Waco Fall Fest

So yesterday was the Waco Fall Fest. I don't think I've ever seen that many people in one place in this town since we've been here. It was really hot so we didn't stay most of the day because everyone was complaining that they wanted to go.

They had a talent show later on that Lorenzo and I had already signed up for, I only signed up because there were no other musicians and he needed someone to compete against. I had to do an easy song because I had less than 2 days, I ended up playing "When I Come Around" from Green Day.

Everyone in talent contest was a singer! Most of them were really good, but they had 3 old ladies judging, supposedly they had all worked in the music business for a very long time, but who knows how long ago that was. It was all country, but they not once chose the people that actually deserved to win. The singers were divided in age groups 15 and under, and 16 and up. For the 15 and under group, the first girl played guitar and sang and in my opinion she was the best. The girl that got 1st place was alright, but the girl who got second place sang the star spangled banner and in my honest opinion, she was absolutely terrible, but, to each his own.

For the 16 and up group, they did a little better when they picked the winners. They chose some girl that had great stage performance for 1st place, a barber quartet for 2nd, and an amazing singer for 3rd. I think the barber quartet or the girl who got 3rd should have won and my dad thinks the same.

When it was my turn to play I couldn't hear the music at all so I sounded like absolute crap! I could only feel the bass drum and it screwed up the whole song. Supposedly one of the judges was giving the sound guys dirty looks when he tried to turn it up. So I was ready to just collapse when I got off the stage.

When Renzo went up he said he couldn't hear the music all that great either, but he still did a whole hell of a lot better than I did.

They called us both up to the stage and Renzo got a 1st place trophy and $100 and I got $25. It was definitely an experience, I can tell ya that. We ended up splitting the money, both because it was an unfair competition and also because he couldn't have done it without me. So I guess that means I get to go to my Flyleaf concert. YAY!

When we got back we had ice-cream and root beer with everyone up at the office to celebrate. All in all it was an interesting experience.

-Jacqualine

Weekend Fun

Well, it's been quite a while, so I figured I'd post something on here to fill everyone in on what we've been up to.
A few weeks ago we went to a little town thingy a little ways up the road. It was pretty much empty, but we got some neat pictures there. There were train tracks going in between buildings and it was just a neat little town.

After that we went to a "ghost town" although it honestly was not much of a ghost town. There were houses all up and down the road and all there really was was a cemetery. Some of the headstones were from way back in th 1800's. The cemetery was a little weird though, because most of the graves were fenced in, but there was one part where there were just a bunch of them sprawled out in a little clearing by the road.

Last Friday we went to Cheaha State Park in The Talledega National Forest. There were a bunch of trails and stuff to walk up and we chose the Silent Trail (we weren't very quiet). We walked about a mile until we came to the waterfall we were looking for. There wasn't a whole lot of water because the river was low, but either way it was beautiful! We got to climb on the rocks, and everything, there was even one part where there was water coming of tree roots so it was just like and shower and the boys actually went and stood under it. The water was incredibly soft and clean too. We had pictures, but I don't think they're on the computer, and I don't feel like uploading them, maybe later.

This weekend was a blast! There were a bunch of kids here for Labor Day weekend and the campground had a bunch of activities. There was a Pinewood Derby Car Race thing, the  boys made cars and were obsessing over them, trying to make them as fast as they could without going over the weight limit. Some old guy I think won 1st place, some kid got second, and I think one of my brothers friends got 3rd. I'm sure if that's exactly right though, because I was in the bus, sick. There was a glowstick train ride too. When me and my brothers got on everyone started screaming and there was one girl who was probably 8 or 9 who kept saying "Stop! Stop screaming! You're gonna make my ears bleed! Please! Stop!" and she would scream at the top of her lungs and say "Now stop!!!!!!!!!!!" It was kind of funny honestly. There were also a bunch of kids chasing the train and jumping on the back of it, which the boys and I joined in on when we got off, but after that rounf they told us we weren't allowed to do it anymore because someone might get hurt, I guess they were right, but come on! We were having fun, I don't think we were being to stupid. Last night they had a campfire/cookout. My dad played some acoustic rock covers, we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows and just had ourselves a good 'ole time! After the campfire the boys got Brad's had (Brad is out parent's new buddy and a guy that works here) so he chased them around for a couple of hours and got Rickey in the pool, then I joined in. When he finally got his hat back all the kids (I mean almost all the kids in the campground) tackled him and we got it back. He said he'll chase us for it again to day after he gets off work and he also said that me and my brothers are all getting thrown in the pool.

I started making some bottlecap necklaces. Some of them actually turned out pretty cool. I think I'm gonna put them up for sale on my store when they're all done.

So all in all this weekend has been pretty good for the most part, by far the most fun I've had on this adventure so far. As of yesterday, I don't want to leave this place, it's to much fun on the weekends.

-Jacqualine

Back to Ga

We plan on leaving New York by this coming wednesday and being in GA by friday. I'm excited, but I'm gonna miss everyone here. My parents got a work camping job at Jelly Stone Park so we only pay for electric. Jelly Stone looks like fun, it's a kids campground, so they have a bunch of cool stuff, I just hope it's not all for the itty bitty little kids. Today my mom and the boys are going clamming, but I have to stay home, because I don't feel good and my dad is staying because he has to work on the bus.

Gaberiel got a store on eCrater too, it's called FunkyJunkyJunk and he plans on selling his little junk thingys on there, some of them are really cool though. He doesn't have anything up yet, but he will soon.

I made my own blog called BeHappyKid. No one else will post there, just me. I just got bored and felt like making a blog, to promote my eCrater store and just to tell people about life on the road. Just because I made my own blog doesn't mean I won't post on this one, because I still will, especially if no one else will.

That's it for now. Bye bye!

BeHappyKid

This is just a quick little post to tell you guys I changed the address for my store, because there was a better website that my aunt suggested to me to here's the new address: http://behappykid.ecrater.com/
Ok bye!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

4th of july was a couple days ago. It was pretty good. There were literally fireworks going off in every direction, no matter which way you turned there were fireworks. I even heard some going off yesterday. One thing I did really miss was having a big party in the culdesac and doing more fireworks after the big ones at Riverstone. I don't think it's nearly as much fun without friends to wander off with, but either way, the fireworks themselves were great! When we got back mom set off some firecrackers and I thought one flew up and landed in my hair, but instead it was a flipping bug. I have no clue what it was but I pulled it out and jumped off the back of the car screaming at my dad to get it out. I was laughing and crying at the same time and the boys were standing there laughing "Are you crying sissy?"

We've decided we have to get rid of Princess (She's the dog). She's getting kinda pissy. Mom thinks it because she doesn't have the space she used to have to just get away so she's been getting mad and attacking Fido (the other dog) for no reason. I think my mom found a friend on facebook that might take her. but I'm not sure. I hope so. I'm gonna miss her though. We've had her since she was a puppy. I remember chasing her around the backyard when we were litte with bats and my mom would come out telling us we couldn't do it. And we thought it was hilarious. Now that I think about it feel bad though. If I saw Rickey doing that now I would yell at him. I hope she's happy with whoever takes her.

Dad was gonna play a show in the Hamptons, but I think he changed his mind. Now he's gonna play in GA instead because if he were to play in the Hamptons he would be paying them $50 for electricity, but in GA they're paying him. So we're gonna try leaving a week early July 15th. After that he has a wedding show on the 20th I think and I'm going to Warped Tour with some friends on the 26th. I have one band that I absolutely HAVE to see, Pierce The Veil. If you don't know who they are you should definetely check them out, Clicky.

I think that's all the news for now. Dad's working on the pumbing now. We've had gas for a couple weeks. Ok NOW I'm done. Check back soon! Adios!

Jacque

P.S. I added a new video to youtube

BeHappyKid!

Oh what an eventful day!
This morning right after breakfast the boys started fighting over spots on the couch (no surprise there) and got sent to their bunks for the most of the morning.
Mom and I were gonna go the the bank and walmart today, so we left and went to the bank first. I sat in the car and she went inside, she wasn't even gona 10 minutes when BOOM! (it wasn't really much of a boom) The anti-freeze hose thingy bursts and the car starts smoking. Some guys came over and told us what to do, what we needed and of course how to rig it. Half an our later my dad and grandpa finally showed up and looked and then we went to go get the part. It took us about 3 hours to finally get to walmart.
After we went to walmart I got some ponytail holders and sat on the couch for the rest of the day making bracelets like the ones you'll find here "http://behappykid.webs.com/apps/webstore/" and then I put 'em up for sale.
I made a shop called BeHappyKid and I'll be selling stuff that I make out of boredom and whatnot on there, so you should DEFINITELY go check it out....and maybe buy some stuff? (: It's not really the cheapest, but it's worth it! I promise!
Jacqualine

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Friday night I spent the night at my cousins house with her step-daughter to be, Leila. We went through magazines and criticized all the famous people's faces and clothes, went to Carvel and got ice-cream while Jessica got her nails done, we had pizza and.... yeah. That's about it.

Today we went to an old friend/band buddy of my dad's, Nick. He was pretty cool, he used to play with my dad in Sahara, which is supposedly popular in Europe, 15 years after they broke up, of course. Anyways we met at his mom's house and she thought the bus was a great idea, she said it's a good idea to do it now rather than wait till you're 783383. I'm sure we'll all enjoy it more when we're young because if we wait till we're old we're not gonna remember a damn thing anyway and I'll get to tell people more about it now rather than just saying it was pretty and I would love to go back. We hung out with him for a couple hours until him and his daughter had to go catch a ferry and go home, but they're coming back in a couple of weeks so we'll meet them then

Now we're back home and mom's making dinner, pizza and french fries. So I guess that's it for today.

-Jacqualine

I can never come up with a good title

The past couple of weeks have been fun. I've lost track of how long we've been here, but we're gonna leave before July 14th, at least that's the plan.

A couple of weeks ago we went to a cousins birthday party. When they came up to eat cake, he stuck his hand in and got a big glob of it and stuffed it in his face.  After that night my aunt and I slept till almost 1.

Mom brought us to a pond/lake, with a bunch of ducks and they came right up to us for the bread. We got to see ducklings too.

We went to a friend of my dad's parents and he was a beekeeper. He made the honey and stuff. He showed the boys the factory thing in his basement while I was alseep. I was still exhausted two or three days later from the party.

We finally got to go to the beach without freezing our butts off.

I had my mom cut and dye my hair. It's a dark red and barely below my shoulders.

We went strawberry picking with an old friend of my moms and her kids. Rickey came home a mess with strawberry juice all over his a**. Then got ice-cream and spent the day with them.

I'm sure there's more that I can't remember, but oh well.

Adios Amigos

3 weeks!

It's been 3 weeks since we left GA. We went to the beach today and it was finally a nice day! It wasn't freezing like the last two time! The water was cold though, after 10 minutes my legs were numb and when i got out they were bright red. The only thing was that the beach that we were gonna go to originally was closed because parking was full, so we ended up going to a different one and the traffic was horrible! Coming and going it was pretty bad. Before we left some guy saw Rickey's shirt which says something about Jesus and he came over and talked to my dad. Apparently he was going through a lot of challenges in life and he just started talking about how he knows God will help him and stuff. He wasn't one of those weird people that just come up and start trying to preach to you though. He was actually kinda cool and he asked us pray for him and whatnot, it was just one of those you have to be there moments. And now we're back in the bus. Renzo's trying to make a match rocket, or something like that with the boys and I'm doing this. Dad has been working on plumbing and propane the last couple of weeks with out grandpa. And that's it I guess, nothing to interesting.
Love you guys, Jacque

So we've been in NY for a week. I got a Bop It thingy and that kept me entertained for a couple days, yesterday we went to Cold Spring Harbor and literally got chased by wild turkeys! I can't believe I didn't have the camera! but mom got a few pictures, I'll put them up later because the computer isn't working right. I'm on a Blink-182 kick right now, so that's all I've been listening to lately. My mom and I might go to Bamboozle or Warped Tour, it depends on if we can find anyone to go with us, I can;t wait to go to the wt in GA. We went to my aunts house on friday and I got to see my cousins baby Jayden. The boys and I played video games most of the time I think it was Call of Duty and that's it. Other than that this week was really boring.
-Jacqualine

Finally in NY!

We left Ga saturday afternoon and got to NY at around 2ish sunday morning.
The ride started out pretty good, the dogs were fine for the mostpart... until we started driving. That's when they started drooling and trying to get in the bunks. After we got them to calm down the cat started going crazy. At the time he was in the cage and started scratching at the door thing. He managed to twist two claws and get a bloody paw. When we stopped at the gas station I let him out and he was fine. I guess cats just don't like cages. The rest of the drive was actually pretty good. The only bad thing was that everytime we stopped Princess (the dog) ran straight to the door and wouldn't listen to us. We stopped around 10 and slept at a truck stop and surprisingly we all slept pretty good. We didn't sleep late, but we slept good. We woke up sunday morning at started going again.
We drove all day, with a couple stops in between and it was pretty good. We stopped at McDonalds for either lunch or dinner, I don't remember right now, but it was one of the two. When it started getting late I was gonna go lay down in my bed but, it smelled yucky, so of course I went and tried to find out what it was and when I got to the foot of my bed I saw that the cat had peed! All over the foot of my bed! So I ended up sleeping on the bench and I was uncomfortable and freezing all night but somehow I actually slept pretty good. We stopped in the Goodwill parking lot, which is across the street from my grandparents house, and spent the night there. When we woke up we just sat in the bus and waited till my grandparents moved the cars out the driveway.
When the cars were moved we somehow managed to get the bus into the back yard. This whole time I noticed something, new yorkers don't stare nearly as much as everyone else does, they just look at the bus and go right back to whatever they're doing.
That's it so far. Goodbye!
-jacque

Sold the house...so we thought

So we were supposed to close on the house today, right? Well someone butthead changed their minds last minute yesterday!
The people that were supposed to buy our house changed their minds when it was to late but, of course, they found a way to get out of it. First they tried saying something about the roof. I'm not really sure what it was but supposedly they said something. After the roof they said we lied to them about the radon test saying we told them it hadn't been tested before when it really had, or something like that. We got the papers from the last radon test but, of course, there was no number thing on it, I think my mom said it was for the radon percentage or something, i dunno, but now they found their loophole. They don't have to buy anything! I hope their happy!
Now we're leaving on monday, because that's when my mom scheduled the electricity and whatnot to be shut off. I was excited too! Way to ruin the adventure people!
I guess it does give us more time to work on the bus though doesn't it.
-Jacqualine

6 days!

So we finally brought the bus home! We had it here for one day until the HOA lady came. Dad just told her we were leaving in a week so thank God she let us stay! The neighborhood garage sale was today. there were a couple of people that looked at the bus in the driveway and got this look of disgust on their faces but, i think most of the people just asked what we were doing with it and after we told them they thought it was really cool. My parents are getting a bunch of help on the bus right now. The have a carpenter that they're bartering with, the family that came to help us and theres an electrician that's helping with the electricity! I think the electricity is almost done, i really have no clue but, i do know that the cabinets are almost done! Yay! so we have 6 days to at least get the basics of the bus and then we have to finish it up while we're living in it. We're also debating weather or not to paint the bus purple, black and white or red and black. What do you think? I'm not sure if anyone reads these things but if you do leave a comment telling what color you think we should paint it. that's all i have to say. Adios!
-Jacqualine

Easter is almost here!

So Easter is tomorrow! Can't wait! We just finished coloring our eggs a couple minutes ago and, I uploaded some pictures that my mom and I took.
Click here to see more!
So this is our last Easter in the house. 24 days and we'll be kicked out of our house and living in a bus.
-Jacqualine

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So mom was going in and out of the house making hamburgers on the barbeque and some other stuff. She comes back out again after a while to check on the burgers. Guess what she saw. Our 9 year old neighbor in the woods behind our house...running away from a fire! She yelled at me to get her phone, called 911 while running to untangle the hose as the fire grew. After a while I guess a neighbor noticed and he came out with his hose and helped. I new the kid was stupid but, I honestly didnt think he was that stupid. So right after my mom and neighor put out the fire The firemen show up but, they wont go talk to the kid because my mom didnt actually see him light anything she just turned around and saw him running away from a itty bitty fire that looked like it had just been lit. Let's just hope we get out of here before he decides to light the house on fire instead. I wish I had the camera
-Jacqualine

Finally Getting Somewhere

Weeeell I do believe we finally finished the ceiling! We've started put down the subfloor for the carpet in the bunk room thingy, but of course, the drill bit broke! So now we have to wait till tomorrow, after that our aunt it coming, and along with the rest of our family she's completely clueless about the bus, so we aren't gonna be able to work on it for a little while. Now back to the good news! My mom sent out an email or something last night and now we have to families that are willing to come out and help us with the bus sometime! It's amazing how nice these people are! I don't think anything like that has happened since we've lived in a house, maybe being on the road will be better than I thought! At the moment Gabe and my dad are upstairs modifying the beds to turn them into bunk beds and whatnot. Theres a new video up on youtube too! aaaaand here it is!
Jacqualine