Vacation...and then some

Hey! I just got back on Thursday from our family's annual 'long' vacation. Usually it's two weeks long and at the beginning of September but Isaac starts his dual-enrollment college classes then (grrr....JK). So, for those of you who might have been worried that I didn't answer e-mails for the past week....I didn't fall off the edge of the world! (lol) It was a fun trip but, even though I really wanted to want to be there, I was missing home. I wasn't homesick per say, I just have some stuff going on that I wanted to monitor (Kmart commercial for one). My brother and dad had their small devices but the only problem was that they needed WiFi to get the internet. Since we only ended up going to one place that had WiFi, well, let's just say that some people had all their things to do and one person left the building only having done one very limited activity on a certain electronic device.... I didn't mind that much....My dad also had his laptop from work but, for some reason, the phones weren't working at our vacation house. No dial tone=No internet. But the most crazy thing was that I survived! 5 1/2 whole days without a computer and I actually made it out alive! (lol)

Anyway.....here are some of the things that I did: Went to church (we got there on a Saturday), went shopping with my mom while the boys went swimming (she needed a dress for that wedding where Aidan's the ring bearer. That was actually today...), went mini golfing, went to Mackinac Island (Oh yeah! The first time in three years!), Ate fudge (!!!!!), and played Trivial Pursiut (2:00 am and I are best friends. It's a good thing that I'm a night owl!). Then we spent a day cleaning the house before we left. On our way home, we stopped at Frankenmuth for a chicken dinner (As we found, this is not to be advised with a large family unless you're ready to take out a mortgage on everything that you own...At least the food was good! lol) And now we're home!

As I mentioned above, Aidan's wedding debut was today. Last night he and my mom went out to Marine city for the rehearsal dinner, they stayed there for the night and Aidan was in the wedding party today. My mom said that he was really cute and that he did a really good job. Pictures available on request. (Unfortunately, they didn't have a digital camera so you'd have to see the photos in person, I can't post them here)

Finally, a request. Most of you have probably seen the video that Nicki and I made (The Kmart commercial). This Tuesday, they're announcing the finalists, so if you want to see if we made it/vote, go to www.youtube.com/user/Kmart. Thank you all!

~Livie

Kmart Commercial!!!!!!!

Okay, so, my friend sent me this thing about a Kmart contest a while ago and we both thought that it looked cool so we decided to try it. It was a contest to make the next Kmart back-to-school commercial. We met a few weeks ago to film it and everything went great! We got all the stuff we needed with time to spare! Then came editing, that took a while longer because of unforeseen issues, but we overcame and now our video is posted and submitted! Copy and paste this web address to see it: www.youtube.com/fayleke then tell me/us what you think! If we make it into the final 20, we'll need your votes, so, keep checking back for more info!

~Livie

P.S. Read more at our Theater Girls blog!

My Little Bro....

Not much going on, the only thing of real importance that has happened to me in the past week or so is that my cousin who is getting married in October, (her sister is also getting married sometime this year-I'm not invited to either wedding) called earlier today to ask my mom for some help. One of the men in the wedding party and the ring bearer just moved to Colorado so they won't be able to make the wedding and she wants my brother, Aidan, to fill in! They already ordered him a tux and everything! I wasn't too upset that I wouldn't be allowed to go to the wedding, but now I am! I sooooooooo wish that I could be there to see how cute he's going to be! He'll be so adorable once he gets his tux on, but I won't be able to see that, either, because the first time he gets it is at the rehearsal dinner. I'm begging my dad to take a lot of pictures. Aidan is going to be the only one of the kids in our family who has been in a wedding so far. There are going to be so many 'kodak' moments that day (for instance, when he has to dance with the flower girl!). When we were at dinner today and I said, 'He'll have to dance, won't he?' Aidan quickly piped up with, 'I'm not gonna dance!!!!' Ah, I fear the day when his cuteness fades completely, it's coming soon. Well, that's the only major thing that has happend in my life in a while. Stay strong girls!

~Livie

Photos

Hey y'all! My brother and were up late last night watching the all-star baseball game (Go American League *whoop*!) and as most of you may know, I can get a little crazy when I'm tired.... Let's just say I had some fun with our web-cam.....You can see for yourselves.

[Let's call this one up above the 'control' shot]

[Ah, lovely New York!]

[Yes, yes, hold it! Just 15 more seconds and you beat the silliest record in the world!]

[Sparkle, sparkle, fairy sparkle]

[How many times do I have to tell you? Socks never go with sandals!]

Sorry if they're hard to see, the only light they had from the computer. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

~Livie

I Got Posted!

For those of you who don't know, American girl.com has this thing every week where they ask everyone a random question, and a serious question, each submitted by real girls. Then girls can write in with their answers and a handful get posted at the end of the week. Well, I got posted this week! I'm really excited because, though I have been posted before, I haven't been posted in a while. Here's the URL if you want to check it out:

http://www.americangirl.com/agmg/help/

You'll have to go to the bottom. Sorry if this seems rushed, I have to go and eat. Bye!

~Livie

Two Tiring Trips

Hey everybody, I just got back from a really crazy week. Last Tuesday, I went to my friend, Nicki's, house. I slept over, then went to Cedar Point on Wednesday. I got home early in the afternoon on Thursday. (You can read about it more if you click HERE to go to Nicki's blog) That same night, I left on a 4 hour trip to my grandparent's cottage on Higgin's Lake. We (me, my older brother, my mom and our next door neighbor) were going to The Big Ticket Festival, a huge Christian music fest and arrived at about 10:30. My grandparents happened to be there but they didn't mind. That night we went to bed at about 1 am. (We know that we should have gone to bed sooner but Food Network is sooooo hard to turn off.....) The next morning we got, got ready and left on another hour long journey to the place where the music festival was going on. Even though there weren't really any bands that my mom and I wanted to see, we had more fun than we thought that we would. We stayed late to see the last band of the day so we didn't get home until 12:30 am. The next day we had to get up early to catch something called 'Heart Of The Artist.' Let's just say that I didn't handle the early hour very well...... The Heart Of The Artist was boring anyway-my mom, the one who had been wanting to see it, even agrees with me. After that I went through an exhibit called 'The Africa Experience' where they show you what it's like with all the AIDs in Africa. It was really sad.... After that, there wasn't much to do until my next band came on (my favorite!!) BarlowGirl at 6:15 pm, yeah it was boring and hot that day, oh well, seeing BG in concert was worth it. Then I stood in line and got their second CD, which I bought with some money that my grandma gave me, autographed by them. I was only about 10 people back in line so it didn't take me long to get through. One thing that was really cool though, was that I was wearing my Little Women t-shirt and all three of them noticed and asked me where I got it!!!! I was really excited and they were surprised that I had designed it online! After that we stayed for one more band and a speaker. Then my mom and I left to go to Wal-Mart while my brother and our neighbor stayed for the last singer (neither my mom or I particularly enjoy his music). We stayed until 11:00 pm, most of the time we spent trying on the ugliest shoes we could find and then laughing-alot! After we got back to the 'Lake House' at 12:30, I got a snack, then we all went to bed. The next day after church, my brother and I took our neighbor down by the lake and to the corner store near us before we left. We got home at about 7:00 and we were all happy to be home!

~Livie

New Blog

Hey! Just wanted to let you all know that my friend Nicki and I have started a joint blog. We'll still do stuff on our normal blogs, but I just wanted to give you the URL for the new one. Just click HERE. (If that doesn't work, go to: www.theatergirls.blogspot.com) Sorry that it's not that great, we just started out.

Livie

P.S. On the new blog, after the posts I write, I'll sign it like this: ~Livie or ~L