Rats I just can’t get this to work it is driving me crazy!!! I don’t want to wait till I get home I want to blog now while I still have time!!!!! Oh well….. any way today is Saturday the 17th which is the big naitonal day parade in Norway!! That will be exciting!! Its in the afternoon though so I won’t get to see it for a cople hours. Yesterday Aunt Liz, Rebecca, and my Grandma went to this BEAUTIFUL island, filled with flowers, trees, ponds, and so much more! I loved it! And my Grandma (who loves flowers and know nearly all their names) was planning her future garden!! Two days ago the boys went on a LONG hike, I didn’t go (good thing too, can’t you just imagine Rebecca helping me to the top!!) LOL I probably would like faint or somthing before I even got half way there!!! I don’t like hikes if thats what your wondering!! lol We went on one last week and SOMEONE (I will not menton names at this time) told me it was the eaisest hike in all of Norway, sure it is!!! Yeah right!! ha ha ha very funny joke! I did get some great pics though!! Sigh I don’t know how I will beable to go back to school, chores, playing chips to get on to the computer. Oh well I will manage some how!

Right now this is what every one is doing : Rebecca is down stairs making apple dumplings, Timothy is on his computer, Joshua and Samuel are playing a card game, the grown ups are talking and I’m writing this blog! Those are our lives! Oh and I read another book today! It was the Goose Girl by Shanon Hale I really liked that book it was so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is that enough exclamation points for you? lol I don’t really have anything more to write about because I can’t load pictures, and its much easier to discribe the places I went if you can see them too, so I’ll wait until I can load some pictures before I tell you all my real adventures!!! Mwhahahahahaha lol
I miss all you people, keep writing me e-mails!! Lots of love,

Rachel

On Monday I started Dance!!! My AWESOME friends Hannah and Bethany LOVE dance (as you can tell from Beths blog!!=]) LOL!!! any way I asked my mom if I could go on Monday nights, and she said yes!!!!!! It was a lot of fun I can’t wait to go next week!! First I “shadowed” someone, than Bethany tought me a few steps, it was SO exciting!! I really like dance it is very lovely! (Even though I feel very “kluzy” in ballet!) This has to be really short sorry=[ any way thanks Bethany for teaching me how to dance a little! I hope I can sign up in the summer!!!=] As you know I am in Norway still so I can’t put any pictures!!!!!!!=[ RATS!! But as soon as I get home I will load LOTS of pictures on don’t worry!!!!!

Love ya

Rachel

I’m in Norway!!! I know its amazing!!!! I love it here, its beautiful here and its pretty warm too!=] I have taken so many pictures that I had to trasport the pics to Rebeccas laptop. I can’t load any pictures yet, but I will soon (when I can find a grown up who knows how!) Josh and I also went to Germany, I LOVED it!!! The houses are so sweet! (Sweet is spell Sout in Norway!=]) And the people of Norway say: “Hi Hi” to each other! Norweigns are kind of up tight, but today I said “Hi Hi” to someone and he said it back!!!! lol I have been in Norway for a week now!! My mom called on Skype last night so I got to talk to her! I don’t even have to do school for 2 weeks!!! YAHOO!!!!! In Germany we went to the Hidleberg castle, it was so amazing! I just finished a cool book called “Princess Academy” By Shannon Hale it is very good!=] And I am really pickey about books! lol I will be going on a ferry soon, so I can see the town, of…………… um………… some town in Norway, I don’t remember. I am tired because of jet lag, it is a 9 hour diffrence from Norway and Washington! I still have my e-mail (or I would die!) but I am a little lonely here=[ any way,
got to go! Peoples if you ever want to have a very awesome time, come to Germany!!!=]=]

I am SO sorry I haven’t written in a LONG time. I have been so busy, and time has just gotten away from me for the past weeks. I don’t even have any pictures for you tonight.
I will try to blog more like Brigette says in her E-mail!! Thanks a lot Brigette! lol jk!!!
Any way, lets see did I do anything cool in the last few weeks??? Well…… I talked to my friends on the phone a lot!!! I also went to the YMCA, and ran THREE miles!!!!!!!!!!!! ( not in a row ) lol I am tired!!! I had a hard time in math.=[ If you have trouble with long division, tell me!! Because I am AWEFUL at it! I am sore from all that running I did today, thats why I am sitting here insted of running around with the rest of my siblings. Tomorrow I have, I mean “get” to baby sit at Cubbies, and than I “get” to do school!!! lol I need to go to the library, I am so out of books to read, even though my brother Josh is trying to get me to read Beyond The Summer Land or something, but I know for a fact that something aweful happens in that book (I won’t say what just in case you are reading it) thats why I am trying to get out of reading it. My brothers are playing with our neighbor outside on the swings. I just drank a cup of Earl Gray tea, YUMMY!! lol I am trying to think of something to write about, not that my life isn’t interesting but I just don’t have time to explain how I felt when I slipped on my jeans (that where suspiciously laid on the top of the stairs) and fell down the stairs. I just don’t have time to tell you the details of my life. (and you probably wouldn’t want to hear it anyway)

See ya,

Rachel

Yep I finally did it!!!!!!!!! I have been wanting to get my ears pierced for……… a while.
I was scared at first but than I just closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
There was a 5 year old and an elderly lady watching me plus my mom and grandma!!! I DID NOT want to cry or anything

so ,I gritted my teeth. As you can see in this picture

My knees where definitely shaking after I got my ears pierced, it felt weird to stand up.

There, I am happy now!!!!

Thats all for tonight folks!!
Rachel

I was thinking…. we pass life by like its a right or something we deserve. But the fact is we don’t DESERVE anything!!! Sorry to break it too you people who thought the world revolved
around you. (aka me lol) God gave us life as a gift!! Why don’t we take it?? The best gift we could ever get, for free!! Today I was reading a TrailBlazers
book it was about John Newton and a slave boy, whos mother was transfered to England after being captured by slave traders. The boy finds John Newton (the slave ships captin his mother was on) and wants to kill him!! But when Newton tells the young boy about his life, and about Jesus the boy relents and leaves.
It just made me think, Newton was faced with death countless times, and yet God saved him even though Newton cursed Him. God has a plan for eveyone!! Yes, you too!! If you have read about John Newton you know what I’m talking about!
I am NOT a writer but I like to ask questions and think a lot. Sometimes I just feel like I am wasting my life away, arguing with my brother, or rolling my eyes at my mom. Don’t you?

Jesus loves you and I do too!!
any way I have to go. I am so tired, as you can probably tell from my previous blog.:)
see you later,
Rachel

I am REALLY tired, I am sleeping as I write this. I was just babysitting for my church’s small group, that is a tiring job!! Right now insted of laying in bed peacefully I am writing on this silly blog that probably nobody reads!! Sorry, as I said a million times I am just tired.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Oh sorry, lets see if I have any nice pictures to show you, hold on…….
Okay here is one of my mom,

this is Sarah, isn’t she cute?

I like this one of Sarah and Mom,

This is the last time I saw my Guinea pig, sniff sniff

Really all you can see is his cage because he is hiding in his house.
I bet I spelled so many things wrong, but forgive me because I am really really (see title)

Ta Ta for now
Rachel

Today I wanted to write about Christmas and new years, and just all the fun my family and I had over vacation.

Yesterday I loaded all of my pictures on to the computer, and guess how many I had?? 223!!!! over a few weeks I took that many pictures. WOW!! I guess I am going to be like my mom after all.

Any way here are some pictures from the Duckabush. We went sledding, and had a great time.

Yep, tonight’s blog is about all you people, my friends!!

I just wanted to say I love you guys!!

Sometimes I get really lonely and all I have to do is talk to one of you and I am back on track.

I hope you all know that I will never forget you.
One of the things I am most thankful for is my friends.
One thing my mom and I both thrive on is
girl time.

Some of us just LOVE to be adored!!

But the other half would rather hide.

Bethany is very serious on this subject.

Brigette is fliping her hair.

what I am trying to say is just: “Girls keep it up”!!

Yay!! my camera is working so I will have lots of wonderful pictures!

Well to begin, this is what we ate for dinner on the 15th, as you can see it looks (and was) delicious.

It is pretty late and I am REALLY tired. I worked in Cubbies at our church, had three friends over, went to P.E, and did my school and chores. Well, most of them (don’t tell my mom).

Good bye for now!

Rachel