~Wow~

Sometimes all I want to say is : WOW.
The word 'wow' ususally sums up alot of different things going on.  Like : Wow, you're crazy; Wow, that was awesome; Wow this is really interesting; or Wow, going into your sophomore year of High School so now you really have to decide what kinda career you want to do...WOW.
So yea that's pretty much where I am: saying 'wow' everytime i think about what i want to do with my life.
Decisions decisions, and not easy ones all the time...
Just thought I'd share...
Wow (;
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~Shutterfly~

Hey Guys!
So I just wanted to let you all know that I set up a Shutterfly acount.  You can check it out at http://www.teenagephotography.shutterfly.com/

~Friends for 5+ Years~

Well I've been friends with Sassy & Stone for over 5 years and I don't think we really have any pictures of us together.  So tonight, we weren't sure what to do so we took some pictures.  (Now, some of you might know them as Map & Twirls in previous posts, but they requested their names to be Stone & Sassy.)

Stone, me, & Sassy

Stone, me & Sassy

camera timers catch the best moments at times! (:

Stone, me, & Sassy.

We are in tallest to shortest. (Sorry, Sassy.) :D

You guys are awesome & I'm glad we get to hang out all the time!  I know we have our times, but there is always good in them!

=)

~The Pizza Story~

We made pizzas tonight. . .
Here is the pizza story. . .

mushing it...or whatever it's called.

tossing it...and I didn't drop it!

final product...

me & my grandparents who have been feeding me, clothing me, and housing me... (:

=)

~Thomas Lloyd~

Check out my mommy's blog for pictures of my newest baby cousin!  <3 Thomas Lloyd Schmitt <3 born on June 14th!  He is soooooo cute!  I am sad that we live so far away!  I really want to hold him and spend time with him.  It's weird because we've always been around for any of my cousins being born (since I am the oldest over-all grandchild) and so having another cuz in a completely diff state it's weird not being able to go right over to the hospital and hold him, play with him, or just spend time with him!
Anywho - check out my mother's blog to see some pictures!

~Counsins~

Well, I've gotten to spend some time with my cousins (who live up in Dayton) a couple weeks so far through out the summer.

I enjoy spending time with my little cousins Lil' Man & Princess, as well as my older cousins Socks (he plays soccer) and Base (he plays baseball).

Me & Lil' Man

Me & Princess

We (my grandparents & I) brought Base & Socks back last week to hang out of a week.  So we went to the zoo on one of my days off 'so i could explain things to them & lead them around the zoo'. 

We had a lot of fun!  I have to say - I forgot how tiring it is to walk around the zoo whenever you come to enjoy it!  We walked for 6.5 hours.  I'm not putting all the pics up because I'm running short on time, but here are some pics from when Socks, Base, Gma, Gpa, & I went to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

The Polar Bears (now, this picture wasn't taken when we went - it was taken one evening I worked an overnight - but here it is.)

Base & I

Socks trying to give Base the Lorikeet.

Gma & Base on the boat ride in Austrailia and the Islands.

Base, Socks, & Me with PePe the Penguin statue.

Socks & I on our way home from the CZA.

We had a ton of fun spending the day at the Zoo and I hope maybe we can go again sometime this summer.

~Playing With the Dogs~

This is Map (inside joke). 

This is Map,

Map likes his hat,

When dog got his hat,

He was a very angry cat.

(OK, not really a cat, but it rhymed)

This is Orea attacking Map.

Oreo chasing Child.

Good, Oreo, good dog!

BAD DOG!  No, it really didn't hurt that bad. . .

Remember when I said Map was an angry cat when the dog got his hat?

Picture proof. 

Oreo took Map's hat & ran all around the yard.

Twirls trying to retrieve hat. . .

Not sure where the hat is, but Oreo & Map are wrestling. . .

There's the hat!  Child holding the hat away from Oreo, while Map is on the ground.

Child keeping the hat away from Oreo.

Eventually the hat was returned, however when we returned to my house, a half an hour game of keep-away began.  It consisted of keeping Map's hat & shoe away from him.  He was a very good sport about it & we all ran around.  I have a feeling that 4 against 1 isn't very fair, but no one really seemed to mind.

=)