Emily & Jesse's Wedding

My cousin Emily got married on the 30th. My family and I flew down to Utah for the weekend. Emily and Jesse's wedding was at the Draper Temple. After the wedding we went to the Luncheon, at Jesse's house. There, I broke their screen door, I felt really bad. Then that night was the reception. We danced, ate, and hung out with family. The next day, Sunday, we woke up and went to the Tabernacle. We listened to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing. It was amazing! After that went to Grandma and Grandpa's house. We said our goodbyes and flew all the way home. It was nice to be back in good ol' Portland, Oregon.

Can you die from being plastic wrapped? Let's find out!

David Arrington came over last week and thought it would be fun to plastic wrap a person. When David proposed this idea, jokingly, I jumped in excitement. I had no clue what I was getting myself into, only that it sounded very fun. David had a large plastic bag and a vacuum with him. I got into the bag and closed it over my head. At this point your all thinking "What! Lizzy is stupid enough to close herself into an air tight bag?" To answer your question, YUP I'm that smart. As you can determine for yourself, my stupidity often leads me into life threatening situations. Those are stories for another time. Anywho... Sarah was next to the bag at the time, so she reminded me of my need to breath oxygen in order to live. I quickly scanned my memory bank of Biology class, which confirmed Sarah's comment on me needing oxygen. However, now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure Sarah took her sweet time before advising me that I needed to live. Hmmmm... I'll have to speak to her about that. Once I got my neck out of the bag David started the vacuum. My lungs were instantly compacted from the sucking force of the evil vacuum tube. I felt as if the vacuum and bag where destined to take my young life from me. I repeated many times, as you can hear in the video, "Okay, Okay Ouch!" But for some odd reason no one seemed to believe me when I cried for my lungs to be restored to normal size. I now know what Mercutio must have felt when he called out "A plague o' both your houses!" yet no one believed him as he was clearly dying. As I think of it Mercutio was, as I was, surrounded by friends and family that claimed to love him. After all of my family's enjoyment was over they began to pump air into the bag. Once the bag released its suffocating grip on my body, I pushed my way out. Because of my lack of good memory the video and my story may not match completely, but this is how I choose to remember my life threatening event...if you have a problem with this, deal with it! :)

After I had my turn being plastic wrapped, Sarah thought it would be fun to take a whack at it. I could have been the caring, loving, wonderful sister that I am and said "Getting the air sucked out of a bag while inside hurts very bad. I don't think you should risk your life for my enjoyment." But I decided to let Sarah learn a lesson from what she was about to experience. The lesson I intended for her to learn was, when Lizzy says "Okay, Okay Ouch!" you should know to translate that into "Oh boy, this hurts. If you could help me out by turning off the vacuum that is slowing killing me, I would really appreciate it, thanks." I'm pretty sure she learned her lesson. Her finger got hurt pretty bad. But I show no sympathy for the injury that she brought upon herself. ;)

One more thing you should notice...David kept Sarah in pain for less time than he kept me in pain...hmmmm, this is something you should all hold against him if you ever get the chance to plastic wrap David.

Harlem Wizards in Hillsboro

Last Thursday the Harlem Wizards basketball team had a fundraiser game at Liberty High School verse the HSD (Hillsboro School District.) I decided that it would be fun to go and watch my teachers completely humiliate themselves for our benefit. I had a great time. The event was a real success for Liberty, and I plan on going next year as well. I actually, for once, forgot to bring my camera so I did not get any pictures of my own. However, here is a slide show link from the Hillsboro Argus website. You can see my green shirt in the background of one of the pictures, I'm famous now yippy! Enjoy!

http://videos.oregonlive.com/hillsboroargus/2009/05/argus_community_album_harlem_w.html

Yatzee night

We had our weekly game night with George and Elsie.

Saturday Market

Ever since my the beginning of my Freshman year of high school I have been wanting to go to the Saturday Market. I never knew Downtown Portland had a Saturday Market till my English teacher told me. If you think about it its kind of sad. A person who just moved here from a different state knew about the Saturday Market and I, having lived here my whole life, never had a clue. Yeah, the sayings true, I learn something new everyday.

Anywho, I have been planning the perfect time to take a trip to the Saturday Market for a long time. When Mckinna got home from college, a short while ago, I told her just how much I wanted to go. Right away Mckinna ,being the adventurous person that she is, says "How about we hop on the MAX next Saturday?" Just then I got bubbly eyed and said "Really? We can just get on the MAX and go?, But the MAX is where all the Creepers are." Mckinna says "Oh quit being a baby, we're going next weekend."

All of last week I was looking at the calendar counting down the days till I got to go to the one place I had been dreaming of going to for so long. If you are a friend of mine on FaceBook, you probably would know just how excited I was to go by reading my 'Status Updates'. For example, here are a couple of my 'Status Updates' leading to Saturday..."Lizzy Fotheringham is TOO excited for Saturday....I might just pee my pants :-) To make it even more crazy, awesome I just had pancakes and eggs, booyeah!" "Lizzy Fotheringham tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow is only a day away!!!! Gah, i am tooooo excited for Saturday Market!!!!!" " Lizzy Fotheringham I am going to have the best day ever. To start it off I am going to make some pancakes. Saturday Market "Here I Come!".

As you can see I was very ready to go to the Portland. Okay so here's the fun part...pictures!

Sarah Goes to Prom

David Arrington asked Sarah to go to the prom with him a while ago. Tonight he came a picked her up. she has been running around all day getting her nails, hair, and makeup done. Now that she is gone I can relax....but my parents get to stay up and worry...hahaha kidding! Anyways, I just finished loading the pictures on my computer so you're the first to see. Let me warn you I only only got a couple because they had to catch their limo ride.

David's Car

David Arrington was gone this weekend. Sarah and I decided to take a nice bike ride over to his house to mark our territory. First we had to pump up our bike tires. Really it was Sarah who did the pumping; I just stood to film it.

It was a long ride to his house, but well worth it. We knew he would be home any second so we had to hurry. As we were marking our territory we heard cars coming; it was very suspenseful. Since you cant quite see what we put on David's car I will tell you. It says: " You are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy when sky's are grey you'll never know dear how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away." Then at the bottom it says: "Welcome home! I'm glad you guys made it back safely."

As you can see I am never ready for a picture. She didn't even say smile. I guess this is my Gang-Banger look.