Countdown

Happy New Year!! Here's a taggy thingy, it's kind of like counting down to the new year if you didn't get that - just with odd numbers only :D

9 scriptures/quotes that stuck out to me through the year:
1. Alma chapter 7
2. "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"
3. "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain"
4. "The power of friendship is not the strongest in the world, but it's strong enough"
5. "Come what may and love it"
6. James 1: 22
7. "Friends foreve without the r because that would be the end of forever"
8. "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
9. Matthew 5

7 reasons why i love my best friends this year (+previous years):
1. they can always make me laugh, no matter what mood i'm in
2. they help with "homework"/we play ping-pong
3. we can finish each other sentences even if it's a little weird
4. we're not afraid of being weird
5. we have a lot in common and there's never nothing to say
6. i can count on them with anything
7. our inside jokes barely make sense to even us but we're ok with that

5 movies/books I have seen/read this year:
1. Twilight series
2. The Dark Knight
3. Wall-E
4. Horton Hears a Who
5. The Man Who Was Poe - icky

3 times i felt like crying because i was happy or really felt the spirit:
1. girl's camp - testimony meeting
2. girl's camp - liahona hike
3. watching my mom go through hard times and still make it out alive

1 thing you may not know about me:
1. i hate my feet with a passion


-2 people i tag are Mama D and Sarah. :)

Catching Up

I haven't been on in a while, other than blogging about Twilight, so here:

A little while ago I learned I was officially a Rhythm Express techie (backstage person) which is oober exciting. Rhythm is one of Fairfield's show choirs. Choraliers and Pure Elegance (the all girls group) are the High School choirs, while Rhythm is for Middle School studentsy people. Their Preview Show was on the 21st and it was totally beast. I'd link to it but it takes a little while to get those up on youtube so past performances will have to do for now. (i'll let you know as soon as they're up.) They're really good though, and you can check out the Choraliers on Saturday, Dec. 6th 1 pm, Liberty Building for the Annual Nativity Display. :D

School's school. My team walked down to McDonald's some Friday ago. It was fun except on the way back we saw 2 dead birds. And it provoked my social studies teacher (which if you knew him, would not be a surprise) to turn to his more teasing side... which isn't hard for him. He's hilarious, though, so it's ok. He kept going up to random students and going "Hey!! Watch out for that bird!!!" causing a lot of people to jump. It was really funny until he threw a piece of bark at me and screamed my name, telling me to watch out. I saw him through something but I still ended up being blond enough to scream and totally freak out. Still, it was oober hilarious.

I babysat and had a band concert and dance which is always fun. I'm excited, for my classes toe shoe number we're doing a Phantom of the Opera medley thingy. And we are going to try to do Taylor Swift's song Love Story next year. :)

We finally reached Thanksgiving Break and it's gone by so fast, I have to go back to school tomorrow. :( Over break, though, I went bowling with some friends, which was fun, even though I got creamed. My friend ended up falling on his face when it was his turn. Don't ask, I don't know how he managed that. But it was hilarious and we got it on video!

We went to the Robertsons for Thanksgiving dinner, like every year. It was awesome. There were crazy amount of people there - like 28 or something like that. But it was beast and yummylicious! :)

Umm... I guess that's about it. Yup.. =D

El Presidento

So this year is special because it's a voting year right? (and because we survived another president - yay us!)

But now we face a dilemma. Who should we pick as the future leader of our country? On one hand there's Obama and on the other there's McCain. (Why do we say 'on one hand' and 'on the other hand?' That's so silly, why can't it be feet?) But anywayz..

This year, I don't want one of them more strongly than the other. (In my head I'm still screaming "Woo, Mitt Romney!!") I would then, on not having strong opinions on a certain candidate, follow what my family says because they're smart (most of the time - love you guys!) and because I don't get to vote until whoever wins this election is done in the White House so it'll be a new set of candidates with a new set of issues.

But this year my family fully embraces the Ohio swing vote reputation. There are four of us who can vote (aww! freaky!) and we cancel each other out. Yes, 2 for Obama, 2 for McCain. Isn't that exciting!?!

So, I think if I had to choose, it would be McCain (abortion sucks, that's all i'll say about it) but I'd much rather vote on Bugs Bunny. Cuz, let's face it, if he can fool that Fudd guy and still have his carrot, he can run a country!

Hmm.. I don't know what to title this post but happy b-day to me sounds good cuz that's the most important part of it!! :]

Ok so i know i haven't been on in forever.. really sorry about that!!

So what's happening in my life? Well, since April (when i last posted) i've had dance (which is beast! : ]) and school (which is not so beast but it's supposedly "educational"..)

Plus at school i had to take 2 proficiency tests at the end of the year, which sucked! :( which, according to the frowning smiley face, made me sad.. (that's true btw, it did make me sad.) They were in math and science, 2 of my least fav classes.

I was in the Arts Fair for band. I guess it was fun.. Well, it was after we played our music cuz a bunch of my friends and i just wondered around the high school for a while and ended up getting lost at least 6 or 7 times!! It was soo cool!! = )

Happy Mother's Day!! (yea, i missed that very special holiday that is so important to me cuz it's celebrating the wonderful person that is my mom! (do i get brownie points for that?? i guess we'll talk about that later, wink, wink..)

I went to my friends b-day party which was soo fun except i couldn't sleep over cuz it was on a Sat..

Oh yea, my team went to Harbin Park this year for a field trip. It was really fun except that one kid broke his arm playing kickball, another person fractured her ankle playing that same deadly game, and my stomach really hurt after we ate our lunch.. no, actually, it was a little before that, but anywayz.. it's ok though cuz when we got back we watched a movie and the next day my friend gave me a get-well-card that was soo cute and hilarious.. at least to me (it had some inside jokes on it that most people wouldn't get..)

MY B-DAY WAS ON JUNE 1ST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That deserves a lot of exclamation points, trust me!! So, yup, i am finally 13 and i already can't wait to turn 14!

I had a fun b-day.. it was on a Sun so i got to see all my church friends and we skipped all our classes to have a party for me!! Jk, we wouldn't skip Sacrament Meeting!! Lol If you know my parents, you know that's not true, they would never let me skip out on church. (not that i would ever want to..)

As my big BIG present this year i got my ears pierced!!!!!!! Yea for me!!! My dad teases me all the time about it. "Yea, you finally have two holes in your ear!!!" The buttface! Lol I also got my hair cut and now i have side bangs, too!! I think it looks good if you straighten the bangs.. :)

Im supposedly getting other gifts too, but we'll see... Im just kidding, i was there when my mom bought them, but i can't tell you what they are cuz i don't know yet.. cough,cough..

We (Katie, Laura, and i) had our dance recital! It was really fun!! It was also funny cuz near the end our dance teacher walks into the dressing room area and was like "What's going on? The closing is starting like right now!" We were all scrambling around and it probably wasn't our best closing but it was fun..

Our last day of school was on the Mon after that. It would've been on the Fri before that (the day before the dance recital, in case you wanted to know) but we had to make up a day cuz of too many snow days!! It totally sucked!! > ( (does that look like an angry face, i can't tell...)

Happy Father's Day!! Even if it's not as important as Mother's Day (luv ya, papa!! = p) i still care about it.. Lol jk

Im going over to a friends house later this week and then the next day it'll be Laura's 7th b-day. (which she doesn't let anyone forget) So Laura will be 6 (yes, i know i said it will be her 7th b-day and i was right because even though she's only turning six, it was her birthday on the day of her birth, which still counts!! O yea, im smartical!!!) and going into 1st grade, which is just plain freaky.

Nothing else has really happened with me so you have officially been updated about my life!! Yea for you!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!! Well, actually it's a little late for that, but technically it's still the new year, so Happy New Year!

So that was basically it. That's the only holiday that's past so far in 2008, right?

That's weird, saying it's 2008, because it is.

Anyway, I'm done for now.

Nothin but coal..

You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why...

Santa Clause is coming to town!!!

He's making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice...

Santa Clause is coming to town!!!

He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake...

OOOOhhhhhhh, you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why...

Santa Clause is coming to town... unless you live in a big city and not a town.. it would be "Santa clause is coming to the city.." But that doesn't sound right..

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Everybody knows this song.. unless you're demented or younger than 1... but basically everyone knows it.

If you're sane, you'll listen to the song and you'll watch out, and not cry, and not pout and you'll end up getting pretty much everything on your list...

And if you're not sane, you'll get nothing but coal (check out the name of the post, pretty smart, right?)

So, I suppose my warning (?) to you would be "be sane.."

Santa Claus is coming to town!!

On.. some day, Santa Claus will be at.. some mall. (I'm going.. maybe..) Just in case you wanted to know.. and if you live close enough to go to some mall to visit Santa...

You do believe in Santa, don't you!?! Because every time you say you don't believe in him, one Santa dies. Oh, wait that's fairys... it doesn't matter. You better believe in them, too!!

Umm, that might be it.. So, just write your lists.. but be nice, so that you can get whatever is on your list, and not a stocking-full of coal...

*I have a lot of ..'s and ...'s in this post! :)*