Sibling Wars

Since the beginning of time siblings have been the best of friends and the worst of enemies. Our family is no different. We've all taken and distributed our share of teasing, pranks and whatnot. I realized the other day for the first time, however, that Alyssa is really becoming a player in this thing. Being the youngest, she has always been kind of on the receiving end of the heat, rather than passing it out.

A Lovely Sunset

I think i'm in love with this picture! I managed to take it just before my camera died when i was at my super cool friend Samantha Martin's graduation party. Needless to say, the sunset looked even more spectacular in person. ;)

We Have A Lawn!

Oh my, I haven't posted in like 9 days or so! I did write this week (i'm really not a big, fat, slacker!), those pieces of writing just never found their way to Scintillate. Why?! Well...that's not completely my fault. Our computer and internet have both been really nutty. But I guess i can't blame it all on the computer. I have also been quite busy. We were gardening last weekend, we had a couple baseball games this week, and we had a yard sale this weekend! I'm wiped! Anyway, the gardening was successful (surprised? well my thumb is not by any means green so you should be very impressed, actually), and one of the results of our toiling was....