Ahhh!!!!!!!

I am a terrible, terrible person.....well I just haven't blogged in a week! I am terribly sorry...Jr. High is a lot harder than 6th grade at my school, and I have a lot more homework! I have also been busy doing things after school, but tonight, (before I start the rest of my homework) I am going to do a couple of posts for you.....enjoy! :)

MG

Book Review

I just read a book called "A Year Without Autumn" , by Liz Kessler. . It is a book for about 9-12 year olds, so I thought it might be a little young for me, but I actually really enjoyed it! I would recommend it for about 10-14 year olds. It was about a girl named Jenni, and her best friend is Autumn. It takes place where their families have been going on vacation for many years, and while on her way to Autumn's place, Jenni takes an elevator that takes her one year into the future. When she gets out she realizes this, and she also realizes that a horrible accident has happened. She takes the elevator farther and farther into her life, and she realizes that she must undo what has happened. This is a great book, very suspensful and thrilling. I finished it very quickly and thought it was an excellent book, very well written. It has some twists and turns, so be prepared for them if you read the book! I rate it 4 stars, ( It's hard to get a five with me) and I hope you also read the book!

 

Thanks for Reading! ( my blog, not the book)

MG

Made Me Smile..From Pinterest. :)

          


   




Alrighty these are all your funny things for today! Maybe more later?

Thanks for reading!

MG

Lucky Number 13

That's right. I'm 13. As of two weeks ago. September 28th. Day of my birth, folks. We celebrated by remodeling my room this summer, so I didn't get any presents. From my family. But I did get presents. From my class. Because I had a birthday party! And I took the courage to invite the whole class, because ya know that takes a lot of guts...my class is kinda wild. And it's also small, haha if you go to a regular  middle school or Jr. High your grade is probably 200 kids or something, but mine is only 36 or something. Minus about the 6 kids who didn't come I'm estimating?

Anyways, it was a great birthday, and a great birthday party! We had a scavenger hunt/race at the mall, called the "Amazing Grace Race" ( because of my name) and it was a blast! We got split into random teams of about 5 or 6 kids, and surprisingly, ( or not) my team won! We actually got back to the house a good amount of time before the other teams, woo hoo! :) We won by getting Cold Stone gift cards -  score there! The rules ad things for the scavenger hunt are as follows:


The Amazing Grace Race
Rules:

Stay together as a group AND NO RUNNING

Unless stated differently, a task has to involve all your team members

Points will be added for every successfully completed task: A bonus point can be given for style or creativity

A point will be subtracted for any messes left behind or any craziness during the task

You can do the tasks in any order... AFTER YOU COMPLETE FOUR TASKS, EACH TEAM MEMBER HAS TO TRADE ONE SHOE WITH ANOTHER TEAM MEMBER

Your Referee will take a picture or video of you when/as you complete a task
Hint: think about LOCATION of tasks - you won't have time to go thru the mall more than once - YOU DON'T NEED TO GO PAST MACY'S

You have to stop when the Referee says so... Last one back to the house loses one point.
Ten Tasks in the Amazing Grace Race

1.  Make a pyramid anywhere you want (creativity gets a bonus point)

2. Take a photo of all of you IN a photo booth (not taken BY the photo booth)

3. Take a photo with Sponge Bob, the Cookie Monster and Shrek (hint: Scooby Doo loves THE VAN these guys are IN)

4.  Take a photo holding guns - one gun per team member (You might have to go on TILT to get this one done)

5. Put on a creepy Halloween Mask that you have to find by looking at the right Target! (Hint: it is WAY in the back corner of the store)

6. Take a photo going up an escalator - one team member per step (the Referee doesn't have to stay with the team members)

7.  When you are "In the Zone" or feel like "Champs" you have to let your voices ring by singing the Payphone chorus (The Referee has to get this on video)

8.  Get a free sample of food - one point for each free sample up to the total number of team members

9.  Put on a funny hat --- just to make it CLAIRE(clear, if you didnt catch that)  - each hat has to be different

10. BONUS: Get a Starbuck's cup WITHOUT speaking any words in English (the Ref has to get video proof) - each cup is worth one point

So there ya have it people. Since I didn't have my camera( bad Mary Grace! ) I didn't get any pictures of the scavenger hunt, and since most of the pictures my mom took of the regular party before and after have someone making a stupid face or something, I will only post a couple of pictures! :)

                                                           Boom Box!

                                                                       haha

                                                      The schedule and rules

 

                          Haha, Anne Marie wrote" Happy Birthday MG  " all over the car!

                                                 Me and my bestie Andrea!

                                                      Mrs. Gardner's group

                                                            My Dad's group

My group. :) 

                                    My Amazing Race Group- The Sonobello's, haha. :)

                                           Me and one of my best friends Leanne

                                                    My whole class, haha. :)

John Mark's Birthday

My little bro John Mark turned 7 on October 3rd, and we celebrated by getting out of school early and going to Chuck E. Cheese. haha. That was pretty fun, and I spent a lot of the time helping my little sisters Annelise and Lucianna on the kiddie-rides, which was fine by me.

 After that we went to the Nordstrom Cafe for dinner, but I wanted to skip the eating and go to BP (the teen section of clothes in Nordstrom) and go look-shopping, he he. :) 

For his dessert, we had ice cream cake and ended the day watching The Middle, one of my favorite shows on ABC. :) 

Here is a couple of pictures of us with the cake. :) 

 Sorry about my hair being a disaster...I ran downstairs after I got out of the shower and didn't have a chance to brush it yet. :)

Blowing out the candles! 

Heyyyy

Hey Y'all! Some recent happenings in my life have been...

- My birthday! 13 woo hoo!

- John Marks birthday! 7 woo hoo! :) haha

- And those new features I keep forgetting to tell you about, lol. well since I don't need pictures for new features, I may as well tell you now! Yay! Fiiiiiinnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha.

So some new features are....

( drum roll please )

Oh wait. I forgot. I may have a couple more coming up later, because I have a list somewhere in my bedroom, haha. But without further ado, my new features!

- Y'all know how much I love fashion and buying clothes ( well maybe not, but I do. It is a frivilous habit and sometimes I think I could spend all day on a certain clothing website or at a store. :)  )
And every week I dress up for mass! and I usually take a picture of it. So I will be posting my weekly mass outfit, to show you my fashion sense. :) I will call it " Fashion....Fridays? No. Fiesta? No. Kay. I think I got it. Frivilous Fashion Fads. Yeah! Hahah it doesn't really make sense, but, whatever.

- I will also be posting about a new movie/book/song/artist/band I currently like. I will put as many as three per week, as little as 1. I will either write a review, put a picture, put a link, depends on whatever it is.

- I will be putting a totally random post up each week about..whatever. I look forward to writing these! You should have no idea what to expect, but that doesn't matter.

- And others...later. :) I am going to try to keep a more orderly schedule, but keep in mind that I have Drama Troupe twice a week, with a lot more homework this year because I am in Jr. High, and I am starting club volleyball soon! So much! But that's okay, I hope you read my blog nonetheless.

Please also keep in mind that I am dropping all of the Mindless Monday, Funny Friday, etc. That was last year, this is...this year. Obviously. And I will still be posting about the daily happenings in my life, too! So I am excited, and later this weekend I will try to post about My birthday and John Mark's birthday. I am also going Booing this weekend and am also going to Fright Fest, so I will post about those too.

I also have a couple of surprises up my sleeve, so be warned....muahaha.

Thanks for READING!!!

MG :)

Riding My Bike!

I got a new dress, and after mass me and my sis Cat (Mary Catherine) went outside and I rode a bike that we found in the garage ( we have like 14 bikes, and only 1 works as of now. All the rest are either flat tires, brakes broken, chains off, or something else. :P  ) and I went outside to ride it, ( in my dress) and my sister Mary Catherine took some pics of me! She is surprisingly a good photographer! ( With some edits by me ) :)

 I also take pictures of my outfits whenever we go to Church, because I dress up, and that is a new feature on my blog( that I will be talking about later! )

 Yeah! Doesn't that look cool?

Black and White is my favorite effects!

 Hee hee :)

Lucianna! So cute ! :)

Thanks for reading!

MG

Puyallup Fair!

A couple Friday's ago we had school off because of an inservice, so the teachers had to go to school but we didn't. We have had this inservice on the same Friday every year that we have been at St. Vincent's, and every time we have taken the no-school opportunity to go the the Puyallup Fair. The Puyallup Fair is a bunch of fun, and it has rides, ( we don't usually go on them ) a hobby house, a bunch of animals, cool exhibits, it's really hard to explain unless you have been there. They also have beyond amazing scones with jam and taffy! :)

So this year I brought my friend Audrey along, and after about an hour, we just ditched my family ( with permission) to have some freedom and do the things we wanted to. We rode the Extreme Scream, which was a bunch of fun!!!! I didn't want to do it at first, but she talked me into it, and she should have said " I told ya so" because it was a blast!!!

Then we ate and went around to the booths and walked around a bit. After that, my parents went on the sky-ride with the little ones, while me and Audrey went to the Hobby House, which is really cool. People collect things, like, let's say, dolls, or anything that has to do with pigs, or Coca Cola, or the Space Needle, or a sports team or something. When they have a lot of things, they enter it in the Puyallup Fair and everyone has to vote on their favorite ones. I voted on this really cool one, it was all of the Starbucks gift cards since about 2005 or something, and it was awesome! I wish I had had my camera to take pictures of it!

But we  did get pictures of other things, which was good, and speaking of those, I am going to show them to you now....

 All of us sitting on these feet-massager things

 Watching a lady doing pottery in the craft center

 John Luke in front of the painted rocks ( we get one every year)

 We ran into our cousins, the McKenna's, so we hung out with them for a while. You probably notice the additions to our group : Elyse, Clare, and Robert.  :)

 The kids, waiting to do the truck-pull

 Cat on the truck . :)

 Me, Audrey, and Clare with our scones

 All of the kids! ( between the McKenna's, Audrey, and us )

 Just the Curran family.  :)

 Guess what! while I was looking at the pictures after they downloaded, I found that when my family and me and Audrey separated, they wen to the hobby house, and my Mom took pictures. :)

 Buses!

 Ducks, I think?

Thanks for Reading!!

MG

Break a Leg! .....But Not 'Til May.

So, our school's play this year is High School Musical! That may sound stupid to you, but I looked at the script and I am actually really excited! Our school has never really done something like this before, and I think that it's going to be a very awesome outcome if we put the same work into it that the 7th/8th graders have done for every other play!

So on Monday and Thursday, we had auditions, you could choose either day to audition.  So you went into the school library, sat in this section of seats we call the "Story Stairs" and one by one, each person sings their song, and acts out the part they want to play in the Musical in front of everyone.  I auditioned on Monday, and even though I was a little nervous to sing, I had a really great time acting in front of everyone doing all of the different parts, like Gabriella, Sharpay, Taylor, and Mrs. Darbus.

Today at first recess we found out who the cast was, and we went back to the story stairs and Mrs. Rickard and Mrs. McCarl, the Drama Troupe teachers, read the cast out loud. They also put up a list of characters and who would play them in the hallway. So, all this morning, I was literally flipping out in my head, because I was just that nervous to find out who I would play!

As it turns out, I was chosen to play Taylor McKessie! I am really excited about that role, because


#1- It is one of the 3 main female parts, I am the main female characters best friend, and President of the Science Club!

and

#2- I really didn't want to get the main part, ( even though I knew I wasn't going to get it anyways ) because I wanted one of the eighth graders to get it, which ended up happening.

And even though I got a pretty good role, not all of the girls got the roles they wanted, because that would be impossible, I am trying to be modest about it, even though I am very excited, I try not to like, rub it in people's faces and only talk about my role.  :)

So thanks for reading, and if you live in King County or anywhere around there and want to come see me perform ( it really is an amazing outcome at the end, we spend all year working on an hour-to-hour-and-a-half program, and it is always amazing, and when I remember I will post you the dates, all I know is that it is the weekend after Memorial Day. :)

So Thanks for reading!!!

MG

Massachusetts Part 2

Remember how I said I would give ya guys another post on Massachusetts? Well, I am pretty good at keeping promises. So, if you are a MDBC fan, then you know that those books take place in Concord. Guess what. My grandparents live in Burlington, which is about 20 minutes away from Concord. So OF COURSE I had to go there!!! So we went to Concord and Lexington, and although some of the things we did didn't remind me of anything from The Mother Daughter Book Club, many things did. Including

-Sleepy Hollow Cemetary. Yes, I did indeed have to walk all the way up to Authors Ridge and check out Emerson's big white stone. My family was like, "What is she doing?" Haha. But it was SO COOL to see "the place" where Cassidy scared the socks off of Megan and the Fab Four. Even though it's not actual real, it is to me, because Heather Vogel Fredrick makes everything seem so real in the books!!!

- The Louisa May Alcott Orchard House. I kept freaking out because I saw a bunch of souveneirs in the store that kept reminding me of things that happened in the first MDBC book! ( In the picture descriptions that I give, I will talk about those things that happened. :)   )

- I saw the Old North Bridge

- And all of the houses were really cool and old and Colonial, nothing like here in Seattle. It made me want to move there! I also saw a couple houses with turrets, which reminded me of Cassidy's house, but I didn't happen to see Half Moon Farm. :( haha. But All the time I kind of expected to see Mrs. Chadwick flouncing around or Emma and Stewart taking a walk with Yo Yo. :)

- Kimball Farm! I wasn't sure if I believed it when I saw it, but it is actually real! It's not an actual farm, but they do have delicious ice cream. :)

 I saw this in a store and I really liked it. :)

We went to a couple of book stores, and I fell in love with both of them! I kept freaking out because of all the books I saw there that I wanted to read! :)

Mary Catherine very focused on a book. :)

The elephants trunk is the bookstore. :)

This is the sandwich shop that we went to, and I thought the names of these sandwiches were pretty cool.  :)

Ahh! the Orchard House! ( Also, they had a maypole in the front yard a couple days later when we drove past the house, hmmm....remind you of anything???? )

Thought this was cool, because of "Hawthorne"

The House. :0

Me and my little sister Anne Marie. ( I am the one closer to the sign)

Some journals. It even said a little thing about the Alcott sisters journaling, which reminded me of the Emma/Zach thing, haha. :)

Ahhh, who could forget the Walden Field Trip day from Much Ado About Anne? (SPOILER ALERT RIGHT HERE- ) And with Mrs. Chadwick storming into the pond, going to save her little Becca when the boat tipped over, even though the water was only a couple feet deep, haha. :)

Paper dolls! Little Women paper dolls! From Mrs. Delaney, remember? With love, from New York. :)

A colonial house I saw that reminded me of Emma's house. :)

Me at Emerson's Grave!!!! I half expected Zach and Megan to walk up the hill to this point and for Cassidy to jump out behind the rock with the pumpkin-hockey stick, hee hee.  :)

 A picture or Lexington, it was raining. :(

A bunch of Louisa's books. ( Sorry about the coloring of the picture here and of the other one's from the Orchard House, the lighting in that place was absolutely awful! )

A mood pillow! They actually had those there, it was awesome! :)  It reminded me of when Emma got one for her birthday. :)

A flag that was actually of Emerson's house.

Me in front of the Sleepy Hollow sign.

The cemetary

Waldo's grave-thingy...haha

 My family with my cousins eating at Kimball Farm. :)

 Here is the Kimball Farm ice cream place! A site of so many MDBC memories :)

Look at how long the lines were! It is a very popular ice cream place, I guess. :) It was good, afterall. :)

Well I hope that you enjoyed looking at all of my adventures in Concord and in Lexington, because I had a bunch of fun going there and taking pictures for y'all to see. :) Thanks for visiting my blog, and feel free to go on it again or follow me! I would love it! :)

Thanks for Reading,

MG