Air Maisy

I was minding my own business, just making oatmeal as I should, when my eyes were drawn down to the floor. What I saw was just an ordinary red beach ball. It wasn't very big, about the size of a small cantaloupe. I'd seen it a million times before.

But today, I had a idea. Maybe it was the train of thought I had been going down just minutes earlier. I had been thinking about movies, then about dogs, then about movies with dogs in them, and then I thought about the movie Air Bud and how much I loved it.
Maybe that's why I noticed the ball.
After staring at it for a good 2 seconds, I thought" It sure would be cool if Maisy could hit a ball in the air like Buddy did." So call me crazy, but I tried it.
This is the result..........

1) Sit on the floor and call Maisy over
2) Scold her for being on the table licking Q's oatmeal bowl
3) Clean her sticky chin
4) Get her in position about a foot in front of me and command her to sit
5) Show her the ball
6) Reposition her, as she has already wandered away
7) Throw the ball directly in front of her and watch in dismay as she watched it fall to the ground
8) Throw the ball again and feel a spark of hope when she moved towards it
9) I should probably mention now that it was only 2 inches and more of a glance than a real move
10) Throw it yet again with not much expectation
11) She did it!!! Jumped right up off the ground and hit it high into the air with her snout!!!!!!
12) I scared her cute curly tail right under her furry little body with my shrill shriek of delight
13) Did it about 10 more time with smashing results (the Air Maisy Show, not the shrieking)
14) The whole family came down wondering what was going on
15) Maisy performed beautifully for the whole family
16) She was doing so good that we decided to reward her with cheese each time she hit the ball.
17) Bad move

She was so distracted by the cheese that every other thought left her fluffy little head. Despite our pleas, the ball bounced off her back, head, and every other place a ball could land with absolutely no results. We even moved to a different room and still all she thought about was the stupid cheese. Like owner like dog. However, we are weak, so we finally gave her the cheese.

Once she realized that it was gone, she was back in action! Twisting, twirling, jumping, hitting it almost to the ceiling! We were so proud. And everyone even gave me all the credit for teaching her!

Yep, I'm feeling pretty special right now!

~Laurel

$100 shower curtains

It started as a normal day, waking up at the crack of God-forsaken dawn, because in Portland the sun comes up after 7am. Got ready in 21 minutes due to falling back to sleep for 10. Arrived at choir early and regretted that I had decided not to find socks in favor of eating Breakfast and was envisioning the blisters i would get. Class started as usual...stretching, massages, warm-ups, Ms. Wright running out b/c she forgot something... when our wonderful Choir teacher told Laurel and I our choir dresses had come in.

Needless to say, I was very excited. I had waited almost a month to see the thing I spent $90 on.
At first glance, everything appeared fine. Then I took the skirt out of the bag and found that it didn't move without a battle (gotta love taffeta). After I got the thing on, the girl assisting me informed me that the skirt need to sit on my natural waist. "Wow, homeschool style!"
The shirt isn't much better, as it's made of very heavy velvet, and I can't for the life of me figure out the zipper. But Laurel and could breath in the dresses and that was all that mattered. So we were sent back into class and everything was all hunky-dory...until we got home.

The second we walked in the house we had to try them on. "So I can see how funny you look" Don't you love little sisters? So, after much "convincing" *cough* threatening. we put on the objects of nightmares.

"Good grief paigy, you are going to sweat SOOO much in that" thanks Claire, you're such a doll.

"Hey! If you cut the skirts in half and sew them together, we'll have a new shower curtain!" Well, Olivia if you want to pay for a $100+ for a shower curtain, be my guest.
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HAHAHAHA you could HIDE in that funny skirt!" Quentin thinks he's God's gift to comedy
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"When you're all in a big group, those will look great on stage. And you'll be glad you kept those when you get older." Who said anything about keeping them, Mother?

After about 15 minuted of everyone, including me and Laurel, laughing hysterically, the dresses got put away until the concert in a couple weeks where we will be forced to wear them in public. But I think it'll be OK...everyone else will be wearing one to!! HAHAHAHAHA

Shoes, Sushi, and Butterscotch Pie!

My last blog was basically just a rant, and after I wrote it, I really didn't think about it anymore. And today I realized that I didn't write about anything happy that happened on my birthday! Silly me! So this is what happened...........
On Wednesday, we totally pulled a Philippine birthday thing. We brought our own cake to GU. It was really fun watching that huge cake disappear in all of 2 minutes! I thought it was really funny until I didn't get any :( However, I made up for it at Red Robin! Nicole B. was having a little celebration there for her Birthday, but I got ice cream too!

That Saturday was the best! An amazing family friend took us to the Woodburn stores and proceeded to buy us......
ME:Shoes, sweatshirt, T-shirt, and shoelaces.
Paige: Shoes, sweatshirt, t-shirt, and hat.
(you've probably see us wear everything numerous times! Aren't the shoes cool?!)

Dinner was even better, since he bought us the biggest tray of sushi you've ever seen!
And as if that wasn't enough, he picked up Made of Honor and watched it with us! Then, during the middle, he brought out a homemade butterscotch pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, he made us a pie, and let me tell you, I about passed out it was so good! So be verrrry jealous. THANK YOU ERIK!

So that is my happy 16th birthday story.

~Laurel