The big day!

What can I say? I am truly speechless. Life zooms by so fast you can hardly blink before its gone. Andrew graduated today.....I cannot tell you how proud, happy, and amazed I am that he is done with high school.....with very good grades! Its a good thing he doesn't read this 'cause he might now like me saying all this stuff. I love him so much it's hard to imagine mom and dad love him more, even though I know they do......Well, anyways I know you want to see pictures and not listen to me blab on and on about how great my brother is....so here they are!
Grandma Trudy and Andrew......look at her looking at her first grandson to have a graduation with such pride, love, and joy!
Andrew all ready to go!!
Family picture.....actually it turned out pretty good I think.
Grandma and Grandpa Wilhelm with Andrew.
Hey! It's graduation. You have to act a little crazy! At least that's what Sarah and I thought! lol
Mom and Dad with their first born son.....graduated from high school!


It was a great night! Our whole family went and then grandma and grandpa Wilhelm, Grandma Trudy, and Uncle Andy. Then we came back to the house and had homeade ice cream and brownies! Now both Andrew and Matthew are done with school for the year! Congrats to both of them!

Emily

Business

Today I woke up, ate breakfast, and cleaned for grandma and grandpa to come. While I was making lunch Aunt Denise called and invited Sarah and I to get ice cream to talk about Ellie's birthday party (we are helping with it on Sat.) so I hurried with lunch, stripped the bed, put the sheets in the washer, and went to dogs. Aunt Denise picked us up from dogs and then we went for ice cream. It was good and fun. It will be a chaotic party....anyways, when we got home I took a short nap and then at about 3:30 grandma and grandpa got here!! :) We talked an then met mom at Ihop for dinner. It was good. Sarah and I wanted to go to church so mom dropped us off. It was really good. Also, on the way to church we stopped quick and bought a squirt gun....(whenever grandpa comes we have a squirt gun fight!!) After church we played Phase 10....I lost :( Thats about it!

Emily

Augusta

Today I slept in, had breakfast, and did some Algebra. I signed up for a free birthday sub at Firehouse Sub's and I just today got the coupon in the mail...a little late huh? Oh well, at least I got it. So, we went there for lunch. It was good, as always! While we were at dogs I was thinking....only two more days of dogs and then I never do it again. :( My source of income is over! Its bad....anyways. I went to the grocery store with mom and then went to Lydia and Julia's house and went swimming with them and a couple other friends. It was fun. Then I came home got ready and went to Augusta. I took mom and Sarah out to Ruby Tuesday and then we went to Kohl's. I got a tank top for $5....usually $24!! It was on clearance. Then we went to a couple other places, Sam's, and then home. When I got home I got in a cleaning mood...I get in those time to time. So I went through my clothes. Now I'm pretty worn out. Tomorrow grandma and grandpa come!! So that will be fun....except for the fact that I have to give up my bed. :( Well, I'm pretty tired so I think I'm going to go to sleep. ttyl

Emily

Memorial day

Happy memorial day! Do people say that? I'm not really sure....oh well I just did! haha Today dad and Matthew all had the day off. Matthew said his speech at some place. Dad and grandma went to hear it. I didn't do much today. Lydia and Julia came over and we watched half of Ocean's Twelve and then played Life. It was fun, especially sense I won! :) We had brats and hotdogs for dinner. Matthew had to go to work, but Andrew, mom, dad, Sarah, and I all watched Sweet Home Alabama. It was cute but there was a lot of swearing. :( I like Reese Witherspoon. Not much else is going on here. Only three more days until graduation. About to be two! Well, hope you had a great holidaY!

Emily

Frankies

Well, yesterday we went to Frankie's Fun Park. It was fun. I did go-karts twice, laser tag twice, and then the drop zone. Out youth leaders wife lost her purse which had not only her credit cards but over $500 cash, but thank the Lord someone turned it in. We had a lot of fun. I'm glad I went. After I got home I just kinda hung out and then when mom got home we made a poster for Andrew for graduation....SHH! Don't tell Andrew, its a surprise! Then we watched 7th Heaven together.

Today we went to church, it was good. But I found out that next week I move up to the high school Sunday school.....thats not supposed to happen until August and I would like to wait as long as possible but what can I do? Nothing. So, this was my last week in Middle school Sunday School. We came home had lunch and now I'm here! Well, I think I might go swimming so ttyl

Emily

Church

Today I slept in (big shocker there) and then I ate lunch....too late to eat breakfast :).....went to dogs, and then I went to Bible Study (every Friday we have Bible Study with my grandma) I came home took a shower and went on the computer. Then got ready to go, because there was a service tonight at church that I was going to. It was awesome!! Way better than I expected! We sang and they did like a lot of songs I like then Mr. Randy Brown spoke about God being a consuming fire and it was really good. Anyways, tomorrow I'm going to Frankie's Fun Park, a little amusement park place, with the youth group. I can't wait! Well, I think i'm going to go to bed. ttyl!

Emily

She did it!

Well, the American Idol winner is.....Jordin Sparks!! She did it! Woop woop! lol They both will be big and end up good so I'm happy! Hope you are! lol Well, night!

Emily

American Idol Finale

Well, today was mom's day off so I didn't do any school (shh!) we went shopping, I got some bermuda's half off and then some capri's at Aero for $10 with some of the gift card Sarah one that she is nice enough to give me some of :) we went to the library and then church. Tonight at church was game night.....Sarah won two out of three games. GO SARAH!!! lol Now....on to more important matters....AMERICAN IDOL! I'm actually watching right now. Well, I'll post again either tonight or tomorrow to let you know who wins!! YEAH Kelly Clarkson is perfoming...I like her! lol well ttyl

Emily

Another day...

Today was a normal day only Andrew didn't have to go to school. I'm not sure why but I guess it was an exam he didn't have to take or something....? Anyways, I did school, lunch, dogs, etc. Andrew watched a movie with us so we watched Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's chest. I hadn't seen it before, it was good. Now I can't wait until the third comes out! lol Only a few more days though. I played a game with grandma and went to the grocery store with mom. Then I watched American Idol. Tomorrow is the last one....its between Jordin and Blake. I like them both so I don't really care who wins but I think Jordin will. Tonight they both did good but Randy (one of the judges) made a good point, "Its a singing competition, Blake sings good but Jordin sings better." I agree. Anyways, thats all.

Emily

Picnic

Well, today we went to the church picnic. I wasn't real excited about going, but once I got there it wasn't bad. Matthew signed me up for tennis (after asking me) and I haven't played in a year so I brought my tennis racket, I did better than I thought but I still did bad. So after eating and tennis mom and I went shopping, Sarah went to a friend's house. We went to Ross, T.J. Maxx, Old Navy, Stein Mart, and Kirkland's. I had a gift card to Old Navy from my birthday so I got a couple t-shirts that were on clearance for 3.99 and then I got some bermudas. After we went shopping mom and I lounged by the pool. It was too cold to swim so we just got a good tan :) We had our usual Saturday night homeade pizza for dinner and it was as good as always, went to the gym, and that was it!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Have a great day at church tomorrow!

Emily

Awards Day pics

Well, as I said I would do in my last post here are some pictures of Awards day. Some turned out better than others. This is Andrew getting the 12th grade citizenship award.
Andrew in his cap and gown.
Matthew getting ready to lead in the seniors.

Matthew and Chevona (sp?) leading in the seniors. One will be valedictorian, and one will be second.
Andrew after getting his award.
Matthew wrote a essay on The Voice of Democracy and it won in the district and came in 2nd in the state. He won $750 for it!

I am very proud of both of my brothers. They both accomplish so much and should be rewarded greatly. Anyways, those are the pictures. Hope you enjoyed them.

Emily

Awards Day

Today I woke up a little earlier than usual because the boys had Awards Day at school today. I didn't have to go and I didn't really want to go but Andrew wanted me to so I did! So Andrew won the only 12th grade citizenship award. So that was good. He wore his cap and gown, all the seniors did. Matthew and this other girl led all of the seniors in because they are the Valedictorians or at least one of then will be....I have to say both of my brothers looked VERY handsome! Anyways, that went until 11 and then Andrew got to come home with us. He loved that of course. We had Burger King for lunch, I did some Algebra, and then played Skip-bo with Sarah and Andrew. At church tonight we had the big "speech" in youth. lol The speech about PDA (public displays of affection) and dress code....fun! Actually its really not that bad because the PDA issues don't have anything to do with me 'cause I'm not allowed to have a boyfriend (plus I don't want one at the moment) and the dress code I pretty much all ready live by, so its not that bad. After we got home I watched (of course, need I mention this?) American Idol!! Its down to the top 3 and its Malinda, Jordin, and Blake. OH MY GOODNESS! It just ended, I, as well as the rest of America, was sure that Malinda would stay and she didn't!!! My favorites from the beginning are the top 2!!! WOHOO!!! I can't believe this. lol sry
Well, tomorrow I will do more Algebra and probably swim, otherwise its a pretty boring day. I will post some pictures of Awards Day tomorrow, they didn't turn out very good because of the lighting in the gym (where the ceremony was held) but I'll put them up anyways. Otherwise nothing new here. Hope everything is good there. ttyl

Emily

Not so good....

Today I finished School!!! Except for Algebra and a few History projects. :( The main stuff is done though. : ) I did dogs, lunch, school, etc. but the reason I said "Not so good" is because my allergies have been acting up majorly so I feel like crap. I watched American Idol and tomorrow one of my favorites is going to leave :( Oh well, they both made it far. Well, I'm going to go to bed. ttyl

Emily

Almost there....

Today I did the usual. I did a ton of school, I finished Science and did like five Language projects. All I have left is History Quiz, Test, and a few projects. Then I do Algebra over the summer :(. Today was a nice day. It wasn't hot it was like 75ish. It was too cold to swim, so thats why I did so much school. I also helped mom, dad, and Sarah wash the black van. I watched two Monk episodes with Sarah, went on the computer, and now I'm going to go to bed. ttyl!

Emily

Happy Mothers Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers reading this. I hope you had a great a relaxing day. I sure hope my mom did 'cause she deserves the best because she is the best!! :) I love her so much! Anyways, this morning after church we gave her (mom) her presents and then we ate lunch. We had grilled chicken with ham and swiss cheese on it and then put it in a bun. It was really good! Then we just kind of lounged by the pool, went to the mall, and then the gym. We had dinner, Domino's and I we tried the new Brooklyn style pizza. It tasted kind of the same to me but....whatever. Tonight I think the boys are going to watch the Twins play on TV and then us girls are going to either watch a movie or play a game. So that should be fun! Well, hope everyone, especially the moms, are having a great day!

Emily

Party!!!

First of all I don't know why its underlined but I couldn't get it off. lol sorry. I had my sleepover party Friday night! It was so much fun! I posted a ton of pics...hope you don't mind ;) First I'll show you the pictures then I'll tell you about the rest of the party. We played Taboo and this is Heather and Ashley, they are sisters.
This is Lydia and Julia, also sisters.
This is Julia, Sarah, and Ashley.


Present time!!! I got the movie Stick it from Heather. I LOVE THAT MOVIE!! lol
This is from Ashley....I had to open the card first lol
This was the purse from Ashley. Isn't it adorable!! Sarah is trying to steal it from me :/

Lydia and Julia got me a beach towel and flip-flops. They are SOOO CUTE! Sarah didn't take pictures of that...don't ask me why so thats all of them.

We went swimming, had food (no, there wasn't mac and cheese!), watched Stick it, and talked. We had a great time....atleast I did! Then Saturday we swam again and watched some tv then after everyone left I did some cleaning and then went to the mall to shop for Mothers Day. We got her (mom) this fancy lotion, lipgloss, and body spray. Aunt Lori, they didn't have the cami at Aeropostale anymore. :( Then after dinner Sarah and I convinced Andrew to watch a movie with us so we watched YOurs, Mine, and Ours. I love that movie. Its hilarious! Then we went to bed.

So that we Friday and Saturday. Hope you had/are having a great weekend!

Emily

Family Party

Today I did the usual school, dogs, lunch, more school, and then we had Lydia and Julia over and watched the Lakehouse. I love that movie! It is kinda sad though. :(

Even though my birthday was actually May 2nd.....my family is so busy that we all haven't had a night off until tonight, so we celebrated my birthday as a family tonight. It was very nice. I got to pick what we had for dinner....and no I didn't pick macaroni...lol, I picked Chicken Fettachini (spelling?) After dinner we had one of my favorite desserts...Chocolate Mousse! Then I "opened" my gifts. The boys got me a $20 gift card to Target!! YAY! lol

Tomorrow is my friend party. lol I'm just so popular I have all these partys! not! lol anyways, tomorrow I'm having some friends over for a sleepover. I can't wait!!!!!!!

I won't be able to post tomorrow but I'll let you know how the party went tomorrow Well, I have to go finish Algebra...:( ttyl

Church

Well, today started the same. School, dogs, and then lunch. After lunch dad wanted Sarah and I to go back to church early with him so we did. We helped him do some stuff and we brought our laptops so then we just kinda hung out until Lydia and Julia got there to help their mom cook for the Wed night meal. Sarah and I helped them. It was make your own sub so we had to roll meat and put cheese on platters and that sort of thing. After dinner we then went to the youth service and came home. I watched American Idol and as I predicted Lakisha left. YES! No offense to those who are fans of hers....Now I'm going to go to sleep. I'm so stinkin' tired! lol ttyl

Emily

Day off

Today mom had the day off so I didn't start school until a little later. I woke up, went to work out, had breakfast, went to the grocery store, library (some books were do so we just dropped them off), dogs, then came home and had lunch. After lunch I watched Full House and then did school the rest of the afternoon. I'm SOOO happy! All I have left in Language is a Test then I am done for the year with Language. I will do the test tomorrow. I also did a Language report....(I have a few of those to do before the end of the school year...) I did mostly Algebra today...:( Matthew worked with me alot. So, tomorrow I will for sure work on some more Algebra and finish Language and then church. I'm not sure what else. I watched American Idol tonight.....everyone sang two songs. Malinda (I don't really like her but she does really well and I think will end in 1st or 2nd) did ok with both of her songs. One wasn't that great and one was a little better. Lakisha (don't like and I'm pretty sure will leave tomorrow) did ok on her first song and her voice was really good on the second but she missed her words.....:/ Blake (my favorite who I think will either end in 2nd or 1st) did ok on his first and a little better on his second. Jordin (I really like her, she is only 17!) did good on her first and a little worse on her second. Overall it was a good show and day. Hope yours was great too!

Emily

Random Pictures

Hey!
Hope everyone is doing well. These are just some random pictures in the past month or so. Hope you enjoy!


This is my cousin Ellie, who turns 5 in June.
My little cousin Sonja, who just turned 1.
Sonja dancing to her song!
Me....doing something I never should have done! I tried escargo....which is just a fancy name for snail! Yuck!
Andrew's senior picture
Andrew's senior picture again!
My little cousin Lily, Ellies little sister, turned 3 in Jan.
Jenna, Ellie and Lily's little new sister. 1 month!


Well, hope you enjoyed all the pictures. I will post later tonight about my day.

Emily

Boring

Today was a normal boring day, only its the beginning of the week so I get to look forward to school, Algebra, and dogs the rest of the week before the weekend....Whoopee. I went to the gym, did school, dogs, lunch, school. Other than that it was a pretty boring day. I was in a total lounge mood. Sarah and I watched Man of the Year. It was funny at some parts but I definitely wouldn't say its great. Mom worked 1-10 today and she has tomorrow off! Dad had today off but was busy taking the guest speaker to the airport and running around so I didn't see him much. Andrew worked/is working tonight from 4:30-9:30 and right now Matthew is at the gym. I think Sarah and I will continue our nightly traditions and watch Monk tonight before we go to bed! :P lol Well, ttyl. Hope you had a great day!

Emily

Church

Today was Sunday so as usual we went to church. This Sunday we had a guest speaker (Scott Hinkle) he was really good! Then we came home, had lunch, and then I went to a friends house to watch a movie. We watched A Night at the Museum. It was really funny! For all you who haven't seen it, you should! :) Anyways, then we went to church. It was really good!! Then we had dinner, Sarah and I watched Monk, and now I'm going to bed!! So, ttyl!!

Emily

Augusta

Hey!
Quick post because I'm going to watch Monk with Sarah. The weather today wasn't nice at all. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow were/are/will be cloudy and rainy. :( yuck! Today I went to Augusta with my 70 group. We went shopping and out to lunch. When we came back we went to Saturday Night Prayer then came home. I talked to mom and dad, had some cereal for dinner, and now I'm going to watch Monk and go to bed! lol Well, hope you had a great day!

Emily

Please Pray

Hey!
As I said in my previous post, we had an evangelism thing at church. Well, we went out to eat and asked our waiter (Eric) if there was anything we could pray for......there was. He said his brother (Scott) was stabbed twice and is currently in the hospital. So obviously, thats quite serious and they (as well as the family) need our prayers right now. I have to go to bed but I wanted to post that and ask everyone to pray. Thank you!!

Emily

Just another day....

Well, today was a day like any other....I woke up went to workout with mom, came back did school, went to dogs (it was payday!!!), had lunch, and then got ready for Bible Study (every Friday we have Bible study with Grandma). Went to Bible Study, came home, did more school, now I'm making dinner. We are having Ravioli's!!! Thats like one of my favorites....aside from macaroni of course! ;) Mom should be home in 5-10 minutes. After dinner we are going to go to church for an evangelism thing, so that should be good. We won't get home untill late so I thought I would post about my day now! Tomorrow I'm doing something with my 70 (a youth thing with me, two other girls, then our leader) group in Augusta. So I'll try to talk later tomorrow.

Emily

Yesterday

Hey!
Sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday, so I'll just do it now! I did school, went to do the dogs, had lunch, and then went to Lydia and Julia's house. We played there for a while then came to our house to swim. When we were walking up our steps to go in our house we noticed in the bush beside the steps there was a robins nest with two blue eggs! Sarah took pictures....but I'm too lazy to put them up. Sorry! After that we went swimming. When mom got home from work I decided that we should all go to Quizno's! Andrew worked and dad had the National Day of Prayer to go to so it ended up being Matthew, Sarah, mom, and I. So that was nice. I went on a bike ride with mom.....well I rode bike and mom ran. Then we (Sarah and I) spent the night at Lydia and Julia's house. So it was a pretty good day. I will try to post later tonight but I have a thing at church I'm going to so I don't know. Well, I better start school. :/ ttyl

Emily

Happy Birthday to.....

Me!!!!! Yay!! haha just kidding.

Well, I must say today was a GREAT day. Mom had the day off and said I could choose what I wanted to do. I got ahead in school on Monday so I chose to go to T.G.I. Fridays for lunch(in Augusta). Of course I had macoroni and cheese. It was VERY GOOD!!! haha duh it was, did I even need to say that?! Then we went shopping (my favorite things to do). I got a couple things at Aero (purse and bracelets) both on sale!! :) Then we went home and lounged by the pool. It was great. Then we went to church, came home, and watched American Idol. I'm watching that right now actually. I'm very worried that Jordin (my favorite) is going to be one of the two that leave. :( Atleast my second favorite (Blake) I'm like positive won't leave because he did GREAT and even Simon loved him....so yeah. Well, I'm going to go continue American Idol. I'll probably be bloggin' later tomorrow.

Emily

Happy Birthday to me!

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy birthday to Emily (me), Happy birthday to me!!!

Yay! Its finally my birthday! I stayed up untill 12 am (shh don't tell my mom) and so now its officially "the" day! lol Well, I'm a little crazy since its so late so I better get some sleep!

Emily

Great Day

Hey!
Last weekend we had the privileged of having my Aunt and new cousin from Guatemala here!
My sweet little cousin Sonja!!! She can crawl great, walk with furniture, stand for a little while on her own, and is VERY close to walking!! Yay!

Isn't she adorable? With her cute little smile?
I love this picture!!! Getting ready to eat some breakfast!

Today it was in the low 90's. I had a good day. I woke up a little later than usual, ate breakfast, made a couple cards, then did school. We had Lydia and Julia over for lunch (friends who are also home schooled who live in neighborhood) and then we went swimming.

I'm still trying to figure out this whole blog thing. I'm not sure how to do pictures and stuff yet so bear with me. Hopefully I will get better at this.

I can't wait for tomorrow! Not only do I turn 14 but my mom just happened to have my birthday off and so we are going to Augusta! She said I could pick what to do and for all of you who know me of course I picked shopping! haha So, I can't wait for that! It will be a blast! Emily