Babysitting, homecoming game, Campus Days

I forgot to put anything on here about Homecoming Days at school but here are two pics of the Show Choir when we performed for Coronation: (which was on Monday night)

My friend Courtney and me (I'm on the left :)

Singin' on stage - I'm the 2nd from the left

The Coronation was 50's theme so we had some fun trying to find outfits for that - it was a lot of fun though.  We sang "A Teenager in Love" and it was really cute! :)

Friday night was the football game and suffice it was say that we lost 60-0.  We weren't that surprised - we played the 3rd best team in the state and we haven't won a game in probably 3 years.  After the homecoming dance (please, someone remind me to do a post on that sometime - well, maybe not - it's was really funny what happened, but ya'll don't know the people, so it wouldn't be the same.  You decide :)...anyway, one of my friends had me and a few othere girls out to her house for a sleepover after the dance.  Here's a picture from the morning after ( we all look pretty good, considering we didn't get to bed until about 2 AM - fun night :)

Me, Carita, Camille, Jenny, Montana

Carita and Jenny are foreign exchange students at our school for this year - it was a really fun time!! :)


Here's a few pics of the cute little guy I babysit sometimes - his name is Mark and he's 3, but he talks like a 5 year old - he's a really smart little cookie :)...

I know this post was kind of out of order, but at least I got it on here, right?! :)

We went roller-skating and went to the Mall of America at Campus Days at AFLBS - I don't have any pics though, sorry...:P
<3's
Rachel

remembering the warm, crunchy leaves days...

Our family of 3 went Sica Hollow about a month ago and I got some fun pictures.  So here's to remembering what it was like having warm fall weather (and the leaves were still all on the trees too :)

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Which one's your favorite? :)

Rachel

p.s. I had the pics in a different order but then they switched on me when I was adding the numbers - maybe the pics changed sizes or something - I don't know.  Anyway, enjoy!! :)

Toby Keith - American Soldier

It must be so hard to have a family and be a soldier - I can't imagine.  Remember Veteran's Day on Friday!!

Rachel

Casting Crowns - Does Anybody Hear Her

love this video!! :)

Rachel

Letters From War

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried during this video - it's so real. And it's hit home to us and our country. Remember our veterans and our soldiers this Veterans' Day - I have a cousin in the National Guard who could get deployed - it's a scary thought. And yet we need to be strong for them and pray for them. Be safe - and come back to us soon.

We love you.

Rachel

"A boy makes his girl jealous of other women.

 A gentleman makes other women jealous of his girl."

A real man is what every girl wants - someone who will protect her, stand by and support her, respect her, love and cherish her from his heart...someone who will always listen to you, and who will love you so much, that he would wait to give his heart only to you.  That 's the kind of guy I want...<3

(p.s. I'm not the best at putting pictures with posts and I know they don't always fit together, but I guess that's what blogging is all about, right? - exploring the ways that you express yourself - and sharing that with others. 

~Rachel <3 

something exciting happened today!!!! :D Can you guess what it is?

I'm sure you're all just dying to read what I"m about to write on here - and I promise that it is something exciting and not just a random post on how cute boys are, blablabla :D  Anyways, drumroll please:


I OFFICIALLY GOT MY LICENSE TODAY!!!! YEAH!!!! :D


So now I can drive by myself during the day, have one passenger under 21 and if I have more than one passenger, there has to be a licensed adult in there too. I can't have my full license until I'm 18 but that in 6 months (Yikes!!! :D) so now I can drive by myself! :)  (I know I just said that, but hey, it's hard to believe it's true!)  Two things that were kinda funny that happened:


~ The examiner did say at the end that he almost didn't pass me because I wasn't going fast enough and I would be a traffic hazard...and he asked me why I was driving so slow and I was like 'I normally don't drive that slow; I think it's because it was my test'. So I was more paranoid about not observing the intersections and not flunking the parallel parking and backing that I didn't even once look at the speedometer!!! :)  Not good huh! :( But I do obey speed limits and I'm not a traffic hazard.  So anyways that's behind me now - and hey, I still passed so that good enough for me! :)
~ One of my friends had told me that she had cried after she passed her license test and I was thinking 'yeah, sure that'll never happen to me'....well I ate those words. I was so paranoid that I didn't drive fast enough that I was crying more from that and that the instructor wasn't the happiest with me then that I passed my test.  So I was bawling my eyes out -  and I think it was because I was under so much pressure and I still have a cold from about a month ago and my head hurt...but I made it - and boy, am I happy!! :)


I'm going to try and find some sort of driving picture and put it on here as an ending note: (we'll see what I find! :)

Can't you totally see that that's me? :D Oh, and I saw the cute cop today - ask me about that crazy story sometime! :D


Rachel