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?