Turmoil Up North

This is a funny Christmas comic. Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas!

It's been a while, but I just wanted to share a poem I wrote this month. Merry Christmas!

Christmas Tree

Shiny strands of silver beads
Climb like hikers on a hill
They gracefully wind their way around
The branches they were made to fill

The orbs of glass so bright and bold
Hang like stars in the midnight sky
They fill the space left in between
The dense, dark foliage, low and high

Radiant lights of a shimmering sheen
Glitter like a city in the shadowy night
They ardently blaze through the dusky gloom
Glimmering, dazzling, gleaming so bright

Valograms

For Valentines Day my school is doing valograms, where you can pay a dollar to send a chocolate rose to someone (you need to know their seventh period class though) or fifty cents to send a sucker. All the money raised is going to Haiti this year, which is good because I was feeling a bit guilty for spending seventeen dollars on my friends. Do you think I went overboard?

Happy Valentines Day (in ten days)!!!

Update

It's been a while, I know, but the holidays are crazy...we spent time at my Grandparents' house as well as our own. I had fun with my cousins and aunts and uncles. One thing we did was go to see Avatar in theaters!!! It was totally awesome, except for all the horrible language...if they had just cut out or changed the swears, that movie would have been pretty much perfect.

Christmas was awesome, and I'm not going to say everything that I got, but I got a brand new dark blue camera!!! I love it, and I expect you'll be seeing more photos on here than usual. I also got candy, money, notebooks and other craft supplies, clothes, and more. Plus, soon we're getting a Wii!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait!

School is back, and going pretty well...Junior High is a lot harder than Elementary School, but I'm doing all right with it. The new semester is starting soon, and I'll have a change in my classes, but I hope it's not too hard to deal with.

I got my braces off!!! At first it felt really slimy and weird, but it's starting to feel more normal. I'm getting a retainer this week, and it's going to be sparkly blue. My friends were (for the most part) excited for me, though some are having a hard time getting used to my new look. They'll get over it soon though. :)

Some of you might be wondering if I'm still into writing, and if I'm ever going to finish the novel I started. Well, haven't given up the dream of being an author, but lately I haven't made much time for writing. But I still enjoy it. Someday I would like to finish the book I started, and I've had inspiration from other books I've read (I just finished Legacy which was written by Cayla Kluver when she was only a couple years older than me), but I haven't really gotten started on it yet. I'll let you know if I do get somewhere with it. I have written in my journal every day for about two months now...and I continue to do so.

New Years Resolutions:

-Write at least once a week
-Blog at least twice a month
-Run or walk a little every day
-Brush and floss every day
-Be kinder to everyone
-Write a song at least every 2 months
-Write in my journal every day
-Read The Bible
-Do 2 sections of Personal Progress

Wishing you all a happy year of 2010!!!

In Just a Few Days...

...Christmas will be here! I'm so excited. My aunt and uncle are coming to join us for the holidays, and we're going to drive up to my Grandparent's on Christmas afternoon. On Christmas Eve I get to open one present (that's our tradition). I'm so excited!

I don't want very much stuff (and what I do want very much is way too expensive; an i-Pod Touch), and I used to want more...but I don't want it anymore. I wanted the Himalayan Cat Webkinz, but I looked at some customer reviews and figured out that it is a lot worse than I thought (like, WAY worse)...here's one photo of it: Himalayan Cat Webkinz (sadly, that's not one of a kind).

So, I don't want that anymore. I still want a Whimsey Dragon Webkinz, candy, clothes, and surprises - and that's about it.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of my readers!

13!!!

I'm finally thirteen!!! I had a great birthday. First, I had breakfast with my friends at my house before school. Then I opened gifts which included a camera, toothpaste, razors, shampoo & conditioner, and tons of stickers from my parents, as well as a fifty dollar check from my grandparents, a home-made journal from one friend, a sketch notebook from another friend, and lots of candy.

Then we drove to school, where my friend paraded around the school pointing at me and shouting, "It's her birthday! It's her birthday!! Guess what guys, it's her BIRTHDAY!!!". My friends also decorated my locker with sweet/funny notes, and left more notes in my gym locker. Then during gym my friend stuck a package with an adorable card, stickers, a king size KitKat bar, and a king size Reseese Peanut Butter Cup in my gym locker. Two people in my algebra class gave me giant Skittles packs, my English and science classes sang happy birthday to me, my friends and a school counselor sang happy birthday to me during lunch, my school counselor chatted with me and gave me a pencil for my birthday, and about a million people congratulated me and gave me cards. It was awesome.

For dinner, my mom made my favorite: salmon!!! Also, I got another present - a container full of my absolute favorite food: raspberries!!! I LOVE raspberries. They are the sweetest, juiciest, yummiest things in the whole world...anyway, after dinner was the big birthday dessert - Double Cream Lemon Pie!!! That is my FAVORITE kind of pie. It was amazing.

Overall, I had a perfectly wonderful, fantabulous 13th birthday!!!

Summer Craziness

This summer has flown by! We're almost half-way through, and I need to catch up. I'll just mention a few fun things that have happened:

• Went to Yellowstone National Park - amazing!!! We saw a bear, a wolf, deer, (I think) an elk, and tons of bison/buffaloes! Plus magnificent geysers!
  
• Had tons of fun with cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents including
• -Played Capture the Flag in the dark, Mafia and Kick the Can - SUCH FUN GAMES!!!
• -Had a tea party, spoke in a British accent, and watched Jane Eyre with the girls!
• -Went to the Fourth of July fireworks!!! They were awesome!!!
• -Played with the new chickens my grandparents got!
• -Played with the Wii my grandparents got!
• -Played fairies with the girls!
• -Saw "Up" with my cousins - it was awesome! (But the beginning made me cry)
• -Went to Cherry Hill water park with my cousins!
• -Went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house!
• -Went to Bear Lake and had a blast!
  

Plus, I've had some nice lazy days this summer to relax and do whatever I want...that can sometimes be the best part in the craziness of summer. :)

Christmas 2008

I had a great Christmas! My Aunt B. and Uncle D. came to spend it with us. Though Uncle D. had to go to work when we went to Grandma and Grandpa's, Aunt B. got to come with us! At G-ma's and G-pa's, all our cousins from Utah were there. I brought my fairy game books and a whole bunch of stuff, but they didn't so I wished I didn't have to haul all that stuff around. Oh well. Most of what we did was talked and sat around or played Moffia or cared for baby cousins. But it was fun. At one point I went outside to make a snow fort, but I was frozen and went back in to warm up and didn't go out again. That's not like me...but we didn't have an icy hill to sled down (there was a snowy one, but that didn't work out as well) and one of my cousins hurt her behind really bad and came in, and it was just really cold. So the uncles dug a big tunnel for nothing. Sigh.

I still had fun though. When we came home from the Grandparents, I read a book to Brandon almost all the way there without getting sick! Usually I feel so rotten after reading in the car...but this time the only time I had to stop was when my popping ear was driving me crazy. I was confused because my ear only pops on airplanes most of the time, and I can't remember a time when it's popped driving to Grandma and Grandpa's. But it wasn't that bad.

When we opened presents, I was unbelievably excited. I got TONS of cute clothes, new earphones for my MP3 player, a beautiful fairy ornament to add to my collection, my DREAM BOOTS (on the list; light brown ones), an awesome bookmark with cute kitties in a field, a book of fine fairy art, a book with pictures of me all throughout my life so far, candy (YUM), beef jerky (YUM), a kiwi (YUM), an adorable black jacket with a matching pair of leather gloves, binoculars, a cute picture frame with a fairy on it, a $10 gift card for Target, pencils, a notebook, a fuzzy pink bag containing fuzzy pink gloves, a fuzzy pink hat, a fuzzy pink scarf, and some creamy white lotion, and SO much more. It was so fun to spend the holidays with my Aunt and Uncle too. I'll miss them...

How was your holidays? What did you get? Write it on your blog (if you have one) or comment here!!!

Another Wish List

I forgot to put some things down on my last wish list, even though I received some of them. Here it is again, with a little added on:

Boots (Light brown, Dark brown, or Black)

Playmobil Crystal Cage

Whimsy Dragon Webkinz

New Jeans that fit me; the only ones that fit right now have a hole in the knee

I feel greedy saying this, but I know it's not that much. And of course, I'm grateful for anything.

P.S. If I don't send you a thank-you card, don't take it personally! I'm just really bad about doing that kind of thing; I intend to, but I never get around to it.

100 Things I'm Thankful For

1. My family
2. My friends
3. My bedroom
4. My bed
5. Books
6. Art
7. Math
   
8. Science
9. School
10. The library
11. My teacher
12. My fairy tree and things
    
13. My clothes
14. Computers
15. My MP3 Player
    
16. Technology
17. My talents, including
18. Writing,
19. Reading,
20. Learning,
21. Singing,
22. Making friends,
23. Typing,
24. and Teaching
    
25. Food
26. Drinks
27. A Nice House
28. The Holy Ghost
29. The Ten Commandments
30. The Temples
31. Heavenly Father
32. Jesus Christ
33. The Book of Mormon
34. Agency
35. Heaven
36. Earth
37. Space
38. Knowledge
39. The Sun
40. Gmail
41. Google
42. Google Reader
43. Blogging
44. Christmas
45. My Birthday
46. Easter
47. Valentines Day
48. The 4th of July (Independence Day)
    
49. Thanksgiving
    
50. My Mom
51. My Dad
52. My Brother
53. My Cousins
54. My Aunts
55. My Uncles
56. My Grandmas
57. My Grandpas
58. The 21st Century
59. Music
60. Young Womens
61. Church
62. The Sacrement
63. The Bible
64. The Doctrine and Covenants
65. The Pearl of Great Price
66. Weaknesses
67. Strengths
68. Utah
69. Vermont
70. The United States
71. The Chance to Live in a Free Country
72. Liberty
    
73. Freedom
    
74. Fun Memories
75. Animals
76. Cats
77. Salmon
78. Candy
79. Blankets
80. Stuffed Animals
81. Plants
82. Warmth
83. Happiness
84. My Body
85. My Brain
    
86. My Heart
    
87. Repentance
88. Forgiveness
89. Gratefulness
90. My Pen Pals
91. Nature
92. Energy
93. Friendship
94. Health
95. Good Transportation
96. Earth's Beauty
97. People
98. Miracles
    
99. My Life
100. Love

12th Birthday

I had a brilliant 12th Birthday! It was busy, but awesome! I had my birthday dinner the night before, and OH. MY. GOSH. IT. WAS. SO. GOOD. My mom had cooked the most delicious salmon there ever was in all the volume of the universe. She also made couscous, which is a delectable dish I first tried at the Living Traditions Festival. I think it's especially good with cooked spinach (HEAVENLY), but it was still good. She also made THE CAKE. She has made good cakes before, but nothing compared to this. Usually she'll go for prettiness rather than taste. But I will never care about prettiness again. Well, that's not true, I still LOVE pretty cakes, but this cake - oh boy. It was lemon, soaked in the juice all day. Oh. I'm sorry, I just wish I had a never-ending supply of it. Mmm...

Okay, enough about the food. I hope you aren't too hungry.

Then came the gifts. THANK YOU SO MUCH, Mommy and Daddy! And Brandon! And everyone else! Here is what they gave me, I love it all!!! (I won't say names besides my mom, dad, and brother, for privacy) :) I'm so spoiled...

• My parents gave me an adorable tiny pink MP3 player!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's wonderful quality, and so perfect!!!
• Daddy gave me a little pocket guide about space that I intend to read sometime - I have a few other books ahead of me. I've looked through it a bit already, it's really neat!!!
• Brandon gave me one of the things I really wanted that I forgot to put on my wish list (Duh, what was I thinking?!) - a "Girl with Cats" Playmobil set!!! It's so cute, a little girl with 4 cats, 2 mice, 1 fish, a food/water bowl, and a little hill where the mice live!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!
• He also gave me another Playmobil set, a little girl with a unicorn! I named the girl Bella, which Brandon came up with. Oh, and the girl with the "Girl with Cats" set I named Sandy. I just fits her.
• My parents gave me a wooden birdhouse that I can paint and do whatever I want to with! I might hang it outside, but probably in my fairy tree.
• My mom gave me one of the things on my list - a bookmark timer!!! And it's green! She looked for blue, but there wasn't any. I don't care though, I like green too...I've used it a ton already!!!
• A fairy statue, a beautiful necklace I've worn several times (it's a heart and a treblecleff, which is perfect because I sing, play the piano and the viola!) and money...THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
• A super-cozy sweater, a nice white t-shirt, a bracelet and a matching pair of earrings!
• A fun easy-bake set
• 4 pairs of very cute shirts
• An awesome squishy ball, 2 secret agency spy books, a pair of snake eggs, an adorable, fashionable mini stapler, and a sweet little pencil pouch with a fun design on it
• Fun nail set to really glitter your finger nails up, 8 mechanical pencils, and a fun notebook with a "B" on it - so perfect (I collect notebooks)
• An absolutely adorable sparkly"Super Girl" shirt and yummy-smelling lip gloss
• A cozy hat, handmade on a loom
• A pair of cozy "Lambie" slippers, a little lamb ornament, a little coloring page packet, a pack of 3 delicious smelling lotions

I hope I didn't miss any...

It's kind of funny, my birthday is on Veteran's Day so I never have and never will get mail on my actual birthday!

Anyway, I woke up feeling like a proud (in the good way) Young Woman, excited for the day. I went to school, and all went well. Then I went to my last Activity Days, which was so fun because the newest Young Woman besides me, Charlotte, was there because my leader let her come. Oh, I forgot, another present was the cake and beautiful CTR heart necklace that my leader gave me. Thank you so much!!! :)

After Activity Days, I had about an hour before I had to leave to get together with the rest of the Young Women and Men to go do Baptisms for the Dead. Charlotte and I were so excited - for I was just barely old enough to go. It was so fun to be able to share this fun experience with her.

So we drove up, talking and laughing with the others, shivering from cold and excitement when we got out. We went through this "secret" door on the side that I didn't know led into the temple. We walked in nervously, wondering what the inside of the temple would be like. We got our answer quickly - white. Everything was white, even the hymn books. I knew that white was a sign of purity, but I hadn't thought that THIS much white was needed. But it was beautiful.
First, we went to a counter where they take a good look at you and then estimate what size jumper suit you'll need. One of the girls showed us the bathrooms, which were round. They curved around one of the spires on the temple, so you couldn't see the last stall. And the ceilings were REALLY low. I thought they were so cool. Then we went to the locker rooms, which had high ceilings and short stalls that made me feel uncomfortable. We had to change into the suits and put our stuff in the locker. Next, we sat in one white room and listened to a short story that I have heard before, but it was special because normally it would be a stranger making a speech before doing the conformations and the baptisms, but this time it was a nice couple from our ward, which I thought was nice. Then we waited to do our conformations for the dead, where we do four or five people in a row, without getting up to shake their hand or anything. Then we waited to do the baptisms, sitting on benches till it was our turn to go up into the warm tub. There was a little screen on the side of the desk behind the glass, so the person baptizing could read the name of who they were to say. I was slow to remember that I had to have my hand on the guy's arm to do it, so at one point he had to tell me to "put my hand on my arm." I was scared out of my wits and worried when I was done what to do - no one had told me. But when I got into the shower room, I saw one of the other girls wrapped in a towel walking towards the locker room. So I got the idea; shower, put your suit in a box, wrap yourself in a towel, and go to your locker to change. I was the last one to do it though, and while every girl was having fun drying each other's hair in cute styles, I was frantically trying to just get mine dry so I wouldn't freeze when we went outside. I got to the point where it wasn't soaking, but we had to leave so I couldn't finish. It was freezing when I got outside, but my mom (who had come with) let me have her scarf (which is like a blanket when spread out) and that helped. We drove to Shivers, and everyone got to choose an ice cream or shake. I got an Egg Nog shake, which I shared with my mom. Then, because my mom had driven there in her own car, we drove home, just the two of us.


I had a fun, exciting, nerve-racking 12th Birthday!!! ;)

Birthday Party

I had a great Birthday party! We played a game where everyone starts with a necklace and you can't cross your legs or say the words

• Adorable
• Cute
• Love
• Hey

or someone will take your necklace if they hear you! It was fun. And the winner got a penguin Webkinz, second place got a cow stuffed animal, and third place got a candy necklace. Though it turned out that we had one winner and then a tied second place, but one person wanted the cow and the other the necklace so it worked out perfectly.
We also had breakfast of eggs, orange juice, and cinnamon rolls. It was delicious.

After that, we played the game where there's a bunch of chocolate bars and other chocolate things in the middle and you roll two dice. If you roll doubles, you take a chocolate bar and hide it behind your back. Once all the chocolate is gone from the middle, we set a timer for 10 minutes and this time when you roll doubles you point to a person and say, "I want your Butterfinger!" or something. But you have to say the name of the candy bar they have. Oh, and might I mention that I sacrificed my own chocolate but I guess it was a good use for it since I can't have a lot of sugar. :(

Anyway, we then had a treasure hunt. The treasure was two pennies and those where what we used to start Bigger and Better.

We split up into two groups for B&B. My group traded our penny for an apple, which we then traded for a box of crackers, which we traded for cake mix, which we were going to trade for 5$ but the guy said, "Keep the cake mix and the 5$. You'll get something better that way." So we went on to the next house that traded the cake mix for a pack of napkins but also told us to keep the 5$ yet again. Then the last house traded the napkins for a box of Kix and let us keep the 5$ for the last time. Then we walked home. So I got Kix and 5$ (whoohoo!). Now, the other group - well, in my opinion, they didn't do so well. They ended up with a big tennis box. That's big, but not better than a box of Kix and 5$. In my opinion anyway. Thankfully, two of the girls that got the box REALLY wanted to keep it and I was SO grateful to get that spider-attracting cardboard out of the house. We were trying to convince them that it's bigger AND better. But in the end they won the bigger and we won the better.

Overall, it turned out to be a fun and successful party!

Wish List

I've been coming up with a wish list, and I've tried to think of a lot of things to put on so there could be something to choose from, but I decided just to do a couple and then I'll obviously be grateful for anything else given to me.

* Black, Light Brown or Dark Brown Boots


* Blue or Green (preferably) plastic bookmark timer


*Blue or Green I-pod Nano


*Whimsy Dragon Webkinz



I'm so excited for the day one week from now!!!!!!

On Halloween 2008...

...I got a cold.


Boy, was I upset. It started the day before and got worse the next. I was tired and weak and we didn't trick-or-treat for a long time because of me. And I had to stop at our bishop's house to ask for a drink of water. Aye, aye, aye.

I got quite a loot, nevertheless. My pumpkin was filled and today I had some Junior Mints since I hardly had anything yesterday. And I'm feeling better. It wasn't a horrible day, I was just really tired since I had only gotten seven and a half hours of sleep and my cold was terrible. But I still had fun.

How was your Halloween?

Mother's Day 2008

Happy Mother's Day everyone!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

I'm Switching Schools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April Fools!

Easter!

This year we were at my cousins for Easter while our parents were on a great trip to Ireland. They had a lot of fun, but so did we!
I played a fun game that my cousins S & M and I love. We call it "Hogwarts." In it, we pretend that we are going to Hogwarts and we go to classes and have real homework that we do in our little assignment books. It's really fun.
We also played this game we call "The Jail Game" a bunch with the boys. It's where usually the three girls are the runners or hiders (whichever you like to call it) and the two boys are the hunters. We kind-of made new rules to the game to make it more fun. Here are the (new) rules:

• the boys have to count to ten to give the girls a chance to hide
• the girls hide and wait for the boys to find them
• then when the boys find one the put them in the jail (which was the trampoline)
• the other girls have to rescue the caught girl
• the boys prowl around while the girls sneak up and try to get the other girl
• if the girls make it, the boys have to count to ten again to give them a chance to get away
• then, the game turns into capture the flag - sort of
• so the girls are trying to get the flag or whatever they're using for it
• and if they succeed, they win the game
• and if they all get captured, the boys win the game

So it's really fun. And we played it a LOT.

My cousins celebrate Easter early because the Easter bunny doesn't want to have to work on Sunday morning at their house. So on Saturday (early) we had an Easter egg hunt. We were allowed to find fifteen eggs each. I dashed around and found fifteen eggs in less than two minutes, and felt kind-of bad when there weren't quite enough. S and her bro. D got only thirteen and fourteen. Then M found that she had an extra and gave it to D. Thankfully, there was plenty of sweets so S didn't complain much.
Then the next day, S, M, D, and the other S's Grandma had another Easter basket for us! She's not even my Grandma! It was so nice. She had this candy necklace making set in it and tons of jelly beans and then (best of all) a huge bucket filled with ADORABLE hair clips and ponytail/pigtail holders. They were all colorful and pretty. I wrote her a nice thank-you card after.
We had a lot of fun, but I missed my parents. I was glad and sad when the came. But now that I'm back, I realize (again) that there is no place like home - not just for the holidays - anytime.

St. Patrick's Day

Yesterday was fun. We didn't do anything in class that had to do with St. Patrick's Day, but we had an assembly where Irish dancers came to visit us and dance. It was neat.
I pinched a few people, not hard, but one of them I pinched did have green on. I ran away from her, but then she got me back during lunch.
Overall, it was a good St. Patty's Day!

Happy ♥ Day!

Happy ♥ Day!

Christmas 2007 ♥ ♥ ♥

This Christmas was AWESOME!!! I got a ton of presents and gave a few too. Here's what I gave and got:

GAVE:

Clara: a box of lip gloss

Amanda: a box of lip gloss

Mommy & Daddy: a little picture frame and some papers I wrote at school about a "Christmas Memory," "What I'm giving for Christmas,"and "My Wish List"

Aunt Bonnie: Brandon and I make a picture every month (taking turns) and send it to her for the "picture of the month"

And I think that's all. I'm not sure.

I don't think I'll write everything I got, 'cause that would take forever. That's why this post has taken so long - I was planning to write everything I got. But really, that stuff isn't important. Merry Late Christmas!