President Hinkley

sigh. i don't know what to say. i never met this amazing man, but i always wanted to and i still feel an incredible love for him. i know that our Heavenly Father needs him up there and that his mission isn't over, but it's so weird to think that he's not here anymore. i can't wait for the day when i get to meet him.

grrr

ok, i know the words got all messed up on my picture post. i've tried to fix it like a thousad times, so deal with it. hmph. it has really just been one of those days.

more pictures:

i am being retarded regarding all of the pictures and stuff. Janice has all of those cool slideshows and collages, and i cannot for the life of me figure out how to do stuff like that! it is making me very frustrated! so i guess that i will just put a bunch more random pictures on here for you all to look at and hopefully i can make them bigger this time....

here are some of me and my cousin jessi when she came from colorado a little while ago. i missed school that day so i could hang out with her. we had alot of fun.

last january, i got to do this thing called honor choir, where basically, your teacher picks 4 students from each voice part and we got to go up to salt lake with 500 other kids and be directed by this amazing director. it was the most incredible experience of my life. it was such a blast, and we got to sing for 2 days straight and work with Kelly DeHaan who was awesome. i loved it and i'm so glad i got that oppurtunity. it's so weird to me that it was over a year ago now! this is a picture of me and my 2 friends whitney and cami. it was awesome to have this experience with them.

this was after janice ran the salt lake marathon. i was so impressed by her! i still am!

me and cute tay tay. i love you taylor!

me and aunt ruthie. i hate this picture of me because i look like i am mad or something, but oh well.

i think that these are really cute of me and my friends summer and kim.

haha. janna and kylie

grandpa and morgan. look how little she is! she was only 1!

me and david. i love that cute kid!

i will never be in the army...

ok, so today was so crappy. in my first period weight training class, these army recruiters came and gave us an army workout. oh gosh. first of all, the one guy was SCARY! he made it very clear that he wanted us to be in pain, and i was terrified of him. second of all, i don't think that my body is fully recovered from the race, and then the squats i did a couple of days ago. the result was horrible. i ended up getting pretty sick. i was standing there in squat position for what seemed like an eternity and i started blacking out. then we had to do sprints and wall sits and just turned to my coach and said "i am going to be sick". and then i left. it was so awful! i felt really stupid because i had really wanted to prove to these scary men and myself that i could push through the pain and show everyone that i am not weak! but i ended up having to quit. so of course, i was bawling forever because i am a total baby, and then the whole rest of the day i was just crying randomly! argh! it was bad. by third period, i really felt awful, and i was just sitting there in english when all of a sudden my coach sticks her head in and asks me to come out in the hall. so i go out there and she is like "are you ok?" what do you think i did? i started bawling again of course. she was way awesome about it though and gave me a hug and stuff. she's such a fun coach. she's just an intern going to byu and sometimes it feels like she is just one of our best friends. its awesome. anyway, that was the awful story of today, and now you all know that while i can run for a long time, i really am a wimp and i wouldn't even last 1/2 an hour in the army. :( good thing i never wanted to do that anyway huh?

i hate winter

when i grow up, i am not going to be able to live in Utah. if i do live in this state, it will have to be in St. George. i honestly cannot stand the winter. it is driving me absolutly insane! the weather in St. George was so amazing. it was warm and i could feel the sun on my skin! and then i had to come home to this. acutally, i was feeling quite optimistic when i got home because the snow looked very melty. i thought that my life would soon be bearable again! but then i woke up on saturday morning to find that it had snowed 6 horrible inches and was still coming down. i think that we have at least a foot of snow and it wont stop snowing! i could cry right now.
ok, so another horrible thing about winter is that it makes me really cranky and lazy. i don't have any motivation to do anything. this lack of motivation mainly pertains to school. i am just so sick of it! i know that we need to get our educations and i want to get good grades so i can get into a good college, but i just want to be done forever. Math is super boring and my teacher drives me insane, physics is AWFUL! it is all i can do to stay awake in that class. actually, i take frequent naps in there. SO BORING! then there is seminary, which i am not quite sure what to make of yet. i really do like my weight lifting class. it's very fun and hopefully i will be able to gain some muscle so that you all will stop thinking about how scrawny i am! i really am stronger than you all think! anyway, health is so lame i wont even start, english is just boring and there is no structure at all and then there is choir which isn't that bad i guess. ok, i know how much you all wanted to know about my boring school life.
i'll move on to my fun social life. i have really really awesome friends and i love them all so much! i love to talk as i'm sure you all know. my friends and i have really fun conversations. most weekends i have plans going to basketball games, or just hanging out. it's awesome.
i also have a really phenominal family. it was so so fun to be able to go down to st george and spend time with my mom and brother and lots of aunts and uncles. i always have a good time spending time with them at family gatherings, or during piano lessons, or whatever. i also have alot of friends who know some of my aunts for whatever reason so its awesome to have that connection from friends to family.
for those of you who don't know, i have the best job in the world and that is teaching piano lessons. i love passing along what i know to people and being able to learn more from that. i have 9 students right now and they are all in my family. i have so much fun teaching my cousins and my aunt frances. i'm going to start taking more students from my ward here in the next few weeks. i love music and the piano and i hope that it will always be a big part of my life.
ok, this is officially the longest post ever. i hope that i didn't bore any of you out of your minds. i'm going to have to start up with the picture thing so that you have more to look at than just words. i'll get there! love you all!

i'm a runner!

yes, you are reading the title correctly. i can run! this past weekend was so awesome. i ran a 1/2 marathon! oh gosh i still can't even beleive it! i'm so excited and proud of myself and everyone else who ran. it was really fun to be with my family in st george and as bad as i felt that maria stayed way slow with me, i'm really glad that she did and that we got to experience that together. it was really fun. i felt awesome for most of the run until the last couple of miles. that was tough. fyi, my time was around 2 hours 14 minutes which is about 4 minutes slower than i wanted. but i'm happy with it. way to go everyone!

pictures

ok so i thought i would put some pictures on here. i went to preference in december which was pretty fun! for our day date we went sledding and then had dinner at one of the girl's houses. it was a good day.



This is the guy i took. his name is glen. he's in my ward.

this is at my friend Ashley's birthday party at the end of last school year. i have some awesome friends!

i did track last year with some of my friends. it was really the first time that i have ever pushed myself to run. i'm really glad i did it although i will never do it again.
ok, that is it for the pictures for now. i'll try to keep it up. it's really easy for aunt janice and frances and sara to put pictures on their blogs because they have adorable kids to put on here. i'm sure that you all don't want to look at me and my friends a billion times. so i won't have a ton of pictures on here.

January 17

Ok, today is Thursday. sorry it has been so long since i've blogged. this week has been pretty decent. i ran 10 miles on saturday! that was such a big deal for me because i am doing a half marathon on the 19th and i was really starting to get nervous about if i would be able to do it or not. i'm really excited to run now that i have past that 10 mile point.
Saturday night i went to the symphony with Grama and Grampa Horsley and John and Sherri. it was a really good night. the featured song of the night was Rachmononoff's theme of Pagnini. a little while ago i learned the 18th variation of that song which is why Grampa invited me to come. it was awesome to hear it played by someone who is actually really amazing at the piano. :p. Also, it was very good to see John and Sherri again. i never get to see them!
The rest of this week has been pretty crappy actually. i've been in a really bad mood, so sorry to all of my friends who probably hate me right now. yikes. We started a new semester which was semi-stressful for me. it used to be that i only really hated my A day classes, but now i hate them both. i just hate school actually.
thankfully, the week is looking up because i am leaving for St. George tomorrow to run the 1/2 marathon! that will be fun. Hopefully my next blog will report an amazing success story about the race!

new blog

ok, so everyone in my family is starting up blogs and i love looking at them. Today Frances showed us the blog that Janice set up for our whole family and Cammie and I decided to make our own too. I think that it will be a good way to let everyone know what is going on in my life. Like the dates that i still haven't gone on. sigh. It'll happen eventually.