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Lexii here.

I will admit, I'm not the greatest blogger, I'm still only 14. But I don't want everyone to keep thinking that I'm going to post when I know I'm not. So, I basically don't use this blog. I use blogger, just not this blog. I still use Youtube and Flickr, though! (AGlovejess on Youtube, currently "swiftly", on flickr).

Thanks for reading!

-Lexii

Spring Break and where did everyone go?

Hello, all! It's Gwen here today. It's Friday and this past week has been the lovely spring break! I got to lay out by the pool, go swimming, hang out with friends, and have bonfires! It feels just like summer :( (Sad face because summer isn't here yet)

SUMMER 2011 PLEASE COME SOON <3

Aaah, summer. I really, really want to visit the AGP in the summer. I've been kinda hoping for new clothes, or perhaps, a sister! :O However, there are so many beautiful dolls these days, we'd never know which one to get! But I have a good eye :)

Also, just curious, where did everyone go? I come on blogger everyday now to read blog posts, but hardly anyone is posting! Oh well. I hope no one is fading from their dolls... Although, it happens often.. But I'm sure people are just busy! Anywho, I just wanted to bring back the spring-y, summer, fun, American Girl Doll vibe back today! :) We could all use some nice pictures and small talk about summer, right? :)

Well, I'm going to go have lunch now! Jess is making macaroni ^_^ Mmm!

-Gwen

p.s. Doesn't Jordin look gorgeous? She HAS to be a model! :) Well, she sorta already is in our house ^_^ Please leave your feedback! Come on guys, don't give up on your dolls just yet :)

A boring sunday can always lead to jollification and good food.

Hello, all! It is Jess, with you today!

We all know Sundays. Hmm... ehh. I'm not too fond of them. Why? Well, what is there to do on a Sunday? You know how it goes. You wake up late from sleeping in, (or go to church early... if you go to church), then you eat, then you sit in your pajamas. You either go on the internet or watch tv. And the whole day feels unaccomplished. Then at night you do some homework, take a shower, read, or go to bed. Sunday is a lazy day in my world.

Today I woke up at 2:30 in the afternoon. (Exhibit A: lazy) I sat in my room while Ruthie and Gwen played dolls. Samantha was out for brunch, and Jordin... well... who knows. Lanie wasn't here, so I truly had nothing to do. I started missing summer, and the days where Sunday was like a Friday, or any other day. Summer is so calm and relaxing to me, it's a feeling like no other. I mourn for summer, but the more I mourn, I have to stop. What if summer comes too quick? What if summer is over too quick? The reason is, after summer's over, Lexii will be older. After summer's over... it's just another year closer to Lexii leaving us...

Anywho, lets get positive, shall we? So I got in a nice dress and cardigan, did my hair, and took a hike. (Hehe, literally!) My favorite place to hike is our town's trails. So I went, all by myself, and enjoyed the nature.

From a rather unclear distance, I could see a little picnic-like setup.

I walked over to it, as it was pretty abandoned. All there was, was a plate with nothing on it, a plate with a sandwich and a glass, lemonade, a book, and a placemat. Interesting... So I sat down.

I drank some of the lemonade. Why not? It was good, and, fresh :)

It was pretty nice, just sitting there. It felt so much like summer, and all I could hear was the wind, and all I could smell was nature... and... smoke.

Smoke? Why would there be smoke in the middle of the trails in high elevation like this? And all of a sudden, the bushes were moving, the smoke appeared in front of me instantly, and, and...

... why, it was Lanie! Lanie. Wha... what is Lanie doing here?

"Lanie! You scared me! What on earth are you...?"

"Haha! Oh, Jess! I'm here for the trail barbecue. Samantha told me to come after I went to brunch with her, and she said she told all of you where the barbecue would be! Anyways, I'm just getting my stuff that I left... You know, ... the stuff your sitting on?"

"Oh" I sighed.

Lanie looked as if she was going to say something to me, but just stood there. Then finally she says, "Well?"

"Well what?" I was so confused.

"Welllll, come on silly! There's food!"

I feel so dumb sometimes, you know? I followed Lanie to the barbecue where there was all kinda of food! Such as: steak, corn, carrots, vegetables, rice, lemonade, sandwhiches, and more! Lanie and I decided to sit on the bench.

This is what I love about my small little town. ^_^

"A boring sunday can always lead to jollification... and good food!" said Lanie.

A photographer was also there taking pictures of all the girls with their friends and all the delicious food. She decided to capture a photo of me and Lanie.

I'm glad I got out of the house today. I'm glad I dressed up, went hiking, and accidently found out about this barbecue which I actually was suppose to know about.

It may not be summer, but you can always live like it.

-Jess A. McConnell ♥

Thanks and more adventures!

A still from our MV "Silver Lining" :)

Wow, okay. I really have so much to say that I can hardly say anything.

First off, the post below, could I possibly thank you anymore for the AMAZING comments you all left?!?!?

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Really, reading all of those comments just... made my whole world.

Second, I'll admit, I was afraid to post on here. I was afraid that the next post I did would drag the attention away from 2009, like it meant nothing. But it means everything to me!

Third, guess who just finished making a music video? :)

I spent a couple days on it. It's not *that* great, I'm not even skilled in making MV's. But I enjoyed coming up with the storyline for it! If you want to watch it, just visit my Youtube channel and you will see it :)

Fourth, aaah! I'm kind of overwhelmed. I know I haven't posted in a month (very rude of me, I'll say), but I have been doing a LOT with my dolls! :)

I'll be sure to keep them posting!

Don't worry, the dolls love to post. ;)

Hopefully they'll post more than I do. Cause you know me, boring old Lexii.

Haha, well, look forward to many adventure posts this spring! ^.^

-Lexii

I have the greatest challenge for you all♥ *Please read & spread!*

Hello, everyone! It's Jess AND Lexii here with a very important message/challenge to you all!

Jess: Hey, guys! So we want to talk about something today. I'm not sure how long it's going to get, but I do know that it's worth reading. And please comment, we want your feedback, we want your opinions, we want to know if you will accept this challenge.

Lexii: Okay, as some of you know, I started out on Youtube. I began watching videos on Youtube in September 2008, where I saw the first American Girl video ever, this one. I tried making an account then, but it didn't work, and I never tried after that. Later in March 2009, March 17th to be exact, I got bored and thought "I'm going to try it again." And I did. And that's when AGlovejess was created. What does it mean? Well, the AG part means 2 different things, actually.

The AG in "AGlovejess" stands for American Girl, and my initials. I put "lovejess" because Jess was and is my favorite doll. (Well, all my dolls are my favorite's, but Jess is first, and has a special place in my heart.) I created it because I thought it was cool, I thought it was fun. And it was. But I have a question, for those of you who have blogs and a youtube, when did you create it? 2008? 2009? 2010? 2011? Because here's why I'm asking. Today I posted this on my youtube channel. And every word comes from my heart....

"I miss the good old days...when not everyone needed expensive cameras... when people made videos for fun & they didn't have to be perfect.... when not everyone needed thousands of subscribers.... when people didn't copy your channel and act all original... when people got dolls because they fell in love with them, not to compete... when you could see a video and think "I wanna try this!" or "I want to go there!" instead of "Nice photography, what camera do you use?" .... when this whole community felt like your second family.... when it wasn't about materialism.... where did those days go?.... I say lets bring them back.

Just remember the real reason you're here, why you started all of this. Because you love your dolls, but somehow along your youtube journey, you got so caught up in everything, you forgot that.
How do I know that?
That's easy, that happened to me.
But it's not going to be like that anymore. I'm bringing 2009 back to this channel. ♥"

I ask you when you joined because for those of you who joined youtube late 2009, 2010, or this year, 2011, it's hard to say this, but I don't really think you know what 2009 was like. I appreciate people on Youtube trying to spread the word (the one's who haven't been here long) , but I'd rather you just didn't copy my words. That's all. But I do believe that the new people here today and everyone should deserve to relive the 2009 year.

I wrote that because in 2009, I was 12. I couldn't do much. I wasn't experienced in photography, stop motions, singing... anything. We made videos, we watched videos, we felt in a place where we belonged. It felt good.

Now days, it feels like "I need to have good photography.", "I need to have an expensive camera.", "I need to have 2,000 subscribers", "I need this doll to be popular", and the most common that people never think they'd say, but they do, "I need to make this my life."

I got so caught up in videos, in the online world, in everything. The online world took over the dolls because your dolls couldn't tell you you were pretty, or had good videos. I felt like I needed things I didn't need. I felt like if I didn't have good videos, people wouldn't like me. So I changed.

In September 2010 (beginning of this year of school), I didn't touch my dolls, but I still found myself going on Youtube. I took my dolls outside for pictures, then through them on their beds. And it was becoming that I didn't love my dolls, I loved what I was doing with them.

Tell me, do you still play with your dolls? If you had to choose the love of your dolls or keeping your youtube, blog, and flickr, what would you choose? Most people these days say keeping their youtube. In 2009, we only cared about the dolls.

Do you remember the day you created whatever you have now? Do you remember that feeling? The feeling like, you were SO original, and SO creative, and once you got popular, you liked the idea of being popular. You lost your creativity, your originality... your love for the dolls.

Remember why you're here, everyone. I'm here because when I was 12 years old I was brushing Jess's hair and after I was done I went on the computer and typed in "American Girl Dolls."

I'm here because I LOVE my dolls, and everything they've helped me through, and all the times they've been there for me when my friend's weren't.

These dolls aren't dolls. Their something so much more real than that.

Not counting this month, but September 2010 through January this year, I only changed my dolls about once every month or two. Yep. That's right. And it's sad.

My dolls don't even have their room anymore, I took it down. My dolls aren't loved that much anymore, I stopped touching them. My dolls sometimes have dust on their face because I'm too careless to care about the things that are my life. When I did care about my dolls, when I was 12 and 13, do you want to know how things were surprisingly better? And Now days? Now days, I'm not even as nice as I use to be. I lost a lot of friends. Believe it or not, these dolls make your life better.

And tell me, did you cry at all what you've read so far? Because you remembered everything? I cried just typing this. And it's okay to cry...

But for now on, I'm changing. I'm going back to 2009 even if it is 2011. All I'm going to care about now is my dolls, and I'm going to try to remember what it was like being 10, 11, and 12. I'm going to be here, of course I will, but I won't be as materialistic. I will post things my dolls do, not me.

And now, the challenge? To not be materialistic. To relive the 2009. To change back to who you use to be. To feel the bond with your doll, or dolls.

If you read this far.... all I can say is... thank you. And please, please, comment.

Spread this post. Give out links. Make a video and put this link in it. Anything.

Lets see if we can get this whole community back to 2009, the good old days. ♥

-Lexii G.

AGlovejess

on

youtube.

P.S. SHOUT OUT TO JUSTIN BIEBER. :P

;)

P.S.S. And I know it said "for the people who weren't really here in 2009 can't really relate", I didn't mean it in a bad way. Because for the people who are here now, they should deserve to live the 2009 youtube life (:

The rain goes down...

... and the sunlight comes up :)

Hello, everyone! It's Lexii! Gaah. I am so sorry I haven't posted in like 21 days. Trust me, there's nothing really exciting going on here :P But some good news is that I just finished my finals :D They honestly weren't that hard. I took 4 finals with 80 questions each, then wrote an essay, then took finals for guitar and p.e. :]

Anywho, today it rained and I was all like "Well shoot, now I can't take pictures." BUT the good thing about living in CA is that rain doesn't last all day (;

(Just kidding, it can last up to 2 weeks. But today it didn't! :D)

Enjoy! And I have some pictures on my Flickr, and there should be a video on my youtube of them!

~Lexii

Lanie's Birthday(:

Hey, hey! It's Lanie Savannah Holland~

today is January 9th, 2011, and it's.... MY BIRTHDAY! Our very first post was about Lexii getting me! And look it! I'm already one! Gosh, it feels like yesterday Lexii went to the Grove and picked me out :)

Anyways, there's pictures on our Flickr of me! (It's Lexii and right now I'm in a big rush so I'm doing this very fast!)

Talk to you soon everyone~

Lanie&Lexii(:

Almost a New Year!

Hello, everyone!

I never did make a Christmas post, so, this is sort of a late Christmas post and early introduction post to the New Year! :)

Anyways, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! My Christmas very simple, but nice :) And I really couldn't want more ^.^

Now, can you BELIEVE it's almost 2011? *passes out* 2011! Time flies, doesn't it? Sometimes I wish I could just go back and do it all over again... ;) Oh, and I believe an official picture of the GOTY 2011, Kanani, has been released. I'm just going to put my feelings for her like this...

I don't want her...

Hehe(;

Well, the dolls might have a little New Years Party, so who knows! I WILL make a post for that, though! :D I promise!

-Lexii

Christmas Music Video is up!

"Pink bokeh" Taken by Lexii :)
Hello, everyone!

Lexii here :D

I just wanted to announce that my Christmas Music Video for the dolls is up on Youtube! :)

I picked the song "That Christmas Feeling" by Olivia Olson. I really love that song :)

And if you have ever watched Phineas And Ferb, you just might recognize it... ^^

So, if you'd like to see it, please Click HERE!

Happy Holidays! (And I will be doing a Christmas Post tomorrow or even Christmas!)

-Lexii!

Happy Holidays!

Well... this is embarrassing...

Hey, everyone! It's Lexii!

{Gwen: Ahem.}

Oh, and Gwen is here as well! :)

{Gwen: Thank you. Continue please!}

... Anywho! Wow. It has been more than a month since I have posted. I'm really sorry! Ugh. Life is hectic. And finals haven't even started, so I can imagine how hectic life will be when they start...

But for now, I'm on winter break! :) 2 weeks off! :D And Christmas is this upcoming Saturday! Oh gosh... Okay, don't judge me, but I still have not gone Christmas shopping. (I'm such a procrastinator. But hey, it's been raining for the past 3 days nonstop, so I have no way of getting anywhere :P).

Well, I hope everyone is having fun decorating for the holidays! :) That's all for now! But I think Gwen wants to say something (;

-Lexii

Hello, world and all who inhabit it! (Quote credit: Spongebob) It's me, Gwen! I am so psyched for the holidays! :D Anywho, since it won't stop RAINING (which, by the way, Lexii loves the rain... And I hate it... Lexii, I think you have issues...) all we can do is stay inside! :P But the good part about that, is today I got to work on the Christmas Music Video! Aaah, it's going to be amazing!

{Lexii: *bangs head on keyboard* We'll see how it turns out... :/}

Okay, the point of all that I have just typed, is I want to show you pictures! :)

So Happy Holidays and enjoy the pictures! And I'll notify you when the Music Video is done, and make sure to do a Christmas post! Bye, guys!

-Gwen

And the grades are....

.....

Algebra 1: B+

Life Science: B

Guitar: A

Physical Ed: A

English: A-

French 1: A+

My first HS report card of grades, and I did great! :D

I am so happy! And my mom said I might just get some money from it ^.^

No C's. That's new! :O 

But I'm very, very proud of myself. And I know you might say "How do you get a B+ in Algebra 1? It's so easy!" Well, I'm not that talented at math :P Yes. I had to repeat it. I was 4 away from passing the Geometry placement test last year.... Oh well. Lots of people are re-taking it, I guess....

Anywho! Just thought I'd share that! :)

-Lexii

November 10th, 2010 is... Jess's Birthday!!!

Hello! Hello! Hello! :D

It's me, Jess! And if you read the title.... you'd know...

Today is MY birthday! :D I'm 14 (well, in doll years I am) and in regular years, I am 4 ^^

I can't believe it! 4 years! :O

Well, it feels great! In honor of today, Lexii took me out for a photoshoot, and oh yes, I posed. ^.^

For my birthday, I didn't want anything. Everything I could possibly ever want or need is right here(:

(However, Lexii said I will be getting a late birthday present soon, once she gathers up all the money.) :)

For now, here's my favorite picture from the photoshoot.

You like? :)

Anywho, you can view the whole photoshoot if you click HERE.

For now, I'm gonna go have some hot chocolate!

Bye, guys!

p.s. Thanks for 50 followers!!!

Fall~

Hey everyone! It's Gwen here today.

And it's starting to look like...

FALL! :) Here, where I live, we don't get fall... as "fast" as you might, so yeah :P

But Lexii took me out for some fall photos! :) (Okay, okay... Jordin and Samantha got to too, but I like mine better...) hehe :)

Here are some photos!

See that one right there? The one above? That's my favorite :)

And Lexii got that little kitty for about a dollar last week, and I think it's now mine... :)

-Gwen

p.s. If you'd like to see the slideshow of more pictures, click HERE

Speak Now!

"I hear the preacher say

Speak Now or forever

hold

your

peace.

There's the silence

There's my last chance

I stand up with

Shaky hands,

All eyes on me.

Horrified looks from

Everyone in the room

But I'm only looking at you"

Hey, Jordin here! Sorry bout that, I just love singing that song... what's it called?.... hmm.... Oh yeah! SPEAK NOW!

♥

AHHH! IT'S THE BEST SONG EVER! :D If you are a Taylor Swift fan, do yourself a favor and download it ^^

Anywho, we (Sisters& I) did a "Speak Now Photoshoot", and oh, it was so amazing! We uploaded it to youtube, and then.... the audio got blocked. My.life.is.ruined. Oh well, I'll go on :P

I know "Back to December" just released last night, but I don't think it makes much sense to be buying all these single songs if Lexii is getting her Album on the 25th. :]

--Jordin

♥

"I am not the kind of girl,

who should be rudely barging in

On a white veil occasion

But you

are not the kind of boy

who should be marrying the wrong girl."

Don’t say yes, run away now
I’ll meet you when you’re out of the church at the backdoor
Don’t wait or say a single vow
You need to hear me out and they said speak now.

Movie Day!

Hello! It's Jess & Ruthie! Yesterday Lexii was home sick, and she kept on seeing the commercial on TV for "Beauty & The Beast: 50th year celebration, special edition" thing, and she thought "I have that movie on VHS..."

Soooo.... yesterday we got to watch it! :D Ruthie was dying to watch it, so I said yes! :)

Lexii watched it with us too, and I think the last time she watched it was about... 8 or 9 years ago! Yup! That long! Anyways, I (jess) didn't even know it was in France! Did you know that? Lexii told us once she heard the villagers saying 'Bonjour', 'Monsieur', 'Mademoiselle' and other stuff! Hehe! :D

And I (Ruthie) think that Belle is sooo beautiful! I wish I looked just like her! I love the Candle & the Clock & the Teacup people too! ^^ Although the beast DOES scare me a little... haha(:

Well, anyways, it's not always fun to just read what we did, so here's a few pictures! Enjoy!

-Jess&Ruthie:)

p.s. Lexii made a small video of the pictures (there are more pictures..) so if you'd like to see it, click HERE! :)

Art!

Hello, it's Lanie Holland here today! So, as most of you hear, I am this nature girl who likes to grow foods in the garden and make friendly environments for monarch butterflies. Well, yes, I am, but I'm a lot more than that.

Today I dressed myself up in something I usually wouldn't wear, but when I put it on, I felt somewhat, artsy ^^

I went to the kitchen, looking for food, and then I noticed this picture. It's a painting, actually, and I thought "art". Now, if that's art, who says Lanie Savannah Holland can't be art, too? ;)

We, the American Girl Dolls, are art ^.^

-Lanie S.H.

Sunday Fun!

Hey, everyone! It's Jordin, Samantha, and Ruthie! :D Okay, so Lexii has been crazy busy lately, and we've kind of been... forgotten...

But today, after Lexii finished her homework and reading for an hour, she noticed that we hadn't been changed IN 2 WHOLE WEEKS!!! So, she said we could pick whatever we wanted!

So, I, Jordin, picked a regular outfit. :)

While other people... *cough* Ruthie & Samantha *cough*, did their own thing ;)

I think Ruthie is ready to go to Paris! :)

I thought Sam looked really cute in this shirt! Then I saw what she was wearing under it.... xD

She might not have amazing fashion senses like moi, but, I have to admit, she looks pretty cute ^.^

And finally.... here we are!!! :) Too bad Jess, Lanie, and Gwen didn't want to join us. We had a lot of fun! :) *Sorry these pictures aren't so great, I took them in my room*

Turns out Sundays CAN be fun :)

- Jordin, Ruthie, and Samantha

Some Princesses

Helloooo! Today, it is Ruthie blogging! So you all better pay good attention to what I am saying!

Jess: Ruthie, don't be cocky!

Ruthie: Ugg. I wasn't, Jess.

Jess: Yes you were! Now be nice and continue on...

Ruthie: Wh.. bu... ya... fine.

As I was saying, good attention. Now, yesterday at school I wrote a poem called "Some princesses". When I got home, I showed it to Lexii and she decided to take pictures! So the poem will be like a photo-story! And now, here it is!

Some Princesses

By Ruthie Smithens

September 13th, 2010.

Some Princesses like to Explore

Some princesses like Green

Some princesses like to be a Secret

Some princesses like to be Free

Some princesses like wearing Pink Shoes

Some princesses like Everything

But I love those princesses....

Because those princesses are ME :)

The End! :D

I hope you.... oh I mean...

I hope you liked it!

Talk to you soon!

Love,

Ruthieeee(:

Hey, again :)

Hello! It's Jess, and gosh, it's been forever since I posted on here! So, we were all happy with our "new blog" but I never got to post on it and it just wasn't fun. Okay, so school has started for me, and I guess you could say it's fun. Umm... hmm... I've decided that I want to continue this blog :) Now if only I could change the title... then we wouldn't have to start over :P Well, I deleted all of those boring posts! Yup! That's right. From now on, there shall be no more boringness! :) Only adventures! (Or other fun stuff....) :) Well, I had a fun labor day! I don't think I've ever seen so much food... and I've been here for Christmas 3 times... sheesh. xD Hopefully more posts will come soon! Love, Jess :)

Happy Birthday, Samantha!

Hello! It's Jess! And today is really exciting because it is Samantha's Birthday! Yay!

She has now been here for 3 years, like me! :)

Samantha explained that she didn't want any presents, a party, etc.

However, we can't do that. ;)

I took Samantha in the kitchen where we ate some fruit. She talked about the birthday parties she had in 1904. They sounded so elegant and fun. Meanwhile, Jordin, Gwen, Lanie, and Ruthie were all cleaning the bedroom and working on a sign for Samantha!

After 10 minutes it was finally done! Here are the pictures! :)

Here's 2 pictures of Samantha outside! Unfortunately, it was cloudy out :P

I think Samantha is having a fun time today! :)

Well, that's all for now!

Happy Birthday, Samantha! I love you!

-Jess