Nikki's Challenge-Week Nine

This past week I've been reading quite a bit. I've finished almost one book a day. I've also been working on helping Mom sort through stuff from the convention and take care of it all. And on Wednesday we went to a Braves game. Friday we went to a mall downtown. Saturday was a busy day. Jay and I went to the parade in the morning. We all went to the church picnic in the afternoon. In the late afternoon we went to another party. In the evening, some of our friends came over and all thirteen of us piled on to our golf cart to ride up to the golf course to play frisbee and watch the fireworks. Sunday evening we went to another family's house to watch more fireworks. Yesterday I got a haircut. I'd say none of it's longer than five inches. :) I'll try to get some pictures of it on here soon. The back is really curly now, but the front and the top layer are still kinda just wavy. Last week was Jo's birthday, too. Happy Birthday, Jo!

So, that's what I've been up to for now. The pictures below are from a scavenger hunt I was a part of a while ago. Enjoy!

Nikki's Challenge-Week Eight

Weel, I am actually getting around to posting at the end of this week instead of the beginning of next week.

This week a family from our old church came and spent three nights with us. We had a good, albeit short, visit. I don't think anyone got the camera out while they were here, though. Blogger is going slow today so I'm only putting one picture up today. Enjoy.

Nikki's Challenge-Week Seven

This past week I simply enjoyed my summer, mostly by riding around on the golf cart (or rather driving :). I did finally get pictures of our room. Enjoy.

Nikki's Challenge-Week Six

This past week has been kinda busy. We cleaned the garage out, finished redecorating our room (pictures to come eventually), and I mowed our yard for the first time. :)

I don't have any relevant photos to post, so I'll just pick some for y'all. :) Enjoy.

Nikki's Challenge-Week Five

Weel, last week I didn't finish any projects or anything but I did do something that's more important than completing a project. My grandparents on my mom's side and my great-grandma came for most of the week. We played games, ran around town, and just visited. The week went by very fast. I'm still not quite sure where all the time went.

For those of you who like pictures, we only got a couple while our family was here and they're not on the computer. So I'll put a few other pictures on here.

Memories

Today the four generations of girls went shopping. Our first stop was the thrift store up the road. After browsing the clothes racks and finding two pairs of plaid shorts, I decided to go look at the games since they were half off. Spotting one, I picked it up. I was happy to find that it was only fifty cents. The game was one I fondly remembered from my early childhood years: Hungry Hungry Hippos. :) It brought back such fun memories of sitting around playing it with friends and family, all trying to get our hippos to eat the most. When we got home from our outing, my brother and sister and mom all got down on the floor with me and played. My mom and sister dropped out after a couple of games, but my brother played a lot of rounds with me. It was so fun; doing something I used to love doing that I haven't done in forever. Did any of you play that game when you were younger?

Btw, if you haven't ever heard Steven Curtis Chapman's song Cinderella, check it out. It's good.

Nikki's Challenge-Week Four

Weel, I didn't really finish any projects this week. I did get a lot of schoolwork done, though. :)

Tomorrow my grandparents and great-grandma are coming to visit. I'm excited!

We still have a variety of animals that visit our back porch plus our indoor zoo.







That's all for now. Enjoy the evening.

More Pics

Pics--enjoy

Nikki's Challenge-Week Three & Various

Weel, this week was busy. I know I normally post on Mondays, but my project wasn't done until last night, and I didn't have time to post about it before bed. :) Anyways, my project for this week was to make five graduation slideshows. It was rather fun, but kinda hectic. We were supposed to get to the church an hour before the program started so that we could make sure everything worked, but we ended up getting there right before it started. 8| The slideshows worked very well thanks to the amazing techies in the sound booth. :)

As for life, it's been pretty busy. My sister is helping me rearrange our room. I like how it's turning out. I started Chemistry last week. Not fun. I'm still playing my violin. I'm really enjoying it. Not much else going on around here.

Quilt Pictures

Okay, I finally got the pictures off the camera. And in the process of doing so, I made a very interesting discovery. No one had downloaded the pictures from the camera since the end of January! That's a long time. Hopefully I'll get some of them up here soon. :)

This one is of all the squares before they were assembled. The top two piles had already been cut out a long time ago.



This is of the not-quite-complete quilt top laying on our floor. The picture was taken with the camera zoomed all the way out and up against the ceiling.



The reason the last picture was of it not quite complete is because I thought of a way to get the corners to go from looking like this:



To looking like this:



I figured that if I was going to spend all this time on a quilt, I could take the extra 45 min - 1 hour to get the corners perfect. :)

Well, I've got to run. We're off to JoAnn's; MissJo is helping me redecorate the room and we have to get fabric for a chair we're recovering. :) Pictures coming sometime after it's complete. :)

Nikki's Challenge-Week Two

Hmmmm...Blogger likes having problems. I had typed out my whole long post, but when I hit 'publish post' it told me it couldn't perform the action, and I couldnt' get back to my post. :(

Anyways, my accomplishment for week two was to cut out fabric squares and piece together the top of a twin sized banket. :)

Well, this week is going into super busy mode. So if I don't post for a while, please understand. I'll try to get some pictures of the blanket top posted, but I'm not promising them any time soon. We'll see.

Flower Photograph Contest

Johanna at An Old Fashioned Girl is hosting a photography contest. Since I love taking pictures and have several of flowers that I really like, I figured I'd enter some. The limit is five, so here they are.

Okay

I just realized it's been a little while since I've posted any pictures, so here's one that might make you laugh. :)

I never was the kid that made faces at the camera. If the picture was supposed to be a silly face picture, I was always the odd one out. I just didn't make faces at the camera. So when I came across this picture, I couldn't help but laughing. I have no idea where this came from. It's so not me. Enjoy it anyways, for it's a once-in-a-lifetime shot.