*sigh*

Goodmorning :)

Well, where should I start? Yesterday was Mamy and Uncle Rob's 9th year of being married! Awwh :) He got her a two hour massage appointment-45 of those minutes focused on the face :) Along with that were roses and a dinner at Olive Garden. Isn't he sweet? :)

Since they were out doing their romantic thing [[okay, eating dinner]] alone [[okay, with baby Kaylee..she is dependant on Mamy, ya know?]] I watched Emma and Madison for the second time that day. Earlier when Mamy went for her massage, Uncle Rob was at work so I was alone. That's when I called Tabatha [[one of their friends around here :)]] and she came over and took the twins swimming for about half an hour while I watched Kaylee. Then it was naptime!! Madison had told me earlier that she was ready for a nap. I almost passed out with relief!! Now don't get me wrong. They aren't bad kids at all! :) They can just be a handful. Especially when it's one little Cindi and THREE little chitlins :) The second time around [[for their dinner]] wasn't so bad. They sat and watched Happy Feet..well for the most part they sat. Occasionally they jumped around on the couch and I had to remind them of the wooden spoon that was left for me :) haha

Today we're leaving for Mtn. View..I have no idea when we will actually leave... :) Nobody is packed, including me..somewhat. We're heading that way not only to drop me off after my trip to Arizona, but to attend our family reunion tomorrow. When all the Dixons get together..rest assured it's a fun time :) haha You know what I mean if you know any member of my family..craziness!!

Okay, well that's about it for now :) I'm going to go read my book now :)

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Hair&&Babies :)

Good morning!

It truly is the morning..bleck! I'm not a morning person. I was at Paul and Gracie's house though :) haha

Anyways, I had a long night last night! We got home from church around nine and Mamy had Uncle Rob give the twins a snack and get ready for bed. After she calmed Kaylee down, she was ready to do hair! :) :) Yes, I got highlights. And not the usual blonde! I have allll kinds of colors in my hair naturally..blonde, brown and some auburn color. Well, a spur of the moment decision let to auburn highlights. I love it! I'll try to take a picture and post it later.

Today is Mamy and Uncle Rob's anniversary. Nine years. So long ago that he moved my beloved Mamy away from me! :) He left her a note on the fridge. "READ NO LATER THAN AUGUST 28TH, 2008 AT 10 AM AND NO EARLIER THAN AUGUST 28, 2008 AT 9 AM." Well, he brought that note in here about 2 days and I believe she's been very anxious to get at it! He let me read it when he got here..since I am babysitting! :) Wow! Emma, Madison and Kaylee for 3 hours. It doesn't sound too difficult, but don't let them fool you. They can be a mess! However, a very adorable, loving, cute mess. :)

I can't tell what Mamy is going to be doing yet..she just might want to see for herself! So I'll tell about that later :)

I guess I'm going to go drink some coffee...I have the feeling I'm going to need it today!!

[[Oh Gracie! I finished that book from Ashley! It was amazing! I don't know how long you're going to be in Arizona now..where do you want me to send it to??]]

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It Finally Hit Me..

I woke up this morning..and Grace wasn't sitting at the end of my sleeping bag//air mattress on the laptop. I was in a strange room. No longer in Arizona. It made me sad all over again! I just can't believe that my trip is already over! I tried to go swim and lay out..but I was lonely. Now you see, if I was in Arizona, Grace would've been w/ me and I wouldn't have been lonely. Oh well :(

I guess we might go to get some groceries and go buy postage to mail Jacob some pictures today [[there are some in there for you too Gracie!]] but if we don't do that then we'll most likely just stay around the house, which is fine with me! :) I'm enjoying this book very much!

Earlier today I went swimming w// Emma and Madison while Mamy shifted around from swimming to laying out to putting Kaylee to sleep to laying out again :) Another thing that hit me. It's quite hot here, but nothing like in Arizona! I don't like being hot all the time, but I sure do miss being there!! :(

Well, nothing else has happened and I can't promise that anything more excited will be happening, but I can't stop blogging and let my Gracie baby down! :) haha

That's all for now :)

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You Say Hello..I Say Goodbye :(

Hi!

Well, I don't really know where to start! I know I super slacked on the blogging while I was in Arizona, but I just had so much fun! Paul and Gracie were amazing! I can't even describe how much I enjoyed staying w/ them! At first Paul and I were both nervous and meeting each other, but it turns out that we got along fantastically! In the days that I was there, I locked myself out of Grace&Paul's apartment, knocked myself out with a handicap swing, bought super tiny Converse, made NUMEROUS jokes w// the Shulers *including the Jonas brothers title of my post* :), peed out my eyes *insider..not as gross as it sounds :)*, hugged Bro. Shuler *smiles*..and so much more! Oh! I slowly upgraded sleeping arrangements too! The first couple of nights we kept forgetting to get the air mattress from the Shuler's house, so I slept on two sleeping bags and with every blanket in the house! Eventually I moved on up to the air mattress :) Then yesterday, Paul and Grace bought a couch! So my final night (*tear tear*) I slept on it! Last night was full of tears..I hated it! I tried (unsuccessfully) not to cry..as soon as I saw tears in Megan's eyes I couldn't stop the flow! Grace and Paul were funny in the car on the way back to their apartment..so that kinda cheered me up! :) But this morning when Grace took me to the airport..I cried more. Then when Grace texted me while I was waiting at my gate, I cried some more. Then when I talked to Grace to let her know I landed safely, I cried some more. Then when I told Mamy about all the GREAT//FUN//AMAZING stuff that we did, I cried some more. I think my tears have finally reached the point of no return..

This summer has been the best I've ever had. God has truly blessed me! Not only was I able to go to two conventions and camps, but I have been to so many places! Oklahoma, the Assembly in Tennessee, Mtn. View, Arizona..New Mexico! I've really had a blast!

Right now I'm in Oklahoma w/ Mamy and Uncle Rob, the twins, and Kaylee. I'm staying here until our Dixon family reunion on the 30th. After that, I'm finally going back home to start homeschooling! I'm about ready to return to the normality of my life..but I'm sure gonna miss everybody that I got to visit w/ this summer! Hopefully next summer will be just as wonderful!!

There's no way in the world that I have enough time or room to post all of my favorite pictures from my Arizona trip! :) However, they are ALLLLL on Facebook and Myspace, so you guys are welcome to look there!

That's all for now..

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SOOO MUCH FUNNNNNNN!

So wow.
These people are pretty awesome!! :)
Today::
I woke up around 4:46 am when Des txtd me to say goodmorning..it was only 6:46 there and I think she forgot about the TIME CHANGE..but i suppose it was a good thing that I woke up to her and not Paul, who was about to leave around that time. Then I went back to sleep. Imagine that. :)
Later in the morning Grace and I both woke up! I think we started out the day swimming//laying out//reading. We had quite the experience eh Gracie?? :) haha
Showers were next. Getting dressed. Kind of :) ahaha *wink at Grace*
Umm..then came the watching of Hairspray. Yes, it is true. I have never watched it. Until today.
Paul came home during the movie..
I'm not sure what happened next..I've been kinda tired so the days pass in a blur! Okay, so it's not that bad..but still. I don't remember what we did after that. Maybe I wasn't paying attention b/c I was texting :) ha
Anyways, family dinner was tonight so we went to Grandma Bunny's house :)
Ehhh...after we ate we sat at the table and talked..
Then Megan and Jacob taught me how to play the marble game :) :) Fantastical. It's really quite hard...I ended up w// 4 left on my best game!
Then we played "Crack the Case."
Wowww. Bizzarrreee. It's kinda..fun//weird//silly//lotsss of other words ;)
The ride home was..interesting.
As always :)
I pretty much love being here.
I'm not looking forward to having to leave :(
BUT that's a whollleeee week away!! Yay :)
Okay..it's like 10 here..so my body thinks its 12..haha
Night night

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So Behind... :)

Hellooo :)

Umm well. I flew. In a plane. It was amazing//scaryish..I only thought the plane was going to crash once when the flight attendant mentioned we would be facing "slight turbulence." Uh oh. Anyways...I'm at Grace and Paul's house and it's kinda late...but I felt kinda bad for not ever posting! haha

So when I got here we went to the Shulers and watched a movie and played games..it was pretty darn fun :)

Today we went to church..pretty awesome :)

And now I'm soooo sleepy, so I'm going to bed!

Nighttt

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I've Got Something To Praise God For :)

Good morning :)

This morning when I got out of bed I started thinking about a devotion that ChaCha sends some of us ((me, Des, Emily, Jess, Tori, Tayler..pretty much all of her nieces and then anyone who asks)). The one that came to mind was titled I've Got Something To Praise God For. The devotion talked about looking at your eye color in the mirror, raising your arms to give God thanks, and walking. These are simple things that we automatically take advantage of each day-tasks that millions of people in the world only wish they could perform. So now when I get out of bed I know it's important to take the time to praise God that I can talk, see, and walk, rather than waiting for something to happen that I think is worthy of praise.

Wellll, now that I'm done with that, there's something I want to say soooo bad b/c I'm really excited about it...BUTTTT I CAN'T. It would totally ruin everything. So if I can remember, I'll post about it after this weekend! :)

Right now Mamy plans on leaving Mtn. View Friday...Friday. As in the day before Saturday. The day before I go to Arizona. The day before the EARLY morning that I go to the airport to fly to Arizona. I'm starting to wonder how that is going to affect my dear sleep that I happen to love so very much...

Okey dokey...that's it for now :) Nothing much has happened in the 30 minutes that I've been awake!

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My Help Comes From The Lord::The Maker of Heaven and Earth*

I'm home!! Well, not exactly home, but back in Mtn. View at nana and papa's house. Mom came up here today to register our homeschooling stuff and all that..it's been good to finally see her! Okay. I have SO much to say that I'm not sure where to start. First I should say that I had an amazing time at the assembly and I'm so blessed. I have a wonderful family, a best friend who is ALWAYS going to be there for me no matter what, a church family that i love, and new friends. It was very very hard to be there w/o Destiny. She's my support system. My lifeline. My everything..when I need to talk to someone, she's there. When I need someone to pray for me b/c I've been getting sick all night, she's there. When it's time to go to the altar, we're there for each other..but she wasn't there in body this time, and that made it hard. I know that she watched every possible minute that she could on the internet, and I'm thankful she was at least able to do that. This time w/o her made me realize that even when Des isn't with me, I'm never really alone. First and foremost, I have God. Then I have all the wonderful people in The Church of God [[which I too became a member of on August 7, 2008 :)]]

The assembly was like a family reunion! I got to see everybody from Family Camp :) and Youth Camp. It's just nice to know that they're there. :)

Right now I'm really excited about being able to go to Arizona and hear Bro. Chris preach! And seeing Grace Elizabeth Shuler Alexander!!!! We are just going to have a totally amazing time together! I know this because we always do :) :)

Bro. Carter's message really touched my heart. There are alot of storms that I'm going through but I'm not alone. Everyone has trials to go through and it's time that we realize that God is the only one that can pull us through.

I took over 200 pictures but I'm not able to put them on here w/ the computer at the library and nana's computer is TOOOO slow, but maybe while I'm w/ Gracie we can get some on here :)

There is so much more to say. Tooo much more to say...but I can't even find the words to get my thoughts on this blog!!

I guess I'm gonna go now :)

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Lock-In//Assembly//Arizona!!

Helllooo :)

Well yesterday was quite interesting...Aunt Mel, Mindi, Shannon, Blakley, and I went to the lock-in hosted by Austin church in Cabot. Now lock-ins aren't meant for sleep and Cindi neeeeds sleep..

Anyways, the night started out w// games [[dogdeball, Don't Forget the Lyrics, and some crazy game that involved rolling around on the floor that I didn't feel like being interested in :)]] They fed us pizza *yummy* and for the most part everybody just sat around and talked...it was pretty fun. Until about four o'clock. That's when I found a pillow [[actually I brought my own pillow]] and a blanket [[the extra fabric from Stephen's famous chair]] and layed down on the cooooold floor. I thought I'd be able to go to sleep just fine. Really. BUT Stephen, Ryan, Ben, Seth and Jeremy are loud. And they can be quite annoying. Well really only about two of them, but still. Those guysss...ohh goodness. I did go to sleep though...around 4:30 and then Aunt Mel woke us up at six! OMW. So as soon as we got home Mindi and I RAN to the bedroom and immidiately fell asleep. We woke up when Papa asked us to go to a different bed so he could come in that room and play music...lol :) So then we moved to HIS room and snoozed on some more...I finally woke up around four and now it's about six thirty-nine.

Tomorrow we have church and then Monday we're leaving for the Assembly so I need to have everything packed up at least by tomorrow night...

Well I guess I don't have much else to say! Except that I'm so ready for the Assembly! And going to Arizona!! :) :) :)

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:) :)

Well..
I dont' have much to say..
The lock-in is tonight at Austin and I wish Destiny Brianna was going to be there. She had to go w/o me last year and now I have to go w/o her. Not cool :( *tear*

Anywayss..I'm at the library and for some silly reason they have TIME LIMITS and of course I didn't blog until I had like 5 minutes left. Call me crazy.

I'm all packed up and ready to leave Monday for the Assembly! I wish Grace was going to be there but she can't *more tears* I'll take tonss of pics for you babe! :)

Nana and Papa bought a new car. It's verrry gorgeous :) :) :) A 2007 Buick Lacross? [[i dont even know how to start to spell it, but you get my point]] :)

I'm sooo ready for my Mamy to be here this w/kend! Wooo hooooo!! And going to Arizona? Flying by myself?? Yess. So ready!

Well..I guess that's it!

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