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

CROSS COUNTRY INVITE+ sLeEpoVEr!

Yay! Lydia came over for a sleepover after Sarah and I had a XC meet on Saturday!

The course for the meet was really hard... this year and last year. :P We went around Civic twice and the entire length was only 2 miles, but still, it was pretty hard. And there were around 1000 total runners there from 30-ish schools!

Sarah and I were running together for about the first mile, but then a hundred meters in or so, I wasn't able to take in full breaths! I got really tired, and a ton of people passed me, and I made these terrible noises while I ran that I just couldn't stop making. It was not fun.

But then, right at the end, I was on the home stretch, still pluggin' along, when all of a sudden, I realize there's a girl right behind me! I told myself to make sure that she didn't pass me, but she was soon right next to me!!!! I then put on my really mean running face and whooooooosh.... I pulled ahead. :)

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit."

Even though the run was hard and I didn't do as well as I wanted, it was still fun to be there, and Sehome Girl's got 2nd place! Boys got 1st, and combined, Sehome won the whole invite! :D Yay!

At dinner-ish time, Lydia came over and we made these awesome tie-dye shirts! We all weren't sure how they were going to turn out, since we were going to try doing them in a spiral, but it worked out really well and they all look SO COOL!

Top: Lydia, Hannah Bottom, Sarah

 Lydia came to church with us and then we went to Harris Avenue Cafe and ate lunch. :) It was good!
The first weekend of the school year was a good one. :)
-hANDs

School, school!

And so, 10th grade has begun!

It's a significant amount of homework (for the first week!) but I'm sure we'll adjust and find time to do all of it. AP World History will by far provide the majority of our homework... but I think that as long as time is managed, we can be on top of it.
Our Classes:
-Algebra 2 (which we have together!)
-Honors Chemistry
-French 2
-Advanced Orchestra
-AP World History
-English

 For me, all my classes are good! We got some new orchestra songs today. Hard. :-/ But I know that all songs end up easy eventually... just takes practice. English is a little hard to stay focused... my teacher talks for a while, so my mind will wander.... Oh well. :)

We made a REALLY great video called "A hobbit, a princess, a tribute"-- obviously about Lord of the Rings, Beauty and the Beast, and Hunger Games. IT'S AWESOME. It was so much fun to dress up as Gaston for B&theB! and my Katniss outfit for Hunger Games is so REAL. Hannah did a great Peeta and Gale, too. heehee.

Well, g'night.
-hANDs

Fare thee well, Summer.

Well, only one more day of summer left.
Was it quick? Was it slow? That's a little hard to tell right now... I mean, the summer felt long, and I know that's weird, but it feels like the stuff we did three days ago was three weeks ago. And the things that we did felt fast while we were doing them.
It has been a great summer. We've done so many things!
-Kalaloch
-Malibu
-Camano Island
-Vashon Island
-XC practice and XC summer runs
-Driver's Ed
-And all the little everyday things, too.

Kalaloch

Camano Island

Malibu

Vashon Island

Happy Bubbles

See you in the Fall!

Lydia's and SCHOOL SOON! O_O

Hi! Long time no post!

Anyway, yesterday me, Sarah, and Raney went to Lydia's house because our mom and dad went to Seattle and Celeste left for Canada... 

We made caramel popcorn that night! It was really good. A little sticky, but yummy. :)

*Aaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!*

We watched the show Physic... it was about a guy who pretends he's psychic to these other detectives but he really just observes a lot of things and puts things together. It was funny. :) And who doesn't love things on instant Netfilx? ;)

The next morning, we went to Cross Country practice... we went out 15 minutes and then back because tomorrow is the TIME TRIAL AT LAKE PADDEN!! The time trial happens at the beginning of the year and we time how fast you can get around the lake, then at the end of the year, you see how much you can improve! Last year I improved by several minutes, which is huge when you’re running. :)

Later that day, we went back home and took a shower and got ready for PICTURE DAY/ SCHEDULE DAY at Sehome! :D

At Lake Padden last year

I wore a turquoise-blue shirt with my new Old Navy scarf! I liked it a lot. Here’s a picture I took of Sarah this afternoon:

Heehee! Just kidding! She wore an indigo-colored tee with her hair half-back. It was cute. :)

We both found at least one friend in most of our classes that have the same class as us. We both have Algebra 2 together! Yay!

Anyway, I think it’ll be a good year!

-hANDs

Camp Friendship!

Well, you probably know this, but most every year since 2005 we've done Camp Friendship with our best friend Anna every summer.

Each year we make a CD, too, and this was a cover from 2006.

It used to be a real sort of CAMP thing, where we had multiple themed days in the summer. It was like, every other week and we'd switch houses. Some of our favorite themes were Beach Day, Drama Day, Independence Day, Berry Day.....

Beach Day at Larrabee

Well, ever since Anna moved in 2009 to Tacoma, it was a bit harder to have Camp Friendship, whether or not it was just a couple days together or themed, like the good ol' days.

This year Anna's family rented a cabin on Vashon Island, outside of Tacoma. We stayed there for three nights and one night at Anna's house before we left for Vashon before.

HUNGER GAMES!!!!!!! We watched it 2 times!!! guys its the mutt scene *THE TENSION!!!!!*

A delish cake

GIANT. SPIDER.

Oh the donuts. Oh the donuts.

Rowin!

Kayakin!

Emi!!

Did... someone touch the lens?

we made body spray!!!

from Vashon Tea Shop

At the Hardware Store for lunch.... BY OURSELVES!

menuuuuu

face masks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a TON of fun. We took the Bham-Tacoma train together all by ourselves there because Anna was staying with her grandparents here in Bellingham and we would just go to her house in Tacoma afterwards. It went well and we had fun. We kept each other busy because before we each made each other a fun page with puzzles and activities to do.

Once we got to Tacoma, we got to her house and just relaxed. Anna's mom Susan got the Hunger Games DVD!!!!!!! We watched part of it at their house that night, and the rest at Vashon, and again the last night at Vashon. Fun fun. Anna likes Peeta, (and we like Gale) so we all take advantage to tease each other.
Peeta's great.... it's just that Gale is better!

Susan told Emilia that we were going to Vashon Island with them. "Yay!" she said, "I like Hannah and Sarah!" Aww, she's so cute. :)

Once we got there, it was SOOO cute. It was just a perfect little beach house and so cute! Awwww it was lovely.  On the deck there were these stairs that would lead right into the water when it was high tide. AWESOME!

We went kayaking and Anna went rowing and we all went to this little beach not far from our cabin. It was rocky and barnacly but fun to be on.

That night we finished the Hunger Games. AWESOME ASDGHASDJKGHASDJKGHASDJHGDJSHAJGHA;GSHDG;

The next day, we made these painted gold rocks with mod-podge over a picture. They turned out really cool!

We watched Julie & Julia. They had a lot of movies there. Anna really likes this one. :) And we ate delicious little tiny raviolli!!!We also played a game called Scribblish, which is like Telepictionary, by Cranium.


We went swimming that evening... really cold at first, but realllllllllly fun!!!!! We went far out to a crab pot they had set and came back.

The third day we spent in town. Jay, Anna's step dad, dropped us off in town around lunch time. We first went to Vashon Tea Shop, where Anna got iced tea and Hannah got passion fruit Italian soda. I got pomegranate Italian soda. :) We then marched over to The Little House, a really cute little yellow house that sold candy, and gifts. Anna got us all sea salt caramels. (YUM) and I got us all fun dip. :) heh. fun dip.

After that, we went to The Hardware Store. It's this building that used to be a hardware store but is now a restaurant! We went there on the way to the cabin before, and since that was like the only place in town where we knew to eat, we ate there again! BY OURSELVES! We all ordered a Cesar salad to share and everyone got chicken fingers! They were good, but boy, were we stuffed.

We headed back to the grocery store to buy some MORE candy.... in the bulk section!! Heehee. We got gummy butterflies, candy rocks and rock candy (heh) just to name a few!!!

When we got back, we made Lavender body sprays. We wanted to use this grapefruit essential oil, and it smelled really good, but it was too mild to make it smell in the body spray.

After that, we ate dinner and then went swimming! It was SUPER SUPER DUPER cold this time and so we basically didn't really swim but we used pool floats we found in the shed to float around the water. But there were only two, so someone had to swim. :/

This morning, Susan and Anna dropped us off at the Vashon Island ferry where we walked on all by ourselves!! Heeehee. We got to West Seattle where our mom picked us up and we drove home after going to Nordstrom for clothes and food, and a little antique shop in Mt. Vernon. Heehee.

It was a great trip. Anna's such a good friend and it was awesome to see her again!

Tomorrow we have a run because XC has officially started! (woo! + *sigh*...)

It's been a good summer, and I'm ready (I think) for school, but I'm kind of sad to let it go.
-hANDs

The fair! (Sarah's post)

We went to the fair on Tuesday!
We didn't go on any rides... if I HAD wanted to go, then I'd probably go on Windglider! I love that one!

Us and Anna, 2009 :)

 So, we ate lunch and saw lots of quilts and animals like the cows and pigs and KITTENS! Just week old ones!!! :D And of course, we went to our favorite section, the flowers. Always some great photo ops!