Drain hole hockey

I just had to post this! I was at my grandmas house when Conner all of a sudden said "who wants to play hockey?" I was slightly confused at first, but then we got the croquet mallets. So I said "Oh! Do you want me to set the posts up?" But grandma said "No, he just likes to hit it in that hole over there" so we walk to the top of the garage stairs and Vwalla, Drain hole hockey!

Track Meets

I am really loving cross country! On Wednesday I had my first meet, it was on Whibey island and my parents couldn't come so I was a little nervous at first. But everyone was really nice so I was okay. The race was 1.53 miles and I ran it in about 14 minutes, I was running a 9:09 minute pace. Which means that every mile I ran it would be 9:09, I am super proud of myself because running on the track I could run a mile in about 11:10. But now after practicing and running in high heat and up and down hill, I have tooken off about 2 minutes! I have definetly improved. This upcoming Monday and Thursday I have more meets, my legs are soooo sore. But I am still excited, I am definetly doing cross country next year! 

Cross country

Hey everybody! I just wanted to tell you a little bit about cross country, first of all, it's brutal. We run at least a mile and a half every day not including our warm ups and half a mile warm up run. And then once we get back we do planks and twenty push-ups. I can do ten in row. I may have already mentioned this but my first and sixth period teacher are my coaches. Mr.Mecko and Mr.Thompson.  Well that's all I can think about right now so bye! 

~Maddy

Back to school

Hey everyone! Sorry that I haven't posted anything for a while, but better late than never right? So anyway. I am now officially a seventh grader! It is really nice to not be treated like a little kid anymore, on Facebook I posted my schedule so if you want to see that just go to my page. I love all of my teachers they are all really nice and treat us kind of like equals, they are also all very funny and most don't like to give out home work, yay! Also when you are in seventh grade you get your own locker instead of having to share one. I am doing cross country, and what's cool about that is that my first and sixth period teachers are my coaches. And also they are both my favorite teachers, even though all my teachers are nice. So school is going great for me! I will hopefully keep remembering to post stuff at least once a week, that is now my new goal! I'll write again soon! 

Maddy

Updates

                                                            HELLO!
I want to give everyone an update about what is going on in my life. (I think I haven't written for like...2 months or something) Well, on Saturday at precisely 6AM I am getting on a bus and leaving for Leavenworth with my band for a marching parade thingy... At 11AM we march in the Apple Blossom youth parade while playing 'wipeout' a song from like the mid seventies. After that we get to play around in Leavenworth (in groups) until 4PM. Super duper excited! I have almost $30 saved up to spend there. Also, today we started the MSP. (yippee.) I am not testing yet but other classes are so I am super duper happy! (yay.) :( Have nice-almost-weekends everyone!

Cookies

Well, yesterday I learned a very important lesson, 1/2 a cup of baking soda and 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda are two VERY different things. Shannara (my best friend) and I were making some chocolate chip oatmeal  cookies,(we were making a video of my whole family making them together, if you go on YouTube in a couple days and go to veatchfam you will see it) and Shannara was putting in the dry ingredients, I had already filled up a 1/2 cup with baking soda, she put it all in and mixed it up. We finished making the cookies, put them in the oven and then taste tested them. When you first ate one it tasted very good and then you slowly tasted a salty flavor....BLECK! Well anyway, that was our very unsuccessful attempt at making cookies.

I am now changing the topic to school, since on Thursday it was valentines day and on Monday it is presidents day we get a 4 and 1/2 day weekend! (we got Friday off) So i am enjoying my weekend, the weather is sunny and not to cold. It is beautiful. So anyway I hope that you had a wonderful valentines day, and I hope that you enjoy presidents day. Have a nice weekend!

My throat hurts....

This weekend has been HORRIBLE! I have had very bad sore throat, so bad that it hurts to talk and when i talk you can't really understand me. Sneezing or coughing hurts so bad that i almost cry, and i have a temperature ranging from 99.2-106. On Tuesday I had a math test that I missed and I haven't been able to get to it yet. I got some cough drops at Rite Aid, hopefully they will help. I really hope that I will get better by Friday, so i can wish Cassy a happy birthday in person  but I doubt it.If any of you guys are sick I hope you get better!

School

Well, I don't think that I have told you guys anything about my school, because now I am at the middle school.I'll start out with telling you all about my teachers:
Science, Mrs.Markwardt. She is my home room/1rst period teacher, she is really nice and very organized she always does exactly what she says she is going to do, and she never gives us any homework!
Math, Mr.Holland. He is a nice person but not my favorite teacher, mostly because he teaches math.(which is my least favorite subject)He is my 2nd period teacher.Almost every day he gives us homework, and it's hard homework.
Language and reading, Mrs.Janik.She is Italian so she says a lot of Italian stuff.She is my 3rd and 5th period teacher.She gives us a lot of candy and rarely gives us homework :) she also gives us tickets whenever we are being good and then we get to turn them in to get prizes on most Fridays.
Band, Mr.Roy. He is AWESOME! I had him last year for band so i know him pretty well.He is my 4rth period teacher. Yesterday Hannah and I went to band night which is basically were we go and eat junk food,(Doritos, granola bars, ice-cream bars,and Capri-suns)and watch a basketball game for free, and all we have to do is play an easy song!
P.E./Health, Mr.Aestes. He is really nice and funny, he is my 6th period teacher. He stores a big bag of dum-dums in his desk which is kind of funny since he is a Health teacher. His tests are very easy and he tells you all the answers, and he makes us watch some pretty cheesy videos.
Principal, Mr. Binkini. He is really nice and has awesome Assembly's.He brought in a mind reader once! And for the fundraiser if you sold 8 things you got to go to absolute air park. I didn't get to go though......
Well, school is VERY fun, I am glad i get to go there!

Great Wolf Lodge

Well, recently (monday) since it was martin luther king day we got a day off so we went and watched dad indoor sky dive! (it was AWESOME) But dad had to take a class for an hour so while he was taking the class we went to the mall. My two younger sisters (little kids were at grandmas) went to the disney store and saw the opening, they all thought it was pretty awesome, (which it was)! then Hannah and I went to icing, I got non-prescription glasses, and clip on dangly earrings. Then we watched dad sky dive! After that we made are way to the great wolf lodge (without knowing) we were all suprised, Tina and dad thought it was hilarious that we didn't notice that we had passed olympia. We all got wands for magi quest, and made it to master magi, after climbing up and down around 30 flights of stairs. :D (I did defeat the dragon, woohoo!) Hannah and I went down the howling tornado like 10 times! This weekend was AWESOME!!!!

2 years

i can't believe that it has been two years since mom died..... it seems like it only just happened. every year it feels like its all happening over again. Cancer sucks.

birthdays

today me and my family are going to go to 2 birthdays one for tinas sisters daughter kylee and another for my cousin britton. im not going to write what we are giving them because incase they are somehow reading this i don't wan't them to know what it is. if you are reading this though and you are not kylee or britton then please wish them a happy birthday if you know them, if you are kylee or britton then "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" :) thank you for reading this!

basilmentos

me and hannah just found this girl on youtube who is named basilmentos. well, her username is basilmentos. her real name is Anna she lives in british columbia and is 14 years old. she makes stop motion animation with american girl dolls. me and hannah were inspired by her and are making these really cool stop motion animations with our american girl dolls. (look up jennifer's hair salon) and thanks to imovie we were able to make the movie. if you want to see my cat pepper then look up pepper kitty. i love making these 

doctor

in the past  month i have had three doctor appointments. my first one was the beginning of January it was a dentist appointment. i had one minor cavity in a baby tooth. then today i had a doctors appointment for my cold sores and then i got one HVP shot.(i winced but did not cry) i got ice cream and a doughnut for getting my shot so yay shots! then we picked up Abby and went to an eye doctor he dilated our pupils. the drops that he put in our eye really stung! we were not able to see anything close to our eyes for a couple hours and because it was so bright we had to wear weird sunglasses for a while.since our eyes were dilated we got to skip school.all in all i really like doctors appointments!  

April fools!

Yesterday i played tons of jokes on my family members.
These are my jokes.


#1 I got a quarter and put blue marker on the rim then told Abby to rub it on here nose.


#2 I put salt in Abby's cup of water. (she didn't even notice it!)


#3 I put a cup of ice under my dad's pillow, it melted and my dad thought that pepper had peed in his bed!

(luckily i didn't get in trouble)


                                           Have A Happy April Fools Day!

The house is ours!!!! :( :)

On march 29th we got the house!!! Spring break we are going to do a lot more packing. Around the middle or beginning of may will be moving in. I'm  going to really miss are house. 

The packing has begun!!! (dun dun dun!!!)

Today we started to pack. I'm going to start enjoying are house more. Were never going to see this house again....... Packing is fun, and sad at the same time. Your thinking, were going to a better bigger house, but you are also thinking i will never see this house again!I'll try to be a optimist.... Well anyway here are some pics of us packing.

Happy St. Patrick day!

Happy St. Patrick day!
I can make a list of things that on saint Patrick day are family does.
#1 dye are food (normally milk or other drinks) green.
#2 look for four leaved clovers. (not that we ever find any)
#3 wear green.              
Thats all I can think of.

Posting

I'm going to try to post on my blog. post,post,post. Am I doing this right???
um.......post,post post!!!!!!! now that is awesome!
ugh!
post! post? post.
Okay, whatever, I give up.
(Was that a post???)

nanowrimo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i finished my nanowrimo in december!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TV

I always think it is very fasinating to see how people get very attached to the TV. I think that it is even more fasinating to see how baby's enjoy TV. I can see with conner how attached he gets with the TV. He stares at it almost unblinkingly watching pretty much whatever is on. I think that almost all the shows my younger siblings watch is at least 65% annoying. BEWARE! ( they personaly love dirt girl which is a NIGHTMARE!) Though i don't know what i'd do if i didn't have at least a few calls every once in a while of, doo doo,doo doo da dora! about 81% of all movies are annoying.

my snowman

last night me and abby made a snowman! it wasn't big but it was very sturdy. ( after falling down ) abby didn't want to use her stuff so it has my hat and gloves on it . i didn't  have a picture of my snowman so i went to Google search and got a picture of a snowman . mine looks nothing like it.