Snow

*screams in desperation*

MISSOURI WEATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It snows. At the very tail end of March.

I knew there was a reason I did not take the snow gadget off my blog yet!

The Pirates of Penzance

This is my official invitation! I'd love for you ALL to come! :)

Fine Linen Drama presents

Gilbert and Sullivan's

The Pirates of Penzance

At Ozark Actor's Theater (OAT)

$8 adult

$4 child (16 and under)

$35 per family cap

Tickets are avalible at A Slice Of Pie or by calling 573- 308- 6644

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALANDERS! THE DATES ARE:

April 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 @ 7:00 pm

Also, 2:00 matinee on the 25th.

Yay!

I just jogged two miles! Yay!

Photoshop!

Dad has photoshop on his work computer, and I'm teaching myself how to do it. I'm having some trouble with the memory (it won't let me do much at a time, which is strange since Dad's computer has good memory) and some of the pictures just refuse to merge (as in, the program won't let them). Anyway, here is a first-try at a panorma picture. It's of our backyard. Our house is the red brick one that is warped horribly because of the different points of perspective!

We're not doing school today- we are cleaning and packing. ;)

Thanksgiving Video

Hello! Guess what I finally did? Put the video of some of my cousins on my blog. :) It's very long, and the picture/sound quality is not very good because I had to compress it to 50 MB, but enjoy anyway. :) :) :)

Play Practice

I like blogging. :)
Thanks to Carah for these pictures.
Guess what? I found three references the The Pirates of Penzance in my algebra book (espically from the Modern Major General song- "I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical".), a reference in my literature short story course ("Great Pirates of Penzance!" ~Sam from Ransom of Red Chief), and another reference in a random book I was reading. When you are thinking about something, you see it everywhere!!!

"Through some singular coincidence- I shouldn't be surprised if it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy- you are the victim of the clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year on the twenty-ninth of Febuary."

Mabel scares us! (Cowardly policemen! lol)

I've got... two guns pointed at my head... and I am singing.

Overenthusiastic? Yes. Dressed in green for St. Pat's? Totally. lol. Left to right in the front, Rebecca, me, and Jenna.

The Act II Daughters

I wish had pictures of the set- it's awesome!

What we've been up to

1) Cleaning
2) Cleaning
3) Cleaning

Yup! We've been cleaning! We took this past week off of school to 'declutter' the house (putting things we won't need for a few months into storage). In the meantime, we have been figuring out just how many gazillion things need fixing.
Dad's been working very hard and doing an awesome job. He's repainted the laundry room and removed the grout from the front hall and kitchen. (We still have the three bathrooms and atrium to de-grout). We figured out that if you remove the grout and drop stuff on it before you replace the grout, the tiles will crack very, very easily. Dad is replacing two right now.

Grout removal

Our hardwood floor is being redone. Why couldn't we have done it a year ago, when we could have enjoyed it? It looks awesome. I never realized how bad a shape the floor was in until they redid it! The "floor guy" was over yesterday and today, sanding and doing all sorts of noisy stuff. :) We are not allowed to step on the dining room floor until tomorrow. Whatever he is doing to our floor has really bad fumes, so everyone camped out in the basement last night. Today we did "art day" at Lions Club Park to get away from the house and all the fumes. Since it is really hard to access the kitchen with the dining room blocked off, we got to eat breakfast at Waffle House!!! Yum....
Mom's recovering from her surgery really well, and though she isn't allowed to lift things, she has been directing all of us in the cleaning efforts. We drive her bonkers. ;) Right now she is taking a nap, or else I would be doing my math with her instead of blogging!!!
Oh! One last thing. Over Thanksgiving, when all the cousins were over at Grandma and Grandpa Rackers', I had taken some videos with my (awesome) video camera. I edited it and burned it to DVD, and just sent it off to Grandma and Grandpa in today's mail. Unfortunately it is too long to post on Blogger.
And, of course, I have had play practice. Dad quit the play (wah) but I'm still in it. I have some pictures that Carah (sp?) took on my camera to post, and I also have some videos of the policemen's numbers to download, edit, and post. That takes time and effort, however, and will probably not be posted for quite awhile. :)

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Age 9

Old Drawings

As I was cleaning up my room, I pulled out my old sketchbooks (well, the ones I could find. I seem to have lost some...). Of course, I had to take some pictures of random pages! Most of my good drawings are gone- I tend to give away anything that is decent! Mostly only sketches are left. These are a few from when I was 8. I'll put up some more later.

Our First Moving Boxes

To go into storage to "declutter the house". We already have about ten more packed...

Missouri

Missouri weather *sigh*

WHY CAN'T IT JUST STAY COLD OR STAY HOT?!!!

*very supercilious sigh*

Pictures from Monday Practice

Thanks to Rebecca for the pictures of the Policemen and Alyssa for this picture of the girls! (I get all sorts of good pictures when I hand my camera off to people)

The Major-General and Daughters

We're the policemen!

TARANTARA!!!!

Yes, ma'am!

Let's go get some pirates!!!

We're the crazy policemen

Pictures from play practice Saturday

Nathan (playing Fredrick) and Amanda (Ruth) doing a great job as always.

A "bevy of beautiful maidens" waiting to go onstage.

Climbing over Rocky Mountains

Joel literally threw himself off that box and jumped onto all those strong guys. Talk about a 'trust test'!

Megan and the beautiful birthday girl

Ashley, Clarissa, and Katie

Trying to get the parasol to work

Aha! Got a picture of Alex!!! Beat that, Benjamin! lol

Our awesome "Major General"

Adam the photographer. That camera puts mine to shame, big time!

Aww...

Jennifer and Jeni's serious faces

Benjamin the photographer- another fancy camera!!!

I have more pictures from yesterday thanks to Rebecca and Megan and Alyssa and maybe some more people that I still need to download. And a video of a song the policemen are in with awesomely hilarious blocking. I just don't know how Mrs. Nisbett does it, but its great!!!