Young Womens

I've officially been to Young Womens 3 times now! I like it waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy more than Activity Days. (which totally sucked. The best thing we ever did was clean the Nursery with toilet paper like 10 times even after they were already clean. And that was the lamest day of my life. And then there was the time our leaders didn't even show up and so we stood out in the cold for 45 minutes until we all went home. Yeahhhh, it sucked.) But now we do way cooler stuff and there's a lot more people because the Young Men and Young Women combine. So far I've done a Hay Ride, A Movie/Pajama/Pizza party, and a White Elephant gift exchange. They were all fun, except for the fact that there is only one girl my age, and she is going in tomorrow same week as me. The next youngest girl is 13 1/2. There aren't many beehives, but there are a TON of Mia Maids.

Anyways, my excuse: First of all, my camera cord is suddenly missing:( and second of all..... I'm too lazy.
Sorry. Posting pictures soon. (Hopefully....)

4 Days to 12!!!!

My birthday is in 4 days. Only 4 more days. Holy cow.


I'm going to try to update all the crap I've been doing since Thanksgiving. I've just been forgetting all the time, and all this time later there really is no motivation whatsoever. I should've just got it done in November, when I did all the stuff.

Christmas is only 9 days away!!

Guess What?

I didn't make it on Student Council this year but guess what?
Today I found out that I made....

YEARBOOK!

Yay! I even have a badge and everything. It's official. Yearbook Staff. Sweetness.
Waaaayyy better than Student Council:)

Halloween!

 Halloween was so awesome! I actually went trick-or-treating with my friends, while everyone else just went in our neighborhood. I went to some wicked awesome (rad, like Holly says... so old school:) houses, and we got a ton of candy! We were out for like and hour and a half, which is alot of time to collect treats. After I came home my mom actually let me and Kortney do a few houses in our neighborhood just 'cause I could say hi to everyone we knew. The two coolest houses I went to were one in my friends' neighborhood, and our bishops house. The first one was an open house, and we actually went into this really nice ladies house and walked through awesomeness. She had games, (bobbing for apples, and a costume game) treats, (a whole treat bar with candy corn, trail mix, and just normal Halloween candy like Kit-Kats and Reeses.) crafts, (cupcake decorating!!!! So yummy:) and a place to sit and eat while watching a movie in her living room. (Casper the Friendly Ghost) She was neighbors with one of my friends, and they were really close friends. The coolest thing was that she had homemade apple cider, and it was SSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOO good!
The next coolest house was my bishops house. He had cups of hot chocolate on a long picnic table in his garage, along with like 10 different kinds of amazing delicious cookies. There was also games (Tons. Me and Kortney didn't stay to play them, though.) and cool music.
I was a super cute flapper girl, Cam was Indiana Jones, Kort was a kitty, and Kelsey was a mermaid. I wore an awesome dress with fishnet tights, 6 bead necklaces, crimped hair, and my personal favorite... MASCARA! This is how we looked....

St. George

 We went to St. George over UEA weekend. It was super fun. The best part was the Bear Paw... FINALLY after ALL this AWFUL waiting for SO LONG, we got to FINALLY go!!! Plus we went to Zions hiking, and visited this old ghost town Grafton. We even went to a cemetary and saw our great great (I don't know how many greats) grandpa, Alonzo Russell, and visited his house and the old LDS church/school he used to go to.



At Zion's





 

Alonzo's home

Also, while we were in Zions, we stopped by this super cool Apple Orchard and picked

apples. Inside they had Organic food products, Italian Gillato, (which I wanted so bad) and

Hot apple Cider.

AWESOMENESS!

Great Poem!!!

If

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it

And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

By Rudyard Kipling

Hanging Gardens Report

For school I had to do a report on one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. I chose the Hanging Gardens because of the awesome story behind it, but it was really stupid because it was by FAR the hardest one to build, and I did it ALL at the litteral last second possible. Plus my grandma was in town to help out, which made it turn out good. I was a little scared when my mom told me her ideas:/ The Hanging Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, for his homesick wife. Anyway, it didn't turn out perfect but it was pretty dang good. Better than some atleast....

 Also, guess what?! Kortney got her ears pierced on Friday!!! My big plans? Everyone starts buying her earrings, and we can share our collections! That way, I get twice as many earrings! Mwa ha ha:)

Overdue Events

FINALLY, after litteral weeks of looking for my dumb camera adapter thing that ALWAYS seems to be missing when I need it, I found it today and have now decided to post the pictures I've taken over the last little while.

LAGOON

In the parking lot being idiots.... look at my face:/ yuck

WESTLAKE FOOTBALL GAME

Sorry I mostly just took pictures of our hair...

My mom sucks at hair and so it never looked so bootttiiffulll! We did a mini drill camp from the Drill team at Westlake and later in the week preformed our two dances at half time during the football game.

If you want to see our A-MA-ZING dance, go to my mom's facebook page. It's posted on there somewhere. (Emily Vimahi posted it though not my mom. I'm near the end of the video.)

On another note, today was school picture day. Fingers crossed we all looked good. 

Student Council

I tried out for our school Student Council this week. We had to go to a meeting at lunch, and after that write an essay about why we would be qualified and good for the council. After we turned our essays in, if they liked us they would interview us in person. Yesterday I was a little bit worried because I didn't get interviewed, but I still thought maybe I had a shot. Then today they posted the kids that got on (all losers) and I didn't make the list. I've failed once again... just like the stupid Chick fil A contest crap. Whatever.

First Day of School

...was today. All I can say is, I wish it were still summer! I like my teacher, though, this year which is good. Last year... yeah, that was awful. This year though, will probably be awesome. You know, besides the math which I HATE and I already don't understand after the first day. Oh, and also the dancing with the boys we have to do later on in the year... yuck:( We have to learn "ballroom dancing" which is just another fake name for SLOW DANCING!!!! in sixth grade!!!! This year we do a lot of dancing, WITH THE BOYS, and they have to ask us to dance... it's not like my teacher just assigns your partner. Talk about awkward... Anyway, I'm back to blogging a lot more so I guess I'll post my next big news. CYL:)

The Red Stone by Me!!!

I finished writing my book yesterday. It's a little over 60 pages long, but I think it's fine. When you read it sixty seems like 100! Hope you guys like it:)!!! My mom said after a few people (including me) edit it, then we can print it into an actual book which should be fun. Again, if anyone wants to read it I'll send you the document!

Three more days!

School starts on Tuesday... three days away! We're going to go to the school right now to find out our teachers. Well, they are atleast. I already know who my teacher is and it's a man... again. Can you believe I'm going to be a sixth grader?! In junior high next year?! And college in six more years... geez. P.S. Do you like the new background? I changed it from the beach thing so we all wouldn't be so sad anymore as summer is ending and the COLD IS COMING BACK!!! Grr I hate the cold weather here. Also, guess what? I'm almost done writing my book. I only have like two chapters left to write. Does anyone want to read it?

Whatever

First of all, let me tell you, I hate bugs. Especially Jumbo Crickets that are 6.5 inches long... Hate them. Hate hate hate hate them. They give me the creeps.

Second of all, I am not excited for school to start. I'm going to be a freaking sixth grader!!! Plus time goes waay too fast and before I know it, school might as well start tomorrow. The only thing I am SUPER excited for is wearing all my new SUPER CUTE school clothes!!! I could've worn them already, but Hanna insisted that I wait.... and it's just too painful:) haha

Also, I am writing a novel which is coming along great! I've done a chapter a day for a while now and today I am starting on part 2! Hopefully everyone that reads it will love it. Because it's awesome. Really.

One more thing- I am sick to death of our school and how freaking slow it is! I've driven by like 5 schools this summer, and they all have their teachers posted already and the school supply lists out. Our school is so FREAKING SLOW and they haven't even posted teachers OR suppliy lists yet. Lame. But, awesome for me, A.L.L kids once in, stay in. There's only one 6th A.L.L. teacher, so I know who I'm getting. The lame thing for me is that I won't get my list until back-to-school night which is late the night before school starts. I'm going to be school shopping at midnight that day.

Have a nice August:)

St. George

I spent the week in St. George last week. I can't believe I've already been home a week, and I feel like I was there like yesterday! I guess I didn't miss much back here at home, and I picked the best week to be in St. George (in the middle of summer) because the hot weather wasn't too awfully unbearable... haha. Lousy as I am with taking pictures, I just left my camera sitting on my dresser all week not even taking one picture the whole time.
It was a ton of fun and I would totally do it again! While I was there, besides swimming, golfing, playing tennis, relaxing (because we had nothing to do all day), and shopping, I also started learning Italian and writing my first actual novel. (Still deciding what to call it...)
While I have been home I have gotten new school and church shoes, written a chapter in my book every day, made a lot of treats, gone shopping, and... yeah that's pretty much it.
Happy Pioneer Day on Monday!

I think I owe a post by now...

...but there is not much going on in our boring lives!!!

For the fourth, we had just found out that Holly was back so we spent it with her. We basically stayed up untill like 11:30 at night doing fireworks, messing around, roasting s'mores, eating sandwitches for dinner, and taking a walk for ice cream. (Gotta love that!)

I am spending a week with my grandma starting tommorow. It began as the summer and got shortened and shortened and shortened to what is now 1 week.

I revamped the background and pretty much everything else. How do you likey? Also speaking of revamping, I am going to redo my room to the best tweenage room that will ever be! We found the cutest bedspread and my new bedroom colors will be purple and black.

We saw Cars 2 with Hanna. I liked it. It wasn't my favorite though. But it was good.

My new favorite book series: The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum. I LLLLLLLOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEEE it!!! Best books ever.

Summer Camps

This summer we all had sports camps to keep us from watching T.V. 24/7. I had tennis, and Cameron and Kortney had soccer. Poor Kelsey wasn't old enough to do anything, so basically she got to watch the tennis and soccer. We all had the camps last week, and then Cameron has football this week with Jamal Willis! (just wait) I signed up with for the tennis, as did Cameron with his football this week, but he and Kortney did Challenger soccor with.

Just so everyone knows: the sports camps are total crap!!! It's seriously a joke. That's why this year I did my tennis with and it ROCKED! It was amazing! Our coach (of the 6 people there...I'll tell you about crappy advertising later.) was A.J. something or other, who is on the BYU tennis team, and rocks at tennis. (and no Hanna he was NOT cute.(WTC!?)) He was a good teacher, and it was a really fun camp especially because he taught us REAL tennis, not crap joke tennis like the high school wierdos taught.

Cameron and Kortneys soccer was fun too, I guess, but I wouldn't know as I wasn't there! They said they had fun though and Kortney is really hooked on soccer now. Every day she came home and she was all like, in soccer you do this, and this is how you kick, and to score a goal you...and blah, blah, blah. They both did a British soccer camp, so you can guess, their instructors were from England. They both thought the instructors were awesome, and Kortney kept saying "I'm on SAM'S team!!!" like he was a celebrity.

The only crappy thing was that Cam and Kort's team was HUGE because , even though they do TERRIBLE camps with TERRIBLE coaches, does a really really really good job advertising. , not so much. They almost canceled Cam's football because only 3 kids signed up. does really good camps, with really good coaches, but no one even knows because they don't advertise AT ALL, and the only way you would find out is by going under the website and specifically searching "sports camps."

So about Cam's football... I left something out when I was explaining my tennis. There wasn't just one coach, but two. One was A.J. and the other was Jamal. He's this gigantic guy with the whole Dwayne Johnson muscles going on, and he plays 2 sports. A bit of tennis, but mainly FOOTBALL. So guess who is Cam's football coach? Him. I guess he played in the NFL for a little while, and he teaches football camps all over and totally runs that really expensive BYU camp for football, where you stay in the dorms. Anyway, it was just kinda cool.

So, yeah. That was our sport camps. I'll try to keep you posted if anything else happens in our totally boring lives.

Family Pictures

A couple weeks ago we took family pictures. (and cousin pictures) Here are a couple of them!

There you go!

Last Week

So this is how my last week went: (Tomorrow is the last day of school! Then I will be a 6th grader!)

Tuesday: Was "Colonial Days." We did like all kinds of reenactments like we lived in the colonial times, not all of which were fun. We made homemade candles, toys, and widling stuff, and we sawed the log with a gigantic saw like they used to, and we ate some really gross colonial food like dried elk meat. (BLEH!!) The not fun part, besides the gagful food was the freaking dancing we had to do! The people told us that back then what they did for fun was dancing in groups when they had spare time. We had to dance with the boys! Sick! I didn't even know the guy I danced with (random person at our school) but it was weird!

Wednesday: We had our "Invention Convention." My class had to do an assignment where we invent something that would improve our daily lives. Some of the things people did were really stupid, like stickable bug spray. (Off! with duct tape on the back.) Mine was called the "Bed Butler." How it works is you pull on a string attached to your bedsheet and it makes your bed for you. There is a little spool (the end of a long paintbrush that I broke) that you twist and it rolls your bedsheets up into a ball, then you just have to give one little tug on a string and your bed is made in a matter of seconds! Yeah then later in the day we cleaned out our desks, and when I came home my backpack was 100 pounds.

Thursday: (today) Today we will do FIELD DAY!!! The best day of the year! We will be having a water gun fight, (which means getting absolutely soaked) playing tons of games in the field, and watching a movie in our class room while we dry off. Then we go home. Sounds like fun! I'm super excited.

Friday: is the last day of school:(  We will be there for 1.5 hours signing yearbooks (which are totally sweet this year!) and saying goodbye I guess. We got our yearbooks yesterday and during B-track my class all looked through them instead of reading:) haha. They made a school yearbook too this year, which would make it the first school yearbook I've ever had! It just has pictures of everyone at school, then there is Coke or Pepsi type stuff in the back. I think the funniest pictures in the yearbook would have to be the Halloween pictures and the Walk a Thon pictures.

Then later we will be going to the Hoogle Zoo with Hanna, and having dinner at Olive Garden. Sounds fun! (again)

Bruno Mars

Okay did anyone here know there was a stupid Bruno Mars concert in UTAH!?!?!?! I CANNOT believe I didn't know.... I totally missed him!!! :( I know some of our neighbors that went, too! He is only like my most favoritest singer in the whole entire world (besides Scotty, but sadly I think he is better than Scotty.) that was like 15 minutes away and I MISSED HIM!!! so sad.... :( boo hoo.

 

He WINS!!!!!

Scotty Mcreery....the next American Idol! YES!!!! I can't believe he won...but I knew he would! He was all of our favorite since we saw Scotty's audition and thought he was Jonny Cash... Oh yeah I pick the winners:) When he sang with Tim McGraw that was the best preformance of the night. It is so cool he won!

Speaking of country music, we are going to go see the Clint Black concert on Friday. That will be super cool too!

No more school!

There are only 8.5 more days of school!!! HOORAY!!! This causes for celebration.
That is my only real major news beside...

I am going to go to St. George Thursday and Friday to help my grandma move.

We finished testing! YES. Today we had Section two of the final science test. Because I am in the ALL and we were tested the regular 5th grade test, it was all super easy.

Guess what happened to my toe last night? My big toenail was way too long, and so I stubbed it really hard on my way up the stairs and half my toenail popped right off, and there was blood all in the bathtub where I washed it out. It still hurts, but not as much.

No school Monday!

My dad is going to Africa next week and is coming back who knows when.

AMERICAN IDOL SEASON FINALE IS TONIGHT!!!!!!! Well, they will sing tonight. There are two parts to it. Tommorow is actually when Scotty WILL win.

I think that's it...

Hope Of America

Hope of America was yesterday! It was totally fun, and way worth the HOURS of practice:) Hope of America is this huge patriotic program at the Marriot Center, where we sing and do all these actions, and there are performances. We also did a couple of songs like Thank You, Military and American Heroes that were broadcast to the soldiers stationed in Iraq. It was super fun!!! I was a red stripe in the flag, 2nd from the bottom. The performances were amazing! They had this "Dancing Grandma" group where there is this NINTY FOUR year old grandma that dances and goes right down into the splits! I also recently found out that my Aunt Susie is in that group so it was pretty awesome. They also had this really cool dance group that preformed on Dancing With The Stars, and made Paula Abdul's top ten best dance group list thing. They were REALLY amazing! They also had all these little kid preformances that rocked, and cool pre-show people like the Green Man Group. It lasted like an hour and a half, and with the 12,000 other families there, we didn't get home until around 11 from all the TERRIBLE traffic. (It was worth it though.) And, the best part, I reunited with RILEY NELSON, the BYU quarterback on the football team! He watched the whole preformance and talked to the crowd at one part, and also led the pledge. There were also two other people from the football team, but who cares about them! Remember when Riley came to my school in 4th grade? He gave me a pen, and even a high five. When he came out, I screamed to my friend Cali who was sitting next to me, "I've met him before! This is so cool!" Anyway, it was an awesome night!

Hope Of America kids (including me!) also known
as over 6,000 5th graders from 70 different
schools! There were so many people they had to
split it up into two different nights. I went on Wed.
rather than Tues.

Answers...

Here are the answers to the questions I posted!

What was the name of Michael Jackson's famous chimpanzee companion?


A: Bubbles.

Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"?

A: George Bush.

What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?

A: A net.

What is the largest of the Southern states?

A: Georgia.

What's the name of the bird that cartoon cat Sylvester chases in vain?

A: Tweety Pie.

You learn something new every day...

Extreme Makover: Door Edition

Check it out!

More BYU love:)!!!!!

Today I re-decorated my door. I decided since a couple months ago, I'm officially a die-hard BYU fan. This proves it!!! So, first of all, the one, the only.....JIMMER!!! Mr. Fredette here was selling at our book fair, and I couldn't resist. I guess this is like the only poster that his family is letting be released to the public to sell. The school told us about it on Friday, and because the book fair started on Monday, Monday I hurried in as the doors opened for the first time, and rushed to it. I was third in line, therefore getting the third copy ever sold of this limited edition awesomeness. And I must mention that it was SIGNED by Jimmer the great, and that he is the "2011 NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR" When I first put it up, Kelsey ran up to it and went, "Can I kiss him?" haha:)

The other stuff I printed off online, and the "Go Cougars" at the top I made with paper, markers, and blue cardstock.

If you put all this together, getting a sudden idea, you get the finished product of.......THIS!!! Take a closer look...click on the picture. You will see that those "little blue dots" (that's what they look like!) are actually a million little blue "Y" logo things. I also printed off a big one, up by the GO COUGARS, and a BYU thing, and the circle and the baby cougar that says BYU on the left side.

Awesome.

What's up?

How come no one will visit my blog anymore? Sad.
P.S. Holly posts 90% of all the comments.
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Random Comment of the day:
My mom is leaving to San Diego tommorow:(
(Not taking me!!!!! >:(... )

Trivial Pursuit Questions

Just for fun....

1. Q: What was the name of Michael Jackson's famous chimpanzee companion?
2. Q: Who said: "I'm the president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli"?
3. Q: What was a gladiator armed with, in addition to a dagger and spear?

4. Q: What is the largest of the Southern states?

5. Q: What's the name of the bird that cartoon cat Sylvester chases in vain?


Good Luck!

SUSHI!!!

Okay, Just because this is SO FREAKING awesome, I have to say it. My super cool mom just took me out to Won Won Wok in Saratoga, and we got SUSHI!!! We got a huge thing of Vegas rolls, and a really big thing of Play-Boy rolls.  I liked the Play-Boy rolls alot better but the Vegas rolls were still REALLY really good. I love it. So sweet. AAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!
Im going to a birthday party in a half hour. It should be really fun.

Let's see!

I get to see if I won the Chick-fil-A contest at 7 tonight... I probably won't win, but it was fun to enter. And hey, there are 2nd and 3rd places, which I could get too. I bet, though, the winner will be someone who knows the owner, or someone whos entry was actually written by a parent... Also Known As cheeters!!! But, so what. If I keep entering crap I should win atleast once. This is only the 3rd time.

We did SOOOO much over spring break I can't even tell you. It was so much fun! I don't even remember half the stuff now. Sad, right!?!? Usually, on a normal day (AKA every day,) we sit at home litteraly doing NOTHING at all or sitting around watching boring reruns and playing video games. But we did cool stuff over spring break and were suddenly totally occupied. (The only down side-no sushi. I mean come on, people. 7 days off school and seriously NO sushi whatsoever!? It's supposed to be a vacation...paradise, not sushi-less torture:) ) Saturday was the most fun day of them all. We went to the Provo mall and went...drumroll please...SHOPPING! Totally a surprise and very unlike my mom, but AwEsOmE! We spent the entire afternoon getting cute new stuff and going (my first time) to Red Robin. When we were at Claires I was looking at all the earrings and I saw the most random but sweet earrings ever. SUSHI earrings. I was going to get them just to be funny but I ended up not:( I got the cutest new dress too.
Would say more but I really got to go now. Going shopping!!! TTYL

Cute new lamp!

This one is for you, Krissi-

You won't believe how cute we made this... We got an old lamp for $2 and fixed it up SUPER cute. We (as in me and grandma) went to this really awesome store, Finders Keepers, (which I deffinetly reccomend. You should really go there sometime it is soooo cute!) and got ideas. What they do is get really old furniture, things at yard sales, and really common stuff you might find at Walmart for cheap, and they fix it up WAY cute. (And then sell it for a fortune!) So I found this really cool lamp I liked, and so me and grandma checked it out and it was $75 freaking dollars! So grandma goes to Krissi and gets the EXACT same lamp for $2. Then we both went to Hobby Lobby and got all the rest of the stuff to make it. So we did this for around $5 when the other option was to get it for $75, and ours is way cuter, because I personalized it and put ribbon in the middle and balls on the bottom of the edge on the lamp shade. How awesome.

Click on the image to view it bigger and see all the way cute details

 Top

 Bottom

 Whole thing (check out the ribbon and polka dots....so awesome.)

We also saw this there, and I really liked it. So we did the same thing as we did with the lamp.

I also made a bunch of headbands today with Hanna. They were really fun and easy, and really cute. You can find all the instructions and stuff here. Really cool- check it out! Here's a pic of one of mine that I made that matched my outfit.

Chick-fil-a Story writing contest

So I am entering this contest that Chick-fil-a is doing. It sounds fun, it gets me practice with writing, and the winner gets free food for a year! Maybe I'll post my story up here next week after it's over and I know if I won!
Here's the information:

Story title: "How the COW became the Chick-fil-a Cow"

Winners in each age group 5-6,7-8,9-10,11-12 years of age.
First Place: Free Chick-fil-A Kid's Meals for One Year!! (1/week)
Second Place: 36" Chick-fil-A COW
Third Place: 20" Chick-fil-A COW
Contest Dates: March 14 - April15, 2011
Submit entries to Chick-fil-A at American Fork (make sure your name and phone number accompany your entry)
Winners Announced Tuesday, April 19th, 7pm at Chick-fil-A at American Fork.

204th Post

I'm bored right now so I just decided to write on my blog. A couple weekends ago we went to St George again, because my dad wanted to go watch one of his cousins like cage wrestle or something. His name is Dustin... I guess he won too.
      We also have just started a  Family Writer's Club. Our first "session" (I guess I could call it...) is tommorow. I haven't done my homework for that yet... whoops! I guess I've been really busy. Our prompt this week is about a black bucket. I am going to write a 2-page essay (requirements) about what's inside it and where it came from. (The Black Bucket)
       Did you guys hear about what happened in Japan? I think that is sooo sad. 2 nuclear explosions, a tsunami, AND an earthquake? GEEZ! Our family knows 2 people in Japan right now- Nina's sister (Pasta?) and my mom's friend Amy. They both live in Tokyo...
       We might be going to San Diego soon! Holly- get ready for that amazing sushi trip! We have to make sushi a tradition.....
        GTG to school.... CYL!

St George



DAY 1

Friday

     We started off, (us with Hanna) at like 9 AM or so, and drove for most of the afternoon. Then, for lunch we ate sandwiches, went to Walmart, went on a walk to the park, got Don Pedros for dinner, (I got a DELISH seafood burrito....LOVE SEAFOOD!) then went on a hike to the mountain across the street from my Gma's house.

      Everyone there: US, everyone but my dad. (5 people) Hanna, her and Camdon. (2 people) Grandma, (1 person.) Holly, Everyone in her family- All our long-lost cousins! We were all so excited to see them! (6 people) Daniel, All his family- again, so excited! (7 people, or 6 and newborn Hier! He's so cute!)

Favorite things: The seafood burrito, (YUMMY!!!!) And seeing all my family again!

Not-so-favorite things: The boring car trip.

OVERALL: 4/5

DAY 2

Saturday

       We went to the movies, and saw Narnia the Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. Then later we made an attempt to go shopping, only reaching one store. (Barnes and Noble.) I ate Banana Pancakes (yes, the famous traditional ones) for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and McDonalds for dinner. Okay, that's a lie. I didn't actually eat the McPUKES...(G-R-O-S-S with a capital G!!!) I saved room for my..........

MIDNIGHT SUSHI TRIP!!!

My super awesome aunt, Holly, took me out for sushi in the dead of night. It TOTALLY ROCKED! Me and Holly are the seafood queens, so this was amazing. I tried out a couple new things. Some of them included: Octopus, (I think the tentacle) Eel, (surprisingly TASTY! I'm pretty sure body) I also had some kind of seaweed, and this wierd cabbage stuff. I didn't really like the taste of the Octo so much. It was kinda chewy, and it tasted fishy. I ate with chopsticks, so that gives sushi night a big bonus! (LOVE using chopsticks.) We went to Ichiban with me, Holly, Hailey, and my mom. This trip gets 10/10. LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!!!!

DAY 3

Sunday

       We went to church, or atleast tried. Her church is SOOOO huge, they didn't have room for half the ward, with all the seats full and everything, and so we were in the hall the whole time. We heard nothing, especially with all the crazy kids yelling. (Only stayed for sacrament.) Total waste.

        We went to Zions, but it was raining so we couldn't do anything. It rained every day of this trip. That's why we stayed in most of the time. We only got to go to the Visitors center, and walk around a bit.

       Later, Grandma's friend from High School came over, and had cinnamon rolls with us. Her name was Katie, but I don't remember her husbands name.

       That day we had French Toast, Hoagie sandwiches, Tacos, and Cinnamon rolls+Ice cream. Yummy day.

       I didn't like the rain. At the end of the day, we told scary stories, and the adults watched a movie. I liked Hanna's story about the whole "Humans can lick hands, too!" and Daniels version of "Pinky and the Witch".

DAY 4

Monday

~Everyone left today!~

       We ate breakfast at Ihop, then went on the hike. (Most of the pictures above.) We saw Mountain Lion footprints, and tons of nature. We had to climb, slide, and jump alot. There was this one part, where we heaved ourselves up a rope, to get to the "3rd Pool". It was (the rope) hanging over a HUGE, and I'm guessing DEEP, body of water. Daniel carried up his 3 smallest boys....YIKES! On the way down I slipped a little, but Daniel caught me. It was kinda scary coming down, but super fun!

Not-so-favorites: I got muddy feet, and half-ruined shoes, the LONG car ride, and not being able to go to the Bear Paw, which has THE BEST breakfast EVER!

Favorites: I liked the salmon taco at Cafe Rio, and the awesome Cougar footprints & pictures I got.

At the end of the day: The trip was over, and I was back home.