we wish you a merry christmas... and a HAPPY NEW YEAR

Okeday everybody!
I have been sick, and mom Isaac dad and me were going to go to a party at a friend's house but since I am sick we cannot go. So instead we will have our new years here!! it will be "muy fabulosa" for those who speak spanish. for those who don't, "muy fabulosa" means very fabulous, or very great or something along that line. Anihoo, we're going to make homemade pizza. Mom and dad are out buying tomato sauce and pizza do and pizza cheese and assorted toppings right now!!! I am so excited. Isaac is playing some stupid video game called Trials HD. It's a motorcycle game and there are some levels where you have to try to break as many bones as you can.... crazy huh?? well, to all who read this far, we watched a series of unfortunate events today. By Lemon Snicket. sorry, I meant Lemony Snicket. soo, it's a great movie about three kids named violet, klaus, and sunny baudelaire. Their house was burned down in a fire, and they were sent to live with an evil actor/count/arsonist named COUNT OLAF. Count olaf is so evil, that you can barely bear saying it, much less yell it. Count olaf tried to steal an enormous fortune the baudelaires would inherit, by means that you would have to watch the movie to find out. Then, the executor of the baudelaire's fortune, mr poe, took them to live with DR. MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY. yes that IS his name. (they were supposed to call him uncle monty) and uncle monty was a wonderful person. he had lost is family and home the same way the baudelaires did. then, his assistant, stefano, killed him by injecting him with deadly snake poison, then let out the IDV... incredibly deadly viper. who became friends with sunny baudelaire. then they were sent to AUNT JOSEPHINE ANWHISTLE. She lived on Lake Lachrymose. BTW it takes YEARS to be able to spell lachrymose right. anihoo, Aunt Jo was afraid of everything, from the doorknobs to the stove, to the radiator. Then Captain Sham came... he forced her to jump out a window after writing a suicide note, but she was devouered by the lachrymose leeches... later in the movie. Then they went back to Count Olaf. Who tried again to get his filthy hands on the baudelaire fortune. I don't want to tell the end of the story, so I will just have to say, that this was an awesome movie. and it is very worth watching.
thanks for reading,
☺Mady☻

Christmas

Christmas was a few days ago... and I need to tell all what went on. so this will happen in two parts. the 'christmas eve' section and the 'christmas day' section. This will be a LLLOOONNNGGG post... so be ready. I will try to put on pics at the end... sooo here we go.

Christmas Eve:
I went to gramma Sharon's on Christmas Eve. I went early with Kimmie, and I 'helped' gramma get ready... I did most of the work. I dusted and lint-rolled and shook stuff out and fed the cat and helped cook, and gramma did the dishes. After a little while we took a break and I played farmville for about two hours, while gramma talked with greatma, then we got to work with putting out the food. Gramma got the meat ready (at least I thought we had meat) kimmie (who went grocery shopping forever) was now home and preparing her fruit salad, and I set out a dessert plate (which was organized on a pointsetta platter plate) and it was delicious. The weirdest thing on there was the chocolate covered potato chips. Then my mama got there with the family and we went to my grampa joe's house, where I ate a muffin. Here's what we did. When we got there, we sat down for a while and watched tv, then Jean Carlos (my 18 year old uncle) and I spun around on a comfy chair and he gave me the third degree about my school. Then we went upstairs to where my uncle Oscar (Jean's little brother) showed us a funny video involving a little boy after dental surgery and his suspicions about his medication. Then we did presents. Isaac and I each got a gingerbread house making kit and I got some heelys and isaac got new wheels for his. dad gave Jean and oscar halo wars. then we left after some more tv. we then went back to gramma sharons. There we ate dinner (of swedish meatballs, mash potatoes, potato buns, salad, and fruit salad) and dessert (cheesecake and assorted cookies and candies, courtesy of my dessert plate). after dinner, we did presents. Isaac got wii sports resort, guiness book of world records 2010, a science book, and a sweatshirt with "Forsmann" printed on the back. I got a whole art kit with an easel, a portfolio, some brushes, and a sketchbook! Then we went home after a whole video taking of me and isaac passing out presents and MANY pictures.
After the long drive home, we went to bed, and this is when things get weird.

Christmas day:
I woke up at 4 am. I looked at my clock and almost screamed at my waking time for two reasons. one because of the time, two because of how long i had to wait until 6:30, which was when mom authorized isaac and me to come in and attack her and dad. so I read until six.
then i woke isaac up and went downstairs... mama was not happy. she told me to wait until six thirty. so I did, and at six thirty dad was up and mom said to wait until she came upstairs. she did ten minutes later and then it was present time. From Isaac I got a magic eight ball, from mom and dad I got some stuff including leg warmers and some lounge pants which I am currently wearing. From Santa I got a CELL PHONE!!! and a camcorder thingie, as well as two huge lollipops and a little spiral straw with bulbs at each end and a liquid that went up the straw into the top bulb and stayed in the top bulb until I tapped the top bulb, and the liquid went to the bottom bulb again. I also got three new books: "Faith, Hope, and Ivy June", "The Lost Conspiracy" and "When You Reach Me". These are among many, less important things. Then we went geocaching and found an altoid can underneath a telephone pole. we went home, and we played with our new toys all day until we ate a dinner of apple cider, burritoes, chips, and dip.
Talk about a mexican dinner. All in all, we had an awesome christmas.

I am sorry for the inconvienience, but no pictures were uploaded, and I am much to lazy to get out the camera and download them.

Events of the Recent Past

Sorry about the whole not-blogging-even-though-I-said-I-would thing, but I'm blogging now!!
First of all, here's about palm springs. We went to the same hotel as we did last year, and we saw two praying mantises. I touched one of them and it scuttled up a wall and STARED at me, Have you ever had a praying mantis stare at you?? Not fun. Very scary. and many other two-word sentences that describe being stared at by praying mantises. We went to Joshua Tree and I saw Real Live SENSITIVE PLANTS in the wild. Sensitive plants are these things that, when you touch their leaves, close the leafy part and it looks like a frondy stick. We also went up a mountain in a car thingie on a cable that swung! it swung whenever we hit a tower to keep the cable up. skeery. but it was REALLY cool at the top! we went geocaching. and we found two geocaches there, I found one and Adam found the other. And we hiked. It is really beautiful up there, and we saw TWO RAVENS!!!!! They were awesome and they had big beaks. One walked not two feet in front of me and looked at me for a moment before it hopped away and flew into a tree. It was really cool. Next let's talk about my birthday. In November, I had my birthday. It was a fun party that consisted of bowling at Tech City Bowl, coming home to eat cake and unwrap presents, and going swimming at the Redmond Pool. At the bowling place we bowled and I kept on looking for my friend Beca who came late. Anihoo, After bowling we ate the amazing cake that kimmie made for me and opened my presents. i got a lot of presents so I won't name all of them. Swimming was really fun. First we dove off of the diving board, then we went to the shallow end and played varied water games i cant remember. Then my friend Kelsey and i had a battle. We splashed for a while, then she grabbed my leg and flipped me into the water. when she thought I would back off, I swam like a shark and grabbed both of her legs, tipping her up so she was laying flat on the water. Then i dragged her all around and we played in a similar manner until we had to go home. Oh that was a fun day. EVENT OF THE FUTURE!!!!!! Camp Orkila is in March. They will teach us Initiative and Ropes courses and watercolor and cartooning and we will get amazing food like camp Hamilton and finally (DEEP BREATH) THE GIANT SWING!!!!! Here's how it works. Read the next post to find out.
Mady

We've got a lot of catching up to do.

be prepared for my longest blog ive ever done.
soo. let me start with the recents. I went to camp Hamilton late last
september. we did all kinds of cool stuff. poi swinging, which is some
sort of swinging of these adorable little thingies that we hand sewed.
no really. we hand sewed them!!!
Then we had swimming- by far the worst! the lake was filled with beaver
poo. And I had to swim in it for an HOUR!!! the other hour was fun yaking.
I will explain what fun yaking is now. Fun yaking is like kayaking
exept you can flip the fun yaks and then well it was pretty much a war.
a fun yak war. then we had batiking. we got to design shirts and paint
designs with wax then dye the shirts then freeze the wax then break
the wax and we have batik.
that's a lot of thens.
O YA!! and quidditch. like harry potter. I was on the Hufflepuff team.
basically the same rules as the movie but we made our own wands.
day at camp hamilton.
wake up at 7 oclock every morning.
go to morning reflections where ninth graders preform corny plays.
eat breakfast with kelly T mojo and more.
breakfast usually consists of costco muffins cereal and sausages.
go to first rotation EG poi or quidditch.
go to second rotation.
eat lunch which I packed after breakfast
go to third rotation.
come back to beach.
meet with camp group.
eat dinner (varied each night)
delicous. play school wide
games.
go to campfire.
CAMPFIRE WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!
we went there and sang the camp hamilton song (do you remember when we used to sing, SHA LA lalalalalalalaladida just like that! shalalalalalalaladida ladida one more time, shalalalalalalaladida ladida dududidu du hamilton)
anyhoo, hike to washougal (camp)
sleep.
yay.


after camp hamilton I came home and took a shower then played video games.
we got into geocaching.
and we found all sortsa cool stuff!
there was one that was a hollow rock.
I found it.
it was amazing.

in august we went to oregon and beaches. i got sandy and wet and i took a shower. life rocked.
we walked along the beach one morning and collected sand dollars.
i found one.
mom found three.
we were gone for 2 hours.
lots of work.
anyway, that's about all i can fit into 1 post.
♥Mady
ps- I am going to palm springs this week.
i am excited and scared at the same time.
ever get that feeling??

Pictures with the Zinters

Zinter/Forsmann clans and some friends at Smithsonian

Forsmann/Zinter clans in the family- OH- cant forget Abe Lincoln!!!!

Jimmy Isaac and me making silly/evil?! faces

Walking to the capital

Ok guys- I know you have waited forever for me to blog- and now I am blogging- really all I have are pictures from Virginia with JimmyII, Shannon, and JimmyIII.

By the way- I am still in close contact with JimmyIII via email and US Post

please comment.

luv ya all,

Mady

sooo- here they are:

OH NO!!!!!!! read to see

Okay people- I have some good news and the bad news. Okay- bad news first. I AM SICK AT 99.6 degree farenheight. Good news: its NOT the Swine Flu. I have not been feeling good lately, and I hope i'll recover soon... so I've been spending the day on the cpu, playing my new handheld sudoku.(I'll go into details about the new stuff soon) and watching tv. I woke up at 100.2 degrees farenheight. did NOT feel good. now ya wanna know about my new stuff?? well here goes: we went to three garage sales and i got one thing from each one. The biggest thing I got was a new bike. It could use some fixing, but once we work out the glitches, it could be 1/10 the price it was supposed to be. See, I got it for $15!!!!! can you believe it?? next I got a water gun to have waterfights with Isaac in summer. and finally, drumroll please: I got a great little handheld sudoku machine that will fit in my little bag that I take with me everywhere. It's really fun for me!! so I can have a little machine that I can bring with me everywhere. isn't it AWESOME?? well I'm tired and gonna get some rest while watching John and Kate + 8 so I will sign off now.
thank you all for reading my boring little blog,
MADISON FORSMANN

New York City, Philly, Newport News

Hey everyone,
I had better start from the beggining.

Newport News, VA: I flew into Norfolk, VA at around 7:45 and had a 15 minute drive in our gray hyundai into Newport News where we met up with Jimmy II, Jimmy III, and Shannon. We ate an AMAZING dinner, thank you Shannon, and then Jimmy III showed us around the house. After the tour, we went upstairs to Jimmy's room and just talked for a while. OH I ALMOST FORGOT ISAAC AND JIMMY III PLAYED ENDLESS HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!
crazy. then at around 1:30 , we went to bed. The next morning, we ate pop tarts and cinnamon toast crunch ( I really don't know how Shannon got away with feeding us that in front of my mother) and then the cousins fixed up a cooler full of food for us while we were on the road. Then, five and a half hours later, we were in Philly.

Philadelphia, PA: In Philly, we have MUCH to talk about. First, we checked into the hotel, which was the Hyatt. it was nice, then we went to Deno's for Philly Cheese Steak. it was pretty good. Then we came home and went to bed. In the morning, in the morning, we went to the US ment. we saw AMISH PEOPLE there. While we were there, we learned how to make money, but we can NOT make it ourselves. TOO MUCH MACHINERY!!!! SOO, after that we went to the Philadelphia Penitentary. Since 1822, it held many dangerous criminals. It closed in 1971 though. The lady at the prison gave us headphones and little calculator thingies that would show us around, and it was COOL!!!!! We saw all the different cell blocks, and this one dude got a luxury cell with a radio and silk bedsheets and stuff like that. he called it 'very comfortable'
after our tour, we were free to roam around the building, and we saw death row, and the HOLE. scary. then we went home and went to New York City.

New York City, NY: Soo, yesterday I got here to new york city and we went to the best store ever... THE M N'M store!!!!!!!!! DELICOUS it even smelled like chocolate.
I got a quarter pound of MandMs and Isaac got a pound. then we walked down Broadway to the theater to go to the lion king play. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!! and there was 11 year old girl and boy playing young simba and young nala. :) I loved it. Then we went to a pizza place for dinner at 10:30 at night. After that, we came home, watched some TV and went to bed. This morning, Isaac and I had a pillow fight on floor 43, and woke up mom and dad. Then Mom went to work out, and dad is watching tv, Isaac is in the shower, and little old me is blogging.
Not enough pics yet. pics on next blog.

Please Comment!!!!!!!!
Thanks for Reading,
A happy Mady in New York City

PS- Grandma, are you happy for this nice new big blog to read?? XD

HELLO FROM THUNDERSTORM FLORIDA!!!

Hi everyone,
I'm writing to you from Port Charlotte, FL. I love this place, so warm and sunny,lots of family here, and yet, a THUNDERSTORM?!? what on earth is going on, why the heck is there a thunderstorm on this PARTICulAR day. I could go on and on and on, but basically, it's 73
fairenhieght outside. lalalalala I'm Singing in the rain, no wait,
I'm singing in the miniscule hurricane!!!:) I'm still happy though,
I love you all, I AM IN A VERY GOOD MOOD!!!!!! oh gosh, I forgot to tell you, Cousin Sally, (that's who I'm staying with) has this crazy dog named Molly. Molly is a tiny Polynesian dog and she YAPS LOUD!!!! sheesh, that dog is crazy, and she likes Pizza and watching harry potter. I know this because we watched harry potter last night and ate pizza in front of the TV, and she was sitting there, BEGGING me to give her my pizza and watching the Harry Potter video. I like this place. that's real nice but one of the nice things about this place is that we are living right on a canal leading to the ocean. bye bye.
(Mady)

SNOW IN MARCH??????? what the heck is going on here???

THERE"S SNOW IN THE MIDDLE OF MARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What on earth is happening to this world? it's supposed to be a GLOBAL warming for crying out loud!!!!! not a global-with-the-exception-of-Redmond warming!!! The snow peices are GIGANTIC!!!!!!!! like literally. huge. ok, so, WE ARE GETTING TOO MUCH SNOW!!!! it never snows in march. it just doesn't. ok, so anyway, so the pic is NOT of our snow. it's just a sample pic but it just resembles the snow going on outside. iT IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so,
I think I've said enough.
No snow,
Mady

Smokey House

Hey everybody,
I"M FINALLY BLOGGING!!!!!!!!!!!
gotta change background. Anyway,
Dad's making breakfast right now
and it's getting REALLY SMOKEY in here.
I hope it'll clear up. It's nearly hard
to breathe. :) I like cheese. RANDOM.
I MISS MY GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YMadyM
PS- Like my webdings symbols by name?

Jeez, I went to hard on isaac.

evryone,
the isaac poem was a joke... I was mad at him

Isaac

This is a poem called Isaac

Isaac is my little brother
Isaac is just like a leech
he likes to play in a baby pool
at the beach.
Isaac is a weirdo,
he acts like he is cool,
but deep deep down inside...
he is just a weirdo
Isaac Isaac Isaac Isaac
I am mad at ISAAC

Luv,
Mady
YEAH GO TEAM!!!!!

AARGHHH!!!!!! WAAA, NOOO!!!!!!! MORE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!

ROAR!!! WHY IS THERE MORE SNOW????? I CAN'T STAND IT ANY LONGER!!!!!!!!!! ROAR!!!!!!
okay no more yelling. goodness gracious why is there snow now? Kimmie and I say that if this keeps up, we'll have a white EASTER!!!!! and the man at QFC said it would snow till JULY!! Now that is just a little overboard. However- if the year is crazy and a new Iceage starts- then it's possible but that is unlikely. I LIKE TACOS
(\___/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")Mady
PS- like my new bunny signature?

Hi, I've had enough of snow.

Hi everyone, I've had enough of snow and I am doing alot of manga practice... yay hooray!!! I found this vid on YouTube from a manga writer named Mark Crilley. it's pretty cool how he does his work... and one more thing- Isaac's baptism is day after tomorrow. THE END!!!!!