Love, Tears and the Whole Crazy Thing (is that plagiarism?)

I am SO sorry for not blogging sooner. You see, Stephanie has the camera that actually works and had put all the pictures on HER laptop, which crashed for a little while. We were finally able to get the pictures off. :) So there is going to be lots! First, my gigs. :) I have done TWO since the beginning of this year, but i only have the pictures for the first one. I LOVED IT! I had so much fun...even though, it being my first since a while ago, I was a little nervous...okay, okay, I was A LOT nervous! But hey, It was still a great show, right?I have no idea what song's I am preforming in these pictures so I'll just make it up! :) I was singing...er...the Backyardagains "Rad Moves." lol. JUST like them, too! And the dancing...man, that was just for Jer and Joe. :)"Last Name." I'm pretty sure that's what we were doing for this. Abbi literally began to jump on the TABLES though! People got really freaked out, so I told Damian to lay off on the caffeine for Abbi from now on! :) Poor girl! lol. Okay...hmmm...lets see..."I Like to Move It, Move It." I know that has to be it! And I really think it was actually. lol. Hey, come see me again at "Uptown Espresso" in Osceola June 28, 2008. 6-930pm. You might even get to hear my song for my Taylor at Starbucks, er, Uptown:) All right, now to move on...GRADUATION!!!!!!! RAH RAH RAH! Here is the whole graduating class of 2008 through TEACH. well...almost all the grads from TEACH. We were still missing Camille. :( But, if you look at Kate Kinzer (the blonde on the right with the gorgeous smile), you will see "Flat Camille" being held for the camera. She (Flat Camille) was sitting up with all the grads during the ceremony. Even though Camille wasn't there, she had still sent something for my dad to say in her place. It was sweet. I cried for it...also for Jeff and Tim's.It's so weird to see them all grow up! Here was our performers. A Violist (Tim) and three Cellists (Kate, Luke and...some other dude). It was really nice, for being as spontaneous as it was!Tim and Jeff. Two buddies through there schooling years. Really good friends of our family. I know this sounds so much like a mom, but I'm SO PROUD of them! :)And our family...with mom holding "Flat Camille." It was a great ceremony. A great speaker...I would say her name, but I would probably slaughter it. But her first name was Michelle...and i am pretty sure I spelt that rite. :) Now for the Love... May I Introduce Nathan and Andrea WILSON!!! (finally!) Awww...I know it's a fuzzy picture, but lets just pretend you're crying because of it...? It was a very sweet and relaxed wedding. I enjoyed it, so it would HAVE to be good!

AH! Now, for the best part! This is what I went for! And "WHOA" was the cake ever good! It wasn't weird frosting, it was actually nice! And the cake...yum! Get this, they even had COFFEE and LATTES!!!! Shazzam! Seriously, the food is the only reason I would get married! lol! just kidding, just kidding! sheesh! :P

Tim obviously thought the cake was good also! Or maybe he thought it was horribly awful and was just about to spit it out...I guess we'll never know, will we?

As you can see, the infamous Chad Christensen finally graced us with his, and his "mother to be" wife, presence. So here we all are. Chad, myself, Abbi Elrod (the Wilson's cousin who I think is amazing!), Ben Wilson and Abbi (my little sister...she's amazing, too!).

Then there were the three "dudettes." We...I mean, they were pretty much security for the place when suddenly...
"OmyGOSH! It's Patrick Dempsey..." or Brad Pitt, you chose. I'm actually just kidding. Patrick did not show up, nor did Brad (snap!), this is just our look for if they DID show up...so when they do, we'll be ready. :) Alright...I think that covers everything that has happened to the date of the wedding...Probably not...ah well, I will blog again soon! BYE!~Hopie:) <3<3<3

Cutting Tree's and Behind the Scenes

Alas, it was time for a dud apple tree to meet its maker. sniff, sniff. :'( Mom had Noah and Timothy cut down our beloved Carol (the name of the tree...actually, we never really did name it, I just made that up right now!), who had been alive and springing until this spring sprung upon her to quick and she didn't yield any fruit. Alas, Alas... Tim did a lot to help with the slaughter...chopping of the tree. We got it down in pretty much no time. AI! Look at those muscle's!!! Dude, he is soooo CUTE and STRONG! And now, for the Behind the scenes look at what was happening at the Forsman's house...
If you have an idea as to what is going on, then be prepared...more pictures will be arriving very, very shortly...perhaps even later today! For Now, Hope Forsman:)

The Adventures of Ms.Draino and the Fisherboys of the Wild West

We have had many adventures over the past few days. Firstly, our sink in the upstairs bathroom didn't drain and so I had to, in a daring effort to save the user from sickness, battled the sink and so one the struggle against gunk with Draino (da, da, da,da!)!Pretty heroic, don't you think? I thought so...lol:) It was a fierce battle to the death, but I...i mean, Ms. Draino prevailed again! Muahahahaha! Then, I...Ms. Draino caught up with the Fisherboys and there counterpart, M.O.M. as they went fishing in lake...well, I don't really know what lake it was because I wasn't really there, but it was at William O'Brien Park near Marine on St. Croix. Here they are looking very suspiciously into the water(^). Ben had said that there were probably Noragaiters in these waters, so no one got to close:) Noah, being the oldest and toughest, decided to try and catch one of these mystical Noragaiters...When suddenly, Elliott, the youngest and smallest of the boys, caught the monster! As you can see by the look on his face, it was an amazing find! During this episode of danger, Ben was able to hook himself a mermaid...well, not really...there was a bunch of teens there and he accidentaly hooked one:)lol! Then it was back to the trail for us girls...

Stephanie and I were the protectors of our fine mother and dear sister in the Wilderness for a Memorial Day Weekend at the O'Brien. It was really interesting...I had never dressed up like that before so it was fun and weird. Then, my pardner Bailey and I caught ourselves a couple of painted turtles for a race...which neither of us one...:)

So, after all this adventuresome ploys that have been playing out over the past few weeks, we now deserve some down time...while getting ready for graduation this weekend! Oi Vey! Pray for us! ~ Hopie:)

Some Happenings...

We had a "work day" over at our house about a week ago so that we could clean up our garage for Camille's homecoming. Some of out friends came over to help us out, which helped it to get done faster. But with friends (especially the Minnesotans:), there will always a water fight of some sort. It always seems that it starts because of a Forsman...hmmm...I wonder if that is a coincidence?Then, when we thought all the fights were over, we were attacked be bandido's!! AI! It was quite interesting. ...then, we Stephanie and Ben got into a huge fight about who wanted to wipe down the grill and pulled out there shotguns!!! Oi Vey! Luckily, it ended peaceably...well, almost peaceably.

After those three fearsome battles, we were finally able to get back to business. Here is Jessica and Elliott finishing up the chairs.
After we had finished working, we went to the midnight showing of the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. It was soooooo FUN! I think you should all go and see that movie! It was very fun and we love seeing how many people we can get to come with us! CRAZY!!!!! Well, I'll blog more later! BYE! ~Hope :)

Hair Day and Cookies in May

So we have been busy around our house lately. Hair cuts and grass cuts...Finlay, we have some green! All three of the boys needed a desperate hair cut, but i was only able to capture one on camera. Here is Ben getting his hair shaved off...He didn't really want to at first....But then it came to this...Which I thought looked a little to much like Alfalfa from the little rascals. :)But, not to worry, we did give him the full buzz cut. :) And here is our dear friend/adopted brother in a way Ben Wilson. We had gotten cookie dough mix (yes, i know...we didn't make this from scratch...but it was good!) and Ben, who didn't really make cookies to often, wanted to help us out by making them. Then, he got this idea to make a pizza cookie...and this is how it turned out...well, we did put frosting on it...and Ben pressed his hand into the center of it...But it was still good!
well, that's a few of the happenings at our house. All I could come up with right now. lol. I will post again very soon!!