my shiner

I got a black eye! I don’t even know how it happened. I had a slumber party at my house and when I woke up it was there. I got a lot of jabs from the kids at school and even from my teachers. It lasted about two weeks and turned all sorts of yucky colors. These are pictures of the day after.

Spring!

I love Spring time here. Everything is green and there are flowers everywhere! EVERYWHERE! We just couldn’t help but run into this field and take pictures. My mom was going crazy with the camera trying to get just the right shot. The other thing I love about Spring is how wonderful everything smells. So new and fresh.

Promises, Promises!

Okay, I know it has been forever and a day since I have updated my blog…….so I am going to PROMISE to do a better job. In the mean time, I am going to do mini blogs to bring everyone up to speed on my life. So enjoy and if you don’t hear from me in a while, feel free to bug me and remind me to update.

Treated Like A Princess

Once a year for Young Women’s, we have a super activity. That is, if you are all caught up on your personal progress. And you want to be because they always go all out. This year was my first experience and it was Awesome. We were told to dress up nice and they would be by to pick us up at a certain time. Little did I know that it would be in a super deluxe stretch limo. They took us to a fancy dinner and then to see “Oklahoma.” We did have to leave early because there was a really bad scene with pornography in it. Our leaders were so upset some were even crying. It was okay because the play company gave us our money back and we were able to have another activity at a later date. We then went to one of the leaders house and had dessert ordered in from a fancy restaurant. I had crème bru’lee. It was to die for. Everyone kept asking me if I knew what I was ordering and thanks to my mom (it’s her favorite dessert) I knew. We played tons of games and talked and giggled the night away. And since we left the play early we had extra time and we used that time to talk about what had happened and how we stood up for what we believed in and left the play and how we can use that experience in the future if we are at a movie or a party or anywhere where there is something going on that we don’t agree with or don’t want to be a part of. I know I can just stand up and leave. And in some cases even get my money back.

We all got long stem roses.
inside the stretch limo.
Don't we look coolio?
Me, Olivia, Carloine and one of my leaders Sis. Procter.

Girls camp was TONS of fun. In my cabin was 2 girls from my ward and then a few other girls from other wards. I had 3 counselors. 2 of them (Brook, and Lindsey) are in my ward and the other one (Megan) was from a different ward. The theme this year was “Got oil?” and no it is not a political statement (When people that are not from our church saw it the asked if it was a political statement.) it is referring to the parable of the ten virgins. My cabin’s name was “The Arkettes” as in Noah’s ark. It was a very pretty and fun campground and there were a lot of cool things to do. I was “Tiny Tina” in my cabin’s play (which was a camp version of “The Christmas Carol”) and I will never hear the end of it from all my friends! Well I had a TON of fun at Girls Camp this year and I cannot wait to go back! Here are some of my pictures from camp!!!!

My AWESOME Birthday Party

I am so sorry that I have not blogged in so long, I have been very busy with school and sports, but now that it is summer, I will try to keep up!! So here it goes my first post sense FOREVER!!!
So this year I turned 12 and I had a birthday party with my friends from church!!!!I am so happy that I am in Young Woman’s!!! It is way better than Primary!  I am 2nd counselor in the Beehive presidency, and it is tons of fun! Also Girls Camp is this Monday, CANT WAIT!!!!! So for my birthday party me and my friends went to one of ladies in our wards house! She met with me before hand and helped me pick out what I wanted, and then when we arrived, she had the CUTEST journals you have ever seen!! Everyone made their own and we had a very fun time. Afterwards we went back to my house for cake, ice cream and presents!! It was an awesome party!! And guess what? I got a CELL PHONE!!! I was so happy

Getting ready to make our journals.
The finished product!!!
Me and Elsie
Me and Cassidy
Me and Rosie.
Me and Caroline.
Me and Laura
Me and McKenzie.
Me and Brooke.
The whole gang!

This was my very first modeling gig. It was a runway shoot for a very upscale, artsy shop in downtown Portland. The clothes are really for women, but they were looking for a way to show them in a different way. It was being filmed and it will be in a showcase for an art festival. And for publicity for their shop. It was just me and one other girl. We wore all these extremely expensive clothes and walked up a dark set of red stairs. It was really “ARTSY”. I was really nervous but way excited at the same time. I hope I get to do more work in the future, I had tons of fun. Thank You mom, for taking me all the way out in the snow into the middle of Downtown. I know how much you don’t like driving there. Well, I hope you like the pictures. They are sending me the DVD of the finished product and maybe I can post some of it on here when I get it.

Hair. After getting up early so my mom could straighten my hair, they ended up just putting it up anyway. Oh well.
Make-up. They wanted me to have these really dark eyebrows. Don't ask me why.
This was a really great dress and it only cost $290.00 but check out the necklace. It retails at $800.00. My mom was having a fit the whole time I had it on. She was afraid I was going to break it and we would have to pay for it. :)
I feel like I look like a boy in this outfit.
Here's my mom waiting in the wings, trying not to be in the way.
This outfit I would actually wear....if only I had an extra $500.00 to spare. The jeans alone were $170.00. but they were so cute.
This was the grand finale outfit. I only had a tank top and shear tights under this cape and I was afraid the whole time it would fly open and every one would see my undies.