So Many Things Happening!

I dyed and cut my hair a few weeks ago. I love my hair short but I think I want to grow it out for college. oh speaking of college...I got accepted into Snow College! woot woot! :) I know that everyone can get accepted at Snow but I'm just way excited that I'm going to college and everything. I know a few of my friends are going to go to a Snow blast with me at the end of this month. I'm so excited to check everything out, get my schedule done for the fall and to see Vanessa and Stuart for a few hours :)

School is going pretty good. A lot of my friends are having senior-itis but not me. I think once I go to the Snow Blast at the end of this month, then I'll want to get out of High School. So many things are going to be happening in the next few months for me. Tryouts for the school musical are next week and I've been working on my song. The musical we're doing is Les Miserables. I'm so excited for the play and I SO badly want to play the character of Eponine. There are alot of s trying out for her but they are all Juniors. I think that I should get a part this year because of 2 reasons. 1. is because I've been all the productions since 8th grade as the ensemble or aka the background people. and 2. I'm a senior this year and I've really worked hard on acting and my singing voice. I want to prove to the drama and choir teacher that I can play the part of Eponine through my voice and my acting. My internship is going great. I'm still with my 2nd graders til the end of the year. :) they are so much fun to be with and Shaun can tell you how much fun they are. I think he wants to go back and see them when he returns in a month and a half or so. Also there are a bunch of Show Choir things going on. We're performing at a Grizzlies Game at the E-Center on Feb. 20th. if any of you want to come COME! it's so much fun.

Work is work. I'm still working at the dry cleaners and its just the same thing I do lol nothings really changed for work.

New Years!

So New years was a lot of fun. :) I went to my best friend Stephanie's house and we played lots of games and partied it up! haha just kidding. We played the clothing game we you have a bag full of clothes and you pass a pillow around while music is playing and when the music stops, whoever has the pillow has to put on an article of clothing thats in the bag. :D it was really fun but I was lucky to get the simple clothes. I got a shirt and some leg warmer things. New years was a lot of fun being with my friends. I spent the night at stephs house and her and I didn't get to bed til 3 am! I really just wasn't tired until then. I woke up the about 11am and we went to Abbie's house and played guitar hero and Wii sports. Then we heard that there was a 50% off all Bras and Panies at Victoria Secret so we went shopping there for a while. We went to Olive Garden for dinner and Abbie had her boyfriend tag along. We picked her boyfriend up and had dinner then dropped him off. We left his house and not even a minute after leaving, he called her and said to come back for 2 minutes. She went back to his house and went in while Steph and I were in her car. Well, it took longer than 2 miutes. I actually took an hour and a half. Steph and I had fun though. We kept ourselves entertained with cell phones, breathing on the windows and writing stuff, eating chocolate, singing songs, thinking what Abbie and her boyfriend were talking about, and all sorts of different things :) Abbie came out and she told us everything that happened and her and her boyfriend broke up last night so thats why they took so long lol.

Halloween!

So it's Halloween and today was a pretty fun day. My 2nd graders were having a halloween party today and I was so excited to get there and have fun with them. So I got there and they were talking about a pumpkin and guessing certain things about it like how many seeds there are in it, the circumference, how much it weighs and a few others. It just reminded me of when I was a kid and when we guessed on things we either guessed way too high or way too low of a number. :) aww the good old elementary days. I made the kids some little treat bags and they absolutely loved them! I was so happy that they liked them. I gave Ms. Zahm a pillow with the words "Harvest Season" on it. Mom made it last night in 2 hours. I totally forgot to take a picture of it and hopefull mom won't tickle me for not taking one. I also gave her some gatorade and a snickers. She loved it.

Last night Phil and I carved pumpkins for halloween and I realized that I hadn't carved a pumpkin in a long time. So it was really fun to do that again. Shaun is doing good. I finally got a hold of the missionaries and hopefully the missionaries will contact him soon. He's coming here in 3 weeks and i'm so excited. It seems like it was yesterday that he barely told me when he coming here. :) So here are some pictures of my 2nd graders (p.s.- it was face paint day so some of the kids have paint on their faces) and of the pumpkins Phil and I carved. Phil's pumpkin is the one with round eyes, mines the one with triangular eyes.

Fun Saturday Night

Well, this weekend we had Stuart and Vanessa home from college. I had to work saturday but after I worked I went to the ReAl soccer game. It was so much fun! We cheered and had a good time. I even got my picture with Leo the Lion (the ReAl mascot) which was pretty right good (Shaun knows what i'm talking about) Afterwards we went to the Mayan for dinner which was amazing! I had a chicken enchilada which was delicious. We watched the divers dive off the rocks and talked. Dad and I rode tracks on the way to the game so we had to ride them home. It was my first time on Tracks which was pretty fun. On the way to the game we talked to a couple that rides tracks everyday. On the way back it was not so crowded and so we got to have our own seats. Ethan and Stuart came with us which was fun. It was a fun day overall. Here are some pictures of the game, dinner and tracks.

Homecoming Week!

This past week has been so busy. It was homecoming. Everyday we had a dress up day. There are pictures of this whole week. Our dress up days were Monday: Class Colors (seniors wore red) Tuesday: Camo Day Wednesday: Sports Day Thursday: Cowboy Day and Friday: Funeral Day. I dressed up every day but I didn't get pictures everyday. It was alot of fun. We have a class competion for the best hall decorating and I got a few pictures of that. Friday was the football game and the royalty on the field. My cousin Jessica got Miss Congeniality. It was awesome seeing her and cheering for her. On Saturday was the homecoming dance. I was asked by Lee Johnson. A really good friend of mine. We went on double date with Steph and Curtis. We went to Steph's house and played Guitar Hero and Rock Band which was a lot of fun. I love those games. Then the guys went to priesthood session of general conference while the s got dinner ready and then we got ready for the dance. Steph's mom did my hair and it was so pretty. The guys came home and we had dinner and pictures then we went to the dance. We got pictures taken there and danced for a little then we went back to Steph's house to watch a movie. We watched PeeWee's Big Adventure. It was interesting. I was really tired and ly fell asleep. They woke me up and Lee took me home. It was a good day. Here are pictures of the week

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So today I donated for my very first time. I was so nervous but I had my friends with me so I was pretty good while i was in the chair and all. I drank lots and lots of water during my classes and I had a pretty good lunch before going to donate. My friends (Shelby, Steph, Benji, Trevor, and Brittney) went together to donate at the same time. We had to read a book about donating which was quite boring lol then we had to wait...and wait....and wait some more. Once I finally got done waiting and my questions I was in the chair. I had Shelby to my right and Benji to my left. I was glad that they were there.

The guy that was taking my would ask me questions and tell me what he was going to do at the moment. He looked really young like maybe mid 20's and I was just kind of shocked that he was doing this stuff at such a young age. anywho, I was talking to him for a little bit and I read his name tag and started laughing. Shelby was getting a little dizzy and so I told her what I was laughing about. I said "Hey Shelbs, look at the guys name thats helping you with the donation" she was too dizzy that she just asked me "what's his name?" and I said "Edward" :) Now I'm gonna say something here....For those of you that have read Twilight you will know exactly why I was laughing. Edward....Vampire....blood. haha good times. I just wanted to share that with you and say that Edward took my :) I feel so lucky. I asked him if he gets that alot and he said "Yup. Every school I go to I get that." I was laughing pretty hard.

So it took a total of 22 minutes for me to get the pouch filled with my . Usually it would take 5 to 7 minutes but Edward said that my vein was wobbly and so I was pumping for 22 minutes...my hand was soo tired afterwards. But I felt good after cause I just thought to myself "I saved a life today"

My 2nd Grade Class

I've only been with my 2nd graders for about 3 weeks now. It's been so much fun though. They are so smart. It's very cool cause they all call me Miss Young. There are 26 kids in the class. The teachers name is Ms. Zahm. She's really neat. She's been teaching at over lake for 2 years now and she loves it. She's only 24 years old but she immediately started going into college and teaching. I'm getting to know more from the kids. There is one kid in the class that is different from the rest of the class and his name is Carson. He has a behavior issues but when I was with him yesterday, he was so calm and he would work hard and he'd understand what he was doing. I'm so glad that my class likes me. There aren't that many s in the class. There is about 8 or 9 s in that class and they all come running up to me and hug me saying "Ms. Young! Ms. Young!" They are so cute! The s tell me what they like to do and I'm way happy that I'm one of thier friends. I'm learning so much from just observing Ms. Zahm and the kids. I love it so far. It's amazing what little 7 year olds can think of.

I've been so busy this week. I've been at school or work the past 2 days. I'd go to school and then right after school I'd go to my 2nd graders or I'd go to work. The past 2 days at work it's been really busy. I've had someone working with me both nights and we still didn't get done til 8:15 which is an hour and 15 minutes past closing time. It's been crazy busy but I'm so glad to get a day off. Shaun has been good. I haven't had time to talk to him since sunday but he said that he'll be contacting the missionaries really soon. He got his passport so he's getting closer and closer of coming over here to meet me and my family. I'm so excited about everything that Shaun has done the past months and I love him for that. I just want him to know that I'm trying my hardest not to rush you into becoming a member. I want you to understand what you read and hear. Take your time. I love you. :)