HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (NOV 8TH)

ON NOV 8TH, AARON AN I HEADED TO DISNEYLAND. IT WAS FUN, EXCEPT THE FACT THAT PIRATES IS CLOSED TILL NOV 23RD. DID CAPTAIN EO TWICE, SPACE MOUNTAIN, HAUNTED MANSION, THE NEW STAR WARS, THE LIL MERMAID, THE CHARACTERS AND WATCHED THE WORLD OF COLOR FOR MY 1ST TIME! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAS SAD THAT PIRATES WAS CLOSED THOUGH.SALLY, ME AND JACK SKELETON
ME AND POOH BEAR
ME AN EEYORE
ME AN MY CRAZY TIGGER
ME AND JACK SKELETON
ME AND GEPETTO
ME AN MICKEY (NASH WANTED A PIC OF ME WITH HIM)
THE NEXT THREE ARE ME AN CRAZY GOOFY

BACK IN BREA FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FINALLY BACK INTO THIS HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FURNITURE ARRIVES TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM ABLE TO SEE MY FRIENDS AGAIN THAT I HAVENT SEEN IN 3 YEARS AND WEAR SHORTS EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK UNLESS IM AT CHURCH! IM VERY GLAD TO BE BACK INTO THIS HOUSE AND HAVE MY OWN ROOM AGAIN! NOT TOO HAPPY TO GO THROUGH STUFF IVE STORED WHILE WE WERE IN NJ THOUGH
starting in june and until late october, this was my house (unless we were at the lake house). my brother, my sister (until sept), my sister-in-law, and my mom and dad (when they werent in NJ) all lived here along with my grandparents an their cute crazy dog beegee. it was difficult ill admit sharing a bathroom with three people and my room with my parents (when my dad was in town). the couch bed and couch are NOT comfy!

SERIOUSLY!?!??!?!?!!?

TWO YEARS AGO (SEPT 14, 2009) AN AMAZING ACTOR DIED. PATRICK SWAYZE! HE WAS AMAZING AND MADE PLENTY OF AMAZING MOVIES! HE ALSO DANCED (HENCE DIRTY DANCING). His mother is choreographer Patsy Swayze, owner of a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father was Jesse Wayne Swayze, who passed away in 1982. He graduated from Waltrip High School in Houston, and attended San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas. He married actress/dancer Lisa Niemi on June 12, 1975, whom he had known when she was 15 and a student at his mother's dance school. His New York City dance training included the Harkness Ballet School and Joffrey Ballet School. He first danced professionally as "Prince Charming" in "Disney on Parade". After a stint as "Danny Zuko" in the originalBroadway production of "Grease", he made his film debut as "Ace" in Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979). He made his television debut in "M*A*S*H", as a soldier diagnosed with leukemia. Eight years later, after considerable movie and television work, including choreography for Grandview, U.S.A.(1984), he received a Golden Globe nomination for his role as dance instructor "Johnny Castle" in the smash hit Dirty Dancing (1987). He received a second nomination for his portrayal of the ghost "Sam Wheat" in another box office champion, Ghost (1990). He was a solidly established box office star throughout the nineties. In December 2003, he returned to Broadway as a replacement for the lead role of "Billy Flynn" in the acclaimed revival of Kander & Ebb's musical "Chicago". The production also went on tour in several cities of the US, including Los Angeles. In January 2008, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He fought the illness for well over a year and was able to continue working, but died on 14th September 2009.


AN AMAZING SINGER DIED TWO YEARS AGO. MICHAEL JACKSON (JUNE 25, 2009). I GREW UP LISTENING TO HIS MUSIC AND I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE GONE TO ONE OF HIS CONCERTS. I HAD THE CHANCE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, BUT MY MOM DIDNT EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT CONCERTS WERE, SO I STAYED HOME TO WATCH SESAME STREET. I HAVE LOTS OF FAVORITE SONGS OF HIS, BUT SOME ARE: DIRTY DIANA, THEY DONT CARE ABOUT US, THRILLER, BAD, BLACK OR WHITE, SCREAM, WE ARE HERE TO SAVE THE WORLD, AND ANOTHER PART OF ME. I LOVE THE 3D MOVIE CAPTAIN EO! FUZZBALL IS THE CUTEST!!!!!!!!!!!! American superstar Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, and entertained audiences nearly his entire life. His father,Joe Jackson, had been a guitarist but was forced to give up his musical ambitions following his marriage to Katherine (Scruse). Together they prodded their growing family's musical interests at home. By the early 1960s, the older boys Jackie, Tito and Jermaine had begun performing around the city; by 1964, Michael and Marlon had joined in.

A musical prodigy, Michael's singing and dancing talents were amazingly mature, and he soon became the dominant voice and focus of TheJackson 5. An opening act for such soul groups as the O-Jays and James Brown, it was Gladys Knight (not Diana Ross) who officially brought the group to Berry Gordy's attention, and by 1969, the boys were producing back-to-back chart-busting hits as Motown artists ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "Never Can Say Goodbye," "Got to Be There," etc.). As a product of the 1970s, the boys emerged as one of the most accomplished black pop/soul vocal groups in music history, successfully evolving from a group like The Temptations to a disco phenomenon.

Solo success for Michael was inevitable, and by the 1980s, he had become infinitely more popular than his brotherly group. Record sales consistently orbited, culminating in the biggest-selling album of all time, "Thriller" in 1982. A TV natural, he ventured rather uneasily into films, such as playing the Scarecrow in The Wiz (1978), but had much better luck with elaborate music videos.

In the 1990s, the downside as an 1980s pop phenomenon began to rear itself. Michael grew terribly child-like and introverted by his peerless celebrity. A rather timorous, androgynous figure to begin with, his physical appearance began to change drastically, and his behavior grew alarmingly bizarre, making him a consistent target for scandal-making, despite his numerous charitable acts. Two brief marriages -- one to Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley -- were forged and two children produced by his second wife during that time, but the purposes behind them appeared image-oriented. Despite it all, Michael Jackson's passion and artistry as a singer, dancer, writer and businessman are unparalleled, and it is these prodigious talents that will ultimately prevail over the extremely negative aspects of his seriously troubled adult life.

For it all to end on June 25, 2009, with his sudden death at age 50 of a drug-induced cardiac arrest, just as he was coming out of a four-year reclusive period and rehearsing for a sold-out London concert "comeback" in July, seems uncommonly cruel and tragic. Millions upon millions of dedicated fans will remember where they were "the day Michael died".

SOUL SURFER

LAST NITE, I WENT TO SEE SOUL SURFER WITH MY FRIEND SARAH ASKEW. IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE! IT WAS AN AMAZING MOVIE AND VERY INSPIRING! Bethany and Alana place first and third, respectively, while the second place winner, Malina Birch (Sonya Balmores), proves a fierce rival to Bethany. Bethany invites both girls up on the winner's box with her, but Malina ungraciously refuses. The Rip Curl surfwear company offers to sponsor Bethany and Alana in competition, in return for an advertising contract.

One night before Halloween, Alana and Bethany sneak off with some friends to go night surfing. Later, while Tom goes to the hospital for knee surgery, both of the girls go surfing with Alana's father and brother. As Bethany dangles her left arm in the water, a shark bites it off near the shoulder. Alana's father gets her out of the water and puts a tourniquet on Bethany while Alana's brother calls 9-1-1. An ambulance meets them on the way to the hospital. Just before starting Tom's surgery, Dr. Rovinsky (Craig T. Nelson) is called to the emergency room to treat Bethany. She has lost her left arm, along with 60% of her blood volume, and Dr. Rovinsky calls her survival a miracle.

Bethany's injury disqualifies her from the Rip Curl photo shoots, but she wishes her friend Alana well. Rip Curl is supportive of her, providing a prosthetic arm. The arm is cosmetically perfect and has bendable joints, but Bethany angrily rejects it when she learns it is not weight-bearing. The onslaught of publicity also proves to be a great strain on her and the entire family.

Nevertheless, Bethany perseveres and, after a recuperation period, gets back in the water and learns to surf with one arm, eventually re-entering competition. She tells her rival Malina not to take it easy on her, and rejects a five-minute head start offered by the judges. She doesn't perform well because she can't stay on the board long enough to go out and catch a competitive wave, and Malina wins. Disheartened, she decides to give up competitive surfing.

She sees the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on television, which places her own problems in perspective. She decides to surprise Sarah by joining the youth group on another mission trip to help the devastated people of Thailand.

The people are understandably afraid of the water, including a little boy. Bethany decides to go into the water with her surf board, hoping this will coax the boy into the water. It works, and the realization she can use her gift to inspire people motivates her to take up surfing again.

Tom rigs a handle on her surf board which she can use to prevent falling off while paddling out to the waves, which is not prohibited by the competition rules. He also voices the belief that Bethany possesses a great surfer's instinct for sensing when the best waves will form. She enters the regional championship, thanks her rival for treating her as a serious competitor, and performs respectably, though she is still chasing third place.

Suddenly, with only minutes left on the clock, the waves die down and all the surfers can only loiter, waiting for them to start back up. Tom's belief in his daughter's instinct is proven when she is the only one to sense a big wave forming, and she alone paddles out.

When it forms, the others can't get out in time and she catches it just as the horn sounds. If it is in time, she will win, but the judges rule that the time has expired. Malina is the winner, but she has finally learned good sportsmanship from Bethany and she invites her up on the platform.

Subsequently, Bethany lets the reporters interview her. One asks her what she would do if given the chance to undo the loss of her arm. She says that she would still lose it because she can embrace more people now than she ever could with two arms.

OUT OF ONE HOME AND INTO ANOTHER

OUR NEW HOME. WELL TEMPORALLY FOR MY MOM AND I. WE MOVE TO CALI MAY 14TH. MY DAD WILL BE HERE UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR! THE FUNNIEST THING IS THAT HES ACTUALLY PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT IT. MY MOM SAID IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ALOT CHEAPER TO HAVE LIVED HERE FOR 3 YEARS INSTEAD OF THE HOUSE. WE WOULDNT HAVE THE UTILITIES COST AND SHE WOULDNT HAVE BEEN TEMPTED TO BUY/CURB ALERT ALOT OF STUFF. BUT THEN I WOULDNT HAVE MY POSTERS, MY CARDBOARD CUT OUT, MY DRESSER, MY SHELVES ETC TO USE! PLUS I WOULDNT HAVE A PLACE TO PUT MY WII! I DOUBT MY DAD WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE LIVED WITHOUT HIS 73" TV FOR 3 YEARS
1 MOUNTIANVIEW DRIVE! WE LIVED HERE FOR THE PAST 3 YEARS. WITH THE EXCEPTIONS OF LEAVING TO GO TO CALI QUARTERLY TO CHECK ON THE HOUSE, SUMMER VACAS, GRADUATIONS, THANKSGIVING TRIPS, AND DIFFERENT MARS VACATIONS. ITS A HUGE HOUSE. MY PARENTS HAD THEIR OWN ROOM AND I HAD MINE. ONE NEW YEARS, WE HAD LIKE 17 PEOPLE IN THIS HOUSE AT ONCE! PEOPLE HAD TO SHARE ROOMS, USE THE LIVING ROOM, THE BASEMENT AND THE OFFICE TO SLEEP IN! WEVE HAD A FEW PEOPLE VISIT US ONCE IN AWHILE. PLUS MY PARENTS HAD PARTYS GALORE! WE HAD OUR LANDLORD RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO US. THE ONLY PROBS WERE THE ALARM THAT WOULD GO OFF FOR THE VOULENTEERS (THE 1ST TIME IT CREEPS YOU OUT), THE CONSTRUCTION GOING ON ON THE STREET ON THE SIDE OF OUR HOUSE FROM 7:45 AM-5PM (WHEN THEY PUT THE PIPES INTO THE STREET), NO STREET LIGHTS SO THE KIDS WOULD TRICK OR TREAT WHEN IT WAS DAYLIGHT. THE SNOW, THE RAIN STORMS. TODAY, WE MOVED OUT BECAUSE WE HAD PEOPLE BUY THE HOUSE WE RENTED!

IDAHO 2011

WE VENTURED TO CALI TO DRIVE UP TO IDAHO FOR GRAIGS GRADUATION. WE GOT THERE THURSDAY NIGHT ALONG WITH MY GRANDPARENTS. FRIDAY, EVERYONE WENT TO THE TEMPLE THAT CAN GO INTO THE TEMPLE WHILE NICOLE AND I BABYSAT TWO OF THE CUTEST BOYS IN THE WORLD! NICOLE AND I VENTURED OUT TO GET ME A CARD FOR GRAIG. NASH PICKED IT OUT. THEN WE WENT TO JAMBA JUICE TO GET ONE! LATER THAT DAY WAS DINNER AT TEXAS ROADHOUSE GRILL THEN GRAIGS WALK. SATURDAY MORNING EARLY WAS ANOTHER GRADUATION THING. THEN LUNCH AT A CHINESE PLACE. LATER, WE TOURED A HOUSE AND THEN WE WENT TO GET ICE CREAM. MONDAY MY MOM, SISTER AND I WENT TO NICOLES SCHOOL TO HELP OUT WITH HER CLASS

WALT DISNEY WORLD 2011

ONCE AGAIN, WE MADE THE TRIP TO ORLANDO FOR THE MARS WALT DISNEY WORLD TRIP! INSTEAD OF IT BEING IN THE ONE HOTEL THE WHOLE TIME LIKE LAST YEAR, WE STAYED AT TWO DIFFERENT HOTELS THIS YEAR. 1ST WE STAYED AT THE HILTON ACROSS FROM DOWNTOWN DISNEY. WE GOT IN LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY, MY MOM AND I VENTURED TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. THE SIDE WITHOUT HARRY POTTER WORLD. WE SPENT MOST OF THE DAY THERE, THEN WE VENTURED BACK TO THE HOTEL. TUESDAY, MY MOM AND I WENT TO MAGIC KINGDOM. I GOT TO HOLD THE ROPE AT THE END OF ONE OF THE PARADES. AND ONCE AGAIN I GOT A CERTIFICATE SAYING IM A PIRATE IN CAPTAIN JACK SPARROWS CREW. WEDNESDAY WAS HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS. THAT NIGHT JAMIE CAME IN. WE GOT SUSHI FOR DINNER AND MY MOM AND MY SISTER WENT BACK TO HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS. THURSDAY, MY MOM AND MY SISTER WENT TO THE HARRY POTTER SIDE OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. I STAYED AT THE HOTEL, BECAUSE I HURT MY ANKLE AND WE WERE GOING TO EPCOT THE NEXT DAY. MY DAD ACTUALLY HUNG OUT WITH US. SATURDAY WAS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS. AND SUNDAY WAS ANIMAL KINGDOM. MONDAY, MY MOM MY SISTER AND I WENT TO MAGIC KINGDOM. TUESDAY, MY MOM AN I WENT TO DOWNTOWN DISNEY AND THEN I WENT TO EPCOT TO GET MY FUZZ BALL STUFFED ANIMAL. WEDNESDAY, MY MOM WENT BACK TO HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS AND I SLEPT IN BECAUSE WE LEFT THAT AFTERNOON. MY MOM AND I WENT TO THE POOL TO GO DOWN THE SLIDE BEFORE WE LEFT.