Accordion Photo Album

I love making these, thier called "accordion photo album's." Its pretty easy to make one, all you need is; 3 pieces of oattag paper, 10-12 picture, glue, string or ribbon, scrap paper, an empty cereal box. I have pictures of the two I have done.

Heres the intructions hope they will be clear enough for to understand.

1. take your 3 oattag and make them into squares.(fold the one corner up then cut the extra. shown on side)

2. Next fold the 3 squares in half making a rectangle all fold need to be folding in. then unfold and do it again to make little squares. Then unfold it to make a triangle. Shown on side.

3. After you have fold the 3 papers you are going to glue them together. you want to glue the squares not the triangles. and you want the traingle folds to be oposite of the one next to it. it should almost look like mountains and valleys. shown on side.

4. Okay now for the cover. take your cereal box and cut two squares the same size as the squares in the paper. then glue those to each of the ends. this is going to make it stiff. next cut your scrap paper to cover the cereal box, and cut 2 ft. of string or ribbon and glue it to the bottom so you can tie it shut, then cover it with the paper.

5. Now you can put your pictures on any way you want. If you put them on the fold you have to cut into two triangles so you can still fold it.

You can look at the ones I made to get some help and maybe you can understand the instrustions.
Here is the one I made of Sarah's Wedding.

Here's the top. You can see how I had to cut the two pictures in half because of the fold.

The middle one.

The bottom one.
The back (sorry its upside-down)

It closed
Now the one I made for Egypt.
The top
The middle
The bottom
And the back. (I messed up and put the tie on the top and not the bottom.)
Here it is closed.

Youth Bowling

This Friday we went late night bowling with the youth. It was a blast and is the first event with the new youth pastor. I did really bad but it still was fun. Here are a few pics.

Here's Kierstien waiting for her turn.

Sara and Lindsay looking @ some Dibs.
Hannah and Josh sitting and watching.
Here's Pastor Gary.
Nick, Aaron and one of Nick's friends
Niccole and Jen
Pastor Gary showing Sara and Lindsay a video on his phone.
Angela and Destiny acting crazy.
Kierstien and Niccole

Me bowling. I look like a freak.
Hannah and Josh again.
Mindy and Nick
The crazy male youth leaders

Nationals Charlette '08

I have taped our human video and put it on facebook and youtube. We only got superior so we didn't make it on to the next level. I was okay with that because I was just glad to make it to Nationals. I will soon put some of the pictures I got on here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZLi847yAIs

Hope you enjoy it

Nationals Charlette '08 Photos

Okay now its time for some stories from Nationals "08. The first story happened on Wednesday. We decided to head to the mall for about 3 hours to hangout. Well while we were there I decided to get my ears pierced for the first time. Everyone was excited for me and very happy for me. After I getting it done I called my mom to let her know (which she laughed when I told her) and told a few of the people from my group. The first thing people would ask me is "does your father know," "have you told your father" or "what will your father say." My answer was usually a laughing "no." They all couldn't believe I got it done with out telling my father, but I did.
The second story happened that same night and just to warn you its a good one. My coach was staying @ a lake because nationals was @ the same time as her anniversary. She invited all of us to a picnic @ a park then head to her house and swim in the pool. Well the picnic went great so after everyone ate we headed to her house to change and swim. Well she checked with her renter to make sure it was okay for all of us to come and swim. We had a great time until one guy came in and ask my coach who all the people are. Well she told him and said she got permission for us to swim. So he left, then not two minutes later the guy came back in with another lady and she asked who was staying here and told us who weren't to get out and leave or she would call the police. Well we were just so shocked that we didn't move @ first but then she said "9, 1, I'm one number away from calling the police". So we all got out and grabbed our stuff, then one of the other ladies in the pool started to yell @ her and say "they did nothing wrong," "why are you making them leave," and "they are just a christian group having some fun." We were happy to have someone defend us but then she started to swear @ the lady. While we went back my coach and Pastor stayed and tried to figure out the problem. We are all laughing @ it and always tell the story to everyone who asks how the trip went. Well here are some pictures to show you how much fun we had.

The three girls in the back of the van taking crazy pics.

The two girls who sat in my row.

And me trying to say HELP.
The girls watching "Zorro."
The crazy group.

Sitting around after performing.

This is one of the 3d arts. Its a castle made out of only 1999 and 2000 state quarters. There are 4,242 quarters that cost $1,060.50.
Here's the group waiting for KJ-52 to perform.
KJ-52 on stage.

KJ-52 on the big screen.

Robyn and the girls rocking out to KJ.
Swimming @ our Hotel Pool.

Angela
Robyn and the girls
This is one of my favorite. Its of my friend Sara.
Pastor and one of the dads.
The four girls sitting on one of the decks.

laying down taking crazy pictures.
My turn to get into it.
Another beautiful picture.
Sara and Robyn taking a crazy picture.
The deck we were on.

Robyn sitting @ the table.
Okay everyone said that these clouds look like Zorro's mask.
Here is a shot of Brianna's Drama.
Here is what the stage looked like.