Dreams

Many of you probably already know this, but I want to go to Italy. Specifically three places.

Florence

Venice
And Rome

I have since I was in second grade. It was the 2004 Olympics (held in Athens) and everyone had a country in my class, and they had to bring a food from that country, learn about the culture, the coins, and other things. And ever since then I've loved everything about Italy and wanted to go. Italian food also happens to be my favorite, I love the sites there, and I really want to ride the water taxis and gondolas there.
Plus I've always wanted to try real Italian gelato . Apparently it's what ice cream is supposed to taste like, and since I love ice cream, gelato must taste like a little piece of heaven on earth.

Gelato

And I would show you a picture of what ice cream looks like compared to that, but it won't let me upload one anymore for some reason, but I'm sure you all know what ice cream looks like.
I actually love all of Europe, and would love to tour all of it. Italy as my first priority of course, then France, Greece, Spain Germany, and any other place that I could go to. As I said before I've wanted to go to Italy for a really long time, and always planned to go, but I never actually had a plan to help me get there. I just always just assumed some how I would go. A couple of weeks ago though, Kelsey told me that one of her friends is going to Europe, and that she'd been saving up since she was my age.
So I finally looked reality in the face, and realized that the money was going to have to come from somewhere, and I would have to save like crazy starting now, and make a lot of sacrifices. Which it will be really hard for me to say no to my friends sometimes when they ask me if I want to go to a movie with them since movie tickets are 8.50 now. And to say no to myself when I see a really cute shirt I want. I'll say yes sometimes of course though. ;)
That's why I took a jar, and it's now my Italy jar, and in a time very far from now it will be filled with hundreds of dollars. And then I will have to get another jar, or maybe even a couple more, and fill them up too, and then maybe I will have enough to go. So far I am a whole $6 closer to my goal! Wish me luck!

The Forbidden Warmth

For Spring break we were planning to go to the Oregon Coast, but when my mom looked up the weather, and saw that it was raining almost every day she decided against it. So, being the spur of the moment family that we are, we packed up our bags and left 4 hours later to St. George, Utah to visit our grandparents.

It was a ton of fun, and warrrmmm!!! Warmth is something Moscow has been missing for 6 months. And we probably won't have it for another 3, since we have 9 months of winter, 1 month of spring and fall, and 1 month of summer. That is why I will be moving to California once I grow up.
As I said before Spring Break was lots of fun. I loved seeing Grandma and Grandpa Woolley, especially since we don't often see them because they live 17 hours away. We also went hiking, went to the park, played laser tag, watched movies, had the rare chance to experience real shopping, and most of all enjoyed the sun.
If you read my blog you know that our family does not usually remember to bring the camera to places, hence the absence of photos. An unusual thing happened this time though, somehow the camera actually got into our car, and we actually brought it with us. So the first day we got there, when we went to climb the red rocks, we actually had the camera with us. A miracle! But, my dad took one photo, and then it died, and we never went to buy new batteries. So one photo is all we have, and it actually happens to be of me, but I can't find it. Photoless again. At least of us, but here's a photo of the red rocks. And this is about where we were in St. George.

While we were in St. George Grandma reminded me that I hadn't written on my blog in a while, so that's why I wrote this. But the reason I haven't in a while is because it actually kind of bores me just to write what our family is up to. I still will write about that sort of stuff when big things happen, but from now on most of the time I'm just going to write about the things that interest me. Prepare yourself! ;)

CD Covers

So my friend showed me this on Facebook, and I know it's kind of silly but it's fun, easy, and really cool.

1. Go to Wikipedia and hit "random." The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2. Go to quotationspage.com and hit "random." The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3. Go ...to flickr.com and click on “explore the last seven days.” The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4. Use photoshop or similar software (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together. 5. Post it with this text in the caption and tag the friends you want to join in.

The first two are one's that my friend's did, and the last two are ones that I did. My favorite one is the flower one. And yeah, that's all I have to say. :)

What would we do without Winter Break?

Those are some pictures of my AAU basketball team. The coloring isn't good in the first one, and I look awful in all of them, but you get what you get and don't throw a fit. AAU was a TON of fun. It made me way way way better at basketball, and I loved my coaches, (even if they frustrated me some times), and hanging out with my friends while playing a game I loved. AAU basketball is pretty much over for now. We had a practice Friday, and then we have two more Jan. 1 and 2. But the 2 is a Sunday, so January first is my last practice of AAU. I wanted to have practices over winter break, but Dennis (my coach) decided not to. Then the 3rd is tryouts for school ball. I'm REALLY nervous. I want to make the team so bad, and I think I might, because I'm a lot better than last year. Then once school ball is over there's a time where we can have a couple of AAU tournaments, which I will definitely be going to.

Christmas Spirit is in the air! Today is the first day of winter break, and it's snowing! Which usually I hate snow, and it's already snowed a couple of times this month, but I have been wanting it for a while. So I'm really glad that we're going to have a white Christmas! There's a lot of good things right now. NO school for 2 whole weeks, Christmas, school ball starts soon, and then my birthday. It's just a bunch of sweet surprises wrapped into one package.
Merry Christmas!!!! And a Happy New Year!

30 Random Things I am Grateful For

Warning: This will post will not contain any of the normal, usual, practical things people are grateful for. Meaning anything pertaining to family, religious things, food, or sleep.

1. Back rubs
2. Summer rain
3. Inspiration (from songs, books, movies, and people)
4. The person who invented comfortable pants, such as Sweats and PJ's
5. Fuzzy socks.
6. Summer Vacation!
7. When sunlight leaks through cracks in the curtains, and warms your back
8. Those times where you can't help but to crack up laughing, or even just give a little smile because of a funny memory.
9. Teachers who think Homework is overrated
10. The smell of rain
11. Boys who don't think that it's cool to be a jerk
12. Summer nights
13. Friends that have heard your singing, but still let you listen to their Ipod.
14. That I'm done with 6th and 7th grade, and actually like 8th grade.
15. People who dance like no one's watching
16. People who let you be yourself and still like you afterwords.
17. Memories
18. Friday nights
19. My froggy slippers
20. Those days where you know your hair just looks so great, it can't help but to make you just a little happy.
21. That moment of joy when you see your food coming in a restaurant.
22. Digital clocks.
23. The two songs, Secrets and Just the Way You Are
24. Sinking your toes in soft mud
25. My closest friends, Annie, Olivia, Joelle, Cherish, Katie, and Kim
26. All of my guy friends, Chris, Austin, Chase, Jon, Wilson, Alden, and Justin
27. That wonderful feeling of accomplishment, after you exercise
28. The pool
29. People who make me laugh
30. Days where you can just relax and not do anything

Soak Up The Sun

Camping. Not the best, but not the worst. Everyone in our family was going to go, but Tyler got the stomach flu so him and Mom stayed behind, while everyone else went up to Priest Lake. It was only supposed to take 3 hours, but because we made so many stops at stores to look for dry ice it took us 5 hours. We were all pretty tired out when we got there.
So after we set up the tent in the fading light, we all sat around the fire and roasted marshmallows.


If you look carefully you'll see Kelsey was very careful never to have her face showing in a picture. I don't know why, because to be honest, she looked the best of all of us.


Jenna and Nathan showing off fancy moves with their sticks.





Mom and Tyler decided to give us a little surprise and show up the next morning. Apparently Tyler felt good enough to come up. So we all went down to the beach together.
Because fortunately there was a lake there (which you probably caught onto since it's called Priest Lake) which always makes camping more fun. Unfortunately the high there only got up to like 68 degrees. So the weather barely got to the point where it was too cold to get into the water. Which was a bummer, but me and Jenna had fun playing on the sand, while everyone else just sat on a log and read or watched us.(booorrinnng) I guess Tyler and Nate played on the sand a little, but they didn't even put their swimsuits on.
Here's me building my sand castle, and Jenna building some pit thingy.



Here's the finished product. I know it doesn't look like much. But it took a long time to do, and it's pretty good for me. Plus we had nothing to build it with except out hands and a broken plastic cup. So no laughing.
Here's Jenna's pit. It doesn't look too impressive either, but don't judge it. It was really cool in person.
Here's a couple of pics of the lake (which was really pretty) and of the kids having fun on the beach.



Well I think this is the longest post I've ever done, so I guess Congrats to me.
ps. If you can't tell, I actually had pics on this post. Why? Because I noticed we don't really have any pictures of our family right now, but tons of them when we were all little kids. So I made a commitment to start taking pictures of us whenever I felt it was needed. That's why there's no pictures of me really. But I feel proud to have made a goal and so far have kept it.

The end of summer and the lazy monster

Ugh. Only 8 more days of summer. It's SOOO depressing. Oh well. At least I'll be in 8th grade now so no more being called a sevy for me!!! The bad part about being in 8th grade is you don't get your schedule until the first day of school, when the bell rings. Which I don't think is smart. Why can't they just mail it to you, or have you come get it like the highschoolers? The 7th graders get it about 5 days before school starts.
I went back to school shopping last Monday, I need to go to the mall again. I went to Rue 21 which is my favorite store in our mall, with a girl named Kim who just moved in. I got three pairs of jeans, only 12.99 each!!!!!! And a couple of shirts for about $3 and a cute tank top thingy. (yes I'll be wearing a shirt underneath ;) ) Which was good since pretty much my whole wardrobe is in Jenna's closet. I still need Sunday clothes and a pair of jean shorts though. Oh! And I got a pair of white heels for Sunday.
I might try out for Volleyball. I'm still not sure. I wasn't even thinking about it, but when Sam and Courtney (cousins) were here we went to a park and played volleyball for a while, and I could spike!! Which I'd never been able to do before. Usually I had to underhand serve because my overhand serves go about a foot then drop to the ground.
I've never played volleyball before so I'm kind of nervous. Plus the tryouts are the first day of school. But Cherish (one of my friends) has never played either and is trying out, so I might tryout with her. The only problem is I'll probably make B team because I don't really know how to play and if Cherish does too she'll quit.
We're going camping Thursday-Sat. morning, and on a REALLY long bike ride some time this week, we went to Robinson park on Friday and stayed until about 10. Besides that I'm just hanging out with friends for the last week of summer.
Oh! And I'm trying to get in shape for Volleyball, Basketball, and Track, so I'm trying to go jogging with Mom every morning but Sunday and Saturday. I started this goal Monday I think, and have gone jogging twice so far. So it's not really working, but I'm determined to continue. I just don't know how it's going to work once school starts, because I can't wake up early enough to go jogging and get ready for school and walk to school, and most of the time I'll have too many things going on at night. Plus the sun will start going down pretty early. But I'll find a way to get in shape. I won't let the lazy monster triumph again!!!

POOL TIME!!!!

Summer is here and it's time to hit the pool!!! I've already gone a couple of times, and it's weird seeing Kelsey at the snack bar stand. Summer's going by WAY too fast. It's already July and it seems like summer break started just a few days ago.
We've had a couple of nice days, but alas, Moscow is still wet, very wet. This is not good. Especially when your celebrating the 4th of July. The upside is my grandparents on my dad's side are here. They got here Tuesday and it's been a ton of fun. We went and saw Toy Story 3, and amazingly it was a good movie (but not Kung-Fu Panda good) !!! It was well done and actually had a thought-through plot. It didn't need to be in 3D though, there was nothing popping out at you, so I suggest waiting to rent it instead of seeing it in the theater. We've done other fun things too. Such as going to a river and park, going out to eat at Sella's, going the the arboretum, and even just talking to them is great. I expect everyone to follow their example and come down to visit us too.
For the 4th of July we're not doing anything especially grand. We do have our grandparents over, and we did go and see Toy Story 3 and those are cool. We almost went to a lake to hang out and go swimming and tubing with a couple of other families in our ward (one of the families had moved away but was coming to visit), but it was too cold for us so we skipped.
Aunt Lora visited us a week ago and I was also doing basketball camp that same week, and both of those were fantastic. I think the camp really helped me get better at basketball event thought it was only five days, but to put it the short way, there weren't very many kind people there. I'm really glad I had a friend there with me. It was also fantastic to have the Strawns over. They are just a load of fun, and I'm so happy they live close.
Happy 4th of July!!!

Seven More Days of School

ONLY SEVEN MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL!!! I am so excited! This year, unlike last year, has gone by very fast. Nonetheless I am ready for Summer Break! There's no school tomorrow, because it's Memorial Day, and then there's three days the next week. Which means, because of our weird schedule, I only have 5 more days of each class!!!!! Which is especially exciting because that means I only have exactly 5 hours and 30 min. left with Mr. Lawton, my Science teacher, FOREVER!
I don't have anything too big planned out for the summer. We're going camping a couple of times, I don't know how fun that will be, but I'm trying to keep open mind. Then there's Girl's Camp, and we're going to Spokane with Aunt Julie to go shopping and other fun stuff. I'll also be hanging out with friends a lot, and going to the pool. And No, I'm not going to be working on my tan, because I don't get tan, I get sunburned. So I will be wearing sunscreen at the pool, and the real kind, not the tanning kind, unlike all my sunburn-free-tan-lovin friends. But besides that my Summer is totally care-free, and I can tell you right now, I am going to LOVE it!!!

Spring Break

For spring break we all went to St. George to visit our grandparents. It was only 48 degrees when we first got there, which was very disappointing, but quickly warmed up to 78. Which was good, because the whole way there it was snowing, and we got stuck behind an accident that took 45 min. to clean up, then drove 15 mph for 5 min. before getting stuck behind another one, which also took a long time to clean up. We decided to stop at the next town, Beaver, and stay at a hotel, since it was getting pretty dark. Everyone else had that same idea too, though. We were very lucky though, because we called our grandma and she gave us the phone number for the 2nd to last room in the entire town. Everyone else had to sleep on a church floor. Not fun. Especially for someone like me who you could say has sleeping disorders if you felt like being nice that day.
It was definitely worth it, though. The week was a TON of fun. We went hiking, went to parks, to an actual, real, authentic, bookstore, with real books! We went to their Rec. Center and played Racquetball ball (which I was awful at. I've decided my official excuse is that it was my first time), basketball, bump, ping-pong, Foosball (which I creamed my Dad at), and air hockey. And we did lots of other fun things. It was worth the long, hard drive, and would do it again any time.
We got home Sat. afternoon, and a half hour I got home my friend that moved to Pullman invited me over. She said she had "shicks" she was really excited to show me. I tried to figure out what shicks were, and the only possible explanations I could come up with is they got another dog, and that was his name, or it was some stick game. Dad said she probably said "chicks", and he was right. They live in their own little area, and have two dogs, are getting horses, and now have chicks! They were SO cute! They had yellow ones, black ones, and dark brown ones, and one special one that was light brown and had a white stripe going down its back. One went to the bathroom on my hand, and i have to admit they looked slightly less cute after that.
Mom's birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and we celebrated Dad's yesterday. We went to Lewiston and he and Mom went to look for lamps. They didn't find any, so we went to this pizza place that was okay. We decided Sella's was much better. Then we went and watched the cartoon movie How to Train Your Dragon in 3D. It was very cool,and everyone really liked it, especially me. I really like cartoons. They're so simple and happy, and always have happily ever afters. I also saw the movie the Illusionist (not in theaters) though, which is not a cartoon, but a mystery and suspense movie. I really liked it, it had cool special effects, and it was really well done. Everyone's faces were always in the shadows, and the edges of the screen were always dimmer, so it looked like you were looking through someone's eyes. I recommend seeing both those movies.

DANCE YOUR HEART OUT!!!

So right now my life is just the usual. Eat, sleep, breath. OK, so it's a little more interesting than that, but nothing too exciting has happened lately. I hang-out with friends, try to help them out with all their boy drama stuff, which I luckily have chosen not to get involved in except to give them advice and listen to them. I go to school, go to mutual, go to church, go to b-ball practice. And that's about it.
OK, actually here is something that's bugged me.I learned that for mutual that we we're going to learn how to swing dance, and with boys too. So that might sound fun to anyone else, but to me that sounds like torture. I begged and begged my parents to not make me go, but apparently it's my duty. Finally they partially gave in and said I only had to stay there for 25 min. Which means at exactly 7:25 I could call them if I wasn't having fun.
Luckily our neigbors we were car-pooling with came a few minutes late, but that didn't help too much. So I went there, and to put it in short, it was awful. It was a tri-ward activity so there was like 30 people standing in front of me so I couldn't see the instuctors, they were going super fast, me or the guy I was doing it with didn't know how to do it, and pluss I hate dancing unless you're just totally goofing off with your friends or family. So after we switched partners a couple of times I went and hid in the bathroom for then next 5 min. Kelsey wouldn't let me use her cellphone to call my parents so I used the church phone to call them.
When I got home I went and changed into my Pjs and then Jenna came down and said my leader, Sister Kreihbel, was here to see me. I thought she was going to make me go somewhere so I threw on some clothes and went up to see that she had made me a huge cookie in the shape of a heart, that was beatifully decorated. Sister Kreibel is a wonderful leader and I love her so much. She is so sweet and dedicated to her calling.
So, the next day guess what we did in PE. We had to go up to the mat room and watch and do a DANCING video. It wasn't as bad though, because it was all these weird, funny dances and I was with my friends, so me and my friend, Olivia, just totally goofed around.
And today is the family dance at the church. I never knew that Valentines Day was a time for dancing. So I give all of you a challenge. Show your love by going home and dancing your heart out tonight. and Happy Valentines Day!

Going Foreign

We had a Weber family reunion and it was very fun. We didn't really go in the snow though, except for one day we went sledding. We, Anne,Samantha and me went into the hot tub a couple of times. We'd go and run around in the snow then run back into the hot tub. We had Family Night and we we're in charge of the awards. Some we had were, the biggest bruise, the person who's changed the most since the last Family reunion,the person who can do the most push-ups, ect.
We played lots of games, ate lots of food, and I had a blast! We left Thursday and spent New Years Eve in Salt Lake with some cousins on are other side. That was fun too. We played on the Wii, ate food, watched Spider Man 3, and Jenna, BreAnne and I did some makeovers where we made ourselves look scary, even if sometimes it wasn't on purpose.
My b-day was two weeks ago, but we're celebrating it today. We had french-bread french-toast, and german pancakes (which we got from Heather's blog), I guess I just felt like going foreign. It was very good, we also had orange juice. I got a cute skirt that was beige and had pink and brown flowers all over it and a brown T-shirt to go with it. I had actually picked those out myself before when my mom and i went shopping and i got to pick out two things, reasonablly priced I wasnted for my b-day. She wrapped them though. I also got a cute green shirt, a tote to carry my scriptures in, (which I had wanted for a really long time) it was white with orange polka dots and would match my new skirt too. I got a little book with three pictures of me that Nate had drawn that were very well-drawn,and Kelsey's old, blue ipod she's found that still has a few songs on it. I've wanted an ipod for a long time too, and at a couple of points I had enough money to buy one, but I've always decided there were beter things to spend my money on and refrained, so I', glad I got one. For my b-day we're not doing anything big with the fmaily since I'm having a b-day party.
We're going to have a Mario-kart tournament, and play some other games. We're havinng our own cake, we're having at lunch. It's a kind I've wanted for a really long time but we never have it. It's a chocolate cake with a layer of this pudding thing, then a layer of chocolate frosting stuff, then another chocolate cake, and more frosting. Or something like that, and you add strawberries or cranberries, or raspberries on it sometimes. It's SUPER good.
Then 5-9 is my party. We're doing blind-folded makeovers which are really fun, the playing this game where you roll dice until someone gets doubled then they try to unwrap and eat as many Rolo's as they can with chopsticks until someone else rolls doubles then they stop and the other person goes. We're playing spoons, but the person who looses has to go in a room and everyone else makes a disgustion concoction they have to drink. And the Flour game where you pakc down flour and put a penny in the middle of it and you cut a piece of the flour off and whoever makes the penny fall has to get it out with their mouth.
The only problem with that game is it's no fun if people try to make it fall, and you can only play it like twice, or it makes a big mess, and the penny has been touched by too many people's mouths.
We're also decorating cupcakes and eating pizza. And watching the movie While You Were Sleeping. And if you haven't seen that I want you to know that it's not a horror show, or a gross show, even if it sounds like it. It's sort of a chick-flick comedy. And I can't remember it that well, but I remember that I thought it was very funny. I recommend it.

THE BEST DAY/HOLIDAY EVER!!!!

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! :)

Sigh, my blog won't let me change my background and it's been that way for like 6 months. Sigh, again. I don't really have too much to say so I'll make this short. Here's what happened and what's going to happen.

Happened

1. Kelsey went to debbs

2. I had the usual week, went to school, went to friends house and watched a movie, got in trouble, slept, ate, went to church.

3. We fasted Thursday because we're doing this ward fasting thing. It was hard to fast at school, but worth it. Afterwards we went to the Mongolian BBQ, which was delicious and I brought the leftovers to school for lunch the next day.

4. My friend that I saw at The Mongolian BBQ was sick the next day so I really hope she didn't get food poisining or anything.

Going to Happen

1. There's a field trip Friday where all the 7th graders get split up onto two ferries and go watch eagles fly around. Sounds fun right. Wrong! First of all it's the middle of December, in Moscow, and your on a boat, on a lake, with lots of wind. I don't know about you but that sounds just a little cold to me. Also most of my closer friends have the other science teacher so they won't be on my boat because the boats are split up by classes. Also my hands get cold really easily. They even turn purple. Also sometimes I get car sick, and I'd be on a bus or boat all day. Pluss everyone who went on it said it was boring and no fun. So me and my friend, Ameena, talked to our teacher and we're going to stay home and have tons of fun. He's going to give us an assignment as punishment for not going, but it's going to be worth it because I'll be able to sleep in on a Friday when everyone else has to get up early and go be miserable at school! Also we're going to go shopping, and they'll be like no one there and we're going to make cookies and watch a movie, and other fun stuff.

2. There's a temple trip on Saturday, which we'll be I think the 4th one there's been since I've went into the YW, but the second one I've ever been on. I'm excited, it'll be fun.

3. The Cresh is coming up, Wednesday. And for all of you who don't know what that is it's where people go and look at all these Nativity sets they have set up.

4.The Weber Family Reunion is coming up, which I am SO looking forward too.

5. And CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!

6. and New Years

7. And my (and Trent's) Birthday. I'm turning 14! It's so weird!

As you can see alot more will be happening then already happened. Which kinda seems how it always is, even though it's not. (except for this instant of course) We just think life will get more interesting as we go on.

3 days

Nathan's birthday is tomorrow and Thanksgiving comes on along with it. Except it's 3 days later. And then 3 days after that is his babtism, which kelsey, jenna, and I have been working hard to perfect our trio thingy. Then like 4 weeks after that is CHRISTMAS! Then 3 days after that is Tyler's birthday. Then 3 days after that is New Years. Then 3 days after that is, finally, my birthday. After everyone's all partied out and tired of periods of 3 days. Which, my birthday is also the day school starts back on from Christmas break. Just dandy huh! And it's also basketball tryouts. So I hope I do good.
Oh, and there's a family reunion in the middle of it all. Then after my birthday everything slows down for a while. Thanks goodness!
And Tyler was actually supposed to be born a day before me, Jan. 3. Wouldn't that stink! We'd probably share a cake! Maybe even presents! Can you imagine me playing with little firefighter action figures and such things, and Tyler trying to walk in my jeans? OK, so can I. Which just shows you how weird our family is.
I'm not complaining or anything, but Tyler's and my birthday's aren't in the best places. Especially Tyler's. Don't get me wrong! I love my birthday and I wouldn't change where it is if I could, because Jan. 4th just seems too speacial to me. But, again especially for Tyler, people don't feel like they have to work as hard to get us good presents. (Not mom and dad though. they do great and I mean it) because they just got us presents for Christmas so why would they get us two good presents in the period of less than a week?
Sorry I know that sounded selfish, but I guess I feel more bad for Tyler, because he has it bad! 3 days after Chirstmas!
Actually we all kinda have our birthdays 3 days after a holiday of somesort.
Me, 3 days after New Years.
Nathan, sometimes 3 days after Thanksgiving. It depends since it always moves around.
Jenna 3 days after April Fools.
Tyler, 3 days after Christmas.
Happy Birthday Nathan!

Halloween Spirit

I didn't feel like writing on my blog but I decided to anyways. It's good to make yourself do stuff you don't want to sometimes.

I was going to be a carrot for Halloween, then a gangester, then I ended up being a hippie. Well, a hippie/hobo. Pretty much I had this huge afro and tied this band around my head, but instead of like the tight pants and loose shirt, I wore this tye-dye shirt and my pjs. Oh and a beard. So I was sort of a hippie slump. A hippie who was too lazy to look like one.

I liked it though. I went trick-or-treating with my friend who moved to Pullman. It takes an hour to get there and back, so we met them half way there and brought her back. We went with the whole family, but then when we went back we kept going. We went for two hours, but weirdly I didn't end up with too much candy. Jenna had litrealy (however you spell that?) 3 times more than me. Her pillowcase was half way full! Mine was like too small to be a fraction. Oh, well! I had fun anyways, and besided candy's bad for you. (That's kind of sour grapes, but I'm being opptomistic about it so it's more like yummy sour grapes. They're out there, I've had them!) When we came back the kids were watching Horton Hears A Who, (I capilized the A because it's an important letter ((it's the letter that starts my name which helps a little bit)) but people are never capitlizing it, I'm going to capitalize it every time it's by its self in this post from now on) which is one of Taylor's least favorite movies and one of my favorite animated movies. It's right up there with Kung Foo Panda. Those movies are hillarious!!!!! Anyways we watched it anyways and she was lauging the whole time! I kept asking her why this was one of her least favorite movies if she thought it was so funny. She just said it was only the begginning she didn't like. But I think she liked it, and the beggining's one of my favorite parts.

I also wanted to add something to the 10 things I really want to be able to do list, but I forgot what it is. It's sad. That's all I feel like writing about so I think I'm going to end this post now. Oh, and by the way, Taylor (my friend) was a pioneer, Jenna was a witch, Tyler was Batman, and Nate was a Storm Trooper. (Tyler changed what what he was over and over again Halloween day. He was almost a ghost, then Buzz Lightyear, then Batman, which those are actaully his pjs, and back and forth, until he finally decided to stick with Batman)

Happy Halloween!!!

10 Things I Wish I Could Do

1. Do that thing where you pull of the tablecloth but all the dishes stay on the table
2. Have super powers (fly, super strenght, turn invisible etc.)
3. Be in a movie, but only like one and not to be famous.
4. Do a backflip, and all those crazy, awesome tricks people do on TV.
5. Sing
6. Throw a football
7. Eat healthy
8. Punch through a wall
9. Have my cookies actually turn out for once, or at least have them be chewable
10. Walk on walls

Alas

School has started and although I like junior high much more than elementary school I'm sad summer and summer break are over.
The swine flu has hit and our whole family got sick. But not from the swine flu, but just the normal flu. I got better today and I am happy to not be feeling so bad now. Just writing about it starts making me feel sick again. Making up school will be hard and I'm not looking forward to it at all. In fact I'm very much dreading it. Oh well.
We watched That Darn Cat... last Saturday I think. And I enjoyed it. It was a funny movie I loved the part where the cat like tricked the dog at the beggining. It was so funny to see the dog look at the fence then look at the cat then look back at the fence. He really did look confused.
Alas, I have very good news and very bad news. I always think it's best just to get the bad news over with first so here it is. My favorite show was taken out of our tv package! It was very sad. My parents weren't letting us watch tv for 3 or 4 days and when I got back on the channel wasn't there. Which is really odd, because they've taken away shows before, but the channel would be there, it just would say it wasn't purchased. And they had taken away this show we liked called Physc ( and Monk, but I don't like that show very much anymore it's kind of depressing, and sometimes it's scary) and now it's back. So I guess maybe they traded, but I want them to trade back now! I'm so sad. But, those...silly cable guys or whoever takes away kids' favorite shows can't stop me! So I'm going to go to Howard Hughs and see if they have the books of seasons there and buy, or rent them!
That wasn't the good news though, the good news is that Aunt Laura is coming! Yeah for Laura! She is a very good example to all those people who aren't coming to visit us, and everyone should follow her example and hurry and come stay at our house! Just not all at the same time because I can get really crowded when too many people come and stay. I mean I seroiusly need some space to live.
So here are my classes in Junior High. PE, English, Social Studies, Study Skills, Math, Science, DIYH. The classes I like are PE and English and English and I love my Socila Studies teacher he is really funny and awesome but he doesn't let all the jerk guys get away with everything. I also love my english teacher, she's in our ward and she's really funa nd a great teacher. Our schedules are really confusing though. Or I guess I guess I could say they were sense I get it now. So I'm going to try to explain it in a few sentences, or maybe a few more as best as I can.
Or actually I'll just kinda tell you, not really "explain" if that makes sense to you.
Ok, so yu have 4 schedules. A day, B day, C day, and D day. Excpet it's not like Monday is A day tuesday is B day Wednesday Is C day, so on. It's sometimes like that, but sometimes it's random so you have to look at the back of your schedule every day to see what day it is.
So every day has a different schedule. For example B day you have first period first, then fifth period second, then 4th period third, then 6th period, the 7th period. Then D day you have 1st period, 2nd period, 3rd period, 5th period, then Access period. Confusing huh. They're not counting lunch as a period so if you have 4-E you go to 4th peroid class then luch on A B and C days. If you have 4-L you got to luch then 4th period class. The same goes for 3rd perid on D day. If you have 3-E you go to 3rd period class then lunch. If you have 3-L you go to luch, then 3rd period class. I don't know if your confused yet, but I know I sure was. But I'm fine now that we're into our third, or fourth week I don't want to figure it out right now. That would be math and I hate math, ALOT!

Passing the Time

Kelsey is now sixteen. It's wierd.
We went horse back riding for Kelsey's birthday. We actually went the day after her birthday, but it was still for her birthday. It was fun. I really liked my horse. His name was Brent. At first we just walked. Got hang of everything, and then we trotted. They said my horse had the ruffest (is that a word?) trot, and I could tell. I was just trying to stay in my seat. I still had a good time though.
We have a fireside today.
I don't really have anything to write about I'm just really bored. So I guess I'll do a list of 13 things I hate.
1. backwash
2. when people's words don't match their lips on tv
3. when people get you all excited about a place, book, movie, or thing, and then it ends up being horrible
4.pineapple pizza
5. fast-food cheese
6.the first day of school
7. bugs
8.the movie Shark boy and Lava girl
9. Having a perfect image of what I want people to see when they read my story, but not being able to put it into words
10. long, cold winters
11. losing something important so you freak out and search for hours trying to find it when you knew you put it right there and it's not there anymore
12. when someone makes you feel bad
13. throwing up
14. spicy things
15. gettng more than one bottle of lotion a year since I use it probably once every three months

I guess you're not supposed to just look at the bad, or you're a pessitimist. (Is that how you spell that?) So now I'll tell you 17 things I love.

1. basketball
2. hanging out with friends
3. swimming in a lake on a sweltering, hot day with friends or cousins.
4. really good books, especially the ones that make you laugh and cry, and make you try to figure out who's the bad guys, who's the good guys, and why they're doing what they're doing.
5. the pesto chicken pizza at Sellas, and pepperoni pizza
6. the Marvel, Nickelodean cartoon series of Wolverine and the X-men!
7. summer vacation
8. cinnamon swirl bread
9. anything chocolate (unless it's dark chocolate)
10. big trees that give you lots of shade
11. perfect weather, which I guess is it not being hot, cold, or even really warm, just sort of... I don't know just perfect weather
12. Holidays especially Christmas and Halloween
13. the exictment of knowing you got someone the perfetc gift
14. getting an A+ on a math test you thought you would fail, or just getting an A+ on a math test
15. having a great hair-day
16. funny movies (like Support Your Local Sherrif and The Emperor's New Groove. I love those movies!)
17. having fun