CRAZY!!!

Guess what! My life has been absolutely crazy for the past few weeks. Shocker huh. So Porter swam at state J.O.'s the other weekend. Much to my dismay I had to go here:

If you know me at all you will know that I am not a fan of this school...I never have been. But since my little brother was swimming at state I had to go down right?! So I suffered a little and watched my brother do amazing at state!! He got first in the 100 Back and dropped time in every race. He went to the finals in all 8 races he was in and swam a ton of yards! I'm so proud of him!

Brenna had two dance competitions this week, both of which I was unfortunate enough that I couldn't go. But from what I hear she did amazingly well! She also has one next week! I'm just hoping that I will be able to somehow work it out so I can go to that one.

I think I'm going to have to get my wisdom teeth out over spring break! How dumb is that?! But I do need

to just get them out. And I never have time

 so this is probably my best option.

I finally figured out my housing and such for next year!! I am so excited! And last night I was chosen as 4th Attendant to Miss Hyrum (Carlee!) It will be so much fun! I'm way excited! I'll post pictures later :)

Beautiful Day!

I just had to take a minute and say, today was such a beautiful day! With weather in the 50's I couldn't have been happier! I love that I can take the chance to walk to church, around the neighborhood, to the local park, wherever it may be I can go and feel relaxed. 

I love Cache Valley I don't think that I could ever move somewhere that was drastically different in landscape compared to home. But I guess you never really know. 

Guess what! I finally decided I'm going to be an Aggie!!! Utah State is where I'm headed in the fall and I am nervously excited. Since I was about twelve years old I have looked forward to the year 2011. I knew that this was the year that I would graduate from high school and move on. But now that it's finally here I'm nervous I'm so sure that I'm ready for all the responsibility that comes with growing up. 


There's nothing I can do about it...But I still tend to look at the past two years spent in high school and I think "Did it all really happen? Or was is a dream that I'm going to wake up from and wish that I could go back to sleep?" 


I know rationally that it's not a dream but it doesn't change the fact that I'm not sure I'm ready to grow up yet. Ah well. Life is not patient and it doesn't wait for people to be ready for the next thing it will throw at us. 


A song that I can't help but think about in this situation is Jo Dee Messina's "That's the Way" What a great song!!

DAY OFF!

Guess what! I didn't have school today!! It was so nice! Even if I only slept in for an hour. :) My mom and I went out to breakfast today at Village Inn and then went shopping, and I love shopping. Then after a wonderful day spent doing various activities we went home, changed, and went on a nice long walk together.


Then we got home again and I proceeded to get ready to go to work, my mom came around to corner with this shocked look on her face and I just kinda laughed thinking "What's wrong?" She pulled me into the front room and pointed at the laptop, I walked over there with her and looked at the screen, pulled up was a great priced package to go to DC for a week!!! I was kind of shocked! She smiled and said, "you know we're just looking at our options."

So I was off to work. Then a little into work I got a text, it was asking about my license and stuff followed quickly by a text that said "WE'RE GOING TO D.C.!!!" Yep, I am about to leave the western US for the first time in my life. June 6th can't come quickly enough!!

Some places I want to go:

                                                                   Lincoln Memorial

  Mount Vernon

                                                     The Smithsonian   

 Arlington National Cemetery

And many, many more places, it's too bad there's only so much time we can spend there. :)

Stuck!

Okay, so today as every Sunday, we were all rushing to get ready for church. I was basically I just needed to brush my teeth. My brother however was still in the shower, I knocked on the bathroom door and asked if I could just grab my tooth brush, he said yes. I opened to door and went to grab it, he asked me to shut the door because of the cold air coming in so I did. I quickly brushed my teeth since I was already in there and then went to leave. There was just one problem....The door wouldn't open!!! I pushed, I pulled, I tried to pull the door handle but it wouldn't budge. 


Frustrated I yelled for my sister Kaitlyn to come to the door. She also tried to get the door open and it still didn't make any progress. By this time my family is all on the other side of the door and laughing so hard that they're crying. (My dad, the only one I figured could help, was however not home.) I on the other hand am just getting more and more mad! Kaitlyn slid a couple butter knifes under the door (The only thing that would fit under) and I started to wedge them between the door and the wall. It didn't help at all however. Then I proceeded to take the hinges off the door....it worked on "Ever After" it had to work for me too right?? Wrong! Little did I realize that the door on "Ever After" was hinged on both sides. Our door is not. So after that fruitless attempt I decided to give up for a minute.

Then we (Porter and I) thought that if we took the door handle off the door then that would have to help, right? I was wrong again. But for some reason it gave Kaitlyn an idea. After almost 35 minutes of being stuck in the bathroom we finally got the door opened!!

We weren't even late for church...but Brenna had a great time telling most of the people in our ward about the whole ordeal. Don't you just love these kinds of bonding moments??? ;)

SNOW!!

Last night was an absolute blizzard!! Driving home from work I couldn't see past my headlights. Which was absolutely awful!! Then I woke up this morning and looked outside to see a fresh new foot of snow on my car. Combined with the snow from the past three or four days of storms it looked kind of like this walking to my car...

Okay, okay. So maybe I exaggerated just a little bit...but after a whole December and January of next to no snow to wake up to this I was a bit shocked. But I love it! I can't help but question however, why this only ever happens on the weekends. Instead of during the school week. I wouldn't mind missing class!!

Oh by the way, I went to sweethearts!! We had a lot of fun! For our day date we went to a friends house and just played wii games. (My favorite being just dance.) Later we went to dinner at the same house and it was so good!!! We had chicken parmigiana with stuffed noodles, and some wonderful salad with poppy seed dressing!! Needless to say it was delicious.

 

Then at the dance we went up to random people and gave them conversation hearts (of the Twilight version) that said things like "Bite Me", "Save Me", and my personal favorite "Marry Me". We got some really funny looks! :) And it was a great time.

                                                   

The next week I went on a blind date, which was a blast! We went to Panda Express for dinner, I had never been there before and it was actually really good. I recommend their orange chicken! Then we went back to his house and played Harry Potter Scene It. To which I knew all the answers having played that game so many times myself. And finished off the night by watching "Despicable Me". Which was so adorable!! I loved it!!



Spiders!!!

Okay, I have a confession for you! I am TERRIFIED of spiders! This past weekend I was home all alone; it was one of the most peacefull weekends of my life. But then Saturday night I couldn't get to sleep. I waited up for a long time hoping for a phone call from my brother telling me how he did. (Little did I know he wasn't going to call me because he was to busy being a STATE CHAMPION!!!)

Finally at about one in the morning I decided to just go to sleep, I could talk to him in the morning. But I couldn't get to sleep! I kept waking up every twenty minutes or so. At one point I "woke up" and there was a giant spider on the pillow next to me. Needless to say I flipped.


I didn't realize that I was dreaming until I had hopped out of bed, and hit my back on my bookcase. In the middle of yelling "Ouch! Ouch! Oh man Spider! Oh ouch." I  turned on my light and searched frantically though my bed covers. Of course there is no spider there. However, being me then I keep getting the phantom feeling that there is a bug crawling on me, even though there isn't.

Eventually around three in the morning I am able to fall asleep. I think I will chalk that night up as one of the worst I've had in a while though...

And let me inform you...in finding a picture to go with this I almost hyperventillated.

Swimmer

My younger brother is 14 years old. He is one of the most amazing people I know. Right now he is swimming at the Utah High School's State Swim meet as a freshman! I am so excited for him! He is such a wonderful kid. He tries so hard in everything from school and church, to friends and swimming. He always works so hard and I am so blessed to have him as my little brother.

I wish him the best of luck and am keeping him in my prayers this week! The rest of my family besides my older sister and I are down there (at BYU) with him cheering him on. I have such a great supportive family.