PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

deck.the.halls

2010-12-22T00:31:00.001-08:00

christmas is coming

i haven't blogged in so long

i graduated high school

now i'm in college

a lot has happened

i now am a freshmas at BYU in the small town of provo, utah. i am a big girl now. i live in an apartment-style dorm with five other girls. yes, five other girls. it has been quite the transition from living with five boys and a mom to living with five girls...and no mom. i like to think i'm doing pretty well. except two of my roommates already moved out. we had a little disagreement. i'm not a very good at handling disagreements. but they have moved out either way. two new girls have moved in, and things are better.

its funny how you think you have everything figured out, and then come to realize things change. i still don't know what i want to be, but i'm having fun figuring it out. i'm pretty sure i come up with something new every day. my mom's probably getting sick of me telling her all the different things i want to do.

i'm home for the holidays, which is the nicest thing ever. literally nothing is as good as home. i love christmas. its my favorite time of the year. i have watched a different christmas movie about every other day. they're always on tv, and i stay up watching them. tonight, its deck the halls.

i'm going to try and keep up on blogging. this past semester i spent a lot of time doing nothing, now i can use that time to actually do something.

things i have done this year:

hiked the Y

kidnapped a duck

changed my major

went crazy on Black Friday

hung lingerie on our door as a decoration

got called as ward choir director

went to the ready set concert

applied for at least ten jobs

got a debit card

read the hunger games series

did ten hours of service

ate at jdawgs

tried graham canyon ice cream (best.ever)

went without a cell phone/ipod/internet for a long period of time (more than once)

bombed my american heritage final

discovered the joys of airport security, learned how to avoid the creepy scanners

survived the blizzard of the century

finally bought some sick nike hightops

baked ridiculous amounts of cookies

had a huge crush on a super cute t.a.

got angry and yelled at my roommate, then pretended i had been sleep-talking

wished i had a bedtime

spent hours watching tv on my laptop

avoided the library at all costs

missed nevada county

skyped my best friend

got holes in my shoes

laughed way too much

AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

lOtS.oF.lOvE

KETCHUP

2010-05-07T18:53:00.000-07:00

Well lets see, I have not blogged for like a century. It's not like you don't know anything that happened, since I have facebook you can kind of see whats goin on. But I don't really get to tell the stories and stuff like I do on a blog. So I'm back on for now. My senior year is coming to an end soooo fast. I have my senior project presentation coming up really fast. For those of you who do not know what that is, it's some dumb project every senior has to complete in order to graduate. You have to pick something that interests you and do it for 20 hours. I picked "Volunteering at the Hospital" thinking it would be fun. Unfortunately it is the most boring thing ever. I stand around and do random things they need like restock gloves or get ice water or straws. This year has been the year of laziness + procrastination. I probably have the most absences ever recorded in history. This applies to school, seminary, and days I was supposed to work at the hospital. So now I have 12 hours of service and another 8 to finish in a week... not good. I will figure it out though. The most stressful week is the week of Sunday the 16th- Wednesday the 19th. Sunday I have my Young Womanhood Recognition, which I have yet to finish. Tuesday I have an all day festivel in Napa called the Golden State Festival, its kind of a huge deal. Then Wednesday I give me senior project speech. But after that I am donnnnnne. That Friday we have our Senior Picnic and then the next night is Senior Ball (of which I have a story regarding, I just need to wait and get some pictures). Then graduation is on the 12th of June. I cannot wait.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!

2009-10-12T21:06:00.000-07:00

Today is a very special lady's birthday. My mom. Since she saw me doing this, its not a surprise. I had to look through all the pictures I could find and get her to allow me to post them. Let me tell you, finding pictures of her was not easy. Although she is soooo pretty, she hates getting her picture taken. What a shame. But the ones that do get snapped are always beautiful. Looking through those pictures was like a blast from the past. I got to remember all the 16 years I've got to spend with her. This is my last year with her at home, and I know I'll call her everyday. But I'll miss her like crazy. She's my favorite person in the whole wide world. I love her to death, and would do anything for her. She has helped me become the person I am today, and she sets an amazing example to follow. I know that when I'm a mom (someday far, far away) I want to be just like her. She's my best friend. Happy Birthday Mom!!

More Summer and stuff

2009-08-12T22:21:00.000-07:00

okay, i will admit. the trek wasn't that bad. i guess it seemed worse when i was on it, but looking back, it was a good experience. i got stuck in a family with no one i knew, because my friend bailed on me last minute. so i thought that was gonna be a huge bummer. the first day was, because i didn't know anyone and it was so hot and walking in a skirt over bumps was so hard! i had to like change my stride and then it made my hips so sore. and the food...was questionable. the whole first day was just kind of awkward. but after that it got much better. i found a good way to walk that didn't hurt so bad. but i was sooo dirty! it was ridiculous. my hair was like crunchy from the sweat and dirt. i was so happy to take a shower. that night coming back was the best part. so now with the trek over my summer is pretty much done. the county fair is started so now its really over. i go get my locker and schedule tomorrow, so i'll let you know whats on it. senior year here i come!!

SUMMER...and stuff...

2009-07-08T13:00:00.000-07:00

This summer has been pretty good so far. after school got out, i didn't do much of anything, but after a couple of weeks we went to utah. that was fun. then i had to come back for girls camp. that was not fun. we got new people to do the food this year, and they supposedly own a catering company. i would never get catered by them. i was so excited for the food, and it was disgusting. before we had a lady do it, and it was always pretty good. the first night was chicken tetrazzini, and i had no idea what it was so i texted chacha (its what you do when you have no computer, you ask a question, it sends you the answer) and it said it was a pasta dish with mushrooms. so it sounded pretty good (minus the mushroom part) and i love pasta so i was pretty stoked. but it turned out to be the most disgusting thing ever. the noodles were crunchy and watery, and the chicken was boiled and flavorless. so the first night i couldn't sleep cuz my leg was hurting, and then i was trying not to throw up the nasty dinner. me and my friend lauryn ate cheezits for dinner every night cuz the food was so gross. anyways...so finally girls camp ended. oh btw, i dont think i ever missed my mom so much in my life, and i was sooo excited for her to pick me up, and then she didn't even come. i got a ride with some else. so i cried.. yep. so then after girls camp i was so excited cuz we were supposed to be going back to utah. but then i guess we weren't. but then at the last minute we went. it was a fun little trip. and for the fourth of july i got to work at the stadium of fire!! it was only fun cuz we got to see the JONAS BROTHERS. and i also discovered i could never work in customer service. i have no patience for people. so now i'm at home, waiting for my next adventure...trek. and lucky for me! the lady that did camp food is now doing trek food. so i guess it'll be cheezits for dinner again. YUM.

WOW

2009-05-26T16:31:00.000-07:00

Oh man, its been sooo long since i've done a post. i apologizeee. i haven't even been busy, just oh so lazy. well lets see..what has happened since my last post. well not much, i can tell you that. i have my license now. its pretty cool. gives me a little more freedom, i spose. school is almost out! i literally can't wait. idk why, but school is just too much. i really can't stand going. i'm pretty sure i had like 7 "sick" days this semester. but i guess karma caught up to me because now i am so sick. i've had a cold or allergies or something all weekend. it totally ruined my 3 day weekend. but whatevs. i have my demonstration speech in english tomorrow which i procrastinated as much as i possibly could. as in, i'm the last in the class to go. they all went the past two weeks. but i am doing it on basketball which is very easy since i have a lot of connection to basketball players and such. so really it will be me talking while kenyan and his friend marc demonstrate. my hair is like a wild beast because my mom had to go and get sicky-poo so now i can't wear it down till she gets better and can cut it. this summer, my dream was to move to utah and work all summer so i could come back to this forsaken place and have money to buy things. but no, i have girls camp and a TREK this summer which i cannot miss. the trek will be 3 days of NO shower, or stable bathroom, and gross sweaty people from my stake. i will try my very hardest to have a good attitude, but i will warn those on the trek to not test my patience, because i will have zero. as long as no one tries to tell me what to do, i think i'll be okay. i have a problem with authority. three more days of seminary, and 8 more days of school. this summer better be fabbb.

A NIGHT AMONG THE STARS

2009-03-02T20:45:00.000-08:00

I'm in english 3 honors at my school, which is just like a.p. english. my teacher, mr. cartan is a very...um...eccentric person, and he sure does know how to throw a party. the juniors at my school all read THE GREAT GATSBY in english. in mr.cartan's class, he rents out the building where we have prom, the miner's foundry, and we have a gatsby party. for all of you who hav never read the book, its actually a very good book. the character JAY GATSBY throws these fantastic parties in hopes one day the woman he loves will walk in. so the two periods of english 3H get to do all the work, while the alumni from his other 3H classes years before just get to enjoy the night of fun. this year, the theme was Las Vegas (which is obviously a popular theme because Casino Royale was just voted as our Jr. Prom theme). After much controversy over the theme (a lot of the girls didn't want it to be dirty like the real vegas), it was finally set in stone. I did absolutely nothing to help, but don't judge because i can't drive so its so much harder to run into town for everything that you need to buy. anyways, the miner's foundry is decorated, and everyone comes in their 20's attire to enjoy a fun night. They serve sparkling cider in champagne glasses and people swing dance. For the first quarter of the night, our school's jazz band plays, then its mr. cartan's selection of 20's swing music. The rest of the evening is our music/dancing. Well I took a while to get ready, and ended up missing the jazz band and a lot of the swing dancing (darn...). thanks to jodi for making me an adorable headband :). these pictures are some my mom took, and some i stole off of peoples facebook.

sorry...i lied

2009-02-15T21:14:00.000-08:00

okay well i definitely said that i would post quickly with pictures, and i lied. its been almost a month since i updated last...again. i am now 16, finally. i don't get my license for a little while longer, but no worries. for my birthday i went to kenyan's basketball game. sounds fun huh, but they won so it was okay. the next day me and my mom went shopping and i got some great deals at wetseal. i got some cute new clothes and bags and a cute pair of boots. nothing exciting has happened here. the towns like ten minutes away have gotten a tooonnnn of snow, and we didn't get any. its not fair. i'm just pretty much hanging out and going to basketball games. its pretty dang boring. thats my life lol...

hey ya

2009-01-18T16:38:00.000-08:00

oh man, i'm very sorry for that. i haven't updated in so long. i don't even have a good excuse, i was just being oh so lazy. i can't find my mom's camera, but when i do i will let you all know about my christmas and presents. right now, school is boring and i cannot wait for the next break. well we don't have school tomorrow which is very nice indeed. it seems like all the shows are starting now, so i'm back to watching the tv like every night. i did have a nice little break when there was like pretty much nothing on, but i guess thats over now. here's my week in television: monday-the city, and heroes when it starts on feb. 2; tuesday- american idol, and the biggest loser; wednesday- american idol yet again, and lost; thursday- i get a break til survivor starts feb. 12; and friday- ghost whisperer and numb3rs. yup its a pretty full schedule. in between all that i have homework, mutual, and anything else that pops up. i like keeping myself busy though. well i decided you might not want to listen to my christmas music playlist anymore so i went ahead a made a new one for ya. my favorite song so far is mad by ne-yo. he has a nice voice. my birthday is comin up quick and i'm so excited. then in march i can finally get my license. don't be fooled by my background, i don't like the color pink, and i'm not excited for valentines' day. i'm so glad its on a saturday. some of you may wonder why, but trust me...if your not a little kid then you don't get candy, and if your not dating or married to someone you don't get candy. you just get to see all the other people walk around with flowers and candy. so really its pretty much the most jank holiday ever. well i promise i'll keep it up, and won't slack off watching all my tv shows and getting fat. jk. but really, i will post quickly with the pictures and such.

Check it out now...

2008-12-18T18:27:00.000-08:00

Last Friday i went to my friend Shayna's house so i could go with her to her ward's christmas party. that day it was decided by someone (who knows who came up with it) that thursday was going to be "Ugly Christmas Sweater Day" probably inspired by the new drake and josh christmas movie where they have an ugly christmas sweater party. well, i just had to be in on this dress up day, so me and shayna went around to different thrift stores in search of the ugliest christmas sweaters we could find. now, believe me, we have a TON of thrift stores here. no d.i., but a lot of hospice ones and a big salvation army. our first stop was the salvation army, and they have some of the ugliest clothes i've ever seen, but you know i was grateful that i didn't have to shop there regularly. they did, also have some kinda cute things, or at least things that could be cute in a kind of funky way. well everything there was kind of gross, and we didn't find any real christmas sweaters, so we went to the next stop. this was a little hospice thrift store, and we weren't expecting to find much. but as soon as the door opened, we layed our eyes on the most wretched sweaters i've ever seen. they were perfect. so of course we grabbed them, 2 for $4, what a deal. so we decided to wear them to the christmas party. on friday nights, our little city of grass valley, which is the cutest little mining town ever, has whats called "cornish christmas". they block the main streets off and people dress up, they have a nativity seen and people have little booths to sell things. its so much fun. well before we went to the christmas party, we decided we needed to make our outfits even uglier, so we went to the dollar store and tried to find ugly glasses, but they only had kinda cute ones. well we got a pair and popped the lenses out bc neither of us need glasses then we were off to the partay. the grass valley ward (which is the ward shayna is in) has a lot of older people, and they didn't get our little outfits, and all thought the sweaters were so cute. and then we saw a lady that had a sweater just like ours and the SAME glasses. she probably didn't think we were very funny. well anyways, today was the official day and me and shayna wore our sweaters. only like 5 other people wore them, but thats okay bc ours were the best.

at the party.

VISITORS!

2008-12-08T18:31:00.000-08:00

well, i figured maybe people wouldn't want to read about michael phelps's nasty picture anymore (not to mention now he has a NASTY gf to go along with it) they both take gross pictures so maybe thats why they like eachother bahahah. oh well, he's goin on down the drain. well anyways... my grandparents came up to visit us from texas on thursday and spent the weekend with us. it was really fun, and i hope they come again sometime soon :) i wish i had pictures, but i unfortunatly do not. we went to kenyans basketball game, which was at 8:30pm on a school night and an hour away (i'm such a rebel) well it was an AMAZING game. we were down 15 in the 4th quarter and then we caught up and beat the other team in overtime. my very own brother had 24 pts. i love love love going to the games. i look like the little girl from remember the titans though (if you don't know what i'm talking about then go watch the movie and you'll understand), i get so into them. there next couple of games are all far away on school nights, but i don't care. they are so worth being dead tired the next day. if only my mom would let me go... jk i'd need a ride anyways and those are hard to come by when the games 2 hours away. maybe i'll get lucky. i hope the team dominates, but i know they will cuz they hav some mighty fine players. i meant that skill wise...

EWWWWW!!!

2008-11-21T16:21:00.001-08:00

Okay, everyone should now by now that i am a HUGE michael phelps fan. i love love love him. he was recently in people magazines issue that stated the "100 sexiest men alive". for those of you that haven't seen his picture in it, don't waste your time. my friend told me that he was in it so we went to go look at it and it is one of the most disgusting pictures ever. i could not believe he would pose in a picture like that. it was the most unattractive photo of him i've ever seen. it almost makes me like him less..almost. i wish he would've drawn a line there and not taken the picture. sorry i know people are probably going to want to go look at it, but don't it makes him look disgusting and i'm embarassed for him that tons of his fans are gonna go look at it and be grossed out, or at least the mormon ones haha jk.

he should stick to these candid shots of himself there cute :)

oh ya...it's time

2008-11-09T18:45:00.000-08:00

okay, so i guess that some people could argue that november 9th is a little early to put christmas music on your blog, but you know what i say to them? too freakin bad. i start listening to christmas music as soon as november starts, and i don't stop till i see the sun again on a regular basis. which is usually around february. oh and i don't listen to anyone but josh groban...and occasionally mariah carey. but mostly josh groban because he's my favorite person in the world. i think he has the most amazing voice ever. he's cute too. i LOVE him. thats how he'll smile on our wedding day. jk. not really.

If you haven't bought this cd yet, you are missing out......big time.

if i were chinese....

2008-10-29T15:42:00.000-07:00

halloween is comin up so fast, and i don't really know what i'm gonna be. well i do, but if that doesn't work then i need a back up plan. its gonna rain here which sucks pretty dang bad. rainy halloweens are the worst. so anyways i was brainstorming in my head of like popular things that came out this year and what-not, and i thought, dang if i were chinese i would soooo be kailan. for those of you that haven't had the pleasure of watching Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, i'm so sorry bc its probably the best animated in the history of animated shows. and they owe it all to the theme song. if you haven't heard it, go on youtube right now and listen to it. its the best...ever. so let me introduce you to her amazing pets with amazing names. here we go.

This is Kai-Lan.

This is Tolee.

This is Rintoo, he's a tiger.

This is Hoho, he likes to DJ

Unfortunatly, i couldn't get a picture of Lulu by herself, but she's the pink rhino.

There's also YeYe, San San, Meme, Gu Nai Nai,
oh but don't let me forget my absolute favorite. Kai-Lan's last animal friends is......guess..........Howard, the owl. i bet you did not guess that.
i just love their inconsistancy with the chinese names, it's the absolute best part of the show.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMA!!!!

2008-10-13T21:52:00.000-07:00

i know, my post is a little bit late. today was my mom's birthday. i love her so dang much. i look up to her so much. she is such a good example of being an incredible mom and wife, and shes always willing to do anything to help. she's so patient, and she has so much faith. i strive to be like her every day. i'm so blessed to have her as my mom, and even though sometimes i don't listen to her.....i love you mom!!! i'm so glad that i'm able to be your daughter.

BEST FRIENDS :)

POWDERPUFF/HOMECOMING BLOWOUT

2008-10-11T14:44:00.000-07:00

for any of you that don't know what powderpuff is, let me explain. Powderpuff is when a bunch of junior and senior girls get together, put flags on and kill each other....while throwing a football. It's supposed to be a junior team vs a senior team in NO contact flag football. ha like that happens. its what girls look forward to being juniors for. the boys are cheerleaders (usually it ends up being really weird guys that nobody wants to see in a skirt) and football players coach the girls team. its a tradition, and the seniors always win. but not this year. they talked so much crap about the juniors, but the juniors ended up winning. it's also a tradition that every homecoming week it is in the 80's and sunny until the day of the powderpuff game when it drops to about 37 degrees and we have to sit out in the cold and watch for an hour. i wish i could've taken some pictures, but i don't have a camera. i didn't get to play this year, thanks to my mother, but next year i'll play and hopefully i'll have a camera by then. so we had our homecoming game also last night. we won 77-7. ya it was a blowout. it wasn't even fun to watch. we were up like 60something-7 by the first half, and in the 2nd half no starters went in. it was kind of sad, and it was not enjoyable. a ton of people left at half time. oh, and did i mention it was like 30 degrees? yep it was the second coldest thing i've ever sat at for a long time. our homecoming is tonight, but i'm too tired and lazy to get ready, so i'll just wait for a while. the homecoming court was announced at half time last night, this is the only picture i got. i stole picture of the jr powderpuff team off my friends facebook.

BEAT HER TO IT!!!

2008-09-26T23:40:00.000-07:00

haha i beat my mom. so our team won. actually, saying they won is an understatement. We MURDERED them. the score was 51-0, and in like the last 47 sec of the 4th quarter, they just stopped the game and said we won. it was kinda sad for them, but i'm soooo happy we won. high school football games are the best. i tried to take a picture of the team with my phone, but i couldn't. the next home game is homecoming!!! i'm so excited. i'll try and get some good pictures then.

what the hey???

2008-09-24T16:26:00.000-07:00

sorry i haven't updated in a while, my mom stole my blog topic about the football game. but there's another one on friday so i'll just have to jump on it before her. so the other day i just decided to go on the computer. then my friend told me that i should go on a certain site. i'd been on this site before, and even had an account, but i really didn't like it so i deleted it. this time, she said that there are way more people on it now. this certain site just happens to be facebook. and it just so happens that so many of you fellow bloggers have one and have decided not to share that information with the rest of us. why? who knows, but i'm just gonna come right out and admit that i have one. :) this wasn't really a real post but if we win on friday than i'll be sure and post again.
better than myspace.

driver's beware

2008-09-14T19:54:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time in a far off place there was a princess. She was a smart child and was young for her schooling grade. But while all her friends went to get there licenses, she was stuck at home waiting just to get her learners permit. Finally one day, her mom took her to a magical place called the DMV. There she took the test which would give her the permit. She could only miss 8 out of 46, and was very nervous about it. Somehow, she managed to pass and missed only 5. So now.....

SHE HAS HER PERMIT!!!!

6 MONTHS TO GO! DAS RIGHT!!!

so i think i can't dance

2008-09-08T17:31:00.000-07:00

today i had my first beginning contemporary dance class. it was pretty hard. the dancers on so you think you can dance make it look SO easy, but it is not at all. first we had to stretch forever and i am not flexible at all. then we had to do crunches and bicycles which i love to do, so it wasn't bad. then we had to put our arms out and do different exercises and my arms felt like they weighed 50 million pounds. and then she's like....ok now improv in the dark. i had NO IDEA what to do, and i'm so glad it was dark lol bc i prolly looked so stupid. i really wish it just came naturally, but it doesn't. so i'm gonna work at it, and i'm gonna be soooo sore tomorrow i won't even be able to stand it. but i'll be so buff one day. oh and btw the teacher is some like 20 year old who dances in like 7 different companys AND has taken classes from Mia Michaels AND her main dance teacher was Katee's dance teacher. crazy stuff. so she's pretty legit.

my future bffs

2008-09-05T16:55:00.000-07:00

well i guess i can update now. nothing new has happened except i got out of trig and into intro to college math haha. oh and i got out of LAME psychology and into clay. right now i'm making a coil pot, it's pretty saweet. its really relaxing to be able to go to school and get to play with clay ALL first period. then in my honors english class, we have evaluated many poems, and it's led me to realize, I AM SO DUMB. all the kids in my class sit there and discuss the poem for like hours and i sit there and have no idea what these words mean. plus i am not a fan of writing or reading poetry at all. so here is the dumb blonde sitting in the corner tracing her hand. no joke i think i've traced it 5 million times by now. but we finally finished our first novel (or novella i guess) A River Runs Through It.

its about fly fishing. i liked some parts of it, and the main idea of it. next were reading The Bean Tree. idk what its about. eventually were reading The Great Gatsby and then we get to have a gatsby party and we learn how to swing dance before we go (i already know how) and then the girls dress up as flappers and the boys as...w/e boys dressed like back then. and then we have a big dance party at this building. it sounds pretty cool. plus we go on tons of fun field trips like were supposed to go to tahoe, which if you haven't been you should definatly go (and stop and see us on the way) bc it is SO beautiful. anyways. thats whats going on in my life right now. pretty exciting stuff...not really.

THE LOW-DOWN ON THE REAR-END

2008-08-22T21:12:00.000-07:00

okay so kenyan was really vague so i'm gonna expand on our little experience. so my mom had just picked us up from school and kenyan got in the drivers seat bc he needs hours for his license. we were driving along and saw a car that was for sale, so he turned around in a little driveway and started going back. so we were going to turn around on a side street, and we were stopped and turning left. all of the sudden we hear this skidding and i'm thinking "what the heck is wrong with this car?" but then some idiot of a human being crashed into the back of us. i guess thats whats called a rear-end.

i'm pretty sure we all got a little minor whiplash, but our car is like a freakin rock and this was the dumb lady's car

haha jk jk. her car just had a big ugly dent in it. but thats what she gets. so anywhoodles, my momma called the 911 and they seriously sent 50 million cars. they just kept coming and coming for these two cars in a little fenda-benda. me and kenyan were just laughing our heads off bc there were like 2 firetrucks, an ambulance, and like 5 different fire cars and police cars. they were pretty legit though. my mom wanted to get kael checked out so we got to ride in the ambulance. it was pretty saweet. i was kinda scared to take a picture in it, bc i didn't know if i was like allowed to, so my pictures are really lame.
this is kael... holding the emt's hand.and the emt blew up his balloon to entertain kael.

good times, good times.

HE DID IT!!!

2008-08-17T16:46:00.000-07:00

michael phelps did it!!!!!! not that i ever doubted that he would. he beat mark spitz record and won 8 gold medals in single olympics. he is sooo amazing!!! i'm so glad that he beat it, i think that he worked really hard for it. even if a couple of the races were a close call, i think he deserved it. this was definatly the most intense and enjoyable olympics i've watched my whole life. i'll miss seein him swim soooo much. i wish it were like an every day thing lol. i love him!!!

That was an OMG moment!

2008-08-11T11:24:00.000-07:00

okay i'm super into swimming because i swam a ton when i was little. i've seen a lot of races in my day, but NOTHING compares to the men's 4x100 free relay last night! idk how many ppl watched it, but i am so glad i didn't miss that history in the making. if you haven't seen it yet, go on youtube or wherever you can find it, and WATCH it! it was amazing. the french team was talking trash, and i thought for sure that we were gonna take 2nd but jason lezak who is freakin amazing caught up and passed alain bernard on the french. ugh best race i've ever seen by far!!!

here's the fab 4. michael phelps (of course), cullen jones, garret weber-gale, and jason lezak

I AM SOOOO MAD!!!!!!!!

2008-08-07T22:02:00.001-07:00

Okay, so let me be the first to blog about this. Last night at roughly 9:57 p.m. pacific time a man named Stephen Boss aka "Twitch" got JIPPED!!!! I cannot believe he didn't win. i do not like joshua one bit. ugh that finale was jank and suckish.

Here's a picture of the man that should have won.... and a picture of the top 4: twitch, katee bleh, courtney bleh, and joshua*BLEH*

2008-08-04T21:25:00.000-07:00

okay, okay i will blog now :) sry i've just been so LAZY this whole summer. ok so here it goes.....at the end of June i finally decided to cut it all off. it was a hard decision, but one that i don't regret. it was a lot of hair that i took off but its all good bc i like the change. so heres a couple of pictures of it. they were taken a couple weeks ago but i've gotten it cut again so its a tiny bit shorter, but it looks pretty much the same.

okay so there ya go! hope you enjoy :)

oh and btw jayni......................i was twikatie before there was even a twitch

THE OLD THE NEW (IDK WHY IT'S SO SMALL)

jk :)

sorry!!!

2008-07-20T14:00:00.001-07:00

i'm so sorry!!! i haven't blogged in forever but i have no computer to blog on. i promise promise promise i will write a BIG FAT blog when i get home about my adventures....and my hair ;)

2008-07-11T19:18:00.000-07:00

I DID IT!!! i am all packed and ready to go. i know you're wondering....How on earth did she fit two weeks worth of clothes into just those suitcases? trust me, it wasn't easy...but it was well worth it :)

2008-07-07T12:01:00.000-07:00

just out of curiosity....

whose excited for the olympics? i know i am.
i love michael phelps.

2008-07-06T12:51:00.000-07:00

this was kael singing "i love you" the barney song. here's the lyrics in case you can't understand him lol.

i love you..uh uh i'm scared sissy. i love you, you love me, we're a happy family. with a great big hug [HUG] and a kiss from me to you....and then he doesn't finish it :) but i think you know the rest.

2008-07-06T12:18:00.000-07:00

my mom tagged me....

Things on my to do list today:
1. recover from being sick
2. take a shower
3. watch kael
4. maybe start cleaning my room
5. blog

Snacks i enjoy:
1. string cheese
2. chocolate
3. nectarines
4. peaches
5. french fries

Things i would do if i became a billionaire:
1. pay tithing :)
2. buy a hollister
3. buy myself and my momma a car
4. give some to anyone that needs it
5. save for college and a house

5 places i've lived:
1. covina, ca
2. glendora, ca
3. penn valley, ca
4. idk
5. idk

Jobs i've held:
1. babysitter
2. thrift store
3. concessions at byu
4. youth educator
5. volunteer for many things

5 things some people don't know about me:
1. i'm left-handed
2. my favorite color is navy
3. i play tennis for my school
4. i'm extremely afraid of lightning and spiders
5. i don't like going to the mall..most of the time

i tag jenna, chris, and jericho!!!

2008-07-03T10:06:00.000-07:00

This is what my friend made me for my birthday back in february. I thought it was so cute and very clever.

The Jonas Brother in... The Journey to Katie's Party

Joe: Wow I wish Katie could see me totally dominating! Hmm...Something is missing

Joe: Oh no! Its Katie's Birthday! Nick: I knew it! Joe: Oh no! Will she forever hate me?

Nick: Do you think she will like this? Joe: For sure! My Katie-ba-batie loves candy! Don't worry darling we are on our way!

Nick: Hi Katie sorry we're late! Where's Mel?!

My friends name is Melissa or Mel, and she likes Nick, but i like Joe. She gave me this and flowers. It was really cute. Oh and by the way, Nick is the one with curly hair drinking through the straw. Joe is the one who is "totally dominating" and flexing his muscles with the long straight brown hair.

2008-07-01T20:27:00.001-07:00

MySpace Countdown Clocks

copy-cats

2008-06-30T15:27:00.000-07:00

i have a lot of pet peeves in my life. they range from feet to people burping, and many more. one of my biggest of them all is.....copy cats. the wikidefinition of it is....A copycat (also copy-cat or copy cat) is a person (or animal, or computer program) that mimics or repeats the behavior of another. i know that most people like to use the excuse, oh it is supposed to flatter you. but most of the time to me, it makes me very mad. oh i don't mind when people that i like do it, like family or bestest friends, but a lot of people that bug me like to do it which bugs me even more. i'm not trying to be stuck up and say everyone copies me, but its true. jk. but doesn't it bother you guys when you do something to make yourself individual or it's just something you do and then someone copies it. ugh it irritates me...greatly.

...bored...

2008-06-27T14:23:00.000-07:00

this summer has been excruciatingly boring. all my friends have jobs and such, and i'm too young. we don't leave for utah till july 13th. i'm way excited, but thats pretty far away. ugh can you die from boredom? i can't even go outside cause it's way smoky and super unhealthy. i can't blog about anything because there's nothing to blog about. how does everybody stay unbored during the summer. there's got to be a way to do it. this is pretty suckish. i bet you fell asleep while reading this blog. i would say sorry, but i'm not. jk. not really.

i am back!

2008-06-21T22:31:00.000-07:00

oh my goodness i am FINALLY back!!! i am so glad to be home. i thought the week was only fun because i was a big sister (or ycl) and my little sisters were awesome they were so cute. big sisters and junior staff got to go to donner lake and go boating and stuff and it was so much fun. me and my friend and another girl went like extreme tubing. we were flying everywhere and i'm pretty sure i almost got whiplash, but it was so fun. it felt like i was there for months, but maybe just because i don't like camping. i didn't take any pictures because i don't have a camera, but the counselors of our little sisters took a bunch and she's going to email them to me, but idk when.

change :) or :(

2008-06-14T09:35:00.000-07:00

I'm just going to get out and say it...I HATE CHANGE. but i suppose sometimes change can be a good thing, but it doesn't matter bc i am prejudice of it all. thing is, i need some change...mostly on my hair. i have had long curly blond hair probably since i was in the 3rd grade. i've been growing it out and cutting it back to the same exact way over the years. i now where it basically the same every day, 3-barraled and down. i have to wake up at 4:30 every day to do it before seminary during the school year. but now my moms been telling me how she wants me to cut it short, and that would've not even been an option, but now idk..i kind of want to. i absolutely LOVE kherington's hair, and i would like my hair to be like that, but my hair is kind of my security blanket. i love it when random ppl would come up to me and tell me how pretty my hair was. and at school when ppl refer to me to ppl who don't know me, they call me the girl with curly blonde hair. wat would i be if i cut it short? that girl with short blonde hair. which one? ahh...idk what to do. i really want to do it, but part of me doesn't want to let my old hair go.

2008-06-10T22:25:00.000-07:00

The Lakers Won!!! Whoo-hoo!!! They didn't play there best, but they pulled through, and made my day. AND Sasha had 20 PTS!!! I just LOVE them Lakers!!!

2008-06-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

my new song on my blog is the call by regina spektor and its from the narnia movie and i am obsessed with it. you should listen to it bc it makes me want to cry.

JUNIOR!

2008-06-07T09:52:00.000-07:00

This year is finally over!!! i think i'm okay to say i'm OFFICIALLY a junior now! that means i'm half way done with high school. it really did fly by. i feel like i was a freshman like two days ago. last night me and some of my friends went to the 8th grade graduation at our little jr. high alma mater. then we went to my friends house and partied with them. it was a dance party for them, but we mostly stayed upstairs and played rock band, which i dominated on. it seems kind of like every year the incoming freshman are getting smaller and smaller. like i feel really small for a junior, but the 8th graders last night were like 6th graders. so weird. next year will be so nice because my brother can drive me to seminary and every other place i want him to. i don't get my license till february, but i think my mom will make him drive me around till then. i have one week of summer before i go to girls camp. idk what i'll do w/o my blog for a week. oh well, i get to be with my "little sisters" and our unit is the 12 Dancing Princesses. i'll take some pictures because we've gotten them some cute stuff.

2008-06-05T14:12:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is my last day of school! this week has been pretty crazy. i took my history and english final and did pretty well on my english, and got a 106% on my history. crazy. my dad helped my study and remember weird names like menachem begin. i had ZERO finals today because i A-passed my spanish because i have a 107% percent in the class so i think i deserved it, and i had choir. ugh tomorrow is my biology and algebra 2 final and i am NOT excited about either. technically i'm a-passing my biology final because i can still take it and try to raise my B+ to an A, but if it hurts me it wont count, so thats pretty cool. i'll probably do terrible on my math final, but i will try to do my best. i am so excited for summer, i'm trying to get a flight out early to utah, but they're so dang expensive and i need a new phone and i have limited mula. so i guess i'll just have to see what happens. the lakers play tonight! i'm so excited, i've missed them this past week.

2008-05-30T21:25:00.000-07:00

i don't get to see my laker boys till sometime next week, but i'm sooo glad they won. good job spurs though, it was a good match, except for when ginobli smacked sasha in the face, that wasn't cool. this week is my LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!!! we get out on friday, but seminary ends on monday. i only get to a-pass one of my finals, which means i will be taking some pretty hard tests. yay. i get seminary breakfast on monday, and then a waffle party in my english class on tues. thats a lot of good food for one week. i got a new belt, and i was sooo excited to wear it!!! i hope this summer will be fun, too bad i can't drive :( august 6th is my permit day!

my sah-weet new belt

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!

2008-05-26T18:25:00.000-07:00

19 years together! Aren't they the cutest. my dad had hair back then :)

My YW

2008-05-26T16:43:00.000-07:00

For our last combined activity with the Young Men, our Young Women did a picture scavenger hunt. We had to run around town and do some crazy things like: Kiss frozen chicken, find a lady with an unusual hat, shake an old man's hand, go to Burger King and have the manager "knight" you with a french fry (yup, we did it.), and other strange things. I just thought i'd post some of the group pictures we took and have you be amazed at the size of our YW in the boonies :) jk this isn't all of us....theres 3 more.

sorry, couldn't figure out how to flip the pix.

2008-05-24T11:46:00.000-07:00

i'd say that thursday night/friday morning was probably the WORST night of my life. so at like midnightish i woke up to find that my other ear (as in the one that didn't burst) was killing. it took probably an hour till i was relaxed enough to go back to sleep. then at like 3 i woke up and it felt like someone was stabbing me in the stomach. i waited for a few to see if it would go away, but it didn't. so my mom took me to the hospital at like 3:30 and i went into the emergency room, and eventually i was seen by the doctor. i had to get an i.v. and the nurse tried both my arms but i was WAY dehydrated. so she tried one arm (without numbing it) and i could feel it go in, and then moving it around. ugh it was weird. but she couldn't find a vein, so she had to get the other nurse to look for it in my other arm. well, she numbed it, but i could still feel it moving around, and she finally found one. they gave me pain medicine and nausea medicine and then a whole bag of fluids. eventually the pain stopped and i could go home. so all together i missed: monday sixth & seventh period, tuesday all day (for choir concert), wednesday (first period), and friday all day. i missed my choir concert, and i couldn't go to my friends birthday party. like i said, worst night ever!!! but thanks to my mom who stayed up with me all night/morning. at least the lakers won, otherwise it really would've made me sad.

2008-05-22T15:41:00.000-07:00

10. Getting Chills (not from being cold)
9. Sleeping
8. Nighttime
7. Laughing
6. The Beach
5. Food
4. Boys (only the mature ones)
3. Music
2. Gospel
1. Family

2008-05-21T18:27:00.000-07:00

we got back from the choir thing at like 12:30 am so basically the whole choir missed out on first period. we have a lot of finals coming up and i am not excited, but i am excited to be getting out of school very soon. i just wrote a 3 page essay in 2 hours. i'm sooo skilled right (even though it was due on monday, whoops) well the american idol finale is on and i could NOT care less who wins. so you think you can dance starts TOMORROW!!! i'm pretty dang excited, i love that show. happy birthday kenyan :) big 17. too bad he doesn't have his license.

2008-05-18T13:45:00.000-07:00

OMG okay so i saw prince caspian last night, and i thought the movie was pretty good, but he was soooo cute. he's actually way cuter in the movie than in real life, i wonder why, maybe makeup. the only part i didn't like was when he kissed that pevensie sister, i had to close my eyes. my ear is a little better, but not much, hopefully my mom will take me to the doctors sooner or later. i kind of wish the lakers were playing today, but i have to wait til wednesday i guess. this week will be full of choir stuff. i'm going to the california golden state festivel on tuesday (which is like 4 or more hours away), and then on thurs and friday night we have our spring concerts. so i'll probably have no voice by the end of this week..so cool. then next week is dead week and finals are the week after that and then school is out on JUNE 6TH!!!! i'm sooo excited i can't even stand it.

2008-05-17T10:39:00.000-07:00

so... the lakers won last night!!! whoo-hoo!!! and uh..who had 10 pts? thats right, sasha did. and no dumb technicals this time. well i had my first BIG SISTER meeting for girls camp last night, a big sister is like after you've finished your 4th year of girls camp you get to go be with the girls and be like their big sisters and help them and we are the song leaders and we decorate everything! i had a really bad ear ache yesturday, and last night i guess my ear drum burst. it is the SICKEST thing ever, eww its sooo gross. i have an audition for our stake play today, but i'm hearing two toned right now so i definatly cannot sing. so...what to do? prince caspian came out yesturday!!! me and my daddy are going to see it tonight. i know your all thinking, she is a little angel for taking her father to the movies. and it's true. jk i would sooo be going with my cousins right now if i lived in utah though daddy.

2008-05-14T13:24:00.000-07:00

I'm sooo excited for the game tonight!!! i REALLY hope that the lakers win. i have mutual tonight though so i'm gonna have to stay up till like 11 or 12 AHHH! oh well, theres no way i'm going to school not knowing. plus tomorrows a half day. so was today, but i was at a DUI trial for 4 hours. it was the most boring thing of my whole life. tonights american idol too, but i don't care who gets voted off or who wins anymore. i don't really like any of them. well lets hope the lakers win tonight and sasha plays a TON!!!

I LOVE SASHA VUJACIC!!!

2008-05-11T16:45:00.000-07:00

that lakers game was a huge upset. i wish they would have won, no offense but I HATE the jazz. well kobe kind of threw the game away so that was suckish. and they should've given the ball to Saša Vujačic he was on the ball tonight..uhh no pun intended. he's my new favorite player on the lakers :)

Happy Mother's Day!!!

2008-05-11T13:23:00.000-07:00

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mothers!!! you all work so hard to keep your family healthy and happy so you guys deserve an amazing day all about you. i love moms i think there the best people ever especially the ones in our family so enjoy YOUR day!!! love you all.

2008-05-09T20:40:00.000-07:00

hey guys! i copied jodi and got a make over. my mom cut and colored my hair today, isn't she a sweet thing? i'm sooo happy with the results and i hope everyone likes it too!!! oh, and scroll down to look at it.

2008-05-07T16:21:00.001-07:00

i am sooo nervous for Jason tonight! he did not do well at all last night. oooh if siyesha stays i'm going to freak. i really do not like her at all, but i will admit she did better than jason. i'm so scared, if he gets kicked of i will surely cry. next thurs. all the sophomores at my school have to go watch a REAL dui trial for 4 hours! luckily it's a half day though, so we can just go home afterwards. maybe it's the waking up at 4 almost every morning, but i am just soooo tired all the time now. i had a math test today, and everytime i got up to blow my nose or ask my teacher a question and then go sit down i just forgot where my seat was. i did it 5 times! i would just walk up the wrong row looking for my desk. idk it was really weird maybe someone slipped something into my water when i wasn't looking.

2008-05-04T15:16:00.000-07:00

okay so i got the pictures and then i discovered that I AM THE WORST picture taker ever!!! so only a couple are close to decent so i'll try and figure out how to post them. they even gave me a little disc with all the pictures on them, isn't that so nice? oh and i blame the camara for some of the bad pictures, i need a digital especially when my mom buys me those Jonas Brothers tickets i'm gonna need a cool camara right?

2008-05-03T09:23:00.000-07:00

Hola. Today we're having a pretty sweet garage sale. We have a whole bunch of junk out there, and nobody's stoppin by. So my week was pretty suckish, i stayed home from school twice bc i was deathly ill and then my mom made me go to school on weds. and it was the worst day ever so...thanks again mom. I'm sick still and i look terrible. I wanted to go see my friends band play but all my friends are GONE this weekend, and i do not want to go by myself. I might go see Iron man today, but idk. Jonas Brothers are coming here on July 16th and if anybody wants to buy me tickets (hem hem..mom) that would be absolutely splendid. And while i'm whining away, let me just add that it is soooo dumb that there is NO HOLLISTER here! there stupid shipping is 8 dollars! so if i want to buy a shirt for $13.90 is comes out like $25 which is so lame. i know jasons days are very limited, but i refuse to believe that he will get kicked off soon. today hopefully my mother will finally take me to go pick up my pictures from our disneyland tour that we had in march. yes its been since march and she just barely got them developed. anywhoodles, if there cute then i'll scan them and post them, if there not...then i wont

2008-04-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

I'm home sick today and i'm sooooo bored! So my weekend was not as fun as i'd hoped, but it was okay. I tied for 3rd place at seminary bowl, which i don't think was very good. The dance on Saturday was a long story, but i have a ton of time to do nothing so i'll tell it anyways. We go all the way to Rocklin for our dances because our Stake dances were lame and no one went. I got a ride w/ my friend and my other friend came with us. We were planning to get there at like 7 so we could eat dinner bc the dance started at 8:30 (or so we thought). So were all casual dressed and we drive up to the church and we see girls in skirts and dresses and guys in shirts and ties. We thought they were just wearing it for no reason, but my friends mom went to see what was up and it was there Youth Conference so they weren't expecting us to even be there! They said they were having a dance at 8:30 and that we could go even though we were casual. So were all embarassed and i call another girl from our stake to see if she thinks it's casual which she does. We didn't tell her it was formal bc then we'd be the only ones casual. So we just wait for our stake to start showing up in there casual wear and we go in at 8:30 and find out there having a speaker and he's not done yet so we have to wait another 45 stupid minutes. So basically i was there for 2 1/2 hours waiting for this dumb dance to start. It was WAY too hot in the gym, and the dance was till 11. It wasn't the best dance ever.

I LOVE PRINCE CASPIAN

2008-04-25T17:00:00.001-07:00

2008-04-24T19:34:00.000-07:00

Idk if anyone even noticed but Jason, my love, is no longer on my blogspot :(. For some dumb reason the site I got the song off of won't play it anymore. So i got the version of the original guy doing it bc i still love the song. But how cute was he last night? It's kind of sad Carly went home though, but i'll get over it. Leona Lewis did AMAZING last night, i lover that song. Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! WOO-HOO! I have seminary bowl tomorrow night (which i will dominate), and then a church dance on Saturday night. I will be so busy having fun. So did anyone else watch the Jonas Brothers on Oprah? They were so cute. Hm...what else is new? I guess nothing so...bye

2008-04-21T16:49:00.000-07:00

Alright, the first day of testing is over!!! I actually thought parts were kind of tricky hopefully they don't like hold me back a grade or something jk. I just found out today that our Europe Trip for choir is on spring break '09, and were going to........IRELAND!!!! I was hoping for something warm and sunny like Greece or Italy, but thats okay I will settle for anywhere in Europe. My mom thinks she's going with me, funny huh. jk I don't really care whether she goes or not, as long as she's not with her sisters she doesn't embarass me. Yikes, I hope she doesn't read that. UGH I have math and bio for an hour and a half tomorrow, and more English testing. It was sooooo cold today! I was expecting it to get all hot so I could take off my sweatshirt, but no. I hate when it's sunny and cold because then you wake up and think you can wear shorts and flip-flops, but you are totally deceived. Now I have to go find something to wear tomorrow. I'm definatly ready to put my winter clothes away....forever. I am so bored, and I have to do a poster on pneumonia, how gross. I should probly go practice my piano now...ugh

2008-04-20T12:58:00.000-07:00

Okay so yesturday was sooo boring. Our choir didn't do as well as we could've. In festivels they give you a superior, excellent, or just good. Obviously superior is the best. Well, even though me and our pianist thought we didn't do very well, we still got a superior. Oh well, i don't know what the judges were hearing but who cares. I just got home from church and I am soooo tired. Tomorrow we go back to school, and back to early morning seminary...ugh. We have stupid STAR testing tomorrow, biggest waste of my life ever! It's part of living in California though, all last week we had to take the "no child left behind" test. Those were even more dumb. All of our classes tomorrow are and hour and a half long! Ugh my spanish class is WRETCHED and i have to be in it forever. I'll just have to think about some kind of positive..........hm...hopefully i won't have homework otherwise i'll be sooo mad.

2008-04-18T12:59:00.000-07:00

Finally! I figured out how to put music on it and stuff. Well now everyone that looks on my blog can enjoy my favorite song by Jason Castro. I am soooo glad that Kristy Lee is gone! So is my mom if you can't tell by her blog. That was pretty tricky what they did though, I almost thought that Jason was in the bottom. Brooke's days are definatly numbered, she sounds the same every time she sings. I think David Archuleta will win the whole thing, or at least he better because he is the best singer on the show. Um..what else, I guess I'm kind of glad that Aly won the Biggest Loser, I wanted Curtis and Mal to do better, but he lost a ton of weight. The Office was pretty funny last night. Lost wasn't on this week, and neither are Ghost Whisperer and Numbers. Wow, i watch a lot of t.v. lol. I mean I get everything done, and I have at least 3 meetings every week for my job on council, but somehow I still get a lot of t.v. time in. Thats probably not a good thing lol. Today was a NO SCHOOL DAY!!! But I have a choir festivel all day on Saturday, so I don't know if I would really consider this a 3 day weekend but oh well.

2008-04-17T17:05:00.000-07:00

Okay now I am officially responsible for 2 blogs so...if it's not super up to date, don't be mad. I needed to follow the crowd and start my own. Plus now i don't have to speak for my whole familia. I'm just adding to the crazy amount of meltons that will start this cool trend. Well now I know a little more about these things, so i'll just start adding random things. If mines better than the family one don't be mad, k mom....jk.