Books!!!!!!!!!

Everyone has read a book you can't put down,

and the good place to stop is at the end of the book or even series.

Well I'm reading a couple series like that.

One is The Protectors. Some others are Nobodies Princess,

and The Books of Pellinor.

The books are all about females that are tyring to be warriers.

In The protectors this girl named Kel, is going thought being a page,

squire, and Knight as a girl. She looks up to someone named

Alana The Lioness. But she got to be a knight by posing

to be a boy and fooling every one but the

prince which she was a squire to.

In Nobodies Princess and The Books of Pellinor, they go about as girls

being warriors and encounter many difficulties along the road.

Dancing Away,

Josie

Home School Summer School

Hey its Josie. Okay, we all know that my moms weired right...well she is. the reason this time is that my mom is now home schooling us for summer school. Shes doing this because she doesn't want us to go completely dumb over the summer.

So we were doing our work and my mom found some stats and state capital cards. She thought it would be a good idea to see if we remember all of our state capitals. The only problem is that we don't remember learning them.(We as in being Bri and I.) Our dad have been working on us learning our state capitals for years now.

So we started by reviewing and see how many we knew. I knew 30 on the first try, and Brianna got 10. that's right my 15 year old 10th grade sister only knew 10 of her state capitals!!!

So today we did them again. I got 35 to 45 and Brianna knew 42 to 44. you can see she really improved. and I just have a hard time of remembering. Now you know how different people have different ways of remembering things. For me its way weird. I remember by weird sayings and songs. And my mom and ants give me weird hints that I get and my sister just stares and gets a blank look on her face.

Well I have to get back to home school summer school.

Bai!

Dancing Away,

Josie

Road Trip

Sorry for everything being kinda backwards, this was my first time inserting pics,
so I am still learning!

The seagulls who thought they were invited to dinner!

The fabric that we bought for my next quilt, I think it is number 5 on the to do list. I hope to get it before I don't like the fabric anymore.

Me at the sign to the Carpinteria beach and park.

This is the street in front of the quilt shop in Pismo.

My moms to busy to blog so she is having me blog as my writing

assignment for my at home summer school.

A few weeks ago my mom and I went on a road trip to Santa Barbra. We went on the quilt run(Its where you go from north county to south county, stopping at prearranged quilt shops and you get put in your name for a drawing of fun stuff to win. ) We went down south and hit The Creation Station. It was so much fun! Because they were a bowling alley before they had Wii bowling. Every thing was bowling theme.

Then we went down to Carpinteria and what should be a 30 minuet drive took about an hour and a half. Did you know that the freeway is NOT a parking LOT!!!!! Many people that day did not!By the time we got to the last store they were waiting for us and anybody else that called saying they got stuck in traffic.

We went to a lot of quilt shops like 15 or so. So by the end of the day we just wanted to chill out so we ended up getting a sandwich and went to the beach to eat. This was not a good idea. There was seagulls at the beach and I am afraid of seagulls. We made it through and headed home.

Help the seagulls are attacking!!!!!!

On our way home we went shopping one of a girls best friend. And we got fabric form the shops.

We had tons of fun, so here are some pics of our trip. Hope you enjoy them too!

Dancing Away,

Josie

We are Dancing!

After many long months of learning new dances, endless rehersals, and never having some chill time with Josie, we are done (for now). We have had a few crazy days, making costumes, helping the kids fine tune their dances and finding all the peices that have ran away, because of corse they were put safety where they belong. It is all over now, and was totally worth it! Our little performers put on an awsome show! In the last year our studio was split due to opening another one about 25 miles away. So that means our kids get alot of personal time, and are involved in each number(well maybe not each one, there was 5 or 6 they weren't in). So here are some pics that my very old camera managed to take!

Here are the 5 girls that Josie dances with the most. Can you tell which one is Jo?
Yep, the tall blond.

Here she is doing her turny things!
One day I might learn how to spell it so I can really tell you what they are.

I think this is another cool pic. This dance is called "Tell me Something I Don't Know"
The two in this pic are Josie and Senica. Together they chorigraphed most of the dance.

Well done girls!

Here Josie is in her Very classical Ballet number. It was very graceful.
Such a change from her other stuff. She was so proud to be in this number.

I loved seeing her dance this! She is so tall that her lines are just so long.

Josie and Seneca agian! So beautiful! Tonight was the first time I ever saw this dance. It is a more modern ballet number. So Pretty! I had to keep reminding myself to take pic. I just kept getting caught up in the dance!

More from the same dance. See the look on Josie's face?
No fear, just simple joy. She is so confertable on stage.

This was the last song of the night! Look at how they are still smiling!

This is our Wonderful, and tallented Directior Julie.
Yes she gets up there and performs with the kids!

I am so proud of the awsome performance we had tonight. We are very lucky to have a determind group of parents, kids and staff who put on a great show.

I was blessed to be given the task of selling flowers, so I got to see most of the show. We sell flowers for the dancers as a fund raiser, and I had to fight for the ones that went to the teachers and my girls, so next time I need to remember more flowers! I think the more I have the more I will sell, so yes I need to bring more flowers.

To see some super cute pics of my niece Audrey in the same show check out Gretchen's blog!

Night Terrriors....

I hope Josie dosen't kill me for sharing her little secret, but she had night terriors as a little girl. So MY solution was for her to sleep with me. At 13 it is a little old for her to be in the same bed as me, but I need my sleep, so our solution was for us to share a room. It works pretty well, she goes to sleep pretty fast and sleeps the sleep of the dead, so as long as she is asleep I can do anything and it won't bother her.

Well last week we went to go get her point shoes. She was so exited! She has worked very hard and long for this. When we got home and she was sharing them, my sister thought it would be fun to tease her about "hiding" or "taking" them. Josie went along with it and it didn't bother her. Or so I thought. That night we had a night terror. I don't know if you have experience it before, but she starts screaming, sobbing, and seems to be wide awake but dosn't see or hear you. In her dream someone stole her shoes and there were no more anywhere so she never got to go up on point. After a long while of not being able to wake her out of it I found a solution!

Did you see what finally made her go back to a peaceful sleep? Yep, she slept with her shoes!