Kids for America

Blog Buzz #1

Kids for America
This week's Blog Buzz is on the play I performed: Kids for America. The fourth, fifth, and sixth grade got to go back to July 4th, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. Here's how the whole play goes: A regular 2009 class share their reports that are based on the Revolutionary War. I was one of the classmates, or a schoolroom child: Sally. So, the teacher has the students answer questions to a quiz, and I get to take score. It ended up being a tie. So then, we all go to lunch, and the main character, David, is taken back to 1776, and we're all dressed up in old revolutionary clothes. We're all scared and mad at King George, who won't let us become a country. We sing lots of songs, and soon the play is over. My mom took about five pictures, but she took pictures of me in bad positions. So, only one of them turned out really well. I had another picture in my costume in the end, but I looked horrible. I hope I didn't look that bad onstage...

HAPPY SPRING!!!

Pictures of the Weekend

I took every single one of those pictures except for the dinner pictures. We got a new camera from our dear friends the Peays. It was a thank-you gift. We offered to hold their daughter's bridal shower at our house, and we set up everything and bought the food. I can finally post pictures on my blog again!!!

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A New Friend a.k.a. 4-Year-Old

My good friend Madison Morris came over to my house yesterday. She and I love to jump on the trampoline (except Cooper keeps chewing holes in the rubber). We did that yesterday and we saw a four-year-old jumping on her trampoline just across from us. A sidewalk divides that little girl's house and my house from each other. She had to yell at us to talk to us.

"What are your names?" the little girl called.

"I'm Maddie, and this is Abby next to me," Madison replied.

After a few minutes of jumping, the little girl called, "Let's play princesses!" She pointed at Maddie. "You be Cinderella, and you talk to someone and then they become Cinderella!"

Maddie did what she was told. She talked to me. I became Cinderella. Then, I talked to the little girl. When she became Cinderella, she told us to spin around and say, "Cinderella Princess! Cinderella Princess!" We did what we were told, and we were completely embarrassed.

Maddie had to go check the time, and she told me to come with her, so we told the little girl, "We'll be right back, OK?" The little girl had me stay. She shook her head and pointed at me. "Stay here, Abby!" she demanded.

"We'll be right back, OK?" I said. "We promise we'll come back." The girl just shook her head and pointed at the trampoline. "Stay with me!"

I assured the little girl we'd be back, and then we went inside to check the time. We came back out, and the little girl was mad at us. We started jumping again.

A few minutes later, my mom came to the gate and said, "Maddie, your mom wants you home. You're late for your brother's baseball game." We told the little girl we had to go to a dinner especially for princesses. I think the little girl believed us...

The Blog's Buzz

The Buzz of the Blog: Today's the blog's birthday. The first anniversary of the blog, The Wonderful Adventures of Abby. Today is the celebration. I'm surprised my blog's birthday is on Easter Sunday. I'm going to post a 5-question quiz.

Quiz Name: Birthdays

#1. If you were invited to a birthday, and your parents were going to Hawaii and wanted to bring you along, what would you do? Go with your parents? Go to the party?

#2. If you were in charge of the party decorations, but you were so busy and couldn't get to decorating on the night of the party, and almost all the people were there when you arrived, what would you do? Decorate in front of everyone? Be humiliated by your friends? Leave the party sobbing?

#3. Your best friend invites you to a party that EVERYONE is going to, but you have Book Club with your Reading Buddies. What would you do? Skip Book Club and go to the party? Ditch your best friend and go to Book Club?

#4. You're planning on sleeping over at your best friend's house on Friday night, but a bossy student demands you to go to her party, which is on the same night. What would you do? Go to the bossy girl's party that people who call themselves "cool" are going to? Spend the night with your best friend?

#5. The big basketball game is on Saturday night, but your friends have no interest in basketball and are inviting you to a sleepover the same night. What would you do? Stay home and watch the game with your family? Go to the sleepover?

Celebrate the joy of Easter and the first anniversary of The Blog. There will be a new Blog Buzz each week on this blog. Happy Easter, everyone!

A Weekend at SV

And by SV I mean Sun Valley!!! We went right after school on Friday. We went to bed after watching my brothers play their new obsession: Wayne Gretzky (Gret-s-kee) Hockey. We woke up the next day for skiing. We skiied all day. It wasn't as enjoyable as Park City, since there was grass and rocks everywhere, but it was pretty fun.

There was no Internet connection in the condo we were staying in, so we (my mom and I) went over to the lodge so I could do my Internet majiggers while mom watched UNC played against Villanova. We found out there wasn't a TV, so mom played Sudoku and checked scores on her phone every two minutes or so. After that, we met my dad and my brothers at Bald Mountain Pizza and Pasta. I got a plate of spaghetti (as always). Then, we went home and went to bed.

And today we sat in The Ram Restaraunt Lounge and watched General Conference on my laptop. If you would like to see a sneak peek of this two-hour preview, go to www.lds.org. Then, we headed home. Now, I'm on my laptop, blogging. Back to school.

Before I end this post, I would like to apologize to my sister. I failed (yes, I'm a failure) to talk about the lunch we enjoyed at Stella Grill when we were in Salt Lake. I failed to talk about meeting Meredith's coworkers and other employees. And, the worst part, I failed to talk about saying good-bye to the only sister I have: Meredith. And yes, Meredith, I still love you, and I still miss you. You are working hard and making money. I have a sister who's living the life in Salt Lake, although the life I want to live is in Ketchum, right next to Sun Valley. My dream is to open a veterinarian center, and be a writer of fictional animal stories, and to live right next to Sun Valley Ski Resort. It'll take time, but I think I can achieve some of these goals.

Out of System

For the past three months, I've been having a situation with an old friend. After coming back from Christmas Break, this friend said we did something we didn't do, which cause a problem. We've been rivals ever since, but rival isn't the best word.

We were done with the teasing and the name-calling, so my friends and I asked to see the counselor, Mrs. Lileks. We went in at 3:00 today, 15 minutes before school got out. Mrs. Lileks let us in, and we sat at a round table with just enough chairs for each person to sit in. We told her everything that happened from January to April. The names. The spying. The copying. The frustration in all of us. We got it all out of our systems. Mrs. Lileks is going to get this girl's side of the story tomorrow, and then we the friends will come back in to clean things up, and see if this whole disagreement was a misunderstanding. We HAD to get it out of us. This was going too far.

And now it's April, the month of silliness, religion, and rainshowers. April Fools' Day, which was yesterday, was silliness. Easter, which is in a week or so, is religion (for it's celebrating Jesus' birth and resurrection. For those who don't know what resurrection is, go to http://www.google.com/). And for the whole month is rainshowers. I love rain.

I lost yet another tooth yesterday: my 11th tooth. It wasn't all that painful: just a bite on a raw spaghetti and out it went.

Have a happy April!!!