Family Outings and Gymnastics

I just got back from the movie God's Not Dead. It was incredibly impacting and I cried. Okay, I may cry during a lot of different movies, but still. If you're able to you should go see it. It was amazing. 

Aside from seeing it, it was a fun family outing. (Just missing Madison, 'cus she had to be smart and go to college.) 

Adrienne and me at the movie. :)

We all got some candy, and I had chocolate, which is always better than popcorn. Hmmm, I wonder how chocolate popcorn would taste. 

Speaking of the candy, I may or may not have finished mine within the first five minutes of the movie. But I can neither confirm nor deny that rumor.

Read as: Yes I ate it all in eight minutes and I would do it again.

In other terrific news, my little sister Katherine qualified for nationals in gymnastics. That’s right; my nine year old sister is going to the Junior Olympics this summer. I’m super proud of her. And also a little in awe because I’m not sure if I could even do a cartwheel anymore.

My one and only big sister Madison is coming home FOR THE WHOLE SUMMER in less than two weeks. I’m excited, even if I do have to clean her room. Even if it’s completely fair I have to clean that room because I used it in her absence and it’s not clean anymore. But that’s off topic.

I asked my piano teacher if I could bring some Doctor Who sheet music to practice next week, so I could learn it. HE SAID YES! So soon I’m gonna know the breathtakingly sad, beautiful piece of music from the episode The Girl in the Fireplace. Squeeeee I’m happy.

We had a really random cold front come through last night. Like, extrodinarly random for Texas in April. As in: Why is this happening it should be in the nineties right now.

Not that I don’t like it. I love cold weather. It’d just be kinda nice to know Texas is gonna be cold and therefore my room will get really cold and I’ll have to use two comforters and a third blanket. Not that, y’know, that happened last night or anything.

Well, I’m feeling inspired and really happy right now. Maybe I’ll get some writing done.

Have a lovely week. Tata for now.

Sisters and Niceness

This morning I got up early-ish because I hatd an orthodontist appointment to go to. (*glares at le braces*) So I got ready and we did a quick clean up before I left with my mom. We sang geography songs I remembered from when I was four (my mom is just great like that) and then we got to the little building of tears and crushed spirits because you have to wear braces for two years where I get my braces... Looked at? I dunno, leave that stuff to the professionals.
So I walked in with my mom and went to sign in, only the computer was off and it wouldn't let me... So I asked a lady about it, and she asked me who I was there to see. So I told her and apparently that guy wasn't in on Thursdays, and my appointment is tomorrow at ten, not today.
Woohoo, I've managed to mix up days of the week. Ah well.

Being the wonderful person my mom is, she just shrugged it off and as soon as we were out the door she goes "Let's go to Bealls." So. We went to Bealls. I got one of my friends a present because her birthday is today, and then I got the best shoes any human has ever seen. I mean, usually I couldn't care less about shoes but these things are great.
Then I helped her pick out Easter dresses for my little sisters. Which was quite a few dresses. But it was fun finding dresses that matched, and they are all really cute. Then my mom found a dress for me and I love it a lot too.
So we went to check out and the lady who checked us out was seriously the nicest lil' lady I'd seen all day. She talked a lot, and she greatly approved of all the stuff we were buying. Seriously, she squealed at like everything we got. But it was sweet, and later I told my mom she reminded me of Effie Trinket. I mean that in the best way possible, because I like Effie.
A really kind elderly lady randomly gave us a coupon while we were checking out. Which was really nice. Bealls has like all the nicest people apparently.
Afterwards we went out to eat and there was a really nice waiter guy. It's like National Everybody is Nice Day. I love it. Nice people rub off and make other people want to be nice.

Oh yes, by the way, I did change my blog. Like, a lot of it. But I was getting annoyed by the way it used to look. So I'm gonna try this out for a while.

After we got home my little sisters were ecstatic about their dresses, and we decided to put them on and go down to the little field of Bluebonnets and take our yearly Bluebonnet pictures.
It was fun, and it's a really nice day.

Me and Adrienne.

Okay, for some reason I apparently like to have my eyes half open in most pictures. Huh. Ah well.

All five of my little sisters, and then me. (it was kinda windy)

So yeah, it was a lot of fun, and I like the pictures. :D

Have a great rest of the day.

Piano Lessons and Unicorns

I got my hair trimmed! And it honestly doesn't look very different, but I haven't had it cut or anything since last October or something. And I haven't cut cut it in about two years. I'm trying to get it to my waist.
(This may or may not be so I can to cool Elvish hair styles with it. Don't judge me.)

I had a lot of Grammar and English homework to get done this past week. But I got most of it done today in a nice, quiet little library at TAFA. I only have a few more pages left now, so I won't be staying up 'til one thirty this morning!
(not that I've, y'know, done that in the past or anything. I would never.)

I had a good piano lesson today. And my piano teacher makes me laugh, but I think that may be because I just laugh a lot. And it's always at times that don't... Need laughter. Like when he's trying to get me to play with a correct tempo. And I start smiling. And then I try really hard not to laugh because I don't want to be disrespectful, and then I have to look away.
But he likes the songs I'm doing for my upcoming recital, and I've got them both down by memory. :)

Great news, my big sister gets to come home for the summer IN TWO WEEKS! I'm happy, 'cus I miss her and I keep forgetting she's not home.

My youngest sister, Peyton, has made it known she wants a Unicorn for her birthday in May. She asked for one for Christmas, and she got a stuffed toy one. And she indignantly told us that "This is a fake Unicorn!" She's quite bossy. ... And she's only three right now. Oh what fun she'll be as a teenager.
But yeah, I suppose she'll never get that Unicorn.

I've recently been wanting to cosplay. I don't even know who, but it's a lot of fun. I did Amy Pond once, and I have one of her outfits almost perfectly. I didn't even have to buy anything, I just had the stuff. I think it's the one she wears in Day of the Moon. And yeah, I'm blond so the hair color was quite a bit off, but it was fun. And I drew Silence marks on my arms, but I got too shy to wear them around because I was about to go to piano practice and my piano teacher would see them so I wiped them off really quickly.

Anywhoo, bye for now minions. Have a great day.

Cupcakes

So yesterday I was bored, and my wonderful mother had taken three of my little sisters to soccer and gymnastics practice. I was left home with my brother and my two youngest sisters. And because I was bored I decided to make cupcakes. :D Yes, that is basically what I do when I'm bored.
Actually, I was gonna make cookies, but we didn't have chocolate chips. And I don't like the other kind of cookies as much. So then I mixed the ingredients for a cake recipe, but I couldn't find a right sized pan for it. And the I saw one for cupcakes. So I used it. :D

Emelyn and Peyton tested it for me. :D

 

(This is the adorable Peyton)

 

(And this is Emelyn)

I think they liked it.

I dyed half the batter blue and the other half purple. My little sisters loved it. I put the purple on the bottom of the pan, but I only had enough for some of them. The rest were just all blue.

Then I cooked them. NO WAY!

Aaaaand then I let them cool for a bit and made the icing. I used food colouring for that too, and I let Emmy and Peyton pick out the colours they wanted. We ended up with purple and yellow. :D

It turns out I had way too much icing left over, but it was still fun. My little sisters loved guessing what color the bottom of the cupcake was going to be when it came out of the pan, because not all of them were the same color.

Then came the big test. They ate them, and I got to see if they liked them.
DUN DUN DUN!

 She picked the cupcake up. *Jaws music starts to play*

 She lifts the cupcake to her mouth, staring me down the whole time. 

*music intensifies*

She considers it. For a single, terrifying moment time is frozen, and I await her verdict.

*music swells, inflicting terror into the heart of the cupcake maker*

 HAHA! VICTORY! WE HAVE VICTORY! THE YOUNG CHILD LIKES THE CUPCAKE! WE CAN ALL GO HOME NOW!

And so... Yeah. This is the story of my cupcakes. :D
(excuse the quality of da pictures. I have a lame camera.)

 Truth be told, Peyton never actually finished hers, but my brother had like four of them so I think they were pretty good.