old and new

This past Saturday my dad started installing some cabinets into my bedroom! He originally made them for the Millens, and they spent many happy years, I’m sure, in their living room. Now that the Millens are done with them, we are putting them into my bedroom. Although they are somewhat large in my small room, I am very excited to have something so nice and made by my daddy in my room. I’m hoping it will work out better for keeping my stuff too. It will be quite fun to arrange my things in them and make use of the bookshelves. Although I don’t have enough books to fill the shelves, I hope to bolster their contents with my picture frames, dishes, and other such objects.

I think the best part of it all is just the fact that I’ll have something made by my dad in my room. And I really enjoy the process of him working on it, and helping along the way as I can.

Here are some photos from Saturday. I helped him install. He’s done a bunch of work since the last photos I took too, and they are almost ready to be painted!

This is a before shot. My dad is so sweet and gracious. We had the cabinet on the right of this photo completely out of the room and in the living room when I remembered that we did not get a before photo. He wheeled it back in the room (we used a small cart) with me just for this shot! This still does not show my old dresser and a stool that I had in my room.

KIDS Studios

Here is a preview of MOST of our KIDS Studios movies. We have made some more since then. It was made a while ago, so some people are different ages then it says they are. The music is by Spur 58, the music is call, "The Wonderful."

Here it is:

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Run Away

Here is a preview of two movies the Millen girls, some of my other neighbors, Lauren Meyer, and I made. It's called Run Away. The music is by Switchfoot, it's called "The Blues."

Here it is:

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Kallie

Here are some pictures of our dog Kallie in her dog outfits:

Her Bathrobe from Aunt Cheryl for Christmas

Victorious!

Here is a narrative I wrote fro school in September (this is only the draft, so it is not the same as the real one. And some of the words might be missed spelled.):
“Shoot!” We had to win! No offence to my team or anything, but I thought our chances of winning were 2 out of 10! In my mind my soccer team and I were absolutely terrible! There was no way we were going to win the U10 soccer tournament. Even 3^rd place would be nice! This 2007 soccer year was not going good at all. So how could I expect this to be good? We had no chance. But something happened that proved me wrong.

This was our first tournament we were competing in, and we were losing badly. It was a bad start of a 3 game tournament. We were being crushed! I couldn’t stand it any longer when the referee blew his ear-piercing whistle. Game over. We lost our first game of torture.

A couple hours later we were starting our 2^nd game. I was hoping we would be able to do a lot better this time. It turned out to be tons better. We were winning! Now hope sprung through me. Victory! Only one game left and we could steal 2^nd place! But we would have to wait. Our next game was tomorrow. How could I wait? But it would be nice to get out of my stinky blue shirt and red pants.

The next day finally came! I could hardly wait to find the outcome of our next game. “Be aggressive, be-e aggressive,” the whole team shouted as we had our hands in the middle of a circle and throw them in the air, “Storm!” We ran out on to the field, proud to be part of CV U10 Lanco team, and to have a name that meant destruction, (Storm.) My heart pounded, sweat slid down my checks, butterflies flew in my stomach. Everything went so fast. By the end of the first half it was tie 0 to 0.

We somehow managed to get a goal and win! At the end we all moved so the next team could play. Our coach said,” I have great news, girls! Your hard work paid off! You got second place!”We went over to a table and told them that we won and all the details. We got trophies and pictures taken by my dad.

I’d say this was my best soccer experience ever. We actually turned out to be a pretty good team. I owe a big apology to my team for not believing in them. I had the best team ever!

Soccer!!!

My CV u12 girls soccer team and I had a not so good fall season. We only won 1 game and tied 1 out of about 7 games. We recently started indoor. For some reason we have been doing wonderful! Our first game we won 8-0! (I wasn't at that game.) Our next game we won 7-1. Our 3rd game we won 9-0! Then the one after that was 5-2. And the most resent game we won 3-2, (I got a goal in that one!) . I don't get how we are doing 10 times better indoor then out door! Maybe it is because the fields are smaller. I don't know.

Here are my team pictures:

I'm the one on the far left standing.

Here is a funny picture, (I'm at the same spot.)

Karla's Birthday evening

On December 6th our family visited downtown Lancaster to see the lights and the new Convention Center. It was Karla’s birthday and she had not seen the Center yet. First we took a family picture at the Square. Then we took a self guided tour of the Convention Center. We had a fun time just being together as a family. Happy Birthday Karla!

Fritz Concert

Date: December 17th 2009
Time: 7:00-830
Where: Fritz Elementary School

Today my school had a concert. There was a Beginner Orchestra, 4th Grade Orchestra, 5th & 6th grade Orchestra, 4th Grade Band, 5th & 6th grade Band, Orff and Drum Ensemble, 5th grade chorus, and 6th grade chorus. I only participated in the 6th grade chorus. We sang 4 songs, Ready, Set, Christmas!, Do You Hear What I hear?, Carol of the Bells, and A Canine Concerto.

It was fun to sing in front of tons of people.

Here are some pictures:

This is Nicholas Haughery in the 5th grade chorus.

Crafts for OneMission

On Saturday December 5th, at the 2009 Holiday City Arts Market in Lancaster City's Eastern Market, there was a small stand of craft items made by a few girls from church. We raised $151.44 for OneMission (a mini "Give a Penny, Build a Building jar" contributed $3.44). OneMission is our church's campaign to raise money to build our church building. The group was made up of some teenage and young adult girls from church (plus Margaret, my Mom, and Grandma Landis), who all came together one Saturday to create the items. We used materials we already had, so that anything we sold would be profit. Special thanks to Cori Bitterman who allowed us to share her 10'x10' plot at the market free of charge, as well as to my Grandma Landis, who provided the majority of our crafts items. Grandma Landis made Boxwood green arrangements, and Grandma Sensenig bought two of them (plus an apron and change purse), which she used to decorate for her Christmas party for new people at church. Without my two grandmas, we would not have made half of what we did!

Birthdays, and a Bit of Wit

December is a busy month for our family. In addition to the normal Christmas and holiday activities, we have 3 birthdays: Mom (6th), Vinson (14th), Joy (30th). Then Mom and Dad's wedding anniversary is on January 4th (our Sensenig Grandparents' is the 1st)! Vinson's 21st birthday was yesterday. Our whole family was home for dinner at 7:30, after his first final exam of the week. My mom got a really good deal on his present: a hardcover ESV Study Bible (from Focus on the Family's sale online). Joy made a funny, and I thought I'd should share on here, since I gave her a hard time in past posts.

My mom was excited to share the price as soon as he opened the gift bag.

Joy: "I don't think other families talk about how much they spend on gifts. 'Why do we take price tags off gifts?...so we get to TELL them how much it cost us!'"

Kudos to Joy for being quick on her feet and displaying a bit of wit. :-)