~We're All Mad Here~

Woot, I'm posting again in just over a month.! Hehe.

What might I be posting about.?  A spring dance is what.!

I am super excited for Saturday.!  We (my parents and I - along with my siblings too) have taken on the spring dance for some of our homeschoolers. (:  We're having so much fun with the theme: 'The Mad Hatter's Tea Party'.

We pieced together what we want the photo prop backdrop table thingy to look like. :)

Most of the decorations and props for the dance are in the process of being made and put together. 

We've created mushrooms out of cones and an upside down plastic flower pot. 

We then spray painted them and topped them off with some ornamental moss stuff and cute little birds and butterflies. ;P

They came out pretty spiffily if I say so myself.

We got everything we needed for the decorations from Flower Factory.  That place is pretty fantastic.  If you can't find it there, I've come to the conclusion you won't be able to find it anywhere else. 

We put my dad in charge of the decorative floral arrangements, and he does a terrifyingly good job at putting colors, flowers, marbles, and ribbons together. :P

I'm really looking forward to Saturday, and I hope it is a fantastic time.!

We have an amazing DJ booked, a great facility, wonderful 'chaperones' and 77 teens on the guest list.

I'm sure there will be a post after the dance.

Until then, be kind to your neighbor and love each other. <3 p="">

~The Story of PJ~

As of January 20th, my family acquired a new four-legged friend.  This four legged friend is an adorable 2 year old pug. (:

 

Meet Miss PJ.

 

'PJ' stands for Princess Jean.  This adorable little girl came into the family kind of spontaneously.

 

You see, my family already had a lovable gentle giant named Chloe Bear.

 

This is Chloe.  

I must say that we have some pretty adorable dogs.  I know, I know, everyone thinks they have the cutest dogs ever, but it's true.  We do.  I do.  My dogs are precious. ^_^

 

Anywho, back to PJ. (:

 

My family had always talked about getting another doggie.  Of course, all three of us kids wanted to get a puppy.  I mean, c'mon, puppies are soooo - well, they're puppies. ;)  But, my mom didn't want to have to potty train a puppy.  Okay, understandable I suppose. :P 

Because a puppy was kind of pretty much out of the picture, we had talked about adopting a pound puppy.  We had even gone to the shelter a few times to look at doggies.  Nothing ever worked out tho. /:

 

Well, one day we went to pick my sister - Kenzie-  up from her Girl Scout meeting.  Kenzie's Girl Scout leader has three pugs of her own, all from the same breeder.  Kenzie's leader - Mrs. M - and her family had just added their third pug to their pack, and the breeder was trying to talk them into taking a fourth one because they couldn't care for her like they had been able to.  Mrs. M was in love with PJ, and she really wanted to take her in as well, but with the new puppy she and her family decided it best not to.  But hey, guess who got to get the little cutie instead?  This girl :D (and my family, too, of course.)

 

Look at that face! Is she not the cutest?!

 

With PJ around it's so much more lively.  Not that my life is dull as it is, but the house is always high energy with her around.  Chloe, of course, being a lazy bear loves to just lie around and sleep.  Not PJ, she constantly wants to play, and there's pretty much never a dull moment.  She finds everything to eat, from socks to bags.  She's precious.

 

 

Her absolute favorite thing is her Kong.  I'm pretty sure her favorite words are: "PJ, do you want your Kong?"  Next thing you know she's bouncing off the walls (literally) in the anxiety of getting her peanut butter and small treats out of that pink rubbery thing.

 

 

Popcorn is another thing she enjoys.

 

As far as people food, we don't give our dogs it.  They don't get the scraps after dinner, they don't get a ton of junk food as we sit and snack on chips, they get what dogs should get - with a couple exceptions of course. ;)  Peanut butter, cheez-its, pretzels and popcorn.  That's it.  And they enjoy it while they can. (:

 

Hair ^^^ she also likes to eat my hair.  But that's beside the point.

 

 

She is so precious and I'm so glad she became apart of this family. <3 class="separator" p="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From her adorable alien/pig noises, to her annoying tantrums, I hope she's with us for years and years to come.

 

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~Whadup Sharkbait~

SO. It has been precisely 1 year, 2 months and 1 day since my last post.  But here I am now, sitting and typing, sharing what I did today.

 

Here is the opening image.::.

 

That, my darlings, is a shark.  A shriveled up, velvet slash sandpaper to-the-touch, formaldehyde and fishy smelling shark. 

What did I do with this descriptive shark, you might ask.? Or maybe not, it might be obvious. Either way, I'm going to tell you that I dissected it.

 

NOW.  When I started my marine biology course at the beginning of this - my senior year of highschool, I was overly excited about the dissection kit.  But then the kit arrived in the mail.  I've had it for a little while now, but have been coming up with excuse after excuse to not open the specimens and experience what they - mainly - would smell like.  But hey, it has to be done sooner than later.. after all, I'd like to graduate.

 

Here is how the morning dissection progressed.. (and I had the assistance of my lovely mother, and loving brother as well as my sissy who took the photos.)

 

As you can see, the morning started off well.  Great wake up call, I might add. "Hey, while everyone else gets a snow day, let's cut up a shark."  {Life of a homeschooler}

 

Daw, its little teeth.

And here is when I got sad/disgusted.

 

 

The joys of exposing the insides of any had-been-living-creature.

(But hey on the bright side, the yellow compliments my nails quite nicely.....)

^^^I made my mom touch the stomach and other lovely organs.

Mhmm.  That looks about right.

(that's my personal favorite picture from the 'session', by the way)

Chicken?...

And then we got to end the dissection with looking at the brains.

 

I hope you all quite enjoyed my random post of my shark excursion this morning. 

 

I just didn't want to clog up your Facebook feeds with this.

 

Hope you all enjoy the rest of your evening/day/whatever you have left after reading this. (:

 

Maybe I'll blog some more.........I know, I know, I say that every time.

 

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