here are just some pics of cute animals

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! It is crazy that it is already 2010!! For our New Years' Eve activity, we visited the Haven Home (a family home near by.)We had a blast! We made a huge bonfire and roasted marshmallows and hot dogs. We also set off fire crackers. I don't have any pics but I will try to get some.

Hello! I know I have been posting, like not at all, so I will attempt to give a fairly satisfactory post this time.
Bub has been talking up a storm. His latest funny was when Celeste came to visit. He stood up cordially when she walked in and began jumping on the bed while presenting her with the following effusion: "Hello! This is my mommy and this is my daddy and I'm the monkey who eats all the bananas."
Thus his education progresses.
I have a new favorite quote. Courtesy of Adam Savage form Mythbutsers. "I reject you're reality and substitute my own."
Also, I am taking a poll. Should I dye my hair red or not? (not bright red, more like mom's) My present hair color is somewhere between brown and blond.
And i have one embarrassing story that happened this evening. I call it "the glamorous life of an Imaginary Rockstar"
I have a favorite pastime. I go where no one is around, turn up0 the volume on my mp4 and, using it as a microphone, I lip-sync to my favorite songs,while pretending that I am singing them in front of a screaming crowd of people, with band lights an such. Corny, I know, but a lot of fun.
So i went up to our flat roof and began rocking away to "Hair" by Ashly Tisdale. I paused the wrong way around in the middle of a spin. Abi, Andre, Sam, Nadia , and Martin were all staring at me like I was going bonkers.

merry cmas to you all! I hope you had a wonderful time.

Tory with her slinky

Me with my wobbie

Dad looking excited about his pens

bub with his piano

Merry Christmas to all of you! I hope it was wonderful and that you had a good time.
Here are some pics.

Hi! Merry Christmas! do you like our new look.? Our singing team has a lot of shows this year. But when we are not doing shows, well, noelle and I are doing what twelve and thirteen year olds do: That right. We do dishes! On a happier not, my song, which I wrote and recorded last Christmas Has been published. Yay!

Hi!, first of all, I know Iv'e been pretty spastic with this blog. I'm sorry!
Second, I hae a story to tell. I was rollerblading at the park, when I decided to try and take the big hill. this thing is pretty steep and thre was a crowd on the bottom of it, nevertheless, I decided to try it.
A bout halfway down the hill, I realised that I couldent stop, or even slow down, so I began shouting cuidado (watch out) at the top of my lungs. unfortunately one little girl didn't hear meand I bowled ito her and went flying. the kid wasnt hurt, thank god, only scared, but i hurt myself. When i first went to the red cross, the doctor said that i broke my arm, and put a half cast on it. now we went back to see a specialist aand he said that i just sprained it, but i still need to wear this stupid cast untill tuesday.
in other news, we taught bub to say my precioussssssssss like gollum any now he wont stop saying it!

here is the picture that I promised of tory and I In our Halloween Costumes

hi you all! this is shelly. sorry for the lack of posting, but we just came back from the states and we went trick or treating! it was so fun! i will post some pics of our costumes soon. we don't have any pics of us actually trick or treating because mom wasn't there to take pics but we had a blast.

Mom's dieting rules:
If you crumble pieces off of a whole, then all the calories run out. This rule applies to all crumby foods, including cakes, cookys etc. If you take a whole piece of it on your plate, then no calories will run out.
That rule, however, does not apply to ice cream. If you eat ice cream out of the serving dish, It can have up to three times the calorie content!
Also, If no one sees you eating it, then it is safe to eat. This is based on the infallible rule that if you cover you eyes, no one can see you, which is a scientific fact.
If you follow these rules, I will not guarantee that you will not become fat, but I can guarantee that you will always have an excuse.

the following are some wee-mees I made of some of the people in our home.

ben

mom

dad

Me!

Jack Sparrow (from Pirates of the Carribean)

hi you all!
I am sorry that I havent been posting but it has been very busy. Well, a few days ago, alex, paz and their kids came over. I don't have any pics about then cause our camera was not working, but we had a blast. Here is the story:

First they arrived at around 10 pm andd we gave them a tour and all that jaz. then Niki, Shannon,and Jazmine came to our room and we talked and hung out. we were going to watch a movie, but it was too late.then we talked and talked till around 1 am. shannon and I wanted to go to sleep earlier, but they wanted the light on and we wanted it off, so that didn't really work. the next morning we had creps for breakfast courtosy of niki and then we went swimming. we swam for a long time till we got bored of that and played volleyball. then we ate steak, beans and potatoes for lunch. we had such a blast!then we started to watch First Knight but alex and paz left before we finished.

Hi! I have been not posting for a loooooooooooooooooooong time. Bub is now two years old nd has entered the age of "funnies". a sample:
He was getting out of the bath. I wrapped a towel around him and he put it up on his shoulders. I told him "you look like jesus. He then ran around the house yelling "I am jesus at the top of his lungs. Then he amused himself by taking his diaper off and running back to the room While yelling "sister, you need to put my clothes on." (please note that I am never tory, only sister) With me in fruitless pursuit.

Hi you all. sorry I haven't posted in a long time, but it has been very busy around here and I haven't really had time to post. here are some pics. I hope you like them.

hi.I haven't posted for like, a month? I don't know. Well, above are some cool pictures.

spoof on the song fabulus.....
feel free to make fun!

baby brothers;

"bubbles" is getting to be very cute. he says the funniest things! H has a chair that he calls his chair. He never sitts on it, but he freaks out whenever someone sits on it, 'No! That's my chair! get off sister!" he will never call shelly and I anything but "sister". he absolutely refuses to call us by our real names. bub has also become an expert on "camels noseing" his way out of bedtime; "Sister, I so hungry, i need bannanna. i need to go potty. want water" such a naughty boy!
when mom put him to sleep, he began singing(to the theme som of "bob the buildur" )

bub the builder
hes so cute
bub the builder
yes he issss!

when mom asked him who it was he answered " its me mommy,im bub the builder!"

Yesterday there was an activity for all the family kids in this area ages 12-17. I am just within that age group, as are most of my friends. this activity was in Mexico City and we live about four hours away in Cournavaca. I am the only person in that age group in my home, so i went with the haven home, who had six people going already. Since they didn't circulate that day, we went the night before and spent the night at Aaron an Dulce's home. the next morning the CTC home had come too, and one other home. the other home was the only one with a car that could circulate on that day, so we all went in that one. There was just one problem: have you ever tried fitting twenty-four people into a twelve-seater? I felt like a sardine!!! We played three games of paint ball. my team lost the first one, in spite of Niki and I taking out the opposing team leader. the second game i think we could have won. we had the position that the other team had had last game, and it was much easier to defend. But they stopped that game in the middle to do another activity. I didn't play the third game.
Then we went to the woods and had a barbecue. it was a long activity. we had lots of fun going for a hike. in the middle of the hike, for no apparent reason, Richard announced that we were going "zombie hunting" don't ask me where he came up with this. we didn't catch any, but i thought that it was funny because every stick or stone we passed, he used his imagination to make it into some sort of evidence that zombies had been there. when we finally got back to my home it was past midnight, but I had a lot of fun.

hello everyone! happy birthday to Tory! Sorry that I haven't been posting.I haven't had much free time lately.Oh yes, we had a vacation in January in Acapulco,Mexico. I will post some pictures of our time there.

Hi. This is Shelly. sorry we haven't posted for a while. we've been quite busy. We are at the CTC ( a family home in Mexico city) and are having a blast!

Hey you all! I haven't posted for a while so I just wanted to say Hi! (by the way, this is Shelly) I just wanted to tell you all that Suzy's( the one who lives with us)sister is visiting.
Well, bye for now!

( Shelly) I haven't posted for a long time, so I'll update you on what I've been doing lately. I just finished my library research report ( don't think I told you I was doing a report, but now you know) on Clara Barton and it took me a full week to do because I had to do report cards and note cards and all that junk. Oh, by the way lots of people are telling me that I am getting better at art and stuff like that. Lots of people are telling me that my sketch of Clara Barton is quite good(I will show you it as soon as I find the camera) but anyway I will post some recent pictures (o.k. pictures of bubbles being cute)

hi! guess what! I won the race!( 3rd)we have been staying at Jeff an d Suzy's, but they haven't had super good internet connection, so I'm writing now that were home. love ya!

Hi. This is Shelly here. We were going to go home yesterday, but we didn't leave because all of us got only a few hours of sleep and because I had a very bad stomach ache. Anyway, we are happy to spend another day at Jeff and Suzy's house. Aunty Niki is visiting them and we get to fellowship. Do you want to hear a riddle?Here is one:
How do you kill a blond? ( stay tuned. Once some people post comments, I will comment with the answers) How does a blond kill a fish?
How does a blond kill a bird? Please post a comment with your answers.

hello! sorry that I havent posted 4 awhile. we are up in the states and shelly anid I have created this pink template to celebrate the inageration of our very early christmas present of a pink laptop. the 5 km race didnt work out, but tomorrow is a 10 km race, a very publiciced event, and I have butterflys in my stomach. i have a nice new light blue track suit to match my blue tennies. I will post pics tomorrow.

hi. do you like our new look? I noticed we dont really have many pics on our blog, so here goes.

Hello! Welcome to jokes galore! Today's show will be brought to you by: Miss Michelle F. Larriva! Here she is!
Hello. Here is my joke for today
A man walks into a bar and sits down. He says to the bartender," I want eight shots of whiskey."
( Whiskey is a very expensive kind of alcohol) As soon as the bartender puts down the shots, he snatches them and drinks them super fast.The bartender asks him," Why are you drinking them so fast?" The man answers saying, " You would if you had what I have." " What do you have?" asks the bartender. " Fifty cents."

Today i did something kinda stupid. I am training for a marathon (surprise :-) and I went down to a new track today and it was more hot than where I live . I didn't eat any protein today.I didn't drink any water. I ran three times as far as usual .pretty stupid.

Hi,I have a poem just for you king Freddy:

Really, really silly
makes crazy brain-food
really,
drives cars over the eddy
( I don't know why I put that in)
hes our very own king Freddy!

hi, I don't have much to post about ,wait, I do. bub has BEGUN PERIODICALLY STICKING PENCILS IN MY MOUTH now he's fussing. bye

today was Simona's b-day, an we had planned a surprise party for her. when she came home, she started going into the house to get the keys, I grabbed her sister, Chelsy, and told her, "shes not supposed to go into the house yet" so she told Simona shed get the keys, and she did. but when she walked into the house, since I hadn't old anyone that Chelsy was going first, everyone yelled "Surprise!' I dont know who was more embarrassed, me or Chelsy.

I have a poem which I wrote the other day. Mom predicted that king Freddy would have something foolish to say about it.

The Fantasy of the Friendly Dragon
there is a friendly dragon
who lives across the gorge
its companion is an elfin child
whose leafy-green it bore

every night in their cloud -boat
they sail across the moon
the elfin-child awakens me and says,
"shh, we must leave soon"

for then in the leafy-green fields we play
until comes the dawn
and then I must blink my eyes
and then, of course, they're gone

but if you happen, in the day
to look out across the gorge
you may see the elfin-child
and the leafy-green it bore

and if you do so, in the night
as we play beneath the starry sky
you may hear the laughter
of the dragon, the elfin-child andI

sorry, i still don't have the pics that I want you to see. (and, believe me, you want to see them, but shh, they're a surprise) but heres something funny:
Today we went to a breakfast buffet for my dads b-day and for dinner we had a special dinner. in the middle of dinner, as we talked about all the good food we ate, I blurted out;
"today is a good day for yummy food to eat"
think about it, its pretty funny

i will post something good tomorrow.
to tide you over, heres something to help appreciate the beauty of where I live.

The View,
On this side, a hilly city
where surprises like to hide.
Over here, another mountain
(as seen from a mountain side)

And across from me, a farm
with cows grazing peacefully.
And below me, rushing water
below this precipice.

Above me, puffy clouds
Those pretty cumulus.
They are objects of Gods brush
on his sky-spanning canvass.

this is a cute picture of bubles petting the cat.

Hey, anisha is my friend, and she's all sad that I'm the only one who visits her blog, so please be sure to take a look.

never go camping with a teenage boy, he will find a venomous snake and give it to the baby.No thats not the snake but Greg did do that....almost.
PS. did you ever notice that, however much you may dislike them, no camping trip is ever complete without marshmallows?

Never again go into the world with out a blog, or was it without a name I forget.........Anyway, prepare to enter a new world of foolishness. bub is already entering the terrible two stage and hes barely1!( at this point he toddles in) go away, I'm busy!

I really don't know what to write
And so I'll have to find respite.
Goodnight.

Bub the cute is WALKING!And heres another poem.

Gods canvass
The sky, It is Gods canvass
He paints on it the blue so bright
He paints the moon in all its glory
And the sun' He paints its light

He paints the clouds,
so puffy in the sky
And he paints the sun sets,
A thousand lights to twinkle by.

now God's the master artist
so much better than we
and the sky's just one example
of His master artistry


PS. this poem's been made into an "official" song(you know copyrighted...) and the last one won a prize.

here is a more recent pic of me and my friend Chloe. There isn't much to post about today except that I am 11 now and thats why I look so different : ). see u later.

my poetry has ( i think) waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay improved. judge for yourself
The Painter
His hand readdy, his heart light
Dreams of the things he'll paint each night
Someday he may paint some thing that all the world will view
But it is only worth it if it brings joy to a few
So never worry, never fret,
if you can only paint things
That others may forget
for all who in this way
their feelings release
Will find in their hearts
A great master piece!

we went to acapulco in jan. and this is a pic of the hotel that we didnt visit (ie. we THOUGHT we wold be able to go but when we got there the guy said that we had to pay a lot of extra money ) with all of us kids in front of the pool. (im the 1 with the baby and the orange shorts)

I haven't posted for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time( like two years ) but i hope to change that now,I have a VERY cute little brother now so you'll be seeing a lot of him.For now, here are a few pics so you get a basic idea of what
I've been doing lately .

white sands
trying to get the knots out of my hair
We went on a visa trip
itwas fun. we went to white sands national monument.we camped out one night it was fun

today my turtle died. I wrote a poem for its epitaph.
here lies
a turtleof mine
whome I was told
died of a cold
who has gone on
to a better time
a place with god
a place divine.

By Tory
Here is another poem I wrote:

Noah

Noah was a man of old, but by God Noah was told
"I do believe that man has gone mad, because he is being ever so bad.
He's disobeyed every law I gave him and I'm tired of yielding to his every whim.
I'm going to destroy the earth with a flood, and wipe away every trace of bad blood."

"So build a boat, this month of May, so that you and your family will be okay."
So Noah began to work as he took off his coat, to build an ark, a great, big boat!
And God gave Noah every direction, so that he was sure of complete protection.
120 years he worked, with his sons, they never shirked.

He kept talking of a flood of water, 'till all thought him crazy as the old, mad potter!
They thought it was so funny, and wondered where he got his money.
But then the animals came, from birds to a beast with a mane.
In fact, a pair of every beast, and food so they could have a feast.

The people said, "He realized he'd never get it to float, so he's putting animals into this great, big boat.
He decided to turn it into a zoo, especially when he heard a moo.
Then they went into the boat, with the animals more and more.
Then Noah prayed to God, and God closed the door.

It rained and rained for forty days, 'till Noah thought that God was crazed.
But then it stopped, what a blessed sound. And Noah was happy and dancing around.
Then they looked out, what a sight to see, for land was turned into a great, big sea.
Noah sent a dove out and back it flew, And with it came an oilve branch too.

Then they went out on land that was low, and there they saw the very first rainbow.

Jonah

Jonah was a prophet
And he had a lot to say,
But they were not his words,
But God's for the day

One night Jonah was praying
And he heard God say
Go to Ninevah
This month of May.

No no said Jonah
I will not go
Ninevah is a horrible place
So I say no!

So Jonah thought,
From God I'll run away.
He'll never find me
And I'll be okay.

Jonah found a ship
To Tarshish he went
In a storm so rough
The sails were bent

Who's fault is this?
The captain did cry
And Jonah said,
I'm afraid it is I.

Throw me overboard,
Into the sea
And save at least
Yourselves, not me.

So Jonah,
Overboard he went
And God
A great big fish he sent.

Three days and three nights
Spent inside a fish
Till Jonah was
Spit out with a swish.

Then Jonah went to Ninevah,
A humbler, wiser man.
He now knew not to run from God
But to do for God all that he can.

Ixtapa part 3

We went to Playa Las Gatas. We took a taxi to Zhieuatanejo, then we took a boat across the bay. On the other side there were tiny waves. When you went out to where the waves were splashing, you would find that the bottom slopes for about a foot, then the water is clear and calm with a sandy bottom and you can swim in it as if it was a swimming pool. It was also warm. If you went out a little further you could snorkle and see fish and coral. You could actually go out to the coral reef, but we didn't want to because the water was so shallow there and we wanted to be able to look down on the fishes, not say hello and shake their fin.

I learned how to carve sand castles. Anisha and I made the prettiest fairy castle for the sand fairies to live in. I carved the bottom part while Nini made a drip castle up top. Then we dug a tunnel through it as a hallway and off of the tunnel we dug little rooms into which we put sand furnishings. We hope the fairies like our castle.

We went to that beach twice. I think it was my most favorite part of the whole trip!

This is the pool at the fancy hotel that we were allowed to use.

Ixtapa part 2

The next day we got up at 7:30 while Mommy slept (she had an earache) and went with Gogee to the beach. We found a new way to get from the beach to our street without going through a hotel lobby. In the afternoon we went to see the manager of a hotel called "Dorado Pacifico". We sang for him. He said we could have three breakfast buffets in his hotel and we could use the pool. He was happy that we came to see him. That evening we provisioned a delicious dinner. The girl who we provisioned it from also gave us ice-cream. That evening Mommy also prayed with a very sweet man to recieve the Holy Spirit and he had a neat experience where he felt a cold wind rush all around him even when it was a very hot night and they were sweating.

To be continued...

Ixtapa.part one (typed by Tory)

On the way to Ixtapa,we took two busses, the first one was very nice. The second one was so-so. We travelled for 8 hours.
When we first got there we went to the beach ,and Mommy started talking with a nice man.
The man's name was Guiermo, and suddenly he said,"I want to give you a free horsey ride",
so we went. And that was the first day.
To be continued

(From Shelly) We went with Gogee and Mommy. The hotel we stayed in was very nice. It had quite a deep pool though. It didn't have aircon and it was super duper duper hot!

Hi everybody. We haven't posted much lately but as soon as possible we'll tell you about our vacation in Ixtapa and all about the beach.

We love you!

From Shelly:

This is a story I wrote for my school work:

"The Three Brother's Garden"

Once upon a time there was three brothers. The oldest one was John. The next one was Noah and the youngest's name was Joe. It all began a warm day in March... John and his brothers were having a chat when John said, "Why don't we grow a garden? We'll grow tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce and radishes." The other two agreed. Joe knew they would have to work very, very hard to grow a garden. Noah called, "I'll get the shovel!" and he was gone. Joe called, "I'll get the hoe and the spade!" and he was gone too. Last of all John got some fertilizer. Then when they had all the things they needed they sang "Jesus oh Jesus" while they worked. Then that day was over.
When they came back, they saw some tiny shoots. The plants had grown! They danced and sang. Then they weeded and that day was over. All summer long they worked on their garden. Then on the first day of fall, they harvested their crops. Joe dug up the carrots, Noah made the dirt soft so Joe could dig up the carrots easily. John harvested the other crops and their dad sold them in the market.
The End

Shelly's Silly Stuff:

Dear everyone who signed on our blog. This is Shelly speaking from the Heavenly World of Mexico. Just being foolish. It actually is Shelly, and that's not a joke.

Here is a dumb blonde joke: There was once this blonde who wanted to get her hair cut. So she went to a barber shop and asked them to cut her hair. (She was listening to something with her headphones.) And the barber said, "You'll have to take off those headphones before we can cut your hair." And then she says, "Oh no, this is my life." So they start cutting her hair and she fell asleep. So the barber is like, "Okay, now's my chance." So he slowly takes off her headphones and she wakes up and she dies. He's like, "Hmmm. What are those headphones saying?" So he puts the headphones on and guess what he hears? "Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out."

Do you know that Tory just chopped off her hair? I should send you a picture but it's almost my bedtime and Mommy's going off to a meeting. So all I can say right now is Bye for Now!

A few days before today, I remembered Phill who used to live in our home and was visiting us,
and how a long time ago he had said that the day I could tell him that couldn't eat jalapenos
was when I could eat one one myself, but he never thought I would do it!So can you guess
what I did , thats right,I took a jalapeno and a cup of milk and went to find him. I ate it and it
was so hot my mouth was still spicy 'till school time!