Yesterday I just got back from my RDA trip!!!! I missed all of you. All of the classes were in the same hotel where I  was staying. All the classrooms were sections from a ginormous ballroom. Instead of recorded piano music RDA hired different  piano players from the southwest. They were awesome. Our feet were sore after the 3 days we were dancing. Every night there was a proformance proformed by the differnet companies that took classes there. Some were weird some were AWESOME!!!!!!!  On the last night there was a gala. we watched the gala proformance and had a gala dinner. There was a raffle for a BEAUTIFUL tutu. It had real pearls and it was white as snow. Our company did not win it.:(  theree were awards given outand scholarships. My friend won a scholarship to go to a summer intensive in Fort Worth, Texas. And guess who  is teaching there? Our artistic director who left our comeany, Mark Bush!!!! Hannah(my friend) is dreading having classes with Mr.Bush. He is sorta abusive with his words.  I had an awesome time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night I could not fall asleep.' When drowsiness was overtaking me I heard an owl, right outside my window!!! I jumped up out of bed and ran to tell Dad about the owl. But Dad was outside. When he came inside he had a face that was pink with cold but he said excitedly that an owl was responding to this hoots. So he picked me up and brought me out side. He hooted and an owl hotted back right above us in the big oak tree. We could see his siloutte against the purple/pink sky. Dad and the owl hooted a couple of times than the owl flew to another tree down the hill. Dad still hooted and the owl still hooted back. It looked like the owl was trying to locate Dad because we saw the owl's head turn round and round. Then the owl flew to a hackberry tree and hooted again before he flew off. 16 times was the number Dad and the owl comunicated. And the wholetime our cat Alabama Thursday was watching. One time when we were on vacation Dad hooted for fun close to one of the cabins in Petie Jean Park(where we were staying). Someone on the porch of the cabin said" Listen I heard an owl". Imagine how surprised they would be when they find out it was my Dad.

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At our church we have a time wher the kids come up on the stage and sing simple songs like 'knowing Christ' and 'countdown'. Stuff like that. My mom asked the kids worship leader if she had any music sheets for the songs.(the music sheets are for me). Mrs. Kellie(the kids worship leader) said she did and gave us a notebook full of different sizes of sheets and songs. when I got home I played the happy and singsongy songs on the piano. Some of them are very tricky to play woth all the chords in the right hand and the sharps and flats. But I enjoyed playing the songs.

See Ya later!!!!

          Only 11 more days till I turn 13!!!!  

                   CUL8R

I have 15 more days till I turned 13!!!!!!

How old are you?????

CUL8R

THe Horse of the month is the breed Halfinger.

High in the southeastern Alps of northern Italy,just south of the Australias border, lays the municipalty of Hafling- a favorite of hikers and mountain climbers. For horse people these pictursque alpine pastures hold something far more greater than natrual beauty. THey were the home of the charming Haflinger.

In 1919 Haflingers were mostly ridden by kids, they took the family to church and used as pack animals since they could handle the roughness of the steep and narrow moutain trails. In World War 1 and 2 the miliatary needed strong pack horses. That decreased the amount of Haflinger because of the poor breeding and so many were killed. Some breeders got together and started the come back of Haflinger after the war. The breed had changed from short and stocky to beautiful and graceful. THe Haflingers range in many chesnut hues and there mane and tail vary from flaxxen to cream.The Haflingers are the most desired horse in the U.S.A right now. And the are the breed of the month in the Horse Illustrated Magazine.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

Here are some valentine fun facts-

• people are estamated to spend 17 billion dollars on valentine gifts this year.
• Hallmart makes over 1,000 different styles of valentine cards
• 15% of woman send flowers to themselves on Valentines day

       I bought Hoops and Yoyo style of valentines from Hallmart

Since I cant own a real horse, I just got a virtual horse at www.howrse.com  . Its so easy!! I have a black pony and her name is Chena(ch-ee-na). I have had her for about 2 weeks now. 

CUL8R

I have been having problems geting pictures on my website www.freewebs.com/beadedhorse. I will try to get them up as soon as possible. In a while I will change the website address to beadedhorsedesigs.com.

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Today we had a famous ballet dancer Patricia Barker teach our ballet class! She came in todo her last ballet preformance at our Rep at the Rep. She is very nice. I also got her autograph!

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 I make jewelry and I am working on my website to sell them. If you are intrested go to www.freewebs.com/beadedhorse/ . I am getting a new site name and pictures as soon as possible. I havent been able to take pictures because there hasnt been a sunny day to take pictures. I take the pictures out side beacause outside has the best light.cul8r

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

i went to a newyears party for the first time. usually our family stays home and does a toast to the new year. this yaer we also stayed up till midnight. to pass the time at the party we played yatzee. since their was a big treasure hunt that lasted till 6:00 in the morning we went home after midnight.please write a comment and tell about your new year.

    my name is Callie

• i am12 almost 13
• i love horses
• my favorite colors are teal blue, chartruse green, and expresso brown
• i make and sell beaded jewelry( they are not plastic jewelry)
• i play the piano
• i love to play with bobble head animals called Littlest Petshop
• i love contemporary style 

I am new to blogging so if you find this blog please add me to your friends list and post it on your blog so i can be found! if you have any tips for my blog please tell me on my comments. not every entry i will have will tell about my day. i will try make it vary as much as possible.

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please take my favorite animal poll

we went to china for 2 weeks in October. it seemed like yesterday.The first picture that you see is a picture that we took on the Great Wall. we walked a little bit on the Wall. we could not have walked the whole Wall because the wall is over 6,000 miles long!!!!!! it was hard for me to walk because i had sprained my ankle the day before. but the Wall was magnificant.

the second picure you see is me on a bactrian camel(dromodary camels are one humpers).we took a picture on him before we went on the Wall. the camel( i called him yin-yin) was so soft and warm. bactrians lived in the very cold countries. whoever rode them must have been warm.

                                                       Callies famous chocolate chip cookies

• 2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour         
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. of salt
• 3/4 cup of raw sugar
• 3/4 cup of packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp. of  vanilla extract (madagascar bourbon tastes best)
• 2 eggs
• 2 sticks of room tempreture butter
• 2 cups of Ghirardelli chocolate chips

preheat oven to 375 F

combine flour, baking soda, and salt in medium sized bowl. Beat butter, raw sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in a mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Hand stir in choc. chips. Scoop out cookie dough onto a baking sheet with a small ice cream scoop until all cookie dough is gone.     

bake for 9-11 minutes or until golden brown. let the cookie cool on wire racks to cool completely

makes about 5 dozen cookies

can freeze the dough in balls on a pan. when frozen put balls in a quart size freezer bag.

what i did today  12/13/07 6:00

1. hung around the house till 12:00
2. went to the bank and grocery store( we got lots of 'um)
3.  at 2:30 me and my sis. watched the show "curioius george" on pbs kids
4. ate lunch which was tomato soup and roast beef and jack cheese sand.
5. got ready to go to my dads party at the ice skating rink( my feet get cold easy so i wore 3 pairs of socks)
6. skated for an hour and a half
7. went home
8. got ready to go to Haleys( gotgod22) music recital

what i hope i might do today

1. go get a new guppie( i would name him sprite)
2. maybe go christmas shopping for mom
3. eat the rest of my delicious pomagranite

what i have done so far

1. got home from grandmas and grandpas

1. woke up
2. got out christmas videos and books(42 v and t)
3. mom went out with sister to do something(i forgot)
4. i got ready for dance
5. came home ate dinner
6. tried a pomogranite for dessert
7. acclamated my 2 guppies  so they can get used to the temp. of the water in the just cleaned tank
8. went to bed thinking about that i might get a new guppie the next day

whats up haley(gotgod22)?

what i did today

• we finished cleaning up the house from my jewelry show on sat.
• we dropped my sister off at her reading class
• right now my friend haley (GotGod22) helped me get a blog
• at 6:00 i am going to my pilates class