Later this morning my family and I are expecting to leave for our family vacation. This year we are going to Florida but we are also going to see Nanna because she moved their 5 years ago to help with her disease, and her arthritis. Florida is a beautiful place in all but I don't think it's a wonderful place to live in the summer. This is our first summer vacation in Florida and I predict when we are spending time with Nanna I will be in my bikini on the beach. My older sister says that a 14 year old shouldn't be wearing it but she wears it besides mom and dad don't really care about what I wear on the beach as long as I actually wear something. Dad tells me that showing off things attracts weird men and being the age of 14 there are a lot of crazy hormonal boys.

"Ellis were supposed to be on the plane in 3 hours why haven't you charged your phone or iPad because it is a 8 ½ hour flight to Florida." Zola told me. "Oh Please Zola I have my iPod on charge and besides my iPad and IPhone are charged and packed in my purse." I told my sister. "Your purse let me guess snacks, tablet, phone, headphones, and a notebook with a pen." Zola asked me. "No I have a wallet in it with my non driver's id that mom and dad took Lexie, Hannah, and I to get as we were older than 12 and need to have a form of id. Besides I have $250 in my purse for some fun." I told her. "Ellis where did you get that kind of money." Asked Zola. "Well I have a bank account and save every penny I earn with babysitting, chores, helping with anything that I can do." I told her. "How much money do you actually have?" asked Zola. "I'm not stupid so I'm not telling you how much money I have mom and dad say never tell anyone how much money I have." I told her.

Being 14 and having a lot of money at my age gives me hopes of my future as I have plans for my life like going to community college, and studying early childhood education because I love children. When we arrived at the airport we went through security early because there are 12 of us to go through with. Well Tyler and Elizabeth are babies so they are easy to get through because they don't need anything because they are barely 6 months old and have no criminal background. When we got on the plane I sat next to my brothers and we watched Star Wars episode 4 with princess Leia in the buns. I love watching movies like this with my brothers. When we arrived at the Florida Nanna picked us up in her 15 passenger she had to drive around the Shepherd family when they come to visit as we have a lot of kids, and aunts in this family. I know aunt Amelia is coming with her kids, but she is renting a van but she is also staying in a motel because Nanna doesn't have enough room in her house for us.

When I woke up this morning Nanna asked me what I wanted to do with her, my sisters, and mom. I didn't know what they liked to do but I heard about a new spa that opened in downtown Disney which is in the area we are going to because Dad is taking the boys to Disney where we would meet them at the magic kingdom at like 2:30 pm after our girl fun. We ended up going shopping I only spent 25 dollars because mom and Nanna decided they wanted to get it as we got it for the whole family so we could take a big family photo together so Nanna could have a piece of us when she isn't feeling good and can't fly to see us. Nanna is hoping to come to Seattle for Christmas but that is far away from now. I'm just going to take what moments I have with her as she is 85 and could die at any moment. I wish I knew my grandmother I'm named after I often don't go by that name in school because when I was in kindergarten I was picked on because I was named after an island in New York City. When we were done with our day we went back to her house. For the rest of the vacation I spent it on the beach with my siblings. This was the best family vacation that we have had in a long time. For the rest of the summer I think I'm going to do things with my siblings and with Franklin. I can't wait to spend time at home but I might go to the beach with my siblings, the mall, the movies, the spa, and maybe I might spend some time helping out miss Nancy the hospital daycare director.

A/N: so here is chapter 13. I loved writing this chapter. I also put some personal experience in this like Ellis wanting to go to community college and studying early childhood education. I hope you guys liked this chapter please review what you thought of this chapter.