CHRISTMAS!

Christmas is coming and i am sooo excited! I should start by saying im sorry though. I have not been very good at writing. School is really catching up with me. We have snow here! I missed it so much back in Arizona! School has been reeeeaaaaally good! I have a lot of friends and it's been fun. I would look forward to school if i didn't have to wake up at 6 in the morning. I think all of us are liking it. Utah is great. I love our ward and our neighborhood. It is definitely a BIG neighborhood. We're having fun with that though.

MY DOGS!!!

Okay well i will start by saying that i am just fine with giving the dogs away now and i know it makes it much easier for my parents. We decided that they were just not gonna stop biting and not going outside when they had to use the restroom so we gave them away. We also couldn't give them the attention they needed with us going to school and only my mom being home between Monday and Thursday and she needs to d other work around the house rather than have to look after the dogs all day. i know that they are happier with the lady that they are with now.

school

well i started school last tuesday. I didn't get lost today for the first time. Here is my schedule

1.english
2.english
3.CTE introduction
4.choir
lunch
5.art
6.drama
7.math

I hate school but it's best that i go and i know that. You don't have any time with your friends during the day and i hate getting up early. Oh well on the bright side i don't have any bad classes other than english. That's my only update.

12!

Yes all but one of these pictures are from girls camp so i don't look that great but on the bright side I turned 12! On my birthday I got to go to the temple baptisms for the dead. It was all of the YW and the deacons. When we got there we walked in and the deacons were sitting there all changed before we even got into the dressing room. They gave us our "funderwear" and the big suits. i picked a locker and got changed. It felt very weird but i was okay with it. When we were all ready we went out and got confirmed and then sat and watched a couple of deacons and young women get baptized then Kenzi and i went to the font. We waited and then it was my turn. It was super scary but i still loved going to the temple on my birthday. When i was done i went and took a shower and then got changed back into my normal clothes. I just pulled my hair up and then we all went to ice cream. We went to the BYU Creamery. I love it there. They sang happy birthday to me and we ate then we left. we raced the deacons hom eand won becasuse they stopped at the car wash. When i got home i changed and then went up stairs to open my present. It was a really pretty ring with diamonds and a pink saphire i think. I love it so much! after that we went to a mexican reasturant and then home. My birthday was over. I really love going to YW and im glad that i got to go to the temple on my birthday.

MY LIFE LATELY

I'm sorry that i haven't been able to write lately but here is just an update. I have been going to YW and its been so much fun! I love all of the beehives. I have found a lot of great friends there and even some friends that are YM and the older YW. It has been so much fun going to mutual and getting to know the YM and YW in the ward. My class in church is good too and the bishop is great. School for me starts on August 17th, then August 18th only the 8th and 9th graders go and i skip, then August 19th we all go together. I have already met 3 friends that i am going to go to school with. I do miss Arizona sometimes but i know that its bettes for my family and i here. I keep a journal that i write in and i have been trying to keep with that. Okay so onto the other things our house is great. Our little kitten, Eddie, died and so we got a new kitten named Bell. She loves to bite which isn'tt that great but i still love her. We have neighbors named the Bennet's that we are with a lot and of course Auntie Bonnie and uncle Dan live next to us so we are with them almost all the time. I love going to Grampa Darrel and Gramma leomas on fast Sundays and see everybody. We haven't seen Jeff and Jen but i think we might see them soon. I have no idea what the plans are so i don't know though. We are about to go back to school shopping and get the stuff for our lockers, clothes, and just normal supplies. My best friend Sarah has been here twice and it's so much fun! i have been loving Arizona and i still keep up with eveyrbody from Arizona.

GIRLS CAMP!!!

well on Tuesday i went to Girls Camp! My first year! Our ward decided that we were going to go back packing. My pack weighed 30 pounds, so i knew that it wasn't going to be the easiest thing that i had ever done but i also knew that i was capable of doing it. At 6am on Tuesday we were scheduled to leave. We didn't leave until around 7 because people were late. i rode with my friend Sam and Rachelle. Rachelle threw up on the way so i decided that next time it was probably best not to ride with her. It was fun though. The hike wasn't as horrible as i thought. It definitely was hard though. Once we got to the top of the mountain where the lake was we ate lunch. After that it was just really easy. When we got there we all set up our tents. My friend Jenessa was in my family and was supposed to tent with me, however she got sick the night before camp so i ended up tenting with a fourth year named Elise. I didn't know her at all but i decided that i was only tenting with her so it wasn't that important to be her best friend. The rangers came because we had a little over 14 people at one camp site(30). They said that they might split us up but we could stay the night. The next day the rangers came in the morning again and said that they expected us to be split by that morning. our ward got fined 100 dollars for 4 different things and are now going to court. Of course after that we split. Only my family stayed at the regular camp, Cicely's family along with another went to the middle camp sit, and then KJ went to the last. I really didn't know my family which were Stacia, Janae, and Elise. I was really disappointed because my friend Sam went with KJ. We did everything as just a family except for the assembly's, devotionals, and free time. For our free time that day we went and caught some fish with our hands. Although we had to put them back it was all fun because most of them were all fat. I caught one fish with a fishing pole that day but i didn't have want to gut it. That was fun. By that night i was pretty much best friends with my family. We all really loved being with each other 24/7. The next day was the same as every other day. We would wake up early and eat breakfast as a family,wash dishes,assembly,free time,lunch,class thingies,dinner,devotional,bed. During free time we caught fish again. The bishop caught a fish that i named Chelsea. I let it die,squeezed the eggs out of her, and the gutted her. Most girls had to have help gutting them but i didn't have help at all. That night it rained SO hard! It was miserable. We had put down stacia's tent so her and Janae slept with us. I was freezing. Then we had to leave after breakfast and half of the assemble. We packed up and left. It took around 2 hours but it was really easy because it was down hill. Cicely stayed back with her friend shyanne because Shyanne was slow. I think she just didn't feel like going faster. I rode with the Pratt's on the way home. That was fun because i was right next to Sam in the back. We stopped on the way home for lunch. All in all it was fun and i made a lot more friends. I love my ward and my first year of girls camp was great!

MOVED!

Sorry it took me a while to write on here again but we have been busy. couple of friends and one really good friend. I have gone to church twice already and luckily my class isn't too weird but they are definitely weird. Anyways we already met a family named the Bennett's if that is how you spell it and they live down the road from us. They are really nice. We have been unpacking and most of it is done but we still have a couple of things to do. My dad is in Arizona right now till Thursday i believe. The people are coming sometime this week to bring our couch and some more furniture that we bought. It has been great in Utah and i sort of miss Arizona but i am sure that in a week i won't even care anymore.

MOTHERS DAY!!!!!

Well on Sunday was Mothers Day. I wanted to say a late HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to every Mom but especially my Mom!!! I don't think she was expecting presents from us because we used to just make them at school but now there's two high schoolers, two middle schoolers, and one elementary although Cicely, tanner, and i are home schooled but i did make one and even at school! Anyways Mom i love you so so so so so so so so s o so so so so so so much!!!! I can't give you the present yet but i think after this i will go finish it so that i can! LOL. You clean the house, pack for moving, take care of us when we are sick, i can look to u for everything because surprisingly one day you were an 11 year old girl, you help Dad teach us to choose the right instead of the left(i love you parky), you give up so much of your time to help us with school, and you deal with the dogs no matter how much you hate them. I know that it does get hard for you and that sometimes you need a break but at least those stinky teenagers are gone most of the time except Cicely. But mom i wanted to say i appreciate you SO much and I LOVE YOU! thanks so much!!!!!!!

MOVING!!!

Only three weeks and four days till we are moving! Don't get me wrong i am going to miss my friends her but i am more than incredibly excited to move!!! It has been four years here and i am done. I love having the missionaries over all the time but i love having family over more. Church is going to be really fun too. There will hopefully be more people in my class too. I only have 2 girls in my class including me and 5 boys. So maybe i will have more friends at church too. I mostly miss after church on fast Sundays. Going over to gramma and Grampas for a big dinner with all of the cousins and Aunts and Uncles and of course Gramma and Grampa. I think about moving to Utah all the time. It's going to be way better than Arizona! especially our back yard!!! See everyone soon!

packing packing and more packing

WE'RE MOVING! My dad got a huge truck and brought it here on Wednesday so that we could pack. We packed everything that we didn't need for six weeks. Actually not everything but like the basic stuff because of course we couldn't do our TV or the couches or stuff like that because those are too big but like in the bedrooms and stuff its basically all gone except for kjirsten and kyles room. The deseret industries have been asking for a lot of donations. Well that was their lucky day. We cleaned out our closets and clothes so that we would only have the stuff that still fits. Anyways i don't know if we are going to take any more loads up to Utah. But see everyone soon!

AIMS

Well i better start with telling everyone what AIMS even are. They are state-wide tests at the end of the year for seeing what level you are at in school. It helps to see if you are at thr right level in school and know as much as you should. Since we are in home schooling it's a little different. normally you just do it at school for a week with your class but we do it a little different. Since we have to do it with people i guess in like a cetain part of AZ we need a place to meet. I thought that it was going to be a library or something but its way different! We meet at a hotel. We walk in and then there's a sign that says AZVA and then points to thr right. so every morning we have to go into this small room with about 15 other kids in grade 2 through 8. All of the 6th grtaders are weirdos so i sit with Cicely, her other friend in 7th grade, and then our other friend in 8th grade. Yesterday we did writing and part of math. Today we did reading and another part of math. its actually fun because we do it for like an hour and then we get a break. during the break i did a cross word puzzel with Rebecca, Megan, and Cicely. Rebecca and Megan are our 2 friends. My mom takes us there and their mom brings us home. except for they switched places now. Anyways then we do another hour or so of the other subject and then we are get another break and go home. Today my mom was late because we finished early so we got our phones back from them and they let us talk becayse everyone was done. there was only a couple people left and us so it was fun. we also got to walk around the room. by the way tanner is there too. he sits at the fourth grade table and he has some friends there too so he likes sitting there. We will do this till Thursday and then we'll be done. Except for Tanner and Megan who are in fourth and eighth which are the two grades that do science AIMS so they will go on Friday too and Science is short so it won't take that long. Well that's it. Once I get the results back from AIMS then i will write another post.

UTAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As most of you know we went to Utah like 2 weeks ago and it was awesome! We stayed at our old friends house (the Richards) and they were really fun. They have 2 dogs and 2 kids. We got the whole up stairs to ourselves. There are two rooms and a bathroom. I loved waking up in the morning in Utah! Well anyways all that we did basically on Thursday was play with savvy, parky, Ella, and Alison and searched for houses. We saw 2 really good ones and 1 not so good one. Then on Friday we went to Savvy and Parky's again in the morning and played with them all day and i don't know if we ever went and looked for houses. It took me so long to write this that i can't exactly remember the days. Well i definitely remember Saturday. That's the day when we went to Savvy and Parky's again for Collins' 11th birthday party and Alison's' 1st birthday. We got there early though so that we could sled. We had fun sledding down the small hill but then we got bored so Uncle Dan decided that we should drive all the way up so that it would be longer and faster. Of course we agreed because it was obviously gonna be awesome. When we got up there i was gonna go alone first but we decided that it would be better if Cicely and kjirsten went first so they did. Uncle Dan and my Dad pushed them and they started to go really fast. At first everything was going well until we saw the boulders. Unfortunately they hit them and nothing serious happened. The rock hit cicelys back(which is just fine now by the way) and kjirsten got a couple of scrapes and bruises. After that everybody came and it was really fun. We played with our cousins and ate cake. After the party was over i don't remember what happened but i guess that we went to the Richards and went to bed.on Sunday was the best day! we had 2 stay home from church because cicely couldn't quite walk right. We went out for lunch and then we went to the Gramma Leomas and Grampa Darrels and had a big dinner and everybody was there. I REALLY miss that. After dinner we went out and played outside and then came in and had dessert. It was awesome to be able to see everybody. After that it was getting late so we went back to the Richards and went to bed. Basically all that we did was see family,look for houses, saw our schools, and slept over with Savvy and Parky. We found a house in Woodland Hills and its awesome! the Utah trip was awesome and i cant wait to move to Utah. we will have days like those every day! Well except for the beginning of Saturday.

highlights!

well as most of you know i already had highlights but i got more. i got some caramel colored highlights and i love them! I also got my hair cut and some layers in the back. Cicely got some reallt light highlights too. It was a lot funner this time because we got them done by a lady in our ward. It was waaaaay better because it wasn't loud and we didn't have to listen to this lady and her annoying laugh like last time. It was very peaceful and she had some music going too. We just listened to the music and talked. I lost my point. Oh yeah well anyways i love my hair and i am very excited to see everyone in utah! tata for now.

Not moving

Well i am sure that most of you know but we are not moving to Utah. We prayed about it and we need to be here for another year. I am very excited to stay but sad that we can't go to Utah. However we are going to visit Utah on March 11th so we can look forward to that! We have been taking walks every day and it is very nice here and i am not sure that it is going to be as nice in Utah but i guess that we will figure out when we go there! I miss everyone and i am excited to see you!

school

I just realized that i haven't written a post about how school has been lately. Well we just had scan tron tests which are tests to see what level you are in at school. You take a test for math and reading and then write an essay about a subject and what i chose was what would happen if you found a cave somewhere and went inside of it. other than that it has been pretty normal.

STUPID TOOTH!

well this isnt as big of news as kyles car but i lost a tooth today. well thats it.

kyle's new car!

guess what! we finished kyle's car and then we brought it to him at school. here's the whole story: we finally finished it today and then finished all of the touch-ups and went to his school. Kjirsten was in charge of telling everybody at school to come to his car and wait for him there. we got cupcakes and cookies and set them in the trunk of the escelade which was the car right next to his. When kids started coming we realized that kjorsten had trold all of kyles friends in the school. even some kids that nobody knew came up and started talking to my dad and looking at his car and taking pix. When we saw kyles friends and then kyle everybody started singing happy birthday to him and he was very excityed. He just stood there pointing at the car and his mouth was wide open. We gathered a crowd faaaaaast! Kyle got a tour of the car and then got in and turned the motor on and its veeeery loud so even more proplr came. It's a black car and it's a 1973 roadrunner. i think thaty there will be some videos of it on our families blog. well it was so much fun and everybody loved it. I hope some day i will have a car as cool as that!

FUN IN THE SUN!

Today was the day that my parents were supposed to come home from their weekend at a really cool resort for my Moms birthday. They went to the pool yesterday and decided that my brothers and sisters and I would have so much fun in the pool so they called us that night and told us to wake up early and get our swimsuits on because we were going to go to the resort for the day. That morning my Dad called me at about 7:15 in the morning and told me to go unlock the garage and let him in. It turns out he was a little bit earlier than 8 but it was okay because we left at the same time since the boys decided to shower before a day in the pool. We all hurried up and got on our rash guards and swim suits and headed to the resort. Luckily it was only half an hour away so it was nice to not have to wait a long time! When we got there we went up to the room to get my Mom and then went to a good breakfast. Turns out it was a buffet and it was delicious! After that we went out and played in the lazy river which we nicknamed the razy liver because we weren't very lazy is there! Turns out that swimming against the current is quite fun! Of course there was almost nobody there this early so that made it all the better and my parents enjoyed watching us play while they got a tan. Parents, so boring! After that we went and sat in the hot tub abd played some ping pong and then yet again we went back to the razy liver to mess around yet again! kids, so fun! When we were all tired of the razy liver (at this time it was about 12:30) all of the kids got out with our parents and decided to get a tan while texting. We all decided that we should go get lunch so we went to the same restaurant (no buffet for lunch)and all of us except for my mom and kyle ended up trading our food because we didn't want the food that we ordered. After that we all had out last energy left we went with our swimsuits on to go play tag on their grass. We did tag for a while but we all got tired of it and decided to switch to toilet tag which soon changed to car lot. It was soooooo much fun! Something that i forgot to mention is that we each got a lollipop with a scorpion in it that tasted like dirt. Well that's all for today folks! Happy Martin Luther king Day! whoa that's a mouthful!

I GOT A CELL PHONE!!!

As you can probably tell i got a cell phone for Christmas! It is a green quikfire for AT&T. I was veeeery surprised when i got it but i love it so so so so so much! however that's not all i got so i should probably mention the others! Well i got a purse, candy, a ring, other jewlery, clothes, Horton Hears a Hoo, a book, shoes, and some gum. I forgot to say thanks to Tristin, Aunt Candice, and Uncle Evan for the shirt! I already wore it and let me tell you i think i left my mark with the sparkles that fell of everywhere that i went! I had a wonderful Christmas and i hope that everybpody else did too! also HAPPY NEW YEAR!