish most of the time. I am a goof ball. I can be very shy, but only for a minute. After I break out of my shell, I can be very wild and crazy. I laugh almost all the time. Cc is just a very simple name and I like it like that. I like to think of my self as simple. And even if I'm not, it's a nice reminder to keep simple. So I'm not sure if I should change it or not. We shall see. :P

Not a lot has been going on with me. I'm gonna go to Green Bluff with my cousins tomorrow. I'm pretty excited about that. It's a pretty annual thing. We pick out pumpkins, go through the corn maze, get some yummy treats, all that jazz. It's really fun. I really like to hang out with my cousins. There kind of the close siblings that I don't have. I've always wanted to have a sibling that is close to me in age, and thats what my cousins are. one is one year older then me, and the other is one year younger. I'm smack in the middle! :) It's really cool. I love them a lot. I used to go over to their house all the time and have sleep overs when I was younger. Sometimes I spend New Years with them. It's awesome. So yeah. that's what I will be doing this weekend. not a lot other then that. :P
I better go do some school. Blaah.

Another day with Cecilia

I pretty much just woke up. My brain isn't working fully. But I don't really care. I'm in a very good mood today. I'm thankful for everything. The sun is just coming up and I can see it through my bedroom window. This week has just been lovely. On Sunday it was wonderfully rainy. perfect for curling up in a sweater and reading a good book. And we even got to go to confession ( I LOVE that sacrament. Awesome stuff. :D ) It was a very good day.
Yesterday I was in the oddest mood! I was incredibly hyper. It probably drove my family nuts, but it made me happy! I did my school, (or most of it) and I even made dinner. I had a lot of fun with that. we need to pick all the veggies in the garden before it freezes, so I pretty much picked a bunch of stuff and threw them in a pot of pasta with some sort of sauce. it was delightful. I really like making dinner. or, I do once I get started on it. before I kind of dread it. But I think thats normal. :)
The only thing that is making me sad right now, is that I haven't been to any kind of social event in a really long time. I miss my friends a lot. By best friend goes to high school and doesn't have a lot of time to chat with me. Blaaah. School is such a pain! :)

I got my book Inkdeath today!!! I am SOOO Happy. I have to finish the other book I'm reading right now before I start it tho. :P I'm really excited.
Well, I guess I better get up and start my day. :D

WAYIN

You can't be in London for long without going to the zoo. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes where the Polar bears are, and he whispers something to the third keeper from the left, and the doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark passages and up steep stairs until at last we come to the special cage, and the cage is open, and out trots something brown and furry, and with a happy cry of "Oh, Bear!" Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. Now this bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears it is, but the funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. we did know once, but we have forgotten.....
- A. A. Milne

One of my favorites. I love A. A. Milne.

Fall

It's finally here. One of my favorite seasons of the year. It's pretty cold out there right now. I'm wearing socks and a sweater. YAAAY! :D Everything is very peaceful right now. My sisters started school today so yet again it is the band of five. I have to admit, I am enjoying it thoroughly. Things have been so crazy and hectic lately, I'm so glad things are cooling down a bit. Clara and my mom drove to Seattle last week for a few days. Clara had another thing with some college down there. I'm not even sure which one it was. But in any case, it's the last trip they will be taking for a while. ( YAY!!!)

I'm going through some theater withdrawal right now. I miss it so much. CYT's Peter Pan auditions were a few weeks ago. I didn't get to audition sadly. I really wanted to but it just wasn't possible this time. Lot's of my friends got in. I am really excited about seeing it. it's going to be amazing. and yes, they are going to fly. *SIGH* It gives me chills just thinking about it. I can't wait.

I went to a Youth Group for the first time in my life on Sunday. It was ok I guess. I went with a family I really love, so that made it fun. I still don't really know what to think of it. My parents have wanted to get me in to one all year. But it just doesn't seem worth it. I don't really fit in with the other kids there. And thats just fine. I'm not really interested in being in their clicks. They seem so... immature. It feels really weird to say that being that I am younger then most of them, but the way they would act around each other was so strange! And of course they were all flirting with the guys and everything. And they weren't very respectful to the adults there. And they didn't seem to want to learn anything. It was like they just came for the social part. It was kind of frustrating. I had a feeling that is was going to be like that. So it wasn't a big surprise or anything. I just had some hope that it would be different and was disappointed when it wasn't. So yeah. I had a good time for the most part. But I don't think I want to be a part of that. Oh well.

Books! I am reading Inkspell at the moment. I love it. It's so much fun to read. I love the characters in that book. I am really excited for the movie Inkheart to come out. but at the same time I'm dreading it. Andy Serkis is too comical to be Capricorn. and the guy who is playing Dustfinger is BLOND! Dustfinger has BROWN hair. He just doesn't look right at all. And one more thing. the Guy who is playing Mo, also played George of the Jungle. WHY?!?!?! I swear I won't be able to look at him with out thinking of that. *SIGH* oh well. I hope they do a good job despite the casting. :P Anyway. I also finished reading Peter Pan last week. I've been trying to read that one for a really long time, but I've never gotten past the first chapter. You kind of have to get used to the language. It's written like a play! It's very fascinating. I really enjoyed reading it. I think it might be a favorite. :) ok I think I'm done now. :D
Later!

September. :)

Where to start! It's amazing how things stack up after you haven't posted in awhile. I'm sorry about that. things have been kind of crazy. But a peaceful kind of crazy... :P So! Here it is. the school year. It's not much different then summer for me. I was doing school all through the summer, so all that's really different is that the homework is more intense then it is during the summer. I'm pretty happy.
Oh! I have a new piano teacher! Her name is Chelle. She's pretty nice. I've only had three lessons with her, so we are still kind of feeling each other out, if that makes any sense. She's having me pick out some music at home that I like so she can find out what kind of music I'm interested in playing. That's kind of nice.
Half my family is in Colorado right now. Clara is auditioning for the flute teacher at Bolder, and my other sister Karen is auditioning for the voice at some other college in Colorado. so this week it's just me and my oldest sister Dana in the house. and of course Maleny and David. But mostly it will be just me because Dana works. It hasn't been so bad so far. I actually handle things pretty well. David helps me make dinner and sometimes we will do something fun afterwords. we have a good time. and Auntie stops by after work to check on me. so that's really nice. David has been a real sweet heart. Which makes me happy. I'm glad he isn't depressed because mom isn't around. they all come home on Saturday.
I haven't been doing a lot of reading lately. I haven't really felt like reading. well actually, I've wanted to read, I just haven't wanted to sit down and read.... I don't know. It's weird. :P I think I might get back at it today. I went to the library this week and there are books on my bed waiting to be opened.

Welcome to August

The craziest month of the year for my family.
It's me and Davids birthday month. Mine is on the 14th and Davids is on the 10th. Four days apart. The week before the birthdays, we clean like crazy. The week of, we party. The week after, we clean up and then we crash. and that leaves us with one more week of august. that flies by, and when we actually have time to look at the calender it's already September. It's amazing and crazy. I love it.
This week has been pretty crazy and busy. Which is ok with me. I like being busy. it saves me some feeling sorry for my self cuz I have nothing to do. =)
SO! I passed swimming level 6 last week! I am so glad I did. one of my class mates had done it 3 times already and he still didn't pass it. so now he's doing it again for the 4th time. there is no way I would be able to do that. So now that I've passed that level, I'm helping teach the younger kids! It's awesome. My favorite class to help with is the one for the REALLY little kids. Between the ages of 2 and 5. the kids are SO cute and so much fun to work with. but they are NOT to be looked down upon. they are amazing. And SO brave! If I was three years old, there is no way I would be able to jump off the side in the deep end! These kids are begging to go off the diving board! It's so much fun to watch them.
So yeah. I spend four hours at the pool every week day morning. I'm having a blast. I come home pretty much dead, but it's worth it. :)

We are pretty much done painting our house. we have to put the trim on and then we are done. I'm happy. I've gotten used to the blue. I don't mind it so much now. I'm just happy that it's getting done.

Alright. My sisters coming home from CA tonight and I need to go clean.
Bye for now!
~Cc

Part of my little kidness.

I was going to name this post Part of my childhood but then I realized, wait... I'm still in my childhood... :P
These videos are from a movie that we used to get out ALL the time from the library. I still sing the songs around the house. It's a short movie called Really Rosie. It is really cute and it has all sorts of wonderful songs that I just love to bits. So enjoy!





The Ballad of Chicken soup. the best.

Wet Paint

We're painting our house. Blue. Really blue. I don't like it at all. We have the strangeist house on the block. I suppose it will be better when we get the trim on. It's just right now that it looks bad... *sigh*


I painted the very first strip on the house.


Me and my mom painting.


My sister Dana


Me. :D


Tired Painter Dana.

Other then painting, not a lot has been going on. I'm reading like crazy and having a jolly good time. Yesterday was lovely. All I did was read, paint, and go to mass. The reading was my favorite. I finished a book called The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. It was an amazing book. and now I have started on the book that comes after that one, The Queen of Attolia. Its wonderfully thrilling. After that I am planing to start Inkheart. I've heard a lot of good things about it. I'm excited to start that one. Other things that I have on my shelf are Our only May Amelia By Jennifer L. Holm, and The Kings Fifth by Scott O'dell. And then after those I will need to go back to the library.
Oh! and I turn 13 in 24 days!!!! *Dances* I am sooo excited. I think I'm done being 12 now. I can move on. Here comes another adventure.....

Oh wow.. It's july.. *blink blink* when did that happen?

So here we are. We've reached the unbearably hot weather. Blaaah. I'm actually not having such a problem with it yet. I have air conditioning and a fan. Plus I get to go swimming every morning and when I get home I'm to tired to do anything but sit on the couch and read. So I've been keeping cool.
Speaking of swimming, It's crazy. I'm working my butt off. It is SO hard. Mostly we just do laps non stop. Sometimes we go down to the deep end and work on our dives a bit, but most of it is getting your strokes to perfection. Yesterday almost all the class was on diving. It is SO scary. We are trying to learn a Pike Dive? I think thats what it's called. I'm probably wrong. But gosh, it is so scary and hard to do. Yesterday I ended up doing a big scary belly flop. When I came back up, my teacher had a look of terrified shock and worry on her face. I laughed just because of that look. which, as I found out, is really hard to do while your treading water. haha! she just looked so scared for me. She's a really sweet lady. I love her. The rest of the rest of the day she, and the rest of my class was constantly asking me if I was ok and giving me hugs and stuff. It was pretty funny. It actually didn't hurt that much. I guess it looked worse then it felt. But hey, I got hugs! So it was worth it. :)
Today I really don't want to go to swim. I'm scared. I really don't want to do dives again. They are really scary. I like plain old diving. I just don't like fancy diving. Thats when it gets scary. Hopefully they will just make us do laps. Aww man I really don't want to do laps.... I just want to sleep. Tomorrow is the test day. They are testing us to find out if we can move on to the next level. I don't think I'm going to make it. It's ok if I don't though. It just means that I'll have to do it over again for another two weeks. It wont be bad. Or will it? *SIGH*
So yeah. I haven't been up to much. It's summer. Life is good.
I was kind of going crazy with the camera the other day. Taking pictures of random things. Such as my reflection in a window......

Isn't it cool? heehee

Call me crazy, but I thought this was pretty. :)


Guess who?

Pretty flower. I don't know what it's called. But it's cool!

Thats my little sister Maleny with David. Cute, huh?