Fall

It's definitely fall-leaves are changing colors and falling, and the wind is blowing strong making it all very chilly, I wore a sweater on the walk to class and was very comfortable...All great signs-I love fall. It's a truly awesome season. In the fall is Halloween where we get to go to non-Halloween costume parties that happen to be at the same time as Halloween, and Thanksgiving-which is another very long post but Thanksgiving is a ton of fun!!! :-) I truly love fall...
And today was an amazing day for me. Speech class this morning went pretty well-my first time running the meeting as the president and I messed up but not terribly. I got to walk home the long way with one of my best friends who I haven't done that much with recently and so that was pretty great. :-) School went great and we got to watch the first "Biggest Loser". I love that show even though I'm the only one. Home ec was a TON of fun!!! We had a test that went pretty well for me-but the fun part was all the joking. We weren't very serious but we were serious enough not to get in trouble so I guess we evened it out pretty well. :-) We made cookies that didn't entirely work out-but it might've been the oven or the scoopers who put huge lumps close together sooooo....but still. :-) And there's the dog whining at the door....AGAIN!!! I'm pretty sure there's a cat out there but here we go!! :-)

Dance Class

Probably my favorite class of the classes I take, except for piano.We have learned in 1 semester line dances, waltz, some cha-cha, rhumba, mumbo, round dances, and even some square dances!!! It's all a lot of fun and we all LOVE it!!!!! Even Atsede and Kebrom love going and just watching us. Anyway, yesterday it started and we were about 45 minutes late because one of our llamas was going to the Spokane fair and the lady who took him was about an 1 hour late or something. Anyway, We got there and there were ton of little kids and new kids-Kyra and I felt like giants!! Other than 2 other kids, we were the tallest there!!! But thankfully the teacher, Barry Bartlett, offered  to give us 4 or 5 older kids a half hour lesson before as well as that class so that we could catch up to the older class. Kyra and I are THRILLED and can't wait for next Friday!!!!!   :-) But today Mom and Kyra went to town for grocery shopping-and probably a stop at the mall-Dad isn't feeling well so he is vegging out watching the Husky game, and later we're going to Aunt Sharla and Uncle Steve's birthday party later!!! YAY!!!! :-)

Busy Life!! :-)

Recently my life has become incredibly busy-Geometry Monday mornings at 7:30 a.m., youth group Mondays at 7 p.m., Chemistry Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30-2:30p.m., speech Wednesday from 9-10:15 a.m, home ec Wednesdays at 1:45 p.m., dance on Fridays 12:30a.m.-2p.m. Then I'm trying to do school between those, plus help keep the house clean, sometimes go to town, and the multiple other chores that come and go. :-) Next time I'm bored (assuming that will ever happen!!) I won't complain!! :-) At least I get lots of exercise going to and from class...:-) Oh, and I just realized I didn't do German today!!

Church

Today we had the best experience so far!! Atsede and Kebrom were happy and shaking hands with people and everything!! Kyra and JL took Atsede back to kids church and she LOVED it!!! Kyra reported that she was smiling the entire time except for once-when she was real intent on listening!! When Dad picked her up she was smiling and real happy. Kebrom did really well in the big church, too. And they haven't broken down yet-well, Kebrom did when he didn't get coffee from Starbucks, but who can blame him for that? I always want to cry when I don't get coffe :-) Right now Kyra, JL, and Atsede are making bead things-put the beads on a little plastic board and then melt them with an iron. Don't remember what it's called-but they love it!! Kebrom looked at the picture football schedule and was going to pick a team-he never quite decided. Then he went and played with the beads a little bit and is now playing with trucks. They are SOOOOO cute!! And, I do mean the entire fam. :-)

Keva Planks

Planks of maple wood-all the same size. Or, otherwise known as something that both Geoffrey and Kebrom can play for hours with. Geoffrey builds the most amazing, complicated structures and Kebrom sticks the planks wherever he thinks he can without tipping it. They absolutely love them!! All the kids do-but Geoffrey and Kebrom probably the most :-)

Here's a picture of us playing with them.

Friday!! :-)

Today has been pretty busy already- I got up, ate, got dressed and walked down to the neighbors with Atsede to get a reference letter for an application for 4-H. Anway, as we're walking down Atsede asked me why the sheeps bottom is yellow(it will have babies in the spring) why did that sheep go away awhile ago(it was sick) she told me about her pretty dress and how it was kind've cold and how our green house is yellow like the neighbors. We got home, did some school, and now Kebrom is running around with Books (very exciting until Books knocks him over) and driving around on the plasma car-a fav of his to use for disaster, like driving thru my dirt pile while I'm sweeping and running into people with it. Atsede is being her normal silly self-doing anything to make us laugh. She just came in with mom's red shirt on and was hobbling like an old lady. :-) JL did school and is now getting her hair done-and mom is going to cut it like Atsede's!!! Atsede and JL are both very excited about that. I'll post pics when it's done. And all this on a day when no one has a class!!

Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start

Now where exactly is that beginning?
What should I tell now and what should I save for another post?
Well, maybe you should know that I'm Brenna, I'm 14, and I'm second of 6 kids.
The rest can be saved for another post-maybe one tomorrow when I'm not tired! :-)