February update

Hello everyone!

I've been promising another blog post for a while now, and I suppose now is as good of a time as ever. 

This time, my post will primarily be pictures of the past couple weeks.

Before I add the pictures, I'll give a quick update. I AM VERY READY FOR SCHOOL TO BE OVER. I seriously feel like I've learned enough this year already to last me a good long while. AND, next year I could technically /legally drop out of high-school. Of course, I'd never do that, but nonetheless it's very comforting thought.
The latest Curtis Family injury happened to Dad. This injury is pretty odd...he got his eyeball scratched /lacerated while playing basketball. There is a pretty large gash in the eyeball, and it's super bloodshot. He got some antibiotic drops from the Doctor, and it should be better in a few weeks.
Besides that, we've been doing lots of school! Thursday night there was a dance at Cherokee Cove, and that was a lot of fun. Below are a couple pictures from the night.

~Dance pictures~

Having fun!

Spinning.

Emma and her friend, John.

I have no idea what Emma is laughing about, but it looks like she's having fun!

~Random pictures~

Making yogurt

About to go conquer some farm work. Looking tough ;)

Football!

And...more football!

~Farm Pictures~

The horse and Mom. Yes, we still have him.

Will and his buddy the goat.

This picture is pretty priceless.

Short, but sweet.

I think I might actually believe in Global Warming (am I really saying this??)...this winter has been so entirely warm here in NC. The people getting dumped on by snow in Alaska may disagree, but...it's all relative.

Anyway. I finished reading/discussing/analyzing Agamemnon by Aeschylus in lit. Greek literature has a common theme: All problems are caused by women and all disagreements are over women. Not exactly true in real life, but somewhat accurate. :) I'm starting to actually get into Greek tragedies though. I may even like them more than Shakespearean tragedies. They seem to have better reasons for killing/poisoning people in Greek tragedies . 

We're most likely finding another home for the horse, btw. He's too big for our midget family, and stepped on Mom's foot and tried to kick her. We're going to try to find a pony or smaller horse to free-lease. I think it would be a better match. 

Sorry this is so short! I'll try to write more later.

Update on life. :)

We now have a horse. Correction: We're actually free leasing it for a year, to see if horses are for us without making any kind of purchase. The 2 youngest kids have been praying every night for a "baby brother, sister and horse." The horse was an answer to one of the prayers! He's TN walker. As many of you know, I am not an animal person. You could say I am indifferent towards animals. I was scarred for life after my beloved pet chickens being massacred by dogs, bears, coons and more, the death of baby goats, an evil hamster that bit fingers and my kitten that disappeared, a demented pet oppossum...ect. ect. At a young age, I decided animals die too much and are too temperamental, and decided it was stupid to become attached. Now, I just don't want any extra responsibilities and greatly prefer spending time with people WHO CAN ACTUALLY TALK. I'll post a picture of the horse soon. If any of you have any name suggestions, we'd appreciate it! Just leave a comment or send me an email. Dad's suggestion: "We can name him Nebuchadnezzar, since he wandered around in the fields and ate grass for seven years!" It takes us FOREVER to name animals. What usually happens is about 5 of us finally agree on a name, then the stubborn two still call it whatever they wanted, which results in an animal with 3 names.

Besides the new animal, nothing much has happened. We're as busy as ever with life and school. I started chemistry back again. Every year after Christmas break, I never cease to wonder how information can leave my mind so quickly. I look at my math book and think, "Hmm...a bell is faintly ringing in my mind...I know I've seen this somewhere, I remember going through some kind of torture that resembled these equations..." I'm counting on the fact that once you learn something, you may temporarily forget it, but it comes back quickly.

Today was a bad day for me brain-wise. I think I was partly delirious because I was so excited to see the sun??!! I went to get a Debit card at the bank, and the lady asked me what my name was and I said, 'Chloe." "Is that spelled Cloe?" I replied, "Yep." Mom had to tell me how my name was really spelled. Then the bank lady asked me my date of birth and I just looked blank for a minute, "Umm....ahh..." Also, in chemistry, I kept blanking out and writing all these random element names down that had nothing to do with the questions. "Whats the formula for potassium nitrate?" I'd start writing, MgF3 and my teacher looked over, "Why are you writing Magnesuim floride?" "Umm...ahh...oh yeah. I don't know." It was really odd.

Goodnight!

Happy New Year.

Whoa. I haven't written since LAST YEAR!

Happy 2012, everyone. I hope your new year is wonderful.

Speaking of wonderful, that's an adjective to describe my Christmas. We had a lovely day, together as a family eating good food,opening presents, listening to Christmas music and taking a walk. Then, in the evening our good friends the Stephens came over and watched, It's a Wonderful Life. I'm really psyched, 'cause I GOT SKI'S FOR CHRISTMAS! Very excited about that.

Last Friday, everyone (minus Dad ): headed down to TN to visit family and see some friends It was a very nice time together. On New Years Eve, we watched the ball drop on TV, 

which is very overrated and ridiculous in my opinion. A couple 

minutes before, Will exclaimed, "When do we get to see the BOMB drop?"

Poor guy, thought a bomb was gonna drop from the sky and explode.  Next,  we tried to make as much noise as we could at midnight with those little squawker birthday-party things my Aunt bought, and old ladies pulled back their curtains and glared at us. Then I ran around the block and called people on my phone to wish them a Happy New Year. Next, I got lost in the neighborhood...smelled a skunk in the bushes and ran around trying to find my aunts house...and people were looking at me like I escaped from a mental hospital...Finally I found the house and Emma and I watched a western and dreamed of mules and six shooters and Apaches all night. New Years Day we went to the city of Chattanooga, walked across the TN river and ate delicious ice-cream. Monday was our first, real mall experience. The only mall I'd ever really been to was our mall which is so small you can stand in the middle and see all the stores. Also, it's always quiet and empty and we always see a lot of people we know there. This mall wasn't really huge compared to most, but there were at least 20,000,000 people in there. AND, it got a bloody nose in the middle of the man hallway-area...which was really embarrassing. 

Anyway, upon our arrival home, we were met with weather in the teens, high winds and a few inches of snow. I can't wait to go tear up the slopes. 

School is starting up tomorrow, Christmas break was divine. I seriously tried to convince Mom I had learned enough this semester in school to last for life. Which is practically true. 

Arrivederci, yall. 

FREEDOM!

Five minutes before I began this blog post, I finished my last school assignment of the year 2011, a chemistry test. I kept putting it off, and putting it off since I didn't understand the concepts I was going to be tested on. Until this afternoon, where I decided to conquer electron configuration and atomic mass and wavelength and frequency of light once and for all. Some major light-bulbs exploded in my brain after a lot of studying. After having all these moments of epiphany, I've decided light-bulbs-going-off-in-my-brain is one of the best feelings ever. Back to what I was saying, I AM OFFICIALLY ON CHRISTMAS BREAK. Hallelujah. With school out of the way, I'll really be able to enjoy the holiday season which means I'll have time to do some of my favorite things like eat chocolate, talk on the phone and mop the floor. (Really, I love mopping. And vacuuming. Ask my family or good friends)

Today was pretty average in a lot of ways. OK, I almost ran over a chicken,(that just sounds redneck. And let me tell ya, it felt redneck) Ava threw up on the floor after eating dubious tofu (she almost threw up on ME, but I stuck on the floor just in time) but really, nothing super exciting happened. 

Well, Merry Christmas everyone! <3

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men!"

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life!"

Tree fort in the woods

Thanksgiving dinner

Shooting.

What happens when Will and Ava are left to their own devices...

Adorable.

Mom and Dad!!

Will having a blast

Hiking!

PIE!

Miss Hannah.

December update!

Wow! I can't believe it's been about a month since I last posted. I'll try post more regularly from now on, but I'm not gonna be a politician and promise anything when realistically I can't grantee anything.
Life for us has been crazy busy. Sadly, (not) school is being pushed to the back burner and is being replaced by holiday activities. More accurately, school is pushed to the day before class...ah yes. Procrastination is my middle name.
Time flies--Thanksgiving was great (what a great holiday, btw. A day just to eat delicious food, and shoot guns, and be thankful!) Christmas season 2011 is already upon us. (just in case you forgot) I'm enjoying the festive decorations, parties, and music. So far, it's been an off year as far as snow goes. Last December, this time of the month, we had about two feet of snow. Now we only have lousy patches of snow.  Dude, I'm ready for skiing, and legit sledding parties-- the snow needs to start falling!

School is my life! My life is school!

I've been very negligent about blogging lately. All I've really been doing is school and that doesn't provide much blogging material. I'm enjoying it for the most part. Math always hangs over my head like an evil cloud of doom, and math's cousin, chemistry is known to do the same. History and literature on the other hand, are both very fascinating. Writing a full-blown literary analysis on the Iliad is difficult but rewarding. Our literature class is working on a movie with excerpts from the Iliad. It's a fun way to really understand the poem and exercise creativity. Today our chemistry class visited the water treatment plant in Boone. I'm glad we have well-water. :)
Ava and Will are my constant comic-relief during the long school days. 
I can't wait for Thanksgiving break, seeing family and eating a bunch of good food. Bring it on!!
As I said...I don't have much to say. Which is very unusual for me. Just ask my family. Speaking of not having much to say, my newest hypothesis; If I talk a lot, I'll be exercising my jaw and hopefully I won't get a double chin when I'm 85. Only time will tell.