Some of the pictures I took:
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Little Sisters
I took my little sisters out to have a photoshoot today, just for fun (: I liked picking out their cute outifts. Little girl clothes are just really darling, pretty sure.
Some of the pictures I took:
Some of the pictures I took:
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Julie.
Sigh..... Doesn't it just seem like everything bad happens in October? For me, there have just been so many sad, heartbreaking things that go on!
I don't know, it's like Halloween curses it or something. But it's sad. Don't get me wrong, lots of good things happen in October too, and I like the month! I just feel like every year, the hardest month is October.
Sorry for the rant there! Anyways.
Julie is moving...... She leaves for Texas this week. She sold her house and signed the papers on it about two weeks ago. I'm kind of devastated.......
Julie has been my piano teacher since I was 10 years old! That's almost 6 years now! We have had so many good memories together and I've learned an incredible amount for her. I remember when I first started taking from her. I'd already been in lessons for about four years, but I remember her pushing me really hard from the first week. For the first year probably, I came home crying, just so upset by the challenging pieces she wanted me to learn and the high expectations she had for me as a pianist. I only wanted to play the slow, pretty songs, and anything that was supposed to be played quickly just terrified me. I'd look at music and just give up.
Well now, I'm asking Julie if I can do extremely advanced pieces that she wouldn't have ever asked me to do! I've learned the value of hard work from her, and she honestly taught me to believe in myself. I have a littler plaque in my room that she gave me that says, "If you can believe, you can achieve!" She really has just always drilled that into my head, and it's paid off. I live for fast challenging pieces now, the slow ones bore me. I LOVE the feeling of polishing and perfecting a really long hard piece. It's such an accomplishment and you just feel so proud of yourself. I would never have gotten to this point if it wasn't for Julie.
She has taught me so many amazing practicing strategies and she believed in me at those early times I would never believe in myself. She is such an inspiration to me and she is a phenomenal pianist. I hope to be as good as she is one day.
I'm grateful for all the fun times we had at my lessons each week. Talking about our lives, she'd always listen to the frustrations I had, or the fun things I was doing. We almost never stopped laughing, and she really was just such a great friend to me.
She helped me so much with all of my pageants, and helped me to prepare my talent pieces for them. I remember the first one I ever did, being 13, the youngest in the pageant by two years, and being extremely nervous. Julie helped calm my nerves and just made me feel so much better. She offered advice, and even showed up to watch me compete. When I won, she couldn't have been happier for me, but honestly it had a lot to do with her. I never would have tried a difficult piece on my own at that age! Since then, she told me about when she did pageants! I thought it was so great to hear all her stories. She helped me with my pieces to perform my talent around Syracuse that year and in many pageants since.
I can't believe she is leaving.... I don't know what I'm going to do without her. I just love her and look up to her so much. I'll be forever grateful for her, and the things that she taught me. She is one amazing woman.
Pictures from a few of the piano recitals I did with her (And trust me, I know these aren't my best pictures!):
I don't know, it's like Halloween curses it or something. But it's sad. Don't get me wrong, lots of good things happen in October too, and I like the month! I just feel like every year, the hardest month is October.
Sorry for the rant there! Anyways.
Julie is moving...... She leaves for Texas this week. She sold her house and signed the papers on it about two weeks ago. I'm kind of devastated.......
Julie has been my piano teacher since I was 10 years old! That's almost 6 years now! We have had so many good memories together and I've learned an incredible amount for her. I remember when I first started taking from her. I'd already been in lessons for about four years, but I remember her pushing me really hard from the first week. For the first year probably, I came home crying, just so upset by the challenging pieces she wanted me to learn and the high expectations she had for me as a pianist. I only wanted to play the slow, pretty songs, and anything that was supposed to be played quickly just terrified me. I'd look at music and just give up.
Well now, I'm asking Julie if I can do extremely advanced pieces that she wouldn't have ever asked me to do! I've learned the value of hard work from her, and she honestly taught me to believe in myself. I have a littler plaque in my room that she gave me that says, "If you can believe, you can achieve!" She really has just always drilled that into my head, and it's paid off. I live for fast challenging pieces now, the slow ones bore me. I LOVE the feeling of polishing and perfecting a really long hard piece. It's such an accomplishment and you just feel so proud of yourself. I would never have gotten to this point if it wasn't for Julie.
She has taught me so many amazing practicing strategies and she believed in me at those early times I would never believe in myself. She is such an inspiration to me and she is a phenomenal pianist. I hope to be as good as she is one day.
I'm grateful for all the fun times we had at my lessons each week. Talking about our lives, she'd always listen to the frustrations I had, or the fun things I was doing. We almost never stopped laughing, and she really was just such a great friend to me.
She helped me so much with all of my pageants, and helped me to prepare my talent pieces for them. I remember the first one I ever did, being 13, the youngest in the pageant by two years, and being extremely nervous. Julie helped calm my nerves and just made me feel so much better. She offered advice, and even showed up to watch me compete. When I won, she couldn't have been happier for me, but honestly it had a lot to do with her. I never would have tried a difficult piece on my own at that age! Since then, she told me about when she did pageants! I thought it was so great to hear all her stories. She helped me with my pieces to perform my talent around Syracuse that year and in many pageants since.
I can't believe she is leaving.... I don't know what I'm going to do without her. I just love her and look up to her so much. I'll be forever grateful for her, and the things that she taught me. She is one amazing woman.
Pictures from a few of the piano recitals I did with her (And trust me, I know these aren't my best pictures!):
Oh the lovely braces days..... Haha.
This year's recital....
I've been so blessed to have her in my life! I'm really going to miss her.
Halloween Fun!
Halloween is a fun time of year. (: I love autumn, and everything that comes with it! I was so sad to find out I have to work on Halloween night this year! :( It's really not ok with me, but I don't exactly have a choice. Well, I have done a couple fun things to celebrate Halloween this year!
1) At our FCCLA fall activity, we painted pumpkins for a first grade class at a nearby Elementry School. We were each given a name of one of the students to paint one for. I got the name Devynn. I assumed it was a girl because I'd never seen a boy spell his name like that. So let's hope it's a girl because I made the pumpkin kind of girlish. (:
I just painted the whole thing white, painted her name on it, and then did polka dots all over it in red, orange, and yellow. I thought it actually turned out pretty cute! (:
2) At work this week, we were supposed to dress up in our costumes! Well, I woke up this morning, and realized I had like 15 minutes to pull together a costume before I had to leave for work. I had nothing to wear and no plans. So I turn to my trusty little crown collection (: Pageants have once again saved the day!
I ended up deciding to try to be Rapunzel from Tangled! I put on a little purple dress that I have, did my hair in a braid and put flower clips in it! Then I put my crown on so people might be able to figure out what I was. Hahaha, it was interesting but it turned out ok. (:
My inspiration:
It's so cool to see all the hundreds and hundreds of pumpkins that people carve! I love our Syracuse tradition (: Seriously, some of them were really cool this year. I was very impressed. I had a lot of fun with Brayden, Brady, Justin, and Logan (: (:
1) At our FCCLA fall activity, we painted pumpkins for a first grade class at a nearby Elementry School. We were each given a name of one of the students to paint one for. I got the name Devynn. I assumed it was a girl because I'd never seen a boy spell his name like that. So let's hope it's a girl because I made the pumpkin kind of girlish. (:
2) At work this week, we were supposed to dress up in our costumes! Well, I woke up this morning, and realized I had like 15 minutes to pull together a costume before I had to leave for work. I had nothing to wear and no plans. So I turn to my trusty little crown collection (: Pageants have once again saved the day!
I ended up deciding to try to be Rapunzel from Tangled! I put on a little purple dress that I have, did my hair in a braid and put flower clips in it! Then I put my crown on so people might be able to figure out what I was. Hahaha, it was interesting but it turned out ok. (:
My inspiration:
My interpretation:
Pretty close, right? (; I didn't think it was too bad for a ten put-together! (: I love dressing up! Too much fun! Especially as princesses, which I love even more (:
3) Going to the Pumpkin Walk!
Other fun holiday happenings include the Halloween assembly at school, going to corn mazes, scaring Brayden half to death when he was at my house yesterday (haha (: hahaha), and soon- carving pumpkins! (: I hope everybody has a Happy Halloween!!
Project Mole Day.
For Chemistry, we celebrated Mole Day! Pretty much I still have no idea what a Mole is. It has something to do with the number 6.02x10 to the twenty third power. Doesn't really matter.
Point is, we had to do a project in celebration of the holiday dedicated to it! Yay! Well we could draw a picture or make a cake saying Mole Day and Avogadro's number on it, we were just supposed to try to be creative.
Well Baylee and I worked together and we came up with the cutest idea. We did cupcakes that looked like they had little animal moles coming out of the ground! They turned out perfectly and we were pretty impressed with ourselves. (:
We just frosted the cupcakes and then dipped them in crushed Oreos! The mole head are made out of cake pops we made and then the noses and feet we sculpted out of starbursts! We were definitely the most creative in my class. Our teacher even gave us extra credit (:
Point is, we had to do a project in celebration of the holiday dedicated to it! Yay! Well we could draw a picture or make a cake saying Mole Day and Avogadro's number on it, we were just supposed to try to be creative.
Well Baylee and I worked together and we came up with the cutest idea. We did cupcakes that looked like they had little animal moles coming out of the ground! They turned out perfectly and we were pretty impressed with ourselves. (:
We just frosted the cupcakes and then dipped them in crushed Oreos! The mole head are made out of cake pops we made and then the noses and feet we sculpted out of starbursts! We were definitely the most creative in my class. Our teacher even gave us extra credit (:
Just thought I'd share! They're too cute! (:
A Photo of Jewlery
I decided last second to participate in Mikayla and Allie's photo challenge! The last one I did was so fun, I don't know why it's taken me so long to do it again! Here's my entry for this challenge:
This is one of my very favorite necklaces! (:
I feel so underdressed without jewlery. I love it!
Sunday, October 16, 2011
This is How Friday Nights Should Be.
First, football game with all my friends (: I love these games! Such an easy Friday night party (: We played Weber and won! 56-21 (: Go Titans!
Me and Kenz (:
Daryn, Kenzie, and Me!
Brady rocking pep band (:
Me and Brady (:
Me and Britney (:
Me and Logan (Brayden snuck into the picture (: Haha)
Brayden and I (:
He had camera issues (:
He tried to take a picture of me (:
So I tried to take a picture of him(: Neither of them turned out very well.... (: (: He makes me laugh (:
After the game, Brayden, Kenz, and I went to Wendys! Frostys and fries? Basically rules the world.
And then... We went to my house and played Finger Slayer (I beat Brayden (: Woo!! That's an accomplishement. :) ) and also Kinnect! It's so funny to see the pictures it takes while you play. We had a grand old time (: Yes, I did just say grand old time! (:
Love these people!
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