Summer Reading List 09

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
2. Even Now
3. The Secret
4. Keeping Faith
5. Change of Heart
6. Giant
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
8. The Thirteenth Child
9. The Robe
10. Joan of Arc

Summer Reading 09

1. The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
2. How to Ditch Your Fairy
3. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Cool new bloggy award! :)

Thank you The Other Katie! You ROCKETH!

I awards...

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Summermoon
Delaney
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Miss CNW

Happy Independence Day!

My gift for you :)

New New Moon picture

Taylor Lautner is DEFINATELY more attractive without a shirt than RPattz.


Let's talk bodies: Robert Pattinson should work out.

WHY IS BELLA'S SHIRT RIDING UP?! Uncalled for. Seriously.

Shoes: Edward is forgiven for the hideous shoes due to the fact that he is a hundred years old, but Bella... Keds? Seriously? What teenager wears KEDS?! Fo' sho.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Sarah Palin's resigning!!! :( :(

Read full story here.

So I just found out...

Idina Menzel is in ENCHANTED!!! WOWZAHS!

She plays Nancy, that annoying girlfriend chick.

Ready for some total cuteness?

Yes, That is me. Snoozing with The Other Katie's baby brother, Tristan. We were both sick.

Aren't we ADORABLE?!

Yes, that is TRISTAN KARL! The baby I blogged non-stop about last May! Isn't he so big??

Deathly Hallows pics

Yeeeeah.

There are already Deathly Hallows pics out!! Not official or anything, but whatever.

Isn't her dress perdyful?!?!

Two new things I just found out: Apparently, the split between the two Deathly Hallows movies is at a very big cliffhanger movie.

Isn't that just GREAT?!

And: for the epilogue, Dan, Emma, Bonnie & Rupert are all gonna play the older versions of Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny.

Interesting. I thought Johnny Depp would do a good job as an older Harry....

I really really hate my laptop right now.

Remember my pretty pink laptop?

Yeah. Well.

It does tricks.

It's especially good at..



PLAYING DEAD!!!!

*headdeskheaddesk*

Goodbye 9th grade...

You will NOT be missed.

Sorry!

WOOO I'M OFFICIALLY A SOPHOMORE! *crazy dances* I finished ninth grade today!! YAY! But....

tomorrow starts tenth grade.

Bring it. :)

Texan pictures

THE PICTURE

New Moon Trailer

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON trailer in HD

Woo

I'm sick. Woo. Hoo.

On Friday, poor Karen was throwing up a storm. Then, on Saturday morning, I woke up, feeling just so loverly (NOT). And then…

I puked.

Yes, yes you read that right.

And my flight was scheduled for that afternoon.

Tell me. Who wants to fly when they feel that disgusting?!

No one. I know.

Luckily, I made it alive on the plane, but then… today….

BLURGH.

Apparently I have all the symptoms of Swine Flu. My doctor, Dr. Luisa, said that they're not even TESTING for Swine Flu anymore, so I'm not getting tested.

So, here I am. Lying on the couch with a cup of brown rice and broth next to me. I'm in my PJ's, and waiting for my daddy to come home with my Gatorade, ginger ale, and saltines.

Yep.

So, I'm DYING to watch Beauty and the Beast for some reason, so I think I'll stick it in our ANCIENT VCR! In my messed up condition, I wouldn't be surprised if I sob at the end. Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid are the best two Disney Movies EVER. Period. Belle and Ariel are sooo me! I'm that daydreaming bookworm. Yep.

Anyway, I'm off to watch my movie… Um… Why don't you go watch it too? O.o

GUESS GUESS WHAT?!?!??!?!?

So. My parental units went to this Seton Home Study Conference in DC yesterday (We've been doing seton for about... six years now. It's GREAT!)And, one of my most FAVORITEST AUTHORS EVER, Regina Doman, was there! They bought me the second John Paul 2 High book, "Trespasses against us" and then... REGINA PERSONALLY SIGNED IT!! AHH AHH!! AHHHH!!

It's awesome.

Home Sweet Home

Well, I'm back from Texas! I had a GREAT time with The Other Katie and Nine Texans and the rest of their crazy cool family.

Unfortunately, Karen (Nine Texans) got really sick on Friday night (the night before I left) and I caught it yesterday morning. As you can imagine, I was NOT looking forward to flying with the way I was feeling. I threw up early in the morning, but thankfully, that was it. Poor Katie (the other one) got sick yesterday while me, her dad, and her cousin Ceci were at Payless. :(

Anyway, I'll post some pictures (and exclusive music videos by "The Katies") later.

I'm such a snagging sap.

Katie wrote this great little article over on Apricot Pie about us and our friendship.

I cried. Real tears pouring down my face. And she was behind me LAUGHING.

Heartless, cruel, person. >.<

Anyway, here is said article.


This week I'll turn sixteen. Apparently that's a big milestone. In most states, you can start driving when you're sixteen; you can get a job; you start looking at colleges and planning for the future. For some reason, it's more of a big deal for girls than it is for boys. I guess it's like a modern-day coming-out....our new version of "You're a lady now".

That's all well and good. But what I'm thinking about as I begin my seventeenth year in this world and tack a different number onto myself is "ten years". Ten years since I was six. That's a great age to be. Some fairly momentous things happened to me when I was six.
I moved to another state, leaving behind my church, school, friends and beloved kindergarten teacher.
I started homeschooling.
I started a new life in a new place, and made new friends.
Friends. The first ones I met were Katie and Sarah. Our moms met online, and found out that they each had a daughter aged six, named Katie, and both homeschooled. It was then discovered that that other Katie had a little sister named Sarah. My middle name was Sara! These remarkable coincidences led to a friendship that's still going today. Ten years later. Katie and Sarah were always my best friends. They were family to me, and I'm pretty sure I was family to them. Their house was my second home. Often over the years my mom would be on the phone with their mom. Then she'd turn to me and say,"Katie, do you want to go sleep over at Katie's house?"
You can imagine my answer.
"OK, get your stuff together. Stacey is gonna pick you up in a few minutes."

Boy, did we have fun. We've almost never argued, that I can remember. Of course, it wasn't constantly happiness and light. Sarah and I had a funny little "enmity" (take note of the quotation marks) for a year or two. We made up eventually.
Katie and I almost never fought. We insulted each other at times and did or said things the other didn't like and gotten on each other's nerves...but within my memory we've never had an out-and-out fight.

Just because our names were the same didn't mean we weren't different in some ways. For example, I was never allowed to read the Harry Potter books or watch the movies, although as I got older the restrictions on the movies were somewhat relaxed. Katie and Sarah were crazy about them. I tolerated their ravings, and they in turn put up with my Nancy Drew obsession.

One thing we have always had in common, however, is our love of reading. We're all book-eaters...let us out of your sight and you can expect at least one of us to have our nose in a good book. Over the years we've lent each other books, recommended books, and obsessed over books. I remember once when I lent one to Katie and she didn't return it for a year.

Ah, remembrance.....I'm quickly turning sentimental. Please bear with me while I take a leisurely stroll down memory lane...
The Katie Sarah Katie Sara Detective Agency: Timeless. We never did solve any mysteries, but the theme song with dance sure was fun!
Henchman Bob! Need I say more?
Remember when Benny was born? He's 5 and a half now!
Penny Lane Players.... Katie and I were the cutest water fairies ever!
"Katie, Sarah....I *think* you guys are sleeping over.
"HOLY SMOKEY THE CAT!"
Sarah's big line in Cymbeline: "Aye."
The Sarah-Jack joke....still bouncing around.
The list goes on....

On my wall is a picture of Katie dipping me when we were eight or nine. The jumper that I'm wearing in that picture now belongs to my eight year old sister. Crazy how time goes by, isn't it? More than three years ago my family moved again; all the way to Texas. It hurt to leave when I had been there for six years- the longest my family had stayed anyplace.* Now, looking back, I'm glad we moved. The Lone Star State is a great place to live, and I've made great friends here and had some crazy fun experiences that would never have happened had my family remained in CT.

Of course, our friendship continued. Sometime this fall it will have been ten years since the chilly, blustery day when we met. I've always been closest to Katie since we're much closer in age (BFF, girly!) but today I'm thinking of the crazy, laughing, carefree trio that would be called to dinner with "Katie-Sarah-Katie-Sara! Get down here!" and have at least two sleepovers a week during the summer.

So here's to ten years: may the next decade be even better.

Love,
KK

Happy Sweet Sixteen to an awesome bestie!

Happy birthday to my bestest friend ever, THE OTHER KATIE, over at Books & Brownies.
Her sweet sixteen way yesterday, the third.

And guess who flew down to Texas as a surprise for the birthday girl as a surprise?

MEEE!!

HAHA.

I couldn't blog about it before, cuz Katie is my number one fan and I couldn't RUIN the surprise! Although I almost blew it sooooo many times. Yeesh. I made Katie a scrapbook, bought us matching Taylor Swift sundresses. Supercute. She will also be receiving a DVD of Macbeth.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Katie! I can't wait to spend ten more awesome days in awesome San Antonio with you!

XOXO

Katie <3

A few Macbeth pictures :)

Getting ready to attack!

The boys. Banquo, Trevor (Flute in Dream and Paris in R&J), Duncan, Jeff (Romeo), Macduff, Mike (Philostrate in Dream and Balthazar in R&J)

Angela, stage crew, doing Sarah, 2nd witch's makeup. Stephanie (Donalbain) is holding her hair :)

The Mr & Mrs. Macbeth Cast A. Tess and Tyler

The crazy ladies Macbeth, Tess & Erica.





From L to R, Tess, Jess, Jeff, Me, and Sarah.

Me with Emily, Lady Macduff.

Would't ya love to know what Tyler is laughing hysterically about.

Megan, Emily and I. And my subway sandwhich yum.

Megan and Sarah being witch like :)

Little Anna, Hecate. She's actually very cute.

The glamorous witches, Megan and Sarah.

L to R, Emily, Ben, Annie, me, Stephanie, Sarah, Ashley, and Mariana

I don't want to know.

Tada!