Rachel Erin

I had the BEST time at senior retreat. We all did. It was amaaaaaazing! Seriously, it was almost freaky how well we all bonded lol. I've always considered my class a pretty clique-ish class, but at senior retreat there was none of that! Everyone hung out with everyone, and everyone got along. We had some AWESOME team building activities that I just loved. It really brought all of us seniors together. Oh, and I played paint ball for the first time. Yeah, can you imagine me playing paint ball? lol. It was a lot of fun, except my gun kept breaking for some reason, so most of the time I was just running up and down the mountain to the paint ball guys to help me fix my gun lol.

I Got A Car!

FINALLY! :) I am so happy :) And I am soooo thankful to the people I got it from. A family friend from church's brother gave it to me, for free! It's a dark blue, Chevy Lumina. I named it Lulu, short for Lumina lol. For a free car, it's in really good shape too. It needs new struts, or something like that (I don't know mechanical terms lol) so we'll have to fix that soon, but it runs fine for now. It makes a funny noise when I turn left, which I'm assuming is because of whatever it is that needs fixed, but I don't mind it. It gives it character lol. I'm just so happy to have a car! :)

Senior Year Has Begun!

My senior year has officially started! The past 2 days we had what we call "HS Connection". It's basically just all of us hanging out and playing games and stuff, "getting to know each other" lol. This year we had a rock climbing wall and a dunk tank. We also had a comedian come last night. I forgot his name, but he's performed for like Alicia Keys, and Ne-Yo, and a lot of other famous people, so that was pretty cool lol. He was funny, I liked him. I'm kind of nervous for this year, just because I can already tell it's going to be way different, but I'm super excited too. I know it will be a good year. It's my last year and I plan to make the best of it :)

Oh, and I can't really post any of these pics, since they're for yearbook, but I just HAVE to post at least one lol. This is what happens when you try to make high schoolers play a game that consists of big buckets full of shaving cream...lol

Happy Birthday Bestie!

My bestie Ashley is 18 today! She's a legal adult now lol ;) I spent the day with her today. After book sales we went out to lunch at Pick Up Stix, then later a few people came over to her house for a BBQ :)

I LOVE YOU so much bestie! I couldn't have asked for a better best friend :) You deserve the BEST and I hope this year is the best year ever for you! <3

A Week Without My Bestie

Sadly, I have had to live this past week of my life without my best friend. Yes, my best friend left me...to go on a cruise to Mexico! I know, sick right? LOL. So I had an entire week without her...what was I to do?? I'll tell you what I did- NOTHING! haha. While Ashley was relaxing on an amazing cruise ship, I was relaxing my butt in front of my T.V. all week lol. Watched lots of movies- Revolutionary Road, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days, 17 Again, Princess Protection Program, Another Cinderella Story, The Notebook, and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie....as you can tell, I also watched a lot of the Disney Channel lolol. I finally ventured out of my house on Thursday night to go to a senior meeting at school. It was weird to see everyone again. It's weird that we're seniors. It's just weird. And yes, at one point I had to tell myself, "Don't cry Rachel!" Don't laugh at me....I'm an emotional person lol. Then yesterday I went back-to-school shopping with my mom, for the last time. Again, weird! But I got lots of awesome stuff to balance out the not so awesome polo's I'm stuck wearing for one more year lol. I got 2 awesome pairs of boots (hey, it was BOGO, I HAD to get 2! lol) and I can't wait until Fall/Winter so I can wear them! :) So I think I had a pretty great week...I mean, wayyyy better than a cruise right?! (For those of you that couldn't tell...that was total sarcasm lol)

Time Traveler's Wife

Saw this tonight with Ash, Heather, and Heather's friend. Such a good movie. Really sad though :( But I really liked it.

The Happiest Place On Earth

Yesterday Ashley and I went to the happiest place on earth- Disneyland! A lady that grew up with my mom works there, so she told my grandma anytime we want free tickets to just call her! So my grandma asked her if she could let Ashley and I in, and she said yes :) We started the day at California Adventure. I love that place. Tower of Terror is my favorite ride ever. It always makes me laugh when I get off for some reason lol. While we were there we saw they are making a Little Mermaid ride- FINALLY! I'm so excited! lol. Doesn't come till 2011 or 2012 though, which means we won't be here :( But when I come home to visit I'll definitely go! haha. They're also making a water show that comes next Spring :). It was a HOT day, and super crowded too! We expected it to be pretty empty since most public schools had already started, but we were wrong lol. We headed over to Disneyland around 5:00 for dinner and to ride a few rides before the fireworks show. Well turns out, everyone likes to start waiting for the show like 2 hours early, and we wanted a good spot so we ended up waiting early too lol. We had a spot right in the front though :) It was a fun day, I love Disneyland so much! Hopefully I can go at least one more time before next summer :) (well, besides Grad Night lol)

The Best Day

Today I had the best day with Ashley :) We hadn't seen each other in a couple weeks, and she had to go down to her grandma's house suddenly, so I decided to go down to my grandma's house too so we could hang out. We went to the pier for lunch and had some really yummy Mexican food (I loooove Mexican food lol). Then we walked I think like 3 miles along the beach to the place where we left our stuff (we left all our beach stuff there so that we didn't have to carry it around at the pier, because we had a skim board and boogie board and stuff lol). At first we couldn't find our stuff, and we got kinda lost, but we eventually spotted it lol. We spent a few hours there, swimming in the ocean and laying on the beach taking pics and listening to music :) It was such a perfect beach day, it felt so good out there. Then Ashley's grandma picked us up and we went back to her house. Ashley's grandparents left for their dance class, so Ash and I had the house to ourselves. We made dinner- cheese ravioli, veggies, bread, and peach iced tea. Then we got in the spa for a while, while we blasted music through her grandma's house lol. Then it was time for dessert :) We cut up a bunch of strawberries and topped them with whipped cream and chocolate syrup lol. We sat and watched Jon and Kate Plus 8 while we enjoyed our delicious strawberries :) It was so nice just hanging out with my bestie. While we were making dinner, I said to her, this is what it's gunna be like in a year when we're in South Carolina on our own in our own apartment lol. It really was the best day :) I love you bestie!