Water Park Blast

I just got back from a waterpark in Waterloo... oh boy was it fun! I went on 4 different slides, the lazy river, and a wave pool. I think my favorite slide was the roller coaster slide... It had several huge bumps and for a little while we were air born on one! Oh yeah... It was a lot of fun.

On the other hand, school is coming up soon and I am not looking forward to it. My dad says that he will try to have My brother and I moved down to our new rooms in the basement before school starts. I am excited that I will be able to see all my friends again, though.

Backbone

Backbone, as always, was awesome! We canoed, caught crawdads in the trout stream, and I got to stay up one night to play chickenfoot with all my aunts and uncles. My uncle Brian won. Oh yes! There was a mishap in there, too. When we were packing up to go home, my dad picked up our bag full of beach towels and swimsuits, handed them to Carter, and told him to throw them away. Of course, he thought that they were trash. When we got home and my mom could not find them, My dad said "Well, I'm sure that I put them in the car!". Ha Ha Ha... He didn't. He threw away my two swimsuits, one of which was brand new and a birthday present, Hayden's Spank'in new towel that he got for his birthday the week before, My mom's new swimsuit, Carlie's swimteam swimsuit, and Coop, Dad, and Carters' swimsuits. Of Course we forgave him, but My grandma and I had to go shopping all day to find new ones (we are going to a really cool waterpark on Saturday) Well, that pretty much sums it up:)

I Have a Good Exuse

Sorry that I did not have a chance to blog for the last three days. A huge storm Hit my town and did a ton of damage. There was no tornado, but the meteorologists said that the straitline winds that did hit us were as strong as an F2 tornado. No homes were destroyed, but no homes didn't have damage. One house had a huge tree fall on it. The power was out until I woke up this morning (lucky me). Our house had a lot of damage too: Our deck was destroyed, our mailbox and light pole were taken out, we have leaks all over the house (including our garage) and yesterday morning we found out that part of our leaky garage roof had collapsed all over our bikes and fishing poles that we are going to take to Backbone State Park tomorrow. Bummer, Right? I got pretty bored of eating sandwiches and cereal too. Our friends,the Winkleplecks, had there 120 year old barn destroyed and they lost a lot of cattle too. Everyone is still cleaning up. So that explains why I could not blog for three days! ;)

Softball/Baseball Game News

Okay, so I was a little more active yesterday than I planned to be. I forgot to tell you that I had softball practice yesterday. Well, It was super hot, super boring, and I was super miserable. When we were finishing up, the pitcher threw the ball to me and it hit my ring finger on my right hand really hard. It started swelling right away and there was still some practice left. As soon as we were done, I ran to my dad and told him what happened. Although I didn't cry when it hit me, (I was about to cry though) I was pretty sure that I broke my finger. My dad, being my dad, said, "It's probably just a bad jam." It had turned black and blue by the time we got it home and my mom was assuming that it was broken. However, with little time left in the day and a softball tournament the next day, (that was today! We played three games and didn't win any!) we had no time to take me to the doctor. It did pretty well today. I can only bend it so far and it's still black and blue and sore, but it didn't bother me too much in the tournament (probably because we wrapped it up really well).

When I was getting on the computer my mom pointed out a little news article that popped up when I opened internet explorer. It was talking about a man who was at a Texas Rangers Game. He was on the second floor balcony when he reached out to catch a foul ball and fell headfirst off the balcony, with his son watching the whole thing. When paramedics got there, the first thing that he said was: "Please! Go check on my son! He's up there alone." After he finished this sentence, he passed away. Please pray for this man's family, especially the son. When I was reading this article, I thought about what I would do If it were my dad who fell off the balcony. I would probably be screaming when he fell off and when he had been on the groumd for a while, I would probably have started crying.

This boy must have been really brave to know that his father needed help and there was nothing that he could really do to help him. I know that I could not be as brave as this little boy was.

Just another Day

I am not doing anything today... nothing at all... I am just going to have a lazy day! I woke up this morning and started playing with a new barbie toy that I bought with some of my birthday money yesterday. My mom called me downstairs to watch Cooper and Carlie while she took Hayden to swimming lessons. So that is where I am right now: Typing this up quick while my siblings are busy watching a Veggie Tales movie. I skipped breakfast and now I am regretting it... My stomach is killing me! For those of you who do not know, we are adopting again! The children that we are adopting ( yes, I said CHILDREN) are from Uganda, which is a neighboring country to Rwanda (where Cooper came from). We are getting a little boy and a little girl who are brother and sister. We are super excited and we ask for prayers as we continue this adoption process. :)

Summer can be a Bummer

Oh my goodness! It has been soooo long since I have posted! In fact, I had to come up with a new password to get on here because I forgot my other password! I had a wonderful birthday and and awesome fourth of July. I have been going to my siblings' swim meets and playing in my own softball games... I guess that partly explains why I haven't had a lot of time to write on here. I was devistated this morning when my mom told me that a Casey's General store in the neighboring town of LaPorte City burnt down at 3:00 this morning, killing an employee who was there early to make donuts. Evidently she died later at the hospital, but she did have to be rescued. Hayden's birthday is coming up in the next 3 days and I am excited to watch him blow out the candles on his dinosaur birthday cake! I have run across a problem... I can't find my softball glove and I have to be at softball in aprox. 15 minutes. I am glad that softball is almost over- we just have the tournament and a few more practises left- I really need time to just be free of having to go to some kind of game or practise every day. I guess that summer can be a bummer sometimes- but it is sure better than school!