Video of me doing what i do...

I hope this video works. I have been shooting bows for three days now. Here is me up at Dad's farm taking a shot at 80 feet. The tracer nock looks cool and if you look close you can see where it lands! i'm proud of myself :-)

And the winner is...

The number I counted for my pencils was 1050! The winner of the contest is my cousin Keri with a guess of 1031. I will be sending you a prize soon. Nice job! Thank you all for your guesses! I have put everyone in order. I figured if you were over, I subtracted how far you were away. Rob is currently trying to figure out a new contest for this website. More to come!
1. Keri and family-1031
2.Emily- 987
3.Uncle Rich- 1145
4.My Dad-1275
5.Bito- 800
6. Jen T-748 1/2
7.Cameron- 743.3
8. Nicole- 702
9. Nat-700
10. Stacey- 644
11. Denise-642
12. Geralyn-597
13. Melissa- 592
14. Cody- 591
15. Michael Scott- 557
16. Andrea and Brett- 499
17.Jennifer (fer fer) 475
18. Brian- 315

I thought I would include some interesting things that I found while counting.

I have 14 different shaped pencils

35 movie related pencils
22 Ben and Jerry's pencils
36 Vermont pencils
18 New York
40 from outside the United states
11 Marla pencils (5 actually say Maria, my dad filled in the i)
8 Macintosh related pencils

I also learned that I only need 17 more states and then I will have at least one pencil from each of the states. The states I need are the following:
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
West Virginia
Delaware
Connecticut
Rhode Island

The pencil from the farthest away is from New Zealand, Thanks to my friend Jess!
I also have included a picture of my favorite pencils. It is the picture with the broom pencil in it.

Win a pencil!

For those who have known me for awhile, I have collected pencils since the 4th grade. I am having a contest to see who can guess how many pencils I have. Whoever is the closest, I will give you a free pencil! Wow, what a great deal. Deadline is this friday, July 25th at 5pm. Enjoy guessing!

Mini Golfing

Nicole is on a roll at sending me pictures. Rob, Nicole, Devon and I went to the Mall of America to play mini golf. It was last week or maybe the week before, I don't remember. I was horrible at it. Rob won, then Devon, Nini and then me. We had a lot of fun. At one point, Rob was crawling on the ground to see how the slope was. We got in the car after and Rob said "This is the most fun I've had in awhile." We were all excited to hear that. Well, at least I was!!

Sonic

I was very excited to hear about a sonic opening in Minnesota. We've had commercials for years (which I find weird and dumb) but no Sonic. The day has finally come! They were so busy that we had to go to a separate parking lot to wait in line for the Sonic people to put a photo copied piece of paper on our car that said sonic and then they would let us go when they told us to. It was quite the ordeal. Rob and I went with Nicole and her guy, Devon. It was impossible to get a picture of Devon, so I did get some with Nini, but the camera is in my car and Nini sent this picture to me, so I'm using this one. The food was good and I wish there was a sonic closer than St Paul. It was fun!

Free bowls

Rob and I went to target on Friday. That's always a dangerous place
for us. I was happy when the grocery store in saint michael opened
because now I go to target less and buy less other things there. We
were in the cat isle and saw that fancy feast had a clear plastic bowl
for free when you bought a pack of 24 wet food cans. Rob said we
couldn't just buy one we had to get three. So now we have a ton of wet
food, but awesome bowls for our cats.

Xootr

Rob decided to ride his xootr (that's the name of the scooter) from
our house to the office. This is how he looked. Isn't he awesome
looking?

Bird

What kind of bird is this? I didn't get any closer because I didn't
want it to attack me..

Weird cat

I never leave the shower doors open because the cats have a weird
obsession with being in it. Kari is quite content being there. What a
weirdo

All better

It's fixed!

No air conditioning

This may not be hot to some of you, but rob and I are dying in this
house! Our air stopped working yesterday and I called dj's today and
they couldn't come out until tomorrow. We spent the afternoon and
evening at auntie Mary and Gordy's house. (Thank you for letting us
come over!) We were also fed a very good dinner. We're home now and
rob has an ice pack on his head and playing metal gear solid on the
ps3. I am sitting on the couch trying to stay cool. I just keep
thinking I used to practice gymnastics for many hours a week in a non
air conditioned gym. I have decided that I love air conditioning!