The life of a mormon military brat in Louisianna

maddness, my friends. pure madness.

2011-02-10T13:26:00.000-08:00

"Life is pain princess, anyone who says differently is selling something"- The Princess Bride

One of my new favorite quotes...

Not sure exactly what to write here....

My friend came over to talk to the missionaries sunday so that was cool. then on Monday, I went on splits with the Sister missionaries which was WAY fun!
Im having trouble in my calculus class which kinda sux...

Im getting excited for the Mardi Gras parades tho... hopefully there's something good about this place haha

Still dont have a job... but ive put in a ton of applications so hopefully!

Feeling like a disney song today... so here's my song...

Go the distance- from Hercules

I have often dreamed, of a far of place
where a great warm welcome will be waiting for me
where the crowds will cheer when they see my face
and a voice keeps saying this is where im ment to be
I'll be there someday
I can go the distance
I willl find my way
If i can be strong
I know ev'ry mile
will be worth my while
When i go the distance
I'll be right where I belong
Down an unkown road
to emrace my fate
Though the road may wander
it will lead me to you
and a thousand years
would be worth the wait
It might take a lifetime
but somehow I'll see it through
And i wont look back
I can go the distance
And I'll stay on track
No i wont accept defeat
It's an uphill slope
but i wont lose hope
till i go the distance
and my journey is complete

unorganized thoughts...

2011-01-03T09:26:00.000-08:00

I wish i could of put up my homecoming pictures! sorry! I got caught up in school work and facebook, and forgot to post. I haven't been up to much, I joined the Photography club at school which is turning out to be pretty cool. We went to an Art Museum in Shreveport to go see the Ansel Adams exhibit which was so fun. The Museum has this huge garden behind it, that is all landscaped with waterfalls, bridges, ponds and walking paths. I go back there to take pictures some times. I took family portraits for a family in my ward a couple weeks ago, i will post some of them later hopefully. They turned out pretty well.
About a month ago, i had the opportunity to give out a Book of Mormon. I was talking with a kid in one of my classes about religion, and he mentioned how he wanted to study theology or something like that. We talked about how a lot of religions, such as Islam, is misunderstood. I brought up my church, which he surprisingly knew a lot about, all correct stuff. He then mentioned how he wanted to get his hands on one of those "Mormon Bible's". I jumped at the chance to give away my Book of Mormon that I've been carrying around since the beginning of the year. He took it and promised he would read it, and he would get back to me with any questions he had about it. =D 1 point Maegan in the missionary game! cant wait until he gets back with questions!
Passed all my finals, even my pre-calc one! yay!
Christmas break has been awesome. We had one of the YW from our ward come and stay with us for the break, and had SO much fun. She blended right in with our family as if she had been there the entire time. You would think having ANOTHER little sister would make it more difficult but it almost seemed as if she brought us all together.
I also took our own family pictures (thank goodness for tripods and timers!) at that Garden i mentioned above. I will post later them when i get them all uploaded. We're going back so i can get shots of the girls by themselves.
We drove out to Dallas on Wednesday to go to the Temple. The Dallas temple is different, i say that because its not all white and gleamy like the Bountiful temple. It's built of marble and gray stones. Its really beautiful. We met my grandparents from Idaho at the temple, and got to do Baptisms with them. then they came back home with us. That was fun...
so far I've got $80 saved up to come back to Utah this summer... It seems like the more money i save, the higher the price of the plane ticket is getting... X( I really hope i have enough to go!
New years was interesting... Someone from our ward invited us over to his house for a New Years eve party. It started with Cajun shrimp, alligator sausage, and deep fried turkey. Then onto the bonfire. which was not just any old bonfire, on no, it was made up of the leaves he had raked and some branches and some newspaper. Then his friend (not a member) lit this pile of leaves, with a blowtorch. He was like 2 ft away from the fire, holding a tank of gas in one hand, the blowtorch in the other, and a nice long cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Luckily, there was no explosion, nor did the young man catch fire. then later, one of the YW of the ward was playing with Caroline outside, and came in to ask if Caroline (3 yrs old) could help light the firecrackers. :O, she settled for a long sparkler. We played with all kinds of fireworks until about 11:00 when we went home so we could see the ball drop on TV, and cuz the younger kids were tired. It was quite a night.
School starts back up again on Thursday. Not sure if I'm excited or not... It will be nice to have something to do, instead of sitting around wishing I had friends to hang out with. But at the same time, I don't want to go back to new classes where I wont have anyone to talk to and I particularly don't like sitting alone during lunch.
I will post some pictures later for all of this...
I have found recently that certain songs can express how i feel, a whole lot better than I can... so I think i might start just posting songs, and their lyrics unless I have something exciting happen. The craziest thing is when you hear a song where every line seems to be written for you, or about you, or describes exactly how you feel. So today's song is 1000 miles, by Vanessa Carlton. Seems to be fitting. It explains this irrational fear that I will be forgotten, that I will just live forever in someone elses' memory, that if i were to return to my home in Utah, that everything would be different, no-one would be the same. It seems like the longer I am gone from there the more it will change, and the more i will be stuck in the memory of "that one time..." So i have this urge to get back there as soon as possible so that i wont be forgotten. I guess its not right for me to wish that nothing would change, because people have to move on with their lives. I just want to be there to move on with them, and not be left behind in a memory.
the song goes:

"if i could fall
into the sky,
do you think time would pass me by?
'cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles,
if I could just see you,
Tonight
It's always times like these
when i think of you
and i wonder if you ever
think of me
'Cause everything's so wrong,
and I don't belong
living in your
precious memory"

The full lyrics are below:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/vanessacarlton/athousandmiles.html

Homecoming 2010!

2010-10-10T13:58:00.000-07:00

I had so much fun at homecoming and I would post pictures but they aren't working on here!!!! grrrrrrrr...... so Look on my facebook for pictures!!

thoughts

2010-10-06T13:27:00.000-07:00

So conference was this past weekend. I enjoyed hearing the leaders of the church, I hooked my moms laptop up to the big screen so we watched it one the TV which was cool. I think my Favorite talk was Elder Uctdorf, at the beginning he compared life to trees, speed bumps, and of course airplanes. He talked about when your flying and you hit turbulence that some people will increase the speed, which makes it worse for a time. the more experianced flyers would slow down. He then compared it to how sometimes in life we hit turbulence and how the best thing to do would be just to slow down. He said how sometimes speeding up will only create more stress, which i liked.
today kinda sucked... we were suppossed to dress up as a Hick. So i wore a blue plaid shirt and asked my mom to put my hair in a 2 ponytails cuz whenever i do it, they end up strangely lopsided. when i got to school this girl said that i looked like a nerd instead of a hick. so i threw my sweater on cuz i was embarresed. So in first period this kid told me i was supposed to dress up, i said ya i know. He then decided it was for some reason because i was from utah ??? so he proceeds to call me the "stupid yankee" all freakin day. It took all my strength not to hit him. then this girl comments on my hair and said it looked like my mom put my hair up. so me being stupid i laughed and said "ya, cuz she did haha" so then I get teased cuz im such a baby. R we really in 3rd grade again??? Then im pretty sure i bombed this math quiz i took. X( im so ready for this day to be over.

Homecoming on saturday!!

Life as we know it...

2010-10-01T15:27:00.001-07:00

I've never understood that statement "Life as we know it..." How exactly do we know life? does anyone really have that great of grasp on life? cuz the information would be greatly appreciated. So its friday night... and im bored out of my mind...which doesn't mean much.... trying to think of something wise and important, something to change your life and nothing is coming to mind.
I accidently said "Ain't" today. almost died. I said it and stopped to flick one of my silly bands to inflick pain in my arm so that maybe in my subconcious i will realize that is NOT ok to say, i refuse to return home with a southern accent!! In pre-calc today my teacher was telling us about this girl who wrote in a paper for math. "somoya" ment to be read as "Some of ya" but because people slurr their words so much its pronounced as "somoya" which is why the girl wrote it like that. Oh my.... I mean its one thing to write it on the internet or like while texting a friend or something but on a paper??
Kinda wish my life was to busy to be able to write on this, cuz that would mean that I could possibly actually have a social life, which would include alot of friends. I don't know tho, its hard to say that I want alot of friends, when most of the kids here are into bad stuff. So if i have friends then i can only hang out with them when their not doing what they usually do.
I'm so bored... I fear that im boring everyone who tries to read my blog haha I apologize if you get tired of me whining and complaining and hearing about me. I use this more as a Journal type thing cuz im to lazy to actually write in a journal haha
Well, its october 1st so tonight my family, and I are going to watch Young Frankenstein with some kind of good tasting, bad for you snack.... so until next time!

2010-09-29T14:56:00.000-07:00

So this weeks been interesting. Not much happened monday, but tuesday in first period spanish, we were copying vocab and the vocab was these sentances like "Walk the dog" or "go for a swim" randomly there was "We eat pork rinds"... ??? so I didn't have any idea what they were. So i asked this kid next to me. I'm not kidding, the class goes silent. quite akward. this kid in the front goes "Where are you from??" I said "Utah" he goes "oh that explains it, they dont have food like that up there..." ??? ok... so everyone goes back to whatever they were doing and someone explains to me pork rinds. fried pig fat? really? why whould you eat that??? anyway so later in class this kid asks me if i was mormon. I said ya. he goes "oh" and turned away. then this kid like 2 rows over yells over everyone "I'm pentacostal so thats kinda the same thing!" I said "uhhhh, i guess but not really." So that was strange. Then in US history the same guy sheldon (see below ) was asking me the weirdest questions about mormons. Asked if we drove horse and buggy's and if we were allowed to watch tv. Then after he found out that we didn't drink alcohol, he goes "hypothetically, if you were trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean, and your kiddnappers hade you tied down and were pouring wiskey down your throat. would you drink it?" I said "sure... i guess, i dont think i would have a choice." he replies "well would you be struck down by lightning or something?" "Nooooo.... there would be alot more fried drunks if lightning struck everytime someone drank." "oh" end of conversation.... so ya that was a weird day. today was even weirder...
So first period, there was like 5 min left in 1st period and i hear from the back "maegans mormon... HEY MAEGAN! your mormon right?" I said yup. this kid holds up a Book of Mormon and goes "I'm gonna be mormon now" I said "wait, seriously?" "He goes ya" So I said "Awesome" Then this idiot like 2 seats back goes "Ive never seen a black mormon" I said "what? that makes no sense. of course theres black mormons!"then my teacher goes "thats the one where teenagers have to go on a sabbatical or something right?" I said "ya kinda, the boys go on a mission for two years when their 19" she goes "oh cool"... then the bell rings. So i waved to that kid as i leave and he goes "Im joining ur church!" I go "cool! church is at 9!" then he leaves. So tell me... is this some joke? or do you think he's serious? cuz i am at a lost. i think its awesome if its true, but it would kinda suck if its just some joke on me.... Then 2nd period there is 1 kid from my spanish class so we had like a 3 min religious disscussion where he pretty much tried to tell me how wrong my church was, and then proceeded to tell me that when he was 8 he heard that mormons were devil worshippers. ??? so i said "nope its called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we do NOT worship the devil, thats almost as crazy as someone thinking mormons have devil horns haha" He then proceeded to stare intensly at my forehead as if looking for horns. are you serious?? so ya... the last few days have been interesting... So I will follow up when i find out 1. how that kid got a BOM and if he really is becoming a member and 2. why people think we have horns and are devil worshippers... I really thought all those stories were just stories. never honestly thought people believed that...

Recent discovery.

2010-09-22T18:48:00.000-07:00

Talking with some guys here and we got on the topic of the end of the world and one of them mentioned that if he knew the world was going to end tommarrow he would be with as much girls as possible. ok.... so later talking with one of my good guy friends back home, we were talking about how cuz im an hour ahead of them i have to warn him if the world begins to come to an end. being my curious self i asked what he would do if he knew he said "Pray like crazy" I am shocked at the difference, not shocked, impressed. I wish there were more nice guys like that here.

Not much has happened in my history class. i was really hoping that we would talk about pioneers and stuff in US history but we skipped over that so we haven't had any talks about that since below. but the other day i was watching tv and there was this show "19th Wife" on Lifetime. And it was about a modern day MORMON family that was plygamist. :O i was like someone did not check their facts! I only watched a little but what made me way mad was that they kept flashing back to like pioneer times when plygamy was practiced for a while, and potrayed Brigham Young as this creeper who preyed on young women for wives. I was so mad! how is it ok for them to misrepresent like that??? grrrrr....

On a positive note. Went to Young Womens tonight and had SOO much fun playing pictionary. there are 3 other Laurels and then 2 other Beehives for maddie. After we moved in there were 2 families who moved in with YW and supposedly we are supposed to have a lot of primary girls coming in beforfe the end of the year, so thats awesome!

My birthday was yesterday and that was fun. i had 2 friends and their families over and we had cake and ice cream and talked which was way fun. I got my license so now I am free to drive w/out an adult! :D YAY! And my room got organized and set up as a surprise from my family for my birthday! which was WAY AWESOME! pictures soon to come!! :D

Meeting more and more people at school. Kinda feeling like im being accepted into alot of my Classes, but in the school i still dont feel like i belong. its weird, the pep rally's always make me deppressed cuz i just feel like i dont belong with them. i belong back home with Davis Darts. haha! Its so funny to hear people say how big my current high school is but Davis was like 3 times bigger. I feel like im downsizing haha.

our house is starting to look liveable which is awesome. My dad finally arrived so thats a big part of it! we got more done in the 3 week since he got here then we did in the whole month without him haha.

Homecomings coming closer! oct. 9th! im getting excited for my first dance! :D hopefully i will have fun!

Those are all my random thoughts of right now.... so i guess i will post when i have more! Night guys!

My amazing piece of wisdom for the day

2010-09-12T10:44:00.000-07:00

Boys are stupid. Avoid them whenever possible. except of course if you already said you are going to homecoming with them. go, and then avoid boys whenever possible.

the elephant with two trunks stole my purple hairbrush

2010-09-09T13:07:00.000-07:00

Sorry.... didn't know what to call this so.... thats the title it got. :D Life's been interesting... Im starting to like seminary more, its only Me, Brother Hawkins (teacher) and his daughter. So i thought it was going to be awkward, and it was for a while but its getting better. Im surviving school. not getting used to some of the dumb things that go on, but learning how to ignore it. It amazes me that people are so shocked when i say "No, I haven't seen that rated R movie" or "No, I've never had a boyfriend" seriously? is it that uncommon?
Today in History was cool. This same kid- we will call him... sheldon to protect his identity. haha sorry i got distracted... anyway so Sheldon asked me today if mormons believed in the Bible, cuz he heard we had a special "mormon book". So i explained that yes, we believe in the Bible but we also have the Book of Mormon, which is a like the bible and close to the same time periods but takes place in the America's. And like always he just nodded and said "oh". But then this girl in front of me who had been listening to our conversation, turned and asked me what the mormons believed that was so different from everyone else. First thing i thought was "crap. I dont think ive memorized all the articles of faith." second "Where are those pass along cards when you need them?!?" So i proceeded to explain the first article of faith, then jumped to prophets, then jumped to like the afterlife. Im pretty sure i butchured it but i only had like 2 min before the teacher came in. he started talking and she turned around and i was like "WAIT! theres SO much more!" so im hoping i will have a chance to explain more another time, but for now they know about the BOM, prophets, the first article of faith, and the whole heaven idea. pretty sure that is way out of order of what the missionaries teach. but in my defense i was put on the spot, and only had like 2 min. :P
I also got to have a great (sarcasm) talk with my homecoming date about swearing. Ive been telling him to cut it out when he swears around me, so today he goes "well what else can i say?!?" I was like... well there are lots of things actually, you would be surprised at the creativity of some people. (like one of my friends comes up with a new one every day, "darn flabbits those stinking pink hippos" haha i didn't tell him this tho) I told him he could say dang instead of the "D" word, shoot, flip, fudge, stinking, heck, many many things. he just looked at me like i was crazy. So i thought i would tell him that swearing makes him look dumb, he said he didn't care what people thought. So im kinda at a loss. He said he would try, but.... who knows he will probably forget. UG. I miss my utah boys. X(

Bossier city, LA

2010-09-04T16:19:00.001-07:00

Our house, quaint and nice.

So, i guess im going to start with school. it started like 2 weeks ago. The teachers are nice, and the classes are cool. The students are......... interesting. Definetly different that Utah. Most of the guys have no manners, they are crude, and all they talk about is either girls, sex, sports, or last weekends keg party. everything they say is laced with obscene language. on the bus, i have to just plug my headphones into my head and turn up the music louder than the kids, close my eyes and pretend im somewhere else. at school, i just try to ignore it and focus on the teacher. I guess it will just have to take some getting used to. I've met three people who have been way nice to me, One is a girl in my neighborhood who showed me around and made sure i didn't get lost at school. haha. another is this girl who is also new. we sit together at lunch. she is way nice to me.... she thinks its hilarious everybody thinks im shy, cuz according to her i cant stop talking. haha. the third is this boy in my chemistry class, who is hilarious. He asked me to home coming during class on like the 4th day. (im about to toot my own horn, beware) I told him i didn't date until i was 16, and i didn't turn 16 until the end of september, he said that wasn't a problem cuz the homecoming wasn't until october. so the next day he asked me why i couldn't date until i was 16. I told him because my church recommended it, and gave him a strength of youth pamplet thingy. He said it was cool that i had standards cuz not many kids at our school do. And he promised to watch what he said around me. It was like a story right out of conference. I felt pretty proud haha. So, like the day after my mom and i were driving down the road and these ladies were selling dresses so we stopped and the lady sold us this dress for $15. it was pretty sweet!

My mom is going to make a shoulder cover so that its modest. Im excited. Im trying to think of more things i can post so far....oh! got one

So the other day in History class we were watching a movie about the railroads and part of the movie said "As the railroad workers came over the wasatch front they had to get used to the strange mormon communities" I was like hmmm.... i guess we are pretty strange... hahaha then a kid in my class turned to me after and asked if i went to any church, i said "i belong to the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints" (yes it was hard not to sing it haha) he says "oh i figured you would be mormon cuz you're from utah and everything" hahahahaha i was like "actually i am, its the same thing." he just said "oh..." then the next day he asks me, not kidding this actually happened, he said "so do you have like four moms?" I was dumbfounded people actually believed that. i said "nope, mormons have not practiced pylgamy in over a hundred years" he agains just said "oh..." I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not but hey, whatever. haha! so... more stories to come! just stay tuned! :D

Bored out of my mind

2010-09-04T16:04:00.001-07:00

So... I'm so bored i figured i would update this thing since i haven't in over a year. not much happened until this past summer... school, I took this AP history class that was alot of fun, and passed the test so that was cool. we also did this way fun boat project for physics where we had to make a boat out of only duct tape and cardboard, and then we had to get in it and row it across this pool. It wasx SO much fun!! my dad got his deployment papers again, except this time its so much better cuz he is deployed to Florida, which i dont think really counts but im not complaining, its alot safer there. Along with deployment papers we got our new assignment papers. Which inspires the new name for my blog. We were assigned to Bossier City, Louisianna. now we learned that it is not pronounced the french way, but quite litterally prounounced "Bosher". The summer was filled with trying to sell our house, packing up our lives, and throwing them across the US once again. My family left before me because I had a summer drivers ed class i had to take. the last few weeks i was in UT were some of the best times of my life. hanging out with my friends doing absolutely nothing but laughing, walking for hours at a time, sneaking behind my house to the pylgamist land to go exploring, haha it was fun, but it all had to end at some point. so on August 2nd, i fly out of my happy place and after spending one day in FL, arrived here. in Boosier city. the place where i will be stuck for 2 years, until i can graduate and go back home. Soo... because of my friend, Elizibeth who suggested (more like demanded) that i start writing my adventures on my blog, I am hoping to write here at least once a week. i will probably forget, but I hope not. see ya on the web!

Haiti disaster

2010-01-25T18:35:00.000-08:00

everyone knows of the Earthquakes in Haiti, and i know that people want to help. well a friend of mine's family is trying to adopt a baby... it is a great story, my mom really liked it, i figured i would post their blog in hopes to spread their story.
here is the link-
http://ourhaitibaby.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

long time no see

2009-09-07T11:11:00.000-07:00

so i signed up for facebook and kinda forgot about this.... sorry. Life has been ok. i finished school and spent two weeks of my summer in oregan with a friend of mine, SO much fun! 'cept i broke my camera, dang. school started again. and im at Davis High, and i dont think high school is much different than jr. high except bigger. ya. Im really into photography now, but now my cameras broke so if u have a camera i can buy from u, i would love to have it!!! here are some of my favorite pix that i took.

The past few weeks

2009-02-20T13:48:00.000-08:00

Not much has happened, school, i almost got my braces on but they were postponed due to cavity's. I lost some friends of mine who i was close to. it was hard for me but they were needed up in heaven. I went to their funeral wendsday, and their mom said something that i will never forget. She said that we signed up for this. every trial we have in our life, we signed up for in heaven. So in heaven i signed up to be a military brat, i signed up to lose close friends, and i signed up for a lot of things. I kinda wish i would have thought it through tho. I guess in heaven i had a more eternal perspective than i do now. Oh well i know i will see them again.

RIP Shilo and Micha Edwards, i love u guys!

Finnally... Pictures of the dog

2009-02-03T16:06:00.001-08:00

drumroll please.......

this week

2009-01-25T11:41:00.000-08:00

School has been tough until the end of the term now i started a new term and so i take computer tech and p.e and then my basics. i get so confused with my scheduale though cuz im so used to my old scheduale. oh well. i had a fun weekend i babysat for my aunts friend, her kids were SO cute they said the funniest thing! oh and the we got a new addition to the family! mariah got a a dog for christmas but we weren't able to pick it up until we got back. SO...

INTRODUCING.... KODA!!! OUR FAMILY"S NEW BLACK LAB!

Teacup pigs

2009-01-18T12:39:00.000-08:00

some kids want dogs. not me i want PIG! there is this breed of pigs that are called Teacup piglets. the never grow from the size of a piglet. sometimes they get as big as a small lapdog.

Silly Caroline

2009-01-16T16:35:00.000-08:00

Caroline was putting on a headband, and made the FUNNIEST face!!!

teeeeheehee

Trip to Alaska

2009-01-14T19:01:00.000-08:00

So i haven't written in a while. but this time i have a good exucuse. my family and i were vacationing in Alaska. Its was way fun. but WAY COLD! high of about -8 degrees but it was WAY fun!!

i got some pictures :D i figured u guys would want to see some pics, a lot of my pics are from inside cuz thats were we spent most of our time. . C: we went sking but i didn't get any pictures it was SO much fun though.

a moose we saw on the way home from church

My favorite Ice Sculpture at the Ice feztival

Anchorage

Totem Pole

Anchorage

pretty tree

sunset at about 3:30

Pretty mountains

License plate i saw that i thought was cool in anchorage, my family and i have now decided that the 3 nephites drive an old hummer. LOL

another Pretty Sunset

mountains and sunset

another sun and mountain

pretty trees

A frozen waterfall

Dizzy Caroline

2008-12-15T18:49:00.000-08:00

This is SOOO Funny!! Caroline was dancing in circles for about 3 songs on the radio. she couldn't walk straight and was SO dizzy. my favorite part is when she runs into the couch.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE turn the noise on silent, in the background im singing along with one of my favorite songs and its REALLY bad. not the song my singing.

Nov 30-15

2008-12-15T05:27:00.000-08:00

ya well i haven't written in a while.

Sunday- it was the 5th sunday so in church we had a special meeting. it was really cool! it was this 1 man and he basiccly acted out the life of christ. he did such a good job!

Monday&Tuesday- School
Wendsday-School, Auditions, YW, we watched the Grinch who stole christmas.
Thursday- School, Work,
Friday- School
Saturday- Chores, hung out with friends.
Sunday-Church
Monday-School, tutored after school
Tuesday-School
Wendsday-School, Worked, i missed YW : (
Thursday-School, Babysat my cousins, they are SO cute!!
Friday-School, talked with an old friend a while, babysat.
Saturday- woke up early and went to a early christmas breakfast at our church. came home and cleaned. Then went and hung out a friends house. came home ate dinner. went to a friends party.
Sunday-Church, hung out at home.
Monday- School, tutored after school.

Funny forward i got

2008-12-06T08:51:00.000-08:00

This is so funny, it's hard to believe how stupid some people are...

Some examples of why the human race has probably evolved as far as possible. These are actual instruction labels on consumer goods...

On Sears hairdryer:Do not use while sleeping.(Gee, that's the only time I have to work on my hair!)

On a bag of Fritos:You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.(The shoplifter special!)

On a bar of Dial soap:Directions: Use like regular soap.(and that would be how?)

On some Swann frozen dinners:Serving suggestion: Defrost.(But it's 'just' a suggestion!)

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (printed on bottom of the box)Do not turn upside down.(Too late! you lose!)

On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding:Product will be hot after heating.(Are you sure? Let's experiment.)

On packaging for a Rowenta iron:Do not iron clothes on body.(But wouldn't that save more time? Whose body?)

On Boot's Children's cough medicine:Do not drive car or operate machinery.(We could do a lot to reduce the construction accidents if we just kept those 5 year olds off those fork lifts.)

On Nytol sleep aid:Warning: may cause drowsiness.(One would hope!)

On a Korean kitchen knife:Warning: keep out of children.(hmm..something must have gotten lost in the translation...)

On a string of Christmas lights:For indoor or outdoor use only.(As opposed to use in outer space.)

On a food processor:Not to be used for the other use.(Now I'm curious.)

On Sainsbury's peanuts:Warning: contains nuts.(but no peas?)

On an American Airlines packet of nuts:Instructions: open packet, eat nuts.(somebody got paid big bucks to write this one...)

On a Swedish chainsaw:Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands.(Raise your hand if you've tried this.)

On a child's Superman costume:Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.(Oh go ahead! That's right, destroy a universal childhood belief.)

hehehe

Audition results.

2008-12-05T17:38:00.001-08:00

Didn't make it.

Auditions

2008-12-04T06:06:00.000-08:00

My auditions were yesterday. I was SO nervous, but i think i did ok. I won't find out who made what part until friday. We stayed after school so late! school ends at 2:55 and My friends and i were there until 6:55! I hope i make it!

Nov 13-29

2008-11-29T10:54:00.000-08:00

Thursday and Friday- School, School, School
Saturday- I did my chores, and then rode my bike all the way to West Bountiful to hang out with my friend. it was long and tiring. but it was fun to hang out with my friend. we played barbies! i felt like i was five again. It was so much fun.
Sunday- went to church, played with my sisters.
Monday & Tuesday- School
Wendsday- I was crazy enough to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to get dressed and go to a morningside. The cool thing was it was John Bytheway. He is such a great speaker! he talked about the story of Lamoni and Amaron. He was talking about how we shouldn't come down from our mountain even just a little bit. It was really cool. we got out at like 7:30 and then i went home and changed and went to school. I think i fell asleep in Geometry but i dont remember i kept nodding off and then waking myself back up. But it was worth it.
Thursday-School. I started my after school job. All i do is work for a lady in my ward. I just work around her house and clean her house. She's really nice, and her kids are SO cute!!
Friday-School.
Saturday- I hung out with my friends. I went and saw my school play (not the Music Man) it was pretty good. Afterwards i hung out with some friends before we went and saw Twilight! IT WAS SO GOOD!! I didn't think Edward was that hot at the beginning but by the time the movie was over i was in LOVE with him! It wasn't as good as the book and some of the parts were cheesy. but over all it was great!
Sunday- I hade to give a talk in church. I was really nervous but everyone said i did good. hung out at home.
Monday- School. after school i started my Term project. I created a centriole out of balloons(the kind you make animals out of) The first batch of balloons all popped. I was SO frustrated. The second batch did better and i ended up finishing it and turning it in early on tuesday.
Tuesday- School. stayed afterschool for a Music Man meeting. Tryouts are wendsday!! IM SO NERVOUS!!
Wendsday- No school, we cleaned the house really well. Then i went to my friends house and hung out with her.
Thursday- THANKSGIVING!! a lot of my dads family came over. It was one of the Best thanksgivings i have ever had it was so much fun to visit will all my cousins. because i dont see them very often. After everyone left, we went to my moms brothers house and played rock band and see my grandparents. After that we went to my aunts house and had a big cousin sleepover. it was fun!
Friday- woke up early and went to walmart with my aunt. It was CRAZY! but it also was so much fun!! we got some really great deals! then we came home and i watched all the kids while my aunt took a nap. Then i went home and we set up our christmas tree and christmas decorations.
Saturday- I did my chores, and then decided to write in my blog.
:D

my flying cow thingy!!

2008-11-17T19:46:00.000-08:00

for theatre class i had to make up an animal so i made a flying cow and i have a story and everything. :D im so proud of myself. look! its so pretty!

Look its a bunny! : )

2008-11-13T21:24:00.000-08:00

Look its a bunny!
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hehe its a cute bunny!

Nov 4-13

2008-11-13T18:01:00.000-08:00

Monday- School, bla

Tuesday- School, after school my friend and i went to go get our hair cut. i cut off a few inches and got it re-styled. i think it looks good.

Wendsday- school,
Thurday- School, Our stake got invited to the recording of a churchwide video they are doing at the stake center. It was a video for the youth about the new year and the theme for the new year. it was cool, one of the apostales talked and then there was music and cool videos from across the world. It was SO cool. so if you see the 2009 New Years video look for me! :D
Friday- School, left with my aunt to go to Idaho to visist my grandparents and see there mission talk. The drive was long but fun.
Saturday- went to a few craft fair type things and hung out with my cousins. Got sick saturday night,was not fun.
Sunday- ended up missing my grandparents talk because i was sick. : ( i feel bad cuz i got a whole buch of my family sick. SORRY! went home that evening
Monday- stayed home from school, slept and read most of the time.
Tuesday- Thursday- School, YW on wendsday

Im so happy cuz im going to try out for "The Music Man" at my school but im also kinda nervous cuz its my first audition type play the rest you just payed and got to be in the play. So if you have any advice for my auditions... I have to sing for my audition which makes me nervous cause i dont like singing in front of people, let alone, singing in front of people all alone. so im nervous. :S

Oct 21- Nov-3

2008-11-03T05:26:00.003-08:00

Tuesday-School
Wednesday- School- YW- We practiced for YW in excellence and made Ice cream sundaes! YUM
Thursday- School, and we had our last volleyball game, now we get to start basketball in the spring i think. it will be fun!
Friday- school, chores.
Saturday- We woke up early to go to a rock climbing class with my dad. but the guy who was supposed to teach us never showed up. so we just played basketball and racquetball. i have never played racquetball before but it was SO fun. my arm was sore for DAYS!
Sunday- church, i got called as the new Mia Maids secretary.
Monday-school.
Tuesday-School
Wednesday-School, YW- for YW we went to the welfare center in Salt Lake. it was SO cool! they make the coolest things to send places. they have this quilt that looks like they use it for baby dolls because its so small. They hang it in front of baby cribs at orphanages because they are normally left in their cribs all day long and all they do is stare at the blank wall so they're eyes don't develop. when they hang this quilt up it helps the babies eyes to develop because there SO colorful. so the babies eyes develop. Isn't that awesome! Also only 15% of what you give to DI actually goes to DI. the rest goes to the welfare center. If you can i would encourage you to see if your ward could go on a tour. its very interesting and inspiring.
Thursday- School, no more volleyball. :(
Friday- HALLOWEEN! we didn't have school off so we spent most of the day cleaning and making sure everything was ready for the party. we invited our cousins over and my aunt made dinner. It was cool she made like slime (lime Kool-Aid) to drink and worms and dirt(spaghetti and meatballs) Brain sauce (i think it was guacamole) and eyeballs (deviled eggs) it was cool! then my friends and i went trick-or-treating. your never to old to go trick-or-treating. We got tons of candy and had a ball! Somebody in our ward gave out sprite! i we were laughing so hard and drinking sprite that my friends were afraid somebody was going to think we were drunk and that made us laugh even harder. i think this one guy actually thought we were drunk. and then to make it better when we got back to my friends house her brother's friend took a flashlight to my eyes and (as a joke) said "Have you been drinking tonight Ma'am" we laughed so hard. It was a good Halloween.
Saturday-cleaned up the Halloween party and I went to see Mamma Mia! It was the BEST show i have ever seen!! it was so funny!
Sunday- went to church, my grandparents are home from they're mission so we went and saw them. It was cool to see them again.

Oct 15- 20

2008-10-20T05:54:00.000-07:00

Wendsday- School, no YW
Thursday- NO SCHOOL!! UEA weekend! went shopping with my mom
Friday- My sisters birthday, i thought it was fun.
Saturday-My cousins slept over so we hung out with them, chores,
Sunday- Church, homework, sleep
Monday- School! yay!

Oct 6 - Oct 14

2008-10-14T15:04:00.000-07:00

Monday and Tuesday- School. Yay!
Wendsday- School and YW, we went to the Bountiful Temple and gardened. It was so pretty. so if u see the beutiful gardening at the Bountiful Temple that was my beutiful work.
Thursday- School, Volleyball. We were tottally out of it at volleyball there was like 6 of us and 4 of them and yet we did really bad. but it didn't count cuz they didn't have a lot of players. It was my dads birthday so we had cake and ice cream and stuff.
Friday- School. hung out at home
Saturday- Went on a Hike with my dad. it was a real long hike, and it snowed while we were hiking but it was so pretty. ecpeccially the waterfalls. went to wingers afterwards then the library. It was fun! We watched the Work and the Glory, the 1st one it was way good!
Sunday- Church, played some games with my family.
Monday- School. Afterwards we went to see a play call The Ark my aunt got us tickets. it was so cool, it was way fun as well.
Tuesday- I hade school. fun fun fun.

Tagged by Tylyyn...

2008-10-05T12:50:00.000-07:00

I've been tagged by tylyyn... so 5 things u might not know about me.

1. My dream car, a 53 corvette. I love this car! unfourtunaly its alot of money! like some hundred thoudsand dollar. cant afford it.

2. yes i LOVE the high school musical. i dont tell many people cuz they thinks it dorky. oh well. i only like the 1st one the 2nd one i thought was stupid. i love the music the most.

3. I love Photography, its one of my favorite hobbies.

4. If i could go anywhere it would be to Italy. i went once as a baby and dont remember anything. but i think it would be amazing. if i go on a mission thats where i would want to go.

5. Ilove to read and write, writing stories is one of my favorite hobbies.

Im going to tag...

Jenna Grey,

Bethany and Chris

Devin and shellie

Candie and derek.

Sept 30-Oct 5

2008-10-05T12:26:00.000-07:00

Tuesday- School school school.bla

Wendsday- School, YW we painted pumpkins it was way fun.

Thursday-School, YW volleyball it was way fun, we r #1 in the stake. YAY!

Friday-School, My mom ditched us and went on a scrapbook weekend thing. so it was just my sisters and my dad and i.we watched movies and hade fun.

Saturday-General Conference i just hung around the house. mom came home

Sunday-General Conference, Shellie and her kids came i think there gonna spend the week here. YAY!! her new son is so cute! he is just so calm and not fidgety or anything and hes 2 weeks old!

Sept 22-29

2008-09-29T06:05:00.000-07:00

Monday-Wendsday School... school school.... yay
Thursday- school, church volleyball
Friday- School, afterwards i went to my dads work cuz he hade to work late, we worked on my model car and read. got home late.
Saturday- cleaned the house and then hade a birthday party for me and my cuzins. it was fun.
Sunday- church and other fun stuff.
Monday- school, I woke up this morning and came down stairs. i heard this snoring and it scared the heck out of me i thought there was like somebody in the house or a dog or somin. turns out it was caroline asleep on the kitchen floor. she hade snuck out of bed and come downstairs after my dad hade left for work. she ripped up our friend and played with her bottles before finnally falling asleep on the floor.

Sept 19th - 21st

2008-09-21T07:42:00.000-07:00

Thurday i hade school. we took this test and asked like do you like to start a lawnmower? do you like to fix picture frames? It was really weird what were we supposed to answer?"yes I love to start the lawnmower i get such a rush from the sound of the engine purring" I mean really?

Friday- i skipped school and went to a scrapbook convention with my mom and her sisters and some friends. It was fun we were there from like 8 am - midnight. it was really BIG!

Saturday- we cleaned and went to hals wedding reception and luncheon. they hade really good cheesecake. lol

Sunday-ITS MY BIRTHDAY!! YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!! its my brithday its my birthday happy birthday to me happy birthday to me! lol.

Sept 6th - Sept 18th

2008-09-17T14:37:00.000-07:00

Sept 6- Cleaned hung out at my house.
Sunday- church
Monday-Friday-- SCHOOL YUCK

Saturday- went to the temple. afterwards hung out with my friend we watched Big Fat greek wedding. its funny! and another one called "raise your voice" that was more sad.

Sunday- Stake Conference it was really good, this one lady talked about how she met friends in the Book of mormon. like her friend nephi and mormon and so on it was really cool.

Monday-Wensday- school

yup and now im at home wasting my time on the computer :D

Aug 25- Sept 5

2008-09-05T19:05:00.000-07:00

yuck school has started. it sux.

Aug 25- school started. i have 7 periods. Photography, Geometry, Geography, English, Seminary, Theatere, Earth Science.

Aug 26-30- school not much to talk about.

Friday evening- left to go camping at bear lake. it was WAY fun. most of my cuzins were there.

Saturday- woke up, went on a bike ride with my dad. we found a trail that said "no bikes" we thought that it just ment like there was stairs or something so we decided to ride it anyway. It was very scary. we hade like 20 in of space. a wall on one side and a cliff on the other. we learned that when it says "no bikes" it means NO BIKES! we went to bear lake. i lost my new school shoes cuz we couldn't find them. i am still not happy about that. now i have to wear old cramped up tennis shoes that my feet r to big for. ug i hate having a cheep family. bear lake was fun other than that.

Sunday- we went on a hike. a really really long hike. when we got back i went into town with my two aunts and my little cuzin.when we got back the wind was blowing like crazy! my cuzin tyson(3) ran up to me and yelled over the wind "save me maegan! da winds gunna blow me away!" we got all the younger kids packed into the cab of my dads truck after a tree fell down and almost hit another one of my aunts. we packed up so fast, i think it was a world record.we all got out of there safe and sound.

Monday- just hung out at my house, labor day, no school

Tuesday- school. after school i changed my schedule, so that i could take Biology instead of Earth Science so now my schedule is... Photo, Biology, Geography, English, Geometry, Drama, and Seminary.
Wensday- Friday- same old same old. school.

well thats all folks!

Aug 21-24

2008-08-24T08:54:00.000-07:00

Thursday- woke up went shopping, bought that backpack (see previous blog) 2 shirts a pair of jeans and a REALLY cute zip up hoodie. Later i went to a bees game with my friends.

Friday-did chores and hung out at house

Saturday- went to pool party with my trek family(the first one) it was way fun! we played rock band and swam. i pretty amazing at rock band.

Sunday- finnally wrote my trek #2 experiance. went to church and cryed cuz school starts tommarow!! : (

Trek #2

2008-08-24T08:49:00.000-07:00

Ug is been forever. I should have written this a LONG time ago sorry folks. it was summer. but now shool starts Monday and if I didn’t do this now it would never get done. so here it goes.. .

so Monday Morning 4 am- It was way to early to be awake. it should be illegal. so I woke up grabbed my trek clothes and took my last shower for 4 days (that should also be illegal) got dressed and got breakfast. bacon and eggs. my wonderful mother woke up and made me breakfast. at like 5 bro nelson came to pick me up he took me to the stake center. where I got "briefed" and split into my family the "Ostermillers" (insert oscar meyer theme song here) they were pretty Awesome. then we got on the bus for a lovely 8 hour ride to Martins Cove. I basiccly slept the whole time we got there at like noonish. we got assigned our handcarts and our personals bag (bag with waterbottle, sunglasses, camera, etc.) packed our things on the handcart and took off. we walked and walked and walked and walked etc. at about 4 miles in guess what happened! our tire started actin funny and almost fell off. (seems like this has happened before, see Chapter 1) so we hade to stop. and get a new handcart. we waited here a while. it was a building where some senior missionarys were so we talked to them. let me explain something about this place it’s a church owned property that supplies everything for trek. there are bathrooms along the way and "ranger" buildings along the way as well. be grateful you didn't get that mission grandma and grandpa! hehe. we waited while everyone else walked the 3 miles to camp. they hade a good 40 min ahead of us. we did the 3 miles In an hour. yes that’s how Awesome my family was. we came in about 5 min after the last handcart of the big group. we were amazing! not to brag. LOL. we hade a good dinner. and we did squaredancing. it was pretty fun. did you know that brigham young encoraged the pioneers to dance every night. Cool. while we were finishing up we saw lightning over the hills to our west. we started getting ready for bed. we hade a tent but it was only used for changing clothes. but the plan was if it rained than the girls would take their sleeping bags into the tent and the boys would pull a tarp over themselves. Mkel was supposed to wake me up if it started raining and Ashley was supposed to wake up Kate. so we all go to sleep and it starts to rain. so me being me, just scoot down farther into my sleeping bag. well Mkel who was supposed to wake me up just stood up and hopped into the tent. and so did Ashley and Katie. so the boys didn't want to wake me so they pulled the Handcart overtop of me and my Ma, because she didn't want me sleeping outside alone, they pulled THEIR Tarp over top of the handcart to make a sort of shelter. they slept with no tarp. AHH their so nice! well about 10 min Later it was still raining and Nate who also slept through it woke up screaming " THE GIRLS! GET THE GIRLS IN THE TENT! WHERES THE TARP! ITS RAINING!" I barely remember that. the boys calmed him down and he went back to sleep.

In the Morning I hade slept through the horn and thought I was late so I sat up real fast and hit my head against the handcart. ya didn't know it was there. so then we hade breakfast and met this dog that was apparently the parks dog, he was pretty funny he would follow us a while and then take off to our left. He would start barking like crazy. and we would look to our left and we would see this white fluff chaseing a herd of deer it was a pretty funny sit. When we started going, we were in the front cuz we were so fast! but then we got moved to the back cuz people couldn't keep up with us. we saw a rattlesnake it kept following my pa so we hurried a little faster and spread the word of a rattlesnake. YIKES! we went almost all the way back. but turned left at a left turn place. we followed a path over a bridge and past some statues. then stopped at this pavilion to eat lunch. when lunch was done we went to a cove below martins cove a hade a like a lesson sort of. and then we walked without our handcarts up to martins cove. we were supposed to be quiet. it was Cool. I don’t really know how to describe it. very spiritual.. . It was almost like the pioneers from martins cove were actually there. its pretty Cool. if you have a chance to go with your family or by yourself I would recommend it. we walked down the hill. we past a whole bunch of dear that I could have taken two steps and touched. we walked back down and stopped at some statues and took pictures. Then we moved on to the river crossing, where we walked through the FREEZING cold water and thought about the pionneers crossing in the middle of the winter, BRRR.. . We then continued back to the buses and returned our carts and got back on the buses. We got on the busses and headed out, we got to a new place where the Willey Handcart company were in the winter, and a place called Rocky Ridge. We didn't walk around there but just got our stuff and set up campWe hade dinner and a speaker who was funny and told stories of President Hinkley and the time President hinkley invited him over for dinner and told him just to where his work clothes. he was a Farmer! he had some other pretty funny stories.

we went to bed and hade a good night sleep. except that our sleeping bags where wet in the morning. so that delayed us 1 hour. when we finnally got started we were in the middle of the group. we walked.. . there was a whole bunch of mud and water where we were walking. Mosquitoes everywhere!! there was 4 people pulling, and then 4 people behind them with bug reppelent spraying everything. anytime a bug would land on person in front of you. your job was to spray it. worked pretty well. we didn't have a lot of mosqito bites on our backs.we got to another river except this one was HUGE! We looked at the huge river with the millions of mosqitos racing above, and sighed. we hade another lesson type thing, and then my family was the first to cross. but the boys wouldn't let us cross. They carried us across. there was 1 boy for every girl so everyone got across pretty well. and then the boys hade to go back for the handcart. at the other end of the river it was a steep incline so we hade to help eachother up. I hade helped ashley up, then I reached to help mkel up, and almost fell in. ashley caught me. Afterwards, we ate lunch and continued on our way. at a huge hill the men left us (once again, see chapter 1) the started walking up the hill while we waited. when they were halfway up the hill they started singing "We'll Bring The World His Truth" EVERY girl at the bottom of the hill was crying. then some one suggested singing a song back to them. but we couldn't sing loud enough because we were all crying. we made it up the hill with not a lot of trouble and got to the top. (I almost cried at the top of the hill because I couldn't see civilization.) the boys rejoined us and we continued down the hill, and up another one and down another one. while we were stopping at a stop we met fred. he was a pet of one of another familys boy. he was a lizard and loved the boy.the lizard would flip over onto its back and the boy would rub his stomach. The Boy apparently found him on our way twords the river. Fred sat in the boys pocket on his shirt.We finished walking and turned in our handcarts.we then went and waited for the buses who were 45 min late. we waited by a river (not the same one we crossed) some people got restless and were soon in the river. soon a lot of people were splashing in the river. I stayed out. I was to tired. I ended up falling asleep waiting for the buses. I got burnt it hurt. we got on the buses to the third place we were going. the place where the willey company met the rescuers. there was a cemetary for those who hade died there. 14 people. we heard there story and one story I would like to share. There was a widow and her three sons, a 15 year old, a 12 year old and a 5 year old. The 15 year old hade gotten very sick and was riding in the handcart. The 5 year old became really sick after crossing the river. the 12 year old scooped up the 5 year old and carried him. The mother proceded ahead with the 15 year old all the way to camp. the 12 year old came in and hour Later carrying his little brother. he set his brother next to the fire. then collapsed and died. the rest of the family made it to Salt Lake. I cried so long over that story. we stayed there the night, we slept pretty well.. . until morning

Thursday morning was cold. let me explain how COLD it was. There was FROST on my sleeping bag. my sleeping bag was FROZEN!!! I hade to take it over to the fire and defrost it. My shoes which I hade left out where also FROZEN, I hade to defrost thoughs by the fire as well. we hade another lesson thing with stories. Then we hade private time to write in our journals. afterwards we cleaned up and got on the buses. and we rode the deadly 8 hour ride home. and we were home.

THE END!
P.S. PICTURES LATER

Pics

2008-08-24T08:40:00.002-07:00

olympics 2008 the important scores

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AND THE US WOMAN'S SOCCER TEAM BRINGS HOME THE GOLD!!!!
WAHOOOOO!!!!

August 4- 20

2008-08-20T12:54:00.000-07:00

I havent written in FOREVER! so i dont rember much but i will try to remember

August 4th- i got picked up from my aunts house. then hung out at my house for a while.

Tuesday- Read almost the whole day. made cookies.

Wendsday-chores, babysat, read.

Thurday- Went over to another aunts house to babysit. spent the night.

Friday- my cousins b-day, we went to Kangaroo Zoo. it was fun. spent the night again cuz i hade to babysit. opening ceromonies for olympics. i heard it was AMAZING. i missed it. I FINISHED BREAKING DAWN!!! WOW TALK ABOUT A WEIRD BOOK. AND NOW ONE OF MY FAVS.

Saturday- my cousins Family party, everybody was there. we watched the olympics and had cake little kids played on slip and slide. it was fun. went home with my mom.

Sunday- church, these people in our ward, theyre sewer pipe burst in theyre basement so they hade to evacuate. so the mom and dad and one daughter is staying with us.

Monday- went to Boondocks with my friend. We hade SOO much fun. spent the night.

Tuesday- my mom picked me up. went home. cleaned and hung out with the girl who is staying with us. played night games at a friends.

Wendsday- went and saw Iron Man. GOOD MOVIE!!

Thurday- signed up for school. yuck. i got some good classes though.

Friday- doctors appointment. i got my warts frozen off. it hurts and i dont think it did anyting. : (

my mom left for idaho for her sisters weekend. i was in charge of the baby all weekend long.

Saturday- my dad took us down to visit our aunt and uncle in delta. it was a LONG drive. the baby got sick and was throwing up everywhere. it was not fun. but it was nice to see my aunt and uncle.

Sunday- church, hade dinner. took care of the baby.

Monday- very tired. baby was sick sunday night. woke up at 1, 2, 3, 4, and at 5 she started throwing up. my mom came home at like two and i left to go to my aunts house for a few days so i could sleep. slept 3 hours as soon as i got there. and like 12 hours that night.

Tuesday- my aunt took my cousins and me to Park city for some school shopping. i found a backpack i want for school. its really cute. i tried to post a pic of it but im not sure if it worked. we walked into this store and there was a littel boy there and he looked upset. then as we were walking through the door he said "dad we've been here for 20 hours!" and his dad said "I know son, mommy will be done soon i hope" It was soooooo funny!! when we came back i called a friend and went and hung out at her house and spent the night. it was fun.

Wendsday- i went back to my aunts house and my mom picked me up. then i came back here and am writing in my blog.

IM ALL CAUGHT UP!!

yummy cookies!

2008-08-05T07:51:00.001-07:00

YAY! my second batch turned out good!!

burnt cookies

2008-08-04T20:34:00.001-07:00

i went to my aunt's house and made those delicious cookies. well right now im trying to make them. and i BURNT them!! stupid oven. course its probbably my fault i burn EVERYTHING! even Mac and cheese! ug im a horrible cook. maybe the next batch will turn out okay.

July 30- August 3rd

2008-08-03T14:09:00.000-07:00

Wensday- I did my chores. went to the pool. we hung out on base for a while. then went home. pretty fun . my dad bought a corvette convertible its pretty sweet.

Thursday- My mom took us to Judy's house and we spent the day there. i went t=over to candie's house and made cookie. the BEST penut butter cookies ever!

Friday- my aunts came over and spent the day here with my cousins. we went to the ward party. i hung out with my friends(yes i now have friends from my ward! YAY!!) then we went home and scrapbooked. at like 9ish my friends came over and met my aunts and made them laugh SO hard. i think they are going to trade me for Krista. lol then at like 11:00 we went to sonic and got some icecream. they messed up my order. they gave me a banana split blast instead of a fried ice cream blast! HOW DARE THEY! UG they discust me. jk lol. then we went to Walmart at like midnight and got donughts and the new breaking Dawn book!! YAYAYAY!!

Saturday-12:01 am- headed home from walmart and then hung out at my house till like 1:00am then my friends hade to go home and i was tired. so i went and slept in the tent with my cousins. i got eatin alive! so many mosqitoes! woke up like 9ish ate breakfast. cleaned up. and then went to stay at my aunts house for the weekend. i babysat my cousins at like 5:30. we played and watched the Back To The Future trilogy. i fell asleep halfway thru the 3rd. everyone else was asleep to.

Sunday- woke up about 9 went to church with my aunt. came home ate lunch. now i am writing in my blog. i will probably go home later today.

K im going to go read my Breaking Dawn book. I CANT BELIEVE WHATS HAPPENING! ok i cant let anything slip. ok i am resisting... bellas.... no i cant. okay im getting off now.

July 21- 27

2008-07-29T17:53:00.000-07:00

sorry i was hangin out with my friend. she left a few min ago : (

ok so Monday-did my chores. called my friend. i went over to her house and hung out then she came over to my house and she spent the night. lots of fun! OH it was my parents anniversary so shelby and i watched the kids.

Tuesday- we started to make waffles. then she realized she was supposed to be babysitting. so we took her home. then hung out at my great Aunts house for a while. they went to JOANN's while i of course got stuck babysitting ( thats ok though i got ice cream!)

Wendsday- i dont think i did anything. chores and hung out at home.

Thursday- 24th of july big thing here! it was so much fun! there was a parade! we left my baby sister at home with my great aunt. BYU's float was the BEST of course! what i thought was funny though... was that there was 6 secret service people for the prophet of the church BUT only 4 for the governer. lol then we went back to my great aunts place and hung out there for a while. later we went to this taste of the town thing. it was so cool! u payed 6 bucks aand got to go to all these food stands and get food from all tehse different restraunts. it was SO good!

Friday- we drove up to Idaho Falls for my moms class reunion. we blew a tire out and hade to switch it out for the spare. we stayed at my Great-Grandmas house. it was a lot of fun! my mom went to this party that she said was a a lot of fun we weren't invited.

Saturday- we went to this picnic for my moms class reunion. it was kinda fun. it was kinda strange as well. one guy brought out dance pictures of my mom and him at a dance. very akward. we drove home. picked up my BFF from her aunts house and went home. basiclly hung out with my BFF all night long!!

Sunday- slept in till like 10 then hade to get ready for church. i dont get why they sing thouse "hello" songs there just embarrising. came home and ate and spent the night in the basement with my BFF we stayed up WAY too late.

Monday- woke up like 10ish umm... my BFF and i just hung out and talked.We rode our bikes downtown and hung out there for a while.at 4 her aunt came and took us to temple square. we walked around. saw the testament and had a picnic in a park near temple square. we got home and slept in the basement again. stayed up till like 12:30.

Tuesday (today)- slept in. till 9. we hung out at the house. went to the commisary. came home and hade ice cream. My BFF's uncle came and picked her up about 6ish. i miss her already. :( and now im writing in my blog. :)

new countdown

2008-07-21T09:23:00.001-07:00

I got a new countdown t'll breaking dawn comes out!! see bottom! :D

redo

2008-07-20T18:57:00.000-07:00

sorry i got sidetracked
well Monday was basically that.. nothing, mom made me clean and i went to NPS with my mom. and then i hung out. i wish i Had friends here. sorry depressing moment. I hate moving. it sux.

Tuesday-once again. nothing. i cleaned then did NOTHING. no friends. but wait life has a silver lining. i do have my cousins course the only one my age hates me and lives in Idaho. The only cousin that REALLY likes me and is like my best friend now is a 3 year old. yup. Tyson. oh well. I LOVE YOU TYSON!! not that i don't love the rest of you. I do! but Tyson is always clinging to me and talking to me and playing with me. OK i think I'm done with the depressing moment. maybe

Wednesday-did nothing. see above. OH i helped my mom prepare for a wedding reception she was doing for someone in my dads squadron. she didn't have any family near.

Thursday- Wedding reception. it was small but nice good cake. afterwards we went to the commissary and i bought myself some ice cream. "Napoleon dynamite" my fave. Cherry Garcia and chocolate Fudge brownie ice creams side by side. courtesy of Ben and Jerry's of course. YUMMY!

Friday-There was a party on base. a big restaurant catered. good food.Then I went with my family to my cousins wedding reception.everyone was supposed to dress up as a princess but when we got there NOBODY but the brides kids, the bride, and the groom were dressed up. we went back to the car and changed. we camped out in my uncles back yard that night. Air mattresses are NOT comfortable!

Saturday- went Taylor Family reunion.It was loads of fun. the friends i have there are my cousins husbands we talked about music and played soccer. my sisters went fishing. it was LOADS of fun. got back 7'ish was really tired.went to bed.

Sunday- church, finished my book, wrote in my blog.

OH found out a while ago that my BEST friend from when i was like 7 to when we moved when i was 10 is coming for a week to go to a soccer camp at BYU. afterwards she is going to spend a week with me!! YAYAYAYAY!

I remembered.

2008-07-19T19:33:00.000-07:00

IM GOING TO A PARTY THE DAY BREAKING DAWN!! WAHOO!! sorry im really excited!

7/7 - 7/12

2008-07-13T20:23:00.000-07:00

Monday- left at 5 am to go on trek. (will write later)

Tuesday-trek

Wendsday- trek

Thursday- trek, got back about 6pm

Friday-left for family reunion. arrived at about 4pm. all we did was talked and played games. later we had a talent show and it was SO much fun! i spent the night in the lodge. i had to go back to my tent to get my stuff and when i came back everyone was gone and the front door was open ( i went in the back door) so i grabbed my flashlights and went outside. i saw 2 flashlights suddenly turn off. i turned mine off. and they turned back on so i started up the hill where i saw the flashlights. all the kids i was sleeping with in the lodge came down the hill. they thought i was an adult so they started saying they were just going for a walk. when they saw it was me they asked if i wanted to come with them. i told them i would. on the hill there was a bunch of cows. 2 kids went back. 3 kids went up two mess with some cows. my cousin and i staid on the road. my cousin was afraid of getting in trouble and i was afraid of getting run over by cows. on our way back we heard a whole bunch of' "MOO"ing. later we found out they had tipped the cow. the cows didn't stop "MOO"ing till about 3 in the morning. I was SO tired!

Saturday- somehow people knew we went cow tipping the got mad at us for having kept them up all night! we just hung out all day

Sunday- we cleaned up the camp, and headed home. we got a flat tire on the way home and had to change it. i cleaned my room.

I remembered to write this Sunday. :D

Found out why i was so sick

2008-07-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

okay so I just got back from my 2nd trek and im really tired so im not going to write about it today. BUT I have something kinda funny for those of you who read my long extensive blog.. .

I was sick last Tuesday-Thursday. I hade stomach cramps and I was nauseous and it was HORRIBLE! but I found out why thanks to Derek, and yes it hade to do with the last trek.

if you remember the chicken feet with Mitch, then you will understand. EVERYBODY who messed with those feet got sick like me. I got a small end of it. Mitch is sick to his stomach and probably will be for 2 weeks. everybody who touched it got sick. YUCK!

June 29 - July 6

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

so i think im going to start writing once a week now! okay so here it goes

Monday-cleaned a lot I was really tired from trek. ya wasn't a very exciting day.

Tuesday- i didn't feel good so i stayed in bed All day long. ya lots of fun.

Wensday- Still sick...

Thursaday- better; headache, i cleaned. FUN

Friday- 4th of July !! YAY!! we hade a lot of our family over and we all went to a parade in Kaysville. It was sooooo much fun! there was a huge town water fight afterwards with firetrucks running down the streets spraying everyone and everyone hade water guns. my cousin hade this little squirt bottle and he kept on squirting the guys with the huge Super Soakers. it was pretty funny. then we hade a BBQ at my house and the kids challenged the adults to a game of capture the flag. The kids won of course. the adults claimed that they won though. (hehehe) then fireworks in the cemetary. It was an AWESOME 4th of July!! next year we are gonna bring a kiddie pool to the parade to fill up our Super Soakers! FUN! Its now a tradition!

Saturday- cleaned house after party!

Hope i can remember to do this every sunday!

Trek

2008-07-06T07:50:00.001-07:00

Hey everybody,

I recently went on trek and the whole thing was such an amazing experience that I decided I would share the whole trek with you guys! I will only cut out some of the continuous walking. This is going to take a while so if you have something to do come back to this later. :D

okay, so the first day the were very strict about us being on time at the stake center so that we could get to the main base on time. so we were at the stake center at 8 am dressed and ready to go. when we finally got to the main base camp we signed in and then sat around waiting for everybody to get signed in. They got everyone checked in and in a group so that we could get broken up into our family's. My Ma and Pa were second up. When my whole family got called we went over to some shade and sat down and got to know everyone . We we spent about an hour talking and getting to know our family. At this point I had lost track of time (not allowed to have watches) and all i knew was that I was hungry The Ma's and Pa's were called to a very important "meeting" (we later learned that they were eating subway sandwiches inside the warehouse where their "meeting" was)
When they were through with their "meeting" we put together our Handcart they were not very big. we filled them with 14 people's buckets (17 lbs each) and 14 bags with blankets, tarps, and sleeping bags. plus water buckets,1st Aid kit and the bathroom bag. Needless to say it took us a while to get it all tied down. we tied sticks to the hand cart so that 10 people could be pulling the handcart at once and 2 people walking (not including Ma and Pa). Then we sat around for a while waiting for people to tell us we could go.
After waiting a while, we heard gunshots shot into the air, 4 men came racing up on their horses, shouting for us to get out of here and that they don't want "no dirty Mormons 'round here" we hitched up and got out of there we started pulling. We just followed everyone else.
This is how the next about 4 hours went. Pull, pull, pull, stop, rest, water, pull, pull, pull, stop, rest, water. It was flat for a while then started to go uphill.
At one point we were walking next to this fence made of huge, thick wood poles. One kid, Mitch, in my family got bored on one of the rests so he climbed up onto the fence, took of his hat and set it next to him, and did a back flip off the fence. he did it twice then put his hat back on and jumped down when he noticed the other wagons were about to start pulling.
There was also Indians who would come up to us and wave at us
Another time we stopped for water and this lady told us a story...
There was a family who was crossing the plains. They were running out of money the Mother took the oldest daughter into the closest town to sell some of their clothes. She told the Father to continue on and that her and the daughter will catch up later.so they did. they sold the clothes and started heading back with the money. Her and the daughter were walking fast and they needed a rest. so they sat down on a log. when it was time for them to continue walking the mother was so tired she couldn't get up. she told her daughter to continue on with out her, and to find her Pa and then come back for her. The daughter refused to leave her mother, but the mother still finally finally the daughter walked away to a tree and knelt and prayed. She prayed that her mother would find strength and be able to continue on to find her Father and sisters. while she was walking back to her mom she was looking at the ground and she spied a freshly baked pie just laying in the grass. she brought to her mom and they ate it and were able to catch up with the Father and make it to the Salt Lake Valley. Cool story huh?
Anyway, after the lady told us this story she handed my Big Sister a freshly baked apple pie. We didn't want to unpack our whole handcart so we just washed our hands with water and ate it from our hands. we were so hungry that we were licking our hands to get the apple stuff off. I have never tasted a better apple pie! sorry grandma. I think it was because i was SO hungry.
so then we kept walking up the hill. we got to a plateau on the hill and hade beef jerky and Gatorade and an orange for lunch. Then we kept walking i was happy, i was no longer hungry.
We went down this hill and at the bottom we turned left instead of going straight up a HUGE hill. we got down to this valley area and hade a small lake like place. there was a big green hill in front of us and another steep hill we were going to climb. our company captain sent out scouts while we waited in the valley. while we were drinking water and talking, a man dressed like Christ came down the mountain and stopped halfway.
Everyone immediately quieted down to silence and the man dressed as Christ proceeded to give the sermon on the mount from memory, as well as parts from 3rd Nephi and Doctrine and Covenants, word for word, all from memory. It was so cool and spiritual. When he was done he turned and left, went up the hill and right before he was out of site he turned and waved and then was gone.
Everyone was silent for about 2 min. Then a scout came down the hill and told us that the hill was to steep and we would have to turn back. so we turned around and when we got back to where we had turned left we decided we would go straight up another big hill. It was getting dark by now and the sun was setting, the sunset was so pretty.
We stopped to get water and rest before the big hill. while we were talking and resting men came up on horseback dressed in a old U.S. soldier outfits we/ an American flag. The main man and his men stopped and read a letter from the president of the United States saying he needed all of our men to fight in the Mexican-American War. The man said we would have some time to think about it but wanted an answer soon. we went back to our cart and talked about if we were going to send our men or if we would refuse. Then another man came up with a letter from the prophet telling us that we needed to send our men to fight in the war. So we did and by now it was pitch black. our Pa and brothers left.
We talked with our Ma and the 6 of us started pulling up the hill with all of our stuff (later we found out that the boys hade accidentally loosened the ropes right before the women's pull) it was the hardest 3 miles ever! I twisted my ankle but had no choice but to keep going. when we finished our 3 miles the boys hade lined up on the side of the road with their hats over their hearts. When they saw their family they came and helped us pull to camp.
We arrived at camp at 12:35 pm (the guy who made us dinner told us) we hade beef stew, a devotional and the guys went across the road and we went to bed. It was cold, it took me a while to go to sleep, but the stars looked so pretty!
The next morning we got ready and had our devotional, during the devotional guys, once again, came riding up on horses and told us to put our "Mormon Bibles" into a bag they threw at us. My Pa refused to, and we followed his example. about 5 min of fighting with the men, Pa finally gave in saying we hade to get going. but he told that man " you can take our scriptures but you can't take our faith" and walked away. we put our scriptures in and followed Pa, not wanting to be near the man with the gun.
We left camp that morning and it was only a 10 mile pull till we got to the summit of the mountain. The rest of that day was spent playing games and talking on the summit of the mountain. our family was # 1 at every game!! we are the best!

WARNING: NEXT PARAGRAPH IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF STOMACH. INVOLVES KILLING AN ANIMAL.
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For dinner we had to kill our own chicken. It was alive and running around. Every family got one chicken to kill. they basically held it down and chopped its head right off. I was not a part of it. my friends and I were preparing the potatoes, far away from the chickens. But from what Mitch told me about, he was the only one to chop off the chickens head in one chop. then he proceeded to clean and chop off the chickens feet, slip them in his sleeves and pretend they were his hands. he walked around resting his head on them and things like that. YUCK! the Chicken and potatoes that night were
pretty good I have to admit though.

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After Dinner we hade our skit night. it was so funny to see the other familys do skits. we hade a pretty funny one ourselves. Right before we were about to say a prayer and go to bed, guys came thundering up on horses, they took our stake president, all 3 company captains, and our Pa! nobody elses just ours. they said it was because he put up such a fight with the scriptures. they took them off and then we heard gunshots and screaming. somebody stood up and suggested that we sing so we sang church hymns. While we were, our Pa, the Stake President, and the company captains, came running back tarred and feathered. ( i think it must have been sweatshirt that was black with feathers) Pa met us back at camp later during our evening Devotional
The next morning my family slept in a little too late. I woke up and people were all ready dressed around us and brushing their teeth, and getting ready. I quickly woke everybody up and we got dressed real fast. When the boys came over we hade our devotional and that also went late and we almost missed breakfast. it was good french toast. We got everything packed up and we were ready to go chasing after everyone who already left. once we got down the hill we realized that something was wrong with our wheel. so we hade to pull over and try to fix it. Then we realized that if we continued our wheel would fall off. so one of the Company Captains brought us a new handcart and we hade to transfer all our stuff to the new cart. We continued on. we got to a river. Thanks to Derek who told me I didn't need an extra pair of tennis shoes, I hade to cross barefoot so my shoes and socks wouldn't get wet and give me blisters. But it turned out okay other than the mud between the toes. it felt nice to cool off.
We got over to where everyone hade stopped to wait for our wagon, and there was a HUGE water fight going on that i somehow got pulled into. luckily my shoes didn't get wet. Our Ma told my sisters and i to get this one other lady wet, so we did and we got her soaked. The lady was mad at us so we told her our Ma made us do it and she laughed.
We continued walking. and pulling the rest of the way. When we finnally got to the end people were there cheering and clapping. We hadn't eatin since breakfast and it was 5-ish. They hade steak and potatoes and bread. It was SO good! we got these necklaces that hade handcarts on them. they were really cute!

When i got home, i almost cried to see flushing toilets. lol

I went to trek with my old ward in west bountiful, not the one that i live in now. So the next day at church, they announced in Sacrement Meeting "This announcement is for the Youth, Trek is next Monday so dont forget to get your stuff ready!". so this morning i dropped my stuff off and Monday I leave again to go to trek with my new ward. Thats the last time i say to somebody " If i could go again i would" cause now i am going again. But i am excited to see what this one brings