Photoshoot 2011!!

Mikayla was nice enough to do a photoshoot with me!! She did an amazing job! Stop by her blog to see all of her other incredible photographs! She is really good at what she does! Here are a few of the pictures!!

Thanks so much Mikayla!! I love them!!!! (:

The Zoo!!

 Today we got to go to the zoo for a biology field trip!!! Oh it was so much fun! (: The weather turned out to be beautiful!! I was so happy after all the rain lately! It was just perfect! Loved seeing all the animals! Especially the baby ones! And spending time with my friends! I loved the totally epic train ride, the delicious churro, and the fun bus rides! (: Most amazing day in a long while!!

 Tiger!!

 Giraffes are my absolute favorite!!! Love them! Plus, they helped the truth come out... ;) Ha ha.

Don't really know what this is, but it looked adorable sleeping all wrapped up like this!

Elephant!! (:

Picture! (: Just ignore the fact that my eyes are shut. (:

Some kid I don't know, Gus, Daniel, Katie, Brayden, Me! (:

Cutest baby lemurs ever!!

Oh it was an awesome day. (: And so much better than school!!!

We Wouldn't Make Very Good Spies....

Brady and I had the craziest day on Saturday!! When we spend so much time together, things get a little insane. (: We started the day out by going on a walk down to the stake center, where across the street, our friend Tristan was having a little party! We were spying on them from behind some bushes, but alas, we were totally caught. We had the time of our lives jumping in the bushes, sliding in the grass, and hiding as best as we could though while it lasted!

Then we went back to my house for a little while, got bored, and decided to go on another walk. This time though, it was sprinkling! We took an umbrella and were staying pretty dry, until we got to the stake center again. It started pouring!!! We got basically soaked, and after a crazy window experience....., we ended up sitting by the doors under the roof for like an hour til the rain died down. We finally walked home, looking like homeless people, and ate eggs and popcorn. Ha ha. Lovely dinner.

Curious what we looked like?! Well wonder no longer. (:

Oh what a day. (:

I love Brady. (:

Memorial Day!

For Memorial Day this year, my family and I went to Lagoon. (: It was miserable at first, but turned out to be amazing! When we got there, it was raining, windy, and just plain cold. Going on the rides actually hurt, it was so bitterly cold!! I didn't even want to go on any! Luckily, after lunch, the sun came out and started shining and I could feel it's beautiful warmth! So grateful for that! The best part of it was, since people thought the weather would be terrible, no one was there! Isaac and I got to just walk up to all the rides and get on with no line to wait in! It was incredible!! Especially where Spider and Wicked are concerned.

In the end, it was a perfect day! After we left, we went to the Pizza Factory for dinner and then I got to hang with Brady for awhile! I love days off of school!! Especially this week, since I can literally taste summer! Only a couple days away!! AH! (:

Let Me Just Tell You...

♫ I'm ready for summer. 100%. I'm sick of the deadlines, drama, and routine of school. I want freedom! And warm weather!!!

♫ This. Movie. Is. Amazing. Seriously, a really good, clean, ridiculously inspiring movie. I loved it and I think you should definitely see it. It's way worth it.

 ♫ If I don't get a 4.0 this term, it'll be because of guitar. And I'll be really angry.

♫ The Bachelorette starts MoNdAy!!!!!! (:

♫ I'm doing the Miss Davis County Outstanding Teen Pageant!!! Whoop whoop!! (: It'll be way fun.

♫ I have a piano recital. In 2 weeks. And I'm not ready. At all. Save me?

♫ I survived the "end of the world!" Seriously. People are insane.

I Shouldn't Be Alive.

I've finally started driving with my instructor. Finally.  I'm basically in the last group of students to drive this year. Oh well. I got some more practice in the mean time and whether I drove at the beginning of the term or not until now, I still have to wait until July before I can get my license anyways. I've driven twice! Let me tell you a little about my experiences?

The first time, we just did residential/rural area driving. I was so nervous and had major butterflies. I volunteered to drive first because I just wanted to get it over with. 40 minutes later, lucky for me, he said I did a great job and he didn't have anything really for me to work on. I was feeling super relieved and happy. Little did I know... I switched places with my partner, Tyler. He almost killed us like 3 times!! He would slam on the brakes, accelerate way crazy, and he didn't grasp the concept of turning. My instructor, Coach Batchelor, had to keep grabbing the wheel and saving our lives. Once he even turned into the oncoming lane of traffic!! Seriously. I don't think I want to drive on the freeway with him...... I'm terrified.

The second time, was supposed to be the freeway drive. My partners didn't bother to show up though so I was all alone! He really isn't supposed to be alone with one student, so he felt bad but he said he needed to send me home and reschedule. Then he stopped me and decided we could go pick up his daughter and have her drive with us. So we picked her up, but he wouldn't let us do freeway so we just did city driving. Again he said I did a great job, so I'm happy. (:

What's not cool is that now I have to be scared for another few days about going on the freeway! I wanted to just get it over with~!

Oh well. (: I'll be fine. And I am actually starting to really like driving!!

*Positive side note - I passed the written test with 92%!!!!! WOO! (: I only needed 80%! I'm one step closer to getting a license. (: *

Wicked!!!!

For Kenzie's birthday this year, her mom surprised her with tickets to see Wicked in Boise! My mom and I got to tag along and boy, we sure had ourselves an adventure! The play was amazing! Absolutely incredible! The cast did such a good job! I want to be Galinda!!! She's like my idol! She was so dang cute! Just my type of girl. (:

We had a LOT of car trouble! Kenzie had to have us take her car because she has anxiety problems about driving in other people's cars. But they had just bought this used car, and they didn't really know how to use it yet! We named the car, a her, "G." (: First of all, the whole time we didn't have air conditioning the entire time! It was so dang hot! I had to roll down the windows and stick my legs out of the car cause I was melting! Then we ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere, "the land," and we ended up having to go to this ghetto gas station! They had alpacas out in the front for people to pet, "Baby Rattlers" on display inside and all sorts of signs telling you to enter with caution and not make any sudden movements (I was terrified, but they ended up just being baby rattles... wow. ha ha.), and a can attached to a string for "local calls only!" Goodness gracious. Craziest gas station of my life. Also the gas cap broke off the car. If anything could go wrong, it did.

Then we got lost about a million times! We got lost whenever we went anywhere! We had to ask for directions so many times it was ridiculous!

Kenzie and I learned that our mothers are insane. I may be emotionally scarred for the rest of my life.

Had tons of fun shopping and going out for yummy food!

The weirdest hotel layout of our lives.

Super cool earring lost and found experience.

And so much more! Picture time!

 Loved the alpacas. (: Ha ha too funny!

 Scary, ghetto, hilarious, most random gas station of my life.

 Kenz and I eating at Chili's!

At Wicked! Such a fantastic cast and play! So cute!!

Oh G..... (:

Yay! I love the Cheesecake Factory! I die over Oreo cheesecake. Even if it's like 12,000 calories. (:

Jodi was continually making everybody laugh! She made the craziest faces, sometimes on purpose, others on accident, for her pictures. And she is just the funniest person alive! Ah!

I think I'll be buying my car from Fairley Reliable Bob's! At least their honest! Ha ha oh my.

 Seriously, Idaho has the weirdest signs!

Our whole Wicked group! (:

Ignore this part, cause it's not gonna make any sense. Just things I want to remember about this crazy trip!: "He's a paintist?!"..."Do you like Justin Bieber?" "Nooo." "But you have to, you're daughters love him!" "I meant YEAH!"..."Dad, we're out of gas in the middle of nowhere. What do we do?!" "You guys are retarded!!!"..."He was getting a little touchy feely in that one scene when they were kneeling in the woods." "Yeah the program says ...he was just in a Broadway play called Kinky Boots."..."The blue turf is RIGHT THERE. I have to see the blue turf!!!!"..."Those pants look sweet on you!" "I know! You're hot!"..."'Sup?!" "'Sup, guys?!"..."Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there...with a gas station!!!"..."I love G, but she's way too hot!"..."How do you know when a car is overheating?"..."Local calls only."..."You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul! How did you guys not cry?!"...."Great. You think I'm old AND fat."...."Hahaha.... Um. There was that whole 4 times thing but no one wants to remember that!!"..... ‎"What now?! What now?! What now?!"..."Remember that one movie?!? With that blonde girl?! She used to be married to that one guy! And she was in that one movie! Where they sang that one song! *uses lots of charade movements*"..."Tell them we're on 16th and Rite Aid!"

Pretty much, it was an incredible weekend!

I Hate Public Bathrooms

Really I do. They're just so gross. And to think about who has used them before you? Nasty. So why am I posting this now? Well this week I've had a couple of weird bathroom experiences.

1) Went in the stall, sat down, and look up to see written on the stall, "You're amazing. Don't ever let anyone get you down." Wow, I just love getting uplifted in the bathroom. Can't tell you how good it makes me feel to know that some random person I don't even know, thinks I'm amazing. YES! I feel great. And it was the perfect place to think about it too! Everyone loves to think about how amazing they are while they're going to the bathroom! Seriously people.....

2) During guitar 8th period, I used the hall pass, and walk in the bathroom to see a guy sitting there on the ground using his cell. Yes, a guy. I don't know if he was taking pictures or texting or what. At first I kinda freaked out thinking I was in the wrong bathroom. After I determined I wasn't, I gave him this look like, what're you doing?!?! He just looked back at me like I was insane, and I walked on out of there..... Awkward.

How about I never use a bathroom that is not mine, EVER again? K thanks. (: