Best of Summer: Camp!

I'm sure all of my readers have been suspensfully awaiting my anticipated return to my blog. Well, here I am! I have returned from Young Writers Camp and may I just say, that I had a blast!
If you don't know the story, then you may be confused. Well I entered a writing contest at my school, just for fun, not expecting at all to win anything. But, the day before my birthday, I got a call saying that I recieve second place in the contest and that my piece was actually really good and creepy (creepy is a compliment because the theme was "A Dark and Stormy Summer"). One of my prizes were 50% off camp, which was still extremely expensive, even with the 50% off. But my wonderful grandparents pitched in to help me and I just want to say THANKS YOU SO MUCH!

So I went to camp at the Academy and had a blast there were tons of activitis for us! And I made lots of new friends. The two week camp was very tiring though, getting up at 7:30 and going to bed at 11:00 every night. But camp activitis consisted of:

FIREWORKS! The 2nd day of camp was the 4th of July.

Eating at CiC's with my friends Rosie and Amelia!

Going to Baltimore to see the Egar Allan Poe Museum.



Shopping in Inner Harbor(:

Left to Right: Sarah, Audrey, Me, Amelia, and Rosie.

Climbing rock walls (:

Braiding Matt' hair. (Matt was our counselor)

Dressing up in crazy costums(:

We gave the kids a ghost tour of the campus(:

I'd just like to end this by saying THANKS! to all the people who let me come to camp this summer!

It was a blast.

Best of Summer: Amusement Parks!

Yesterday we went to Del Grosso's Amusement Park. Even though it takes us a while to get there, it was worth it because we had a great time! If your ever looking for a nice, inexpensive, family amusement park, Del Grosso's is definenty the best choice! On Labor Day, they're having a special where tickets are only $3.99 a person! Del Grosso's is especially great for younger kids because its not as crowded like Hershey Park and they have a special part of the park just for the little ones! It's a really great place!
Okay, enough advertising, let's get on to the trip!

 We had lots of fun at the water park...felt good!

 Brady especially loved the water! He didn't want to get out....

...but when he did, he was tired and just chilled on the chair.

Mom and Dad drove Go Karts! So I took a few pictures(: Dad actually wiped out and got really behind which was hilarious :)

We also got on th dry rides, but were having so much fun, that we forgot to take pictures! Brady actually got to get on a lot of the "big rides" because he is finally 42''. Brady really loved the Pharoh's Furry, which is that big boat that rocks really high (if you know what I'm talking about?) We all had a really great time, hopefully we'll see you on Labor Day!

Best of Summer: Friends and Parties!

So today and yesterday I had my 13th birthday party. Even though my birthday was in May, we had no time with soccer games, dance practices, and baseball to do it until today. I had so much fun! All my friends came! (Rachel, Michelle, Cheyenne, Kayla, and Teresa). They got here at about 5pm and then we ate a fabulous supper of spaghetti and beer bread (I LOVE BEER BREAD!).
Later, we made t-shirts. This was one of my favorite things of the whole night! Our t-shirts turned out amazing! We got all the supplies at A.C. Moore. If you're ever looking for t-shirt supplies, look there!

We decided to do a crazy picture with the t-shirts
After making shirts, we played "Scaventure". "Scaveture" is a game where you have to gather/do random things in a certain time limit. It was lots of fun!
We didn't sleep until 4:30 am, and believe me, I regret it now....but it was still tons of fun, playing a little old-fashioned game of truth or dare, looking up youtube videos, and crawling around in the dark with our eyes closed.

The next day, we all took a trip to the local lake to swim. And while we were there, may I point out, that some people just aren't meant to wear certain bathing suits, and if they choose to wear them, need to keep themselves covered! We were very fascinated by taking action photos. We jumped off this wall about 100 times before we got the perfect shots!

 This is one of our failed tries.

 And this is our very best picture!!

 Single pictures of me and Rachel.

 Breanna

 Ashley

 Michelle, this is my favorite pose(:

 Kayla.

 And Cheyenne.

 Breanna wanted me to take a picture of her doing a cartwheel, turned out okay, huh?

 Best friends for life!

Best of Summer: Sidewalk Chalk

   Today was a great day! My mom went for groceries and "The World's Best Babysitter", Mary Kate came!
We had lots of fun with sidewalk chalk! *cough cough* my idea!

 I made this fabulous sun!

 This is my chalk person! mary kate traced it

 Me and Mary Kate

 I see the similarity.

 This is Ashley's chalk person.

 This is Mary Kate's brother, Daniel's chalk person.

 This is obviously Brady's.

 And this is Breanna's.

Mary Kate informed me that water boils faster when a pot lid is overtop. We don't have any....so when in doubt, use a cake pan!

Hopefully there's lot more best of summer to come!