Tagged.......

ok.......well.......um......let's get to this:

4 things I was doing 10 years ago:
1. Living the cool life of being 3 going on 18.
2. playing with barbie dolls and getting my hair cut David Black style (I liked it!)
3. Hanging out with my siblings and their cool friends!
4. trying to read all the books in the house.

4 things I was doing 5 years ago:
1. I had just got baptized.
2. I was enjoying being an aunt (well, I'm still enjoying that but I'm running out of subjects).
3. I was about to go into 3rd grade and I was loving school!
4. My friends Melanie Saunders and Brooke Chaston had just moved away, and the ward boundaries had just changed so a lot of my friends had moved out of the ward.

4 things I did yesterday:
1. I went to my scrapbooking class.
2. I started cleaning out the game closet
3. I read a little
4. I gave my friend Cheyenne piano lessons.

4 tv shows I like:
1. Smallville (the first seasons only)
2. Saved By The Bell
3. iCarly
4. America's Got Talent

4 Biggest Joys in My Life Right Now:
1. My family
2. BOOKS!
3. My friends
4. Zingers (YUM)

4 things you did not know about me:
1. I have never had a cavity in my whole life.
2. I had 3 retainers before braces, and I never lost any of them, but then I got my retainer after my braces, and I lost it 2 times.
3. I have never broken a bone or gotten stitches.
4. One time in New York we were at a store and I couldn't find anyone and when I looked outside the car was gone so I thought my family had left me, so I started crying. But then my mom found me and told me that my dad had just gone to get gas. what a relief!

4 people I tag:
1. Tadd
2. Stephanie
3. Jill
4. JIMMY!! (AND JIMMY HAS TO DO IT!!)

Arabian Golf

While we were on our trip to Florida, Tadd came up with the brilliant idea of playing a 'new' version of the card game Golf. We called this 'Arabian Golf'. We added some new rules, such as:

• All sevens are unlucky, so if you get stuck with one at the end, they're worth 20 points.
• You don't get to turn over any of your cards before the game starts.

and the best one:

• you have to wear a 'turban' on your head for the whole next round if you lose that round.

here are some of the pictures from the game:

COMING SOON: ARABIAN GOLF 2

The Florida Trip

Well, Tadd and I are posting a blog about all the crazy things that have happened to us this trip. And since Tadd's blog is not supposed to be written in for another month...we are using mine.

We will start with Wednesday. We woke up at 6:30 and Aunt Kathie took us to the airport and as usual, mom found some mormon family to talk to during the layover in New Mexico. Dad found some connections because the lady was from Mexico City...so they spent a while talking about the beauties of Mexico. Then we got on the plane and went to Florida. When we got to Tampa, we ran into some guy Tadd knows from working at the MTC...He said he was going to his friend's wedding in Orlando. Then we parted ways and went to find the rental car. When we first got outside the humidity hit us like a thick blanket of water. It was crazy. Then, once we found the car, we spent 30 to 45 minutes looking for our hotel...which turned out to be about 15 minutes from the airport. We got up early the next morning and traveled to Orlando where we spent MY BIRTHDAY at Epcot (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow). We went on Soarin' over California again there, and we talked Dad into going on it. He was the live entertainment. The whole time he was sitting there with his eyes closed and the funniest look on his face. We went on other rides and then we watched the fireworks which were pretty cool. We were watching them right at the moment I turned 13. It was a cool birthday for me.

Friday we spent at Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom. We went on a lot of cool rides, and then we went swimming at the hotel. Again, fun day.

Saturday we went to the Temple. Tadd and I ended up in the baptistry with a deaf lady (who was being interpreted to by a 13 or so year old girl who was getting sealed that day to her family), and an obviously Utah-mormon family from Vernal. Tadd ran into his old bishop there. We got out about an hour before mom and dad and sat in the waiting room for a while. Then we went outside and ran into the guy we had seen at the airport. He was there for his friend's wedding. Tadd was walking around outside when he saw something that looked like a stick that was sticking up out of the ground. He looked closer and it moved. It was a snake! It almost gave him a heart attack. Then he showed me and it disappeared so I was freaking out cause I couldn't see it. Then when mom and dad came out Tadd called his good friend Sister Bailey and we visited with her (of course we'll add pictures as soon as we get back). After that we went and visited with the Schmidts for about two hours. We talked a lot about thing happening in Centerville. Once we had left Mom confided in us that she was worried we didn't tell them enough things that were happening in the 9th ward. Tadd told her that, "If we told them anymore, we'd have to start making things up."

On the way back to the hotel, we passed a lagoon type carnival. There was a bungee thing where people would be slung up into the air and bounced around in the air (you've all seen it at lagoon probably). While we were passing Mom spotted a smaller one. She described it as "Oh, they have a smaller one for kids. They bounce them on the ground instead."

Last night when we were about to go to bed, Tadd turned around and saw a cockroach the size of a silver dollar! It was way cool.

Today has been a quiet day. We went to church and talked to some of the people Tadd knew from his mission. We are looking forward to our last few days in Florida, and the chance to come back to good ol' Utah!

school!

ONLY 12 MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THEN THE SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've Been Tagged (or whatever it's called...)

ok, well, I don't really know how to do this so I'm just going to copy what Jill's questions were so I hope I get this right....anywho....here I go:

TEN YEARS AGO....
I was 2 years old and mom was potty training me (or at least that's what she says...I don't remember that long ago...). Mom also says that Mark was on a mission and that Brad & Alyson were getting married that year.....Mom says that I was (and I quote), "So cute with your darling long curls....everyone in the ward said you were so cute and they still think you are cute!"

5 things on my t0-do-list:
1. Dominate the world along with my best friend Ashley
2. Get a 4.0 the last term of 7th grade
3. Direct a hit movie and earn an annual salary of $101 million just like Steven Speilberg.
4. Read all the books in the world (especially those ones that are coming out this year!)
5. Force Melanie Saunders, Brooke Chaston, Emmalie Arntz, and Briana Cullimore to move back into my ward. I need more than one girl in the ward that's in my grade!

WHAT WOULD I DO IF I SUDDENLY BECAME A MILLIONAIRE?
I would probably buy a castle in France...or heck, I'd BUY FRANCE! (Who cares if $1 million isn't enough money....). Also, I'd probably send me and my friends and family to Europe to tour it. Also, I'd start up Holocaust museums all across the World to teach people about the horrors of what Hitler did to the Jews. If I had any money left I would give all my family and friends money.

4 BAD HABITS:
1. Staying up late.
2. Being on the computer or watching tv practically 24/7. (a.k.a. wasting time)
3. Having to be reminded 5 or more times to do something.
4. Breaking things (I've broken 3 bowls and 1 glass cup in 1 month).

5 JOBS I'VE HAD:
1. Mowing the lawn
2. Babysitting
3. Emptying the dishwasher
4. Folding clothes
5. Cleaning bathrooms

PLACES I'VE LIVED:
1. Centerville, Utah
2. 100 yards away from place #1.

THINGS I LIKE TO DO:
I like to read, write, hang out with my friends, listen to music, watch movies, and play the piano. I also like to learn about things in History.

I TAG...Ainsley, Ella, and Elise.

My talk

Per Heidi's request, I have decided to post my talk.....and I don't know if you can attach things to this so I'll just type it in. It's probably not very good since I wrote it myself...but here it is:

My Talk

I was asked to speak on family. Family is the most sacred unit of the church. But a happy family life isn't that easy to achieve. The Family: A Proclamation to the World states that: "Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities."

Families are essential to God's plan, so we need to work hard to achieve the happiness needed to bring the Holy Ghost into our homes. No person or family is perfect, and jsut like our individual problems, each family faces different trials. Some face great financial debts, others the loss of a loved one, and some face illnesses within the family. It is not easy to see a loved one die or struggle; but we don't have to let that ruin our family relationships. Instead, let the trials you and your family face be a building block for your family. Use your hard times as times to get to know and love your family better.

Heavenly Father sent us here to Earth to be tested, and he wants us to come live with him again and become a spiritual family. We need our earthly family's help to do so. Each of us must pitch in and do our share of the work. The family is not complete if everyone but one or two family members pitches in. Everyone must try their hardest for a strong and happy family, because the family is so important to this church.

Take a rope, for instance. One of the strands that makes up the rope is very easy to break. But when you put all the strands together, it becomes a lot harder to break. Strong families are like strong ropes. Without our family's and others support, we could not possibly survive in this dangerous world. This world is full of so much profanity, pornography, and abuse that without good, strong families we would fall prey to the evils of the world. I am very grateful to my family for teaching me the good gospel principles. I know I will value this knowledge later on in my life.

We are all imperfect, but I, for one, will try to strengthen my family and live the gospel principles so that I can return to live with Heavenly Father and the rest of my Heavenly family.

A crazy day!

My friend and I had fun today putting make-up all over ourselves and dressing up in some of Tadd's jerseys (sry Tadd....I don't think we got anything on them.....) It was quite fun and here's some pictures of us!