You can't have a rainbow without a little rain

This is one of the first times I've had an assistant to help me write my posts...one of my very best friends, Jenna, is sitting next to me. Our sleepover is coming to a close - we went to bed at 10:30. We usually fall asleep at one o'clock at the earliest. (I have babysitting late tonight, otherwise we would have stayed awake all night.)

It was pouring rain this morning - Rain equals fun pictures. :-)



Jenna has a fondness for swords (I almost got my eye poked out).



Twirling. It's so much fun. Except for when you get dizzy and fall down. Jennaaaaa. ^_^

Apparently, she got a raindrop in her eye. HA!

In the time it took to write this post, the skies have cleared. We loved the rain while it lasted.

And look what came in the mail yesterday, sent to me by the lovely Melissa from NewFashionedWhispers!

It is so pretty. I have not taken it off since I received it in the mail. And she has great prices too - definitely my favorite Etsy shop out there. :-)

Have an awesome Saturday! We sure are. :-)

I love my camera's self-timer. After it took us eight hundred years to figure it out...^_^

They Almost Capture Our Insanity...

...and the blast that we had.

The pictures from my retreat. Enjoy. (Pretty much all of these were taken on the same day...so that's why we're all wearing the same shirts. ;)

Jenna and I. :) (just reminding you all, I'm the one on the left)

Let's just say the food was super good. Yum.

I hate bananas, but they're colorful. Bananas taste yellow, right, Jenna?

I love the lighting of this one. The table had its own little spotlight. ;)

*gasps* Me texting my friend on Jenna's phone.

Jenna in our sleeping-room.

Jenna outside with all the middle schoolers and highschoolers watching the boot-hockey championship.

Jordyn in her adorable knit cap. :)

I HAD to put this one in. :)

Jordyn "beating me up".

Watching the boot-hockey championship.

I love Jenna's hair in this one--so cool.

Jordyn and I. Yes, I look sleepy but that's because of the sun.

Jenna. Is. Adorable.

Heh heh...we are such dorks.

Our friend Jasmine. :) (and yes, that's part of Jenna's head in the picture--she was intent on sabotaging my photos)

"Miss America," Jenna's older sister. (Cara was pretending to be Miss America throughout the whole retreat)

Jordyn being...well...this is Jordyn being Jordyn. :)

This one has terrible quality...but the beginning of the bananaphone pictures. :)

This is Cara (Jenna's older sister) demanding the bananaphone. Tarra is wondering what we're all doing. (the one in the brown shirt)

Yes, Cara eventually got her wish...a turn to talk on the bananaphone with me. ;)

Yes. This is a sandwhich. More specifically, my sandwhich that everyone else tore apart.

My lovely friend Alison. (and I don't mean that sarcastically--she is very pretty...just...not in this picture. ^^)

Jenna and I...doing what we normally do when around each other.

Yes, it does look like I have a milk mustache, but it's the light blurred on my lip. I zoomed in just to make sure. ;)

I love all of my insane, wonderful, crazy friends, most of which were not in the pictures. :)

As you may have gleaned from these photos, the retreat was insanely incredible--put Jenna and I together for too long and we'll practically explode from laughter. So the retreat had to be insane and incredible, for those two words describe my friends. :)

Kudos to Jordyn for taking (most) of the pictures and sending them to me. Thanks, girl!! Love you! :)

*Yawns* And Fantasy Names

My sleepover Saturday night-Sunday with Hannah, Jenna, and Jordyn was amazing. It was tons of fun. So much fun that I can't even try to relate it. ;)

And yeah, I'm dead tired. Even though the sleepover was a few days ago. ^^

According to This Site, my hobbit name is Ysungwen Ness of Fair Downs; my elvin name is Caleviel Serindë; my dwarf name is Sidda of Moria; my human Tolkien name is Sevallan Neithan; and my wizard name is Curumo Stormcrow. Those names are...okay, they just make me thankful of my name. Who wants to have your friend come up and say, "Hey Ysungwen Ness of Fair Downs"?!

Yes, this is a random question, but does anyone else like running? For me, running is a lot of fun. I like it so much I'm thinking about doing cross country next summer/fall, along with soccer and golf. Last night I ran for forty five minutes at my town's Community Center. I was listening to Handel's Messiah on my iPod; my favorite song is definitely Unto Us A Child Is Born--I think that's the title. ;)

Later,

*Yawn*

Hi everybody... *stifles yawn with hand*
Yesterday, there was a small group at my house (HERE is the blog of one of my friends, Hunter, who came) and it was pretty awesome. Delaney (sis of Hunter), my sister, her two friends, and I had a funeral. Morgan (a little five year old who is my adopted younger sister...at least her and I pretend it is so :D) and I were dead and Delaney, Nadine, and Abby buried us in the covers. The funeral was complete with weeping, speeches, and candles. It was hard to not laugh though...anti-climatic *laughs* under my "shroud" I almost really died from trying not to laugh. :D
Afterward, Delaney invited me over to her house for a sleepover, and it was so much fun. On the car ride to her house, Hunter, Delaney, Drake (Delaney's younger brother) and I got into this odd conversation about, as Drake put it, "freaky movies". Drake was interrogating me about the freaky movies I've seen. The movies ranged over The Grinch That Stole Christmas, The Matrix, The Blob, Harry Potter, and The Princess Bride, just to name a few. Delaney was telling me about horror-meres (spelling?) which is nightmares in which you are dreaming about something horrible, then dream that you woke up but are still in the dream. Then when you wake up for real, you think you are in the dream, and thus freak out, not knowing how to wake up. Our friend's younger brother had horror-meres all the time... *shudder* that must be horrible.
When we finally got to their house, Delaney and I found a dead mouse while nightcrawler-hunting, and named it Despearaux. Then had a funeral for him. A real funeral...in which we said goodbye and dumped him in the garbage.
It was so much fun, overall. We talked while half-watching The Great Locomotive Chase until like midnight.
And this afternoon, Abby, my younger brother Peter, and I were bored, so we made this pointless movie, where Abby and I were opera singers and beggers, Peter was the evil king, and yeah. Dumb, but time better spent then sitting around, bored out of our heads.

Rock

I just came back from an awesome meeting at my friends' house about this service/social co-op thing called Rock. We talked about the co-op, suggested ideas, had ice-cream, and Hannah and I went outside and walked around talking about random things...we got really wet because it was raining outside. :P
Anyways, it was pretty cool.
Tomorrow I'm going to one of my friends-from-church's birthday party sleepover (should that be sleepover birthday party? :]) so yeah I'm pretty excited for that,

*sigh of contentment*

I just finished my chores...yes, the sleepover is over *yawn*. We stayed up until one o'clock talking/giggling about MANY random things *ahem-ahem, cough-cough, sniffle-sniffle, snort-snort*...sorry, inside joke :D.

It was SO great!! I had so much fun!!

The Water Fight was incredible. I got hit with a plastic cup above my eye by Hannah (*pointed glare* jk :D) and I have a bruise/scratch there which grosses me out :D.

The Water Fight was incredible though. There was a lot of traitorous back-stabbing going on. For example, Jordyn was like to Jenna, "Oh, I'm on your team!" and then she would turn on her with the hose and completely soak her... *laughs*

What inspired the Water Fight was when Hannah and I dumped water on Jenna. Jordyn just playfully insulted Jenna, so Jenna stood up, shaking in mock indignation, and proclaimed, "I am going to talk to the hose!" She then struts down the deck stairs (leaving Jordyn, Hannah and I in spastics of laughter). Hannah jumps up, grabs her water cup, and whispers urgently to me, "Bekah, let's dump our water on Jenna when she walks underneath!!" So we stood by the deck until Jenna walked proudly underneath us. We both dumped our full water glasses on her; I scored, but Hannah completely missed. My ice-cubes all drummed Jenna on the head which was hilarious. Of course, Jenna ran back up, grabbed her cup and threw the water at me. Hannah turned on me with Jordyn's cup and dumped the water down my back, then sprayed Jordyn with the remaining water. All of us were wet anyway, so we just decided to have a Water War :D Which was a great idea.

Then after we all got dried off, Jenna wanted to have her left-over noodles, so I went and got them (at like eleven o'clock at night! :D) and I stole the parmesan chicken (I had the last bite and I was waving it in front of Hannah and she was like GIVE IT TO ME and I just ate it which was fun :D). Then Jenna started feeding the noodles to me one-by-one (which took a long time). Then she got impatient and started feeding them five-by-five, and then uncounted-by-uncounted...

We ended up taking cold noodles in our hands and scattering them all over Hannah and Jordyn...Jordyn didn't even care 'cause she was too busy killing gnats, and Hannah just screamed "BEKAH!!!!" while continuing to blog*clean out ears*

Let's just say I had the best birthday party I have EVER had!! I got incredibly great presents, and awesome cards...

I have the best friends EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *laughs*


PS: Jenna has a blog that I made for her this morning...click HERE to go there!! Be sure to follow her ;)

Sleepover

Alright, I'm in the middle of my birthday party sleepover, with three of my friends: Jordyn, Jenna (from Happiness), and Hannah (from Aspire)!!

Hannah came to my house early at three thirty; we dressed up (I had this long silvery skirt and my mom's red shirt and Hannah wore her confirmation dress, Jenna had an orange summer dress with white polka-dots and Jordyn had a black dress that ended at her knees and it had a decoration at her neck) and then waited for Jordyn and Jenna to arrive.

Anyways, so we went to the 3D movie Up (the second time I've seen it); it was extremely sad. Hannah cried four times (streaking her mascara), I cried twice (by cry I mean tears running down face), Jenna cried once, and Jordyn exclaimed loudly in several parts, laughing evilly on several occasions (mainly when the evil guy died) and generally making me crack up in sentimental parts.

Hannah was talking and I typed it up:

"I DID cry, and I WAS so freaked out my mascara would run...*laughs*"

Now her feet are up on my desk... *groans*

After the movie, we went to Noodles & Company which was really awesome. I love that place, as Jenna says (all three of them are reading over my shoulder, occasionally instructing me in what to say).

We then came home, ate ice-cream cake, opened presents, and played "Water Fight". I will upload one very gruesome (jk...?) movie later...probably... "Water Fight" was this very wet game consisting of throwing water from the hose and plastic cups (full of water...not the cups, the water in the cups ;). We all got extremely soaked.

Alright well we'd better wrap it up as it's 10:30...we're going to talk some more and then probably go to bed (Jenna is insisting that I type "hit the hay" instead of "go to bed"...). Right now, Jordyn is walking around, maliciously laughing, holding my LOTION and squashing innocent bugs with the bottom of my beloved Essence of Sweet Pea lotion!!

(Jordyn Typing:)
These bugs are MALICIOUS and BLOOD-SUCKING and they desreve to die!!!!!!!!!!!!
*mad cackle*

(Jenna Typing:)
Hello...it's Jenna! *crack up laughing*...as you know... *continue to crack up* *keep laughing, accompanied by Jordyn* I snorted today...just kidding!! *laugh so hard she's snorting* HELP WE ARE DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... AND MANY MORE OF THOSE THINGYIES !

(Hannah Typing:)
Okay, first I have to go read what they wrote. Hmm...Bekah and Jenna are eating noodles. BEKAH GIVE ME SOME OF THE PARMESAN CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Jordyn just killed another mosquito...I guess I'll read what they wrote later. Much later. Apparently Bekah loves those noodles....*laughs hysterically as Jordyn screams* Bekah's dropping noodles on Jordyn. Did I mention we had a HUGE water fight? I was SOAKED as in, I had to completely change. COMPLETELY. It was freezing. So freezing. *laughs* Bekah's choking on her noodles. LOL, I just read what they wrote...geez, that was funny. :D

Bekah again...wow those cold left-over noodles were really delectable...sorry, Hannah, we ate them all. She just groaned and said, "Wow, thanks Bekah." Jenna was feeding them to me one by one...yummy ;)

Well it's eleven now, so we'd better get to bed.