The Rodeo and Mustang!

Nope, still haven't disappeared off the face of the earth yet!

So, 2 weeks ago (*cringe* A long time, I know), Nana and I went to the rodeo in Bandera by way of two VERY generous friends (the owners of Bear and Quest) who bought us box tickets for ALL THREE nights!!!! 

Friday, the first night, was awesome. We almost didn't get to go the first night, though. It rained ALL of Thursday night, and all of Friday morning and all the way up to about 3 pm. It still looked ominously rainiful (I know, not a word, but :P) over towards Bandera. But, being us, Nana and I went anyway. In the distance, right over Bandera, it looked really black. In fact, we got rained on while we were driving. But we kept going... and it yielded great results!!!! It was actually BEAUTIFUL right over Bandera; the only real blue spot in all of the sky! So the rodeo went on, and it was AWESOME!!! The clown act wasn't NEAR as grand as last year (the Wild Child act) or the year before (a trick riding act), but was still entertaining. All of the horses were so gorgeous, too! In fact, during the barrel racing, one of the horses Mustang used to own raced! I was totally in awe. That night was really fun and super awesome.

The next morning, we were called by Mustang's mom. She said that she was coming to drop Mustang by the house for a little while (only like 45 minutes). She did, and Mustang and I walked around outside, doing our normal 'both start talking, both pause, both say go ahead, both go ahead and talk at the same time' over and over. Finally we decided to go back to the house and play Wii a little bit. We did so, and it was hilarious! She didn't really know what she was doing, so she was always saying things like "How do I move?!?!? Oh, I got it... wait, how to I jump? Is that a cliff?" right before jumping off the cliff.  It was hilarious. But all too soon, her mom came to pick her up. But we learned that she had a 99% chance of going to the rodeo with us that night!!! We also learned that at some point later that day, my mom (who was also in town with Creator's Son and my dad) would call us because they had called her and told her to come to the hotel and go swimming with them. Well, we knew that it would be at least an hour to two. After about three hours (and it was approaching 1pm), Nana and I were beginning to get worried, as they hadn't called yet, and for us to go to the rodeo, we had to be able to leave at like, a quarter to six. And even if they called RIGHT THIS INSTANT, Mom and Dad still had to get over here, we had to get over to the hotel, we had to get changed, and THEN we could get in the pool. And then we would swim for at least two hours, and.... well let's just say the numbers were depressing.

But then they DID call, at like 1:30! And said... that in about half an hour, to come and go swimming. So we went to a book store while we waited. We FINALLY went over to their hotel and swam (at about 2), and splashed, and it was SUPER FUN!!!!! After about 2 and a half hours of swimming, we went back up to the room, got in our dry clothes, and proceeded to watch some 'How It Should Have Ended' videos (at 4:30 or so). After about another 30 minutes in the room, we left!! We got to Nana's at about 5:15, with plenty (ok, not really, but enough) time to spare. We got there, made sure we were ready to go, and pretty much left for the rodeo.

Once we got there, Mustang and I seriously opened the car door and shot out to see the horses. We spent so long at the first pen, taking pictures, and picking out which horses we wished were ours. Together, we took over 200 pictures. At every pen, we would pick out which horses we wished were ours, took pictures, and talked and laughed. After a really long time spent looking at horses and taking pictures, it was finally time to go sit down and the rodeo to begin. It did, and it was EPICAL!!!!! (Also technically not a word, but :P) We were still busy picking out horses we wished were ours. Once, the clown climbed up right next to us. I was on the end closest to where to he was climbing up. It was weird..... anywho (which ALSO is not a word. D:), so Mustang and I watched the show, totally enraptured. It was EPIC. But then it was over.

Mustang spent the night at Nana's, and in the morning, we took her to breakfast and then to church with us. Her mom picked her up from church before it started, though. After church and lunch, they called, and they came back to Nana's house! Mustang and I went outside again. We walked and talked and ran for a long while, then we went back to the house and went in the back bedroom and watched some YouTube videos. Then Mustang was going to have to leave, to go to her Mimi's house. But then she asked if I could come as well, and I could! I went, and we played one of our many games for a long while before we were called up and to leave. I was dropped off at Nana's, and like that, they were gone. But it was rodeo time one last time!

This time, it had rained all morning, and the arena was like sand; there were rivers running through it, and it was so soaked! But everything went on as normal. It was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And....... it was Haywire's night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything went awesomely, but it ended way too soon.

So that is part one of what I have recently been doing! Stay tuned for part two (hopefully soon)!

Mustang, the Avengers, and more!

So yes, I went up to see Mustang last week. It was EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!

  We did just about everything. We played outside in the pool, we threw a tennis ball at one another, we went to Six Flags, we watched the Avengers, we wore hats of shame, we threw hats of shame at one another, we played with glow sticks in the evening (as the first two days.)

 We went to a couple of different parks, we went swimming, we played 'king of the air vent', we made ourselves dizzy, we ate 2 lunches, we played outside a ton more, we went back to one park at night and ran around like maniacs, I tripped over her and did a flip, we slept in the pool one night, and then we woke up and played our EPIC game again. And yes, then we chunked the tennis ball at one another some more before I left. (As the last two days) It was AWESOME.

So then after we got home, I watched... can you guess? No it actually wasn't the Avengers! I watched Iron Man.  So unfortunately for everyone around me, I've kinda been quoting the Avengers/Stark all week. And then last night, because they took Iron Man 2 off of Netflix (D:) I watched Thor.  (I like this drink. *SMASH* Another!)

Besides the Avengers and Mustang, I HAVE been doing interesting things. Like learning to play the viola. It isn't too hard, according to the fact that I already know the basic stuff, but learning to read alto clef from treble clef was a tad bit of a challenge, though I figured it out pretty quickly. (It took two entire days.)

And really, that's what I've been doing lately.

Still Here!

Wow, when I look at the last time I posted, it says 'February 21'. That means I haven't told you guys about all my adventures! I haven't even told you about seeing Mustang!!!! Wow! But at this point, that's too long a story to tell. If I tried to catch you up on everything I have done since I last posted, it would take me hours, and you probably would lose interest in reading such a long post. So I will commence telling you the main points.

• I played in a Robert Earl Keen concert, which I call the REK (pronouce wreck) concert. It was actually pretty fun.
• I got to ride Quest again! Except he was being moody and I seriously thought he might buck me off, so his owner actually let me ride Bear! (Whom she is very protective of)
• I got to see Mustang!!!!!! They came out here, and then I went with them into town and stayed in their hotel with them and then Mustang and I went swimming and oh! It was insanely EPIC!
• Our homeschool Co-op started! It's really fun.
• We're reading the Wingfeather Saga again! (Oh yeah!!!) 
• Our cousin came down for part of Spring Break! I got to go over to Grandma's house and play Skip-Bo (which Grandma creamed us at) and Scrabble (which Grandma creamed us at). 
• Two of our friends from where Mom and Dad used to live came down for Spring Break! Those two are a hoot!  

I am really not quite sure what to post about, but I know I really should do more than catch you up; I should fill you in.  See, the thing is that for my first post in over a month, I know I shouldn't post about rainbow puffles (which I know for certain and confirmed we are getting on Thursday). But I don't know whether to post about the friends that came down from where Mom and Dad used to live, or puffles, or what. For all I know, the beautiful weather could be worth posting about.

I really just wanted you to know that no, I have not been eaten by a whale, swallowed up by the earth, struck by lightning, or whatever else you can come up with. I'm still here, just busy and finding it hard to post in between math, science, history, and being in town.

I sincerely promise that I will try to keep a schedule of posting, but just a warning, I'm not always great with posting.

But since I mentioned it, do you want to hear about rainbow puffles?

You Wanna Know Random?

Prepare yourself. This is.. A random post.

I play an online game called Horse Isle. You can quest, and walk around and catch horses. They have a couple problems though: A) You have to have a membership to have more than 5 horses. B) If you have an account on one server and you have a subby (membership), you won't have it, any of your horses, or any of your money if you join another server.

My user name is Snowfire, and I have an account on one of the servers called Pinto. Pinto is one of the best servers. We have the most interest rate (yes, you can put money in the bank and get interest from it). All the people that play on Pinto are mostly nice and won't make fun of you if you came from another server to play.  But most of all, we are.... Random.

Oh yes, very random indeed. One time, I did something strange in global (one of the many different chats). Someone said "Random, Snow!" We then proceeded  to have a conversation about what random is. Someone said " Random is when someone yells 'PINEAPPLE' in global". I then yelled pineapple in global, and started a food fight. THEN we started a pop quiz on favorite foods. THEN a mod logged on and threw us free chocolate, which we ate, and then started a fight over who got the most chocolate. We had several people steal chocolate from other people, and then a player named DesertDagger logged in. Well, Dag (DesertDagger's nickname) has a reputation for getting blamed for stuff. Someone (I keep saying someone cuz I don't remember names) said "It's Dag's fault!". That ended the food wars, but suddenly started a wave of everyone blaming everyone else. Then we somehow got around to acting like cows, chickens, and sheep.

Does that show you random?

You know what? I think I will do a 25 random things. Right here. Right now.

1. I really miss Mustang
2. I like jigsaw puzzles! We've done a couple lately.
3. Right now, I'm typing in my pajamas because I don't feel great.
4. Yesterday, we went to the library, and wouldn't ya know, they actually had some books that I checked out!
5. By the way, it's Dag's fault.
6. I adore my loft bed (I'll tell you about it in my next post)
7. I can't wait to read the Wingfeather Saga again!
8. Don't you just know how much I'll rant then?
9. I'm hungry.
10. I think I want some pineapple! :D
11. My Dad made a blog!
12. Now everyone in my family has a blog!
13. I really like exclamation points!
14. I've been playing on CP's fruit party lately!
15. And... I can dress up... as a pineapple...
16. Ya know what? I don't feel bad anymore!!
17. But I'm still hungry
18. At CP's party you can meet Rockhopper! But.. I haven't yet..
19. I can't wait to go see that crazy kitty Bailey!
20. Right now I'm reading a weird book.
21. But it's a good one!
22. I REALLY miss Mustang
23. I can't wait to get Andrew Peterson's E-mail address!
24. Then I can pester him about getting the 4th book out! >:D
25. PINEAPPLE!  

 And just for fun (and because I obviously can't count):
26. I'm random! HA! Bet you didn't know that!

Back at It! My Summer

Ok, so again, I haven't blogged for about two months, sorry 'bout that..... But now we are back at it with school, so I should be back at blogging regularly too. My summer was one of the busiest (and hardest) I've had in a long time, so now I shall inform you of it.

My summer

So I last blogged before JCPA (Junior Citizen Police Academy). Well, that was the most fun camp I went to all summer. We had so much fun! Our schedule had quite an assortment of things to do during the two weeks. They included: Touring the SWAT team van, CSI and fingerprinting, mock traffic stops, mock crime scenes, and much more.

On the first day it was a little awkward, getting all figured out and started up. But by the second day, I knew it would be my favorite camp EVER. It was so awesome as we toured the SWAT van, learning, getting to hold the less lethal weapon. It was so awesome!

During mock traffic stops, we had a lot of interesting fun. What happens is: Two officers (us kids) go up to a vehicle that we have pulled over. The officer goes up to one window and the back up officer to the other. Then we ask some questions, and it's the next pair's turn. Also, the people in the car are allowed to make it as funny or serious as they want, and they as well, are us cadets. So the first time I was a person in it, I was a back up officer. Neither I nor the person that I was questioning knew what we were doing, so that one kinda failed. The next time, I was the officer, and Mustang was in the car.. supposedly on crack (a drug). She was doing a good job of cracking ME up whilst sitting in the back making weird noises. The last time, EVERYONE except the two officers piled in the little Honda Accord. When the police officers approached, everyone jumped out of the car and took off running as fast as we could.

The only other day really mentionable was the second to last day, Thursday. Instead of what was scheduled, we took a little.... field trip. Lemme 'splain. There was a camp going on at a local university. They were kids in training to be locate and rescue people, and they needed some... help, shall we call it. We came out there to be people after a tornado hit that they had to locate, rescue, and take care of. Well, Mustang and I matched in every possible way, including our head injuries. We were hidden in a closet along with another boy. He had to be dragged out first, then they stood there looking at me, trying to figure out how to help me. They pulled me to my feet and took me out into the parking lot. Oh yeah, you heard me. The parking lot. And had us lay down. LAY DOWN. ON THE GRAVEL. But oh well. I laid there for a while till someone came and wrapped my head. IF you think I laid there QUIETLY, you are so very mistaken. I laid there yelling at everyone passing by, complaining that they absolutely must find my platypus!

The last day was sad, I didn't wanna leave! But I'm going back next year!

In the afternoon of camp days, we went to Mustang's house. We made exactly 27 days of seeing each other in a row. No stop between them.  Those were some of the last times I would go, because... their property got auctioned out from under them. They had to move to a place four hours away, and for how long they don't know. Right now, they are driving back to there from another state. I haven't seen her in two weeks. I  miss her.

But most of my summer was good! I also went to some art camps (also with her) and made some very interesting works of art. That was pretty fun, but JCPA was WAY awesomer (I don't care if that's not a word). I also helped out with VBS for three days. That was also fun, but again, JCPA was better. I only had two little girls in the tribe I was helping with, though they made up for it in the fact that neither of them were very good listeners, and one of them was all but impossible to keep under control.

The only thing that rivaled JCPA  in epicness was going to Six Flags/Fiesta Texas. I went with Mustang and Fearless (one of my other friends). Mustang wouldn't ride some of the rides because she doesn't like big drops (smart child!).  Fearless and I actually rode the evilly epic ride called Superman. That thing is scary! But I love it so much! We rode another ride that was a boat ride where you go up in a boat, and then you splash down at the bottom, soaking everyone. It's pretty fun. Then Mustang, Fearless and I went to ride Pandemonium. It's a roller coaster where you go up a hill, but instead of a big drop, it has all sorts of curves that take you down, but not a drop. The only big drop, you're going fast enough to not notice. The thing is, you're spinning wildly the entire time.

We weren't scared, not really, but we were screaming our lungs out! We made ourselves a title. We called ourselves the Scream Team! It was awesome. We also rode a thing that has a pole in the middle, three poles branching out, and little capsules on them. That was awesome, and called Wave Runner.

We rode another ride called Frisbee. Man, I can't explain that one to well, but....  it's a circular ride that rotates while swinging. It goes up SO HIGH. Almost upside down. But not quite.. We rode that one twice, and screamed at the top of our lungs the entire time. It was SO AWESOME!!! How high was it going? My mom was standing on the side, under the Farris Wheel. She took several pictures straight up, with us standing VERTICALLY over her.

We also went to the water park and did the water slides and the wave pool. That was fun, their water slides are EPIC.

 I hope to get back to blogging as we get more in a rhythm and pattern with school.

Saying Goodbye

Saying goodbye is hard. I mean, all of us probably know a person or two that they would have NO problem saying a final goodbye to, but we also probably know at least two or three people that we would do anything to get out of saying that final bye to.

Saying goodbye to a family that I have known pretty much for as long as I can remember is really, really hard. It was almost unreal to think that it was the last time to see them. But I know that these friends will remain with me always, whether they live in Texas or not.

On the other hand, yesterday was my last orchestra concert of the season, so I had to say more goodbyes. It wasn't as hard to let go of my orchestra friends, because I know without a doubt that I will see them again in August, during String Camp.

I know that I should believe I will see my other friends again, without a doubt, but it is hard to do that while I know it could be years before I see them, or it could be months. No one will know before hand, but as they always say, hindsight is 20/20.

I know that things will be different without them, and that they will leave a hole. But it is not the end of the world. That will be on December 12, according to some. They will certainly be missed, and missed a lot.

Saying that final goodbye is hard, but this may be a better place to be for them. Adventures ARE funny things, it is true. It is also true that they come in unexpected ways.

May you find many adventures in your new home and state, my friends at GFG!
Firefly

Meeting Mustang

I know that Mustang put a post about this, but oh well......

We met through the Home School Co-op we go to, but the weirdest thing was that we had been going to the same one for about 2 years! But her mom became the Director of Co-op and my mom was the Assistant Director, so we had to get together.

They came over here the first time we really acknowledged the other existed. It was really awkward at first, but soon we were playing, and we got along great on Friday the 13th (how bizarre!). Then we got together for Co-op registration 3 weeks later at Nana's clubhouse and swam in her pool. The next day, we went swimming at a local river for a Back to School thing.

They came over on my brother's birthday, and gave him an awesome birthday present, and we played for hours! Soon, we began doing more and more things together. We even took them to the Corn Maize that month!

One day in January (says mom), we were doing Co-op registration again, and played horses with one of our good friends. Mustang calls her Squirt. Anyway, we played horses, but Squirt had to leave, so it left Mustang and I.  After it was over, Mustang and I convinced the moms to get together the next day.

So Mustang and her mom came over the next day, and we played for hours, being horses one minute and wolves the next! It was really, really fun.

Now, when we can, we go everywhere together. She has taken me out to the awesomest place ever where we swam, froze to death, played horses, made up an awesome game, warmed up in the weirdest place ever, and played our awesome game in swimsuits. The picture of me on the top at my blog was the first time we went out there... I love that place! Then she took me out there a second time. That went pretty much the same way....

We have taken them to the Corn Maize twice, and it was amazingly fun! She is exactly like a sister to me, but she is a better Carl than anyone else.....

Her (left) and me (right) at the Corn Maize

Me (left) and her (right) still at the Corn Maize, getting pumpkins

Click on it! You can see her ( in the middle in the blue shirt) chasing me in the middle in the purple

Here are some pictures of our many adventures, these are just a very minuscule few:

Her being a crazy Carl (still at the Corn Maize, but the next year)

I Won!

Yesterday, we got to go to Mustang's house. I referred to her as Carl in my last post. I got to ride her chocolate paint, named Trixie.

We walked the barrels, and with Mustang leading her, we had... entertainment.
 "Trixie bolts off from the starting line, headed toward the first barrel!"  - We are slowly crawling along at snail speed.
"She swings closely around the barrel, not losing speed!" - We are three feet from the barrel, still crawling S-L-O-W-L-Y along. This continues through all the barrels, and when we get to the last one, Mustang says "Trixie, if you wouldn't mind helping here, we would like that a lot."
On the last barrel, headed toward home, we kicked Trixie up to a...... TROT "Trixie uses a burst off speed, not seen before! She gallops top speed toward the finish line, and crosses the finish line! SHE WON!" As we managed to make the barrels in, oh, bout TEN MINUTES. So we won.

I also met Gypsy, her light dappled palomino Quarter horse. For anyone NOT a horse person, a golden horse with small, light spots, and she is a common breed.