17th birthday:(

Well my older sister is growing up way to fast any more! I don't want to think about 2 years from now because she will be gone!!:'( Next year is just going to be really hard for this family.I'm pretty sure I'm going to cry right after school this year! At 12:01 she will be officially a senior. Unless you count now because we don't have any seniors!

In 3 days my beautiful sister is going to be seventeen!! I hope she has the best birthday ever......in her life!And hopes she likes her presents!! Be ready for some early morning picture!!!:) I love you, Madi! I want to be the first one to tell you happy birthday...sorry but I'm planning to intrude on your sleep!:)

Well Happy Birthday beautiful sister-of-mine!

-hk

A Black Tie Affair.-Junior Prom.

*Sigh* Another prom has come and gone, again. I had a complete blast and didn't want the night to end! :) This year was a little crazy, considering that the junior class throws the party for the senior class! Our class has had many work nights and put many hours into getting ready for the event, and everything turned out fabulous! I just thought I'd show it all through pictures instead of making you read a bunch! (Plus, I still haven't got much sleep since prom night and this is less thinking on my part;) )
-the day/night before prom was spent finishing up all the decorations that needed to be set up(Balloon arch), setting the tables, and then also some primping. Fake nails were added, hair was dyed(Kaysha's), extensions were put in, and of course some worrying on my part. Ha, I stress easily!

Balloon Arch! looks wonderful mommy! :)

dinner set up!

fake nails!

Hair dye!

Extensions!

-Saturday!

Kaysha, Emilea, and I. She wantedto get ready with us so bad!

Colby fixing my hair, she's the best!

prooommm hair!

finishing touches before getting dressed:)

right after getting the dress on!

Mi Familia. <3 We all looked so good!

waitin' on my date to show up!

hehe(:

Brian Lane :)

His flower, why is it the girls get the hard job?

Showin' off our shoes!

My favorite! Leavin' for prom~

Our flower rings

cousages

all dolled up:)

my two-step/swing dancing partner!

i love these guys they're my best friends. always there for me!

Brian and my name card!

dinner and name cards!

perfect view of our pond!

my mommy:) she's done so much for us, thanks for everything! I love you!

Amanda and I.

Halfway thru the dance!

Taylor Ann!

Awh!

the last song. Boyfriend and I.

after prom crew!

photo booth!

Blow up one

two!

THREE!

AND four!

very last picture of the night! :)

Class of 2013 :)

oh, i love us.

showing our pretty dresses

'THE face'

the 'act like were actually laughing but it's really posed' photo. :)

we're awesome. yes, we are aware of it.

Track...Cheer leading.......PROM...and some other things!

    Well first off I am going to tell you about Track! This last track meet on Thursday we did pretty good at our relays. We had 3 sixths graders and 1 seventh grader, and went against mostly seventh and eighth graders in this category. In our heat we got First,First, and Fifth. Over all based on our time we got fourth, fifth, and sixth. Which was really good for us! Hopeful the next track meet I do better I am doing the 100, 200, and 4x100!:)

    Madison has had cheer leading practice twice now I think. But won't get on the computer to blog! What a slacker! She got her uniforms two weeks ago and I must say she looks pretty good in them.;) She has already learned a dance, and I haven't even learned a cheer!

    I have a vocal contest on Wednesday and am going to Jet more! Besides singing with the vocal group and am singing in an ensemble. As a group we are singing Hitch your dreams to the morning star, and Shine your light! In my ensemble we are singing Wings by Carl Strommen. They are all are really good, fun songs to sing!Wish me good luck!
    Prom.Madison will probably blog about this but just going to say it is on Saturday!And Madison looks very pretty in her dress!
    Has anyone else notice that my wonderful, amazing, beautiful sister's birthday is in 17 days!And she's going to be 17!:) Not looking forward to seeing her leave for college next year!:( But its going to be a blast this year and next year!!:) Love you, Madison!




     Thanks, Hannah. B-)      

Weekend!

We spent Easter in Medicine Lodge. The morning of it we went to our church and then we headed down there. We first spent it with the Klusman side! The Fowler girls Ava, and Anne missed Madison and I. I got my birthday presents from them and then we had a Easter egg hunt! Ava had so many eggs her bag was about to overflow!! Anna just liked the jelly beans.:) In the afternoon we went to spend it with the Collins side. Molly and I played the Xbox 360 kinect ! Then we had a Styrofoam sword fight! We both had red marks afterwards!:) After we eat we had a Easter egg hunt and got some delicious candy and a dollar and twenty-five cents!!Then they hid a ten dollar bill for who ever got a certain color of egg got the money. Madison got the pink egg and got the 10 dollars!:( It was a great Easter and we remembered the real reason why we celebrate it.:)

On Thursday i had my second track meet! On the first one the school did really well so we were trying to keep it up!! This track meet I did the 4 by 100, 4 by 200, and the medley.Let me tell you that the last two are not fun! We end up getting 3rd over all in the 4x100 because one team got a red flag!! The 4x200 we got 4Th!! And the medley we got a red flag because i didn't get the baton in the yellow triangles.:( But we did good and got 2 out of 3 medals!!!:)

On Friday the Stout boys came over after school because of a high school track meet. Lets just say that James and I got in a water fight and I ended up with dish soap in my hair! Plus now I think my hair is blonder!!:) We had hot dogs and hamburgers over a fire and cooked s'mores afterwards! It was a great night. After that James and Josh started dancing so we brought music out for them. They had some great moves! I would post a video but its not on the computer yet!! That's all for right now thanks for reading.:)

-Hannah

Random:)

Well, it's been a long time since someone posted on here. So I decided to catch up some stuff. Here we go:

1. Cheerleading. Yep, Madison and I are cheerleaders! Both of us were really nervous at the try-outs!! But the practice paid off and we both got it!! Mom and Dad are really excited to have two cheerleaders!!:)Haha!

2. Madison got her Prom dress. We went up to Topeka to watch Easton and Hayden and Madi wanted to go shopping. After going to Kansas City, spending a couple hours and trying a couple of dresses, we went back to Marla's empty handed. We ended up finding her the one the next day in Topeka. She looks absolutely beautiful in it!:)

3. My twelfth Birthday!! I had to go to school on my birthday but celebrated it the Saturday before. We went paint balling at my aunt's house and brought our neighbors Tanner, and Shane. The Millers, and Broxtermans came out too. After getting some cool bruises we went back to the house to cook hot dogs, and S'mores!! We all had a great time and can't wait to do it again! I also got a Kindle Fire, Hunger games magazine, a book, and some cool KU t-shirts ,and some shorts for my birthday.

4. Daizy had puppies!! She had 4 but since it was so cold we just have 1 now.:( We all are in love with this dog! We call him Lucky now since hes lucky to be alive.

5.Track!! Last Tuesday we had our first track meet. I was soooo nervous!! My relay team did good and ended up getting 3rd place! I did the 100 meters and 200 meters also, I got 3rd on the 100 and 4th on the 200! The 200 was really close though the girl who got 3rd was like 5 cm a way!!

Well that's all I have for now. Have a great Easter!

-Hannah

P.s. Who's birthday is coming up and will be turning 17?!!My shorter/older sister Madison is growing up way to fast!! Not looking forward to next year!:(

Bad Blogger..

So, it's been awhile since my last blog. :/ Like 6 months?!? Luckily, Dad and Hannah have both added one so it doesn't look like its been THAT long, but I do realize I missed out on blogging about many important things.. so here goes!

Happy Birthday! I feel extremely bad for missing this date in particular, Grandpa Thaine's birthday waas the 7th of December. Actually, I started like 2 different blogs on it but never got around to posting anything:( But better late than never!

Like I said his birthday was the December 7th and would've been 79 years old, I believe. The one thing I can remember most about Grandpa was that he would always tell us girls( Hannah and I ) that we were built like basketball players. :) Now, every time I play or even just go and watch Hannah play, I think about that. Also, He was always so happy and that he liked to tell us stories! Every time we went and visited him he would smile the whole time. We love and miss you Grandpa, so much.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE KLUSMANS! haha:) This year we all went up to Kyle & Jen's house for our family Christmas on Dad's side. We ended up with lots of presents and I had a blast playing with all the little kiddos:) Oh, how I love them! They prepared some great food, and it was fun just to hang out with everyone that day. We ended up with both Ava and Anna's names, so we got both girls animalpillow pets and I also got Ava a bracelet kit. I think they liked it all:) Especially Anna with her monkey pillow, she held on to it the whole time or she was sliding around on her tummy on the floor with it. :)

CHRISTMAS! woo hoo! I love Christmas time! this is also something I was planning on blogging about and just didn't get around to it. Santa and Mom and Dad were very good to Hannah and I. I'm pretty sure we both got everything we asked for. Santa brought Hannah a Basketball goal, which she has been asking for this we lost our other two and I got a new camera!, among many other things. We also got these cool drawing things, they're all black then you take a special marker, and the color underneath appears! Ha, pretty sure they're meant for like 7 yr olds, but I love them!:) We put up a total of 11 trees this year, all with their very own theme, and right now we are in the process of taking them all down. :( Although the main tree and my tree in my room will be up as long as I can keep Mom and Dad convenienced that they shouldn't come down yet. When we take all the decorations down our house just feels so blah and empty.

InDepth! Hannah and I went to a youth group conference, that's held in Topeka, with our bible study group over break. I went last year, loved it, and pretty much forced Hannah to go this year! Soooooo very glad we went! We went up Thursday, the 29th and came come on New Years Eve. We spent most of our time listening to different speakers and listening to the amazing band, Down Here, perform. Hannah didn't feel good Thursday night or Friday morning, so she spent some time Friday at Marla and Justin's house relaxing and resting. She later joined back up with us Friday night and I'm so thankful that she felt good enough to come back later that night. Annndd I must tell you all something else about Friday night, too! My little sissy, gave her life to Jesus that night!! :) You have no idea how happy I was and am for her! Tears of joy started falling when I found out! Pretty sure I was almost more excited about it than her! She pretty much made my entire Christmas Break. :) I love You Hannah!

New Year's Eve! We ended up riding back to Sun City that day with Marla, Justin, and Hayden. Mom's side of the family all got together at the old gym(just like old times:) ) to celebrated a family Christmas. It's been awhile since we've all gotten together like that and it was a blast! There was tons of food, plenty of games, and lots of talking that night! When midnight finally rolled around, Sammy, Hannah, Molly, Emily, Easton, and I all went over and rang the church bell twelve times.:) Easton thought it was great! Mom later informed me that, when she was a kid they all did the exact same thing. I can't wait to do it all again next New Year's Eve!

Well that's everything, I think! Sorry that it's so long! Haha, I guess I'll have to just start blogging more regularly now, that way they are shorter posts! I'll just have to start a list of topics I can right about! LOL.

- Madi :)

Merry Christmas

Those that knew me in high school will recognize the name. For the others, I was Elwood to almost everyone once upon a time. Wrote this about 10 yrs ago. Merry Christmas.

It was Christmas Eve,
an we were all at the bar
When this old man came in
And said,"Who owns that car?"

I looked around the room,
The regulators all grinned.
"It depends," I said.
"Which one do you mean?"

Sweeping his arms long and low he said,
"The purple and white Cad.
I'm broke down and need
To borrow it bad."

The room grew quiet
As all eyes turned toward me,
For the car was mine
And only I had the key.

I spoke not a word
As he came over carrying his bag.
"I know its yours," he said.
"I read it on your tag."

Calmly I sat there,
Surprised that I could.
Then he bent to my ear, whispering,
"Don't you remember me, Elwood?"

Sitting there stunned,
The past suddenly came back,
For who could forget the eyes, the laugh,
And of course, his bulging pack?

Suddenly I knew it was OK.
The car would be back, nary a scratch.
And I heard him say,
"I know the paint would be hard to match."

I tossed him the key.
They landed in his hand.
"Be careful," I warned.
"Don't spin out in the sand."

The request was granted.
He started to leave,
Then I reached behind the bar,
Grabbed a package and gave it a heave.

As he opened it he looked at me,
His eyes starting to fill,
'Cause the shirt was his size
And read, "Property of Elwood's Bar and Grill".

He slipped it on
And started to fill his pipe.
I turned to wink at Susan,
And then he was gone from sight.

I wanted the others to see,
So I had to think fast.
"Quick! To the front windows!"
I managed at last.

To the windows we all went,
Quick as a flash.
Except for ol' Chris,
And he fell with a crash.

I pulled him up
And what would appear,
But the Cad, St. Nick,
And eight tiny reindeer.

We stood there amazed,
Silenced by surprise.
For on the hood was Rudolph,
With fog lights for eyes.

Then all was calm
When the Cad was gone from sight
And the bar emptied early,
For it was Christmas eve night.

Later I sat by myself,
My chest full of pride,
For I had saved Christmas,
But I wished I had went along for the ride.

Then I heard Santa cry
As I turned out the light,
"Merry Christmas to all,
And, Elwood, sleep good tonight!"