cookiessss

well, im not even sure if Rose knows how to get on here anyway. So for now you can automatically assume that it's will always be me (Mary) posting, until i write otherwise =].

meanwhile, im going to write about my exiting and amazing weeekend. For band, me and my friend Jasmin were trying to think up a fundraiser becuase our band teacher is a butt face and wanted us to. So we thought of Colmon cookies, and he said that we were sick minded children and that, that was the nastiest thing he had ever heard. He said kids would be stabbing the cookies with pins and such. But me and Jasmin took a pole around the room and everyone said they would buy some, becuase we all love colmon. So it kinda became and joke between the three of us. And me and Jasmin decided that we were going to make samples to give Colmon (the band teacher) but he didnt know this, so she came over to my house on sunday and we baked all afternoon, and then decorated the cookies, and my dad ended up inviting her to sleepover..and it was a school night, so it was really weird and suprising, but we weren't complaining. Anway, we have around 110 pictures from this amazing event, but I will spare you the task of going through all of them, so i have selected the best ones.

(this was one of our custom made ones)


all of the finished cookies

drowning one of the many colmons

(dont look at me) we bit his head off, and now he's bleeding.

(the ones i decorated)

(the ones jasmin decorated)

it says: bad students, mary and jaz. except for colmon loves us, and were his favortie students

the abstract ones that we poured all the extra icing onto

and of course you can't forget Rose. She was sick so she couldn't help make them, but she got to still eat some =]

and they came out really yummy.

lockdown continued

well since its so much easier to copy and paste here are 4 articles;

HIGHLAND PARK: Highland Park High School was placed on lockdown about 2:30 p.m. today.No details were available on the reason for the action but police sped to the scene and the school remained sealed off at 3:30 p.m.Five borough police cars were at the scene and ambulances were seen circling the property as anxious parents waited for news outside. The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office also was reportedly called to the scene.A football game was underway between Highland Park and Roselle Park at the football field behind the North Fifth Avenue school.The game was allowed to finish … Highland Park won … and students in the bleachers were told not to return to school. They were told the school was on lockdown and to leave the property.Some milled about outside waiting for word on siblings who remained inside.
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HIGHLAND PARK — Police locked down the shared high school and middle school building in the borough for more than an hour Thursday, responding to a threat that turned out to be nothing.
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"If you have a rumor there's a problem, you stop and shut it down," said Mayor Meryl Frank, whose sixth-grade and eighth-grade daughters were inside the building. "This is how the protocol works. They need to be careful."
Police responded to a report of suspicious activity made to a passing police officer at 2:23 p.m, according to police.
"Proper notifications were made, and proper policies were followed," said Highland Park Lt. Joe Vasallo. "The matter is still under investigation."
Students watching the football game against Roselle Park at 1 p.m. said school officials told them they couldn't leave after the regular dismissal time at 2:40 p.m. Some students heard rumors that someone in the high school had a gun.
Inside the school, teachers huddled with their students inside classrooms.
"The teacher said to hurry up and get in class — someone has got a gun," said Jahkiera Hill, a 16-year-old sophomore. "We were just sitting under a desk and talking. I was praying."
Arleen Lara, an 11-year-old sixth-grader, said everybody went running to the classroom and hid in the corner. She said her teacher covered the door's window with black construction paper.
"I got scared," Arleen said. "We were whispering, asking questions. And then we started doing homework."
By 4 p.m., police had completed searching the building and let the remaining children leave.
"To tell you the truth, I was about to hop out the window," Hill said.
Outside the building earlier, students and parents struggled to determine what might be happening inside. Some shared limited information using cell phones. Many students walked freely on the lawn in front of the school or sat on benches or stairs close to the front doors.
Emma Safir, a 17-year-old senior, called home and worried about her 11-year-old sister who was locked inside with the other sixth-graders.
"I don't want to call her," Safir said. "If there's a lockdown drill, I don't want to make noise and put her in danger."
Tears welled in Safir's eyes as she held a hand to her neck and a friend placed his hand on her shoulder.
Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan stood outside the high school at 3:45 p.m. His office had been notified as part of what he said was standard procedure. He said he came to pick up his two children, a senior and a sixth-grader.
Sharon Krengel, the Board of Education president, came to pick up her eighth-grade son. She praised the police, school staff and students for following the emergency plan.
"Everybody's been practicing a lot," Krengel said. "It's better to be safe than sorry."

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'Suspicious activity' in Highland Park school lockdown
by Sue Epstein
Thursday September 20, 2007, 6:16 PM
Jerry McCrea/The Star-Ledger

Highland Police direct spectators who came to the high school football game away from the area of the high school during a suspected intruder incident and lock-down at Highland Park High School.
A report of "suspicious activity" on the grounds of Highland Park High School this afternoon led school officials to order the middle school students - who share the building with the high school kids - locked down inside, police said.
Highland Park Police said the activity was reported at 2:23 p.m. Police swept the building on North Fifth Avenue, but nothing was found. Authorities would not reveal what the suspicious activity was or what they were looking for in the building.
The middle school students remained in their locked, darkened classrooms, crouched under their desks, for an hour and 15 minutes. Meanwhile, the high school students were attending the school football game at the adjacent stadium and were not permitted to leave the bleachers, students said. When they could leave, they were ordered to leave school grounds.
The middle school - grades 7 and 8 - and the high school - grades 9 through 12 - are in the same building in the Middlesex County borough. The students were released about 4 p.m.
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and now this is why the whole thing happend in the first place;

An East Brunswick man who reported seeing a gunman walking to the Highland Park High School now faces charges for fabricating the story that lead to a lock-down at the school Thursday in what authorities say was an isolated incident.
Matthew Shumaker, 19, was arrested at police headquarters today and charged with making a false report to police and causing a false public alarm.
Shortly before 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Shumaker flagged down police Detective Derek Wenskoski on Denison Street and said he saw a man with a handgun walking toward the high school on North Fifth Street, a block away, police Lt. Joseph Vassallo said.
Police quickly notified school officials, who ordered the lock-down at the high school and middle school, which are in the same building.
Most high school students were at the varsity football game, but the middle school pupils were in class and remained there until officers searched the building and determined it was safe about 3:50 p.m.
Police subsequently determined Shumaker made a false report, Vassallo said. Shumaker was released pending a court hearing.

lock down

(this is Mary)
Ok well. today our school had a lockdown and it was amazing. We all had to go to the football game at 1. but they still werent dissmissing the highschool until 2:40 like normal. But then when peoples tryd to leave when it was over, they werent allowed to, and we all had to stay in the bleachers and on the feild becuase there was a lockdown. Meanwhile that was the highschool, the entire middle school was in like and actual lock down, they had to sit in a classroom with the blinds shut and crap for about two hours. but they let the highschoolers leave after an hour of waiting, but we werent allowed to go into the school. And then when the middle schoolers came out, it was so sad they were crying and there parents were crying and they had no idea what happend. I've only heard three stories;
1. They heard gunshots and put the school in lockdown.
2. They found a gun in the school.
3. There was someone with a gun within the block from the school.

but tomorrow there telling us what really happend, for all i know it could be something really stupid. but i shall post ad new thingy tomorrow on what it really was.

So..

I (Mary) just started this with Rose, but she doesn't seem to intrested in the whole "blog" idea thingy. But we'll see where things go from here, perhaps she will be like Ron and post a billion gajillion long thingy with words or not.