happy thanksgiving!

i love thanksgiving. this year we spent the day with the horsely side of the family. it was a great day full of wonderful food and great times associating with each other. i am so thankful for my family--immediate and extended.

warmth

i love the sun.
today for lunch we came back to the neighborhood for macaroni and cheese. i went out and jumped on the tramp and then just laid and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my face. some other things i love about the sun:
1. the very life giving nature of it. without the suns rays, we would not be here.
2. the fact that its a star. i'm not sure why that makes me so happy.
3. the light it gives. i am a huge fan of light.
some other things i love in general
1. sweatshirts
2. people
3. indoor plumbing
4. being 17 and old enough to drive and date
speaking of dating, i am going to preference with my friend darren on december 6th! i'll be sure to post pictures.
back to my list
5. THE FACT THAT I DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL FOR A WHOLE WEEK!!!
6. honestly, there are oodles and oodles of things that i love that are probably not of any intrest. :P so i'm going to end this post here.

leaves

there are many people in the world who say that fall is their favorite season.
i disagree.
sure the leaves are beautiful when they are in the trees;
but they don't stay on the trees forever.
eventually they find their way to the ground
at which point they have to be cleaned up by someone.
so today i woke up and started cleaning leaves
we all did.
i only did a little bit of grumbling
i really don't mind doing stuff like that,
but there are things i'd rather do i guess.
like eat.
it could be peaceful and serene when you think about it;
with just the sound of your rake against the ground, the rustle of the leaves.
but its not because the lawn mower is going as well as the leaf blower.
and then as we are almost done, mom wants to stop and take many pictures.
that's cool i guess.
it really wasn't all that bad, but still,
i just don't understand when people say
that fall is the best season.

the craziest day of my life.

it all began with an early alarm at 6:00am so that i could get to school for an early morning choir rehearsal. school was its regular busy self, and then after school i did my piano lessons for the day. cammie and i then went to macey's and stocked up on junk food to take to twilight. yes, we saw twilight at midnight. it was so so so fun and i'm so glad that we went even though i was very tired all day today. i thought it was a great movie. as much fun as seeing this movie was, the highlight of my day was undoubtably at 6:00pm in a little house a couple blocks away as i recieved my patriarchal blessing. it was so amazing. i feel so humbled by this wonderful opportunity and i want to live my life in a way so that the blessing i was given will be able to come to pass.
here is a picture of me and my parents with our stake patriarch president keetch. what an INCREDIBLE person he is! he truly is a receptical of Heavenly Father's voice.

aida

yesterday afternoon my grandma sue and i went and saw Aida at the Hale Center Theater Orem. it was really fun. i love both of my grandma's soooo much and i'm glad i got to see this play with my grandma sue. fun fun!

christmas in november

tonight was my first christmas performance for chamber choir. yes i know, very weird that it is NOVEMBER 14 and we are doing a random christmas performance. it was for one of those 30 and older singles wards. it was scary because we were so not ready to perform and there were quite alot of people missing but it ended up being fine. here are some of the pictures. you will be able to see firsthand how nasty nasty butt ugly the dresses are.
funny story: so my friend whitney is in chamber choir with me and she is probably like 5 or 6 inches taller than me. we were taking some pictures at this thing tonight and she was like "i hate that i have to scrunch down to your height in pictures." so we took one with she and i both standing normal. i'm a shorty, what can i say. this is my choir director Mr. Wilcock. he told me that he would kill me if he saw a picture of him on my blog so i have no idea how this picture found itself on here.... this video. i'm not even going to try to explain it. mr wilcock is a silly goose.

oh my i just watched that video and shaunzi! you suck at videoing!!! it was not me who actually did the recording.

my ACT scores

so i just found out my ACT scores.

Composite Score : 28

English 30
Usage/Mechanics 15
Rhetorical Skills 16

Mathematics 25
Pre-Algebra/Elem. Algebra 15
Algebra/Coord. Geometry 12
Plane Geometry/Trig. 13

Reading 30
Social Studies/Sciences 15
Arts/Literature 16

Science 28

i'm SO HAPPY!

random picture

this is in response to janice's tag. this was the 4th picture in my 4th folder.
this picture was taken by aunt lydia the day after my birthday while we were all up in idaho at uncle john and aunt sherri's house. this was the day my cute cousin and birthday buddy nathan got baptized! arrie, aunt ruthie and me. in arrie's mouth is a 7 layer jello that sherri's mom made.

halted

i have a very busy life. i wake up fairly early, spend 7 hours at school, come home and have a little down time, then i am either off to piano lessons, tutoring, or work. i come home for dinner and most nights i am gone yet again. so these past 2 days have been so weird for me. yesterday my piano lessons cancelled so i spent a marvelous afternoon at my friend glen's house playing the wii and the game called curses (i want to play this at our next family gathering horsely's because it is HILAROUS!). i was there for 3 1/2 hours just hanging out with my friends! as of last thursday, reading roundup is over, so that means that my piano lessonless tuesdays are open. i decided that i would go to work this afternoon but my dad said they had nothing for me to do! i don't know what to do with myself honestly and truly. my life is ruled by its schedule and for these two days that schedule has come to a screeching halt, leaving me free. i love it!
in other news, grandma horsely, remember how you taught me how to crochet those squares when we went to california? i totally still remember and i am making a SWEET blanket!


its coming along! i'm super excited about it!
also, happy veterens day!

i felt like taking fallish pictures:


i'm not a huge fan of fall because it means winter is around the corner. but it is a really pretty season--for the most part. i had to scrape my windows this morning though. grrr. that is not something that makes my mood one of joy especially when i am late for early morning sectionals.

bowling and state volleyball

this was a great weekend! on friday i went on a group date with my friend glen to the bowling alley. it was very very fun! i left my camera there on accident so i had to stop by and pick it up yesterday that was scary! so thankfully i do have pictures:

jared on the left and my date glen on the right.

summer, her date bronson and tiffany

the twins; tiffany on the left and brittany on the right.

i look all weird because i was spinning. we played one game just normal bowling, and i bowled a 32. then the next game we did a bunch of random stuff like backwards, opposite hand, spin and get dizzy and then bowl etc. that time i bowled a 64. what does that tell you? it was so hilarous when after i spun around a bunch of times i got a strike, and doing it with my opposite hand i got a spare. ok so i stink at bowling!

in other news, yesterday was the state championship for my school's volleyball team at UVU so we went to that game. it was hearbreaking! after losing the first game we came back and won the next 2 but lost the 4th and 5th. :( we lost to lone peak which is especially devastating because they are our ultamie rivals. next year the prospects look great because we only have 2 seniors losing this year so next year we will dominate! GO VIKINGS!!

some things you may not have known about me

FOUR JOBS THAT I HAVE HAD:
1. piano teacher
2. reading tutor
3. shrink wrapper at wavetronix
4. babysitter
FOUR MOVIES I'VE WATCHED MORE THAN ONCE:
1. she's the man
2. phantom of the opera
3. evita
4. mulan
FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
1. provo ut,
2.pleasant grove ut!
3. no where
4.else
FOUR SHOWS THAT I WATCH:
1. The office
2. King of Queensl
3. American Idol
4. lost

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:
1. burgers
2. crispy chicken sandwhich
3. pizza
4. italian
FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1.somewhere warm
2. with friends
3. not at school!
4. uhhhh
FOUR OF MY GREATEST BLESSINGS:
1. family
2. friends
3. gospel
4. personal revelation
FOUR GREATEST FEARS:
1. Death of a family member or friend
2. disappointing someone i love
3. blood and needles
4. having surgery
FOUR GREATEST WISHES:
1. get married in the temple to the man of my dreams. :)
2. that my kids will gain their own testimony's
3. something with music
4. go to college
FOUR THINGS I LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING!
1. music
2. the gospel of jesus christ
3. family
4. friends

happy halloween!

Yesterday was a great Halloween. I went to a super fun party at my friend sara's house. I dressed up as a fairy. :) it was a great night.



me and amanda


sara, lisa and mckenzie--not sure what they were


me and whitney


amanda--the hawaiin, brittany--the mexican, and whitney--the african. so many different enthnicities!


jared and davis


my new boyfriend!


the powerrangers--anthony, todd and elissa


shalisa and i


todd, lisa and elissa