More School play pics

Jackie and I

Cody came back!!

All of the seniors!!!

All of the seniors and someone's hand


Weare the class of '08!!!

Here are some more pics of the school play. I forgot to put them up earlier! I counted the total of hours we practiced for that play and it came up to around 43. I was very glad when it was over as well as was everyone else in the play or in the stage crew!!!

Christmas Program

Johnny in costume.


Josh in the teen choir

Me singing

The Christmas Program at chruch was a lot of fun. Johnny was a little traveler, and he was so cute in his costume. Josh was in the teen choir, third row. I was in the teen choir, but I had a solo to sing. It was really scary!!!! But after a lot of prayer, I think it was ok.

Christmas

My way cool Egyptian Christmas cookie

The night before Christmas we set all of our gifts under the tree. I was excited, lol!

Christmas morning

Johnny opening his presents

Merry Christmas to all!!! Sorry that I never got around to sending y'all Christmas cards, but know that you were in my thoughts, and it is the thought that counts, or so they say! I had a very nice Christmas. I was awoken at 7:00 am, and after everyone had opened theri gifts, I went back to bed and slept 'til 12:30!! I got lots of money so that I can go on a ski trip with the church youth group in February!! I am so excited about that!!!

THEY ARE COMING!!!!!

I can't believe it!!! Jonathan and Prunelle are coming to visit for like three weeks. I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait!!!!! Ok, now that I have all that out, I will speak conherently. THey are coming to visit February 16, and will get to stay all the way untill March 8. It is so exciting. For thse of you who don't know, Jonathan and Prunelle are our friends from France, as well as our youth group leaders. Well, they were, but they had to move because of Jonathan's job. He teaches art. Prunelle is a florist. They are so much fun!! We love them a lot, and we can't wait to see them!!!!!! I will show them lots of cool stuff. It is going to be soo much fun!!!!!!
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Miniclip!!!

Snow Drift Take control of Yeti and knock out monsters with your ice slide!

Play this free game now!!

This game is really cool! Try it! If you dare!

Friday Night was Amazing!!!

Some of the cast

All of the cast

Goofing off

Twister face off between me and dad

Josh and johnny going at it!
Friday night we performed the play again, hey only 2 more times and we are all done!, and I would say that it went really well. We had to get a few elementary actors/actresses because some of the high school ones were cheerleaders and on the basket ball team and they had a game. We will get them back tuesday for 1 performace though. It is a lot of fun. Afterwards, we went to Taco Bell. Then we went home and played twister. I love that game!!! It was a really good evening!!

No room in the Inn

Josh in his cute little vest with the rest of the Choristers (Jr. High Choir)


Me in singers (High School Choir)


Me yelling at the shepherds who come to see baby Jesus


Me and my servant at the end of the play when I turn good and repent

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Me yelling at my servant Kody who has no name in the play. I don't have a name in the play either. I just realized that!

Well, for the past two weeks, I have spent 34 hours rehearsing for the school Christmas play, and I missed so many classes to do it! That is not a complaint, you understand!!! It was mostly a lot of fun. Our director, was really stressed out sometimes, but we finallly got it right( after the principal stepped in and helped her direct us). I think that it went pretty well. I am the evil innkeeper that turns Mary and Joseph away from the inn. I had 60 lines to memorize. In the beginning, I had this awful pink costume, I mean, seriously, how can you take an evil innkeeper seriously when she is in PINK!!! I get to yell at a lot of people. It is a lot of fun!!! The play was a part of the high school Christmas Concert!! It is great. I am going to get some video clips from my friend Kaysee and then I can put them up too.

Recent family Photos

Me and Mom


My Johnny


Josh and Johnny


Me


Johnny and Me

Hi everyone, I am really sorry that I haven't been better about writing up on here. Things have been soo hectic lately here between work and school and well, other things, but I am getting to that in a minute, well, the next post anyway. The pics of me and Johnny I just took like 10 minutes ago, so they are really up to date. I am relly looking forward to Chirstmas. And my church youth group is going to go skiing in January or February, one or the other. I am having a hard time remembering. And then there will be spirit week at school soon and the Valentines Banquette, which reminds me I have to go buy a dress for that! Well, like I said I ahve a million things going on!!!

You might be a Floridian if ...

Beautiful Beaches!!!!

Superbe Sunsets!!!!


My friend Tristen from Camp this summer sent this to me and i thought that it was really funny. Not all of it is true for me yet, but I am definitely seeing some of these in my life!!!

You Might Be Floridian if...

"Down South" means Key West.

"Panhandling" means going to Pensacola.

You think no one over 70 should be allowed to drive.

Flip-flops are everyday wear.

Shoes are for business meetings and church.

No, wait -- flip-flops are good for church, too, unless it's
Easter or Christmas.

Sweet tea can be served at any meal.

An alligator once walked through your neighborhood.

You smirk when a game show's "Grand Prize" is a trip or
cruise to Florida.

You measure distance in minutes.

You have a drawer full of bathing suits, and one sweatshirt.

You get annoyed at the tourists who feed seagulls.

All the local festivals are named after a fruit.

A mountain is any hill 100 feet above sea level.

You think everyone from a bigger city has a northern accent.

You know the four seasons really are: almost summer, summer,
not summer but really hot, and Christmas.

It's not soda, cola, or pop -- it's coke, regardless of
brand or flavor: "What kinda coke you want?"

Anything under 95 is just warm.

You've hosted a hurricane party.

You go to a theme park for an afternoon and know when to get
on the best rides.

You pass on the right and honk at the elderly.

You understand the futility of exterminating cockroaches.

You can pronounce Okeechobee, Kissimmee, and Withlacoochee.

You understand why it's better to have a friend with a boat
than have a boat yourself.

Bumper stickers on the pickup in front of you include:
various fish, NRA, and a confederate flag.

You were eight years old before you realized they made
houses without pools.

You were 12 when you first met someone who couldn't swim.

You get angry when people say, "Florida isn't really part of
the SOUTH."

You've worn shorts and used the A/C on Christmas.

You know what the "stingray shuffle" is and why it's
important!

You recognize Miami-Dade as "Northern Cuba." The south ends
in the Ocala/Gainesville area, and then North Cuba begins.

Razor Blade Found in Halloween Candy

MINNEOLA, Fla. (AP) - A mother is still shocked over finding a
small razor blade inside a candy bar that her son picked up in
Minneola on Halloween night.
Evelyn Turner's son told police that he spotted a wrapped mini
Three-Musketeers candy bar on the ground outside one of the homes.
The boy picked it up and dropped the chocolate bar in his bag of
treats.
Police report says the boy dumped all the candy on the floor at
home and noticed that the candy bar he had found was not sealed
tight in its wrapper.
The boy unwrapped the candy bar and saw the thin razor blade
poking out from the side of the chocolate.
Deputies believe the razor blade might have removed from a
disposable shaver. The area where the family went was investigated,
but nothing was found.

I don't think that any of you all are at the age where you still go tricker treating, and I know, that I have personally never done that particular act(never wanted to either, really), but if you know people who do or have little [brothers and sisters, ect. who do, check all their stuff!!!! People are really sick in our day and age. Stories like this happen every year, and I wouldn' want anything to happen to any of you or your families.

Crazy Times!!!

Hiya Peoples,
Sorry that I haven't been keeping up with my blog as often as I should, but I have been wicked busy!!! I know have a job!!!! At cinnabon. It is cool. I like having a job, and I like the $$ that goes withit even more, lol. I am having exams all week at school. I am practicing like nuts for my speech. It is a lot of fun, but it is really hard, because it is kinda long!!
Love, to everyone!!!
Love,
Graci

http://www.cinnabon.com/franchise_opportunity/video/default.htm

Singing in the Rain

Today, I did sonmething crazy, just for the fun of it! I twas raining really big drops of rainn, and it just looked so cool and refreshing that I changed into old clothes and went an stood out in the rain with Johnny. It was a lot of fun! The neighbors must have thought that I was insane, lol, but I didn't care! We sang "Singing in the rain" and jumped in puddles. It was lots of fun!!!

Our New Family Photos

Today dad decided that we should take the new pics for our new prayer card, so here they are. Teh bottom one I took a few months ago, but I really thought that t was a cute picture so I stuck it on here anyway!!!

It's my birthday

IT is hard to believe that I just turned 17!Ok, so it was two days ago. It is really strange to think how far I have come in a year! I mean, on my last birthday, if you had told me that I would be living in Pensacola FL, and going to PCA, I would have laughed at you. But you would have been right! I mean, last year, I really had no idea that all this was coming!Well, anyway, my birthday was a lot of fun! Lots of people at school wished me a happy birthday. I got a balloon to put on my locker from my friends Lexy and Britany and my friend Letica gave me a cool necklace and some neat pens to use for school!We went to Taco Bell, the happiest place on Earth(Where have I heard that before?),; it is my favorite restuarant! Then we went to Baskin RObins for icecream. I got strwberry cheesecake! I twas really really good!!! Then we went bowling! I hit 99 pins!! It was hit best score that I have ever gotten! The force was with me! I got two strikes and a spare!! Bowling is my favorite sport ever! Besides mini golf! ANyway, it waws a swell birthdya! I got lots of $$$$ from my parents and grandparents. ANyway, it was a great birthday, and I ahve a lot to be thankful for!!
Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh woe is me! There are Mistakes!!!

Episode 5 and a half!!

These are really , well, I don't know

See I told you all that there was a star wars holiday special and noone wanted to believe me!!! Ok, to be honest, it is pretty pathetic, but it is Star Wars so I guess we can forgive George Lucas. I mean, afterall, he made 6 good star wars movies so he is allowed 1 flop!

This is just hillarious!!

Ok, it is sooo obvious that this girl is where she is because of the way that she looks, not for her brain! No offense to my blonde friends, but I just gotta say this !!! She is such a dumb blond! As funny as this is, doesn't anyone else out ther think that these beauty pagents are so sexist!Do they everhave "handsome contests" for men? I mean, hello, it is kinda degrading to be picked for something beacause of the way that you look!This girl still won the 3rd runner up in this pagent despite that she said "US AMERICANS" and babled on about how the american people don't have maps and that is why they can't ind America on the map!! how dumg is that! Ok, sorry, I got kinda sidetracked by the whole pagent thing. It is one of my pet peeves(fighting peple who are sexist, macho, and chauvanistic). ANyway, I died laughung while I watched this, and it made me very happy to be a "briolliant brunette" just like the shampoo bottle says!

Chewie gives Luke's saber to NASA!!!!

Luke Skywalker's original Jedi lightsaber makes its way into space (for real) with NASA astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery in October. To commemorate the historic event, Star Wars characters visited the Oakland International Airport where Chewbacca handed the lightsaber over to NASA's Space Center Houston during a special ceremony on Aug. 28, 2007.

Lord of the Rings 2

I took an online quiz to see which lord of the rings character I would be and it waid that I would be Eowyn. hope ya like the comics, I thought that they were hillarious!!!

Lord of the Rings is Neat

The Cool digital me

School

Hey Everybody! School has finally started and I really like my new school, which is really my old school if you think about it cuz I 've done the video classes! Wow! How confusing! Anyway, the only bad things that have happened so far is my getting lost three times, getting yelled at by some lady for using the wrong stair case(I mean, honestly, if you don't want the student body to use those particular stairs, out up a sign or something!), and getting pudding all over my hands in the cafeteria(Long story don't ask). I like all my teachers except my typing teacher, she really scares me, and my home ec teacher, she has these manly, hairy, arms! I mean like MANLY and really HAIRY! She told us that she arranges her clothes in the closet by color "just like the rainbow". Seriously, the woman is a little COD ( compulsive obsessive disorder). It is really a cool school, and I am making great social progress! The weather is atrociously hot. It was 105F today and we were out doing door to door visitation! I don't think I sweated that much in a long time! It was gross. On top of that, [people had their sprinkler systems running and what I wanted most in the world at that particular moment was to run thru those sprinklers! But., I didn't! When one is a senior, one must set a good example for the little kids,lol. Good grief, I sound so old. Well, I have to go iron my skirt for tomorrow! Miss you all muchly, and if you have time drop me a line and I 'll get back to you ASAP!

More Miscellaneous in my Life

Hiya Peoples! Ok I klnow that that is bad grammar but it is soo much fun to say! ANyway, I went to auditions to join the PCA choir, and to my great relief, I was accepted! I am soo happy!! On the downside, they want me to sing alto, and I prefer soprano, but I am just happy that I am in! Afterwards I decided to give all my closets and draws( or drawers call it what you want) and found this articel that I meant to put up on my blog months ago when we arrived in the states. Remember when I told you I went out to a seafood restuarant, I found this funny article on how to eat a lobster on the menu. I found the article and now I am putting it up for your reading pleasure. BTW, I don't eat lobster, i think pulling the shell off a dead animal is disgusting!!!!

HOW TO EAT LOBSTER
Having lobster for the first time? Want to impress your date with your impeccable table manners? Or, just want to save that nice shirt form getting water splattered? Here at the __________ ( I won't tell you the name of the restuarant. I only do publicity for people that I know!) we aim to make you look good during and after eating lobster! Read On!!
1. Put on the Bib.
Water can squirt when you least expect it. Plus, you'll look and feel like a kid again!
2. Twist off the claws.
Hint: the claws are those big sharp pointy things.
3. Crack open each claw and knuckle(the lobster's not yours)
Use the provided nutcracker or pliers, not a rock or your shoes, and especially not any nail clippers you might have in your purse(if you are a woman)
4. Separate the tail for the body and break off the tail flippers
You'll find a tasty morsel of meat in each flipper
5. Insert your fork into the tail and push the tail meat out in one piece
Be sure to remove the black vein that runs through thte length of the tqil meat before eating(G.B. note: EWWWWWWW!!!)
6. Separate the shell 9of the body form the underside by pulling them apart.
Discard the green substance called the tomalley.(G.B.note: EWWWWWW!!!!!!)
7. Crack the body in half.
Grab the underside of the body in both hands with the small walking legs on either sid. Lobster meat lies in the four pockets or joints where the small walking legs attach to the body. The walking legs also contain excellent meat you can remove by biting theleg and sqeezing the meat out with your teeth(G.B. note: How brutal!)
8. Use the wet napkins to clean up. (Clean yourself up, not the table.
Busers clean the tables, so you don't have to!).
9. Savor
Throughout the meal, take the time to appreciate. You'll be expirencing one of life's finest dining pleasures. ( G.B.And causing the brutal death and disection of a crustacean.)

I couldn't believe it!!!

I was soo happy! Remeber when I told you that the play that I wrote with my friend Emily was chosen for our team to perform, well there is more! We won an honorable mention for it too. I was soo thrilled! It really encouraged me for my future career(journalism), that I can write something that won an honorable mention!! I was really really happy!!!!