My 9 Names... yeah I was bored after practice today... :)
1.Name: Jillian

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 4 letters of real name plus izzle.) Jillizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and animal) Yellow Cat

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you live on) Alexandria Stanbridge

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name.) Dooji (hahaha I like that one)

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and random thing) Pink Candy

7. YOUR ARABIC NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and last letter of your moms middle name) Ioaacon

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (Parents middle names) Micheal VanHorsen

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets) Black Maggie

In other more interesting news I leave Sunday morning for Minneapolis, MN for JO's. Yay! It's gonna be tight. Crazy, since my team is a little loco, but so much fun. I actually do have more to say but my mom needs the computer so I will post a little later. Bye!!!!!

So I said to myself...

Why not do a crazy thing and post BEFORE I start getting all these dead blog warnings? It's a pretty good idea if I do say so myself.

So the first days of summer have been pretty lazy (with the exception of the awesome go-kart racing yesterday) and already I can feel myself settling down and getting comfortable in summer. Luckily I made myself promise that this summer wouldn't be too lazy, that I would still stay on top of things. And there is a lot to do.

My dad built a cool treehouse/clubhouse thing. The twins put around 10 pillows, three blankets, and a sleeping bag in there so I decided to sit up there for about four hours and finish a book my mom got me for graduation. It's called "The Last Summer (of You & Me)" by Ann Brashares, the same woman who wrote the Traveling Pants books. And this book was really good too. I think it was much better than the pants books but in a different way. It was all about moving forward, to not be afraid of the future. The message wasn't said in the traditional way either, you could just see it through the characters, etc. I would recommend it.

My graduation gift from my parents is going to be a laptop, and it will be a mac (apple). If anybody has some COMPELLING reason why that would not be a good thing then tell me because I would like to know. :)

Some pictures of the cozy nest:

Graduation

I started this post a couple of days ago... I'm not going to edit it, just keep movin forward.

So. Today was the last day of high school. And if I'm being completely honest here... it didn't feel different than any other day. Sure, we messed around in class WAY more and took a million pictures but it still felt like we would be coming back to school next Monday. I expected to cry and I didn't. Again, honestly it feels like we have school on Monday.
But there is a difference because we DON'T have school Monday. We don't have any more chances in high school. This chapter of our lives is coming to a close and it's time to reflect on what we have done and what we want to do. Not only what we want to do... but what God wants us to do. Shouldn't they be one and the same?

Now high school is over. I would like to say I feel sad... but it was so nice to wake up at 11am today! It was SWEET! Really, with no school we have time to hang out with all of our friends together, not in a room with a dozen other people.

In other related news I have found a dress for graduation and Shiloh and I did do some sweet sunbathing today. I think I was too white for it to do anything but it was still fun. And now for some pictures.

Bible class ROCKED!

AP English ALSO rocked!

even if Mrs. Terhorst was a little forgetful.

Lunch Bunch '07!

It's official.

And pretty exciting.

:) :) :)