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TA-DA!!!! A POST!

lol, srry i haven't posted in forever. I guess i was just... uh.. brain dead there for a while? =P in any event.... Here is something for ya'll to chew on until i get something real to write about. =)

Well, YAY! I'm offically an adult now! And i can drive! YAY!!! (no licence YET.) And let's see... what else? Graduation is coming up! Hannah (my photographer!) just finished my pictures! They look awesome, Hannah! Thank you SO much! I'll post one of them just so ya'll can preview it. =) I think i'm gonna get my ivites out next week. I sent some 'test' announcements to Harold's to see how they'll turn out. I'm so excited for Graduation! Although i'm not looking forward to the speech! =S I guess i don't mind them terribly, but i sure wouldn't do it for fun! =P Anyway, so that's coming up. (May 31) I hope you all can be there! Tho i kno it's a little hard for you peoples who are half way across the country. =/ i'd still like to see you tho! (if you don't come, you can make your checks out to Sarah Smith...) LOL! JK! =P

Well, I'll write more later... I can smell the pizza wafting out of the kitchen... and i'm STARVING!! So until later... Luv ya'll! =)

Uh oh....

Well, today is my offical LAST day of being 17. =( I love seventeen! I can remember Emily and me counting down the days until we turned our "favorite" age. (remember Em?) =P We'd sit in her room talking about how cool it was going to be when we were both 17. lol, i don't know why exactly we thought it was such a cool number... maybe just cuz it sounded cool, or maybe becuase at the time it seemed really old. (i think we were 14 or 15ish) =P But in any case, we were both dying to be 17. And now after a full year of being 17, i have to give up the title! =( Emily still has a whole 9 months left! No fair! =P lol, well i guess 18 is pretty fun too. I'm KINDA hoping for a licence for my birthday present. (PLEEEEASE?!) LOL

Well, anyway, I'll try to post some pics of my B-day tomorrow... but i'm not sure if i'm gonna have the camera or not... we'll see. I can't remember if my dad's getting home tonight or tomorrow. ?=o We really need two cameras. REALLY REALLY badly. =P It's kinda driving me nuts to not have a camera on top of not having photoshop. =/

Well, I guess I'll see some of you Friday for church service. I miss everybody so much! I feel as if i haven't seen anyone in forever! lol, must be the missed Sunday. (we got snowed in Saturday night so they canceled church) SO can't wait to see ya'll then!

A message from the computer graveyard...

I think we might be cursed or something!! LOL.

Well, two days ago, Joshua took an axe to the computer.... ok, i'm kidding. But he DID decide to dump a whole cup of water on the laptop we JUST got from my dad's company. Yeah... somehow my dad didn't take that too well. (go figure, right?) =S SO, here we are AGAIN w/o a computer, and dad has to pay for yet another broken one.
(btw... I'm writing this from the library) Anyway... so nothing much to say. (that seems to be the norm lately) lol.

Oh, i guess i can think of ONE thing! My birthday is in 9 days!! I'm gonna be legal! Although you know, EVERYBODY who brings up my 18th b-day brings up jail! (?!?!) What?! Do i look like the criminal type?? (Don't you dare answer that. lol!) It's as if everyone is just WATING for me to rob a bank after i turn 18. What gives?? ROFL. whtvr. =P

So anyway, now that i breifed you on all the latest happenings... I'll just try to think of more interesting things to say when my dad get's back w/ his laptop. =) But don't hold ur breath. Luv ya'll!

*yawn*

Well here it is folks! It's that time ONCE AGAIN! Yup! You guessed it!......

IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER LAME POST!!!

WHOO! Yeah! Now ur excited! Just wanted to wake you up there.... *sigh*.... (oh boy).


Alright... SO! NO. I don't have anything to say! And NO. I don't have any new digital art. BUT. i DO have some drawings I'm gonna post. (FINALLY, something!) LOL. I almost never have the camera, so i decided to buckle down and draw some anime (and chibi). I haven't drawn in over a year now, so i'm a little rusty. But here's two pics i just did. Hope you like them! =S (i showed Laura last wednesday and she laughed... she thought they were mushy. LOL. Srry Laura! i like to draw cute little chibi kids hugging, and hey! It's waaay easier to draw people kissing than their whole face! So just think of it as laziness. lol.) =P



this one i tried to enhance a bit so it was clearer... but w/o photoshop it's kinda hard. =S but at least it's a little better. (this is chibi btw) =)


And here's the mushy one! lol! Maybe I'll dedicate this one to you Laura!! =D lol!


I'll see about drawing some more later. But for now this is it. =) L8r!

Me again...

Hey ya'll!

Well, srry it's been a while since the last post... and no pictures! It's SAD! But this time I'm posting from Angel's computer. My dad was on, so i drove all the way over to Angel's so i cud post just for you! Ain't I sweet?... ok, ok. So it just HAPPENED that i was ALREADY going over to babysit... but SO?! I'm still here and posting! lol. Well...Nway... =P


SO, i don't really have anything to say... No new photos, graphics, drawings, or photoshop of any kind. ='( *LOTS of tears* I can't WAIT till i get photoshop back!! And to think i was upset when the colors were just messed up! Now i'm really upset! lol. *sigh* Maybe I'll just have to beg Hannah or Rachel to bring their laptop to church so I can photoshop during lunch or something! LOL. (i would too!) =P

Oh... Molly wants to say something. I'll turn over the keyboard to her...

Molly:

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OK! WELL! That's a mouthfull, Molly! (lol) Unfortunatly, I think we're gonna have to cut you off so soon. Srry. Oh, she says goodnight to everybody... and quote, "dook dook dook... AHH! whadis? hhhm-no." Unquote. LOL. Oh... and Micah and Bradley say goodnight too. Ok boys! Back to bed! Hold on... I'll be back...


OK, well, anyway I s'pose i don't really have anything else to say... not that ANY of this has actually said ANYHTING. lol. But, if I think of anything else, I'll try to get on and post. I'll see about getting some pictures too. It's so boring w/o them! Angel has a camera here... but i have no idea where the USB cord is. =/ if i find it I'll post a picture... but in the meantime--- Miss ya'll lots! (in person as well as online!) =/

Sadness...

Well, we just called the Mac shop in sioux falls... and the terrible news is that it's dead. *SOB* They said if we wanted to fix it, it would be an estimate of $800. Enough to buy a whole new one. =/

I'm just glad they could save the hard drive.... that would have been SO SO SO bad if I lost ALL my work, all my pictures, a ton of photoshop downloads, and everything else I had saved on there for the past 4 years! I think I would have gone insane. But luckily they saved it. So now we're gonna have to get a new one. But I don't think we're gonna get another mac. ='( *tears* Dad thinks we can get something just as good with a PC. Esp now a days when computers are just getting packed with more and more power. I'll miss my mac tho. =( But the bright side is, that since we'd be switching to windows... i'd need to buy photoshop again since i have the mac version. (ok, so BUYING it AGAIN isn't the bright side...) BUT! We MIGHT get CS4!! Since we're gonna buy photoshop again, we might as well get the latest one. That would be awesome! But we'll see... I haven't checked the price difference in CS2 and 4 yet. But i s'pose we could probably get a student discount again...

Well, anyway... so that's the reason why I haven't updated, responded to e-mails, or commented in forever! =/ And now i don't even know how long it'll be till we even have a computer again! =( I don't know why the computer crashed... it's not THAT old. *sigh* I hate starting all over. I LOVE the mac. Oh well... can't do anything about it now. SO, I'll probably not be on as much cuz the only computer we have now is dad's laptop... and he's usually on it ALL the time for work. But I'll get on... even if I have to wait till he goes to bed! =P

Well, hope you all are doing well! I s'pose you can pray that we find a computer SOON, and for a good price. We're seeming to have some sort of omen with things breaking lately... everything keeps dying or falling apart. lol. First the Baby Grand, then the car, then the vacuum, then the computer, and then dad's laptop was on the frits for a while, and now we're all crossing our fingers hoping that our phones and the refridgerator don't have some sort of epidemic. lol. What else?

Luv to you all! xoxo =)

(srry, no pictures this time...) ='(

2009 Sweetheart Banquet!!

Well, here's the new one that was SUPPOSED to be posted last week. It's obviously old news for a bunch of you... so srry. =S But it's a post at least. SO here she be:

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Ok! I finally got the pictures and NOW I'm gonna FINALLY do a new post!! =D =D =D Aren't you happy!? I knew you would be. =P

Well, I will have to say that even though we had a lot of fun putting this together, I'm definitely glad we're done. =) Everybody did such an awesome job helping and serving. Laura and I couldn't have put it together without ALL the youth! The younger girls and a few guys did the AMAZING job of baby sitting for all the couples' kids. That's always a huge help. And the older teens stayed downstairs to help put together the plating and serving. The guys did an awesome job waitering, and they all looked great! And of course I would have totally lost it without my girls!
Rachel Haugaard was such a HUGE help! I think she brought half the decorations for the banquet!! They were leftovers and extra decos from her wedding, and she generously lended them to us to use. THANKS RACHEL! She ALSO did the amazing job of arranging all the the flowers. They looked beautiful. =) And she also got there on Friday extra early with Starbucks for Rachel, Amy, Laura, and I! You're so sweet Rachel!

Well, let's see...what happened that day.... Dubs and us Smith girls got up at about 5-ish that morning to leave at 6:30 for Sioux Falls. We met around 7 at Walmart and did last minute shopping for a few fresh foods and ice. We grabbed a few doughnuts and headed to Hyvee to get roses. When we got there we went in to ask how much roses were... It was insane!! It was 5.50 a rose, and around 25 dollars for a dozen! We were like.... no way are we going to spend 50 dollars on roses. And they weren't even that good looking! I had bought roses at Hyvee before, and i just couldn't remember spending THAT much on them. So we finally decided to just go ahead and TRY the other Hyvee on 41st. So we go in, expecting the same thing. I went up to the lady and asked if they had any white roses, and she came back with these GORGEOUS white roses. We thought for sure they'd be the same price, esp. since they looked so good. But when I asked she was like, "Well, since they're kinda on their way out... I'll give them to you for a dollar a rose." !!!!!! We were ecstatic. So we got a dozen white roses and a dozen red ones for a dollar each! We ran out of the store laughing and dancing all over the parking lot!! It was so hilarious! But we were too psyched to care. =P

So after that we headed over to the church at about 8:30. Laura and I started pulling out tables while Rachel and Amy set up the chairs. My dad had said we would probably have to wait to get the dividers out, but Laura and I decided to just try and see if we could lift them. We were pretty pessimistic at first... until we got all three dividers set up. =P We were feeling like we could lift anything after that. LOL. We kept running around trying to see who could lift the most chairs and other stupid stuff. LOL. Dorks. =P Anyway, after we got the main stuff put up we started decorating. Laura pressed all the table cloths while I sprayed glitter on rose petals. Amy and Rachel were dolls washing the dishes for us! THANK YOU GIRLS! Then Laura and I had the arduous task of matching silverware! AHHH! Now since not all of you know what our church's silverware drawer looks like I'll explain... There are about two or three drawers FILLED with mismatched silverware. Knives, forks, spoons, ladles, teeny tiny forks, serving spoons, serving forks, butter knives, steak knives, you name it! and we probably had it in there.... somewhere. SO we began trying to find decent matches. We thought, hey, only 38 sets... that's not too hard. AHHH!!!! Riiight.

NWAY, so that finally got done. By then we were all starving and wanting to go out to eat. So we all piled into the car and headed off to a gas station. Luckily it was Friday, so all the drinks were a penny an ounce. We checked out then huffed it back to church. By then we were all getting a little hyper so we decided to blow off some energy by singing and playing piano (and running around some!). =P We finally headed back downstairs to start getting ready. I've never seen so many cosmetics, hair supplies, and clothing all in one little bathroom! LOL! We had fun getting ready tho. Then about an hour later Rachel H. came in with STARBUCKS!! WE LOVE YOU RACHEL!!!!!! =D =D =D!!!! We started to speed up our progress as Emily Schuurmans, and a few Hanson kids came in early to help. By about 5 we were all in high gear! Laura and I were rushing around trying to get finishing touches done and answer about 10 questions a minute. LOL. Then within 15 minutes of the Banquet starting we realized we didn't wash any salad plates and we didn't have a lighter to light the candles!! So we had Daniel Hanson run to the store to pick up a lighter, and Michelle Erikson and I washed and dried dishes as fast as we could! There was a few frantic moments like when we had to have things come in and out of the ovens, or when we plated the main dishes. The main dish was probably the hardest part just because there were more components to it. But we eventually got it all plated and out to the guests.

The guys did a FABULOUS job this year once again. I got a little concerned when they didn't seem to be listening to any of the instructions I kept changing on them! LOL. But they pulled it all off. So I suppose they're more talented than I thought. =P They didn't dump any food on anybody at least... =P

Well, that's about it, besides all the mountain of dishes and clean up we had afterwards! Emily was indispensable the whole night, but man, she really took on a HUGE job... washing ALLLLLLLLL the plates and glasses and silverware and chargers and serving utensils! I think we counted around 250 dishes + 138 pieces silverware! Wow. I was definitely impressed. HUGE thanks to Emily for being such a trooper! Katrina Larson and Hannah Hanson took turns drying ALLLLLL those dishes. THANK YOU GIRLS!!! Everyone did such a good job jumping in to help clean. That's always the hard part. But we finally got it done at about 11 that night! I was definitely ready for bed. I crashed at about 1 when I got home. Getting up at 5 in the morning and going to bed at 1 doesn't feel too good the next day. =S lol.

WOW. That was insanely looong. Now that you just read my latest book... Here's some of the pictures! =P



Setting up tables...







Ok. Here's the proof that we actually lifted and dragged these things into the other room! LOL. Ain't we strong? =P



Here's all those sets of silverware we were putting together!



And here's those wonderful girls washing dishes! =D



Here's a pic that shows most of the dishes and stuff. There were so many!



And here's a pic of the table decos. =)

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Well, Srry this is it. These are all the pics that i already downloaded last week. I can't get to my pictures cuz they're all on the hard drive... in the mac... at the shop. (did i use enough prepositional phrases?) =P You'll just have to look at Rachel's blog to see the rest of the pics. (livingourlove) It's in my list of people I follow. She posted one about the Banquet too.