Sunday: Church, Scouting, etc.

Today was Sunday, September 28th. Everything is fabulous when it comes to Sunday. First, we went to church. Then, we relaxed and had a wonderful afternoon lunch with each member of the family. I had sit in a small chair in the corner of the table because my older brother, Parker, came to visit my family. He lives and goes to college in Provo, Utah. After lunch, we got back into our nice church clothes and drove to our church. My brothers got their Eagle Scout Award. It was from the Boy Scouts of America. My brothers, Tanner and Madison, got personal letters from the mayor of New York, the mayor of Idaho, American Canidate (I think), and from President George W. Bush. I freaked out when the speaker announced that George W. Bush sent my brothers a letter! After the Court of Honor, we all went into my church's gym for refreshments (the proper way to say "food and drink"). Now I just got home from the meeting and so now I'm blogging my head off! Before I started blogging my head off, Parker started driving back to Utah. :( Well, it was fun while it lasted. So see y'all next time (which is more likely to be tomorrow)!

P.S. I know I look weird in those white clothes, but they were to be worn for my baptism. You see, my brother Madison baptized me when I was eight years old. We had to walk in water and I had to be pushed underwater so all my sins (mistakes) could be washed away. It was joyous moment.

Siblings

Hi again, readers. Today I would just like to talk about my three brothers and my one sister. They're annoying sometimes, but they're mostly made of fun! The oldest brother is Parker, 23, Meredith, 21, Madison, 17, and Tanner, 15. Tonight I went to Tanner and Madison's football game. We were against a high school called Borah. They won, though. :( The score was Timberline High School (my brothers' team), 34, Borah High School, 38. It was a really close game. Borah made a last minute touchdown and we thought we were doomed. And we were. My mom is one of the big supporters. She almost cried when we had a bad play. I got kind of annoyed by that, but I lived. Anyway, brothers and sisters can be annoying, but they can be fun in some way.

The Crazy Schedule of Abby

Everything's been crazy lately! Planning, practicing, working...it's just too hard to manage! Here's my busy schedule:

Mondays: Wake up early, choir, school, homework, walking a dog and that's it for Monday!
Tuesdays: Wake up, school, homework, walk a dog, volleyball and that's it for Tuesday!
Wednsdays: Wake up early, choir, school, homework, walk two dogs, volleyball games (I think) and that's it for Wednsday!
Thursdays: Wake up, school, homework, dance class and that's it for Thursday!
Fridays: Wake up, school, homework, walk a dog, going to my brothers' football game and that's it for Friday!
If you live in Boise, Idaho you probably know my famous brothers. Their names are Tanner Mangum, 15 yrs. old and Madison Mangum, 17 yrs. old. Tanner is in ninth grade and he plays on a varsity high school football team as a Quarterback! Tanner's only in junior high!
My schedule may not be as busy as it seems, but it feels busy for me!

It's Almost Halloween!

Hi again! I just wanted to let everyone know Halloween is close! It may be September, but the smell of October is already here! Everyone knows what October means: Halloween! Everyone loves a good creepy fright once in a while. Today there was a huge storm here in Boise. My friend was scared that the lightning would come close to our houses and set them on fire. I told her not to worry and that the lightning is high up in the mountains. She was still scared. Bravery Abby can never be stopped! I turned on my extreme powers and gave it another try. "If you think the storm's gonna hit our houses, you're thinking wrong, my friend," I told my friend named Kami. She gets a little scared sometimes. She's not used to storms. There was also a fire right up the hill from her house about three weeks ago. Actually four or five. Kami gets frightened easily (no offense, Kami). But if there was a fire right above your house and luckily your house didn't get hit by the fire, I would be scared, too. It takes time to realize you're safe and that the fire happened on accident. It's difficult to explain that to Kami, but pretty soon she'll understand the concept of not having to be scared. I've been scared plenty times in my life, but soon I get used to the fact that fires rarely hit a beautiful neighborhood about five minutes away from the airport. The airport in Boise is nothing near the mountains. Anyway, being scared is normal, but soon you're going to have to get used to it. Scary movies will creep you out, and having your house set on fire is scary too, but where I live, I'm safe and I don't need to be as scared. Halloween is just trying to scare you so you can be scared at least once. It's just like any other holiday, but darker and it involves dead bodies. I learned Halloween is a holiday for the dead; dead people who suffered. Halloween may be a time where you fill your bag full of goodies. It also may be a time where you wear scary costumes and go around door to door saying, "Trick-or-treat!" (By the way, the whole joke is, "Trick-or-treat! Smell my feet! Give me something good to eat! If you don't, I don't care. I'll pull down your underwear." :D) But that's not the real reason. It's for dead people who suffered. (Like I said) And besides, people come first before treats and goodies. Work on thinking about this! Study this! (If you don't like studying, then don't follow what I just said) Get your scaries on! (Follow what I just said there)

School Frenzy

4th grade is pretty fun, but not fun enough. I like lunch, recess and Idaho History, but that's pretty much it. On Fridays, we get to do something called Friday Fun Day. OK, how you can earn it:

We do these things called tickets. You can earn them by staying on task, doing something that deserves a reward and good things like that. You can also lose them if you do bad things. There are some students in my class who get in trouble so much that they don't have any tickets left. If you get 10 tickets, you can go to Friday Fun Day. I have 28 tickets. At Friday Fun Day, you can do lots of fun stuff. Last week was a boring Friday Fun Day. You could either stay inside and draw or read a book without even being able to talk since the kids who didn't get 10 tickets had to stay in and do Study Hall. The other choice was go outside and run relay races. I chose relays and it was fun. The girls were all on one team; they were kind of slow though. I ran almost 15 miles per hour, I'm telling you! After the races, the people who wanted to keep racing got to run from our playground to the fence which is far away from the playground. I got ahead of everybody and won the race successfully. I wish someone had put it on video because I could put it on here if they did! Oh well, though. School is a frenzy for me. I hope it's not for you. Enjoy school!