Last Day of School 2010

 Today was field/the last day of the school. Meaning that insyead of going to school we went straight to
Sunrise Meadows Park.It was supposed to be warm. But of course it ended up being cold and windy.
Most of the day we just sat there and talked which was... fun.I don't remember how this started but me and my friends ended up throwing grass at each other and then we went after Jesse K. who in turn got us back.

                                                    

Jesse K. about to throw grass at me.

   

                  
 Then they had a teachers vs. students softball game.I just sat by and watched. because if I had played they would have lost bad.I don't remember who ended up winning. I think it was the teachers.
    After the game Mr. VT announced that he would not be coming back next year! Which is horrible because he is one,if not the only teacher in the school who is irreplacable. With his unquie way of teaching and his teasing. And now I'm not sure if he was kidding or not. But he seemed serious. I don't know how i'm going to survive Geometery next year with out him!
  Then it was the water fight!!!!!
  At first I really didn't want to participate, but then Reganne came up to me and sprayed me in the back.
I couldn't find anymore squirt guns so Makaela let me use her water bottle. Lets just say things did not end dry.

Heber Valley Camp Open House

     Yesterday my mom and I went to Heber Valley Camp (where I go to girls' camp in the summer). It was the open house and mom is on the stake camp committee and she wanted to check things out.
    On the way up it started raining. I thought, hey a little rain that won't slow us down. When we got  to the challenge course. It started snowing! I know it's in the mountains but it's MAY for heavens sake it's almost summer it shouldn't SNOW!!! It stopped snowing after a little while. And we went around the rest of camp.
After we had finished touring the camp, we went down to Legacy Lake. Which was so breathtaking, with snow on the banks and the trees surronding it. To make it even better  a bald eagle flew over the lake. It was pretty cool.

Brian Regan

On Friday my mom and I went to a Brian Regan concert (for those of you that don't know he is a comedian)! Tanya and Darryl gave my mom and dad tickets for christmas, but dad had to on a business trip so I got the ticket (actually Abbey got the ticket but then she gave it to me).It was so much fun!As always he was hilarious! It suprised me that most of the stuff he said I had never heard before. It seems he comes up with material everytime. It's hard to tell about  because it's one of the experiences that you have to witness yourself. If you haven't seen him look him up on youtube. My favorite ones  poptart and emergency room.

Alayna's Birthday Party

Yesterday was my friend's birthday party. We went to the Classic Skating Rink.
At first I was just going to sit and talk to the people who weren't skating ( because I can't skate ). But it turned out that they allowed scooters on the rink. So I did the scooter.
   After we were done on the rink we went around and played the arcade games. I never got any thing
out of any of  the thingies. But Makalea got lucky and got something out of the drill game.
   I went to look at the photobooth thing (which I thought was cheap). It was $2! I was depating wether or not to do it when Maddy came up and we decided to do it together. It turned out to be a lot of fun! Alayna called us back to the table to have cupcakes and open her presents.Her mom had forgotten the lighter so she pretended to blow it out. Maddy and Emily decided to have a who can be the messiest eater so the literally stuffed it in their face. Alayna's mom took a picture and now it's goin' in the yearbook. She opened her presents, then Maddy, Reganne, and I went to the photobooth and took more photos. Then came Emily and we took some with her. There was one where she put half her face out of the frame and acted like she was screaming and Maddy acted like she was laughing at her, while I was acting concerned. then we went and ate icecream. again Maddy and Emily didn't bother with spoons.

    The car ride home was one of the funnest parts of the whole party! Maddy, Emily, and I sat in the backseat. and Brilyen took pictures of our weird faces.

2nd Quarter Field Trip

For the 2nd quarter field  trip we went to the  Hutchings museum, Jack and Jill's bowling, and Emmet and Ethel's (ice cream).
 We went bowlinig first. I didn't bowl because of my back, but it was fun watching everyone else.
Annecy was a pro. I mean she won out of her group of three. Ms. Ralphs even bowled (and she was pretty good too).We were there awhile and everyone seemed worn out by the time we left.
 The Hutchings museum was really fun as always. My favorite room was the rock thingy room (the room with all the rocks) there are so many sparkly things in the world but rock are in the top five I bet.
 My favorite rock was one that was a bright green. they said it was made from Volcanic something and that it got it's color from all the different acids and  bacteria under the volcano. We went to the "Back West" part of the museum, where we saw what they think is Butch Cassidy's gun and many other cool things.  We also went into the jail cells.
 Emmet and Ethel's was like heaven! Their shakes are amazingly huge (and yummy). Reganne, Makalea,and I split a triple fudge brownie shake. Then Jesica split a grasshopper shake.

Christmas/New Years

Christmas this year was awesome!
That might be what everyone else is saying, but it's true.
On christmas morining as always we lined up on the stairs. We went down in age order to see our stockings.
Grace got a car and her stocking was placed inside,JJ ran down the stairs excitedly and looked around for hers  when she found hers she was happy,Santa had gotten her a scooter which she has been wanting for a very long time,Kate not only ran but practically tripped down the stairs. When she saw her she naturally was excited. She too had gotten a scooter,Spencer was a different story. He started screaming in delight even before he saw his stuff.He didn't bother looking down but raced to his stocking looking at the stuff. Then he looked down and saw that he had gotten Labryinth (like his favorite game ever),when we watched over the tape it sounded as though a herd of buffalo had gone through our family room, Next it was me. It took me a while to find my stocking. I got a new scooter. Then we opened presents a lot of people got a lot of fun stuff.
Then we spent the rest of the day playing with the new stuff. Spencer and I played a new wii game we got.

  New years was fun.
We basically played around all day. When the little girls went to bed we got down to business. We played  Masterpiece. It was really funny watching Spence trying to put on a poker face. And when there was an auction Matt would keep on bidding and Spencer would just bid to out bid him and Matthew was just trying to rid Spencer of his money. Then we played PIT! It is like the funnist game ever! Poor Abbey she ended up with the bear almost every time. We also watched Princess Bride and played scramble. Mom won.

And yes my grammar is HORRIBLE. As Matthew was so kind to point out.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve his year was so much fun!
We went to a church in the morining for the breakfast with the family on my dad's side.We had lots of food(ofcourse it was breakfast)my favorite was Aunt Katie's pull aparts, good job Katie!Then Katie came up(big Katie) and told us she is PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then(I seem to like that word) we did the gift exchange. A lot of people got a lot of stuff yadayada ( we got cosmic tag thingy).
 We then did the talent show. Dave's family went first, the kids did a skit tha was so funny!It was like about a machine that you could test your smarts on,the guy who tryed(Jordan) to outsmart it,but never did.And Mikayla and Abbey played the Best Day by Taylor Swift,and Tyler and Jordan sang a song called Hot coco or something like that.So funny! Then our family, JJ played her song  on the piano with mom,Kate played the piano,Abbey played the piano,and Matt told about his trophies from chess tournaments.Don's family; Brendon showed his hover craft(which is AWESOME!) and his buzzer(both of which he made himself), Sydney read her stories that she wrote,and Alyssa played a song on the piano.Anne's family; They did a HILARIOUS skit where when they changed the channel  they would act out what it was,like Hannah Montanna ZZ acted her out.
The nativity was next. I wasn't going to do anything but then Jessie asked if I would be the narrator so I was. It was really fun!


Later that day:
We had fun and played games the rest of the day, I also hleped Abbey clean her room so that we could have fun that night. Grandma and grandpa came over for dinner. Then we opened our christmas eve presents which was PJs,a book,and socks(toe socks with monkeys!).
Then we went to "bed" which really ment go and watch return of the king and play games.

Halloween

This year Halloween was amazing!
Grandma and grandpa were there and of course as always we went to a movie.Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!It was hilarious!It didn't really follow the book but it was a good movie. besides it was a 10 page book they had to make it longer.
The Halloween dinner was yummy!It was also gross! The side dish was "brains"(really Ramon noodles). My mom discovered it while giving Grace lunch one day. She had let it sit for longer then needed and when she dished it out it looked like a brain(ICKY!).As always Mummy dogs were the main course(hot dogs with rolls wrapped around them and mustard for eyes).Then there were fingers(carrots in ranch dip).Luckily mom didn't put the gummy worms in the ice cubes like last year, just on the side of the cup.
That night we got dressed up and took photos. Then we split paths. I went to Ashley's,Abbey to Bryn.'s,Matthew to his chess book, and everyone else trick or treating. Grace was cute in her Giraffe costume(which has gone thru everyone).When I got to Ashley's we "played" x box for about 10 sec. while we waited for Katie and Charolette to come. Once they were there we played the skittle game(fun fun)and watched a movie.It was a weird movie in which Emily Osment was a goth.Me and Katie talked it was fun!I went home at 8:30 and we played master piece it was fun! Then we watched the stupidest movie ever. It sounds so cool but it was stupid! Something wicked this wat Comes.

Girls' Camp

Girls' Camp was AMAZING! The stake leaders put a great deal of effort for it.
      Day 1: On day one we got there at 6:30 I think. We gathered into ward groups with our stuff.
After a while we loaded into the buses.Our stuff got loaded onto trailers. Which was very interesting trying to find your stuff because it was it was all the stakes suff in one big mess.When we got there we went to what I call it "the big mess" to find our stuff. In all my stupidity I did not put my name on any of my things and there were some lookalikes. Lets just say it took sometime. Then we went to our cabins. It was a cabin with 14 bunks. It was a really fun day. I'm sad I didn't write this down sooner so if I'm not totally correct excuse me.
The challenge course was awesome! We did a lot of challenges (of course) The one I liked best was one where you were stranded on a sinking ship, and there was a rope inbetween the ship and an island(the island was a rug about well very small) you had to swing across the shark invested waters and land on the rug. you and your group all had to make it on (there was about 10 or 11 in my group) the rug and if yiu touched the ground then you had to go back and do it again.And suprisingly we did it!

      Day 2:6:00 am got up. did PJS (P. prays J. journal S. scriptures) funny huh? then there was breakfast. And Flag ceromony. where they raise the flag for the day (the american and heber valley) sang camp songs (fun fun) aafter flag ceremony we went to Legacy Lake. It was really fun. But the water looked icky. I feel sorry for the people who got wet. I didn't really go in a canoe. I went in a paddle boat with Sis. Staker. I didn't even have to paddle. Just sat back and enjoyed the scenery (except the lake's contents).Then we had luch .Then there was ward free time.All we really did was goof around. Then yummy dinner at Ruby's Diner (that's what they call the cafeteria). After a bit it was flag cermony where they take down the flags. And the devotional.Then one of the best parts of girls' camp.... the guest celebrity. It was an actor I don't remember his name. But his stories about meeting people and the movies he has been in.
         Day 3: This was my favorite day. It was skit night!Where every ward makes up a skit. But it has to have certain scriptures and it has to have your ward theme in there somewhere.Our wards thing was confusing. It wasa miniture horror story. the villian's name was Victor. He had stolen something from 5 people.He has an apprentice Soulia. Who is a double agent also working for Ruby the detective. The skit was about Soulia deciding who to follow. She of course decided to work with Ruby and turned Victor....
        Who was then banished to Sibria.
    Day 4: Was bascically ward day.Also testimony night. fun fun. Oh and there was also a stake activity. It was really fun. fFor one of the stations we made a blanket for McKenna (a girl in our stake who has cancer).
Testimony night is when your bishopric comes up for a night. We got bishop Vance on tape doing the penguin dance.
       Later that night I went home because the 3rd ward had a flu thing and I couldn't risk getting sick so close to my surgery.

(A deer on the path by our cabin)

Girls' Camp

Girls Camp is creeping closer.
This will be my first year and I am so excited! I heard a lot about it and it sounds like so much fun!On the sunrise hike(the hike to see the sunrise)there is supposed to be a meteor shower (which happens once every decade or so) it will be so cool! This year's color is lavander.
The fourth ward got orange. I feel sorry for them!
I'll keep you updated!

Sunday Miracle

This Sunday started out as just an ordinary one with us getting ready for church , going, then listening to the talks , lessons, and more lessons. After church all seemed calm but there was a crowd in the middle of the parking lot. I wondered why they had chosen to gather there in the middle of the parking lot. Then I heard a little boy crying.I realized that someone had gotten run over by a car. I wonder who it was and if they were alright.Then someone called 911. And an ambulance came to take them away to the hospital.
It turned out to have been Max Balderee. A two year old. We took his siblings home. They seemed pretty shaken up.We had some lunch (grilled cheese) then we had fun. Me and Niki (the oldest) went to my room to talk about things. It turned out that she had been watching Max and he had run out saying "you can't catch me" then someone backed up and ran over him.
A little while later her grandma called to say that he was doing great! Had no broken bones... or anything of the sort, just a few scratches. But they were going to keep him there just in case. He might be able to come home that night!
So we set to work making posters and cards. We made a big card and took around to the neighbors to sign.Then her grandma called and said that they would be home in a hour! the doctors said it was a miracle that he was alive and had not broken at least two bones. When he got home it was as if nothing had happened. the only bandaid he had got was where they had stuck an iv. And he was a happy enterjectic two year old again.

The fourth of July

Well this year Was a very very very fun 4th of July!

For breakfast we had patriotic pancakes. With yogurt, blueberries , raspberries ( from our own garden), and strawberries(also from the garden).

After breakfast we made our shirts. Every year we make shirts to wear on the fourth of July. Mine usually turn out crappy, but this year I choose to do it simple. And it turned out GREAT! I just did stars all over and I think it was a big suprise!

We passed the afternoon doing stuff... reading, chess , wii.
But soon after we started the fun. We played FREEze tag with an english flag and an U.S.A.
flag. It was tiring . Then fire in the jungle. so on so forth.
then for the food!
We had a picnic .... with cheetios!
those were gone in a flash.. along with the olives.

Then we put off small fire works in the court. And huge homemade popsicles.
We saw some of the Thanksgiving Point's they were huge ( and noisy)!