Smiley Sarah

End of Summer Update

2011-08-28T19:17:00.000-07:00

It's been a pretty good summer. Despite all the hot work outside, I've been able to go to EFY, Girls Camp, Youth Conference and a weekend and Rachel's :).

Tomorrow school starts for OHSU and Box Elder High starts Tuesday. I am excited - but I'm pretty sure in two weeks I'll be begging for summer...actually I really hope that's not the case. As of this semester my schedule consists ACT prep, Pre Calc, English, Chemistry, Spanish, and World History at OHSU. At Box Elder I only have Choir and Seminary this tri. BUT Next semester I have Swimming and the trimester after that I have Dance 3(Swing, Ballroom, etc.)
It's kind of interesting going to both schools at the same time because one goes by semesters and one goes by trimesters, but somehow it works out for me.

I also have to show you a bag that Rach helped me make while I was at her house. But Blogger is being retarded and I can't move the pictures around. The bag pictures are on the bottom, I think. Did I mention it's reversible? I really like it :) Thanks Again, Rach.

The pictures of the flowers are ones that I've made in the past few days. The blue one is my favorite. I found all the tutorials online.
White and blue ones - http://hopestudios.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-bouquet-ribbon-flowers-two-ways.html

Brown one - http://kindawonderful.typepad.com/pink_paper_peppermints/2008/06/rounded-petal-fabric-flowers-31-crafty-flowers-in-31-days--day-23.html

Anyways, that's my life. It's about to get ten times busier though so don't expect much.

2011-04-13T21:20:00.001-07:00

HAHA I Love this picture!!! This is my niece, Nicole, at her 1st birthday party. I think she was a little curious about the candle.

Just in case I was supposed to upload a photo I took for Photography class I uploaded this one. This was one of my action photos.

Why Now??

2011-03-06T19:40:00.000-08:00

Flippin' Blogger. It won't let me put on pictures right now but I took some pretty cool pictures of me having a fight with myself. What? You don't get it? You can see it at my other blog : http://photographytrainee.blogspot.com/. It's the post labeled "Just for Fun"

Pumpkin Stuff

2011-03-06T19:36:00.000-08:00

This is for you Callie. It's also another school assignment. It's my extremely embarrassing anecdote.

It was about four or five years ago when a funny, embarrassing incident happened. I was craving something sugary that day, and we didn’t really have anything sweet. So what other option do I have then to make something? Somehow I ended up choosing pumpkin cookies. I looked at the the old yellow paper that had the recipe on it. Considering how old the paper was, I could read most of it pretty well; I started putting in ingredients. All was going well when I saw how much honey it called for; 13 cups!! I was so confused! I should mention now that at the time I was home alone, otherwise I would have asked for help. Not sure what to do, I proceeded to put the honey in. I had probably put in four or five cups of honey when my sister-in-law walked in. After the usual “Hello, how are you” conversation I told her I was making cookies and my question about the honey. She was shocked and examined the old, tattered recipe and laughed as she said,”Sarah, I think that says ⅓ cup of honey!” I buried my hands in face, starting to cry. “It’s okay, I’ll help you!” she said as she went into the pantry to fix my horrible mistake. My amazing sister-in-law came out with a spice cake mix. “Would this work?” “I guess,” I replied, not caring to finish what I started. Somehow, she helped me add enough cake mix and the cookie dough ended up being pretty good pumpkin bars. Since that day I keep telling my Mom to rewrite her recipes on new paper so people can actually read them!

P.S. Callie is the sis-in-law in case you didn't get that.

The Visitor

2011-03-06T19:30:00.001-08:00

Hi all! This is a story I wrote for English. Proof that I really do school! Enjoy!

The Visitor
I finally put down the book, knowing if I was late for work I would get a pay cut. I got my cowboy boots and brown jacket. I reached for my keys from my desk but they weren’t there. “That’s weird,” I thought. “Where could they have gone?” I frantically looked around, wondering where I could have misplaced them. “I can’t be late again!” I said aloud. I searched the room and as my eyes passed the window I saw a sort of metal staff. I knew that was not supposed to be there and as I looked closer I saw that my keys were on the staff! Immediately I flew out the door to see why my keys were on a jagged metal staff.

I got outside and saw that the staff was held up by a human figure in a black robe. Suddenly I felt fear inside me. It wasn’t a normal kind of fear that everybody feels when they think they are about to die. No, it was sort of a magical fear. It was unexplainable. I was filled with a fear so sharp I almost fell down to the ground in shock. But I couldn’t figure out what I was scared of. I think that’s part of why I was so scared.

“Ho-how did you get m-my keys? Why d-do you w-want them?” I stuttered.

“I seek for your assistance,” said the figure.

“Assistance?” I asked.

He replied, “Yeah, you know, helping some-”

“Shut-up, I know what what it means!” I interrupted, some of the fear subsiding. I hated sounding like I didn’t know what things meant. “Why do you want my help?”

“Well, it’s difficult to explain,” He started. “I’m not from this earth. I guess you could call me an alien but I’m not from outer space. I from another dimension within this world. I need your help to find a location where I can go into another dimension.”

“Another dimension, eh? Okay, what’s your name? There’s a mental hospital down the street. Just give me the keys and you’ll be fine,” I said in all seriousness.

“I’m not mentally ill!! I’m serious! My name is Santar. I can prove to you I’m from another dimension,” replied Santar, very frustrated.

“Oh, yeah? You have a super power or something?” I said jokingly, “can you read minds? Fly? Super speed?”

Santar rolled his eyes and said, “No. Those are normal super powers. I can make objects come to life. I can make people feel what I want them to. I can’t read peoples’ minds but I can let them read mine when I want them to. I’ll show you. Give me your watch.” I gave him my black and blue watch. Holding it in his hand he said some weird gibberish and out of nowhere I heard the watch say, “Hey, what do you want with me? Let me go! Put me on a wrist!” The watch kept mumbling on quietly.

I was stunned! I was hearing a watch talk! I began to wonder if I was the one who was mentally ill. I was starting to go insane. What if this wasn’t real? What if this was all in my head? I started to think back if I had taken something to make me delusional. I heard Santar’s voice again.

“Are...you okay?” he asked.

Still thinking I was delusional, I pushed the question away from my mind. How could this happen to me? I was a good, healthy person! What if this dude stayed with me for the rest of my life and I was the only one who could see him?

“What is the matter with you?” asked Santar as he grabbed my shoulders and shook me.

That seemed to awake me from the conflict that had aroused inside me. I some how managed to pull myself together and ask, “Okay...well...I don’t want a talking watch. Can you make it go back?”

“Yeah, no problem,” Santar spoke more gibberish and the watch was silent again.

I sighed with confusion and exhaustion. “Okay then, what do we do now?” I asked. “We need to find an extremely private place with a lot sunlight,” Santar explained. “Do you know a place like that?”

“Yeah, actually I know of a place just like that!” I said, hoping to get whatever he wanted over with.

“Well let’s go then!” Santar said, excited.

We got into my blue beaten-up car and headed off to the horse ranch where I worked. Somehow, I couldn’t stop fidgeting. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. As I tried to make conversation with the bizarre new stranger in my life I couldn't force any words out. It seemed as if Santar was having the same issues. Thankfully, it was a fairly short ride and the awkwardness was soon over.

“What is this place?” Santar asked curiously as we got out of the car.

“This is where I work. Follow me,” I replied, walking toward an empty horse pasture. We stopped near the center of the field. “This is the place,” I said, wondering what he would do.

“This will do,” he said, seeming satisfied. He pulled out of his pocket a glowing sphere about one inch in diameter. He set it down on the ground and the ball somehow soaked in the sunlight so that you could see the rays being absorbed into the rounded shape and glowing out in a greenish tint. The glowing and absorption abruptly stopped and a funnel shape grew out of the ball.

“Thanks for your help!” were Santar’s final words as he waved and jumped into the hole in the air. The funnel rapidly grew smaller and disappeared in an instant.

“That’s it?” I thought. I couldn't decided if I liked it or not that Santar had gone. But life was back to normal, and it was time to get to work. I had to hurry because I really couldn’t afford a pay cut. I started pondering if all of that was real when I heard my boss loud and clear yell, “Maddy! What are you doing? We have horses to feed! Stalls to clean! Get over here and get to work!” I sighed with contentment. Life was back to normal.

Fail

2011-02-08T05:16:00.000-08:00

Yeah...I fail at this update thing. BUT! I'm taking a photography class and I have a blog that will get updated regularly. http://photographytrainee.blogspot.com/

And...I know this has nothing to do with anything but these videos are so cute! Please watch it. Ignore the depressing music in the beginning. I promise it's not depressing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80entLldZOg

So yeah...that's all for now. Toodles!

Nauvoo Pictures

2010-11-22T22:53:00.001-08:00

"Nauvoo"

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Slide show

2010-11-22T21:13:00.000-08:00

So I found a new way to show you pictures using picnik. Hopfully it works!

"Picnik Show"

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Florida!!

2010-10-02T21:26:00.000-07:00

So I'm sitting here on my couch-bed at 12:30am(florida time) in Jared and Laura's house and writing this post. I was actually waiting for everybody to get out of my "bedroom" because they were all talking. So I turned on my computer, thinking that they wouldn't leave very soon and they ended up leaving before the computer was 100% on. But why let it go to waste, right? (they left because I was starting to set up my bed....hehehehehe)

Anyway....Florida is awesome!! It was really hot and muggy when we got here but we either got used to it or it cooled down. But we went to some really cool places.

We went to the everglade Alligator farm. That was pretty awesome. I took some good pictures, but like before, I can't find my cord to transfer the pictures. We learned some amazing things. We took an air boat ride and it was loud! Even with the plugs on! At one point when we were going really fast I tried to ask Alex if he was having fun-I couldn't even hear myself! (I'm sorry I ramble on...even on the computer).

We also went that same day to Coral Castle. It was so extraordinary and amazing. This guy named Edward Leedskalnin, who by the way was 5 feet tall and weighed 100 lbs(around there), moved HUGE blocks of coral - don't know where from - to where it is now. Not only did he move them BY himself, but he carved them too. He made a lot of amazing things. He had chairs, beds, rocking chairs, a REALLY small bathtub, and More! He carved Mars, Saturn and the moon. He carved a little crib for a baby, and tables. That's not all, but I won't go on. Pictures later!

The beach was awesome and SO much fun...till we had to leave because cleaning up was horrible. But the water was the perfect temperature, hardly any waves - not good for boogyboarding, but excellent for kids and swimming. We got buried in sand and and made sand castles. I found a really cool see shell. There were several schools of fish which was fascinating to see. I tried to catch one...didn't work out so well. They're fast!!

And the reason I'm able to do all these amazing things is because I have Open High School of Utah. It's an online charter school. Mom was able to call in and we requested that I have no deadlines for the trip at all. They said that was fine and Wha la! that's why I can write this...not that anybody reads this anyway.

That's all for now! Can you believe I'm actually caught up?...I take that back. I still have to put pictures on.

Nauvoo!!

2010-10-02T17:40:00.000-07:00

Hello! I know that, as usual, its been a long time. But as usual, I've been busy. In fact I wouldn't even be writing on here if the stupid internet would connect. (I'm writing this in word and then copying and pasting).

But enough of that! I'm in Nauvoo!! It is SOOO amazing! We arrived Thursday night and are leaving Monday I think. There's so much to talk about.
We went to what they call Old Nauvoo. They have all these buildings that would look just like the originals and they would give us tours of each building. We saw the post office, John Taylor's home, and the printing office. It is so amazing how they lived! We think we have everything with all our wonderful technology, but they thought of Everything!!! Aaand there are so many connections to sayings and words I did realize originated from them. Do you know why they are called "upper case" and "lower case" letters? Because the printer had the big letters in the upper case and the little letters in the lower case!

But in summary Nuavoo is amazing! My next post will be from Florida.
Well thats all for now. I would give pictures but I don't have the cord for my camera at the moment. I'll have to post pictures later.

P.S. This post was written a week ago and just now being posted.

School has Started....

2010-08-14T18:41:00.000-07:00

....in a week. OHSU (Open High School of Utah) starts August 23.

I can't believe the summer is already practically over. I didn't have the funnest summer, but it was good.

thats....all for now....that was really short.

Home from camp early

2010-07-28T14:12:00.000-07:00

No, I'm not home because I did something bad or anything like that. I'm sick, ugh. I've had a cough for a couple weeks and then on Sunday I was cold at church and came home cold and was cold all day. Cold! In my house! But I got up Monday and felt fine so I worked in the back till lunch and then I was cold again. Girls Camp was the next day so I was kind of worried that I wouldn't be able to go. But I woke up Tuesday feeling fine. I was fine up at camp too 'till they started playing games out in the sun. So I went back and tried to sleep in my tent and the leader saw me asked what was wrong. And I told her. Which resulted in the nurse coming to see me. The thermometer read my temperature as 104.2. So they took me home which was probably the worst car ride ever because of the bumpiest dirt road ever. When I got home my temperature was supposedly 102....something. So I went to sleep, then woke up, ate, took a shower, then went back to sleep at 8:00. I then woke up at 12:00am and then 1:00, then 2:00, then I couldn't go back to sleep so I watched the movie "Beethoven." After that I went back to sleep and slept 'till 7:30ish. Since then I haven't really slept much, despite my efforts, but I am feeling better. So hopefully I'll be able to go back tomorrow.

Sorry, I know that was a really long paragraph so if you read the whole thing, awesome. But I had to get the whole story out of me some how and typing was the easiest way because nobody wants to listen to me the whole time.

'Till next time!

EFY was....

2010-07-03T17:35:00.000-07:00

...AMAZING!!! I had an awesome time. It was a stay-at-home session(come home to sleep) but because it was up in Logan I got to stay Cyndy's house with my friend Lindsey. Of course, we never went to bed earlier than 12:00am, and always woke up about 7:30. But we managed to still have a good time at EFY. The funny part is that we always came home hyper, which is why it took so long to go to bed. The teachers were awesome. They were all pretty funny but the best teacher was brother Bell. He used to play football at the same time he was a bishop. He stopped playing football and is now a stake president at 37. I thought that was kind of cool. He was an amazing teacher and always had funny stories.

I met lots of awesome people too. Below is a picture of a kid named Chase nicknamed 'Justin Bieber.' It was really quite funny because he thought I hated him, which I didn't, because he was very strange and annoying(like Justin Beiber) and I let him know it.

Anyway I think that's all unless I were to tell you all the funny stories I learned but that would take a LONG time and a long post which nobody would read.
Just one last thing. A shout out to the Weiss family, especially Will, for letting us stay at there house and eating there food and keeping them up until 12:00am.

Here are some random, somewhat-funny pictures if you want to look at them....

I was trying to take a nice picture, but the people behind
apparently didn't want it to be.

Uh...Evil?

Service Project. I was a ninja. :)

Summer....Yay or Nay?

2010-06-10T20:03:00.000-07:00

So to explain the title to this post I am hoping that with girls camp, EFY, Youth Conference, dances and random parties will even out all the work my Dad is having me do (now that he's retired) and the other cons of summer. Now that I think of it I think it probably will. Amazing what happens when you see what you are thinking.

EFY is at the end of the month and I am SO excited! This will be my second year and I'm doing it with a friend this year :)

AAand...there's a chance that we might get another exchange student! We weren't going to because they were supposed to come during girls camp(because she would spend most of her time with me) but they have different schedules for different people apparently.

I was GOING to upload pictures of some stuff I took but the computer or the internet is not uploading pictures correctly for some reason. :/ Oh well.

Thanks for reading!!

Soccer Video

2010-06-09T10:02:00.000-07:00

I was bored and came across this and started putting in pictures. So there's Me, Mom, Matthew, Steven, and Greg. :D

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My Photography

2010-05-08T07:35:00.000-07:00

So I got a really nice camera for Christmas and I love taking pictures with it. Here are some that I took. By the way, none of them are edited.

I was just lucky with this one.

2010-02-26T13:01:00.001-08:00

This is a good video. Watch all the way through.

Excuses Excuses

2010-02-25T17:25:00.001-08:00

I might as well start with Christmas. It was great! I got a camera. I love taking pictures of views an stuff. I also got a basketball, some dvd's and a few other things. We had a lot of fun over Christmas break too. Jason, Kristine, Jon and Rachel came down we had fun with them. We also went sledding which was good.

Well....Since everybody else decided they need to keep up with their blogs, I am falling behind. And I will probably stay behind. Because I suck at keeping this updated. :( But I do have an excuse! I'm busy with school. I know. What a classic excuse. But it's true! Since the new semester started for "Open High School of Utah" I still have a lot of things to do.

For geometry I still have to take the final. (Not my fault. We ordered it and it just hasn't come yet). And after I do that I have to take the second semester...or geometry 2....I don't know. I just know I have more math to do.

For English this semester we just finished "To Kill a Mockingbird." It was REALLY good. I enjoyed it.
I'm also taking Computer Technology and learning a few more things about the computer, but not too much. :)
For Earth Systems we're learning about the "Big Bang" and how it was possible. Pssh. Whatever. It's not too bad.

And guess what!! I'm a going to have another exchange student this summer! YAY!! I'm excited. And don't forget girl's camp and E.F.Y. This year for EFY I'm going to go with a friend. It should be fun!

I guess that's all for now.

My extra credit assignment

2010-01-10T11:40:00.000-08:00

Hey! This is an assignment I did for extra credit in geography. I used http://glogsteredu.edu.glogster.com/ It's a really cool website that lets you put together a collage of pictures, information, videos and media! Here's the link to the one I made. http://sxkuaqm.edu.glogster.com/extra-credit-for-geo/

Told You So

2009-10-10T13:13:00.000-07:00

Well I told you it'd be a while before I wrote here again. I've been pretty busy. But Grandma Owen made me feel guilty so I had to do a quick one. So here it is.

I'm getting used to this online school and after a while it's not so bad. Though I have an 8-15 page paper to right.

I'm also taking "Foods and Nutrition" at the middle school along with Seminary. I'm glad I don't have to take seminary at home or online. I need at least a little social life. Haha. And in Foods class i get to cook! Not that I need the practice.

In case you were wondering what that picture on the right was...its me. LOL. We had crazy hair day at my online school and not to brag or anything...but I think mine was the best. I might have over done it a little ...but I don't think anybody else was very creative. No offense to anybody who happens to go to OHSU

I also cut my hair! And the best part is I can still put it in a pony or bun or whatever. And it look cute when I leave it wavy...I think.

I'll be 15 in about a little more than a month. Scary! But then it's Christmas!! Woohoo!! I'm excited for a long break from school. But no. I have to wait for Thanksgiving first. Not that that's so bad either.

Well. I believe that brings me up to date. Once again, it'll probably be a while before I update again.

Life...is good :) PART 2

2009-08-13T16:54:00.000-07:00

Well, as I promised, here is the rest of my life.
How about I go from least important to most.

I cut my Bangs! I like them. Sometimes they get in the way. But for the most part I like them and
am glad I cut them. Here's a Picture. Do they look okay?

Puppies are doing pretty good. We only have two left! One blue and one silver. They are bigger now than they are in the picture. But they're still cute.

The Farm or whatever you want to call it is also keeping me busy. We have somewhere around 50 rabbits, 2 cats, 2 puppies and 1 dog. That's just the animals. We also have to pick blackberries (which by the way I picked 13 pounds today and only got halfway done!), and Goji Berries. And don't forget weeding. That's always fun. Oh and don't forget the big lawn I have to mow. We had a big lawn in the first place but then Grandma's house got some grass and now I have a big lawn to mow. I usually end up doing it in two days. Plus all the other random jobs that keep us busy.

School! Well this year for school I will be going to public school. But only for part time. I will do Seminary, Choir, and Food Nutrition...something like that. But all the required classes I get to do at home! On a laptop! That's mine! Yep. I get my own laptop. The school provides it so there's no issue with the programs and stuff. Here's some proof if you don't believe me.

Oh and I have to give a talk this Sunday so I think I'll stop writing. (Or typing). Thanks for reading. :)

Life...is good :) PART 1

2009-08-13T10:35:00.000-07:00

Well. Sorry I haven't updated in a while. But I've been busy. And its not an excuse either. I'll give you proof and just tell you the last month of my life.

To start off, I had girls camp. It was a blast! We had it up at a girls home in Mantua. Some people didn't like it because we weren't sleeping in tents. And I was one of those girls. But I also didn't care because we had flush-able toilets, a really fun water day, and lots of other stuff that you don't get when you go real camping. So there's that.

Then the day after I got home from girls camp, we went to a family reunion up in Afton, Wyoming. No time to write about girls camp there. And the family reunion was so fun! We had lots of games watched movies 'till 2:00am and water fun.
We also made a short video about Mom's and Dad's life from when the met each other up until we moved to Perry, while they were gone. (They had to go back to Perry for a wedding one day of the reunion.) It was pretty funny making the video because at one point I was Mom and Matthew was Dad. And we had really funny scenes. That about sums it up for the reunion.

Then the Monday after we got home I had E.F.Y. for the rest of the week. It was AMAZING!! I had the best time, felt the spirit a lot, and made a lot of friends. I am even going through with drawl because I miss my friends. But there is a reunion for it this Saturday. Hopefully I'll be able to go to that.

And then Rachel (my sister), had her beautiful baby girl. I haven't seen her in person yet but Mom went up and help her for a few days. Which is another I would write about it here's the link to Rach's blog. http://gosslovin.blogspot.com/

So there goes three weeks. Plus you add my procrastination. Makes up however long I haven't done this.

But now that I'm caught up, I'll tell you about the rest of life. Later :) and don't worry. I will do it tonight.

Oh yeah. Sorry I don't have any pictures. I will have a couple pictures later. Plus I didn't have a digital camera at girls camp or efy so I'm still waiting for film.

Puppies!!...Finally!

2009-07-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

Okay. Sorry it took me so long to this up. I have been really busy this last month. But anyway here are some pics of the pups. Cute! You need to come see them!! All those who live in Arizona and Florida and are coming for the family reunoin (Jared, Laura, Alan and Robin) don't worry I think they'll still be here by the family reunion.

All of the Random, Funny, Experiences on the Trek

2009-06-22T07:25:00.001-07:00

OK. The first funny thing that happened to me was that we got into camp and started preparing our dinner (which by the way did not have enough flavor to it). And the First Aid lady walks by and asks if got the bag of candy that was in our bucket for dessert for dinner. We did and said yes. She said to eat one to keep up our blood sugar and keep us going. That is the first and probably the last time anyone will ask me to eat my dessert first, then dinner. But that's not the funny part. I was sucking on a mint and this kid named Alex made me laugh which made me spit out my mint into someone elses stew!! I looked at for a second and Alex is like, "now look what you did!" So I started taking it out and Alex says to stir it in and starts stirring it in!! No! I finally got it out. I think Steven(that was his name) might have tasted some mint but he didn't say anything.

The next funny thing is that on the way down from the steep muddy hill, the bottom of my shoe started coming off. You know. The part that helps me not slip and keep a grip on the ground. Anyway it started flipping around. After about 15 feet it just came off. Now its lost forever. But I'm kind of glad it came off. It gave me an excuse to get good running shoes. Here's a picture.

The next funny thing is that the night it rained I was sleeping and my retainer came out somehow. I wasn't very happy 'cause I new I would get in trouble for something totally accidental. But when they brought back the sleeping bags they had my retainer in a little baggy. And when I told my mom about this she stood there waiting for me to say the "but they found it" part. It should interesting seeing my orthodontists face when I tell him I lost it. And then a minute later tell him I found it.

I think that's all. I know these stories probably weren't even funny to you. But I had to tell them somehow.
Oh and sorry about the last post that it was so long. I didn't think about doing a part 1 and a part 2 'till after I had published it.

Hopefully I will write about the puppies in a couple days 'cause their eyes are opened. :)

Trek. Oh lovely Trek

2009-06-21T20:33:00.000-07:00

*sigh* this is probably gonna be my longest post ever on this blog. And will probably take a while to write it too.

A few days ago my stake had a trek. It started on a Tuesday and we went home on Friday.
The first day we started at 8:00 at the church. Then got rides to a different church and got water bottles and learned "handcart safety." Finally at around 10:30 we take off with our buckets and bags in the handcarts (we got a 5 gallon bucket as a suitcase and a bag for a sleeping bag and extra coat and shoes).

The first day we hiked 15 miles!! It seemed to take FOREVER!! And we didn't even get to the campsite we were supposed to! The actual place we were supposed to stop was 2 miles further. So it was kind of cramped the first night. After that it was all good 'cause we had dinner (funny story for that.) and we went to bed...then we woke up to rain...at 3:00 in the morning. The girls in my company were in between a tarp. And it was working for a while and than it started leaking in and stuff. So we got out and someone lent us a tent. But that didn't do me too much good because I was on the edge of the sleeping that was unzipped. So I was kinda cold. But than Sister Grenko came and told us there was fire and I got warm. Then I found my bucket wasn't sealed so I spent the rest of the time around around the fire drying my stuff out. Oh yeah we weren't the only ones who got wet. There were only a few people who didn't get wet.

By the way is anyone wondering what happened to the sleeping bags? They got soaked. So the leaders took them to the dry cleaners!! (Funny story for this too).

The second day was SO much better!! Since it rained the trail was all muddy so instead of going the 12 more miles we were supposed to(7 one day, 5 the next) we went five miles, on mostly flat ground that was quite muddy, and stayed there the rest of the trek. The only thing wrong with that five miles was that we had to stop every 10 or 15 minutes! It was kind of annoying! And whats more is that we were 10 minutes from the next campsite and they told us to stop for lunch!! Why couldn't we just FINISH IT!!!! Sorry. I had to get that out. But the rest of the day was good. There was a little river so a lot of people went there and washed their feet and cooled off. Then we had dinner which was much better than the night before. AND we had TENTS!! And yes it did rain but we stayed dry that night. I was very happy.

The next day they decided they wanted us to take us up this really steep hill. (Don't forget it rained the night before). The steep hill was across the river and the bridge was too small to fit the handcart through. So 3 or 4 boys took it from us while we crossed the bridge and they went through the river with the handcart. Then we got the handcart and headed up the hill. Almost like story.
They got us up there, gave us a five minute brake, and took the boys away. Yes. They were gonna do a woman's pull. It was not fun but coming around the corner the boys were standing there and they all had a blank look on there faces that said they wanted to come help. That just gave me a perspective of what the women went through and how much the boys actually did help. (hehe). After that they had us hike a couple more miles but that was OK.
Then we came down the hill (funny story for that too) and when we got to the river we went strait through it with our shoes on. It felt SO good!! After everyone got their handcarts parked most people went to the river and pretty much jump in. Some people even got dunked or just went all the way in. I didn't because I wasn't that hot or desperate.

Than after everyone one was done playing in the river the bishops came and we had a little ward meeting thing. Then we got to eat dinner. It was very good but it wasn't as good as everyone had said it would be.
After a while there was a dance. Yes, I did dance...or try at least. I would've been funner if they had showed us how to dance 2 weeks before instead of 2 months before. (They had a stake mutual on learning how to square dance).

In the morning we had to really early because they wanted us gone by 8:30. Nobody really complained about that because everyone was excited to go home. After everything was put in the handcart we parked and ate breakfast and then we all left.

It was five miles to the church we were supposed to go to. It was pretty boring for the first 2-3 miles. But there was a marathon we ran into and the end so it was fun to cheer them on and read everyone's cheesy advertisements.

I think that's it. If I left out details you want to know I guess you can leave a comment. Sorry it was so long. And sorry there are no pictures. I didn't take a camera.

Love Story meets Viva La Vida

2009-06-04T09:54:00.000-07:00

This is an awesome video arranged by Jon Schmidt. It's a combination of "Love Story" by Taylor Swift and "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay. Just so you know it sounds cooler if you know what both songs sound like separetly first. //www.jonschmidt.com/catalog/music_video.html

Dixie had her Puppies!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-05-30T19:04:00.000-07:00

Yes, Dixie had her puppies yesterday. She had 10!! but one died. :( It was the first one and...we're not quite sure why it died. But the rest lived. And Dixie is doing really well too. She is pooped, but good. Here are some pics. There two different kinds of colors. The lighter one is called silver. The Darker ones are blue. (Don't ask me why they say blue). The dad was a blue color I think and Dixie is a silver. Dixie had 5 blue and 5 silver (the one that died was blue). And I bet ya didn't know weimaraners had stripes when you were born did you? But they go away after about a week. I know in the pictures it doesn't look like 10 and its not. That's only 7. I went out there and she had 2 more! Sorry I couldn't get the pictures to tilt the right way.

P.S. Sorry about not keeping a good update on the bunnies. I was kind of busy. Hopefully I'll do better on this.

Dixies Gonna Have Puppies!!

2009-05-29T16:44:00.000-07:00

Okay. I know this is a little bit late because Dixie is due to have puppies on June 1st or 2nd. I'm SO excited!! Anyway...here's a couple pictures of her. There's before and after. Can you tell she's pregnant? Sorry I couldn't get good one of her standing up. She wouldn't hold still. Hopefully I be able to keep an update after the puppies are born. We shall see.

Bunnies!! More Bunnies!! Still More Bunnies!!

2009-04-29T10:41:00.000-07:00

O.K. Recently we have had a few litters of bunnies. We had 7 litters total. 5 litters died. And only 2 litters lived. So we have been really excited to see these bunnies grow. There are 5 bunnies in one. And 2 bunnies in the other (litter).

So Just today two jump out of the boxes. I tried to take a video but it never seems to upload for me on here. So sorry. Here are pictures of them from when the were itty bitty to their eyes opening to now. Hopefully I will put more up as they get older and we can actually start holding them.

Beagle

2009-04-17T15:38:00.000-07:00

We found this Beagle wandering around in our yard a couple days ago. It was an old dog I think. It ended up being a dog who was being watched by someone who I used to do 4-H with. Oh, and guess what the dogs name was. Beagle!! He was actually pretty cute too. I forget how cute beagles are when you look them strait on.

The Cat Wanted to Take a Bath...In The Washing Machine

2009-04-17T15:15:00.000-07:00

O.K. This is really weird but as I was walking out of the bathroom I saw that the the washing machine door was open and then I saw the cat was in it!! Dangerous! I'm glad I noticed it when I did. Here's a couple pictures.

And no I did not put her in there.

I Didin't Forget

2009-03-23T08:55:00.001-07:00

Hello y'all. Just letting you know that I didn't forget to update this. There just wasn't much to say.
...plus I've been lazy. But just a little bit.

Waaaaaaa!!! I can't believe its SNOWING!!!!!! It is NOT supposed to snow! I was just starting to get used to the warm weather too! It snowed like a half an inch. And it still there! And its still snowing!! I don't like it. But I guess I can't do anything about it.

That's all...I think. Goodbye. :) :P

Patcy

2009-03-04T19:15:00.000-08:00

Brenda isn't bragging about Patcy enough on her blog so I am doing it for her. (I'm just kidding Brenda).

The other night she was so funny. She was nodding her head a lot, waving her arms and laughing. It was hilarious. I managed to get some of it on camera but of course she didn't do so well since I was recording but oh well. Still funny. Shoot!! ...The video is taking too long to load. Sorry. Maybe I will be able to get on here sooner or later. Sorry!! :(

A New Car!!!!!

2009-02-15T10:54:00.000-08:00

Woohoo! Yep. We bought a new car. It's a 2007 white minivan. Classic right? It's a very nice car. We(Mom and Dad) got a GREAT deal. It's got all the cool stuff, stow and go, AC in the back, etc. Um...I think that's all. I was just really excited and decided I would let y'all know. :)
Toodloo! :P

Junior Jazz

2009-02-03T10:37:00.000-08:00

I've been trying to post this for a while but keep forgetting. So if you've seen my other post (25 Random things) than you know that I joined a "Junior Jazz" team.
I joined 3 games late but that's not too bad 'cause I don't think those games count in league standings. But since I joined we haven't lost a game (even though I've only played two games). And I'm pretty sure were going to playoffs.
So...I don't know why I'm writing this because it's really embarrassing, but I lost my jersey. We just won a game and went to get my hoodie and my watch. I took off my jersey to put on my hoodie. BAD IDEA! I really thought I had it when I walked out...apparently not.

Um...I know there's something else to write about but I can't think of it right now!!!*sigh* That would be all for now. Toodloo!

25 random things about me

2009-01-29T11:50:00.000-08:00

OK so I was doing this thing on facebook so figured I might as well post it on my blog.

Note: I edited this post on #18 'cause it said that I have blog 'cause I did this on facebook before I did it here.

1. I love animals. Especially Horses.

2. I like to cook. And I make WAY good bread sticks and calzones (pizza pockets).

3. I joined a Junior Jazz team...but I joined late. So I've only played in a few games.

4. Depending on my mood, I can have my room spic and span...or I can not even care what it looks like. Most of the time its in between.

5. I love to babysit. But not so much that I do it free all the time.

6. I don't really like nuts that much. I do like cashews and pistachios but in other stuff.

7. I have only a few friends ('cause I'm home schooled), but if any body tries to hurt them or make them feel bad they will regret it.

8. I can never decide which season I like the most. (can anybody?). I like the summer cause I get to don't l don't have to much school work and I get to play...but I also have to work. I like winter because there's snow and no work to be done outside.

9. My favorite food is eggrolls that my mom make. Or calzones that I make. Than spaghetti and Pizza. Than chille potatoes.

10. I love to read. But only when I'm in a nice quiet spot, not being bothered.

11. I can be quiet, or I can be as loud as possible. Most of the time its in between.

12. I like to sing...but know if my voice is good. Even though people tell me its good.

13. I like to go bare foot almost every where in the summer.(especially in my back yard). Or else just flip flops

14. I like to play the piano and even try to write some.

15. I have a dog named Dixie and I love her very much. I don't care what people think about her.

16. Most people comment on how skinny I am. :)

17. I have a little brother who is very hard to be nice to sometimes.

18. I don't really like cake and ice cream together. Sometimes I don't even like cake. Though recently Brenda made an ice cream cake(ice cream on frozen cake). So good!

19. I don't really want to grow up. I would love to just stay at the age of 9 or 10.

20. I have 1 dog, 2 cats, and 15 rabbits. 18 animals in all. We used to have a lot more.

21. I'm ticked at my cats 'cause they used to be nice to Dixie. And now they're not.

22. I'm the 9th child of 10 children. I have 2 sisters and 7 brothers. My oldest bro. is 33 and my
youngest bro. is 9. I have 4 nephews and 7 nieces.

23. I can be a night owl and I can also get up early. I usually don't do either too much.

24. My mom says I have a good English accent.

25. I cut off 12in. of my hair once and gave it to "Locks of Love."

My English for Today

2009-01-09T14:52:00.000-08:00

I guess the title says it all. Today updating my blog counts as English!

I had a pretty good Christmas. I got what I wanted which was snow boots and Mad Libs ( Word Game). Plus other good stuff, but I doubt you want to know all that I got so I'm just gonna go on to the next paragraph.

Now that Christmas is over not much goes on around here. School, animals, church and...that's about it. But YW basketball did just start and I'm excited about. We had our first game yesterday. We lost! :(. That's okay though 'cause we had just found out about the game the day before and we didn't have any practices. So we are going to better next time.

Well, I think that's the best update I can come up with. Later!

P.S. I forgot to say that we got a telescope for Christmas too! Here are a couple pictures we took
with the web cam on it.

I'M GROWING UP!!! (Not really)

2008-12-01T16:10:00.000-08:00

Wow! I can't believe I'm 14!!! Aaaah! I'm growing up! Things to look forward to and things I could definitely wait for. *Sigh* I wish time didn't have to go by so fast. But there's nothing I can do about it so I might as well enjoy it!

Well, Christmas is coming up really soon! I'm really excited but I can still wait. No what I mean? Probably not cause I'm weird like that! LOL (Laugh Out Loud). One thing I can't wait for is lots of snow! I love snow! Well, that's all for now! :)

Kittens!!!

2008-11-08T17:39:00.000-08:00

One of my cats had kittens! That's right! Socks had seven kittens. They are so cute! Unfortunately, though my parents don't want to keep even one (which is all I want to keep!). So in case you haven't guessed yet I'm "advertising" free kittens. Here are some cute pictures of them. Aren't they cute! So if you know anybody around Perry who wants a free kitten you can tell them.

2008-11-07T09:57:00.001-08:00

Yeah! I have my own blog! I finally convinced my mom to let me have an email address so now I also have my own blog!
So guess what's new with me. I get my bottom braces off! I'm very excited. Let me rephrase that. I'M SO EXCITED TO HAVE ALL OF MY BRACES OFF!!! Hehehe. I'm not looking forward to having another retainer though. Well, that's it for now. I'll update again soon.