AMANDA

Amanda got her first semester report card today. She got all A's (no surprise) and it said class rank... 1 of 333!!!!! Number 1!!! I'm so proud of her.

amanda...

Amanda was very excited that the season premier of one tree hill was last night!
I don't think I have ever watched it, but she has all the dvds of the past seasons and really likes it.
She had to have boyfriend over to watch with her... and I had to get them pizza.
She is memorizing the periodic table too, so it was good to have her friend help her. She started chemistry, calculus, english and history this semester.

Here's a pic of amanda in her new car! Doesn't she look happy?

pic...

I found the camera (YAY!)
Here's a glimpse of what I found when I downloaded the pics.
Lots and lots of this!

crash

Well... Amanda was in a car crash yesterday during lunch hour.  She rode with a friend to get Braums for lunch and on the way back they were stopped with turn signal on turning into friend's addition to get her basketball stuff and a car load of boys plowed into the back of her car.  They were hit pretty hard.  All the things in the back seat hit the front windshield.  The car that hit them was completely totalled, we don't know yet if the friend's new mustang is totalled or not.  It's being checked today.  Amanda came home from school with a sore neck.  I took her by our chiropractor and he said she has pretty bad whiplash.  She is getting x-rayed today.  She is in school today, she didn't want to miss trig and she gets the robot baby today for the weekend.  Just wanted to let ya'll know ...  
Hope your Thursday is blessed.  I feel so thankful that the injuries were not worse.  

wordless wednesday ~ ouch!

(for Kat!)
Amanda is getting her nose pierced!
You can see the end result here.
She said it didn't hurt too bad, but her expression told a different tale...
I was watching and yes, it hurt me physically to watch this.

Amanda's home!!!

The whole group...
Amanda took this pick, can you guess why?

In front of a pretty fountain in Montreal

I think she said this is the Parliament?

Niagara Falls...

Amanda with her buddy Jacob.

St. Joseph's Oratory

Old Montreal

shopping in Montreal, not sure what she is holding :o)

She brought home fun souvenirs... got me a keychain that says montreal & annie... and a teddy bear. She brought Emelia & Izzy cute t-shirts and a hat for Bailey. Matt a coffee mug. She was very thoughtful to remember everyone. It's good to have her home!

the latest~ baby, hair, nhs & susie!

Well, first of all I want to thank everyone who participated in Time Travel Tuesday. I enjoyed remembering 12 years old and had even more fun reading about your time being 12. Lauren suggested I give some advance notice about where in time we will travel each week so you can think about it. I agree that this is a good idea. I was thinking we won't always travel to a specific age, but maybe certain year or certain event... Just to keep things interesting. If you have any ideas about where in time you would like to travel, leave a comment! I was thinking sweet 16 for next week, so put on your thinking caps and join in to travel back to 16 next week.

Okay, next on the agenda is my friend Julie... she had her baby Sunday evening. His name is Will and he looks adorable. I can't wait to get my hands on him!


And the last thing I wanted to show you guys is the pictures my friend Melody emailed me of her hair (remember, she is one of my friends who came over for highlights and cut a couple of weeks ago?) Anyway, here are the pics of her hair... front & back.

Oh, I forgot there is one more thing... I just got home from watching Amanda be inducted into the National Honor Society. Here's her pic with my mom tonight...

Thank you Susie (Bluebird Blogs) for giving my blog home a makeover, I think it looks fresh and clean and I love it.

My daughter did what???

Well, it's official... Amanda got her driver's license today! Everyone clear the roads in Oklahoma County for a few months (just kidding). It is taking me a while to wrap my brain around the "you have a child old enough to drive idea." I feel so young. I find myself going back and forth between, "She doesn't even know her way to the store" to "I can send her out to the store!" She is incredibly responsible and very mature.
We went this afternoon... my brother is a hearing officer at the dept. of public safety ... so he got an appointment with a friend who does the driving tests today because they canceled all their scheduled tests due to rain. We were told they could not perform a driving test if windshield wipers were necessary. We had to use windshield wipers all the way to the office. It didn't look promising, but we kept moving forward. The clouds lifted for about fifteen minutes, long enough for Amanda to pass her driver's exam. She did two things wrong, she hit the curb when parallel parking, and she used a turn signal at some point ... but she passed so that was great. I told her I didn't know how to parallel park either. I just pulled right beside a car. I was thinking of parallel bars (gymnastics - their side by side right?). Yes, I am a blond, but a smart one :)