MONKEYS SEEING MONKEYS....

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Guess what? I went to the zoo!  YaY!  I think it was June 20th.  Our friends from Jersey came down to visit us.  Matt, Andrew, and Katie.  They are awesome friends, and we don't get to see them very often usually only once a year at the home school conference, so it was really nice to see them again.  :)

When they got here we hung out around the house, went for a walk, visited the horses, and all that good stuff.  Then we all went back inside, and listened to Andrew play piano... who was amazing!  You would not believe how great it was if I told you, you'd have to hear it for yourself.  He really got me to actually thinking I might want to start learning more about music!  And that is a big jump for me! lol!  Then Matt did some stuff on the piano for us too, which was equally as awesome!  It was all jazzy and blues and stuff.  It was so cool, Then Zach brought out his electric guitar and him and Matt just improvised and played, it was really cool, like you could feel the floor vibrating, and you were just part of the rhythm.  Musicians are so cool! haha, really they are, I really respect them for what they do.  You have to work hard to be good at anything, and music doesn't come naturally to me, like I can carry a tune in a bucket, but not enough to sing to a big group!  haha.  But it was really cool, and I was going to add little short clip I took of them playing... only this stupid blogger thing wont let me!!!!!  So you will have to live with out.. I'm sorry.  :( 

We found out that Matt had never been to the zoo, :O *gasp* .  So we decided that is what we must do, because we could not believe that some one of his age had never seen all the wonderful animals that are there.  We had a great ride up, Katie had never played any of those MARSH (or MASH) or matchmaking games before, so me and Clarissa showed them to her, and of course we also did them to ourselves and Zach and Andrew, which was amusing! lol!  Those games are SOOO retarded, but kinda fun every once in a while, especially for a good laugh.  :)

Me, Zach, Andrew, Clarissa and Katie all drove up in the van, and Matt and Joce drove up in Matt's car.....  Now since Joce is never going to read this blog I feel fine in stating that Me and Andrew have been putting our heads together ever since the conference, to see if we could get Matt and Joce together!  They are perfect for each-other, in-fact MAtt is so good Joce doesn't even deserve him, as much as I love my sister, I must admit that.  Any ways, so at the conference we got them on a date even, and so 60% of the reason we actually had them over here to visit us was to get Matt and Joce to hang out again.  Any was... so we made sure they were in the same car... and then at the zoo.. well we had a great time.  :)

We went to the elephant house, I love elephants, but we go there first cause they are Jo's (Jocelyn) Favorite!  Yeah MAtt and Joce were totally hitting it off.  Me and Andrew were so happy, we hardly had to plan anything!  They would walk away from the rest of us, bonk shoulders and steal each other's phones, and just flirt, which was really great.  *sigh*  Me and Andrew were so proud of ourselves..... we went ballistic over one certain picture we took..... If Jo saw it she would kill me!  haha!  Check it out!  YOO HOO!!!!!! owe owe baby!

Any ways... mushy stuff aside......  The zoo was great, we saw all the animals, except for the big cats, cause just as we went they took them inside, cause the zoo was closing, but oh well.  We hung out around the ground hogs for a while, and took some silly pics! lol!  Yeah Here is Zach fishing for ground hogs.... the new and improved way! lol!  :)

Andrew was taking pictures all day long of us all, 

which was fun.    :)  And then we all went to a little bread and chocolate restaurant, which was good.  Andrew's first time having moldy cheese, and he LIKED IT!  yay.  Yeah, then we went to the temple, just to walk around, then we said good bye!  :(   But the day was so fun we planned another to be on the 18-19..... And I admit me and Andrew did have a little something to do with that! haha!  lol!  I'm so going to get in trouble some day, either that or Jo will bless me, who knows!  lol!  But I had a great time!

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ok so I was going to add LOTS of pictures, but it was taking FOREVER to load, So I just ditched the rest of them, if you guys want more, just email me and I'll send them to you!

THE BEACH!

Ok, so I should have done this forever ago, I just didn't find any time to do it.  So you're getting old updates, but I had such a great time last May that I had to put it up here incase any of you wanted to read it!  :)  lol!

Ok, so a few of you, well most of you guys know about the conference my mom does every year LDSEHE  ("Latter Day Saints Eastern Home Educators"........ Basically "Mormon

 homeshooler conference"  lol!)  So that was from like May 27-30 or something, I can't remember, but it was lots of fun.  :)  

There were lots of coolio classes that really enjoyed, they are always good, and there were lots of good ones this year too!  My favorite speaker was Chad Hymas, who just really inspired me to be a better person, and to love others more, and just live life better.  

My brother Zachary was also on a panel for the youth, just talking about home schooling and 

stuff, also he also gave an excellent presentation in his class, it was about finding your mission in life, and working your hardest to get there, and doing every thing you can to make it happen, and that there are lots of missions for you to do in life, and what God expects of you, and what you need to expect out of yourself.  It was very good.  <3

This year the conference was held at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, it was a really nice place, right on the beach, and a really nice hotel.  Me and my friends, and siblings went to the pool or beach every day!  The pools were always freezing though!  As was the ocean,      

but that was ok, we just all went in any ways, and when we couldn't take it any longer (after like an hour)  we would get out!  But it was lots of fun!  One night a whole group of kids went to the indoor pool and we froze to death, and Andrew an Matt kept pushing us in, though THEY never got in..... lol!  and then one of us figured out they had hot showers, there were only two of them, lol!  So guys and girls, we all jumped in and put it so the water was steaming! lol!  It was great!  Of course we made a lot of jokes about being in the shower together! lol!  But it was so much fun.  And at the beach I got a burn on top of an already existing burn, it was so bad I had blisters on both my ears, and my neck!  arg!  ouch!  But it was very much worth it!

I got to see all of my friends from the East Coast, the ones I hardly ever see..... cause we all live some where around three or more hours away..... so in all our busy schedules, we just never seam to to get together for some reason!  I have lots of friends there, and I already miss them terribly!  

There were lots of fun things going on too, we stayed up kinda late every night, I had to go to bed at midnight, but even then I still had fun!  We all wanted to stay up as late as possible, so we could spend as much time as we could with each other, so it was fun!  One night there was a family dance, I had a great time with that, every one was out there dancing and having a good time!  We had to stop it at ten though because of the hotel, but it was super duper any ways!  Here I am dancing with one of my good friends Brother  (Brooks, Kristine's little brother)

Ok now here I am with lots of my friends!  enjoy!  I love all of you guys lots!  and I miss ya'll!