SNOW!!!!!!!!

So this year we are getting a bunch of snow! About a week ago we got about 10 inches of snow which is alot for around here (well kinda). Now yesterday (Monday) and today and tomorrow we are going to get 18-23 inches!!!!!!!!!!!! Monday I went to school (more on that later) and while i was in 3rd hour they announced that we couldn't go outside to the annex's because it was really slippery. We all thought that it was only raining how could it be slippery but if they said it was why don't we just get to get out of school now! 20 minutes later they said they would be letting school out early at 12:15 (there was alot of yelling then). So when I got off the bus there was a sheet of ice where the water froze. We were sliding a ton! Everything was covered in ice!

But there wasn't any snow yesterday so Isaac, Mark and I were outside having fun.

Here are some videos of what we were doing WITHOUT SNOW! Sorry there are alot of short ones that's why there are so many. They aren't really exciting but they were funny.

An example of the ice

Another example of the ice

Mark wiping out

Me going down with Isaac. It was really weird.

Me going down with Isaac...on a longer hill...with water...

Mark and Isaac and this random kid named Justin with weird faces.

They say going down this hill is painful because you drop into the park and the end and it's really icey. Mark came out with cuts and Isaac says multiple places on his body hurt. =)

I will post a pic of how much snow we got after it's all done but for right now even I-70 is closed so that tells you something. More pics to come.

The 1st and 2nd!

Sorry i didn't write on my first day. I just had so much going on! Ok here goes:

1st Day

I was supposed to follow Cari today but she ended up not being in school that day so i followed a girl named Lexie. She took me to her classes that day. So her first class was social studies. I walked in a saw 2 of my friends that i know so I thought it wasn't going to be so bad.

(1st day wasn't that interesting so there isn't much but anyway...)

Then after a few classes we went to lunch. She has A lunch which is the same lunch I have but it starts at 10:30!!!!!! I have to eat lunch at 10:30!!!!!!!! I'm not hungry then and neither is anybody else we all just sit, talk and eat cookies. So after lunch we went to her other classes which I can't remember but I saw alot of people I know. It was all very confusing and loud and there were alot of people but i got through.

So after the first day I got my schedule so here it is:

1st hour: Art

2nd hour: MS Office

3rd hour: Honors English

LUNCH

4ht hour: Math

5th hour: social studies

6th hour: Science

7th hour: PE

So that's my schedule.

2nd Day

Today there was a little more. Today I went to my own classes but Lexie left her classes a little early to come take me to my next class. I went to Art first and met the teacher (Mrs. Wax) and we got started on wathing slides of paintings that a man named Billyo O'donnel painted of Missouri then for the rest of the time we got to do sketches of what we wanted to paint a picture of so I sketched a bridge. But there were certain things we had to incorporate into the picture too. She has a ton of pictures of things in boxes so we can just go through them and look and something we want to sketch.

Then after Art I went to MS Office which is working with computers and PowerPoint stuff and typing. The teacher is Mrs. Curtner. So i just worked on catching up on the typing they had already done so it was pretty easy.

Next i went to Honors English with Mrs. Jones. We listed to the stories that some of the students made for assignments and we have a test on vocabulary words on Monday. These are the words that I have to know: joust, infamy, nepotism, fleece, parry, periphery, entomology, ostracize, capacious, fickle, laconic, harrowing, aptitude, endure, chronic, giddy, gossamer, irascible, cower, queue. I don't really know those words!

Then I have lunch which isn't anything special. Then i go to Math. They are doing something different then what i was doing so it's harder. The teacher is Mr. Bostwick and they are on geometry but i already know something they are going to work on next month =) yea me!!

Next is social studies with Mr. Aulgur. We are learning about Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears. I sit next to the stake president's son Jarod who is also 13.

Next is Science with Mrs. Frearson. This is the only class i actually have with Lexie. We are learning chemistry. We worked today with graph stuff and putting things in water and measuring the ml and stuff. We also did a bunch of stuff with blue, yellow and red water and we used the water to make all the colors of the rainbow with them in order and they all have 1o ml of water in them it's pretty cool!

Last is PE with Mrs. Baker. I have PE everyday so I can be awesome and strong and athletic and stuff. =D We didn't really have PE today because they are doing a sound check in the gym so they kicked us out so at least we didn't have to change. We watched a really interesting movie about bones and muscles. Did you know that when you are in a life and death situation your brain sends signals to your body to adjust. Like if you had a really heavy rock on top of you and you were about to fall off a cliff your brain can make the choice on its own to make all the ligaments in your arm move and stuff at once to push it off of you??? A 1200 pound rock!!

So that was my day! =)

Change...again

So for whatever reason my parents have decided to put me in...(pause for effect)...PUBLIC SCHOOL!!!!!! Oh joy I think as I am being told this Friday morning an hour before we are going to leave to meet the 8th grade guidence counselor at West Jr. High. My mom gives this long speech about going to public school and how I will make friends and yada yada but this is all she is really saying: "You are going full time at West on Tuesday. We are leaving in an hour to go to the school."...yeah...

So here is what I know so far:

1. The first day (Tuesday) a girl named Cari is going to take me to her classes and show me where everything is and how to do stuff.
2. The classes I'm taking are: math, social studies, science, honors english, FACS, PE, and art.
3. The second day I will go to my own classes but Cari will leave her classes early to come and get me and take me to my next class. (Thank you Cari!)
4. I know someone in all the lunch hours!!!!

That's about all I know so far. I won't know anything else until Tuesday. Here is what I don't know yet:

1. Where my locker is
2. What hour my classes are in
3. When my lunch is (a, b, or c)
4. I DON'T KNOW CARI!!!!

I will have to post after my first day. Tuesday is a big day for me. I have to be at the school at 7:40. After I get home from school I will have to go to Taekwondo and it's also my papa's birthday!!

WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

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* =(