Lexi Pexi

Pineapple Chicken

2011-11-09T13:48:00.000-08:00

So Brandon works 2nd shift and that is 3pm-11pm. Since we don't have dinner together, we have lunch which is like our dinner. So today for lunch, I came up with something crazy and new, called Pineapple Chicken.

We had no idea how it was going to turn out but it turned out delicious!

Pineapple Chicken, with rice and on top of the rice is a pineapple sauce like and broccoli.

If you wanna know more about this pineapple chicken and let me know.

Brandon's Birthday

2011-11-09T13:43:00.000-08:00

November 4th was Brandon's Birthday.

That morning, I got up at 7 and made one of his favorite breakfast, sausage gravy and biscuits.

It was so filling and yummy!

Brandon took that day off and so I made one of his favorite dinners, Chicken Alfredo and it was a nice candlelight dinner.

Chicken Alfredo and garlic bread. What is missing in this picture???

Time for dessert!

Happy Birthday to my amazing husband, Brandon!! I love you!

Answer to question: Glasses and something to drink. We sat down and then we're like there is nothing to drink, oops, so i quickly got it. haha.

Honeymoon

2011-11-09T13:27:00.001-08:00

After the wedding and before the Washington reception, Brandon and I just stayed in Idaho and Utah and we just did our honeymoon there.

We ate Olive Garden in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

This is the new BYU-Idaho Center. It can hold all the students who go to BYU-I for their devotionals on Tuesday. It started being built in the Winter Semester 2010 when Brandon and I were there. When we first saw it we were amazed by it, it looks just like the Conference Center in Salt Lake City minus the General Authority seats and the Organ Pipes part. It really is outstanding and huge!!

For those who have been to the Conference Center doesn't it look like it??

Brandon on the balcony part of it.

Me :)

We then went to Montpelier, ID to see his Grandma (mom's mom) and over to Heyburn, ID to see his other Grandma (dad's mom). After that the next day we went down to Salt Lake City and went to Temple square.

The observation deck. The Salt Lake City Temple.

In the visitor center at Temple Square there is a pay phone! CRAZY!

After Temple Square we went to the Greek restaurant Souvlaki's. Brandon never had Greek food and he loved it!

The gyro and fries. YUMMY!

We went over to the State Capital.

Me in front of the capital.

Us in front of the capital.

Then we just hung around, and saw friends, and Jackie (I cleaned her fish tank while I was there ;) ) and then we went up to Washington that Friday.

Bridals/Wedding!!

2011-11-09T12:44:00.000-08:00

On October 15th I got married to the guy of dreams, Brandon. We got married in the Rexburg, ID Temple.

First is some pictures of my bridals that were taken in Huber Heights, OH where his parents are from. We are now living in Fairborn, OH.

I love the purple in here! (On the right corner, it says Day, Natalie Day was my photographer)

Jumping in the air!

Laying on my dresss

October 15, 2011
Wedding day!

The weather was perfect for this day, as you can tell in the pictures. The very next day it was cloudy and raining. We couldn't have asked for anything better!

Brandon and I walking out the doors of the Temple.

We are so happy! Best day ever!

Dip in front of Temple

Us in front of the temple.

Love it!

Our rings and my shoes with my bouquet. Stephanie Springgay did my and my bridesmaid bouquets. She did a great job. Thanks Steph, love ya!

Brandon and I on the "stairs" looking at the Temple.

Story 0f the stairs for those who have not heard it. On a Saturday in the Winter Semester of school at BYU-I, I was having a rough day because of my crazy roommates. It was about 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Brandon and I were texting each other and then I said, well I'm going on for a walk. He asked if I wanted him to come with me, and I said that I will be walking up by the Temple and if he was there I wouldn't push him away. When I got up to the Temple to clear my mind and just take a break from everything, I sat on these stairs and Brandon came up and sat next to me. (A couple hours before this Brandon in the morning at 6:30am goes up to the Temple and works in the baptistery and the Temple is about 1/2 mile away from his apartment so in the freezing cold he walked back to the Temple which is all uphill since the campus is on a hill and the Temple is on the highest point of the hill.) In the freezing cold he and I sat there and talked for about 3 hours. There I knew that I liked him and wanted to be with him. We then started dating and the rest is history, we fell in love and got married in the Temple that we both met at.

more pictures will be on my facebook in the next couple of weeks.

Jackie's 25th Birthday

2011-06-21T11:29:00.001-07:00

HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY JACKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jackie, Stephanie, and David younger....

Jackie you used to be taller than us girls ;) What happened?

On May 25th, Jackie, favorite older sister, turned 25 on the 25th so therefore it was her golden birthday. She came up to Washington and did her top 25 things she used to do in Washington as a kid.

Every year for our birthday's we would go to Las Margaritas in Redmond, however that las Margaritas is now gone and turned into something else so we had to go to Issaquah. Its not the same but its still Las Margaritas and Jackie always gets her numero catorce which is 2 enchiladas with rice and beans.

David and Kerstin with little Isabelle

The birthday girl and Eric

Granddad and birthday girl

The Las Margaritas way of singing Happy Birthday.... look at Eric and see if you catch what he says at the end of it.

YUMMY!

Happy Birthday Jackie and I'm so happy to have you as a big sister!

Love you!

oh and sorry that this is like 3 weeks old but I'm slow.

HAWAII

2011-04-01T16:41:00.000-07:00

So I realized with a day where I'm not doing much and I have a few minutes I figure i can update and share with what I have been doing so far. So I was able to go to Hawaii with the family I nanny for. I know how awesome is that! So we landed in Kona, Hawaii - "The Big Island" also know as the volcano Island, on Tuesday march 29th.

Elsa and I on the Airplane.

On the beach we found a sea turtle - I named it crush - from Finding Nemo. Hehe :) And it winked at me.

We got into our condo's - yes I know condo - not a hotel, cool right? Its right next to the beach. That day we went to the beach and all around there is volcanic rock everywhere and also in the ocean. so i went down to the ocean with Elsa, and as you get further into the water the bigger the rocks were. Well i stepped on one and cut my foot open - sweet i know until i found a lava rock in my foot and blood dripping everywhere on my foot. oops.

Elsa and I on the beach!

So cute - so we left early in the morning from Seattle at 6am so Vigo was probably up around 5 or earlier and Hawaii is 3 hours behind Washington, and around 8 pm here Hawaii Vigo was eating a bowl of cereal and just fell asleep. I just love the handful of cereal in his hand.

Gedde likes feeding the birds so he placed a piece of bread and ran off like thinking to himself... i didn't do anything... ;)

Vigo looking onto the roof at the birds.

After Gedde ate 2 eggs off of his Dad's plate and some other food plus his own breakfast he went over to Grandpa to eat some of his egg, but it wasn't the same as his dad so he didn't like it.

I love the sunset!!

At the beach watching the sunset with Elsa.

Elsa found a dead crab.

On Thursday we went on a hike at the valley - its a 900 ft descent at a 25% grade but its gorgeous!!! It is only a mile down - and up - but going up feels like its 5 miles! On the way back from the hike we decided to stop at this wooden playground that was huge and Gedde, Vigo, and Caelen played on it. It was fun. Gedde and Vigo loves to play outside and feed the birds, but if the birds come down and eat the food that Vigo and Gedde put out Gedde runs and chases the birds. Haha, so cute but doesn't understand the concept of that if you want the birds to eat the food you can't chase them.

Grace and Gedde on our way to the valley for the hike.

Ocean from the top.

Gedde on the swing and me pushing him - he loves underdogs! But it hurts just a little to push him because of the sunburn on my back.

Birds eating the "nest" Vigo made for them.

A movie of Vigo and Gedde setting food for the birds - with a tunnel Vigo made.

Awesome chairs outside that Elsa and I we sit in them... they are called barrel chairs.

Today - Friday, its been a laid back day. I stayed here with Vigo and Gedde and Caelen as the adults went to another town and did some touring and shopping I think - not sure where they went, haha. But We went down to the pool and I did my 1000 yards, that felt so nice to get some exercise in. Thats it - and just so far relaxing today.

Ohio and Valentine's Day

2011-02-24T10:17:00.000-08:00

February 9th - February 15th I went and visited my fiance, Brandon, in Ohio. It was so much fun! We got out engagement photos done. Had Valentine's Day, and planned the wedding - well most of it there is still a lot that needs to be planned still.

One of our favorite Engagement pictures!

On Valentine's day morning he brought me breakfast in bed.

Omlet, hasbrowns, fruit, toast, hot chocolate, milk - it was all so yummy - he is so good to me!

This is pepper - he is the cutest dog ever! he can be annoying sometimes but I love to play with him!

We had a heart-shaped pizza for dinner.

And a smores pizza for dessert. We watched a movie - salt.

I love going out to Ohio to see him - just being with him is amazing. I can't wait to go back and be out there for good!! I love you Brandon and thanks for an amazing, awesome, wonderful Valentine's Day and another trip out there to remember!

2010-12-14T23:01:00.000-08:00

December 13 – Day 13, my birthday!!!

Yay!! So today is my birthday and I had such a wonderful day. To start it off with I woke up by texts, phone calls of people wishing me a happy birthday and singing to me. I got up and opened Brandon’s parents’ presents they sent me and then his. It was so thoughtful of them. Patrick made a HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign going across the ceiling sort of thing for me. How thoughtful – thanks Patrick! The missionaries came over that day and we played games because it was their p-day.

Afterwards since it flooded in the valley we had to go the LONG way to the Springgay house for dinner which is about an extra 15-20 minutes drive. For the dinner we had Cornmeal pancakes, bacon, sausage, scramble eggs, and cinnamon rolls. It was all so yummy! So the Hanks, Grandma, Granddad, David and Kerstin plus family, and mom and dad were there what a wonderful turnout but I do have to say I did miss Brandon not being able to be there.

Of course we need pictures:

The Sign that Patrick made for me. Thanks!

Mom & Dad Wilcox

Sweetheart - Brandon

This is the picture that was taken from Jackie a her house - I don't have one from yesterday sorry. But as you can see I should have known my present before I even opened it.
haha.

Thanks to Jackie – I go this apron and a funny story about is that I helped Jackie make this, and I made all the decisions on it and I had NO CLUE on that it was for me. I always use a apron to cook, I love them, and they are so amazing so she made me one. Thanks Jackie!!

Thanks everyone to make my birthday a wonderful day!

I'm 2 decades old now.... SO OLD!!!

Birthday time - Day 12 - Picture

2010-12-12T07:57:00.000-08:00

Today is my last day as a teenager, the second to the last day of birthday presents, and it has also been a month since I got engaged!

So you may ask how does this relate to 12? Well, on November 12th we were in Kirtland, OH where if you are familiar that is where we got engaged. This picture was taken just about an hour to two hours before we got in engaged! Picture was taken on a bridge next to the saw mill in the historical kirtland. So November 12 = Day 12.

I love you Brandon, thanks so much, I love it! Just like I have loved the past 11.

Day 11 - 11 candy bars of my favorite!

2010-12-11T09:03:00.000-08:00

Day 11 - He knows all my favorite candy bars, well most of them and he got me 11 favorites. Yummy!

Mr. Goodbar, Take 5, Dove chocolate, Turtles (never tried but it LOOKS SO GOOD!) skittles (infact i was craving those a couple days ago), hershey's with almonds, hershey's cookies'n'cream, starburst, kitkat, twix, reese's.

Yummy! I got my chocolate cravings taken care of. :)

Birthday Time - Day 10

2010-12-10T06:59:00.000-08:00

Each day he will give me a clue and sometimes I'm really good at guessing and figuring it out but today not so much.... here are the clues:

10 doesn't refer to a quanity
Green & Gold
Riaders
Texas
4-2=10
30-12=10

Now if you know me 5 and 6 me being a math major and all can't comprehend those.

Haven't figure it out yet?

Now trying to figure how those clues relate to that? Well let me share with you.

that's plain obvious, 3 does not equal 10 so 10 doesn't refer to quanity.
Green & Gold are the colors of Wright State University - which where the concert was at.
Raiders - thats the mascot of Wright State University.
Texas - Texas Roadhouse, the Nutter I think was the place that we saw it at was right across the street of Texas Roadhouse.
4-2=10. Well 4 refers to the my fourth finger which refers to engagement, and he proposed on the 12th so 12-2 =10.
30-12=10. Well today is 12/10 so that is where the 12 is from, and 30 is a month - so if you subject a whole month then you are back to 11/10 which was the day of the concert.

Wow he really thinks about it and I can say I was confused and didn't figure it at all!

Thanks hon - I love it!

Birthday time - Day 9 - 9x9 squares

2010-12-09T11:17:00.000-08:00

So you may think what are 9x9 squares, well if you know me that means numbers 1-9, and placing them in squares...

...well if you haven't figured it out its SUDOKU!!!! I love SUDOKU and its so much fun! I'm not going to be bored at all - and in the book on the left, it has 16x16 squares so that will be so much fun! I'm excited.

Thanks sweetheart for it, I love it a ton! I love you!

Day 8 - 8 GB of memory

2010-12-08T10:52:00.000-08:00

So I haven't had a thumb drive before - and so for school and stuff I would have to send it to myself on e-mail so I could print out my documents at the library, or borrow Brandon's thumb drive for reports and stuff.

On this was just a whole bunch of documents, pictures, sheet music, and stuff throughoutour whole relationship that are just htings to remember and keep.

Birthday Day Time - Day 7 - 7 bottles

2010-12-07T08:45:00.001-08:00

Day 7 -
So I always get my sprays from Bath & Body Works and in that store it just SMELLS SO GOOD!!!!

So he got me 7 bottles of different kinds of sprays. In the middle is a little message....

P.S. I love you

So from left to right they are: Warm Vanilla Cream, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Black Amethyst, P.S. I love you, Cherry Blossom, Seasonal Amber, Coconut Lime Verbena.

They smell all so good - i can't wait to try them all!

Birthday Time Again, - Day 6 - 6 songs

2010-12-06T09:37:00.000-08:00

Day 6,
Of course the picture before I open it :D

In here is the sheet music for Not A Day Goes By by Lonestar, God Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts, When You Say Nothing At All, Making Memories of Us by Kieth Urban, Road Trip. by Jon Schmidt, and then finally How Do I live, by LeAnn Rimes.

These are just a few of my and Brandon's songs but I love them and whenever I hear one of them it makes me think about the love of my life.

Thanks Brandon for a wonderful day 6! I love it and I love you!

Day 5 - 5 different packets of hot chocolate!

2010-12-05T05:45:00.001-08:00

Day 5 - 5 different hot chocolate. I love hot chocolate and it tastes so good! YUMMY!

Day 5 - it is supposed to be green.

5. THe top 3 are from starbucks: Toasted marshmallow, peppermint cocoa, classic cocoa. The bottom twp are swiss miss: caramel cream, french vanilla.

i'm excited to try the toasted marshmallow! YUMMY!

Birthday Time - Day 4 - 4 cards

2010-12-04T06:07:00.000-08:00

Decemeber 4th, thats Granddad's Birthday, Lisa Myers Birthday and day 4 of my birthday!

So I don't know why its upside down - I tried turning it and it won't change...weird! But you get the idea though.

So whats inside!

Red Robin, Cold Stone, Subway, and STARBUCKS!!!

So he knows that Starbucks is my FAVORITE and Red Robin - well we both just like it there. Subway - in Rexburg was like a block away from his apartment and we went there a few times and its so FRESH! Then Cold Stone - Well its me, I LOVE ICE CREAM!!!!

Thanks for a day 4 Brandon, I love you!

Birthday Time Day 3 - 3 new verses of my favorite song

2010-12-03T07:38:00.000-08:00

Today is December 3rd, so therefore today is Day 3.

Three New Verses of my favorite Song, "Be Still My Soul".

In the hymn bok #124 Be Still My Soul, has been my favorite song for a very long time, and while at school I told Brandon that and he decided to write 3 new verses to it. Since you can't really read it in the picture I will just put all the verses up.

1. Be still, my soul: The Lord is on thy side;
With patience bear thy cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In ev'ry change he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul: Thy best, thy heav'nly Friend
Thru thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

2. Be still, my soul: Thy God doth undertake
To guide the future as he has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: The waves and winds still know
His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.

3. Be still, my soul: The hour is hast'ning on
When we shall be forever with the Lord,
When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,
Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored.
Be still, my soul: When change and tears are past,
All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.

Text: Katharina von Schlegel, b. 1697;
trans. by Jane Borthwick, 1813-1897

(Verses Brandon Wilcox wrote)

4. Be still, my soul: Thy rest ye shall obtain

From up on high, His love he'll never feign

His Spirit speaks to calm thy heart and mind

His love you'll find, thru'out your darkest nights

Be still, my soul: thy trials shall make thee great,

Endure them well; eternal blessings claim.

5. Be still, my child: Thy pains are known to Him

Thy trials of faith shall give thee strength for good,

His mercy, love, and sacrifice will win,

Thy comfort sought will soon be understood

Be still, my child; the Lord leaves you not alone,

Turn thee to him and let His love be shown

6. Be still, thy soul: The world cannot save

The way to truth is thru the Savior's way

To know its power is why His life He gave

That we can return to heav'n above someday

Be still, thy soul; thy faith shall keep thee strong

Through His great light which leads us e're along.

My favorite verse that he wrote is 5. I love this song and its so amazing, and it touches my heart.

If you want to hear this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ2b8oqmfgw.

My favorite version is the one that Steven Sharp Nelson did, he plays the cello is so good! This is a video that I made with a whole bunch of pictures with the music by Steven Sharp Nelson from his album Sacred Cello. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHNQb_S0Uk

Birthday time - Day 1 and Day 2 - One and Only, 2 bunchs of Kisses & Hugs

2010-12-02T07:52:00.000-08:00

So my wonderful, amazing fiance, decided to do 13 days for my birthday - since my birthdy is on December 13 and my favorite number is 13. :D

All the gifts are wrapped and ready to shipped....I'M SO EXCITED!! (this is at his house in Ohio)

THE PACKAGE CAME!!

So the week before the ring came - so here is the engagment ring! (This is day 1 - December 1st, but I got to open it early so it could last very long - I'm his ONE and only)

I love it! And I love Brandon!

Day 2 (December 2nd)

Hugs & Kisses :D I got so many from him. 2 bags of them, 2 hugs and kisses, 2 bunches of Hugs & Kisses :) Two always comes in pairs, and hugs & kisses always come together.

I'm so excited for all the other days! He is so good to me and I just can't wait to be with him FOREVER! Love you!

Jon Schmidt's Concert

2010-09-23T19:42:00.000-07:00

On Friday, September 10 I FINALLY was able to go to a Jon Schmidt concert. It was absoutely amazing and I loved it. First row seats right in the middle, best spot ever!

Jon Schmidt's All of Me song! I have yet to perfect it, still working on it. Its only part of it because the camera kept dying and this was my favorite part of the song. You can always go on his website http://www.jonschmidt.com/ to listen to some of his songs or youtube them.

Having fun with my phone camera - this is whiteboard and I thought it was so cool!

Jon Schmidt standing up and playing.

Road Trip - now one of his favorite songs to play. Only part of the song - its now on youtube his whole song, and I love this song as well...I just love all of his songs!

Waterfall was one of the first pieces I loved! Got me started to like Jon Shcmidt.

So Jon Schmidt said if you can tell me these notes you can come up and we can do a jazz song. So he played a Blues scale: C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B. By the time I was half way done saying them this kidin the back yelled out all of them...but I wouldn't even be able to do it becuase I was never part of a jazz band. :( but I knew the notes though.But he did really good. So for all the string players: a cello and any strig instrument can play jazz :) thats for all those who say we can't.

Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson played Love Story meets Viva la Vida, U2 meets Pachebel's canon.

So the cello part is very very boring in Pachebel's canon its just the 8 notes (D, A, B, F#,G, D, G, A in that order) for forever and ever and ever and it just never ends. So Steven Sharp Nelson was showing how to play it... you sleep :) This goes out to all the cellos who ever had to play that song - I'm sorry.

U2 Meets Pachebel's Canon -the more fun way to play it on the cello

"Well, Sounds like people know this song, steve. It’s a youtube master that we put together and we found out that we did the permissions wrong. Oh that was fun. Still trying to sorta that out by the way. Yes its 2 separate songs that we are trying to do tonight we were going to do it for you. So the first song we will play will be Love Story by Taylor Swift and then the second song will be Viva la Vida by Coldplay."
not in this recording - they played it twice. But before they switched into Coldplay he said "now Viva la Vida with this cool intro" haha
"Feel free to sing along" - he had a problem to say that in the beginning. haha. Sorry for the bad sound, so I added what the song should sound like, the camera died and so I went to my phone and since I was right next to the speaker it didn't really help much.

So a funny Joke that Jon Schmidt said that Steven Sharp Nelson was like....what? in this viedo.

Joke:
What does a Duck and a bicycle have in common?

Steven Sharp Nelson playing Love Story meets Viva la Vida

Jon Schmidt being himself - playing the piano crazily :)

Played with his foot

Jon Schmidt and I

Steven Sharp Nelson and I

Jon Schmidt, I, and Steven Sharp Nelson

And just for the record I got there at 4:15 and the concert didn't start till 7:30 so I got to hear the sound check and everything and afterwards before the concert started Steven Sharp Nelson came out and we had a good conversation - and afterwards before the pictures were taken, Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson both gave me hugs for being there so early.
For those who were there in August of 2009 in my ward, I play A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief on the Viola and that was written by Steven Sharp Nelson. - So cool!

Answer to the Joke:

They both have handle-bars....except the duck.

hahahahahaha!!!

I had such a great fun time - It was sad that no one was there with me so if anybody could come that I knew, I missed you but I went by myself :( But I still loved it!

If no one has heard of the Love story meets Viva la vida, here it is:

BYU vs. UW

2010-09-07T17:39:00.000-07:00

Saturday September 4, was the BYU vs. UW game. Justin and Danielle, and then Robert and I went together as a date and afterwards went to Red Robin for dinner. So around 230 that day I went to Danielle's apt in Provo, UT and I did my nails. and hair. Since we are from Washington State Danielle was being half and half - half UW and half BYU so she wanted me to join her even though I don't like UW I'm a WSU fan. So Danielle made me wear it so I did. :)

BYU is Justin's hat (Danielle's bf) and the Huskies is the ribbon that was in Danielle's and I's hair.

Them playing.

This is where we sat - they were good seats I guess, not the best but it was still fun.

Danielle's hair. My hair looked like that too - we had it in high pig tails and then ribbons in them. it was so amazing.

Us together - I started to with the cool setting with my camera on my phone.

My Toes. :) My fingers were the same.
It was tons of fun!! Oh and if haven't heard BYU won 23-17 :)

Ropes Course

2010-09-07T17:05:00.000-07:00

On Friday, September 3. Jackie and Eric took me to this rope course thing and it was so awesome. It was a rock climbing wall, zip-line and canoing. Oh and a plus side to this rope course was that I was on a date with Chris...who was very attractive! He was so cute!

Jackie made it to the top...only took her.. you know 15 seconds :)

Eric also made it.

I made it to the too but I don't have that pic with me.

It was really fun and I had a great time!

ECLIPSE!

2010-06-30T17:26:00.000-07:00

Tuesday night/Wednesday morning I saw the midnight showing of Eclipse. It was better than the first two movies that made. Danielle (who got me into Twilgiht) and I went to the Monroe Galaxy theatre - I do have to say it is the bes theatre ever! Even better than IMAX. Just because they have better seats - way more comfortable - so you can sleep while waiting for the midnight show to come on. haha. Well I just have to keep blogging - sorry that i don't have pictures for this - but I will get to see it again on Tuesday with Natalie and if I like it again for the second time then its worth watching.

Bree Tanner - Eclipse, Me Reading??

2010-06-24T22:56:00.000-07:00

Who is a fan of Twilight? Who has read all the books? If you have read the 3rd book, Eclipse you should also read "The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner" - if you plan to watch the movie that comes out on June 30 - read the book!

So Natalie - my friend, brought this book over to me on Tuesday and told me to read it, for people who know me I do not like reading. She told me to read it before I watch the movie - and mind you that the movie comes out next week and so I had to finish it. Well I started it that day and I finished it that day! Can you believe that, I read a book in ONE day!

Well if you haven't read it - I recommend you reading it. Its good and I really enjoyed it and you will too!

Oregon Coast

2010-06-24T22:19:00.000-07:00

Over Father's Day weekend I went to the beach, Rockaway Beach, Oregon with the Hanks. So much fun! On Thursday we drove down to Oregon and stayed with Danielle's Mom's sister for the night. Then on Friday we went on the beach and flew kites, skipped rocks, and just had fun on the beach. Saturday was a beautiful day and spent most of it on the beach in the goregous sun! Monday we drove back to Washington and i just didn't want the vacation to end. I think I need a vacation from the vacation.

Danielle and I on the beach.

The pretty sky on the coast - Saturday

We had the really big marshmellows to make smores - they were REALLY BIG! as you can see, this is comparison to the regular marshmellows.

There were these people that built the sand turtle and a sea horse too - it was pretty cool.

the same people built a VW beetle.

I had a fun time and I wanna go back. I love the sun!

Trying to catch up

2010-06-17T23:23:00.000-07:00

So it has been a long time since the last time I blogged… as you can see it has been since February. So I will try and do my best to get all caught up and try and explain my absence of blogging. And now that it is June everyone has said - You need to update your blog, you haven't done anything since February. Well that got me thinking - well I haven't done anything since then. Well of course I have..duh...so here you go.

Well at the end of January I met a guy…yes a guy. It was at the BYU-Idaho devotional with Elder Nelson.

Since everyone wants to see a picutre why not just post it up on my blog...sounds good so this is Brandon and I in front of the troll in Tremont.

So to make a really, really, really long story short I will just say that we met January 26, started to hang out and became good friends then started dating on February 25, and then he came out here to Seattle in the middle of Spring semester because I came back home after Winter semester. He is so amazing to come out and do that.

Well back to winter semester. So I took 8 classes, got 4 A’s, 2 B-‘s and 2 B’s. So I did pretty well but I’m still trying to do better like always. So graduating in Mathematical Education with a minor in Exercise Sports and Science Education (Physical Education).

Now in April. So I just got back home from school and as soon as I got home I attempted to break the world record of the largest ensemble playing the same tune all together under one roof. Did that with Jackie and David and had a blast.

Just a little less than 400 people like 398 or something like that all got together.
We of course beat the world record so I can now say that I’m a world record breaker :D I worked one day at the job I still have that I have had for about 2 years now at Kohl’s department store. Then the next 4 days I was with Jackie and Eric in Florida at Disney World! It was so much fun and I had a super fun time. Though Jackie may not know that I did because I was sorta...well, not in a good mood, but I did have a fun time and she did get my mind off of things and I was able to just to relax. Though after a trip with Jackie you of course need a vacation from your vacation.

And now in May, still working at Kohl’s and I didn’t do much, expect Brandon came to Washington but you already read about that.

The Space Needle, Brandon and I went there.

Now that it is June and I am in the summer league rifle shooting with David, Dad, and Granddad. It has been three weeks since it has started and the first week I got a 250, 2nd week 284 and guess what!?!?!? 3rd week… 351!!! Oh ya! That’s what I am talking about! I was so excited that night.

So now that is all done I am here down in Oregon with my “real” family as my mom would say for the weekend of Father’s day and am going to the beach in Rockaway. But I will of course will blog about that hopefully soon by the time I get home.

Well so sorry that it has been SO long but I hoped that I recapped everything and told all the good/sad parts about my life since February.

oh just a quick thing of course - I'm still working at Kohl's and doing all the many projects that we have at our house.

SALSA!!!

2010-02-06T17:26:00.000-08:00

Wow it has been so long since I have blogged, but here at college it is going great! I'm having so much fun! This semester is way better than last.... I don't have the crazy roommate situation again, and none of them want me dead :) So I think that is a good sign.
I have been talking a lot about my salsa and I was craving it. My roommate, Cristy is mexican and so she really likes spicy food, and two of my friends really like hot spicy food. So I just couldn't resist, I needed to make salsa! So I went to the store and got peppers, and I might have said to the two that I would bring them some... So here in Idaho the peppers were so cheap compare to redmond!!! I was shocked! But of course like always the haberano was the most expensive it was like $4 per lb. INSANE but cheaper than the 6.99 at Safeway. So I got everything that I needed.
So I spent saturday a good part of my day making salsa, of course I did my homework before I started.

I didn't want the oil's of the pepper on my hand... so i use my plastic bags :)

I need to make them really fine fine fine chopped! I wished that I had a knife sharperner because for me that knife was dull, but it worked.

No one was helping me.. I miss my dad. I started to cry.. My mascara started to run.. its not waterproof. My roommate was like, you look like you just broke up with your boyfriend or something. But its just the onions. :)

I didn't have a big steal bowl or glass bowl so I made a compromise and used my big cooking bowl that I cooked the pot roast in! It works.

I made a lot of salsa!!! These 4 glass bottles and i made 3 other glass bottles (about the same size a little smaller to the jar on the right.) Funny story about glass jars. So I didn't have any, so I went through my whole dorm complex and asked girls for them. I got about 15 of them but only used 7. So I have extras.. not sure what to do with them now because they didn't want them back.. So yay I have glass jars!

This is Kelsey. She wanted some salsa because she loves spicy food, so i brought it over, SHE LOVED IT!!! The jar that she is holding is what I gave the 3 people. (including her)

Of course I have to eat some to make sure it was just right... but something was missing... MINCED GARLIC!! I didn't have any, and it was too expensive at the store, but it was still really really really good! I love it!

It takes a lot of fridge space.. it should last about a month. A jar per week :)

So that was my saturday, and everyone seemed to really like it. They were jealous that I could make such good salsa.. if they want more.. I need to start charging ;)

(if you want to see more pictures.. there is more on my facebook, just some crazy ones while making the salsa)

meter shower/My blind date/birthday!

2009-12-15T02:05:00.001-08:00

So I'm not sure how long ago, I believe it was in November and there was a meter shower, so we went outside at 2 am in the morning and lied on the grass and watched for shooting stars, there wasn't that many as compare to before, but i did see a couple

Aubrey and Me

Hannah, Heidi and Aubrey in front of the BYUI sign :)

So last friday, the December 11. I had a blind date. To try and make a long story short. My friend Glenn in Physics was talking to me and asked if I would go on a date with his roommate, I was like No, but then he asked and said please so I said, sure why not, can't really hurt.. can it? So then as you know if you Jackie's blog that it was originally going to be on saturday at 7 instead it got changed to Friday at 7 because Jackie was going to come up and surprise me! (but i didn't know that at that time, and Glenn did, and he did a good job of keeping that a secret) So comes friday, and I went on a date with Jake. We made dinner and then played some games. It was a lot of fun!

Aubrey helping me getting ready for the date. (hannah taught her well :) ) -- in the bathroom

Got everything done, just have left is my hair.

hair is done! it is the final! Date time!

My birthday was on Sunday, December 13. My sister came up and surprised me on saturday morning and we got a pedicure, went shopping, surprised party, and laser tag! so MUCH FUN!!!! (want to see saturday pictures -- go to Jackie's blog)

On saturday I walked into my apt and everyone was in the kitchen, yelled surprised, and I, no joke jumped six feet in the air, and screamed at the top of my lungs. For the next 5 minutes i seriously was shaking. it was so scary, but so much fun! I loved it!

So on Saturday for the big surprise party, my roommate Amber made a cake. And she cut the top layer off, so my roommates Hannah and Aubrey are eating it. yummy!

hannah and Aubrey! eating chocolate cake.

Heidi and Aubrey!

So sunday we had a Kuwaiti party because Hannah lived there for a year, and brought us all back Kuwaiti scarfs and all put on fake nose rings!

My favorite of them all. We are so hott!

Check it out! our nose rings!

I had the best birthday ever! Thanks to Jackie and Eric and the best roommates ever! I have the best sister in the World!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-05T15:03:00.000-08:00

So, right next to my dorm, (That building behind it is the Smith, and my car is about 100 feet behind me) in the middle of the road/circle, the BYU-I people decided to show us how fast a fire can grown in a dorm. There have been some cases where people have tried to start a fire in their dorm, don't ask me why. So they built a "mini" dorm duplicate of the dorm and they just start a tiny piece of fire and it started a really big fire. Good thing the Fire Department was there.

The "dorm" before we started the fire. So There is a lap top, pizza boxes, pants, dishes, food, couch, a chair, table, and other stuff. Everything who would have in a dorm.

The fire department puttingit out... after 5 minutes of burning. (That chair next to it, was not even in the room and it got caught on fire. It was so hot! I can only image what it would be like with the 4th wall!

I'll put a video up but it is on my phone and I don't have the card so I can put it on my computer. So i'll do that once I get home for Thanksgiving. it is so cool on how quickly it started/and how big it quickly got.

Everything... Relief Society Teacher, MMA, and Me being self!

2009-11-04T17:47:00.000-08:00

So it has been a long time since the last time I have blogged, sorry about that. But here at BYUI it is fun and a lot of things have been going one.
So here wehave MMA, it is ground fighting. And there are only 3 girls that go, Me, Ashley, and Hannah. So one week we didn't go and the guys always seem to show off for the girls by doing pull ups. So the person who teaches us is Hannah's brohter-in-law and so he went in and said to them, guys you don't need to do any push-ups so show off for the girls because they won't be here tonight. One guy said, "thats okay they aren't even that good looking anyways." So Brain (the brother-in-law) told hannah then told us. So the next week we show up looking amazing. hannah and ashley decided to be "gansta" people and reall tough and I was the pretty one.

I walked in with glasses, and my purse and filing my nails with a big long black coat. Then dropped the coat and I was wearing my blue flower shirt with my red basketball shorts and then my hair was curled, and i sprayed a lot of perfume on and bright red lipstick. It was amazing!

Reminds me of Lady Gaga, sorta.

Hannah all tough and me all pretty, you can see how bright and red the lipstick was.

So I was called as a relief Society Teacher and I teach the 4th sunday about teachings for our times.
So Hannah and I woke up around the same time, we were both come out in our pj's and then walked into our rooms, at the same time and put our dress on, we walk out and we were pretty much wearing the same dress, well same material, very similar. So then we just decided to go all out. You can't tell in the pictures, but we both are wearing boots that go up our leg (well calf) and then same necklace, and earings and everything, then we both wore jen jackets.

That saturday night, I didn't have any homework and so i wanted to make cookies for the relief Society lesson, so I made sugar cookies in the shape of compasses, spent 3 1/2 hours on them :) not including cooking time, just frosting them and decorating them. It was fun!!!

N,E,S,W. They are are compasses because the lesson was about being a disciple of Christ and having Christ in our lives, so the cookie mean "Chist is the compass of our lives". Very creative right? I thought so :)

Just a sunday where we decdied to take picutres in the garden, These are my roommates and friends. (Left to right, Hannah (Roommate), Heidi, Ashley, Me, and Aubrey (roommate)

Me just being myself.... i guess... at least that is what Aubrey says. We have fun every night and Aubrey always has her camera with her and always takes pics of me when I do crazy things. this is when i said "when in doubt strike a pose" and she took a picture of that. HAHA!

First a Pot of Salad and now a Cucumber!

2009-09-29T14:15:00.000-07:00

So today at lunch, I came home and Hannah was eating a cucumber... You probably think that is normal, but she just ate it, whole! like a banana. She keeps me very entertained here.. who needs TV when you have Hannah and the Vegetables!

After 15-10 minutes....

All Gone! YUMMY!!!

80's Dance!!

2009-09-26T14:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday night we had a 80's dance. It wasn't really a good dance, is was okay but not that good. I wasn't too impressed with it. But the fun part is that you had to dress up in 80's clothes, so prior to this we went to DI and got some amazing things!

This is all of us, my friends, from left to right, Hannah's friend, Hannah, Aubrey, Me, Ashley, Hiedi, and Noah

We went over to Hannah's sisters house, Sarah, and she did our makeup, So thats Ashley.

Aubrey, Ashley, Heidi

Aubrey.

Hannah

Hiedi

All of us again, but crazy looks, same organization as the first one!

So it was a fun night! Just dressing up was the best part!

Washington Trip

2009-09-22T11:39:00.000-07:00

So last weekend I went to Washington with Jackie for Stepahnie's farewell talk. And when I got there my dad have me doing many projects. we replaced both struts and both shocks on the van. While I was working on the car Andrew came out and picked up the socket wrench and started to help me work on the car. It was so adorable.

Andrew fixing the car... smile...

Keep up the Good work, Andrew toook the tire off and is doing a great job! I don't even need to do anything, he is doing it all.

Food contest.....

2009-09-22T11:24:00.000-07:00

So yesterday night, around 9:30 pm, we, (Me, Aubrey, and Hannah) were sitting out in the living room and Hannah made a pot of salad, about 6 cups of lettecue, started to eat salad out of a pot!!!! Like a pot that you use on the stove. So she said, "I'm have a food contest" "oh really, hannah, with who?" "Myself!". HAHA

This is what happens when you stay up so late and the next night you go crazy! (Or if you just really like salad, or there is no room in the fridge)

Eating her POT of salad.

IT YUMMY!!

She did eat it all, about a half an hour later! It was yummy, she licked the spoon clean. Oh and she did eat with that white spoon, it was a spatula :) it was just entertaing to watch!

BYU-I

2009-09-22T11:05:00.000-07:00

So the first week before school started, we had an event that lasted 2 days called get connected, it is all for the new students. And so our team would me in the gardens before we did the activities. I miss all the people from i-team, but I hang out with them once in awhile. Its fun.

Me, Aubrey, and Amber, they are my roommates.

Aubrey and Hannah, also my roommates. I LOVE THEM!!!

Jackie and Eric came up and saw me!

Jackie and I in my living room. (the living room is that boring anymore, there are things on the wall, more homie :) )

When Jackie and Eric came we went to this mexican place, Las Magritas is still better, and Hannah came, my roommate.

Hannah and Me.

My room!

2009-09-22T10:59:00.001-07:00

So I'm here at Rexburg, Id at BYU-I. And I finally got everything together and put away and so pretty. So here are a few pictures of my room.

Me at my desk.

My bed, and my desk under it and a dresser next to it. I love my blanket! Its pretty and WARM! so comfy!

In front of my bed, this is what you see when you walk into the room. (i'm in the mirror waving;) )

My closet, all color coordinated, and then my laundry basket underneath.

BYU-I, the I-Night

2009-09-12T17:34:00.000-07:00

So here at BYU-I, all the new freshman or new students go to thing called I-team, and on Wednesday night, or tuesday night, not sure, i can't remember :) there was fun activities such as mechannical bull, which was fun, bungee trampoline, rock climbing and much more. Also there was Kirby Heyborne who came and did a show for us. So I went to it and I met him and got a picture! It was so much fun. I had a blast. There is also another picture too that is hairlious but i'll post it later. But i'm having a great time here at BYU-I.

Also, I'll post pictures of my dorm once i get them from Jackie :) I want the pictures Jackie! ;)

Harry Potter!

2009-07-24T09:15:00.000-07:00

Danielle and I went to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It was so much fun!!!!! The movie was so good and we saw it at the best Theatre, Monore Galaxy.

Oh Before this picture was taking, i was hugging dumbledore and was crying....but we never got a picture of that. It was funny and Daneille was hugging Harry Potter.

ROCKAWAY BEACH, OREGON COAST

2009-07-15T23:53:00.000-07:00

So this past week I went to the Rockaway Beach on the Oregon Coast with my adopted family the Hanks. It was so much, the week went by way to fast.

Danielle, me and Fishy (Patrick) Danielle and I call him fishy, and apparently I am Dolphy

The cow at Tillamook, the other cow isn't there, sad, but I'm the farmer and Danielle is the Cow. Sweet I get to milk Danielle. lol.

YUMMY YUMMY Ice cream!

The sunset on the beach

matching nail polish! It glows in the dark!

Building a sand castle

I got buried. Just like in the t.v. show friends. its a mermaid, if you can tell. with boobs too! and my and danielle's sand castle in the back.

The best aerobic excersie ever! It was like in the 40's. Megan and I are doing it. Megan is Danielle's cousin.

Fishy, me and Danielle.

Me

Rockaway beach. The Ocean. It taste like salt...duh..

fire

smores, Danielle makes the best marshmellows ever!

Smores in my tummy!

Awesome sand castle! Ours looks horrible compared to this

Yummy ice cream, 4 scoops, mint choclate chip, cookie dough, pistachio, and mudslide, (From bottom to top)

Bellevue College Graduation

2009-07-15T21:07:00.001-07:00

A week after RHS grad, was BCC well now BC.

It was the first time Belvue Colege gave out BS.

We sat right next to our parents. the Hanks and mom were sitting right next to us, front row!

The signer was more funny than the people singing. When everyone was applauding for the choir, Daneille and I applaud for the signer!

Danielle and I

YEAY!!! Graduated from College

Me and Danielle

Me, we always need the tree.

Springgay family, (birth family)

Adopted family, the Hanks plus Noah....

Me

Me and Stephanie

yeay graduated from High school, Seminary, and College. 3 graduations in 1 month!

High School Graduation

2009-07-15T13:53:00.001-07:00

June 11 I graduated from Redmond High School.

not graduated...

graduated...moving the tassel

Danielle and I

Stephanie and i

Stephanie kissing me ;)

My famous pose...

Lauren and I

Dad and I

Granddad and I

Monday, last day in New York

2009-07-15T13:20:00.001-07:00

Very last day in New York, we went shopping, and the empior state building.

Shopping down madison street, everything was so cheap.

me in the grand central subway station

the guggenheim

Something in central park

me in front of the empior state building.

Sunday

2009-07-15T12:12:00.001-07:00

Sunday, our performance at Carnegie Hall

Me in front of Carnegie Hall.

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The whole Orchestra group. Me in front row, 2nd from the right.

Ferguson's in front of Carnegie Hall

The stage

Antonio and Eric, they are amazing!

Carnegie Hall

After the performance we went to the crusie

Erin and I on bus

Satute of Liberty

I'm holding the Statue of Liberty

The water

Brooklyn Brdige

Yes we played cards.

Dancing

YUMMY FOOD!

Sherly Temples

After the cruise we went to Times Square and did some shopping.

M&M World

Saturday, Day 3, part 2

2009-07-14T13:49:00.000-07:00

To finish off saturday, we went to the museums....fun.

In central park the pond and there were ducks, they were so cute.

Museums, sami on right, and then me and the satute (i had to be just like it)

We walk out of the museumof natural history and there were these people, guitar person and a really weird crazy person, so MINE!!

Later that night.......

We played cards and Liz was listening to my zune.

Saturday Day 3

2009-07-13T15:27:00.000-07:00

WOW!!! I have been lazy! Well hopefully i will get the next couple days done of new york. Day 3, we went to wall st, and i have to say it is boring! nothing to see there except the building of the stock market. But we did get breakfast at this bagel place and also at starbucks. then to brooklyn brdige, and to little italy and china town.

There was a group of little kids and they were so cute. But that is George Washington.

Flag

Really cool chandelier.

This was mainly for Stephanie, I thought of Steph cuz it said ballroom on it.

Tall Buildings.

YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY Bagels. This is where we went for breakfast on wall st.

Sami and I eating bagels.

Starbucks now, and that is water.

Kiera drinking her coffee. she needs it!

LOL!!!! So in NY everyone is honking and we saw this sign and just started laughing.

Ben Franklin

Brooklyn Bridge

Sami and Kiera

Walk arcoss the Brooklyn Bridge

Verizon

Brooklyn Bridge

Saten Island

Liz and I on Bridge

Me on Bridge

The whole group, well just our group that went to breakfast and arcoos the brooklyn brdige.

Is it really that hard to reduce 2/10 to 1/5, why not just put the sing a little earlier and say 1/4??? They really know how to write fractions.

Manhanttan

They spell Subway, svwbay. So awesome!

Fountain, it was cool

Little Italy

Subway. Kevin with a really good soomthie. I think me, sami, kiera, kevan, kyle and liz all drank out of that :)

That was in the grand central market. It was super cool.

Day 2: Part 1

2009-06-22T16:44:00.001-07:00

Day 2 Part 1. So we took the sub way everywhere! So we started off going to Grand Central Station and getting food and taking the subway.

Grand Central

This Clock reminded me of the movie Madagscar.

departures, grand central station just reminded me the entire movie of Madagscar.

This is on the celeing. it is sooo cool

Cello's rock! well viola are way better! But while walking on a street we saw this cafe, it was pretty sweet since we were in New York because of Carnegie Hall.

Times Square

CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!

A really cool golden hand.

I thought this was disgusting!!!! And right about this was a flag!!! McDonalds is crazy in New York.

A pizza place. This is a philly chesse steak pizza, grapefruit izze and chocolat cheesecake. Its an amazing lunch.

TASTY!!!!

Subway at Grand Central

Sami and I with our Metro Cards! We are going on a subway.

Me, Sami and Kiera! On the subway.

Its the pole!!! (on subway) Left to right, sami, mrs.herron (rachel's mom), liz, rachel, and erin pokin at top on right.

Parking cars! Its for real!

We went down to Ground Zero, as you are walking to the area there is a wall and it had this on it. someone painted it.

This is ground zero. A big hole.

Me looking at the hole, Ground Zero.

BIG TALL BUILDINGS!!! everywhere in NY

Starbucks! Me and Sami

Me and Rachel

Subway sation, wow you can read. :)

Rachel and I at Subway sation. On our way to Brooklyn.

This was on the celing in the subway sation. It looked cool

Brooklyn Bridge stop ( we go to the brooklyn bridge and walk on it either on saturday or sunday.)

This lady, while we were walking back to the hotel, she was in front of us, she has some amazing hair!!!! she is so MINE!

Day 2: Broadway show, part 2

2009-06-09T22:35:00.000-07:00

I know, that I am getting these pictures up kinda late, but I have been really busy. So here is Day 2 part 2. We went to a broadway show around 7ish. We saw Phantom of the Opera. It was amazing!!!

Erin and I just waiting for all the others to come to the lobby. We are absoultly tired cuz earlier to that we have walked every where. So it is time to crash!

Since we are seeing Phantom of the Opera, I got really bored, and started to sing. Yes I was singing the guy's part cuz Stephanie normally sings the girls part. It seemed that everyone loved it. I love being the oldest there cuz then I can make a fool of myself:) Oh and Melissa, Christine, Erin, Libby and Rama were there and they loved it!

Thats me:)

Phantom and Christine.

Yes i know kinda blurring, but this is what the stage was like before started, that is the beginning where they sell all the items in the opera house.

I got a rose and a book, so I started tango in my seat :) kinda difficult if you ask me.

During intermission, this is the stage.

The chandelier.

The phantom was on this, but since i can't pictures during the show, i did during the intermission.

This is the whole group that went to the show, about half of everyone. Sorry for the blurriness.

So while we were taking the picture up above, these military people came and help cuz we had like 15 cameras wanting a picture of this, so they helped. the girl is one of the mom's that was taking the pictures. She attracted the military hott men! :)

Phantom of the Opera sign.

We saw it at the Majestic theatre.

While walking back, I saw this picture and I just started laughing, it was so hairlious i needed a picture of it.

Times square....

More times square and this is at... what time....

ALMOST 11 that is just insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is truly the city that never sleeps.

Empiror state building.

Taxi's and Taxis everyewhere!

This city is nasty, so at the end of the day so at night, you walk and they just throw their garbage bags on the streets and in the morning the garbage people come and pick it up. Didn't they hear of a garbage can?!?!?

Well that is day 2. Hopefully I'll have day 3 up sooner than i did for day 2. :)

NEW YORK!!! DAY 1 - Airport and the Hotel :)

2009-05-29T11:02:00.000-07:00

On the Memorial Day weekend, my Redmond High School orchestra went to New York to go and Play at Carnegie Hall. I took so many pictures and I have so much to say that I didn't know exactly how to put it here. So I decided to do it day by day. So the first day, we met at the high school aroun 8am and our plane took off at noonish. it was a 5 hour flight, but if you include the time difference it is a 8 hour flight :) here is the plane ride, we kinda got bored. I was doing my math homework, but that got boring after awhile so I tried to do my other homework, but homework was boring so instead we had fun with the camera.

So pretty much the whole plane ride I just listen to my Zune. Oh and those beads that we are wearing are the Green and Gold beads, we had to wear them in the airport so we knew we all belonged together and we wouldn't get lost. This is me and my friend Rama, i don't know what exacatly she is doing in this picture, but we did go a little crazy.

You could see the Statue of Liberty, we flew sorta next to it.

We landed in the Newark, NJ airport and it took forever for the entire group to get off the plane and outside from the airport. So we are just waiting for our bus to come to take us to the hyatt hotel which is right next to Grand Central Station.

This is Sami. We are very tired, and so she was trying to smile but sleep at the same time.

So we finally got to the airport, and oh my goodness, the hotel was AMAZING and HUGE!!! there was a waterfall and trees in the Lobby as you walk in, and oh get this, there was a floor that was ballroom, and there were 4 or 5 ballroom rooms. it was soooooo cool!!!

me in front of waterfall.

me again :)

so this was cool, if you are sitting on the ledge of the waterfall, and look up there were mirrors and it looked really cool so i took a picture of me in the mirror on the celing. Yes I'm weird, only because i was really tired!

this was our room, in it was my friend Sami, Erin, and Libby. Sami and I slept together :) But our room was small. This is Libby in the middle of the room.

he bathroom. you get into the shower and it was small. It was a little bathroom.

But it did have a great view. We were on the 19th floor.

How many wards are there in the Redmond Washington Stake????

2009-05-03T21:57:00.000-07:00

How many wards do you think there are in the Redmond, Washington Stake??????????????

If you are thinking 9 wards, you are wrong... there are 10 wards. As of 7:30pm tonight we got our 10th ward. The list: Redmond 1, Redmond 2, Redmond 3, Sammamish 1, Sammamish 2, Novelty Hill, Carnation, Big Rock, Duvall and Sammamish valley. Yup that is right Big Rock is our new ward. So now Big Rock and Carnation wards will meet at the Carnation building and Novelty Hill with Redmond 2 will now have Duvall in the union hill building. Big Rock is made up of 1/3 of the Carnation ward and half of the Duvall ward. Carnation, Big Rock and Duvall now have about 320 members in their wards. The bishop of the Big Rock Ward is Bishop Richey, you know Sister Richey from YW well her husband.

Well when I get an electrical copy of the new boundries, I will post it.

3:56am finished CP Portfolio!!!!

2009-04-29T04:03:00.000-07:00

As a senior you need to do a senior project, so I did ballroom dancing! The portfolio is due today morning at 6:45am. I finished it just today (this morning) at 3:56am. Don't exactly think i'll be going to bed tonight.

This is the front of portfolio, isn't it pretty?

First section, the agreement form, its not in there

because I don't get it till I get there to turn in my portfolio.

Second section, Hours log, 79 hours!

Third, Research Paper, 11 pages

Fourth, Annotated Bibliography, that is what took the longest,

I just did it tonight that was the only

thing I had to do, it only took about 3 hours.

Fifth, Thank You letter, with the envelope.

I was able to make the envelope on the computer,

so the addresses are not handwritten :) that is what I call talent.

Sixth, Evidence, Now I didn't take pictures when

I was dancing so I wrote all the steps I learned

and did my interviews in there, hope its enough evidence

Seventh, Presentation Outline, I love having taken
a public speaking class, and that was easy!

This is just how thick it is, not sure how many pages, too many to count.

I ate one and half packages of oreo's to keep me awake.

Becoming a blogger

2009-04-27T11:13:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, so since Jackie, Stephanie and now my mom has one, I guess why not. I will try and keep it updated and on here I will share my great adventures in NY at Carnegie Hall, towards the end of May. If I remember. Well that is it for now. :)