Famine:)

Now I can see why you guys love the famine so much, I had fun :) But i felt a little guilty because i hadnt raised any money. (I wasnt even gonna sleepover until like, 8PM that night). I think next year I'll do the Famine, like really do it, with you guys :)
Alight, alright, pictures...
See, the camera I usually bring to Youth Group is currently in my moms possesion...in another state. So i grabbed some old, 3mp cameras, and so the quality of my pictures is pretty discusting. I'll just upload one of the ones that came out OK, you know, the ones you can actually tell what things are...

I kind of like this one BECAUSE the quality is bad, it just seems to add something.
Yeah, it was an inside job ;)

Ohmygosh...

TGIWF (Thank God It WAS Friday)

Last night was the strangest night of sleep I've gotten in a long time. I kept waking up, once to go to the bathroom and once to let the cat in, once to talk to my dad, and once to put on some PJ's. When I woke up and went to the bathroom...nothing seemed real, it was strange. I guess I was just half asleep. I was so totally and completely exasuted but I couldn't fall into a restful sleep. I was tossing and turning all night. It is now 9:58 AM and my whole body aches from attempting sleep in weird positions. Ughhh...
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Now, why was I so sleepy? There are a few answers to that, a) I am horribly, uncurable, deathly Ill and I was on my death bed last night, or b) I had waaaaay to much caffeine last night and used up all my energy in a 2 hour period. I love Youth Group.

[If actions speak louder than words...so do pictures]

Friday :)

Grounded or not, I went out Friday to take this picture. To gorgeous to just be forgotten I say. Believe it or not, this was right outside my house. Yeah, suprised eh? I was too. Anways, also on friday was Character Day at school (I was about 4 hours late, for reasons I will not post on the internet), and then Youth Group went to another Church where Mike Timlin (Time Miklin...hehe) was speaking. Unfortunatley, sitting next to Sophie brings out my sillier side. Or I bring out Sophie's, I don't know. Point is, we could not pay attention. We ended up laughing at things that weren't even that funny. I think I had low blood sugar, so techinacally it's not even my fault. But...I had fun. So, it was all good. :)

Camp!

okay, well...you'll probably get more details from tori, or from everyone else. but i'm hoping you'll want to hear my side. you do? good. here we go...

i worry. i dont know if you know that. but i do. alot. and that's exactly what i was doing before camp. worrying. all though, up until the 1st week before camp i was excited. when i first got there. i was pretty much a nervous wreck. i dont know if you noticed. though, you prbably did. anyways. there is no way i can give you a day by day. or maybe i can. hmm..this is a tough descision...well, ok i will. here goes;;

day 1

me & my mom thought we had passed berea. but we found it, yay! we got there and when we were checking in the lady with the swimmming bands went through this whole speil she has to make for every kid (i could tell she was getting tired of it,) only to have me say 'i dont swim'. then they shecked my for lice. fun. :P. then we found out the Susan the nurse, lost my forms. my mom had to fax them over. teehee. i thought i wouldnt be able to fall asleep. but i did, i was the first one to fall asleep too. all i had to do was get lost in my own thoughts. something i do awfully, horribly, well...

day 2

i did rifely and archery for the first time! i loved rifley, and i wasnt too shabby. ;] archery was way harder than it looks. i wanted to do it so i could be like robin hood. :D we played dark insanity which was awesome. i was with rachel and said sarcastically "yeah we rock we caught 6 bad guys" and this group of younger girls who past started whicpering, they beleived us, haha. i had a blast. i realized that night though that i need surgery on my toes someday. im not going to rush it though. tori said the nicest thing about me when we all had to give compliments that night. :)

day 3

kaeleigh got erika out of bed that morning by telling her we had 5 minutes. turns out we had 45. :) teehee...this was the day that i was chilling on the nurses couch for like, 2 hours. when i got back to the cabin, everyone was so concerned. it really made me feel good, :) i love all you guys! that night, i dreamt i dropped my moms camera over and over again.

day 4

maryann (our counsler) guessed my middle name. (marie for all you nosy ones out there) jodi wore some red sox apparel that night during chapel. yeahhh. (this was also the night i went and sat in the back of the chapel near the dors because i couldnt breathe being packed like sardines) oh yes. and ashlees cabin challenged us. we won. they had to feed eachother breakfast haha. we had cookies & milk at 'grannies' that night, me, sophie and rachel were laughing so hard. it was awesome! i also got some good pictures of luke, which, unfortuanlely got erased.

day 5

erika told me today that instead of dog earing/book marking pages in books, she memorizes the numbers. teehee. um, i dont remeber anything else that happened today. lol

day 6

this day i started to feel a little homsick. but i was still having so much fun! did you know, (well you probably did...i told everyne this. haha) that dasani water has MINERALS in it? ew! we had challenge course that day, and i sat down when everyone was playing that hand game. the boy who had played timmy at grannies house sat down next to me. he's a history major in college. thats so cool. i love hisotry. (no i dont like him. :P i just respect people who had a love for history like i do)

day 7

i couldnt beleive it was the last day. i couldnt beleive i made it. a whole week! i love you guys!!

i've gotten much closer to God, but i'll talk more about that later.

rachel- im so glad we got closer as friends! at youth group, we never really got to talk. your crazy but i love you :)

tori- i agree with what sophie said, you really are a strong person. your a role model. your such a strong christian & a great friend!

sophie- your awesome, your so real. (i dont know how to explain it, but its a compiment!) we had many good laughs! miss you. (fun breaking all the rules -cough-cough-)

megan- your crazy, i love your sense of humor. (and your hair! :) i'm going to watch pirates 2...tomorrow :D

mdison- its so weird that your adams cousin! we have to make him com to yg! i really like hanging out with you. :)

erika- what would happen if i ate poison ivy? haha good times with my pj's my brainwashed friend. <3

kaeleigh- i knew you, but we were never really friends. i'm so glad we became real friends at camp! love you!

and now...pictures!!

[no notes under the pictures because pictures speak for themselves. and als, its 9:30pm.)