Monday, December 29, 2008

What A Wonderful Christmas






I had a great Christmas this year. I was a lot different than last year. I loved the snow, when it wasn't ice of course. However, when I first saw the ice in the morning I got so excited that maybe just maybe I would get the chance to ice skate in my back yard. I geared up and went out into the blistering weather, stepped to the ice's edge and... I fell. I guess I shouldn't have relied merely on the fragile ice to hold me up. I made a snow man at about 12 am on one of the days. My family was supposed to drive to our cabin in Utah, but the road was closed. My dad booked a family cruse to Mexico and the Caribbean, Flippin' Sweet! Well the best part of my winter break was having the opportunity to just hang with my family and friends. Here are some photos of me and my family and friends this winter.


Wednesday, December 24, 2008

My Flippin' Awesome Ginger Bread House


Today is Christmas Eve and my family did a lot. Tonight Sarah and I made a ginger bread house. I do have to add that it was the first ginger bread house I have ever made. Sarah quit after 10 minutes, but I persevered. After about an hour of gum balls, gum drops, peppermints, candy canes, and a whole lot of frosting my master piece was complete. I am so proud of my skillful hand work. I owe it all to shop class with Mr. Holliger :-) Here Is THE MASTER PIECE!


Chemo Brain

As you all know my mom had to have Chemotherapy a while ago. Well...now when ever she does something weird or not how it is supposed to be done we blame it on the Chemo. We call it "Chemo Brain". I don't know if you would blame this on my mom or the Chemo, but all in all it is pretty funny.

While my family was making our neighbors their Christmas treats I noticed that there were drips of water and soap on the kitchen floor. With my detective mind and skills I determined that the water was leaking from the dishwasher. My dad then opened the dishwasher, as it was going, and there was mounds of soap bubbles everywhere. Mom then said "Where did all that come from?" No one knew, but then I saw it. The empty soap bottle. My mom is a crazy reduce, reuse, and recycle person. Now that we have the big recycling bins she washes every plastic and tin can we use so that she can recycle it. But what she didn't know was that the little bit of soap left over in the soap bottle would create this disaster in the dishwasher. My dad volunteered to clean up the soap bubbles. A detective like myself always has a camera at hand, so I got some pictures of the clean up. Check it out!


Monday, December 15, 2008

Strawberries on icecream...not gunna happen.

Hey I was looking at my sister Melissa and my Bro in law Brett's blog and I read this
Hi-Lariouse story. I couldn't stop laughing, I just have to share it with you.

Strawberries on icecream...not gunna happen!


So Brett thinks its so weird that I like foods separate rather than mixed together. I love fresh strawberries and I like vanilla icecream, but I don't like strawberries on vanilla icecream. To make him understand a little better I said....Brett, I love you, and I love Jennifer Love Hewitt, but I don't like you ON Jennifer Love Hewitt. I think that cleared things up for him.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Photographer for a brother

If anyone is anyone they know my brother Spencer. He is the world's best photographer and filmer. Liberty high school's film/photography room is named after him, "Spency's Room". When he went to LHS he was known for his talented and funny personality on LTV. Many of LHS's teachers love Spencer. He graduated in from LHS in 2007. He then went to Utah and helped with the making of a comedy movie called "Gentleman Broncos". The director, Jared Hess, is the same guy who directed "Napoleon Dynamite"and my uncle Duff Rich is a movie producer that made both of these movies. The actors you should know that are in the movie are; Sam Rockwell, Jennifer Coolidge, and Jemaine Clement. The movie will be out in 2009. Spencer is now attending PCC, and lives in Rock Creek Oregon. I have grown to love photography as well and I am taking a Photography class at LHS. If you ever see me you should ask me to see his book of photography.

Battle of the Spoons

On Friday night I had a group of friends over and we all played spoons. I thought this game was going to be a normal game like every other time I had played, but no it was crazy.
YUP! From this picture you can see I was the last girl to survive. Three spoons left and I didn't get one. I'm a little slow when it comes to spoons. David on the far left and Chris in the back next to me were the only two left in the end.
As you can see David grabbing the last spoon means he won. It was a victorious game. Chris got jealous of Davids win and he through the cards on David.
We basically stayed up till 1:30am, FUN!

Saturday, December 13, 2008

My Love for Hiking

This past summer Sarah and I flew up to Utah to spend some time with my sister Melissa and my awesome Bro in law Brett. All four of us drove up to the bottom of Mt. Timpanogas to hike up the mountain and stay the night.

We found a place for our tent, but our tent was like 20ft by 20ft, no joke. Brett is a big camping person so he has all the good stuff. Sarah, Brett, and I had previously cooked some stakes, so all we had to do was make a fire and eat. Brett loves chocolate milk so that's what we drank. Then we made smores, yummy!

After we ate we headed for bed. We got in the tent, a half hour passes and we hear this thing outside our tent. We all get up at the same time, and Brett says "Hey guys, did you hear that?" Melissa says, "I think its a bear, or maybe a lion." I am basically dead scared at this point. You could see the shadow of this thing outside our tent. We can hear it getting into our camp stuff. Brett then says, "Oh crape... did we put the chocolate milk away?" About 30 minutes pass and each of us are eventually passed out. (Brett was snoring.)
The next morning was Sunday and we all woke up to a hot sun and the sound of the people singing at the outside church down the road. It was a B-E-A utiful morning. I took some pictures and then we all cleaned everything up and got ready to hike up the mountain.

We get to the bottom of the mountain and began our journey up. This climb was a lot harder than I thought it would be. But eventually we got to the spot we were looking for...the waterfall.





We stayed up there for a while to take some pictures and hang out in the shade. I climbed up a big rock and looked out over the trails we walked to get to where we were. I could so make this an analogy to life, but that would bore you. After we were done there we decided to head back down. The nature was even more spectacular the second time down the trails. I loved our hike up Mt. Timpanogas, it was so fun. I would do it all over again in a second.

We drove home and ate dinner at Brett's parents house. I had a great day full of family, nature, and sore feet.

The Worst Plain Ride Ever!

I was reading my sister sarah's Blog and I found a story I would like to share with all of you. The story is TRUE and It happend just this past summer and it is written in Sarahs point of view.



Alas! It was time for Lizzy an I to fly to Utah and see our wonderful sister and brother in law! We had been so excited and we couldn't wait to be able to do loads of shopping(well more me with that one) and go camping and just to be able to have a little time withou the parentals would be nice. Anyhoo, we had my best friend, Kaitlyn's wonderful father, take us to the airport seeing as he also had a flight to catch.
As we are making our trip there he begins the ever famous "Hey guys what direction are we going?" game. Along with other various questions, most of which I have no clue of the answer. Then he starts talking to me about boys and I decide to joke with him and start talking about kissing and he goes "Ah man! You made me go the wrong way because you're talking about nasty stuff!" My plan worked, it got him off that subject very quickly! Haha so readers take note, if your parents or any other adult for that matter starts talking to you about the boys in your life, just start telling them about how you plan to execute your first kiss and they will surely drop the subject, espesially if you make it sound really gushy. Plus it's a blast to see their faces as you tell your story. Trust me it will work, at least with a man, women may be harder to drop the suject.
So after we had arrived at the airport we went to the front desk to pick up our tickets. The man there looked at us and asked our ages. Lizzy says, "I'm 14", and I say, "I'm 15". (Not anymore though!) With what happens next I just thought, we should have lied! He escorted us to a different desk and the man there told us that I being 15 could not escort a minor being 14 onto a plane. She was less than a month away from being 15 for heaven's sake! Anywhays, they then put a big red bracelet on Lizzy's wrist with capitol letters that say MINOR on it, and made us pay $100 extra for reasons completely unknown. This ticked me off soooo bad! I mean come on people, like paying more money would make me any more responsible than I already was! Idiots! I decided just to put the anger about that incident in the back of my mind because we were going to have so much fun! Little did I know what was going to happen next.
So we check our bags on, go through security, and go to the waiting area till we can board the plane. The man in at the information dest by the boarding gate spotted the bracelet lizzy was wearing and took our tickets and decided that we were too young and stupid to know how to board the plane ourselves so he handed us over to another person who was incharge of helping the old people in wheelchairs. When we get to the actual plane door a flight attendant with one of those big smiles plastered to her face takes our tickets and holds onto them. Since when did she have the right to do that?! That ticket was mine! We were then handed off to another flight attendant who must have thought yet again, "These girls must me too stupid to get to their own seats, so i'll just take them there myself." She also decided to make small talk the entire way to where we were seated, which was near the back of the plane so it took what seemed like an eternity to get there. Lucky us! NOT! "Have you girls done his before?" she said. "Yeah, like a billion times" I said back to her with the evil eye. "Oh good so you must be a pro at this" she says. Eventually we got to our seats. Whew! I was so glad that was over, I was so mad! But glad it was over. Ohhh boy was I wrong! Because the next thing I saw was that first flight attendant walking down the isle, that wreched smile still plastered to her face. I think it even grew a little! Ohhh man, what next?! She had come to tell us that we were to stay put on the plane after everyone else unloaded until they came to get us! How could they do this to us?! We had lives to live, places to go, people to see, shopping to do! And once again I thought that this nightmare couldn't get any worse. Well I bet you know what I'm going to say next, IT DID!
After the plane FINALLY landed, we waited there for about 20 minutes and the flight attendant came back to us and told us we could feel free to go sit in the first class seats! Whoopdy FREAKIN doo! Like that was going to help! So when we got out of the boarding hall and into the actual airport a woman stopped at the desk there and asked to another woman, "Do you want me to take them to Dusty's Den?" What in the world was Dusty's Den?! So they loaded some kids up on the little vehicles that older people ride through the airport in. Oh no, I was NOT going to go throught this airport on that with all these people watching me. So I didn't, we walked there with the woman. But we would'nt follow her, we just walked right beside her. And since we were doing that when she took the left turn we took about 2 steps more before we realized she had turned, but not before she said, "No no girls, nice try!" Oh no she did not just say that to us! She was accusing us of trying to escape! We weren't trying to, but i'll tell you, I wouldn't blame anyone for running for dear life from this hell hole emprisonment. So we turned into the place where she had giuded us and yes, Dusty's Den was exactly what I had guessed it was, a kiddy corner. NOOOOO!!! This was torture! Lizzy and I just stood at the back wall to wait when one f the workers there says, "Why don't you girls come sit down?" I'm like, "No, we are fine waiting here, we are leaving soon" She says, "No, why don't you come sit down." But not a question this time, a demand. I gave her the evil eye and go to sit down in those little tiny chairs where not even your whole butt fits.
A minute later, my sister calls me asking us where the heck we were because she was waiting outside for us to come out. I told her in a loud angry voice (just to make sure they know I am mad at them) that we were being held hostage and I didn't know exactly what was going on and what they were trying to do. So I ask a woman there what in heck I had to do to get out of here and where my sister could come to get us. She told me that she would have to get a security pass and comeinside to find us and sign papers to release us. So I tell this to Melissa and she has to now go find parking and do all of these things which she has no cluse how to do. She goes and asks one of the men that works at the airport to help her get a pass and to find where this Dusty's Den place was located. You wont believe what happens next, he gets mad at her! He's like, "You should be ashamed of yourself for not being here ealrier to pick up your little sisters" I would have kicked him where it hurt. How dare he? He didn't know anything about what was happening! So eventually she got to the prison that we were in and saved us. But before we left I pulled out a gun a shot them all.
JUST KIDDING! We left and went into the parking garage when she FORGOT where she parked her car! We eventually found it after searching not for way too long and were headed out. Then we had a wonderful rest of the trip. More stories to come about that though. And just a note, yes I do realize that this is quite a funny story because if I was reading this I'm sure that I would be laughing my head off at whoever this happened to, but it happened to me and it was TERRIBLE so I've been writing this with a scrunched up full of anger face. And another note, this may have made me seem like a very violent person, and lizzy did say that I had the look of a killer on my face, but I am a very friendly person. However I'm pretty sure that if I had one ounce less of self control, that I would surely be in the papers under the most wanted girl for killing about 2 men, and 6 women. But since I do indeed have self control, I do not have any cops to run from and nothing I need to go talk to the bishop for. WHEW!
So that is the our trip (of hell) to Utah. Thank goodness we didn't have to fly back! The end!

Friday, December 12, 2008

Truley Great Friends

I love all of my friends and they will always have a special place in my heart. I can name plenty of people that have helped me through my life struggles that I consider to be my friends and heroes. Here are SOME of my friends,heroes,and people who have changed my life for the better: My mom, dad, basically my whole family and cousins, but besides my family members. There is Kaideii homer,Tiffiny law,Jeneal bottama,Mr. Pruss,Mrs. McIntosh, Ms. Stephens,George Raynolds,and Elsie Raynolds, Jen Preece, Missy Cochran, and many more. Those are only some of my friends that have been there for me through thick and thin and have taught me great lessons in life. I can actually add one more person that has really helped me out lately. Who is it? Ms. Mulvey. She taught me how to Speak through poetry.
One of my all time favorite quote is:
"Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave,
but impossible to forget."

Poem #1

(Dobble click the poem to read it better.)
I wrote this poem for an English assignment.

The Shave


Most everyone knows that my mom had Breast Cancer last year. When she went through Chemo she had to shave her hair off her head. She wanted all of us to be a part of it. So Sarah, my dad, and I helped shave her head. It was weird, but fun to do. Here are some pictures of The Shave.
Today my mom still has short hair and we love it.

Starting something new

I was talking to my mom awhile ago about school and she mentioned something funny about my dad. She said "Dad used to be really good at poetry... but then he became a lawyer." HaHaHa! I still laugh about that. Just recently a friend of mine has introduced me to the wonderful world of poetry. At first I thought poetry wasnt for me, but now I love it. I have only written about ten poems so far. I plan to continue writting poems still.
Most people know that I am a very shy person. I don't share my feelings unless it is to myself in a journal. That's just who I am. Ever since I wrote an essay for my English, teacher I have been trying harder to share my feelings about my mom's Breast Cancer. One of the ways I have found to be most effective is through poetry. I like that I don't have to say anything, I can just write it all out in a meaningful way. I have only shared my poems with a few people, and I appreciate the comments that they have said to me about my poems. I guess I could post a poem or two on my blog. Enjoy!