The Small Things

So today I will focus on the small or not so small things. For example, today was Megan and Christopher's four year anniversary, very big for them :). I cannot believe that it was four years ago that we had the wedding!! I still feel like they are Megan's "newly weds" (aka a year and under). But alas, that's hard for them to be since their son is almost a year old and they got married pre-MIT. Star testing is coming up tomorrow, which in my mind means only one thing: nap time!! Three hours to do something that takes me maximum one hour to do? I'll take that any day :). Also, I have a new section in drumline, the cymbal section! I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty excited about it and I think that our drumline will smash the competition next year and we will do even better than this year! :D
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HORRRAY!

So just a small insert for my recent exciting moment that I had on Saturday (hence the title). My drumline WON the Open Class (2nd hardest) division championships!!!!! Its very very exciting and an excellent way to win a season! :) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1163216&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=711292124&id=1390154318 this is the URL for our winning picture for after we won, completed with medals and uniforms :) (I couldn't get the picture onto this so yeah, that's for if anyone wants to see it). That's pretty much the only exciting news for now, and I shall write again soon!!


PS
Lauren feel better!!! Hope that concussion is no match for you :)

Long time, no see

OK so to my defense, me not writing since January is NOT MY FAULT.....I have been a very busy girl. First off, a major, major reason why I have not written is FOREVER is because of drumline. Drumline, it seems, has taken over my life (as many can agree due to my constantly sleep deprived face and one of my most common answers is: "can't, drumline"). But alas! Tomorrow is my last competition for drumline winter season '10. Tomorrow is championships! Another reason for my lack of writing before my homework made 5 hours of sleep a luxury, was soccer. There was a lot of soccer in that mix, so it made any pre- February ski trip impossible. So, as you see, it has been quite hard to write on my blog! But to recap..

Lets see, the ski trip was fun (as usual) and our soccer team had a great end of the season, we ended really strong and no one wanted soccer season to end. Then drumline season started. Lets just say that this year's drumline's skill level is a LOT higher than last year's drumline. We've had a pretty good season, with only one bad show, which is good. This Saturday is our championships for ADLA, and our last show of the season. Needless to say, everyone is very, very excited about that part. The last thing really of consequence for me to talk about was my New Orleans trip over spring break. I went to New Orleans with my band and it was extremely fun. I had a spiritual experience at one point that really helped me mixed in with some hard core French doughnuts, extreme late night exercising at the hotel, some flee market action, a cruise and some good old fashion bonding. All in all it was an amazing experience and I couldn't have spent my spring break any other way! Everyone had loads f fun, and no one wanted to leave, our whole group bonding with the most random people (Ex. a guy we saw dancing our first day, and now everyone is friends with him on facebook). Life has been pretty sweet all in all :)

Besides this, not much has happened to me besides the recent resurrection of my "middle-child" sister, Allie. She has finally come home, carrying with her a wake of cravings and a flurry of paper with the purpose of sending her off to her mission, now that they have extended the time to send in a person's mission papers for four months instead of three before that person's birthday. And Allie just had her four-months-until-her-birthday day, so she was running at the speed of sound to get them in, creating excitement every time a phone rang, saying loudly, "IS IT THE BISHOP?!" But alas, they are in now and she is just enjoying her stay here (we are TREMENDOUSLY enjoying it, she is a breath of fresh air).

I cannot believe that I have written this much already! I came into this thinking that there would be nothing to say, but I suppose I was wrong, which isn't a bad thing. Well time for me is a precious commodity and so I must be off! Much homework is to be done before Monday...

Another day without school...

So with Martian Luther King Jr. day rolling around the corner tomorrow, I find myself yet again with no school and time to write, which is fortunate for that seems to be practically the only time i have to write these days. Life has been pretty routine for the past couple weeks: soccer, school, drumline, homework, and squeezing in sleep. Although recently there has been a temporary swell in our normally quite modest number of house dwellers in California, when my sister Allie came back for the weekend and behind paraded a rambunctious group of college students that number 8 (including her), but at times can make more noise than a small army. But I suppose that's what happens when a bunch of friends go to a persons house to crash for a couple of days, major bonding occurs. I suppose bonding is somehow indirectly correlated to noise? Because it seems like a lot of my bonding experiences were also loud and/or destructive. There is not much to report after this except for the fact that first semester is coming to an alarming close next week, it feels like just yesterday I was fresh from Utah sporting my neon yellow and green cast (is it possible to miss a cast?) and bravely learning my band show with one arm. Now all of the sudden I'm in the middle of a soccer season, beginning(ish) of a drumline season, and concert season is in full bloom, with our next concert coming up in a couple weeks. Until next time (goodness knows when THAT will be...)

Caroline

the hectic life of one teenage soul...

So, apart from my previous mention of the craziness of homework and drumline, which is plenty enough to keep one busy and not give them much relaxation time, as previously mentioned, I now have the privilege and responsibility of being on the JV girls soccer team! It has been fun, and we have been winning a lot (which is always fun), but it has rearranged my priorities dramatically. My priorities are now, in order: soccer, drumline, homework, other (ex. ortho) and then sleep. Sleep, I have realized the hard way, is a privilege that must be earned through hard work and not that much homework, and not the necessity I have always thought that it was. Although this has its negative outcomes, such as having to take power naps in class and being constantly tire, I have found that there is always a positive way of thinking that I could create. But now I am sleeping a lot as it is winter break! Ah, winter break, the very sensations that those words create and correlations that I have with the phrase makes me smile. I think you all are aware of the feelings that the winter holidays bring.
So far my entire family is here, with the exception of the beloved sister, aunt, and daughter, Lauren. This has created a once again full house, no longer a lonely and generally quite library that this house has become of late. It is joyous and I can't wait for our family to be complete and for Lauren to return once again to California. As I leaned back to review what I have written so far, a perfect example on how simple things can bring so much joy. From my vantage point in the library, I can just barely see the Christmas tree, but I could clearly hear my funny brother holding his son, Quentin and making funny noises while Quentin smiled and looked intently at the tree. He seems so intelligent, yet he is only five months old! We believe that he was born to follow in his grandfather and father's footsteps, that baby was born to go to MIT. Now they are playing on the piano, and I can almost see Quentin's delighted reaction to the music that he creates with his father when he hits a key, as he is fascinated with music, along with almost everything else in this world. He is the sort of baby, that is content with watching the earth go by, and simply observing, as long as his parents are there to translate is odd noises for him, he is set.
Well now I must leave you and go Christmas shopping! HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE <3

Caroline

Update

So apart from going to Boston to visit the cutest baby there ever was, life has been pretty dull. My whole life has consisted of drumline, food, homework, and a occasional hours of sleep that I can manage to have. We've had 2 shows, 3 football games and a fair so far, with yesterday being the first day off that I have had to do whatever I wanted. I of course went to Six Flags Magic Mountain with Lauren Kristin Tiffany and Maisy. (Lauren already left before this pic was taken)

After Lauren and my mom left, everyone else and I turned to face a different Six Flags. This Six Flags had creatures crawling around screaming people in scare zones and a very dark amusement park. We ventured off to some rides, with happy faces, but soon everything changed...

While my dad and I were having a great time, taking pics like these... and the ones down below...



Tiffany, Maisy, and Kristin were truly experiencing the fright fest, and Tiffany actually became famous for her screams by other, they were the entertainment of the night. (Who needs scary people when there are a couple teenage girls screaming because someone is walking towards them and cowering together and fleeing through the wrong part??) They experienced things that I wished I put on video, but one guy that especially terrorised was this one

The bottom guy was my second favorite, after that guy with the rings that I took a picture with. The guy was simply walking towards Kristin, Maisy and Tiffany and the screamed so much and were backing up out of the scare zone (on the wrong side) It took the combined forces of my dad, my camera, and me to get all three of them to the other side, they were so terrified. All in all they ended up happy and scared, too scared even to go through another scare zone to Batman (that ride and Scream were my two favorites). All in all it was excellent and we were exhausted and satisfied.

cast off, Lake Powell, fires

YAY MY CAST IS OFF!!! :D but I have to wear a splint for 3 more weeks because apparently i broke multiple bones, which my other doctor in Utah failed to see, but all is well.. My family recently got back from a mandatory evacuation from the dreaded and highly deadly "station fire". So we packed up in about 2 min after being woken up in the middle of the night, and started the short trek down to Orange County to chill with our Kinnosen cousins until the order was lifted and we got power back in our house...which we now have. Although it looks like the moon over here and it smells extremely strongly of barbecue. School would've started for me today D: but luckily it has been postponed....until tomorrow. But anyway I'm just glad that I get to say that school started in September and finishes two days early.

Anyway, for Lake Powell. Well I can honestly say it was wayy fun :) and that all those wiplash wipeouts i had innertubing was worth it (ahem ahem uncle mark cough cough). This is a pic of when I wiped out, you see the big splash behind jessamyn?? ya, that was me.
But of course, I wasnt the only one to fall, with no help from the submarining tub either..

A look at my charming cousins, they are not without fear either, especially because the longer you stay on, the more likely uncle Mark is to pull a flying stunt when you are pankacked or use his donught of doom or something truely terrifying (especially when you only have one arm)
Here is a grat view of my cast, oh ya, also Chase (phelpsy) who is
Marshall's friend was there
and heres a picture of Chase apout to be flattened by us O.o
And sometimes, Uncle Mark even tries to flip us....
But I think we survived that one
After a long day of hard work (and a very satisfied Uncle Mark) we all hang out on the upper deck, eating, talking, or playing dirty dora (the reason why Allie is cradling cards)

We also went slot canyon exploring, and we had to swim a long way into muck and bark that was an inch thick, and got permenantly into my cast....but this is as far as we could get our cameras
We also of course went wakeboarding, which unfornuatly I was not allowed to do due to the fact that I only had one arm. So I will only put up one or two pics. This one is when my dad wakeboarded, and the houseboat is in the backround (with some scenery)
Also this is Marshall getting really good air
Here is a good pancaking shot by the way Also, whitney and valerie enjoyed party hopping, which looks kinda like this

Another very exciting discovery in Lake powell was of the wildlife, such as the ring tailed cats (cauatis) and bold chipmunks

In case you were wondering about the chimpunk, yes, Marshall and Chase did get the chipmunk, but the chipmunk escaped with a marvelous feat of acrobatics through saran wrap.
All in all, Lake Powell was amazing, and I can't wait to go back

apen grove: moose stalking, moose sightings, and a moose attacking..

So I am now typing this by myself, having become a bit more used to my cast, which now is the colors neon yellow and neon green. Aspen grove was finished yesterday, and then we came straight to Lake Powell, which will mean that soon I will lose all reception. Aspen Grove was a hit, and a sweet one at that. While hiking mt. Timpanogos, (11,500 roughly) we saw a large quantity of wildlife, which included moose and mountain goats. The moose we saw in a little plateau on a cliff on our way up, and the moose was minding its own business eating ON THE TRAIL. So after we found the moose, and many pictures were taken, we started inching forward. But lo and behold, the moose was bound to find out sometime, and that happened when we were less than 5 feet from it. The moose then proceeded to start the charge hat was meant to kill or injure severely. Everyone in the group rapidly backed off and after a few moments of indecision, the moose backed off. We were then able to proceed hastily up the plateau.
+ - ~ ` =
This is finished after Lake Powell, but I will not include Lake Powell, but will wait until later, when the pictures are uploaded to proceed in that direction. Now, back to Mt. Timp....
When we were not that far from reaching the saddle, I was getting seriously discouraged and depressed, them, as I was half-heartily silently fighting my Dad to go back, my aunt Paula and my Dad combined to give me strength and to motivate me up. As we were at the saddle, all my energy boosts (my Dad claims that I came to terms with myself and it was all mental) kicked in, and I was in my element. As Paula was laboring from breath, and getting a little discouraged herself, I decided to give back some of that encouragement that helped my so well. When we got to the top, my Dad was slightly disturbed on how well I was feeling and how much energy I had, and proceeded to give me a lot of weight in my backpack. I then proceeded to half-run down the mountain, joking and laughing all the while.
Mt. Timp. wasn't the only thing that happened, Nick Porter also happened. He was an old kindergarten buddy of mine that moved away and after moving a few times, landed in El Paso, Texas. We reconnected and had a fun time. Valerie also got a lot of attention from a general audience of the male gender. The events that have happened as a result of that I will leave for Valerie's discretion on who to tell. All that I will say is that Aspen Grove was a great memorable experience, and the best Aspen Grove I remember!
I leave these tidings with the promise of Lake Powell shortly,

Caroline

the injuries of one soul

Nicole is typing this for reasons soon to be known:

First, I am in Utah. Second, I destroyed my wrist at soccer camp. And third, Nicole likes when I dictate to her... I recently got back from soccer camp at BYU which was way fun, and included some rocking dehydration, blisters (underneath toenails) and injuries. Whilst I was playing soccer, as a goalie, in a game called World Cup (brutal game, I tell you, brutal game) Norway shot a very good goal, and Cara is a center midfielder, so she has a very good kick. mwah haha I quickly went to stop the ball and while slapping away and SAVING THE GOAL, I snapped my wrist back and fractured it. I thought it was nothing, and kept on playing. But as time went on, and lunch came near, i realized it was becoming more painful instead of less painful. So I went to the trainers, and they wrapped me up and gave me some ice, and told me to go to the IPF trainers. After Lunch I went and they told me that they thought it was fractured.... Ok ok so they brought me to the hospital. and i had snapped my wrist in two.... Joyous day! Now I live in a blue cast which reads, "It's my birthday <3>

so for dehydration0-----

it was 90 degrees in the air so it was over 100 degrees on the turf we were playing outside on the turf... everyone was, like, really dehydrated, and we didn't have any subs, and since I didn't have enough "variety of fluids" i passed out on the field from dehydration. fun times..... lets just say I threw up a lot..... fun times again.....

ok well nicole is getting tired of this so she is attacking me/cilesslyr

babies, school, family

Hey everyone SO sorry that I haven't written since march, I can hardly believe that I haven't written for so long. A lot has happened since then, such as school being out and having a new nephew to add to the clan. School got out last month, and the reason why I haven't written since then is partly because I was waiting for Quentin to be born, and since then I haven't had a good excuse apart from the fact that I haven't gotten around to it.

My new nephew and Christopher/Megan's new son has been officially named Quentin John Palmer and was born on July 10, 2009. He was 7 pounds and 1 ounce, very healthy and happy. I will not suply pictures because I think that you should go to Christopher and Megan's blog because they will have more pictures than me by far (seeing as I have not met said Quentin yet).

A lot of family business has been going on, apart from the fact that there is a new soul in our family (that, I might add, has yet to have a threat to his life by my dad, who has been known to comment of eating children :) ), our mom is in Boston helping the kid and the family as in with tradition. Meanwhile, or fragment of the family in California has been partying and doing almost everything we couldn't do with mom in the home, including making cookie dough and eating the whole thing raw without making cookies, eating food she would never eat, watching movies she wouldn't watch with us, etc. The watching movies portion includes the fact that we're going as a 'family' to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, something that she would never do, partly because no matter what the time of day is, if there is Quittich, she is sleeping. Before she left though, there was a large number of birthday's in June, which included my mom and dad's, Lauren's (just look on her blog 2 posts old and you'll see), and Megan's. In the end of June, the Merill's (cousin's) came and wrecked the usual cousinly havoc, and before that, the Jacobson's came, which meant much screaming by the youngsters of a particularly mellow Hadley because they were stone frightened of her. A joke that I appreciated that Allie cracked a couple days ago when Samantha said that she had met a dog that was more mellow than Hadley was "whoa was it dead?" A true testament on what we think of our lovely lazy dog/bunny/seal/pig. Well I will write once more in July before I'm off for Utah!

Caroline

birthdays, drumline, babies...

Much to talk about, much to talk about!! Where do I begin?? Well, I did have m,y birthday in Feburary and it was a special occasion because 3 of my cousins that i NEVER get to see from Michigan were conveniently located in San Deigo with my grandparents at the time. So
I went with my parents, Samantha, The 3 cousins, and my grandparents to California Adventures (its right next to Disneyland and is an amusment park also). After much fun in the sun and bad times to go on water rides, we headed home. Now throughout this whole time (even a couple of blogs ago), my sister in law (sister really, she fits so perfectly with our family) has been pregnant. I didn't tell you earlier because I was sworn to sercrecy. But the word has already spread so I might as well continue it. Megan is now 6 months pregnant to a very active baby boy. Most call him Q, couple of my friends call him BBQ (beastly baby quentin). But the name descided is Quentin John Palmer. He is very active already, just like his father and loves to move. I look forward with a steadfast eagerness torwards my new to-be nephew. Now we land in march, the ify time between Spring and winter. March in traditionally not a month that I look forward to, the month i call dreary and long, because in boston its usually cloudy, the snow is gross, and it gets in a weird stage of weather. Also there are no school breaks AT ALL in March!! But this year was different, this year was the first year of high school drumline. So two weeks ago was my very first compition and we packed up la Canada and drove our way 7 hours to Union City, which is right next to San Fran. After our failed attempt to go skydiving 3 times, it was time for the show. We had warmed up, everything was looking up, we had had an excellent warm uip, and we were pumped up. So we ran on and set up, only to have the pit's sound system BREAK. So we trudged our way through pretty well all-things-considered. Example, the sound system wasn't working so our synth wasn't working, and so we should've just collapsed, but we pulled through. Anyway we got a bad score, but it still wasn't the worst! Afterwards we watched He's just not that Into You and watched YouTube forever. On Sunday we went to Alcatraz (I know, ur jelous) and I might get pictures up if I ever get around to it. After that we went the Fisherman's Warf and ate at Bubba Gump which was delicious. We finally headed home with a good experience to cover up the disapointment of the show. And then yesterday we went to Fontana (about 45 min to an hour away from La Canada) to go to our next show. This time we were determined not to screw up. Once again we had an exellent warm up and we pumped up but a bit more nervous. We went and preformed, with no malfunctioning of the sound system (to our great joy). We played amazingly and were satisfied with our playing and impatient to find out what we got. No one would tell us our score until the award cerimony to we all waited through the delays and everything, miracuasly keeping most of our hair in tact. Finally our coaches came to sit with us as the awards started and they looked mad and said that we should've done better, thus furthering our tension. As they called out the placements from bottom to top, we all held our breath and squeezed each others hands as placement after placement was called with their schools, and we were not there. Finally the fourth one was called, and the coaches were like, that should've been us and bla bla bla. Every1 was on the edge o their seat with adrenaline pumping and the want to scream. The judges paused for what seemed forever before anouncing 3rd place. They said that 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place groups got such outragiously high scored that they were being places in the next highest level. They called third place, and by this time our coaches were starting to break with their facial expressions. We were not called. Our reps to recieve the awards were tapping their feet with impatience as the 3rd place people took what seemed like forever to get their trophie. They called out 2nd place, and they called out La Canada!! Everyone in drumliune immediatly stood up and were screaming and hugging we were so happy!! One of the reps had to actually retrain the other one because he tried to run up he was to esatic. Then, they called first place, and we had lost by 7 tenths of a point, thats .7 compared to the 3 point gap between 3rd and 2nd place. But we were so happy we did't care!! Well that's the climax of the story. I shall write sometime hopefully in this month, it all depends.
ps.
Read my brother's blog!!
It's really interesting

-Caroline

The Killers, hikes, break, 2009!!

I trust you have heard the song Human by the Killers, and so you've probably wondered yourself or know someone who's wondered this question: Do they mean denser or dancer in the chorus? Personally I think its denser, because are we human, or are we dancer doesn't work!! So what do you think?? And why doesn't the composer of the song or any of the Killers come and clean this mess up?!

Anyway, onto other topics. How was every one's Christmas, or whatever holiday you celebrate along with the amazing new year?? Mine was GREAT!! full of random hiking exertions and fun workout sports. Not to mention the Rose Parade!!!
The hike was short, to say the least. But there were quite interesting monuments, including a log that was given rocks to look like a wolf. It was really quite convincing in real life, if you don't see it. We also found some strange rusting materials that agree not meant for a nature hike.. After agreeing that the waterfall was indeed a disappointment, we decided to scale large boulders to the top of the waterfall where Lauren innocently exclaimed that she had seen "a guy" do it easily and it was harmless. I'm glad no one got hurt. It turns out that this guy that she had seen was a really good hiker, that was getting to a harder trail, that Lauren decided not to do after we got up there. I am glad to say (or am I?) that I've been through much worse that that. So after we scaled the rock and got up the top for nothing, we both agreed to not go that way down, to avoid broken bones. So we followed a supposed path, that abruptly ended near this gnarly looking tree, and we decided to go down. I was too steep for Lauren at parts so she sat down and got a black butt. It was interesting, but there were no spectacular views during the hike, but we certainly found a great view of Pasadena, the ocean, and LA. All in all, Lauren bonded, if not with me, than with a particularly smooth rock.

All in all, it was a good trip, but was WAY to short (being 1 mile), and as soon as I got home, I was whisked away by my dad, Christopher, Megan, and Allie for some truly sweat worthy basketball, Frisbee, and soccer. We all had fun frolicking about and trying to make penalties on each other by kicking the ball very, very hard. I was on the wrong end at the wrong time when my dad shot, and his kick knocked the wind out of me, and left my stomach very red where the ball had smashed jarringly into my stomach.

Today, with a large Palmer family in tow, we paraded into my dad's office for some hard core parading in the fashion of the Rose Parade. With my nifty camera I was able to capture most of the action, apart from Penn State (MALFUNCTION!! sorry!!), and here are some good highlights

And I am going to be mean to USC fans, and nice to Penn state fans by not publishing my USC pics and videos because I didn't get any for Penn State. But I must say, both schools put on quite a show. So instead I will show you one of my favorite floats that sang Who Let the Dogs out!?
This has been quite an interesting week and if you want a different accounting of the events that I have recorded today, then go to my sister's blog, because she has a different point of veiw, at least for the hike.

now on to the random but hilarous portion of the journey before we part until eather I write, or you read my blog. My beloved mother that deals with her children and ends up teasing them daily, or sings shoulda put a ring on it! in a strange fashion while sticking out her hand as if to show us her ring. As she sings these lines wrong, we cannot help but rolling our eyes while diverting them, and Lauren usually lets out a very girlish giggle while we try to explain to her that those are not the lines, you have never heard the song before so just stop singing that line, and you don't know what it means. Lauren will then occasionally spill out a remark like "the song's album name is 'for single women'". In those silences in between my mom singing off key and us trying to think of something that my mom won't find a reason to sing that line again (because she usually sings that fifty times a day), it is immpossible not to hear a very load hiccupe. The same goes for any silence, while puncuating a point, or akward silences. The reason, according to my mom, is that she gave birth to 'two toads'. Referencing to that fact that two of my sisters, Allie and Samantha have uncontrollable hiccupes that they have absolutely no control over and at random times in around twenty minute intervales hiccupe very loudly for all to hear. I usually am able to skip all these things that I have just discribed by spacing out and going my parallel dimensions in gratitude as I relive my fanatasies by using by trusty ipod, a good book, or just zone. I havn't been able to do it quite well as I was able to do when I had my concussion. I zone out and die for long stretches of time without realizing it, not that I wouldn't remember anyway. The only bad thing was that I couldn't control it at all.

Now I must leave you to ponder te things that I have shown or in other words reveilved unto you.

-Caroline

ho ho ha!!

Sorry I haven't written in FOREVER!!! Just nothing interesting has been happening that's really "blog note worthy" as Lauren (not my sister, and not the Californian, but the Bostonian) would put it as. And then after that the rush of Christmas fever was born, and I just haven't had time. The only BIG big peace of news is that Allie is coming home on Friday! Its very exciting and I look forward to seeing her and someone else (its a secret, cause there is a certain family to surprise.. :D). My mom is making a fuss about it almost as much as she did when Christopher came home from his mission. It is quite an experience.
I hope everyone is rounding up the family and getting up the Christmas tree (or Hanuka candles, or both {as in Jessamyn's case}). If you could never believe it could actually snow in California, where people actually live, you have been proven wrong. There is weather proof and picture proof if you don't believe me. I have a very new, interesting and defiantly not traditional look on things for Christmas. For you see, I intend to fully call out my "sophisticated" over-active imagination and also to get back at my siblings in riddles and to try to open their eyes with stories. It will be quite a fun experience.
Have you all seen Twilight? I hope you have because if you haven't, you need to get with the program! Especially if you haven't even read the book! It is an excellent book AND movie FYI!

-Caroline

PS
I am getting that Camel picture up with the help of Allie next time I write a post (which I promise to be soon)

life goes on

For starters, I feel I must adress the ingurys that has occured since my last post. I will start with what I feel is the most important: I got a concussion about 2 weeks ago. That is the reason why I havn't posted another post recently. That is the only injury in my immediate family that I am aware of (which means I don't know about Christopher, Megan, or Allie).
The extent of this injusry was temperarly short term memory loss (not an experience that I'm willing to go through again), and spacing out at any random moment. The cause was that I was playing 1 on 1 soccer drill at soccer practice and somhow fell or collided or something. The details are hazy.
It has finally rained down upon the dert called California, and is starting to mildly cool off from the blazing spring, SUMMER, and fall. Life continues fairly normally with all its twists and turns with unexpected outcomes. One up I am willing to boast about is that my soccer team (the Pepto Bizmo's {not to be confused with the pills}) are tied in first place along with the very physical Sprits.
This is the extent of my post!
-Caroline

Updates

So, a few new things have happened since my late post. First and foremost, My dad FINALLY got a new hardrive for the computer, and until after I signed in, did I realize that everything was lost and that I would have redo a ton of stuff. Oh well. The good news is that Allie is still alive and living in a very tan body. She was in Egypt but now is back in Jerusalem. At the end of this blog is a picture of her mastering a stinking camel in a head rap and the whole enchilada. The California fires continue to get closer to my house, just yesterday it was 5 miles away. Oh ya, and the totally amazing Red Sox LOST!! shocking. Oh well, life goes on I suppose, and there's always soccer. That is the extent of this post. So I shall see-or-write-2-u later!!

-Caroline

In honor of......

This is for Coldplay and for the Red Sox. You might ask, why? Well I'll tell you. It is for Coldplay simply because they ROCK and I love them. And for the Boston Red Sox because they are simply the BEST baseball team IN ALL DIVISIONS, SERIES, ETC.
The Red Sox just almost-but-not-quite swept the series, but still won the series 3-1!! Yay!! Thursday I also go to Universal Studios with me cousins *Valerie* and Whitney. (If you don't what Universal Studios is, look it up 'cause i don't know what to tell you). So Allie's adventures continue as she moves onto Egypt in her life or death experiences. Hadley is still alive for all those Boston friends out there. And for the soccer friends out there, I still like lettuce, I'm not a meat eater! (only they would get it, so don't bother me about it). And as for everyone else.....well you guys see me often enough, so you don't need "special" information. I don't think I've missed anything this time. So bi for now!!
Caroline

Vacations

OH MY GOSH!! I totally forgot about the whole what happened this summer sort of thing!!!! ..sorry. OK, so in August I went to girls camp and unfortunately KILLED my arm :( then I went to Idaho for my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and stayed at an awesome ranch. (no, not the dressing!) Then, I went directly to Boston, which was by far my highlight of my AMAZING summer. It was truly amazing. The trip back to Boston is so amazing that it takes up a blog of its own!! And so, if i get requests to write about it, I will, but most of the people who read my blogs live in Boston so they were there, but i don't know. When I unluckily did come home, I unpacked, packed, went to a sleepover party and left around 5a.m. for San Diego. When I came back it was time for school again! Maybe you don't think so, but I think that summer passed by way too quickly! Well, that's all for now!!
(literally)
Caroline

Split

Well, the time is LONG past due in which i should write a new "passage". Typing on my sister Lauren's laptop is a quite enjoyable experience. Now, this is not a random comment because Lauren was the person to encourage me to write another blog. Even if she hasn't realized it. Well, i guess Allie (also my sister) also nudged me toward this path with her quiet unhappiness that everyone was included but her. So, Allie, this is mostly for you. So I will start by saying that Allie is currently in war zone. That's right, war zone. She is in Jerusalem and is/are going to be frolicking around the Middle East while Iran wants to wipe Jerusalem off the face on the Earth, Israel and Pakistan aren't necessarily bff's, the crisis with oil, the fact that most Iraqi es and terrorists would love nothing more than to torture and kill helpless Americans (sorry not saying your helpless Allie). And don't let me get started with Afghanistan!! This is all happening under "peaceful" circumstances. So, I said this literally and just 'cause I always say it, "don't die Allie." Now, as long as no one mentions this to my mother, I think we can survive. For my mother likes to talk about Allie to anyone... but as soon as they mention the crisis' happening like the ants sprouting in our house, she goes insane. In the debate that we saw you could just feel her withering in pain as she tried to contain herself as they were talking about the Middle East (as they were most of the time.) LOVE YOU ALLIE!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Now, back to America. Another year, another school year and I still don't find myself 'falling in love' with California as my mom put it in my yelling stage when I had first figured out that I was moving to California. It finally rained today and on the way to school my mom and I were bouncing and glowing we were so happy!!! I immediately texted my Boston friends and got some funny and unusual answers.
On to the sports...So, Red Sox are playing the Angels in their first round in the playoffs.. shaky. The Patriots are doing surprisingly well considering the fact that the worlds best quarterback is injured! At least BYU is doing AMAZING! In both football and women's soccer!
guy that goes to the On to the dating life: Samantha is currently available, after breaking up with Evan in what seems to be a month ago, but probably much sooner than that. In my knowledge no one else in our family is dating anyone. Who really knows though, Allie could be dating either some hot guy from wherever she is right now in her journeys. Or she could be dating a totally awesome Jerusalem center with her. Orr Lauren could be dating someone and just not been telling us about is (ooo! so secretive). Believe what you like, I'm just putting out the possibilities.
Now for the random!! Ok, so this is the first time in about 6 years that no one has been at BYU!! How weird is that? Especially since there was 4 last year (including Megan). Manny is a dumb dummy! And the Dodger's can't decide whether or not to keep him!! Ha ha he will regret the day he dissed Boston!!

Well, its been incredibly long, (as usual)
but I hope this will come to everyone's satisfaction
for now, only and truly

Caroline

drama.

Oh the drama of teenage life! Welcome Welcome everyone to my blog!! I am very excited to go back out to Boston as everyone who lives in the east already knows. A short recap on family dramas for all you who have missed out on it: My dog Hadley got attacks by a coyote (and survived), she also had a couple of surgeries that have followed this incident, and she got MASSIVE bladder stones taken out. My mother proclaimed that she had never seen such massive bladder stones come out of such a small dog in her whole life. Then, of course she told everyone that she knew about the whole enchilada...in full detail. My brother Christopher and my sister Lauren have both graduated from Brigham Young University and are taking very different paths: Christopher is married and has completed a double major in economics and math at the top of the school, therefor receiving a scholarship. He is going to MIT (Massachuttes Institue of Technology) with a PHD in economics (following precisly in his fathers footsteps). While my sister Lauren on the other hand isnt married, and her major was French, and her minor was African studies. She is staying home and has a part time (soon to be full time) job teaching autistic children {which she enjoys ver much}. Samantha was caught dating at 15-and-a-half (oooo!!)..but no real punishment and Evan and Samantha are getting a little bit serious. (Considering the fact that he stood in front of our Claflin St. house back in Belmont.) And the last drama was that my mother got parathiroid surgery (we have 4 of them and they're in your neck...you only need half of one though). But she and Hadley have both made a great recovery. Oh ya!! almost forgot, so my parents and Samantha were in Italy for her sophmore trip when Hadley got attacked, and a couple days after she got attacked my dad got seriously dehydrated. So it was a sad 2 days on both sides of the world. Thats the major dramas that have happened in California!!!!!