Ok, So.... the Holidays!  Yaya!  Every one loves them right?  How could you not!  :)

Last night was the Culpeper ward Christmas party (the ward we were in previously) And so mom let us kids go!!!!!  yay!  It was so much fun 

to see old friends again!  It was nice to just be like the old days! haha!  We ate, we sang 

Christmas songs, the kids sat on "santa's" lap, and there were a couple of "musical" numbers!:)Church parties are so cool! haha! Well then after the party we invited Aaron, Kelsey, Nick Jake, Brianne, Stefan, Ryan and Jared over!  :)  It was a blast!  We watched Prince Caspian, and drank Glogg!  :) (glogg is a Swedish drink). 

/On the way up here, I called my mom t come pick us up....  But instead my dad came in his little corolla! haha!And we were driving Aaron, Kelsey, Jared, Ryan, Dad, me, Clarissa, Sheridan and Luc... And if I counted right (you know us home schoolers have trouble with that some times.....haha jk) that means we had NINE people in our car..... yup we had six in the back and three in the front! lol! we had Clarissa Sheridan and Luc sit on peoples laps in the ba

ck, and then Jared and Ryan shared a seat in the front!!!  haha!  It was so crazy!  And so NOISY!  lol!  :) we were having such a great time!

Zach and 

Meghan (his GF) Went with a few friends to go see the 

Washington DC temple lights last night, and the two of them dropped in the house around two thirty this morning! haha! An hour after all 

my friends left!  They all wanted to see him so bad!  lol!  They all know him pretty well, we helped with BS (haha Boys s

couts! lol!) And he also just made a point of being nice to all the "little 

kids"  that were my age, so they all know him, and stuff, so they just barely missed him! lol!  And then Meghan and him left his morning, just like half an hour ago (it is 8:15 am)....  But it was nice to see them any ways! <3

Jocelyn will be coming home for Christmas on the 21st!  yay!  I can

't wait, and Zach will also be here By the 19th or 20th!  :)  We'll have every one together for Christmas!!!!  the first time in two years!  I will be so awesome!  <3>

This year is different for me, as it always is every year, I always seam to get more understanding of Christmas, or to feel more a part of it.... My sentiments this year have already been expressed by kermit the Frog, you can't say it any better... 

"There's magic in the air this evening,

magic in the air

the world is at it's best you know

when people love and care

the promise of excitement is one the night will keep

after all there's only one more sleep till Christmas

The world has got a smile today

the world has got a glow

there's no such thing as strangers

when a stranger says "hello"

and every one is family, we're having so much fun

after all there's only one more sleep till Christmas

'Tis the season to be jolly and joyous

with a burst of pleasure we feel it arrive

It's a season when the saints can employ us,

to spread the new about peace and to keep love alive!

There's something in the wind today that's good for everyone.

Yes faith is in our hearts today, we're shinin' like the sun!

And every one can feel it!  The feelings running deep.

After all there's only one more sleep till Christmas!"

Cali

DUDE!!!!!! I'm in CALIFORNIA!!! freakin' awesome! I am so happy to be here with my awesome cousins! They are super! I love being here, I'll have to get lots of pictures, and post 'em when i get back home! i am enjoying every minute of it! :)

YOOHOOHOO!

Hey guess what I just realized!  haha!  My birthday is in eleven days!!!!!!!  yay!  I'll be seventeen!  sweet!  I still can't drive though.  So we'll have to work on that one! haha!

I hope ya'll had a very happy hallow's eve!  I had an awesome time!  I forgot the camera though.....so you'll have to check out my pix that my friends will tag me in on facebook! haha!  So I don't have any pix yet.. I'll try to post them when I get some.  :)

Me and Kicka went to My good friends party (Bonnie)  That was alot of fun!  It was a super hero party!  lol!  Kicka was CatWoman, and I was elistigirl!  haha!  It was so much fun to see all my old friends from Culpeper again.  It was so much fun!  And I got to meet Bonnie's friends from school.  Which was way cool!  I need to see you culpeper people more!!!!  I almost forgot how much I perfectly fit in with them'all.  haha.  They are good kids aren't you?  <3

But yeah, mom and dad, did the hand at our new ward's trunk or treat.  You know how we do the whole treasure box where dad sticks his hand out and gives kids candy!  yeah.....  haha.  So they did that with the kids.  Sheridan was Alice in Wonderland, and Luc was a pirate! haha!  They said they all had fun!  It is funny how little kids get so excited about this stuff.  it kinda reminded me to be more that way, to let life excite me! haha.  I love my life, and my family!

well I hope ya'll had a great day yesterday!  <3>

Some bits of my art. :)

Ok,  so I decided that I should post 

some of my art work, most of this.. actually all of it is stuff that has been done either in my sketch book, or has been done in previous years... so I'm only showing you some of it for now.  Especially since I 

don't have most of it on the computer.  :)

The First Picture is a picture I did for my father 

in oil pastels, it is of me and him.... back

 when I was about four.  :)  I did that last year.  It was 

fun drawing it,

 but I had trouble with the lace, and my hair is so thin I had to draw my whole scalp and then add the hair! haha!  So first I was just completely bald! haha!  

The next one is kinda special to me because it is my first oil painting.  I did it two years ago.... i think.  Oil paints are my very favorite medium to work in.  They run sm

oothly, and you can do so much with it!  Though they do take me longest, because I stress over making them just right... But I haven't been 

satisfied with a painting since that one! haha!

The one with me in it, was one I also did last year, It was my second oil painting.  I en

tered it in an art show as you can see, but the art show ended up being kinda weird, and as you can see my type of art wasn't what they were looking for!  But I entered it in another art show this winter.. i think like january-ish.... and it won first prize!  yay!  

This picture is the first real face I ever drew..... I had done a practice picture, but this was my first real face.. I did this about four years ago... It is a picture of my Gandma Larson when she was a little girl.  :)  I gave her the original copy!  I look back at this now and kinda laugh at my inexperience! lol!  But I still like it!  :)

This is a picture I drew last year, it is of my celebrity crush his name is (ok here we go, let's see if you know who he is!!.. I doubt it! haha!)  Jean Baptiste  Mounier.

He is a singer/actor... he is a soprano.... don't laugh!  his voice is so BEAUTIFUL!  

Video of maunier

video of maunier2

I have another...

 more recent.. BETTER

 picture of him, though it refuses to load.. go

 figure! lol!

And these are a few of the sketches I do of Beatrix Potter... HAve you seen her art?  She did peter rabbit, and jamima puddleduck......all of those good stories... I grew up with those stories and love them!  These two are of Mrs. Tiggywinkle, and the one just next to it is the little lady mouse from the tailor of gloucester.  

But that is all there is today!  I'll  try to post more later!

I am so thankful for this awesome Autumn weather!  I love all the coulors, and wrapping scarfs around your neck, and jackets, and mittens... I love it!  The shock of the cold, and then the warm comfort of your house or car! lol!   It is great!  The only thing that would make it greater is if dad finished his yurt he is making.... so I could sleep out there! haha!  Wouldn't that be so fun! Sleeping in a tent/house?????!!!!???? I want to move in it when it is done, just for a month or two!  :)  Have a little heater out there, me and my puppy... talk about AWESOME! (that is just the skeleton fyi)

Any ways..... weird quirks aside.....  I lOVE FALL!  Not all the leaves have turned yet.. but they are starting to!  I wish I had my camera right now.. but it is with my mom, or I would take pix and post them too!  :)  (for all you Utahins who don't know what autumn looks like!.. haha.. sorry no offense there, I just like teasing you! lol!  But you guys do beat us in snow....so now we're square.  lol!)  The Fall just makes me feel so... I don't know, like fresh, and new.  I know that that is what spring is supposed to feel like, but spring here is so sticky!  Haha.... But Fall the air is crisp, the cold air in your lungs as your running....It just burns!  Burns happiness, and freshness all the way.  I love it!  And so many different trees!  Yous tart seeing the reds in the maples, and the browns of the oaks, the yellow of black walnuts....

The only thing about winter coming is that it is too cold to go barefoot.  *hurmpf*  and the grass is all dewy in the night..... but it smells so good!  mmmmmmmhhhh!

Last night though was kinda weird.. well let me start from the beginning..... Va is kinda funny like this, one day you will be wearing a scarf, mittens, sweaters, and your breath shows at 50 degrees, and then the next day you will un-wrap yourself from all that fluff, and wear shorts, and a t-shirt at 75 degrees..... I don't get it.... But any ways, that was yesterday, it was nice and warm.  And then we hear it was going to rain, the rain always makes it cool down this time of year. (sure enough, cause I'm back in the sweaters!)  But I went outside to let Huck out just as the cold front was coming in.... it was about 3:00am, and dark....   the trees were throwing leaves, and making alot of noise, andI could see mist in the field... there were no saccades screeching, no crickets neeker-breeking....it was quiet other then the wind and the leaves....  And of course Huck is unaware to the whole situation, and how I'm out there shivering in the cold front, with my pj's on.....  and he takes his time sniffign around, and trying to get me as close to the wild wood as possible.......the grass was dry too, which was so weird.  Normally when a storm is coming it gets really wet feeling, but this time the ground was warm and dry, where as the air around me was  freezing!  First I thought it was pretty cool.  Then I started thinking of like Hates, and the burning underworld, and how that would make a cool story, like the underworld breaks upon on a strormy night and steals so innocent away! haha!... needless to say I dragged my dog back inside... lol!

But yeah sorry long story...But now you have a feeling for Va weather at this time of year haha!.. not that most of you care.. but yeah.

But aside from my old man talk about weather.......

Yesterday was dad's 46th BIRTHDAY!  Yay!  he is the most wonderous person I know!  Seriously, I would like to devote a paragraph to him this blog, cause I love him so much!  First off, here are some of my favorites things about him:

He is SOOO Patient!

He shares his love in a quiet, yet you-can't-miss-it way...that just makes you love him more!

He always takes time for me and my siblings, to answer questions, to talk to work ect.

He, teaches quietly, he doesn't MAKE you see, he trys to show you

he is so polite to me and treats me with respect

He will sacrifice every thing just to make you happy.. like even his sleep.  He'll stay up late with you if you are not so happy, or want to talk, even when he wakes up at five in the morning every day, and drives two hours in traffic, goes to work, drives back home two hours in traffic, and is still so HAPPY!

Dad, you are so cool.  I love you so much! 

I remember going into the garage in Fredericksburg and helping him stain the book shelfs.... :)  as he let his 11 year old daughter ramble on and on.  I see him bringing mom flowers.... all the time.  I see him bring me and my sisters flowers.  It really means alot to get flowers from some one.  I watch him lead our family in righteousness, with my mother at his side, both still so inlove, holding hands, working through life together, and raising us in wisdom,a nd to be good followers of Christ.  

He has nick-names for all of us!  One of mine is Sac du sucre... (sac of sugar)  Clair's is Baby beluga, Jocelyn's is Fifi, Sheridan's is...... she wont allow me to tell you, she says she wont have it posted for the whole world to see.. haha! (and just fyi, these names are kinda special, and family use only...so treat them with care please) Zach has too many... haha, and so does Luc.... But there are tons!  we all have alot, and some die slowly, and others come, and others continue.. Another one is I am "snow White"  and Clarissa is "rose red"  after the story of the two sisters snow white and rose red!  ;lol!  So dad, some times gives me white roses on my b-day and clarissa red ones on hers.. :)

He also used to sing to us..... my favorite was the piggy song... kinda morbid, but awesome!

Any ways.. I love my dad!  You have probably gotten sick of my telling about him, but I love him so much, and feel so blessed to have him as a father.

and yes... I am aware the picture of me is side ways.... lol, i'm just to lazy to change it.... haha!  It's my new hair cut thoguh!  :)