Tennis....

One word of warning: DON'T!!!
Okay I should have heeded that word of warning. But my mother decided that I would learn how to play tennis, whether I liked it or not. So on Thursday I ventured out onto the court and met the other players. Some of the girls seemed really nice. Then the coach taught us or tried to teach us fourhand. I didn't get it. Yeah. It was really bad. You have to hold the racket and then mid-swing turn it around and put a spin on the ball. Also you have to plan and be about five feet from where the ball bounces. Confusing, very confusing. JE picked it up right away and is the second best person in our group. I am at the opposite end of skill level. So keep me in your thoughts tomorrow when I head in for another lesson of tennis. The coach is really nice but he gets a little impatient when I can't hit the ball, or hit it right.

Also I will most likely be going to church school this year. I will be playing on the volleyball team. It will be a huge chalenge. But I know that I can learn another sport.
The one big thing that will be the hardest about not homeschooling is that I won't be able to compete in NCFCA. I have hundreds of friends in the NCFCA and will miss all of them. This would have been the year that I could have done debate but alas that will not be. So farewell to NCFCA.

My new template...

What do y'all think??? Do you like it or should I change it??? Anyways comment, and go to www.thecutestblogontheblock.com to see other blog template options. -Heidi

Finally posting again...

Hi all, You probably have forgotten that I actually existed after not posting anything for almost a month. Bad, bad, Heidi. Well now that I'm back it generally follows that I should think of something to post. Hmmmmmmm....I am thinking... just give me a second to let the creative juices flow....... Ahhh... I have it!! Testing!!! Isn't that what you all wanted to hear??????? Maybe not. How about this:
My life has been very busy and very fun and very busy. Does that sum it all up?! Memorial Day was great. I shoveled like ten wagonloads of manure. What a wonderful way to spend a holiday!! :) After that we had a nice time and visited Grandma's grave.
Oh did I ever tell you all about the slug wars? Well then, sit back, relax, and get ready for the tale. Its a whale of a tale as my mom used to say. Once upon a time there lived four children on a small farm. The oldest was named Sarah, the next Heidi, the one son was JE, and the littlest and by far the naughtiest was Kristina. One a fine day He5d5 and sarah and *5ebed went to an end of the year party/sleepover for girls group. After watching and squealing through a love comes softly movie they all tiptoed to bed. During the night the little girls (all the younger girls were in a tent, and the older girls were in a tent) snuck over to the oldergirls in their tent and started howling trying to scare the older girls. Of course this did not work so the little girls then tried tickling them. They got tickled and pinched back. later that night the naughty littles snuck out and cracked eggs all along the front of our tent so that we would step in them when we woke up. Also they pulled some of the poles out of our tent so part of it fell down on us. Then to give them a nice surprise somebody found slugs in their shoes. They then went and put 15 slugs in our almost evacuated tent. I don't know who but someone did put some in their tent but only three. That was the slug wars and yes I was involved. Does that surprise you??? It really shouldn't. Anyway its really late and i woke up at 3:30 I am tired good night sorry for my bad spelling, Heidi...zzzzzzzz....z.zzzzz.zzzzz....zzzz....zzzz....zzzz....zzzzzzzzzzz

Prayer Time

A few friends...... playing in the playhouse...
Sarah, Kristina, Tory, Trenton, Rachel, Katie

They are such good housekeepers at play... I wish it applied to regular housekeeping....

Katie is definitely one fun person to be around

Uh Oh you found me!!!!!

Janet and Otis.. are we surprised that Otis is back to her butting ways???

A few foursquare players....

Hey Y'all,

After hosting prayer time for over five years you would think that we would have taken some pics of it. But no we haven't. Janet and I were discussing this lack of photos and Sarah decided to do something about it. So here are a few pics.

-Heidi

medieval feast

My brothers Feast that was put on by his class went really well. We all dressed up in medieval clothes. It was quite interesting the food that they served. One of the dishes was tongue. I didn't get up enough courage to actually taste it. The class put on a sort play about St. George and the Dragon. John Elliot was St. George. They had two people joist, and a couple others pretend to have a battle using real swords. They had it all traditional food. So it was really fun. Bye for now, Heidi

Bucky and Otis

This is a little, short video of the above mentioned animals.

-Heidi

Pancakes for Breakfast

Today as an act of kindness, My brother made breakfast. He cooked pancakes and made syrup. They were DELICIOUS!! The one sad thing was the salt. Now any normal cook would have used salt that was in very small pieces. Unfortunately we don't have any normal cooks in our house. These pancakes had rock salt in them. Rock salt= HUGE PIECES OF SALT. Not that there is anything wrong with that. So we enjoyed the pancakes where every other bite had a bite of salt. Yup it was definitely a new experience. - Heidi

Birthday Season!!!

Well lately at our house there have been several birthdays. Sarah, Kristina, and John have all gotten or are getting older. John turns 14 on the 2nd of may. He is a wonderful brother, possibly because he's the only brother. Anyway thats all and that was a very short post wasn't it???
-Heidi

Teen Pact at Christian Heritage!!!

All of us good little teenpacters manning the booth!!!

From left to right:

(1st Row: Hannah, Anna, Gabe, Me, Karissa; 2nd Row: Sis Sarah, Ben, Betsy, Molly, JE,

Very back: Jon Roth)

Some of my awesome friends, and if you can't tell, Molly and Betsy are twins... =)

The twins and Karissa... Boy we had fun together. She kept me laughing. We attended the Chorale at Christian Heritage for one session. We were in the back row of the soprano section. And since more people kept trickling in, we had to stand up and sit down quite a bit. Then because we had come in after the Chorale started, we didn't have a chance to warm up. So when the high notes came around, We were kind of squeaky. That was bad enough, but then Jon Roth came in. He heard us squeeking and made a couple funny faces at us. Okay.. We tried not to laugh, it was so bad... We were litterally dying of laughter but we couldn't laugh....at all. Yes. That was really funny. Really.

Christian Heritage was a blast. You really should have gone.=) Voddie Bauchaum gave some wonderful speeches on very key topics. It was a blessing to see so many other Christian Home Educators coming together to encourage one another and learn more about Christ. And we were all very sad to leave. Very Sad.

Anyway, My brother's ancient history class at coop is putting on a huge medieval fiest. There are even supposed to be trebuchets there!!!! How cool. Bye for now.... I will post more latere...

Regionals.... and a few pics...

First of all, here is the room we stayed in. Not that you really needed to know that.

And our hotel! There were so many other friends all at this hotel; the Clarks, Danielsons, Beasleys, Rathbuns, Ptaks, Carters, Fryes, Kostovs, Butlers, and us and the Trawcynzinskis.

Us with Denise, or Nicee, and her boy friend and the two kids who were staying with us, Matt and Sarah.

Eating cheese cake....YUM

Sarah's papers saying that she qualifyed to Nationals!

Denise and Sarah... and Patrick Butler in the background.

A sideways picture of us drinking our soda that we just bought at Acacia park. Notice that they are trying to be cool.

The park which we think was named after our good friend Acacia.

Another park photo...

Abigail Dejarnnette... one of our good friends

Matt and JE.... good friends...

Sarah early in the morning....Sarabeth Mullins another good friend...

JE playing Nintendo DS. If you aren't laughing you should be. =)

Lets just say that the running joke at the tourny was that JE loved the DS that he stayed up all night playing it and when he didn't win a game he would go crazy and go to Mathew for counseling. Also each night he would hold it and say "Smooth and Sleek, I know I shouldn't but yet I will." Yup we teased him. BTW none of the above should be held against him as it is only a joke...

Wow! One big blast of competition, friends, late nights, headaches, and toooooo many stairs!!! It actually was a great experience, and I made so many more friends.

Also I have now become almost as good as Creighton Deems at slap. That is an accomplishment!!! Yup the simple pleasures in life.

While we were in Colorado, we saw some of our relatives. Davin and Denise (my twin cousins), and their boyfriend and girlfriend. Our family got to spend some time with Uncle Frank and Aunt Sally, and Aunt Sandy before she headed back to China. They are wonderful people. Aunt Sally is recovering from a major stroke that she had. Uncle Frank took the opportunity to show us some object lessons about relying on Christ. He had about 16 nails all balanced on one nail. How? Christ.

Denise went to a late dinner birthday party with us for my little sis Kristina. She turned 12 on the 18. Isn't that just a little scary???? So now Sarah is 17, I am 15, JE is almost 14 and Tina is 12!!!! AHHHHHH we're getting old!

Teen Pact!!!

You must must must must go to Teen Pact. It was the most wonderful experience with the most awesome people and we actually learned something!!!! We had the opportunity to hear from Justice Sanders, Representatives, Lobyists, Senators, and many more people. I grew spiritually, mentally, and made soooo many friends. I was in the HEWD comittee. We got to do mock legislature. JE and Sarah both ran for Senator but unfortunately didn't get elected. JE also sang opera. You should ask him about it. HILARIOUS. I was kindof shocked. One of the highlights was praying at different places around the capitol. We had random people come up and ask us, who are you, you are so different, so well behaved! It was neat to be able to represent Christ, through our actions and speech. After all everywhere we go we send out a message. Who's message are you sending out? Actually we are going to Survival!! ;) I hope I will survive. More later on Teenpact. Like pranks that were played, games, skits and much much more. Stay tuned for my next post. Heidi

Evangeline!

My cousin Evangeline came up to our house for a week. We had a blast!!! She helped our family pass out 150 Bibles. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!! She learned how to milk. She and Daddy had Chilly Eating competitions. Man can she eat hot chillys. I can't do that. I run around screaming when I get one that is hot. Yup. It must be the Norwegian in me. Too bad. Babe went home today. Oh and Babe is her nickname. She's had it since she was well just a wee babe. Bye, Heidi

Buckminster

Hey Y'all,

Wow it has been Forever since I last blogged. So much has happened. I think that first I will address the title of this post. My cow Apple had a baby. It was a boy calf. What else would it be? Ha Ha. We named him bucky. But since that name was too nice we changed his name to Buckminster. He is also known as Burger King. That name does imply his future, doesn't it? He has buck teeth and is extremely fiesty. Very strong willed like his mother and owner. Just Kidding!!! -Heidi

More Idaho Pics

Garrett Tracht and Max Nelsen.
(Thank you for correcting me anonymous, I posted this quite late and was too tired to notice my mistake)

LD Debate awards....
Josiah Bryant, John Chaffee, Jason Kosloski, Sarah Chaffee, Katharine Knight, Max Nelsen, Kira Clark, Kelsea Mort

Pesuasive Awards...
Ruth Ptak, Max Nelsen, Sam Paul, Sarah Chaffee, Kelsea Mort, Catharine Jones, Lauren Reavely

Dramatic Interpretation... These ladies are extremely skilled at making people cry, and they delight in doing it!!!

(Grace Debuschere, Acacia Danielson, Amy Anstett, Kira Clark, Catharine Jones)

Apologetics Semi-finalists....

(Evan Bell, Creighton Deems, Grace Debuschere, Daniel Beasley, George Nye, Tait Deems)

Sorry about the how blurry this pic is. But I like it because it is of three people who are world changers.....

Three LDers..... Kristin I put this on just for you =)

My bro, Jason Kosloski, and my sis

Katie Pitchford and Max Nelsen..... BTW Katie took second in LD at Rocky Mountain Classic

Harrison Scott (aka. Harry) and my bro

I like this picture!!! Don't you?

Idaho Tourny pics

Drew Deems...........The best timer ever!!!!!!!!!

Blaire Bayliss and Mrs. Bayliss

Lauren Reavely (watch out, she is one GREAT apologist) myself, and Kristen Tracht
(Kristen is my duo partner)

The lovely Tessa Deems, myself and the lovely Mrs. Deems

A few moms and judge cordinators and judges catching a quick lunch between rounds

(My mom, Mrs. Deems, Teran Clark, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Danielson)

Marissa Olsen and Jordan Brawner..... Don't they look like they are selling that drink?

Kristopher Clark (aka detective Kris) selling me chips.... He does his ten minute expos in four minutes and a five minute impromptu in 9 minutes. WOW!!!!!

Aaron Paul (you have to meet this person, definitely one of a kind) + my little bro

Duo partners

My friend Creighton..... I caught him when he wasn't ready for a photo. =)

Max Nelsen..... If only he knew how feared he really was!

Awwwww.......... Siblings

A few friends having a name mixup lunch... Tessa Deems, Acacia Danielson, Me, Rebekah Ptak

The RUBICS cube of brain torture..... Only one person in this world (that I know of) can solve these, without looking at them, in a matter of seconds... and that is Dylan Deems

Rebekah Ptak taking pleasure in freaking my out!