Day 4!!!!

Sorry y'all, no pictures today.  :P  All I did was go to speakers and walk the vendor hall.

Today was still great though!!!!!  My parents and I went to a bunch of speakers while my sissy was at the kids program.  We had fun!!!  And after a bunch of speakers, my mom and dad and I all cried quite a bit.  We've had a breakthrough after going to the last speaker of our trip.  He talked about raising teenagers with the wisdom of Solomon (Bible Solomon) and OH MY LORD WE NEEDED THIS TALK!!!!!!  I felt like crying one minute, and running up and hugging the guy the next.  He said everything I was feeling and wanting to tell my parents without me saying a word.  I feel.....(as stupid as this sounds) free.  I feel light and happy.  My mom and dad said they are going to start treating me with the same respect they want to receive, and treat me not as an equal exactly, but more like an adult.  I'm so happy.  About two minutes ago, my sister said something and I told her to 'shut up' and my mom was about to correct/yell at me to be nice but instead she calmly said, "Can't you say that nicer?  She didn't mean it that way."  I was so excited.  :) 

Anyway, enough ranting about me.

How are you all doing?  Is everyone out of school/almost out of school?  I feel awful for not being involved in the blogosphere lately.  I've been pretty busy though.  ;)

So right now I'm watching the end of National Treasure again until Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark comes on.  ;)  I <3 Indy!!!!  I'm going to go on the Indiana Jones attraction in Disney tomorrow.  I might even cave and buy a hat.  XD

Tomorrow is STAR WARS WEEKENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot wait!!!!!  We're leaving early, and I'll come back to blog and talk to my friends about it.  I am SO psyched.  We'll meet Ashely Eckstien, and I might even get to meet JediGirl1990 from Lakehouse and Her Universe.  JediGirl1990 is one of the only 'older girls' from HU who was nice to us 'younger girls' and joined us on Lakehouse.  Along with Sarahthegeek.  :)

Also, I'm quite excited because I have a new friend on TLF!!!  Cad Bane's Chick lives near me, homeschools and loves Star Wars just like I do!!!!!  :D  In fact, I met her mom at the homeschool convention the other day when she liked my Star Wars bag.  We talked for a while and then I mentioned The Lakehouse and gave her mom the web address.  The next night, Cad Bane's Chick joined and sent me a PM telling me that her mother met me at the homeschool convention and how excited she was to join our forum!  :D  I'm so happy!!!  I love PMing with her!  :)

Okay, I'll stop now.  Indiana Jones is almost on.  XD  I plan on writing, reading fanfics and making signature banners for my Lakehouse sisters before I eventually fall asleep and get ready for SWW in the morning!!!!!  Sorry for the 'brief' (haha, I don't think 'brief' or 'short' is in my vocabulary) and I'll be doing a MEGA post tomorrow with tons of pictures and Star Wars fandomness!!!!!!!!  :D

Love y'all!

Jedi~Chick <333

Anakin on Vacation Day 2 and Day 3 (without pictures...well, some pictures)

Well, Here's Thursday's Anakin on Vacation picture post!!!!  :D  I'll give you a bunch of pics of Anakin in Downtown Disney, and I'll give you a few of me!  Yay!!!  :DDD  I didn't take /any/ pictures today because all I did was go to speakers and walk the vendor hall.
Anyway, onto Anakin!!!!!
First, Thursday morning we went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast.  ;)  Anakin came with , of course.

That peg game is FAMOUS for Cracker Barrel!!!!  LOL!  Anakin's trying to win.

Anakin outside of World of Disney.  This has GOT to be one of my favorite shots of him!!!!!  He looks great!  LOL!

In the window of WOD (world of Disney) store.  If Anakin's head was bigger he'd look like he was wearing mouse ears.  XD

Star Wars is quite eminent in Disney World....especially this time of the year.  This is Ani in front of the "Build Your Own Lightsaber" station in Once Upon A Toy store.  BEST. STORE. EVER.  Even when you're a teenager.  xD  I love these shots too!!  :D

I went into an art gallery and got quite excited when I saw all the Star Wars paintings.  ;)  I took Anakin's picture with this Vader one.  My favorite one is this one:

Okay, I know the glare is kinda bad on this one, but I love the picture itself.  If you can't see it, it's of Vader's mask and Luke (during the Bespin scene) is in the reflection of his mask.  I love it.  If you look at Luke's reflection you can really see how upset and troubled that moment was.  I couldn't find out who painted it, so credit goes to whoever made this and the picture above.  ;)

I like both of these too!  First one is of Anakin in front of the Rainforest Cafe restaurant.  :)  I love that place. 
Second one is in front of a banner on a post.  i like what it says though.  "Let the memories begin!"

Again in front of the "Build a Lightsaber" station.  I actually BUILT another lightsaber!!!!!!!!!  :D  I made a blue one last year, and this year, I made a purple one!!!!!  :D  So now I have both of Mara Jade's lightsabers.  Here are some pics of my epic new lightsaber.  My sister made one too.  :)

Me and my little sister playing with our new lightsabers.  Notice the hideous boot on my foot.  That is to keep my toes immobilized because of my injured tendons/joint.  I HATE that boot.  It's itchy, sweaty, tight and bruises my shin.  But my toes are healing!!!  :D  And it was so funny because when in one of the Disney stores (World of Disney, to be exact) a cast member (worker) there saw my foot and gave me a free pin.  ;D  She said it was from Mickey and her, hoping my foot heals soon.  ;)  I felt very special. 
It's hard to run, lightsaber battle, or climb/descend stairs in that boot.  I can't bend my ankle.  xD  Right now it's off, thank goodness.  :P

Now, Anakin, my mom, dad, sister and I went to T-Rex for lunch.  It's just like Rainforest Cafe, it's got animals and creative scenes to eat in.  We ate in the Ice Cave and as you can see behind Anakin, there's a fossilized (not real, but real looking) and as you'll see below in the next couple pictures, they have dinosaurs that look real too.  ;)  It's a really fun place to eat, and after we ate we went to the gift shop and then to the 'dig site' where my sister and I had fun playing in the rock sand stuff, although it wasn't the brightest move I ever made with my sweaty foot in that boot.  I had to take it off and wipe all the little dirt/sand out.  :P

I like that picture of me.  I think it's cute.  xDD 

That was Thursday.  :)  Now onto Friday.  Today.

Today was a really cool day too! 

OH WAIT!!!!!!!!  NEVER MIND!!!!!!!!!!!  I ALMOST FORGOT!  Luckily i looked down.  xD  You'll get why in a second.  :P

Also on Thursday the Homeschool Convention opened.  We got to go to the vendor hall for two hours!!  My parents surprised me by taking me to the Generations of Virtue booth and letting me pick out a purity ring.  It's my Middle School Graduation gift and my Welcome To High School gift.  I LOVE it!!!!!  I just looked down and remembered I NEED to post on it!  :D  It has three little hearts with jewels in them.  The first pink heart represents me, the middle purple heart represents Jesus, and the other little pink heart represents the boy Jesus chose for me.  ;)  I love my ring!!!  I never ever will take it off!  (until I get an engagement ring that is. xD)
Here are some pictures of it. 

Okay.  Now that I got that out of the way, I'll start to wrap up this post. I have to tell you though, today was a great day.  I went to several speakers, and they were all excellent.  ;)

Here are the people.  ;)

Chad Hymas  This guy made me cry.  He's very down-to-earth and such a great guy.  I'm happy for him.  He talked about choices and how everything in life is about the choices you make.  And the consequences. 

Lt. General William "Jerry" Boykin  He is amazing.  I really cried hearing him speak.  He's a 36 year American Army veteran.  He's been through so much, and he's very strong in his faith.  He's literally heard the voice of God twice.  And he's seem more miracles than I've ever imagined possible.  :')  Excellent speaker, amazing person.  He talked about never giving up and how God is present in even the most hellish situations.  (sorry for the wordage there, but you've got to understand what this guy has been through.  He LITERALLY has been through hell.  I can't even comprehend it.)

Sherri Seligson  She's so cool!!!!!  I took tons of notes in her seminar (which I went to all by myself!)  She is a former Disney cast member at the Living Seas (now The Seas with Nemo and Friends) in Disney's Epcot.  She's a homeschool mom and she helps write the Apologia curriculum.  She's a marine biologist.  And a Creationist.  ;)  She talked about looking for hits of God and Creation in an Evolutionist world.  It's so cool how everything is connected.  :) 

Nicholeen Peck  This lady is so nice!!!!!  :D  She's really cool too!  She teaches Self Governance and how to overcome parenting/family challenges.  We're going to buy her program.  I think if our family does this, we would all be a lot happier, fight less, lose less wi-fi, get more school done, and be a stronger family.  I want to do this.   :)  I got to meet the lady and she's super nice in person too.  And she was a great speaker.  She taught four ways to conquer self government. 

After doing the speakers, we went to the vendor hall again.  We bought a bunch of books, a German program, a sewing program and a bunch of other things.  ;)

Then we picked up my sister from the Kids program and my sister, dad and I went back to the hotel room to relax while my mom went to another speaker. 

Eventually, we went to dinner together.  The FPEA (homeschool organization) has been playing movies continuously all day in the main atrium.  We sat and ate dinner while watching How To Train Your Dragon with a ton of other homeschool families.  It was really fun!!!!  When Hiccup and Astrid kissed at the end, everyone in the audience went, "Oooohhhhh!!!!!!"  including me.  I was laughing so hard.  XDD  I also read some fanfics while watching......a few good fanfics........xD

So today and yesterday was a great day.  Now I'm watching National Treasure 1, and I happened to bring National Treasure 2.....so I just may put that in.  ;)  I love Riley.  xD

Okay, now this post is officially done.  Love you guys!!!!  Thank you EVERYONE, all 39 followers for commenting and keeping up with my blog even when I have been away!  :) 

And special birthday shoutout to Ley Firewalker.  Love you girl!!  :D  <33

Thanks everyone for reading this long and picture-y post!!

Love,
Jedi~Chick (who is too lazy to find her signature)  XD

Anakin on Vacation

Here we go!  Day one of my trip.  :)  In pictures of Anakin Skywalker.  Ready?  Set.....
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GOO!!!!!!

There's Anakin in our hotel room.  My sister was unpacking.....hence all the garbage and stuff behind him.  XDD

That's a better one....see the lovely pull out couch?  My sister's sleeping on that now actually.....
                           

Anakin standing in the window......

Anakin outside in the LOBBY.  That's right, the lobby of my hotel has a lake.  And it's very awesome.  Feels like I'm really in Key West!!!  :D  LOL!

Anakin in front of the pool for our area.  IT LOOKS SO FUN!!!!  :D  The tentacles that look like they're coming out of Anakin's head are part of the octopus slide! 

Ani in front of the FPEA (Florida parents education association) sign for the convention!!!!  :D

Poor Ani......Poor squished Ani.....

Anakin in front of the brochure for SWW!!!!  :D

Funny sign.....and Anakin's breaking the rules in the Everglade's area.  :P

Another funny sign.....

That was so much fun!  We had dinner at Macaroni Grill and they have paper table cloths.  So I drew a few lightsabers for Anakin, and advertised my blog too.  :P  And the reason his lightsabers aren't blue is because there was only a red and orange crayon.  XD

Anakin with his evil twin, Darth Vader!!!!  It's a good thing Darth Vader is still encased in plastic.  :P

Anakin's following the Jedi Path.  :)

And that's my day.  The last two pics were from when we went to Books A Million after dinner.  Tomorrow we're going to Downtown Disney and I'll have TONS of more pics!!!!!!  :D  Yay!!!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Love,
Jedi~Chick (who lost her siggy)

Convention Day 1

Technically this is not a convention day.  XD 

SO, here I am, now in my hotel room, which is HUGE, and AMAZING, typing away at the lovely free wifi!!!!!

Here is where I'm staying:
http://www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylord-palms/

We're staying in a suite in the Key West section.  ;)  I LOVE it!!!!!  My sister and I get our own room, while my parents get their own room.  :D  And we have a huge bathroom with hallway. :)  It's SO great!!!!  Plus, we've got a flatscreen TV!!!!!!!!!

And the pool is awesome.  We're gonna go swimming tonight!  And have dinner on this boat place.  We're gonna have dinner next.  ;)

I love you guys!!!!  Ooh!  And I'm going to do a picture documentary of this trip.  I brought my new Anakin action figure and I'm going to take a picture of him each place I go.  :)  Yay!!!!  I already took pictures of him in the hotel room.  ;)

So, until later,

God Bless and May the Force be with You,

Wicked!

Oh. My. Gosh.
WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in LOVE with Wicked the Musical.  :)  This post is dedicated to Qui, because she helped me greatly in getting into Wicked, and understanding it.  ;)

My friend Maryanna went to see Wicked in one of the performing arts centers a while ago, and after hearing how much my Lakehouse friends loved it, I wanted to go too, but by the time I found out it was coming it was too late.  :P  But Maryanna went and had a great time, and she put the soundtrack of the Wicked music on my iPod, because she said I'd LOVE it.  I did LOOOVE it!!!!!!!  :D 
I'm quite jealous of Maryanna because she got to meet the guy who played Fieryo.  :P  Grrrr Maryanna.  xD

Anyways, so about a week ago I listened to the soundtrack for the first official time before bed, and was surprised at how much I liked it.  I fell asleep listening to it, and woke up singing Defying Gravity.  :P  So begins my newest obsession.  XDD

The next morning, I emailed Qui and asked her to explain to me the plot of the musical, because I was very curious.  I already tried looking it up on Wikipedia, but that only made me all the more confused.  :P
So Qui very kindly explained the plot in simple terms, so I could understand it.  :)  Now all the songs make sense!!  :D  I forwarded that email to my cousin Chibi*Chick, and she bought the album of Wicked songs on iTunes, and now she LOVES Wicked just as much as I do!!!!!! 

We've decided that I am Glinda and she is Elphaba.  :P  We are going to sing a duet for Defying Gravity and What is this Feeling.  It's awesome.  And fun!!!!  We're going to put on a show for when our family visits this summer.  It'll be really fun!!!!

Anyway....here are a few pictures and videos.  :)

I found these various places....most from GoogleImages.  :P  Enjoy!

Look:

There ya go!!!!  :D  That was my Wicked Post.  My favorite character is Elphaba.....extremely closely followed by Glinda.  ;)  Favorite song is....What is this Feeling, followed by Popular and Defying Gravity.....and No Good Deed and No One Mourns the Wicked.....

Thanks everyone for commenting and reading, even though I've been gone for a while. ;)  Oh, and do y'all like my new design?  I made it last night!!!!  :D  I like it...I think it's pretty.  I also made a new blog button, if you all want to use it that'd be great!!  :D

Love,