Rachel Lyn

My What a Happy Day

2012-02-14T16:07:00.000-08:00

Life is just so wonderful! Here's a billion pictures of proof why, in no particular order.

First of all, I haven't been able to get this delightful tune out of my head for days! Soak up the goodness. Fun & Fancy Free.

Check it out, my LAMINATED and OFFICIAL name is on the P.E. office door!! Right under the two P.E. teachers and Student Teacher.. nevermind that mine's the smallest.. I love my job i love my job I love my job. I can't believe I get paid to play with children at recess all day everyday. I think about how blessed I am to have this job everyday on the way home. And it's just a cherry on top that my title is "Miss Martindale" :).

Gorgeous weather calls for nothing other than rollerblading with Skyler. And rollerblading with Skyler calls for nothing other than taking pictures of beautiful flowers in random front yards.

Speaking of gorgeous weather, this boy doesn't seem to be in it in Ukraine.. yes, that is frost on his eyelashes. And his hat (which is originally brown). Nothing like -20 degrees, right?! Anyway, I love this picture and this boy isn't too bad either.. :)

I love my sisters! Shout out to Shauna (3rd from the left) and Tami (far right). They're PREGNANT! I will never get over this excitement, no matter how many nieces and nephews I have. Shauna is on to #4, and Tami is now pregnant with #11 (she was pregnant with twins in this picture last April). CAN'T WAIT!

My 1st official close friend to be engaged, Sydnee! This is a big deal. I am soo excited for her and love her! Syd is one of the coolest girls I am friends with, but she's the best because she's never too cool for anyone. So many good times: from Sydona to our amazing Prom Group, and forever my friend!

What's that? Another engaged friend? Here goes Jessica! She is super in love and I definitely support that. Especially when I get the honor of being a bridesmaid! Some wonderful times with her are Choir Trips and her Big Role in the school play! I have always had a special connection with Jess and seriously couldn't be happier for her :)

One time I got lost trying to find the right field to play ultimate frisbee but it was worth it because I ran in to the Society for Creative Anachronism. They are super intense and wonderful. I'm thinking about joining myself..

My backyard is one of my favorite places on earth. Particularly when our grass is so luscious! And when we put in a new volleyball net! I love this place.

Korean exchange students? Sure why not! Chris & Vicky (their chosen American names) stayed with us for 3 weeks and it was such a fun, cultural experience! Kimchi will forever be the most disgusting smelling food on the planet but other than that, we seriously loved having these guys around! It felt good to have a bigger family at home :) They really fit right in if you couldn't tell..

The Sittons brought me along one weekend to run a 10K Marathon in Sedona! I didn't train at all but i did much better than expected! Here's Sky and I feeling the energy and power of Sedona. Such a gorgeous town.

Woke up on Valentine's day to a mass text from my friend Maeser informing me that I had to tweet about Arizona every hour. #AZCentennial #Protectingthemotherland #AZPride. I truly felt SO much love for my dear home state that day. I even took the time to fine my Arizona name. I love Arizona.

So that's life! Scattered and lovely!

Forever on my Lap

2011-12-13T23:32:00.000-08:00

Just found this picture from 2008

Sally & Gwen

This one's from Thanksgiving 2011.

Sally & Gwen

This makes me extremely happy :)

Always my little dolls.

If only they could forever stay small enough to both fit on my lap.

If it is completely up to me, I'll still let them sit on my lap when they are 16 and I am 31, or when they are 31, and I am 46, you get the picture..

They'd be down with that, right? :)

Ma

2011-09-29T23:35:00.000-07:00

I hope I'm whispering "I love you" in this picture because I sure do. This woman is the role model of all role models to me.

Today, I got home from work to an email from her. It was a whole bunch of entries she had typed out from when she was exactly my age in my position. What an incredible and hilarious experience it has been to read through!

Among a million other emotions resulting from reading these, I am currently acting on the "I should journal more" running through my head. Blogging is journaling :) And journaling is amazing!

Her 18-year old, adorable self mentions numerous times how she hopes her journaling will affect her future children and grandchildren for the better and inspire them to draw closer to the Gospel. Here it is, mama, effecting me :)

An Uplifting Website :)

2011-08-08T01:33:00.000-07:00

I just found a website that straight up makes me feel good! And it makes me think about life.

http://makesmethink.com/

A taste of a few of my favorites!

-Today, a young teenage boy was in line in front of me at Target. He used a gift card to buy two video games. The cashier, an older woman probably in her late 60’s, rang him up and informed him that he had $12 remaining on his gift card. “Oh, wait then,” he said as he ran two isles over and grabbed a $10 bouquet of flowers. As the cashier added the flowers to his order the boy handed them to her and said, “These are for you.” The cashier could not wipe the smile off her face, even after he left. MMT

-Today, as we were slowing down at a red light, my father scolded me for not having my seat belt on. No more than a second after the clicking sound of me buckling my seat belt, our small car was clipped from behind by a pick-up truck, spinning us 180 degrees in the middle of the street. Because we both had our seat belts on, and the fact that the impact came from behind, my father and I walked away with minor injuries. MMT

-Today, my grandfather used 25 different coupons at the grocery store. Then he gave the money he saved to the bag boy as a tip. He does this almost every Sunday because he says he “likes to see people smile.” MMT

-Today, I have been a firefighter for 24 years. Back in 1992, the local newspapers and news channels called me a hero and interviewed me a few times after I carried 19 retirees, one at a time, out of a burning luxury retirement condo. I was off-duty at the time and just happened to be visiting my grandmother who lived across the street. This evening I was contacted by a trust attorney representing one of the retirees who I helped that day. She passed away yesterday, and in her will she left me 25% of her estate – roughly $800,000. MMT

My Future Love

2011-08-04T02:46:00.000-07:00

NO I do not plan on getting married anytime soon.
But YES i like to dream about the future :)
I hope it's something like this..

And YES maybe I'll actually blog update my life sometime soon. This amazing video can suffice for now.

Crayola Doesn't Make A Color For Your Eyes

2011-04-11T21:59:00.000-07:00

This song is my obsession today. I heard it for the first time, and have listened at least 25 times. I think it's the cutest. And I shall give the credit to the one and only..

Alex Crandall.

I really don't know what we're doing in this picture but yes, i do love her enough to be kneeling at her feet after an ice cream war.

Anyway, Alex is amazing. She has great taste in music. And here is the joyful song :)

Weekends Are Happy

2011-04-11T16:48:00.000-07:00

I went to the spring musical Camelot and saw some of my very best friends play the lead roles!! The play was wonderful, and every single actor and actress exceeded my expectations!

Guinevere: Jessica

Jessica, Caroline, Joey, Me, Adam (King Arthur), Becca

Cali and Jessica in front.

Then we died eggs at Haylee's! I wish my camera had a picture of us all but these ones are just mine and Leah's. :)

I can really count on Leah to love Spring with me. She came over on Sunday so we could make cute spring cookies too! They had toasted coconut and peanut M&M's to look like bird's nests :)

Sally & Gwen

2011-04-06T22:05:00.000-07:00

My little dolls are cute. I hope they are best cousins friends forever <3

Memory Lane

2011-04-05T00:08:00.000-07:00

One time my gorgeous cousin, Emily got married!

I just really love this picture. Us four on the right used to be inseparable. Emily was the leader because she was oldest. So she got to choose which polly, or barbie, or beanie baby she wanted first. Also, she was the president of our club in their tree. Then she grew up and now she's married! I'm happy we are all related by blood because I really love us and want us all to be friends forever :)

Conference quote of the day:

"Apparently the gospel is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" -Jeffrey R. Holland

That reminds me of earlier this school year when I was talking to my stake president. I confessed that I felt like I was just going through good motions, but I felt stagnant in the gospel. And it made me feel uncomfortable. He told me it was because the Lord was calling me up. He knew I could do better, so he made it uncomfortable for me to be too "comfortable" going through the motions. That changed me.

On the flip side of the quote, I have had so many times where I've been comforted while afflicted. Through the gospel :)

I've Got A Lot To Say

2011-04-03T19:01:00.000-07:00

Ok, this conference. Amazing!! I'm sure all conferences are as amazing as this one, but I've never paid so much attention. So it's been wonderful. I'm thinking I'll save all my favorite quotes/stories for other posts but I'll start with this one.

http://brightcove.lds.com.edgesuite.net/assets/general-conference/2011-april/2011-04-1050-elder-kent-f-richards-64k-eng.mp3

That's Kent F. Richards talk from Saturday morning. I especially liked the story of the 13 year old hospitalized girl (starting at approx. 8:05 second in). She told her dad that every child in that hospital has angels :). It reminded me that EVERYONE has angels! We all have angels cheering us on in our lives! Specifically, I think of my grandma. She passed away when I was four. I remember after that in my childhood, whenever I was sad, I would hug the air, imagining my grandma hugging me back. I know she was there. :)

Now time for scattered, happy pictures!

The Happy Couple. I think this should have been on their wedding announcement. They really love cats.. Ok the reason I torture them by putting this up is because of this story: On the morning of April 1st, i woke up to a text from Jason saying he has been feeling like this for a while and are officially calling off the engagement, and asking for our prayers. I was sooo confused because all they ever do is say "I love you" and giggle and cuddle! But I trusted him, so I got down on my knees and prayed for him. Then texted him back and he replied APRIL FOOLS. Ha. That little demon. But I am very relieved, because I am much excited to have Candace in the family :)

SPRING BREAK 2011

Sally and I on the flying fish ride at Seaworld.

P.s. I have a newfound love for dolphins? I do.

I would like to formally request of my father to make one of these. It's just two stretchy tarps! Who knew it would be soo fun to bounce back and forth between them? Very soothing actually.

We love when grandma shares her beach hats with us :)

Shauna takes cute pictures.

Gwen and James playing dress up :)

Cole cannot stay away from Derek! Notice the empty couch on the right? Nope. Cole jumps right on top of Derek and declares them snuglets. Yes, snuglets. Ok i love my brothers. And General Conference with them!

Chorale! Yes we do look like we are at a summer camp.. but this design was voted for the t-shirts so this design it is! None other than my Sadies date, Joey, designed em!

I feel like I have more happy things to say and pictures to share, but this is lengthy anyway, so we'll save those for another post! But life is happy! And SPRING is happy! Spring smells!! I'll never get over these orange blossoms.

JazzSadiesFlowersOvercast

2011-02-16T21:03:00.000-08:00

Last weekend was filled with so much JAZZ and DANCING and FUN!

The jazz part was Jazz Mad up in Flagstaff with our jazz choirs. I love jazz and I don't care who hates it. We performed, laughed, ate, and bonded! All very good things! I don't know how i will survive without Encore after I graduate.

Schreiber (most amazing devoted choir teacher ever) with four of his encore girls!

Sarah, Lindsey, Me, and Alex :)

Sadies=Incredible! I always secretly wanted to ask Joey to Sadies even when I barely knew him as a sophomore and I am SO HAPPY I did this year! This guy is the epitome of a perfect date. Courteous, respectful, easygoing, and FUN! We were Indians.

You better believe it we danced like Indians. We hid our shoes under the bleachers and ran around like crazy! (literally. around the crowd in the dance floor). This is in close running with being a Tiger. Hm.. what's more fun: crawling and pouncing or shooting invisible bows and dancing around imaginary fires? I can't decide myself. I'm not sure how everyone else at the dance felt about us but all i know is that I had genuine fun! We both got blisters and we're proud of them.

The only sad thing in my life right now is that we forgot to plant sweet peas in time for spring this year :( That means no walking back and forth between the orange blossoms and sweet peas in the yard. I'll have to steal my grandmother's. :)

Today was overcast. I can't stop my emotions from being happy on an overcast day. :)

LOVE is in the Air

2011-02-06T14:56:00.000-08:00

Since this is the month of LOVE,

let's LOVE some things.

Some LOVEs in my life that are not pictured are these:

I LOVE where I work, because i see someone I know everytime I work, without fail. To expound on that, I especially LOVE when people visit me.
I LOVE fast Sundays, and devoted Sunday School teachers
I LOVE interactive group games (like from last night's super amazing day activity)

Now, the pictures.

Beginning with these two LOVEbirds. Congratulations To my dear broseph, Jason, and future sissy, Candace, for their engagement! True LOVE.

And what better way to welcome her into the family than to hide in the creepy crevice above the garage door before family dinner! Welcome Candace! Brotherly-sisterly LOVE.

Cousin LOVE is quite strong as well. This at the wedding of their sister, Katie, who (whaddya know) is in LOVE with her husband!

Primary colors hand holding LOVE. On a LOVEly fun date with Adam!

LOVE for my dear Burt who is officially up and running!!! No one will ever LOVE Burt the Champ like I do.

And soon, he'll have windows that roll down, working AC, and a radio! I LOVE him.

LOVE between Cole and our frozen trampoline. Which leads to my LOVE for cold weather and warm jackets.

I LOVE that i asked this boy, Joey, to Sadies, and that we had the greatest time ever on our day activity yesterday! We concur that dates are more fun.. when you act like animals. There you have it, I LOVE being crazy and immature. I must while I can!

I LOVE that his parents answered for him while we were on the day activity, and that this is how it was done.

Tanner is The Man.

2011-01-19T15:33:00.000-08:00

Congratulations Tanner on your JAPAN MISSION CALL! I get giddy thinking about it for you, i am super excited. I am proud of you for being worthy to serve a mission and you are wonderful and amazing! Get ready to be converted, Japanese people.

p.s. you should model.

Phases Happen

2011-01-10T21:42:00.000-08:00

Phases of being obsessed with different music of course! I've gone through many types.. but nothing hits the spot like good ol' Saturday's Warrior. Ok, so the movie is incredibly awkward to watch.. but if you close your eyes, the songs are amazing! All the uplifting messages and happiness of Eternal Life! Anyway, that's my music phase right now.

Feel free to sing the tunes in your heads. You know you love them.

*We've got a father and mother, sister and brother, pullin' together we can WORK IT OUT!

*The circle of our love is more than just a rising sun that sets. The circle of our love it goes forever... The circle of our love extends beyond the reach of time. Beyond the span of days and years, it goes forever.

*We are not the ordinary, fearless and extraordinary. Workin' righteous Hari Kari, In our humble way!

*I'm sailin' on i'm not a stranger, my faith will ride through wind and tide and stormy sea, I'm sailin on out of the harbor.

*A nose is a nose like a rose is a rose, as everybody knows! But may we propose that the rosiest nose is the one that clearly shows!

I guess I'll stop now. Anyway, I love that music. No denying it. We have it on old cassette and I need in on CD for Slick Rick (my ipod).

Shout Out To My Dawg

2011-01-10T21:03:00.001-08:00

The one and only!

We met under a rainbow..We share cousins..We played Russian orphans, Polly's, Beanie Babies, Barbies, Kee-Kar, walked on walls and anything else you could ever name as children..We were best friends since childhood, but had to get over the awkwardness of attending the same school in Junior High.. She was cool, I wasn't..We met in the middle and did things like prank call, dress up, go to Disneyland and croquet in Junior High..We had a wonderful year of EFY..We are now seniors in high school..we have some similar friends, and some different..We don't plan on going our separate ways after graduation..We have the same plans so far, infact!

That is just a short tiny history of our life together. We are like sisters. We get over things quick and although we don't hug or say "i love you" all the time like a normal pair of girlfriends, we are BEST FRIENDS.

I am happy she has always been there for me.

Like the time she called one late night and I was bawling because there was a scorpion in my room. Or the time she called me because she was bawling about the betrayal of a friend.

But especially what keeps us together is our standards. We know who we are and we have testimonies that strengthen, and keep us on common ground, because we have different opinions in just about everything else.

P.s. she drives me to school so that's cool and nice of her.

SKYLER

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HOLLA for the Holidays!

2011-01-04T15:02:00.000-08:00

Christmas at home with Shauna, Brent and their families in town. Then New Years in Cali with them! Here goes!

Gwen was my little baby on New Years Eve. She got lots of good candy from the pinata!

Christmas morning! Line up youngest to oldest!

I am now eighteen!!

Point Loma Lighthouse

Polar Bear Club! What better way to end 2010 and start 2011 than to jump in the ocean at midnight! It definitely made my list of Top 5 Most Exhilarating things I've ever done.

I love Drew, Drew loves baby swings.

My New Years kiss: a racket!

Airplane!

Bikes on the Beach :)

So ya, I loved the holidays. I loved the break from school. I loved all the time spent with my family! Looking through my facebook album of my senior year, I realized that my nieces and nephews ARE my senior year! And I am ok with that! I love them a whole lot :)

Happy Happenings

2010-12-16T13:44:00.000-08:00

Yes, yes it's been wayy to long. But it's raining. I know rain is everyone's favorite smell. It's mine too. But it's even BETTER right now combined with our Christmas tree. Seriously, my two favorite smells in the world. So i'm happy. Rain inspires me to blog. So here are some wonderful things that have happened these days! (in no particular order).

Holiday Dinners. My last year (tear). My grandpa loves it so much, he is trying to recruit all my cousins to be in choir so he can go. This is us caroling while people walk out. I love choir.

fun. and Steal Train Concert! It was soo great and i loved the friends i was with that night! I like Nate Ruess's voice twelve times more than his personality. But Jack Antonoff is wonderful!

All-State Jazz! Seriously the highlight of my life! This man, Dave Filsinger, was our clinician. He is so incredible, we all bonded and grew together in just three days. And the concert was beautiful. Hearing the A choir sing The Star Spangled Banner made me tear up. We bought the cd :)

Winter formal with Jerod! We were close friends in ninth grade and we always wanted to go to a dance together, and now we have! It was terrific, and he is the perfect classy gentleman. I love resurrecting my sister's dress too.

I designed our encore shirts! Don't we look good? haha we are so nerdy. My whole school day is devoted to ending it with this class everyday.

A couple other happy things for my record:

Jacob is doing amazing on his mission and he is already going day speaking fluent Russian! His letters are so sincere and humble.
Errin is pregnant!! I want her to have a girl Jones soo bad!
The other night, the family was bickering, and i didn't feel the Christmas spirit so i made everyone hold hands and say things we loved about each other. then i was happy for at least the next 24 hours :)

Sooooo i'm happy!! The end

Elder Stradling

2010-10-19T18:43:00.000-07:00

He leaves on his mission tomorrow! He is headed to the MTC to learn Russian for his Donetsk, Ukraine mission. I have complete confidence that he will bring so much joy and happiness to them over there! He will be an INCREDIBLE missionary!

As for me, i would prefer to never say goodbye again. never ever. :)

Raindrops

2010-10-04T16:02:00.001-07:00

Facebooking and blogging about rain is so overrated. Everyone loves rain in Arizona, we know!

I'm overrated because I'm about to do so.

My rain is most enjoyable on the back porch swing.

My rain is the best with a backup soundtrack of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Try Me Bicycle, and Dan in Real Life Soundtrack.

My rain is the cleanest, most wonderful smell in the whole world.

My rain comes from the pale overcast sky.

My rain brings out complete happiness in me.

My rain helps me think my most contemplative thoughts.

My rain puts life into a whole new perspective.

My rain distracts me from every other responsibility or burden on my shoulders.

My rain inspires me to attempt poems on my blog.

I love my rain.

A Happy Story

2010-10-03T21:22:00.000-07:00

Starting with my front bangs. Which i love but wish i was better at keeping them up. This picture is from the day Karen cut em, with her magic touch. Excuse the cheesiness of it.

Homecoming was so fun! Curtis was a wonderful date! I made us matching lollipop corsage and boutineer cause the theme was "Candyland". Which is why i had to do that pose, to uh.. show it off. :)Karen is amazing at hair, once again!
Choir concert! I don't have a picture of my whole choirs. But we looked good! And hopefully sounded good! I love jazz!

Mmmm, jazz. That brings me to the next big exciting event. (The whole reason i felt like updating anyway). I made All-State Jazz!! Ya. I am real happy. So what if it is only 5th chair B choir? I thought I wouldn't make it at all! My choir wasn't required to try out for the first time ever this year, but i felt pressured into it anyway, and thought it was just a waste of money. However, I did practice a lot, and had a good audition! But i still thought I had no chance of making it, I was just glad I had a good audition. But the thought never even occured to me. But I did! And I am soooo excited! My friends that have done it before say that they love it! Tanner said it changed his life! I am very happy :) Can't wait to make new friends, learn new music, and have a new director!

A few more little happy things:

General Conference and our leaders are amazing.
It's fun to work at Nielsen's on Priesthood night. Turns out tradition requires all the girls (cause all the boys are at priesthood) to wear paper hats with our names and numbers on em. Pretty funny. It was so busy, but busy work is more fun than boring work!
Fruit and Veggie trays with dressings complete conference.

What a happy ending to a happy story.

Mighty Winds

2010-09-10T17:12:00.000-07:00

Blew our beloved tree down. Now it's so barren. Well, not yet, because it takes forever to cut up and stuff. But i sure miss it. That storm was amazing though!

Homecoming 2010

2010-09-10T17:01:00.000-07:00

This is the boy who asked me! Curtis is his name. (pic is from a date during the summer)

Like this!

What's Been Up

2010-09-10T16:24:00.001-07:00

First day of school. Tiring day but much better than I expected!

I absolutely love being a senior!

I love my classes and teachers too!

Oh and, going off campus for lunch. :)

Youth Conference! It was the first weekend of school. A huge success! My friend Jacob taught me swing dancing!

Just got back from an amazing labor day weekend in Cali with Errin AND Shauna plus their families! LOVED it! Thank goodness for relatives living there, and the marines, for stationing them there.

So everything has been wonderful. And i got front bangs today! I love them.

Nielsen's Frozen Custard

2010-08-14T11:39:00.001-07:00

You can find me there.

There Are Some Things I Don't Like.

2010-08-09T12:21:00.000-07:00

Just to name a few:

Water damage on phones. Rice didn't work to fix it! It wasn't even soaked, just a couple of drops in the wrong place of my poor phone :( Goodbye Jill, and all the notes and calendar events i kept on you.
Getting lost. I have no sense of direction and it kills me! I just love taking an hour to get somewhere that should take 24 minutes according to mapquest. Especially when i'm missing out on my nephews and niece at home!
Having a cough for more than a week, then adding a runny nose to it.
Listening to my poor nephews throw up all the way home from Safford.
Throwing up myself the next day, all night long. I never knew what people meant when they said "I threw up all night". But now i do!
Receiving 3, yes, THREE coldsores from my sickness/stress whatever!
My old flip phone that i am now using that doesn't even have enough memory to hold 40 messages!
Mowing 6 inch long grass in the middle of the hot day. Ok, i should've just done that one earlier.
Having to start school in two days. I'm not ready!! I don't think I've ever been more nervous or stressed for a single school year.

So ya! I don't enjoy those things! And to top it all off, it was all last week when just my mom and I were home so we were supposed to have fun girl time all the time! Except that my poor attitude ruined it..

Now, i will list some happy things that have happened recently! I'm not depressed i promise

My mother and i did have a movie night Satuday, in which we watched Pride & Prejudice for our first time! We had to turn on captions to fully understand it but we loved it! Kierra Knightly is soo pretty! And i love how they dress in their flowy gowns and how they properly talk. But i could never talk like that today.
I went to the Randolph Training Center for a church activity yesterday (where they have old, disabled people). I love that place times one hundred. We sang songs with them and held their hands. Every special spirit there is Celestial, and it's a privilege to be around them. I thank Heavenly Father for letting them stay on earth this long to bless our lives. They are perfect.
I finished the book Mormon to Mafia. Wow it's motivating! Such a great conversion story!

Really I am happy! Life is good! Pa and Cole come back today, i've missed em!

Oh, and it's my beautiful baby Gwen's 2nd birthday! Happy Birthday Gwenifer!

Ever Since Summer School Ended..

2010-07-25T20:47:00.000-07:00

Life has been much happier. I'd even say it's been a splendid summer! Here's a list of the main events.

#1 I spent lots of fun time with this wonderful man Tanner before he shipped himself to dang BYU.

It's good that he's going to college but i miss him!

#2 My handsome nephew, Briant, got baptized!. I'm so proud of him! I love him a lot, no matter how hard it is for him to show that he loves me back (thanks to Cole for turning him against me).

#3 Lunt Family Reunion! Holla!

My cousin Taylor, and I hosted Minute to Win It the first night. I think it was a success!

I got to wake up to these precious babies every morning.

My dear sisters and I performed our own little sister act! (see lawrence welk show on snl). Errin made a wonderful Judeece!

We crowded on couches.

We hung out on the steps.

We made ice cream.

We had a Photo Booth! Shauna's idea. It was soo fun. Hang a sheet between some trees, put a prop basket nearby, and let the relatives go to town.

Here are some of me goin to town.

With my little Drew.

April, me, Taylor

Jonesie.

Owen.

The reunion was a huge success! SO fun! Not only did i get closer with my out-of-town cousins and such, but especially with my out-of-town siblings and nieces and nephews :)

#4 Jacob got his mission call! He's going to Ukraine and speaking Russian! He is so excited! I am so excited! And proud of him. He's gonna be amazing out there. I can tell because that's all he talks about now! Plus, he eats anything weird he can get his hands on for practice.

This picture is from the other day when we dressed up as a cowboy and cowgirl. Because it was cowboy day of course! We tried to go to the library (cause he wanted to look up Ukraine stuff of course) but it was closed. So we wandered Main street. And got stared at a lot. I think we look good.

#5 California!!

Seriously the best place to spend my summer. The weather was amazing.

The trees were amazing! Imagine having this in your front yard. I could fit five of me inside one root.

Jones is cute in his spiderman speedo.

Flying a kite on the beach is super great!

Pinkberry. Pinkberry! PINKBERRY!

It's heaven. This was my first time, and there's nothing like it.

Ice cream trucks are fun! And classy. They make me feel like a happy child. Even if the ice cream is 1/8 as good as pinkberry.

Sooo, that's been my summer! I love it! I don't wanna go back to school! Still nervous for senior year. Anyway, hope your summer has been just as great as mine!

Never Again..

2010-06-25T10:36:00.000-07:00

Will summer school plague my life. I'm DONE! It's ridiculous how happy it's making me.

Ken, Tori, Savannah, Jessika, Ian, Me and Cali!

We're happy because it's our last day of summer school lunch. And we love each other.

Max and Cali are cute when we carpool.

So is Gwen.

Phony Photos

2010-06-14T18:37:00.000-07:00

I've finally discovered how to send pictures from my Phone to view on the computer! Oh technology these days! Anyway, i will now share some of my favorite phone pictures with YOU!

Last summer, Leah and I went to visit my cousins in Monticello, where we quaded every day! Just check out that gorgeous field and sky. Wish i had a real camera.

The little dooklet Jason, before he moved out with Derek (tear). I like to watch him sleep. Not really, i was just at his desk, on his computer. But he really is sleeping! Good balance, brother.

Max is so cute! He kept makin me take pictures of him. Seriously, what a stud. Any 5 yr old girls reading this, know that this one's a Jackpot.

This devilmanbug is soo creepy! Honestly, it gave me the shivers. I guess it's kind of cool that it's an opposite lady bug, but mostly i just wanted to cry looking at it! Don't lady bugs climb on your fingers if you put them in front of it? Not this one, i think he's possesed. Too bad he was trapped in the car with me all alone while mom was in the bank and i didn't wanna let him out cause i was saving him to show Cole!

I spent lots of time throughout my classes working on this countdown to summer. I didn't end up using it all the way cause i couldn't bring myself to cross out the pictures i had worked so hard on. My personal favorite is the middle row, on the left. bubbles! And no, that isn't a martini. It is an extra-virgin pina colada.

Too bad it's still not even real summer due to my 10 hour long summer school! Only 2 more weeks! I can hang in there!

Well, have a nice day!

I'm Really Gonna Miss Them

2010-06-09T17:48:00.000-07:00

Jacob and Tanner

Valerie

Sydnee

I'll miss many more graduates than these few, i just didn't get pictures with em all! Best of luck to them! Moving on and stuff..

Any advice on how to live up my senior year? I get nervous thinking about it!

Also, i'm aware that these pictures of me aren't winners. But my friends are :) awww

R.I.P. Tofer

2010-05-22T14:52:00.001-07:00

Meet Tofer. Ya, that ugly bone (trying to be a 6th toe or something). He used to hurt when I wore shoes. I hated him. Therefore, i got him removed! And now i have a little screw in my foot :)

Hospital gowns are cute.

I have such nice friends! They visit me, and support me, and bring me things when i get little surgeries done!

Jacob brought me a cd, some flowers he grew himself, peaches from his tree, and a note. He also delivered chocolate and a note from his dear mother. :)

These four (Tanner, Leah, TJ, and Skyler) stuck with me all night long watching Big Fish. Good movie. Great friends!! (and family)

Jessica and Kimee brought me goodies and company :)

So although i may be in pain right now and for a couple more days, i am grateful to have Tofer off. He was ugly and painful himself. And i am grateful to Karen for painting my toenails to hopefully make the doctor happy. I definitely trust that doctor and all those nurses with my life. It was my first surgery ever, and it was a good experience, thanks to them! I love life and my friends and my family!

Broadway Revue Love

2010-05-22T14:51:00.001-07:00

I am soo grateful for my supportive friends and family! They make an effort to come to my little choir Broadway Revue. (Which is actually a huge deal to me cause i'm obsessed with performing in it). Sadly, i have no available pictures of me in my other outfit for Sister Act. But this was my Lion King One! I LOVE performing! I always seem to forget how much i love it until i do it again. Only sad thing is that this is my last performance in premiere, and with my senior friends, who will be graduating in a few short days :( But i try not to think about them leaving me yet. Cause i'm happy and i love performing!

Natural Bridge. Natural Friends.

2010-05-22T13:40:00.001-07:00

This was supposed to be a late prom day activity but Sydnee couldn't make it. So sad. But we went anyway! Tanner, Jacob and I! It might have been one of the most fun days ever in my life! I love these boys! We spent the day at and in the small town around Natural Bridge. We walked aurond the town, bought fudge, went to a thrift store, went on a nature walk to the beautiful cave bridge, just had fun! No matter what we do, it's fun! Even if we are just laying on a blanket under some trees :)

Cavemen.

Jacob loves his doggie books.

Self timer self timer! I sit on invisible chairs?

PROM

2010-05-02T21:37:00.001-07:00

Prom was the same day as that photoshoot, so it was a very busy, but VERY wonderful day!

Here are my favorite pictures from the night:

Recognize these people?

Sydona. Re-united.

Please tell me you can tell what we're spelling.

Gorgeous corsage!

Mother told us to hold hands. Thank goodness she did because i love this picture.

Dance in the sunset.

Prom was simply amazing! It felt like the night went so fast because i was constantly having fun! Jacob was the best and most gentlemanly date. From opening the door to keeping my lipstick in his pocket for touch-ups for pictures :)

Special thanks to my hairdresser/makeup artist Karen. Love you sis!

ANTM

2010-05-02T20:36:00.000-07:00

America's Next Top Model, here I come.

Bahah, not. it was fun to pretend though!

Here's the deal: my dear friend, Makaelee (see below) has a professional photographer for an aunt. The aunt is Lindsay. Look her up! piedpiperphoto.blogspot.com

So.. Lindsay wanted to do a marionette photoshoot. You know, like the puppets!

That's why i posed so weird in the picture above. Because when she edits and does those amazing things, there will be string on my wrists!

Lindsay is amazing!

My friends are amazing!

This photoshoot might have been one of the most fun things in my life!

Makaelee is a natural model.

check out their eyes.

Too Happy

2010-04-12T18:05:00.001-07:00

I am so happy today that it makes me nervous. But not really cause i am just happy! Here are the great things that happened.

1. I am understanding math pretty well right now! It is a big deal for me. I even have every problem but 1.5 of them done on my homework due TOMORROW! Yay! By the way, my amazing math teacher had a baby! Congrats Shwanny! I miss her, but the substitute is good.

2. Choirs. They are always a great part of my day though. I have a jazz concert tomorrow that Ifeel we aren't quite prepared for but it will still be super great! And I love singing Lion King in chorale. Solo try-outs were today, and i got to listen to everyone's beautiful voices!

3. I got accepted to be a TORO LINK leader for next year!! This was kind of always an ambition of mine. I am soo excited! It's already a great start to my future senior year! I can't wait to help all the little sophomores next year. And it'll look good on my resume :)

4. I got my Sadies group pictures finally! I love dance pictures soo much. And I love when Adam and I are tigers..

5. Tanner came to help me with math today, after a choir rehearsal and he brought a SAN FRAN shirt! Here is the explanation. My choirs have different teachers, and the different teachers go on different choir trips. Premiere was going to Disneyland. Chorale was going to San Fransisco and Skywalker studios! I didn't have a choice to go to San Fran, even though I was in that choir. I had to go with Premiere. Which, don't get me wrong.. Disneyland and that trip with those friends was sooo FUN! I just secretly wished i was in San Fran every once in a while. Anyway, Tanner is nice. I love my shirt. It's yellow. That's my favorite color.

6. I just got back from My grandpa's. My aunt saw him trying to pick the highest oranges in the trees and decided that would not do. So we had a joined family night to do yardwork for them! It felt great to do that service. "Work is easy if we share, work is easy if we care! Work is fun for everyone! We work together and get the job done!" That's my favorite song to sing while working.

7. The weather was beautiful this evening. The fresh air is such a great thing to breathe! I love when the light breeze has orange blossoms scent.

Well I will stop with those reasons. And get on to these pictures. Just some more random ones I thought i'd record. And share!

My official Winter formal picture. I love it a lot. Especially the boutineer and corsage. And Jacob's penny loafers.

This is from a long long time ago! And all of us aren't as great of friends this year. But I still love all these girls. And the random cat that wasn't even planned to walk in front of the picture. This was when Makaelee's (cute, blonde one third from the right) aunt took a fun photoshoot of us! She is so profesh. It was a blast!

Remember when i had long, blonde hair? Weird.

I love my brothers. I love making them match with me to church, especially on Valentine's Day.

I need money. Bad. This is desperate.

Haha, actually, Derek just knows a guy who actually makes a lot of money being a pooper scooper so i thought i'd give it a shot and designed this flyer! Any suggestions to change it? I haven't passed any out yet.. i am kind of afraid. I don't know why. Skeptical.

Once again, I love my brothers. Sorry, Brent (brother not pictured) for never being in the pictures. Especially because this is at your house. Just take naps with us next time! Or be in town to dress up on V-day! I love you equally as the others. Might as well shout out to my sisters now! Don't feel left out sissies! I love you too!

I LOVE when Jones puts his hand on my neck when i hold him. Such a reassuring feeling. He is so precious.

So.. that post wasn't organized either. Sorry! At least i'm blogging again! And lovin' it! I missed the blogging world!

The Circle of Life

2010-04-10T18:09:00.000-07:00

The title of the post is dedicated to my newfound obsession for Lion King music. I've known the music my whole life, but the past couple of weeks, i can't listen to anything but Lion King (the musical) music! My brothers might be just a tiny bit annoyed :) I am doing Lion King for Broadway review with my choir, chorale, which started this whole obsession. I want to see Lion King on Broadway soooo bad!

I am not about to say i have started blogging again, because that might not be true. But here's a scatterbrained post for now! It's been too long from the last post to focus on one thing so i've just taken some of my favorite pictures, and here ya go!

Choir Trip 2010: Disneyland!

I knew Errin had a pass, and lived a couple hours away, so i told her to meet up with us there! I loved seeing my baby Jones, and he loved me back! (After warming up to me a bit).

My beautiful friends Jessika B, Savannah, and Jessica W. We're in different choirs, hence, the different shirts. i love DISNEYLAND!

sidenote: yes, i did get asked to prom AT Disneyland! happy.

Medievil Times. Look it up when you are in California and GO to it! I love it!! This was my dear yellow knight.

JUST DANCE. It's probably my favorite wii game ever! Seriously, i just decided i'm going to play it after i'm done with this post. Dancing with me here are some of my premiere girls that i love!

premiere = my women's jazz choir from school

This beautiful picture is with Nicky! OH how i miss Nicky! I convinced my parents to let us host an Australian for 2 weeks during January (about 40 come, through my school), and it was soo worth it. Even ask mom and dad. I am 100% positive that i got the BEST Aussie (yes, she is my pet). We talked forever and bonded the very first night she arrived, and we were best friends from then on! We did a bunch of fun things including: ASU basketball game, snow trip for a day, getting our nails done and going on a shopping trip, going on a group date (I set her up with a boy she thought was super cute. also, she had never ever been on a date! crazy Aussies). And, she came to school with me for 2 days, and i was definitely more popular with adorable Nicky and her adorable accent around me :)

She had never heard of Mormons, so I got to talk a lot about my religion, and i loved how much she respected it. She came to church with me both Sundays, and she even came with me when i had a fireside and stake choir practice. Her last night, we took her to the temple, I hope she enjoyed it. Then later, I gave her a Book of Mormon, which i pray she is reading :)

This would be the coolest jumping high five picture ever!! It is from the good ol' Winter Formal day activity from forever ago. Winter Formal was soo fun! Jacob and I made our own corsage and boutineer out of fabric, and i must say, they looked dang good. I will put a Winter picture on later, cause i somehow forgot it in this batch. Anyway, it was a BLAST!

Once upon a time I was in a fashion show! Arizona Bridal baby. It was a super fun experience! I was a little bit sad that all I got out of it was a bag of candy, and a crazy hair-do, until i found out just the other day that it won my Prom date, Jacob (see above high five picture), a FREE tuxedo rental!!! I mean, what are the odds?! I invited him to come (which was before he even asked me to prom), and he just got called back saying he won the raffle! Man, we are gonna look good at Prom!

Sadies date: Adam. I love this boy and Sadies was soo fun! Here is the story. I wasn't planning on going to sadies because i didn't really ask anyone in time, and didn't wanna stress about it. But then, i found out that this kid's would-be date wouldn't be able to make it! So i gladly filled the position! The theme was safari. We aren't just freaks. Unless crawling around the dance floor instead of walking makes us so. Think whatever you want, it was a GOOD time!

The night before Sadies. We were on a super fun group date, and came to my house after dinner and Jesterz. Tanner (my date, above me with the glasses) and Adam (my Sadies date the following) were on the giant see-saw thing in my backyard. They were being, well, boys and going back and forth super high. Next thing you know, Adam toppled over and gouged his head.. It was bleeding a lot. It would have been terrible if it happened to someone other than Adam, but he totally made it funny. It was an exciting night. Ma doctored him up a bit, and he ended up getting 8 stitches the next day.. which explains the big bandage in the picture above. Pretty cool battle wound if you ask me.. or him. Sorry Adam! Thanks for not suing us!

TOMS. Buy a pair, and another pair is given to a child in Africa. So i bought a pair. I feel good buying them and they look good on my feet! Jacob and I are big supporters. So we take pictures with the TOMS flag, and put it on the website.

I LOVE premiere! We had just gotten our shirts, so we all wore em to school! I guess Sapakie didn't want to.. It couldn't be because it is a v-neck with a pink peacock feather on it, could it?

Anyway, my choirs are my favorite part of the school day. We are all so close, and it is sooo great to sing and perform with these girls! I love chorale soo much too, but don't have a picture for that one. Some good news: I tried out (with intentions of not making it at all) for Encore (advanced mixed jazz group) and MADE it! I was jumping for joy! But i will dearly miss the sisterhood of Premiere, and the lame jokes of Mr. Sapakie.

Halloween. Forevvver ago. But I love my costume, so I had to post. I was Gilly. If you don't know who she is, please look her up on saturdaynightlive.com. Also, Skyler was a great ketchup, Cole was a terrific Alfalfa, and Derek with Ashley and Cash were amazing as characters from Yo Gabba Gabba (Cash's favorite show).

This was the day of my 17th birthday. It was a very amazing day!! I got lots of cute presents, and yummy perfume, and my dear mother made these scrumpteoulescent cherry cheesecakes. But I don't think i am very excited about growing up.. Sorry this is all underlined, i don't know how to fix it, and i just give up.

Ok, no more underlined? Weird. Anyway, that was a very confusing post. Maybe I will keep whoever reads this blog updated with more organized posts.

One more thing. My sweet peas that i planted are in blossom and it's tremendous. I love their smell! I love how they look! i LOVE them! Plus, they are perfect "i hope you have a good day" gifts.

So everyone: Have a good day!! Breathe the amazing Spring air and be HAPPY! and Hakuna Matata!

Camping?

2009-10-19T22:08:00.001-07:00

Nahh, we stayed at a lodge. But truthfully, I would rather have slept in a tent! Not only the fact that I like the whole experience of camping in a tent, but the lodge was just not my fav!

On the bright side, I just realized two good things that i LOVE!

The sky, and fall.

Not that I have any pics of the sky put I have just been noticing. How is it the most perfect shade of blue always? Well, the shade is never the same. It could be a pure, bright blue contrasting the sun at noon or a gorgeous, navy blue in the evening. But whatever shade, it is just perfect. The way Heavenly Father created this earth is perfect!

Fall! I keep forgetting that other places in the world actually have seasons! I love Mesa and wanna live here forever but it's nice to travel and see the dang beautiful fall colors! Auburn leaves shimmering down from trees.. soo beautiful.

Ok, time for some pictures!

I love my mother! I love yellow trees!

Pictures to do with the lodge will be in black & white for a reason: this place is just a few generations behind! And black and white is cute :)

Hannagan Meadows Lodge

The lodge had a tiny restaurant. I sang with the tiny band for fun!

A cat? Yes, it lives and sheds all over the lodge! eww

I never realized I should appreciate our cemetery! But we have got a good one! This "cemetery" made me want to cry a river, which would help the landscaping anyway.

Dad loves his portable grill! And so do I if it provides me with delish fajitas at a random park in the middle of a roadtrip!

For anyone who doesn't like mini vans because they aren't cool, I beg to differ! Cause I was cozy in mine!

Best picture for last!

We stopped by some mining place and saw this!

You have no idea how bad I wanted to climb in it.

Biggest dang tractor I've seen in my LIFE!

I really had a super great time, despite what I say about the lodgy poo. I just love my family soo much, even though this was with a small portion of my big family :). And i love that my dad loves to drive and stop at beautiful or historical places just for fun! And i love that we went on this trip! Family forever! <3

October Break

2009-10-14T11:54:00.000-07:00

I LOVE NO SCHOOL!

Monday wasn't my favorite day because i spent all of it writing a resume (which is so much harder than it should be) and searching for a job. bleh, it drained my energy. But i really want a job so if anyone has suggestions or connections for a teenager to get her first job, please tell :)

Tuesday, however was AMAZING! My dear friend, Tanner, invited me and two others to go spend a day in beautiful Sedona. I never knew i could see such gorgeous fall colors in Arizona! These pictures do zero justice to how beautiful the nature was everywhere. Us four had just the GRANDEST time!

Our first rest stop. Such a happy group!

Our band picture. Sydona.

i LOVE Sydnee!!

I LOVE Tanner!!

i LOVE Jacob!!

If anyone has a free day, please spend it in Sedona. And invite me :)

Here Goes..

2009-10-12T09:40:00.000-07:00

Welcome. Welcome back to my blog. It has now, officially re-begun. There are wayy to many things to get caught up on since last time, including my crazy-busy but amazing summer. So i will settle with these four pictures.

First day of school, and pretending to be happy about it.

Little Coley shmoley is growing up and going to Stapley Junior High now! Girls, please stay away until he is 22, thank you.

Choir is my life. I like to pretend i am hard-core. But really i love it soo much!

My beautiful best friends and I at Homecoming!

My super fun date, Cody, and I! We match dang good.

My tights and his shirt are navy blue if you couldn't tell.

Welp, stay tuned, because i am back into the blogging world!

Finally

2009-03-14T13:38:00.000-07:00

Ok, i am finally bugged enough by people telling me to update my blog. but i am gonna have to be brief because it has been a LONG time! And alot of things have happened! So here is a nice long post with random pictures in no particular order. sorry it will be so scatter brained but at least its updated!

Jason came home from Tennesse! Oh what a wonderful day this was! I was afrai he would change so much, but other than the him becoming more spiritual and his slight loss of hair, he is the same! And i love him!

Here was what i looked like for my second high school dance, i asked Chandler Willman. The theme was "overboard" and our shirts were so cute!!

Sadies was so much fun with Chandler!!

I know these pics are out of order, but this is how i asked Jeff Hardison to my first high school dance, Winter Formal. That snowman is a cake! My best friends, Ashlie and Makaelee helped :)

For our Winter Formal day activity we went and plyed in the snow. This was such a cute little place to take a picture!

Jeffy and I!

This is me on my 16th birthday! That day was amazing! i did throw up a couple times that morning but i wasn't actually sick, it was just cause i took some ibuprofen for my headache on an empty stomache. Anyway, my sister Karen gave me a beautiful new hair-do and front bangs! Then we went to Mac makeup and i got this makeover! Then i got a darling new purse! That evening, i had all of my friends come over for a bonfire which was a blast!

My best friends waking me up singing with cameras and food on my birthday morning :)

This was a long time ago, but i just had to say that i flew a plane! It was so cool! I flew over fountain hills and did a couple air-dive things! Sorry it made you sick Justin!

Well that was all very out of order and a lot of other things have happened in my busy teenager life but must get ready for a party for Brent. Happy birthday brenty! (at least a couple days ago)

Me or Jason?

2008-09-21T15:20:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not, the top one is me. I just found out that if i were a boy, i would be twins with my brother Jason.
if you would like to see what you would look like in the 60's, 70', 80's, or 90's, just go to www.yearbookyourself.com and have fun!

My new sister

2008-08-25T19:29:00.001-07:00

My neck has been hurting a lot lately and i woke up one morning and another head had sprouted! Her name is Suzie Kin. She is my best friend.

TOROS!

2008-08-12T15:58:00.000-07:00

My and Skyler on the very first day of school! Mountain View High School that is! Yes, we are officially sophomores and it feels great even though it's a little bit scary! And no, we didn't plan on matching but we suer looked cool walking together.

crazy friends

2008-08-12T15:46:00.000-07:00

Here are some great pictures of what happens when me and my friends get bored!

Ashlie, Makaelee, Skyler, Kimee and Me
I love my friends so much!

PAINT WAR!

2008-08-04T14:42:00.001-07:00

The other weekend, my friends and i decided to have a paint war! Here is what happened..

Haha, i am pretty sure i learned my lesson there. It took me about two and a half hours in the shower/bath to get all that paint off my body and out of my hair! But it was still fun, i love my crazy friends!

My Favorite Color!

2008-07-23T17:51:00.000-07:00

I got yellow Vans! Just thought i would let you guys know.. I love them!

Musical Theater Workshop!

2008-07-08T18:15:00.000-07:00

The week right after EFY i went to musical theater workshop for two weeks. It was amazing as usual! I loved the music and the people! I love MCC!!

Here are some performing pictures.

Here is what went on back stage in the green room.
Calliandra and me!

Me with Alison and Calli

Emma, Me, Calli, Bailey, Alison

Calli and I again!

Steady & Sure EFY!

2008-07-07T20:36:00.000-07:00

My first summer activity was EFY! Like every year, it was AMAZING! So spiritual, so crazy, so fun! It's a place where i can be as crazy as i want and not even care! Mu roommate was great and we had so much fun! I am so happy i went and can't wait to go next year! Now brace yourself for a lot of pictures!

Meet the group! It's huge, i can only name half of it sadly. But it was a way fun group of crazy funny kids!

Meet the counselors! Myles (Prince Eric at disneyworld believe it or not), Samantha, Reo, and Jordin. They were all great examples to me and wonderful counselors!

Now meet my roommate. Sky Dawg. We tend to creep people out. Just kidding we are just weird which is fine for EFY!

Hm.. don't know his name. He wasn't even in my group i just took a picture with him, ok?

These are the people from Mesa! Represent!

This is Michael, Weston, and Zack with me!

Me and Ashlie! She was my roommate last year and luckily her and Savannah we in the same building as Skyler and I.

Sometimes i got the privilege of escorting John around. He had about ten percent vision and he used it to his advantage to get the ladies! He always needed girls to escort him and help him with this and that , he is so funny! Anyways, my friends loved following us and taking pictures. haha

Jason's old girlfriend, Alisha (middle), lives in Utah and brought sonic to me and Sky for free time once! She is so nice and fun!

Jordan, Skyler, and me. I just met these boys in a class when there happened to be two empty spots next to me and Savannah!

The jumping picture! Me my best friends all at EFY! WE had take a jumping picture.

My friend Kimee met this boy at EFY las year and we recognized him from her pictures and made friends with him! Chris, the nicest guy ever!

Jennifer and me, she was another girl from Mesa in our group.

Mikaela, crazy hilarious girl. She wore this pin of my little brother, Cole, all day long and told everyone it was her ten year old boy friend! It was so funny!

P.S. I finally flew on a plane there and back for my first time ever! Just me and Skyler, it was so fun and i love being above the fluffy clouds and eating peanuts!

Last Day of School

2008-07-07T17:13:00.001-07:00

Now that all of my main summer activities are over i will start blogging again cause i was SO busy! But we are gonna start out all these posts with just a rememberance of good ol' Stapley Junior High which i will no longer be attending! I am now a sophomore at Mountain View! And i am so scared so wish my luck. I cried on the last day of school. I know i am pathetic, me and my friend Kimee were the only ones but it's ok cause we cried together!

Anyways conrgatulations to me and many of my friends who got 3.5 or higher GPA throughout the year!

I also got most improved in cross country! Let me tell you, cross country is NOT easy, i started out way behind everyone and ended up in the middle and still improving!

I also got most improved in track. I only ran the 800 (two laps) but i got second and third in every race except city race with a lot more people! Here is me and my crazy track friends.

My and my friends at the 9th grade dance! It was so fun and we got our yearbooks earlier than the rest of the school!And Makaelee and me just being creepy on the last day. Good bye Stapley!

Flagstaff

2008-07-07T16:56:00.001-07:00

Our chorus class went to Flagstaff for a friendly competition and i am very proud to say we got 99 out of 100! Superior! WE also stoped by the mall and went crazy!

Jessica, Alison, Tanel, and Me. To bad i am the only one with two stickers on my sunglasses.

Me and my bus partner, Marissa! She was great and we had so much fun on the way there and back! Aren't we attractive?
Alison me little 8th grade friend and me! She also did musical theater workshop with me as you will se in a different post.
Me with Tanel, Marissa, Alison, and Kendall is the boy in the back! As Shauna says, you gotta love those flowy sleeves on the choruse dresses!

Proud Aunty!

2008-04-28T16:02:00.000-07:00

I am now an aunt to official members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! In other words, my twin nieces, Abbey and Emma (in order on picture) got baptized! Yahoo!

Update on my New Friends

2008-04-19T21:17:00.000-07:00

Well, the next morning, Remy had flown out of my window well! I was so proud of him! Todd was still hopping around and drinking some water. But then when i checked in the afternoon, he was stiff and dead. (tear tear) I wrapped him in paper towels and wrote TODD on it then buried him. Why am I so weird? Well, it was a very sad experience for Cole, he became very attached and almost cried.

Meet my new friends!

2008-04-16T18:44:00.000-07:00

This morning I woke up to little chirps! It started my day great! And in my window well, there were two little birds. Then, when i got home from school, they were still there! So we opened the window and got them out and played with them. They can live there until they get old enough to fly out.

Cole and I holding
REMY & TODD

Natalie tribute!

2008-04-12T13:32:00.000-07:00

My dear friend, Natalie, has decided to enter into the blogging world and make one! Her first post was about me so I dedicate this to her. She is amazing, nice, friendly, smart, and we have so many fun memories. I love Natalie!

Mexican Spring Break

2008-03-30T11:07:00.000-07:00

Well i know it has been forever since spring break but better late than never! we will start out this lovely post with some posing on the beach with the beautiful sunset. sorry i don't have a lot of time for an organized post so this might skip around but it has a lot of pics and i will explain them the trip was amazing and fun!

Me, and my cousins Mckenna and Kristen

Us again. if you can't tell, this is our home made kite out of paper bags and nothing else. it was a very windy and boring day so we got creative!

My brother down there is the young men's president so he invited me and my friends and cousins to go to this stake dance! it was so fun! better than stake dances here i can tell you that. i went crazy!

This was the morning before we left we had to take one last picture.
me, Kristen, Mckenna, Nate (poor boy brokw his arm a while ago), Cole

On the way back, we had a wonderful wait of three and a half hours at the border! It was miserable!! So we took pictures!

Now we are skipping of to cross the border by walking and play a nice board game at the first gas station in America until me dad and uncle came through. It was fun.

Kristen, me, and Alijandro. He came her every day by our condos and sold amazing food and fresh fruit and stuff!

My friends, cousins, and me by the pool. Don't mind my eyes shut.

Baby Jones! I was so happy I got to see him and he is really darling! They had his blessing at his house for fear of taking him to church.

Someone found a dead puffer fish and my mom wanted me to be in the picture but it smelled so bad i had to get behind the glass. But it was way cool.

This is my favorite tree that I spent a lot of time reading and just sitting in when I was bored. And Tanner as with me right now. I know I look weird.

At the market. I just bought that necklace. The lady that worked there arranged us just perfect for the picture.

Now here is my momma and me at a different store in the market.

Snorkeling! This wasn't the best I have been, it was freezing, but i went in for a while and saw some cool fish and sting rays.

Nate found a seahorse and it was so cool! Seahorses are cute.

Here is the huge field by our condos that we played capture the flag in every day with a bunch of people!

Me and Kristen were just inseparable!

Some lady found this huge, live, colorful starfish! It was amazing!

Well, i think you are sick of this post now so I will stop with the pictures even though there were much more. Overall, it was a fantastic trip!

My new babies!

2008-03-14T21:06:00.000-07:00

Well, of course, they are not my babies, they are my niece and nephew! And i haven't even met them yet, very sadly. Errin, my sister -in-law, had her first baby. His name is Jones! He is so cute! He is about two weeks old now and i get to go to Mexico and visit him for spring break! Also, on Wednesday, my sister, Shauna had her third baby. Sally! She is also so darling! But i won't get to see her for a while because she is in North Carolina. But i can already tell i am going to love both of them so much! I love my big family! Now i have a total of 13 nieces and nephews!

baby Jones when he is a week old

newborn darling Sally

Me and Ash

2008-02-23T20:55:00.000-08:00

Need i say anything? Girls just wanna have fun!

Whats been happening

2008-02-16T10:27:00.001-08:00

Funny how i haven't updated my blog in over a month right? Well ever since Shauna and her boys left, life really has been pretty dull. I don't have much pictures either so here goes nothin.
(this is no particular order)

Our little family and my dad's work friend's family went on a shooting trip in the mountains one Saturday. I was pretty proud of myself for hitting three out of ten clay pigeons in the air. Until Cole got up there for his first time ever and hit his first four and about three more out of about ten. Then i felt a little pathetic but hey, i am a girl.

Here is a great story. Skyler, Kimee, and I went to a Hannah Montana concert, but didn't have tickets. We just wanted to see if we could see her or her guest stars Aly and AJ. By the way, we hate Hanna but like Aly and Aj. Anyways, we were walking around and saw John Jay from 104.7 Kiss FM, John Jay and Rich. We were just talking to him and he asked if we had tickets. We told him we didn't and he took out three tickets and just gave them to us! These were 60 dollar tickets! So we went. (It was my first concert). It was way fun even though we hate Hannah Montana. John Jay is the man.

Ashlie and I were just having fun on her cool computer thing! It's pretty creepy

GIRLS NIGHT! I have the best friends ever and we had a way fun girls night one weekend. We dressed up all cute and went to the Cheesecake Factory (which i strongly recommend). Even though it was an hour and a half wait it was worth it and we had fun with the waiter, we even made up a song for him. I love my friends!

Hope you enjoyed the post! maybe i will update more. Or at least start taking pictures.

They're gone...

2008-01-08T19:10:00.000-08:00

Well the time has come and now they are gone. My sister Shauna and her boys are gone. This morning i didn't even want to get out of my bed cause i had no reason to. What am i gonna do with out hugs and smiles from my boys every morning and when i get home from school? And how will i know what outfit to wear and what looks good with out Shauna. I am gonna miss them so much. I don't know why, but this is so hard for our family. I am gonna miss Shauna being here to take a bunch of pictures with me and play settlers and listen to all my girl drama. And Owen won't be here to dance with me anymore or say "Hey, you want a punch in the face?!" And Of course Drew's cheesy smiles and how he always nods yes no matter what question you ask him. Or how he will do anything to get candy. I have had some good times with them. But on the bright side, we have webcam and can talk to them on the phone too! And it's not like they are dead or anything, just gone for a while. Sorry this is a bunch of pictures but believe, there could bo so much more.

It's been a while...

2008-01-01T12:49:00.001-08:00

Well you know how the holidays make everyday busier. Updating my blog has not been at the top of the list. So here goes a giant post.

I was wondering what stringing popcorn was like and thought i would give it a try. It took about an hour and a half to make a string that went once around the tree. But it was still fun!

Me and my cousins Leah and Kristen at our annual Christmas eve party! We had lots of fun, you can probably tell.

Well surprisingly, i don't have any pictures for Christmas day! But rest assured that it was a fantastic day filled with cute and fun presents, delicious food and candy, and lots of fun family time!

Yes, what you see is shredded paper EVERYWHERE in my room! This was my "birthday present" from a couple of my friends. It was crazy and took a long time to clean up.

Luckily Drew was there to help me!

On New years day, My family rented a room out at Bounce U and i got to bring some friends. It is such a fun place! I want to have a huge party there someday! Here is us on a really crazy spider web thing that we were on most of the time.

New year's Eve party at my house! WOO! My family has a tradition of burning our Christmas tree and blowing up gingerbread houses on this wonderful eve. some friends came to join in on the fun!

O Christmas tree!

2007-12-09T13:18:00.000-08:00

Cole and I decided that you can never TRULY feel christmas spirit without a christmas tree to light up the house, and fill it with the amazing scent of pine! Can you tell I am excited?

Gingerbread night!

2007-12-04T15:31:00.000-08:00

Our wonderful family tradition of gingerbread houses with a couple of other families in our ward. My dear mother put a lot of time into making all the gingerbread. It was super fun! And i think i gained a couple pounds. : (

Here we are workin pretty dang hard if i do say so myself.
Me, Cortney, and Kimee Quent and the beautiful house we made!

Family time!

2007-11-29T16:34:00.000-08:00

So i got to spend a day with almost all 26 members of my family! The only people gone were my brother Jason, and my brothers-in-law Justin and Jay. It was so much fun! i love spending time with my family! And i love my nieces and nephews! They always make me so happy!

Shauna brought back this hideous guniea pig from her in-laws. It's supposed to be really rare. It's albino... Her name was sqeakers but is now either Jenny, Amber, or Clover. Who really knows?

We have good times on the tramp.
And picture time with my nieces! This one is Emma.
Here is me and Abbey.
Brooke and I
And our whole family! I am surprised my dad actually smiled! And all of Tami's kids! I love my family!

My little Drew

2007-11-23T09:39:00.001-08:00

Drew decided he likes my back back. If only i could actually take him to school!

CAN-CAN

2007-11-08T15:16:00.001-08:00

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!Haha, i love this! sorry i copied you Calli!

October break in Mexico

2007-10-21T17:39:00.000-07:00

Check out that beautiful sunset. Oh and that girl playing in that water alone which happens to be me. Everyone thought the water was to cold but i liked it!

Family pictures

Us at the market eating some ice cream right before Max peed in a cup because they don't have public bathrooms and he really had to go.

Us after church. They had a projecter thing in the front with a guy typing the translated testimonies during the meeting.
In the sand

Cole and Briant really enjoyed being buried

My sexy mermaid
Mom's crazy big sand castle that Cole kinda helped with.
Crazy bugs

Try to see the colorful stick bug on my hands

And there was blue-green-yellowish little grasshoppers that were so cool!
However, these mating, GIANT grasshoppers were pretty disgusting
My nephews and me

That's me trying to hide under the blanket and they are "painting" me with feathers they found on the beach

Drew and me taking a little stroll on the beach

Family night

2007-10-10T16:14:00.001-07:00

So for family night we planted a garden! Owen was a good helper and plated the peas with me.

Than i took a little joy ride on the "grandpa train". It's super fun going 5 miles an hour. haha.

numb toe

2007-10-06T19:59:00.000-07:00

K so it didn't look anything like this oneat all but i got stung by a scorpion. It's crazy, i never thought i would but yesterday i was walking around the dark house and i felt a sting, so i turned on the light and saw a puny scorpion running away. Surprisingly it didn't hurt that bad. Maybe because it was just so funny to me that i actually got stung. I just laughed and laughed for like 15 minutes and couldn't stop. It stayed numb all night and is still numb this morning but i don't really care cause now i have a story to tell.

Shauna is here!!

2007-10-05T16:32:00.001-07:00

I am so happy! On Tuesday my sister Shauna and her two darling boys Owen and Drew came to visit usfrom North Carolina and are staying until the beginning of January! Her husband is in Iraq right now for the marines and won't be back until February. I just love having a full house again!

The brown hair ones are her boys Owen and Drew. The blondes are my other nephews Briant and Max!

Owen and Drew swinging on our tire swing!

Happy Birthday Leah!

2007-09-29T11:59:00.000-07:00

So on September 28th, it was my dear cousin Leah's birthday! Happy birthday leah! She turned 12 and now is a little beehive in young women's! I have grown up with her my whole life and who knows what i would do without her?

This was forever but a cute picture i had to put on! She is ice skating on my birthday six years ago.

And her on the left is more recent. Ice skating on my birthday again, haha, i didn't even know i did that alot. But this was just last year!
And here is her carrying me and our other cousin Mckenna a day before she turned 12. She is pretty strong for a 12 year old!

bored...

2007-09-16T14:38:00.001-07:00

So this is what happens when Skyler and I are put together in one room with a bag of make-up and a camera.

Yeah, we are pretty retarded haha.

Graveside pictures

2007-09-10T16:34:00.000-07:00

So ya, here are a few pictures from the little funeral thing this morning for Alice. It was spiritual and lots of people were there to support Karen's family. It was cute.

Mow mow mow

2007-09-10T16:22:00.000-07:00

I learned how to mow the lawn on Saturday, and if i do it every week, it will pay for my phone bill unless i go over. But i was just so proud of myself i had to make Derek take a pciture!

Bitter-sweet day

2007-09-10T16:12:00.000-07:00

Last Tuesday was a very bitter-sweet day. The sweet thing is that Tami had her baby! He is a beautiful baby boy named James Reed Curtis. Tami is crazy and is already back to working and going to church and she brought James here to Mesa!

The bitter thing is that the Karen went in for an ultra-sound and found that baby Alice Jane was dead. She had to give birth to a still born and it was so so sad. I went and saw her and coudn't help crying. The little graveside was today. It was good and i definetly cried a lot more. But her family is doing great now and i know Alice is in heaven.

Here is a really cute poem that was on the program but don't read it if you don't feel like shedding a tear.

Silent Footprints

We never had the chance to play,
To laugh, to rock, to wiggle.
We long to hold you,
touch you now
And listen to you giggle.

I’ll always be your mother.
He’ll always be your dad.
You will always be our child,
For that we are so glad.

But now you’re gone..
But yet you’re here.
We’ll sense you everywhere.
You are our sorrow and our joy.
There’s love in every tear.

Just know our love
goes deep and strong.
We will forget you never.
The child we had,
but never had,
And yet will have forever.

Elder Martindale

2007-08-30T20:03:00.001-07:00

So my brother Jason has been on a mission since January and i need to do a little tibute to him. His original location is Tennesse but he is in Kentucky right now. He is doing great, i am so proud of him and i know i am getting blessings. I bet he is the friendliest and funniest missionary out there!

Can you tell how beautiful he thinks he is?

This may look scary...but his camera can adjust to make him look like his. he lied to us at first and told us he wiped his face with poison ivy. good one huh? NOT. actually kind of.
He says the people think they are in a drought when this is one of the many lakes there. They should try living here for a week, they would probably die.

Pictures with friends!

2007-08-18T22:51:00.000-07:00

I just love taking pictures with my friends! We hung out Saturday. It was with Skyler, Kimee, Ashlie, Lindsay, and me! It was so fun! I love my friends!

Can you tell it's a star?

Freshman baby!

2007-08-13T18:08:00.001-07:00

First day of school! I am a freshman! The first day was pretty good and i am not complaining to much...yet. I have to say, it is exciting but i am gonna miss the summer big time! I was so sad thinking about it last night. Here are some things i will really miss:

Staying up late and sleeping in
Not having to get ready every day
No thinking to hard about anything
Seeing my brother, Derek, almost every morning when he visits from work
And shopping all the time for school clothes!

Cole, all ready and in uniform, for his special advanced school and me in the morning!

Aw... Cole and me

So many new babies!

2007-08-13T18:02:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh! iam just so happy!!! All my sisters and my sister-in-law are pregnant! So Tami and Karen have been pregnant for a while and are due in September, but i recently found out that Shauna and Errin are pregnant and due in March! Four new babies for our family! I go from 10 nieces and nephews to 14! We know Karen is having a girl and Tami is having a boy which i am so happy about, and i personally think Errin will have a girl and Shauna will have a boy! OH and this is Errin's first baby so i am super excited for her! I love nieces and nephews so much!!

Good bye wall

2007-08-13T17:49:00.001-07:00

So when we first built this house the wall wasn't there between the main basemen room and my old room. But when my mom had more kids, my dad put it in. And now that pretty much everyone is all moved out we knocked it back down!

Before

During

Finshed product!

I thinks it is so crazy having that big of a room cause i don't remember it but i love the space so much!!! I don't really know what we are going to do with it but i hope it's something cool!

picture time!

2007-08-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

So my friend Ashlie Porter has this really cool camera thing on her computer and we love to take pictures on it! We hung out last night ant took these ones.

What a cute black and white picture! In order from Left to right, their names are Whitney Slade, Ashlie Porter, Emily Clifford, Kimee Quent, and me.

I wish our computer could do all that!

Seven Random Things

2007-08-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

1- I HATE pickles
2- Half of my toenail is missing due to the pioneer trek I went on earlier this summer
3- I can’t help it but every time I see my toothbrush, I have to brush my teeth. Maybe it’s because my braces are off.
4- My ipod’s name is Alice and it is a she, not an “it”. My whole family knows that.
5- I quit piano lessons about two years ago, but I still love to play it for fun
6- My fingernails are metallic magenta right now!
7- I love mechanical pencils and can't stand normal ones

My new and improved bathroom

2007-07-27T10:54:00.000-07:00

So since I am the only person occupying the basement, my mom let me do the bathroom how i wanted it! I found a zebra shower curtain and i love it so much! Karen helped with the idea of pink bows on the towels and stuff but my mom actually did the bows. Aren't they so cute? And the pictures aren't hung up on the wall yet but they will go right above the towel rack. I am still in the process of finding something cute for the sink counter.

Believe it or not, i printed these pictures from the PrintMaster computer program my mom has.

Shaggy Dogs

2007-07-27T10:27:00.000-07:00

So these are pretty much my favorite cookies! Or just the easiest to make but i love them. This post is dedicated to Errin Martindale because she inspired me to put it on my blog, haha. Anyways you might know these as "Gorrilla poop" or "No-Bake cookies". So go ahead and give it a try! I don't know how many it makes but i usually double it.

2 cups of sugar
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 cube of butter
1/2 cup of milk
4 tablespoons of cocoa

mix ingredients and bring to a full boil or until it melts
remove from heat and add:

3 cups of oats
1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
1/2 cup of peanut butter

now mix all these together and spoon on to wax paper
and let them cool until they harden.

Good luck with these if you try them!

For my birthday last year, my friend Melia Mason made me these cookies and made them spell "Hatch a bird Egg" which means happy birthday if ya didn't know.

Glorious rain

2007-07-27T10:16:00.000-07:00

It rained!!! A lot actually! I could not resist the urge to go run and play outside in the rain. Cole, Tanner, and me went crazy and played in the puddles and did cartwheels! What else can you expect from a native arizonian? Oh and by the way, if you didn't already know, arizona rain is the best smelling rain ever!

This is one of the most fun things ever! It is like a giant windowwiper thing for your pavement. You just run around pushing it andthe puddles make giant waves!

Bad Watermelon

2007-07-17T13:29:00.000-07:00

So my watermelon didn't turn out as great as it was supposed to. It looked so delicous on the outside but when i cut it open, most of it was just the rind. but the red part was good i guess.

Bridal Veils

2007-07-17T13:20:00.001-07:00

After the reunion, we went to bridal viels waterfall. It was pretty fun. Justin and I hiked up the waterfall and i was barefoot! Then i came back down and Justin went even further! And by it, there was a little shaved ice stand so we got some. Pina Colada was delicous! And isn't Drew just the cutest kid ever?

Lunt Family Reunion

2007-07-17T12:54:00.000-07:00

Family picture!

Liesel's wonderful card-making class!
The Price is Right! I was a Barker's beauty along with Taylor and April.

Owen wanted to help in his underwear! This is in the theater room.

The group that went to do babtisms for the dead. Thanks Karen for letting me borrow your really cute dress. Don't make fun of me, we made apple smiles!

The reunion was super fun! I got to know a lot of the Lunt side better. I am happy that Shauna, Justin, Owen, Drew, Brent, and Errin could make it but really sad that none of my other siblings (other than Cole) could go. Owen and Drew are the cutest kids ever! I love them so much! The mansion was so cool and a great place for everyone to stay! I went to Mount Timpanagos Temple to do babtisms and that was very spiritual. We had fun classes like cooking, and card-making. Also, Brent brought his wii and i loved playing that in free time! The thater room was so cool! it was meant to look like an egyptian tomb and it was really nice. I'd say this was one of the best reunion ever, thanks mom for planning it all!

EFY!

2007-07-17T12:10:00.000-07:00

So EFY was AMAZING! Even though 9 out of 11 girls in my group were from my school, i still had so much fun! Most of the friends i made were guys. My testimony grew so much! And i love reading the scriptures now, and i feel like i really want to be a missionary and i don't know how anyone could live with out the church in their life. It was stressful getting there (my mom accidentally scheduled the plane a month off and there were no other planes open so we had to drive up that night). But it was defiently worth it! And i am so grateful that my family tried so hard and got me up there in time. I took lots of notes at EFY and i love them, and i had a great session director. On the fourth of july we laid out in the grass and watched fireworks at the stadium of fire which was a lot of fun. And all the dances were so fun! I am just so happy that i could go and i could afford to go! i am definetly going nest year!

This is my Whole group. Our name was "Bring to Pass".

There was two girls to one guy.

These are some of my school friends that were in my group.

Jessica, Lindsay, Savannah, Ashlie, Me, Sara Ashlie and me with a really creepy statue. Who knows why it is on BYU campus.
Ashlie was the best roommate ever! She is so fun and nice and hilarious!

I am so happy that i went with her!

I love this picture. The guys were really nice in my group.
They held all the girls for them to get a picture.

Crazy Summer

2007-06-27T21:17:00.000-07:00

So i have not posted anything for a while and i would..if i had any pictures. I just got back from girls camp and i didn't bring a camera so i don't have any pictures until my leaders give me some! hm..what else is going on? i am just So excited for EFY!!!!! i am going to EFY next week and am prepareing for it. i have been looking forward to since pretty much last year. also, my watermelon is HUGE now! i want to pick it so bad but my mom won't let me yet cause it is the only one growing and we only have one chance. When i do pick it i am going to make one of those cool watermelon bowl things ya know from the picture. mine won't look that pretty though.

My watermelon

2007-06-17T17:03:00.001-07:00

I love the satisfaction of growing your own food. We started a garden this year a while ago and i planted the watermelons and one is actually soming along! As of today, it is 14 inches across! It better be tasty, cause i love watermelon, especially in the summer!

Workshop!

2007-06-17T16:56:00.000-07:00

So musical theater workshop is over. I am unbelievably sad about it! I have so many close friends there that i will miss so much and definetly want to hang out with them as much as a can. Over the school year, i forgot how much i loved workshop and performing and all of my friends there and now i am so sad that it is over, but it was SO FUN! I can't believe how sad i am that it is over! Here are just a few pictures from backstage.

Good Burger!

2007-06-12T22:35:00.000-07:00

So this is my favorite movie. I used to watch it at the Tates when i was little, but kinda forgot about it until Melia had it and we are both obsessed with it! It is so outrageous and hilarious. (if i even spelled those right.) Anyways, i had to say something about it cause it is the most going on in my life these days other than workshop which i will later do a post about when i have pcitures and stuff. But i love this movie so much!!!

Smelly House

2007-06-07T11:00:00.000-07:00

So yesterday, something happened in the dishwasher where a spatula was on the heat thing in it or something. I don't really know what happened but our house smelled SO BAD! Haha, Cole invented the duck tape on the nose. It actually kinda worked! But now, when we open the dishwasher it still smells horrible. I hope i am not dishes on the chore chart today.

Proud of my Papa

2007-06-05T22:09:00.001-07:00

I love how my dad makes the craziest things! His latest is a tent for the top of his jeep. He already made a platform thing a while ago so we could sleep up there at daddy- daughter,

but now he needs a tent in case it rains. While I am talking about this subject, i might as well show some other old good things he has made up. The first picture is Derek on the famous upside-down bike. And the second is me on the snow scooter he made up. I wish there were pictures of everything he made. I love my papa.

Pioneer Trek

2007-06-05T12:55:00.000-07:00

This was probably one of the best experiences i have had in my life! I loved it so much. In the picture, i am cutting the pattern for a skirt i made for the trek. The blisters and sore legs were totally worth the spirit i felt there. Everybody that went cannot say they didn't like it. I will have chance to go on another one only if i want to when i am 18 and i definetly want to! I will get a cd with a bunch of pictures from this later and i will add them.

SMILE

2007-06-05T12:49:00.000-07:00

This was a while ago, but since i just started the blog and i have nothing else to put on, i am doing Kristen and I singing our duet. We sang a re arranged version of You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile from Annie. It was really cute. Kristen just did pigtails for fun, haha. Everybody told me they loved it though, and we were their favorite. yes!

Stay Productive

2007-06-05T12:40:00.000-07:00

So, my mom is totally against Cole and me being lazy this summer. WE have chore chart where we either have to do dishes, empty the dish washer, or make dinner every day. I don't like it to much but i guess it will help me in the future. Also, every morning, Mom, Cole, and I (sometimes with Leah or the Bohns) go to Mountain View to play racquet ball, then do the ostacle course. The picture is me, Leah and Cole climbing the poles. And i did make it to the top, just not in the picture.

Tee Peed

2007-06-05T12:06:00.000-07:00

Yes, i got tee peed.I look like i am crying in the first picture, but i was just rubbing my eyes because my mom just woke me up. So it was this kid's birthday, so my friends and i drew all over his driveway with chalk and shredded him. It wan't that bad, but he was having a sleepover with other guys and they used around 90 rolls of toilet paper to get us back! It was bad. It took the neighbors, my mom, my friend kimee, and me two hours to clean up! It was hard work. The guys thought it was hilarious. They even drove by a couple times to laugh at us. Dang boys...

Pearly Whites

2007-06-05T11:59:00.000-07:00

No more braces Baby! This is right after i got them off and i had to take a picture. I had an early morning appointment so i didn't really get ready, as you can see. But my teeth are so slimy and smooth! i love it! My mom says i look like a whole different person, and i sure feel like one!I feel free after more than three years! The picture on the right is also right after i got them off.