Gracie's Birthday

My eyelids fluttered open. I grabbed my glasses on the bedside table. Today is my birthday. I'm 12 today. I thought. I picked out my favorite outfit today, and headed downstairs for breakfast. I stopped in the kitchen. Samantha was wearing her best dress, and she was baking my favorite breakfast, banana choco chunk muffins. Everyone was sitting in the dining room, munching happily.
"Gracie, I'm coming to pick you up at 9:00 this morning to take you to the airport for your surprise." Samantha said as she set the platter of fresh muffins on the table.
"Okay, thanks." I smiled. My sisters were grinning and grinning. They all handed me their presents. The only one who didn't was Kit. Kit must be Samantha's partner.
I got all my favorite things. Kristy and Chrissa got me a beautiful spring green choker. Felicity and Lanie got me a gardening set, with seeds for my favorite flowers, lilies and violets, just like my twin's name. Julie and Bailey got me Taylor Swift's album, Fearless. Elizabeth and Rebecca got me a picture frame with my favorite photo of me and Erin.
"Thanks so much, everyone." I couldn't stop smiling. I finished my muffin and headed off to school with Lanie.
During the first period, the science teacher, Mrs. Poe, asked the whole class to sing happy birthday to me and she gave me a purple eraser. Bethie, who sat next to me, kept on tapping my desk and grinning. We passed notes normally, but today not a single note was passed. I rocked back and forth in my seat, watching the clock. When the bell rang, I headed off to English with Beth. We stopped at our lockers and headed to the classroom to work with Mrs. Bishop. At the middle of the class period, an 8th grader walked in carrying a pass for me and my sisters to leave class. We headed down the stairs and stopped at our lockers to grab our stuff. We walked, all 10 of us in a row, giggling excitedly. When we reached the Guidance Office, Samantha stood, standing there, as giggly and happy as the rest of us. We walked home, and she asked us to change into our nicer clothes. I changed into my new sundress and Elizabeth into her pink dress. Samantha called a taxi while we ate a quick lunch of sandwiches and juice. When the taxi arrived, we filed into it. It was a van, so all 11 of us fit inside. She told the driver to take us to the airport, so we headed off.
When we got to the airport, Samantha held out a small bag of clothes and hygienic stuff to me. So THAT'S why the other girls were carrying purses. We waited for about 15 minutes, and Samantha told us that it was time. We loaded on to a blue plane and sat in rows of 3 on the plane. I sat in between Bethie and Lanie, both of them giggling and excited. I pulled the book that I had brought, The Grapes of Wrath, out of my purse. We sat on the plane, chattering and sitting silently while the flight attendant gave us small portions of snacks, peanuts and a small cup of juice and a napkin. I nibbled a salty one as Lanie joyously stared out the window. Finally, the captain announced:
"This is your captain speaking. We will be landing in the Canadian National Airport in 10 minutes. Please buckle your seatbelts and thank you for choosing Southwest Airlines."
We buckled out seatbelts and sat silently until the landing was completed. We hiked off the plane, dizzy and carrying our bags. Samantha asked us to hook hands in a line and we sat on the bench and waited.
Finally, Samantha stood up. She stood on the bench and waved her hands. Soon, a group of 9 dolls walked toward us. Samantha told us to get into a group, with Grace in the middle. So we did. One of them wearing a brown sundress tried to penetrate the line, but Kristy pushed her out of the way. Wait a second, I knew that doll. I tried to push through the crowd, but Felicity and Chrissa pushed me along. We got into a taxi with the group of 9 dolls riding in front of us. Samantha told the taxi driver to follow them.
We arrived at a quaint house. And the second I loaded out of the van, I heard a voice yell my name.
"GRACIE!"
I spun around. The doll in the brown sundress was sprinting toward me. A doll with brown hair like Samantha's picked up her shoes that the doll in the sundress had kicked off as she ran, and she picked them up like they were snakes ready to attack.
"Erin? ERIN IS THAT YOU!?!" I cried.
The doll nodded as she sprinted faster. She jumped into my arms and we hugged tighter then ever possible. I saw behind my shoulder a doll with red hair like our Felicity's pushed another doll back into the van.
I found out my surprise--our family was staying in Canada with Erin's family for the rest fo the week! Both familes had permission from our owners, and we had made sleeping arrangements. I was staying in Erin's room.

I started crying as Kirsten and Samantha explained our surprise in the bedroom. Erin hugged me and we both started crying.

"Now, we have a surprise for Bethie." Kirsten said softly. Samantha grinned and grinned.

The doll with dark hair, who's name was Julia, opened the door. Bethie shrieked loud, as a dark skinned doll walked in the room.

-Read Bethie's Blog to find out what happens!-

~Gracie

Haaaappiest Birthdaaay to us! Part 1.

It was dark. Almost 9:00. But there we were, driving to the airport to pick up a special someone or a special group of someones. Kirsten stopped the taxi driver and handed him his tip - 40 bucks! - and Kit got up out of the car to escort me inside the airport.

"What the heck is going on?" I giggled.
"Weeee cann'tt teeeell youuuu!" Felicity taunted.

The gang of giggling girls were making their way to the Arrivals section. I was looking around, soaking it all in. I still didn't know why we were here, but I didn't care. It was still fun!
Kirsten gave the cue to a doll with dark hair and brown eyes who stood in the corner of the Arrivals section, and the dark-haired mystery doll waved over a bunch of huddled dolls. Elizabeth squealed. Felicity hooted and pumped her arms in the air. There they were!

"WHAT IS GOING ON?!" I turned around to face Kirsten.
Kirsten just gave her a timid smile then pushed in front of Erin to greet the mystery dollie.

"Hi., Samantha." Kirsten waved a little wave.
"Hello, Kirsten! Here we are!" Samantha waved back.

Kirsten led the group of dolls to the entrance to the airport, and then loaded them in separate taxis. All the while during the walk to the entrance the group of dolls looked like they were huddled around something important, something we were not allowed to see. I attempted to push into the huddle so I could see, but a girl with blue eyes and platinum blond hair pushed me back out, after sizing me up. I fidgeted and ran back to Kirsten.

"Who are they?" I muttered to Kirsten so they couldn't hear me.
"I can't say but.. they're not bad people." Kirsten giggled.
We got in our own taxi and drove away, while the dolls in the other taxis followed. It was creepy!! The whole way home, I could feel the brown eyes of the dark haired Samantha doll looking at me, looking up and down, sizing me up. They all seemed to be sizing me up. Ahhh!

Then we got home and I ran straight up to my room - I'd had enough. But Julia just called me back down. I sighed and trudged down the stairs, only to see a red haired girl being guided into the kitchen with a blind fold. I screamed.

"GRACIE!"

Woah!

How the time has flew!
I had almost forgotten my birthday is....TOMORROW!
I said we were going to post photos counting down to our birthday -- our bads, sorry. I guess time really is not unlimited.

I don't expect too much for my birthday, especially since I haven't bonded too tightly with some of my sisters yet because of my only recent arrival. But I still find every single one of them staring at me with a stupid little smirking grin on their little dollie faces, as if they knew something extremely important that only I didn't know. Its driving me insane!
But I do hope I get something of the extreme hippie-ness.

Today I was looking out the window at Grace taking Sonali's pictures, and a car drove past the intersection blasting Jump Then Fall by Taylor Swift (this seriously happened, even ask Grace), and I thought of Gracelynne. Its a shame she won't be here. *sigh*

Oh oops ... I gotta jet! Kirsten's gift for me is something super special and apparently it will take all night? I gotta go, I hear her yelling something about airports.

Asta la vista!

-Er!n-

Birthday?

Its 2 days until I'm 12.
Chrissa bought me a new sundress.
Samantha and Felicity are cleaning the house like mad.
Elizabeth and Rebecca have been hiding themselves in their shared room and shutting the doors and trap doors and locking them. They speak in low whispers when they are in there.
Kit is picking up all her loose books, and Bailey grins and grins whenever she sees me.

Its like my 12th birthday is some big deal to them. Sure, I'm turning a whole new year older, but it won't be the same without Erin. Our 11th birthday was the best darned day of our dollie lives. We caused mischeif in the factory and ate the leftover carrot cake in the break room that some old guy left. We blasted our favorite songs and rallied the dolls up and started a dance party. We stayed up all night with our closest friends, just like a real sleepover birthday party, which are Erin's [my owner] favorite kind of parties.

The meals have been getting smaller and smaller each day. Its like Samantha is saving all of our food for my birthday dinner. I just asked for a simple platter of spaghetti for the family to share.

Kristy's a model, and we got a new camera! Its a Nikon Coolpix L110 Camera. We love it! Erin's been taking our pictures all day long. I like the one of me in my sandals in the shade of the big tree. Its beautiful.

Our first assignment for AGMA is spring! I love spring. Erin's been running our doll household like a backstage of a major motion picture. The dolls have been racing around carrying various outfits, suggesting them to Kristy, hanging them on the rack if she likes them, running back upstairs to find new ones if she doesn't. Picking hairstyles, suggesting them to Kristy. My job is to pick the shoes for the outfits. SHOES. Such a pathetic job, am I wrong? I've done a pretty awesome job, because the first response on most of the outfits suggested to Kristy were "I like the shoes on this one." We chose 5 outfits for her assignment and now that the planning is done, tommorrow after Erin gets home from school, which is about 4:00 including bus time, we start snap-snap-snapping away.


Kristy's planned her outfit for the small celebration that we will hold for my birthday.
I was pouting after being given too much homework in History, the most boring subject in the history of Brick Stone Junior High. I sit down in class, he hands us a worksheet, I start doodling in the margins and daydreaming about how nice it would be to have a huge novel in front of me instead of this waste of paper. Then before I know it, I have to finish it for homework, plus the nightly homework he gives us. Kristy swished in, carrying her favorite pink dress with a few accessories added.
"Hey Gracie, what about this outfit for your birthday party?" She held up the dress on the hanger.
"Its nice." I answered.
"She swooshed back out the door. Before I knew it, I was alone with a bunch of boring papers.

I have to go finish my homework.

Stay beautiful,

~Grace

Hurrah!

Gracie here! With BIGG news!

Mine and Erin's birthday is in EIGHT WHOLE DAYS! Since this was one of our last play practices, my friend Lanie spread the word around drama club that it was almost my birthday and they asked me to get on the stage before rehearsal started and they all sang Happy Birthday to me! Isn't that sweet? Mr. Beeman came in and immediately stopped the nonsense because we had too much work to do, but we hid backstage and finished the song during the mediocre intermission. I heard Kit and Julie discussing what my birthday gift would be and I'm getting the Taylor Swift album Fearless! AWESOME! I hope I'm not getting just that. Bailey told me I was getting five presents- one from every 2 girls. Bailey and Julie are getting me Fearless and Kit and Samantha are getting me a purple necklace-- how sweet are they!? Bethie has been super secretive about what she and Rebecca are getting me, its almost funny. Everytime I ask her something she turns around and says 'WHAT GIFT?!' then laughs like crazy.

Erin has discovered I look adorable in piggy tails, which just so happens to be Erin's [my twin's] favorite hairstyle, besides wearing it down! I look just like her in the picture ^ up there ^. Haha! Sorry its terrible, but the only camera Erin could find was her DSi.

Blog to ya later,

~Gracie in the Sky With Diamonds~

Guys and Dolls-- Sneak Peek!

This is my picture-- its a sneak peek of our upcoming AGMV- Pokerface! I'm not in it, because Erin started making it before I arrived. Haha! Bethie got the main role because she was gorgeous and perfect for it!

Speaking of Bethie-- sorry I haven't posted in a while. She's been having lots of trouble getting used to the way things are and I've been having to comfort her.

The play has been going awesome! I am Bailey's former role-- General Cartwright.

Let me give you a little summary of the play:

Nathan Detroit is having trouble finding a place for his crap game-- or illegal dice game. All his friends and competitors are convincing him to find a place, but the only safe place to hide the game from the police and his fiancee [who he's been engaged to for 14 years,] Adelaide, is a garage that will cost him one thousand dollars. He's broke, and the only way he can get the money is by betting Sky Masterson [the highest crapshooter of them all] one thousand dollars that Nathan will find a doll [girl] that Sky has to take to Havana, Cuba. Nathan picks Sarah Brown- a goody two shoes who runs a mission for sinners. They fall in love and he takes her to Cuba, where he introduces Sarah to Dulce de Leche drinks. She gets drunk quickly, and he takes her home after she starts a fist fight with the locals. When they get back home to NYC, they find the crapshooters running out of the mission followed by the police. Sarah is convinced that Sky took her to Havana to get rid of her so that his friends could shoot crap in the mission.

MEANWHILE, Adelaide finds that Nathan is finding a place for the crap games, and she is instantly angry with him.

General Cartwright, the owner of the mission, is convinced that the mission isn't doing any good, so she decides to close it down. Sky guarantees Sarah one dozen sinners at a midnight prayer meeting, so General Cartwright keeps the mission up.

Sky Masterson follows Nicely Nicely Johnson, one of the crap shooters, to the only place that Nathan Detroit could afford the crap games, the sewer. There, Sky bets all the shooters that if he rolls and wins, they all have to go to the Midnight prayer meeting. If he loses, he owes them all 1000 dollars.

Adelaide promises Nathan that they can elope the same night as the prayer meeting, and she thinks he is lying when he tells her that he has to go to the prayer meeting, so she gets mad at him and breaks up with him.

After Sky wins, they all go to the meeting, where the police find them. Nicely Nicely is forced to give testimony.

After, Sarah and Adelaide meet on the streets where they confess the problems with their boyfriends. The result-- marry the man to change his ways.

In the end, Sarah changes Sky into a mission gentleman, where Nathan and Adelaide get married after all.

The End.

Its an awesome play! If you ever want to rent the movie or visit a play, DO IT! Its awesome!

Stay beautiful ;),

~Gracie~

Well...

Hey! Erin -- again. I think Gracelynne might be busy. From what I can tell, my cousin Bethie's been having breakdowns and Gracie has no time for blogging ... she's quite busy cheering Miss Cole up. :)

The photo today is a photo of my sistah Sonali and my cousin Emily climbing a tree!
Sonali will be mad to find this photo, but I think Emily should speak up and apologize, and Sonny should forgive.

-Erin