Change

its anouther year.

Now, I would be sharing resolutions, but, I didn't really make any this year. i guess i'm just going to sort of go with it (meaning the flow) and improve myself along the way. I tend to forget resolutions anyway.

On a slightly random note, listen to this song:

It doesn't get much better than that.

Also, listen to this one:

 

Am I the only one who loves this new blogger? If you don't know what i'm talking about, try uploading a video from youtube.:)

Anyways, This is the first post of the year. hopefully many more will follow.

And......
If you haven't ever read The Search For WondLa by tony DiterLizzi (the link to his awesome blog is to the side) you must do so NOW! It is really really really a wonderful book, especially if you are into sci-fi and possibly steam-punk.

While your at it, read the sequel, A Hero for WondLa. It will not disappoint.

Well, I have had an eventful and freakishly long week. For some reason the school board decided that it would make more sense to get out on the 21st, versus the 18th or 19th. I've been bombarded by finals and semester tests. Really getting me into the Christmas spirit, you know?
So here I am, four days before Christmas. Today was meant to be the last day of school, but it was cancelled due to our first legit snow of the year!!! I an so happy. At least one part of this season is now Christmassy.

 I was on my Aunt Erin's Blog just a while ago, and I found  a quote that I really love by C.S. Lewis.
                             
“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but
      when you look back everything is different....”

I think that everyone can relate to this. I know I can:)

Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!

On Summer...

Summer is so darn great. Its not the sleeping in (which I don't even get to do most days because of volleyball), or the lazing around that makes it super.

I think its the fact that Your almost totally free from responsibility (keep in mind I'm a kid with no job). Everything is more laid back and easy going, and you grill out at least once a week.

In the summer I don't see my friends almost at all, which is my choice. I have ALWAYS asocciated summer with being with my family, and I think that is more important than hanging out.

Yeah, I guess you could call me a summertime hermit:)

This has been the warmest winter I had ever seen. It feels just like spring and I've been loving it sososo much. But winter only took two weeks off, I think. its okay. Sometimes I think that we love spring all the more after cruel old guy Winter.

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SMILE! The day LOVES you!

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there is Beauty all around,
he will lead me and guide me,
the morning breaks, the shadows flee,
awake and arise!-
The day dawn is breaking!!


amen and amen...

.......to me.
I am a teenager now.
Ohdear…
I was twelve before and now I've moved on to bigger and better(?) things.

But, on the other hand, do you like my bear? I about fainted when I saw him, he's so cute!

This was a great birthday though, the best ever:)
Thursday we went out of town and bought me some new clothes and shoes, then we headed to Barnes & Nobles.
I picked out The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimen, which I've already read.

I never want to take the chance of buying a book that I've never read before, so I tend to get an old favorite.

so long for now:)

“Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Friends:)

Hi! I'd like you guys to see some of my very fun friends.




And there they are:) The only thing wrong with this picture is that Shelby took it and now isn't in the it. Here is to some of the best friends in the world!!!! Love you guys!




There isn't anything in the world that adds up to a good friend.


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Divine Comedy

I love Divine Comedy. I could sit and watch them on YouTube for hours.
They make me laugh. I love it.


To any of you who are sad and have never laughed because of Divine Comedy, it is a comedy/acting group at BYU, Utah. They do skits on everything:) They do songs, they dance, they perform totally independently. Please, by all means look them up on a rainy day with plenty of time on your hands.

While I'm at it here you go, for your enjoyment and mine:





This tickles me so much, being a die-hard Harry Potter fan.
And...




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Arise and Shine Forth! Introduction to 2012 Mutual Theme

Yay! Its that time of year again; time to start anew, to celebrate a clean slate! New Years was as fun as always. We partied it up with Rusty and Tia and drank sparkling cider giddily. Yes, and it was non-alcoholic of course:)


Anywhoo, I am pumped by this years theme. Here it is:

Arise and Shine Forth
That thy light may be a standard for the nations.

so.beautiful.




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To whom it may concern

This year is almost over.

Where did it all go to?

I've experienced a cold winter with plenty of snow days, wonderfully gray (grey?) spring days where it rained all day. I lived a whole gloriously long summer and slipped straight into school. Fall passed before I even knew it and hung on with its dead trees and bare ground until the day after Christmas. Then it snowed.

The days are long , but the years are short.

Cheers to 2011, I'm ready to do it all again.

Deep, Deep Thoughts :)

I hate it when it rains and all the worms crawl out onto the cement. Uhhhgghh.
I know they would drown in the ground but they will dry up on the sidewalk anyways.


I'm glad it stopped raining and started snowing.


Hmmmm... does that mean that all the worms will freeze?


The worlds sorta sick that way.

Or I could learn how to knit and I could make all the worms sweaters! I could sew them ponchos!


So now I have something to do if I ever learn how to knit.




:)

and I smiled...

Yesterday evening we were watching Little Women. We had gotten more than halfway through the movie and Ruthie loooks around, confused. " So where's the little woman?", she asks.


Valid question Ruth, valid question.

what a wonderful world...

it should be a crime to dislike beautiful things like louie armstrong singing "its a wonderful world".

Basketball and other stuff...

This passed Thursday we (the band) went and played at our boys' basketball game, which was really cool, but we were absolutly trampled by Oak Hill. Gosh dang it guys! Well, I can at least say we fought hard and ddn't lose by as much as the eighth grade. ♪We're loyal to you Elwood Middle...♪

I've had the busiest week ever! For some reason everyone decides to do everything at once: concerts, tutoring ( I'm the tutor), end of semester tests, ISSMA music days,and semester report cards grades going in really soon (five days). On Wendsday I think I spent thirteen hours at school. Whewww! I was ready for the weekend for sure!

But its been fun, and I can't complain. I do sign myself up for all of it and I'm such a nerd that I've been working very very hard for all A+s this grading period. ☺

God be with you till we meet again...

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:)