Thanksgivingmas

I had a great Thanksgiving. I love being with my great family and friends. There was very yummy food, and Gretle brought her famously awesome cheesecake! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I love all of you and you are the best!

Now I feel like we're in a time when we're sorta hanging between Thanksgiving and Christmas time. You know, its right after Thanksgiving and just barely before when we would usually start the Christmassy stuff. But I am the type of person that jumps right on top of things and am a girl on a mission when you give me an assignment! So, yeah I've already decorated for Christmas.

Anyways, tommorow I have school again after Thanksgiving Break. UUUGGGGGHHHHH >:(
Its amazing how used I am too sleeping in, staying up late, and well, not having school. Yet therew is always an upside! Three weeks till Christmas Break!!

Oh I'm So Embarassed...

Have you ever done anything that was very, very, very embarrassing at the time and possibly still is? Yep, I'm sure you have, and if you haven't, well, you are one of the few people who have not been scarred by absolute humiliation.

Just recently Emma and I were home cleaning our room on a Thursday night (actually just last Thursday night) while Mom was out with Naomi, Ruthie, and Eli at Eli's wrestling practice. We were goofing off and being real idiots and singing this one song because it was stuck in our heads. Did I tell you yet that it was a Barbie song of all things?

So we are singing this song and a fateful phone call comes that will change the course of my peace of mind.(du du daaa !!!!!)

The Fateful Phone Call

This is the interchange that went between me and the person I thought was my Mom.

Me:(singing) If I could just wish for one thing, it'd be the smile that you bring, whoooowhoooa, two voices one song... (I THOUGHT IT WAS MY MOM!!)

Me: (confused at why my mom didn't cut my song off short)Um...Hello?

Other End: Hello, this is Brother Smith*....

Me:(silent, shocked, utterly embarrassed..)

Brother Smith: Was that a voice mail?

Me: Umm.... Yeah.

That is all that I can remember. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to take a message but I sorta blanked out and just said goodbye really quickly when he was done talking to me.

Oh dear. I am so embarrassed...


*Names have been changed because like I said...I'm still very embarrassed.

I am Thankful for...

1.)Being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!!
2.)My Momma:)
3.)My Dad:)
4.)Emma
5.)Naomi
6.)Eli
7.)Ruthie
8.)Good food and being blessed with lots of it.
9.)Summer evenings and Spring mornings, and both for different reasons.
10.)New Year parties that last late into the night.
11.)Not to shabby grades in school;)
12.)Chicken Devan. (See number eight)
13.)Crazy, crazy, insane friends!!!! (They're fun too!)
14.)Band Geekiness:)
15.)Goodwill 50% off weekends!
16.)Good health.
17.)Happy people that tend to make my day.
18.)Summer days that start off rainy.
19.)Homemade/crocheted hats.
20.)Wonderfully adorable winter coats! (Hint, hint mom!:)

Today in the Life.....

Today was a pretty normal day, nothing to yell about, but some Notable Events have come to pass.
1.) I started tutoring today! I have three kids, each in the fourth grade and all(amazingly) in the same class. I tutor them only on Wednesdays and during the seventh period. Seventh period is Health, so its not a real crank in my arm to give my generous time. Plus, I just plain like to do it.
2.)Eli and his friend Haden Somethingorother get on Poptropica constantly. They call each other on the phone and do some serious Poptropica secret swapping. You can hear Eli in his very-seriuos-business voice,"Yeah.... uh hu....uh hu.....okay..." ect, ect.
3.)Mumford and Sons rocks. Not that this is any new information or anything. I could rock out to The Cave any day.


Bajillion.) Young Womens is in a half hour. Bye!!!!

Oh Happy Day...

Today we had Stake Conference, and I gotta say, I was pretty pumped. I LOVE Stake

Conference. It is just so wonderful to see so many members of the Church gathered at

one place. It builds me up and reminds me of all the support we have, even though we

may not know it. Every time we sing a powerful song, my heart soars.

You see, my branch is small, small, small, and when we sing songs like The Spirit of

God and Praise to the Man it is sometimes rather quiet. When we gather as a Stake we

sing with gusto and pride. What a wonderful, wonderful blessing to be a member of

this glorius work...

Late Night Thoughts ( and i still have to get my homework done:(

I'm getting ready for a musical fireside on the 20th.... I can't even remember where it is, but, you know. Remember I play the flute?....I'm playing the flute for the fireside. Anyway, I've been been looking through about a million hymns and have been freaking out and I already said I'd do it and I can't find one I like and I am freaking out! Abide With Me? Nearer my God To Thee? Come Thou fount? Help me!!

p.s. I have a playing test over Instant Christmas Concert tomorrow morning during second period._. Wish me luck!

p.p.s. the picture means nothing and is slightly random:)

The DERBY!!!

Last night there was the first ever Elwood Branch Pinewood Derby and it was a BLAST! My dad is the scout master of our fairly new Cub Scout program. The derby wasn't regulation because it was for the whole branch and Dad just wanted to show the boys what one would be like. We ended up making like five cars, half of them Eli's.
And here they are..

Cute, right?
Well, anyways, after the Branch Thanksgiving dinner we all adjourned to the Primary room where we had set up the derby track the night before and began the Children's Division.



After a couple elimination rounds my cosin Boston was declared The Grand Champ of the Children's Division. Go Boston!!!
We also then moved on to do The Adult's races. Emma and I both raced in the adults races. I didn't get to build a car of my own, so I used the good old pink car, which had proven itself to be pretty fast in the other division when Naomi and Ruth raced it.


And guess what?!? I actually won out of The Adult division!:) I got a little trophy and everything. Very nice, right? Well the Pinewood Derby was TONS OF FUN, I loved it
and know that everyone really enjoyed it!

Hi Guys!!

Oh joy!! I love fall, best time of the year and the time when I gain like 50 pounds through Halloween and Thanksgiving. But then again, I'm more of an early fall person,you know? I'm not sure I can really "Oh,Joy" the weather that little Elwood is receiving right now. It is very, very, very, very cold and rainy today.
Anyway, there have been some interesting developments since I last blogged in ummm... November of '10? Whatever it was, I have some exciting and severely belated news!
1)I'm in YOUNG WOMEN'S!!!! Yaaaay!!
2)I finished the 6th Grade...
3)I played 2nd base in softball:)
4)I GOT A PIXIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

Can you see it in this picture? Sorry if you can't, there are barely any newer pics of me. I actually tend to take the pictures. Which by the way leads up to the next one....
5) Mom and Dad got me a camera for my birthday! Oh what fun...
6) I am a seventh grader!
7)I also made the 7th Grade volleyball team. Go number 10 (moi)!! We also, by the way, were the runners up to the CIC, respectively defeated by Madison Grant:(
8)My report card came in and I got all A's and two A+'s!
9)Oh yes, and have I told you I've been playing the flute in Band for the past year? Well guess what...I am.
10)And last but not least....We have a dog.

His name is Frank. Isn't he precious? He is a long haired dachshund and is one year old. He's a smart little guy and sure loves treats. Now we've seen him have a little bit of health problems but nothin' bad. Just to clarify he is "Emma's dog". She entered him in 4H this year and got runner up. Pretty good right?
Well there you go, talk to you later:)