Another weird thing my brother did...

I don't know. Je ne sais pas.
See two other cute things here and here. Les liens vont a deux autres messages mignons sur mon frere.

Cousins

We spent a few days with some cousins on my dad's side.
Nous avons passe quelques jours chez des cousins du cote de mon pere.
This was a time of...
Ce fut un temps de...

Sledding...

Luge...

Birthdays...

Anniversaires...

Accidentally putting toothpaste on the wrong side of the toothbrush...
Accidentellement mettre du dentrifrice sur le mauvais cote de la brosse a dents...

And staying in pajamas!

Et de rester en pyjama!

It was great to see you G, O, H, D, E, M, T, and B!

Stay Tuned For More! Restez branches pour plus!

Christmas at Grandma J's

We spent Christmas morning at my grandparents' house, then went to my other Grandma's house in the afternoon and had a big family bash. It was great to see everyone again.
Nous avons passe le matin de Noel a la maison de mes grand-parents, puis se rendit a mon autre maison de grand-mere dans l'apres-midi et a eu une grande fete.

 Baby L has grown so much! He is no longer a baby!

 Mon cousin a L beaucoup grandi depuis que je l'ai vu!

 Me and my cousins and siblings.

We had lovely piano accompaniment by Maestro L while opening Christmas gifts. Thankyou!

Nous avons eu beau piano par le Maestro L lors de l'ouverture des cadeaux de Noel. ;)

 All my older cousin L wanted was Doritos...wise...

 Me and grandma. (The sweatshirt I'm wearing was a Christmas present.)

 My cousin H and my sister A hold up a new scarf.

Matching shirts from Grandma J.

Can't forget Sally! :)

 

 All the grandkids.

 After dinner we played a game designed to make you look ridiculous. :)

Apres le diner, nous avons joue un jeu concu pour rendre un regard ridicule. :)

I hula-danced...

H was a Brodway show girl...

My brothers tangoed...

L wore a bib...

A impersonated popping pop-corn...

These are just a few of the things that the cards in this game told us to do. :)

This was a really fun get-together! Merry Christmas everybody!

                                       Joyeux Noel a tous!

Bowling on Christmas Eve

This Christmas my family and I went to spend the Christmas holiday with our grandparents, cousins, uncles, and aunts. Our tradition is to go bowling on Christmas Eve, even though we are probably the worst bowlers the world has ever seen... :)
En francais:
Ma famille et moi aller jouer au bowling le soir de Noel.

Me and my cousins.

 The last three pictures show some of our ultra cool top-secret code names! (Popcorn, Bluesky, & Zambies. There were also Smarties, Ed, and AfroJack, among others.)
En francais:
Les trois dernieres images montrent certains de nos noms de code. :)

 Me bowling.

It was always one pin left standing.

For instance...

Here.

 Here.

And here.

And 2 million other times... :)

It was a whole lot of fun and I really love this tradition.

Idea

This is my idea balloon. Enough said.

And yes, I know 'have' is not spelled 'haz'. :)
En Francais:
Il s'agit d'un ballon que j'ai ecrit "J'ai une idee" sur comme dans les dessins animes quand une ampoule apparait sur la tete d'un personnage. :)
Le mot 'haz' sur le ballon n'est pas un vrai mot. ;)

Here's the thing...

Okay, so, bridges and I...it's a love-hate relationship. I completely ignore bridges over dinky little bodies of water like the one towards the bottom of this post HERE. BUT, when it's a wide, shallow, rocky river in a 20 foot deep trench spanned by a big mega huge bridge with all sorts of wonderful support structures...
This happens:

I am standing on a support beam of a totally justified bridge with a river about 30 feet below me. I am maybe 5 or 10 feet above my family standing on the bridge, taking the picture. There are some other bridges that I climb on, too. Stand by for more pictures! ;)

Birthday!

This last week, I turned 14! Yay!

Here's me at my family's new favorite restaurant, a nice barbeque place downtown. We went there for my birthday dinner.
Now that I'm old enough, I get to go to dances! I'm excited!

And, *sigh*, yet again, hair.

This is a big accomplishment for me, because this usually doesn't work very well, but I finally figured out how to successfully curl my hair without help! Yay! It took about 30-45 minutes though, to curl it all.

Again, the photo loaded weird.

Then I got a haircut, and figured out that I have to straighten my hair or it curls. :)

Birthday Shopping with Grandma

My grandparents are in town , so my grandma took my sister and I birthday shopping. It was really fun and I got a new purse and necklace.

Thanks, Grandma! :)

Je n'ai pas de 'Brace Face'

I got my braces off on Monday! Yay!
(The post title says, 'I do not have a Brace Face' in French.)