monumental.landmark

WOOT!!! I want to thank everyone for my first big landmark, over 1000 hits to this site!! Thanks for being loyal followers and hearing all the strange things I have to say!

(Plus, now I'm beating Josh on our blog hits competition! :D)

baptism

Just in case some of you didn't get my email, I'm getting baptized on the 31st! I'd for everyone to rejoice with me by attending!

picture.post:zoo.trip.09

Ok, here it is, the moment you've all been waiting for. I had to take a break from posting during the past few weeks because I was so busy, but here's the long-awaited zoo trip blog post. It's long, but it's mostly pictures! (Captions are below the pictures)

So, a few weeks ago, Cody, Caleb, John and I went to the zoo for fun. We went around and looked at animals, and did the entire trip without an adult.


Haha, even though this was the last picture, I didn't really want to finish with it, and it sets the mood for the whole trip: HILARIOUS!!! This lady was sleeping in the Metro and I thought she was pretty funny...


Here's a bunch of the animals we saw. This one was something like a dog-bear. Very shaggy looking...(kind of like Josh's hair....jk)











This was an enormous rat!!! (but really cute looking, kind of like a guinea pig)











This tortoise was really funny. The sign said that it just keeps its mouth open like this until a fish (must be a really stupid one) comes through and he just closes his mouth and eats it! It was just posing like this the entire time we were there!


This part was hilarious. I saw the animal in the cage, and I was like "Oh, we just learned about these in science. They're extremely rare, and barely ever seen." Then Caleb was like "look at the sign Sean". I realized that the book was talking about a certain kind of blue one.





A picture of all four of us, with John being his usual happy, smiling self! :D


Every time we got to one of these signs, we started singing "One Way Jesus" with the dance moves. So fun (and I had fun with the editing too)





Ok, so on our way home, we tried to get to a different Metro station than the one we came in on. If we had done it right, it would have been downhill the entire way. However, nobody had a map on us, so we decided to just risk it and see where we came up. It was about an extra hour or so walking, but it was worth it!! We came across some beautiful but slightly strange neighborhoods on the way. Here's some pictures of some of the strange things that we saw. (Occasional PC goes to Cody)








This house was just plain weird. They must be some new-age sort of decorators because their decorating made ZERO sense. Although, some of the stuff was really fun, and very cool!











Ok, still trying to figure this one out. I think it's a shrine of sorts...whatever, it was very strange, and right by the sidewalk!!!


This random little building, or whatever it was, was just randomly painted like this! How fun!? Right in the middle of a city/suburb (really strange mix I know)


After a very long time, asking many people who all had us go a different way, and missing many stations, we finally saw a Metro bus, and we figured that if we followed it, we could find a station. Sure enough, we did end up finding it. We had to celebrate by getting a picture in front of the station.


If you look at the map, you can see that we were supposed to get out of the zoo and go right to the Zoo station. It was just a few blocks away. Instead, we got to the Columbia Heights station on the yellow-line.

Well, even though we got lost, it was totally worth it!! I am so glad we did, because we got to see the coolest places that we never would have found by ourselves!

100.things.i.want.to.do.in.my.lifetime

Alright, I've seen this on a few people's blogs, and I thought it looked like fun, so I'm doing one...it's supposed to be 100 things I want to do in my lifetime, but I only have a little above 50, so I'll be adding as I think of more things. My objective is to make a post anytime I complete one of these.

1. Take Calculus
2. Get my Driver's License
3. Buy a car
4. Visit another continent
5. Go on a cross-country trip
6. Go to Disney World
7. Do an internship
8. Pay more than $100 on a present for someone other than myself
9. Get so moved by what Christ did for me on the cross, that I cry
10. Meet, and talk with a Deaf person in Sign Language
11. Get a white suit
12. Make a purchase at JoS. A. Bank
13. Go thrift shopping with a group of friends, and buy something totally awesome
14. See Wicked on Broadway
15. Try out for American Idol
16. Finish writing an entire song
17. Go on a vacation with a friend
18. Purchase a decent camera
19. Use our universal gym consistently for at least a year
20. Convert someone to Christ
21. Invite and take someone to church
22. Get private voice lessons
23. Go to an island for a vacation
24. Speak in tongues
25. Witness someone prophecy about something, and then see that something come true
26. Paint a large painting just for fun
27. Post a video on YouTube
28. Finish making my rug that I started when I was about 8
29. Read through every book of the Bible
Check! 30. Wear something pink in public
31. Be in a wedding party
32. Have a professional picture shoot
33. Sing on stage on Sunday
34. Listen through every song on my ipod...all 8000!
35. Find an alarm clock that is able to wake me up each morning and keep me up
36. Collect an entire jug full of loose change
37. Ride a dolphin
38. Go scuba diving
39. Go on a cruise
40. Get an ear pierced
41. Meet a celebrity that I've heard of
42. Win a contest from an organization
43. Write a book
44. See a pre-screening of a movie
45. Audition for a movie cast
46. Grow taller than Caleb
Check! 47. Get a flickr page Click here for post.
48. Finish my state quarter collection
49. Graduate high-school
50. Graduate college with a degree
51. Grow some sort of facial hair...preferably a circle beard
52. Learn to play the accordion
53. Learn to play the guitar
54. Be completely fluent in a language other than English
55. Get baptized

fears

Not including hell or sin, what are your worst fears?

My top one would most definitely be insects of all kinds, and drowning.

learner's.permit

So, I had to do a quick post on a very exciting new development:

MY LEARNER'S PERMIT!!!!!!!!! I'm now a licensed driver!!!!!

sick...so.very.sick

Hey, this is just a quick prayer request...

Today, I was sick with a 103 fever all day...meaning that in addition to being sickly, I had to miss two classes, and a "field trip" of sorts that I've been wanting to go on for many years...If I stay sick tomorrow, I'll have to miss another class, and a party that I've been looking forward to for a while now...so if you guys could just be praying that I would get better soon and to trust the Lord through this, I'd really appreciate it!

Update: I'm on the mend now, and just have a slight residual cough! Thank you so much for praying. It was only a couple of days, and it gave an opportunity for my whole family to catch up with each other, even if by uncomfortable means! Thanks again!

making.dinner.with.the.linn's

Ok, so Cody and I went to the Linn's to play Wii (an on-going battle between Jo-jo and Cody with Wii boxing), and for me and Jo-jo to make dinner. This post is about how NOT to make a meal, and have it turn out anyways!!

• Have both people come from play practice or trash pick up (preferably both) so that they are very tired
• Have a recipe (like Broccoli and Cheddar Soup), that doesn't even call for all the ingredients (like broccoli), so you have to make up amounts
• Have one person who is already on the brink of histarics and waiting for an opportunity to break out laughing uncontrolably
• Make plenty of mistakes, some of which could include:

Forget to saute your onions and add the flour, so that the bottom can easily burn

Putting in not enough broccoli

Putting in frozen cheese so that it won't melt all the way, leaving chewy, strange lumps in the soup

Because you have already followed the step about histarics, have that person crack up laughing over nothing while pouring the chicken broth into the pan so that it almost spills on the other person

• Then serve, and have everyone enjoy the strange, but delicious, meal!!!!