We HATE Chemistry!!! :P

This picture was for Will...(not that he'll ever see it...) :(

Once upon a time there lived 2 friends named Amanda and Briana.

And they were totally rockstars...(taking after Taras' pose!!)lol





But they hated chemistry!!!
ALOT!!!!!!

And it was super super hard for them (maybe b/c all they did was talk to eachother during class)...and they became sooo stressed out!!! Sometimes they would even give up on it!!! (or in Amanda's case...chew on it!!) :O

So...once chemisty class ended, they had a party. But this wasn' t just any old party....it was a burning chemistry party!!! :) :) yeaayyy!!! :) :)
They began by the throwing of papers.....and then to the burning!!! Thankgoodness!!! :) :)And they lived happily ever after!!! Relieved that chemisty was burned!!! THE END!!! hehe.

"The one who says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same manner as He walked." ~1 John 2:6

Something just wasn't right....

And it's sooo true; something just wasn't right. But we'll get to that later. These are a few pictures from the retirement center when we went last week. And guess what we did again!? Yep. Plan to match! ;) Over that weekend i bought this sweet new orange top and i sooo badly wanted to wear it so i figured, "why not have everyone else dress in orange too!?!" Right?

Since there wasn't a fifth person to take these pictures we had to set the phone and camera up on a car and put the timer on in order to get the pictures...but the pictures weren't just for us....we all missed a couple friends dearly....:) (a hint of what wasn't right!!)

In this one, me and Taras were walking back over to the car to get the camera and we realized that it somehow started flashing to take yet another picture! I didn't want to be in it sooo close so i turn away, and i'm not sure what Taras and Victor are doing. But it kinda looks like Taras is chasing me i guess...and it looks like Victor is urging him on, laughing at my situation!!lo But that really wasn't what was happening i'll tell ya!!!

We tried to take a jumping picture, but it was kind of hard to time our jump w/ the camera timer....we weren't quite sure when it'd go off so we began to get prepared. In this one we were a bit too slow and look pretty funny!!haha.

Ok, then this one actually worked. Well, sort of. Don't ask me how Taras got up sooo high!! And Kelsey looks like she is having the time of her life. Me....i had a jump coming there sooner or later. But Victor.....haha-either he is a little slow, or he thought we were taking a dancing picture!! Don't it look like he is doing some dance moves!?!?hahaha-i think it would look more like it if i could personally immmmmmma-tate(spelled how!?!) the dance i'm imagining in my head....kind of like the Oksana dance i guess you could say.lol



Well, and here....we got tired of God's beautiful nature background and decided to go under the man made plastic canopy. (The guy's idea, obviously.)

Ok, and now these...Taras had to stop over my house to give me something....and in the midst of our talking, Karah decides to take pictures of us!! That's soo like Karah!! :) haha. And notice all my makeup....this was right before i changed into Karah's big prom dress to go out and take pictures. l

ps: Oh, and did you ever figure out what wasn't right about these pictures!?! Here, let me help ya out....the Tirak's were missing; enjoying their vacation!!! :( :(

"Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good...." ~Titus 2:3

(great church service yesterday on Titus 2)

We're Not Street Performers, We're Dancers!! ;)

Yea, it's true....we are dancers. But pretty lame ones!!lol haha-i only do the "Oksana dance." It's super cute, and remind me to show everyone who reads this...Don't ask....but (my friend) Oksana is the originator of it!!haha.

Anyways, these pictures are kind of old...some of the last good memories from band; thought we'd make it fun/funny. This was at the elementary school, Parma Park. We were confused, what is a number 2 talking level anyways??? Feel free to explain if you are that highly educated...i am not.

And if you haven't noticed, we always like to match. But when i think about it, i guess it's kinda weird. I mean, we're all in high school and here we are planning to dress alike!! haha-who else do you know that does that!?!?! :) I must say tho, i think it is pretty cute!!

These pictures were from Commencement a couple weeks ago. Me and Amanda were having quite a ball taking mirror pictures in the bathroom! Then again, what's new!?lol But man, the bathroom was totally sweet!! It was a bathroom in the high school...but oh sooo nice. You walked into this nice, big, waiting type like room that had couches and several mirrors, and even a water fountain!! Then you'd go into the next room which was actually the rest area, and it was still super big!! Soooo many toilets, (unlike Forge; ha!) And some sweet sinks with a counter and mirror behind and in fornt!!! I mean, this bathroom was totally amazing!!! Actually, it had like 2 counters for makeup and hair...i walked in there and i was furious!! "Why can't Forge have bathrooms like these!?!" I screamed on my inside!!! Oh, yea...i forgot we live in Parma. :(

Oh, and in the one picture, don't ask what i'm doing...i'm not sure why i had my hand on my stomach...maybe i enjoyed feeling my tight abs at the moment....idk. ha-just kidding (But i do have some pretty tight abs...really, i do!!)lol :)

It wasn't me messing up!!! It was Laura. :(

"For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of you own poets have said, 'For we also are His children'." ~Acts 17:28

A Day at the Zoo!! woo-hoo!! :-)

Last Monday me and Kels had a chance to go to the zoo w/ our friends, the Tiraks. I was totally excited b/c i hadn't been to the zoo since last summer and i was ready for more camel farts!!lol (haha-long story & awkward experience w/ us and Karah last year!) But now that i'm laughing, i might as well tell it!! :)

Ok, so last year me, Kels, and Karah all took a trip to the zoo. We stopped over by the camels and saw one that was laying down on it's side and the other i think was still standing, or about to lay on it's side. Actually, maybe it was already laying on it's side. Whatever, i dnnt remember. But anyways...the point was, we were looking at them and the one laying down let out a huge fart!! Me, Kels and Karah all just kinda stopped and stared at each other, wondering if what we heard was true. Karah asked me "did that camel just...." and i replied "yea, i think it just did....." hahahaha. We started cracking up-big time!! It was disgusting!!! :P This year we weren't as lucky though.lol

But we had a great time anyways. Taking pictures by cute flowers, seeing the wolves run around (for like the first time ever!!) getting wet by dinosaurs, trying on animal masks, doing our best to send photo text messages that correctly matched a specific criteria, making plans for the next visit....and so on and so on. And speaking of, i really can't wait till our next visit!! :) :) ps: i dnnt kno why all these pictures turned out sooo tiny....:( :( sry!!! :(

Check out the sweet movie of the wolves!! :) It may be the only one i ever get too!!

"God made the beast of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after is kins; and God saw that it was good." ~ Genesis 1:25

Trying to Catch Up; Like Always...

Just trying to post quite a few great pictures before heading off out west next Wed. Wooo!! So when i leave, Inna, you can always look at my blog and remember the good times we had before this crazy, busy summer and get all excited to see us again!! :) (although i think you have all these pictures anyways!)lol

Anyways, heres some picutes from Renissance, and the last few days of school! :)

me, Alina, Inna, Julia, Kelsey--->

Taras, Inna, Kels, Julia, me---this was Taras' very last day of high school and we just had to take a picture to make it memoriable!! (there were other reasons too!!)lol :)

We tried to come up w/ a cute pose here...do you think it worked!? ;)

Taras, me-looking silly, Andy (loving his hair!!)lol
Crossfire leaders!!

me and Alina--->
(i look gross again!!)

Graduation
me, Taras, and Amanda---funny story about this actually...this was the picture where i was looking at that kid's dad's camera....and i have absolutly NO idea why he took a picture of us...his son isn't even standing w/ us....but i did ask his other son to take this picture for us....man, my heart was beating sooo fast, i swear!!lol Then a picture of me and Andy, then me and Taras. I dnnt kno why, but it's not letting me write that next to the pictures....it sends the text back up here....hmph!!

me and Bonnie (above)

me and Laura--->




<---me and Andy; loving the hair, once again!! And oh!! look at the rose!! It was sooo lovely!! Blue w/ glitter...awwww...can't wait until mine next year!! Actually, Inna, i have a story about a rose and a certain someone...Amanda, remember what i'm talking about?!!?lol

And now....the best part of all; the CROSSFIRE PARTY!!!! :) :) :)






We went out for a walk over by Tri-C and saw these 2 benches. What a perfect picture place right?!?! And it gets better.....

here we decided to jump off the bench...Joy, you got us into taking jumping pictures!! (even butter boy-look!!)lol Seriously!! We do it quite allot now!! Then notice the guys (Victor & Taras) in the background...i think they were trying to jump; obviously not as skilled as us girls tho!!!

And this is the one that has a story to it. You see, us girls thought that it'd be cute for both groups to jump off the bench at the same time. Good idea?? I know!! Well, for some reason, and i'm not sure who planned it, but the other bench decided it'd be funny not to jump and make fun of us jumping. So that's what's going on in this picture. But i think we all kinda felt stupid b/c we look over and see them all still standing on the bench...what the heck!? To get them back, we decided to trick them and pretend to jump, but not really do it. I guess they had the same idea going on again b/c on the count of 3 everyone just stood there, looking at the other group!!hahaha. Very amusing!!

Taras had a trampoline in his yard and so we decided to once again, take a few jumping pictures. But in this one it was more like a laughing picture...i'm not quite sure what happened! Inna, any thoughts??

<---Kelsey and Julia got pretty high here!!

Inna got high too, but me on the other hand...not quite as experienced! :( -->

<--- and here, even tho we're looking away i still think this picture is just too cute!! :) (but ignore my big thigh!!)

whoops!! Almost forgot to upload this one....i like it alot tho! hehe. But there were certain things which could have made it better....anyways....lol Victor, Inna, Kathy(Taras' sister-if you can't tell), me, Julia, Kels, Taras

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There were ceratin reasons for this shoe picutre.... ;) Just be glad the picture doesn't smell like it did in person!!lol ewww!! :p

Part of our group.

loving this one!! :) And just if you guys haven't noticed...Taras is always (trying to) flex!!lol --->

(Inna, i have a funny story dealing w/ flexing....)hehe

Went for a walk and though it'd be cool to take a picture here in the long grass...Alina, Kels, Julia, me, Inna

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we decided to actually pose for this one! :)

Picture time in the middle of the woods!! :) It's blurry, i kno. :(

<--- Inna, Alina, me Julia, Kels, Taras, Victor, Eva, Amanda

Inna, Alina, me, Julia --->

<---we thought Andy looked like Moses or smthing!!lol But doesn't he?!?

And lastly, me and Inna, (well, actually more like just Inna) decided to have a race to the trash can (in the far distance!) But she didn't tell me we were racing until she had allready gotten quite some feet ahead. I dnnt kno why i dnnt catch on sooner...ha. But love this picture, how we are running the exact same...and where Taras is looking!!lol

Check out these few videos....in the first, listen closely....we were all sighing from such a tireding walk. Then in the second we were jumping, obviously...but too bad you can't see the guys in this one; Taras was jumping over Victor!!haha.

Many many more pictures to come!! :)

"The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so abandon the quarrel before it breaks out"~Proverbs 17:14