I'm so excited! my cousin David, who has moved back and forth from Michigan to Ohio, back to Michigan and now Indiana is finally moving back! His dad is a car salesman and he keeps getting new jobs in different places which is why they keep moving. In Indiana, he was working at Harold Zeigler Ford in Elkhart. He has gotten a couple of offers here, so they are moving back sometime over the summer to finish out the school year. David is coming to Stevenson next year as a freshman, so I'm going to help him out and make sure he does okay. He made some friends last time he was here when he went to Buchanan Elementary so he might be able to catch up with them again, and knowing him, he will probably make a whole lot of new friends. I've talked to him about going into Global Ed, but his parents don't really know what it is. I'm going to talk to them more about it and convince him to do it. Tomorrow night is the Final Four Championship Game and David and his whole family are coming this week because they are on spring break. So that should be fun, my dad said with them we'll turn it into a party. Last night I went to my cousin Gina's house and it was really fun. We just hung out but we still had a good time. We took pictures on her trampoline and watched movies. She lives in White Lake so I don't see her that much. It was really fun when Stevenson played against Catholic Central at Lakeland because that's her high school so it gave us an excuse to go to her house. Here is a picture of what Gina and I did yesterday.

Weekend!

This weekend is going to be very crazy! It will all start on Saturday morning when i have to get up early and drive to Lansing with my grandma. We are going there because every year there is a fashion show at this hotel and my cousin is in it this year. She was in it last year too. Afterwards, we might go back to my great aunt's house, who lives in Lansing, for a while. When i get back, i will probably have some time before i have to start getting ready for the Coming Home Dance! As far as i know, my friend Kristen is coming over to take pictures before. My friend Ashley might come over too, but she's not sure yet. Then Sunday morning i have to get up early again because i have to sing in church. i'm going to be dead! after church i will probably take a nap because i will be so tired! When the teen choir sings in church, we have to be at the church like an hour before the service starts. so i think the service is at 9 so we probably have to be there at like 7:30. its very early. Sunday night i'm going back to church for TWLOHA (to write love on her arms). I'm not really sure what will be going on there, but i know that a bunch of bands are going to be there so it will be pretty cool. it doesn't start until 6, and it's on a sunday night but we don't have school on monday so i can finally sleep in! i probably won't be doing much on monday because i will be doing so much for the regular weekend.

Today is March 6, 2009. we have a half day at school today and after school i'm going out to lunch with my cousins and grandma. my cousin is coming over afterwards for the afternoon. later tonight we are going to the pistons game. my brother was in a basketball clinic over the summer at ward church and when you do that clinic you get 15 dollar pistons tickets. before the game you get to sit courtside and watch the players warm up. you also get to get your picture taken on the court. the downside to that is once the game starts, you have to go up to the nosebleed section. my brother had a basketball party tonight so we got the tickets. after the game, my cousin is spending the night and we get to hang out all day tomorrow too. he and his brothers are spending the night on saturday night. they are leaving to go home to indiana on sunday. my birthday is on monday. i'm really excited. i wasn't excited at first because it's on a monday but we don't have school the next day so that's good.

My First Experience Skiing.

The first time i went skiing i went to Alpine Valley, which is about 5 minutes away from my cousin, Gina's house. we picked her up on the way there and since it is so close to her house she goes skiing there all the time in the winter. i assumed that she could teach me instead of going into a lesson. i was wrong. when we first got there it took a really long time to rent all of the ski equipment because we didn't have any of it. after that we decided to start going on the hills. the first hill we went on was a bunny hill because i was just starting out. the "magic carpets" were broken so they had the tow ropes going. to get up the hill the rope was going and you had to grab onto it and it would pull you up. you had to keep your skis straight or else you fell, trust me i know. i was doing pretty good on that hill and there was a hill that went off the back of it so we went down that one, around the corner and there was one with a chairlift, much easier than the tow rope. after we did that one a couple times we took a break and got something to eat. we were about to go on another hill when Gina met up with some of her friends. well they were snowboarding and they were pretty good. we went off with them while the rest of my family went off on other hills. well i don't think Gina's friends knew what "it's my first day ever skiing" meant so they took me on black diamond hills. it was not fun. the first hill we went on i got about halfway down the hill and then i just started rolling. my skis fell off and i landed right next to a tree. on the way to the next hill i asked Gina if we could go on an easier hill. she said yes but when we got to the next hill it was even harder. the next couple hills i was doing pretty good on but when i would get to the bottom of it there would be someone standing at the bottom and so i would just fall so i wouldn't hit them. then there was the biggest hill in the entire place. we were in line for the chairlift and it was our turn to get on, well when we went to sit down i wasn't sitting far back enough and when it jerked forward like it does everytime at the beginning i flew off. when we got to the top of the hill it was all one hill at the beginning and then it broke off into two different hills, one was the hardest one in the entire place and one.... wasn't. well everyone else went down to where it broke off and stopped. there they were deciding which way to go down. Gina was telling them that they should probably wait for me to see which one i would be more comfortable with. well i got down to that part when i realized i never learned how to stop. so i get down to them and i yelled "I CAN'T STOP!" so i just picked one and it turned out to be the harder one. i got down to the bottom and i actually didn't fall and everyone else did. i was very proud of myself until i realized that we were in the middle of nowhere and we had to walk a really long way to get anywhere. after that we stopped at the food place and i called my mom and i met up with her inside and i just rested the rest of the time. that was fine with me. over break, i'm going to Boyne Highlands to go skiing and my mom told me that i am for sure going in a lesson this time so i actually learn how to ski and have a good time.