Sweet Family

Spring Break!

2009-04-10T22:45:00.000-07:00

This week has been really good. I slept over at Vanessa's because NO SCHOOL On FRIDAY!!! Yay! So I spent the rest of the school day on Thursday with her. First thing Friday morning we went to the Springer's for a photo shoot of the Moore fam. They turned out so great! Sister Springer took a bunch of photos of me afterwards too! I had been wanting some, so I got my wish! Thanks Sister Springer! I'll need to get them from her so I can post them up here. MOST of them turned out good. Then after that Vanessa went with her family out to lunch and I went with the Springer chicks to see the Hannah Montana movie. It was ok. I'm still not lovin her, but I'm makin progress! Right when we got home we got ready for Vanessa to come so Sister Springer could do her hair for prom. Vanessa drove me home and I hanged with their family while we waited for the rest of the guys going to prom to arrive. We had lots of fun and, did I mention, it was Zack's first time! He is going with Natalia. (a girl from seminary) I'm hoping to have lots of pics for ya!

YW Father Daughter Campout

2009-04-03T18:17:00.000-07:00

This was our super happy fun Young Womens father daughter campout! Too bad I forgot to take pictures of our dads...

We forgot our swim suits so we had to make due. lol :)

Finals are Over!!!

2009-04-02T17:50:00.000-07:00

All done with finals! My grades a great and I'm feelin good. :D I got an A+ in my math and Science and an A in my Language! I hope this next term turns out just as good if not better!

Wonderful Weekend!

2009-02-15T12:48:00.000-08:00

My weekend is half way over. :( I have had so much fun though! My brother, Logan, had his birthday party. He's 13 now!!! WOWZA! Time does fly. So he kicked me outta the house on Friday for his sleepover/birthday party. I retreated to my friend Bridgetts house for the weekend. We played v-ball, ran to the park, and did other super fun stuff like that on Friday. Then on Saturday my mommy gave Bridgett, and Bridgett's Daddy a hair-cut. After they all had their new cuts Bridgett, her mommy, and I went to the mall the find somethin to wear to the dance on Saturday night. I found a good dress at Papaya and it was only 15 dolla. So then we both got matching jackets to wear with the dresses. Then her mom took us to get our fingers painted. That was officially the first time I had gotten my fingers done. It was okay. I got black with white polka dots and Bridgett got red with white polka dots. They matched out dresses. *tee hee* After that we went home and got changed for the dance. Then with an extra hour to kill we got undressed again and went outside to play v-ball. *haha* We got ready again and left for the dance. The dance was fun. Did I mention it was Davids first dance? He was shy. I made him dance with Bridgett. *Mwahahaha* I hope he climbs outta his shell someday. And guess what!!! I won a balloon. The DJ took all the lists of people that were there and read off the names that he thought were special. ^.^ And that was my weekend. It's not even over yet. I still have Monday! :D I hope I can finish my homework in time to do something fun with Bridgett and Rita!

Weekend, Ahhhhhhh

2009-02-06T16:10:00.000-08:00

Three tests! Three stinkin long grueling tests!!! My brain is dead so if I spell anything wrong, DON'T COMMENT!!! Volley Ball is going great! I love it so much it's not just a sport anymore. It's life. Aside from homework. Hate homework. Love school! Hate homework. I just got back from school and I have NO HOMEWORK!!! YEEEAAA!

At seminary since I have 100% attendance and no tardies all month, Sis.Fig gave me this iron on Jerusalem thing. We've been learning about Jerusalem lately. Well I tried it and here is the finished product. :D I'm really happy!

School!

2009-02-04T17:53:00.000-08:00

This is the second week I've been in public high school! I go to High School and am loving it! Homework keeps me way to busy so that's why I haven't been blogging and that's why I probably won't be blogging near as much anymore. :( Sorry, but duty calls.

New President

2009-01-20T10:21:00.000-08:00

I just finished watching the inauguration! It was great. Even though Obama isn't the person I had hoped to be president, I will support him and trust that he will lead this country faithfully. I am extremely grateful for the years that President Bush has put into serving this country.

Having Fun with the Camera

2009-01-14T12:15:00.000-08:00

I was bored so I decided to go outside and play with the camera a bit. These are a few pictures I got of our Bird of Paradise.

For these last 2 pictures I took them with the intention of making one of them my computer desktop. That's just if you were wondering why I was taking crazy pictures of the inside of a flower. ^.^

Paint Ball Pics

2009-01-12T08:45:00.001-08:00

Ever since we got the new paint ball gear and guns for Christmas dad has become

a fanatic. And regrettably, SO HAVE I! But It's so much fun! I'm the person a little in front of dad and a bit to the left. I have my mask on so you can't really tell who I am.

We only brought 2 guns so every other game we had to switch out. It was pretty fun watching everyone sneak around and pop people.

This is my dad. I got him pretty bad. XD

My Birthday and the Dance

2009-01-05T09:49:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to me! Yep, I turned 14 on the 27th. My whole family + grandparents, went to the church gym and set up the volley ball net. We played a full game of it. HEAVEN! I love volley ball with a passion. Then came the New Years Dance. I have been reluctant to go and have tried to ignore all the whoots about me being able to go. I'm not the type for dances. My parents made me go anyway. I do have to admit, It was more fun then I thought it would be. But at the same time, not as fun as I had hoped. Allot of people asked me to dance. Spencer only danced with me because Vanessa made him. Here is a nasty picture my friend Bridgett took of us. I have a really annoyed face on.

Us being bored. I got tired after the 3rd hour. Yes, it was a 4 hour dance!!! Way to long.

It's blurry, but here's a pic of us hiding out in the bathrooms.

Christmas!

2009-01-05T09:35:00.001-08:00

I am so lame. No Christmas pictures. So I'm just gonna ramble about Christmas. You can keep reading if your bored.

We had a fun Christmas. Since we couldn't go to Oregon, my Grandparents came over here. Wait! I do have one picture!

Here it is. We had lots of fun and played scrabble and other fun games with them. We didn't have a huge Christmas but it was probably one of the most memorable ones. I got my parents a $10 cold stones gift card, Logan a $10 gift card to target, Landon a belt (which he needed and wanted)and a cool magnet car, Savannah a gift bag full of stuff little girls would want, and a pair of socks which she wanted and needed. My parents gave us all some long John PJ's, and some sweaters and other stuff. It was fun. Allot has happened since Christmas, so expect an explosion of posts!

Coming Soon!

2008-12-28T13:19:00.000-08:00

Christmas posts are coming soon! But they will have to be in a few days because we have family in. Oh ya! My grandparents from Oregon came down here since we couldn't go there. So I'm gonna spend some time with the family while they're here instead of me sittin at the computer while everyone is having family time. But I'm still here so don't give up on me! :)

Loooong Mornin

2008-12-23T11:42:00.000-08:00

It all started at 4:00 in the morning. Dad came into my room and woke me up. We were all ready and packed for our trip to Oregon for Christmas to stay with my Grandma and Grandpa. I hopped in the car with my blankey and pillow. We headed off for the 14 hour drive ahead of us. I quickly fell asleep. So a couple hours later I woke up to the sound of my parents talking. We were on a road that had a bunch of ice on it. My parents were discussing which road to take. One was a shortcut, but had more ice on it, and the other was allot longer but wouldn't be as hard on our suburban. So Dad decided to take the shortcut. We had been traveling down this road for a while when suddenly the engine started making a tapping noise. Dad slowed down and listened hard. The crankshaft which is usually tight and snug, loosened up and was knocking, which is really bad! So we pulled over and dad called AAA. We waited about 20 min. And they arrived. So then we started our journey back home. Another 100 miles. So now were home with no plans for Christmas, no suburban, and our clothes all packed up. So, no Oregon after all!

Christmas Tag!

2008-12-18T13:48:00.000-08:00

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I like wrapping paper by far. It's fun to rip it apart!
2. Real tree or Artificial? I just love real trees. They smell so good! Although we've had an artificial white one for some time now.
3. When do you put up the tree? Whenever my parents get tired of hearing me ask about it.
4. When do you take the tree down? Whenever my parents get tired of me bugging them about it.
5. Do you like eggnog? I'm getting better with liking it.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Hmmmm, I'm pretty old already! :P I liked my zen-vplus allot. But I think my favorite gift was my brand new bike I got when I was 7.
7. Hardest person to buy for? Logan. I never know what he wants!
8. Easiest person to buy for? Savannah. Anything girly.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Probably 3. But I think we only have one up.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I love getting Christmas Cards! But we never send any out.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Probably the High School Musical game. (I'm not a huge fan at all of High School Musical)
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? It's a Wonderful Life
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? 2-3 weeks before Christmas. I'm so bad!
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Not that I know of.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? I like it all! Food is just so yummy!
16. Lights on the tree? Who doesn't like lights on there tree?!
17. Favorite Christmas song? No clue.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? I like having family come here for Christmas.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? nope
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? A pretty star!
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning!!! Although it's a tradition of ours to open one gift on Christmas Eve. It's always a new pair of pajamas!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Having your sister or brother wake you up at three in the morning on Christmas
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I like red and silver.
24. Favorite time for Christmas dinner? A bit earlier then our normal dinner time.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A Volley Ball!

Amy

2008-12-18T10:55:00.000-08:00

I got a new Winter Coat for my birthday. Mom wanted to give it to me now while it was cold. I love it! Savannah has been the one taking my pictures. She's pretty good!

We are Funneh!

2008-12-16T09:12:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Christmas Decoration

2008-12-09T19:08:00.001-08:00

I really like this. Keep scrolling down cause there are two more posts.

One thing leads to another...

2008-12-09T18:57:00.000-08:00

It all started with Savannah asking me to put a clip in her hair. So then it led to me brushing her hair, doing a twist, another twist, 4 small braids, and adding a whole different clip. And it just wouldn't be finished unless I curled it. So here is the finished product.

Silly Stuff

2008-12-09T12:44:00.000-08:00

~just blowin~

~I think I've got it~

~I've got it!~

~It's still coming!~

~Aghhhhhhhhhhh~

6 gumballs can go a long way

Thanks Giving!

2008-12-07T12:55:00.000-08:00

Sorry I'm late on posting. It's been really busy these past few weeks.

We had a really fun Thanks Giving with my moms sister and her family. I love decorating the thanks giving table! It's really fun. I made some little papers that said things along the lines of Thanks giving. Then I burned the edges to make it look cool.

My cousins are so cute! Little Vila is the youngest. The last time I saw her was on her blessing day, so it was weird seeing her walking and talking and rough housing with all her brothers.

Vila and my dad had so much fun playing together. I honestly have never seen my dad having so much fun in my life. Mom said that he used to play this game with me when I was that age.

This is what Aven (Villa's big brother) would give me each time I tried to get a picture of him.

He also started throwing pillows at me. Apparently it was a pretty fun game. (for him)

I don't have many pictures of Owen (his brother, the oldest)because dad got him addicted to our racing game on the computer. So I didn't see much of him. DAD!

This is the only good one I got of him. No family pictures! How bad of me.

My Temple Experience

2008-11-20T13:08:00.000-08:00

Like I said, we went to the temple as a youth activity. It was really fun. But we had to wait a loooooong time before we could start the baptisms. We were all in our jump-suits waiting for them to hand out our names. He handed me my names and I excepted them. Then I looked down at them and noticed they were blue cards. BOY CARDS!!! I walked over to him and said, "These aren't mine." He looked at them, then looked at me and said,,,,,,,,,,,"Yes they are." I made my voice really high and said, "No there not." He looked back at me and said, "Oh! Your right! Let me get you girl names!" I walked back to my seat and my face turned real red from holding back the laughter. Then everyone started staring at me. I couldn't help myself. I started laughing. It was so funny! He really thought I was a boy! XP

Nothin Much...

2008-11-16T08:51:00.000-08:00

I know it's been a while since I last blogged. Sorry! Ummmmmm let me think of something to blog about......Well I'm really sad that Volley Ball is over. I went to the temple yesterday, no protesters. I start High School in January. We have family coming in for Thanks Giving. No one is sick and the weather is hot. I can't think of anything else to blog about. We had our gratitude dinner and the Evening of excellence. They both went great. Please give me some ideas Sister Henshaw! No wonder no one checks my blog anymore.

Last V-Ball Game

2008-11-09T07:59:00.001-08:00

I played my very last volley ball game on Friday. D; We won! We played Freemont and smushed them bad! After the game we had dinner at a pizza place with the team and everyones families. I had allot of fun. I'm going to try to play for the High School since I won't be able to play for this team. Can you find me in the movie??? I'm the only one with short hair.

A Long Morning

2008-11-03T20:29:00.000-08:00

Every morning I wake up at 4:00 to take a shower before seminary. Then I get dressed and go lay back down to sleep for another hour. Then mom comes in and wakes me up. Then we leave to go pick up other kids that ride with us. Well because of the time change I didn't want my schedule to be thrown off so I made sure that I set my clock to the right time. So I woke up at 4:00 and took my shower. Then I went back to sleep. Mom came in and woke me up. It felt like I got a little sorter amount of sleep after my shower though. So then we started our rout to pick up everyone. Well we got to the first door and knocked. No answer. So we waited for a bit then we left to go get the second person. He didn't answer the door either! We were running late already so we figures they just found another way to get to seminary. I got there and Brother Baker opens the door and says, "Your here early." I said, "Don't rub it in." (because I thought I was 20 minutes late.) He then said, "No, I'm not kidding! Your over an hour early!" My mom forgot to change her alarm an hour ahead. I called her and told her to go pick up the others for seminary. Poor mom. She was so tired the rest of the day. So while I was waiting for class to start I went in and set out the tables and chairs for class. It was a long wait and I couldn't get myself to take a nap. Honestly, I can't even remember what the lesson was on because I was so tired. But hopefully I'll get there ON time tomorrow.

Random Stuff

2008-11-02T18:14:00.000-08:00

This is a really cool picture of my dads moon roof in his car after it rained.They were laying down sleeping together. But when I came to take the picture they woke up.
Why do all my shoes end up in the same spot??? Under my computer desk?

Halloween!

2008-11-02T17:24:00.000-08:00

We had a great Halloween Party put on by the youth in our ward. If you were expecting a really great costume from me, I'm sorry I let you down. 5 minutes before it was time to leave for the party I still didn't have a costume ready. So I hopped in my wet suit and flipity-flopities and went like that. Each of the youth were in charge of a game. So I picked bobbing for apples. My costume went great with that! It was so much fun! I don't think we have ever done bobbing for apples in the past. But it was a big hit and tons of kids came to play it. After the pot luck we had a "trunk or treat". All the kids walked from car to car collecting candy. That was fun to. I carved a watermellon instead of a pumpkin. It was so awesome!!! I loved it. Also here are some pics of the huge picture I painted.

A simple explanation about prop 8

2008-10-30T10:46:00.001-07:00

Prop 8, volley ball, and Halloween!

2008-10-30T08:59:00.000-07:00

My mom has been taking me to all of the prop 8 get togethers to hold up signs at intersections. It has been allot of hard work. Last night for mutual they canceled what we had planned to do and had us all do prop 8 phone calls. I have to say it's not my favorite thing in the world. But I hope we did some good. I kind of feel like we didn't do much because the people who are already voting no will still vote no and the people that are going to vote yes will still vote yes. But I'll do whatever they ask of me.

Volley ball is going great. I have less then 2 weeks of practice and only 2 more games. I'm sad. I sure hope I'll be able to play for the high school.

I can't believe how quickly this year has gone by. Halloween is tomorrow! I'll let you know what I'm going to be then. I'm still not even quiet sure what I'll be. I'm making something really cool for the kids to. But it's a surprise so I can't tell you! :D

I'm learning how to be a good cook.

2008-10-23T15:05:00.000-07:00

This morning I asked my mom to make me some crepes. (crepes are pancakes that are extremely thin.) She said that she didn't have the time but she could get me the recipe for it so I could make it. So I tried it out. They turned out great!

They tasted great with cool whip.

Baby Sitting

2008-10-23T10:14:00.000-07:00

My parents went out with Brother and Sister Gibson and they put me in charge of watching the girls. I asked them what they wanted to do and they all wanted to have a fashion show. So when they were in the school room playing Apples to Apples I was in my room laying out all my shoes and dresses. Their faces were so cute when they saw everything. It was like Christmas! They each picked out an outfit and a pair of shoes and slipped them on over their clothes.

Getting ready. Of course I worked the curling iron for them but they are just posing in this picture.

Super Models!

VOTE YES on prop 8

2008-10-23T10:10:00.000-07:00

Please vote YES on prop 8. I don't want to be taught that in school. If you know anyone that will be out of town during voting season tell them to get an absentee ballot.

Not a Good Cook

2008-10-19T16:42:00.000-07:00

It looks soooo good right?

IT'S ROCK HARD!!! It's so tough I have to soak it in milk before I can bite it.

Yard Work

2008-10-19T14:40:00.000-07:00

I know how much Sister Henshaw loves hearing about all the boring things that happen in my life so here are one of the boring things that happen in my life.

Doesn't this face belong in a magazine?

Primary Program

2008-10-13T12:37:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday we had the primary program. It was so cute watching everyone sing and say there little parts to the congregation. Everyone did great. Landon was really funny to. When he was younger he never would get up and say his part because he was frightened. But yesterday he stood up and said his part. He talked faster then I have ever heard anyone talk before, but he did a great job and has made TONS of progress. I'm so happy for him.
Sorry I haven't been blogging that often anymore. Nothing really interesting has been happening lately round ere. But we're starting to get into the holidays so you should start seeing more posts around the end of October.

Wedding

2008-10-05T16:49:00.000-07:00

Last night we had a wedding in the family. It went till almost midnight. It was a 2-3 hour drive there. (you can imagine what time we got home) But it was fun other then the fact that it was raining when they did the ceremony.

Well I had my volley ball game 2 weeks ago. We won! I can't remember the score though. Then last Friday I had another game. We lost. It was a close game though. I think we lost because on the 3rd round he didn't sub anyone out. Everyone was so tense throughout the game to. But here are some pictures from the wedding.

Mother of the Groom (my great Aunt Chacha)

Junior brides maid (cousins)

The bride and groom

I don't have any better picture of them together so this will have to do.

Discus

2008-09-23T19:57:00.001-07:00

We just got a discus for our fish tank. It was a baby one for only $15.00. Most fish we don't pay that much for but the discus is a real expensive fish. We also have a puffer fish. But I never got any good pictures of it.

Volley Ball

2008-09-21T14:03:00.000-07:00

This season I signed up for volley ball at the old Oxnard High building. I have had a blast playing for the team and have come a long way in a short amount of time. The tournaments start at the end of this month some time. While I was at Mutual the other night I was talking to David about Volley Ball and he asked who I played for. When I said I was playing for pall he said, "Your going to be competing against my school team!". Our team actually has a girl from Davids school playing for us.

The Real Love of My Life

2008-09-21T13:53:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was the beach clean up. While I was picking up trash Sam was talking to me about a family reunion they were going to that day. He was saying that his mom was going to make some Kalua pig to take to the reunion. Kalua pig is my weakness. I started (jokingly) begging for him to save me some. I didn't think he actually would but as we were leaving the church building today he told me that he was going to bring me some! I was ecstatic! Here is a funny picture of me eating. lol!

Happy Birthday Mom!

2008-09-07T16:17:00.000-07:00

My moms birthday was Sept. 4th. We didn't do much at all except gave her our gifts. I think it was just Landon and I that gave her gifts though. Landon gave her a watch that he found on the beach and I gave her an apron I made her. She had been telling everyone (meaning me) that she wanted an apron that covered her whole Sunday dress. I was waiting at the Springers house after seminary for my mom to pick me up. When she pulled up she was in the Darleys car with a bunch of other Ladies. So I got in the car and asked, "Whats going on?" Everyone just stared at me until my mom said, "Well it's my birthday!" I had forgotten about it until just then. So right when I got home I pulled out the sewing machine and started making her apron. She knew what I was making because I had to make a few measurements and I didn't think it was that important to keep it a secret from her. She's was going to open it soon anyway and I didn't see the point in making a bad apron because I couldn't get the right measurements! So it was a fun day for her and for all of us.

100th Post!

2008-09-02T10:42:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I'm already at 100!
Seminary started today. I set my alarm for 5:00am. I hadn't used that alarm clock for a while so it was still set to day light savings. I threw my clothes into the dryer and then went to check the clock. It said 4:00am. I went to check the clock in my mom and dads room and it said 4 to. So then I went back to my room and reset the time. I set my alarm again and then went back to bed. Seminary was good, we didn't do allot of studying though. We read one scripture and marked it then filled out a form telling more about us and what we like and dislike. That was about it. It was an easy first day. I got a ride home with Sis. Springer. (She teaches the seniors) Right when I got home I hit the pillow. I slept until 10:00 when my lil sister woke me up complaining that I put her stuff that was on the floor onto her bed. I am a really neat and clean person which makes it hard for any one else living in the same room as me. I think it'll take a while for me to get used to getting up at 5:30 but it shouldn't be to hard.

Girls Camp pictures!

2008-09-02T10:23:00.000-07:00

No pictures of the zip-line my camera battery ran out when I started climbing. But I was a fast climber so they got some pics of me way up high!
These hats are one of many things the Relief Society gave to us! (I picked everything out.)
My friend caught me red handed! They said no electronics and what did I bring?

Walkie Talkies! Although I never used them while I was there. I was just unpacking.

This is the long orienteering hike we had to go on.

Girls Camp

2008-08-24T14:31:00.000-07:00

I just got back from Girls Camp yesterday. It was a shorter girls camp this year then the last. I had allot of fun. I went rock climbing on a 70 ft. rock wall. Up at the top there is a zip-line. They hooked me up to it and then I got a running start and jumped off. The zip-line went across the whole camp. It was probably about the size of a football field. I don't have any pictures but I do know a friend who took pictures so I'll try to get some from her camera so I can put them up on the blog. My testimony grew so much while I was at camp this year. I can't believe how much work my camp leaders have put into camp this year. While everyone was rock climbing I overheard Sis. Barlow and someone else already planning for next year! Being a camp director is a full time job. I thank her and everyone else that helped plan and prepare for camp this year. I also would like to thank my YW leaders for putting so much time and energy into enriching my life and my testimony in the church. That means you to Sister Henshaw.

School

2008-08-15T16:19:00.000-07:00

Sorry I've been such a slacker on the blog. It only felt like a day or two but then I looked at the dates and reolised it had been alot longer then just two days.

Young Womens is going great. I'll be a myamaid on Dec. 27th. It's funny. I've waited my whole life to be in YW and now it's going by way to fast! Girls camp is on the 20th-23rd. Were not going to Camp Condor this year. This will be my 3rd year of girls camp. Technically 2 years but I went to girls camp in Utah already this year so they bumped me up a year. I don't think I start seminary this year.

School is doing OK to. I'll be in both 8th and 9th grade. 8th in my math, history, and science. 9th grade in my gum, composition, literature, and spelling. So basically all my Language. My favorite subject would probably have to be Literature because of how easy and enjoyable it is. I also like math but I'm not that great at it.

I love this picture Sister Brooks took of me I just had to post it. Although she already posted it on her blog. I'm weird like that.

Me and my great friend Resa.

Talk about over the hill...

2008-08-13T17:31:00.000-07:00

My dad turned 50 on July 17th. Brother Darley just turned 50 to so they had a double B-day party. It wasn't anything big. We just had the Darleys over and had cake and ice creme. Sister Henshaw taught me how to make an Ice Creme Cake Roll. So I tried it out. It was a little tricky rolling it but I think they both turned out pretty good. They tasted phenomenal! Thank You Sister Henshaw!

New Faucet!

2008-08-13T16:39:00.000-07:00

Old FaucetOur old faucet leaked really badly. In order to turn off the sink completely we had to find its sweet spot. It always took a long time to turn it off and near the end of it's life it wouldn't stop leaking at all. So we finally got rid of it and bought a new one.

New Faucet

This is our new faucet. It works great and best of all it doesn't leak! As you can tell, we use it allot. There are already dishes in the dish drainer. The head of the faucet can be pulled down which makes it really convenient for doing big pots and pans.

Savannahs Hair

2008-07-30T08:25:00.000-07:00

My Choice

This hair do didn't take long at all. All I had to do was divide the top part of her hair into 4 parts. Then I braided each section. I then took the right middle braid and connected it with the braid on the farthest left. Connect the last 2 and then your done!

Savannah's Choice

This one did take a while to do. It takes allot of time to explain how to do this one so I put a link here that gives directions on how to make it. I didn't take a picture of it when I had just finished it. She went to the beach and came home so the pictures I have here are of her after the beach. Which hair style do you like more? I personally like the first one better. But that's because I picked it out.

ZuchiniZilla

2008-07-29T09:55:00.000-07:00

We tried to pick all our zuchini while they were small. But I guess we missed this one. Last year they were all a little smaller then this so they were still huge. But this one is Goliath!

Beach update

2008-07-28T17:43:00.000-07:00

I love going to the beach. We only have one picture of us at the beach cause I was in the ocean body surfing or boogie boarding most of the time. We're going back to the beach again tomorrow. We stayed for 4 hours today! I could have stayed till sundown. I like Landons "super cool dude look". lol!

Fun at the beach!

2008-07-25T08:32:00.000-07:00

We've been going to the beach allot lately. We're going again today to. And of course I always seem to forget the camera. I love the beach. My favorite thing to do when I go is to hop in my wet suite and then go body surfing! That's one thing I wouldn't get if I moved to Utah. But don't worry. Utah is only a dream. I won't be moving there anytime soon.

My parents singed my siblings and I up for some free golf lessons. The instructor is a famous golfing pro. They've been telling me he used to play on TV. But he definitely is a great instructor! I was expecting one or two lessons because no one had to pay for anything. But actually it's a couple weeks of hard core golf. I didn't ever really have any interest in golf up till now. I love it! It's pretty calming to. When you're upset at someone the best way to release all that hot air is to go golfing. Just hit a couple golf balls as hard as you can and then you get happy because you see how well you are hitting the balls! It's great! I'll try to get some pictures while were at the beach today.

Memories!

2008-07-20T13:59:00.000-07:00

1. Leave one memory that you and I had together, as a comment on my blog. Anything goes.

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll check to see if you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Spencers party

2008-07-06T12:56:00.000-07:00

The party was at Chick Fil-a for Spencer's 14th B-day party. Vanessa and worked for 8 hours typing out the words, ironing on all the papers, and then peeling them. Yes, there is a story behind it.
Vanessa, Zack, Tim, and Spencer were at a gas station telling jokes. Vanessa decides to tell a joke. They all take a bathroom break. Zack comes back laughing saying, "So I don't remember who told me this..." and then he tells Vanessa the joke she just told to him!
So that's the phrase we put on the shirts.

Senior pics

2008-07-06T12:47:00.001-07:00

I did Vanessa's hair for her senior pics. I just did a braid across the top of her head. I had ten min. to do it so it probably didn't turn out that great. She felt really weird wearing a tube top and that thing that wraps around. She just wanted to get out of their as fast as she could. I, of course, didn't bring my camera inside while she was getting her pictures taken so I have none of her all dressed up. But we did go outside and take some. Here's what we got.

MY DAD PASSED!!!!

2008-06-30T22:07:00.001-07:00

Some of you may not know that my father has been in North Carolina taking a test. The only 2 places in the WORLD that you can take this test is in North Carolina and Germany. (I think) He has taken this test 4 times before this attempt and I am just so excited I can't even type right. My dad has been so busy studying for his CCIE. He hasn't had much time to do things like camping or family reunions or fishing. So now that he has passed this darn test we can do things like that. I AM SO HAPPY!!! I'm sorry I can't explain the test very well but I'm sure he can so ask him about it. I'm sure he'd love to talk about it!

This Years Garden

2008-06-28T14:22:00.000-07:00

This is our garden for this year. Last year we just planted lettuce, tomatoes, squash, and zucchini. Lots and LOTS of zucchini. way to much zucchini. We always had tons in the car we were giving away. We carried at least 2 wherever we went hoping someone would want them. So this year we just planted one zucchini plant. Our lettuce and tomatoes came back from last year. The new additions to our garden are lots of corn, some more squash, some strawberries, and 2 small banana trees. They produce small bananas that taste really sweet. Here are some pictures.

Fish Tank!

2008-06-24T12:49:00.000-07:00

We just got a new fish tank! It's a 120 gallon tank. We've been buying a bunch of beautiful fish to put in it. I love to just sit in front of the tank and just watch the fish swim around. We have a fresh water tank but in a few months my dad really wants to convert it to salt water. If any of you have had any experience with salt or fresh water aquariums then please tell me about it.

Family in town

2008-06-22T18:48:00.000-07:00

So everyone just left and I'll tell ya, It's really quiet around here now. The funeral went well but it was a little different going to a mass. I've never been to a catholic funeral before. But it was good and we had a nice dinner afterward to. I met allot of family I didn't know and my dad had fun talking with relatives he hadn't seen in years. We may be having more family coming into town in July. My moms sister and her family want to visit. So that will be fun. Also I'm looking forward to seeing the Brooks. It's nice to be home again. I'm not finding the pictures I took. If I find them I'll post them.

Update

2008-06-16T10:54:00.000-07:00

Well we were going to head out for San Jose Tuesday morning but it's been delayed. Now we can't go to the burial. We don't know quite when were coming out but I'm pretty sure it'll be some time this week. I'll be posting pictures when I get home because I don't have a computer to load them to right now. I just found out about my cousins blog so I'm pretty excited about that. So I went to girls camp and had a great time. We went on a hike up in Brice Canyon. It was a long, hard, hot one to. But I had fun. I didn't get any pranks done because when my alarm went off at 2:00 in the morning I just couldn't make myself wake up enough to do a couple pranks. So it was fun. I'm really excited to come home although I'm going to really miss this place and this ward. I'm pretty upset that everything in our ward is changing while I'm gone. They released my young womens leader and my other two moved away so we have a whole new young womens presidency. But they called good people for those positions so I don't think it should take me a really long time to get used to it. But I am really sad.
My dad played a nasty joke on me a couple days ago. He called and said that they ripped out the whole backyard and put in a garden to feed the ward. (I kind of believed him because it sounded like something my mom would actually do.) So he just kept going on and on about all these fake changes to the house and all the parties they were going to so finally I just got annoyed and hung up. My brother called him back and tried to get things strait about the house but ended up getting tangled up in the mess. He was crying about all the changes and stuff. Then my dad asked to talk to grandpa. He told him that everything was a joke and they all started laughing at us. I thought it was the funniest thing but I was pretty mad at them about it to. But it was fun.

Girls camp pranks

2008-06-01T13:45:00.000-07:00

Help me figure out some real good pranks to do on the girls at girls camp. I don't want anything that would ruin their clothes or any of their belongings but yet I want something that would make them laugh. It's being held on the 10th, 11th, and 12th. Two nights and 3days. There aren't many girls probably about 7 or 8 girls going. Also there is a new girl that just turned 12. So just to give you an idea of what I'll be dealing with. I need all the ideas you can dish out so PLEASE ask anyone you know or even if you have any good ideas. Even if some of them are cheesy GIVE EM TO ME ANYWAY!!!

The Dream of my Life

2008-05-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

PAINT BALLING!!!

The family went paint balling in the wide open field Saturday. My cousin Cassie came with us but after she got all the gear on she decided that she didn't want to do it after all. I was bummed. So I was the only girl who went paint balling with everyone. I had a blast! I killed off most everyone. Half of the time I was just standing out in the open shooting everyone I could see that was on the opposing side. I didn't get hit either! But then it was just me and 2 other guys on the opposing team. They started shooting at me so I started walking zig-zag towards them while shooting. I got one out then the last one shot me in the face. All that pink stuff you see near my mouth is where the paintball got me. It tasted disgusting! We went paint balling again on Monday. This time we went to a place that had tons of shrubs and trees to hide behind. On the very last round we did we played Protect the president. I was on the assassins side. All the other rounds I was impatient but on this last round I was very patient. I stayed in my hiding place the whole game and when they finally came near me I jumped out and attacked them. I was the last guy alive on my team so I was alone. Craig, my cousins husband started shooting at me. He was really close to where I was so when he started shooting at me I had nowhere to go so all I could do was stand there and shoot back. He got me in several places. On both of my shoulders and my thigh. I have huge welts still. But It was one of the funnest days of my life.

Mission pics!

2008-05-26T12:15:00.000-07:00

He's home and it has been a real transition for him. He served in Spain and trying to speak English again is pretty funny to hear. Some times he'll just start blabbering on is Spanish while he's involved in a conversation. He said that the weirdest thing was to see how much I had grown. He said the last time he saw me I was a foot shorter. (I'm glad I've made some progress in the past 4 years) My family hadn't seen him in 4 years because we didn't get to go to his farewell. So yes, It has been confirmed that Landon and I are staying for another month. I get to go to Girls Camp with the Beaver ward to. My Uncle is the Bishop so he's helping me plan everything out. It is so much fun to have everyone together. Also we had his homecoming yesterday after church. It went really well. TONS of family and a few friends came. Here are some pics of the homecoming.

I Love this one. ^

I also go to go paint-balling. I may be going again today. I'll post some pics of it soon. By the way, IT'S FREEZING! Now it's raining and hailing. I love the constant change of the weather.

Mission!

2008-05-20T13:10:00.000-07:00

I guess I should start at the beggining. I'm in Utah with my grandparents right now. I came out here about a week ago. My great grandfather died about 2 weeks ago. My cousin comes home from his mission tonight so I'll be driving to the air port with my Aunt and Uncle and their family. We'll be staying at another cousins house for the night and then we come back to Beaver Utah for his homecomming. We will have a bunch of family coming in so we're cleaning and preparing and all that good stuff. I'll be staying at my grandparents house for about a month after family leaves. Then we go to California and have the funeral. Just so you don't get confused my Great Grandfather is bieng cremated. He was catholic so the funeral will be at a catholic church. It should be realy nice. I'm all packed and ready to go to the air port and plan on getting a bunch of pictures that I will be posting soon. So thats what I'm doing for the next few weeks. I'm sure it's all very confusing for you to read but I don't know how else to write it. I love Oxnard weather. Utah is so hot right now. I miss the cool ocean breese. It's just flat out hot here. And it's only going to get hotter. But I'm having a good time all the same. I guess I'm just spoiled. :)

YW

2008-05-15T10:03:00.000-07:00

Last night my YW lesson was on time management. Suzanne taught it. It was fun and it also helped her pass off some personal progress! She turns 18 next month I think and has to finish all of her personal progress before she turns 18 in order to get her medallion. I hope she gets it! She may be coming over today to do some personal progress. The lesson was great and she brought little notebooks and pens for us to take notes with. After that Sister Stokes brought in some Pizza and she gave us information about Girls Camp this year. I think It'll be allot of fun.

Ok, Ok, I did the wierd princes thing to....

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

SO who the heck is "Megara"?!!! Other than the pink princess, I think It pretty much captures the "me" in it all.

You Are Megara!

Charming and witty. You are always the first person to come up with a wisecrack. Sure, you have an attitude, but that's why people love you. You keep them on their toes. Sometimes you can be misleading, but always end up doing the right thing for the people you love.
Which Disney Princess Are You?

I WON!!!

2008-05-08T17:04:00.000-07:00

My bagpipes won Sis. Brooks!!! :P I sent that go green commercial in and out of 200 or more applicants I got first place! Ya, I got you guys all excited for something really Big! Sorry! I had to torture you. I couldn't help myself. But yes, I got the scooter. It's great! It's bearings are really good and it rides as smooth as a pen on paper. I looked up how much they sell for and it said $119.00. I wanted to sell it on eBay but my dad wouldn't let me. Darn! I could be putting that money towards college or towards my drivers permit. You know, I enjoyed making the movie more then I enjoyed getting the scooter. Funny, but true. At least my siblings have something new to play on!

Hair cut!

2008-05-07T15:55:00.000-07:00

I really got it chopped off didn't I. Well, I love it. Short hair is so much easier to maintain. I asked my mom if she could cut my hair so I found a pic off the Internet I liked and she did it. She probably did it about a month ago. I've also got something really awesome to tell you but I'm not going to yet. Can you guess?

Young Womens

2008-05-05T17:08:00.000-07:00

Sorry for not posting any pics. The charger is lost again. And this time it wasn't me. LOL!
For YW we did temple time capsules. We went through magazines and found pictures of things we would want for our weddings. Next week we will seal them. But I don't think It'll take the whole time just to seal them so I'm starting to wonder what else might be planned.
Next Wednesday is Suzannes turn to plan what we'll be doing. She had allot of great ideas. We even came up with a real fun one during church. Dissecting a clock and then putting it back together. We also thought it would be fun to make a sun dial watch.
The week after that is the combined activity. I have no idea what were going to be doing for that because Oxnard 4th ward is planning it.
On the 24th our ward is doing temple baptisms. So that should be allot of fun. By the way, I got my temple recommend renewed so now I'm all up to date.
After that week we have Swimming!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!
So that's pretty much my whole month of YW stuff.

Logans first time doing baptisms!

2008-04-29T20:31:00.000-07:00

My mom had some names given to her that needed to be done. So my brother got to do all the male names and I had the opportunity to do the girl ones but I found out that my temple recommend needed to be renewed. Darn! I missed doing baptisms with Logan on his first time! We have youth baptisms coming up so that ought to be fun. They want us to bring our own names this time. My grandma has been working on allot of family history and has a bunch of names ready for us to do. I'm hopping we still can get more though.

This Wednesday for YW were going to do a temple time capsule. Not sure what were exactly going to be doing though. Sister Henshaw won't tell me. But last week we did an Iron Chef cook off. AKA experimenting with seasoning meat and cooking rice. Most of mine were pretty good actually. I had a blast! And eating it was even better! I think my favorite was meat and the ranch powdery stuff.

I'm very excited for Logan and can't wait till all 4 of us can be in YW/YM! It won't be long!

Happy Happy Birthday!

2008-04-27T12:58:00.000-07:00

Savannah had a birthday! She turned 9! Wow. Time goes by FAST! She had a little party with a few of her friends. They rented the movie Water Horse. It's pretty good. We had lots of fun and I think she had a good time to.

Elders Qourum Party

2008-04-13T07:34:00.000-07:00

Saturday we had a BB-Q at Via Maria park. The food was Xelent! We climbed trees and played soccer and catch. I loved it. I took some pics but havn't loaded them yet so I'll do that after church. So who likes the new template?

Contest

2008-04-12T10:59:00.000-07:00

I'm doing a commercial contest on go green for my credit union. I don't believe a thing about go green but I love doing movies and wouldn't mind getting an electric scooter out of it. The limit was no more then 60 sec. so I was cutting it pretty close.

So what do ya think?!

April Fools!!!

2008-04-06T18:13:00.000-07:00

Did any of you guys do pranks? I can sure tell you that I did some. I performed,....... let me think,........................................ 5 pranks. Let me start with my least favorites then work up. I did allot of research on good pranks.

#1 I filled all the tooth paste tubes with raisins so when someone squeezed it they saw bugs coming outa-it. I did that with both the kids bathroom and the parents bathroom.

#2 I set my dads alarm clock for 3:00 AM the next morning. But, I had to cancel that one cause it would interfere with a better prank. So I ended up setting it for 11:00 that night. But we turned out staying up that late anyway so we could finish up our work samples for school. They take a looong time to complete.

#3 I got my Mp3 and hooked it up to some loud speakers and set the alarm for 3:00 that April morning. It went off and they just lay there in bed until it stopped. I had the alarm on radio. I think they ended up liking the music anyway. DARN!

#4 I cut a bunch of small pieces of plastic wrap into squares. I then took the lids off all the shampoo and conditioner bottles in the house and placed it on the lip of the bottle. I reattached the flip open lids. I set up all my pranks up the night before so when Savannah decided she wanted to take a bath (the night before April fools day) she got in and started to wash her hair. She popped open the cap and tried pouring it out. Nothing. She tried over and over again but still nothing. She called for mom to help her but she just asked me to go see what Savannah wanted. I walked in their and saw her holding the shampoo bottle in her hand and looked at me with this confused face. I turned around and busted out laughing. I ( secretly ) opened the cap and removed the piece of plastic wrap. I gave it back to her and she used it. But when she was done with her bath I put the plastic wrap back on so my prank wasn't foiled. The next morning my dad took a shower. He was having some trouble with it so he popped it open and took out the plastic wrap. I guess he was just to smart for me. Although it was a pretty lame prank to begin with.

#5 My favorite. I think I'll just tell you the directions since it's so long.

THE PERPS: Several readers
THE VICTIMS: Adults and kids were fair game.
We've all heard of--or tried--some form of this Bart Simpson-esque trick, but we got a chuckle out of this wild animal version nonetheless. To pull it off, simply leave your victim a convincing-sounding message (either on paper or on an answering machine) from a certain "Mr. Lyon," who has called about an urgent matter (a missed lunch date is good for extra laughs) and would like a return call as soon as possible. Mr. Lyon's number? The phone number for your local zoo.
THE REACTION: One victim got this response: "I'm sorry, Mr. Lyon is busy at the moment. Mr. Elephant can talk, though!"

So this one worked on my dad. He couldn't believe that I pulled that good of a prank on him. i even managed to do it on my mom to. :P I love pranks!

BONUS#6 I actualy did this one today. We were doing soap carving at the Johnsons yesterday and my sister made a bunch of tiny sand dolars out ouf soap. They looked and smelled just like those little mints that you can buy. She had them laying out on the table the whole day. I can't tell you how many times I reached out to get one and then catching myself. So I took the plate full of them up to my dad and said, "Savannah made these mints today with Sister Johnson. Would you like one?" He took one glance at them them took a small handfull of them and shoved it into his mouth. I was so discusted right before he put them in his mouth I yelled, "NO DON'T...." But it was to late. I was glad that I didn't stop him earlier though. He was sort of mad at first but then he started laughing along with me. I love him. But he did say he was going to get me back sometime.

Sorry I havn't been updating my blog for some time now. I've been realy busy with Spring Cleaning and all that fun stuff!

Pictures

2008-03-26T16:02:00.000-07:00

I'm posting them even if it won't let me load the movie of everyone finding their baskets.

Easter!

2008-03-24T10:31:00.000-07:00

We had a great time. My dads brothers family came for easter and stayed 4 days. We went to the beach and had fun exploring and we went to the YMCA and swam, we eat GREAT food, and slept and slept and slept. Or at least Uncle Frank and I. I was feeling under the weather all that week and Unkle Frank had been driving all day and all night. He was tired. We played uno and alot of other great games. For Easter morning, all 12 of us got baskets and my cousin and I hid them so we all could find our own basket. I took a video of the whole thing so it's pretty long. We also had alot of fun at the ward Easter Egg hunt. And that was pretty much our whole Easter. I hope you all had fun! I'll post some pics later.

My talk

2008-03-18T13:31:00.000-07:00

I gave a talk last Sunday. It went very well. I love giving talks! Here it is.

Amy’s talk
Our Dog has been hiding things from us, we discovered this yesterday when my Dad Rota tilled our garden and found over 20 socks she buried. Heavenly Father expects us to be good stewards over the resources he gives to us. One of the ways we can provide an increase is to pay our Tithes and Offerings to the Lord instead of burying our talents.

These are strong words of warning.in Malachi 3:8-108 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, where in have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.10 “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
This portion of my talk is from
Elder Lynn G. Robbins
Tithing, A commandment even for the destitute

The Lord often teaches using extreme circumstances to illustrate a principle. The story of the widow of Zarephath is an example of extreme poverty used to teach the doctrine that mercy cannot rob sacrifice any more than it can rob justice. In fact, the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's character—it reveals it. The crisis is the test.
The widow of Zarephath lived in the days of the prophet Elijah, by whose word the Lord brought a drought upon the land for three and a half years. The famine grew so severe that many were finally at the point of death. This is the circumstance in which we find the widow.
The Lord says to Elijah, "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. It is interesting that Elijah is not told to go to Zarephath until the widow and her son are at the point of death. It is at this extreme moment—facing starvation—that her faith will be tested.
As he comes into the city he sees her gathering sticks.
"And he called to her, and said, fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink.
"And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
"And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
A handful of meal would be very little indeed, perhaps just enough for one serving, which makes Elijah's response intriguing. Listen: "And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first.
Now doesn't that sound selfish, asking not just for the first piece, but possibly the only piece? Didn't our parents teach us to let other people go first and especially for a gentleman to let a lady go first, let alone a starving widow? Her choice—does she eat, or does she sacrifice her last meal and hasten death? Perhaps she will sacrifice her own food, but could she sacrifice the food meant for her starving son?
Elijah understood the doctrine that blessings come after the trial of our faith. He wasn't being selfish. As the Lord's servant, Elijah was there to give, not to take. Continuing from the narrative:
"But make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
"For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
"And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
"And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
One reason the Lord illustrates doctrines with the most extreme circumstances is to eliminate excuses. If the Lord expects even the poorest widow to pay her mite, where does that leave all others who find that it is not convenient or easy to sacrifice?

Heres another example from
Elder Dallin H. Oaks

During World War II, my widowed mother supported her three young children on a schoolteacher’s salary that was meager. When I became conscious that we went without some desirable things because we didn’t have enough money, I asked my mother why she paid so much of her salary as tithing. I have never forgotten her explanation: “Dallin, there might be some people who can get along without paying tithing, but we can’t. The Lord has chosen to take your father and leave me to raise you children. I cannot do that without the blessings of the Lord, and I obtain those blessings by paying an honest tithing. When I pay my tithing, I have the Lord’s promise that he will bless us, and we must have those blessings if we are to get along.”

My Portion
In Tithing Settlement Bishop Johnson reminded our family that the peace and love we have in our home was a blessing of paying tithing, I didn’t believe it then, love? Peace? in our home? Believe me it’s not always so peaceful! Two months ago our parents returned home from the Temple and found our home filled with smoke and a faulty microwave with flames burning in it. Our Dad was able to remove the microwave and searched the house. No one was injured because we were all at the Darly’s. The next day our Dad got pretty weak, perhaps from the smoke he inhaled the day before, but he was in a place he could get the help he needed. In Malachi 3:8 it says “And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the fields, saith the Lord of hosts.I realize better than I did before that our family is blessed as we pay our tithes and offerings.
I have a testimony of tithing. I know that it has blessed my life in so many ways. I also can’t live without the blessings of paying my tithing. I know that it can strengthen families and bless each one of us. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Tropicana

2008-03-15T15:30:00.000-07:00

How come it looks so good on TV? It dosn't work! Belive me. I tried it.

My Day

2008-03-07T13:14:00.000-08:00

This morning I woke up at 6:30 so Logan and I could play Zarahemla. We finished that game and started another game. This time Landon played to. Then mom came in and got us started on school. I did school till about 1:30 and then started tutoring Savannah. It's 1:56 right now and we have people coming over for dinner tonight. I usually practice piano at 7:00 but because I'll be baby-sitting starting at 5:00 I'll have to move it earlier. I come home from baby-sitting at around 9:00 and then from there I go to a friends house to sleep over because she's moving and wants to say bye to all her friends. So I guess my day isn't to busy but it definitely is packed. But I'm sure your days are 3 times worse then mine are.

Disney Land

2008-03-06T22:02:00.000-08:00

For Vanessa's B-day her dad planned a surprise party for her at Disney land. We were going to sleep at a hotel so that would give us 2 days at Disney. So when I came over Monday night with my sleeping bad and pillow and all my clothes for Disney land she opened the door and said, "Hi. whats going on?" I told her I was sleeping over. The next morning her dad told me to tell her we were going to Disney land. So I said, "Vanessa, Do you know why I'm here?" She said, "no. Why?" I replied, "We're going to Disney land." "Your kidding." She said. "Yes I am." But then I told her that we really were going. I just had to say that I was kidding. I couldn't help myself. So we went and had a great time. My favorite rides were Space Mountain and Splash Mountain. Absolutely fun. I didn't bring my camera because my dad would pop like a balloon and then fly around the room if it got lost. Vanessa brought her camera so I'll see if I can get them from her and post them on the blog.

OK, so I got a little carried away....

2008-02-29T22:12:00.000-08:00

I have wanted a set of pillows for some time now. For Young womens we were going to be sewing purses but I wanted to sew a set of pillows for my bed in stead. So I brought my own fabric and stuffing. I only was able to start one pillow at young womens. It was one of the small ones. When I got home I finished it and just, well, kept going. I got carried away and sewed 2 pillow cases, to medium sized pillows, 2 small ones, and a circle pillow just to complete my collection. I'm not much of a decorative person but I was kinda bored and wanted to just do something crafty. I'm a very crafty person! :P But If I really got crafty my house would be burned down by now. Oh! By the way, we have most of our house fixed and all through with the fire. But, My mom still hasn't found her perfect colors yet. Help her please cause I'm getting a little impatient. I don't want any memory of that fire. LOL!

I'm probably just going to use them 3 or 4 times then put them in the black hole. (the garage)

Braces again.

2008-02-28T11:59:00.000-08:00

I hate em. I haven't been to the orthodontics for a while so I scheduled an app. for today. They are going to take an impression of my lower teeth. Then The next app. they will put them on. Please tell me that you had braces to so I'm not alone in my whose. LOL!

Also Since I haven't been to the orthodontics in so long that one of my wires came out of the thing that holds it in place. That's mainly why I'm going. Otherwise I probably would have delayed longer.

More Pictures :P

2008-02-25T19:48:00.000-08:00

Jessica is 17 years old. She's been cheerleading for years. It looks fun dosn't it? Except for all the leg braces they have to have on. Ouch!

Jessica's Nationals!

2008-02-25T19:33:00.000-08:00

Ok, Ok, I just can't keep it from you any longer. She won 3rd place in the nationals!!! WOW!!! That was her first nationals and she is soon going to florida and kanada for some more nationals. Busy Busy Busy. She went to Disney Land to while she was in town. I've got a bunch of pics and movies so be prepared to be looking at alot of different posts. I took pics of lots of different teams so you can judge by her costume which team is hers. But the movies are of only her team.

Family in town!

2008-02-24T22:30:00.000-08:00

We went to go see my cousin compete in a national cheer leading thing up in Anaheim. I have no clue how to spell it. It went through for 2 days just canceling out teams and such. But, just to make some suspense I'll post pics and movies later. I'll also tell you how well she did out of the whole nation! I'm also waiting for enough time to do it. She comes all the way from Washington! WOW!

The Dance

2008-02-20T20:53:00.000-08:00

If I had to put that whole night into one word, I'd say it was BORING. At the begging of everything we were bieng taught slow dancing. But I think It looked more like slow standing around. The instructor pared me up with someone and we were the example. Well, I was the example. My partner was totaly limp. Then he let us go and I danced with my brother a bit. I felt bad for my brother. He thought we were going to do something cool like an electronic game night. But we didn't. A little later in the night a DJ came and he taught us stupid stuff like the chicken dance. My dad just happened to come when this rap like sond was on and he got mad. He picked me up and made me do the swing dance with him to show everyone "how to realy dance." That was probably the most interesting part of the night. So you can imagine how interesting the rest of the night was. Next combined is bieng conducted by the boys in the 6th ward I think. So we'll probably do something fun like basket-ball or soccer. But I think over all it was ok.

Updating Pictures

2008-02-19T17:31:00.000-08:00

I love photography. I don't think I'm any good at it but I hope to get better. Yay!!! I found my camera! It wasn't lost that bad. I promise to be better organised and to not lose my stinkin camera!!! I got realy excited so I went outside and told everyone to come and let me take their pics. I didn't take alot but this is what I have. I My brother Logan took the pics of me. My silly siblings kept trying to make me laugh so that my "Sister Brooks pose" would work out. I had it alot better but I just couldn't keep from laughing so It isn't as "dramatic". I made their names the same color as their favorite color.

I took this pic with the timer. I think it looks good.

Logan

Landon

Savannah

Amy

My Brother, A Decon?!

2008-02-17T16:10:00.001-08:00

WOW!!! I'm realy surprised at how fast he has grown!!! He is 12 years old. We had a great family party for him. Unfortunatly I lost the camera. Last time it was the charger. How can I be so clumzy?! I'm realy bumed out that we won't ever be together in Sunday school. His B-day is in February so he has to wait the whole rest of the year untill he can finaly be allowed to come to Sunday school. By the time he is able to come to Sunday school I'll be in the 14-15 age group for Sunday school. Darn. This Wednesday is our combined activity with the YM and YW. I'm laughing my head off right now because he has been wanting to participate in combined activity for a long time now. But, the next combined is a dance! He and I arn't to thrilled about it. Finaly he gets to come to mutual and it turns out to be a dance. LOL!!!!! I think that they might be teaching us how to dance or something like that. I still can't believe that he just turned 12 years old. Next week he'll be passing the sacrament!

Rockey Road

2008-02-08T11:29:00.000-08:00

These pics are a little late but at least I posted them.

This is our road during construction. Unfortunatly I didn't get any pics while the road was still horribly cracked and old.

First things first. The tragedy.

2008-02-04T18:06:00.000-08:00

Since the camera charger was lost during all this I unfortunatly didn't get any pics. But Here are some of them now. My dad and I painted the wall. My mom is going to choose some colors for it. My dad took out the stove so we could paint and redo the wall behind it. I swear one thing adds to another! All we wanted to do was paint the wall. My dad is going to have to take out some of the sheet rock on the wall by the table because the smell is still very strong there. There is a pic of our new microwave to.

YAY!!! I found the charger!

2008-02-04T11:32:00.000-08:00

YESSSS!!! I found my charger!!! I have alot of things to be updated. I took some pics of our house. Some of our new garden. And some of our street getting torn up. I'll be posting them soon. Please post a coment so I know who has been on. Thanks!

New Stuff!

2008-01-25T20:44:00.000-08:00

The smoke damaged most of our furniture so we've had our eyes open for some new furniture. We went to the thrift store and I found a really nice sofa. I showed my mom and she wasn't to thrilled about it. It was next to a cruddy sofa so it made it look kind of cruddy. It was $31. so I tried my best to talk my mom into it. She didn't really want to but finally she said OK. I kept saying to myself, "when we get home she'll start saying how wonderful it was." But I was wrong!!! When we got in the car she started saying how much she liked it! I can't find the charger for the camera batteries so there aren't any pictures. DARN!!! It's the coolest sofa ever to.
Today my dad brought home a microwave! We were so thrilled! You never knew how much you use until you lose it. The microwave is GIGANTIC!!! It is huge! My dad was installing above the stove but then my mom decided she didn't like the fake brick that was behind it. So my dad is now taking that out and they are going to paint the kitchen. Personally I like Blue and yellow. Please comment and tell me your favorite combinations. I'll try to find the charger so that I can take some pics of everything. :)

First it's the car now I gotta pay to fix the house...

2008-01-14T11:51:00.000-08:00

My mom and I were driving down to the YMCA. We were driving straight and there was this other guy who was turning into our lane. He accelerated and drove right into our car. I was in the passengers seat and got most of the impact. My mom was sore for a while because of trying to hold tight to the steering wheel. No one was hurt though. My mom called the police and in the mean time the other guy called the owner of the car he was driving. The owner of the car talked to my mom and told her not to call the police because all they would do is just make it more difficult for everyone. My mom told him that she already called the police. The police arrived and took care of it and found out a little more about him. He only spoke Spanish and he didn't have a drivers licence and he evidently didn't know how to drive to well. He said to the police, "I had my flashers on but she didn't stop." We've got it all figured out now.

That same day I almost set our house on fire. It was almost midnight and my parents were on their way home from the temple. I had just gotten back from babysitting the Henshaws girls. My leg was hurting me really really bad so I put my heating pad in the microwave to warm it up. Our microwave is ancient. Ten to fifteen years old! And it sometimes doesn't turn off after it beeps. Well, this happened to be one of those unlucky times when it didn't turn off. Sister Darley came over to take me to her home so I wouldn't be alone at home. I forgot about the heating pad and went with sister darley. The microwave didn't stop and it kept going for about an hour. Finally when my mom and dad came home they opened the door and a bunch of smoke flooded through the door. All the fire alarms were beeping. My dad ducked his head down and ran through the house trying to find the source of all the smoke. He ran into the kitchen and saw some flames around the microwave. He picked it up and took it out side and sprayed it with the hose until it had cooled off. I didn't know anything about it until the next morning when brother Darley said to me,"your house almost burned down." I said, "your kidding." He replied, "no I'm not." I came back with, "yes you are." That was a real surprise to me.

I don't have any pictures yet but I'll take some and post them later. Can you guess what movie the phrase I have for the title is from? Please comment.

A Little Sunday Snooze

2008-01-06T18:11:00.000-08:00

So how do you like the new time schedule? Church starts at 9:00 am now. I hate it because I don't get to sleep in to eleven anymore. My dad loves it because you get the rest of the day to do home teaching and stuff like that. This morning I had BYC so I had to be at the church by 8:00. Here's a movie of a trick I played on my dad when I was supposed to be doing the dishes.

YMCA

2008-01-05T11:38:00.000-08:00

We signed up at the YMCA today. We went swimming their only once before. Today you can sign up for FREE!!! Only today. The festivities are pretty fun to. It has 2 heated pools, I don't know how many work out rooms, and it also has a room upstairs for food and stuff. We might be going back today. I love it.

Christmas!!!

2007-12-28T19:06:00.001-08:00

We had a great Christmas this year. On Christmas Eve our family acted out the Nativity. We had allot of fun with that. I love what we usually get in our stockings! We get a small bag of chocolates (which I end up giving to my dad) and an orange, an apple, and a container of pringles, and also a tooth brush. Oh, also I had my birthday on the 27! My dad planned a surprise birthday party to. We had family over for that. My mom asked me what I wanted for dinner and I said I wanted tomato soup. But had I known they were inviting others over I probably would have chosen something else. And since I hate cake I asked for key lime pie.
I L O V E key lime pie!!! I love Christmas time. We have allot to plan before the new year. I don't have any pictures because our camera ran out of batteries.

A very nice lesson

2007-12-23T16:44:00.000-08:00

Today for Young Women's we had a different type of lesson. I loved it. It was very spiritual. Sister Henshaw told us to not say a word because the lesson was a silent Christmas Presentation. She turned on some Christmas Hymns and told us to read our papers that she handed out to us. It was about the birth of Jesus. At the end of the packet it told us to share our feelings about the Savior's birth. This is what I wrote.

Jesus was born under the most simple yet sacred circumstances. I believe that the Inns were full not by coincidence. I believe that it was Gods will for Jesus to be born in a stable so that we can understand more about him bieng humble.

I hope that this Christms may be one that is not about the presents or about the lights and music. I hope tha we remember the true meaning of Christmas. About our Savior's birth.

The Forgotten Carols

2007-12-22T08:50:00.000-08:00

My young women leaders decided that for their Christmas gift to us they would take us to see the Forgotten Carols. I had planned on going to see a movie that night but then my mom told me that my leaders had planned something else. At first I thought, I'm probably going to be the one that misses out. But we went and I proved myself wrong! I loved it! It was really neat. My mom would have loved it. Thanks Sister Henshaw!!!

Grandmas birthday

2007-12-21T13:21:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my grandmas birthday. She celebrated it at a Mexican restaurant. She had family from around the area come to have dinner together. I didn't know most of my family that was there! We had lots of fun and I learned allot about my family history. Unfortunately I forgot to bring the camera so there aren't any pictures.

Combined Caroling

2007-12-19T21:34:00.000-08:00

For Mutual tonight we went caroling. It was fun. Suzanne, Me, Tim, David, Greg, and Spencer came. We were divided into 2 groups. Me, Spencer and Greg were one group and the others were in another. Each group tackled three houses. After that we went to the Stokes' house and Brother Stokes made scones for us. Spencer and I had an eating contest. We both had eaten 5 when he asked if we could just call it a tie. I said yes. (I had my fingers crossed. Hee Hee.) He got up and I took another one. So I had five and a half scones! I WON!!! He said it didn't count because he had to leave but he was there the whole time. I'm over stuffed but it's easy to have a contest if your eating brother Stokes' scones! HA HA HA HA HA!!! I GOT SCONES AND YOU DIDN'T SISTER BROOKS!!! MWAHAHAHAH!!!!!! I feel sick. :( Merry Christmas!

O NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-12-17T14:29:00.000-08:00

This is what happens when you sprain your ankle and leave it for a week. I don't know how I sprained my ankle but it's been hurting for about a week now and just keeps getting worse. I hate it!!! It almost hurts more trying to walk with crutches than it does to just walk normal! But hopefully it'll help it heal. I told my mom I was going caroling on Wednesday with the youth in our ward and asked her what I should do. She said, "I guess you'll be walking on crutches." What's even funnier is she said, "You can be tiny Tim." (Bless us. Bless us everyone.) HA HA HA HA!!!!!

O Christmas Tree O Christmas Tree...

2007-12-17T09:08:00.001-08:00

This is our Christmas tree. We decided to keep it simple and not to many decorations this year. All the presents under the tree are from grandma and grandpa! And Santa hasn't even come yet!!! sweet! Merry Christmas!!!

gwampa!!!

2007-12-15T16:53:00.000-08:00