Fall!

I absolutely love fall weather. It is just perfect. It's not hot at all, but not too cold. My favorite part is when the leaves change colors. I just wish that trick or treaters would actually come down our street but oh well. This fall is going to be a busy one for me. This week mom and dad are riding around on a cruise ship while me and trevor are just hanging out at home for fall break. On Oct. 24 I am being in the Miss Warren County High pageant. Exciting! This month will also be a very busy cheerleading month because we compete next month on the 21. I cant wait for november! My mom and I will be going to New York City for the Macy's Day Parade with the other senior cheerleaders and Pioneerettes. It is going to be an amazing trip and a great experience.

wow..it's been almost three months

school school school..

so far this week has been so slow. I think the rain makes it even worse. Well last week was great. The fair was here! I love love love the fair :) Dad turned forty and mom had a birthday three days before his. We had him a bonfire cookout and it was really fun. Then gracie beth turned four and we went to her tinkerbell birthday party. It was cute and i just love that girl to death. and Tyler turns eighteen on monday! it's so crazy!!!! :) well i dont really have much to say. but i will post some pictures of whats been going on..

wow..it

Cheerleading Camp!

Hero's Day!

Monday I left for cheerleading camp at 5:45 a.m. The camp was at UT Knoxville so we had a little ways to drive. Hailey Jones and Haley Teeters rode with me down there and it was fun. We talked a lot and were excited to be going. There are four seniors this year Me, Hailey Jones, Haley Teeters and Raven Roberts. We were pretty upset when our coach decided that we would all be in separate rooms. She said that the other girls needed an older girl in their room to keep them on task.

When we got there on Monday we had to unload our stuff and carry it to the building across the street that was our dorm. It took forever to get keys but when we did we ventured up to the third floor and started unpacking in our gross dorms. This year our dorms only had an entry way with the bathroom on the left and the shower on the right. Then two rooms. No one liked to shower out in the open but atleast it had a door. Monday afternoon we headed out to the indoor football field to get started with camp. Its so hot in there. After we had been there for a few hours we had to move to the un air conditioned gym across the street because Peyton Manning was coming the field. How dumb!

our home pom outfit!

Monday night we performed our Home Pom and we did awesome!! We won first place with it! After we performed my mom went home and we went back to the dorms to shower and go to bed.

Tuesday we went back to the field early that morning to get started again. We learned the extreme routine and a cheer to be evaluated on that night. We didnt do very good on our cheer but thats okay.

Wednesday wasn't a good day at first. My stunt group was trying to full and Hannah(flyer) knocked Haley(base) out. Haley fell on the ground and didnt get up. She hurt her hip and said it hurt her to walk. So we had to find vans to ride in for the rest of the day. That was hard because cheerleaders are supposed to walk the enitre time they are at camp. But later that night we went to the gym and when we walked in the door my mom, Lisa Jones, and Shannon Teeters suprised us! They came to watch the seniors try out for all american. even though no one from Warren County made it. Oh well. After we tried out for that we were about to go back to the dorms and Makayla did her back hand spring when she did she hyperextended her elbow. But she was tough and still the stunts and everything.

Thursday, the final day of camp. We were back at the gym practicing to do our extreme routine. We had to perform it in front of everyone and our parents were there. I was pretty bummed because tyler said he couldnt come, but I was standing there talking to my mom and guess who is see walking in, my Tyler! I took off running to him and gave him a huge hug. I missed him so much. and it was so sweet of him to suprise me :)

SuMmEr!!

I am so glad that it is summer. I love the sun :) Sunday we went to the lake and it was so fun. We had a cookout and then we went tubing and knee boarding. Dad did really good at knee boarding ha. Trevor did pretty good and Tyler would have done good if he could have strapped his knees in. Trevor also tried to ski but he couldnt get up. I only tubed because i really didnt wanna kill myself. It was fun though and i got quite a bit of sun, but i forgot about my senior pictures and now i have lines from my swim suit. oh well hopefully i can get rid of them by then. I cant wait til the next time we go to the lake, so so fun :)

Oh and sunday night i watched the mtv movie awards and Twilight got like every award lol but i also go to see the New Moon trailer. I was so happy and it was great. Too bad the movie comes out in like November :( I cant wait though..

Happy Birthday Trevor!, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Trevors Graduation, and Memorial Day.

Happy Birthday Trevor!
My little brother is fourteen today!! :) he also graduated from eighth grade last week. He got most outstanding student!! He is so smart. Way smarter than me. It sucks.. but i am very proud of him and i hope he keeps doing his best at everything.

The new season of Jon and Kate Plus 8 came on last night and seriously i cried. Jon and Kate are on the road to divorce and the sextuplets turned 5!! I really hope they dont get a divorce.. it would be so bad for them and their kids.. I cant wait until next week to see if things are any better.

Yesterday was Memorial Day. and it was fun. I went to my granny and pa's for lunch at 2. We had quite a bit of food and it was nice to be around family. I wish tyler could have came though but his family was having a cook out and he had to do the grilling. But i went over to his house after our lunch and he cleaned the grill lol and i watched. Then we watched Taken and just hung out.

Right now i am eating a sandwich and some strawberries(thanks Valerie) and i am watching re runs of Tori and Dean. The new season of it starts tonight. Cant wait.!
Love,
Shelby

American Idol!!

Kris Allen won American Idol!!! I was so excited when he won. I didnt want Adam to win at all. He's so weird! Kris will definitely make a great album and be a really good artist. I cant wait! I love the way he sings and he is so cute!! He sang really good with Keith Urban last night. It was great. I never really liked American Idol as much as i did this season. I hope next season will be just as great.

Tonight is trevor's gradutation.. He is going to officially be a freshman. lol. I get to pick on him. It's weird that he is going to be at the high school. He just seems so little to me. Like he isn't old enough yet. He's still only thirteen. But is birthday is on May 26.

I am officially finished with school!! Today me and Makayla are going to sale ads for the football program. yay. not. I so dont want to but we have to. atleast i'm not going by myself. I just feel like a loser walking in to a business asking them to buy something... oh well thats all i have for today..

Love,

Shelby

one heck of a friday.

I haven't been watching american idol that much, i usually just watch and see who gets kicked off. I was pretty upset that Danny left this week. But i am so so glad that Kris stayed. He is my absolute favorite. I hope he wins but everyone knows that Adam probably will. I love the way Kris changed the song Heartless by Kanye. I liked his better than the original. :) anyways, yesterday we had another two hour block day. I didnt have any tests but i needed to go so i could review for Chemistry and to bring up my grade since i had an F.(i know its horrible)Now it is a C still not what i want but i can handle it. I really didnt want to stay at school all day though so i decided i was going to leave at around one. I was in my terrible eighth period and was going to have to stay for TWO hours!! so i text mom and told her to sign me out. She called and everything but Mr. Haley didnt ever tell me that i had been signed out so i though maybe they werent letting anyone sign out. I waited like an hour and decided to call my mom because she wasnt texting me back. When she answered I asked her if she called and she had but hello i was still at school an hour later so mom called back and asked why i hadnt left yet. The lady said she had called into Mr.Haley's room and he said we were testing! and we weren't. After mom told me that i just left. Ugh that made me so mad!! But after i finally left school. i went to eastside and kind of helped mom decorate for the formal. Then i came home and Tyler came over. At like 6:30 we decided to go eat mexican and Trevor came with us. After we ate mom made us go to Walmart because trev didnt have any shoes to wear to the dance. He got some pretty goofy looking ones lol.. Once we picked those out mom asked us to help her carry out the food she had picked up for the formal. Well tyler kind of dropped the vegetable tray but it was ok. We just got another one. We left walmart and tyler and i took trevor back home to get ready and then we took him to the school. Me and tyler stayed for like an hour and then left. The kids look really cute and trevor danced with two girls lol. here are some pics..

:) I love this one of the three of us. It's actually a good one. and trevor smiled!!

Exam Days suck!

As you can see from the title of this post, today was one of the four exam days. Today we had first, fourth, and seventh. I had to take an exam in all three. First was Spanish and I made a 100 on it :) fourth was keyboarding. How boring and I don't know what I made yet. And in seventh was geometry. I was so stressed about it but i think i did pretty good. It wasnt as hard as i thought it would be. Tomorrow we will have second, fifth, and eighth exams. But my second period is English and we already had our exam. Then in fifth we have to wait until next week to take it because our teacher was sick. And in eighth we took an end of course test tuesday morning. So no exams for me tomorrow, but i have to go so i can be in fifth(chemistry,yikes). Oh and we have four exam days because someone decided that it would be a good idea to have senior exams one week and then everyone else's the next week. but hello of course most teachers are gonna go ahead and give everyone the exam on the same days. What a dumb idea. Oh well thats WCHS for you.. lol.

Oh yeah. Tomorrow is the eighth grade formal at eastside. I cannot believe that my little brother is in eighth grade!! He doesnt wanna go to the formal but of course we are making him. I am gonna go because i wanna see how cute everyone looks. :) Next thursday the 21 is their graduation. It seems so crazy for Trevor to be graduating eighth grade. I know i will probably cry. Like a big loser. lol. Next year he will get the privledge to ride to school with a SENIOR!! ha ha. Lucky me though, i have to take him and his friend dakota. Two freshman! no just kidding they'll be cool. I will post some pics of the formal and graduation soon.

-shelby*

tuesday..

Ok so i haven't posted in forever, so let me catch you up on whats been going on lately..

So sunday was mothers day and it was pretty good. We went to church and then to granny's. Trevor, dad, and I got mom some stuff from bath and body and flowers. Dad got granny a new swing for her deck and its really pretty. She was happy since it was the one she had thought about buying. Later that day trevor went for a ride in a two man plane, how cool. I didnt go because i went to tylers but i think i would have been scared anyway. Plus i didnt really know the guy who was flying it.

Monday, I slept until NINE!!! I was supposed to be at school at nine thirty five since we got to go in late. So tyler called me at nine and i was freakin out. I hurried and got in the shower. I was completely ready by nine fifteen. Can you believe it? i made it to school on time.

Today, I went to school on time, which sucked. I took the end of course test for us history. I learned absolutely nothing in there so hopefully I made some good guesses. After the test we had thirty minute classes. i love those, but that means that we havent had much time to review for the rest of the exams that are on thursday and friday. I am totally freaking out because I suck at chemistry and my teacher is sick so we just got a review that we arent even gonna go over. I know i am going to fail!! I hope all my tests go well. I'll post and let you know..

-Shelby!

I'm really not that great of a blogger. I never have anything to say so i usually just decide to skip the writing part and just read everyone else's. But let me catch you up on everything that has been going on...

Well first, I scored three points higher on my ACT. Go me! Even though I wish I'd do better on it, I'm still proud of myself.

Second, I went to Eastside Elementary's High School Musical last Friday and it was amazing. My little brother was in it and I was proud of him for actually getting out there and singing in front of everyone.(the kids actually sang the songs!!) Here are a few pictures of it. sorry they are kinda blurry.

Third, School School School. I'm so ready for SUMMER!! Well everything at school has been crazy. Prom is tomorrow so seniors are getting ready for it and we got year books then yesterday the people who took the ACT on a Saturday got to stay home! It was Great!! I cant believe that I am going to be a SENIOR next year I cant wait!!!!!!!!

Also, on wednesday I am going to Gatlinburg to The Wilderness water park. That should be fun. I wish Tyler was going, but he wouldn't ask his mom.... ugh.

bad news....

Today at around 6:30 a seven year old boy named Sedryc Simmons got hit by a car when he was getting on the bus. The woman was going 80 mph!! He was tossed forty five feet away from the car. He was air lifted, but he didnt make it. So everyone please remember his family.

Another little boy, Caleb Smith, also passed away today. He was very sick. Him and Sedryc were in the same class and sat side by side. Please keep both of their families in your prayers...

unsuccessful shopping trip

I'm sure everyone has heard about the tornado's that touched down in Murfreesboro today. Well mom trevor tyler and me all went out there to shop today, but while we were eating at tgif it started getting pretty bad outside. Tyler's mom called and said that a tornado was supposed to hit at around twelve thirty. At about twelve thirty, we started seeing a funnel cloud form and a few minutes later it was a full on tornado not far from our restaurant. Everyone in the restaurant were told to move to the middle the dining area. Thankfully, it didnt hit us. But it did to a lot of damage in other places. In the neighbor hood behind my aunts apartment, a lady and her baby were killed. I send out my prayers to everyone that lost family or their homes.

random

No more stress about school. for now. I did my english project and my lab report for chemistry. shew I'm glad that is over. I also took the ACT yesterday. I hate that thing.(maybe i did better this time) So, last night me tyler and trevor went to see Fast and Furious it was really good. The boys didnt think it was that good but i did. Paul Walker is gorgeous! :) I'm reading a new series of books. The first one is Marked. It's a vampire book and i liked it. Not nearly as much as the twilight series. Nothing will ever top them. Atleast for me. This weather is driving me crazy. First its really hot then rainy and cold then hot again. It is supposed to snow!! what the heck. If it does we better get out of school..Well, Have a good week everyone!

Love,
Shelby Lynn Steakley

So this week kinda went by fast but the days seemed so slow.. I hate going back to school after being out for a while. It's so hard to get back in to a routine. This morning was pretty terrible when i woke up i turned my alarm off and went back to sleep for a few minutes so i was a little behind then after I was completely ready I spilt milk all over my pants and my bed and my floor. Of course i had to change my pants then I didnt like the way my shirt looked so that was changed too. I was trying to hurry and get out the door but I couldnt find a ribbon for my necklace. Plus it was raining and I hate the rain! This weekend is going to be busy. I have an english project due and a lab report for chemistry due. Stupid school....

Happy Birthday Valerie!

I just got home from Tyler's house. They had a birthday party for Valerie his sister-in-law. It was fun and we watched Twilight :) Tyler just loved that. I had a good time though. I mostly played with, Carter, Tyler's nephew. So cute!!

pictures of my Texas trip

Abby :)

Ethan, how cute

me and Ethan :)

Chloe :)

Me and Trevor :)

Lacey, my baby.

Wow i have been a really bad blogger lately. So let me tell you about my spring break. It was a pretty good one, I went to texas to see my grandparents. I drove on the interstate!!!
When we got there on Tuesday night we went to eat at Chili's, then we went back to my nana and pa's house. On Wednesday, we went to see how money was made and then that night my four cousin's, Abby, Chloe, Ethan, and Lacey, and my uncle Shane and his wife Lindsey, came over. I was so excited to see all of them. Ethan's birthday was on the sixteenth so we had a Cars Birthday for him. I loved his face when he saw all the decorations. so adorable. On thursday we just stayed at home and played with the babies. Then later that day we went shopping for a little bit. On thursday night, poor little Lacey got sick all over me, bless her heart. On friday, we took the babies home and then went to the mall and stuff. Friday night we priced yard sale stuff for the yard sale on saturday. We had to get up very early on saturday. The yard sale was to help for the senior cheerleading trip to New York so i am very grateful for everything we made. Lacey was still a little sick that day, but she came around and was so cute! I will be posting some pictures soon. Oh yeah the twins, abby and chloe, had a little bake sale. We made cup cakes and cookies on friday night and then lemonade on saturday morning. It was fun to see them trying to sale it. they didnt make much money from them though. We ate most of them. Saturday night we went to see Last House on the Left and it was very good. On sunday we drove home and it takes SO long! twelve hours. But i was so happy when we got back because i got to see my Tyler and my dad. that was my spring break :)



I almost forgot that I bought TWILIGHT on saturday. I was so happy to finally have it. It is a great movie. and i cannot wait for the fifth book to come out, Midnight Sun!! :) :)

Spring is here! :)

So the weather is great! Yesterday, Tyler came over and we wanted to do something outside but we didnt know what to do. Our options were limited. We coulndt go for a walk because there are some vicious dogs on my street, we couldnt play basketball because my ball was flat, and we didnt know what else. We finally decided to wash his filthy car. Well it was hard to keep him from spraying me with the hose and it was very temptin to spray him with it but i knew if i did he would do it right back. It took us two times until his car was mostly clean. I guess we arent so good, ha ha. Well after that we were pretty tired so we went inside and layed around, then we went and ate mexican with my mom, dad, brother, stan, tracey, and dakota. We met dad, trevor, stan and dakota there because they went riding and tracey met us there too. It was fun. Today we had a birthday party for my cousin Tera at my granny and pa's house. There was so much food! Now i am at home doing nothin except reading. lol. At about seven i am going to eastside with some girls to practice for try outs! thats about all. I hope the weather stays nice. Maybe next time tyler comes over we will find something better to do outside :)

I think this is hilarious so i'm gonna share it with you.. This is Todd, my crazy cat, who has discovered bouncy balls. He literally plays fetch with them. I'll throw the ball and he will chase after it, watching it bounce, and then he will bring it back in his mouth. I love it. He is so weird!

This week seemed to go by so fast. It was a pretty boring week though so that doesn't really make sense, but all in all it was good. We didnt have school on monday because of the snow :) and that was good even though there wasnt any at my house. I cant wait for next week. Cheerleading clinic is next week and try outs are on thursday! I'm so excited. Cheerleading is just who I am and not doing it was pretty sucky.. I mean I loved having a lot more free time, but i miss my friends.

Gracie Beth Morton :)

On Tuesday I went and "watched" Gracie but really we played with her princesses. It was so cute. She dresses up as Tinkerbell and then as Sleeping Beauty. I have never seen a kid love anything as much as she loves the princesses. Before I had to leave on Tuesday Gracie asked me if i was going to "pend" the night. It was the most adorable thing.. I just love that little girl so much.

I am so glad that it is Friday. It was a pretty good week. School was pretty boring but it wasnt so bad. I had to dig dirt for Chemistry and I hated it. Well Tyler really dug it but still he made me walk around with him while he did it. And he made me go in the woods!! We are doing some kind of soil lab but dirt is not my kind of thing. All of my other classes are going well. We are reading a book in spanish called Before We Were Free and it is actually pretty good. Right now i am baby sitting and that is also going well. We just tried to watch a scary movie, but it was too scary for the kids so we stopped. After i leave here, I am going to eat at Mexican. I am excited I haven't been in so long. I am not sure what me and Tyler are going to do this weekend but whatever it is it will be fun.
-love-love-love
-shelby

Twilight

I totally love the Twilight series! I'm reading it for the second time, and the books are just as good. I know its kinda nerdy to read a book twice but these books are so good. If you haven't read them, you definitely should.. <3>

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone had a good day with the one's they love. I know i did. Tyler came and picked me up at around one then we went to his house and watched talladega nights ha ha. Later we went to applebees and to the basketball game but it was boring and we left . We went to sonic and got some ice cream and then Tyler brought me home and stayed for a little while. It was a pretty awesome day.

p.s. I have a great boyfriend!

I cannot help but to love this show. Their kids are adorable I'm pretty sure that i have seen every episode. Jon and Kate plus 8 is the best!

This is what my wonderful boyfriend Tyler got me for our anniversary and I love it! It's the first Vera Bradley with purple in it and since purple is my favorite color i just had to have it. Thank you Tyler, I love you :) :)

Best friends :)

This is my best friend, Haley Renee Teeters. We're dorks. But i love her and i miss her right now. She is in Disney World the best place ever and i hope she is having a good time. i could be there but i didnt cheer. oh well there is next year.!

p.s. good luck to the varsity cheerleaders tonight as they compete at nationals in Walt Disney World.

Love :)

Today is mine and Tylers TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!!

I cant believe we have been together this long. well actually I can because we love each other, but I am so glad that we have been together so long. I wouldn't want t be with anyone else. He is the best and I love him so much. He is always trying to surprise me and tonight we are going to eat, just the two of us. I can't wait!!!

Tyler :) my awesome boyfriend

This is me and my awesome boyfriend tyler. I wanted to post about him because he is the BEST and i love him so much. He makes me extremely happy and i dont know what I would do without him. :) :)

getting to know me.

My name is shelby steakley. I'm seventeen years old and My birthday is on january sixth. I go to the warren county high school and i am in the eleventh grade. I have an amazing boyfriend, Tyler Adcock. I live in a family of four, My mom Tisha, My dad Garey, My brother Trevor and me. They are the best and i love them.