My birthday (20 Sept.)

School was pretty usual and pretty boring.  My friends sang Happy Birthday at lunch.  They sung it in the most ugly fashion that they could.  'Twas interesting.  My ears were ringing afterwards. :)
     After school I discovered a banana chair hidden under my quilt on my bed.  Banana chairs are so awesome! Sis. Grover also brought over a gift.  It was a purple shirt, but it's really tight.  It makes me sad because I really want to wear it!  And it was so thoughtful of her to remember my birthday when she's not even my leader anymore.  Janessa also gave me a journal, pens, and tape.  The tape was the only surprise, haha.
     At 4:12, Mom drove everyone in my family to Springville.  She dropped Clint and Janessa off at Game Stop/Wal Mart and then me at voice lessons.  While I was in voice lessons she went to pick up Sydney D.
     My lesson was really fun.
     After my lesson we picked up Janessa and Clint and then drove to my house.
     We had a few minutes so I ate a toast sandwich and then Sydney and I walked to the theater.  We were like perfectly ontime.  Sweetness.
     The callbacks were pretty lame (but good).  Only the younger kids sang, the only thing Sydney and I did was stand on stage and be compared with the other actors.  At least we didn't have to sing.  That would have been a fiery disaster...
     After the callbacks we walked back to my house and just sat around and talked and stuff for about an hour when Sydney's mom came to pick her up.  Then I watched House. I also opened my last gift.  It was my journal Compano and House: Season 1 DVD.  How cool is that? I opened House while watching House.

    

Update on the weekend (15-17 Sept.)

On Thursday evening, Hannah called.  It turns out she was with Jenna and they were like 2 blocks from my house.  So they came over and they wanted me to go to one of their houses for a slumber party.  But my dad said I could only do one sleepover.  Either one tonight or one tomorrow and I had already been planning something for Friday night.  So we decided that I have a birthday sleepover thingy on Friday.  My dad said that would work.  :)
So on Friday I got a hold of everyone.  At like 4 PM Sydney D. came over and we went online and burned some CDs, watched TV, and did other random stuff.  In the evening we watched Jekyll and Hyde.  At like 7:30 I called Hannah and although she said that she could come a few hours ago, her brother told me that she had went to a play or something.  ok??? Then I called Jenna but she was feeling sick.  Everyone else besides that had cancelled too before that.  At least they called.  I don't blame them at all though because yeah, it was really short notice.  But for Hannah and Jenna, it was partly their idea and had already agreed that it would be a good idea.
So slumber party turned into a sleepover with Sydney, which is what I had been planning for anyway.  So it was all good.
After J&H we watched TV.  I fell asleep while Sydney was still watching weird cartoons.  She stayed up like 2 hours longer than me.  (Lucky homeschooled person.)
On Saturday we woke up and made pancakes for breakfast and then worked on songs for our auditions and did random stuff.
At 12:50 I drove us to the theater.  We filled out paper thingies and then it go really nervousing.  So we let lots of people pass us and we played cards.  Drama people are weird.  One guy stole one card and asked what we would do if he just walked off and said nothing.  Sydney replied with something like: "I'd beat you to a bloody pulp."  And then I think the same guy came back and made a noise and stuck his finger in my ear.  What the randomness?
Anyways...
My audition was pretty crappy, but they asked me to come back for dancing auditions of Monday at 8 PM.  Pretty sweet.  I decided that I liked their auditioning because it wasn't that scary.  The environment wasn't that stressful.
Sydney made callbacks too, but she didn't even really want to be in this musical.  I guess it depends if her mom decides she wants to drive her to Provo basically everyday to practices.
After that we went home and did more random stuff until Sydney's mom came to pick her up.

Ward boundries re-aligned

Two Sundays ago they announced in our sacrament meeting that a plan had been approved to re-align the ward boundries within our stake. They hadn't warned us about this before and it was a complete surprise. They wouldn't tell us about the new boundries, they wanted us to go to a meeting later that evening.

Curiosity got the better of me and I went to the meeting with Janessa. I am now in the Peak 3rd Ward. The stake is the same except a few people from the Bonneville stake were added, except they changed the name of our stake.

Our first meeting with our new wards was just this last Sunday. There's a lot of people that bug me in our ward but also a lot of really cool people that I am so glad are in my ward. I'm going to try to get to know the people that bug me better... It was weird because instead of two young men passing the sacrament with lots of older men, there were actually enough young men to have all young men pass the sacrament. I also go really annoyed because there we lots of screaming kids... GRRR, they are so annoying!

So far I'm ok with the change. I can do this, it will work. I think it will be better to have more families and actually have some youth. I really really miss lots of people in my old ward though. :( We have twelve young women now instead of five. I probably know most of them but I haven't really met them all yet so I'm not sure who they are. It's going to be annoying though because two of Clint's best friends are in our ward. One is not so bad, the other is completely dissrespectful and completely annoying. Maybe Clint will go to church more, but it most likely won't be for the right reason. Hopefully he gets some good teachers that keep him in line and will maybe show him what the purpose of church is.

Vacation to Northern Utah (Exciting, I know)

On sunday our whole family left and checked into Best Rest Inn in Ogden.  We swam, had dinner at McDonalds, and played Boggle.

On Monday I woke up at 6 AM for breakfast.  Retarded, I know.

At breakfast I had a joyfully-fun time.  I spilt a lot of stuff:

#1: I was getting biscuits and only placed the plate half on the edge of the table.  I placed dropped the first biscuit from my tongs onto the plate—the side of the plate that was on the table.  But the second biscuit wasn’t so lucky.  I dropped it onto the side of the place that was not on the table which sent the plate flipping to the floor.  It landed face down, wasting the biscuits.  At least like half of the people in the place were laughing at me. L

#2: A made a waffle, cut it up, and drenched it in syrup.  I had it on top of a bunch of brochures and stuff that I had picked up.  I was taking it to my room so I could eat it on my comfy bed.  Right at the door, the brochures went slack, and the plate fell face down on the floor.  I cleaned everything up.  Luckily Janessa and Clint had both put waffles into the makers at the same time, thinking they were both making one for Clint.  So I got to have Janessa’s.  I ripped it up and drenched it in syrup.

#3: I also got myself a cup of orange juice to go with it and loaded everything up and prepared to leave again.  I was backing out the door when Janessa talked to me, which for some reason, freaked me out.  I guess I was just so tired I was sensitive to sounds or something.  But my hand tipped at that same moment and dumped some on the floor.

#4: Being stunned and thinking it was already spilled, I went to set the cup of orange juice on the table but didn’t lower my hand enough but just dropped it so it hit the table but knocked over.  It sent the juice running off the table and onto a chair and the floor.

Numbers 2-4 felt like I was asleep.  Luckily my dad was there by that time and he told the breakfast attendant to clean it up so I got to just take my waffle to my room.  I skipped trying to take orange juice.

I had another dense moment at the room.  I set down everything to get out my key, slid it through the slot, and then when I pushed discovered that the door was already ajar. 

Anyway, after breakfast I played Boggle with Janessa until it was time to leave.

We stopped in Roy at a Smith's and bought lots of snacks and food for the day.

Then we drove to Lagoon and went in.  It's rather boring so I'll just list the rides I went on and how many times I went on them and some of the funny events.  (Plus there's more spilling on the way so stay tuned!)

Fire Dragon: 3

The Bat: 1

The Spider: 2

Wild Mouse: 1

Skyline: 3 (+)

Samarai: 1

Blast Off: 1

Rattlesnake Rapids: 1

Log Flume: 1

The ship (can't remember the real name); 1

The Turn of the Century: 1

The lines were amazingly long and now I see how few I really rode when I total them up like that.

I also looked around the Pioneer Village and went to "Hooray for Hollywood."  "Hooray for Hollywood" was pretty good.  I liked last years much better, of course because it was a Broadway themed show.  This  one basically did the same thing because not very far into the show they switched to Broadway musicals turned into movies.  Tee hee.  Jamie is so hot.

And I promised more spilling so here's the list:

#5: I was opening a can of Pringles and the cover was glued on very well.  When I opened them like 10-15 went flying all over the cement.  Janessa made me eat them all though so nothing was wasted but crumbs. :)

#6: I was eating a chip with salsa and when I was biting it, I tipped the chip backwars so the salsa dumped off onto my shirt in two places and my capris in two places. 

#7: My sister shared some hand sanitizer with me and I spilt some on my pants.  (I know this one is lame but I had to count it for goodness sakes.)

Oh yeah, Crystal was tall enough this year to ride all the rides except for a few.  So we first took her on The Bat, which she liked.  We were going to take her on The Turn of the Century next, but it was closed so we went straight to the Colosus.  I watched her face the whole time and it was hillarious.  It was definitely worth losing all Crystal's trust in us.

When the park closed, we began the drive home.  We of course missed the freeway so we took the backroads home.

At the hotel I took a shower and hit the sack

On Tuesday I woke up and had breakfast and then with nothing else to do, watched "House Arrest" which was what everyone else was watching on HBO.  It was an OK movie.

At noon we checked out and drove around.  We drove to Cherry Hill but they were closed because of the insane downpour that morning.

We stopped in downtown Salt Lake and ate at the Mexican vendors.  I had two very delicious tacos.  I really love authentic food.

After that we drove around looking for a room.  Eventually we found one at La Quinta Inn out by the airport.  We checked in and unpacked.  I really liked the set up of this hotel because you get sick of the same setup at every single hotel.  The door to the room was at an angle and then the door to the bathroom and closet were on an angle too so the bathroom was a cool shape instead of boring rectangle.  It also made the bathroom have a bit more room so it wasn't so cramped.  The doors to the bathroom were also double so it gave it a very cool feeling.  The room was also more of a square shape instead of a rectangle which was very nice.

After we checked in I laid on my bed and did random stuff.  I also watched "Home Fried" I believe on HBO.

After the movie was over all of we kids went swimming.  I really liked their pool too.

After swimming I changed and after a bit longer we walked over to this cafe called Roberts.  I had grilled cheese and fries.  It was annoying because they automatically brought me fry sauce for my fries.  I like fry sauce, but it I don't have ketchup on such delicious fries I'll end up eating it later either plain or on bread or something to cure the craving.  So Mom asked for ketchup for me.  Yay. 

After we ate we went back to the hotel and watched some TV and went to bed.

 On Wednesday I woke up and had breakfast and did random stuff.

I got in the hot tub but didn't get my hair wet and then sat in the gazebo in the courtyard in my swimsuit and wrote in my journal.  Gazebos are just too awesome to not just sit in.

After I changed I packed and stuff.  Nessa convinced me to take this fitness test thingy on a bike in the fitness center.  I got 62 or something, whatever that means, and my rating was elite.  I don't know how they rate it but I am DEFINITELY not in shape so I don't know what's up with that.

A little after noon we checked out and drove to Walmart.  It was shutting down soon and moving into a much bigger building so a lot of stuff was on clearance.  I bought some hand sanitizer and a deck barbeque thingy for our Loving Family dollhouse.

Draper I think it was.  Whatever city has Boondocks.  We drove around forever looking for Boondocks.  If I would have known where we were going I could have told them right where to go.

Eventually we got to Boondocks and we went in.  We decided what we wanted to do and paid for it.  First we did a batting cage for a half hour.  It was very scary but they forced me to go.  I surprised myself by hitting most of the baseballs.  Stupid, what is up with this looking athletic and fit today?

After that I played lazer tag with Janessa and Clint.  Their court was way too small.  I got bored with just staying in the same area with my team so I left it and totally died like 50 times.  At least it was more fun then just standing there.  Each ticket was $5 and the game was only 6 minutes.  Totally lame.

After the game I played two games of air hockey with Janessa.  She beat me the first time and I beat her the second time.

After that we had to wait for Crystal to pick out and get a prize and then we left.

We drove for awhile until we got to Pleasant Grove.  We went to Sonic and I decided it's totally lame.  They would only let us use 2 coupons even though there were 6 people in the car.  So only the kids got burgers.  We ate on the way to Artic Circle where my parents got food.  I had some fries and a very delicious Oreo shake.
            After that we drove all the way home.  The cats were so cute.  They missed me.

Catching up

Wow, I keep forgetting to write.
I'm just going to talk about what I've been up to and what I can remember.
A few weeks ago Janessa and I got a job babysitting for a 10-year-old girl who lives like 1 block from us for the summer.  It's basically getting paid to play with someone. :) We get $3 an hour which adds up to a lot when you babysit 5-7 hours everyday.  The girl's mom relized this after the first week when she paid us.
Two weeks ago I went to Youth Conference.  We stayed in hotels in Vernal and did lots of stuff.  We went to museums, Dinosaur National Monument, river rafting, Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo, the Vernal Temple, hiking (blak), and lots of other stuff.  It was annoying because the schedule was ill-planned so we had like no free time and on the last day we even ran out of time for the testimony meeting so we had to do it the next day.
The week after Youth Conference I went to girls camp.  One of the leaders is retarded so a lot of the time there was a lot of tension.  It was hard.  She seriously argued back, talked behind our back, and was always on the defense.  So often we got snide remarks when we didn't mean anything by what we were saying.
The last night Maria, Janessa, Sydney and I all stayed up all night. We had to leave really early in the morning so we didn't see any reason to sleep.  It was so fun because we got really hyper.  We got ready about an hour before we thought the leaders would get up and then hid upstairs.  We watched out the window and read all the graffitti (sp?) on the walls.  I wrote a bunch in my journal.  It looks so cool! When we saw the leaders get up, we all sat and were totally silent.  Anna, who had stayed downstairs, told us the leaders got angry, and then were just really worried.  After we had hid for about 10 minutes, we decided we should come out.  So we started playing Big Booty (if you don't know, it's a loud singing game).  Eventually Anna came and told us they knew where we were.  It was lame because the leaders themselves were supposed to come find us.  So we came down and found out the Heather (a leader) had cried.  So then we felt bad.  But really we had done nothing wrong.  We wanted to surpise them by being ready and decided to play a little joke.  It's not like we ran away for 2 hours--we were gone only 10 minutes.  She thanked us later so I think she realized our true intent.
On the bus ride home I slept the whole way which is like 2 hours.  And once I got home I took a shower and then slept for 20 hours.  11:30 AM-7:30 AM the next day.  It felt so nice.
Something else funny that happened now:
The day that we were leaving for Youth Conference, I glued my fingers together with super glue.  I've never really used it before because my parents have never had it in our house so when Janessa and I opened it, I poked a pen in while she held the glue and of course it splattered on my hand.  It was instantly suck and it took me like a half an hour to get it unstuck because we tried everything we could think of before we read the back of the tube.
Anyway, I can't think of anything else, so if I do you can bet I'll be back.

The Story of the Toast

This morning I was planning on eating cereal, but any kind that I wanted was gone so I actually had to cook something--toast.  Which does take a lot longer than mixing up a bowl of cereal.
     Anyway, I really didn't have time to finish my second slice so I left thinking maybe I could still make the bus and have time to eat my toast along the way.  Well, when I came out of my house, the bus was coming up my street.  (Luckily the Wednesday driver turns and goes by my house, instead of straight.)  So I ran back up my walk, and just set the piece of toast on the front porch.  I ran on the side of the road and flagged the bus driver and he stopped and let me on.  Tee hee, that was convinient.  :)
     Throughout the day I wondered what my parents would think of the mystery of the toast.  My dad had known that I hadn't had time to eat it, because I offered it to him. 
     When I got home I asked my parents what had happened to it because it wasn't on the porch any longer.  My dad said that when he was watching TV, he heard birds squaking outside his window.  When he looked, it was seagulls devouring my toast.  Hey, it didn't go to waste at least! 
     Yup, and that's my story of the day!

Vacation, Day VIII (Home!)

Today (Saturday) I woke up and had continental breakfast and then laid on my bed probably writing in my journal or doing random stuff. We packed up and left.
     We stopped for gas by our hotel and then drove and didn't stop until we were home. 
     While we were driving I found a dime in my water.  So weird and random! No one new how it had gotten there.  It explained why my water tasted weird.  Once back in Utah we drove through a storm that had just visited Utah and was now headed East to Colorado.  Very cool because that night on the news I saw the weather man talking about the storm moving to Colorado and I had witnessed it.  It was cool to see and helped with my understanding of weather.  Plus we got through the worst of the storm very quickly. :)  Once we got in to the canyon (Spanish Fork Canyon?) we saw a snow plow coming back down out of the canyon.  This was a given that there would be snow.  Once furthur up, sure enough, there was snow!  The snow was very recent which also showed the storms path. :)  We saw the frozen waterfall on the cliff again.
     Just a few hours later we were parked infront of our house (well, near it...someone took our spot).  Just as we were jumping out of the car Brownie came running up, purring and everything. :) So cute.  We checked the mail and messages on the machine and there was one from Jackie, the lady I used to babysit for.  It went something like this: "Your cat is over her and he's meowing really bad!"  I'm pretty sure that would have been Brownie, he probably got out of the window we left open in our room and then didn't figure out how to get in for quite awhile.  He felt as if he'd lost weight.  But anyway, it was really funny because of course Brownie was OK and it was so like him.  :D Finally I saw that my dad had unlocked the gate to the back yard so I headed out to my room to look for Sanno.  I took two steps out the door and Janessa had him and gave him to me.  I could tell Sanno was pissed to have an end to his vacation.  While we were gone he had ample food and water, free range access to our rooms and his favorite beds, and no one to disturb his naps.  (It's all good though because the next day I hugged Sanno and he couldn't stop purring. He did miss me :D) I made reservations for Les Mis, went on the internet, watched the news and The Simpsons, and then pretty much fell asleep.