yayyyy ;)

Hey!
No time, lots of news so here goes:::
I have tickets to Arizona!
I loveee my mamy!
Leaving for the assembly Monday.
Went shopping w// nana and Mindi [[picked up Des there]] yesterday [[FABULOUS time.]]
and the biggeesttt thing today:::
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DESTINY BRIANNA ALEXIS TURNER.
YOU MAKE MY WORLD GO ROUND! I LOVEEE YOU BABE.
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20+1=21 :)

Helllooo!

Okay first of all I just HAVE to say that I'm soooo proud of myself ((but it's really my motivation to keep Gracie happy)) for blogging this much! This is my 21st post! Wooo hoooo :) Yayyy! haha I had a blog like two years ago and I accidently found it from Mamy's blog and I posted on it like...eeehhh...five times? So as you can see, I'm doing MUCH MUCH better this time around! :)

Well...Destiny is in Batesville w// her mom and Nana is supposed to take me and Mindi shopping there tmrw so I thought since it's almost Dessie's birthday, why not just ask her and Shanna to come w// us and celebrate? So I did and Des said they probably can so I can't wait! Another day w// my love <3

Yesterday we finally did it! Rode horses! :) I'm sore, as always, but there's just something about it...lol Oh yeah! How could I forget Daniel's outhouse visit?? Mindi and I, being the kind, loving, wonderful sisters that we are, gently grabbed Daniel by his arms and legs and carried him to the outhouse at the rodeo arena where we were riding. Aunt Mel took lots of great pics! haha In the end we had to let him go b/c the smell was TOOOO much for me to handle...ugh disgusting! I wonder how people ever lived without bathrooms!! It just amazes me...

Nana and Papa are still looking for a new car to take to the Assembly. For those of you who didn't know, she hit a deer...so now Papa calls the car the "deer slayer" which doesn't quite make sense to me b/c she didn't actually "slay/kill" the deer? Oh well...he's a silly man! :)

Well that's it for nowwww!

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GREATTTT NEEEWWWWWSSSSS :)

Hellooo!

Welll...wanna know the greatttt neewwwsss? Mamy is going to the Assembly!! Woooo hoooo!! I'm sooo happy!

More great news?? Mamy looked up tickets for me to go to Arizona! :) Talk about excited! That's me. Cindi Leigh Shaw ;) We pretty much have to the dates and alll that good stuff...Gracie baby...here I come to your house! hahahha

Today was pretty uneventful...I helped nana w/ the laundry (there's always PLENTY to do w/ all the people around here) and updated my blog! Yay! I put some pictures over on the side...yesss. Go look! :) Oh yeah! Plus I got to talk to JaCoB today! :)

Then I got hungry. So I went and asked Nana Banana (that's what I call her when I want/need something...she says) if she knew what I wanted to eat. She said she did know, so I asked. She said I wanted steak. I said sure I do! I went in there wanting her to make me a grilled cheese sandwich, but if she wanted to go out and eat steak, who am I to try and stop her?!?! Therefore, I had to shower and get dressed (haha--Des, I showered? Yesss.) and me, Nana, Papa, and Mindi went out to the steakhouse! Yummy yummy delicious!

Well that's been about it...more fun tmrw? Probably not...haha

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Just another dayyy...

Heyyy!

Well the day is almost over so I thought maybe enough has happened today to blog about...it was full of good and bad news...
Bad News::: Grace and Paul aren't going to the assembly.
Uncle Rob won't be able to go to the assembly.
In the middle news::: Mamy MIGHT go to the assembly.
Good News::: Aunt Mel and Uncle James are buying their land to start building their new house.
Uncle Rob is going to look for plane tickets for me to go to Arizona :) :)


I'm pretty excited about the assembly...we went down to the church around 6 and made signs for the VLB march with the Farthings, Wesley and Amanda Hill, ChaCha, and a bunch of little Dixon kids.
We ate pizza, had devotion, and played games. It was just pretty fun!!!


Anywaysss...I'm still missing Destiny Brianna like crazyyy <3
BUT WAIT. She'll be in Mtn. View tomorrow! So there is a chance that we will see each other!! I'm sooo excited!!!


Okay, I guess that's it for now.

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Good Books and Good Music :)

Heyyy!

This morning I woke up around 11:30 due to the fact that I was up until 2:15 having a disagreement with the one person who matters most to me...but that's a different story and old news. It's so over now :)

The only thing getting me through these longgg days is a book I picked up at the library and my ipod. Oh! And the constant yelllinggg, screeeching, and screammminggg of all twenty thousand kids here! :)

Anywaysss the kids are all soooo excited about putting up the new pool nana bought yesterday and Aunt Mel is outside helping them at this very moment..Uncle James said we can probably ride horses tomorrow..I'm so ready! Last time we went riding I was so sore that it hurt to try to go to the bathroom! Hopefully it won't be that bad this time! The sad thing is, I know I'm going to be sore, yet I still ride...I can't help it! It's sooo...peaceful. Most the time ;P

Last night I rode over to Aunt Melanie's dad's house after church with Uncle James. Believe it or not, I enjoy those "talks" we have! :)

Well that's about it for now..

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Oh boy...

Well here I am! Yes, I'll admit to the fact that I have been slacking but I'll also provide a very good reason. Nothing interesting enough to blog about has been happening. Except the fact that after spending a month straight w/ the love of my life [[Destiny Brianna Alexis Turner]] she was taken away from me to return home three miserable days ago. *multiple tears*
We cried for a longg time before she left, a longgg time after she left, and I still find myself crying at different times in the day...haha Today, just a minute ago, I ate a pickle...just because that's her favorite. Okay seriously she's like addicted, but whatever. Maybe you guys don't understand why this is such a big deal...so I'll take time to explain. Des and Cindi have been inseperable since birth. Actually I was born around a year before her, but since she was born, we've been together. At least when we were younger and lived in the same town. Now we treasure the summer moments we get to spend together...and bawl loudly when those moments end. Like last Sunday. The moment ended. It was very very very tearful.

Anywayyssss...yesterday was an adventure of sorts...Nana and Papa decided to go look at a car and left me here w/ the kiddies. Those kiddies included:: Mindi, Daniel, Shannon, Blakley, Mekenzi, Emily and Dakota. Wowww. Okay so I thought "Well it'll be fine. They won't be gone that long." But for those of you who know my nana, nothing is fast when she is involved. She can carry on a two hour conversation about NOTHING. So it wasn't fast and the children were hungry. Oh boy. For those of you who know Cindi, she can't coooook. Not good w/ a million starving kids. So I made Ramen noodles. They probably weren't too great, but I kindly told them that if they complained I knew how to mix up dog food :) Needless to say, they didn't complain. Good girls and boys I tell ya. :)

Okay well this was kinda long..and hopefully not too boring :)

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pLaYiNg && PrAiSiNg :)

Hellooo! I'm backkk!! :)

Well, it's been a week and so much has happened! I kept my word. I took tonsss of pictures at camp! However...I haven't put them on the computer yet b/c I'm on Mel Mel's laptop and it's being superrr slow right now! So pictures will come later and until you see them, I'm afraid I just can't explain how WONDERFUL camp was! I'm so thankful that God blessed me and allowed me to be at TWO conventions and TWO camps this year! I've never been able to do that but I think He knows that I really needed it at this point in my life...I've made many many many changes in my life..thanks to those experiences.

Right now I'm at my nana and papa's house in Mtn. View...I do believe I'll be here until the assembly...

Umm guess what? I haven't been to my house since before the first convention and camp...which was about June 8th...so I've been wearing the same clothes [[washed of course :)]] for a month and a half...I'm so glad I always pack wayyyy more clothes than I know I'm actually going to need! haha

I'm soooo excited about going to stay with Grace!! I just can't wait! :)

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last post for a while :)

Hey!

Well I thought that I wouldn't be able to post again until after camp once we left Destiny's house but on the last day of convention it hit me like a train.."Uncle Rob has a laptop!" So here I am :)

We're all [[and when I say all I mean Uncle Rob, Mamy, Emma, Madison, Kaylee, Cindi, Mindi, Destiny, Cha Cha, Uncle Wayne, Emily, and Dakota]] staying at the Days Inn for another night and leaving for camp tomorrow. I'm soo excited! It'll be hard to beat the wonderfullll time I had at Family Camp but I'm ready for whatever happens! :)

Everyone is asleep right now so I thought it'd be a good time to THINK! haha It's super hard to hear myself speak when we're all together...our family is huge anyway...so when we all STAY together? Ohhh emmmm wwwwwww. It's a crazy mess! But wait. I enjoy the crazy mess and I love them to death!

Baby Kaylee's dedication was today before appointments were made. Bro. Michael Jernigan dedicated her [[he also dedicated Emma and Madison three years ago]] and believe me I took plenty of pictures! I actually don't have many pictures from the convention because I kept forgetting that I have my own camera and leaving it in the motel room!! However...I'll take tonssss of pictures at camp!! But back to the size of our family and Kaylee's dedication. Okay...so before he started he gave the Dixton clan a little time to move toward the middle section to take pictures and about half the congregation moved! :) He said "My my, this is a beautiful family!" haha It's funny that he mentioned that...Aunt Mel and I were just talking the other day about how BIGGGG our family is! I just don't know what I'd do without all the noise...

Alrighty. So camp starts tomorrow and I'm readyyyy! Uncle Rob and Bro. Byron Difani are going to be the camp directors next year...I had no idea Sis. Carol [[haha my second cousin by the way]] was going to be...errr...resigning. It made me a little teary eyed, but I understand that it's hard to organize something like that and I think Uncle Rob and Bro. Byron will do a fantastical job! I told Uncle Rob that he had little shoes and a big mouth to fill :) haha After all...his shoes are about 7 sizes bigger than hers... :)

Wellll...I think I'm gonna go now...I need some sleep before camp starts! I don't know how I made it through Family Camp being as tired as I was and I definitely don't want to be that sleepy this time around!

Toodles

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two in one day?!?! [[just pics]]

my skirttt

our shoes :) haha cutee

mee

desss

mine and destinys fav. dresses :) haha

*1* MoRe DaY..

heyy :)

nothing much to say..but i don't wanna flake out on my gracie mouse so i'll tell every bit of UNINTERESTING information i ever have! *smile*

i'm reallyyyy excited that convention starts tmrw...mamy probably won't pick us up and make there in time for tmrw night's service but still... :)

so today...we're packing and taking pictures...and that's it...interesting huh??

ooh yeahhh! and after the convention is sr. camp...so pray that everyone gets enough sleep to be responsive ;) lol

okay..i'm done..

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ThE BeSt NeWs EvEr?? :)

Hellooo there :)

You know what? I'm starting to realize that maybe I am starting to enjoy this blogging thing more than I thought I would! Unlike chatting...I can talk to this little white box allll I want and it never says anything! I like that :)

Welll..right now I'm sitting in Dessie's house alll alone...she had an ortho appt and Stevie took her...as for me...well I wanted to stay in bedddd! :P

Okay so guess who got the best news ever yesterday? If you said annyybodyyy except CINDI LEIGH SHAW then you would be totallyyyy and completely wrong! So here I am..laying in bed...head hurting like the dickens...and Grace texts me and says....PAUL SAID YOU COULD STAY WITH US :) Okay..no, not forever. But to visit!! I'm soooo excited! This trip just adds to all the summer stuff I've loveeddd so far! First I got to go to Family Camp which was amazinngggg! In 2 days we're leaving for convention and then Sr. Camp is the day after convention is over...The assembly isn't too far away...and now I get to go to Arizona?!?! Lucky kiddd :)

Soooo I guess I'm about to go eat some breakfast :) [[Something that is microwavable or toaster-able :)]]

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[[Gracie! I still haven't flaked on you babe :)]]

PICTURESSSSS :)

We loveee pictures :) <3

Just me and Dessie :)

Destiny Brianna Alexis, Strikeeee, and Cindi Leigh ***

Outside Braums :)

Me and Des before the gameee<3

Good morning :)

Me and Des just woke up..since we stayed up until like 3 last night..err..this morning? :)

Sooo..nothing has really happened today but I did mention that I bought a new digital camera so I wanted to put up some pictures!

while she's sleepinggg..

good morning =)
i guess while des is sleeping, cindi will bloggg! these past couple days haven't been very exciting...
on the 4th we actually sat in dessie's room and watched Fools Gold and 27 Dresses instead of fireworks :) they were greattt movies!
yesterday we went w/ stevie to visit her boys...it was hotttt oustide!
when we got back here donavon (destiny's dad) wanted us to go out to eat so we ended up at the golden corral...can't say its my favorite but i ate soooo much! haha :)
i'm soooo ready for convention and it will be hard for sr. camp to compare to family camp but i'm excited about it!
see, until this year i would have to say church camp has been the highlight of my summer since i was 8. when mamy and uncle rob took me to family camp...that changed! i STILL can't stop talking about how wonderful it was and allll the blessings i received..and i'm sooo ready to go back next summer!

my mom is doing veryyyy good...of course she still has her faults, but God can help her work through every one of them so keep praying for my family :)

todayyy:::i hear the plans are to go to a baseball game? anywaysss..i'll take tons of pics w/ my NEW digital camera :):):) yes, i bought it myself. i'm sooo proud!

mkkayyy..this is it for today!

(haven't let you down yet have i gracie mouse?? *wink*)

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SORRRYYY!!

Hellooo =)
Yes, it's me! Cindi Leigh Shaw. Not a slacker. Nooooo Gracie. Not slacking. See? Here I ammm!

Weelll..nothing interesting has really happened..I'm still at Des' house...so we pretty much spend our days swimming, watching tv, sleeping, eating, and texting =) But wait!! Today we went shoppinggg!! I got 2 SUPER cute pairs of shoes for camp//convention//church..all that good stuff::a new skirt and a purse.. =) I'm sooo excited!! haha

Annddddd...I'm eating blueberry shortcake. Delicious..

Anywaysss..that's pretty much itttt...

I still can't wait till convention!! **8 daysss**

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