'bout time...

Well, I haven't posted in a looooooooong time.
So, I'll see if I can remember any important stuff that's happened duiring said looooooooong time.
ummm, Thanksgiving, which Lana posted about.
Jeremiah's birthday, which was fun. We went to Chuck E. Cheese's, which, is the best place in the world to spend money and time on stupid little prizes. I didn't even bother trying to get lots of tickets, 'cause I never get enough...;P
What else...(actually, I've got something else, I'm just trying to think of something ELSE to write about before the thing that I've already thought about)
We had a special dinner thing at church to kick off our Season of Blessing thingy. It's pretty neat, everybody gets ten bucks and has to use it to bless somebody in whatever way you feel led to. I haven't used mine yet... I guess because I haven't felt like I was supposed to...
Oh yeah! I thought of something cool! About a year ago, I borrowed Relient K's cd "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right but Three do", and I kinda lost it... But I found it the other day! Talk about awesomeness, 'cause I was gonna buy a Relient K cd because I had a huge lack of Relient K cd-nes, if that makes any sense...
But, in order to listen to a Relient K cd without disturbing your mother who doesn't happen to have the same taste in music as you(actually, she has no taste in music whatsoever...), you kinda have to have an mp3 player. So I got one. Not just any old mp3 player. An iPod, 'cause they're the best, in my opinion. And not just any iPod. nope. The one and only iPod Touch!!! It's flippin' sweet!!!!!! It's kinda like walmart, 'cause I lived just fine without it, but it sure is nice to have;P

So, yep, that was what I wanted to write about...

What else.... It freezing rained yesterday/today. Or would you say it rained freeze? Or maybe it frained... Why does everything have to be so confusing?!

I just thought of a couple more things.
We had a party for the end of Spanish class. Caleb and Jared/Steve(could somebody explain that to me please?) M., and I wanted to do a song(I think it's turning into a tradition...). We were gonna do the dance of the cucumber, but that didn't work out, so we just did Feliz Navidad. It didn't turn out quite like we planned, big surprise, but it was pretty fun.
Then yesterday we had a Christmas party in science class, and a test after that(unpleasant story in there...). I think I did pretty good on the test. It won't surprise me if I got it perfect, but then again it won't surprise me if I didn't either;P

Okay, let me see if there's anything else worthy of posting about.....*scanning memory*.... Let's see.. We're going to Florida this summer! It's for a family reunion! I think we're staying for like, five days. Then there's around one-day driving each way, so about a week long deal. It'll be fun! I haven't been to the ocean in a couple of years...

Well, I think that's about it for now... maybe... yep, I think it is...



What?! You're still here? I said that's it! Bye-bye! so long! see ya later






Come on! Don't you understand English? yeah, me neither...;P

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I've always wondered what it would be like to write a whole post on the title thingy... But I'm not going to today

I suppose it’s time for me to take the role of blog-writer once again.
Let us look back and see what awesome and stupid things I have done in the not-so-distant past…
School started this week. Can I get a “bless his heart”?;P It ain’t all that bad... Except for math *shudder*, but I think I’m over that now (at least, I'm supposed to be). Not much else goin’ on...
Fan the Flame is in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell I’m excited? AND, my dad is driving a church van up there, so he gets to come too! Several times now, he has tried teasing me about not being able to go(of course, I'm virtually un-teasable, right? ;P), and I said it was ’cause he was jealous. But now, he has (basically) an obligation to go! As I said in a comment on the last post, 19 signed-up to go! I’m excited to see what God has in store for us. I’m also excited to see what all they changed up(and I know they changed things up, ‘cause, well, I just know). I guess I’m just plain excited! In fact, I’ll say it right now, I’M EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What else…. I got the first “Left Behind” book on Tuesday. I really liked it. In fact, I can’t wait to go to church on Sunday so I can get the second one! On second thought…. Never mind, I’ll be back at church on Tuesday for Spanish class again, so I can get the third book then. Which reminds me, Micro-biology stats on Monday. I’m looking forward to that, ‘cause I kinda like science. Any of y’all taking it too? Just wondering, ‘cause I’m gonna miss one week due to vacation, so I’m gonna need to get a copy of notes and homework and stuff.
I also have to go to bed, so, you know how that goes…..
BYE!
Tony
P.S. I’ll post that video later, Lana. I just didn’t want to have to find it right now.

From Paper to Plastic !

So, I got my restricted license last week! Now, I have photo I.D.! The dumb thing is, to get said license, you have to have a birth-certificate and another form of "secondary identification". What I want to get is, how is a 15 year old supposed to have a plethora of I.D.? AND, the nasty people at the DMV wouldn't take a year-book as I.D., so they sent us to the bank to have some person sign a paper saying that I am, in fact who I am, and that dad is, in fact, my father. Dad and I kinda looked at each other, and were like, "duh, can't you tell? you need somebody from a bank to tell you that?". Man, some things are so dumb and time-consuming. AND, when I took the road test, the guy fussed at me for backing out of the parking space, even though I did it EXACTLY how the book tells you to! Then, he started this whole talk about how they should take that out of the book because "you can't fully control your vehicle if you don't have two hands on the steering-wheel at all times"... And then he got onto me about the way I stopped, and said I didn't come to a "complete" stop, because he didn't get slammed back in his seat. Sigh, if he thinks I did bad, he must not have been the one to give Lana her road test, because there would've been no way she could have passed it.;P

Something kinda cool is, when I was getting the license, I got to say I wanted to be an organ donor. Not that I want to have to donate any organs right now, but it's cool to know that if something were to happen to me, I could maybe give somebody a chance for a better life...

Anyways, mom and dad's anniversary was Friday, so they went up to Tulsa and Lana and Luke came to our house to help out(or was it, "make out"???;P).

On Sunday, Tim didn't end up showing the FtF video, but we still had like, 15 people sign-up to go, and several more were going to think about it. Not too bad, seeing as how they didn't know hardly anything about it...

What else? umm, Brandon and I each started an iPod Touch fund. We figure, by the time we get enough money for them, they'll be cheaper, at least, I hope so... I'm not gonna buy any extra little stuff, and I'll save my b-day and Christmas money, splitting it between savings and my fund, so it shouldn't take more than a 1/2 million years or so to get enough...;P



Now for an outlook on the not so distant future.

We're going to some friend's house on Friday(that's getting more and more rare as our family get bigger, I don't think we'd fit at a lot of tables ;P)! We start school next Monday, and spanish class starts the Tuesday, so that's cool. Microbiology starts the 25th, so that's pretty awesome too.

Oh, duh! FtF is less than two weeks away!! I almost forgot to mention that. I'm really excited that the CCC youth group is finally going!! I'm hoping more people will sign up to go next week.



I'm gettin' hungry, so, I'm gonna go now



-Tony, the most awesomest one by that name

A POST

Hello, welcome to clevertony.blogspot.net. (It's ".com")

Oh, welcome to clevertony.blogspot.net-it's.com.

Hey everybody, this is, A POST!

Are y'all happy? ;P

Seriously, this is a post.

What's goin' on?...

We got "Wii Fit" the other day, and it's AWESOME!!!!!

We'd been trying to find one for like, several weeks.

And they finally had some at Best Buy.

We actually got three of them.

One for us, and the other two for people at dad's work

(they couldn't find any either).

I had to go to church on Friday to practice the skits.

I was about ready to pass out for the first hour or so,

because I felt awful and my part requires lots of yelling...

Oh well, the pains of acting.

I get my seat reserved at church on Sunday (it makes me feel special),

'cause we don't want us drama people to cause a scene just getting out of our seats.;P

Brandon and I watched the Platinum Edition Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,

which was awesome!!!

What else?????

I went up to Luke's grand-parents house Tuesday evening/Wednesday to film Hunted,

and I think we finished almost all of my scenes,

including the much anticipated paintball scene(I was excited about that).

When we were having breakfast Wednesday,

Daniel looked over and saw some armidillos,

so we ran over there (barefoot), grabbed some rocks and had a war with 'em.

I hit one, but it ran into the woods.

When I got back over with Daniel,

he said one of them had fallen off of a small cliff thingy (around 15 feet high).

So, we climbed down (still barefoot),

but the dumb thing had crawled back were we couldn't get to it.

So Daniel went back up, and I stayed down there.

After a minute, it came out again, and Daniel threw a rock on it's head (from the top of the aforementioned small cliff-like thingy).

Then the thing started going bonkers and went into convulsions and stuff,

so I ran over to where it was and threw a rock at it and it ceased breathing.

So, I should get credit for killing it, but Daniel, will beg to differ.;P

What else?

Mom and dad's anniversary is next Friday,

whcih also means my permit expires next Friday

(not sure what we're doin' about that yet..)...

This is turning into an incredibly long and therefore probably boring post.

So, good-morning.

And in case I don't see you, "good-afternoon", "good-evening", and "good-night".

Except that it's already afternoon, so, that ruins that whole plan...

-Tony

I think a title is supposed to go here...

Brandon has been getting on to me for not posting a real post(of course, he hadn't updated in forever until this morning ;P), so, I might as well go ahead and post...

ummm, what's been going on???
Brandon and I have been roofing the barn, and we finished it this morning.
Mom hasn't been feeling well, so I have to help with cooking and such. Cooking isn't bad, it's the cleaning up after it(which, I don't always do...).
Brandon and I invented a new sport called, umm, "underwater kung fu", or something like that. It's pretty fun, because we can punch each other as hard as we want and it doesn't hurt! At least, not too bad...
I need to call Lana at some point today to ask her if she's gotten a copy of the FtF video to CCC yet, 'cause we need to start showing it in church this Sunday.
Speaking of Sunday, I kinda volunteered/got volunteered to do some short drama stuff to go along with a sermon. So I have to miss Sunday school next week to work on it.
It kinda stinks because "Elder selection Sunday" was last week, and in Sunday school we had a mock nomination thingy. But we were gonna see how our "votes" lined up with the actual votes. So I don't get to be in there for that.
We also nominated people from the youth group to be our leaders. I should've voted for myself, but I don't know how that would've worked.;P I know I got at least one vote though, because I heard someone say "How do you spell 'Lou....'?". It was kinda funny, especially since it turned out to be Joel M. that said it. Of course, then he asked me if I would vote for him... no way! ;P
Anyways, I'm doing a skit thing, and I get to be a wild preacher guy and hit people with a big bible. It's gotta be cool if I can do that! I really have no idea what I'm doing other than the vague description I just gave y'all.
There are four other skits too, but we haven't picked people for those yet. I probably won't be in those(at least not *all* of them) because I'm not sure if we'll be in town or not...

Oh, also, the Hildes are moving again. FAR away this time though:( I mean, really far...

Well, I'm being beckoned away from the compy, so, bye

-Tony

We got it on ebay

We got a go-kart last night!!!!!

Here's a pic of it

Here's Brandon in action!!!

And then, of course, me. Doing some awesome doughnuts

It's totally SWEET!!!!!

we've been saving for it for quite a while,

putting money in the fund for b-days, Christmas, Father's day, etc.

And now, we finally have it!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a JEHM Powersports BX125 ATK(all terrain kart), and it's AWESOME!!!

And it's fast!!!! And it looks cool!!!!! And it's big enough for me!!!! And it's two-seater!!!!

Brandon has a couple short clips of us driving it on his blog,

and he'd appreciate if you'd comment him.

I'll post a regular update eventually, if I feel like it...;P

Happy Independence Day to YOU!!!!!!!

I LOVE the 4th of July!!!

Fun, food, fireworks, festivities, fun-ness, fire stuff, umm, I'm running out of words.

Anyways, it's one of my favorite holidays. I'm just gonna write a few quick things 'bout what's been going on, in no particular order.



We re-painted and replaced carpet in Lana's room, so it's now the playroom. Which means that the house should stay a little bit cleaner... I hope.

We got a bunch of stuff from Granny's house, and most of it is put up, I think.

Brandon and I have been riding T.J.'s dirtbike some, in our spare time. I finally got some "big" air!! Meaning like, 1 1/2 to 2 feet above the ground...

T.J. finally started posting on his blog, which is cool.

I still haven't thought of a good name for my kitten, and she's several months old. So, I'm open to suggestions.*hint*hint*

The pool-water is warm now, which is good because I strongly dislike cold water.

We're getting a new TV today, I think, but it might be later. Then, once we get it setup, we're gonna watch the "Two Towers" platinum edition!!!! I'm excited about that, 'cause the only extended one I've seen is the "Fellowship of the Ring", and it was AWESOME!!!

Umm, what else? T.J. is coming over later today.



I can't think of anything else worth saying, so, God bless, have a fun fourth, don't burn yourselves(I tend to do that with fireworks)!!!

-Tony

Long post ahead

I had all these great things to post about last night, now I can only remember a few.

Last Wednesday: we went up to Bentonville so dad could help Uncle Mitch with funeral preparations. So, we got to hang out with Jordan and Jacob. We played super smash bros. quite a bit. We also went swimming and rode scooters and ripsticks ect. I also figured out that you can send text messages via bluetooth, so we had some fun with that. ;P Then we played lazer tag, listened to music, played wii, and watched youtube videos until we went to bed.

ummm, Thursday(because Thursday usually comes after Wednesday):
Aunt Shanna(dad's sister), Uncle Len(her husband), Austin & Josh(their kids, our cousins),
Aunt Laurie(dad's *oldest* sister ;P), Sam(one of her kids, another cousin),
Uncle Kyle(dad's oldest bro) & Aunt Sunnie(his wife), and then their kids (who are all adults), J.R., & and his fiance Courtney, Kimmy & her daughter Nabia(she's 2 1/2 yrs. old and she's sooo cute)
and Miss Madeline(one of my granny's friends)
All of those people gathered at Granny's house and came over to Uncle Mitch's house for lunch and swimming and stuff.
After that, we all(everybody from both houses) went to Granny's house for dinner(T.J. came up at some point too, but he was there when I got there), provided by people from Uncle Mitch's church(I think, but I'm not sure about that). Then we went to the funeral home for the first visitation, or whatever you call it.
Then, everybody that was staying at Uncle Mitch's house went back there, except for me, because I was trading places with Josh for the night.
Thursday night, Austin, Sam, T.J., and I, stayed up really late playing Halo 3!!
Friday morning, we all met at Uncle Mitch's house, again(do you notice a theme here? ;P), and then headed up to Kansas.
Later on Friday, we had another visitation for people up there. Then we(all of the people mentioned before, and then some) went to a place kinda like Golden Corral(except not as good) for dinner. When we got back, me and a bunch of cousins played poker in the hotel lobby, with sugar and creamer from the hotel's breakfast stuff.
Saturday: I got up at 6:45 to go running with Uncle Chet, cousin Joe, Uncle Len, Uncle Mitch, and cousin Jacob. I forgot to mention that Joe is on a track team, and everybody else has been running daily for quite a while(and I haven't hardly at all), so I wasn't sure if I could keep up with them. I think we ran 3.4 miles. Not too far, but a pretty good run. I actually did pretty well. I didn't get tired till the last half mile.
Around noon, Aunt Laurie took Brandon, Austin, and me to get some lunch at the "Kreem Kup". Eventually everybody ended up there too.
Also, I forgot to mention, us older boy cousins were the pallbearers, which paved the way for all sorts of dumb jokes.
Then we had the Funeral service at an Episcopalian church(it was very strange). And then went out to the cemetery(which was out in the middle of nowhere).
Then we went back to the church for dinner. Then took family pictures and went back to the hotel.
Saturday night: we had a Halo tournament, in which I got creamed...

We left the hotel at 3:00 in the morning, so I slept most of the way home.

And that concludes my wonderful post about our trip.


P.S., as I am typing this, mom is playing a game on the Wii. And when I asked if I could try it, she said "finish your post, boy", and then got back to her game.

Now she's tickled because she beat Brandon's high score, on her second try

EDIT: I beat her high score awhile ago, so I ROCK!!!!! What else is new? ;P

This is the last night she'll spend alone

On the chance that anybody reads this before 7:00 P.M. tomorrow, please pray for us and that everything will come together smoothly(or at least not un-smoothly). There are a million tiny things that still need to be taken care of.

I have no idea what all is getting done tomorrow. All I know is that dad and I still need to go pick up our tuxes and some stuff for the reception.

I think this is the first time I've ever been really stressed in my life. It's not a very pleasant feeling. I need to go to bed.

The amazing thing to me is that in the midst of all of this extra stuff, life still goes on. Maybe not normally, but it goes on nonetheless.

Still, I cannot begin to describe how glad I am that we won't have to do this again for another 20 years or so. I mean, I'm really, really glad most of us are boys. ;P

I have mixed emotions. My sister is getting married. My sister is leaving. I get a brother-in-law. I get Luke(sorry, but I couldn't resist). So, yeah, it's weird.

I'm getting off now
-Tony

Titles are what you use when you don't have anything better to say

Happy Mother’s day!! Since everybody in the world has a mother, I guess they must be pretty special. ;P
I was gonna write a nice post for mom, but I couldn’t think of the right words to say. So, I guess I’ll just say this ”Happy Mother‘s day, I love you mom”.
Now, where to begin? I don’t remember when I posted last, so I don’t remember what all has happened since then… I guess I’ll just write about Saturday.
Saturday morning, dad, mom Brandon, and Jeremiah got up early and went to a yard sale some church was having. After they got back, Lana, mom, Josiah, and Lily went to the last wedding shower while the rest of us stayed home and cleaned the house and yard and everything. The plan for the rest of the day was that after the shower, mom and them would bring something home for lunch, and aunt Shana and granny would come over for awhile. Around half past noon, dad got a call on his phone, but I didn’t hear it until it was pretty much done ringing. So, I gave him his phone and a few minutes later, I heard something about….Tony….work….farm. Then, being the curious guy I am, go in to see what’s going on. It turned out that it was the guy that was gonna have me work on his farm, and he and his son were going out there for the day and wondered if I could go with them. So, I got to do my first day of work!! I was pretty excited! Once we got there, they gave me the tour of half of the farm(there are 200 acres in all, butyou have to cross a creek to get to the other side, so I saw that later). It was fun. I got to ride in one of these,

and then I ate weeds (with a weed eater) for over two hours until we got rained out(or in, I guess). My arms are sooo sore today. After that, we took a break and then I got the tour of the rest of the farm. There aren’t any cows on the second part, just some barns and a LOT of grass. They showed me where they might build a pond, and where they’ll put a fence. They have around 100 cows right now, and after those improvements, they’ll get another 150 or 200 more. They just had a bull born Friday night and his momma wouldn’t nurse him, so they have to bottle feed him. He’s soo cute. I don’t think I’d ever seen a cow that little before…
After all of that, it was still raining, so we decided to call it quits for the day. It wasn’t bad for my first day of farming. ;)

I'm so cool, you don't even know I'm cool. That type of cool

Oh, let’s see(unless you‘re blind, then you don‘t need to see. Of course, if you were blind, you wouldn‘t be reading this anyways…).
I’m not gonna mention everything that’s happened recently, ‘cause that would take too long and it would be too boring. I’ll just talk, or write, as it were, about… Not everything!! I’m just kidding(sort of. I mean, I‘m not going to talk about “everything”, but I will talk about something. Once I get to it). ;P
I guess I better get to telling something interesting. Ummm… Oh, duh! I went a little brain dead for a second. Where was I? Oh yes, I was remembering something.(btw, I‘m not really this forgetful. I‘m just having some fun).

On Sunday, T.J. B. loaned me his electric bass, so I could learn to play it for when we start a band(if we start a band). It’s cool and pink and awesome. I didn’t really have much time at all to play it that day, and then we had a chemistry field trip on Monday(which was fun, btw), so I only messed with it a tiny bit.

After our field trip, Caleb, Daniel, and I got together to work on our presentation. Daniel had told us that he had a song we could perform, but he wouldn’t tell us what it was. So, he finally shows it to us and it turned out to be an incredibly dumb, yet extremely funny song. Daniel got his guitar out, and we worked on it for awhile. After we went through it once or twice, We decided that Daniel would play guitar, Caleb would play mandolin, and I(yes, me), would get to play the cowbell. I wasn’t too happy with that plan, so I decided I would just learn how to play the song on the bass. It couldn’t be *too* hard, could it? Nope, not too hard. It’s pretty easy, for a beginning bassist. The only trouble I had was that I wasn’t quite sure which “G” or which “F” to play. But I called Daniel this morning, and he said it really didn’t matter. It’s gonna be really sweet once we practice some more. I’ve already got my part mostly memorized.

What else is going on… We got the riding mower fixed, so now we can mow again. The pool is still too cold, but it’s warming up. Hopefully it will be warm enough next week. Wedding stuff is coming along nicely(I think). Everybody in my family that gets to wear a tux has been measured. I need to take Lola and Donor to the vet for their annual shots soon(they‘re gonna *love* that). Which reminds me. I need to get some covexin8 for the goats too…(*I‘m* gonna love that)
I think that’s all,
Yippee-cay-oh, get along little doggie(short dogs are cool too)

Btw, here's a pic of me when I was around Josiah's age. We could pass for twins. Except for the huge age difference.

I just killed a bug(almost)

EDIT: Right after I asked Lana to proofread this, she totally freaked out because she saw a bug, but it ran away before I got there.
Ummm, let's see. I haven't posted since last...Thursday.
I don't think much of anything happened Friday.
Saturday was dad's birthday. We spent most of the day working on leveling the ground for the pool(which is done now, btw).
Sunday, went to church... I'm not sure if we did anything extra. I can't remember.
OH!! I just remembered something exciting we did on Friday!! We went to the mall and went clothes-shopping, which usually isn't all that great, but this time was different!! I was in JCPenney's, looking for jeans, when I saw the coolest things in the world(well, maybe not the *coolest*, but it was pretty cool at the time). Slim-fit men's jeans(boot-cut, I think...). I didn't even know they made such a thing. I was like, "oh, wow. I need to try some of those!". They're pretty sweet!! It might not be a big deal to you guys, but it's pretty cool to find jeans that'll fit really well. It seems that everyone in my family has their own different troubles finding jeans...
Today, Monday, I had chem class in the morning. Our group finished our poster board, finally. It looks pretty awesome. Each group has to do some sort of presentation thing at our class presentation night in two weeks. I'm not sure what we're doing, but I think Me, Daniel, and Caleb(I know that's not the *proper* way to write that, but that's the way I say it...) are gonna all do something for it. We thought about doing a song, but we're not sure how that'd work. We also found out this morning that we were having a final test(oh boy!), or exam, whichever you prefer. I had a little bit of trouble with some of it, but at the end Mr. Herb said we had three minutes to help eachother with two problems. So, I ended up aceing it. I was pretty excited. I think I'm gonna try to clep out of college chem soon, while it's still fresh in my mind.
Mr. Herb is teaching physics and micro-biology next year. I'm taking micro for sure. I don't know about physics, mom doesn't think I could handle two science classes at once...
Tomorrow is Lana's b-day. I got her present tonight, finally.
I think that's all.

later alligator(after a while crocodile) ;P

You say you're sorry, does that mean you're sad you got caught?

I think it’s about time to update, so, I update. Let us see… I can’t think of anything worth writing about other than the fact that the Hilde’s came over yesterday!!!! They came over after church and had lunch with us. Then we all went to Lana and Luke’s wedding shower. I think it was the first time I’d ever been to a wedding shower before. It was pretty fun. Probably helped that I knew everybody there.
They had a table set up with cards on it to write pieces of advice for them. I filled two out. I’m not sure if they’ll appreciate all of the work I put into it. ;P (you won‘t understand the humor if you weren‘t there. sorry).
I can’t believe I almost forgot what I’m about to write about. Brittany Hilde(my cousin) got her “dream car” the other day(that was the whole reason that they came up). I was almost jealous at first. But then I took a ride in it. It was a pretty tight fit… I guess I’ll tell you what it is. Better yet, I’ll show you a pic of it (I got this pic from some website, so it's not actually "her" car, but it looks just like it)

Pretty sweet, huh? Not as cool as this! (well, maybe it's as cool, but not as "me")

This is just like my dad's car (except ours has black stripes on the sides and a black rear bumper), which I'm going to buy later. Pretty sweet, huh? Moving on.......

What else??? Chemistry class again today. We took a propane torch to the edges of our poster board. Now it's AWESOME!!!!! I'll get some pics of it once it's finished. Somebody brought cookies and put a plate on our table. They were gone in less than two minutes. ;P I'm done for now, so, I'll be going. Bye!

I hope you like it. It took me three hours to complete the shading on your upper lip

Well, let’s see. *Somebody* told me I have a lack of "newpostness", which I don’t think is a real word.;P But I was gonna post anyways, so, here goes nothing.
Let me think...ah-ha! My dad had/has a kidney stone. The pain started REALLY bad the other day, so on Friday afternoon, Lana took me up to his work so I could play chauffeur for awhile. Then, on Saturday, we had milk run, so I got to drive MORE then!! I just love driving. There’s something about feeling that power under you feet and zooming along the highway. *sigh* It’s wonderful. One of the best parts is when you pass people. Even though I never speed (never "intentionally" that is), there’s always a car going slower than I am. It just gives me a good feeling to drive by someone while I’m in Lightning (that’s dad’s car). I don’t know if it’s just a guy thing or what, but I love driving. So, yeah, enough about cars.
Sunday: Church was good. Worship service was awesome, sermon was good, Sunday school was good. So, yeah, church was good. After church, me and dad ran some errands then we came home and had lunch real quick before Lana, mom, Pie, and dad left to go to Lana and Luke’s shower at his church. I got to stay home and watch the boys. It actually wasn’t too bad. We watched a movie and played outside and had several snacks (you can never forget snacks. Snack time is one of the second best times of day).After that, T.J. came over for awhile.(I’m not sure how long he stayed, I had to head to bed Fred)
Today, had chemistry class. We worked on our display board for our project some. I had completely forgotten about an assignment that we had, so I finished that up real quick while we were waiting for the lecture. I have math and then a little bit of other stuff to do today, then I’m done schoolwise.
Tomorrow, testing in the morning!!! WHOOOHOOOO!!!!! I’m excited!!Testing is soooo much fun. I’m kinda bummed that it’s only for one day though. It used to take like, three days. It’s my last year for it too. So that’s kinda sad.
Ummmm, what else? Normal busy week ahead for the home team. Oh!! I just remembered something! The Hildebrands are coming on Sunday!!!!!! I’m excited. They’re coming up for the wedding too. So we’ll get to see them more this year than we normally would in two years.
I can’t think of anything else. If I do, I’ll just write it later.
So, farewell from the Tony maestro.

Got Green?

Usually I don’t have anything to post about, but today I actually have a couple of somethings to post about!!

First (and most recent): Lola (my little dog) was sniffing around some bushes and got her ear caught in some thorns. She just got a little slit in her ear, nothing major, but it bled like CRAZY. She looked like she had just about lost her head or something like that. I guess that’s not really the type of thing that people like to read about, huh? So, I’ll talk about….something different!! Umm, let’s see, I had something else to write about, I just know I did!!! I can’t think of it!! It’s DRIVING ME CRAZY!! ARGH!! Ooooh!! I just remembered!! It’s St. Patrick’s Day today!! So, if anyone in your family isn’t wearing green, run up and pinch ’em before they can change clothes. Unless of course the un-green person is Lana and she is standing by the sink and she’ll spray you with freezing cold water if you pinch her. But if it’s not Lana, then it’s probably semi-safe to go ahead and pinch them. ;P

I wrote a poem about wind the other day and Lana said it was good. I’m not sure if I really like it or not.
I know, I know, you guys are just dying to read it aren’t you? Hmmm, show them or not show them? Gotta know. I guess I’ll show you.
I am the wind
I give the trees a voice
I move the air under a bird’s wings
I bring the clouds that hide the sun
And then I take them away again
I am a gentle breeze
I am a powerful storm
I make the waves in the ocean
I make buildings crumble and fall
I lift children’s kites
I awaken men’s dreams
I am the wind
I’m still not sure if I like it or not. But if Lana says it’s good I guess it must be at least mediocre.
I had something else to post about, but it left me. Oh yeah, I got it again.
Easter is this Sunday!! I think we’re going to my Granny’s house, but I’m not 100% sure about that. And I think that we are going to the Easter program at the Hobbs’s church; we’ve gone every year since we've known them.
The other day, Lana told me about “Enchanted”. I think that it’s some fairy-tale movie gone wrong or something like that, but I don’t know (it looks funny). Anyways, it’s coming out tomorrow, so we’ll probably rent it at some point this week.

Birthdays, dancing, and food

Ahh, (sigh) life is good(for the most part).
Uncle Scott went skiing last Monday, so he and Uncle Charlie(who isn‘t even related to Uncle Scott, so it’s kind of funny that we call him “Uncle Charlie”) met at our house and he left his car here.
He came back today to pick it up. So I got to show him Felicity (who is getting big, btw).
I’ve been playing my guitar everyday for the past week or so(which doesn‘t have anything to do with anything). It would be a lot better if I knew more songs because everything that I play, I can play really well. Problem is, I don’t know just a ton of songs.
We had chicken noodle soup for lunch today. MAN it was goood!! Luke wrote a post on food once, I might have to do that sometime…
Lily-pie’s b-day is in a few weeks. I need to get a present for her, and then I need to get a present for T.J., and then one for dad, and another one for Lana, and one last one for Josiah. It great having five birthdays in in less than 1 ½ months time. ;P

I want to start working soon, but my future boss hasn’t said anything about when I’m going to start. *If* I do end up working for him, I think I’ll be a cross between a cowboy and a farmhand. I guess you could call it a farm boy, but I’m already one of those so it’s probably better to call it a cowhand, or maybe just not give me a title. If I *don‘t* work for him, I might work at Goodson’s or someplace like that.
What I really need to do is figure out what I want to do for a living after college so that I can figure out what I should major in. I just re-realized the other day that, I’m going to graduate in a few years and I’ll be an adult in 2 ½ years. Whoa, when did everybody get so old? (no offense mom and dad ;P)

I talked to Tim about Fan the Flame this morning. He asked me (again) what day it’s going to be. And then he said, “you know what? Maybe you should just e-mail me about it, them I can save it and look at it later”. So, I told him that I would send him a e-mail sometime this week. And then, he got the idea to just put *me* in charge of getting all of the information and telling everyone about it and all that stuff, then he wouldn’t be able to forget about it.
I probably need to talk to him some more and find out exactly what he wants me to do… I think that it will be good for the youth group if they go. I know it’s been good for me the last couple of years. ;P

Just 2 ½ months until the wedding. There’s still a TON of stuff to get done, most of it has to be done closer to the time of the wedding.

T.J. used to work at I.F.C auto shop, and he went bowling with Barry(his old boss) the other day. He said that when it wasn’t Barry’s turn, he was in the back dancing like I would do. And then T.J. started saying that he had some sweet moves, at which point I interrupted saying, “Hey! You said Barry dances like me and that he has sweet moves. Does that mean I have sweet moves too?” Apparently T.J. thinks that I do. ;P
After talking with T.J. for awhile, he said that Barry used to teach dance at some studio in town, and he would be willing to teach us some stuff for free.
I think that would be pretty sweet. To dance alongside a guy that dances like I do. That doesn’t happen everyday. ;P

Words from a football dislikin' hot-pink wristband wearin' "duitar" playin' guy...

I got my hair cut on Saturday. It’s just long enough that my hair still curls up, but not so long that it won’t brush nicely. So that’s good (Thanks mom). On Sunday, most of the family was sick, so only Lana and I went to church. At chemistry class on Monday, we all got our papers back, all graded and everything. I got a 100!! I was pretty happy about that. Later on Monday night, Lana picked a voice out for me. I know, it sounds pretty weird, but it had to be done. I guess I better explain what I’m talking about.

I have this ability (if you want to call it that) to mimic, almost perfectly, the voices of many of the popular Christian singers. The problem is, because I do it so often, I have a hard time finding my “normal” singing voice. So, Lana, being the loving sister that she is, suggested that I should just copy one of the voices that I can do well and make that my normal singing voice (She chose Brandon Heath, btw, in case any of you were wondering). But now that problem is, I still can’t, for example, sing a Skillet song without copying John Cooper’s voice. I have to wonder how many other people have this problem. ;P Actually, I was wondering if there is a way to make a living by “mocking” famous people (other than Elvis Presley).

Not much else is happening except I got sick on Tuesday night, which really stinks. I’m pretty much over it now though. I’m just a tired and weak. I should be at least mostly back to my normal (or not so normal) self by tomorrow.

Time for braces to say good-bye.

Hello everyone and welcome to Mountain Dew anonymous, for those that have abuse problems with Mountain Dew…. I think I’ll just stop there.

I don’t really have much to talk about, but I wanted to write a post. So, bear with me as I ramble a bit.
I GOT MY BRACES COMPLETELY OFF!!!!!! I am just a “little” bit excited.
It felt sooo good to finally get them off after two years of check-ups and adjustments and such. It also felt really good when Dr. Udouj told me teeth looked, and I quote, “beautiful”.
Now, whenever I brush my teeth, it seems so effortless, almost too easy, since I’ve had to brush around and under and over all of the brackets. Also, the first time I brushed my teeth after getting them off, they were literally “squeaky clean”. It was soooo cool!

On Thursday afternoon (Luke‘s B-day), Luke drove Lana, Brandon, and I up to Springdale to watch the Patriots play in the state tournament!! It was one of the best games I’ve ever watched. And, it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun if the patriots hadn’t won (the first game I mean, not the whole tournament )! Could somebody please let me know how they did yesterday!! I meant to call Daniel and ask him, but I forgot.

I can’t think of anything else that happened that is worth writing about, so, I guess I’ll stop now.

Oh, btw, the wedding is exactly three months away. Things are gonna start getting really crazy around here…

I'M GONNA TRY TO BE CIVILIZED...

Warning! This post will be very random since I thought my update posts are getting pretty boring.
I’m wearing my glasses because I couldn’t see very well all day. So I finally remembered “Oh! I have glasses, I should probably put them on”. sometimes I feel so dumb….
I can’t think of anything better to do, so I’m going to… type something! WOW!!! That was the most profound thing I’ve typed all night.
Lately there has been much discussion about my different “faces” and voices and such. I might post pics or a video or something eventually, but I don’t feel like it right now. So, I guess the best I can do is say that most of the voices, while being able to make the majority of people laugh, are not really worth posting about. So, I probably won’t post about them (that was the second most profound thing I‘ve typed).
I think that I’m about to say something random (dramatic gripping pause)…..
ARAGORN IS AWESOME, GIMLI IS GREAT, and LEGOLAS DOESN’T HAVE ANY LEGOS!! WHICH IS WHY HE’S LEGO-LESS. That is really dumb, but I thought that it needed to be shared, so, I shared it (third most profound thing). I think that our youth group is almost definitely going to Fan the Flame, which will be pretty awesome I think.
Sickness is making it’s rounds in our house. I still haven’t gotten sick, and I sure hope that I won’t.
I can’t think of anything else to write about, so, I guess I’ll stop writing pretty soon here (fourth most profound thing).
Oh!, I almost forgot. I’m working on starting a semi-regular teen movie night thing. If any of you guys would be interested in coming to it you can e-mail Lana about it and we’ll get you the information on it.
I’m not sure how long we’ll keep doing it. Lana say’s her and Luke will come if they get invited and aren’t too busy. And, I almost forgot to mention something else. I call it a “teen” movie night, because then we can choose a movie that is PG-13 and then leave it up to the parents to decide if they want their kids watching it or not. So, If you want info on it, e-mail Lana and we’ll get you info on it (fifth most profound thing).
Well, I’m gonna stop writing because I don’t really have anything at all left to say.
Happy Presidents Day!!! Or would you say “Merry” Presidents Day????

Btw, this is the picture that I would put on posters if I was gonna run for President.....

Pretty snazzy, huh?