Sophomore Year 2007-2008

Today, was the first FULL day of school, but, actually, DAY 2.

I am glad that it is over. One day at a time...

The day was ok, and I ate lunch in our usual area, but, I was glad to get a ride home with Rebecca and Maddy Rhodes. They were going to the my mom's work, so I asked if they could take me there...and so we all got there together.

Last day of SUMMER Vacation

Today is the last day of summer vacation....

Tomorrow, we officially start school

Taylor and I went to Disneyland, and we walked all over in the 100 degree heat!

It was fun, and not too crowded...we didn't get to go on the NEMO ride, but mom was the only one really interested in riding it anyways...

Taylor is my friend, who is just starting at Wilson (she's a freshie), so I was telling her all about school, and just giving her a few tips of things...to expect....

ttfn...tomorrow...Sophomore year begins!!!!!!!!!

To complete the weekend...I forgot to say that on Sunday, we went to the E Hula Mau, and it was fun to see the Hawaiian dancers (on the free stage) and walk around and see the Hawaiian crafts... Monday, I went to lunch with Dad, and we went shopping..got a nice top at LUCKY brand Jeans...heh heh.....we saw that top when we were in Santa Monica..but, mom couldn't buy it for me.....

Philippians 4:4-8

I had to learn Philippians 4:4-8 for Sunday School for the Woman's class, and we had our lessons from the Women of Faith Conference from 2006. Our theme was Contagious Joy. What a joy it is to know what God has for us..and to be able to overcome adversity. What do we see above the trials that have been placed before us? What does God want us to do about the adversity?
The last part, (vs 8) we didn't really have to memorize as part of the class, but they gave it to us for our own notes to remember that God wants us to remember these things. I was looking for some scriptures for Teenagers on what they could do to remember to take with them, and this was one of the verses that came up....

I think that we all need to remember this verse, not just as an afterthought, but, because it has it so simply stated.......

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. Phil 4:8

Santa Monica....

Well, This is Santa Monica...Palisades View...and the Pacific Park..and Pacific OCEAN for that matter!

Tori has never been to this area, or maybe she has, but was too small to appreciate it.

Of course, it is with the usual attitude like WHY do you want to take my photo...I need to adjust the lighting on this one because she came out too dark, but you can see from the photo, the VIEW was astounding, breathtaking, and a PEFECT California HOT summery day!

We walked down the 3rd Street Promenade, and of course, went to Sephora...One of the most girlie girl stores ever!..it has every thing the ultimate girl would want, and everything any cosmo girl...would ever need, besides an iPod, which of course, there is an iPod store just another block down.....

There are lip glosses, and eye shadows, mascaras, by about 100 different companies..or maybe 1000 different companies..in every shade you can imagine!

As we walked around there were performers and singers, and acrobatic type people singing dancing, rolling around, making balloon animals....




And then we finished off the walk (about 4 blocks) with a nice scoop of Italian Gelato! Yummy! This is raspberry blackberry..it was so yummy!

and of course nice traffic on the LA freeways....to get home....

Yes, this is the typical Tori face, when I ask her to take a picture here, or take a picture there......so, if you think it is easy to get a nice photo of her now...you can see..this is what I usually get.......

End of the Summer School Starts soon

Today is Saturday...September 1st.

We went to Lunch with Dad (Grandpa) and Larry, Anna and Evan. Evan is now going to be playing NJB Basketball and Little League Baseball.

From Cerritos (Mimi's,...dad's favorite place)...Mom and I went to Watts, to see the Watts Towers. It was very interesting. It was neat to see the mosaic collage that some crazy man did. I think his neighbors must have been pretty patient to see this strange work of 'art' rise up in someone's yard!

From Watts...we went to Santa Monica.......

http://www.trywatts.com/tower_tour/

to get a virtual tour..you can see the towers ..they were built from 1921 to 1945 by Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant in the city of Watts. It is now a State Park for folk art.