10 things I like about myself

This is going to be hard. How do you do this without sounding narcissistic?
1. my eyes
2. my hair (sometimes)
3. being observant
4. my weird sense of humor
5. my ability to make friends (not refined yet)
6. the resemblance between my dad and I (personality wise)
7. my artistic ability (from my mommy)
8. my patients
9. being a night person
10. my cooking ability

Papaw

I love ice cream. When I was really small my family lived with my grandparents. One of my first memories is coming home from church and my papaw taking out some ice cream and dishing it out for me and some of my other family. It was one of the only times we really sat next to each other. That sounds weird but usually me and the cousins would sit on the bar or down stairs and the adults would sit at the table. It was always nice to share a bowl with him. I wouldn't see him a lot. He always worked in his garden. In the mornings he would wake up with the sun and feed the cows and the horse and go to his vegetable garden. Around 5 he would come in and grandma would have a feast fit for an army ready for him and the grandsons. Sometime around 7 he would go to sleep and start the whole process again. He loved to sing. In the living room while us granddaughters watched TV he would come in and start singing hymes. He was an amazing man. He worked for over half of his life and retired to a farm. He was a devoted to God. Every Sunday and Wednesday he was there. When ever the doors were open, he was there. We weren't very close, but I do miss him.

Eli

So in Jonesboro there was a girl that went to the same congregation as us. She was Eli's age and were pretty good friends. I kind of expected them to start dating or something, but it never happened. Then Eli came back for his Spring Break and was constantly getting texts. On the first Saturday he was there he went upstairs and talked on his phone for about 4 hours. DURING A KENTUCKY BASKETBALL GAME AT THAT!!! It was so weird! Then he just kept texting. So I was near him and I saw something from the girl from Jonesboro. Monday Mom and E were working on our lawn and she started to tease him b/c he was just stopping and texting and then would start to work again and would repeat the process every 10 seconds or so. Finally I told her who I thought it was and she told me he might be talking to two different girls!! I have come to the conclusion that my brother is living a double life. The annoying part about all of this is that he keeps telling me how unobservant I am!!! I feel like telling him what I know, but he would probably kill me. I keep telling him I know more that what he thinks, but he doesn't believe me. Oy, Older brothers. They think they know everything. What they don't know is the last child does. lol jk

Poor Hopie

So Hopie has had the worst possible time with her car this year. For some unknown reason someone stole her driver sideview mirror. It was completely gone. So someone had to take the time to take it off. We were wondering who in the world would possibly do that to Hopie? Anyway, she came back to Owensboro and Dad and her got it fixed. Then when she came back for Spring Break her car started to sound weird and they took it into the garage to get fixed. A few days later she got it back. Then on Thursday, someone at BB&T ran into her and broke her left light. SO she took it into the garage and took Eli's truck back to Bowling Green at the end of the week. We expected to get the car back sometime on Monday or Tuesday. Dad gets a call asking if they were supposed to fix the light. I think Dad started lose confidence in them at that point. After saying yes on Thursday they call Dad back and said they ordered the wrong part. SO on Saturday we meet up at Morgantown and Hope gave Eli back his truck so he could go back to Louisville and then we had to drive Hope to Bowling Green. When we got near Morgantown again Mom got a text from Hope saying she dropped her keys down the elevator shack. I felt so bad for her, but I could not help but to laugh. That is Hopie though.

Ready

I am so ready for Spring Break right now. It seems like for the past few weeks most every teacher is trying to cram everything they can into our brains. I am starting to not like the snow days so much. Of course next year I will be begging for the snow days. I really don't have very many plans. I am supposed to go to Evansville on Friday with my mom. Saturday I am going to babysit for a few hours and then go to the Church building and help the parents try to landscape the lawn. Then I am going to be going back to Evansville the 9th to go rock climbing with some friends at an indoor place. I am sooo excited about doing that. I have never been rock climbing, but I have gone repelling and it was amazing. Hopefully it will be good preparation for camp this year. They are actually offering rock climbing for an activity. It's going to be weird going to camp without Hope. I am hoping it will be a good experience.

Weekend

So my weekend was pretty good. I didn't do very much. Eli was home. This past week was his Spring Break. Saturday we went to Morgantown we meet up with Hope. Eli got his truck back and left for Louisville. We had to drive Hope back to Bowling Green. We got back just in time for me to relax for a few minutes and get ready to go again. I went to a Bible Study with some friends of mine. We ate and then did a lesson. After that we played Capture the Flag. It was so much fun. Maddi lost her necklace though. We are planning to go to Evansville and go rock climbing. I have never been before so I'm a little nervous. Sometime in July we are supposed to camping.

Driving

When I first got my permit I think my parents expected me to know and understand more about the car, than what I did. I already knew to be careful with the break and gas. Eli, when he first began to drive, would pull out at a stop sign and try to and make a perfect 90 degree turn. Mom and Dad would be screaming for him to not stop and it was scary lol. Hope was just a little break happy. I have kinda been inbetween the two of them. I'm not the best driver, but still. It's annoying when all of us get into the car. Dad and Mom are "advising" me on what to do and for some reason E and Hope feel as if they need to get in on the bossing around thing and they'll start to yell too. They have gotten better, but when they did, it was horrible. I would have 4 people yelling at me to turn or to go straight. It has been kind of nice not to have them around while I'm still learning to drive.

Driving

My dad took me out driving when I was about 12 or 13. We were living in Arkansas during this time. The law there was when we turned 14 we could get our permit. At 15 you could either get a Hardship meaning we could drive without a parent to school and work, or we could continue with the permit. At 16 we could officially get our license. Hope was about to get her's so dad thought he would take us out to a field near my grandma's house. I had seen Eli learning to drive and was seeing Hope learn so I thought I would be somewhat prepared. I got into my grandpa's old truck and I was amazed how the seat swallowed me. I was really short so I had to drag the seat closer to the wheel and petals. I drove a little and was extremely excited. At some point my dad told me to back up, so I tried. I was barely able to see the back end of the truck, so after a second or two my dad started to tell me to slow down. I thought I had more room so I kept going and my dad started to scream, "STOP! STOP! STOP!!". I got really mad and dad wasn't so happy and he told me the next time he says stop, stop. My dad decided to give me a second chance so we did our little routine again and drove a little and dad again decided to have me back up. This time when he said stop I just slammed on my breaks. Both of us flung forward a little and slammed back into the seats. Fortunately my dad just stared for a second or two at me and decided to laugh.