May 31, 2012

Happy last day of May!!  It's crazy that this day is already here!!  Where did all the time go?!?!  It definitely did not feel like May at all since it was about 45 degrees and our house was freezing!!  After having really crazy dreams where a lot of people died but then actually weren't dead, I woke up at 9 am to take my placement test for Iowa.  I was going to take it yesterday but it said it was going to take 2 hours and I didn't feel like spending 2 hours on it yesterday so I decided to wake up "early" and spend the time I would usually be sleeping to take the test instead!!  It was an easy test but it was annoying because it was a bunch of stuff I learned about 3 years ago and have forgotten or just used my calculator for it but they didn't allow calculators so that sucked.  It took me forever to finally start the program since so much crap had to be installed on my computer just to do it so I didn't finish until 12:30!!!  But now it's over.  I still have to take the German one since I plan on taking classes in college but I'm not worried because I already know I know absolutely nothing haha  So above are my results!  Yay!  Apparently I'm really good with real numbers....?  I then spent the rest of the day reading while Dad installed our new garage door opener!  Yay!  That was pretty much all the excitement of my day haha :)  Look forward to boring posts for a while :)!  Also, Kelley landed in Africa this morning in Kenya and she traveled to Tanzania by bus so she is probably there now!!  Yay for airplanes!!

May 30, 2012

Today was my first official unproductive day of summer!  Hoorah!  I originally woke up at 7 because Jersey was barking at nothing but then I went back to bed and woke up at 11:30...oh boy.  I spent my whole day reading because I wanted to finish my book (which I succeeded at doing) and then I had tumbling at 5:15 that I went to.  During my reading, Dad was debating whether or not to get a new garage door opener because ours is old and crappy so finally he decided to do it and he spent the day installing it!  It says it's supposed to whisper when the door opens so that will be a nice change after 12 years!!  Also during my reading, I was accompanied by a nice warm pup as you can see in the picture!  I may or may not have forced her to snuggle next to me but there she is snuggling next to me!!  At some points, I swear she was reading my book with me!!  That's about all my day consisted of haha :)  Kelley was supposed to land in Brussels this morning and leave tonight for London so let's hope everything turned out okay!!

May 29, 2012

KELLEY LEFT FOR TANZANIA TODAY!!!! At 11:30 last night, Jill accompanied us in Kelley's bedroom and stayed until apparently 5ish in the morning while Kelley and I were sleeping.  That marks 5 days in a row we have seen her!  Best five days evar!!  Since we were up kind of late partying it up by eating pretzels, packing, playing DrawSomething, and talking, Kelley and I woke up at 10ish!  After we both showered (not at the same time) we ate lunch which was a salad that Mom had made and then we mosied around the house until two o'clock came and then we left for the air port!  Her flight was originally supposed to leave at 5:57 and she had to get there two hours early so we dropped her off at 3:30.  The POD is Dad saying goodbye to her and here is a picture of her looking cute with her duffle:

Hopefully that makes up for yesterday's picture :)  Afterwards, me, Mom, and Dad went to Panera for dinner and then Ikea to kill some time because Mom and Dad wanted to go to their friends house to visit and look at her bathroom.  During our driving, Kelley texted me and told me her flight was delayed until 7:50!  Oh boy!  She also said everyone on the trip is really cool so that's good!!  While we were at Mom's friend's house, we looked up her flight and learned it departed at 8:05ish or something so that means she's in the air now!!  She'll land in Brussels some time tomorrow!!
After the visit with Mom's friend, we drove home and just now got home!  It was a long day on the road!

May 28, 2012

Today was recovery day from my previous two days of excitement!  I seriously woke up at 11:30 and felt totally rejuvenated!  I ate breakfast/lunch (literally I had a bagel and some pizza hahaha gross)  and then Kelley wanted to run to town to do some last minute things before she LEAVES FOR FREAKING AFRICA TOMORROW!!!!  Our first stop was Jewel so she could do some money things and while we were there she decided she also needed to get some snacks from the trip so we seriously spent forever just walking around the store trying to find something she agreed to take with her.  At one point she looked like a yahoo carrying her stuff and she looked so sad and not finding what she wanted so I told her to stay like that while I took a picture.  This is the result!  Haha she's a weirdy.  Also, it seems we were in the Aisle of Aluminum Cooking Supplies during this picture.  Is that amount of aluminum stuff really necessary, Jewel?  After that, we went to the Salvation Army and then Goodwill where I found three books!!  Yay!  One of the books happened to be the first book in the series after Percy Jackson so I was super excited for not having to pay 17 dollas to that cause!  Yay for cheap books!!  It was about 1000 degrees outside today which was very unfortunate while we were shopping but we ended up surviving so it was all good.
After we got home, I read and then we ate dinner and I mowed the grass and read some more.  Now I'm going to go downstairs as Kelley begins her packing that should have started hours ago and read some more!  Yay!  Happy Memorial Day!!

May 27, 2012

Today was a very long day indeed.  I woke up earlish and Mom had made a breakfast for the fam which was delicious!!  After breakfast, Kelley did my hair once again and then Dad and I set out to go to the afternoon performance of the dance recital!!  We had a performance at 2 and then another one at 6:30 and the 6:30 one was the important one because that's the one everybody went to!  After the 2 o'clock show, Mom, Dad, the grandmas, and Aunt Barb all picked me up and we went out to dinner where we met up with Kelley, Janelle, Jill, Katie, and Arzu!  We ate pizza and then went back to the theater for round two of dancing!!
I probably did the worst at this performance haha but I guess that's okay!  After the ballet dance, we took this picture which is our ending pose but three people were missing so it's not really accurate.  After the finale, I finally got to take my trophy and plaque home!  Yay!!  I also changed out of my prom dress so that I could take pictures with the fam and friends in my tap costume.  Here are those pictures:

Yay!  Then we all drove back home for ice cream at our house!  In the midst of ice cream, we decided to watch some old home videos that we made when we were annoying and that was a pretty entertaining end to the night!  Today was awesome but super exhausting!! :)

May 26, 2012

I realize this picture isn't the greatest one I could have taken today but I have my reasons.
So today was day one of my dance recital!!!  I woke up at 9 am to the sound of Jill's voice!!  Kelley agreed to do her hair for a wedding she was going to so that I had to get up bright and early!  After Kelley did Jill's hair, she did my hair for my recital!  I passed the time away reading and then I had to leave at 1:45 to head on my way!  It takes approximately 45 minutes to get there and we had to get there at 3 so yeah.  The show started at 6:30 but we had an hour and a half practice beforehand which is why we had to get there early.  I got there in one piece and I didn't even lock my keys in my car! (Which happened last year).  It was very successful!  Between the practice and the show, I had absolutely nothing to do since Kelley already did my hair and makeup so I just sat around and did nothing.
We had to wear our hair in a bun for our ballet dance and I didn't know what mine looked like so I took a picture to make sure it was alright.  As you can tell by the picture, it was a very strange bun.  It stayed in though!  That's always good.  I decided to use this as my POD so that all my friends who read my blog and are also coming tomorrow to my other recital can be in for a surprise at what I look like!!  Yay!  This is my bun!
The show went by super fast and I got my 15 year award and also my senior plaque but I had to hand them both back so that I can get them for the next two shows!
It took 20 minutes to get out of the parking lot which was crazy but eventually I finally did get out and was able to head home!  I'm so tired now!  Now on to day 2!

May 25, 2012

Hello, hello!  Today was an exciting extravaganza with JILL!!  A couple days ago, she asked me and Kelley if we wanted to go to the mall with her today!  We said yes!  The mall was about an hour and a little more away from our house but she wanted to go to that one because she knew someone that worked there.  She picked me and Kelley up at 10 and then we were on our way!  We used my GPS to get there (which you can see in the picture) and when we first started off, we put in the wrong address so it was just taking us in a bunch of circles that didn't make any sense and it also said we would get there in 10 minutes but we soon fixed the problem!  The mall ended up being an outside mall which was lovely because it was so nice out today!!
When we first got there, we decided to eat because we were hungry so we ate at Potbellys!!  Here is a picture I intended to be my picture of the day but upon further inspection decided it was quite bad:

I have a pancake face.
Then we went shopping!!!  The stores in this particular mall had items that ended up being about $1,000 out of our price range and everyone there was wearing nice clothes and such and it was very odd.  However, we did stumble upon one branch of the mall that had stores we liked and, I kid you not, the people walking over there were dressed like normal people!  So we went shopping.  We saw a lot of fountains with mannequins in them so I took a picture of one of the fountains:

How strange.
Then we went to Nordstrom to meet the person Jill knew and Kelley and I took pictures and changed our ipods around while Jill was busy.  Here are my favorite pictures of me and Kelley:

I look like a crazy person but that's okay!!  As you can see, we were seated in very strange chairs that made it very hard to converse with the outside world while inside of them.  After Jill was done, we left the mall and headed home.  On the way, we stopped to get frostys and fries from Wendy's which Jill accomplished eating while driving stick shift in stop/go traffic.  It was very heroic.  The POD is after we got our Wendy's food.  Jill was searching for a quarter that fell beneath her seat. 
Once we got home, I had ten minutes and then I had to leave for tumbling and that's the end of my day!  Yay!

May 24, 2012

Today was very uneventful for the most part.  Kelley and I went into town to do some shopping which took up most of our afternoon.  I dropped Kelley off at home around 2ish to get ready for work and then I went to school to ask about transcripts.  It was really windy today and also very hot but nice at the same time!  It was beautiful!!!!  Kelley worked at 3 and I spent most of my time reading.
At one point during my reading, Dad took Jersey outside and a couple minutes later came to the door and asked me to get Jersey's towel.  When I asked him why he said because she fell in the pool hahahahahahahahha.  I seriously can't get over this.  The POD is Dad drying Jersey off after her swim :)  If you recall from the post where we opened the pool, the water is narsty and it has not improved since then.  Apparently, she was trying to get a drink of water and just fell in.  I would seriously pay so much to be able to go back and film this event happening because I imagine it would be hilarious!  Dad said all he heard was a splash and was confused at what fell in the water and then when he looked over, she was trying to stay afloat.  The pool doesn't have any stairs at the moment so she wouldn't have been able to get out if Dad hadn't ran to her rescue :)  In his effort, Dad got a leg cramp haha :)  But because this happened, Jersey had to stay outside until she was all dry and then she came inside and slept on the couch because she was so wiped out from her excursion!  That was the most exciting moment of my day, but it was definitely the best moment of my life hahaha.  What a loser dog.

May 23, 2012

Well...this is a picture of me.  Kelley and I went on a 12 point something mile bike ride and while I was getting ready, I looked hideous.  Kelley said I looked like a middle school boy while I was wearing this.  I ended up changing both my shorts and shirt because I felt awkward and it was too hot for a t-shirt anyway!  While I was in this outfit, Kelley told me to pose like a gangsta so that's how this happened.  And for some reason my leg looks like a twig...?
So we went on a bike ride and I got a little tan and the path we took had no major hills which made me excited!!  But there was a random time when we reached one road and it was completely under construction out of nowhere so we had to bike a couple meters on dirt and gravel and we both almost wiped out because our tires kept getting confused.  It was very strange seeing as that road was completely fine a couple days ago.
After that, we came home and took showers and then I went off to tumbling.  I also read some today but that was pretty much it.  Tonight was the American Idol finale and the person we wanted to win won so it was a good night.  Yay!

May 22, 2012

So I was incredibly sore from our biking and running yesterday so Kelley and I decided today would be a rest day!  I spent the day reading and Kelley spent the day saying she was going to clean her room and actually not doing it...until later.  Jersey was the laziest dog in existence as well.  As you can see in the picture, she was in love with my Iowa blanket.  I moved it from her so that it wouldn't smell like the dog blanket but instead she just climbed on top of it as you can see and some how managed to place herself at the crest of the mound so it looked like she was on a small hill...it was really strange.   She liked it though cause she could see out the window then.  Here is another picture of her being a freak today:

She was just staring at me like this for seriously 10 minutes and we couldn't get over what a weirdo she is so I took many pictures.  God she's strange.  Anyway, tonight was my last dance practice ever!  My recital is this weekend and after 15 long years of practice, my last one has come and gone.  Kelley drove me to practice so she could go to Wal-Mart and then we came home and I read some more after practicing my dances again!  Yay!  Tomorrow we plan on going on a 19 mile bike ride!!  Oh boy!

May 21, 2012

Hello world!!!  Today I woke up at like 11:30 after having the strangest dreams ever in the world!!!  Kelley and I got up around the same time and we both ate breakfast for lunch and then decided today was the day we would finally go running!!  I read for a little bit and Kelley chatted with Justin because we needed to digest our breakfast/lunch.  Once Kelley finally got done talking to Justin, we got ready and off we ran!!  We went on a 3.16 mile run but I could only make it to about 1.5 before I had to walk.  I have serious problems with long distant running because my body does all it can to make sure I suffer as much as possible when it is happening.  It's really obnoxious.  Then after our 3.16 mile run, we came home and headed out on a 7.7 mile bike ride shortly after!!!  My leggies are soooo sore!  I can barely squat!  I took a picture after the bike ride because we were both pooped as you can see by Kelley's face!  After our bike ride, we both took showers and got dressed all fancy because we had a wake to go to.  We took a picture together in our dressies:

That picture does not accurately portray our hair because Kelley's was not large and mine was not bumpy.  But whateves.  So we picked up my grandma and headed to the funeral home.  And now we are back home and we are going to watch another movie!  Yay!!

May 20, 2012

One day after graduation and I already had two parties to go to!  I'm just that popular hahaha just kitting.
So I slept in nice and late this morning since I was so exhausted from last night and Kelley was a nice little chef and made us all omelets before she had to go to work!!  Then I updated all my graduation stuff online which took a really long time!!  I took a shower at like 1ish and then made two cards for the people whose parties I was attending.  The first one was Elly's!!!  It started down pouring on my way over there and at one point it started hailing and I was behind a motorcyclist and it looked so painful!!  When I got to Elly's house, I seriously parked like a mile away because there were so many people haha :)  There was an open spot closer but I tried and failed to parallel park so I gave up.  Here's a picture of some of the people at Elly's house:

It was really funny because there were little kids there that we tried to keep out of the way by giving them impossible scavenger hunts haha :)  I had to leave pretty soon because I had Sarah's party to go to also and I drove Meghan!!!  Of course I took a picture of Sarah's street sign :) :

I swear I'm going to take one every time I go to her house!  Meghan and I had a blast catching up with her and then Lauren arrived and the party level just rose haha :)  The four of us took a picture together!  I miss my swimmers :(  Meghan and I stayed for a little while and then we left to go home.  When I got home, our pool was open!!  It's really green and scary right now but here's a picture of it anyway:

That's pretty much all today consisted of!  It was pretty great :)

May 19, 2012

Today was definitely not a special day in my life and nothing changed at all....

JUST KIDDING!  I totally graduated from high school.
The graduation was at 7 pm because state for track was today so they wanted to make sure anybody who made it to state had enough time to run/throw and make their graduation.  So that means I had to spend all day waiting and waiting for the time when I could finally go to school and get my speech over with and graduate!!!  But first, we took pictures :)  The POD is of me and my beautiful family!  Aren't we lovely?!
Here's a picture of me and my 'rents:

After I took pictures outside, Kelley drove me to school.  The people giving speeches were allowed to get there an hour early to practice their speeches at the podium and such.  So I did that.  I took a picture of Katie practicing her speech:

Then we went to meet everyone in the cafeteria.  I took pictures with all my friends and was not as nervous as I thought I would be!!  This morning I woke up after a horrible dream where I started off my speech completely wrong and then I was missing the second page of my speech so I woke up all nervous and nauseous and it was really bad.  While we were in the cafeteria, I was able to share my pain with Collin who was singing the National Anthem.  When the teachers called for us to go sit in the auditorium where we got in alphabetical order, our principal thought it would be a good idea to tell us there were 1900 people there...thanks for that, sir.  All the speakers were then called to the front and we walked into the cafeteria where all the teachers were waiting and they applauded us as we came in.  It was very overwhelming.  After we arrived, the whole class was brought out and they were applauded for as well.  All the speakers walked in with the "special line" as my friend called it because it was all the administrators and board of education people.  Kelley took a picture of all the teachers!  So here they are in their gowned glory:

We got to sit on the stage and then when the whole class walked into the gym, we got to clap for them haha :)  While we were on stage, I got to sit next to Katie because her speech was after mine and if that didn't happen, I would have hyperventilated.  We talked pretty much the whole time the people were walking in and I felt really calm.  Here's a picture of us together on stage!!:

Then Collin sang the National Anthem and I started getting nervous.  I couldn't feel my hands by the time I walked up to the podium haha BUT I DID IT!!!!!  And I felt less nervous than when I have to give speeches in class which is strange.
After my speech, I got to go sit back down and then the choir sang their song and Katie gave her speech and three other speeches were given and then we graduated!!!  Here's me sitting in my seat!:

And here's me in line to get my "diploma":

Sadly, there is no picture of our caps being thrown in my possession but I'll hopefully find one somewhere.  After we were officially graduated, we went back to the cafeteria and turned in our gowns and then received our diplomas with a bunch of other paperwork!  Yay!  I took more pictures with my friends who weren't graduating and then I found my family and took some pictures with them!!  Here are my beautiful aunt and uncle:

  And my sibs!!!

And my grandparents!!! 

Yay for family!!!  I also took one with Mom and Dad afterwards but I already put a picture with them when we were at our house! 

We went back to my house afterwards for cake and there were mysterious packages and flowers waiting on our front doorstep!!!  Here's the flowers!:

They're super pretty :)  The mysterious items were from Butch, Judy, and Mindy!!  Yay!  Thank you!!  And here's a picture of my beautiful cake!:

And me with my cake also!!!!:

Mom made the cake because she's awesome :)  She even mixed two colors together to make teal!!  Kelley took a picture of my awards:

The gray one is cum laude, the red one is donating blood, the multi-color black, red, and yellow one is German national honor society, I don't know if you can see the teal one but that's for being in sports, the yellow stole is for NHS, the pentagon shaped medal is for being an honor student, the small round metal is one that everyone got for being an alumni, and the big round one is for being salutatorian!  Here's a close up one of my salutatorian medal because it's the one I was really excited about haha:

I don't know if you can tell, but in the picture, my nails are teal with black crackle!!  Yay!

Kelley and I drove Kyle into town and then we got more movies from the store and by the time we got home, I was so exhausted so I went right to sleep!  It was such a long day, as you can see :)  No more days!  High school is over!!!!!  It's been 12 long awaited years :)

May 18, 2012

GRADUATION IS TOMORROW!!!  In less than 24 hours, I will be a free woman! (until college).  We had graduation practice this morning at 9 o'clock where we got our tickets and also a medal.  We obviously practiced graduating too.  After this was over, all the people giving speeches were allowed to practice them on the microphone so I practiced mine and it made me feel a tiny bit better about myself.  During this time, our principle decided to rap on the microphone and I decided to take a picture.  You can't really tell from what's happening in the picture (he kind of looks angry actually) but he was really into it.  There was a lot of arm movements if you can't tell from the blurriness.  Afterwards, I drove Katie home and then I went home to eat lunch!  Kelley and I decided to go garage saling at about 2:30 which was a little late seeing as most of them closed at 3 or 4.  We got some awesome books though!!  But we did get kicked out of one because they were closed and there were a lot of misleading signs that weren't taken down!!  When we got home, we ate dinner and then Dad ran back into town to get stuff for my graduation!!  I went with him because I felt like shopping for some strange reason.  When we got home, Kelley was away with Jill at our town's beauty pageant which only had five girls haha.  Kelley came home shortly after us and then Jill followed shortly after her!!  We then settled down and watched Mulan!!  Yay!  1 DAY!!!!!

May 17, 2012

The adventure of the day did not start until night time!!  Kelley and I woke up around 10 o'clock and had plans to go running but we ate breakfast and then decided to read instead.  We had a plan to go biking and running every other day and for some unknown reason, we have left out the running so far... :).  So we read.  I finished Eragon which was okay I guess.  Kelley went to work at 2:15 and then I mowed the lawn and went to tumbling at 4:15.  We decided to go running after we both got home from our respective places.  Tumbling went really fast but my knee has been hurting worse than before lately so it kind of sucked.  When I got home, I suggested to Kelley that we go on a bike ride instead because my knee was about to collapse.  So we went on a 13 mile bike ride at 6:30.  The bike ride was fine but at one point, this jerk car beeped at us for seriously a minute and then when they passed us, they chucked a pen at me and then flipped us off as they drove away.  It made us very angry!!!  Then they stopped at the stop sign for too long and Kelley and I got really scared that they were waiting for us to catch up to them.  Other then that, the trip went smoothly.  I took this picture of Kelley after our bike ride.  You can't really tell but she is reading Percy Jackson and is almost done!!  She will finish in just a couple of minutes actually!!  Because she is close to the end, we decided we wanted to watch the movie tonight since we both haven't seen it.  It was not on Netflix or at a Red Box so at 9:30 we decided to go to a Family Video!  It took us forever to search the store because we didn't think it would be in new releases, but it was!!  Even though it was made in 2010...?  It was a great adventure to the movie store!  I signed up to be a member and the movie only cost 50 cents!!!!!!  HOLY!  So now we will watch the movie which I hear is really bad once she finishes the book!  I'm so excited!!!  2 Days!!

May 16, 2012

Hello!!!  Kelley needed to run to town today to deposit all her cash monies so while we were there, we stopped at Goodwill and The Salvation Army to look at their books!!  At Goodwill, I ended up buying four books because they were all in amazing condition!  I got Memoirs of a Geisha, Animal Farm, The Alchemist, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!  I'm pretty sure today was a newly stocked day because the bookshelves were packed.  Kelley also got some good books including some Lemony Snicket books!  At The Salvation Army, we ran into this Holes books which had this awesome 'N Sync sticker on it!  It made us laugh a lot so I decided to take a picture :)  On a different note, I should reread Holes because I remember absolutely loving it in third grade because it was so brilliant!!
When we got home, Kelley and I read from our books we have been currently reading and then I quick ate a small easy mac and ran off to tumbling.  I was stuck behind a stupid tractor going to tumbling but I ended up getting around him!  I'm now going to spend the night in Kelley's bed again :)  Yay!  3 Days!!

May 15, 2012

Ignore the fact that this picture is kind of dark.  Tonight was the athletic banquet for seniors which lasted two and a half hours.  We had dinner and then they handed out awards and then we went home.  Afterwards, I took this picture with my swim coach who will sadly not be coaching at our school next year :( 
This morning, I woke up at 8:45ish.  I slept over in Kelley's bed because we like to snuggle :)  I read pretty much all morning and afternoon and then at 3ish Kelley and I decided to go on a bike ride!  We ended up going 13 miles!!  It was hot out but there was a lot of wind so it was okay.  When we got home, I took a shower and prepared myself for the banquet.  That's pretty much all today consisted of.  4 Days!!

May 14, 2012

Today was my last day of high school for the rest of my life.  We literally did nothing all day but I will go through each class to tell you exactly what happened. 
1. AP Lit - A couple weeks ago we were assigned to read one book on the ap list that we wanted to read for fun and today we went around the class to talk about how we liked each book we read and such.  We also took the group picture above.  Mrs. Van is awesome and got everyone a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo because that's her favorite book and she also made everyone cards!  It was really sweet :)
2. AP Psych - Mr. Stock promised to bring in his wifey and baby for today's class and he did not break his promise!!  His daughter was seriously the smallest thing I had ever seen in my life!!  He said she weighed seven pounds but she literally felt like .3 pounds.  Here is a picture of Katie holding her:

I held her for a little bit.  We all had to use hand sanitizer before touching her because she was so fragile!!!
3. Study Hall - I peer tutor during study hall but we really didn't do anything today except talk.  Korinne joined us and it was mighty fun.
4. Lunch - Mrs. Kim was nice enough and picked up Wendy's or Taco Bell for anyway who wanted a meal and paid for it.  It was super nice of her and it was a great last lunch of high school.  I took a picture of the lunch group for remembrance and I love this picture of Korinne haha :) :

5-6. AP German - We returned our German books which was the last book I needed to return and then we went out into our school's garden and planted potatoes and other such vegetables.  We're growing them for Oktoberfest next year.  It was really nice outside but I was wearing a dressy which was not suitable for working in a garden.
7. Strength - We dressed and then stood in the weight room doing nothing.  We were supposed to be maxing but nobody felt like moving so Collin and I ended up singing "Fifty Nifty" and other songs from elementary school.
8. AP Econ - Since it was such a nice day, Mr. Wooderson wanted to go outside and sit in the courtyard so that's what we did.  I just sat there and did nothing like I've been doing in that class for the past two weeks.  During this period, I got a pass to the office and was given a little more information about my speech at graduation.
9. AP Calc - Mr. Schmit gave us a final which consisted of no calculus but a problem where we had to use the numbers 1,3,4, and 6 to get the number 24 using only addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division.  After a while, we all gave up and started doing more interesting things.  You're more than welcome to try.  He gave us an answer at the end.
I came home and then Mom and I headed out to go shopping for a graduation dress which I got!  It's really cute!  Then I went to tumbling to practice synchro and now I'm home!  It was a pretty long day and now I'm tired but there's no school tomorrow!!!  5 Days!!!