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?

This is........ awesome.

I LOVE THIS!!!! Watch watch watch!!!
Manamana..... Do dooooo do do do.

Oh Spokane. I love you.

Spokane is an awesome crazy place. I love it. Today me and my friend Mara (and her dad. :D) went Downtown to go watch some Hoopfest. Wow. SO many people. They say it's the biggest Basketball festival in the world. I believe it. They pretty much close down Downtown and turn it in to about 500 or more basketball courts. Is that not amazing?! I have lived here all my life and yet, I have never been to Hoopfest before. Isn't that funny? We drive past it all the time, but we never actually watch anything. So today I went to it for the first time. And I was bewildered. It was really cool. It's amazing how many different personality's come to it. We saw a guy with a skirt, and a girl with a beard........ Awkward. :D It was crazy fun. I am having a really good weekend. It was funny. Yesterday, I went to Maras house thinking that we were going to hoopfest that day, and I got the day wrong and it ended up being today instead. SO I just hung out at her house for the day! But Oh my gosh I am so glad I got it wrong. we had such a blast. I haven't been able to hang out with her for so long. We keep seeing each other at shows and stuff, but we haven't just spent time together since last year. We had a really good time. It's amazing how god works things out like that. We really need to spend some time together. I doubt that we would have covered everything we needed to talk about just at hoopfest. we needed that day.
So yeah! life is good. Well, except that all my sisters are kind of stressed because they are trying to find colleges. But life is good other then that. I start my swimming stuff on Monday. Scary. I am a bit nervous. I hate first days. I'm always afraid I'm going to make a fool of my self. But I'll have to get over it. I'm sure it will be fine. :P
4th of July is coming up fast. I am getting excited! We are going to go up to our aunts house as usual. Its like, RIGHT next to a lake. So lots of swimming. YAY!
Bye for now.

Karen takes amazing pictures

My older sister Karen got a new camera for her birthday. Since then she has been going around the house taking pictures of all of us randomly. I am AMAZED at how good those pictures are. I wanted to show them to you!



Yours truly, reading a FABULOUS book. :)


My adorable little brother.


Me, again. I love this picture. :)


This is Dana and David by the river.


Alright, it should be illegal to be that cute.