Horse Dreams

I am really, (and I mean REALLY) excited about getting a job. I have been offered one, and will be officially working on my birthday! ( yay! :D )

I am very excited about the benefits of having a constant-flowing income, so I can buy my own things. (I'm kinda sick and tired of waiting for my parents pay-day.) On my list of things that I am going to be saving for is a horse. I tried doing this once, but now I know what went wrong. I needed my own income to pay for it, and a place ready for it. I didn't have any of those, so obviously I wasn't ready.

Now, I'm working on getting ready. So that when the time comes, I will be prepared.

My preparation includes:

Building a fence

Buying supplies

Getting income

Getting income is almost ready to be checked off, and I'm preparing to build a fence. I know where, I've got some of the supplies, but not all of them. This week I am going to try to build the fence, and see if I can get it done.

I will post more later. Wish me luck!

Youth for America

This week I just got back from my favorite camp of the summer, YFA!

YFA is a camp to help youth discover their missions or purposes in life and to teach us more about the world around us and how important it is to preserve our freedoms that we currently posses. I would recommend going, its a life-changing experience. 

The original theme for camp was Principles of Good Government. We read these books beforehand The Hiding Place By Corrie Ten Boom,  The Giver by Lois Lowry, Alas Babylon by Pat Frank, and a couple documents, For Whom The Bell Tolls by John Donne, and The Allegory of the Cave by Socrates. 

Throughout camp we had guest speakers, book discussions, simulations, and fun activities. We were divided into groups at the beginning with some amazing counselors. Each of the counselors chose somebody that inspired them and made up a nickname out of the name of their hero. My counselor chose Abigail Adams, and her nickname was Abby. I loved my counselor and girls that were in my group. They were so much fun!

We had Jim Rhodes come and do an awesome simulation called Lifeboat. It was an amazing experience. I was completely fine until I got up to take my turn, then I was a nervous wreck. I did have a great time though, and I will never forget that experience. 

I loved YFA and recommend that if you do have the money to go, that you should go. Its awesome!

Girls Camp :D

Ahh... I'm home again!

I had so much fun at Girls camp, even though we didn't camp. If I could call it something else I would, but right now nothing comes to mind...

Thursday at 6:30 in the morning I left for the Okurr Mountain Temple! On the way we watched the little mermaid and aladdin! I love those movies. The most intense scenes are always short... as always.

The Okurr Mountain Temple was beautiful. My Favorite rooms were the sealing rooms and the Celestial room. The chandeliers were gorgeous, and the biggest ones were in the main room where you walk in, and the Celestial room. Very very beautiful.

So our tour was shorter than expected, (but hey! At least it wasn't the opposite.) and it started to rain. When we were in the courtesy tent (which was very awesome. it wasn't like a tent at all!), I had to go to the bathroom. Leave it to me to pick the worst time to have to go! It was Literally pouring buckets of rain! And the rain was not helping my situation at all. So, My friend who had already gone was soaked from the trip to and from the bathrooms. And I didn't know where they were. So, we ran out getting all wet and soaked from the rain. (There were little shade thingys but they didn't really help at all.) So I went to the bathroom, and ran back to the courtesy tent. I was all wet and getting rashes on my knees. Thankfully the courtesy tent had little heaters to sit by. My friend and I sat down and dryed off. We had two hours before our next appointment, so we had plenty of time to dry off.

So after the rain let up, we got to the cars and headed to the Draper Temple to do Baptisms for the dead! It was lots of fun, and I am grateful that I was able to perfom them. I was also glad to fix my hair afterwards. It was all poofy and frizzy.

Then, we went to eat dinner at the Myan! That was lots of fun. The Divers were awesome except for the fact that they were wearing loincloths.... After the shows they came out and talked to us (gibberish? or was it Myan?)

After that we my young womens leader mary spoke to us along with our bishop. He is awesome! I had a great time and loved their talks.

Sorry this is so late. :P I havent posted anything in a long time. Right after this I'll post something more recent. I'm thinking about starting a different blog about the current stuff going, cool books I've read, etc., etc.. 

Incubation: week 1

Before I start blogging about eggs, I have an announcement to make! Yesterday I found out that I won a scholarship from the Southern Utah Performing Arts Festival! I am so excited! I don't know how much, or what I'm going to do with it, but I am really excited! I went to play a piano peice at the festival, and I thought it was just to do it. Well, when I got there, they told us that they were giving out scholarships. I played nicely, and they loved it! I was graded Superior! Yay!

So, today my mom found three possible fertile eggs. I am going to blog their progress, and who knows? we might have a new addition to the chicken coop!
The camera isnt working in the dark, but we can see some movement, we can't quite tell, so it will be another couple of weeks before we can really tell what is going on in those little egg shells. As the saying goes, Dont count your chickens before they hatch. Last time we did this, we had nine possible fertile eggs, and only three of them survived. Hopefully this time they all survive!
Cya next week! :D

A midsummer night's dream...

Well, Commanwealth has been going really good! I have a paper and book to finish, and Book of Mormon reading to catch up on, and reading two new books!
This last week we read The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clayson. I tottaly reccomend that book to those who want to learn how to save money, it has some really good principles in it, and it is told in story form. I really loved it! One of my favorites so far.
I am really excited for this next semester of Shakespeare! We are going to perform a Midsummer night's dream, and I have been asked to be the assistant director! I am really looking forward to auditions, and to talking with the director about my ideas. Maybe later on I could direct my own play, who knows? This will help me to improve my acting skills, and by walking in the director's shoes once in a while, I will have a better perspective, and see things from other points of view.
For the play, our class has decided that we will place the time period in the Jane Austen era. I am really excited, because I had performed earlier in Pride and Predjudice, I will be familiar with the customs and manner of that time period. I can't wait to start!
I'll post updates about the play, (when I have free time of course) and will post lots more later!

When Pigs fly...

Wow, Its SNOWING again in southern utah! This is totally abnormal (hence the title). There are a few pictures I took of the snow. Its a great oppurtunity to let my inner photographer come out! I love taking pictures of the snow. Its so pretty! The only down side to it is that its freezing! I thought the reason we live down here is so that we dont have to shovel snow! It was snowing so bad that the roads were to icy to go to St George! And in St George there was no snow, it was cloudy, but no snow. How wierd is that?!

So this last weekend, I had the chance to baby-sit a pig! (hence part of the title) She was so much fun! Her name is Hazel. Hazel smelled like maple syrup, was potty trained, and slept on my lap for most of the time. She made the cutest noises and I wanted to keep her! She was so cute. A picture of her is below.
I'll post more later.

Crazy weather and Chicken pox

Today I have the chicken pox. Thats right, chicken pox. Its not too bad, I only have three, (maybe four) spots. I feel bad about not going to the fest and the white elephant party at the Bowlers. Dang it! I wish they would go away though, I might be stuck at home this whole christmas break. sigh...
We also have been having really awesome crazy weather! Its been snowing for three strait days! I am so excited! I'm dreaming of a white Christmas!
I'll post more later.

Nutcracker mishap

Its been a while since I've written, wow!

This Sunday, -as some of you already know- I sprained my right ankle. I was SO sad because this last Monday and Tuesday I had my Nutcracker Recital. Since Sunday I have been on crutches, -against my will- and have been trying to heal it. So for the recital, I was going to wear my Pointe Shoes, but there was no way I was going to be able to get up of pointe with a sprained ankle. I didn't want to break anything.

The Nutcracker went well, despite my injury. I danced in three numbers, The Chinese Dance, The Spanish Dance, and The Snowflake Dance. Luckily the first two were short, but I learned Chinese at the last minute, and was blessed to borrow a CD with the music from a friend. I felt pretty good about my performance, and the classes were few and small, so our recital lasted for about an hour. -which is pretty good considering the last few recitals with way too many little girls and dances.- The only thing that went wrong was in the Spanish dance, we had prop fans that we used throughout the dance, and in the middle, I dropped mine. I managed to pick it up and stay "snooty" as Ms Taz calls it. Other than that everything went smooth.

So, I cant wait for our pyramid hike tomorrow! I am still going even though my ankle is still sore. I will be okay, its not as bad as you may think, its a very small sprain. There is no bruising and the swellings almost gone. :) Can't wait to see everyone at the award ceremony, and I am planning on coming to the dance on Saturday!

Care and Share

This Friday the commanwealth went to Dixie Care and Share to donate food and help sort cans. It was a lot of fun and it went really fast because of how big our group was. We asked if we could do another box, but they didn't have enough food to sort. So those of you who can, please donate to the care and share. They go through a lot of food, especially during this time of year when it gets really cold. Plus the economy situation is hard for them as well, they are gaining more families that come to stay and/or get food.

After we went to sort cans, we went to Karlee's house to watch Kung fu Panda. It was great! I love that movie. I also found out what kind of an animal Shifu is, He is a Red Panda. I thought it was funny that they chose that animal to be Shifu, because Shifu at first is very critical of Po. Yet, Red Panda's and Giant Panda's are related.

Last night, I went to Tori's Church to watch The Pirates who don't do anything. It was an awesome veggie tale movie, and it had a great message at the end. I was kinda sad, Bob was only in one part at the end. I think he needs to be included more often, I hardly see him in other veggie tale movies. I love seeing him in the series, he is so awesome! They had a raffle at the end of the movie, and my mom got a box with the pirates on it. Ha ha!

I better go, I'll be going to a board meeting later for the community theatre. I might post more about that later.

Last night update

The last night went great! I am very sad though, Jen is going to move up north next week, and Colter may be too bust to do any more plays with the theatre :( I am glad that the perfromances are over, because I get weekends back, and that I can start memorizing the setpeice for shakespeare. I have made some new friends, and have been re-aquainted with some I have known in the past. Thanks to everyone who came! The theatre may be able to prosper with what we earned through the dinner, concessions, and donations. I will miss all of the cast members dearly, and I hope to see most of them at auditions for the next play!

Pride and Prejudice

Okay, for the past couple of days we have been performing pride and prejudice! It has been so much fun, and this will be our very last night. It is a bitter-sweet night, and I'll give you a recap on the last performance tomorrow.
The first night was awesome! Everyone did a fantastic job and put on a great show, we have gained many compliments from our audience, and they were completely absorbed in the show. It was an awesome first night!
The second night was crazy. Jen (Elizabeth), and Abby (Lydia) had the flu that night. All was well, and they are now fully recovered. Jen did an awesome job, but everyones energy was really low because we were so worried about her. Jen had to exit early for one of her scenes, but it was really good timing. We continued, and had a great night. We had just enough energy to give a great show.
The third night was my first time performing Lydia, I was a little nervous, but I had fun. I could not stay focused on being nervous because I was feeding off of everyones energy, and that made it so that I could not break character. I had a great time, and I can't wait until tonight to perform for the last time.
I'll post more tomorrow, and if any of you are interested, please come and see the play! Its at the "Old White Church" starting at seven. The play is free, and its first come first serve. Come early if you want good seats! I would suggest coming at 6 or 6 30.

Really Excited!

Okay, I am really excited because the play is this next weekend! I feel ready to perform, but I'm still not totally sure. I can't wait! It will be alot of fun!

I am also really excited for Kennedi's Murder Mystery! Its her birthday next weekend, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I can't wait to see how it turns out, there is a really confusing plot. I want to tell the world who my character is, but I will have to wait until after the party.

OH! I forgot the most exciting thing happened this past week! I have completely finished my personal progress! Yay! I am going to have an interview with the bishop on sunday and can't wait to get my medallion! :D

Well, I guess thats it. My month is completely jam packed with fun stuff! I can't wait for it all!

Summit, Gala, and huge shock

WOW! My weekend was so busy!
Okay so first weekend, I went to a knights of freedom summit. Well, let me rephrase that, I was technically in charge of half of the whole thing. You'll see why in a sec.
The knights of freedom summit was a mini battle and knight training, where boys and girls came and learned of virtues and famous people of the Renaissance period. I was technically in charge of the girls area. We had a Queen, Squires, Master Knights, Fair Maidens, Matrons, and Dark Knights. It was a lot of fun. While the boys went off and trained for battle, the girls were taught how to weave, to play a song on the recorder, and were taught about famous women such as Joan of Arc, Anna Commena, Queen Isabella, Status of Women and other famous people as well. We had each of the older girls portray one of these women. I was Joan of Arc, and went into battle at the end. This all happened in a two day period.
The first day went great, I had loads of help from Kristen, who was in charge of everything the girls did. It was a lot of fun and we couldn't wait for the next day.
The second half of the first day, one of the girls were running by the bathroom and tripped in high heels. She was really embarrassed, and didn't want to cry in front of all the girls. On her way back, she had tears streaming down her face and was limping. I asked her what was wrong and she was in shock. She told me that she fell and sprained her ankle. I asked one of our Matrons, knowing that this needed to be fixed, to go and find my mom, and told her that she had ice with her and to go and get it. My intention was to stay and comfort the girl until she returned. Well, the lady that I had asked was pregnant, and the other matron said "You know, she is nine months pregnant and I dont think you want to ask her." I was embarrassed, and thought I had offended them, so I told them that I would be right back and I carried her because she could not walk to the other side of the park where other matrons were and closest to the ice my mom had. It took so much of my time and strength, they were all concerned for her and were very willing to help. I thought nothing of it until the next day of summit.
A couple days before, My friend Bonnie, who was participating in this event with me invited me to a Gala at George Withe College. I brought my prom dress with me and went to Bonnie's house to get ready. Well, I had one pair of clothes with me, which were the ones I wore under my costume at the summit. I thought I would be able to go home and change and I wouldn't have to worry about it the next day. Becky, Bonnie's mom, did my hair and it looked very pretty. So, we went all the way to cedar city and got to the Gala a little late. It was Awkward at first, because everyone our age were girls, and the only boys who were close to my age were the ones I came with, which are Chris, Jordan (Bonnie's older bro.), Tanner, and Brance. I danced with Chris, Brance, another guy who I didn't know, Bonnie, and Karlee. It was fun, until Bonnie started pairing up people. She had tried to set me up with three people, two of which I stopped. All of which were alot older than me, and were not the cutest guys around. YET, she would get really cute girls for Chris, Jordan, Tanner and Brance. I think she did that just to bug me. Anyway, we had a great time. On the way back, My Mom called and said that I could sleep over at Bonnie's house then go over to Knights of Freedom and get a ride with Bonnie. I wasn't thinking, and thought it would be just fine. When I got back I realised I had no pajamas, and I couldn't really borrow any of Bonnies clothes because she is four times smaller than I am, and her mom is a lot skinnier than I. I felt so gross when I got to Knights of Freedom the next day. At least I had a costume on over everything.
So the next day of Summit went a lot worse than the first day, for me anyway. Kristen did not show up, and for the first half of the day I was completely lost. I had two matrons with me, (the ones who were not willing to help me with the girl who sprained her ankle) and I felt like they were not getting anything done. There was one point after lunch, where the girls were doing nothing. I talked to the matrons and asked them when we were doing candles, which was on the schedule to do next. They told me that they werent doing candles because it wasn't the right place to do it. We had weeks and weeks of planning, and the girls were very excited to do this, and they decided that day, without letting anyone know, that they were doing other things. So I asked them what we were doing, and they told me they were weaving bookmarks. Well the girls had already begun weaving, and I am sure they were bored of that, because we had three just run off without telling me. I was very disappointed and the girls were just sitting around. I sent for one of the other Matrons, who was going to teach them the maypole, and my Mom, who was going to teach them a song on the recorder. After about twenty minutes, they both had shown up at the same time. And I needed a break, and I didn't get one. After that, I was so glad that I was not in charge of the next activities. I had a huge break then, and I got to go and change into knights clothing and wait for the final battle.
All of the Maidens got to heal all of the knights who were injured or had died, I went into battle and healed the knights who were not able to go to the side lines to get help. I also took on the dark knights who kept killing some of the good knights when I came to heal them. I also took on a few people just for fun. It was a lot of fun, and the Dark Knights surrendered. And good was restored.
At the end, we had a feast and a knighting ceremony. The Knighing ceremony was awesome, and the food was great! I had a lot of fun, even though some things went wrong. I felt a little jipped though, because the older Maidens and Master Knights had a lot of work, yet, they didn't get a certificate. So me and my mom are working on awards for the older kids. Its a secret and I'm not going to tell what it is yet.

So now we're at the huge shock. My Grandma called me and told me that she was inviting a director to pride and prejudice who is interested in meeting me! The Director won Director of the year 2008, and I am really excited to meet him. I was shocked, and now I am nervous, and I want to meet him before the play, but I don't know how that is possible with it being so close and everything. So I am working really hard on my lines, and trying to put as much realism in them as possible, no matter what happens, I still want to participate in the Community theatre.

Anyway, I better go, Sorry I haven't updated in forever, If you want to know more about the knights of freedom, go to this website: http://web.mac.com/bradmott/iWeb/knights/Home.html
There are loads of pictures.

Birthday and Pride and Prejudice Dinner

As all of you have guessed, Sunday was my birthday. They changed our fast Sunday to this last week, so it fell on the day of my birthday. And I didn't notice that it was until I had asked what was for breakfast... then I remembered last weeks' announcement. The tradition of Birthdays in Young Women's is for one of the leaders to make a cake and stop by with the young women and sing to them. They didn't come before church, so they just brought the cake TO church during Young Women's. I held the cake most of the time and everyone wanted to hold it, (hmm, I wonder why...) I left it in the hands of a leader that sat next to me, so I could write stuff down on a paper handout. (the lesson was temple marriage, and we wrote down qualities we wanted our future husbands to have.) It was hard to hold the cake and not lick the frosting off or eat the m&ms that were on it. It looked so cute too!
For dinner, after we had broken our fast, my mom transported me into my brothers room. I knew something was up, because my mom was standing in the hallway watching me... Anyway, after I went to sit down, my dad held the plate over my head. We had Lasagna the night before and they told me we were having leftovers. As my dad held the plate over my head I thought either he was going to dump it on me, or that wasn't lasagna. He fortunately didn't dump it on me and it turned out to be Panda Express they had bought the night before. (Yummy!) After that, my grandparents and my uncle's came over from next door, and brought me gifts. I got new clothes, and porcelain doll. From my family I got a beanbag, toe pads for ballet, and The Chronicles of Narnia (1st) movie songbook (there are two versions, the songs that inspired the movie, and the songs that were in the movie along with the songs sung in the credits). For dessert, I had my cake form YW's and Cheescake with cherry and rasberry topping. It was really good!

At seminary today, they sang to me and gave me a little card with a caramel apple sucker (My Fav! How did they know?). Well, thats all the exciting events this week.

Call me if you would like to see Pride and Prejudice! The dates are Nov. 6th, 7th, 8th and10th at 7:00. The tickets for the first three nights are $25.00 each, which provides a dinner. You can choose from the Longbourn Manor main course (Maple Seared flank steak), or Netherfield Park main course (Sage Grilled breast of chicken with sun-dried cranberry). You eat the dinner while you watch the play, and It will be a five course meal. For fun, it is suggested that you dress up for the time period, although its not required.
There is a maximum 50 per night. Monday is free, and there will not be a dinner on that day. Call me for more info and to purchase tickets. I will be sending out an e-mail with more info on where its at, and my phone number for those who have questions.

Play and School Update

Well, This week has gone by... and as usual, nothing really exciting has happened. So I'll tell you about the most boring subjects, School and Pride and Prejudice play.

School has been good for the most part, and I am having so much fun with Pyramid, I am seriously looking at life in a totally different way. This Thursday was the anniversary of 9.11 and it went well, we talked about the patterns we have seen in that event compared to other tragic events. It was interesting. That day I found out that 9.11 was declared a holiday, which I agree and disagree with at the same time. The reason why I agree, is that we should remember those who died in helping with the evacuation of the Trade Center, and remembering the people in the flight that had fought to keep a plane from hitting the white house. I disagree with this because we are making a fun holiday out of a major disaster that happened, and glorifying the terrorists in a way. I really don't think we should celebrate it as a fun joyous holiday because it was such a tragic event. I think we should treat this holiday as memorial day, as a solemn day of remembrance.

So, enough of doom and gloom, Play practice went well. I am currently working on memorising my lines, and working on staying in character. Only two scenes left to block until my least favorite scene. :( Well, I really hope that its not as bad as it looks on paper. I will quit thinking about it, and just work on the other stuff so it doesn't get to me.

My Birthday is coming up and I'm really excited! I will be turning 15 in 16 days! I am so excited!
I will put a countdown clock on the top eventually.

Longest Post Ever

Hey sorry I haven't posted in a while... So many things have happened in the past few weeks, I have not had any time whatsoever to play on the computer. So be prepared this post is going to be extra long.

Logan trip
First I will start with this trip. I went to visit Laekin in Logan, (ha that rhymes!) that was really fun! We stayed up almost all night with LaCretia, Rachel, Mavanee, and a lot later, Laekin, talking about school, commanwealth, church, and family. It was really cool. Then the next afternoon, Laekin, Mavanee, Mayree, their Dad, and I went to go and see the Traveling Dunlap Broadside. (Aka copy of the declaration of independance) In the second floor of the Capital Building, there was a huge circle blocked off, and people were standing around the declaration of independance. So we decided to go into the opening to look at it really close. When we got there this guy started talking to us, and asked us how long we had been in line... Laekin and I were like, there's a line? We looked around, and all the way behind the pillars, there was a line, and it circled all the way around the spot where it was. So we moved out of the circle, and out of the way of all the people. We later decided (after much deliberation) that we would watch the movie about it downstairs. After we learned more about it, we walked back upstairs and decided that we would zoom in on my camera and take some pictures on the outside of the circle. (I thought they turned out really good.) Then we had to leave. After that we went to Deer Valley to watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert! It was so amazing!!! I have two of the songs they sang on my ipod and I love listening to them! The only downside was that it was really cold... and a guy behind us was carried out of the concert on a stretcher... I don't know what happened, but I think it was the elevation. :( It was my very first concert of any kind ever!
The next day Laekin and I hung out at the house and talked, then our moms invited us over to their training to be a jury in a simulation! That was really fun! It was my first time being in a simulation jury, but I was not new to the whole thing. I was on a jury for Youth court one time, and that was fun. Youth court gives you so many hours of community service rather than time in juvenile jail (if I spelled and worded it right). I was volunteering from the SERT team and the CERT team. (School emergency response team and Community emergency response team) I had fun with that. Anyway back on subject. After that, Laekin and I took her dogs on a walk up to the little canal by her house to swim. That was fun too. Owen (one of her dogs) Swam the entire time, while Bellanie (her other dog) just got in, and out. She is such a cute dog! She was so insecure the whole time, she would sit right by Laekin, and just watch Owen swim. Laekin coaxed her to swim for about five minutes, and that was the longest she had been in the water since we got there. After we were done and walking home, Owen found a little ditch that he wanted to swim in, and started pulling me to the ditch. It was funny, we knew it was way too shallow for him to swim in, it would have just come up to his knees, but he thought it was deep enough, and he was preparing to jump. Laekin and I traded dogs, and she pulled him away. Right when we got done walking the dogs, my grandma came to pick us up. So we decided to take a few quick pictures. We did the spy pose and a few other poses, it was fun! Their house is beautiful and so is their garden! it took them a long time to fix it the way they wanted it. But Im sure it was worth it in the end. I cried as we were pulling out of their driveway, and I laughed too, on the radio the song A Candle in the Wind was playing. I had an awesome time there and cant wait to visit them again!


Bryce Canyon
So secondly, we visited bryce canyon. To see pictures and stuff, go to the Mott Family Blog, a link is on the right hand corner.

First Day of School
The first week of Commanwealth was fun! We were introduced to our classes and I don't have as much as I thought I would to do. The Meyers Visited, and I've seen a whole lot of people that I haven't seen in a long time. Shakespeare is a huge class and there are more boys than girls so the girls wont have to play boy parts! Wo hoo! There are lots of new kids, and I can't wait to get to know them better.

Anyway I better go and I'll try to post more often.
Cya!

Play and Seminary

So first of all, I am in yet another play. Pride and Prejudice. At first that sounds exciting until you hear what part I got.

(dun dun dun...) Lydia.

So if you haven't read the book or watched the movie, my character decides to run off with a soldier and get married. So my part is really pathetic... But I shouldn't complain, beggers (or auditioners) can't be choosers.

Her character is so girly it bugs me. This is what Lydia would act like if she was a modern girl: "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Boys! Dances! Boys! Especially the boys in uniform! BOYS! AHH! Oh, and did I mention boys?" or...
"Wickam is SOOOOOOO CUTE! *scream* Oh my gosh!"
See my point? So not me...

Also, one of the guys in my ward got the main part of Mr Darcy! I am really excited for him, and can't wait to see him play that character! (I know he can pull it off, but I can't picture him doing it in my mind yet.)


So that will be fun to go and see, I'll e-mail when its at and where it will be. (for those of you in Much Ado, it was at that theatre where we performed the benefit night.) I don't know exactly when, but I think maybe in october or november. Most likely october.


So I started Seminary when school started, and I like it. I was assigned as the music person, so every time I go to seminary I have to pick a hymn, make sure someone is playing the piano and conducting the song, and see if the person who has devotional that day has a song, if not, then pick one that suits the topic. The first day I was a little nervous and uncomfortable, but I think I am getting used to it cause today I felt more comfortable. I think thats a good thing,

Still have a trip to logan to go! I also am going to bryce the week after that. Then I will be home for the rest of the month in september. Which is the month of my birthday! I'll be fifteen! Which means.... drivers ed! A pretty scary thought if you really think about it...

One more to go!

Since I have nothing better to post, this one will be about my third trip to salt lake in a row... *sigh*

Well, to start off, we stayed at my aunts house, and hung out at the gateway. We didn't buy anything, but it was fun to look. I'd like to go shop for school clothes there, or at the mall down south at least.

Then the next morning we went to the days of 47 parade! We saw president Thomas S Monson in the parade! But since he was in a car that was moving, I couldn't go shake his hand... Oh well, at least we saw him! I think that was the coolest part of the parade! Anyway, there were alot of cool floats, and we stayed for a while, but it was really hot and we wanted to leave before the traffic got bad so we left really early.

Later that day we went to our family reunion or 24th of july party. At the reunion we sew quilts, hang out, have dinner, and at the end of the party do our own fireworks. Its really fun, I got to visit and talk with my relatives that I havent seen in a while.

After that, we went to my aunt and uncles house to go pack up for a small camping trip. We went over to the "Pet Cemetary" (dont ask me why its called that, because I really dont know.) which is across utah lake. I dont really remember how to get there, but I got a few pictures. Its really rocky over there and its a little difficult to drive ATV's on because of the bumpy rocks. We went on a trail ride over where they do rock crawling, (With jeeps and trucks) All of the rock was ruined and black with tire marks and oil, it was sad because it would have been a nice place to take pictures... but we had fun putting puzzles together, and riding atv's around the campsite.

I also finished 'Eclipse'! I didn't like the ending very much, and the only reason I am going to read the next book is to find out how the wedding goes. I wont say anything else because it might ruin the books for some who havent read it. While I'm waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' to come out, I am occupying myself with 'Pride and Prejudice', Its really good, but sometimes you have to go back and see who's saying what, because of how its written, but its still awesome!

Well I guess I'll quit rambling on about reading... I'll post more cool stuff later.

Youth Confrence

Sigh... yet another trip to salt lake... I dunno about you, but I am pretty much tired of traveling back and forth!

This past weekend I went to Youth Confrence, usually we would do it somewhere closer, but since the rise of gas prices, the bishop decided to let us go all out for one last time. So henceforth, our ward will never travel that far for youth confrence again. Unless by some miracle, that gas prices will lower to a resonable price.

The first day, we went to fillmore, where the first capital of Utah was built. They decided to name the city after the President at the time, which was President Millard Fillmore. They drew out the plans, and it looked great! After they built one section of the capital building, they didn't have enough funding to complete the project, and moved the capital to Salt Lake City. The building was then used for the city of fillmore.

We also went to the humanitarian center. We took a quick tour, and saw how they sort clothes to send to places in need. At the humanitarian Center they also send blankets, baby kits, stuff for orphanages, medical supplies, hygeine kits, clean water and food. That was a cool experience.

After that, we went to "This is the Place" Monument, where there is a pioneer village with people dressed as Pioneers. You can go and explore the houses, ride ponies, ride in a horsecart, make stuff, have relay races, ride a train car around the village, and if you get hungry, at the hotel there is a resturaunt. There is also a huge monument to mark where Brigham Young stopped and said "this is the right place." It was fun, but I highly recommend going in the fall or early spring when its cooler.

We traveled some more, and went to Temple square, and explored the temple grounds. We also saw the man who plays the organ during General Confrence playing in a building next to the temple! It was awesome! We also went to the fountain of reflections where the temple is reflected in the fountain, but it was windy and you could barely see the reflection because of the ripples. It was fun though!

After we were all done, we stayed the night at a leader's sister in law's house. We stayed up late and watched Penelope, (with the girl who had a pig nose) and it was really cute! I never saw any advertisements for it, but I liked it.

The next day we went to Lagoon! It was SO much fun! We rode on the White Rollercoaster, the Collossus (three times, I got a huge headache from it...), The Spider, Cliff Hanger The Rocket, The Bat, Rattlesnake rapids, and Wicked!! Wicked was so much fun! But it was waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy too short, when the line was too long. On the bright side, I have bragging rights! lol! We also rode on the Terror Ride. One of my friends, (Alyssa) was with me. There were a few people hiding on the ride, there was this one guy who was just flickering his flashlight on and off, and at the very end, Alyssa shouted "I dont like this ride!" and this kid swung around on a pole and shouted "I dont like it either!" I started laughing and Alyssa screamed, I think it was the only ride that I was laughing the entire time. It was mostly because Alyssa was all freaked out. It was funny because when I rode the white roller coaster, I was freaked out and Alyssa was laughing. I'm not going to lie, or be embarrassed about it, but here is a direct quote from Alyssa about me riding the White rollercoaster: "It was funny, Brittani sounded like she was screaming bloody murder!" The very first ride is always the scariest... and I am known for overreacting on rides. Just standing in line for Wicked almost made me sick! I am such a wimp. :(

That reminded me, our Bishop was so funny! I feel bad for him. He rode the tram that took you from one side of the park, to the other, and got sick, so he just sat on a bench the entire time... What a sacrifice for us kids!

We left Lagoon at four, so we could make it home at least by ten. I had a great time!

P.S. two more trips to salt lake to go! *sigh* feel free to post comments!

Trip up north

Well, at the last minute due to a private matter(which does not need to be disscussed), from the 9th through the 12th I was in Salt Lake.

My Mom had a training course to teach a class in the Commonwealth called Pyramid Project, and she decided to take me with her. It was at the Library in Salt Lake, and it is the coolest library ever!

The Library is four stories high, and it includes a basement. On the left of the picture there are bars. Those are the Glass elevators. (yes I am tottaly serious, willy wonka's glass elevator is not the only one.) There are about three of them, and on each one, there is part of a quote. It reads "A man who lives in a glass house must throw no stones." Each one has a part of that on it. They are scary to ride in, but fun all at the same time.
On the right of the picture there are little sections, which contain stores or display areas. There is a little cafe at the very end, and it sells the most yummy veggie wrap ever! There is also an area that has a payphone and ATM, and a gift shop. On the second floor of the left side there are tables and chairs to sit and study or eat at. Outside, there are fountains of water. This has to be the most awesome library, in fact, that library was voted Library of the Year in 2006.

We also went to IKEA, a huge furniture store. On the Second floor, there are display areas and designs of rooms, and everything in the room is for sale, or you can buy the whole room if you want to. At certain parts of the store, there are little pencils and papers to write the number of an item you would like, on each price tag there is a section that has a few numbers. You write those numbers on that paper, and when you are done looking, you give it to an employee to go and get those items for you. On the first floor there is a warehouse space, that carries all of the items that they sell. The isles are numbered according to the number of the item, It looks more like a home depot or lowes on the first floor, while it looks like a RC Willey on the second floor. Everything in the store is resonably priced, you can go inside with twenty bucks and buy a whole lot of stuff! They have dollar items, and lots of awesome storage ideas.

I had loads of fun! I will be going back up to salt lake again this week for youth confrence... the only reason I am exited to go is because we are going to lagoon! (YAY!) I think I will have had enough traveling by then.