The Boo-ster

Popcorn, anyone?

2012-01-29T10:56:00.000-08:00

Braces= gone!!!

2012-01-08T14:18:00.001-08:00

Finally, I've gotten my braces off! It feels so nice!

Merry Christmas!

2012-01-01T13:13:00.000-08:00

This Christmas went by too fast! First off, the week before Christmas, Mom got a new dog. His name is Packer (after the Green Bay Packers). He's so adorable, but he is a very scared little guy. He's a 3 year-old Maltese. So far, he and Lulu are doing fine together. No fights. Lulu sometimes gets all up in his business, but I think she's just playing. The only thing Lulu doesn't like too much is when Packer tries to play with certain toys that are Lulu's favorite. He is such a cuddly dog. He could sit in your lap and sleep all day. He's Mama's boy.

They do enjoy playing with each other.

Now it's time for Christmas! It's been a warmer Christmas this year. It hasn't been freezing, although it's been a little cold. Christmas was fun and great as always.

Of course, there's popcorn balls.

Christmas Eve dinner.

And don't forget the new jammies to open!
Even Lulu's getting ready for Christmas!

Ash and I having fun with the bows.

Mom's present.

Merry Christmas!

Halloween!

2011-11-06T07:15:00.000-08:00

So on Halloween, Ashley, Cody, and I were left home alone, because Mom and Dad went to the Chargers vs. Chiefs game (which the Chargers lost :( ). These are the pumpkins that we carved.

Ashley's and mine

Cody's

We all wanted to dress up as vampires.

We had so much fun!! We decided to go trick-or-treating, but we only went to at most 10 houses. You'd think we wouldn't get so much candy, but when they all give you handfuls, it ends up as a lot. Who knew we'd get so much candy? :)

Yesterday, we went to Six Flags! :D It was so much fun!!! I rode three new rides: Mr. Freeze, the new Texas Giant (which according to Ashley and Cody is waaaay better than the old one. I wouldn't know, I've never been on the old one. Either way it was super awesome!), and Dive Bomber Alley. They were all so fun!!! I didn't think I would ever go on Mr. Freeze, but I did, and I loved it! After I got off the first time from Mr. Freeze, my hands were trembling. It was intense! The only time I had my eyes open for it was the very beginning and when we were about to go backwards. We rode it again, though and I had my eyes open the whole time. That ride is one of my favorites now. :) The new Texas Giant had an extremely steep drop, steeper than the Titan! But it was also a lot shorter. That ride was so cool! For Dive Bomber Alley, I chickened out the last time we went to Six Flags, but not this time! It was really scary at first, especially the very first two seconds after you pull the cord. But when we were just swinging, it was so fun! I went with Ashley and Cody, and then I rode a second time with Mom and Ashley. Mom was so terrified. She was screaming like crazy, and she cut off the circulation in my arm for the whole ride. She's done it now! She's conquered her fear! I'm so happy for her! :) I rode three new rides, all of them being intense! That day at Six Flags was super great!

Haircut!

2011-05-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

Yeah...am I still Chanelle?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

2011-03-19T09:15:00.001-07:00

I'll tell you one thing: Lulu HATED that bow.

Pretty ridiculous face, right?

Many things can happen in 4 months...

2010-12-19T07:51:00.000-08:00

...like going through dogs like water.
Yup, the bad news is, we got rid of Rolo. She was too much too handle for me in school while she was in her puppy stage. It made me super sad to get rid of her, but I knew it would be better for both of us.

So about a week or so later, we got another dog, which only lasted for about 2 days. She shed. That's why we got rid of her. She was a Chihuahua (which we were absolutely not planning on getting, we just saw her and wanted her.) Her name was Pixie. She wasn't that soft, and she shed. She was really well-behaved, or maybe that's just because she was afraid, so she didn't want to make us mad. I didn't bond with her very much in those 2 days, but Mom kind of did.

Last but definitely not least, after we got rid of Pixie, we got Lulu, our Schnauzer. I think she's going to stick with us for the rest of her life. She's a really good dog and she's very pretty. She's about 2 years old, and we got her about 2 1/2 months ago. When we got her, she already knew sit and shake. I've always wanted a dog that knew shake! She also must have kind of knew stay, because she learned it fast when we were teaching her. She still plays with toys and it's so cute. It's really funny when she chases her toys, because she's 14 pounds, not 8, like Rolo, so she pounds the ground when she gets her toys. She's so loud. She's a good dog though. She also snorts a lot. It's hilarious! She'll just sigh and it sounds like a snort. She'll also chase the vacuum. I have no clue why. She even tries to bite it! You probably won't be seeing anymore emails or new blog posts from me about a new dog. Yaaay! See what I mean about going through dogs like water?

In October, for the Boo Bowl in band, I dressed up as a watermelon. I look so cute!

Last month, during the week of Thanksgiving, I went through all of my clothes. Look at this pile! Apparently I'm a gorilla because I have long arms, and most of the sleeves on my long sleeve shirts are too short.

We are doing 12 days, meaning we leave gifts at a family's house without them seeing us, like "With 12 days till Christmas...12 Christmas Carols." The carols are just Christmas songs. On the first night, I was going alone, and I had the CD and when I got to the door, I knocked and ran. While still holding the gift. Right when I reached the car, I realized that I still had it. Mom and Dad will never let me forget that. We drove around for about 10 minutes, and then I tried again, leaving a giggling Mom and Dad. On the second night I did it by myself too, and when I ran back to the car I fell. Because of the curb. On the third night, I did it with Trevin, and I twisted my ankle On Thursday night, when Cody got home, Trevin, Cody, and I were all going up to the porch. I was holding the present and right when I finished putting it down, the porch light turned on, and the door opened. It was scary! We almost got caught! The family has little kids, so of course they want to catch us. Never again will we let that happen. This is the most eventful 12 days I've ever done.
Just yesterday, I got a new flute!! It's so pretty and shiny, I don't even want to touch it. I only want to look at it. I've looked at it about 10 times, and if I ever see a tiny fingerprint or something on my flute I gasp and immediately I wipe it off.

It's so pretty! Don't touch it!

I'm so excited for this whole week! So much is happening! I'm going to Six Flags on Wednesday, Jeffrey and Debbie are coming Thursday, Friday is Christmas Eve (I get to play my new flute!), and Saturday, well you know. I'm very excited. This will also be Lulu's first Christmas with us! Same with Mallie and Mason.
I love Christmas time!

Rolo Attack!

2010-07-28T17:12:00.000-07:00

Look! I didn't know she would be like this!

Popcorn

2010-07-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

So we gave Rolo a piece of popcorn that we found in the kitchen, and she didn't eat it! She turned it into a toy! It was so weird, though, because she's eaten popcorn before. Every time we got close to her and her piece of popcorn, she would pick it up and run away! Here's what she did.

Here's Rolo guarding her piece of popcorn.

Playtime

2010-07-14T06:14:00.000-07:00

Surprise! Early B-Day

2010-07-09T14:07:00.000-07:00

I had a kind of early b-day, because I got a birthday present: a new Yorkie poo puppy!!! It's a girl, and she's 3 months and 5 lbs. I wouldn't have guessed she had any poodle in her. She looks just like a Yorkie. I just got her today, and she already seems to be attached to me. After all, she is my dog. I named her Rolo, like the candy.

It seems like she loves being under stuff, since her favorite place looks like it's under the kitchen island and under me!

I love my new puppy.

We haven't mowed in a while, so our grass is so long! She gets buried in it!

This is what she did when she refused to go potty.

I love my new Yorkie poo!

Summer Vacation

2010-07-09T13:16:00.000-07:00

First off, I'll tell you about our vacation. First, we had a week at Nana's house with Dad, Mom, Cody, and me. We did lots of fun stuff, but then the time came to say good-bye. I was staying an extra week at Nana's house, but everyone else left for Utah to take Cody to college. During Nana Camp, the rest of the Fab Four came and we did all sorts of things, like cooking, sewing, learning how to ski, and we also went to see Toy Story 3. If you haven't seen it, do it right now! It's sooo good and hilarious! It's my favorite movie right now. Anyway, we went to see our neighbors' animals and got to gather eggs. It was so cool seeing all of the animals. We did get to see them before everyone left. Their cow was pregnant, but she didn't have her calf while we were there. We also went to Brookstone, a place for elderly people, and all of the Fab 4 did a dance to the song, "Man, I feel like a Woman." We also made a skirt and some pants. It was so fun! Here are some pics.

We had to push her out of here just to get her eggs.

I got to sit on this mule!

This donkey is 39 years old!

We all got new shirts!

And new rings!

We took walks on almost every morning, and one morning we took a new path and found some flowers.

We were playing around on the trampoline. Doesn't it look like I'm a giant sitting on the roof?

I'm sewing my pj's.

There's me with my skirt and pj's.

Don't ask about our pants. All we did was put our skirt on and took off our pants. Yeah, we're weird like that.

There's all of us in our pj's.

I actually got up on skis! In both of these pictures, I'm crouching and my knees are together.

Time to say goodbye. Nana gave us all little sheep. The youngest, which is me, got to choose first.
We are all standing in age order in this pic.

Then at the end of the vacation, I got strep throat. I love happy endings! It was kinda hard to talk cause my throat and glands were so swollen. I did have a fun time on vacation, though.

New colors

2010-05-23T14:50:00.000-07:00

Here is my braces update.

My teeth are getting straighter, can't you see? Look at the difference!

Spring Break Surprise

2010-05-01T15:37:00.000-07:00

First off, I think I should tell you when Spring Break was. It was during the week of St. Patrick's Day.
Now, for the surprise: I got braces! They're green for St. Patrick's Day and surprisingly, they didn't hurt that much. I only got them on my top front teeth, but sometime soon I will get some on my bottom teeth, too. At first, it was a little difficult for me to get used to having braces, especially when I play my flute. Now, I'm really used to my braces, but I'll have to go through the same process, but with bottom braces.

Don't I look weird? Actually, the first thing I said when I saw myself like this was "Who's that?"

That's to show you that I also got my last 2 baby teeth pulled out. "You're not my baby anymore!" -Mom. Poor Mom, she doesn't get to have a baby, since my baby teeth are gone. I'm the happy one, but I don't know about her. I think she's glad, because she said that she hated watching me be in pain sometimes. "No more getting my teeth pulled from the dentist. Whoo!" -me. :)

Too Much

2010-03-21T12:45:00.000-07:00

I've got a lot of catching up to do (that's what the title means), so lets just start out with the tons of snow that we got in February. Yeah, we got so much snow that it was ankle-deep. And then, the next day, since it snowed overnight, the snow was about mid-shin deep. It was crazy! I mean, come on! We live in Texas! I was only expecting a little bit of snow. Here are some fun pictures of the snow.

Snowball!

I'm gonna get someone!

Oh, what a fun time. I love snow!

Okay, in March, Dad was going to Florida for a business trip, and he wondered if we would like to go with him. We would be missing school for 4 days, but who cares? Go to school, or go to Florida, which has Disney World and Universal? I was all for Florida. When we got there, we didn't do anything special. Cody and I played ping-ping, but that was pretty much it for the day. On the first whole day that we were there, we were at Universal. It was great. There were so many rides that were inside and they were the movie type rides. We enjoyed them extra because it was so cold there. Cody and I also went on the Hulk, which is like Batman or Great White. It was interesting because instead of taking you up slowly to the top, the Hulk shot you up when you were about halfway to the top. Mom decided to go to Seuss Landing while she was waiting for us, and we saw her shopping for little Ashton and Hannah. She bought cute little Thing 1 and Thing 2 shirts for them. Mom and I also bought Thing 1 and Thing 2 sweatshirts for ourselves. Mom and I found The Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2. It was pretty cool seeing them.

We're so cute. :)

We also went to the Jurassic Park place in Universal. It was so cool looking at all of the different dinosaurs. There was one place full of awesome stuff that you could just mess around with. In one part of Jurassic Park, there were dinosaurs that had a machine on their side that you could move their head with and see through. Also, when you talked into the machine, it made your voice sound funny.

That's the machine.

We got soaked, and it was cold and windy. Good combo! It was worth it, though.

Whoo! Fun rules!

" Wow! This is a complete replica of ..." -yours truly, Cody :p

We love dinos!
We had such a fun time at Universal.

The next day, we went to Epcot Disney, which had so many cool stuff. First, we went to The Sum of All Thrills (presented by Raytheon), which was amazing. Unlike any ride I've ever been on. First, you get to make your own ride. By the way, this ride is inside. You have this touch screen, and you choose if one or two people are riding, then you choose if you want the bobsled, roller coaster, or jet plane (mild to wild!), then you get to choose what course you want to go on, how tall you want the drops, and then you ride! This is just a simulation, of course. You get in, and then the machine that you are in will move, not very much, but when you are inside, it really makes you feel like you are on the ride. Inside the machine, there is a screen showing the course that you made. If that explanation doesn't make sense, just ride it and you will understand. Anyway, that was the really big thing at Epcot. We were only at Epcot for half of the day. The second half we were at Animal Kingdom.

Animal Kingdom was so much fun. I loved looking at the animals. Here are some cool pictures from Animal Kingdom.

I love giraffes!

I love ostriches!

Don't want to mess with that cat.

Then, last but definitely not least, was the happiest place on Earth-Magic Kingdom. It was amazing. I felt happy just walking around. Especially when we were walking on Main Street. I just couldn't be sad. Or mad. We went on a cool ride. It was the Buzz Light year Space Ranger shooting ride. You get in the car. Then the car will start moving and you can start shooting stuff with your pretend laser gun. You have to shoot the signs that have the Zurg symbol on them. You could also spin yourself around. It was so fun. One of my favorite rides at Magic Kingdom. By the way this was my first time I've ever been to Disney World. Ever. Not even in another place.

See something here? Both parents don't look as happy as the children do. :)

Oh yeah. Real happy.

Come on, Cody! I believe in you!

I love Disney World!

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading the longest blog post in the world! That's what it seems like. I told you I had too much to talk about. I still have Spring Break to talk about! But that's for next time... B)

Happy Holidays

2010-01-02T08:46:00.000-08:00

We had a white Christmas! First one I've ever had. Really, it's not that much snow, but hey! As long as it snows, I'm happy. We had a lot of fun playing in it.

A few days later after the first snow, it snowed a second time! Now that was amazing. I didn't think it was going to stick because it was raining right before it, but it did. I think it was a little more than the first snow. We made popcorn balls, too. It's always a lot of fun. :)

That's a freaky shot of me.

(We made green popcorn balls, too. You just can't see them.)

Christmas Eve and Christmas was fun, but really different, because Ashley was the only one who came home. Our house was empty. Christmas just snuck up on me and left just like that. On Christmas Eve we did our usual traditions, and, as always, we had a great time. Ashley, Cody, and I played our instruments. Ash on the French horn, Cody on the trombone, and me on the flute. Cody was drowning both of us out because his instrument's so loud. Especially on Frosty the Snowman, I think Cody was excited to play his part, because sometimes, I could barely hear myself while I played. Now good ol' Ashley was trying not to drown me out so we could hear myself, so Cody got to overpower both of us with his loudness. On the chimes, we messed up a lot on certain songs, but it was funny. Sometimes Dad or Cody would miss the chime and accidentally hit their leg, so instead of hearing a pretty note, we heard a thump and then laughter filled the room. Then, Mom read Peeky the Curious Elf and The Polar Express.

These are the jamies I opened on Christmas Eve.

What a pretty tree

Walking downstairs on Christmas morning

Enjoying my presents

Merry Christmas and a happy new year! 2010! :o

Adventures in cookie-making

2009-12-21T17:00:00.000-08:00

Mom and I decided to make cookies, and we had a blast. Can't you see?

These 2 pictures are really the only decent pictures.

Well, I got the cookies... but I could have gotten a little more of Mom and me in the picture.

Look! Half dog, half giraffe!

By the way, we didn't have anybody else take the pictures for us. It was all Mom's skill and my skill to take the picture. We had a lot of fun. I'm looking foward to next year making cookies! :)

Fall is here...

2009-11-21T14:01:00.000-08:00

... and so are our neighbor's leaves!

Happy Halloween!!

2009-11-01T14:20:00.000-08:00

We carved pumpkins on the day before Halloween, and I decided to go for the original look. Mom carved the other pumpkin for Cody, because Cody ate dumbcake and chose not to carve anything.

Aww... I love my pumpkin.

Spooky. :0

Also, on our day off of school, (which was quite a while ago) we went to the State Fair. It was so much fun. We did a lot of games, and we ate a lot of the fried foods. One word of advice: eat fried butter! It's delicious!

Go Killdares!

Just chillin'!

Yay, bumper cars!

Just a perfect day at the fair...

Sugar- The Dog

2009-10-19T16:51:00.001-07:00

Sugar had a little "fashion show" today. She got a haircut. Isn't she adorable?

Oops. She blinked. ;) Or maybe she's just angry. :p

Fun Day

2009-10-10T14:42:00.000-07:00

So during the summer (I know it's a little late!) Ashley and I had a "Fun Day" where we both go and do something fun together. We decided that we would go to Build-a-Bear. We had a lot of fun together. When we came home, we had lunch and watched Transformers, which I had never seen.

This is Connor (left) and Erika (right).

Aren't we so cute? :)

The Ball Family Reunion

2009-07-21T09:58:00.000-07:00

So about 3 weeks ago, we left for the Ball family reunion. It was so much fun. First, we drove up to my dad's parent's house, and stayed there for 2 1/2 days, and we went to Temple Square. It was a beautiful place. We saw the Salt Lake Temple there. It was very pretty. Then we went to the BYU Bookstore and got a few things there. Then, we left for my mom's parent's house and stayed there for a few days. My younger cousin was there, too, so I hung out with her most of the time. Then we left for the reunion. I had a ball! :)

I'm in a group of 4 called the Fab 4. It includes Kylie, Noelle, Mandy, and me. It's so fun to hang out with them. We each made a Fab 4 shirt, and Kylie and I got little iron-on picture to put on the back of our shirts. We messed around, (did pranks, shh!), and we made up this game where we're on teams (I was with Mandy, and Noelle and Kylie were together) and whoever had the towel was it. "It" would chase the other team and throw the towel at them. If it touched one of them, they would be it. It was really fun. We also slept in a tent together, and since it was really cold at night, we would snuggle up close together to stay warm. It would be fun to see them again soon.

Also, while we were there, we went to the lake, and I went tubing for hours. It was AWESOME!!! We also had a talent show, and I played my flute for it. I sort of messed up on the last song, but it was harder, so it's okay.

The only bad thing is that my cousin, Jason, was killed in a motorcycle accident, so we had to stay a few days longer to be there at his funeral. He is on my dad's side of the family. It was very sad. :(

The trip went by so fast, it's already over! I can't believe it! The drive home did seem very long, though. Even though I had a lot of fun, I'm glad I'm home. :)