so friday i took a calc test :) i think i did really well on it. .. . but i guess well see when i get it back. my mom also came friday to visit :) she brought a bunch of halloween decorations. we stopped by a antique store before going to dinner. it was so cool! it was the biggest antique store i have ever seen . . . ever! i really like antique stuff because its really old and its cool to think about the people that those things use to belong to. we saw a bunch of civil war stuff, and we got to hold real natzi daggers, it was crazy. so we ended getting a civil war bullet, a sithe thing from a really long time ago, and a belt buckle for me :) yes . . . i now have a belt buckle, now all i need is boots and a hat :) then we went to olive garden, and that was really good :) last night we ended up going to the institute dance that was pretty fun :) then we came home and danced some more. this morning we showed up at the church for the service project which ended up being just cleening the building. but it was fun :) and we got to play the piano afterwards :) that was awesome :) came back and i made pancakes while listening to brian regan :) now i'm going to take a shower and get ready for the continuation of fhe, which will be the sailing of the cardboard boats :) that will be fun :) oh and i'm slowly but surely getting the charcoal done . . . kinda imbarassing how slow i am. . . .guess i have been studying though. oh! and my brother eli tried out to be 8th grade senator and he won!!! for his speech he changed the words to a song and sung it in front of all his peers :) i'm so proud of him :)