13th Birthday Party

So, this year for my birthday party, I decided to go ice skating in Missoula! It took two cars to take all of my friends and family up there, but I'm thankful that it all worked out. Once we got there, me and six other friends rented our skates, and took off! We started out a little shaky, and then got the hang of it. It was fun! There was music playing and we were all laughing, and we even got to watch the Zamboni! We had a great time, even though my skates gave me a great birthday present, a blister! After we were all skated-out, we drove over to Little Caeser's Pizza and ate and opened presents in the car. Crowded, but fun. Mckayl got me a Champs Sports gift card and a pack of gum, Carlie gave me a bag of chocolate and ten dollars, Annika got me a Shrink Art Jewelry kit, Holly got me a little snowman to put on my dresser or in my locker, Kara got me ten dollars, Ellie got me some perfume from Aeropostale and an Owl City cd, and Cameron, even though she couldn't make it to the party, got me a fifteen dollar gift card to Chapter One Bookstore. I was so happy and gratefull for all of the great gifts, and was glad that so many friends could come. And, I am a teenager now!!! Yay, thank you all who made my birthday so amazing!

Choir Concert

So, surprisingly, I DID get the solo! Yay! Exept, so did five other people. Our teacher couldn't decide who to pick so she chose three seventh graders and three eighth graders. I'm deffinataly NOT bumbed out, because I won't have to be nervous, but instead sing with other people. Looks like the odds are in my favor, so I'll be happy about singing a solo (with five other people). Though, it is strange, because during practice, our teacher, Ms.T, calls the six people "soloists". It makes me doubt her education in music. But, I'm still pretty happy that I got it!

C-C-C-Choir S-Solo

Well, today(a B-day) as usaual, I was just singing our girls choir' chirstmas songs to prepare for our concert, in class. On the second row, seventh-to-last, I started to participate in some very hard thinking when Ms.Trapp said, " Today we will be doing Al Shlosha D'Varim (a jewish peace song) solo tryouts." Thats when I started deciding whether I should try out, or not. I supposed I had pretty good odds of getting the part, until Annika tryed out........and then Jaylee........and then Carlie.(Maybe my odds aren't as good as I thought). I was thinking so hard, infact, I was the very last one to go for it. After the bell rang to go to Advisory, I was still waiting to try out. I squirted some sanitizer on my hands, when I noticed that I was shaking! Then, way to soon (as it seemed) IT WAS MY TURN. I walked into the office, and Ms.Trapp had me count out some notes, then I sang the song. My voice was a little shaky, but she did say that I sounded very clear and had good breath control. I walked out of the choir room, still a little jittery, but overall, I think I did okay. I'll have to post wether I got the part or not, but my chances are pretty average. Wish me luck!

Thank You, Thanksgiving

So this year for Thanksgiving, for the first time in a long time, we had the whole big family! Anneke, Haeli, and I all woke up early to drive down to Missoula for the Turkey Trot. It was an 8K ( 4.978ish miles ), which surprised me, because I ran three and a half miles without training for a thousand years!I had to walk (briskly) the other one and a half, because I REALLY had to go to the bathroom! Yet, I felt proud of myself, and after which we ate at Denny's. (Hae ordered the Grand Slamwich).

We drove back, and were busy packing things to head down to my mom's boss' cabin by Painted Rocks. We Arrived, and where surprised with...... Snow!!! We hauled all of the food and bags in, and marked our sleeping territory (with our pillows). Mamma was fixing dinner, and the whole family was watching the Broncos play (dang Orton!)and playing Apples To Apples. We continued the apple game until we ran out of red cards.

Following the family tradition, we all wrote a small Christmas list with our names on it. We then folded and put them into Hagan's hat. Each of us drew a name to go Christmas shopping for, secretly. I'm not going to tell who I got, though. Just wait and find out.....


I guess I should show some of the DELICIOUS food we had for Thanksgiving dinner.










So, thank you, Thanksgiving, for bringing our family toghether and letting us have a great time.

Life Update

I know that I haven't posted anything in a while, so here is my life update:
Today is the end of quarter one in school, so next week I will be starting three knew exploratories, and on my report card, I have gotton all A's. Also, Mark Albert wants me to play on Hamilton's seventh grade AAU basketball team, so I'll be playing in all of the up-coming tournaments. So I'm pretty exited about that. Also, I made Hamilton's Science Olympiad team, and will be competing on the Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving on Montana State Universitie's Campus. My event is Experimental Design, and when we get there, we will attend the Museum of the Rockies' Sciece Night. They will have alot of exhibits and will be showing a presentation in the planatarium.
Last week, I had a choir concert, we worked hard for it and did a very well job. Now we are working on our Christmas concert, which I will sing in, and it will be held in about three weeks. Also, I will be going to the Spokane temple tomorrow, for the seond time to do baptisms for the dead. I will leave in the morning, arrive at the temple, and when we're done, before we return we will go to an all-you-can-eat buffet. I'm looking forward for that an will post my experience whe I get back. Well, I hope you are updated enough, because that is about all I've got:)

Griz Football

This weekend, my friend Ellie and her family took me along to the Grizz football game on Saturday. I spent the night at her house on Friday, we had pizza and watched Glory Road. The next day we went to the game, all bundled up and warm. We watched the game excitedly and were happy when the Montana Grizzlies won against the other California team. After the win, we went down on the field, tossed a football that Katie brought, and we got some autoghraphs and got to talk to all the players!My favorite is number 32, he is very nice and had very curly hair. Anyway, the trip was fun and I'm glad that Ellie took me along:).

Spirit Week

This week at Hamilton Middle School, is spirit week. We dress up differently every day ( accordingly ) to show our spirit and encourage our high school football team. Monday was disco day, but I didn't dress up ( I know, party pooper, right?). I did dress up for tacky Tuesday with some sixties glasses, pj pants and a retro headband. I didn't get a prize, though not quite as tacky as other people. Wednesday was disney character day, and again I didn't dress up. But, today, twin Thursday, my friend Savannah and I ended up being twins when we both showed up for school wearing sport sweats and hoodies. So, we were twins for the rest of the day. Tomorrow is Spirit day , I'll probably dress up. The stupid thing is, that actually, there is no homecoming game tomorrow. Anaconda copperheads had to forfit. Nineteen of their players have swine flue, so they gave the win the Hamilton. I'm happy that we "won", but kind of upset about it. Anyway, the week has been fun, and I had a good time:).

Cardinal Basketball

So, this year , of course I've joined the seventh grade basketball team for the Hamilton Colts.I've been playing the positions euro and wing. Though, I feel like I do better on defense then I do on offense. My coaches say that I am real good at boxing out, so what the heck, I'll agree with them:). Our season is almost done, and so far, we've been undefeated. Our last game is against Stevensville on Monday, which of course I'm not nervous at all about:). I'm really (actually) kind of excited! My number is 32 ( which is totally different than all of the other numbers I've had for sports: 4, 12, 7. I never get the same number). But I really think that our team is good, but needs some work if we want to make the eighth grade cuts. Because so many girls went out for basketball this year, hamilton had to make two seventh grade teams: Cardinal (me), and Silver(not me). Throughout the whole season, neither team has gotten beat once. So, they might want us to play each other. I guess that means that we have good coaches (great coaches). Mine is Coach Jessop, my friend Carlie's dad. The other coach is Coach Anderson, Hagan's P.E. teacher. They are both really nice, and I'm sad the season is ending.

Haeli's Wedding

Over the weekend, we all went to Billings for my big sista's wedding!! She and Jaxon Allen got married at the Billings Temple, August 29th, 2009. How exciting!! We all had a wonderfull time. Haeli and Jaxon are now in Branson, MI on their honneymoon!

Blend Your Own Adventure

Everybody has to do this!!! I don't know how he did this interactively, but it is fun. Go to www.youtube.com and search: Blend Your Own Adventure! (INTERACTIVE). It's amazing. Check it out.

Haeli's Bridal Shower

So, for the past couple weeks, Katie R. and I have been planning Haeli's bridal shower. It was hard work, but it was fun. I made these really cool invitations, but didn't get all of them out untill a week before the shower. Even though I sent out like forty invites, a good twenty-five or so of the people showed up. The food was good, the games were fun, and the conversations were great. Everybody had a good time, and Haeli got alot of cool presents.
All in all, it was great and everybody was happy.

Fire

Well, a couple weeks ago when Max came home for the weekend, my mom woke me up at about 1:00 in the morning. I followed her down the hall and walked into the living room. She opened the front door and I followed her in awe. 20 foot flames were flickering in the feild right across from the house. How scary!!!!
It turns out that our neighbor was washing her dishes and saw the field light up. She called the firemen and by the time we were out there, they had already came to the rescue. Everybody was up, standing outside watching.
Vixen, our little puppy, was the one who had woken my mom up. She was wining and so my mom was going to get up and take her out. When she walked out the door, she saw the fire.
Nobody knows what started the fire, but we all have a feeling that it was a cigarett butt or something stupid like that.
Thank heaven that we were all kept safe, but it was still a thrilling adventure.

Chalk Fest

Well, yesterday was "Daly Days" here in Hamilton. So, to celebrate we went to participate in the, "Chalk Fest". All ages get to pick a sidewalk sqare and draw anything they want with the chalk provided. Well, me in square number four, decided to draw a rainbow ballerina. It turned out good, I was pretty proud. Two squares over, Bohni drew a radio flyer wagon that was almost 3-D because it was shaded so good. Three squares over, Hagan drew an awesome pencil, with a matching earaser and sharpener(he labled the pencil, made in china:). In sqare number 23, my mother was making a masterpiece. She had the mountains drawn even more beautiful then they actually are:). Though, in the proces, while shading and blending the colors, mamma wore two bloody spots on her fingers(luckaly none of the blood got on her art work) and are still really sore.
We came back later to look at all the drawings and to hear the awards cerimony. I won first place in the 8-12 catagorie with a scetch pad and a cool pack of oil pastels. Bohni won a scetch pad with a pack of nice drawing pencil kit. We all thought for sure that mom would either win the adult catagorie or best of show, but some lady who drew a giant flower next to me won the adult prize, and a primary sea scene won the best of show( who the heck was judging?!) but at least we had fun doing it.
Surprisingly, about three hours later, it rained enough to make the streets look like little creeks! We rushed down to look at the drawings, wich were smeard and washed away to smitheriens! It was really pretty though:)
All in all, it was a fun experience, and we're looking forward to it next year!

Girls Camp

Four of the million mosquito bites that i got

My rockin' blanket that jamie made for me.

My foot:)

Rachel Hudson did my hair in corn rows.

.....and everyone elses.

Me and Sierra here, we're like pb&j. We're tight like unto a dish:):):)

That's Nyeisha for ya.

Sierra again

Me and Mickayla

Carly Jessop and me. (I like to call her my little hippi:)

The fourth, fifth and sixth year skit.

The amazing, entergetic chickens

Madison and Amy, patriotic to the pink flamingos:)

Kelly Bishop messin' around at lunch:)


Here's my friend, Josie

One of our amazing leaders, Jamie Jackson

Nina with a flamingo:)

Bohni as a lion with a blanket that sister jackson made her.

Bohni and Mickayla.



Well, I recently got home from Girls Camp, the best thang eva! It was soooo fun, and sooo spiritual. I know I havn't blogged in a while , but I promis my life isn't dead boring. Anyway, since i'm in Blodgett Canyon Ward, I was a pink flamingo this year. next year we're changing our color to gold, for virtue, but we don't know wat animal or mascot we'll have yet. Some of our girls were thinking camels, but gladly we decided against that:)
The first day was the longest, but after that, camp just zipped by us and pretty soon i found myself on the bus going home, taking pictures of my feet:) I'll never forget my first year at girls camp. The first years only go on a three mile hike, but this year we wen't an extra half a mile up, so we ended going four miles. It was soo fun, exept that wen me and Maddie Richards took a late shower (we were the only ones in the bathroom) and the bats came out of their corner. We screamed, grabbed our stuff and ran barefoot with just our swimming suits on , arcrost camp. Luckaly it was really dark, so none of the leaders got after us for not being modest. I bet you would've ran out of there if four bats were circling your head four feet above you, too! Other than that camp was great (though, there were a few skinny dippers, not me though:). But I never wanted to leave, that's how good it was. Sadly this year we didn't fully capture Normon the Mormon, but got beat up while trying to take him, by Allie Stall. Scary, i know. I tried to get her to let go of him by pinching and smakin her bum, but that didn't work.
But, girls camp was the best camp ever!

Babysitting

As most of you already know, this year will be my first attending Girls Camp! I'm sooo excited and can't wait for the experience! But to raise money for camp we had to do service projects. I offered to do four hours of babysitting and a desert for two. Evidently, one of my favorite young womens leaders offered to pay fifty buckeroos! She won my service and on friday I babysat for her.
I stayed home and made a devil's food cake ( ya, it's tottaly smart to do devil's food for a church related camp!) with a light purple frosting, stringed with dark and white chocolate! Sister Elison and her husband loved it. They left it home with Evalyn, Oliver, and I. The kids ended up having a couple pieces and sneaking some frosting off of the top of it. Anyway, I got there and Evalyn started off reading a couple short little books to me since Oliver was asleep. We had some extra cheesey pieces of pizza and then Oliver came down from his nap. After he ate, we all went and ate popsickles out in the rain. They persuaded me to letting them jump in some puddles and play indians ( I ended up as their prisoner, ofcourse:). When Oliver accidentally hit Evie in the knee, and wouldn't say sorry, I ended up threatening to take his super powers away. Strangely, he didn't apologize, but smiled and ran into the house. Me and Evie followed and we all settled down and watched "The Little Mermaid".
Evie suddenly got the idea that I needed my fingernails clipped and picked up the clippers. She said that we could play salon and she would clip my nails. " No thanks, Evie. I'll clip my nails when I get home," I said to her, of course she resisted. Halfway through the proccess of the clipping, she says, " You look way better already!". She ended up doing a pretty good job, well at least there wasn't any blood.
When the kids where all settled down, Kim and Damon got home. They thanked me and Evie didn't want me to go with me stuck in her hugs. Sister Elison drove me home with a goodnight, and I got home happily.
All in all, my second babysitting job went well and I raised enough money to go to Girls Camp!

So You Think You Can Dance

As most of you know, I'm comptletely in love with the Fox tv series, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. But, this week was exeptionally wonderous. Jonathan and Karla bumped their way up to the top section of my favorite couples list, with a wonderfull contemporary dance to the Academy Award winning song, Falling Slowly (by The Frame), choreographed by a new Canadian choreographer on the show. I couldn't help but watch it about five times in a row, and was overly exited that they were safe and still on the show. I hope you enjoy this dance as much as I did!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NhZI5M0pTw

Youth Temple Trip

Yesterday, Saturday, June 6th 2009, I went on my first youth temple trip!! I was overly excited and jumpy! On the way there I rode with Penny Gynn, Rylie Duce and Amon Jackson. I slept twice but the adventure on the trip there was when Rylie suddenly got sick, and was handed a puke bucket. Turning away from Rylie who was sitting right next to me and sharing my blanket, Rylie puked three times. But it was okay. Right after she puked, she says, " Oh I feel much better! That was really weird!". We shared a laugh then got back on the road again.
When we arrived at the temple, we jumped out and waited in the parking lot for about fifteen minutes for our bishop. He wasn't late, but we were an hour early!! We decided to spend our time walking the Spokane Temple grounds. Small, yet incredibly beautiful while walking the perimiter of the temple we walked past a Killdeer bird with a nest full of four eggs right in the shrubs!!! We watched as she tried to guid us away from her eggs. She was beautiful! Just today there was a testimony on what a perfect place to nest, the temple grounds! Anyway, the bishop arrived and we all entered the temple.

Waiting for about two seconds on the comfy benches in the waiting room, we enterd at the desk. We all quietly walked through the glass doors to the baptizimal font and had a "personal dresser" give us our white jump suits. I entered the doors labled "women" and found myself in what I would describe an angels dressing/bathroom. We all changed into our jumpsuits (ever so comfertable, good enough to just sleep in)and put our hair up in white scrunchies. We then filed out to the squishy chairs and benches by the font.We were given little pink papers of who we were getting baptized for. I counted ten papers that I was given. The oldest person that was in my "packet" was born in 1874, so I put her first. I waited and watched as all my friends got baptized and the spirit was soo strong that I couldn't stop smiling! I was called to get confirmed for different people than I was getting baptized for. It was amazing. It was like I was the person who has been waiting years and years for this moment.
Finally I waded into the warm font that was held by twelve beautiful oxen. I grabbed Weston's arm as he held the wrist of the hand that I was to plug my nose with. Ten times I was dipped into the water, happier than ever. After Weston tapped my back twice, I exited the font with a wet heavy jumpsuit and the biggest smile. Sister Duce handed me a white towel as I slopped back into the dressing room. I waited in my now wet jumpsuit to enter the shower. Rylie came out of the shower, we smiled at each other and I gratefully entered. I took off my jumpsuite and took half of my shower time trying to figure out how to work the shower. I jumped out, got dressed into my black skirt with pink flowers and white long sleeved dress shirt with my white heels. I blowdried my bangs then went watch the rest of the baptizims.
We all left the temple feeling clean and fresh and went back to our cars to go to the famous Country Buffet. With growling stomachs, we rushed into the resturaunt and filled our plates with everything. We ate for an hour, and I was so bloated that I felt that I could just fall over. I switched cars and rode with Bohni, Michael, Megan, Savana, Quinn, and Megan's dad and mom on the way back to Hamilton. We talked and listend to music and laughed on our ride home. They dropped me off and Bohni and I were all alone because Mamma was in Lewistown and Hagan went to a friend's in Stevi. We played some video games and than crashed on my moms bed.
Sister Elison gave us a ride to church this morning. We are all sooo excited that she is pregnant, but sadly she is moving to Germany.We wraped up today with church and hung out at 500-2 Stonegate drive. I had such a great experience and can't wait to do it again. The Bishop said that altogther, we baptized about 110 people on Saturday and I figured that we will all be pretty popular in heaven!

Book of Mormon in Dr. Suess Version

My mother recently sent me this email about the Book of Mormon in Dr. Suess version. I LOVE it!!! I bet you'll get a kick out of this even if you haven't read the AWESOME Book of Mormon:

Author:
Unknown

Nephi: Of goodly parents I was born
I've never drunk, I've never sworn
This is Lehi, he's my dad
Laman, Lemuel, they are bad
And who is this? Why this is Sam
Yes, this is Sam;

Sam: Sam I am

Laman: That Sam I am, that Sam I am
I do not like that Sam I am

Sam: In a tent, my father dwelt

Laman: And it's so hot, I think I'll melt

Lemuel: Our father's brain is out of whack

Laman: Yeah, it's too hot, I'm going back

Lehi: Then go and get the plates my dear

Laman: On second thought, I'm staying here

Nephi: You said you'd leave and go away
Now all you want to do is stay?

Lemuel: That Nephi always gets his way

Laman: Here we are in this damp cave

Sam: We would not be here if you'd behave

Nephi: I will go and I will do
There's the angel, that's my cue
Laban's had too much to drink
Now he'll lose his head, I think

Nephi: Look what I found, a brother from the quorum

Sam: We will take him home, we will call him Zoram

Lemuel: Oh great, another pathetic life form

Laman: Our gold and silver we have spent
I do not like it in this tent

Lemuel: I cannot read the Liahona
I must have drunk too much Corona

Laman: We hate it here, we have no lives

Lehi: Then go back to the city and get some wives

Lehi: A tree, a tree, I see a tree
The fruit is white, the fruit is free
A floating building, could it be?
Why do they laugh and stare at me?

Laman, Lemuel, come and see

Laman: We will not eat your precious fruit

Lemuel: We will not wear a tie and suit

Laman: We will not help you build your boat

Lemuel: We do not think that it will float

Laman: No not this boat, it will not float
Not even in a shallow moat
I do not care what Nephi wrote

Lemuel: We will not eat your fruit I say

Laman: We will not eat it on a tray

Lemuel: And we won't eat it in a tent
Not even if your clothes you rent

Laman: We'd rather have a can of spam
L & L: We will not eat it, Sam I am

Sam: You do not like it, so you say
Try it, try it, and you may
Try it and you may I say

Laman: Sam, if you will let us be,
We will try it, you will see

L&L: Say, we like this fruit of life
Sorry that we caused such strife
You've saved us from an awful jam
Thank you, thank you, Sam I am


Don't you LOVE IT!!!
Maybe, if you didn't get it, you should READ THE BOOK OF MORMON!!

The Miss Rodeo Montana Gala

The Miss Rodeo Montana Gala was so fun last night. I got to meet Julia, Luke, Panda, Russ, Wendy, Newbia, Coulter and Kyle. Cammie, Jamyn and Haeli were there to dance with. It was a blast. I cowgirl-grooved on the dance floor more than I planned to. Panda, Tia, Julia, Cammie, Jamyn and I made up a cute little line dance, but ended up doing Haeli's one. The music was AWESOME!! Kyle Shobe and the Walkem' Boys had a HUGE veriety of new and oldies songs. At the end, we went around to each table and gathered all of the prettiest flowers, and stowed them away in Haeli's purse. I was COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY by Russ'FAMOUS, BREATH TAKING DANCE SKILLS!!! He is now one of my favorite dancers. In the end we all took pictures of the Allens and Bellers. That was the most fun I've had in a long time.;)

Chicken and Dinosaur Race

Well, I guess because only three people voted on the poll ( actually only two people, one of the three was me ) and two out of that three picked that the gaint chicken ( or maybe it's a regular sized chicken and a mineature t-rex ) would win. So there you go. America has voted.