Welcome To The Magic Show, Kids.

Gather Round!! Gather Round!! Gather round to see the wonderful Grace-dini at work! I would first off like to introduce her, however. She is commonly known as GraceFace, which is taken from the name, BraceFace. It was a TV show for those of you that remember about a teen with braces. Well, Grace has had her braces on for a while, and Grace happened to rhyme with Brace. So, the name GraceFace kind of stuck for a while (TRIVIA!! While Grace was running for secretary at Ridgecrest Elementary when she was in the 5 grade, her brother-in-law, Brent, drew the cartoon BraceFace on posters and used the nickname GraceFace for her slogans.) Now that all of that history is out of the way, I will present to you, Grace-dini! Watch, as her braces MAGICALLY disappear from her teeth. Drum roll please!!


Before.....


Tah-Dah!!


OMG! Look at those teef!



Thanks so much one and all for stopping by! We hope you enjoy another fantabular show presented by Grace!! Have a great day/evening/night/morning!!

Article by: Grace Emmons Photos by: Grace Emmons Special Thanks: Grace Emmons, Dr. Kevin D. Rummler

Up, Up, Up, To Big Bear!!

A whole whopping 50 minutes from our driveway to the lake up in Big Bear, we decided to do something different for our Labor Day weekend. So obviously, we took a trip up to Big Bear for a day. My dad packed one of his humongous picnics, Maia looked up Family Friendly hikes that the kids and Mom (=D) could manage to go on.




The wheather is absolutely perfect up there- the highest was about 78 degrees up there. In comparison to our 95-105 degrees in deserty Moreno Valley we had died and gone to heaven. I thought that this would be a perfect time to take my camera and take some kewl pictures. So I took some pretty pictures of plants and flowers using the SUPERMACRO-LED function on my camera. I thought they turned out very nice, but you all can be the real judge of that. It was Maia, Brent, Tahnee, Hannah, Kirstine, Seth, Larissa, Mom, Dad, and I that went. Spencer had a boys' day, so he wasnt able to make it up there with us. Well, I can't think of anything else to say, so I'll just let you all enjoy the pictures.




At the Ranger Station place thing, Seth was greeted by a bear LOL.



Aw, how cute are the three of us?



OMG, Gracie is in the mountains!! Still yet to see snow... ever...


The Happiest Trees on Earth are in Big Bear Mountain.


This is a close up of a plant called Rubber Rabbit Brush. It's branches were used as a rubber substitute during World War 2. Rabbits hate this stuff, and like I said, it has rubber in the branches, so, hence the name for a cool history of the plant.


Just a cool looking tree.


Wanted a picture of a bee for no reason.


Same bee.


Pretty little flower right next to a little stream.


Just another cute flower.


I guess I had a thing for kewl plants while up there LOL.


Yep, more flowers.


This was the only flower in bloom on its bush.


AAAH! Kids!!


A rather pokey plant.


A dead tree had fallen, and basically some of the branches just shattered. So, new life was forming out of all these broken pieces. I thought this was a beautiful picture- It can kinda' represent life. Something like, out of hard and difficult troubles, new life can form with the nourishment of knowledge of the past or something like that. I find it a very poetic plant I suppose...



This tree grows so slow, it takes 100 years just to grow 6 inches in diameter. Even Larissa grows faster than that!!



PineCone close up.


Big tree, little girl.


When you scratch the bark of this tree, it smells like vanilla. So that makes it a Scratch N' Sniff Tree! Yes, it does look like Seth is kissing it. Haha!


Rissa got tired of walking for a little bit.

New Hair!! =D

That's right folks. I chopped about a foot off my hair and had it layered in the front and highlighted, all in one visit. What more can a girl ask for?? Oh, that's right- shampooing your hair in a salon. And I got that... TWICE(!) in one visit. This post sounds very conceited, but it isn't. I'm just very tickled to get my hair styled. It feels really good and fun.
Despite the akward angle, you can see some of the front highlights and the small layers.

In this pic you see the length I've gotten and the colors of my highlights and some more of my front layers. I only got it one length in the back, I really wanted something low- maintainence. This is for all my family who whine that I don't talk to them enough, send them my blog enough, or just want to see me grow up... hahaha.
**UPDATED August 16, 2008** Cahnged my background again

Lake Trip (with my new camera)

I had a Lake trip with my brand new camera. It was alot of fun. My new camera is a waterproof one and you can put it up to 10 feet underwater. It was really wierd, you just don't put electronics underwater! And here I am, getting a camera as a gift that is made to go underwater. So, I took some pretty sweet pictures underwater. And Brent too. This trip was alot of fun. It was windy the whole trip, and cloudy because a thunderstorm was blowing in. It rained on us a little bit one day. That trip was still really fun- great for Great Big Mable!! Haha, not very much left to say, just a joeschmoe trip with my waterproof camera. =D

**UPDATED August 9** Corrected some errors ;D

Breaking Dawn(!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Tonight, Friday August 1, 2008, I will be going to Barnes and Noble to recieve my preordered copy of BREAKING DAWN!!! And I cannot wait. That's whats with the new background. It's for the book if you haven't already figured that out. We will be gooing to the Lake, and Maia, Tahnee and I (all of us preordered) will be reading this our whole trip. If you haven't read the first three in the saga, check out my Shelfari (------>) and click on the books. Read about them on the webbie and maybe consider borrowing them, or buying them. Highly recomended!! This book will be read in no time. ;-D

**UPDATED August 7 Music Added**

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Hello hello everybody!! I'm back home from Tahnee's house and I miss her and Spencer very much. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! but I am glad to be back to my other dork sister and mis padres (my parents). I missed them all very much but it was definetly a wonderful vacation. And it only got better. yesterday, Wednesday, July 30, Maia, Brent, Hannah, Tahnee, and Spencer and I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain. It was so much fun. I really had a jawsome time. My top three (in order) Tatsu, X(2), and Batman. I loved it there so much and I cannot wait to go back. one thing for sure is that Seth would love it there. Hahaha, It was not a cool day out in the hill-y desert. A warm 95 roughly and the whole park is on the hills. So it was a constant up-down-up-down walk and it got to be very tiring, but still fun. We bought a picture of the 6 of us on Goliath, Tahnee thought we were literally gonna pose *What a dork* Later in the evening, there was a Batman stunt show so we went and saw that. Brent, being the moron he is, waved both his arms in the air trying to get picked when the anouncer was picking someone for something. And of course, he was picked. He must have a vibe around him or something that makes people pick him. Well, I guess I should leave some for Maia to write so I'll go. Plus, I don't know what else to write haha. Except that my mom, the bestest in the world bought me a digital camera, so now I can keep up with the pictures on this thing. Later Guys!!

Vacation at long last

Well, here I am. Little ol' me, on my vacation with the bestest older sister ever (Maia, no worries you are the bestest OLDEST sister ever) Tahnee!! I'm hangin out down here in beautiful San Clemente with their cat, Imo at my feet. I've loved my stay down here and I hope Tahnee and Spencer know bout that. I may still be here, but so far I've been to the pool in their community and we went down to the beach, but the best part has been that I've been having TAHNEE'S HOME COOKING. That's right. Tahnee's cooking. now, there is no need for sympathy from anyone, because it is very good and delicious. They have their little place decorated so cute, it is very homey. Well, on Wednesday I will be returning home after our trip to Six Flags Magic Moutain! YEAH! So, when I come back home I'll talk more bout my trip with Tahnee then our trip to S.F. Later!!