yesterday i went to the doctor

because i thought i might have pink eye, and also my ear has been hurting really bad and i can't hear very well out of it. so i now know that i don't have pink eye, my eye is just irritated b/c of the cold and everything. and also i have a severe ear infection!!! AAAAUGH! and right b4 we go to the pool too!! :( well, my ear doesn't hurt that bad right now, but it sure did last night!!! i could barely sleep b/c it hurt so bad!!! oh, and i have this stuff that i can put in my ear (eardrops) that are supposed to numb it, it feels really weird to have liquid running inside your ear!!! right now it feels like i have something in my ear, it feels really weird!!! and that makes it a bit harder to hear than usual.
oh yeah! i am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited about our camping trip!!!! oh, and it's not THIS monday and tuesday, it's NEXT week!! oh, adn also we moved the date to June 16-17 instead. that way we'll be able to just take everyone to church on wednesday night! it's much more convenient!
another thing i'm looking forward to is that erin and i are going to ahve a sleepover sometime soon and watch ALL of the 'lord of the rings' movies IN ONE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!! i'm sooooooooooooooooo excited!!!! and it's driving me nuts b/c we haven't even set a date for it yet, but i know it's gonna be sometime this summer, but i reeeeally want it to be soon!!!!!! haha
also, i'm looking forward to the afterglo i'm gonna have next month! we haven't set a date for that yet, either, though. yeah, i'm very excited about this summer!!!!!! :D
ok, i'd better get off here now and go eat breakfast. oh yeah! wow, i can't believe i almost forgot! ok, so just a little while ago i had a nosebleed that lasted FORTY FIVE MINUTES!!!!!!!! it was quite miserable! especially since i was only allowed to sleep until 9:30 this morning, adn the nosebleed started at like, 9:06 or something, so i had to get up early!!! hahaha :) but yeah, i hate nosebleeds!!! :(
ok, NOW i'm gonna get off! haha

~libbi

*cough cough* my throat hurts

really bad!!! well, it feels a little better at the moment b/c i took some ibuprofen (did i spell that right??? hm...) and drank some hot tea with honey...yum! i usually don't like hot tea, but i liked it today!!! lol :) yeah, i like, can't talk! so i'll just get it all out through my fingers ;) haha
anyway, hey, i just dicovered that i can't do use the 'tab' button to make an indention :( sad. oh well, i'm just getting too accustomed to using 'word' haha.
anyway again ;) um...yesterday was jaymee's birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAYMEE!!! yeah, i went home with her after church and then went back to church...wait, i'll just give you the layout of my day, i was gone ALL DAY!!!

ok, so we left home to go to church at 9:10 am. we were supposed to leave at nine, but i won't go there ;)
then we went to church which lasted until like, hm....12:sumthin pm. and then mine and jaymee's fams went to moe's for lunch. and then went back to church for our piano recital (wahoo.). and that was finally overwith at like, idk...um...maybe like 3:somethin pm.
then i went home with jaymee and we hung out and did stuff on the computer while mrs. w was getting ready for the afterglo last night.
then we went back to church for the praise gathering. and that ended at like...hm...7:15 or so. and then we went back to jaymee's (accompanied by matt and lizzy and jasmine).
then jaymee's afterglo lasted until 10:00pm. but i didn't get home until like, idk, 11:30 or later! so yeah, it was a very full day! i loooooooooooooove days full of fun with friends!!! hahahaha, that was some good alliteration, huh? haha :) i love socialability (is that a word? if not, it should be.)
well, oh! i just realized that i'm listening to the cheeseburger song from veggietales!!!! AAAAAUGH! why in the world do i have this on my playlist??????? it's sooooo funny, but mr. lunt's voice disturbs me....i'm gonna change it....whew! now i'm listening to 'lost' by red. oh! there is this amazing song that for some reason always makes me want to cry, it's called 'tears of the saints' and it's by leeland. it is sooooooo amazing! also, i just discovered this awesome song by skillet that's called 'hero'. it's really cool :)
anyway, um....hm.....ho hum...haha, that was treebeard talk lol ;) oh! we're having a tipo camping trip in exactly a week!!!! i'm soooooo excited!!! it's gonna be at my house cuz we have our own little 'camp site' haha, daddy made it, it's pretty sweet. ooh, i need to send an email to all the tipos and tell them to bring their swimsuits cuz we're going to the pool! i'll have to do that, wait i should make sure we're still doing it...nevermind! haha, um....oh! i get to have an afterglo at my house sometime in july! i'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D in case u don't know what an afterglo is, it's like a party that the teens at our church go to after the evening service. we just hang out, eat (of course ;) and play games. it is so totally awesome!!! lol :)
let's see...what else could i talk about? hm.....well, i can't - oh! i just remembered, we finally found a good home for pippin!!! i'm very happy :) it's a family that goes to our church. they're really nice. they have three kids, pippin will get lots of love :) and they decided to keep his name the same!!!! YAY!!!! lol :) ok, what song is this??? strange...i don't recognize it, let me go look...oh, it's called 'your touch' and it's by kutless...ok, i recognize it now :)
anyway, i'd better get off now, bye!!!

~beth

hey, i just wanted to

let y'all know that we're not keeping pip :( yeah, we're gonna try to find a good home for him...so, i just wanted to tell everyone that :) bye!

~beth

hey, guess what?!

sammy is not sammy anymore!!! he's now 'peregrin took' or 'pippin' for short. and when we want even SHORTER...'pip' lol ;) isn't that such a cute name, though??? anyway, here's a couple more pics of him:

this is pippin drinking his milk replacement (yum yum, right?) out of a lid..like a mayonnaise lid or something.

ok, these are now random pics of me and symon. this is what happens when i don't feel like reading at night but i don't have to go to bed for a while....i take vids and pics of symon and me!!!!!! lol :)

well...ipml!! bye!!! :D i'm gonna go play with pippin! or maybe make dinner...hm....

this morning

my mom and mamaw found a kitten. he is sooooooo cute!!! my mom named him 'sammy'. then i, being obsessed with middle names, decided that he should have a full name. so, his now official full name is "samwise gamgee"!!! it's awsome!!! he is soooooooo adorable!!! :)

here's some pics of sammy:


this is him in his box
this is mommy holding her hand up so you can see how big he is :)

this is sammy in my arms wrapped in a towel

me and sammy

well, i hope you enjoyed the pics!!! :) i g2g! bye!!! :) ipml! lol :)

~beth

wow, i can't remember

what i got on here to post about!!!!!!!! that's just sad. ok, well i havent' posted about TI (teens involved) yet, so i'll do that....even though it will make me mad. ok, so TI is this competition word of life does, and it's so teens have a chance to practice using our gifts. it's really cool....and fun! so i was in three things, puppets, choir, and a small vocal group consisting of me, laura, erin, and katherine. we call ourselves....THE TIPOS!! as i've told you before :) um, and bri is one of us too, but for some reason she didn't want to sing with us even though she has an AWESOME voice. oh well, anyway, we were singing 'the power of your love'. adn one of the lines is 'i'll rise up like the eeeeagle' (lol) and unfortunately one time during practice bri did this hilarious thing that looked like the chicken dance in slow motion!!!!! so every time after that that we got to the eagle part, we just HAD to think of bri!!! so then we FINALLY got over it and it wasn't so terribly hilarious anymore. but at TI, bri and matt decided to sit in the middle of the isle right in front of us so we could see them clearly. then in the middle of our song, laura starts laughing a little b/c she accidentally let her mind wander to a picture of bri doing the eagle wings thingie, and then that made me laugh! so then we're both standing there cracking up, and the judges are looking at us like "what is wrong with you?!" (oh, btw, one of the judges was my piano teacher!!!) and erin and katherine are the only ones singing!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was AWFUL!!!!!!!! AND EMBARRASSING!!!!!! AAAAUGH!!!! oh well, i'm over it now....even though we STILL haven't seen the judges sheets...but we've finally convinced bri and matt that it wasn't their fault....thankfully! cuz it was totally mine and laura's fault. so yeah, that was TI. well, at least choir and puppets went well!!! (except that in puppets, well all i do is control the sound effects which is thunder, and so the track has rain in between the thunderclaps, and the first few times i turned it on during the show, it was just rain instead of thunder and therefore the puppet was just screaming at rain. but oh well, at least that wasn't my fault!!!)
ok, well i g2g! ipml!!!

~beth

here's a pic

that jessica sent me. it's awesome!!! :)


i like this kitty!!! ;)

Laundry Wars Episode 1.0

just now ben and i had a huge laundry war!!! it was AWESOME! i was smacking him in the face with a pair of his pj pants, while he was ATTEMPTING to get back at me with his underwear (this time they were clean, thankfully! ;).
while he was trying to retrieve his underwear from behind the dryer, i smacked him, which resulted in him pulling my arm around the corner of our little 'laundry room' (if u can call it that) and stretching me out very painfully. unfortunately he has discovered my weakness...pinching my shoulders. ouch. he says it took eleven years to find my weakness, but he is very proud of himself now that he has succeeded in his mission.
finally, in the heat of the war, our mother told us to stop because she doesn't appreciate washing our clothes and then having them strewn all over the floor. the end.

this is such

an amazing vid!!!!!!!!!!!!! you have to watch it. i am ordering you to. you must. wow, i almost typed 'you mush'. moving on. watch the video. now. NOW! I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!!!!!!!! WATCH IT! DUDE! I'M SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok, now i am going to allow you to watch the video. so i will stop typing....AUGGGH!!!!!!! i can't stop typing! my fingers are doing this against my will! i can't control it!!!!!! fj;oiau; noi;oiajj;oin; ok. i'm done. goodbye. i have regained control. :D



wasn't that sweet??? well, adios!!!!!!

~beth

yesterday was

the one-year anniversary of my daddy's heart surgery. to read about it, go to my mom's blog. she did a great job of telling the story :)

well, a couple of days ago, my good friend katherine emailed me to check up on me b/c i hadn't blogged in a while :) haha, yeah, so now i'm blogging. it's just that i don't have anything to blog about. well, ok, let's see, i could post about sunday! we went to a nursing home and visited with the elderly ppl there. and the tipos sang too :) that was fun :) i think they really liked it.

after we got back from the nursing home kat, bri, laura, erin, and i hung out...in the bathroom....lol, seriously! well, we were in there to change clothes and stuff, and then we just kinda hung out for a while. then bri, laura, and kat left. and erin and i decided to lipsync with my mp3 player in front of the mirror! haha, yeah, then, like, three songs later, we decided to go do somethin' else, and we walked toward the door, adn it closed!!! and then we ran out and bri, laura and kat were laughing hysterically at us. bri had recorded us singing on her mp3 player!!!!!!! it was really funny :) (good one bri!). so then laura and bri had drama practice and i guess katherine went with them. so then erin and i sat on one of the couches in the hallway and sang with my mp3 player (which, btw, has a speaker :). but then ppl who walked by started looking at us funny, so we gave up and decided to walk around w/out our shoes on (i took mine off b/c they were killing me! they were VERY uncomfortable shoes! but they looked good, which is all that matters...jk! that is a joke i have w/my parents b/c i'm like complaining about how uncomfortable my shoes or clothes are, and then my dad is like "but at least you look good!" and i'm like "yep! that's all that matters!" haha ;)

anyway, so then erin chickened out and didn't want to walk outside w/out shoes. so then we had to go ALL THE WAY back upstairs and get her shoes (actually it wasn't very far at all, but i teased her about it.) so, we walked around the building a little bit, and then just sat outside under the portico in the shade. we were just starting to have a pleasant conversation when john came out and ruined it. and he brought with him two other guys, danny and someone else. and then he just sat down in front of us and sighed and was all "im so bored." and we're like "that's nice." and then he's like "so, what are youguys doing?" and then erin's like "well, we WERE having a heart-to-heart..." and then he's just like "hm." and then danny's like "john, can't you take a hint? they don't want you here!" and then he and the other guy went inside. but john insisted on staying. so erin and i left. (*sigh*, immature seventh grade boys! jk! john's nice. but it was just kinda annoying :) so then we went into base camp and were gonna play air hockey, but it was dark in the game room and a bunch of guys (including matt, matthew, and alek.....oh brother!) were glued to the tv playing video games *rolls eyes*. so we didn't want to be the only girls in there, and we went up to the peak's game room. we played ping pong for a little while, and then we went back upstairs and sang some more. then we went back down to base camp and played air hockey with laura and bri. it was funny, bri and erin sat on the air hockey table while laura and i played, and we kept trying to hit them with the puck. so there was plenty of screaming going on, but the obsessed boys playing video games didn't even notice! it was hilarious! so then i had puppet practice. and then after that bri, laura, adn kat had something they had to do with the children's choir. so erin adn i went back to singing. and then matt came and talked to us for a while until church started. and then i had to sit by myself through the whole church service b/c i couldn't find my family and erin had to work in a children's class, and all the rest of my friends were doing something in the service! oh well. :)

ok, so that was sunday. this wednesday was the wednesday b4 mrs. g's fiftieth bday!!!!!!!!!!! (which is sunday! :) so we had a HUGE party for her. abbey, laura, katherine, and i decorated the WHOLE ROOM!!!!!!! (base camp) in purple balloons and black streamers!!!!!!! it was amazing! laura and i got a little obsessive though, we were all "more, MORE, MOOOORE!!!!" yeah, it was funny :) so then when it was getting close to the time that mrs. g would prob be there, we had a few lookouts posted at the doors. and then abbey ran in and was like "SHE'S HERE!" and we turned off the lights and we all stood around the door and when she came in we turned on the lights and were like "SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!" and she was so shocked! it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and our DIA group had cupcakes (which my mom adn i made), pizza (which we had won the week b4 b/c our group came in first place for march madness, that was soooo perfect!), m&ms, chips and salsa, veggies, soda, grapes, and prob somethin' else, but i can't remember. oh! i need to email laura and kat and ask for pics! i forgot my camera which totally stunk! ok, hold on, i'm gonna email them really quick........ok, done :)

yeah, so i had a good week :) and now my cousins are in from connecticut....wow, i still haven't seen them! yeah, ben is at amazement square w/them right now. i didn't really want to go. we had our standardized tests today. but it was the easy half of it. the 'non-math' part! and i'm not even doing algebra in the test with stinks cuz that's what i'm used to at the moment, ya know? i haven't done regular arithmetic in a long time!!!!! oh well. hopefully i'll do ok.

well, i think i'm gonna work on my story :) i'm on page fifteen right now!!!!!! i want to finish it! i mean, i like it, but for writing it, it just seems like it's dragging on. but i'm at a good part right now, so it's ok :)

ipml!

~beth