A NIGHT AMONG THE STARS

I'm in english 3 honors at my school, which is just like a.p. english. my teacher, mr. cartan is a very...um...eccentric person, and he sure does know how to throw a party. the juniors at my school all read THE GREAT GATSBY in english. in mr.cartan's class, he rents out the building where we have prom, the miner's foundry, and we have a gatsby party. for all of you who hav never read the book, its actually a very good book. the character JAY GATSBY throws these fantastic parties in hopes one day the woman he loves will walk in. so the two periods of english 3H get to do all the work, while the alumni from his other 3H classes years before just get to enjoy the night of fun. this year, the theme was Las Vegas (which is obviously a popular theme because Casino Royale was just voted as our Jr. Prom theme). After much controversy over the theme (a lot of the girls didn't want it to be dirty like the real vegas), it was finally set in stone. I did absolutely nothing to help, but don't judge because i can't drive so its so much harder to run into town for everything that you need to buy. anyways, the miner's foundry is decorated, and everyone comes in their 20's attire to enjoy a fun night. They serve sparkling cider in champagne glasses and people swing dance. For the first quarter of the night, our school's jazz band plays, then its mr. cartan's selection of 20's swing music. The rest of the evening is our music/dancing. Well I took a while to get ready, and ended up missing the jazz band and a lot of the swing dancing (darn...). thanks to jodi for making me an adorable headband :). these pictures are some my mom took, and some i stole off of peoples facebook.

Sorry!!

hey guys! sorry i haven't blogged in forever. it seems like the second part of school keeps me the busiest. we have gotten a ton of snow lately in these storms that keep hitting california. we have even more storms on the way! i love the snow so much. i do love summer more though. we need some major water in california right now, so the storms can keep on coming! after the next storm hits i'll go out and take some pictures and post them for you guys. :)

Christmas!!!

Christmas is only on week away! can you believe it? my family just put up the christmas tree, and we got our house decorated. for christmas eve, my family has a party either with other people our just with ourselves. then we come home and stay up late watching a movie. then all the kids go to sleep, and we wake up kind of early. we always have to wait for my dad to get up, because he sleeps a long time and they like us to open presents as a family. I usually wait in my brothers' room so i'm not waiting by myself. Then my mom comes and gets us, and tells us that we're ready to start. We line up from youngest to oldest and walk out to the living room. My house isn't big, so its not a very long walk, it's just down the hall. Then we start with stockings, then we hand eachother the presents and wait for everyone to open them. Then the rest of the day, we watch the movies and play the games we've gotten. Then we have Christmas dinner, and we usually have ham and then the rest of the food is pretty much the same as Thanksgiving dinner. What do you guys do for Christmas?

Here's some pictures of our tree

Oh and by the way, last weekend we got our first good snow fall of the season! I wish i would've gotten more pictures, but I only got one and its not very good.

Thanksgiving

I love thanksgiving, its definately one of my favorite holidays. I like it because its a good time for everyone to reflect on the things that we're thankful for. I also love all the good food. Usually, my family switches every year to which side of the family we visit, but this year we just had it here with just us. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, gravy, rolls, yams, key lime pie, and i think thats it. I'm so thankful for my family and friends, my home, the clothes i wear, and the food i eat. I'm thankful for everything that i have. After thanksgiving dinner, we watched a movie together. We just pretty much spent all day together and had fun. Now I can't wait for Christmas, my favorite holiday :)

Hey! So I'm all set up now. My name is Katie and I live in Northern California. It sounds like it would be just like any other place in California, but it's not. There are no beaches, and rather than surfing, most people snowboard and ski here. There are so many pine trees here you feel like your drowning in green. The neighborhoods are smaller, and the crime and violence rates are very low. It's a place where it takes an hour to get to the mall, and if you want to by brand name clothes, you buy them online. People are generally friendly here, and you can wave to anyone, and most of the time they'll wave and smile back. For the most part, it's a quiet place to live. Some of the things to do are go see a movie, go to the lake (we have at least 5 here), snowboard or ski, walk around downtown, hang out at parks. If you really want to do something, then you will have to drive to get there. The communities are very strong here, you know your neighbors pretty well. I live in a gated community, so we have a lot of rules. You can't ride skateboards or motorcycles in here, you have to get anything your going to build approved first, and we have security patroling at all times. Sorry, this is kind of a long post. So Friday was Halloween, and it was very rainy here. Most kids here trick-or-treat in all the different neighborhoods. Some kids go the the House of Horrors, which is a building at a park where they decorate it very scary and put in our Drama kids from my high school. The kids walk through the rooms, and the drama kids scare them. They are in costume and hide all throughout the "house". I didn't want to go out in the rain, so I did my mom a favor and took my little brothers trick-or-treating. Hope you didn't fall asleep while reading this!