Joys Study

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! From what I heard most of you did! If any of you are wondering how mine was… It was grand! I just chiled most of the day! We didnt open gifts untill like 4 in the afternoon believe it or not but with reason! Grandma had church in the morning and then had to finish cooking our DELICIOUS dinner! So ya when it came that dinner was done I INSISTED that we open gifts first (there werent many this year any way) and so we did in a rush. And if your wondering what I got, or if I got what I wanted, I did! I got an RCA 2gb MP3 Player! OH YA Its very handy I love it! And I got coool new sneakers and a couple pair of Jeans! One with a flowery sparkly patern on them. I FIT A SIZE 10 NOW! WOOT! OH and of course I got about 90 bucks from various relatives! (so far any way…)

But moving on to what this post is about! Last weekend (saturday or two days after Christmas) I went to my mom’s, landlord’s, son’s house.  Unfortunately the man is "gay" (homosexual) so pray for him yall but his house was GORGEOUS! It is a old historical house to mind you that he bought. His partner decorated the house for christmas so well! I had a ball taking picture after picture of the Christmas ornaments etc.

Also today snowed and so I grabed my camera and black head band and went out to capture some snowflakes. Enjoy! (sorry the snow flakes are kinda mixed in thing wouldnt go in the right order so they are all mixed up)

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Well like every year we have the White Elephant party! Well I feared that this year we might not have had it but we did! and the Gills came for a visit to! So the story begins……

First off I was very upset that WE (me and dad) GOT STUCK IN A DANG TRAFFIC JAM BECAUSE OF CHRISTMAS SHOPING PEOPLE! Gah i knew we should have gone the back road but NOOOOOOO i didnt say it out loud! So yes it took us instead of 25 min nearly and hour to get to the Bells house! So oh man you should have seen me i was mumbling all sorts of bad words! Things like "flipping fignewtons!" and "fickle fiddles!" "GO PEOPLE" I kept mumbling come on keep it moving…. no no stoping is not good no stoping! ya thats right keep it going! I was not happy! and dad wasnt much better lol But we finally did get there AN HOUR late! and every one esle was there already. Oh boy though i was popular that night… I come in the door everyone shouts ESTHERS HERE! i was like… whoa….. cool… And once i had my coat and such off and everything down the firs person to grab me and squeeze me…. it was rather shocking.. Justin Gill! He gave a mighty fine hug! It was grand indeed! We like those Gill boys we do! Any way so I did my round and i tried to be around a little with every one. You got to be nice to the little people you know! haha (jk) Any way so we ate and had some conversations. (Who was there just to remind people well….. The Bells of course lol Holmes, Me and dad, Cortezes, Bradfords, Gill boys, and Ackleys it was a nice crowd!)

Finally it came to white elephant time! Well poor Justin got the first pick very unfortuntate. But any way the pictures tell most of the story but let me tell you the hot items this year..

This pink beaded necklace that was to small for any one of normal size (at least those over the age of 7 unless you have a really small head.) The Gill boys liked that one.

Silly string which ended up on Arielle later on that night (i played no part in it i was inside talking with Christine while it happened! and i say Shame on josh michelle and colin though colin was not aware that josh arielle and michelle are mortal enemies kinda..) any way

And a very scary music cd with cool spooky sounds! Isnt that sad! Though i do have to say i NEEED THAT CD IM GOING TO HURT CHRISTINE IF SHE DONT LET ME BORROW IT! lol Those sounds would be great for some movies!

And of course as usual there were a few things back from years past. Like the yellow chick salt and pepper shakers with no bottom from last year! lol (that we gave) and this very weird santa bell! yup yup good stuff!

Justin was rather upset though about his gift being opened what happend was the one with the MANY boxes inside each other lol he had hidden a dvd inside on the side of the box but people didnt see it in there till after the opening and trading was done! Ah well!

And then next day was sledding unfortunately the Bells canceled for LATE Christmas shoping… and the cortez kids didnt have a ride

But the Bradfords Gills Holmes and I and Greg went and had a grand time. This time i didnt take as many vids but I can tell you of the pile ups from train recks!

Before I do though… Nate and Tim had fun that morning re writing the beach boys song "Surfing USA" They made it "Sledding USA"

I believe it went something like this…..

(Gill boys or Tim please correct me where i am wrong…)

"If everybody had a mountain across the USA Then everbody be sledding like up in Main. Theyd be wearing their (fill in blank tim), snow boots too, Squish squish blue snow suit. Sledding USA… Up hil, down hill USA Up hil, down hill USA Up hil, down hill USA… everybodies gone sledding sledding USA!………."

Yup yup good stuff any way on to the story. And Tim if you could write the rest of the song down that would be nice!

Well first time I remeber I was riding behind nate and Tim behind me well we were going down nice and then we came down to near the bottom and I believe the middle of the train kinda went to the side all.  I know is something stopped me and Tim short and I went flying on to nate who was on his back by that time but before I fell fully on him I turned myself so that I didnt land on him alllll the way any way lol! But that was a close one! yup good times…

(it seemed to be mostly the back of the train that got recked! that day) Oh the first time! haha Me and Tim crashed together and i tried to get back on the sled to catch up but failed and I fumbled about down the hill! My hair got aaalll snowy from that!

And another time I was riding mehind Leah and I had my camera for this one so you can see the recording… but oh boy lol Once agian stoped short but what you cant see from behind me… nate was behind me and tim behind him when we stoped tim flew over nate and landed on me! it was an experience! oh yes it was! haha We had like 2 success full rides i belive but ya it was all very grand any way!

And so that is the end of the story for now So MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL I will be back later next week but i may be online but i prolly wont post many stuff from over moms…. Any way Hope you all had are having such and so forth a wonderful Christmas!

Oh also sledding vids in the video section!

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I have had that theme for over a year so i decided to do some changes! Also ima try to get back to Blogging at least once a week! So as Justin commented on my other post how do you all like the new look? Im still editing at the moment…. (any way yes justin its cool eh? hehe)

Oh and with this new theme we can have avatars as walter commented! So to get one its real simple! Go to gravatar.com Sign up with your email address add a pic and it will show up on the blog when you post and put your email address in. coolness eh?

So this is some random things really but enjoy…

First off and most important the other day (friday) I was making Christmas Gifts involving my photography talent! So any way I took some portraits of myself and then Aunt Paige joined in. So here are a few of what came out! and then the gifts (which wil be printed and framed) Oh and no im not an ego maniac lol the pics are for family every one would like some pics of me so ya… lol

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Now you will see Chili one time few months ago i made some chili with my aunt nancy (mom’s sister) and it was GOOOD so but any way i took a few shots and never posted it… Also few weeks ago i went to a furniture store and BOY I SAT IN THE MOST comfortable couch i have ever sat in! I just chilled there for a while then went around testing other furniture that one was still my fav! Also last but not least I LOVE MY NEW HAT! That all for now folks!

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Here are a couple more E-Cover Designs! Not to bad eh?

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Here are FINALLY some photos I took this fall hiking! They are from multiple hikes obviously… Enjoy! (one is just a pic on my moms stree though too) What do you think? Arent the rocks very beautiful and interesting?

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The other day last week when no one was home i decided to do something a little different! I danced! I made a mini movie about it check it out on the video page! Along with SEVERAL OTHER videos im sure you people have yet to watch! Enjoy tell me what you think? And yes the music is Tobymac. Not my typical music but hay its better to dance fast too then some of my music. It was all for fun! But Revolution by Kirk Franklin THAT is more my kinda music! Any way… Enjoy my amusing moves! lol