Dance like no one is watching...

Sean and I went to Mormon Prom together back in April, it was so much fun! Great friends, great food, and we looked darn good if I do say so myself. We had fun with it and went vintage, because that's just what fits our personalities. Here is a collection of photos from the night!

 

I don't think I will ever succesfully be able to do this.

 

 

Yep. Totally wore Keds with socks, I had no interest in my feet hurting on my night. I'm sure I will do the same thing on my wedding day. ;)

 

Dude, stop it with the faces!

 

 

The awesome group we went with.

 

 

Quote of the Day

 

"A five year old asked her big brother "What is love?" one day.

He replied: "Love is when you steal my chocolate from my school pack every day...and I still keep it in the same place."

-Unknown

My New Happy Place...

Zumba. That's right! Kylie actually found a form of exercise she can handle...enjoys even! I love that amidst all of this craziness I can take a break and do something that is fun, distracting, and is actually productive. I am so commited that my mom bought me yoga pants and I actually wear them. And you guys have no idea how big a deal it is that I even put on yoga pants let alone wore them in any sort of public venue. So, if you haven't discovered the magic yet, go! And yes I've already made my dad and Sean go with me, they totally had fun too. Boom.

Oh and guys, I hate dislike Anthropology with a deep passion within my very soul. Anthropology is not my happy place. Just thought I would let you know.

 

 

Quote of the Day
“I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.”

-Peter Cameron

That time when Spiderman becomes amazing. Oh, and way attractive.

Guys. This movie, it's adorable. Like seriously you will giggle at least 17 times. Which means I giggled 217 times. Cause ya know, that's just how normal I am. Oh and I cried, cause that's what I do best.

 

Why are they both so perfect? Seriously.

Quote Of The Day

 

 Gwen Stacy: How did you get up here?

Peter Parker/Spider-Man: The fire escape.

Gwen Stacy: That's twenty stories.

Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Your doorman's intimidating.

-The Amazing Spiderman

I dreamed a dream...

Several months ago I had the opportunity to go see Les Misérables, my parents are just the best. And it was amazing, and I cried a lot, because for years I had read the book and sung the songs and dreamed of the day I would get to see it for reals! It melted my heart.

Then this came along:

 

 

And it was oh so spectacular. And I cried more than I ever had in any movie ever, and that is saying something because I am a huge cryer you guys.

 

 

I have a soft spot for Eponine. She will always be my favorite. Her love for Marius is beautiful, and my heart breaks along with her. (Remember how I cried an unhealthy a large amount?)

 

My love for Eponine has always pushed through and made it so I've never liked Cosette a whole lot, and it didn't help that when I saw it live the girl playing her did not have a voice cut out for the role. But I came to adore her while watching this movie, and her and Marius were so sweet and loving to each other I couldn't help but love them together.

And just to leave you with two incredibly attractive faces...

You are welcome.

 

Quote Of The Day

 

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

 

 



Confession.

So, I have a confession. Which is actually not much of a confession because this should be a well known fact about me. I am slightly obsessive I get a tad bit excited when it comes to weddings. It's just one of those things that makes me incredibly happy! The pretty dresses, gorgeous bride, handsome groom, dancing, the engagement story, all of that lovey dovey stuff. Yeah, it's my thing.
Tonight I got to go to a wedding reception and it was of course lovely! The bride was stunning, and all of the engagement pictures made me want to cry they were so adorable. And for reals, I think I got told "You're next..." at least 67 times. And I kept responding with "I hope so!" which I don't think my mother appreciated. ;) In reality, I plan on finishing nursing school and maybe travel a bit before I get married. Maybe even a mission for my church for that traveling! That would be lovely. And then me and my tall, attractive husband travel a bit more, together this time. And then we have pretty babies, five of them, but far enough apart that I don't explode or something similarly drastic...I guess I don't really get that much control over my life, although I like to pretend I do. :)

 

Quote Of The Day

 

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” 
Robert Fulghum, True Love

 

My future castle...

 

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Christmas! Oh how I love you. The lights, the nativities, the decorations. The Christmas carols on the radio. The adventure of hunting down the perfect gifts. The staying up all night wrapping those perfect gifts. The Christmas story. The family time. The "Christmas Morning" butterflies. The taking hours slowly opening gifts. The staying in new pajamas all day. I love it all.  And this Christmas was especially lovely.
I couldn't sleep Christmas night, I was all wrapped up in bed wearing my beautiful, soft new pajamas but could not for the life of me sleep! The Christmas butterflies are on a roll man! But I stayed happy and awake all Christmas of course, with the adrenaline of it all. Here are a few of my favorite presents I received...

From my amazing parents, Taylor Swift Red Tour concert tickets. Oh my goodness it was a surprise! I sadly have to wait until August, but that gives me time to get all of my awesome dance moves down so it's all good.

From my lovely boy, a homemade "Happy Pillow", pictures of happy moments, favorite people, attractive actors, the temple, baby animals. Pretty much sums up the things that can instantly make me happy. There is even a Pooh Bear quote! "Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day." Goodness it made me so happy! I instantly proved that it was named properly. It was a perfect present. :)

And again from the best parents ever, I got my two nerdy presents! A "River Song" journal for an ode to one of my favorite shows, Doctor Who. And a "BAZINGA!" shirt as an ode to Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, my most recent obsession. Wow they are best!!

I am so grateful for my family, friends, and leaders who are there for me always in my times of need. And I am eternally grateful to my Saviour, who sacrificed everything for me. As I celebrate this joyful Christmas season, I of course love the excitement and presents, but it will always really be the celebration of Christs birth. So Happy Birthday my kind older brother, thank you so much for looking out for me always, I look forward to the day where I get to hug you tight and thank you in person again.

 

Quote Of The Day

 

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you ^agood tidings of great ^bjoy, which shall be to all people.

11 For unto you is ^aborn this day in the city of David a ^bSaviour, which is Christ the ^cLord.

12 And this shall be a ^asign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

14 ^aGlory to God in the highest, and on earth ^bpeace, good will toward men.

 

Luke 2:10-14

Happy Birthday Paige

 

Today was Paige's 15th birthday. The poor girl had to spend it in the hospital (See post below for why in the world she would have to do that.) The boy and I took her Panera for lunch. Barbecue chicken salad, Mac n' Cheese, and grape juice. She was laughing by the end of it, always a good sign. Then we dropped her back off at the hospital and zipped on over to Forever 21, because it's fun to make him go into girly stores because I needed to get a necklace to match the shirt I got her for her birthday present. We found the perfect one, and then proceeded to get hopelessly lost in the rain and bustle of mall traffic and took 30 minutes, instead of two and a half, to get to Lowe's. Why are we now at Lowe's? We actually had no idea why. But my mother did, who was at home, so she talked to the workers via my cell phone. 30 minutes and a lot of running around that giant store later, we checked out with six light bulbs. Meanwhile, my mom, Lilly, the Murray family, and Krissa are busy at work completely re-decorating Paige's room! Turns out the light bulbs were for the chandelier (yes you read that right, chandelier. My mom is awesome.) They transformed the room into a very pink masterpiece, with places for necklaces, curling irons, earrings, blow dryers, even a section of the wall dedicated to Blake Shelton! Paige loves it, and we ended the night with frozen pie which is always a plus.
Paige, you are the strongest girl I know. You are amazing and beautiful, all of the time. And even though I might not show it often enough, I am so incredibly grateful that I got you as a sister. I really am the luckiest duck.

Quote Of The Day

 

“Sister. She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child.”
― Barbara Alpert

A Fresh Start

So, my last post was officially over two years ago. Pretty darn pathetic. I have changed, a lot. And my life has changed, a lot. And there is no way I can fully update this blog of mine because that would take about a billion years, plus I would have to remember everything and that would make my head hurt. All I can say is that I've grown. I know what it feels like to be scared. I know what it feels like to lose someone. I know how to make hard decisions. But I also know what it feels like to be happy. I have an incredibly strong testimony of the gospel of my church. And I have formed a very tight bond with my family. The last two years have not been the best of my life, but I am forever grateful for the people, experiences, and emotions I have come across whether good or bad, because without them I would not be the person I am today. And you know, I am pretty awesome.
Here is what is going on in my life right this very moment! You might be lucky enough to get the full story's later, maybe.

I am going to my local community college doing my pre-requisites for nursing school! It is super exciting. I have found that I need to keep myself very motivated to succeed. And that having the flu during finals week is the worst thing, ever.

I am working as a waitress at a retirement home, Merrill Gardens. It is very stressful but I love it! The people are fantastic and I love getting to know them. I am horrible at names, so I know maybe 5 out of the 300 who live there. But I do know 60% of their drink orders! And I can carry my food tray on one arm now, so I must be gaining muscle. So I'm pretty proud of myself.

My 15 year old sister Paige is in a two week long Pain Rehabilitation program at the Seattle Children's Hospital. In the past year and a half every single thing physically that can possibly go wrong has gone wrong for her. It has been very hard on everyone in the family, but to be honest no one knows how Paige handles everything so well. She is a very happy girl! She loves pink, writing songs, and at the moment grape juice.

I have the best family. My dad wakes me up for seminary (6 AM class) and keeps my white work shirts clean (I make that extremely difficult, trust me.) My mom is one of my best friends and I tell her everything, and I mean everything. She probably wants to duct tape my mouth shut constantly. Paige is the strongest person I know and I love her to death. Lilly is a weirdo who makes all of us laugh, and she is really good at doing my hair. Sam loves to talk to us about nerdy things none of us understand of course. And Sarah is our little angel that is sometimes really hard to handle, but she is the most lovable little thing ever. And she sneaks into my bed to sleep a lot, which I secretly think is super cute.

I have two best friends, Elisabeth and Sean. Elisabeth is my age and we are basically twins. There is no other explanation for our identical brains. Seriously. We go to school together and freak everyone out together of course. She is my person. Like if I needed to murder someone in the middle of the night she would be the person I would call to help me drag the dead body into the lake, and she would do it too. And then the next day we would probably both tell our mom's because we tend to do that, but we would be in jail together so it would be okay. If you can't tell, we have previously discussed this because we are that cool.
And then there's Sean, he is a boy. And I kinda like him a lot. And he is kind, hilarious, quirky, and he kinda likes me too. It's a win-win kind of situation. My family has adopted him into the family over the last two years, and I think they might even like him more than I do. He is Sarah's "lovebug" and the only person who understands Sam. Lilly more than tolerates him, which is seriously saying something. And he is the only boy Paige will willingly hug, which is basically a miracle. Oh and my parents love him, they even trust him most of the time! He takes me on dates and rubs my feet when my mom gives him permission (kidding, kinda.) and brings me ice cream and chocolate when I have my daily mental breakdowns (again, kidding, kinda.) and I think he might even be used to how incredibly insane I am and how I cry all the time, maybe. So he's basically perfect, it's pretty awesome.

Sometimes I sit back and suddenly realize that life is happening, and it's going by way too fast. Those TV shows that I "used" to be obsessed with, yeah I am the age of those characters now. It's pretty scary. And I don't want to forget the little moments, or the big ones. So I'm going to motivate myself and start writing again, I love this little blog of mine and I want to be able to look back and remember these things whenever I want. So here we go, it's a fresh start!

 

Quote Of The Day

Today's quote is my motivation to keep writing on this blog. Because he's right, I have plenty of time.

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

I Am Alive!!!

I am finally emerging from the longest sickness on the history of this earth!!! I had a fever and a terrible cough which was apparently caused by an ear infection...the fever went away after 2 weeks but i am now in the 3rd week and the cough isn't completely gone which stinks cause school starts in 2 days but oh well! I totally thought I was gonna die! Soooooo i am very glad I am alive!!!!
In the middle of all this sickness my mom decided to switch around the bedrooms in the house so I have my own room now!!! haha nobody wanted to share a room with me since I have to get up at 5 for seminary! Well that's it for now! Ill tell ya if I die at high school later;)

Quote of the Day

Okay so I couldn't find an amazing quote that goes along with this post so I'm just gonna give you one of my all time favorites:)

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I'd never have to live without you."
— Pooh bear talking to Piglet

Girls Camp!!!!!!!!

I just got home from Girls Camp!!!!!! It was soooooo amazing!!! I have to admit I am very glad I am home to my warm bed, hot shower, and clean socks but I had one of the best weeks of my life! And yes I did mean clean socks. I sadly ran out of them the 3rd day and was forced to wear dirty ones for several days...next year I'm bringing like 50 pairs so that doesn't happen:)

So this year I brought Robin with me! Everyone absolutely loved her and she had a great time! Hehe we listened to Lady gaga on the way up to camp (Poker Face, Telephone) and so all week Me, Robin, Lizz, Toria, and Brina had it stuck in our heads and so we kept breaking out into those songs...It was pretty hilarious:D Me and Robin were in the Teepee called the WOW girls (Word Of Wisdom) and we had an amazing teepee mom, not so much on the ycls but oh well! We had 4 other fantastic girls in our teepee with us and we bonded with them!

Robin was awesome at making up cheers! She either completely wrote or helped write every single cheer!

I got to ride horses for the first time! It was so much fun and the girls in charge said I had good posture while riding! hehe my horses name was Harry and he kept trying to eat stuff from the trees and stuff which was annoying but me and him are friends now cause I talked to him the whole time while I was on him (those who know me, cant you imagine me riding a horse through the woods at like 1 mile an hour and having conversations with him? ;)

Saturday morning wasn't as amazing...Paige (my little sis) woke up throwing up and had a fever for a couple hours and her friend Olivia also did. Olivia actually didn't stop throwing up for hours, Paige luckily only threw up once right when she woke up...Well shes getting better now that shes home! So everythings good:)

Oooh! I did the Polar dip of course! Me and Lizz held hands and sprinted in and just really quickly dunked, I dunked 5 times, I think she dunked 3, and then we sprinted right out again! Haha its no where near what I did last year (me and Brina did it 35 times) but still awesome!

Okay so on the car ride home we went with Brina's mom and filled up the car! It was Me, Robin, Lizz, Sara, Becca, Brina, and Toria! We stopped at a Mcdonalds on the way back and stayed for like an hour eating food and singing camp songs extremely loud! haha we were afraid they were gonna kick us out...That would of been pretty excitinf though! Mom: "So what was your favorite part of camp?" Me: "Getting kicked out of McDonald's!!!" Mom: "???" hahaha I make myself laugh sometimes;)

Well when I got home me, Robin, and Paige told my mom tons of stories and sang her cheers and camp songs until Robin had to leave:(

And then I took an extremely long shower and bubble bath!!! I was so excited that I smell good again! But kinda sad cause what I thought was a tan actually was just dirt, and so my tan washed off...hehe:) Well that's my week for ya!

Quote of the Day!

So today's Quote really has nothing to do with the post haha but I couldn't think of one that had anything to do with it so I just chose one of my favorites:)

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someones garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Okay so i found this song and it just made me happy:) Its called Princes and Frogs by SuperChick and you can listen to it here...haha I have nothing else to share with you, sorry :D

Quote of the Day

All princes start as frogs and all gentlemen as dogs
Just wait till its plain to see
What we're growing up to be
Cause Some frogs will still be frogs
And Some dogs will still be dogs
Some boys could become men
Just don't kiss us 'til then.

-Princes and Frogs, SuperChick

Here we go AGAIN.

Okay I'm gonna give you a little bit of background for this post...
3 years ago my parents went on Trek. Trek is a pioneer camp my church does. On the last day they were there my mom stepped in a gopher hole and broke her ankle. It completely snapped. I'm not going to give you details but she ended up having surgery on it about a year later, that whole year she was either off her foot or in a boot, it was super hard...well she had surgery and then was off her foot again for 6 weeks and was in the boot for several months. We were so excited the day she took off her boot! It was amazing!!! 3 days later she stepped on a sewing needle on the floor and it broke off in her other foot (not the foot with the surgery) The needle completely disappeared in her foot and she had to have major surgery to get it out it was so deep in her foot. Because of the surgery she was off her foot again for 6 weeks...To this day she has has had daily pain from both her feet because of these surgery's, just a few months ago she started physical therapy to try and get both of the healed and back to normal.

Well there is the background you needed. Now here's what happened yesterday...Yesterday my mom was walking outside and she somehow tripped and fell. It was terrible, she couldn't move and she just kept sobbing "No, not again. No, no, no. Not again." She knew something was seriously wrong with her ankle (the one that got the needle stuck). Luckily we had a friend over who's dad is a foot doctor so he called his dad and he came over and looked at it. He told my dad that she needed to go to the doctor and get it x-rayed, so they slowly got my mom out to the car and they got her to the doctors. The walk-in-clinic was of course as stupid as ever and did not do a good job but oh well. All we know right now is that her ankle has a 4th degree sprain, which is the worst you can get without it breaking. We are so grateful its not broken but its still terrible. Now I will tell you the super freaky part. As you know yesterday was July 10th 2010. It was July 10th 2007 that she broke her other ankle. Which means that she broke her ankle on the 3 year anniversary of breaking the other one...isn't that just plain freaky?!? Well theres the dramatics of my day for ya:(

Quote of the Day

This is my theme scripture from EFY and Youth Conference that I just got home from...this scripture is so perfect for what I'm going through I am amazed. I don't know how I would have handled this if I hadn't been focusing on this the past few weeks.

"Be strong and of a good courage. be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. For the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest." -Joshua 1:9

Eclipse!!!

Okay, so before I start on my EFY stuff I'm gonna do my post on Eclipse:) Eclipse was amazing!!! Edward is finally the prince charming I always imagined him as! And Jacob is finally the guy I hated in the books! haha;) Bella even did awesome...They followed the plot pretty well and it had all the scenes that I was so excited for in it. I LOVED Jasper! He was just plain awesome...I even thought the new Victoria did great...the only negative thing I have about it was there was too much making out with way too many couples but I think everyone expected that. Besides that, I am amazed at how awesome it turned out and I am really hoping Breaking Dawn is just as good:)

Quote of the Day

"I kissed Bella. Then she broke her hand, punching my face... total misunderstanding."

-Eclipse, Jacob Black to Charlie Swan

hahaha! Oh my gosh I love this line! He said it sooooooo perfectly!

EFY!!!!!!!!!

I just got home from EFY!!!!!! It was the most amazing week of my life!!! I am soooooooooooo sad its over:( but sooooooooo happy cause I got to finally go see Eclipse;) haha...I'm gonna post a little about EFY everyday so I can get most of it in there. One post would be impossible to fit everything...I made my own little family there (pictures later) I have 10 new brothers and 9 new sisters and an efy mommy and daddy:) It was really hard to say goodbye this morning:( well I will post more later!

Quote of the Day

One of the girls in my group said this during a discussion and I really liked it:)

"We are all princesses and we have our princes waiting for us somewhere so we can all become queens"

-Katelyn

Best Friends

I don't really have an explanation for this post. I just feel very grateful right now that I have people there for me, that they are there at a moments notice to cheer me up:)

Quotes of the Day!

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Wow, that was fun!'.

True friends are very difficult to find, hard to leave, and impossible to forget.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

Because you mean a lot to me, when you cry, ill cry, when you laugh, ill laugh, when you jump out a window, ill laugh again;)

A friend is someone who can look at you when you have the biggest smile on your face and still tell something is wrong.

Letters To Juliet

Me and my friend Brie went to see Letters To Juliet the other day...I went in expecting a super cheesy, annoying romance that I wouldn't like. But I actually loved it!!! I'm not saying it didn't have its cheesy moments, but it was just enough to make it funnier instead of annoying. The adventure the characters went on was realistic and connectible and I totally teared up like 5 times:) Plus the main characters are beautiful! haha;) I was really amazed at the actress who played Claire... She was gorgeous in her own way. No botox, hardly any makeup. And her character was very confident and funny. It made me happy to watch her.. Well I'm excited to see it again this weekend and I totally recommend it!

Quote of the Day!

This is basically the theme of the movie and Claire reads it in a letter towards the end...its one of

my favorite moments and it totally made me cry:)

"What, and if. Those two words standing alone are basically harmless, but link them together and those two words possess great power. What if?"

-Letters To Juliet

How To Train Your Dragon!!!

I saw How To Train Your Dragon twice in the past week! Once with my buddies Toria, Lisha, and Topher (yes those are their nicknames not their real ones;) and a couple days later with my family and mindee and eddie. It is an AMAZING movie! It is hilarious, has a great plot, and the animation is spectacular! I would recomend it for anyone, kids or adults:) I also want to go see The Last Song...if anyone has already seen it can you comment and tell me how you liked it? Thanks!

Quotes Of The Day!

Thank you for nothing, you useless reptile. -Hiccup

Gobber: If you ever want to get out there to fight dragons... You need to stop all... this.
Hiccup: But... you just pointed to all of me.
Gobber: Yes... That's it... Stop being all of you!

-How To Train Your Dragon

The Maze Runner

Last week, my buddy Jesse forced me to read this book called The Maze Runner...he said it was ridiculously addicting and I just had to read it...Well he was totally right! I read it in 2 days, the beginning was just like any ol' book so I spent a day reading about the first 100 pages. The second day I got to the addicting part at when I usually go to bed and read it straight through the last 300 pages to the end! It was an amazing book but Iv got to say that it kinda freaked me out, I'm pretty sure I had a couple nightmares about it:) But it was because the author is so good at what he does, he described the creatures in this story so well that I have a terribly accurate image stuck in my brain...I bet that its his goal in life for people (that rarely have nightmares about books or movies) to have a nightmare about his writing! I never want to meet this guy though! The fact that his mind can make up this plot and creatures is disgusting, and although I'm glad he did because I love it, I'm completely scared of him! Again, it is an amazing book and I would recommend it to anyone, boys and girls, as long as you aren't deathly afraid of scary creatures:) Oh and if you have read The Hunger Games (another amazing book) you will definitely love this!!!

So for the Quote of the Day today I spent a long time deciding if I would put a couple really hilarious quotes or really serious plot changing quotes from the book...I went with the serious ones because those tell you a little tiny bit about the book!

Quotes of the Day!

"My name is Thomas, he thought

That...that was the only thing he could remember about his life....he didn't know where he came from, or how he'd gotten inside the dark lift, or who his parents were. He didn't even know his last name."

"The walls slammed shut behind him, the echo of its boom bouncing off the ivy-covered stone like mad laughter"

-The Maze Runner, James Dashner

Im 14!!!

Yesterday was my 14th Birthday!!! I had a fantastic day! In the morning I came upstairs to a table full of presents, I got to open one which had an amazing shirt in it that I wore to church with the skirt that I had just finished making...After I unwrapped It my mom made me re wrap the box because she said the box balanced out the table perfectly;) When I got to church I had my Bishops interview...It was really fun. We talked about Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Lord of the Rings most of the time:) My miamaids teacher brought in yummy cupcakes to class too:) After church I came home and I was surprised with 2 of my favorite families their for dinner, we had a mini thanksgiving meal and when we were about to start opening presents someone started feeling sick and actually ended up throwing up. So their family left pretty quickly...Present time! I got a bottle of vanilla scented lotion and bubble bath from Mindy B. A twix bar and an awesome necklace from Jesse he actually made the beads somehow from clay and baked them! A puzzle book, bubble wand, and twix bars from Paige. Some coupons from Lilly for a free spa day. Some super cool knee length socks from Sam and Sarah. A coupon from Mindee and Eddie promising that they will buy me the New Moon Collectors Edition when it comes out on DVD next week! And I got an SD card for my phone and an amazing turquoise purse from my parents! Right when I finished opening presents my best bud Victoria dropped by to give me a really cute cake and a bag full of candy;) Toria, her bro, and her mom stayed for cake! My cake was fantastic! My mom and Mindee V. made it...it was an ice cream cake with Oreo ice cream and chocolate/vanilla swirl cake with snicker bars on top! It was yummiful:) Well there is my day! I will post pictures later!

Apollo and his Awesomeness (and is that a word?)

Im still in my Percy Jackson phase;) So todays quote is from the book in the series that my mom is reading aloud to us! Apollo is one of my favorite characters (who couldnt love the Sun God?!?) but oh how I love Percy...

Quote of the Day

""I feel a haiku coming on." Apollo cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically.

'Green grass breaks through snow
Artemis pleads for my help
I am so cool.'

"That last line was only four syllables," Artemis said.

Apollo frowned. "Was it?"

"Yes. What about, 'I am so big-headed'?"

"No, no, that's six syllables. Hmm." He started muttering to himself.

Zoe Nightshade turned to us. "Lord Apollo has been going through this haiku phase ever since he visited Japan. 'Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick. If I'd had to hear one more poem that started with, 'There was once a goddess from Sparta--"

"I've got it!" Apollo announced. "'I am so awesome'. That's five syllables!" He bowed, looking very pleased with himself. "
— Rick Riordan (The Titan's Curse)