Heidi

Ok, every one is bugging me to post, and I’m not getting around to it (obviously). So one of my friends did a guest post for me! Hope you enjoy reading about my amazing day! You’ll never guess who wrote it…well maybe you will…give it a shot.

Hello all you amazing people reading this post! I hope you have a day that’s as amazing as mine was yesterday!

I did so many amazing things.

First I got up early, which I never do. But my brothers were throwing eggs at each other and my sister was dancing around in high heals in the room that is right above my bedroom, so what choice did I have but to wake up? Who can sleep through that?

I got up, opened the window, and took a deep breath of fresh early morning air. Very early morning air, I should say. And then, “thunk!” an egg smacked me right in the face.

First I yelled at my brothers. I mean ew, who wants egg on their face in the morning? Then I thought up a recipe for a new, terrific type of omelet. Then I was sad, because obviously, if my brothers were throwing eggs at each other there wouldn’t be any left for me to make a new terrific type of omelet with.

I went into the kitchen anyway. My mom was standing by the stove, making omelets. “Heidi!” she said, ‘’Can you think of a recipe for a new terrific type of omelet?”

“Of course,” I said, “why?”

“Because a truck full of eggs has broken down right in front of our house, and everyone is getting tired of eating normal omelets.

“OK,” I said, as delighted as can be.

I began whipping up a batch of my new terrific omelets. But it wasn’t long before I ran into a problem. We were out of canned peaches. (yes, my recipe required peaches. It’s not that weird. Lots of people eat fruit with their eggs for breakfast, so why not fruit in their eggs?”

“Walk down to the neighbors and borrow a can of peaches,” said Mom.

So I walked down to the neighbors to borrow a can of peaches. Actually I ran, because I had to dodge the eggs that my brothers were throwing around. Three of them hit me, and they all hit me on the head. I had lots of egg goo on my face.

When I knocked on the door of my neighbors house, the old lady that lived there took one look at me and ran away screaming. I guess all that egg on my face made me look pretty freaky. So I went into the house to get the peaches myself.

In their dark narrow pantry they seemed to have every type of food it is possible to can, and even some foods I didn’t think it was possible to can, but no peaches. I walked farther in. And farther. And farther. Did the pantry have no end? Everything was dark, and I started imagining lots of creepy things with sharp teeth that could be back here.

Then, out of the darkness, something bit the tip of my left pinky. I screamed and ran, grabbing a random jar as I went. I didn’t stop running until I reached home, even when two more eggs hit my head. I must have looked really scary by then, because when I got home my sister said, “hey Heidi, let’s put on a play. You can be the ogre and I can be the princess.”

She didn’t have any egg on her. When I asked her why, she said it was because people were afraid to throw eggs at her for fear she would kick them with her high heals.

That was about that time I looked down at my jar, and realized I had grabbed a can of canned grapes. Who cans grapes anyway?

What choice did I have? Everyone was hungry. I put the grapes in the omelet. Everyone adored it. They kept asking me to make more.

At 3:15 that afternoon I finally had enough of people asking me to make them omelets and my little sister asking me to be an ogre in a play. I put 15 omelets in a plastic bag and ran away from home.

Wherever I went people were scared of me. It was fun. It was hot, so I jumped in the pond to cool off, and after that no one was scared of me because the egg washed off. Here are some more cool things I did while I was away.

I followed a lady with a blue purse for half an hour and she never noticed that I was following her.

I went up to a boy I had never seen before and started talking to him like I knew him.

I tried to fry an egg on the sidewalk. (there was still one in my pocket from making so many omelets this morning)

I told all the people standing around watching me fry an egg on the sidewalk all about my amazing day. They all thought I was amazing.

I sold my omelet recipe to a guy for $102.

Then, that evening, I started feeling guilty for stealing our neighbor’s canned grapes. So I went and apologized. She didn’t care. Then I went home and slept in my own bed because it is very comfortable.

Now do you understand why yesterday was so amazing? The only part that wasn’t amazing was the thing that bit me in the pantry. I still don’t know what that was.

The Basilica in the Vatican was simply amazing! It took over 300 years to build and is smothered in gold. The details are exquisite and there are hundreds of paintings and sculptures. It was awesome to see, but also sad to know that they built it seeking God’s favor but without a relationship with Him, it’s completely empty.

The front entrance

Two Sisters

The Altar

A Dome

Seeking a blessing from St. Peter

Angels of Light

Entrance Expectations

Outside in the courtyard

Frieda and Kristi

Fun in the Courtyard

Sorry guys (esp. Crystal) but I really don’t have time to post pictures. I only get limited internet access and our days are packed full! I will post when I get home though! Europe is great! We’re in Switzerland right now, and the Euro 08 soccer championships are going on right now. I just got back to my room from watching the semi-finals Turkey vs. Duetchland game…Duetchland won! It’s a HUGE thing over here and we have gotten in on some WILD times! I don’t really know where to start and stop with telling you what all we’ve been doing, and I have to get some sleep, so I’ll tell you more later! God is good! All the time!

I had a lot of excuses for why I have not been updating, but I guess I’ll just skip those and say sorry. Sorry.
We are in KC waiting for our flight to Chicago. We were planning on leaving from Wichita this morning but last night when Benji and I got back from our youth social, Dad informed us that our flight had been canceled and we have to leave in about two hours for KC to catch another flight. So I’m rather tired…and rather excited… We get to Rome Saturday morning! We also meet Hans there for three weeks of touring Europe! Oh, we are boarding now…got to go!

Whadduyathink?
I think the ‘joy’ picture needs more contrast, but I’m too lazy to fix it since it’s already uploaded and everything…sry.
It’s great fun shooting at the beach!

There are bluffs on the beach which are great for jumping…I wasn’t posing for a picture, but Benji was shooting. I thought this picture was kinda cool, so I found a quote and played with it a little bit on Photoshop and I rather like the results…

Well, graduation is over…
No more Steven at school to make me laugh my head off and no more Matt to hold the door open and say good morning…
Oh well, way to go guys!
Graduation weekend was fun…pretty much fried my brain the first half and partied away the second half and got no sleep either half. Friday afternoon Steven and I were at school finishing up tests and Mrs. I and Mr. Schrock were both there working hard. Steven was giving us the layout of his day, “Today is just a good day. First of all I get to hand in my last PACE, go hang out with friends, get the final things ready for tonight, get all dressed up, walk up on stage, get my diploma, and everyone claps for me. Then I get to stand in line and shake everyones hand and get my flowers squished. Then we have the party at church, and I get lots of presents. And after that party, go play basketball in the shop with a bunch of people for a long time. And maybe after that I should do an all-nighter with Matt…hmmm.” Mrs. I and I both give him deathly cold glares, so he quickly added, “BUT, of course, the best part of the whole day is hanging out here right now with such excellent people!”
Much better.

I’m discovering Photoshop. Here are a few creations I made while learning how to use it…

We will definitely miss you seniors next year, but I know God has other great plans for you besides just school!

*Photos by Benji

Monday evening we left Wichita and flew to Chicago then to Boston. We spent the night in Boston then in the morning flew on a really little plane (6 passenger) to the island of Nantucket. Our friends own a house here and are generously letting us use it! The house is charming, the beach is amazing and the whole island is super fantastic!

*Picture credits go to Benji*
More pictures may come later, but we’re heading to the beach now…

Any questions?

Ok, no I didn’t choose the colors, no, I didn’t choose the day, no, I didn’t choose the bridesmaids, no, I didn’t even know I was having a wedding today actually, and the worst part of it was that I didn’t even get to choose the groom. =O

Well, actually, It was kinda crazy, but all of us underclassmen girls showed up at school today dressed like this, totally unplanned and we started looking at each other and were like “wow, this is amazing!” Then someone suggested that it looked like a wedding, so we had to take pictures of course and have ourselves a little wedding. lol. Thanks to Sheila for being the photographer…

Now a slight change in subject, but tomorrow is our last day of school!! (Those exclamation points were not for excitement, but for grief and…umm…sadness.) You might think it’s crazy, but it is really sad that school’s ending so fast! We had so much fun this year and the fun seemed to only be gaining momentum towards the end. Don’t get me wrong I am looking forward to this summer, almost like no other, and I will be glad for the break from all the PACE work, but it’s still just a ‘tiny bit sadish’ as Frieda would say. Btw, some of you might know this already, but our family is going to Europe this summer for almost the whole month of June…I! Can’t! Wait!
Today was the second to last day of school, and of course it was a blast! But sort of a sad blast…if that’s possible. Cause everything we did was so much fun, but I kept thinking that this will be the last time we do this and have so much fun with these same people for a long time. At least I’m not graduating this year…whew.
After school a group of us played basketball. It was great, we played hard and had fun. After we reached 50, we went outside and played v-ball in the rain, that was awesome, except the ball got heavy and rather slippery. We talked for a while in the shop, laughing about funny things that had happened this year and just hanging out. We relocated to the kitchen when someone mentioned the ice cream left over from lunch today. We found some left over Pepsi from lunch and had Pepsi floats then also discovered that there was some chips, salad, and Bar-B-Q beef stuff left over from lunch as well. (We ordered that stuff for lunch today with our money that we got from recycling pop cans.) So we had some more fellowship with food. Good Times.

Now, I’m at home updating my blog when I have a ton of schoolwork waiting for me in my bedroom. I’m sure I’ll be up till 3 or later, cause I really have to get that stuff done before tomorrow. So ttfn, pray for me that I’ll get it all done =)

There’s a fairly nice sized thunderstorm going on outside tonight and just after a really loud thunderclap, Dad randomly opens the door, looks up and says, “Hey God…Nice!”