Quick post

Well, this morning we went on a run up chuckanut but not very far becuase Sarah ate yogurt this morning and it didn't feel good on the run.

Well really we were both tired and we haven't ran in like 2 or 3 weeks but that was the main thing.

anyway, after that we went to Haggen and found all of the samples. There were 5. (Crostini [which we ended up getting. :D ], jelly heart, spiced pecan, chips and salsa, and a pretzel thing. They were all good.)

Then we went home and made lunch. (Penne pasta and our usual sauce: Bacon, garlic, and other seasonings like Italian herb and things and then, of course, olive oil. Oh and salt and pepper on the pasta when it was done.)

And now I'm here and sar's taking a nap. Maybe I'll make a poll.......

Snow!

Today it snowed-- actually, a lot! But the rain kept coming back and forth so it was like, snow, rain, snow, rain, so it's not here now.

We played with Reba a lot today because we let her inside for almost the whole day! She cuddled up inside her bed for a while and slept by the heater for most of the day.

Last night was so fun!!!
We went on a night run!
There had been some organized before, but we never went to any. (REGRET!) We all had headlamps and got into some warm clothes-- gloves, hats, tights, NEW warm running shirt!, jacket-- and I was very cozy. But running with a headlamp is hard! I felt kinda like stopping myself all the time because it was hard to tell what was in front of you a little bit, plus we ran up Chuckanut, and all the little stumps and roots were a little scary-- and especially the trail posts felt like they were jumping out at us! Hannah and I actually went the farthest we had going the way that we did, but it was really fun because we were at an awesome pace, I was warm, we actually went kind of fast!, and we were all in a group- we didn't break off into small ones. We ran for an hour. It was awesome.

Okay, it was at 6:00, but it was dark!

Today we made our Stoichiometry [STOY-KEY-OM-EH-TREE] video for Chemistry. I'd explain it here, but I don't want to go into all that detail. ;)

We also practiced our violins. We have a duet for Solo and Ensemble and it's sounding....eh....well, we're practicing.

Well there you have it!  A little update on our lives.
-hANDs

So long, we're so sorry!

We're really sorry it's been so long since we have updated the blog! but boy, does it feel nice to have time. Winter break just started and a break from a ton of school work is nice, though we do have homework. Speaking of, it's been about a year since we've started this blog!

Happy birthday to our blog! ♪♫

This weekend we went to our aunt and uncle's to see most of our family from Canada. It was fun, and the food was good. :) We spent the night at a nearby hotel and just got back.

Well, a lot has been going on lately.... INCLUDING THE HOBBIT!

Bilbo! "I'm going on an adventure!" Seems like the Took-ish part of him has prompted an unexpected journey.

It was a bit different than the book, but you have to expect that from a 3-movie series that is from  A TINY BOOK. That part made me kinda mad, and I didn't love some of the stuff that they added, but it was good anyway! And Riddles in the Dark was AMAZING. Probably the best part in the movie (and the book, in my opinion!) Oh, Gollum. And the music was good-- they had some parts of Lord of the Rings music but added some more themes. They did a great job. There was a lot of fighting scenes, though. Kind of different than the book-- we were talking that if Tolkien directed the movies there would be way more story-telling and journey-walking. Boring for a movie, but kind of his style. 

Another one of my favorite parts was the beginning. They had Frodo!! They started out on the day, "A long-expected Party" AWW ITS SO CUTE. I COULDN'T STOP SMILING. First it's the old LOTR Bilbo and then Frodo steps into the room, smiling at him. I WAS SO HAPPY. (It's like, "Wait, Frodo's happy? That's awesome!" :D Yay!)

The only weird part was that they had a lot of attention on Balin (which I was fine with) and Kili (which got annoying because he wasn't that important in the book. And I like Fili better anyway. And he doesn't really even look like a dwarf.)

With some of the moments-that-had-to-be-added-to-make-it-into-a-two-hour-fourty-five-minute-movie, I got a little frustrated--- were those moments mostly made up? or should I have read the Silmarillion or something to learn what was really going on "behind-the-scenes" of the focus on Bilbo, (and/or Thorin & Co.) like with Gandalf or whathaveyou.

Anyway, it was a superb movie and I am so excited for the other two movies!!!!!
YAY I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS.
(meaning anything Tolkien related, including the Hobbit. :) )

Well, hopefully we'll get back on here before too long!
We're listening to Christmas music now. Yay Christmas. :)
-hANDs
(written by Sarah) ;)

Funny Dream and our happy October.

I had a HILARIOUS dream last night. Well, right now we are playing these American songs for orchestra, and we are also in Quartets. In my dream, Hannah's quartet played, even though it was really only a duet: Hannah as a 2nd violin, and this random girl as the 1st and a random boy as a cellist. The boy never played. Anyway, they started playing "America the Beautiful" and I was like, "Wow! My quartet sounds nothing like THAT! That's amazing!" Hannah had this awesome harmony, and then she and the 1st violin girl started singing the song!!! It was really choral sounding, and Hannah sang a lower part and the girl sang the higher part. I remember looking up at Mrs. Doud, our conductor, who started crying because it was so beautiful sounding. It was all rather comical once I woke up.

Fun times.

Well, last night was the Homecoming football game! Not only that, but it was the assembly too, and we were in the dance! It was really fun. The first song we were in was called Bangarang, and we all wore black hoodies and waved our hands in circles as we ran around the middle basketball line thing, and then we went on the ground and one boy did crazy handstand-ness. Then we all ran off and the next song, Love Shack, started playing. We weren't in that one, so we quickly changed into our outfits (white shirt + black shorts) for Gangnam style. That actually went better than I thought, because usually we had trouble remembering the moves, but everything went pretty well! Our final song was "Twist and Shout" and we re-did the scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off at the parade. We had one guy who looks sort of like him be Ferris Bueller (His outfit was perfect!!) and we all danced around him with American flags, and some people had instruments (like Lydia with her accordian!) and we were all jammin. It was cool.

The football game went well! We didn't win, but it was pretty close until the 4th quarter when Squalicum got a touchdown. (Wow, that's the most I've ever talked about football like that. Weird.) It was fun, but it started to get windy and rainy-misty.

...Which leads us to today. We had an easy workout of 4x800s tempo, which is slow for that distance--a tempo is a pace you could hold for 50 minutes continuously. Still, it didn't help that the rain and wind came. Finally, too-- we haven't had ONE SINGLE PRACTICE IN THE RAIN. Until today, that is. And our season's almost over!

We're pressing apples right now. Well, not RIGHT now, Hannah's making mac and cheese and here I am on the computer, but we did before and we're just taking a break.

Later, world.

It's.... been a while...

Wow! I certainly haven't written anything much on the blog lately!

I went to orthodontist today and skipped XC and found out ON NOVEMBER 28 I GET MY BRACES OFF!  Yayayay!! :D

We have an orchestra concert tonight, at BHS with all the other high schools in The Ham, so I better go back to my homework so I can finish that up. :|

Also, the weather is starting to really feel fall-ish. :) I like it.

Portland!

Our meet at Portland went well!

I didn't have as much fun on the course as last year because this place was different and it was hotter and just a sort of weird course. But we both PR'd for the season for a 5K and had a great time with our teammates!

Race.... complete!

I (Sarah) came in 60th and Hannah came in 66th.... out of 269 runners in our race alone! Total there were about 3600 racers that day, including citizens and middle schoolers.

We had to jump over hay bales 8/ !!!! because it was "too flat" to be a cross country course so they had to add to it. CRAZY!! They also built these "woop-de-doos", just small fast hills, one after another. It was on the middle part of a horse track! It was REALLY hot the first day when we previewed the course, and it was quite a bit cooler the day of the race.... but still hot!!

It was a great time!
-hANDs

Past week or so...

Hi! It's been a while....

We've had a lot of homework lately.... :P But a lot of the time we do things before they are due, so things get out of the way quickly and it's not as hard to fall behind. :)

We had a fun fun cross country meet on Saturday! It was in South Whidbey and it was our first 5K of the year! My time was 23:48:10 and 42nd place out of 145 and Sarah's was 23:41:64 and 36th place! We both felt that it was a good race and we were really happy! It was suuuuuper hot out, though, but we were happy that our race was first, at 10:35.

The course was really good, it was nice and spread out. We did a lap around a field and then went out into the woods and there was this BIG hill. Sarah was awesome going up there! She was so fast! It was great. :)
You did a little lap in the woods, too, and then you went across a baseball field... this was probably the worst part in my opinion. It was really mushy and you lost a lot of your momentum in the dew-y grass. Then you were back on the field and had about 1000 meters to go. Then you got on the track and you finished it off. :) Our coach, Kevin, said that me and another girl, Shauna, did really well, "AWE-some race!! Keep it up!" :D and then at the end, he was yelling at me to pass some girl in front of me, and I did and it was really fun. :)

Well, then on Sunday, it was our dad's birthday! We had celebrated it a few days early because our mom left for Malibu and wouldn't be here on the actual day. But anyway, we gave him a cider-press and so that Sunday we made.... APPLE CIDER! or apple juice. It's really good! A little tart, but it's good all the same! It was really fun to put it together and wind the wheel and chop up the apples and EVERYTHINGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!! It was really fun. :)

We made about 1 and a half gallons!!! :D

Anyway, better get ready-ish for bed now. :)
G'night! :)
-hANDs