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! :)