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.

Memories with Firefly and Mustang

Oh in the night, my hope lives on (oh in the night). Hey Mustang, remember that one?
How about the time we went iceskating in matching pajamas?
Do you remember when we slept in the empty pool?
Remember when we first made up Dragonica/Dragonia/Sargonia/Sargonica?
What about that one time we went swimming in the swollen creek? (After the moms checked it out, anyway)
Do you ever think about the first time you ever came out to the Ranch and we climbed the tower?
Remember when we played that durgan game with the apple and the tree and the basket?
It was fun that one time we played brown puffles on the island, remember?
Do you remember when we were training with sticks in our Dragonica/Dragonia/Sargonia/Sargonica game and we spent 4 or so hours doing that?
Remember that day, before your birthday party, when Sasha got stuck in Dorado and Senora's horse pen?
Wow! It was a long time ago when we first started playing our 'horse game at my house' with Feather, wasn't it?
LOL! Remember Bob the lady-man burro??? LOLOL
Heyheyhey remember when we went out to the Lodge that first time and we went exploring?
And we played that really fun horse game?
And I had Whisper for a LONG time?
Remember us freezing our tushies off? The more interesting process, though, was warming back up, wasn't it?
Remember when we went BACK out there and we played the same horse game s'more?
Do you remember the famous hard brownies?
Remember when we broke a GEODE??
Do you ever think about that one time when we saw my pastor and his wife walking in the dry creek?
Remember Sasha's sweet potato?
Who can forget that time at the Super Bowl when we had you, me, and a 5yr old over?
Do you remember 'Turn the knob!'?
Remember us making up aqua, periwinkle, and cream colored puffles?
You remember us being outside after dark with the recorder and playing games with Herbert?
And we taunted him?
And pretended we were puffles?
Do you remember when it was all over and we had to go in and you said "Nilla hungry. Nilla not have food for FIVE WHOLE MINUITE!"?
Remember when we had been playing Dragonica/Dragonia/Sargonia/Sargonica in the creek, then we went up to the Castle Training Grounds and that lady came by and started asking us questions??
Do you remember that time when you guys were coming over and I hid in my tree and scared you really bad?
Remember BOOM class?
Do you remember us playing Get the leg! with Fearless and Pickles?
Oy! Remember us dressing up as Durgans and sneaking around? That was fun!
How about that first time when we destroyed the dam in our part, near my rock?
Do you think about last summer when we went to Six Flags and made the scream team with Fearless?
Remember the Squid-Hat Guys?
Do you remember us seeing them the next day at Cici's?

Man, this list could probably continue forever!

'Member strawberry picking?
Do you remember last year when we had New Year's Eve party?
Lol! Member "Pwease? She doesn't have a home!"
Do you remember Trixie and the barrels? (If you don't, go to the post I Won!)
Remember "That guinea is really beginning to tick me off!"
Do you think about our Bella Sara game every once in a while?
Remember when Fearless lost her shoe at your house, and we found it?
Do you remember when Carling was made?

Ah the good times. I suppose I better get on with school, so for the moment, I'll end this LONG post.
Remember that once when we convinced the moms to get together the next day?

An Update on Me

Well, by now you probably think that I disappeared off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again, or the earth swallowed me up whole or something like that. But, unfortunately for those who don't like listening to me gush about puffles and the like, that is not so. I'm still here!

Ok, so if you think aaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to my first post, back in August of 2010, you'll remember that I said I have lived in three different homes. That hasn't changed. I still have lived in only three different homes. We moved back to my first house, out in the middle of the Texas Hill Country (Maybe I'll tell you the story behind that next post). It is just as awesome, if not more awesome, than I remember. Lots of trees, the Hollow, and lots of good rocks. So that move took us a while, and that's mostly what I've been doing to not blog in so long.

I would've posted on Saturday (maybe), except for one very, very good reason: I was busy.  I was busy auditioning for REGION Orchestra. Later on, as we were about to leave a Target, Mom got a text from my private lesson teacher, who also happened to be one of the judges. I made 6th chair first violin out of over 200 people trying out. To make this even more astounding, there are 36 first violin chairs. And I was up against high schoolers.

Something else that happened since the last time I blogged: Mustang came down for the last time before the big move. We had a ton of fun goofing off, playing our strange games and whatnot. One special thing that is worth noting and is almost too hilarious (but didn't seem like it at the time, at least not to Mustang and I): Mustang, her dad, and I were out eating at Culver's. After we left, we convinced him to go to one of the nearby Redboxes to see if they had The Avengers. That Redbox was out of stock of it. He decided to take us to another very close Redbox. They were out of stock too. We had just given up, when I remembered there was a Redbox at a gas place... So we turned the other direction from home and went to the place. We scrambled frantically out half laughing like lunatics and half sincerely hoping that it was there. We were in luck: they had ONE left. Mustang slid the card. And then slid it again. And again. And again, until we called her dad over. HE slid the card about four times, then Mustang busts out laughing. Once she finally got ahold of herself, she said between laughter spasms, "I forgot to press pay!" Then she continued laughing, and I joined her while her dad pretended to glare at her. Finally, we got the movie home, laughing all the way, and watched it. As we bounded up the front steps, grinning and laughing, I called to my brother "We got it! The Avengers!"

One last thing that is coming up in the next couple weeks is my birthday. I turn 11 exactly 2 weeks from today.

Well, I guess that's all the exciting stuff for now. I'll be trying to get back in my blogging spirit now, so... wish me luck, I guess!

Mustang, the Nose Bleed, the Arrowhead, the Hollow, and the Geode

YAY!!!!! I finally got to see Mustang after 5 weeks (and one day) apart! I have missed her so much, and the two of us were so happy to see one another.

I'm going to mention Durgans a lot in this post, so first I'll explain what they are. A Durgan is from Monster in the Hollows, the third book in the Wingfeather Saga. They dress in black and are trained fighters and sneakers. They are the protectors of the Green Hollows.

On Friday, after they got here, we goofed off in the house: making costumes of black, sneaking around spying on the parents and the brother, that kind of stuff. Then we went outside to jump on the trampoline (with our capes). We jumped around looking awesome for a bit, then my brother came out. No problem, we thought. All three of us jumped on the trampoline for a bit, but then we got a little rowdy. Mustang and I were bouncing my brother. Then as he was going up, I was coming down. My face collided with his shin. Ouch! I got a nose bleed.

On Saturday, we went out to the Ranch. Mustang and I adore that place because.. well, because it's awesome. We scouted around for an awesome fort, a new one to call ours. We went tromping through every tree that exists on that place, and got thoroughly lost. Until Mustang spotted a feeder. Then we knew where we were! We finally found an awesome fort right in the backyard. We worked at cleaning it up for a time, then decided to devote the rest of our time to playing Durgan in and around it. We call it The Hollow.

We went down to the part of the property right down from the driveway that we call 'The Flat'. Not kidding. Anyway, we were playing with our awesome staffs, vaulting over rocks and whatnot. We were taking a rest from vaulting and twirling our staffs and the like, when I looked down and saw some flint. Well, since I always pick flint up if I see it, I grabbed it. It looked at it for a moment before seeing that it was vaguely arrow shaped.

I looked at it for another moment before spinning it around and realizing it was more than 'vaguely' arrow shaped. I had stumbled across my first arrow head ever. Head spinning with wild excitement, I called Mustang over. She and I looked at it for a while before heading up to the house to show Mom and Dad.

Saturday, after getting home from the Ranch, we played outside for quite a while. We played Durgans the entire time, and messed around with our staffs and our other stuff, pretending to train. Anyway, after it got sufficiently  dark, we played a game from The Monster in the Hollows.

We had a basket, a tree, an apple, a sneaker, and a whacker. What happened is: The apple is put in the tree with the basket a few yards away from the tree. The sneaker's job is to get the apple from the tree to the basket without getting whacked. The whacker's job is to try to whack the sneaker with a staff before the sneaker gets the apple to the basket.

I went first as the sneaker. Mustang put the apple in the tree then came down and gave me a minute to hide. She then hid herself. I snuck around and finally came out into the open near the tree. I looked about for her, then, quietly as I could, I scrambled up the tree. As I turned around to get the apple, I saw her and nearly jumped out of my skin. She was hiding at a spot where if I got down, I would get smacked no matter what. She crouched, moving forward. I waited for her to get to the base of the tree, and then I jumped. I hit the ground running hard for the basket. I took a peek around, and didn't see her, so I dropped the apple in. I had won.

Her turn: I had no clue where she was until I went around to the front porch, were the parents had gathered in the dark to watch our game. I saw her peeking around the edge of the house. I jumped backwards, and rushed around the house. I was opposite her then. She crouched, then ran to the tree. I almost got her, but missed. She crouched low in the tree for a long time before finally jumping silently to the ground and running around the house. She came back with the news that we had to go in, and she never got the apple in the basket.

Last, but for sure not least, on Sunday morning, we decided to break the geode that she got me in Colorado.  I swung first, barely hitting it. I hit it again and at first thought it hadn't broken. I felt it again, and decided it was thoroughly broken. I pulled it out, and gasped at what I saw. It was one of the rarest type. It was a black geode! It was totally awesome.
 

To sum that all up: Mustang, the Nose Bleed, the Arrowhead, The Hollow, and the Geode. And the Apple tree.

But the best part? Spending time with Mustang herself.