Liebster Award(a Different One)

Hey! I got nominated by Sophia M. and Eve for this award. Thanks guys! =D

So, first, this is what you do, and the rules: 

+Post eleven facts about yourself

+Answer eleven questions that the person who nominated you asks, and then ask eleven questions yourself for whoever you nominated.

+Choose eleven people to nominate and link them in the post.

+Let those people know that they have been tagged-and no tag backs.

So now for the questions that I have to answer:

Eve's questions:

If you could choose your own natural hair color, what would it be? The hair color that I already have-brown. I want to get highlights, and you can do way more colors in brown then red or blond.

If a dog started talking to you, would you...

A.Jump up and down screaming and run away at the shock of it.

B.Think your mind was playing trick on you and walk on.

C.Start up a conversation with the dog.

D.None of the above. What kind of question is this?

B and D. Seriously Eve, wow. Just wow. How did you even think of this?!

How do you eat a Twix bar? Um, normally...I don't know!

Would you rather keep your Christmas tree up for a year, or wear Christmas sweaters for a year? Keep my Christmas tree up for a year.

If you had to wear a dress in a certain time period's all your life, which would it be? 1950s. I love poodle skirts!

Is there a food that when you eat or drink it, you think of a certain memory? Hmmmm...Is there? Oh! When I eat hot dogs, I think of the one year that we had hot dogs all the time in the summer.

If you could be an author of one of your favorite books, which would it be? Suzanne Collins. I admire her so much because of how she can think of all of that stuff. I am not very creative. AND she does a lot of details in her Hunger Games books. That is another thing I am not good at-details. 

Who is one person through history that you would like to chat with? I would like to chat with Noah from the Bible. I want to ask him what he did all of those days on the ark! I would be so bored!

Is there a song that annoys you? If so, what is it? Oh I don't know-LET IT GO! My sister sing it 24/7! 

Would you rather wear flip flops in the winter, or coats in the summer? Ooh. Tough one. Hold on, let me think about this.......................Coats in summer.

Things you don't get to do this summer. Go to the carnival and circus.

Sophia's Questions

If a man walks into the elevator with you, and was struggling to reach a button, would you press it for him? No. Probably not. *gasp*

You are walking down a street and pass a shoe sale. What do you do? I have no money right now, so therefore I keep walking. Once I get home, I tell my Mom and beg her to go with me to buy me some. Is that wrong? LOL!

Do you eat cranberries? Nope. Way to sour for me. I also don't like the flavor.

What do you do if you put your hands in the sand at the beach and they get stuck? Yell for one of my siblings to come over and DIG!

A man walks up to you and starts talking a weird language to you. He is waving around like crazy and slaps you three times. You've never seen him before in your life. Do you:

A.Call the police

B.Start trying to copy his language and talk back

C.Get an adult to help

D.Take a selfie with him and text it to a bff

C. Why would you pick B? It would take years to copy the language!

Do you take selfies? Sometimes. I never take goofy ones though.

Do you text? Yes! Who doesn't?

Can Auntie-Anne's pretzels be used as weapons? What?! No. I mean, I guess. If you got kidnapped and had nothing else BUT the pretzel!

Name 2 weird things that you eat or drink. I don't really now if I do have any weird things. See, I don't like trying new things-especially food-wise. Can I skip this question?

Why do you have a blog? For entertainment. For something to do on the internet. But most importantly, to tell others that they are loved by God.

If you could go shopping with 7 bloggers, who would they be? Leah has an awesome sense of fashion, so definitely her. Also Chickadee, Sophia M., Meghan, Heidi, and Eve.

All done with questions! Now for the facts.

22 Facts About Me

1. I love swimming. I am on the swim team.
2. I always make a list of blog posts I need to do
3. I love kittens, but sadly I'm mildly allergic to them.
4. I became a christian when I was roughly around 6.
5. Sour Cream and Onion are my FAVORITE chips.
6. I love drawing faces.
7. Victoria Hope Talean was not my first book that I wrote. I wrote about 6 other books before V.H.T. that I threw away in the garbage because I didn't like them.
8. Aqua is my color for clothes. 
9. I love Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream! I can't decide between that and Superman ice cream!
10. I used to hate yellow, but now I love it.
11. I didn't even know you could make blogs until my friend Chickadee made a blog herself
12. I hate cotton candy! I used to love it, but now it's super gross to me.
13. Reading is my hobby. I LOVE reading! 
14. Spelling is my favorite subject. I am in 9th grade spelling. 
15. I love polka dots and stripes! So cute!
16. Hearts are my thing!
17. My favorite game is Skip-Bo
18. I rarely ever get dreams.
19. My favorite song is "Dead Come to Life" by Jonathan Thulin.
20. I am right in between a tom-boy and a girlie-girl. I catch frogs and do stuff like that, but I LOVE to dress up and am deadly afraid of giant spiders!
21. I play Solitaire a lot!
22. For Christmas, I got a big case of shower gel that has 7 bottles in it. I have not even used 1/8 of a bottle.

Now my questions for the nominees!

1. What do you want to see more on my blog?
2. If you had a choice between wearing forest green for a whole year or eating shrimp 3 times a day for a week, which would you choose?
3. Frozen or Tangled?
4. You go to the store with your friend in a hurry to buy your other friend a b-day present before the party. You grab a gift that she would like and you hurry to the cash register. The present is $17.96. You add up your money with your friend and realize you only have $16.73. You only have 10 more minutes until the party starts. What would you do? 
5. What would you do if your internet connection was not working and you promised your friend that you would email her in 15 minutes?
6. Sprite or Rootbeer?
7. What is your favorite holiday?
8. Have you ever seen Ender's Game?
9. Have you read Percy Jackson and the Olympians?
10. Are you a tom-boy or a girlie-girl?
11. Would you rather wear a sleeve-less violet-purple dress that goes down to your ankles, or a sleeve-less red tank top with black shorts in the summer?

And the nominees are:

1. Leah
2. Willow and Jem
3. Meghan
4. Heidi
5. Melody Q.
6. Chickadee
7. Anna
8. Uppermichigirl
9. Fluff and Peanut Butter
10. Maddie
11. Julia

Wow. This post took me 3 hours! Thanks for reading! Bye!

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Fireflight - Stronger Than You Think

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Twice the Fun-Part 16

Ariana H. King 

 When I opened the door, the first thing I saw was our front yard. The newly trampled tulips, trampled probably one hour or so ago by multiple sets of feet-probably chasing Lila(our dog)through the yard. They pretty much did that everyday...

 I just knew I was going to be in so much trouble. Not coming home after school for 4 hours-big grounding. But I still stepped onto the front porch-my front porch-anyway. I wonder if they had walked into the world too, if they had seen the river, if they had seen the vegetable garden, if they-

 "Air?" I heard. I look to see who said that, even though I already know. I turn to my left, and on the swing set is Mia, Scott, and my older sister, Janie. Well, Janie wasn't on the swing set, but she was pushing Mia in the baby swing. Mia was giggling. Scott was looking at me. Janie was too.

 "Um, yeah?" I said to Janie.

 "Where's Roar? And you've been gone for two hours. How were you in the house? We looked everywhere for you. The door was unlocked when we got home, so we thought you were here. But we couldn't find you. Dad told me to come out here with Mia to watch for you guys." Janie said really fast. She always talked fast when she was confused. Weird, right?

 "I came with Janie and Mia." Scott said. Scott was only 7, so he got proud of stuff a lot. Like when he won a stuffed animal at the fair that year because he popped a balloon, he wouldn't stop talking about it. Finally, Mom said that if she heard him talk about it again, she would take the animal away.

 "Nobody cares, Scott." snapped Janie.

Then I noticed something. "We were only gone for two hours?"

 Janie rolled her eyes. "Yeah, duh. How long did you think you were gone for? Two days?"

 I always liked to say that Roar got her sarcastic way of words from Janie. After all, Janie was older than us by 3 years-making her 15.

I just ignored her, like I always do. If we really were gone for two hours, but were actually gone for four, that means that there is a time difference between the two places. So, one hour here is two hours there. Well, you don't need to love math to figure that one out...

Danny Gokey - Love Will Take You Places

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Coming Soon: Daisy Chain Award

Hey everybody! Just a quick post to tell you guys that I will be doing the Daisy Chain Award soon. Probably tonight, if possible. So, check back soon! Thanks!


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Superchic(K) - Beauty from Pain

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Beachy Blogger Award!

Hey everybody! Like my new blog design? Comment below.
 Now, what I really am posting about-the Beachy Blogger Award! I got nominated from That's So Me by Sophia M.! So here it is!:


If you could live in any state, which would you chose? Colorado. Specifically Denver, Colorado. :)
Rain or snow? Rain. It's not freezing cold! And it doesn't make my nose run!
Summer or winter? Summer.
What is your favorite color? Aqua. Or turquoise. I don't know!
 If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Victoria. I love that name! You could either have the nickname Torie or Vicki! It's awesome!
Chips or crackers? Chips. Especially sour cream and onion!
Red or blue? Blue.
Do you like the beach? YES! I LOVE swimming!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you ever ridden on a huge roller coaster? No. In fact, I've never even been on a roller coaster in my life! Isn't that weird??????
Do you like chicken? Sort of...We have it all of the time, so I am sort of SICK of it. But I'd eat it if I had to.


 I nominate:


Girly Doll Type
Two Sisters
That's So Me (even though Sophia was the one who made this award)
Ag Bffs
Ag in Ohio
YooperGirl
Uppermichigirl
Melody Q.
More Than the Stories
Eve of Womanhood


So, yeah. Now the questions!:

1. When did you start blogging?
2. Do you like reading?
3. What is your name spelled backwards?(I know, completely random)
4. What is your favorite season?
5. History, Math, or English?
6. Do you play any sports? If so, what do you play?
7. Have you watched Maleficent?
8. If your house went down in flames, and you could only save one thing, what would you save?
9. Do you like swimming?
10. What is your favorite song in the whole wide world?

Those are all of the questions! What you do:
 First, you answer the 10 questions that I just gave you on your blog. Then, you nominate 10 blogs. Next, you ask 10 questions for them to answer. You put the award at the end of the post and also on the sidebar of your blog. Last, you post the post and go to all of the blogs that you nominated and tell them that you nominated them and your blog address. :) It's that simple! So, I can't wait to see your answers to my questions! Bye!

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G.P.L.

Jamie Grace - Fighter

 Jamie Grace has such a beautiful voice. I can understand why Chickadee likes her. :) There you go, Chick.


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Shaking My Head

 Oh my gosh. You guys want to hear a funny story. Well, I think it'll be funny for you. It's not really funny for me-cause I've lived it. Here it is:
  A long time ago(two hours) in a galaxy far, far away(my bedroom upstairs)...

 I woke up this morning and before I ate breakfast I was going to check my email, look at my blog stats, blah, blah, blah. So I did. I checked my email, and it said that somebody tried to hack it, so I had to change the password.
 After that was done, I looked at my other emails. Then I thought to myself, Oh! Yesterday I was looking at mouse cursors, so I should see if I could do that real quick. So I typed in the URL(if you want to know what it is, comment below) and looked at all of the cursors. That one looks super cute! I thought. It was a butterfly that flapped it's wings. So I clicked on it, and I downloaded it. And it had directions on how to put it on your blog. One of the things that you had to do was to paste it. Well, I had NO IDEA how to paste. So I went on Google to find out how to do it.
 I read a bunch of websites on how to do it for about 20 minutes. Finally, I was done and I understand what I had to do. So I followed the directions and I got to the pasting part. So I highlighted all of the part that I had to paste, and I right clicked. I dragged the words over to the window that I had opened up and put the words where I was supposed to. I clicked save and thought that I was done-but it said there was a error. "Argh!"
 I tried again, and again, and again. But it kept saying "Error". And I groaned every single time. This is not worth it! I thought. So, you want to know how long it took me altogether to accomplish nothing? A hour. What a waste of time! That is why I have named this post,"Shaking My Head" because I was always shaking my head.

 I really hope that you don't have to do this in the future. And if you do, good luck! LOL! Sophia, did you have to go through all of that getting your horse cursor?


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For All the Blog Authors Out There...

How do you do it? How do you get all of those followers? How do you get all of those views? How, how, how?

 I've had this blog for over a year, and I only have seven followers. I'm very grateful to those followers, but I really want more. I've seen blogs who have only had their blogs for six months, and they have more followers than me. :-(

 Fellow blog owners, do you have any advice or tips? Is there something special your doing? I would really appreciate it if you commented below! Thanks!

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What I Did For the 4th of July

Hey everyone! How was your 4th? Mine was great! This is what we did:

12:00-6:30 a.m.: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

6:30-8:30 a.m.: Wake up, eat breakfast, blah, blah, blah, etc., etc., etc.

8:45-10:30 a.m.: Go to the parade, sit, and sit, and sit. Wait, and wait, and wait. I was so bored! The parade took forever to start!

10:30-11:30 a.m.: Watch the parade, wave, collect candy, duck candy.

11:35-11:50 a.m.: Go to the grocery store to use the restroom and buy ice for the cooler.

12:00-12:10 p.m.: Drive to the park.

12:10-around 6:30 p.m.: Eat lunch, go on the merry-go-round a few times, snack, get sunburned, sit in the shade, drink 4-5 Pepsi cans, snack again, and finally pack all the food up.

6:45-8:00 p.m.: Drive home, rest for a little while, get in the car to drive to my grandma's house.

8:05-8:20 p.m.: Drive, drive, drive.

8:20-11:00 p.m.: Have s'mores, talk, have fun playing with sparklers(well, not playing), watching the fireworks (my camera died before I could take any pictures :'( I was so bummed), and driving home.

11:30 p.m.-7:30 a.m.: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...


So that's what I did on the forth of July! Hope you enjoyed reading this post. What did you do on the 4th? Comment below!


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Ha Ha it Up! Video #5

 This is so funny! The turtle starts to push around to ball, so the dog decides he wants to play. Then the dog decides he doesn't want to share, so the turtle takes revenge. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Twice the Fun - Part 15

Aurora King


Melanie, Natalie, and I swam super fast. Sure, Air got like a 7 minute head start, but I seriously doubted that she swam as fast as us. Plus, Natalie knew exactly where to go-Air definitely did not. Air had always been bad at directions. The mermaids swam faster that I'd ever go, so they stopped ever now and then so I could catch up. After about half a hour, Melanie grabbed one arm and Natalie grabbed the other, and they dragged me through the water. We still went faster. I had no idea how long it took us to get to the surface. Air was better at estimation than I was. She liked math, I like history. She hated history, I hated math.
 I remembered the time in fifth grade where we were doing math. The teacher asked,"Who knows what 10x12 is?"
 Air, the complete math freak, instantly raised her hand, along with about 3 other kids. The teacher scanned the room and rested on a boy named Joey Fresker.
 "How about you, Jo-?" the teacher started to say.
 "One hundred twenty!" Air blurted out.
 The teacher-who's name was Ms.Rice-gave Air a frustrated look. Joey yelled at her for stealing his answer. I tried to evaporate.
 "Raise your hand, Miss Ariana." scolded Ms.Rice.
 "But I did!" Air insisted.
 "Then, you wait until I call on you."
 "But-"
 "Next time, I will not call on you, because of this." Ms.Rice said, her words as cold as ice.
 Air started to have tears in her eyes.
 I remembered feeling sorry for her. That's why people started calling her Air. I was the one who said it first.
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Finally, we broke through the water. There it is, I thought. She must have already gone through the door.
I wondered what she was doing right now. Telling Mom where we'd been? Getting punished for 'lying'? Crying on her bed? Or are they even home yet? They should be home. It's been probably four or five hours.
 "Bye then," I said awkwardly. I had no idea if I'd ever see them again. I hoped so.
 "Bye! I hope you and your sister make up!" Natalie said sweetly.
 "Yeah, me too!" Melanie chimed in. Monkey see, monkey do. I thought.
 "Thanks guys. Later..." I gave them a wave. I climbed out of the water and felt a little tingle in my legs. Natalie had told me on the way that that would happen. About five seconds later, I'm on my feet and wobbling to the shacks door. I open it, and wobble inside...

Fireflight - You Decide

 You are the one deciding. It is your decision-not anybody else's.


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P.S. Twice the Fun coming up next!

Meet Squeaker

Squeaker: blue

Guinea Pig Lover: black

 Hey. My name's Squeaker. See me up in those pictures? I don't have a care in the world...hee-hee! Anyway, my human-Guinea Pig Lover(she really loves me enough to have her name after me? How thoughtful!)-is going to ask me a few questions, and I'm gonna answer them. So, enjoy!

• Favorite food?: You haven't given me much food difference since you got me in August, but out of the food that I have tried, I'd say Spinach, like my brother Oreo.
• Are you skinny or fat?(Answer honestly): I'm definitely skinny! My big brother Oreo is fat though-and I can tell you that honestly!

LOL! Squeaker!!!!

What?! You told me to answer honestly!

Yeah, but I didn't ask you anything about Oreo.

Oops...

*groan* Back to the questions...

• Do you get along with your brother, Oreo?: :) Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!! I guess, although sometimes we fight. Mostly because I try to get him to play with me, and so he gets mad at me...
• What is your favorite activity?: Jumping on Oreo. He may not love it, but I think it's super funny the way he looks at me as I do it!
• You are super good at jumping and running, but which one do like to do best?: I don't know. When I'm older, I'll probably say jumping, but since I live in the moment, I'm gonna say running. It's so funny when you try to get me back in my cage after you let me out! You always need help, because I run as fast as I can to get away from you! Plus, I like to hide, so sometimes, you have to move the couch to get me out from behind it! 

Argh! I hate doing that! When I go to one side of the couch, you run down to the other, so I can't reach behind it! Super frustrating with a capital everything.

That's why it so funny!

Squ-ea-ker!!!!!! Anyway, that's all the questions I have for you, Squeaks.

Awwwwwwwwwww...I was havin' fun. :(

Well, sorry, but I can't think of anymore questions for you! Say bye.

Bye everyone!

Happy 4th of July!!!!!!!!!!

 Hey everybody! Just thought I'd make a quick post telling you all to have a happy 4th. I'll make a post sometime about what I did. So happy 4th!!!!




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G.P.L.




P.S. Vote on the polls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Special Post-Postponed

 Hey guys-I mean girls! LOL!
 Did you get the title? Isn't it hilarious? :oD Hee-hee! So anyway, it's super sad, because I've been so busy lately, that I have to do the post next week. I hope you understand. :( It'll probably either be posted on Tuesday night or sometime Wednesday. So come back around then. There is a teeny-tiny change that it'll be posted on Thursday, but I seriously doubt it. I'm too excited for it to be that late-and I bet you are too! :) So come back!




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G.P.L.


P.S. In the meantime, remember to vote on those polls!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Special Post

 Hey everybody! So, I'm going to do another special post, because Squeaker is unhappy. He's mad at me, cause Oreo got a post and he didn't. LOL! So, I thought since Oreo got a post, so should Squeaker. Two guinea pigs, two posts! So, I'll have pictures, and I'll ask the same questions. I'll do that this weekend.
 Speaking of this weekend, I can't wait for the 4th of July!!!!!!!!!! My sisters have super cute outfits! I, on the other hand, don't have anything to wear. :'( I have a serious dilemma! HELP! Do any of you have any ideas???????? Comment PLEASE!




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G.P.L.