The Gregarious Giddings

Hiatus

2010-09-11T00:09:00.003-04:00

So I haven't posted much since May, (because I'm lazy.) Since school has started and I'm cross country I'll be busy studying. I might try an make a few vlog when I can though. :) See everyone later! And I love you!!!

Celebration! Schools Over!

2010-05-13T17:31:00.006-04:00

The day before yesterday, I went out for a lot of fun. In the morning I went shopping with Melanie so that we could celebrate (and console ourselves) for (hopefully) passing all our classes. (We still haven't received grades yet.)

I bought a couple of new tops and some books I've been looking for. We ran around and goofed off as usual. Later in the day our school was hosting an event and my friend Holly had invited us to go. Well, Melanie decided to go hang out with her boyfriend instead. She should have just dragged him along because Holly and I had a blast! She really missed out on the fun!

With finals over, the college held a carnival- oh wait. Excuse me. CLAWnival.

Because our mascots a bear. Get it? Eh! Eh! *nudge nudge* I know it's a goofy pun, but still we had lots of fun!

For the most part we just ran around indulging our inner child. We rode on a spinning ride, a mechanical cow (I know it's a bull, but it looked more like a cow.) and then a spinning teacup ride. Unfortunately, I only have the after pictures because my camera was out of batteries. So sad. We played some mini games like basketball and ring toss and won some fun prizes! They had the cutest giraffes plushies. It was so awesome to see just about everyone walking around the fair with a giraffe stuffed in their pockets or bags. I saw one guy had the toy in the collar of his shirt with it's head sticking out the back. Talk about having eyes in the back of your head! Holly and I met up with Megan and Courtney while waiting in line to have a charicature done. I was so inspired by the giraffes that I asked if the artist would draw one in my picture!

We also did face paints. There was this little boy running around with a batman paint mask and I was pretty jealous. Man! Why didn't I think of that! My butterfly was still awesome, but let's face. Batman vs. a butterfly. I think we all know who wins. ;)

^Ta' da! My butterfly!

^There was a photo booth and these were our pictures. I took them into photoshop to make it look like an old filmstrip.

After all that excitement Holly and I went out to eat at a restaurant near were we live. The food was prefect! Holly had chicken wings and I got a "Plain Jane" burger. After such a long day of all play I needed it too!

Happy Mother's Day and many other things!

2010-05-09T22:48:00.005-04:00

Well, my post is a bit late, but I can't blog about Mother's day until it happens right?

Today the Relief Society held a Mother's day program which meant that Nona and I got a day off from tending the nursery kids. Since I'm not a mother, I guess I technically crashed the party. After Church, Popie made a roast dinner for Nona complete with roses and candles! Aw... They're so cute!

In other news that we've been to busy to blog about, Buffy recently had surgery. We thought for sure our rolly polie puppy was at the end, but she's all better now. In fact, she's twice as energetic and (unfortunately) still just as violent. It's strange. After almost losing Buffy none of us really realized just how attached we were to her. She might be a little crazy, but we love her bunches!

These pictures don't really show how chipper she's been. She normally won't let me take her picture unless shes sleepy.

Also, hooray! School is over! All is well in the world once again!

Hmmm.... I think I'm forgetting something, but can't quite put my finger on it... Oh well! I think of it later! Love you guys!

I WANNA QUIT BLOGGING! Whine Complain

2010-04-01T16:37:00.008-04:00

April Fools! I do, however, want a better banner. (Note to self: Work on that! Edit: Fixed!)

Ah! Finally we are able to brag about having some great weather! See that blue sky? Simply wonderful!(Honestly, that's something only meteorologist would do to tell the truth.) Today my writing class was supposed to have class outside at the park with a picnic, but APRIL FOOLS! We didn't.

So at first I was like this-

I had even brought cake! But Dr. Huang promised once we got the paper work filled in we could have our picnic next week if we had good weather! Plus, we still got to go outside- just not to the park.

and then I was like this!

Forgive my use of random silly faces. I just love their bizarre way of expressing emotions.

Also please take note- you have a fish on your back.

Poisson d'Avril!

Ding Dong! The Wedding Bells!

2010-03-08T21:06:00.004-05:00

Time for a full update! Yay! So this past Saturday was Jami's Wedding. There was excitement as we prepared for the ceremony.

Nona and some members of Matt's family helped make Aunt Sylvia's punch recipe which turned out great!

We had a whole flower girl troop to escort the bride.

Here's Matt and Jami-husband and wife. Matt's parents even officially welcomed us into their family. :)

Not long after the ceremony had ended our little flower girl troop set out to clean up the hall. How Convenient! Self cleaning flower girls!

Then we took tons of pictures! (As if we hadn't already. :D )

Then for the last, but not least part- cake! Yum Yum! What a sweet way to end a sweet day.

Wedding

2010-03-06T10:23:00.000-05:00

We headin' to a weddin'!

I'll update more later! :)

Happy Valentine Day and Chinese New Year!

2010-02-14T00:09:00.003-05:00

It's the season of "LUV"! So what do Tigers have to do with any of it? Why it's also Chinese New Year! Talk about a coincidence!

Mom's birthday was great! It even snowed! (Of course she says that she didn't really want it too! Sure! *wink wink nudge nudge* As usual Mom got a plethora of bouquets! That's just one of the many advantages of having a birthday so close to Valentines day. (All the best flowers are on sale!) Sorry we don't have many pictures. We're just taking it easy with the camera for now. *lazy*

Everyone have a Happy Valentines Day and Happy Chinese New Year!

Have you hugged a Tiger today? (I sure hope not!)

College Time!

2010-01-06T18:32:00.003-05:00

It's that time of year again! College! I just had a heart attack paying for books... again. Really a hundred dollars for a paper back book is too much especially when I can only return it for less than half the price! >:O

The first day of the spring semester begins the 11th this month and despite the highway robbery at the bookstore I'm full on ready! Another wonderful thing is I've applied for BYU! Yay! I just have a few things to get in before I'm officially, completely applied, but the process has begun! I can already feel the snow covered hills of the BYU campus!

Happy New Year

2010-01-02T17:21:00.002-05:00

Okay I'm a bit late, but still!

I hope you all had as awesome a Christmas as we did! I'm feeling fairly lazy so I'll let the pictures talk. After all a picture is worth a thousand words right?

Land of Sweets

2009-12-23T21:05:00.005-05:00

O Gingerbread House! O Gingerbread House!
How lovely are thy walls!

Decorated with gummi drops-
Bejeweled with candy pops!

You are so sweet-
A yummy treat!

O Gingerbread House! O Gingerbread House!
How lovely are thy walls!

Tonight we put together our first Gingerbread house! Surprisingly, putting it together was more difficult than we thought, but in the end it came out smashingly! What was even funnier was than the day before one of Mom and Dad's coworkers sent us a special gift!

Miss. Betty even made it herself. Look how cute this candy winter wonder land is and it even comes with nutcrackers! So now we have a mini Land of Sweets! But no Land of Sweets would be complete without its sovereign!

And here she is, the Sugar Plum Fairy and her little plum friends!

Tomorrow is Christmas eve! I know I can't wait! How about you?

Deck the Halls

2009-12-16T13:49:00.002-05:00

It's that time of year again! Bust out the Christmas trees and ornaments! This year we choose to use a really long pencil tree! We even had to get a step ladder to put some of the decorations on! Talk about hanging a star on the highest bough. We tried to get more of a red and gold theme going with our ornaments. With such an awesome tree Santa is sure to leave some extra presents an if not then we'll just bribe him with some tasty cookies!

Yay! Christmas! That looks super cozy and festive! Of course we didn't get to that peaceful look with out a little goofing off!

Feeling lots of holiday cheer, I decided to spread the joy up stairs in my room with a purple tree. The star I had for the top was to heavy so I used an angel bunny. My tree is a mix of strange and holiday tradition.

So with Christmas morning only nine days away are you ready?

Christmas is Coming!

2009-12-03T22:06:00.004-05:00

School is almost over! Yay! All that's left are finals and we are almost ready for Christmas! Best part so far is that the big computer is fixed! I don't know what I'd do with out Hansy!

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T22:43:00.005-04:00

'Tis the holiday for pumpkins and ghost! Our Halloween was fairly calm. It was rainy so we didn't get many trick or treaters and what few we got were scared to death by our beast- Buffy! I wish we had gotten her a little demon costume. She fits the role perfectly.

Mom and Dad spent the night watching CSI (Trying not to eat all the left over candy. They had more will power than I did! I dressed up for a while as the White Rabbit which is really easy now because of my new hat I bought at AWA.

Dad suggested that I were my hat to Nursery tomorrow. Sounds like a ton of fun!

Compy Troubles

2009-10-22T22:22:00.006-04:00

Well, it's happened again. My room must be curse because I've had three computer problems within the last year or so. First my old computer straight up died. Then after I got Lappy it kept shutting down for no reason. Well, now comes the trilling sequel of this tragic trilogy! The green compy has failed me and almost moved me to tears.

Okay! Okay! I was practically crying a river!

For some reason my computers can't stand it when I get really, really important projects because they just quit working in the middle of them. The project this time was my midterm paper for Literature class! I was working on it and another project before one of my classes when all of a sudden- Phuuuuut! It stops.

I was freaking out a whole lot because this particular midterm was due the next day. (My professor gave us amnesty for at least two assignments so I'm covered!) This time I was prepared! I had most of my information backed up anyways. With Hans to the rescue, he was able to take the hard drive out to retrieve the extra information. All he had to do was take my hard drive and hook it up to his computer and it worked like a charm!

The green compy will work again. Hans is debating whether or not the power supply or the video card has played out. We're hoping we diagnose it right because hardware is expensive.

So all in all, I'm so grateful to have a computer genius living with us! Hopefully nothing bad happens to the laptop. (Knock on wood) And now here are some pictures of the computers insides!

Average Life

2009-10-18T12:46:00.003-04:00

There's not much to report other than average life at our house hold. So in place of an actual update here's a cute picture of Buffy instead!

Also I've neglected poor Bob and Phred so I drew a picture to commemorate them.

It's a Bugs Life

2009-10-01T21:50:00.003-04:00

Ew, Bugs! We have some creepy crawlies showing up all of a sudden! Probably because it's been wet and cold!

^Mister Stick Bug! Whoosh! He hangs on our grill like a ninja!

^The Hungry Caterpillar! Silly caterpillar! You can't eat bricks!

Silk Screen

2009-09-29T15:52:00.004-04:00

Yesterday Hans brought home something super cool!

The thing he's holding is the silk screen that was used in printing the artwork for the new CD cases of his and his friend Andrews music. It was even signed by the person who did the printing! An interesting fact the Hans told me is that even though the screen is actually made of polyester the technique is commonly called silk screening because originally the ancient Chinese use silk cloth. Right now Hans is debating were to place it on the wall because it does make such neat art!

Not so Conventional Cakes

2009-09-25T18:16:00.002-04:00

Viola! Part 2 of my previous adventures!

The following Monday was as I said before very rainy. : P My swim teacher was unable to make it to class (probably because of the water), so she sent us instructions to meet in a computer lab to work on swim homework. Then I had a test in history which I had been DREADING! Yes, I studied. I studied my head off! And you know what.... It was EASY! I just about laughed! Our study guide had been harder to do than the test. Thank you Dr. Shellman! Then I found out (only after getting there) that my favorite class was canceled. I spoke to my professor before she left. She explained that her husband had called her and all the roads around her house were closing because the Chattahoochee river was over flowing. She had to hurry and get home before she was blocked out.

So now that you just what kind of rainy day it was- Kat, Jamie, and I went out to buy frosting at Wal-Mart! Brave? Foolish? Both!? Probably. Because of the hard rains we decided to buy an umbrella. Wal-Mart didn't have umbrellas... They ran out. We were going to check the other stores near by, but come on! You know when Wal-Mart runs out of something fat chance someone else will have it!

So then once we get to Kat house Jamie has to leave anyways. Perhaps had he stayed our cake would have turned out better... Fortunately, Kat's Mom helped us once we messed it up.

The flavor of cake we chose to do was a scrumptious yellow cake. Kat had envisioned making a two layer cake with butter cream frosting and rainbow chips on top with some kind of lettering. Half way through the process we ran out of regular butter, but we use sweetened butter on the second cake mix! We baked them just right and they looked perfect! Then we goofed. In our excitement we tried to take the cakes out of their pans before they had cooled. A chunk of one cake's middle fell on the floor. Needless to say Whitney, Kat's dog, was happy. But with Kat's mom to the rescue, she preformed cake surgery and our two layer turned into a three layer! We were over joyed until Kat's sister said "It's still ugly." Well, it was, but it tasted good. (A sneaky ninja took a taste.) The end product looked like this...

^We totally ignored the back side. It feels cold and neglected.

I would show the progression pictures, but Kat still has them. These were taken when she brought the cake over to my house. If your wondering why it says "SASUKE FAIL5 UBERLY" is a long story in itself. Melanie was supposed to come bake cake with us so we put the name of her favorite character on there just for her. (We sent her pictures.)Also we called it our little fail cake so we added the "fail5 uberly". (Not to mention we ran out of "S"s and had to use numbers.) It was funny how it all strung together! It looks pretty good eve! Even though Kat's Sister made a cake with her friend and it look in, Kat's words, "mind blowingly fantastic" compared to ours. Er.... Our had character!

Lesson learned: I'm no Bakerella...

Pop Culture Field Trip

2009-09-25T15:40:00.016-04:00

So seeing as how the last post was completely rushed, I now have some time to give a better report of the earlier portion of the week. There will be a part two for the cakes! : D

Back on Saturday, Hansy, my friends, and I went to AWA- Anime Weekend Atlanta!

^Melanie fell asleep on the way. If you look closely she has a mini baseball bat. We really hoped she wouldn't wake up from a nightmare with that thing.

^Carly and Melanie heading into the Cobb Galleria!

My only regret was that we didn't get to meet these two voice actors that were signing autographs and answering questions on panels. (One line was ridiculously long and the other guy wasn't around until after we had just left. ;_;)

They had some really cool exhibits though. We got to see a pikachu car, a Japanese rock band, and an art gallery with piece from artist all over the Atlanta/ Atlanta suburb areas.

^Melanie with a member of the Japanese rock group Peelander-Z. (They remind me of Power Rangers!)

It's also like a gigantic once a year market place with imported toys, clothes, and other stuff. We hauled off tons of awesome stuff. Hans bought an awesome shirt with penguins on it.

I bought a lot of art!(Because it's not as if I don't have enough art on my walls already.) Hans pointed out that I might have an obsession with pins and buttons, because I bought enough to cover one of my bags in them. Yay! Other than that I bought a lot of plushies and a really long eared bunny hat!

The best find of all the things I bought was a comic series called Tanpopo by Camilla d'Errico. I had no previous knowledge of who she was or any of her art, but I was so intrigued by the art on her booth I wanted a poster really badly! I began having a great conversation with the woman running the booth. She was very amiable and passionate about the art being sold. Rather than a poster, I chose to buy the comics because she had made them sound so fascinating. Lo and behold! She was the author/artist herself straight out of Canada! She even autographed both volumes for me!

The story itself a beautiful retelling of Faust with fantastic art. A devil appears to a emotionless girl who desires to know what feelings are in the form of a harmless little creature. He convinces her to give him her soul and in return he would teach her what emotions are. So far there are only two volumes, but I'm so excited I can hardly wait for the next books to come out!

^The devil in the form of a sweet creature trying to convince Tanpopo to give up her soul. (The picture was taken from her official website.)

Of course no Anime convention could ever be complete without cos-players!

Quick! Quick! Before I forget!

2009-09-23T12:02:00.001-04:00

Wow! This past weekend was a huge blast! I went to AWA with Hansy and my friends. All of the people dressed up like characters was amazing and with so much stuff I didn’t know where to look first! Even though I stopped at every booth I know I didn’t see everything that they had to offer. When I get some time I write a fuller post with the pictures Hans and I took later!

On Monday, it rained, and rained, and then rained some more. Oh noes! We were flooded! Even so my friend Kat and I braved the tempest to go buy frosting and bake a cake. See! The cake isn't a lie! It's just ugly! But it was tasty! I’ll post pictures of that later after I get them from Kat. : D Well, I have to go to school now.

I just wanted to update with these awesome things so I don’t forget!

The "because I haven't posted" Post

2009-09-09T18:06:00.003-04:00

Happy 09/09/09 day! Today is the last time we'll see the dates line up as single digits! : D Really nothing much is going on. Just going to work and school.

Hansy had a fantastic Birthday, especially because it fell on a long weekend with Labor Day. The celebration keeps going however because this weekend Hans and his friend Andrew are having special Birthday Concert! Yay!

Busy Worker Bees at Play!

2009-08-01T02:04:00.022-04:00

We’ve been super busy for the past three days. Between sidewalk chalk, temple trips, water fights, and the zoo we just haven’t had enough time to sit and write up an entry for the blog! Today was especially exhausting! We spend a little more than four hours up at Hogle Zoo! Sydney and Samuel just loved the animals, but you’ll have to wait until after I’ve told you about the past two days! So prepare ye selves! A long post will now begin!

So back on Monday we all woke up very early. That day we had tickets to go view the open house of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple all the way on the far west side of the valley. Oquirrh is a Native American word that means ‘Shining’ or ‘Wooded’. It was so beautiful that Monday. The air was very clear and from the top of the hill where the temple was you could see all across the valley! It will be officially dedicated sometime in August. It was the first time I’ve ever been to an open house for the temple! We weren’t allowed to take pictures in side, but the official website, here, has many pictures of the inside for those who are curious to see. When we view the baptistery they hadn’t roped off the entrance to water. Sydney looked at the water. Then she looked at her Moma. Then she looked back to the water. Before she could get any farther Aunt Sylvia snatched her right up and Sydney smiled while saying; “I like going swimming Moma!” After we viewed the temple all the tourists were given bottled water and cookies out back in a giant tent. Sydney did the ‘Ant Dance’ for yummy, yummy cookies! After that we all took pictures by the temple and Aunt Karen and Aunt Sylvia suggested that we all head out to Crown Burger! It was quite the royal experience! What was even neater was even from the Crown Burger you could see the temple because it was set up high enough on the mountain and hill!

On Tuesday, Tanielle with her children came by and Taylor and Melissa also spent the night again. The kids spent the day drawing with side walk chalk, water fights, and swimming in the pool!

While the children played the adults sewed clothes and did various adorable arts and crafts! Aunt Donna makes these fancy diaper wipe cases.

Later that day Sydney was playing in the yard and found an Australian dollar in the bushes! Can you believe that! Talk about a quirky coincidence! (Especially when you think of the capital of Australia.) Nana plans to look for who it belongs to, but if she can’t find the person it belongs to then she will put the bill in Sydney’s book. All the grand children have a special scrapbook that Nana keeps for them.

Now for Wednesday, Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Mark wanted to take their children to the Hogle Zoo to see the animals! In fact for lunch Sydney got a Happy Meal with a giraffe plushie and she said “We’re going to go see my giraffe today!” and we did!

At the zoo they now have an elephant that’s pregnant! In my pictures the elephant that’s eating is the matriarch and the one that’s waiting is the expectant mother.

We also saw the bears that were getting hosed off by the caretakers. One bear was hiding in the corner and trying to avoid the water. After being washed they were given berries as a treat.

The zebra’s were also trying to hide from prying eyes.

We got to see the penguins swimming and wiggling they’re tails.

There were sleepy llamas.

And of course Sydney’s giraffes! Some were eating inside while others were outside. Inside one giraffe was drinking water. With every drink it would shake its head flipping water everywhere. One giraffe was standing in the door way debating whether or not go out to join the other giraffe who was hanging out under its umbrella.

We also got to see most of the large cats awake. Normally, they are asleep when we go to visit them. One of the cougars was awake and he was pacing his cage looking at all the little children who were looking at him!

It was very hot that day. In fact, even though cheetahs are used to such heat, they were inside for the day. In another cage, the tiger was laying in the water fall to cool off from the heat of the day.

Another interesting thing about the zoo is that one of the snow leopards had a new cub. We didn’t get to see him, but they had prerecorded video of the cub. He and mother were sleeping in the den while the father was resting on the ledge. At first he wasn’t facing us, but I had gone back after looking at the mini gift shop they had by highland cats and he was facing the window. I got a great picture of him.

The biggest change that I’ve seen is the new carousel with all the different animals to ride. Aunt Donna spoiled us all by buying us tickets to ride it. Samuel seemed to especially enjoy it! Even Mom rode with me on a pair of leopards.

After our ride, Uncle Mark and Aunt Sylvia met another couple who had adopted their child. It was so amazing to hear them exchange their stories about how they went through the adoption process. They’re adorable little girl was just as shy as Samuel!
The last few things we did before leaving were getting Sydney to pose in front of all the big animal figures! At the water fountain shaped like a lion, she was having trouble pushing in the button. I reached over to help, but I didn’t know how much water pressure the fountain had and I got her shirt totally soaked in the front! Eeeks! She didn’t mind much, but she probably won’t let me help her with the water fountain ever again.

Thursday was a somewhat uneventful day after Aunt Sylvia and family left. We did go eat at the Cracker Barrel and bought some fabric to make quilts and children’s clothes with. Then we watched the movie about Emma Smith from her prospective.

Today, we went to the Oquirrh temple again, but this time we went with Aunt Donna because she had not been able to go through the first time with us. We met a very sweet sister missionary who offered to take our picture for us all together.

Afterward we got to eat at the Cheese Cake Factory by the Fashion Place Mall! It was the fanciest restaurant I had ever been too! I had the salisbury steak with green beans and mashed potatoes! Nana had a garden salad. She joked that it made her feel like a rabbit. Aunt Donna had spaghetti while Nona had some scrumptious orange chicken! The whole meal was quite a feast. For dessert, which we took home to enjoy, I had a chocolate mousse cheese cake. It was so rich and chocolaty.

Tonight Melissa came back and we played hop scotch out in the front yard while Nona and Nana began work on a baby quilt for Jeni’s new baby. She said that she was going to have a baby girl. Isn’t that wonderfully exciting?! Another cool thing was the quail family in the backyard! They were out picking the ground where the old pine tree used to be. Then we came in and well, long (as if it isn’t long enough!) story short I’ve been writing ever since!

I know that I’ve written more than enough because in word it spans three pages without pictures and its five minutes to midnight (so now I need to add pictures and post it!). Now I’ve caught up in blogging good night! (I’ll grammar check later! Deal with it! ; D )

Sunday Silliness

2009-07-26T17:39:00.008-04:00

We Welch girls are on the same wavelength. Without even trying or talking to each other we somehow managed to all were the same blues and greens to Church this morning. We are so good on coordination! We just do it naturally!

While at Church I saw Kelly Prestwich, who I was in Young Women’s with when I joined the Church. She’s up at Utah State majoring in Psychology! That is a very difficult and ambitious field of study! (Dr. Williams, I love you, but your class was tougher than nails!) It’s really neat to see what some of the girls who I was in seventh grade with are doing now. It amazing how we have all just grown and progress into various stages of life.

During church, one of the sisters who was giving a talk made a little joke that whenever she gives a talk she buys a new Sunday dress. After she was finished the 2nd counselor, Brother Conway, stood up and before announcing the closing hymn said; “Well, Bishop asks me to speak in Church all the time, but I never get a new dress!” It was so humorous!

Today we having a bunch of family over again and we’ve prepared Cranberry Pork-Chops with mashed potatoes! Also one of Nana's neighbors gave her GIGANTIC squashes and zucchinis! I've never seen such large one before! Although because this isn’t Food Network I’m not going into all the details like I have on previous dishes that we’ve had. (I should write for their magazines, tee hee!)

Aunt Karen came in and had brought back some cute boxes from her collection that she no longer wants. She’s giving them to the lovely lady cousins who come to claim them! I’ve already made my choice, so you girls will just have to come see which one you want! They are very nice too! See! See!

Also Nana treated us to some of her fancy Italian candies today! Oh, why did ZCMI have to go out of business?! Why cruel, unloving economics and business!? Well, I’ll tell you why. Those fancy little candies cost anywhere from 12 to 18 dollars a pound! (And that’s before you add shipping and taxes!) But for all those who wish to know the name of the sweet candies it’s Puntini Jujubes or fruit chips. I just wish that there was some were nearby that carried them!

Oh! Now Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Mark have gotten back from their trip up to the Joseph Smith Center. Syndey, just announced to us that her Mom and Dad are silly. Earlier little Sydney gave her Popa a trophy for sleeping. As she says “It shines with brightness!”

A Very Busy Day!

2009-07-25T22:10:00.011-04:00

The reunion was lots of fun! The little children had the most fun. There was a pool nearby so that the children could swim before and after the events. Bergen and Matayia played bubbles with Uncle David. It was so cute that the girls would run up and down the hills with Aunt Ronda.

Just after lunch Samuel fell asleep in a wagon. It was just darling! He ended up sleeping through the whole program for the day.

Speaking of which, we learned more my great grandma and great grandpa Welch! We got to see many things that Grandma Nora had made such as a dress and a quilt. Many of her children and grandchildren would retell stories about them. Uncle David told a story about how he had been shot by a bb gun and his grandpa had taken care of him. There were a lot of fond memories to be shared. In fact, one of the cousins, Patra Anne had put together a special book to commemorate of Grandma Nora for all of her grandchildren. When I have some free time I’ll read that so that I can learn more about my family history.

"Good brother!" Was what Sydney said in this adorable picture!

Once the reunion was over we packed up and headed home. Mom and I had a few errands to run up at Shopko. Rather than take a car, we walked the whole way up. It was nice in the shade, but the weather is so hot! At Shopko I had hoped to find a new pair of jeans. (I had ripped my favorite pair fence hopping to retrieve Taylor and Melissa’s ball.) All of their jeans, even the ones on sale, were no less than 25 dollars.
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What?!

No way! I’m not paying 25 dollars for jeans just to replace my old 15 dollars ones. Which look better even with the rip! Grrr! So I’m going to ask Aunt Donna later if she’ll help me patch them up with some colorful fabric. They’ll look fabulous all for the great price of not 25 dollars! On the bright side I found a cute hoodie that was reasonably priced that looked like the one I drew in that comic I made for when I got my driver's license! Yay!

Well, Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Mark went to DI and had a better time finding bargains than Nona and I. Aunt Sylvia found books for Sydney and Samuel for 50 cents apiece! They bought about a dozen or so of books.

I’ll try to get Mom to blog, but she’s a blog pooper! Nah!

Oh? What's this? It seems that Mom does have something to say: "That’s right Ashley, I love the way you blog, blog, blog. It’s so creativity!!!!!!!!"

(And she nags me on spell check. Tee Hee! Of course I was mean and wouldn't let her change it!)

Picnics

2009-07-25T00:17:00.014-04:00

Salut mes amis! Now that we have been well fed I will tell you all about our magical day today! This morning was uneventful, but Aunt Sylvia, Uncle Mark, Sydney, and little Samuel when to Liberty Park for a picnic with some friends. After having a wonderful lunch they were on the way home. Aunt Sylvia had left something in the trunk so they stopped just before leaving the park. While in the back of the trunk a voice called out “You may not park in this area!” Poor Aunt Sylvia was so confused that is until she realized that it was just, my cousin Tanielle’s husband, Chris who is a SLC policeman was teasing her!

While they were out picnicking, I went with Nana, Aunt Donna and Mom to Costco to pick up food for the family reunion tomorrow. (At Murray park!) We got apples, bananas, grapes, blueberries, and all sorts of things. It was pretty amazing to me because everything was in jumbo boxes and jugs and bags and- and! Everything was over whelming BIG! They had a 72 ounce bag of chocolate chips! That’s four and a half POUNDS of chocolate! Can you believe that!? (We bought it so that we could make cookies. Yay!)

After getting back Uncle David, Aunt Ronda, Brittny, Josh, and Tiffany arrived! Aunt Donna blew up a little pool for Sydney to swim in out in the backyard, but woe! Misfortune again! Those evil bees dug their way out and stung poor little Sydney in the back! Nana rubbed baking soda on the sting so it wouldn’t itch. We didn’t have any drinkable Benadryl for Sydney, but Nona had a trick that she used to use on me when I was little! She took the pill and crushed it between two spoons. Then she filled the spoon with medicine with sugar and water. It’s just like Mary Poppins said- er- sang “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!”

Shortly after, Anna, Nana’s Neighbor, came by and made spring rolls and fried rice for us! We set up a bunch of tables outside and had a dinner picnic!

I love her spring rolls! Anna makes them the way they do in South Asia. It was hard to resist the hot, fresh rolls once they came out of the oil! Anna also let me in on a cooking secret that the plain white rice she brought over was from Taiwan while the rice she had used in the fried rice was from China. She said that rice from China was better for fried rice while the rice from Taiwan was better for just being eaten plain or with soy sauce. I have to say she’s right because it was a fantastic flavor explosion in my mouth! Then as if we weren’t spoiled enough we had an enormous chocolate cake for dessert! Thanks for having a Birthday Aunt Karen! Tee Hee!

This is Anna and Nana sitting together. They're such good friends and Nana has adopted Anna as her daughter. So it's like I have another Aunt!: D

Oh man! I feel like since we got here that I’ve been in a gourmet race! (If you haven’t heard that song from the Kirby games you don’t know what you’re missing!)

More people also came for dinner. Tosha, Tyler, and her little boy Stetson came. Then Uncle Vedel, Aunt Jan, and Anna (My cousin) also came. Uncle Vedel and Uncle David were checking on the bees. They sprayed them down with some bug killer. The best part was the bee dance! I only got a video of Uncle Vedel doing it though. Yah! That will teach those mean old bees! But for reals, I think we’ll need to call an exterminator…

Tomorrow is the Family reunion, which I’ve mentioned earlier. So I’ll sign off here and update later tomorrow to tell you how it was! You could say ‘Lots of fun’ Yes?

Arrival from the Misty Cliffs

2009-07-24T14:22:00.004-04:00

The excitement continues as yesterday we go into day two of our vacation in Utah! Day was more peaceful and by far less eventful. Well, unless you count the amazingment that is Swedish pancakes! Nana fixed up a whole bunch for us this morning. For toppings we had vanilla pudding, raspberry jam, syrup, and whip cream. (I was spoiled and added chocolate syrup to mine.) It was super yummy!

Melissa and Taylor spent the day playing games and such.

In other news, the evil bees have been buried in dirt. Serves them right and now no one will fall in their hole! I’m actually very happy because I can’t even feel where they stung me yesterday!

Aunt Donna and I went out to run a few errands and while we were out we bought the game Last Word. It’s a brain buster for sure! You have to think of words that apply to a category, BUT (here’s the big but) it has to start with a certain letter! Not to mention you’re being timed by a random buzzer. Tough stuff my friends!

While out running errands, Aunt Sylvia text-ed us and told that there were delays with their flight. However, they were only about a half hour off of schedule and arrived to Nana’s safely! We were so delighted that they could come! Especially Sydney and Samuel. They are just little pudding cups of preciousness! Sydney, Melissa, and Taylor played tea party together while little Samuel played ball.

Today is Pioneer day! Yay! We never celebrate back East. This morning while sleeping Nana dropped a notebook on my head to wake me up. It’s a pretty notebook though. Today there’s a huge parade and I think maybe later there are fireworks. I’ll have to check on that! Tonight we are having a Chinese! Spring rolls and fried rice! Yippy! Well, I might post back later after today’s events to let you know more about what we've done!

Utah: It truly is the Bee Hive State

2009-07-22T23:41:00.005-04:00

We've finally made it to Utah and we've had quite the adventures. Upon arriving we lunched at Cafe Rio. Yummy! Yummy! Taylor and Melissa have also come over to the Nana's for the night. We played ball and all sorts of fun games! Unfortunately, we tumbled into a pile of bees that have made their home in a hole in the ground.

Melissa had this to write about the event: "I am Lis and when Ashley was spinning me we tumbled to the ground she fell on top of 3 bees and she got stung 3 times in the neck."

Yes, it's true. For the first time I was stung, not once but three times, by evil bees. I guess karma had to make up for a life time of never being stung. Now we're just watching movies.

We love you! For those that haven't come yet, We can't wait 'til you get here! For those who can't come, We miss you bunches!

And Melissa and Taylor say "Bye bye!"

In the Driver's Seat

2009-07-10T22:41:00.006-04:00

Guess who just got a learners permit! No! Not the dog! Me!

That's right! I'll be able to drive now (as long as I'm with someone over 21 with a license.) The roads have just become very unsafe.... more so than usual. The day I got my permit it was raining. Perhaps foreshadowing? Yikes! I hope not! Well! In celebration I drew a commemorative piece!

Yah! Poor cop didn't realize what he got himself into...

I've been dying to try out the brushes I downloaded from deviant art! Thank to the guys who made them! I would have put down were exactly I got the background pictures, but I forgot. All I remember was that I found them through google. Thanks to them too!

The Sushi Dis-Connection

2009-06-19T15:00:00.009-04:00

Hi Hi! Yes, We're still alive. We're just bored and haven't really done anything worthy of blogging. Although, about a week or two ago I went out with some friends for lunch and shopping. (I'm just too lazy to update. Tee Hee.) It was fun too. (I don't have any actual pictures though... )

WARNING! ULTRA LONG POST! YAY!

My friend Melanie and I decided to go have lunch with our good pal Dillon. Some how the two of us ended up waiting at Best Buy waiting for him in the game section. I've never played with a Wii before and Melanie, seeking entertainment, told me to play with the display Wii. It was pretty hard which surprised me because I'm such an avid gamer. (I think part of it was Melanie made me wear heels...) If anything Melanie got a good laugh out of it until I finally figured out what I was doing! So Melanie and I played Mario Tennis until Dillon showed up. We were doing pretty good until the end when the Shy Guy beat us forty-love. Those little guys are cute, but they are evil!

See that? That is the face of evil! Aw! But it's soo cute!

So after our humiliating defeat, (Come on! There were three of us against one little AI! It had to have cheated. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!) Dillon and Melanie conveniently decided that we were all going to eat sushi. I'm not really a fan of fish unless it's cat fish, but I particularly hate sushi. Unfortunately, I had been out vote and I figured I'd just go along with it.

It was about 2:30 in the afternoon and Dillon had to be to work by five. So we drove out to the restaurant he wanted to take us to only to find that it was closed until five. Disappointedly, Dillon drove to another Sushi shop that he knew of only to find that it was closed for the day! Though I felt bad for Dillon, I couldn't help doing the 'Happy Happy' dance in the back of my head! Well, at this point it was almost 3:30. (Traffic had not been kind.) Dillon decided he would admit his defeat and we'd all just go to Subway, but when we pulled into the shopping center with a Subway Melanie pointed out a Chinese restaurant, named Chin Chin, that served sushi too. Though none of us had eaten there we decided that it would be worth looking into it. I was particularly happy because then Dillon could get his fish and I could get beef or chicken! It looked to be a win-win situation.

Inside the restaurant was very fancy. The three of us had stop in just between the lunch crowd and dinner crowd, so we were the only group there. As we took a table and looked over our menus, I choose beef and broccoli while my companions picked out some sushi and tofu. (for Melanie because she's a vegetarian, but she also eats fish.) Our server came to take our orders and when Dillon asked for sushi the manager (who was acting as our server) informed us that the sushi chef wouldn't be in until six o'clock that night. Poor Dillon! Sushi just wasn't meant to be that day! But he got a sweet and sour chicken with broccoli instead. So it was still a happy ending!

After that it was almost time for Dillon to work, so Melanie and I sent him on his merry way while we went to look at animals at Petco! (The video at the bottom of the blog show some cute mice we saw!) It was a good day!

Mother's Day Flowers

2009-05-09T15:27:00.005-04:00

Everyone like getting flowers right! For Mother's Day Hans got Mom a big batch of flowers! But they're not just any old flowers! These flowers will last for a few months and look fantastic! This morning Mom and Hans planted them in the front flower bed and make a cute red and yellow boarder! Now the front yard is full of bright and cheery curb appeal!

The red flower is a Salvia! These flowers are apart of the mint famliy and are often called red sages.

And the yellow flower is a marigold! Marigolds are actually called Tagetes, but they go by their nickname in North America and most of Europe.

With Summer coming up these flower are perfect for getting us in to "Summer Mode"! Sunshine and fun times ahoy!

Big Update or Awesomeness!

2009-04-25T21:49:00.005-04:00

Whew! It's been a while since Easter. Unfortunately, this month has been psycho busy! I have end of the semester papers and finals coming up fast. (Like the next Monday fast!) This post is going to cover a lot of stuff so hold onto your hats! This is going to be image heavy too!

Hans' concert was super good! He reported to me that the cafe reached a new record. The cafe had more customers there than any one night ever! Wow! Wow! WOW! Along with his good friend and music partner, Hansy sold some CDs and even gave me so pictures to post up!

The packaging is very eco-friendly and modern! It's a great fit for Hans' music! He even autographed it!

Next up would be Scoops! Scoops is a magical candy/ice cream/cake shop with sweets galore! I adore their chocolate sooo very much! Melanie and I went there earlier this week to stave off stress and enjoy the glory of candy!

There was more of the shop, but I didn't get many pictures. Melanie and I multitasked and studied for tests at the same time! It was loads of fun!

Last, but not least, we had a hot air balloon in our backyard today! It was super amazing!

Happy Easter!

2009-04-12T13:34:00.006-04:00

Happy Easter everyone! Did the Easter Bunny visit you? ;D So as promised I have the lovely, fashionable and long awaited picture of Mom's Easter outfit! Wanna' see it?

Are you sure?

Do you really want to?

I don't know....

Really?

Really Really?

I don't think you want to see it....
Nah! Just Kidding! Here it is!

Aww! Those colors look terrific on Mom! She really likes her new outfit. It's not only fashionable, but comfortable! A perfect spring ensemble! Where did she find it? Why! Á la Kohl's of course!

Also just for adorableness sake! I drew a picture of an Easter Egg Hunt.

I hope you all have a super awesome Easter! We love you bunches and miss you guys!

Hansy's Live Show

2009-04-09T17:51:00.004-04:00

This weekend Hans and his friend, Andrew, have a performance at the City Skies Cafe in Atlanta this Saturday. He's super excited about it too! They've even prepared CD to sell! Very Exciting!

After the show, Hans plans to update with some pictures and his own commentary about how the show went!

Flamingo Invasion!

2009-03-28T00:32:00.003-04:00

On my way to school a particular shop has caught my attention. This might be because they have an army of flamingos! That's right! They have several dozens of the pink birds hanging out around and on their shop! Of course their just plastic, but still it's pretty cute!

Oh my Gosh Shoes!

2009-03-08T16:30:00.008-04:00

Now honestly, I'm not big into shoes (unless you count Purpy.), but I had to have new shoes because my old pair of tennis shoes were worn flat out. So after a trip to Khol's and Wal-Mart I'm now very well equipped!

These are my new plain black and white tennis shoes! They'll be good for school.

These are my green and polka dot ones that I wore to Church this morning!

And last, but not least My new orange shoes! Wait? Orange? You bet yah! I choose these to go with my new t-shirt and Orange hoodie!

Whew! Image heavy enough for ya? But that's not all Mom got her self a new outfit for Easter. Want to see it? Too bad! You'll have to wait until Easter because it's a cute surprise! I'll make sure to get lots of cute pictures of Mom in her new Spring outfit!

Snow!

2009-03-01T16:56:00.006-05:00

Can you believe it! It's snowing in Georgia! ... AND IT'S STICKING! YAY! It started snowing during church this morning and all the kids were excited! Bob and Phred the gnomes were excited too! (Okay, Bob wasn't excited, but he's Bob!) The gnomes decided to play with their pin wheel and it lasted all of two minutes... it was too cold outside.

(Edit: Note that Phred has a red hat! :D)

(Please note that I had to remove the play list from the blog because it was running extremal slow here on my computer. It can still be found on Hans and his friend's music blog site for any one who wants to listen in!)

Reklein Live on WREK 91.1FM

2009-02-27T00:27:00.007-05:00

This is Hans reporting from the front lines to let all the family know Myself and my good Friend Andrew Velker had an opportunity to perform a live musical show for Georgia Techs WREK 91.1FM Radio Station on Wednesday February 25th for about a 1 full hour set. There is about 20 minutes of interview between myself and Andrew Velker as well as a 40+ minute live musical performed improve and mostly impromptu . Hope all the family enjoys our interview on live FM radio here in Atlanta Georgia. you can listen to the show on the front page of Ashley's blog or you can download the set from http://reklein.org (just look for the 14 day archive and you should find us under the Wednesday time slot. The show is called The Mobius.

Our new family picture!

2009-02-18T19:39:00.006-05:00

Click to view full size! :D

I was going to make it the banner, but it was too big. So anyways, this non-sense came about while I was trying to make a new banner for our blog. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any family photos! This lead me to think about making a collage with the definition of Gregarious. Heading on over to dictionary.com so I could print-screen an image of the official definition I noticed something else about our blog name. Gregarious also refers to flocks and group; usually of animals! Now you see how this crazy picture got started. I picked out the best picture of ducks I had ever taken and slapped our faces on them! It is quite a masterpiece by Microsoft Paint standards if I do say so myself!

Happy Birthday Nana!

2009-02-17T00:00:00.002-05:00

Just for you, Nana, there has been made a special Birthday movie! It can be found at the bottom of the page! We hope that you've had a super fantastic birthday! We miss you here in Georgia! You defiantly should come visit us!

Here's our Nana when she was little! She always was a cutie!

Happy Birthday Mom!

2009-02-13T11:06:00.006-05:00

Yesterday was Mom's Birthday! We had lots of funny with the cake! Mom picked out a chocolate cake with coconut icing in the middle! I was super yummy! Mom had a fantastic birthday!

We got Mom a lot of roses for her Birthday. The funny part was that Hans and Dad bought the flowers from the same floral shop!

Dad also got Mom a new Willow Tree angel to add to her angel collection!

Also I've updated the Video section at the bottom of the page to show a video clip from Mom's Birthday! Yay! (I also added a link to my youtube account so that you can see older videos that I've taken off the blog!) Enjoy!

Piggies!

2009-02-01T17:45:00.003-05:00

Oh the terror I inflict upon my parents! Hee Hee!

Happy Birthday Popie!

2009-01-27T13:17:00.008-05:00

Yesterday was the Popie's birthday and it was full of surprises and fun! To start things off- not only was it Dad's birthday, but it was Chinese new year too! Happy year of the ox!

For Dad's Birthday dinner we had stuffed peppers, chicken rice, green beans,and fruit! It was delicious! The peppers were the best part of the meal.

Next up was the cake! Now to be honest, a week ago we had bought a super fancy cake and did birthday cake a week ago. For yesterday's cake we had banana cream pie! The funny thing was Mom had bought a pie and when Hans came home from work he had also bought a pie! So we have a lot of pie in the house now!

Here's the fancy cake from last week!

Here's the one of the pies!

Next up were presents! These were very funny! The first card Dad opened only had a dollar in it. It had been Mom's idea as a gag gift. I think this was the gift Dad liked the most.

The biggest surprise, though, was the Nintendo DS. Dad always plays games on his phone, so we decided to give him a DS to play with! You should have seen confused look!

Happy New Year

2009-01-03T14:09:00.005-05:00

Happy New Year everyone! Now here's an octopus blowing kisses! Think of him as a New Year greeting!

I drew him a few years ago, but isn't he cute?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2008-12-24T01:30:00.004-05:00

Merry Christmas everyone! Here are those pictures I promised because Mom and Aunt Sylvia are on my case! All I hear is "Blog! Blog! Blog!" Hee Hee! So here it is!

Here is our tree!

This is the live nativity we saw at the church's open house!

And to make up for lack of blogging I have a special Christmas Phred and Bob Movie!

Christmas is Coming!

2008-12-21T18:11:00.001-05:00

It's so exciting to get ready for Christmas! We even have a live tree! When I get around to it I'll post pictures of all our Christmas cheer! We wish you all a Merry Christmas too! We love you!

Adventures in Nursery Land

2008-11-25T12:16:00.003-05:00

Guess who got Lappy back! Now I'm ready to blog like crazy! Also at the bottom of the page I have a new video! It's my English 1101 project!

Anyways, last Sunday there was a little accident. Well, a big little accident! Just before Sister Taylor and I were going to set up snack little Ira tripped and hit his head on the doll house. At first we though he was fine, but then he looked up at us. His poor little forehead was just oozing blood. It got every were! Luckily, Brother Dr. Evans and practically half the ward was there to give us a hand. Ira will be okay. He'll just have to get stitches. It was still a pretty shocking experience. Poor Sister Taylor's shirt looked like she had just murdered someone. I hope all the blood comes out!

Meeting Friends and the Lappy Doctor

2008-11-13T18:53:00.005-05:00

Guess who I saw at the grocery store-- It was my friend Jessica! I haven't seen her in a long time. I found out that she is going to Berry college in Rome, GA which is why I haven't seen her in a long time!

The poor Lappy has gone to the Laptop doctor to have the blue screen of death and the CD drive fixed up. They actually called today to let me know that they had fixed everything execpt the CD drive which they have to order a new part for it. It'll be ready around Wednesday-ish. Until then I'm stuck using the old Compy in the kitchen.

Here is the doctor with the Lappy!

Fashion á la Mode

2008-10-30T09:31:00.004-04:00

Last Saturday while we were out running errands we found the most a amazing thing for the Buffy.

The shirt says "The Princess has Arrived"

Little queen of fashion!

And here's her little doggy coat for winter! Isn't she just cute!

Party Time!

2008-10-28T19:17:00.010-04:00

Just the other day my friend Grace randomly stopped by the house! We got to play 'Catch-up' and talk. She even got to spend the night! I really miss her now that she lives in Florida, but hopefully she'll come to visit more often! (And of course maybe I could go visit her and spend a week-end at the beach!)

Also, who knew October was the best time of year for parties!? There are loads of event going on at school right now!

The Hispanic Heritage Masquerade: I couldn't go, but from what I hear it was a lot of fun! Plus free t-shirt to anyone who brought food!

The Food Court's Grand Opening Party: That was super fun! We even had a bounce house and blow up slide! Luckily, I was wearing shorts with my skirt and was able to do a super quick ninja change! Whoosh! My friends and I had the theme of 'Ninja' that day. It turned out to be a perfect theme considering the brand name of the bounce house was "Ninja Bounce"! Whoosh! And as a ninja would say; "Now you see me, Now you die." Of course no one really got hurt, well, except for when three of us accidentally went down the same slide... It was like smacking pavement with plastic between us. It hurt, but we were to busy laughing at how dumb we were to really notice!

Military Appreciation Day: "I appreciate my military- I appreciate them more when their not inferring with my studies" Is the statement that my friend from French class told me. It was a great idea, but with helicopters and buzzers going off in between classes it can be very annoying. Not to mention the 'yellow ribbon brigade' stopped anyone and everyone not wearing a yellow ribbon, often making some of us late to class. I wish they had just held the event on a Saturday or something! Then I could have played with everyone too!

Free Nitrogen Ice Cream Day: Nothing's better than free Ice Cream made with sugar, milk, and pure liquid nitrogen! Courtesy of the chemistry department! It was a good thing. The chemistry students got extra credit and I got free ice and a show! Watching them make the ice cream was humorous because it looked like they were beating the stuffing out of a foamy bowl that was oozing cream and fog. One of the chemistry teachers, who had an awesome British accent, was dipping flowers in liquid nitrogen and smashing them against the ground! It was amazing to see exploding frozen carnations! Also they unveiled the chemistry department's new mascot: The Sodium Hippopotamus! Which was created by some chemistry students who while doing a lab came across the term "Na-Hypo".

That's all the events that have happened at school. There's going to be a Halloween party too! It sound like a lot of fun. I kinda want to go.

Even if I don't go, this year I'm going to be the Mad Hatter! One lump of sugar or two?

Buffy the Work Dog

2008-10-06T18:40:00.003-04:00

Here's just a little moment of the Buffy hard at Work in the Office!

The Office Dog with her Giraffe!

Update of Randomness

2008-10-03T11:22:00.005-04:00

Dad came back from his business trip to Arizona last night. I may (or may not) be able to persuade him to blog about it! All we know is that it was hot outside and he stayed in a fancy hotel! Oh! Sound like a mini vacation!

Unfortunately, The Gnome movie isn't finished. I'm going to have to drag Mom outside to help me get more footage, but their theme song is done and ready to be viewed at the bottom of the blog! Gnomes aren't very good singers though...

In the mail Mom and I got our free cookie book! I'm so excited. We'll be making cookies for Conference weekend! Oh yah!

Epic Movies

2008-09-24T12:40:00.007-04:00

Today while sitting in the commons area at college some guys were trying to film a movie for a project so they asked everyone there to dance for them. So I can now honestly say I've been in a movie! I was dancing person #36! I danced the caramelldansen! It was probably one of the most embarrassing things I've ever done.

^Ya! Just like that! (And I borrowed the image from a Korean website just so you know!)

Unfortunately, I'll probably never see the end product... unless they post it on Youtube...

On the bright side Mom and I are making an epic adventure movie of our own starring Bob and Phred! I'll update in more detail later, this was just a spur of the moment post.

Happy Birthday Hansy!

2008-09-07T20:05:00.007-04:00

I'm a little late with the blog! Friday was an excellent day for Hans! After all a birthday one comes around once a year! Hans was given the day off from work! His co-workers gave him a gift to Zaxby's! Hmm! Chicken!

For dinner Mom made a huge Italian buffet with spaghetti, pizza, and salad! Then Mom helped me bake a big chocolate cake! Please note that the one below is a dramatization of the actual product:

Yah. Mine looked more like a chocolate brick. Well... More like just a brick. But it was a tasty brick none the less!

After chocolate brick-cake there were presents! And since I'm a huge fan of pictures! I have compiled a lovely diagram of Hansy's gifts! It was very exciting to watch him open his presents!

I think the best gift were the magical socks! Hansy had such a good day Friday! To bad he has to go back to work Monday! Aw!

Darn Yankees!

2008-09-03T11:23:00.003-04:00

Saturday Mom and I went to see the play Darn Yankees for my English class at the Aurora Theater in Downtown Lawrenceville. We arrived early so Mom and I bought out tickets. Then we walked around a bit and toured the city court house. As we left the court house we as that their was a huge store dedicated to the red hat club. And a huge group of them were walking around town too!

Mom wanted to go look at the antique store. It was amazing! They had some really cute old umbrellas, big tacky jewelry from the 60's, and just all sorts of awesome things. The had a chest of drawers in good condition only for two hundred dollars. Only we could buy it. Aw...

At the play the Red Hat club was there too! They sat on the front row! It was so amazing. I wish I had had my camera. It would have been fun.

What? The play? Oh yah! That was good too. n_n

It's Friday!

2008-08-29T17:54:00.002-04:00

Yay! It's Friday! And that means it's time for the week-end! But not just any week-end! A long week-end! Yay! So now I have some time to recap on the week.

Monday: I went out to eat with my friend Holly from school. We ended up stopping at Wendy's and ordering of the value menu. I'm glad they invented the $0.99 burger!

Tuesday: I updated and introduced Bob and Phred!

Wednesday: I had to take a math quiz. Blah. :P But! I had lunch with my friend Melanie at the school. So it was okay. My outfit was commented on by some teacher about what a good role model I'd be to the other girls on campus. See! Modesty does pay off!

Thursday: Mom reheated homemade chicken noodle soup and made scones! Hmm! Scones.

Friday: I receive my quiz score back an only missed one point! Whew! The irony of it is the ones I guess on I got right, but the one I actually worked out I got wrong! I guess I need to study more.

This Saturday I have to go see a play for my English class at the Aurora Theater in downtown Lawrenceville. I hope it's interesting!

Is it Friday yet?

2008-08-26T22:30:00.003-04:00

It's only Tuesday and the week has been too long already! I'll try to update by Friday with all the happenings that have occurred. Until then, I'm a bit too busy! I love you all! And enjoy our new blog mascots!

The green hatted one is Bob and the red hatted one is Phred! (Pronounced Fred, He just can't spell is all.)

Mississippi

2008-08-21T19:30:00.004-04:00

Yes, we're home and actually found the house and occupants in tack. Although we're still investigating the green glow around the house, which blew out the air conditioning. We had a good day for traveling it was sun shiny all the way. Karen even found us while traveling so she was able to get the Martha Stewart rice krispie recipe. We're not very good at hide and seek.

I forgot to take the camera. But here's a list of pictures I would I have taken. Huff's Texaco gas station, little bitty frogs, Magnolia trees lots of them, Fred's, Piggly Wiggly Supermarket, downtown Brandon, MS with Confederate Solider monument in the center of the road, Talladega Speedway, Chunky, MS and even the gas station that sold souvenirs from all fifty states (your one stop shopping).

We had a very good visit with John's Aunt Georgia and Uncle Robert and cousins Robert and Lisa. They are really sweet people. We caught up on all of the family news and helped them get some things done while we were there.

Yay College!

2008-08-20T21:08:00.005-04:00

Today was my first day of higher education! It was defiantly less stressful. My teachers are very nice. I especially like my French teacher Mrs. Mormino. She's an animated person when she speaks. My math teacher was nice enough to let me borrow his cell phone because I had left mine at home and didn't have away of calling Mom. I think one of the best things about school was of course the new school clothes. I'm telling you- Buying clothes on clearance at Kohl's is the best thing ever! Mom and I bought at least two hundred dollars worth of clothes for me only for seventy dollars and it's all Purple! I'm totally set for the rest of the year! Yay!

I had an hour in between classes and used my lappy to take a picture.

Speaking of Kohl's shopping- Mom and I also stopped by the children's department to buy school clothes for Melissa as a gift. Mom already had clothes for Taylor that Aunt Georgie gave her, (Which she's blog about soon!) so we thought it would be nice to give them school clothes. There was a green shirt and hoodie, two pairs of jeans, a white baby doll top, and a pair of pink pants for Melissa. Then there was for Taylor an blue striped long-sleeve polo shirt, a green dinosaur shirt, and a couple pairs of jeans. The best shirt how ever it is the yellow 'Southern Miss'. (Miss standing for Mississippi!) I'd love to see him were that!

They're Back!

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They're back and they brought a piece of Piggly Wiggly with them! I'll have Mom Blog the tales of their travels soon! So don't go away! (For too long that is!)

Gone Away

2008-08-14T22:59:00.006-04:00

Well, Mom and Dad are out of town for the weekend so it's just me, the dog, and Hansy! But not to worry I'm sure that nothing could go wron-

BOOM!

Um? I might have to get back to you on that!

I DIDZ IT!

2008-08-13T14:12:00.005-04:00

I finally did it! I have the movie up and running. So now you don't have to go to Youtube, sift through countless video's and accounts just to watch a three minute presentation! You can scroll to the bottom of the page to watch.

Getting ready for the fall season!

2008-08-12T22:58:00.012-04:00

Today was a very good day! Hans when to Kohl's and bought new clothes for work today! He does have to look his very best! Tomorrow he's going to see one of his favorite bands at a concert in the Gwinnett Arena.

Mom and I went out to the bookstore on my college campus to buy my textbooks. All of them are used, except for one. It was my first real big purchase as an adult, but now I'm poor... x_x

I still can't get the movie to work so I'm just going to post some pictures instead!

Here's Mom and Dad. This is a picture I took of them four years ago when we went up to Helen for their anniversary. We had lots of fun that day. Now here's Hans and I on the plane when we were coming home from Utah! Our plane had been delayed in Oklahoma. It was pretty neat.
And here is my Buffy surfing the internet! She may look cute and nice, but she'll gnaw your face off after she eats you legs. ._. She's not a very nice poochie.

I'm still having issues with the video...

2008-08-10T23:30:00.002-04:00

I tried to post it, but I'm still having trouble! But not to worry! I'll figure it out!

Blogs Ahoy!

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We finally have a blog Aunt Sylvia!

Right now there isn't anything happening right now. I'll be off to college at Georgia Gwinnett in a few days. Hans and I have been playing video games together a lot. Mom and Dad are always working hard. I did make a video of the Family Reunion which was really fun! I'll post it here when I get a chance to. I also have it posted on Youtube under my account LavenderLuck if you can't wait. n_n

The Gregarious Giddings

Hiatus

Celebration! Schools Over!

Happy Mother's Day and many other things!

I WANNA QUIT BLOGGING! *Whine Complain*

Ding Dong! The Wedding Bells!

Wedding

Happy Valentine Day and Chinese New Year!

College Time!

Happy New Year

Land of Sweets

Deck the Halls

Christmas is Coming!

Happy Halloween!

Compy Troubles

Average Life

It's a Bugs Life

Silk Screen

Not so Conventional Cakes

Pop Culture Field Trip

Quick! Quick! Before I forget!

The "because I haven't posted" Post

Busy Worker Bees at Play!

Sunday Silliness

A Very Busy Day!

Picnics

Arrival from the Misty Cliffs

Utah: It truly is the Bee Hive State

In the Driver's Seat

The Sushi Dis-Connection

Mother's Day Flowers

Big Update or Awesomeness!

Happy Easter!

Hansy's Live Show

Flamingo Invasion!

Oh my Gosh Shoes!

Snow!

Reklein Live on WREK 91.1FM

Our new family picture!

Happy Birthday Nana!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Piggies!

Happy Birthday Popie!

Happy New Year

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas is Coming!

Adventures in Nursery Land

Meeting Friends and the Lappy Doctor

Fashion á la Mode

Party Time!

Buffy the Work Dog

Update of Randomness

Epic Movies

Happy Birthday Hansy!

Darn Yankees!

It's Friday!

Is it Friday yet?

Mississippi

Yay College!

They're Back!

Gone Away

I DIDZ IT!

Getting ready for the fall season!

I'm still having issues with the video...

Blogs Ahoy!

I WANNA QUIT BLOGGING! Whine Complain