Hey! It's been awhile. I kinda forgot I had a Xanga. Hmmmm. No funny stories are coming to mind. I went home to Muskegon this weekend. Yesterday I was playing basketball with my brothers and 2 neighbor girls and the local newspaper came and took pictures of us for like half an hour. The photographer was looking for "spring-ish photo opportunities." At first I was so excited about it, cuz I've never really been in the paper. But then I was thinking about it. . . . I don't really want pictures of me attempting to play sports to be distributed throughout my community. The photographer took our names and ages and kind of looked at me funny when I said I was 18 (I was playing ball with a 16, 13, 13, and 10 year old). Oh well. Isn't it ironic that of all things I could get in the paper for, I end up getting photographed playing sports?! HAHAHAHA!

Last night I walked to the beach with Andy (my precious brother) to watch the sunset. It was absolutely gorgeous. I have like 40 pictures. If you want to see them I would be more than happy to show them off.

Today I rode the train back to Trinity. My overall description of the trip would be: dirty. The train I was on was filled to capacity, and it smelled so bad of stinky people. I had to sit next to an anti-social woman who liked to snore. And she was REALLY good at it too. I used to snore too, though, before I got my adanoids removed. So I guess I shouldn't be so critical of her.

Ben should be getting back from Colorado any minute now! YAY! I'm in love for all of you who don't already know.

I'm so sad that I didn't even hang out with Bethany & Emily this weekend. I was supposed to call them yesterday when I got back from lunch with my grandma, but then I decided they probably wanted to pack and be with their family for the last couple hours of their time home. I never called them to tell them that though, because for some reason I thought I had already called them. So B&E, sorry about that. We will hang out all the time this summer.

Okay guys, bubye!

Wow. Trinity really decks its halls for Christmas. I like it.

I guess the day before I went home for Thanksgiving Break my family went around the table and said what they were thankful for (awwwww). My mom pointed to the chair where I would have been sitting if I was home and said, "I am thankful for that empty chair." Of course my brothers thought it was hilarious. My mom claims that it just came out wrong and she meant to say she was thankful for me, but I don't know if I believe her. . . ha.

I went shopping at 5:30 a.m. for the day after Thanksgiving sales with my aunt, uncle, and Andy. My aunt (by the way that is pronounced ant, NOT ont)& uncle always choose a word of the day and whenever they hear it they start laughing in French (I don't know how else to describe it, like that really nasal laughter "hau hau hau.") So anyway, they decided that we were going to do that laugh whenever we saw anyone who was mad. It was so fun. What a great way to make the world a better place.

Hey well I better head over to band. . . . I just thought I better update this before they close my account or something. Do they do that if you stop writing regularly? I definitely wouldn't want to lose my precious site.

Oh my gosh I hate going on my Xanga site now! It looks like the deer is looking at me. I swear he is staring me down. 

Whoa, I can't believe I just said this to my friend "I got an anonymous note and I don't know who it's from!" How blonde can I get? Honestly. Over Fall Break my mom asked me how I was going to get my hair done (cuz she had made an appointment for me) and I was like "I think I just want it to be blonder." My whole family just looked at me for a second and then Andy was like "Sarah, i don't think you can possibly be any blonder."

Ha, I don't know why, but I just feel like spouting off some blonde moments. They really are quite fun, and I don't mind having people laugh at me so I guess I will share. I was in a car with Kara and Mandy and we saw a flock of geese and then there was this lone geese lagging behind the group and I was like "Oh no, that poor goose is losing his family! RUN!!!" Haha, maybe you had to be there.

Oops, I better get going. I don't really know why I just wrote 2 entries in a row. I guess that's double the fun for my lucky readers though!! HA

I am sooo excited to go home! Today I called my parents and my mom told me this story and I almost cried:

I guess my Aunt Brenda was cleaning and she put on the Singing Christmas Tree C.D. (from my highschool choir's Christmas concert) from last year that has me singing "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" on it. My little cousin Erin (she's like 3 or 4) was in the room and when the song came on she was like "Is that Sarah? I miss her sooo much!" And then she started crying. So they listened to the song 8 times, and Erin cried through the whole thing.

Isn't that the sweetest thing you've ever heard?? Like I know my parents miss me, but it means so much to me that even my little cousin misses me. Awwww. I love kids. I can't wait to be a mom. I can't wait to see my mom. And my dad. I had a dream last night that it was Paul's birthday and for some reason I was like "Paul this our last birthday together," and we both started crying. I was so sad when I woke up.

Sorry this entry is rather dull. Just look at my deer picture, that'll spice your life up for shizzle.