Truth Be Told #31

Truth Be Told #31

Happy Birthday, Natalie!

She turns 17 today!

Natalie is a good sister.

She's the oldest and she takes care of us

as much as we take care of her.

She makes all of our beds.

Natalie loves to empty the dishwasher

and take out the garbage.

Mom and Dad say she is the best at it because she never complains.

This reminds me of Natalie and I.

When we were little,

she always had pigtails and I always had short, 

wispy hair that wouldn't grow.

I never remember life without Natalie.

We were always side by side

and dressed alike.

I know her the best out of anybody,

and to tell the truth,

she can be naughty.

We have our jokes,

and she likes to push my buttons.

I helped her bake four batches of cupcakes for her birthday.

She has lots of fun things planned today.

I hope she has a good day.

If you see Natalie today,

tell her Happy Birthday.

Here is a video we made for Natalie's Birthday.

It is from the new Zac Brown CD.

It is called Song for a Daughter.

Have a great day, Natalie.

Ellen

Truth Be Told #30--He's a Beauty

Truth Be Told #30--

He's a real beauty, my brother Sam.

He turns 8 years old today.

Last night when we went to the grocery store to pick out his cake,

we lost him in the store.

He always wanders away and we have no idea how he does it.

One minute he's there, and the next he's gone.

This time, it took like five minutes to find him.

Finally I found him coming out of the cereal aisle crying.

He was with a nice lady who was saying,

"What does your mother look like?" 

Sam saw me first, and instead of being relieved and rushing to hug me,

he was ticked off.

"Ellen!  You left me!"

He punched me right in the store in front of everyone.

The rest of the night he kept saying,

"I can't believe I was almost left for dead on the last day of my seventh year."

What little boy says that?

Even Mother Eloise was worried this time.

After a few minutes she was trying to think of what he was wearing.

All we could remember was that he had blue marker all over his face.

When I asked Sam after school what the blue marker was from,

he said he was drawing a Siberian tiger.

What?  They are white!

By brother can be a handful,

but he is really tenderhearted, too.

He also thinks dressing up means putting a clip on tie on top of a t-shirt.

He was easy to spot on the basketball court this year,

and he loved seeing Big Hero 6 with his Big Hero Jack.

We watch the show about the Duggars with the 19 kids.

In their family they have a rule that if a dating couple goes out,

they have to take a kid chaperon with them.

Everywhere they go one of the brothers or sisters is along.

I know how they feel because Mother Eloise thought that was a good idea.

Sam goes bowling.

And to hockey games.

And to Waldameer.

And of course to my birthday parties.

He loves being with teenagers, I guess.

Truthfully, they don't mind Sam either because he is funny.

Here is a video Mom made with all the pictures of my brother from the last year.

Happy birthday, Sam.

Eight is great!

Ellen

HACKED!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLEN YOUR BLOG HAS BEEN INVADED BY

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS BUT I DO--

MOM KNOWS YOUR BLO9GG PASSWORD

THANKS FOR INVITING ME TO YOUR MOVIE PARTY.

NATALIE LIKED THE MOVITE TOO

SO DID I XCEPT FOR THE BORING PARTS

LET ME TELL YOUABOUT ELLEN

SHE IS MESSY

I AM NEAT

SHE LIKES QPONS TO GET CHEEP STUFF

HER ROOM IS NOT REELY NEET

SHE PUTS IT ALL IN HER CLOSET

SHE PLAYS GITAR AND MADE UP A DUMB SONG ABOUT PROWNOWNS

SHE KEEPS TOYS IN HER ROOM LIKE THIS

ME AND NATALIE MADE HER CARDS

THAT SAYS I LOVE YOU ELLEN

NTATALE CANT ALLWAYS SPELL GOOD

I DRAW GOOD

I MADE HER A PICTURE WITH A BIRTHDAY CAKE

JOSIE LOVES ELLEN TOO

SO DOES DAD

WE ALL DO I GUESS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD LADY

LOVE THE HACKERS

HERE IS A VIDEO MY MOM MADE SHE LOVES YOU THE MOST

Truth Be Told #28

Truth Be Told #28

Even though it was cold, it was a red hot summer!

Today was the first day of school for Harbor Creek.

Natalie and Dad still get one more day,

they start tomorrow.

This year was a whole lot better than last year.

Remember this?

This was me a year ago, the night before I went to Junior High.

This was me the first day of school, last year in 7th grade.

Here is me this year, an 8th grader.

I wore green again and my hair is shorter,

but I am not nervous at all.

In fact, I'm happy!

My artwork got chosen for the Agenda Book cover this year.

Here is my summer, summarized.

Mother Eloise started out or summer with her stupid summer rules.

Grandma turned 69 and we ate doughnuts for breakfast on National Doughnut Day!

I celebrated my 10th year of dance and was in the dance show for Keri's Dance Studio.

 Erik turned 17 and we ate at Ricardo's.  Erik likes steak!

Waldameer was a blast.

I got to play softball on the high school field.

I enjoyed a rain out every now and again.

Dan and Megs got married!

 We had lots of fun.

We saw lots of family.

I love babies!

We went to Disney as a big family!

Our one big moment and we get photo bombed by the nerd in the red hat.

Sam was frowning because Jack told him we were going to visit the princesses.

We had a blast although underwater selfies sucked,

but were fun to try to take anyway.

Camp was really fun!

I tried to read these books this summer.

I got through two of them, but couldn't finish the last one.

Mother Eloise taped a $20 to it and told me I could have it if I finished it,

but I couldn't even do it then.

The lake was really nice. 

Not much seaweed this year at all.

It was pretty cold compared to past years.

We didn't even get to swim in many pools. 

It just wasn't that hot of a summer.

Sam didn't mind though.

We got to see my Ohio relatives and go to a really, really expensive mall.

One coat that was not even that great was $4,800!

I spent a lot of time with my brother.

He loves my phone.

I taught him how to Snap Chat.

Big mistake.

I watched my sister pound nails all summer.

She made way more art projects than me!

Our second camp trip was much calmer and back to nature.

It was hard to say goodbye to summer.

My all time favorite thing of the summer was zip lining and the aerial ropes course at the Peak.

We went for Jack's birthday.

He turns 15 on Thursday.

I LOVED IT!

I had to help Aunt Karen who was scared of heights through it.

She got over her fears though and I am so proud of her!

Looks like I'll be zipping right into another school year.

I hope it's a good one for everyone!

Talk to you soon,

Ellen Louise