Yep, I got me a new blog

Check it out at  http://theglamlg.blogspot.com/

~Ellie

*Warning* This post was not intended to make any sense

Before you get too excited let me tell you that I’m not going back to blogging just yet.

I’m just blogging about my birthday.

Instead of writing a big excuse on why I’m doing this, why don’t you all pretend it makes sense and that your all cool with it?

It will be easier (for me) that way

:The morning of my Birthday:

I opened my gifts early before Dad had to go to work.

There I am wearing the hat that;

Has Nathan convinced they were giving it out for free at the store. Because “no one in their right mind would buy it”

Luke thinks it’s too big for my head and that I really  should wait a few more years until I get smarter and if fits me better to wear it.

And it’s also the hat that Autumn tells everyone “it looks way better” on her.

Yeah, that hat.

Luke was really excited about my birthday.

So much so he could hardly stay awake during the opening of gifts.

Autumn tied the knot on this bag really tight and so I had trouble opening it.

She says it’s because I’m “just a weakling”.

But I know it’s because she didn’t want me to have purse inside.

She’s like that.

And here is the purse that Autumn didn’t want me to have.

The amazing, wonderful purse I’m in love with.

Well, one of them.

:Afternoon of my Birthday:

I went out for ice cream with my friends

The week before my birthday I had been keeping on eye on the weather. I had planed a trip to Ben& Jerry’s for some ice cream with some of my friends so I really wanted it to be sunny. But the forecast called for sunny and warm all week expect for my birthday.

But I still had high hopes knowing that the weather here is impossible to predict.

It rained really hard the morning of my birthday.

My brothers thought that was really funny.

I did not.

But around 3:00 the sky begun to clear up and my friends and I (brave souls that we are)  started out on the trek to B&J.

By the time we got there and were served our ice cream the sun was out shinning. We happily eat our ice cream in the warm sunshine.

And this is a picture of all of us; Happy in the sun

And I would like to thank the sun for honoring us with his presence.

You made my day.

My Dear Blogreaders,

Meet George, aka my personal enemy. He has the most annoying voice ever and is *so* commanding.

I hate him.

Which is why it makes no sense at all why I like this picture so much. I’m also really surprised it come out so clear considering I was walking away from him and talking about how much I hate him when I was taking this picture.

Your probably asking yourself  “how does he have anything to do with your birthday??”.

Just trust me when I tell you, he does. I would explain but I can stand to talk about him anymore right now.

Maybe some day I’ll explain.

But for now, your just going to have to take my word for it.

:Suppertime:

Waiting for my cake

My mom tells me that when I was little I LOVED my tongue and use to play with it all the time.

I guess I never grew out of that.

Luke told me he really likes this picture.

He thinks it’s “pretty cool looking”

I think it’s strange.

People are always telling me Luke is strange.

I never believed them.

Until now.

I look like I’m planing something really evil in this picture.

That would probably be becasue I was.

At that one moment I was having a battle within myself.

For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to throw cake at someone.

And Nathan was sitting right next to me.

I could imagine just how much delight it would give me to throw cake at him.

I could also imagine how much trouble I would get into.

So with every ounce of self control I have inside of myself I made myself sit quietly while my family sang the happy birthday song and then next I blew out the candles.

But the urge was even greater now.

I could hardly control myself.

He was sitting right next to me.

Looking the other way.

But once I again I manged to control myself.

I’m still not sure how I manged to do that, but I did.

I still want to throw cake at someone. So if your having a cake throwing party invite me.

Pretty Please.

I ended the wonderful day with an evening of eating leftover ice cream and cake with Nathan, Luke and Autumn as we watched Gladiator. I knew that if I left to get my camera and take pictures there wouldn’t be any ice cream left for me.

And quite frankly, I would rather have ice cream then pictures.

So ended a fabulous day.

And a pretty ok year.

I’m now ready to have the best year I’ve ever had.

Yep, I’m quitting this blog for now. I decided it a couple weeks ago. I have been blogging for almost two years now and I have loved every little part of it. In fact I probably loved it too much which is why I have decided to take a break from it. Life for me has been a lot busier now and there always seems like there is something that needs to be down and blogging is kinda distracting for me. During the day I’m always on the look out for a subject for a good post and when I find it I roll the story over and over in my mind till I have come up with something good and then I have to type it out and edit it. So most of the day in my mind I’m thinking about a blog post when I really could be thinking about something much more important. I know there’s a way to blog without it talking over your life but I haven’t found it yet and until I find it I won’t  be blogging. It may be six mouths it may be a year or two.  I know I will miss blogging a lot but I hope that will drive me to get my days more organized. But I won’t be completely off the face of earth (or Internet) I will still be posting the “young maiden’s daybook” on  Feeling Feminine each Monday and I hope to be able to start Typewrote Misquote e-mag soon as well as posting pictures every now and then on our family’s blog. I also will still be reading all your blogs and commenting

So for now, good bye all!

That at one point in my life I would fall in love. And it’s happened. I came across this picture and one look was enough. I love it. And another big plus is that I would at last have a good  reason to carry around a one of those really awesome huge purses!

Yesterday morning I was doing laundry and making my bed when I heard Peter screaming my name. Unlike Hanni he doesn’t normally do that so I ran to him only to find he standing with Hanni in front of the big window in the living room with a very concerned look on his face – “ELLIE, there’s a guy outside in that car and he’s stealing our Internet!” Sure enough there was a guy in a black car in front of our house with his laptop open “stealing our Internet”. My first thought was “how in the world does a eight year old who it takes ten minutes to tell you the answer to 5×5 understand wi-fi?” But that wasn’t Hannis first thought she told me that I should go and “chase him off” (Because we all know he would be so scared of what I might do to him) Peter answered her by saying “She cant do that because  it’s not against the law to steal someones Internet but when I become President the first thing I am going to do is make it against the law to steal other people’s Internet”. You do that Peter.

And for now you must be so proud, Silas to have a little brother following you in your footsteps.

It’s a new year and  I have begun to make my yearly “books to read”  list.

Last year I didn’t really read as much as I normally do but the books I did read were some of the best books I have ever read.

Some of the best ones were;

Don’t waste your life – by John Piper

Crunchy Cons – By Rod Dreher (not that I agree with everything in this book but I found it very humorous! )

Do hard things – by the Brett and Alex Harris

And of course : Herodotus Histories – by Herodotus

This year I plan on reading:

• Thucydides

• Xenophon, The Persian Expedition

• Plato: Euthyphro, Apology

• Plato: Republic

• Plato: Timaeus,

• Aristotle: Metaphysics

• Aristotle: Poetics
• (Now on the in interesting books )
  
• When I don’t desire God how to fight for joy – by John Piper (“Piperson” as my little sister calls him:)
  
• Let the nations be glad – By John Piper
• Jane Eyre – by Charlotte Bronte. I really didn’t like the movie/s of this book so I have put off reading this book but as I really enjoyed other Bronte novels and as it is a classic I’m going to push my prejudiced thoughts aside and read it. I am also ashamed to admit that I don’t think I have ever finished a single book by Charles Dickens ( I’ve watched a lot of the movies  – does that count?) I think I am going to start with “A tale of two city’s”  I have heard a lot of people say that was their favorite one and that it’s not nearly as strange as his other books.
• Stepping Heavenward- by Elisabeth Prentiss. I have read already read this book half a dozen times but it’s one of those books that I like every year.

I am ashamed to admit that I don’t think I have ever finished a single book by Charles Dickens ( I’ve watched a lot of the movies  – does that count?) I think I am going to start with “A tale of two city’s”  I have heard a lot of people say that was their favorite one and that it’s not nearly as strange as his other books.

And during the year I always find other books to read. So, what was you faviorte book you read last year?

~Ellie

….It just sounds boring when I talk about it. Which is why I have had the  lack of posts this past mouth. It seems the busier and the more things I have going on in my life the less things I have to post about. I really don’t feel like explaining that right now so please for my sake let’s all pretend it makes perfect sense and move on.

Yesterday was Hannis birthday – she is six years old now. We didn’t do anything huge but she did go out to breakfast with Mom and Dad yesterday morning but of course she couldn’t eat a thing and was puzzled by why there was a front of a car hanging on the wall For her  birthday present I told her I would take her to Starbucks today and she was so excited! I also found that I am not the only one who likes to people watch. We also went to old navy and Borders. I was disgusted by the lack of decent books in the little kid’s shelves! But we both had a great time anyway.

Three days ago I had my hair cut for the first time and I am really pleased with how it turned out. I have been told that I look five years older and also that I look like I ‘m 11 with the new cut; I take that to mean I look the same age For all the facebookless people here are some pictures:                                                                                                                   

Before

AfterI realize the after picture is strange but I have posted lots of pictures of me smiling and looking like a lady over the years so I just thought it was time for a “real me” picture. Wait, did I just say I wasn’t a lady? I should stop posting now before I say something else like that.

~Ellie

Once upon a time there lived two girls name Jessica and Ellie. Jessica was the oldest in her family and she had a brother and a sister. Ellie was the fifth born in her family and she had six brothers and two sisters. Their family’s first met when they were three and one– it didn’t take long for them to become great friends. Fast forward six years they are better friends then ever despite Jessica strange habit of looking in Ellie’s closet and requesting that when Ellie grow out of a certain article it be given to her but sometimes she couldn’t wait or didn’t trust Ellie to keep it nice so she would buy the same piece of clothing. One day Ellie found a t-shirt at oldnavy which she really liked so she bought it. When Jessica saw it she was so jealous and wanted to know where it was found so she could buy one like it but when she got to oldnavy she couldn’t find it in her size and told Ellie that she might some day steal hers and wear it. Ellie laughed it off knowing that Jessica often said silly things. Months later Jessica was at Ellie’s house for dinner and they were both having a great time. Ellie had to leave the room to do some laundry and when she come back she noticed a stack of laundry which had been on her bed earlier was no longer there but didn’t think much of. That is until the next morning when she was searching for the t-shirt she loved so much. She couldn’t find it anywhere and finely came to the conclusion that her dear friend Jessica had really and truly stolen her shirt. Later when they met up that day a guilty Jessica returned the t-shirt to Ellie and when Ellie returned home she put it in her drawer to save it for the next time she saw Jessica. Later that same day Ellie received a letter for the culprit that she had found the same shirt on a great sale and had bought it. So they both lived happily ever after with each of their own “peace on earth” t-shirts.

The End.

Tomorrow Jessica turns 13. And I just wanted to tell you Happy Birthday! I hope you have a fun day and another great 13 years! But with a pink itouch how could it not be! Right?

Love and hugs,

Ellie

One of the greatest things about tags are that it gives you something to post when you don’t feel like writing

2. A 4 Letter Word: Ellie
3. A Boys Name: Elisha
4. A Girls Name: Elsie

6: A color :Eggplant purple

13. Something you shout: “Elisabeth you are so imature!”

I promise that a more orignal post is comeing shortly.