Stuck at Surf N' Swim!

So Erin and I went to Surf N' Swim today. We were originally planning to be there for 3 1/2 or so hours. Well, my mom couldn't come pick us up at the planned time, so we ended up being stuck there for 4 hours and 45 minutes!!!!!!!!!! We spent the time balancing on our tubes, doing handstands. tucks, and front handsprings in the water, (well that was me since Erin isn't really flexible or acrobatic, although she could beat you in a race for sure!) and drowning from laughing so hard! Since we were there for dinnertime, we had to eat there. We had a hot dog, three chicken strips, 4 scones, and a carton of fries. We aren't that big of pigs, but swimming really makes a girl hungry. If you haven't had a Surf N' Swim scone with honey butter, you sooooo need to! They are totally amazingly yummy! Eventually though we did escape from all this torture, ha ha. It was a really fun day!

Christmas!

I had one of the best Christmas's of my life this year! I had a HORRIBLE night sleep. I went to lie down at 9:00 then I finally fell asleep at 12:00 then I woke up again at 3:00. It was pretty pathetic. I guess I was just too excited! When my parents finally allowed us to go downstairs at 7:00 AM we literally ran down the stairs. The first thing I noticed was a brand new metallic pink nintendo DS! I was so extremely happy! I got nintendogz, animal crossing: wild world, mario cart, and mario party DS. It is soooooo fun and awesome. Did you know you can connect and play games and chat with other people that have DS's??? I also got a Paris calendar, an eiffel tower poster, eiffel tower earrings and an eiffel tower necklace, new boots, a new scarf, a yo yo ball, jenga girl talk and lots of other stuff. Our family present this year was a Karoke Machine. It is really cool because it has a video camera attached to it that let's you see yourself performing on the TV. After opening our presents, we spent most of the rest of the day visiting with my dad's side of the family and playing with our presents. had a GREAT Christmas this year! So thanks to everyone who made it fun! I hope you all had a awesome Christmas too!

Christmas Eve!

I know it's a little late but I wanted to tell you how my Christmas Eve went. I went to my Grandma's house like always for our traditional program. We always do a little talent show with all of my cousins so my family and I played the bells and I played a beautiful version of Silent Night on the piano. I think I did ok. I was so extremely excited to get home though. After getting back to our house, we raced in and opened the one present we get as a tradition on Christmas Eve. Mine was a tee shirt that said dream in rhinestones on it, red and pink slippers, and wait for it.... BAMBI PAJAMA PANTS! Woo! They are brown and pink with polka dotted bambi's all over them! I love them! They are so cute! Thanks mom and dad!

FRENCH CAROLING!

Erin and I really went caroling in French. Woo! We went to eight houses and sang carols like:
Vive Le Vent - Live the Wind (To the tune of Jingle Bells)
Rudolphe Le Renne Au Nez Rouge -Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer(I think you know the tune!)
We French pastry cookies to hand out to everyone. They are like little pastry sandwichs with frosting in the middle. We dyed the frosting red, white, and blue to make the french flag out of them. Oh yeah. It was awesome! Then we put a little paragraph of information about how the French celebrate Christmas! It was way cool! It was a lot of fun. Oh and thanks go to Katie for standing with us on everyone's porches.

Strawberry Pouree Day

Today, Erin and I made strawberry puree. It is kind of like a strawberry sauce that can be put on desserts, pancakes, waffles, or just drinken like a smoothie. It is more of a liquid but it is still really good. We made it to get extra credit points in French class, but it was actually a lot of fun. Here is the recipe if you want to try it yourself:

Ingredients
2 lbs unsweetened strawberries
1/2 cup granulated white sugar, to taste
1-2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

Directions
1Process the strawberries in either a food processor or blender until they are pureed.
2Stir in the sugar until it dissolves.
3Add a little lemon juice at a time until desired taste acquired.
4May be refrigerated covered for 1 week to 10 days.
5It may also be frozen in ice cube trays then put into a plastic bag so they can be removed easily as needed.

Voice Male!

My family and I went to a VoiceMale concert. It was really cool and super funny. VoiceMale is 6 guys that sing accapella, but they use their voices to make it sound like they are singing with instruments! It was seriously awesome. Oh and in the middle of the concert they talked in like 64different languages. I think the languages were Chinese, Japanese, Whales (yes the animal like on finding nemo! lol), and Spainish. Yeah it was really cool. If you haven't seen them before you seriously should!

Isaac's Birthday Party!

Ok so yesterday was Isaac's 10th (yep double digits!) birthday party. He took 5 of his friends to Classic Fun Center. Of course, I went along and took my bestest friend Erin duh! We did the bounce zone thing first. We had so much fun! Erin and I made each other fly. (One of us laid on one side of a mushroom, then the other person jumped on the other side of it. This resulted in flying!) Our favorite though was trying to get on and balance on giant mushroom looking things. We laughed a lot. Next we ate minature brownies and popsicle things. Isaac opened his presents and Erin even brought him $10 for his birthday and she's not even his friend! She is just amazingly nice like that! Ha ha! Then we played lazer tag. It was Erin and I against all the boys! We lost miserably! They had 6760 points and we had 2790 points. Pretty pathetic, but we had tons of fun anyways, and hey we were outnumbered by 4 people! Unfair right! J/K! Next we got to play arcade games. I didn't do too well on those but I won 36 tickets on Deal Or No Deal. It was great! Erin and I bought these Crayola Crayons Erasers that look totally like a real crayon! After the party we were exhausted. (In French tout raplapla! cool huh?) But I had so much fun with Erin and Isaac. Happy 10th Birthday Isaac!

Christmas is Coming!

I am sooooo excited for Christmas to come! We recently put up our lights and our tree. They look really pretty at night. Plus we put two twinkly snowflakes in our windows! It's awesome! I just love the feeling of Christmas! I have done some Christmas shopping for some of my friends, but I have more to do! Have fun with your Christmas preporations!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

So today was Thanksgiving obviously and it was sooooooo good! We first went to Orem to see my Mom's side of the family. They make the best food and pie in the world. Plus they had me play "At a Paris Cafe" on the piano for a little program. It was totally fun! Then we went to my Dad's brother Justin's house. Him and his wife Annie are the parents of the little baby Cole that stayed at our house. (PS Baby Cole can walk now!!!) It was the first time my Dad's whole side of the family could be together at one time! So yeah I think he enjoyed it a lot. I had fun too though! I hope that you all had amazing Thanksgivings too! See ya!

The Difference Between Dogs and Cats!

"Excerpts from a Dog's Diary"
8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing! 9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!10:30am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!12:00pm - Lunch! My favorite thing!1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!5:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!

"Excerpts from a Cat's Diary" Day 983 of my captivity. My torturers continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They publicly dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength.The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet. Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am.
There was an assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of "allergies." I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow -- but at the top of the stairs.I am convinced that the other prisoners here are stooges, flunkies and informants. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released- and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded. The bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicate with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, safe from me. For now....

Twilight!

I went to go see Twilight yesterday after school. It was sooooooo good. Part of it freaked me out, but the rest was really awesome and funny. Oh and after we saw Twilight, we went to Surf N Swim. It was a pretty amazing day! Plus, today for community service hours, Erin and I went to work at the Food Bank from 8:45 - 1:00. We sorted tons of food for about two hours. Then we assembled over 300 boxes! Wow! I couldn't believe it. The boxes part was kind of hard and it took us forever, but the food sorting part was kind of fun. Four hours down, quite a few more to go! WOO!

Eighth Grade Week!

It's eighth grade week this week and we are doing all sorts of cool stuff.
Monday: Twin Day
Tuesday: School Spirit
Wednesday: Dress for Success (Dress like your future career. We didn't do this one!)
Thursday: Backwards Day
Friday: Day of Cultural Differences
Me and Erin are really getting into it! I will post pictures as we go along!

4.0 !!!

Well I guess it has been a couple of weeks since the term ended, but I totally forgot to post this here! I am sooooo proud of myself! I got a 4.0! (that means straight A's!) I haven't done that since I've started Jr. High. I have always gotten just one little A-, but not now! WOO!

Poetry Portfolio!

So in English class we had to do this huge poetry portfolio project. We had to do at least 9 poems, a poet biography, a poetic devices sheet, a poetry glossary, a title page, and a table of contents. I think that's it, if not let me know! So anyways I finished it a couple of days ago and I'm really proud of myself! I think I did a really good job. Man, I could totally be a poet someday! Just call me Ms. Poe. NO SERIOUSLY DON'T! lol

Home Again!

Well I got home from Erin's house yesterday and it was good to see my family again. But I pretty much had the bestest time at Erin's house that anyone could have! Oh and she has this awesome Sims 2 apartment life game! Let me tell you, that game is fun!!!!!!!! So thanks to Erin and her family to allow me to stay with them! Oh and when I went to pick my puppy up from the kenal he was soooooooooo excited! I was extremely glad to see him again because I love him and I missed him so much! What can I say? I'm an animal lover!

Erin's!!!!

Yeppers! I am officially at Erin's house until Wednesday! She's taking a shower now so I thought I would post! We dressed the same today just for fun and we are going to do it again tomorrow! They have been sooooo nice to me! I am living large here for a while. I hope everyone's doing good! Bye for Now!

Frenchy Fun!

Halloween was soooo awesome this year! When me and Erin went trick-or-treating it was fun to see everyone's reactions to our French girls costumes! Some people even actually tried to talk to us in French. Oh how I love tricking people! Anyways we got tonz of candy and walked all over the place to burn off the calories! (lol!)

Halloween!

I am so excited for Halloween! Me and Erin are dressing up as French girls! We are wearing berets and trechcoats and scarves for our costumes, and go trick-or-treating in French! Fun huh? Plus the Sunday after Halloween I am going to Erin's house until Wednesday! I am sooooo excited for that too! I will be Erin's adopted sister for 4 days!

Cole!

So we had my baby cousin Cole for a few days while his parents went to Mexico. He was so cute and I think he was the best baby I have met in my entire life. He ate everything, he only cried 2 or 3 times throughout the week, and he slept all night. I loved feeding him, dressing him, and just plain holding him. His parents just came to pick him up and I was so sad. I still am actually, I'll miss little Cole like crazy! I ♥ you Cole!!!!!!

4 Day Weekend!

Yeah so we get a four day weekend for fall break and I am super excited. I wish it was longer but I'll take what I can get! I'm not sure of my plans for it yet, but I'm sure I am going to have fun! Also, I get my baby cousin Cole for about a week. I'm sure it'll be an awesome time. I'll have another sibling for a week! yay!

SOS

So today in Seahawks of Service, we went over to Syracuse Elementary to read to the 4 & 5 year olds in the HeadStart program. They were so adorable! They were like tiny and cute. I picked a little girl who later told me her name was Lilian. Let me tell you, she was the best 4 year old I have ever seen at using scissors! It was sooooooo fun! Oh and I got to miss the pace test in gym for it too! Talk about a good day!

Mimi's Cafe!

Ok, so on Friday Erin and I went to Mimi's cafe by ourselves thinking that they probably wouldn't be able to serve us because of our age. But we were totally wrong! It was so fun! We ordered off the kiddie menu and yet they treated us like adults. It made me laugh to pay the check because I am sooooooo not used to it! Haha, but I had so much fun anyways! I am so going back!

Ouch!

I was doing a back tuck the other day and I didn't set right. I ended up digging my thumb nail into my index finger and ripping a out some of my skin! It hurt so bad! I hope it gets better soon!

New Blogger!

Hey Everyone! My friend Baylee told me about blogs in gym and I saw how cute hers was so I decided I could do one too!