Twinkley Toesies

Happy Pi Day!!!!

2007-03-14T11:00:00.001-07:00

Next week is Spring Break...for me at least :). NExt week is also my birthday! It's kind of hard to believe that another year has gone by, and I'll be turning 14. it's kind of crazy how fast this year and last year have gone by. I love spring. It's probably my favorite season. Aside from the allergies, it's jjust such a beautiful season. Flowers and trees are blooming, perfect weather. You get to wear spring clothes :). I love wearing dresses and skirts, it makes me feel pretty. There's just that feminity feeling that gives you such a good feeling....well at least for me it does. I thought I should just post, to let y'all know i'm still here, because it's been a month since i posted.....and by the way---- Happy Pi Day!!!!!!!!! it's Pi day today: 3.14 as it's written alot of times. In math class we sang a song in honor of Pi day. Everyone have a wonderful rest of the day! I mean c'mon you can't have a bad day on Pi day!

Mind Trap

2007-01-27T20:47:00.000-08:00

Alright. So I've got this mind trap for y'all to figure out. To figure this out, you can put any sort of punctuation any where to enable it to make sense. Here it is:
that that is is that
that is not is not is
that it it is

Trust me, it is possible for this group of words to make sense. REMEMBER: you can put any punctuation (ex. Question marks, periods, commas, etc.) any where in the words, but you can't add words or take away words. You can answer by leaving a comment, and if you answer it correctly, you get an award of some sort. When you think about it, it's not extremely hard at all. :)

I think it's time...

2007-01-20T16:35:00.000-08:00

I was just trying to give some suspense to this blog.....actually I really am truly sorry for not posting in over a month. By the request of my dear cousin , Mary-john, I'm post something.

Hmm...where to start? well, This time last week a lot of us were down in Alabama. I can't believe it's been a week and a day since the formal already!!! It makes me sad :(. I don't know when I'll see everybody again. Harmony Hill maybe. Of course I'll see my cousins soon. Big Harpeth PBC (my church) is having their annual meeting the last week/ weekend of March. So everyone should come to it. I'll post some pictures later....I promise i'll actually post them. maybe i'll do that tomorrow. I should anyway. Welllll....I think I will stop writing now. Have a Wonderful weekend:)

2006-12-09T17:33:00.000-08:00

Merry (early) Christmas!!!!!! (this is just in case I don't have time to post) and Happy New Year!
What am I doing for New Year's you ask? well, I'm going to the Grace Chapel meeting, wit my cousins! (at least I hope I am) :) Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad...uhhh that's all I know!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2006-11-22T10:11:00.000-08:00

UGH! I can't think of ANYTHING to post...blogger's block? perhaps.

We're babysitting one of my brother's dog's puppies...we gave them all away a couple of weeks ago and now we get to babysit one! He's soooo adorable!

anyway...back to the title of this post. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Some may be traveling, others may not....but I am!!! I get to go to Alabama. I can't wait to see my cousins(and aunts , uncles, & grandparents) I haven't seen them in a while....hm...i can't remember when. Well, have safe trips if you are traveling, and to everyone: eat lots of food and get fat...or just eat food and be with your family and give thanks and be happy.

I know, I know...

2006-11-05T16:45:00.000-08:00

Yeah....I know. I need to post....

2006-10-13T12:46:00.000-07:00

OOOOOOO!!!! it's friday the 13th!!! everybody needs to be superstitious or whatever they say people are on friday the 13th(hahaha jk!!!!)

well it's my fall break and so I'll be at Smith lake until sunday afternoon. have a great weekend!

lots of things to tell!!!

2006-10-04T11:41:00.000-07:00

Soooo....I haven't posted in a while. I'm a little sick today so I have time to post! first of all,
please pray for a girl at my school who was diagnosed with luekimia a few weeks ago. I think she's doing well. She was diagnosed on the weekend of her birthday so I think she's only 14. please keeo her in your prayers.

Some of yall know that my brothers dog (vegas) had 9 pupies and i think they'll be 3 or 4 weeks old on sunday.
she had 9 puppies and sadly one of them died last week. Not because it was unhealthy, but because we think Vegas was nursing the puppies, then jumped up and the puppy was dropped on it's head. but anyway, here's some pictures......&&& I got pointe shoes for ballet! (it's a big deal for me) this is when a few of the puppies were first born

this is the biggest puppy........he was born lastthese are the puppies this morning they are sooo cute!if you can see the spotted tanish brown puppy at the very top of the picture, that's the one that died( above)

(below) the big dog (she's a pure border collie) that's the mother, this is also this morning & all the puppies are walking for the most part...once again they are sooo cute! have a great day!

2006-09-21T15:04:00.000-07:00

Hey y'all....i'm sooo sorry i haven't posted in a while it's been crazy around here. I promise to post good news and sad news on saturday...i'll post pictures too!
it's almost fall!!!!!!
have a great day!

messed up

2006-09-10T20:34:00.000-07:00

I don't know what's up with my blog, or if it's just my computer, but as you can see, the posts are really low on the page...and I don't know why. So, if anybody has anything to help me please comment!:)

On the bright side, i have some amazing news.....but i'm not going to post it right now. feel free to comment and ask me to post about it....(and if you know what it is, don't ruin the suprise)!!!

Caleb got his hair cut extremely short for the school musical Thuroughly Modern Milly where he has mostly Manderin lines and he sings a song in manderin, and it's supposed to be a comedy role. The point is that he got his hair cut really really short!

AND tomorrow is the 5 year memorial (what exactly do you call it, I can never remember?) of 9/11, so please remeber and pray for the families of 9/11 and the firefighters! god bless them. have an awesome day!

brothers and dogs

2006-09-01T21:23:00.000-07:00

Well, 2 of my brothers (J.D. and Jordan) came home for the weekend today. They both go to UT Martin, and I haven't seen Jordan in a month because he's had football camp. I really missed Jordan, and I didn't miss J.D. as much just becuase he wasn't here as much as Jordan was, and he's a senior in college and he's not always home when he's here. I was sooooo happy to see both of them....and speaking of brothers, J.D.'s dog Vegas, is pregnant. SHe should have her puppies sometime in September. They are going to be Border Collie mixes. Vegas is a border collie by the way....and speaking of septemeber, can you believe it's lready september!!! and my other brother caleb is turning in 16 days! tha'ts crazy! I'm leaving for the lkae for this long weekend, so hopefully I might see some of my fellow bloggers at the lake!
have a great labor day weekend!

2006-08-27T18:44:00.000-07:00

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Breyers Coffee ice cream is one of my favorite ice creams. I needed to post something, so I hope the picture shows up.

Have a great day!
~toesthattwinkle

1 year!!!!

2006-08-16T16:21:00.000-07:00

Well, it's officially been a year since the foundation of this blog. It was actually a year yesterday, but I sort of....forgot. So, happy birthday, anniversery whatever! I think I have 52 posts!
have a great day!

Look at my post below this one too!

2006-08-14T10:49:00.000-07:00

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Chelsea!

Abraham Lincoln, who invented Chelsea, was the only US president ever granted a patent!
Japan provides over thirty percent of the world's Chelsea supply.
Only twelve people have ever set foot on Chelsea!
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes dressed up as Chelsea.
Never store Chelsea at room temperature.
Chelseaocracy is government by Chelsea.
The word 'samba' means 'to rub Chelsea'.
Research indicates that Chelsea will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Chelsea has enough fat to produce 32 bars of soap!
Chelsea is born white; her pink feathers are caused by pigments in her typical diet of shrimp.

Wakeboarding and first day of school

2006-08-14T10:06:00.000-07:00

Well, yesterday I went to the lake with MJ and I tried the wakebord and I got up!!! I was really excited! It is probably THE coolest thing ever. It was really easy once I got the hang of it.

Today was my first day as an official 8th grader. I got good teachers, one of which is pobably a good teacher but hated my brothers....all 3 of them...she even gave my brother jordan a detention once because he was walking too slow. she's crazy. And for american history I got an awesome teacher, mr keller, who is very interesting and keeps your attention by doing diff. activities. today was only a half day so that was good. um, Oh yeah!! finally I got a top locker(i'vehad a bottom for two years) and they are new, so they are kind of hard to open, well I put in my combonation and tried to pull it open, and I couldn't ( I also had to stand n my tiptoes to see the top nubers on the lock) sombody else opened it for me so I tried again, and I couldn't do it. So this guy had a bottom locker and couldn't get to it easily so we switched. I actually opened it.

For all of y'all who aren't in school, I'm hapy for you, I'm kind of glad to be back in school. have a great day!!!!

Brother leaving, a fish, and other

2006-08-07T10:38:00.000-07:00

My brother, jordan, and my parents he's getting ready to leave for college
me and jordan....it was 730
Jordan pulling out in the cadillac going to UTMartin
The stuff in the back of his car....his trunk is really big, even with those big speakers:)
that was this morning, I'm sad that he's leaving, yet I'm really glad too! have a great day!

some more I just felt like posting

2006-07-30T13:05:00.000-07:00

Random Pictures

2006-07-25T16:42:00.000-07:00

really cool car at WalMart

crazy hair of Caleb's
There's not much you can say about this picture...Nathan with Mary-john and Mary Chun

She was a little mad....

I hope you enjoyd my random pictures...Have a great day!

Memphis

2006-07-25T08:14:00.000-07:00

Hmmm, where should I start. I The week before the GC meeting, I was wishing I had a way to go, But I didn't so I couldn't go. Mary-John and WHitney came to the lake with me and you know we did lake stuff, then they had to pack up to leave, and they said that they were going to the meeting and then, they said I should go ask if I could come with them. So I asked and my parents said YES!!! So I got my stuff together and rode home with them. I wasn't going to tell anybody I was coming, because I don't know why but it was gonna be a suprise. Well, Thursday morning(we were supposed to leave friday morning) MJ called and said, I bet you're really mad that you're not going ot the meeting, and she said What?! I am going to the meeting. So long story short, We couldn't go because of various reasons. We wer really sad and mad. I've never been to memphis....I don't know how but next year I'm coming. I'm determined to come. Sorry I haven't posted in a while!

Coooool!

2006-07-10T07:47:00.000-07:00

You Are Jean Grey

Although your fate is often unknown, you always seem to survive (even after death).Your mind is your greatest weapon, literally!
Powers: telepathy and telekinesis, the ability to project thoughts into the mind of others, communication with animals

Which of the X-Men Are You?

Well....

2006-06-04T13:58:00.000-07:00

Well, June is going to be and so far has been a busy summer month...my recital was this past friday and saturday, this week isn't going to be as crazy but, i have to pack for........HARMONY HILL!!!! I'M SOOOOO EXCITED IT'S MY FIRST TIME GOING!!!!!!!!!! anyway, not only do i have to pack for that but i have to find my cousin a birthday present make sure all my clothes and necessaries(sp?) are clean so that I won't have dirty things for harmony highlands the following week, because we won't get a chance to come hom...but most of you know that.......and so, yes, I won't be posting much anytime soon, although I have some pretty good pictures to post so, I'm letting you know I'm taking ablog vacation and i' pretty sure i'll have plenty of stuff to post about when I get back from my vacation. Have a GREAT summer! and I'll see you at the end of june...if not sooner! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-06-01T20:24:00.000-07:00

You Have A Type B Personality

You're as laid back as they come... Your baseline mood is calm and level headedCreativity and philosophy tend to be your forte
Like a natural sedative, you have a soothing effect on peopleFriends and family often turn to you first with their problemsYou have the personality to be a spiritual or psychological guru

Do'>http://www.blogthings.com/doyouhaveatypeapersonalityquiz/">Do You Have a Type A Personality?

BEST TOOTHPASTE......EVER!!!!!

2006-05-21T12:22:00.000-07:00

I would like to introduce to you probably the BEST toothpaste in the whole world. Here it is From Colgate: MaxFresh with mimi breath strips!!!
You see all those little squares? those are the little mini breath strips!!! Do you have any competition with my toothpaste???? comment if you do.
Have a great day/night/afternoon, etc.

2006-04-23T13:25:00.000-07:00

Look DOWN!!!

2006-04-01T20:47:00.000-08:00

Don't forget about the other posts down from this one. there's one more after the flowers post, so PLEASE feel free to COMMENT!:)

have a WONDERFUL, beautiful day,night,afternoon,etc.

stages...

2006-04-01T20:23:00.000-08:00

So, the flowers i planted in the fall(114 bulbs) went through growing stages(duh). I decided to take some pictures of them. (left) This is right when they started to come up.

Here they are in the snow...(right)

hmm.....MJ's and I scarbble game...(random)

NOw this is before they bloomed(Right)......

These are the beautiful bloomed tulips...

Well, me, I LOVE planting flowers and gardening...it gives me joy and makes the yard pretty(as you can see):)

LOOK HERE!!!!

2006-04-01T20:05:00.000-08:00

guess who these two cuties are?!?! I found this picture looking through one of our photo albums. Thought it was cute. we were at mj's place! ;)

~toesthattwinkle

QUESTION

2006-03-31T19:06:00.000-08:00

Do you know what MARCH the 20th was???? if you guess correctly I will give you a WONDERFUL prize!!!!!! (please comment!!!) Rememver about the prize!

TWO WORDS

2006-03-25T08:56:00.000-08:00

SPRING BREAK!

2006-03-15T16:18:00.000-08:00

Your Japanese Name Is...

Kita Heike

What's" your Japanese Name?

You Are Cherry Garcia Ice Cream

You're the coolest cat around, but too laid back to let it get to your head

What Flavor Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Are You?

Who Should Paint You: Gustav Klimt

Sensual and gorgeous, you would inspire an enchanting portrait..With just enough classic appeal to be hung in any museum!

What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

Your 1920's Name is:

Jack Blossom

What's" Your 1920's Name?

Gummy Bears

You may be smooshie and taste unnatural, but you're so darn cute.

What Kind of Candy Are You?

You Are Sunshine

Soothing and calmYou are often held up by others as the idealBut too much of you, and they'll get burned
You are best known for: your warmth Your dominant state: connecting

What Type of Weather Are You?

You Are a Glazed Donut

Okay, you know that you're plain - and you're cool with that.You prefer not to let anything distract from your sweetness.Your appeal is understated yet universal. Everyone dig you.And in a pinch, you'll probably get eaten.

What Donut Are You?

2006-03-06T15:13:00.000-08:00

FINALLY!!!!!!!!

2006-02-25T16:08:00.000-08:00

Thanks to a good friend, Emily G, i am putting pics on my blog!!!!!!!!! these were taken at the lake when mj came(i also had just gotten my digital camera)

ok, the scrabble board and score sheet is the game that MJ and I played....she won. i have to go...so have a GREAT! day!

Finally!!!!!!!!!

2006-02-25T16:06:00.000-08:00

2006-02-20T06:32:00.000-08:00

Little did I know that when I awoke this past Saturday morning, I would see the most wonderful suprise. I looked out the window and saw, beautiful, amazing snow. Yes, snow.Let me tell you why I was NOT expecting snow. Well for one Franklin's weather is dumb, but the weather people last weekend said that they were POSITIVE we were going to get at least 3-5 inches of snow. You know, I thought we would get at least a little snow and it would be enough so we could play in it. It did snow....not that much and it melted by 10:00 am! Then it snowed again, once again it melted again pretty early. So, they decided to call off school that Monday...which was great!!!!!!!!! But I don't know why. by the time I woke back up....which was around 7 or 8. everything was gone(there was ice on the roads that morning). PIcture this: you're the weather person andyou've just told Franklin they are gonna get 3-5 inches of snow!!! and you are just as sure as ever. while it's starting to snow, a warm pocket of air came up from ALABAMA, and changed everything to rain. But guess what it's still snowing around Williamson county, but it's raining in Franklin. So,(you're still the weather person) the next almost end of the week, say thursday or Wednesday, you see that a cold front is coming through and there's going to be snow. But since today it was about 70 degrees outside yousay to yourself, no, it's not gonna snow. I just won't tell them, I don't want to get their hopes up again and then crush them by not being any snow. So EVERYBODY was sprised when they saw snow on Saturday. It snowed for at least 4 maybe 5 hours on Sat. and you know what everybody did? played in the SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I played for at least 2 hours strait, then my friend joined me and we played another hour in the snow, which adds up to 2 hours in the snow. When my friend went home, I went inside to warm up, then my neighbor,about 30 minutes later, asked me to come and play outside again. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just have to say this....We got snow in FRANKLIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To find out more about this experience, please comment on this post. Have A GREAT week!

Interesting Conversations

2006-02-12T12:01:00.000-08:00

I'm sure most of you have had this experience some time in your life. You may be asking yourself what is she talking about? I'm talking about having some very interesting conversation with somebody. In my case, I always have extremely interesting conversations with my cousin, Graham. he may not think they are interesting, but I do. Last night he asked me on IM, What would you do if I called you an asparagus? (it was somethinglike that) I replied, I have to think about that. I answered him and then went on to some very odd topics...short, but interesting. I'm sure all of you have very deep, and intruiging conversations with somebody like Graham. It snowed on Friday then melted Saturday morning, then it snowed again saturday night and melted right before church, then it's snowing right now, but I don't know if it's sticking.
Have a GREAT day!!!! Also, will somebody pleeeease tell me how to put pictures on my blog??? I'm hopeless...

AH!

2006-01-19T17:10:00.000-08:00

Ok Y'all...there's another post that I had saved as a draft back in November, so If you want to see it, go back to November and it should be the 2 or 3rd post of november.

Yoga

2006-01-19T13:03:00.002-08:00

Lost of people thin that yoga is weird...but it's really not.It is great for runners,swmmers dancers,really all athletes, and it's good for alot of people. Mama teaches a yoga class on Mondays and sometimes wednesdays. One of my new year's resolution is to stretch more fpr dance and so yoga is really helping my flexibility. Yoga is a little more expensive to take(if you wanted to know). So I'm able to take the class for free because Mama teaches it. I just wanted to tell everybody that yoga really isn't weird and stuff, but it's calming and good for you. Have a great day/night!!!

Dreams

2006-01-13T15:42:00.000-08:00

Dreams...dreams are odd things. They can be triggered by things such as things you saw or heard, or talking to somebody. I had a dream a few weeks ago, and it was triggered by talking to some one. Here it is(what I can remember):
So I was on IM and I had talked to Nathan. Then I did something else then went to sleep. SO I had a really weird dream. I dreamed that we were at my school, outside talking(the people there were Nathan, Other PB friends[I'm not exactly sure who], me and this one kid from my school[who is sort of mean]) So I saw him and then the other people and said'" This would be perfect group if it wasn;t for you"' So then all the sudden I blinked and we were in my back yard, it didn't even look like our yard, but I saw our house, and that mean kid was gone. So I walked into our house, then I saw Nathan come into the house and he said, "I'm gonna make a sandwich" and I said,"OK". Then the dream ended and I woke up.I might have forgotten a few parts but that was the main thing. I think if I forgot anything it was the people at the table, and um....I think that's it.

I'm sorry I haven't posted. I keep saying I'll post more often but I never seem too. I'm going to try and post more often.

I hope everyone had a great New Year's,Christmas, and Back to school(if you went). I'll talk to y'all later. BYE!

The Rockettes and The Chronicals of Narnia

2005-12-19T13:16:00.000-08:00

Last Thursday(12-15-05) the Blevins came up to Tennessee to see the Rockettes. They were spectacular, of course. My all-time favorite is the wooden soldiers. They are amazing when it comes to mastering each step they have to make...it's just indescribable(I know, there are many more important indescribable things, but this is one of them). One of my other favorites is the very last scene they do, with the bells. So we had lots of fun.

On Friday, my brothers wanted to see the Chronicals of Narnia, so I went along with them. I almost didn't go, but I am glad I did go. It was AWESOME!!! I have not read the books yet, so I'm hoping they're just as good(books usually are better). It's one of my favorite movies, now. A few that come to my mind when I say "favorite movies" are: Pride and Prejudice(sp?), Lord of the Rings trilogy, Chronicals of Narnia, and I know there's many more, but I can't think of anymore. OH! ONe of my other favorites is Return to Me. Those are just a few; and I know I have many other favorites, but those come to my mind right now. Have a great afternoon!

p.s. Are you happy Whitt???i posted!

Oh My Goodness!!!

2005-12-03T09:57:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it's almost been a month since I last posted. I have had so many ideas for posts running through my head, but no time to post! It's been a busy month; this month will be even busier. I just had to squeeze in a few minutes for posting. I promise I will post on something (besides this) very soon. perhaps somethings like Pride and Prejudece(sp?), or my extended break, etc. well I have to go help put the lights on our christmas tree.

p.s. I am extremely apoligetic for my absence of a month.

Poetry

2005-11-09T19:02:00.000-08:00

Drifting softly into the wind
The dead leaves of the autumn
turned trees
Swept away onto the soft palm
of the earth
One by one, colors you only imagine,
the leaves float away
Realizing, it’s their time to go
Realizing, in the spring
Twill be their time to come,
and blossom once more
And fall again in autumn

I look at what
I have done
Now, to me
there’s none
who understand
the sun
quite like I

I sulk in the
darkness
searching for light
Although it is night
all I see is the sun
And there’s no one
left to understand
what
I have done

What can happen when you put 3 girl cousins together, Part 1

2005-11-05T21:28:00.000-08:00

I got some pics developed yesterday and they were crazy of my cousins and me...once I figure out how to scan them onto the computer and that stuff I will not only put those pictures, but the pioctures from the Smokey Mountains. I've had those fro a while now.

So this is what can happen when it's one of the cousin's birthday, you have cake, you're at the lake house, and you put the three cousins together:
Nevermind...I need help, how do you get pictures on your computer to go on your blog and how do you scan pictures??? I'm such an amature at this...

Random post(it's not really that random but if you think about it,I guess it is)

2005-11-02T19:22:00.000-08:00

Oh my gosh...I just found this post that I don't thin k I published I just saved it as a draft...I don't even know when I typed this but...you can read it if you're interested.Don't pay attention to the date or time

Okay, where should I start...well, I know my quiz didn't exactly work so I'm gonna try it again. Later. J.D. turned 21 on October 27th!!!!! It was really exciting. We went to the Golden Corral(which is an awesome place by the way, and I advise you to go try it sometime). If nobody's been there it has a little bit of everything there, and it's a buffet you pay when you get there, then it's all yours. *Peice of advice: Do not eat so much that you feel like you will explode...this is very easily possible to do, becasue there is SO many choices*. Back to the poiint. So we think that one of the waiters heard us talking about J.D.'s birthday. One waitress came up to Lauren(J.D.'s girlfriend) and asked her what his name was. Lauren gets scared easy so she kind of had this look on her face like, what is she doing. It was funny. So all the wiaters came out and sang a birthday song.

Grandmother and Granddaddy came up that weekedn to watch Franklin play their last regular game of the seasson. AND GUESS WHAT!!!!!!! THEY'RE GOING TO THE FIRST ROUND OF PLAY-OFFS!!!!!!! They are playing Antioch. By the way we beat antioch and lost to Ravenwood, who went on to be the state champions...it was sad, but Iguess if you think about it, it makes Franklin look good.

*the last sentence and the very first opening sentence(s) was added just now.

don't know what to name this post...guess I just named it

2005-10-29T22:11:00.000-07:00

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A Day Well Spent

2005-10-22T21:33:00.000-07:00

Today, I planted flower bulbs. Tulips to be exact. My day started out at my friends house, and they dropped me off around11. Mama and I, later, went to HomeDepot and bought some tulip. I was anticipating planting them. we bought 70 red ones and 70 mixed. We also got this nifty little bulb digger(that probably doesn't make any sense) anyway, I started digging the holes, then I put the bulbs in the holes and covered them up and watered. Now, keep in mind that I was outside for the majority of the day. I love to garden!! so, after I had gotten done planting, I decided to count how many bulbs I had left in the sacks. I had 26 left, so I figured out I planted 114 bulbs that day. My hands are still sore from holding and pressing down the shovel and other stuff all day. Well, This isn't a very long post, but my post before this one is veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery long. It makes up for my short post...or long waits between posts. Have a great day,night,afternoon,morning,etc.:) *and don't worry, I will psot pictures of my trip, they're getting developed right now*

Camping Trip, Part 1

2005-10-16T15:19:00.000-07:00

I know I won't be able to finish this whole post about my camping trip; if I do, then I will still post some pictures. Either way, there's going to be a part 2, perhaps a part 3.

Our fall break started Wednesday afternoon, because it was a half day. It went through Friday, and of course the weekend. It's usually not this long but, this year we were glad it was. I went to the Great Smokey Mountains with a good friend(and her family), the Morris family. I had to finish packing on the day we left. And soon after I finished packing, we left. I brought 3 cameras because I knew I would need them. That part of the story is later. Back to the point. Now, I haven't been to the Smokeys in probably about five or six years. So I was so excited. When we were close to the Smokey Mountains, I was just amazed at how beatuiful it was, even though we were about a week or two early for the trees to turn. We do have one picture of them when I was alot younger and the trees were all different colors. I might try to find that picture.

We stayed at the (national) park (I think it was a national park) in Elkmont. We got to our campsite around 5 or 6 o'clock. We looked around, even though it was darkening. There was a small river, or large creek, near our site. we set up the tents, the thing over the picnic table, and the hammock. After we did that, we went to go eat in Gatlinburg. I had armadillo at a place called Texas Roadhouse. We walked off our dinner by looking through differnt stores down the road. There was this one coffe cup I saw that I wanted to get for my dad. It said, 'Life is Good' and below that there was a little stick person with it's legs crossed, and there was another one, but I can't remember what it was. We had to leave before I could decide( I didn't get it). I wanted to find him one with a guy fishing, but I couldn't.
So, we got back to the site, and um, didn't really do anything, and went to bed.

We got up the next morning around 8 or 9, and my day started out with hot chocolate. then we had eggs, bacon, and grits. Mmmm, there's nothing like a good meal in the mountains, with fresh air and the sound of a river/creek flowing, birds chirping, and leaves falling. My friends older brother and sister and two of their firends were going to hike to this place and spend the night. So they had their packs, but all we were going to do was just hike to Andrew's Bald and back. But before any of us parted our ways, we were all going to hike up to the highest point of the Smokey Mountains, Clingman's Dome, I beleive. So we while we were dirving up to the parking lot,( quite a ways, I might add) I enjoyed the veiws on the way upo. Mr. Morris (My friends dad) said look to your left and you can see North Carolina. I was amazed. we got to the parking lot and started walking up the walk to Clingman's Dome. I took a few pictures on the way up. When we got there, It was still cloudy (which was really cool, the fact that I was walking through a cloud) and we had to walk up to the thing, I'm not exactly sure what it was, but when it wasn't cloudy you were able to see really,really far. Unfortunatly, it didn't clear up enough for us to be able to see those veiws.

We started down the hill, and went off onto smaller trail and hiked, lesss than a mile, before we said our goodbyes (sp?) to the kids, teenagers actually, and we split onto different trails. We found out we were actually hiking to Andrew's Bald. It was a tiring hike, and when we saw the opening to ANdrew's Bald we were so happy!! That was a sight, sadly I ran out of pictures on my first camera, so I'll have to get a picture form my friend. It was open with tall and short grasses, and you had a great veiw of the mountains. There were layers upon layers of moutnains. I actually left out alot of detail about our hike on the way to our destination. There were evergreen trees everywhere, and I just love that smell! The trees were starting to turn, it seemed like it was up hill, but on the way back it also seemed like it was uphill. So now I know what parents mean when they tell you, ' When I was in school we had to walk 5 miles in the snow with no shoes, uphill both ways'. It was a trail scattered with rocks and trees, and leaves and moss. The good thing was I only tripped 2 times and once I sortive hurt my hand, but it's fine now. We were worn out after that hike, and we thought we deserved a patch (joking of course) That day we hiked 4.5 miles.

That night, we built a fire. It's so fun to have a fire. I forgot to mention that we had lunch on Andrew's Bald and it was just so peacful and quiet, we had the whole place to ourselves, it seemed like. Anyways, For dinner, we had barbecue chicken. yum. I slept good that night.

The next day we got up at 8 o'clock and once again had hot chocolate, and this time for breakfast, we had a simple bowl of cereal. We were going bike riding that day in Cades Cove. We picked out a helmet, and a bike. I had a cool little red bike, and my friend( mallory) and her parents had, blue bikes (which were a little bigger).The man who worked at this place where we were renting the bikes, showed us the routes, told us important stuff, etc. We started off, and it didn't seem that hard. There were lots of places to stop and see, so the first stop was John Oliver's House. For all of you who don't know, John Oliver was the first white man to settle in Cades Cove ( I don't know the details). I got a picture of that. We got back on our bikes and began to ride again, I think the next stop was an old Primitive Baptist church. That was wonderful to see!!! I'm mad and sad at myself, because I didn't get a picture of that church, ut I did find osme online. Cades Cove PB church was established in 1827. There was a graveyard behind it and we walked through it. I remember going to that church when I was probably around 5 or 6. We stopped at many other places. I hated to ride my bike up the hills, it was very hard. We finally got to the mill. We stopped and ate lunch, then looked around. We got to see the corn mill and how everything works. Then we went into this one house that, is no bigger than the average house today, but I'm sure t was like a mansion back when it was first built. We saw a few other buildings, then we saw a sugar cane "juicer" thingy. I'm not sure was it's called. It was really cool. ONce again we started back on our bikes, and the second part of the road we were on seemed even harder, becuase we were all worn out already. I enjoyed it, but it was very very very exhausting. Finally, I saw the "exit" sign and was sooo happy. We had biked 11 miles. We returned our bikes, and looked at the sweatshirts and I saw one, the same one my friend also saw, and we both got it. It's says Cades Cove on it. The Morris's treated us all to a very large ice cream cone. It was so much!

We got back to the campsite, and I changed out of the shorts I was wearing, and into somelong pants. I layed down on the picnic bench, pulled the draw strings from my sweatshirt tight, and sortive fell asleep. I had fallen asleep on the way back to our site. I slept even better that night.

For dinner that night, Mr. Morris made beef stew (and I also realized I lost my ring) but I'm not a big fan of beef stew, and never have been, so I had something else. For desert, he made berry cobbler. That was so good!! I slept even better that night.

Sadly, we only stayed about 3 days, so the next morning was our last day (saturday). We had the most delicious pancakes ever. Made by Mallory's dad. Also bacon. We had milk and then hot chocolate. We took down the tent and all of that stuff. we played a frisby game called razor. It's really fun, and I won once. After we were al loaded up and everything, we went down to a different river, and took off our shoes, rolled up our pants and walked on the rocks. Mr. Morris got in the river, and so did Mallory's brother, Taylor, and his friend Jared. I sat on a rock and slid in (accidentally) only one leg got get, but it felt great. Mallory's sister and friend dipped their hair in the river and we did the same. we felt refreshed. We ate lunch at a little place, and I changed out of my wet jeans and into dry pants,comfortable for the 4 hour drive back home.

I was so happy, to finally be home. BUt since my dad was in Alabama and my mom had to work I had to stay at my friends house, so I was still happy I was in Franklin.

**I didn't put all the details in here, so if you would like to ask me some questions, feel free to. You can comment :)**

It was a trip I will definatly remember. Also I will tell you about my Cameras later. My hands are really tired from typing, so Have a great day!!

Autumn

2005-10-09T13:57:00.000-07:00

Ah, Autumn, or fall if you want to call it that. This is one of my favorite seasons of the year. I love to get out my fall clothing, and sometimes going shopping for new clothes! The cool air feels so great, it's not bitter cold like winter(sometimes) but it's not blazing hot, like summer. It's in between. some days you'll have to wear a jacket, some days all you need is a long sleeve shirt. The trees!!!! I don't know about where y'all live, but in Franklin...no Tennessee, all the trees and leaves are beautiful! There is this one hill that we drive up to get to where I dance, and the veiw is just so spectacular you can't even put into words. On the opposite side, there's another road that's an even bigger hill. There's quite a bit of open land, and there's horses, houses scattered here and there, and a pond (which is full of pond scum; usually) It's a post card perfect, not just picture perfect, but post card perfect. I love everything about fall, and you get to drink hot chocolate.

Did you know there was a differnce between hot cocoa and hot chocolate? A teacher who visits our church, her name is Kate, told me that hot chocolate was shaves of chocolate that are melted and hot cocoa is you the powder stuff. I call it hot chocolate anyway. Just an interesting fact.

Next week, is our school's fall break, and one of my good friends invited me to go camping with her and her family...and lots of friends. We're going to Gatlinburg and it's going to be so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went camping with her about 2 or 3 years ago, and it was really cold, but fun. I can tell you it's probably going to be a little chilly. we're leaving Thursday I believe and coming back the Sunday after that Thursday. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, I just felt like posting today. OH, oh, oh!!! Franklin High school beat Clarkville NE fifty somethin' to 18. It was a great game. And my brother scored a touchdown, that's was cool too.

Brothers...

2005-10-06T20:44:00.000-07:00

I was blessed to have 3 wonderful, older brothers. Unfortunatly, most of y'all know I don't have any sisters. Now of course, they can be, um, annoying, mean, etc. but that's how most brothers are...or is it just mine? Back to the point. So, also most of you all know Mama also works Saturday and Sunday night at the hospital. Since I am the only sane one in the house on weekends, I take charge (except of course there's also my daddy) but sometimes my brothers call me "Mama". For example, I will tell my brothers to do something that Mama asked them to do, and they'll say, ' ''Okay, Mama" '. It drives me CRAZY sometimes!!!!!!!!!!! Then the other night, this cracked me up, My brother said something and I started to say something, but I knew better and stopped myself. Well, J.D. (the eldest of the brothers) replied to what I started to say, "Okay, Cindy" (Mama's first name). I sortive chuckled to myself, and then Caleb (my youngest older brother), who was behind me, said "Yeah Renee`" or something like that. And Renee` is Mama's last name. Huuuh...I mean can you really blame me? Somebody's got to keep my brothers straight during the weekend. Anyway, I just wanted to say that. Have a great rest of the day/night.

Franklin Rebels vs. Brentwood Bruins: The Greatest Rivalry

2005-10-02T12:11:00.000-07:00

Are there any words to describe my feelings about Brentwood??? Hmm...for one they are snobby, they curse a lot, and they think Franklin people are hicks, which is quite funny, so we always wear camo. There was a lot of missed passes, overthrown passes, and some interceptions. We(franklin) lost to Brentwood; the final score was 9-7. Everyone was sad that we lost, because we are such great rivals. The heading for a newspaper article was ' The Mother of all Rivalries'. And of course they were talking about Franklin and Brentwood. we will just get 'em next time. Most off y'all don't know, but Maroon, Black, and white (maybe silver) are Franklins colors.

***note to The Pritchetts in AL: I though y'all were coming to the game??? please comment***

Butterfly

2005-09-28T11:47:00.000-07:00

Here is yet another poem:

Butterfly

By Chelsea Pritchett

I don't know what it is about

The butterfly.

Is it the way they flutter and flit?

Or is it the way they land on a delicate

Blade of grass without bending it?

Perhaps it's the marvalouse

Patterns on their wings,

Each and every one, unique.

This question, will I ever find the answer?

I think not!

It is a mystery no scientist

Can figure out.

It is simply a

Work of God!

Ghost Town

2005-09-28T09:22:00.000-07:00

Ghost Town

By Chelsea Pritchett

I walk through this

Ghost town

I once called home,

The wind sweeps away my

Fondest memories

Yet, the bird's chirping

Gives me hope,

That there is still life in this

Rugged, ole town

When I turn the corner,

I hear a soft cry.

A little girl, all alone,

Cries for her mother in this

Ghost town

As I cradle her in my arms,

She lets me know,

There is still hope in this

Ghost town,

And life will soon stir.

Oh how I love this

Ghost town.

This poem "Ghost Town" came to my thoughts one day as

I was listening to the news. They were talking about the Hurricanes and

how New Orleans was once again a ghost town.I thought about writing a poem called ghost town, and I did. I love writing poetry, I find joy in it.

Cleansing Feeling of a Tidy Room

2005-09-23T19:21:00.000-07:00

Today, I was faced with the challenge to go through my stuff on my shelf. I need some good shelves. Before I went through my stuff, I had these metal shelves that I wasn't to fond of. While I was going through my ( I need another word for stuff) I found quite a few things I was looking for. I have to admit, as much as I didn't want to, it does feel good to have clean out my shelves. Now, instead of metal shelves, I now have crates. They are much better. Next, I must go through my, um, watchamucallit...oh yes my vanity thing. After that, it's my dresser, then my closet. My room with be very neat and clean when I finish all of this.

I didn't have school today, due to professional development day for the teachers.I was ecstatic about this, because I've been wanting to sleep in and...well sleep in. This also gave me time to do the above.

I went to the Greek Festivalthis past weekend in Birmingham, Al. It was extremely fun!!!!! I went with Whitney and her uncle Tim. We had a lamb gyro(yee-ro:pronunciation) and greek salad. By the way, is it pronunciation or pronounciation? The gyro was good, but not my favorite. At the festival, there was dancing, people selling jewelry, scarves, handmade items, and many other things. There were Greek dancers, and to watch them dance was very, what's the word, exilerating. It was extremely crowded. Well I must go eat dinner.

Too much talk about football

2005-09-19T19:53:00.000-07:00

It seems like all I talk about on this blog is football. I'll try to be better about that. I don't always have time during the week to post, with school, dance, after school things. It sounds like a lot but it's really not. I love dancing.I take modern, tap, and ballet. I love all three. I just started last year, after watching variouse movies, I decided it would be fun to take dance. I did take dance when I was about 4 years old, but obviously it didn't last. last year I had taken ballet and tap, and this year I thought I would see what kind of dancing modern was. It's a very loose dancing, and almost free style, in a way. I am enjoying a lot. You know, I never know how to end my posts. I've never been good at finshing statements. So this will be my ending statment.

Good Game for Franklin

2005-09-19T19:41:00.000-07:00

Last Friday Franklin beat Independance, and I believe the score was 35-10.
Independance started three years ago, so this year they only have juniors (10), since the school started out with only 9th graders. UNfortunatly Independance lost one of their players due to an aweful car wreck. People were very respectful at the game. To make the game fair, the coaches played the second and maybe third teams(or strings). At the beginning of the game, though, Seniors did get to play.
We were glad we won!

A Poem for You

2005-09-15T15:40:00.000-07:00

Here is a poem:

Look into my eyes,
My deepest secrets
Are revealed within
The one I love,
He shall never know
Lest he should look
Deep, then my secret
Is no more.

By Chelsea Pritchett

Not a Good Game

2005-09-10T10:19:00.000-07:00

Franklin did not play a good game at all last night. The final score was 14-27. People think that the our football players were thinking that Father Ryan was going to be an easy game, and that Father Ryan really wanted to win...and they did. I'm pretty sure though, that this game was not a region game and it didn't count? I'm not completely sure. Also, another reason they didn't play to well is because they only practiced twice that week. Hopefully they will do better next week. OH!!!! Next week is Caleb's 16th birthday!

Our first loss

2005-09-08T18:30:00.000-07:00

Last Friday night, Franklin High School played a hard game. I do have to say it was not there best playing. Unfortunatly, we lost in double over time by 1 point. I do have good news, we have gained a few players from Mississippi I believe. One of the players is 6' 4" and 280 pounds. He's a senior, so we are happy for him and our team. the Next game is tomorrow night!!!

Alabama

2005-08-27T17:39:00.000-07:00

Oh Alabama, how I miss you!!! Now that school has started, I haven't been able to visit my beloved friends and family. I miss everybody. I can't wait until Labor Day! I get to go to the lake! I love the lake. During the Holidays I will usually be going down to Alabama. This past summer I have practically lived in Alabama. I felt like a had sisters. I got to experience some of the fun things my cousins did. I helped get ready for a tea, I ran and got ice cream from a truck. Let's see, I went to a ball and waltzed (how do you spell that), the circle dance, the Virginia Reel, and we swing danced. I got to row a boat (with a stick) with my cousin and good friend. A helicopter flew over us while we were in the boat, that was cool. I also went to variouse birthday parties which, I might add, were extremly fun. This summer was one of the best. I can't wait till the next time I get to see everyone. Oh yeah I also went to singing school, that was really, really,really fun. We played winkums, and that is a fun game.

Another Victory

2005-08-27T16:32:00.000-07:00

Franklin High School had another victory last night. We won against Oakland High School 27-6. It was a hard game, but they got through it. Unfortunatly, one of our players got it hurt. So far, it's 2-0. I'll keep you posted on the games

oops

2005-08-20T12:40:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry, I had written Licoln County, instead of Lincoln County. I knew something looked different.

Alas! Friday Nights filled with Football

2005-08-20T12:31:00.000-07:00

At last, football season has come around! Franklin started with a great season so far: Franklin 56- Licoln County 8. We scored 3 touchdowns in the first quarter and many more after that. My brother plays on this team he's #6! Last year, he wasn't able to play much at the beginning of the season because he had a hamstring injury, but this year, he is healthy, and we are so thankful(whoa, run on sentence). So last night, he made this AWESOME interception, and he ran to score a touchdown! Then, either before or after this touchdown, the other team made a throw and he ran and tackled the reciever (who had a headstart and the ball),it was so cool. Everybody was saying, I didn't know he could run that fast. If he didn't run that fast they would've made a touchdown. So we had a wonderful time last night. Well that's all for now!

Story of the Telephone

2005-08-15T19:19:00.000-07:00

So I was just minding my own when these evil raccoons came and started attacking me. What did I do? I took out my supercalifradulistic-expealidotiously awesome sword and started to fight them. A slash here, a jab there. Then from out of no where, comes the king of the raccoons. I mean he was bigger than me! And he had this crown of pure gold with the most rarest of all stones (oh darn,I can't think of what it's called, please comment if you know) back to the point. He drew out his sword and I challenged him to a duel. He gladly accepted, as we were fighting I got side tracked by my room thinking, I do need to clean this room up, then he thrust his sword at me. Aha! it missed, but it did cut me on the shoulder. I told him he was going down. Then at the climax of the fight, the phone rang. I realized this all was a daydream. I was so close to beating him, too. Oh well, I thought, better luck next time. That's the story of the telephone.

I'm so happy!!!!

2005-08-15T19:04:00.000-07:00

This is so cool, I have a blog! I've kinda, sorta been wanting a blog.
So I made one. I will try and post as soon as I can.

~Toesthattwinkle