Street Painting

During homecoming week, the school does after school activities every day! This year, the first one was street painting! Kenzie and I went and it was actually really fun! I am totally not an artist, but I enjoyed myself anyways. (:

One Very Hard Day.

Today was the day our leaders officially got released. It was really hard. I've just kept crying and I can't figure out how to stop! Soon there will be no more water in my body. These women hold a very special place in my heart. I love them so much and I hope they know that.

Well, to counteract all the sadness, I'm just making a list of some of the memories and good times we've had together:
♥ One of the first activities I did as a beehive was taking a hike up Adam's Canyon. I'm not exactly a hiker, but it was going pretty well! Until... there was a huge rock we had to climb up. So up it I started, going really slow and trying not to fall. Heidi was behind me, and she thought it'd be helping me to kind of push me upwards. She did, and I lost my footing and fell all the way down and hurt my knee. She was so worried that I'd hate her, but really I thought it was so funny. We love to laugh about it now!
♥ Heidi and Lisa getting us lost in our hike at Girls Camp 2010. We went like an extra mile because of their amazing directional skills. (;
♥ How we all freaked out when Heidi was stradling the Bishop on a four wheeler. Ahahahahahaha.
♥ Going to Flowrider for a Mia Maid class activity! Seriously, do we have the coolest leaders or what? Most memorable activity ever. So much fun.
♥ Going to Lisa's house to watch the American Idol Finale. Lady Gaga performed and she made us all close our eyes. Hahaha so inappropriate! (; I've danced like that at every stake dance since. I learn some great things at our activities. (;
♥ Going to do baptisms at the Salt Lake Temple with the beehives. It was such an incredibly spiritual experience and it was just a beautiful day. Planned it with Heidi when I was the beehive class president.
♥ The constant teasing about my hatred of hunting and dead animals. Lisa and some of the other girls told as many stories about dying/killing animals as they could when we drove up to girls camp one year.
♥ Lisa braiding my hair at girls camp this year. Hahaha, she was pulling my hair, yelling at me to stop moving, and it at first ended up with a pony tail coming off of the top of my head. She just laughed and laughed at me. Oh it was so much fun.
♥ Getting hypothermia at Girls Camp. I was so comforted by the fact that Heidi, Linda, Lisa, and Jodi never left my side. I could really feel the love they had for me, and I was so grateful for that. Heidi and Lisa just holding my hands the whole time brought me such peace.
♥ Lisa told us a story in one of her lessons about a tsunami or something that hit an island. The people that were able to ran to high ground. However, the ones that weren't so lucky had to find a way to be safe when the waves hit, so they held on tightly to some trees. This way, they had an anchor to hold them in place while the waves went over them. So then, Lisa askes, "Like these people held onto trees, what can we hold onto in our lives as an anchor during times of trial?" And I answer, apparently not thinking too much, "Well, if it were me, I'd go for a big pine tree or something." Oh my.... I so did not get that question. They all laughed at me. (:
♥ When Heidi was my pageant hostess, I was late to the pageant. She made me laugh when she said it was more important for me to look my best than to be on time. She really was an amazing hostess and she put a lot of time into it! It was fun to spend so much time with her.
♥ When Lisa was my pageant hostess, she did so good at keeping me calm. She was so reassuring and I loved having her there. She also put a lot of time into it and helped me with my hair, make-up, and nails. One of my favorite parts was discussing interview questions. She was very professional and knew everything I should say. "What intimidates you?" "Pageant judges." Hahaha. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "A pharmacist. I've always had great respect for them and the good they do for our community." Oh good times.
♥ Our big wii, night games, and food parties at Heidi's house so often when I was in beehives! Those were great times for everyone to just come together and have fun!
♥ Posting the full story about Achilles for Lisa on my blog. Hahaha, that was pretty funny.
♥ Cute Megan bearing her testimony. That really was a great day.
♥ Licking people's elbows. Oh the things we learn at Girls Camp. (:
♥ Heidi letting me be her "Starburst" apprentice. I am still working towards being as good of a starburst roaster as she is!! Because of course, she is oh so humble about it. (;
♥ Along with that, my 3rd year of girls camp, I lit my finger on fire with a starburst. It melted down my finger and was on fire. It burned a giant welted "L" into my finger, and it hurt too bad to deal with without having it in ice. So Heidi stayed up with me all night getting new ice for me to keep my finger in.
♥ Lisa: "Maybe I shouldn't tell you this... but the one thing I watch that I really shouldn't, but I love too much to stop... is The Bachelor!" (Gasp! NO!!! Hahahahaha oh my. (: )
♥ Lisa proposed the idea to have our leadership training on a Saturday morning and for us to all wear our pajamas. So we all show up, basically having just woken up, in our pajamas, while SHE, the one who's idea it was to do so, was all dressed up and ready for the day. Afterwards she said, "That's the way to do it! Then you look better then everybody else!" Ohhhh gosh. (:
♥ Heidi being so afraid of bears. The best story is when they lifted the bear box full of food into the tree and she, thinking it was a bear, screamed, jumped a million feet, and ran behind the men. Hahahahaha.
♥ When the volleyball referee thought Lisa was my mom because I "look just like her!" Now I'm just her daughter and that's how it worked out. (: Haha.
♥ "I don't have favorites, but if I did, it'd be you." "I don't have favorites either, but if I did, it'd be you too!"
♥ Discussing pageants with Lisa. Basically my favorite.
♥ Me: "Slllluffffer! You too good for service or something? ;)" Lisa: "Ya. Pretty much. I've done that service thing before." WHAT?! Hahahaha. Unexpected.
♥ Homemade pizza, breadsticks, and Cafe Rio from Heidi. I'd die happy after eating those delicious things.
♥ Lisa can't spell my name right. Ashley. Everytime. Even though I've corrected her a thousand times. (:
♥ Our way awesome New Beginnings this year. With the Happily Ever After theme, it turned out beautifully. Our leaders put in so much work, but it was just amazing.
♥ Me: "Are you good with giving directions?" Lisa: "I'm good at everything." Really, I have such humble leaders. (;


Wow. Those are a lot of memories. And I'm sure there's many many more. I'm just so grateful for all the good times and that I've been so blessed to have these amazing people as a part of my life for so long.

They make me feel SO good about myself, and they just make me smile!
Some of their sweet comments that I'll treasure forever:
♥ Heidi: "Ashlie was AMAZING!!! It was so much fun to be with Ashlie the last few days. I think she REALLY got tired of getting advice from someone that really didn't know what she was doing. Why she picked me to be her hostess..I will never know. Thanks again Ashlie for letting me tag along!"

"Ashlie- you are AMAZING!!!! Thank you so much for the phone call yesterday. You are so very thoughtful to be thinking of me and my family right now. I am so lucky to know you!!"

"hey you!! I just wanted to tell you how awesome you are!!! You are such an incredible person. Thank you so much for being so good to me and Lyndsey!!"

"Ashlie, Thank you so much for your message to me (you made me cry). I must say that I am so very blessed to have you as part of my life. I think about you all the time and I am the one that finds you so amazing. I am so grateful to you for the impact you have had not only in my life, but the life of my family (& that is not just Lyndsey - everybody). I truly hope that my daughters have many of the same qualities that you have."

♥ Lisa: "I was soooo excited to hear the awesome news. I got a text from Jamie S. letting me know. Congratulations! I'm not surprised at all that you won, you are the completed package: beautiful, talented, great personality. I wish I could have been there."

"You never cease to amaze me. You are such a talented, fearless, and self motivated girl."

"Megan was honored when Ashlie asked Megan to be her "Little Miss" for the Miss Davis County pageant. Ashlie is a beautiful and talented young woman of mine that has every reason to be proud of all of her amazing qualities. Ashlie did an excellent job in the pageant and took first attendant (she should have taken the crown). Megan got to be part of the first dance number along with escorting Ashlie off the stage after her evening gown walk. I was very proud of both of my girls!"

Oh my goodness. I'm crying again. I'm going to miss them so much. They've been such a huge part of my life. I know that won't change.

5K!

Gorgeous picture I know. (: I am by no means a runner. In fact, running is one of the things I hate most in life. Nonetheless. I did a 5k! I even got a legit number and everything! How'd I get sucked into doing it? Baylee. Oh the things I do for my friends. (: Her little love interest asked her to come run the race as a fundraiser for the ROTC, which he goes too. She was going to do it with Aly, but the day of the race, Aly got way sick. And thus, I had to go. Saying I ran it would be a lie. (: We basically speed walked/jogged it. I wasn't planning on running and I'm not in shape at all. We could have gotten a pretty good time had I actually tried, but we still finished in 40 minutes. So we were pretty impressed with ourselves.
Good memories. (:

Side note. While trying to get there, we were supposed to turn left onto the entrance ramp to the freeway. Well, Bay missed the turn and we had to go find somewhere to turn around. So we drove into the Air Force Base, and Bay turned down this road figuring she could turn around somewhere down it. Well we drove past this huge sign saying "DO NOT ENTER. Restricted Zone. Explosives Only." Yeah, how freaky is that? We could have died. Ohhhh the good times Bay and I have. I love that girl!

The Haunted Balloon

I got this ballon on my birthday. For almost three months now, it has hardly ran out of helium. It still floats around. Well, that's not normal. Usually my balloons are dead on the ground within a week at most. And this one has started to creep me out. Everytime I turn around, it's there!!! I'll hit it away and next thing I know, it'll be floating up from the ground right next to my bed. I wake up in the morning, and it's hovering inches from my face. So I took it into the storage room and trapped it between some things. I went into my bathroom to finish getting ready, and when I opened the door, THERE IT WAS! Seriously, it was freaking me out so bad. No matter what I did or where I put it, it always came back. It was like it was a remote control balloon, and someone was playing a mean pratical joke. Today I finally got rid of it. I took some scissors and sliced it right open. Goodbye forever haunted balloon. Good luck coming back now!!!!!

Some YW Leader Memories

I love you guys!!!! Thank you for all the amazing memories!

How I'm Feeling.

Basically, I've just been sad. Everything in my life was going so great too! Until Wednesday. I found out that my young women leaders are getting released. I literally just start sobbing. I've been SO blessed to have had the best leaders in the whole entire world. It's just not ok with me that they're getting released. Young Womens is never going to be the same for me, and I'm going to miss them so much! I love all of them, but I've been particulary close with Heidi and Lisa. And they're going to be the hardest for me to lose. They've both always been there for me. Heidi's been in YW's with me since I was a beehive. Lisa's been in since our ward split, and was my mia maid leader for both years. They have watched me grow up.....I have so much fun with them, and a lot of the time, going to church or Wednesday activites was the highlight of my week because of them. It's just going to be really devastating.... It's just hard to understand how amazing they are unless you've had them.... I'll miss them so much. I'm truly grateful for their friendship and the huge impact they've had in my life.

Dress Shopping = Love.

Going shopping for dresses is basically my favorite thing ever. (: Bay and I went shopping together first to get my homecoming dress, and then to go get hers!!! We had so much fun! I love trying on a billion dresses. There are so many pretty ones, I just can't ever decide. The consultant lady just tries to help us pick because we are literally incapable of making decisions. Poor lady. We waste too much time going back and forth between dresses.... That's ok. It's all part of the experience right?!? (: Well anyways, it came down to two for both of us. One of them was more typical homecoming dress that you'd expect us to wear. The others were a little different than anything we'd ever pictured ourselves in. But we picked those anyways! Pictures to come after homecoming next week! (: Which I'm still really excited for. (:

Here's the ones we didn't pick! Haha.

Kind of predictable. But I loved them anyways! Pictures of the real ones next week! (:

Homecoming!

I. Am. SO. Excited. For. Homecoming!!

Crazy story really how it happened, but I can't even wait.

I am going with Brayden(: Woo! Seriously. Excited. (:

So, story:

Well, this boy named Gus was very much making it seem like he wanted to ask me to homecoming. Everyday he'd ask me if I'd been asked yet. And one day he told me he had decided who he was going to ask. When I asked him who he was going to ask, he told me he couldn't tell me yet, and that I needed to trust him and I'd find out. Well, I started thinking he wanted to ask me, and I kind of was freaking out because I really wanted to go with Brayden. So I texted him and told him what was going on and he told me that he just didn't think it would work out. He didn't think he could get work off on only his second week working there. Well pretty much I was way depressed. I'd been hoping we could go together and it just crushed me to think it wasn't even a possibility.

Three days later, Brayden came and asked if he could talk to me during lunch. He asked me to homecoming! I went from really sad to being on top of the world! I was so excited. He had to ask just straight up because we weren't sure if Gus would ask me, and he needed to be first. (:

Well then... When I got home from school that same day, I was working on homework when I got a text from a number I'd never seen before. It said, "I know you just got a tub of blue ice. Break it open to see what's inside." I ran upstairs and outside where on my porch was just that, a tub of blue ice. I took to the back yard and beat it into the concrete until I got it to break open where inside I found a plastic bag with my name on it. I opened it to find the following note:

"Now that we've broken the ice, will you go to homecoming with me?" - Gus

I started freaking out. I had just gotten asked twice in one day. Within hours of each other. And now I had to say no to Gus. I felt so so terrible! But I just talked to him at school the next day, told him what happened, and told him how sorry I was. He was very nice about it, just telling me he was happy for Brayden and that he hopes I had a good time. It still made me really sad. I almost wish he'd been angry, because then I wouldn't feel as bad as I did when he was so sweet about it! You know what I mean?

So after that was taken care of, I was free to just be extremely excited about going with Brayden. (: And then, this Thursday, I came home from a hair appointment to find this:

Hershey's Kisses covering my stairs, bathroom floor, bedroom floor, and hallway (I have enough chocolate to last a year (: ), Roses on my dresser, roses and roses petals in my shower, and a big poster that said, "Now that I've kissed the ground you walk on, and showered you with roses, will you go to homecoming with me?"

It was a way cute way to ask. And it was from Brayden!!! (: I was so excited!!! It was basically an amazing day. Made me really happy (:

So then I got to answer him! It was way fun, not gonna lie (: I did it in the following way:

"Price of a calendar: $11.95 (I heard cats were your very favorite animal because they're intelligent (; )"

"Price of a coloring book: $2.17 (Because you make me feel like a princess in a fairy-tale (: )

"Price of a picture frame: $1.00 (I really hope our homecoming pictures don't turn out like this! (: )

I had to change it to a toothbrush and toothpaste because the mouthwas was leaking.

"Price of toothbrush and toothpaste: $3.13 (I heard you've been kissing the ground....? (: )

"Price to print a photo: $0.28"

And this was the picture under the sticky note! 

The sign says "But going to Homecoming with you would be priceless! Yes!"

I put all those items and more in a basket, took it to his room and decked it out with streamers and balloons. It was so much fun and just really helped me to be even more excited!

I can't wait for homecoming! (: My first high school dance (:

I'm such a lucky girl! (:

Sometimes We Watch Lacrosse.

Brady and I went to watch Brayden's lacrosse game! I really am not very good at understanding how lacrosse works...or any sport for that matter... but it was fun anyways. (: My philosphy is to just cheer when Brayden saves the ball from the net, he's the goalie. That's basically all I know. (: It was way fun though, and he did great! (: Go Brayden!! (:

He's my favorite! (: And he did amazing! Best lacrosse player I know (:

Good job Brayden (: (: