the weather outside is frightful

it really is beautiful

choir videos

i am finally getting around to posting these choir videos. choir really has taken over my life this past week and even the past few weeks. we had random run-out performances all the time for ward parties, family parties, MATC parties etc etc. then we had our two crazy stressful choir concerts. plus we had to go early to "carol in the halls". random. it really was SO MUCH CHOIR! but i loved every minute of it. however, i am so glad that christmas break has started so that i can have a break from choir. to kick off christmas break, some of my friends and i went and saw twilight again. i'm not going to lie, it didn't really hold my interest very well the second time. i actually fell asleep a couple of times. my plans for the rest of this break are to do my chemistry science fair project, go to work, learn and memorize all of my crazy hard honor choir songs for january, and then play as hard as i can!
ok just one video because it took forever and i don't have enough time left online. enjoy!

alot has been happening

i have been trying to post on here for a couple of days, but i haven't taken any pictures so i've wanted to use the pictures my mom took with her camera. but, she lost the cord to get them on the computer for a bit so i am only now posting. last weekend i got to spend with family. it was so fun! saturday morning we had our horsley family breakfast. it was delicious and so fun to see family! i missed you janice, greg, morgan, taylor, ruth and jer!


that night i got to spend some time with my hurst cousins which is always fun. jessie, rachel and i slept over at grandma's and had a great time. on sunday we had the hurst family christmas party. i really have such great great family!
grandpa leon and i

rachel, me and jessie

monday night and tuesday night i had my choir concerts! thank you lydia and arrie for coming! and for those who didn't or couldn't (janice) i am uploading some videos that my mom took. thank you so much mom for videoing! (although i wish it wasn't just of MY FACE all the time. :)) i think that i look SUPER weird when i sing but whatever. nothing i can do about that. that boy that i'm always with is my chamber partner, his name is josh. we are required to be all flirty with each other. i loved this concert but i'm SO glad its over! it was very stressful and exhausting!



ok these videos are so not working. i will get those on here when i can.

choir concert

i have my christmas choir concert on monday december 15 and tuesday december 16. it does cost a little bit of money this time because it is used as our fund raiser. any money that i raise preselling tickets will go toward my choir tour. so if you could come i would really appreciate it! a family pass is 10 dollars, students are 3 dollars, adults are 4 dollars and seniors and children under 12 are 2 dollars. its going to be a great concert! so if you want to buy tickets from me, let me know by thursday december 11 so i can get you your tickets. it is at 7:00 at the PGHS auditorium. if you are considering coming to one of my concerts this year, this is definetly the one you want to come to. its going to be a good one!

preference

yesterday was the big day. we started our preference date at 2:30 for an ice blocking excursion. out of all 10 couples, 20 people, no one got hurt which is a huge accomplishment in my opinion. between the hours of 4:30 and 7:00 was a massive chaotic flustering of getting myself ready along with my friends brittany and tiffany. then more chaos ensued as i got in the car and realized that i forgot where my date darren lives. not good. after many frantic phone calls and a completely lucky guess, i picked him up--late. we rushed back to brittany and tiffany's for pictures and drove up to mckenzie's for a pasta buffet. then we headed off for the dance. that was hands down the best part of the whole experience. it was SO FUN! we stayed for over 2 hours. oh man. darren is such a fun kid and it was such a blast to be there with him!

ya my eyes are closed and look at matt's face!

this picture is totally blurry and not so flattering but whatever.

i had a hard time keeping my eyes open apparently

here's the good picture

this was half of the group. it was so fun having such a big group!
now for the embarassing part of the story, in trying to get darren home before his curfew, i ran a stop sign and was speeding a bit, and--you guessed it--i got pulled over. i got a ticket and traffic school. so then darren was really late for his curfew, and so was i. bad news. but it could have been worse, and he didn't get in trouble, and my parents weren't mad either.
other than that little mishap, it was seriously the most fun dance i've ever been to!

shout out!

i want to shout out to my best friend Jared who just went into the MTC today! he is going to be serving in the harrisburg pennsylvania mission. i'm so proud of him! i'll miss him alot because he's my best friend (nothing more glen)and it will take a while to adjust to not having him around. i'm excited to see the changes that take place in him while he is serving the Lord, and to hear about his amazing experiences in the mission field! way to go Jared! you rock!



pretty much none of these pictures are good ones but oh well.

when pigs fly...

once upon a time, i decided to go to preference with a kid named darren. to ask him, i bought 5 pink balloons and made them look like pigs. then i put them in a box. on top of the box was a paper that said "the day that pigs fly would be the day that i would ask you to preference" then when he opened the box, theoretically, the balloons would float up, making pigs fly. on the bottom of the box it said "so how about it?" on the lid of the box it said my name.
that was approximatly a week and a half ago. the dance is on saturday. i hadn't been answered. but i knew he was going with me so it didn't really matter anyway. tonight, me and my siblings were watching the singles 2ND ward when the doorbell rang. janna rushed to answer it, and came down with this...


yes, the "yes" is made out of real cooked and re-refridgerated bacon strips and yes they smelled oober nasty. so saturday is the big day and its going to be a blast!