Going to Revolve

Today we are going to Revolve in Oklahoma City with the girls youth group. It should be fun. I am excited about going. The only sad thing is that Nicole and Melanie are not going. Nicole has a basketball game and Melanie is going to Silver Ball at her school. We tried to talk them into going but it did not work. I still do not know who I am riding with or who I am rooming with. It should be interesting to find out how many girls are going.

I am really looking forward to hearing Chad Eastham speak. I bought one of his books with my birthday money. It is really good. It is called "Guys like Girls Who...". In it he talks about why guys like girls and that guys like girls who are themselves.
I am also really excited about seeing Hawk Nelson in concert! That will be awesome! Also Group 1 Crew, Krystal Meyers, and Natalie Grant are doing concerts.166 Some of the other speakers are Jenna Lucado (Max Lucado's daughter) and Danielle Kimmy (whom I have never heard of). I am so glad I get to go because I did not think I would be able to go becauase of money problems. But I talked to Robbie about it and there was a scholership available. I was happy about that. :) So now we just have to go meet everyone at church.

Revolve and B-day party

I am excited because next Friday I get to go to Revolve! It will definitely be fun. The bands that are going to be there are: Hawk Nelson, Krystal Meyers, Group 1 Crew, and Natalie Grant. The speakers are: Chad Eastham ( I have one of his books, it is really good), Jenna Lucado, and somebody that I can not remember their name. Our youth group is who we ( Courtney and I) are going with. I think that there are more ladies going than teenagers, I guess we need a lot of chaperons. Ha ha ha. I cannot wait!

Tomorrow is Nicole's surprise birthday party. Courtney and I are making a scrapbook type thing of our memories with her. It is probably the last creative project we will do together for a while. While we did not fight horribly, there were still some arguments. Lol. I hope she likes it. We put pictures from our girls day out a couple of Sundays ago. We also came up with nicknames for each other, I am anybody, Courtney is nobody, Melanie is somebody, and Nicole is everybody. We put in a poem type thing on the last page using our nicknames, I hope she laughs at it.

Post for Friday... today

So I was really supposed to post this on Friday but I did not. So I am writing it now, but I am writing it about yesterday, which would have been impossible on Friday. Just thought I'd warn you. :)

Yesterday was a good day. I went to the early service at 9, so that I could help with the preschoolers in the second service at 11. They are so much fun to work with. Most of the kids in there have to be there for all 3 services because there parents work at the church. So by the time I get there, they are ready to go home. But they are a good group of kids. I look forward to helping out every Sunday.

After church we went home and ate lunch. Courtney cooked noodles and chicken. It was good. Then about 3:15 Melanie came and picked up me, Courtney and Bobby and we went and hung out over there. Courtney did homework with Melanie helping her and Bobby and I just hung out. Then us three girls went to Bible study. It had been since before Christmas since we had last met so it was nice to get it started again. Then afterwards we stopped by our house and got my school work and then went back to the Sprouse' house. So all in all it was a good day.

The Christmas play

So we performed the Christmas play for our church this weekend. It went very well. Some people did forget some of their lines but they ad-libed very well. We performed it 3 times. A lot of people didn't recognized me in my costume. I played a goth. the rest of my family was in it too. My mom played my grandma, my dad played my uncle, and my brother played my cousin. It was a lot of fun. The director, Liz, played my ditsy aunt, it was hilarious. Here are some pictures of the play.

Meet me at Luigi's

I never did write about how our dinner theater went, so I guess I'll do that now.
It went very well. Nobody messed up too badly on their lines, though a few people did get theirs cut out by accident ( including me) but I don't think anyone in the audience noticed except Liz. Bobby completely stole the show. He was so good as Albert, all the ladies just loved him. He was definitely the favorite. I guess I did good because everyone kept asking me if I was really that stupid. Which is kind of annoying, but at least I know I played the part well. Roland got everyone dvds of the performance so my mom got to watch it last night. She liked it. Here are some pictures of the cast and perfomance.

We gave Liz flowers

The funniest part of the whole play

"Nancy" & "Sarah" hanging out
"Maria","Betsy" & " Gloria
"Nancy"
"Maria" & " Uncle Gino"
"Josh"
"Maria", "Luigi", & "Bubba"
"Dave" & " Rusty"

"Luigi" & " Gino" the brothers
"Jerry" & "Buffy"
"Darlene" & " Colleen"
The Staff at Luigi's
"Albert"
"Maria"
"Nancy"

Church and Plays

So today is Wednesday which means that I have church tonight. It should be interesting to hear what Robbie talks about. He always gives good messages. Hopefully this week all of the worship band is there because for the last 2 weeks somebody has been missing and it hasn't sounded the same. The first week was actually pretty good. Alex, the drummer, wasn't there so it was acoustic which sounded kind of cool. But last week Brandon, the main singer, wasn't there and it just sounded weird. Maybe today everybody will be there.

Practices for both of the plays are going well. We are blocking for both of them, we just haven't blocked on the actual stage for the Dinner Theater one yet. The youth room is always being used whenever we have practice. So whenever we finally get to block on stage it will be interesting to see how it all works. Yesterday we blocked for the Christmas play and that went OK. It just took forever. My lines and blocking are easy for the Christmas play. I have 4 lines in the whole thing and one of them is "Ahem!". I got to play a goth. Nobody can see me playing as one, but I think I'll pull it off. :)

I do very well however, playing as Maria, the ditsy waitress. Some times I think I play the part too well. Ha ha. I'm excited. It's going to be fun.

Yet more things to do...

Liz has given me the opportunity to do the Christmas Mime but I don't think I'm going to do it. I have a crazy schedule as it is. I thought I was busy in September but I was wrong, this is busy! We are spending an average of 10 hours a week at church. And 6 of those hours is play practices! The other 4 is just regular church services. Then you add in 6 hours of bball practice a week, soon to be more when start having games. Even though I'm not practicing I'm still there for most of the practices. Plus Bobby and Courtney are working at the flower shop with Uncle Steve.

It's too bad I can't get my permit. With everything that's going on with my knee I probably won't be able to get my permit until December. I pray I get to play bball in December. We have a tournament in Claude that I really really want to play in. Nicole goes to school there and it would be awesome if we got to play against each other. That would just be cool. Maybe Courtney will get her drivers license soon. It would be helpful.

Meet Me at Luigi's

Bobby and I are doing a dinner theater for our church. It's called meet me at Luigi's. The cast is 15 teenagers and 2 adults. It's definitely going to be fun. Bobby is playing the nerdy science kid. Well he's not too nerdy, he just always knows the answers to the scientific questions. The Part is perfect for him. He read half of a line and everybody busted out laughing and Liz gave him the part. I'm playing the flaky waitress, who is also the daughter of Luigi. So I'm practicing being clueless. I think I may be practicing too well because lately I keep forgetting what I'm saying or what I meant to say. We might be doing the Christams play as well. That will be interesting.

Burned Biscuits

Last night was very.... interesting. Brittney, Ashton, and Holden all talked. Brittney talked about how we need to be patient. Ashton talked about not conforming to the world, and Holden talked about not giving in to peer pressure. They all did pretty good.
When I told the Eric and Holden about Courtney moving here they didn't respond the way Courtney wanted them too. They were both like" oh really? that's cool. She's cool." So now they are OK with her coming. I think it's funny.

So today I fixed lunch for the little people. I was making mini pizza's, so i was making biscuits and i accidentally burned them. I didn't burn them bad, they were just a little browner than what they should be. But the smoke detector went off and Kaytie and Nate ran out on the Balcony cause of the noise. When it stopped they came back in and Kaytie said to me " Thanks for burning out school Lizzie." And she keeps bringing it up! While they were eating she said to me " Now I know how to make mini pizza's. You get biscuits, burn them ( aunt Laura had to cover her mouth and walk away so she didn't bust out laughing) and then put tomato sauce and cheese on them." I guess that's what she'll always remember me for, burning the biscuits.

The Adventures of Elizabeth and Jane

Courtney and I are (sort of) writing a book. It's called The Adventures of Elizabeth and Jane. The names Elizabeth and Jane come from Pride and Prejudice. Her personality is a lot like Elizabeth Bennet's and mine is like Jane's personality, so we are basically writing fictional stories about us. I think we are going to name Deanna, Kitty or Kat for the book it depends on what works best. We haven't gotten far into the book. We've almost got the first 2 pages done. Here is an excerpt:




We finally gained the porch, the only quite place in the entire house. But what did you really expect when you cram that many people in so small of a place? With the adults talking in the kitchen and the boys playing video games in the living room the porch was our absolute last resort. Not that the porch was something to sneeze at, most of our greatest adventures started (or ended) here. Like for instance the great dumpster escapade four years ago, or how about the massive sled incident last Christmas, but lets not forget my personal favorite the tree climbing accident which took place two years ago in June. All of these have a common factor and that is the great masterminding took place on this very porch. So if trouble was going to take place it would start here.

With very little ceremony we went right to work. We had all the usual suspects, Jane our elected spokes person to the parents and conscience (should our ideas get too out of hand), Deanna our make-up artist and music consultant (even though she doesn’t like the Jonas Brothers, but we don’t hold that against her) and of course myself, being Elizabeth, head evil thought producer and creative genius (and yes that is my actual title!). We set about seeing what kind of constructive (or destructive) activities we could find to amuse ourselves. After the sled incident we could no longer convince the boys to go anywhere near something even resembling a sled so that was out, unfortunately, but we had managed to find a couple of tennis rackets and a golf ball and that was all the encouragement we needed.

Now that she's moving here it will be easier to write it. Because it really is difficult to write a book long distance.


Church tonight will be interesting. Robbie is out of town. He went on the Mission trip to Mexico. So did Melanie, so I guess that I will have to call my dad when we are through with church. I wonder who's preaching tonight? I guess I'll find out.