Anne the Birthday Girl

Anne the Candy Model
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Today is Anne's birthday! Yay! Happy birthday, Anne! She's 17 today, so I better hurry up and turn 18, because I want Anne to be my lil' sis' again!

I moved out, for those of you who don't know, and I now live with the Thompson family. They live in Wright City, so I'm only about 5 minutes from school, which is awesome. the family is really really nice, and I love staying with them. I have a host sister (Lauren) and a hostbrother (Allyn), and three kitties (Pinky, Rascal and Kiki).

Tomorrow I'm going on a field trip to the St. Louis art museum, so, no school for me. Then, on Saturday, I'm getting my hair done at 3pm, and then prom starts at 8pm. Its going to be so cool!

Last weekend, I got a 1 (the highest score) on my solo in districts competition, which means that I will be going to State on April 28. I really hope I can get another 1!

Everything's good here, and graduation is getting closer and closer! I got my announcements this week, so I will be mailing those once I get my new address labels. All you people in Norway are gonna get one! Yay! Well, some of you anyway... I only have 25 of them...

See ya'll later!

This weekend

Ine and Anne
Originally uploaded by Brynejentå.

On Friday, Grandma Dolores passed away. We've known about it for a while now, that she might pass away any day, because she's been in and out of the hospital since right around Christmas last year.
I will always remember my American Grandma Dolores, she was really nice and saw me as one of her own grandchildren.

I also went shopping this weekend, to get my mind of things. Ms. Lucero took Anne, Megan, Suzie, Falguni and me to the mall to look for prom dresses and shoes. I found a pair of some really hot, really cheap shoes as Sears, which was great. And Ms. Lucero and Falguni bought dresses.
Shanon is lending me her prom dress from last year, and it is really pretty. I can't wait to wear it!

Today we went to Grandma Dolores' visitation at the funeral home in Warrenton. I've never seen a dead person before, but it wasn't bad or anything. She just looked like she was sleeping. We sat in there with her for about an hour, and then we let people come in and say goodbye with her.

All of us kids stayed in the lounge in the basement and watched movies, played cards, read magazines and had snacks. The visitation was from 3pm - 8pm, but we passed the time down there. Megan and Emily was there, and so was Charles, Ashley, Ryan, Alex, Samantha, Nicole and Thomas. Sometimes Scott came down too.

Tomorrow's school again, and no practice for the first time since October. Weird.

District Champs, again!

Timeout
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Friday was the big game at Bowling Green, and the girls played an exciting match against Orchard Farm, and won! I think the final score was 57-40, which I think is pretty good. So now the girls will go on to competing for the State title. The first game is this Wednesday in St. Charles, and since the girls preferred us to the Varsity squad, we will be going with them to cheer.

The boys played Bowling Green, and to begin with they had them, but then things got out of hand, and we ended up losing. But at least we got second place, which is good too!

After the game, I went home with Shanon and spend the night there. The morning after I helped them clean their house because someone was going to come look at it because they're selling it. Then we went to Imo's Pizza in Warrenton and had a wonderful lunch. Jesse (Shanon's younger sister) and I shared a medium cheese pizza, and Shanon and I shared a Ceasar's salad, which was also pretty good. Then we went to Wal Mart to develop some pictures, and meet Franci.

I went home with my hostfamily, and we also brought my "cousin" Ashley with us. She wanted to come over and see the lambs. We played with the lambs for a while, and took some pictures, and then went home. Ashley and I played some games on my computer, and then watched Nightmare Before Christmas. Then we went to bed (she slept in my room).

Today I've just been chillin' out. I watched a Robin Williams/Kurt Russel movie that I can't remember the title of, and Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were Rabbit, which was a great movie. Yay!

This week's over

Art 3
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This week's been pretty good. We had a game that we won on Wednesday, at Bowling Green VS Louisiana HS. And then we won again, yesterday, when we played Bowling Green @ Bowling Green (it's the Bowling Green tournament). There's also a game tonight, and if the girls win, they will be district champions, just like the football boys and the softball girls. And the boys are playing too, tonight. We're going with the Varsity squad to cheer.

After the game, Shanon and I are going over to Shawn's to watch some movies, and then I'm spending the night at Shanon's place. We might go to the Outlet Mall in Warrenton on Saturday, so that'll be fun.

My solo for the district competition is going great, I've got it all memorized now so that's relieving! I was kind of worried there for a moment...
My parents are in Amsterdam, and I hope they're having loads of fun. I also hope that Guro is having fun with Grandma (and that Guro will comment this time) and Pia's having fun with Renate!

My spring (called winter in Norway) break is not till March 20th, but it'll still be fun.

I found out today that our spring concert with the band will be on May 7th, which means that dad can come and hear us play! Awesome! He might have some major jet-lag, but still, it'll be fun!!!