Christmas Time 2009

Wow. I can hardly believe that this Christmas season is already over. I swear, the older I get, the more time passes by quickly! But I do have some really great memories from this month. Highlights:
1. As a youth group, we went caroling in a care center for Senior citizens.
2. We couldn't put up our tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving like normal because we got new carpet. We had a pretty exciting time moving all the furniture and having carpet torn out and put in. It doesn't sound very fun but it was! The only downside was not being able to put our tree up until about two weeks before Christmas. That totally shortened my Christmas season.
3. For our neighbor gifts this year, my mom decided that cupcakes would be fast, easy, and fun. Boy was she wrong! We ended up having to make and decorate a grand total of 154 cupcakes! This project took exactly 10 1/2 hours. Believe me, we counted. The fun part was decorating them with snowflake, gingerbread men, holly leave, and candy cane sprinkles, and other fun stick-outs with all different pictures. Then we went and delivered them all and sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to all the receipients.
4. Christmas eve this year was also a blast. Like always, we went to Mimi's Cafe for breakfast. I absolutely love Mimi's Cafe. They make the best hot chocolate (and food!) in the world! Then we went home and waited until the time came to drive up to Orem for our traditional Christmas Eve at my Grandparents' house. All of my family brings soup or chili and we just have a soup bar type thing. Then we perform the nativity scene. This year, I volunteered to be Joseph because no one else would! Lastly, we have a talent show. I was able to play my own arrangement of Silent Night. That was really a cool thing for me. I really enjoyed writing it. Lastly, we ate banana cream pie before taking the long and anxious feeling ride home. Upon getting home, we opened our one Christmas Eve present of tradition - pajamas! This year I got an adorable and comfortable set of Hello Kitty pajamas! I love Hello Kitty! Then it was off to bed for a horrible night's sleep.
5. Finally, the seemingly endless night was over and we all rushed downstairs to open presents! I had an amazing amazing amazing Christmas this year! Some of the highlights of my presents include: a Brand New HP laptop!! It is amazing! I happen to be typing on it right now! I absolutely love it! Along with it I got a wireless router so I can access the internet wirelessly anywhere in the house, and a wireless printer for my room. I also got some clothes, candy, coloring stuff, lotion, jewlery, games, notepads, and etc. As a family, we got a trip to Florida! Woo woo! We also got a new plasma screen TV and a new entertainment system, we got 3 new phones, and we got an Xbox 360. So overall, I am entirely thrilled! It is amazing!'
6. I forgot this earlier, but we also went to various performances this past month. We went to Isaac's Christmas piano recital, The Savior of the World, The Forgotten Carols, and A Christmas Carol. (The play, not the movie!)

I so much love the Christmas season! I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!!

Life's Latest

So, it has been a long time since I have posted anything. Really, nothing significant has happened. Oh well, I will find something to post about. So lately my life has been full of new people. I now am friends with BriAnna, Tyler, Brady, and Mandi. It is pretty exciting and I am glad to have fun people to talk to now! I have been keeping extremely busy on the yearbook staff as the editor. We barely made our last deadline, but somehow we did!! I am still writing letters to all of my friends and loving it! There is nothing more exciting then opening my mailbox to find something for me from a friend! It makes me very happy! I am pretty stressed out about all of the projects I have going on right now though in all of my various classes. I have one big geography project, one big math project, and FIVE giant english projects! Yes, I know! Crazy right? That's what I get for having Killingbeck for Honors English. Sigh. Oh well, I would rather be busy then bored! Um, I don't think I have any other new information. Oh, yes I do. We got new carpet last week. It was pretty exciting. Strange, but exciting. Yep, that is totally it. Ok, au revoir bloggers!

Things to Be Happy About!

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, so I thought I would just make a post on things that I am happy about! Today was a good school day for once, so I am in the mood to write this!

1) I am pysched to be getting my teeth whitened! I have always wanted whiter teeth and now I finally get my chance! The dentist took my impressions today and tomorrow I will be getting the whitening trays. I put bleach in the trays and the wear them at night! Yes!

2) Crowns! Lately, I have been loving anything with a crown on it. I love crown paper, pictures, paintings, jewlery, and of course actual crowns! If it has a crown on it, I would love to get my hands on it! ( I LoVe this picture that I took by the way! :)

3) Although I am immensely sad that Erin has moved, it is fun beginning to write her letters. I have written a couple so far! The last day that we spent together, we made "letter boxes." Whenever we get a letter from the other person, we put it in our box.

4) Just having a good life! Yep, the first three were all that I could think of for now!

♥ Until next time! ♥

Stuck at 7-11!

McKenzie and I had a very interesting adventure last night. We had decided to go see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince again at the Kaysville movie theater for $2. I loved it at the premiere and so I figured it would be worth it to go see it again for $2. We were dropped off by McKenzie's Dad and we went inside to buy our tickets. Except....it was sold out!!! Well, this was a problem. We asked the ticket guy f0r a phone so that we could hurry and call McKenzie's Dad before he left Kaysville. The ticket guy gave McKenzie his cell phone and she called only to get his answering machine. We had no other options but to leave the theater and look for another phone elsewhere. We walked down the street to Dylan's. We went inside and asked for a phone but they wouldn't let us use it. They told us we would have to go to 7-11 if we needed a phone. So we ran across the street as fast as we could (the crosswalk was broken so we had to wait for the perfect time and then bolt!) We went inside 7-11 and McKenzie called her Dad. Her Dad said that he would go home to drop off her little sister Lexi and be right back to get us. While we waited we bought pina colada icees, gummy bears, and hershey bars. We sat down and waited, and waited, and waited. While we waited we sang Love Story, Party in the USA, the Climb, Hot N' Cold, and the "Stuck at 7-11 Blues." People must have thought we were insane. After about 30 minutes, we went outside to look at the movies in the Redbox machine. We spent 15 minutes there just playing around and there was this guy there standing to the side of us. Apparently, he was waiting to use the Redbox machine!! We made him wait so long!!!! It was bad. So we went back inside 7-11 and an hour later, McKenzie's parents came back! We could go home! It was kind of a funny night. I now will consider myself a 7-11 expert!!!

Halloween 09'

Halloween was SO much fun this year! I dressed up as an 80's girl alongside my friend McKenzie. We looked so funny! (You can see the pictures below.) I went Trick or Treating with McKenzie at first and then with Lyndsey (who went as a beauty queen by the way!) I had so much fun with my friends. Lyndsey and I went back to her house afterwards to sort and trade candy. It was a great night. Halloween is an amazing holiday!

Headers!

YAY! I finally figured out Headers! I put a header on this blog and on my other one:
ashliesartworks.blogspot.com

Let me know what you think!

New Blog!

I have created myself another blog. This blog is different from most however because I am not going to be using it to tell of my life's experiences. It will be for my poetry, photography, short stories, and etc.. I have only posted one picture as of now, but it will look a lot better soon. Fill free to check it out.
The link: ashliesartworks.blogspot.com