President!

Yesterday we had our last makeup SMASH class. Billy, Anna and I missed the classes in October because we had soccer. I think there were some other people who missed the classes but ended up dropping out of SMASH because they were too busy to do SMASH. Pastor Sam ended last night's class 20 minutes early so Anna, Tucker, Rebecca, Corrie, Brenna and I played President. Anna had to leave at 8pm. :( When Jolie arrived she joined in on the President game. I was president almost the entire time! :D Tucker was president probably about 4 times. Nobody else was able to take "my" seat as president.

Yesterday, I was researching colleges. I'm looking at becoming a Cosmetologist. It just looks likes SO MUCH fun! I REALLY enjoy doing hair and nails. I'm not too interested in learning about makeup but learning about skin sounds kind of interesting. I still want to do Photography but on the side. :)

My Weekend

Last Friday we cleaned the house in preparation for 18 guests! Shannon, Abbey and I made ALOT of home made chicken fingers. We also made mashed potatoes and corn. It was a very American meal. :P We had Mr. and Mrs. Estes, Nick, Joel, Kenan, Linnea, Catherine, Diana, Martin, Mr. Kidd, Mrs. Kidd, Kevin, Millie, Grace, Darby, Lilly, Rebecca and Tucker over. :)

First off, Nick and Joel arrived early. While Nick set up their projector for the movie Joel did some school work. Around 5pm the Kidd family arrived. :) About 45 minutes or so later the rest of the Estes family, Rebecca and Tucker arrived. After a few minutes when every got settled we had supper. Immediately after supper we started the movie. We watched the Star Trek movie. The younger kids (Linnea's age and down) watched The Parent Trap in my parent's room.

When the movie was over we all had dessert and then Tucker, Billy, Millie, Kevin, Grace, and Catherine played Hearts or President in Billy's room. Everyone else sang songs from musicals. My throat was beginning to hurt so I joined Linnea, Kenan and Darby and watched The Parent Trap II. We didn't get to finish it but it was really funny! After awhile the Kidds had to leave, then the younger Estes, then Nick, Joel, Rebecca and Tucker left. That was LOADS of fun!

On Saturday my family had a pretty laid back day. Except I didn't really have a laid back day. Mom and I went in town and cleaned our church ad got Mom's pay check at her work. When we got home I ate a quick lunch and then I went over to Ellayna's house for a few hours. We looked at senior portraits and played Just Dance on the Wii. I went home after that. Calvin was visiting us until Sunday so that was cool. We ate Mom's delicious Turkey pot pie and then I had to go babysit for the Hanscoms.

Miles played on the computer for a little bit while Maddie and I played Battleship. She just barely beat me at that. Miles wanted to watch a movie so we watched Evan Almighty. I don't recommend it... I didn't like it. It was about how God spoke to a congressmen to build an ark because a great flood was going to come. They make fun of the Bible story of Noah's Ark. Since Mrs. Hanscom wasn't getting home until 2am from her gig I decided to sleepover. Mom picked me up at 7am the next morning.

On Sunday we had church. Mr. Kidd preached. :) That was cool. After church Jenna, Calvin, Millie, Grace and Kevin came over for a visit. Millie, Kevin, Calvin and Billy played Hearts while Grace, Jenna, Shannon and I played President. After awhile we all got pretty hungry so we ate a snack. After the snack we all played spoons except Calvin. Calvin took a nap. We stopped right before 4pm and cleaned the house a little for home group. Mrs. Marston, her son Isaac, Jinny, Mr. Kidd, Mrs. Kidd, Darby, Lilly, and Shannon (not my sister) came to the home group.

Thanksgiving Day!

Billy is pretty much all better from his Strep Throat. Shannon is recovering from her cold too. I just recently got a cold with similar symptoms but not half as bad. I had a sore throat from Friday night to Sunday. Now my throat appears to be fine except a little cough but I have a stuffy/runny nose now. It's not too bad though. :)

Our Thanksgiving was SO much fun!! We went to Aunt Debbie and Cousin Ryan's house for Thanksgiving. We got to their house around 11am. We watched part of the Macy's Day parade on TV for a bit. We all played Apples to Apples. Dad doesn't normally play Apples to Apples but he said he'd play if Ryan played and Ryan played. :D Dad ended up winning with Ryan in second place... Funny how that works.

After Apples to Apples, I mashed potatoes for Aunt Debbie and then it was time to eat. Aunt Debbie did SO well at making the turkey dinner. It. Was. DELICIOUS! :D

After the turkey dinner us Clarke kids played Phase 10. We didn't finish the game because we decided to play Left Right Center with Mom and Aunt Debbie while Dad and Ryan napped. We played a couple rounds of that. I can't remember who won those rounds.

All except Ryan watched Willy Wonka on TV. Ryan left to go back to his apartment. After the movie was over we said our goodbyes to Aunt Debbie and drove home.

Friends, Laughter, Doctor Who, and Nasty Colds

Friday evening Shannon and I drove over to Corrie's for a sleepover. :D That was SO much fun! When we first got there we talked with Jolie, Brenna and Jessi for a bit while Corrie showered. After awhile we all sat around the living room and talked about movies. :) 

Once the DELICIOUS pizza that Jolie had made was ready, we ate it while we played Hand and Foot. We didn't finish the game but I think Shannon and I came in last. We also ate some chocolate and cookie dough ice cream. :D 

After Hand and Foot Brenna, Jessi, Jolie and Shannon went to bed. Corrie and I stay up and talked for a long time. :) I. Love. Corrie. She's so, so, so fantastic!

The next day Corrie and I woke up around 11am, had breakfast and then all of us girls (minus Jessi because she had to work) drank coffee or tea and talked until Shannon and I had to go home so Shannon and Billy could go pick up Sean in Rockland.

While Shannon and Billy were gone I helped Mom clean the house. It was kind of hard because the turkey in the oven was SO big that it was making something burn and smoke in the oven so the house was really smokey. :/ We got most of the smoke out of the house by keeping the front door open with a fan blowing the smoke out.

When Sean, Shannon and Billy got home we started making all the side dishes for a turkey dinner. Tim, Angie, Gabe, and Adeline showed up around 5:30pm. Supper wasn't going to be ready until 6:30pm so we got to play around with Gabe and take turns holding the adorable little Addie. :) The reason we had a turkey dinner was because the Leach's are going to Angie's family's house for Thanksgiving.

Having Sean over was lots of fun. He and Billy set up this box thing that connects our TV to Netflix, Pandora, Youtube, you name it! :) It's cool. Sean, Shannon, Billy and I didn't do much besides talk, laugh and watch Doctor Who because Shannon had to work, and Billy wasn't feeling well.

Speaking of Billy not feeling well... We think he as Pneumonia because he has a fever, cough, shortness of breath, sweating, shaking chills, chest pain, head ache, muscle pain, and fatigue. I looked up the symptoms online and asked Billy if that's how he felt and he said he has all of those symptoms.. :/ He's going to the Doctor's this evening. This is Billy's second time of getting Pneumonia. Poor guy. Prayers would be appreciated! :)

Soccer Banquet!

Last night was my soccer team's end of the season banquet. The Mom's planned it and made it really fancy! They had the captain of the boys varsity team (Nate) recruit some boys on the boys soccer team to go around serving random Mexican dishes. :) That was nice. They had milk chocolate and white chocolate fondue with strawberries, pretzels, and bananas available for us to dip in the chocolate. They had a huge variety of mexican foods for supper,  chocolate and mints at each table setting. They even had a little photobooth for parents and teammates to get their picture taken by a photographer. They had another photographer take team pictures.The coaches had speeches for each team member. That was really sweet. They had a "red carpet" for us to walk down when the coach gave us our certificates. :) I won a table center piece which was a little paper box with a fake, battery powered candle in it and green and silver sparkly tree things. It was a very well done banquet!
Kelly, the varsity goalie, who is only a sophmore was awarded a special, framed certifcate meaning she is one of the best goalies in western Maine. A couple of the girls on Varsity made it to the All-stars too.

Tonight Shannon and I are going to sleepover at the Donahue's! I'm really excited! I love the Donahue girls so much! <3

Work Day with the Richards!

Yesterday morning Billy got picked up by Tucker and Mr. Frink to go to Bridgton. About ten or fifteen minutes later Mrs. Richards, Rebecca, and Corrie picked Shannon and I to go to Bridgton.

When us girls got there, Billy, Kevin and Tucker were trying to "break into" the garage because they didn't have the keys, Mrs. Richards did. :) Pastor Sam drove in soon after that and put us right to work. Malia, Shannon, Pastor Sam and I got a whole bunch of hoses connected into one long hose so we could reach where we were going to have the bonfires. Yes, bonfires. :D That's plural. All of us ladies and Pastor Sam started the first bonfire by getting lots of the wood we needed to burn. Malia, Corrie and I hand sawed some small trees into reasonable carrying sizes. After while, Mrs Richards watched the fire while Malia, Corrie and I went to go help Shannon, Rebecca sand a stairway that had been recently mudded. Once most of the hall was done Shannon, Rebecca, and Corrie went to go help Mrs. Richards with the bonfire. Malia finished off the ceiling while I touched up the walls and got behind the railing. Once I was done I went down to the bonfire and helped a little. Malia had to leave when she was done with the hall so we all said "good bye" to her. After a little while it was lunch time! Rebecca and Shannon volunteered to watch the bonfire while we ate. Just before we were about to pray for the food Mrs. Richards decided to let Shannon and Rebecca come up for lunch while she watched the fire.

Lunch was some sort of vegetable soup with kielbasa or something in it and an optional side of Quiche. I didn't try the Quiche but the soup was yummy and hit the spot! :D During lunch Daniele (a friend of Rebecca, Tucker's and mine) arrived! That was cool!

After lunch Daniele, Rebecca and I had Pastor Sam inspect the stairway to see if it was sanded enough. He had us sand the ceiling and one little section again. When we were done that I swept the stairway while Daniele and Rebecca went and played the piano for a little bit. The. Stairway. Was. SO. DUSTY! I swept from the top to the bottom of the stairs and by the time I was done my shoes and pants from my knees down were pure white! I had to carefully walk outside of the garage and then shake the dust of my legs. :D There was a cloud of dust behind me when I was done shaking it off. I swept it a second time and then Rebecca, Daniele and I let the dust settle a little while we check on the bonfire. Shannon and Corrie had started a whole other bonfire and the other one was almost down to it's coals.

Daniele and I painted the stairway a "pear glaze" color which is pretty much a creamy white. That was alot of fun! I used Billy's iPhone to play Tobymac, Phantom of the Opera and some other random songs. Painting seems so much easier when you listen to music. :)

When we were done Daniele went down to the fires and Mrs. Richards gave some hot chocolate for me and some for me to bring down to Daniele. Shannon, Corrie, Rebecca, Daniele and I roasted marshmellows and made a few s'mores. It started raining pretty steadily so Daniele and I went up to house and played airsoft with Billy and Tucker. We had the BEST battlefield ever. It was in a thick forest area with just TONS of pine trees about 5-7 or 8 feet tall! PERFECT for airsoft! But we didn't play in the woods for long because it got pretty dark so we couldn't see. We ended up having an open field with a view trees and other things as cover. Daniele and Tucker were on a team and Billy and I were on a team. Daniele and Tucker technically won because I ran out of amo sooner than I thought (I had clear shots on both Daniele and Tucker but I was blank firing...), Billy's gun jammed and Tucker shot me once. I don't think anyone else got hit.

It was raining pretty hard by the time we were done and it was dark out so we went inside and ate cookies, marshmellows, chocolate, bread pudding and drank water and hot chocolate. Mrs. Richards drove Rebecca, Billy, Shannon and I to our church so we could go to Bible Study. That was SO much fun! :D I was REALLY tired though.

Close Game!

Last night I watched Billy, Shannon, Calvin, Pastor Per, Josh, Mark, Pastor Tracey and the other Spartans play soccer. Jenna came to watch with me and Anna Tracey was there too! :D It was a very well played game. They lost 0-2 but the other team didn't score until the second half! It was very intense!

Tomorrow morning, Billy and I are going to go with the Richards to work in Bridgeton all day. I'm going to try and double up on school today so I don't have to do any school tomorrow.

Super Mini Deerwander Reunion

On Saturday we had a very small Deerwander Reunion at Jenny's house in Naples. That was SO much fun! Millie, Kevin, Shannon, Billy, Jenny, Tina and I played Catch Phrase. That was hilarious! Then we played Mad Gab. That was hard but really interesting.

Ben arrived soon after that. We all went outside and played pass with a mini frisbee then played Ninja for awhile. We all went inside, got hot chocolate or coffee, then played Apples to Apples. I won...both rounds. :) I can't remember all the green cards I won but some of them were "glorious", "Colleen", "patriotic", "dead", and "absurd".

After Apples to Apples Ben, Shannon, Billy, Millie and Kevin played Catan while Jenny and I played Mario Kart and Wii fit. When the Catan people were done we had supper.

Mrs. Ames made some delicious Ziti and garlic bread and for dessert apple pie, pumpkin spice cookies, something with coconut in it, vanilla ice cream and we brought no-bakes. :) After supper and dessert we went for a night walk to the lake. We couldn't get super close to the lake because it was fenced off but it was REALLY pretty. The stars were really bright and the moon was full. :D
Ben left after the walk. We got a group shot (minus Ben) and some goofy pictures. Billy, Kevin, Shannon, Millie and I left after that. We drove to the Morris' house for the end of game night with our church. We played pictionary with almost everybody there. Our team lost by like one point. We went home when the game was over. :)

Marble Nails

Last night Shannon and I ate supper at McDonalds while Billy, Calvin and Dad waited around for Mr. Estes, Kenan, Linnea, Catherine, and Diana to show up. When they got there Linnea, Catherine, and Diana got their supper and the guys left to go play Table Tennis (ping pong). Once the Estes girls finished their supper we went to the Lewiston Middle School to watch Cinderella performed by CLT. It was REALLY cute and well done! :D

Here's a picture of my friend Meredith and I. She was a couple small characters in Cinderella.

After the play we drove the girls back to our house where Mr. Estes, Kenan, and Calvin were hanging out with Mom, Dad and Billy. We all talked a bit and then the Estes brought Calvin home on their way home.

Yesterday, I painted my nails marbled. It's kind of like tie dying your nails, it's REALLY cool! Here's a picture of my left hand.

It's really easy to do too! Here's the video I learned it from. Mine doesn't look very marble-ish, it looks more like tie dye. I used bright orange, dark blue and darkish pink and somehow I got purple, light pink and light blue on my nails. The orange didn't really change much. :)

Cinderella

Tonight, Shannon, Linnea, Catherine, Diana and I are going to see Cinderella performed by Community Little Theater. Sarah and her Mom might come too. I can't wait! It's a musical which is awesome because I love musicals!!

Yesterday's seminar was pretty good. I thought they were going to talk more about pricing but it was more about how to promote your business and get more customers and such. I pretty much already had an idea how to do that stuff but not very well. It wasn't boring though! :)

Indoor Soccer!

Last night I went to go watch Shannon, Billy, Calvin, Josh and the other Spartans play a game of indoor soccer. Calvin isn't officially a Spartan yet. But hopefully he can join the team. It was a pretty good game! The other team had about 2 or 3 subs and our team how zero subs. For having no subs, the Spartans did really well! They lost 4 or 5-0. The other team only got like one goal in the second half. :)

This after noon, Dad, Tucker and I are going to a Marketing seminar for small businesses. I'm pretty excited because I think there's a lot to learn from this seminar for me. :)

I Am Number Four

Yesterday, after church we had Calvin come over for the day. For lunch we ate bratwursts. :D I loooove bratwursts! Then we played Hearts for a couple rounds. We didn't finish the game but Billy won.

We watched a movie called I Am Number Four which was REALLY cool! If you like action movies with aliens, you'll like this! There ARE a few swears but it's not too terribly bad.

The GREAT Teen Weekend!

Last Friday Shannon drove Billy and I to Camp Good News for the Great Teen Weekend. We got there right before the Cornerstone Baptist Church people got there. When they got there we put all our luggage into our assigned cabins.

When everyone got settled in we had supper. Mr. and Mrs. Field were the cooks for the weekend and they made DELICIOUS food! For supper we had chicken pot pie minus the crust part with freshly baked biscuits!

After supper I believe we had Club which is singing and a Bible study. But after the music and before the study we did funny, short games done by Mrs. Wright. The first game Mrs. Wright did was where she picked four people (two guys and two girls. Each guy partnered with one girl.) and they each had to hold a tall candle in their left hands and a squirt gun in their right hands. Mr and Mrs. Wright lit the four candles and then they had the get their partner's candle out by squirting water with the squirt gun. Their faces got pretty wet. :)

The study was about being a leader and what God looks for in a leader. He looks for humble people. :) Also, that we are leaders even if we don't know it. We lead by our example.

After the study I believe Anna and I played fooseball against Parker and Noel. We beat them once and they beat us twice. After fooseball we ate delicious brea sticks with pizza dip.

After snack we played Murder! :D That game is so much fun! Don't judge the title. :P How it usually goes is you get a small piece of paper for each person that's playing and depending on how many people are playing you either put in 1-4 murderers in the game by writing the letter "M" on however murderers you choose to have on the pieces of paper. For example, the first round we played we had two murderers and two detectives. Detectives try and figure out who the murderers are.  So, out of all the pieces of paper we had, we wrote the letter "M" on two and the letter "D" on two of them. To start the round we turn out the lights and Mr. Wright counts to ten so we can all spread out through out the building. They way the murderer kills is he or she whispers into some one's ear and says, "You're dead.", then the person who got whispered to has to wait ten seconds, scream, then fall over "dead". After 10 minutes or so the round is over and the lights are turned on. The dead people go into a corner where a couple coaches are and sit out a round. The next round they become zombies. Zombies get to leave ten seconds before the living people and find a place to stand. They can't move their feet when the next round starts but they can reach out with their arms and if you get touched by one then you die.  All the survivors go into the circle and "go to sleep" while the detectives accuse who they think the murderers are. If the dectives are right then the murderer dies. It's a REALLY fun game! Anna and I would pair up and run through the halls to avoid dying. :D

After Murder I think we went to our cabins to go to bed. Shannon was my cabin counselor. That was fun! We played some "get to know you" games, talked about the Bible study, went outside to look at the stars for a little bit, and then played telephone until about 1:30am. It was lots of fun. :)

The next day most of us slept in until about 8am, then we got ready for the day. For breakfast we had a yummy sausage egg casserole thing. It was really good! After breakfast we had Club. The game Mrs. Wright picked out was human bowling. She picked Shannon, and I to "bowl" Billy. I'm pretty sure our team lost. Heh! Oh well!
The guys and girls split off for the Bible study. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to share what we talked about on here so I won't. :)

After Club I believe we played Do You Love Your Neighbor. That was lots of fun! :D After that we played Whack A Friend. That game helps your learn people's names. How you play is you have some one start in the middle like Do You Love Your Neighbor but they have an "official whacker". Some one in the circle starts by saying,  "Their name, someone elses name". For example, if I started I'd say, "Colleen, Anna" and then the Whacker would try and whack Anna before Anna says, "Anna, Emily". You have to try and say your name and then some one else in the circle's name too. If you're too slow and you get whacked then you're the new Whacker and the Whacker takes your seat and you have to turn around and face the previous Whacker and they start the naming thing again. Once everyone got used to eachother's names Mr. Watson (the guy who made up the game) had us pick a fictional character and go by that name instead. That made things even harder.

After awhile we stopped, played some fooseball and then had lunch. For lunch we had these calzone type things. They were really good! :D

After Lunch we had to go to the outdoor Basketball courts and do this hard balancing and teamwork game. It was pretty hard! We had 3 big empty tomato sauce cans and two long boards about 6 inches wide, I think. We had to get across the basketball court without our feet touching the court or the boards touching the court. Our team almost tied in first with team 1. We were team 3. Team 2 lost.

After that we played Soccer. We had 3 different teams that were equally matched. The team I was on tied in first with the team Billy and Shannon were on. :D

After Soccer, we played Ultimate frisbee! That was a blast! We combined the three teams into just two teams. The team I was on won. I'm not sure what the score was though.

We went back to the main building and had homemade donuts! Mmmmmm good! After eating those delicious donuts we had Club. This time Kori picked the game and it was for Mr. Wright, Mrs. Wright, Shannon, and Scott to do since they are adults. (Mr. and Mrs. Watson were supposed do it instead of Shannona and Scott but they had to leave early) The game was to stick a popsicle stick in their mouths and they had to stack 5 die on top of the popsicle stick. It was tough but Mr. Wright got it. :)

That dice game.

After Club we played fooseball a bit more and then had supper, cleaned up after supper, took a group picture, packed up then said our goodbyes. :( It was such a
GREAT weekend!

One of the many games of fuseball.

Group Picture!

New Phones!

Last night we got our new phones in the mail. :D We got Wildfire Androids! They're really cool! Using a touch screen full keyboard is going to get some getting used to but I'm excited! I won't be able to call people as much but I'll have unlimited texting which I prefer. :D

Last night Billy had his soccer banquet. That was really good! Mrs. Mulherin made a really good video of pictures and videos from through out the season. The food was delicious and Coach Davis and Coach Juntura did a great job speaking for their team. :)

Pictures of Beauties

Here are pictures of beautiful Adeline!

She. is. adorable!

Corrie's senior pictures were a success! She's so pretty! Here are a few of my favorite shots.

Sorry, this one is sideways.

Corrie had to incorporate drawing into her senior pictures.

My favorite one is the first one. She has beautiful eyes! There are alot more pictures but you'l have to ask Corrie to see those.
If you ever want to do your Senior pictures I highly recommend Vaughan Woods! It's beautiful!

Nail Art!

Last night I got to meet Adeline. She is beautiful! She is SO cute and has either dark brown or black hair with dark brown eyes. <3 I'll post pictures tomorrow. Angie's side of the family has to meet Addie face to face first.

Today I'm going to do Corrie's Senior pictures. We tried to do them last month but one of us was either busy or the weather wasn't good. It's supposed to only get to about 50 degrees today. I'm hoping it won't be too cold! I'm really excited to do her pictures.

Yesterday, I did a cool design on my nails that my friend Nina told me about. Here are some pictures of it.

This one says "Nina's happy" backwards. :)

It's really easy to do! All you do is paint your nails a light pink or grey, let them dry completely, dip your nails into rubbing alcohol for five seconds, then put the newspaper on the nail for 20 seconds, peel off, then paint a clear coat over the nail. Easy!

Major Excitment!

Yesterday evening Dad brought Gabe over to our house because Tim needed us to watch Gabe because it appeared that Angie was ready to have her daughter. :D Watching Gabe was lots of fun! He's such an adorable bundle of energy!

Turns out that Tim and Angie had their daughter last night at 9:54 pm. She weighs 5lbs, 9oz  and is 19.5 inches long. Her name is Adeline Jean Leach! I'M. SO. HAPPY! I can't wait to meet her!!