Monday, May 17, 2010

Latest happenings

On Saturday Lily, Mom, and Julia went to see some of our friends dance in the Fellowship School of Dance recital! They did a great job! Here are two pictures of Rachel and Cassia. :o)


Last night was the leadership meeting at our house. Jessie Rae and Michael came too!

The only good picture I got of Cara haha
Hahaha best picture ever! hahaha
Aww the nice one :o)
Gangsta Michael? haha
Aww! the twins :o)Julia and Haven-lou!
Hannah and her Starbucks coffee cup
Julia
Jessie Rae
Happy girl!

Pictures from the Adams' wedding coming soon!

Yesterday Julia and I got our Greystone Kitchen Staff contracts!

Friday, May 14, 2010

A super long post of Whitver memories

Hey friends!

Wow- school is OVER! I am super happy yet at the same time super sad. I am SO going to miss everyone this summer! Especially the seniors!! I am happy to be done with school, though! Man, I can't believe my freshman year of high school is over! Craziness!

Tonight is the wedding of the darling and wonderful couple Nicole Lukens and Bryan Adams! They are so wonderful! I am very excited about their wedding! Mom made the main wedding cake! :D (I'll post pics soon!)

I am sad, though, to be missing band night... but I'm really glad we are going to the wedding. :o)

I wanted to take sometime to reflect over this past school year! (warning: this is gonna be super long haha)

-I had the best job ever. Everyone at Whitver has a job- it could be anything from sweeping, cleaning the bathrooms, to the best job of all: setting out pizza plates! ohhh yeahh it is definitely a SCORE job! It helped me learn names very quickly (which I am weird about anyways haha). Our job was just to sit them out on a table so people could come get them to get their pizza, but usually we put them in a crazy order so I would stand and hand them out. Some girls always asked me for their pizza plate. Some people got competitive about getting their plate first which made me smile. ~:-) Yesterday to celebrate the end of the year we arranged the plates to spell "FREE." :D

Angela, Joy, and Lily- the lovely pizza girls :o)

-I am really, really going to miss lit lab. Ohhhhh my gracious I have never laughed so hard. Who knows what we were ever laughing about! haha! Like that one time we all died laughing for FIVE minutes. Seriously. I have NO idea what we were laughing about. Or the time Jonathan D tried to kill my character off in the play and I refused to die. Or the countless times Dean, Cori, Anna Lea, Michael, Jonathan, and Mrs. Boye have listened to my incredibly long papers. We've laughed so hard we cried. We have eaten donuts and other yummy treats. We've played hangman with a shark underneath the victim. haha. My laugh has scared other classes. Or the multiple, many times I have distracted everyone (whoops! haha). Think frantic texts that surprise parties were spoiled? ohh yesss. haha. Or that time Jonathan was the only guy and we had this long discussion about when Mrs. Boye had her baby like the day I visited Whitver. Poor guy! He was kinda like, "I am just going to sit here and read my yearbook..." Cori- "Let's talk about stuff blowing up for Jonathan!" Or the time Anna Lea was telling us about how her binder cover was a symbol of her life. Cori- "You have a picture of Orlando Bloom. What does that mean [as a symbol of your life]?" hahaha. Or the time Mrs. Boye said, "Pick a number between one and five." Anna Lea- "5." Cori- "7." I really loved that class and am really going to miss it. We were always so slap happy. hahahaha. And next year I have chemistry at the end of the year... ohhhh dear... Here is a picture of us minus Jonathan (Michael saved a spot for him though haha)
-Davis and Senor Durham saying "Que chevere" without a spanish accent so it sounded like "Kayyy chehveeerrrayyyyy" hahaha. (it means "That's cool!" or "That's awesome!") I am going to be like 90 years old in Mexico some day, am going to hear someone say that, and think of them and laugh. :o)
-The crazy talentedness of these people. Oh my gracious. Everyone is so talented! And everyone (well not pianists haha) brings their instruments to school and plays them. It's so cool to be chillin' in study hall listening to people play. Folks bring their guitars, electric guitars, Hawaiian guitars, mandolins, fiddles, violins- you name it they bring it!
-Band night. Uhhhhmmmmaazzzzinnngg.
-The dances. Sock hop, English country dance, and swing dance! So fun!
-The school environment. We are like a big happy family! Everyone is SO NICE! I love Whitver!
-Having an hour for lunch. The first day, I, an NSCA graduate where we get 25 mins, choked down my lunch in like 10 mins. I was surprised when everyone left after announcements. I asked someone where everyone was going and they said we had an hour for lunch! Partayyyy!
-Being on yearbook staff.
-The yearbook- it is amazing and gorgeous.
-Happy and sweet notes from people in my yearbook!
-intellectual discussions every week.
-getting notes on my pizza plate.
-laughing A LOT every Thursday.
-Getting hugs from sweet girls on Thursdays.
-Being able to give a DHT presentation at school.
-Having a Dr. Pepper every week :o)
-Hearing about Senor Durham's "magically delicious." And I have YET to hear it! haha!
-Reading a book pretty much every week for lit.
-Going to Banquet and half the people there Whitver folks.
-Lively discussions it lit class.
-Biology labs.
-Rat dissection. That was definitely an unforgettable lab.
-Mrs. Quint telling us about how to make life happen, and not let it happen to you.
-Biology at 8 am every Thursday. ;o)
-The time I was so tired at biology lab that when Ms. Tamara asked me my name I had to think about it. hahaha.
-The day I was in a different study hall and studied for a spanish oral exam with Hannah, Anna, and Nathan and I owned everything. hahahaha. "Hola! Bienvenida a mi hotel!" "Hola! Bienvenido a mi restaurante!" "Hola! Bienvenido a mi avion!"
A picture of my clase de espanol!
-the last day of geometry and we all brought food. Yummmm!
-geometry class and amazing quotes (see end of post).
-Singing a song in Spanish for international day with spanish 1 and 2 classes. "Un lugar celestial"
-seeing Fiddler on the Roof.
-my fabulous teachers.
-everyone at Whitver who makes it such a wonderful place!

I am SO SO SO SO thankful to be at Whitver. It is so wonderful and the people are amazing. I love you guys!

So. That was super long. And if you read it all, thanks. ~:-) Now when I am an old 12th grader writing my bio for yearbook I'll have some ideas. :o)

Love,

Lily :o)


P.S. And to finish it off, here are some:

-Misc quotes from geometry (taken from Riley's note on FB)
Ok so some of these don't even make sense when i look back at them, but appartently they were funny enough at the time that i wrote them down.
"Drunken Cylinders." -Mrs. Myers
"It's a vertical angle!"-Isabella
"You need geometry to cut hair!"-Joanna
"Well if penguins have feathers, then so do cats."-Andrew
"Dashed it on the jagged rocks!"-Beau
"Fine I won't put the ball in your court."-Beau
"Point the pointer to the smaller angle!"-Mrs. Myers
"It's very cookbookie."-Mrs. Myers
"That's very tricksy."-Lily
"Fine. I'll do the proof. I'll take the bullet."-Joanna
"The 9 looks like a little balloon to the side."-Beau
"Oh! It's the box thing!"-Beau
"SOHCAHTOA."
"It looks scary but it's really not."-Mrs. Myers
"It's really sinchy."-Mrs. Myers
"That was my inner child singing a song."-Beau
"Guys my world is totally turned upside down! Half of the veggies on veggie tales aren't vegetables!"-Lily
"Don't steal my glory!"-Joanna
"I would say that i'm a beacon of niceness."-Joanna
"No no...i would say you are a beacon of sarcasm. Oh wait change that to a fog horn of sarcasm."-Beau

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Last day...

Hey friends!

Well I have to be fast since I still have some last minute studying... Please pray for my biology and spanish exams!

Today is the last day of my freshman year. Wow. I feel like we just started yesterday except at the same time I feel like we've been going for years! Today will definitely be bittersweet. I will really miss everyone at the Academy!!! :'( But, I am SO ready for summer! Now I can really throw myself into conference publicity!

This year I started out not very excited. I was sad to be leaving New Song and my NSCA friends. I was not exactly a happy camper. But, as I look back over these last 32+ weeks, I am SO thankful to be at Whitver! Everyone is so nice and it is like we are a big happy family. :o) I have loved my classes, my teachers, and friends. I am so thankful God put me at Whitver! I am looking forward to three more great years of high school at the Academy Tutorial. ~:-)

Love and blessings,

Lily :o)

Monday, May 10, 2010

Mom's Day, Julia's Birthday, and a Photo Shoot

Hey friends!

Julia is 14! She is such a joy and a blessing to our family! She is very creative and artistic, compassionate, a great cook, and lots of other wonderful things. :o)

Yesterday was also Mom's Day! Nana and Papa came for dinner at our house. We had rosemary potatoes, philo/puff pastry chicken with Boursin, salad, coconut cake, coconut ice cream, and some of the ice cream cake the Browns gave Julia. YUM!

I am so thankful for my dear mumsie, Nana, and Grandma! They are so wonderful and I am so very blessed!

Yesterday, thanks to Papa and Mr. Steve T, the church sang to Julia after lunch! So fun!
THREE MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!! I could practically cry with joy! hehe :o)

On Saturday we ate a a restaurant called Cantina Laredo in the Gulch- yum yum yum! It was FABULOUS! We also had really great service!

Yesterday we had a little photo shoot! We used the cute hats Emily and Cali made (hope y'all don't mind we borrowed them ~:-)

More pictures to come!
















Friday, May 7, 2010

Swagger Wagon

hahahahaha this is great!

Sienna Minivan: Swagger Wagon

Please watch it!!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

recital

Hey friends!

I have lots to post, but since I have finals tomorrow, I must be brief. :o)

Tomorrow night, you are invited to come to our annual piano recital! Call/email if you are interested in coming and I can give you the place and time!

Love,

Lily :o)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

All in a day in the Scott household

"You just don't do that!"
~My very reasonable and deep explanation for a grammar rule in Spanish

"You are an elf!"
~Emily, describing me

"Goodbye, Grandmother Lily!"
~Emily

"TOMMY NEEDS A LOLLIPOP!!"
~Cara, making this really weird and definitely out there Garageband podcast...

"Our living room is turning into National Geographic!"
~Mom, after picking an inchworm off of Lily's shirt, catching a rather large beetle, and catching some other random bug all within like a three minute time frame

"Hmm..." *looking at leaves and titles* "Siberian elm, Japanese elm... What's next? Mexican elm?"
~Dad, observing Lily and Mom hard at work naming leaves for a biology project

"Leaves are like snowflakes! They are all different!"
~Me, trying to convince Mom that I did not have ten of the same leaf ("Really! I mean, seriously! This one is MUCH larger. Much. And this one does not have a stem! Okay, maybe that's just the way I picked it... but it is DEFINITELY different. And this one is pointier! I don't care if we are in the good ole US of A this one looks JUST like the Siberian elm leaf in the identification book! Um, I don't remember where I got that one... I was wandering through yards plucking nice little leaves calling my name... Well, this one is not anywhere in the book. It's like a foot long. I think I might just label it a 'mutated giant leaf'. Yes!" hahahahaha! ok... so maybe I added a little eenie weenie to that conversation... but it was along those lines ~:-)




And did I say I only have 9 more days till school is out? yup, I'm kinda excited :o) I am really going to miss everyone though!!

Tea fit for a party with the queen

Here is the simple and easy recipe for a delicious tea! It is perfect for a garden or tea party, a picnic, a luncheon, or just a plain ole meal:

Make three family-style tea bags' worth of tea
1 frozen limeade concentrate (diluted to a gallon)
1/2 cup of sugar

Mix it all up and serve with ice! yummmmm

Monday, May 3, 2010

memory take one

On a lighter note, I was just remembering this and wanted to share it with you. (Jenny- this is for you :o)

Jenny and I went to New Song Woodbine in 7th grade one Saturday to watch kids during the English class. I remember me and Jenny trying to find the Spanish version of Toy Story on the DVD and spending like 10 mins trying to do so. After we kept trying to get it into Spanish, one of the Hispanic girls, who was our age, said in perfect English with no accent, "We speak English." Yup. We felt real smart. :o) So they just watched it in English. oh yeahhh. :o)

Flood

Well, these past few days have left Nashville reeling in the wake of horrible storms and floods. Many, many people are without electricity. Many more people's homes have been flooded. Opryland's Delta, Cascades, and Gardens area are completely under water. The Schermerhorn is under 8-10 feet of water and still rising. It will be closed for at least a month. See the Tennessean article here. Our own dear Wildwood has been hit very hard as well. On Saturday they had their cleanup day at the club to get ready for open house (which was supposed to be on May 17 or 19). The pool and tennis courts and just been resurfaced. Now, the courts have been demolished and everything was underwater. The club director was rescued by boat. Two houses in Wildwood caught on fire, one burning down. Many other houses have several feet of standing water. Many families have lost everything. Twelve people have died in Tennessee, six of them in our own Nashville.

Our friends Ms. Shulamith, Emily, and Cali came to stay with us on Saturday night since the creek beside their house was getting really high. Thankfully, they just went today and none of their stuff was flooded! And they are right by a creek!

We were very thankful- we did not have any flooding. Yesterday we had 10%-50% power for about 5 hours, totally lost it for about 2-3 hours, and then got it back.

It is so hard to comprehend all of this. Just on Friday everything was sunny and happy go lucky. The next day, thousands of homes were flooded and destroyed. It is very hard for me to picture a house being underwater.

One thing that has truly comforted us in all of this is this: God is in control. He is sovereign. These horrible storms did not slip under His radar. He has a plan. Why? we might ask. Maybe many will come to Christ through all of this. God is in control and "the wind and the waves obey Him."

Please pray with us for Nashville. So many families have lost so much.

Hannah and I have been sick. Yuck. We just have bad colds though...

Here are some pics of what was going on around us. The first is what it looks like today- very sunny and bright. We were worried that our wall was going to fall down since water was gushing out of it. It is still standing though! Thank You Jesus for keeping us safe!



Saturday, May 1, 2010

A video

This seems appropriate for today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIkQ7YVys_A



Rainy day thoughts

Hey friends!

I have not been blogging much... whoops...

We are SO enjoying having Hannah live with us! She is so fun!

Hannah and Blackberry
Hannah and Lily :o)

Yesterday was our last day of Mako practice. :o( I love our team and am really going to miss those people! they are awesome! The annual pictures: (sadly they are kinda dark- I sent em to Dad though to see if he could make them lighter :o)


We played in the creek over at Riverpark in Brentwood:


We ate popsicles, rice krispies, and brownies:

I am really going to miss these people! :o(

Yesterday we had our second TRT coordinator's meeting! It's all comin' together! I am still getting my 50 publicity team members...

This week and next week are my finals... This week (May 6th) I have my lit and math finals. Then the next week I have biology and spanish finals. So I am mostly going to be studying the next couple of weeks.

School gets out on May 13th!!!!! Words cannot describe my joy! :D I am really going to miss all of my school friends but am sooooo ready for SUMMER!!!

What are my plans this summer? Well, I am going to be swimming on the Wildwood Gators. Every day. And working on the conference and calling lots of churches. :o) And August 1st- 13th I am going to work kitchen staff at Greystone's August session with Julia. First year people clean the dishes from 700 people. woot! haha good times. Then we are going to come home that Friday and the conference is on August 14th. I can already see my summer is going to fly by...

Well, it is raining... a lot...

Love,

Lily :o)

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

promise

"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

~Matthew 11:28

Monday, April 26, 2010

Monday Madness

Hey friends!

I only have three more weeks of school! Whoo hoo!


Lily :o)

Friday, April 23, 2010

Awarded

I feel very special to have been awarded by Bekah! ~:-)

When you are awarded, you are supposed to give five facts about yourself and award five other very special bloggers. :o)

1. I love ice cream! It is my weakness... It is probably my favorite dessert. Mmhmm, there are so many flavors! :D I even have a special day of the week for ice cream- Tuesdays! yum yum :o)

2. I wish I could throw lots of things in a pot like Julia and it come out yummy. We won't go into the time I tried to uh make chili... Let's just say Dad was the nice one and coughed some down. ~:-)

3. I am an over-packer. And a little bit of a pack rat. I mean, as Julia says, if our house burned down I wouldn't need to worry because I'd have all of my stuff with me... I am also that weird person that always has anything you could possibly ever need in her purse...

4. To quote Linds, I "have freakishly long toes!" hahahahaha

5. I am an over-analyzer... Wait- aren't all girls? haha

I am awarding the special 5 Facts Award to my dear friends and fellow bloggers:


Love,

Lily :o)

"The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” Exodus 14:14