Day 181

Bee sting.

Pretty sure that my finger is not supposed to look like that.

Day 180

I feel very accomplished because it is not even 10:00 and I'm done with my homework!

Day 179

Today I got to go to a recording studio to record myself playing a song on the piano!  (I'm going to make a CD that I can send with my college applications).  It was pretty cool!

Day 178

Happy Birthday, Dad!!! Love you :)

Day 177

I guess this is the ultimate bird hang out.

(I love randomness, in case you couldn't tell by this post.)

Day 176

Well, I have officially survived one week of my junior year.  To finish the week off, we had our first home football game tonight!  The football games are always a big deal and quite fun.  We won 21-14!

And then I went to Arby's...Now this is one legit curly fry.

Day 175

AP Calculus and AP Physics...It's only the first week of school and I am already sick of homework.

Day 174

The first full day of school means...

first day of real homework, which means...

the first day of study group!

Taylor and I started walking to study group, found out we were early, didn't
want to walk back, so sat on the curb until it was time to go.

Day 173

Marty: Where were you?

Me: At the Hello Day Stomp.

Marty: Ooh.  That explains why you're wearing ridiculous clothes.

Marty caught me off guard.

It's a tradition to always dress up for stomps!

Day 172

Today was my first official day as a Junior!

The top of my juice can - doesn't it look like a smiley face??

Something about sitting in school all day really can wear you out.
Taylor enjoyed a little nap on the way to our soccer game and I took
this lovely picture :)

Day 171

Today was our last day of summer :(  It went by way too fast.  However, we spent the last day well - a BBQ outside with the family.

Rope swing from the tree.

Rope + a pillow = a perfectly good swing

Day 170

Today Kristy, Ian, and I went to Lagoon!  We saw this while waiting in one of the lines.

I don't know why anyone would sit on this fence in the first place.

Day 169

This is my new favorite game.  You are the ninja! :D  My cousin and I have been playing this whenever we have free time.

Fruit Ninja for the Kinect.

Day 168

I love all the street signs in my neighborhood.  Found a new one today.

Bean dip.

Day 167

We went boating for mutual today!

Day 166

On the road again.

Day 165

Hiked to the ice caves, drove the jeep, and hung out at camp today!

Nicholas, Christopher, my dad, and me in one of the ice caves!

Day 164

This morning the "Arizona Shaeffers" left. :(  But the rest of us had fun playing Monopoly, hiking to the falls, and playing card games!

Dad's fro.

Day 163

Happy birthday, Papa!

Nicholas was very excited to learn to ride the ATV by himself.

Playing Black Jack.

Jeep rides.

Minute to Win It!  In this particular game we had to try to get the
Oreo from our forehead to our mouth.

Playing Hearts with the giant cards that JD won!

Day 162

We arrived in Pagosa this afternoon.  I'm having a great time with all my cousins!

Gotta' love the hats we found.

Day 161

Late night driving to Pagosa.

Day 160

Ruby and I can both drive, but can't drive each other until we've had our licenses for 6 months.  So...we biked to get our ice cream.

I do have to admit, I've missed riding my bike and the summer air felt nice :)

Day 159

Chocolate chip pancakes at their best.

Day 158

Marty has found his love - an Old Navy mannequin.

Gotta' love the zoo animals at the ice cream shop.

It took a good couple of minutes just to get in the train.

Day 157

"When you smile be sure to smile wide...

When you laugh be sure to laugh out loud...

And when you dream, dream big."

(Ryan Shupe & The Rubberband - Dream Big)

Slip-n-slide at my uncle's house.

My cousin, Lucy :)

Old piano

Yesterday I fell asleep and woke up to find this written next to me.

Day 156

We ate a full tub of ice cream.

We made spaghetti tacos.

We laughed.  A lot.

Don't judge spaghetti by the shell.  It's actually quite good.

Day 155

"To reduce risk of injury..." What possible injury could come from a keyboard?

Try to remember when your waffle iron is on.

Nicholas with his hat flipped sideways.  He said to me, "Courtney look, I'm so homie!"

Day 154

"Kickin' in the front seat,

Sittin' in the back seat..."