i celebrate the day

"I Celebrate the Day"

(Okay, so we may have been a little pitchy at times, and off on some words, but still kind of funnny!  I would describe this as pretty "typical" sister interaction.)

by Relient K

And with this Christmas wish is missed
The point I could convey
If only I could find the words to say to let You know how much You've touched my life
Because here is where You're finding me, in the exact same place as New Year's eve
And from a lack of my persistency
We're less than half as close as I want to be

And the first time
That You opened Your eyes did You realize that You would be my Savior
And the first breath that left Your lips
Did You know that it would change this world forever

And so this Christmas I'll compare the things I felt in prior years
To what this midnight made so clear
That You have come to meet me here

To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me
In the hope that what You did
That you were born so I might [ really ]live
To look back and think that
This baby would one day save me

And I, I celebrate the day
That You were born to die
So I could one day pray for You to save my life

the chipmunks

It's funny really, the way my sisters and I can be compared to yes...the chipmunks!

From L to R: Simon, Alvin, & Theodore

Simon: Simon is the smart, studious, intellectual one - hence the glasses.  Very thought out, well organized,  goes by the rules.  This is Carly to the tee! :)  She can seriously accomplish more in one single day than most people do in an entire month!  This girl just goes and goes.  Now, I will say this comes in handy when she plans out your vacation. You get to see and do a lot!  Thank you Carly for planning our backpacking Europe adventure!  What's also comical about Simon/Carly is their "nerdyness" is actually quite funny.  

Alvin: Well, the picture with the hands up in the air is a pretty good description of my oldest sister Ashley.  Oh boy is she a vocal one (although I can be known to be pretty loud myself). To quote Ashley verbatim: "My philosophy are secrets are stupid". This means in our family that there are absolutely no secrets. We know everything about everyone because of this girl.  If she finds out something from you, she'll go to the next family member and say "Hey, did you hear Riley did this?".  She's like a mini Boppa in some ways.  We even all know each others passwords to accounts...I just started using Ryan's for a password at work, ha!  

Theodore: Described as the short, chubby, compact, impressionable one.  Yep, that's me! Does what the older two siblings tells him.  Always found eating something!  (And if you've ever lived with me you know that's true ;)  Story about how I was/am impressionable.  Go back to when we lived in Story City.  We had some good family friends over and my sisters thought it would be fun to literally jump off our first story roof onto some couch cushions on the ground.  I see my sisters and friends jump one by one on the cushions about 12-15 feet below.  So here comes little Haley (about 5 years old) and weeeee.....only to land right in the middle of two cushions and seriously sprain my ankle.  In fact, my ankle is still separated in 2 pieces to this day, weird! 

Standing of corse in appropriate order as the picture above: Carly, Ashley & myself

And another similarity, we all sing together as well! :)