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.