Hi, Shelly here. Sorry I haven't been posting so much, but you know, I have a busy life! (sorta:) Well, I have bad news. I broke my arm during swim, so i can't really type, so plese pray for me, ok? Because of the placce it broke, there is a large chance II will have to have surgery , and it sucks even more because I broke my right arm, so it will be extra difficult for me to do stuff. So, I beg of you, please. PLEASE pray that I won't have to have surgery, and thst i will heal quckly.

Well, first of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I thought that I was going to post cmas pics, but I look like a zombie in them, so I'm not going to! Haha! Well, we had a fun time in the states, but we didn't get to see you, Noelle! :( But at least we got to see Nini Anisha Anisha Ryann Marraudino. Well, tory is yelling at me to go and do dishes, so I bid you all Adeu!

Dear Noelle, this post is for you! Happy sweet 16! I hope this year is very good for you, and may all your wishes come true! Happy Birthday Darling!

P.S. Sorry this is so short. We are frantically packing, so I had to! Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday!

Well, as some of you know, I have been taking swimming class for the past couple of months, and I am going to be competing on the 10th. It is my first competition, and I am very nervous. Please pray that I do well, and that I don't have my bathing suit fall off when I dive in the pool. There are tons of rules, and I don't speak Spanish that well, so it is fairly difficult to understand.
Now I'm just gonna give you a quick update. We have decorated the house, and I'll try to post pictures soon. We have been restaurant singing, which is quite hard, as there is only three of us. We are gonna go to the states for Christmas. We are leaving on the 12th, and we are going to visit our family (that counts Anisha) for the hollidays. I also really want to visit you, Noelle. I haven't seen you in forever! I really miss you. You have to visit us sometime soon, Savvey? Shelly out!

The following is a story I wrote for my language arts. The assignment was to write a biblical fiction based on the Good Samaritain, (Luke 10:25-35) in someones point of view. I chose one of the thieves.
I pulled myself up, peering of the the edge of the rock, trying to see the road. There was no one there yet. We had been waiting for over three hours in the sweltering sun. Caiaphas, my partner and brother, was snoring next to me. His face was now bright red, and I was sure that mine didn't look any better. I heard nothing but the wind and the occasional hiss of a snake. I felt like drifting off, everything was so quiet, but I shook myself awake. It wouldn't do to fall asleep and miss a traveler. I wasn't able to get a job, so I made a living stealing. It wasn't the life I would have chosen, but I didn't have any other way to support my wife, three children, and widowed mother. My brother, on the other hand, actually enjoyed stealing. He wasn't the brightest man, but he was strong, fast,(though he didn't look it) and a good fighter.
Hearing a creak, I sat bolt upright, almost hitting a rock. I dared to glance at the road again, and saw a man. He was riding on a cart, laden with packages. A donkey was pulling the cart. I slapped my hand over Caiaphas' mouth, then pinched him. His eyes flew open, hand going for his knife. He relaxed when he saw me. I gestured towards the road, and Caiaphas understood. I took my hand off his mouth, and we crept down the small path, heading towards the road.
We made it to the road in about a minute, then sauntered up to the man, who was eating his lunch. Caiaphas had his hand on his knife, ready to draw it at a moments notice. I calmly told the man that if he gave us his money, he wouldn't get hurt. He refused, so Caiaphas beat him into unconsciousness. Caiaphas boarded the cart, while I bent over the man. Taking his money pouch, I pressed a coin into his hand. It was a custom for me. I then climbed onto the cart, and Caiaphas gave a yell, making the donkey move. We then started towards our home, in a small town near Bethany.

My Awesome hair extention-thingy

Chris just learned how to give hugs






We found our camera! Yay! So tory and I decided to take some pictures. I hope you enjoyed them! (P.S) the last 2 are really old, I just didn't have time to post them.

Here you go, Noelle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NefJFHL0dmY
This is halarious! You have to watch this! Noelle, this post is for you.

Ants are probably going to take over the world.

They are evil, and they are everywhere. They come into your house and they eat any food that is lying around. And Mom is obsessed with them. I'm just quoting her (Or roughly paraphrasing, anyway) In her mind, they are probably going to team up with the flying cockroaches and destroy the planet.

This is yet another post that is incredibly random.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift--that's why we call it the present.

Have you noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anybody driving faster is a maniac?

I can insult my best friend, but heaven help you if you do.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it into a fruit salad.

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more

If you don't like me, there is nothing I can do. Here's a newsflash Honey, I don't live to please you!

When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and punch the person who made you mad.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ..He's a mile away and you've got his shoes.

I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking so good either.

I'm sorry, yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.

If at first you DO succeed, try not to look to impressed.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

One day your prince will come. Mine? Oh, he just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is to stubborn to ask directions.

Fun things to do on an elevator:
1) CRACK open your briefcase or handbag, peer inside and ask "Got enough air in there?"
2) STAND silent and motionless in the corner facing the wall without getting off.
3) WHEN arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act as if you're embarrassed when they open themselves.
4) GREET everyone with a warm handshake and ask him or her to call you Admiral.
5) MEOW occasionally.
6) STARE At another passenger for a while. Then announce in horror: "You're one of THEM" - and back away slowly
7) SAY -DING at each floor.
8) SAY "I wonder what all these do?" And push all the red buttons.
9) MAKE explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
10) STARE, grinning at another passenger for a while, then announce: "I have new socks on."
11) WHEN the elevator is silent, look around and ask: "Is that your beeper?"
12) TRY to make personal calls on the emergency phone.
13) DRAW a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers: "This is my personal space."
14) WHEN there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder, then pretend it wasn't you.
15) PUSH the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
16) ASK if you can push the button for other people but push the wrong ones.
17) HOLD the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say "Hi Greg, How's your day been?"
18) DROP a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream: "That's mine!"
19) BRING a camera and take pictures of everyone in the lift.
20) PRETEND you're a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the Passengers.
21) SWAT at flies that don't exist.
22)WHEN you get inside jump on everyone there.

19 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity
1.) At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2.) Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3.) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4.) Put your garbage can on your desk and label it 'In'.
5.) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6.) In the memo field of all your checks, write 'For Smuggling Diamonds'.
7.) Finish all your sentences with 'In Accordance with the Prophecy'.
8.) Don't use any punctuation.
9.) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10.) Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
11.) Specify that your drive-through order is 'To go'.
12.) Sing along at the Opera.
13.) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
14.) Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.
15.) Five days In advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
16.) Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Bottom.
17.) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream 'I won! I won!'
18.) When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling ’Run for your lives! They're loose!'
19.) Tell your children over dinner, 'Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.'

Ugh, Ugh,Ugh.....
I hate solid geometry. Seriously. Who invented that torture??? Who? I think they wanted to fry helpless children/teens brains. I spent an hour and a half on three problems, because I couldn't figure it out. Mom didn't know how to find the area of a rectangular solid, and Tory was watching her math videos. Anywho, I painted a really cool picture. :) Do you want to see it?

Decipher these Holiday-related songs or phrases! Each description represents a common song or line from a song heard during the holiday season. Some of the songs may be used more than once but with different descriptions. You will learn a few new words and their meanings if you read carefully and compare the answers to the statements!

1. Bleached Yule
   --- Answer --- ====== White Christmas
   
   
2. Castaneous-colored Seed Vesicated in a Conflagration
   --- Answer --- ====== Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
   
   
3. Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors
   --- Answer --- ====== All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth!
   
   
4. Righteous Darkness
   --- Answer --- ====== Oh Holy Night
   
   
5. Arrival Time: 2400 hrs - Weather: Cloudless
   --- Answer --- ====== It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
   
   
6. Loyal Followers Advance
   --- Answer --- ====== Oh Come All Ye Faithful
   
   
7. Far Off in a Feeder
   --- Answer --- ====== Away in a Manger
   
   
8. Array the Corridor
   --- Answer --- ====== Deck the Halls
   
   
9. Our Monarchial Triad
   --- Answer --- ====== We Three Kings
   
   
10. Nocturnal Noiselessness
    --- Answer --- ====== Silent Night
    
    
11. Jehovah Deactivate Blithe Chevaliers
    --- Answer --- ====== God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
    
    
12. Red Man En Route to Borough
    --- Answer --- ====== Santa Claus is Coming to Town
    
    
13. Frozen Precipitation Commence
    --- Answer --- ====== Let it Snow
    
    
14. Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle
    --- Answer --- ====== Go Tell it on the Mountain
    
    
15. The Quadruped with the Vermillion Proboscis
    --- Answer --- ====== Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer!
    
    
16. Query Regarding Identity of Descendant
    --- Answer --- ====== What Child Is This?
    
    
17. Delight for this Planet
    --- Answer --- ====== Joy to the World
    
    
18. Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings
    --- Answer --- ====== Hark the Herald Angles Sing!
    
    
19. The Dozen Festive 24 Hour Intervals
    --- Answer --- ====== The Twelve Days of Christmas
    
    
20. Sunset to Sunrise Without Noise
    --- Answer --- ====== Silent Night
    
    
21. Minuscule Hamlet In The Near East
    --- Answer --- ====== Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
    
    
22. Mirthful Ancient Despot
    --- Answer --- ====== Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
    
    
23. Adorn The Vestibule
    --- Answer --- ====== Deck the Halls
    
    
24. Delight Directed Toward This Comprehensive Place
    --- Answer --- ====== Joy to the World
    
    
25. Listen, Aerial Sprites Vocalize Musically
    --- Answer --- ====== Hark the Herald Angels Sing
    
    
26. Our Trio Of Monarchs
    --- Answer --- ====== We Three Kings
    
    
27. Yonder In The Hay Rack
    --- Answer --- ====== Away in a Manger
    
    
28. Cherubim Providing Audio Input to Us From Aloft
    --- Answer --- ====== Angels We Have Heard on High
    
    
29. Assemble, Everyone Who Loyally Believes
    --- Answer --- ====== O' Come All Ye Faithful
    
    
30. Hallowed Post Meridian
    --- Answer --- ====== O' Holy Night
    
    
31. Snow-colored December Holiday
    --- Answer --- ====== White Christmas
    
    
32. Precious Metal Tintinnabulations
    --- Answer --- ====== Silver Bells
    
    
33. A Dozen Twenty-Four Hour Yule Periods
    --- Answer --- ====== The Twelve Days of Christmas
    
    
34. Befell During The Transparent Bewitching Hour
    --- Answer --- ====== It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
    
    
35. Homo Sapien Of Crystallized Vapor
    --- Answer --- ====== Frosty the Snowman
    
    
36. Solely Desire A Pair Of Incisors On December 25
    --- Answer --- ====== All I Want for Christmasis My Two Front Teeth
    
    
37. I Spied My Maternal Parent Osculating a Gift Bearer
    --- Answer --- ====== I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
    
    
38. Perambulating Through A December Solstice Fantasy
    --- Answer --- ====== Walking in a Winter Wonderland
    
    
39. Move Hither The Entire Assembly Of Those Who Are Loyal In Their Belief
    --- Answer --- ====== Oh Come All Ye Faithful
    
    
    
    
40. Embellish Interior Passageways
    --- Answer --- ====== Deck the Halls
    
    
41. Vertically Challenged Adolescent Percussionist
    --- Answer --- ====== Little Drummer Boy
    
    
42. First Person Singular Experiencing An Hallucinatory Phenomenon Of A Natal Celebration Devoid Of Color
    --- Answer --- ====== I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
    
    
43. Soundless Nocturnal Period
    --- Answer --- ====== Silent Night
    
    
44. Majestic Triplet Referred To In The First Person Plural
    --- Answer --- ====== We Three Kings
    
    
45. The Yuletide Occurrence Preceding All Others
    --- Answer --- ====== The First Noel
    
    
46. Valuable Metal Musical Devices
    --- Answer --- ====== Silver Bells
    
    
47. Omnipotent Supreme Being Elicit Respite To Ecstatic Distinguished Males
    --- Answer --- ====== God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
    
    
48. Caribou With Vermillion Olfactory Appendage
    --- Answer --- ====== Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
    
    
49. Allow Crystalline Formations To Descend in Triplicate
    --- Answer --- ====== Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
    
    
50. Jovial Yuletide Desired For The Second Person Singular Or Plural By The First Person Plural
    --- Answer --- ====== We Wish You a Merry Christmas
    
    
51. Commence Auditory Reception The Announcing Cherubs Vocalize
    --- Answer --- ====== Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    
    
52. Kris Kringle Will Be Arriving In The City In The Not Too Distant Future
    --- Answer --- ====== Santa Clause is Coming To To Townor Here Comes Santa Clause
    
    
53. Bipedal Traveling Through An Amazing Acreage During The Period Between December 21st And March 21st In The Northern Hemisphere
    --- Answer --- ====== Walking in a Winter Wonderland
    
    
54. Its Arrival Occurred At Twelve O'Clock During A Clement Nocturnal Period
    --- Answer --- ====== It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
    

    Holiday Double-Speak Test Results:
    43-55 Correct:	You don't need any more yuletide spirit!
    30-42 Correct:	You could use a little something in your stocking!
    20-29 Correct:	Are you sure you have the right holiday?
    1-19 Correct:	Surely you jest?!!

55. Hey, I got bored, and I havnt posted since November, and I found this and I thought it was cool, so I decided to post it. I hope you enjoy it! Also, comment and tell me your results! By, shelly
    

The following is somthing I found on a friend's profile. Do not read if you don't like randomness.

Bella's excuse in Twilight

The best excuse Edward thought of for why Bella was all scraped up is Bella fell down a set of stairs, and through a window. First, how many hotel staircases have windows right at the bottom? Barely any. And maybe I've been mistaken my whole life but it's damn hard to crash through a window. Was Bella just hauling like 200 miles an hour down that staircase to be enough of a force to go barrelling through that window? Was this window just like really cheap or something? Because that might be a bit of a hazard if a storm blows through. What happens if a 30 mph wind goes on outside? The windows would implode, shattering all over hotel guests in which they'd certainly sue. I did not understand how anybody fell for this explanation. And another questions... how did they explain the bite mark on bella's hand, exactly? Because that's actually a pretty recognizable shape.

There's a 13 year old girl, and she wished
that her dad would come home from
the army, because he'd been having
problems with his heart and right
leg. It was 2:53 p.m . When she made
her wish. At 3:07 p.m. (14 minutes
later), the doorbell rang, and
there her Dad was, luggage and all!!

I'm Katie and I'm 20 and I've been
having trouble in my job and on the
verge of quitting. I made a simple
wish that my boss would get a new
job. That was at 1:35 and at 2:55
there was an announcement that he
was promoted and was leaving for
another city. Believe me...this
really works!

My name is Ann and I am 45 years
of age. I had always been single
and had been hoping to get into a
nice, loving relationship for many
years. While kind of daydreaming
(and right after receiving this email)
I wished that a quality person would
finally come into my life. That was at
9:10 AM on a Tuesday. At 9:55 AM
a FedEx delivery man came into my
office.He was cute, polite and
could not stop smiling at me. He
started coming back almost everyday
(even without packages) and asked me
out a week later. We married 6
months later and now have been
happily married for 2 years.

What a great email it was!!

Just scroll down to the end, but
while you do, think of a wish.
Make your wish when you have completed
scrolling. Whatever age you are, is the
number of minutes it will take for your
wish to come true. ex.you are 25 years
old, it will take 25 minutes for your wish
to come true).

Go for it!

SCROLL DOWN!

STOP!

Congratulations! Your wish will
now come true in your age minutes.

Now follow this carefully...it
can be very rewarding!

If you repost this within the next 5 min.
something major that you've been wanting
will happen.

This is scary!

The phone will ring right after you repost!

If Robert Pattison said "jump off a bridge" 99 percent of all females would do it. If your part of the 1 still alive and would push HIM off the bridge so he can see what he's done, copy this onto your profile!

Dear peoples; I need to rant
A seasonal rant, and one that has noting to do with turkeys and witches and the color orange, but rather a Christmas rant.
Or more correctly, a Christmas singing team rant.
Did you know that Christmas will be here soon? Not all that soon, but soon enough for this years singing team to start practicing.
This years singing team is different. Normally, When we get together to start our Christmas singing team, we have people who have been singing together for quite some time. Who know all the songs that are generally used here. Even if they haven't been on our singing team before, theyv'e had a pretty good idea of how things are done.
But now, we've got a couple of freshmen. David is a very good singer, but all his previous busking experience has been, well...not here. He doesn't know any of the Spanish Christmas carols, and is quite ignorant of "The way we've always done things". So he's kind of mumbling around, And he's our lead guitarist!
The next thing is (insert curse word of your choice here) Silent Night. The darn thing is impossible to sing. if it's in a key David can sing, I can't hit it. If it's a key I can sing in, David can't.
Which brings me to the last thing I want to rant about. I've never sung lead before. I've always sung second. Important, carrying a good deal of wight, but always knowing that if I fail, that if I hit a wrong note or forget the words, Someone else with a stronger voice than me is singing too, and will cover for me. It's as is I was playing the second fiddle in an orchestra, always wanting to play first violin, And then one day someone shoved the fist violin in to my hands and said "Here, play" And I suddenly realize that I have no clue how to play this thing.
I'm done ranting. May your days be merry and bright and may all your Christmas carols be sung in a key everybody can hit.
Love, Tory

Hi. This is Shelly after 2 weeks of not posting. Wow, Ive been lazy, and busy. anyhoo, we just finished watching The Last Airbender in 3D. It is pretty good, but the acting could have been better. It also has some pretty awsome graphics. After we finished, we ate at McDonalds and all had Big'n'tasty's with soda and fries. than we watched 2 episodes of Glee, and went on the roof to watch the fireworks, as it is mexican independence day. So, I hope you are all enjoying yourselves, and are having a cool independence day.

I cut my hair short. what do you think?

Hi peoples! this is Tory (yeah, I know....Surprise!) and today I made....wait for it...Oatmeal! From scratch! Now, for many people, this would not be much of an accomplishment, but I can't cook at all, So making something semi-edible is blog post worthy! (Wow, can you spell run-on sentence?)
Have a good day, peoples, And may your oatmeal be neither undercooked, nor burnt, but just right!

wow, I haven't posted in, like, forever. But I two reasons. First, I have been busy, and second, nothing really has happened. I"ll tell you about my day so far.
Got up at 9, cleaned up the room, and put in a load of laundry. Then I checked the schedule, and found out I was on lunch and lunch dishes, so I went to ask mom what to make for lunch She told me I could either make whitesauce, noodles, and meat, or mac and cheese. So I decided to make mac and cheese. We didnt have any cheese, so we went to superama to get some. While we were there, I saw some super cheap lemon sherbert, so I got some. When we got home, I decided to eat a cupful of sherbert while I did my school. I finshed my math and language b4 I had to go to start making lunch. It turned out super good,PTL, and everyone ate tons. So, well stuffed, tory and I did the dishes. After we finished, we made chocolate milk,( more like I made chocolate milk, for we all know that tory cannot cook to save her life) and watched a little house on the prarie. Then we had wordtime, and now we are having free time.
I know that this isnt very interesting, but, I need to post SOMETHING. Also, I'd really appreciate if you commented. It really inspires me to find somthing to post about. It also makes me feel special. :)

yum...
I love soup.