Christmas in YW!

I LOVE my YW leaders!!!! They are awesome!!!!! Just something before i get started on the real thing this post is about. This is just one reason why I love my YW leaders. We have problems with girls texting and playing with their phones on Sunday and on Wednesday during mutual. So the leaders noticed this and decorated a shoe box with wrapping paper and it has the words "chatter box" on it. So they explained that the chatter box was for our phones. You put it in the box (it even has a pillow in it so your phone doesn't get scratched =) ) and then you can have it back as soon as the lesson is over. I thought it was pretty smart. Oh and one more thing you should know before I start is that in our YW we have just one presidency for the whole YW so it's not a class presidency it's a whole YW presidency. ( my friend Kristen is the president and my other friend Taylor is the first counselor and I am the second counselor in the presidency)

So back to the thing leading up to the real thing. =)

We (just the YW) are planning a trip to Nauvoo in February and they have made 3 committee's.

1. The food committee. (which is obviously in charge of what we eat)


2. The itinerary committee. (which is in charge of what we do)


3. The pictures committee. (the pictures are for a slideshow we are making)

The leaders have asked us to sign up for at least one committee. So I signed up for the food committee. So after BYC (Bishop's Youth Committee in case you didn't know) today I went into another meeting with the YW president and Kristen and they both dragged me into being on the itinerary committee as well as the food committee. So now i am on 2 committee's i thought but nooo they had to ask me to be on the pictures committee too because they didn't have enough people so now i'm on all the committee's and it's really hard to keep track of them all!!!!

So that wasn't even why I have this post but i just thought of those things while i was sitting here but it goes nicely with what i am going to say now! This year in YW we have been talking alot about temples and how we should want to go there someday and everything else there is to talk about temples. So today in YW we got our Christmas present and this is what it was:

If you see in the corner it says I'm going there someday...

That was what i was getting to the whole time. I have nice segways =).

Cuteness

I found these pictures in "my box" yesterday and i think i'm really cute!!

Me with family:

Me with Isaac:

Me when I don't know how old i am:

Me when I was 7 (sorry it's kinda blurry):

Me when i was cute again!:

Me when I was 7 again!:

"Christmas"

So my parents have decided to do Christmas on December 6th for St. Nicks day and i find myself saying...Half the people in the world don't even know what that is!!! Why are we celebrating it!!!!! But we did/are and since i already got my Christmas present really (my now awesome room) i had 3 presents to open today on "Christmas".

So here are some pictures

1. My awesome pillow to match my-now-awesome-room!!

(oh and its green on the back)

2. A book series (the goose girl) BEST BOOK SERIES EVER!!!!!!!!!! Really good!

3. My awesome smiley-face-mug-thingy!

4.That's not even the best part look at the other side!

5. The card grandma and grandpa sent me!!! (which happened to have some money in it) Thank you!!!!

6. So here some things that a bought with part of my money. So i got an iTunes gift card which would be kinda weird to show you cuz we all know what that is. This is my collection of nail polish! (no i didn't buy all of these today just the 2 on the far left side)

7. I also bought 2 headbands which are so cute!

First one!

8. Nice one for church but still cute!

So that was my fun stuff!

YEAH!!!

We have a new YW in the ward!!! Her name is Annie and she came to our ward for the second time on Sunday! (The first time was when we were in the OBX) The best thing is that she lives 6 houses down from us!!!!!! (Yes I counted =) )

She came to SED last night and we took her home. (our car is now known as the bus because we take alot of people) We get along really well because we were in the car for a really long time while my brother and my dad did something in somebody elses house. (also someone we took home) She says she is always friends with the bishops daughter wherever she moves because she was in Northern Missouri because thats where she moved from and other places and now she is here to!!! =)

The sad thing is that she is only renting the house because her dad is the main electrician for the new high school we are getting.


PS: Last night at SED we talked about the new handbook and there is a rule where we can't hug anymore even with other YW as friends! Not just in the church building but anywhere! It's a crime if I can't hug my friends!!!!!!!!! *SAD* =(

And yet I find myself smiling!

So recently we found out that my tae kwon do instructor is moving to Seattle. Yes I know this is very sad because I have had him the whole time I've been in tae kwon do and I'm close to getting my black belt and he has to leave!!!! He's really nice and he's a really good instructor.

He's leaving on the 12th (which is a Friday but I usually only go on Tuesday and Thursday)

He is leaving the building to 2 instructors whose names are: Mr. Walker (whose only 17) and Mr. Knopke (whose only 23). Mr. Walker will be over the recommended black belts and black belts. So I will have Mr. Walker and the colored belts get Mr. Knopke (the new guy). Mr. Walker has already been here for a couple of years so I know him pretty well.

Here is a picture I took with Mr. Rojas (the one that's moving)

He's leaving and yet I'm smiling is that a bad thing!?!? =)

A Midterm

Tuesday was karate testing and it was my first time doing a midterm which is in between a recommended black belt and a real black belt. A recommended black belt is half red half black and you have to test 3 times for 3 black stripes you get put on the belt.

The 4th time you test is for your black belt and that's where you have to break boards and stuff like that. Recommended is training to break the boards and stuff like that. I just got my first stripe put on.

They have a point system for midterms which is how they decide if you pass is if you have enough points from when the judges were watching at testing. Its really stressful because they judge your points on:

1. If you have good stances
2. If you yelled in the correct places (or if you yelled at all)
3. How loud you are
4. How snappy your form was
5. If you were paying attention to where your target was
6. And everything else

To get the most points you have to do everything correctly on all 5 forms you have to do. Perfect points would be 270 points. They showed us our points when we went to get our belts and I got a 250. And since they take off points in tens that means I only did 2 things incorrectly!

I think that's pretty good for my first time doing a midterm. I'm happy. =)

My weird-but-cool poem

For writing on Monday I had to write a limerick. A limerick is a poem that has 5 lines to it and the first 1st,2nd and 5th lines rhyme while the 3rd and 4th lines are different from the others but they also rhyme. I think its kinda dorky but my mom said to post it anyway.

So here goes:

The outer banks was so much fun

Out on the beach where we watched crabs run

We say it rain a bunch

We went out to eat for lunch

Too bad there was no sun

Don't laugh I know it sounds weird but its harder than it sounds!

Honesty

Last Sunday in Young Women we had a lesson on honesty. The YW president taught the lesson. I needed to add that because:


1- I really love my current YW president. I have had 3 since i joined.

2- I love her even more because she is bringing me a king size Heath Bar on Wednes day because I memorized the 12 apostles.

3-And more.

Here are some quotes and things that I thought were interesting:

---"Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight" (Proverbs 12:22)

---Mormon , speaking of the converted Lamanites who were known as the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi, wrote: "And they were among the people of Nephi, and also numbered among the people who were of the church of God. And they were also distinguished for their zeal towards God, and also towards men; for they were perfectly honest and upright in all things; and they were firm in the faith of Christ, even unto the end" (Alma 27:27)

---"Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:39 or Mark 12:31)

---"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" (Matthew 7:12 or Luke 6:31)

Those were ones in a story by Bishop Richard C. Edgley.

Here is a quote I found in a book i was reading:(It was really good even my mom and dad read it and they said that)

---To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. (e e cummings)

Bamber

About 2 years ago my homeschool friend Amber (aka Bamber) moved to Washington. Sadness!!!

But last week she bought her own plane ticket to come out to Columbia for a little while! Excited!

So I got to go see her at Brianna house. (another one of my homeschool friends. Because we all

know i'm so very popular. *smiles*)

Here are some pictures we took while we were talking.

Here is a picture of both of us:

Here is a picture of all of us:

(Amber,Brianna and of course me)

We had alot of fun.

My sewing experience

Lately for young women we have been working on a project we do every year for our personal progress. It's one of those ten hour projects that have to be thought through alot and the one we do every year is a fun one because the leaders think of it and we (the young women) don't have to!!!!!! So this year we did sewing. To make this 10 hours we are sewing two things we are sewing a bag and a skirt. I recently finished my bag and am almost done with my skirt. The bag is just so cute I thought I had to show you.

So here it is. Pictures can't even do it justice.

They are so much better in person.

It's even reversible!!!!!!!!

I take this everywhere now it is my new favorite thing and my parents are getting our sewing machine fixed so now we will have a working sewing machine that I can use to make more! If anyone wants one just tell me. :) ;)

I will have to show you my skirt when its finished.

Pictures of the Awesomeness! =)

Here are the pictures of my room finally!!! Here are some that my mom took that are more of my room and then I will show you the closer ones.

Here are some closer things that I really like!

(Yes I painted these myself *smiley face*)

These boxes were actually pink for my old room but i painted these too.

I have more but you will just have to come and see it for yourself =)

Anyone coming home anytime soon??? =)

My recommended black belt

So yesterday was the 17th and I actually got my recommended black belt!!!!

Yes I know Isaac got his black belt but I am happy for myself as well. =)

Alot of Isaac's friends came over and and watched him get his belt and came over to our house after for pizza. But I was with them almost the entire time though. Because I'm just awesome like that! ;)

Here are some pictures that my dad took.

On the left is me doing my weapon form and the one below is my regular form.

This is me doing my sparring:

This is my personal favorite picture of me...still sparring. But it's cool:

It was really awesome even though I had a bunch of teenage boys at my house + Grandma and Grandpa they came too.

Awesomeness at it's greatest

We are finally getting my room done!!!! My mom is painting the trim right now! We got all the things for my room while we were at Grandma and Grandpa's house so they got to see it all. We changed the theme from what I thought I wanted to something else so now my theme is CIRCLES!! Blue and green circles! I think everything in my room now is either blue or green It's super cool! Well everything except the walls "the walls are still going to be tan" says my mother. Which I think will look disgusting with blue and green stuff. Poor me =(
I even made my own artwork to put on my wall that might be my favorite thing in my whole room! (you know when I say something like that you will have to expect a picture...so expect a picture) But even with the tan walls it will still look really cool. I'm going to post lots of pictures of the things I got once they are all in my room! I can't wait!

Last night was testing. I am trying to get my recommended black belt.
Hopefully I did everything ok. I'm pretty sure I did. I don't think I messed up at all really.

Maybe I will post a pic of me with my belt when I get it.
That means I only have 3 more testing cycles before I can test for my black belt!!
I am going to one of my classes tonight. It will be my first time going as a rec black belt. I'll have to work on my board breaks I'm doing for my black belt testing which are the same ones Isaac did. They are the backwards elbow and the jump front kick head level. You might not understand that at all but it actually makes alot of sense.=)

I know if I got my belt nest Tuesday (the 17th). Wish me luck!

Possibly the greatest thing in a long time!

I have wanted a "new room" for a while now. With the painting and the new sheets and just make my room they I want it now because the last time I did my room was when I was about 6 or 7. Right now I have a lavender/purple color on my walls with baby pink wall decor.

Ya I'm ready....really ready. So I have been looking online and at stores to try and find some things that I might want in my "new room". I have found really nice sheets, some tye dyed curtains (they are blue and white), a new nightstand (because all I have right now is a box/crate and my new one that I want is a real white nightstand with a drawer and shelf =), I really cool turquoise lamp (for my new nightstand), a really comfortable chair that also looks awsome, and we are trying to find a rug to go with it all too. The thing is it will have to be my Christmas present so if I want it now they said that was 0k but I won't get stuff for Christmas. I think I can take that. So today we cleaned out my room and threw out a ton of stuff that I didn't need anymore so the next step is to take everything off my walls and to paint the baseboards so I am going to work on that maybe tomorrow if I have time.

Utah Trip

This post will probably have the most pictures EVER!! We will start from the beginning.

I did have some pictures of Isaac and me goofing around in the car at 11:30 on a Sunday night but for some reason he wouldn't let me post them! But they are really funny! =D

So when we got to Utah we had everybody go to the Mountain Meadow Massacre place which was pretty depressing but I went anyway. Of course it makes it easier when your 8 and 6 year old cousins you haven't seen in 6 years are begging you to go. =)

Sadly those are the only pictures I took while we were there but Isaac has alot more.

Here are some while we were on our way to the Grand Canyon.

We went over a bridge on our way. It was called the Navajo Bridge.It was Awesome! And HIGH!

Here are the actual pictures I took from the Grand Canyon.

I had never gone to the Grand Canyon before so it was really cool!!

Charlie

A little while ago my dwarf hamster died. He was the best behaved hamster EVER! He didn't bite or run away he just let you do what you wanted with him and he was okay with that.


I really wanted another one that was that tame so we went to the pet store (really the name of the store is PETS) and we asked if they were going to get any in soon. The worker said they didn't have any right then but would call us when they did. After I think a month we finally went and found two dwarf hamsters there. He's sooooo small!

Here he is. Sorry it's a little blurry.

He is almost as tame as the other one too!!! Like tame as in you can set him on the floor and he won't run off and look for a way out of the room! IT'S name is Charlie. Yes I said IT. They didn't know if it was a male or female. :) We are hoping it's a male because we all call it: he. So I thought of Charlie and actually I was joking at first but then my mom started laughing and said that would be a great name and she loved it. So if you want to say it the right way you say it like this: Cha-lee. :) It's the only way.

Shopping Trip

A little while ago I had a shopping trip with one of my friends and I thought I would put some of the things I got on my blog so here they are:

Since everybody already knows I love jackets here is one I found for only 3 dollars!!

We got alot of graphic T-shirts here are the ones I got. (She got alot more than me :) )

I have another one but I'm wearing it and don't feel like taking a picture of it.

And here are the jeans to go with my shirts. I got a couple pairs of these. In this picture they look really fat......they aren't that fat.


















Here are the adorable shoes I got to go with my new outfits! I love these shoes!







Now here is the best part I finally got a Sunday outfit. I also finally got a skirt with it. It's really hard to find skirts that fit me length and all that but I found one and it's super cute.





















And finally here are the shoes that go with my Sunday outfit.



And that was our wonderful shopping experience.