New Countertops!

This week we had a mighty fine surprise of getting new countertops... but this time they were granite! They look absolutely beautiful and our kitchen looks SO much better now. No joke. It's a huge difference. Mom didn't even tell me she was so smug until I walked into the house and... There they were! She picked out one of the best ones at the store, I must say. So pretty!

Also this week: I had a track meet on Friday in Preston, Idaho. It took us five hours there and back and lucky us, it snowed the entire time we were there. But I did get to see some pretty flippin' sweet sites.... the colored lockers, hand-printed walls, and the steps of Preston High School.. (Napolean Dynamite was filmed there).

Ashley had a dance performance in Utah on Saturday for the Odyssey dance invitational. Her dance team was one of three that were invited back to perform from one of her competitions which is pretty dang cool!

Next week is spring break and I am totally stoked! We're driving back to Rochester to see Josh (and go to the Mall of America of course!!) for the weekend then going out to see Sharese, Travis, and all the young'ns. At the end of the week (which it will pass by way too fast) we'll make the long drive back!

Just A Warning!!

WIth soccer, track, school, and church all going now at the same time, I'm going to be pretty busy! So apologies in advance if I don't update my blog for two months!

There's a little less than three months left in the school year, and the time is going to fly before summer is gonna be here! Just one of my favorite pictures lately...

ISU Field Trip!

Yesterday the two Honor's Science classes at Taylorview headed to ISU for National Engineers Week. Everybody participated in different areas to make projects whether it be: perpetual motion, edible cars, clay boats, spaghetti bridges, electric car, and mousetrap car. Ally, Shaylyn, and me all did edible cars.. and despite our efforts we didn't walk away with any prizes, just very sticky hands. We put alot of effort into it, but walking into the competition blind is pretty hard. The day was still so much fun! We played around alot and met tons of new people.. Plus, even though my group didn't win, Taylorview still won 1/2 to 3/4 of the awards. THat's right! We dominated!!

Both classes

Me and Katie on the bus

I met a new friend!
Our car died a painful death at the end of the ramp
To celebrate our wins in class Friday we had a little party with Root Beer and dry ice.

Our second food car! Rice Krispies, kisses, pretzels, and marshmallow wheels. We even put a liscense plate on it that said: "UBUGME"
We were really bored on our way down!! haha

St. George

I've been doggin' it on my posts lately so here goes...
St. George temple at night... So pretty! It just barely got painted. Apparently it is is made out of red sandstone and just painted white!! Fun fact!On one of our many dessert stops! We had to make up with teh mistake of getting ice cream from Jack In the Box so we stopped at DQ the next night! My blizzard was overflowing!Last week mom, dad, and I headed out to sunny, warm, 65 degree St. George for my Ice Breaker soccer tourney. An arch we saw on our way down....We left Thursday after school and went to SLC where we stayed with Devin and Julie for the night. Some nummy razzleberry pie was picked up along with ice cream for dessert.

What got me thru the long trip: Red Mango- frogurt, and homework. We began the long drive Friday and got there around 2:30. We stayed in Cedar City (about 40 miles north) at the Crystal Inn. They had the BEST breakfast ever. I was pretty much in love with it the whole weekend... despite the fact that it was free and served in a pub.. ANYWAYS! once we got to Cedar City we started shopping! There major store Christensen's was our first stop.

I was looking at some Mek's to try on when I reached into the pocket and found $250! in cash!! Wow! haha I toook it up to the front desk where we found out whose it was ( this lady named Tangie). It was definitely a warm fuzzy moment!

haha afterwards we stopped for dinner at the Hong Kong Buffet. Let me tell you, that place is SOOO good. There was so much food and even a sushi bar and a dessert bar and like 30 other bars of food! A chinese lady waited on us and I'm not gonna lie I was kinda scared. She kept staring at me so I felt pretty intimidated. If you look closely you can see her in the background with the pink shirt staring right at me!

"For buffet to go PLEASE make sure that the box is fully closed when it is finished. We will charge an extra price IF IT IS not closed!!"

Later that night we watched "Up" which mom and dad loved! Cutest show ever. Sorry, had to include this picture. I have to say it is the CREEPIEST rabbit I have ever seen so I had to document it! Saturday the games started and we played two, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The first game the other team was up by 3 goals at half but we came back and scored 2. In the second game we lost 1-0. I didn't get to play my main position (sweeper, defense). instead I played striker or forward, and wing. It was a new experience, but once I got the hang of it I got really aggressive!Me and Dad. and me and mom... bonding moment!!

With our extra time we escaped to go shopping and to play some golf. I got some way cute pants! and other stuff:]

We had a spaghetti dinner that night with the team at one of my friend's condos. We played the "What if" game. All the girls decided to gang up on our coach, Charlie, and after I had all ready written my question, I thought of an even better one! What if Charlie bit me??? refer to youtube clip.

Sunday we were able to go to a local church and watch the movie about hockey, "Miracle." the first time I watched it I fell asleep so this time I made a conscious effort to stay awake... yeah.. lasted about an hour!

Duke, Jill, Mom and Dad... the old rag tag gang!
Later in the day we decided to go visit one of dad's mission companions, Duke Hollingshead, who are also college friends with Mom and Jill H., out in Minersville. It was really fun and everyone got to reflect on old memories and times. WE also got to go feed Duke's cows and see his horse and baby calf, along with the old dairyWe also saw the Parowan Gap, with the crazy engravings on the stones. The Gap between the mountains!

(don't tell dad but there WERE buffalo there way back when!!!)

Monday we had our last game where we played the number 1 seeded team!

All the Taylorview gals! We lost by 2... or maybe 3. For the weekend tourney I thought my team played pretty good for only have 3 practices together. not even outside! We still have a foot and a half of snow in Idaho!Our whole team!

We shopped a little on the way home before arriving at our end of travel at around 9 o'clock. I got to drive from a little before blackfoot till all the way home! It was a lot of fun to drive, and to let mom and dad have a little break.

Well, that was it for our President's weekend! On to this new week with my science field trip to ISU to compete in the edible car contest (more on that later) so Hobey ho, let's go!

Sledding!

In between my studies for finals this week I thought I had better blog! New Year's resolution.... probably won't happen!

Well this week we had Monday and Friday off, so I decided to do some fun things with my friends. On Monday we (Emily, Ivy, and I) went sledding by my house and tomorrow (Friday) I am hopefully going to be well enough to go skiing with one of my really good friends, Ally.

Here are some pictures of sledding craziness... we took about 168 in all, but I will share some of the best.

Perching??Me and Emily! Locker buddies :]IVY!
Caught off guard.. Tongue sticking out!

Jumping into a snow bank
Emmy-lulu
All of our sleds!

And us.. paused for a moment in my room! So, hopefully, i will get some skiing pictures up soon!

Happy New Year!!

With everyone else wishing a happy new year recently, I thought'd be okay if mine was a week late. New Year's was great and we each had our own little celebrations. Mom and dad stayed home, Ashley went to Matt's, and I went to a couple of parties. Needless to say it was a great last day of 2009! I wish everyone well in this brand new year!.... and decade!

Snow days.....

This past week, we have been getting TONS of snow! In the last three days we've shoveled the driveway and the walk at least 6 times. Yesterday mom, dad, and I shoveled the entire driveway then when we walked back to the house, there was all ready about another inch waiting to be taken away again.... haha if we don't have some killer arm muscles by the end of winter I don't know what'll have gone wrong!! Today ashley and I did the back of the driveway and after we were done, we decided to build a snowman. Why not?? The snow was perfect for packing so we used some fabric for a scarf, raisins for a smile, ritz crackers for eyes, sticks for arms, and a carrot for a nose. We also had some surprise ingredients to give him some colorful red and yellow hair.. (i'm gonna let you figure out what THAT is).
It was so much fun when we got done. Today so far has been so much fun for the last day of my Christmas break. We're also going out to eat tonight as a family, and later I am heading out to go ice skating with a couple of my friends :] Stuffing as much stuff in before I have to go back to school and church which will start at 9:30 now instead of 1:30!