Thanksgiving

TERRIBLE picture, but me and powell, sitting on top of a mountain we hiked. i look chubby in this pic..

Riding horses is my FAVORITE thing to do! yes thats me on the beautiful dark horse Brownie :) hehe

On top of the mountian we hiked. We hike this every year, these are only some of the hikers, although I think the desert is UGGGLY when you get up here and look it all becomes.. Prettier :D Thanksgiving was wonderful consisting of yummy food, lots of kids, horses, quads, golf carts, games and fun! I love my family!!

senior year, halloween, and GOOD News

So yes is it my senior year. and it is SO SAD to think I will never play High School volleyball again. These were the seniors on my team this year. It was such a fun year!!

HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS! so Jeff got engaged to Elizabeth Hunt recently and I am SOO exctited! I love her to death and they are so cute with each other. Why is this such good news you ask? Because this means Jeff is moving out! :) I still love you Jeff!

And last but not least Halloween came and went so quick. Consisting of lots of parties and good times :)

Homecoming!

Homecoming was a BLAST this year! I went with Chase Allen and we had a really fun group! We went and took pictures (these are all at joes farm house in Gilbert) Went to Macaroni (sp?) Grill for dinner, and then off to the dance! After the dance we went to Chases house with our group and watched a movie. It was seriously so fun, Thank you Chase for an awesome date! :D

lots of updates.. Enjoy

The pictures aren't in any order.. very random! But this is what has been going on the past few weeks :)

VoLlEyBalL!! This is some of our team at festival. So much fun!
Me, Mia, and Powell racing to the car from the pond

Me and Brittany and Brooklyn at our family renunion

Jeff, me, my dad at the Oquirrh Mountian Temple, Utah

Ranch Trip, Jeff hookin up the water trailor.. me distracting him :P

Me and Mia at Spring valley

Papa is home!! This is about 20 minutes after he got home from being in the hospital 16 days I got taught how to give him his medicine thru his pickline :) my dad is so silly! We have to do this everyday, and I love acting like i'm a professional nurse! haha not

Poor papa in the hospital, takin a break from the bed
I Cant believe he is 8!!!!!! Mason got baptized last month, im so proud of him! He is such a good nephew, grandson, brother, son and person! He is so kind to everyone, I love you Mason!

This is the cool snake I found at the pond.. it pooped in my hand grr

neglected bloging..

E.F.Y!!! Most AMAZING week of my life, I had the best group ( SHOW UNTO THE WORLD), best counselors, we had an amazing session director, and really really great classes!! I loved everything about it!! here are a few picture.. :)

Tannis, RiAnne, Kendra, Me.. bored waiting to go home

Me and Bethany!! My counselor, I love her!!

probably one of my favorite pictures.. haha we aren't very good at making straight faces

girls, smiling!!

The BOYS

Our guy counselor! Dan the man

Me and Tannis!!

Our session director and his wife (Bro and sister Diamond!)

Friends from home! Koltn, Brandon, Bam

Cousin Brittany, me, Tannis

I cant remember if i posted about this but I got 5th place in our state track meet this year for high jump! I was really happy with it and im going to keep working hard to get better next year. (thanks uncle Jerry for the picture)

PROM!!!! So much fun, we had an awesome group! Thanks Chase for a way fun date!

I'm sure I missed a lot of things, but oh well. I guess ill try to keep it updated more often! :)

Pretty Pretty Princess

We found GEMMA Tuesday night after Julies party in my bathroom.. playing with my make up! Funniest thing I have seen! it was so cute, and she was SO focused. She knew she looked to pretty cause she had makeup on! Then she put some on me too, she was so cute about it!
She didn't even flinch when Kylie was taking pictures, she just kept going right along with what she was doing! The best thing about it is she knew where to put all the makeup! .. she defiantly has observed people putting it on cause she was pro!

I dont remember if i have done this before.. but oh well!

JOYS:.. only 3?!
1.Family/ Friends
2.sports
3. music

FEARS:
1. cockroaches
2. sharks
3. the dark

GOALS:
1. top 3 at state for high jump
2. Married in the temple
3. get a job

OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS:
1. music
2. precious moments
3. pictures

RANDOM:
1. I HATE HATE HATE when people talk while someone is trying to teach
2. I dont like apple juice
3. I cant wait till im married and have a life of my own!

Magazines I read regularly:
1.none
2. none
3. none

Teachers who made a difference:
1. Mr. Wilson -7th grade English
2. mrs. cotter- 11 American history
3. mrs. Barker- 11 English (LOVE HER!)

Books that made me think:
1. Book of Mormon.. trying to apply it to my life, sometimes its kinda hard

Sights that made me awe:
1. old men opening the door for their wife (makes me think how long they have been doing it, so cute!)
2. newly married people kissing
3. really cute pictures

Careers that fascinate me:
1. Astheticition (no clue how to spell it.. aka skin care)
2. business management
3. mom

Colors that make me happy:
1. GREEN
2. teal
3. yellow

Words that make me shudder when said aloud:
1. Barf
2. cuss words- hate um
3. my name when said in a not pleasant tone

Websites I check every day:
1. Facebook
2. Blog
3. my e-mails

Restaurants that make my mouth water:
1. Costa Vida
2. Aloha Kitchen
3. applebees

Experiences I don't plan to repeat:
1. If i dont wanna repeat them why would I

Songs that pump me up:
1. everything my Michael buble
2. sway/ home by Michael buble
3. lemonade by Chris rice

Dana tagged me..

4th file.... 4th picture.. then tell about it! :)

Um so One of these legs is my moms sister Aunt Shenla's, the other is mine.. Can you tell which is mine? :) I think we were talking about how i was tan or something and how she was white and we compared so we took a picture of it! No worries though, i still love you even if you're white aunt shenla!!

Action

SO last week my WONDERFUL sister KYLIE took pictures of me and TANNIS for fun! It was really random, but I loved it! and we are gonna do it again, any ideas of good places to go? Anyways, here are some of the pics :)

Well considering I forgot I had a blog for a while I haven't posted much lately. But no one reads it so I really don't know why I care. Anyways, nothing really has happened but last night there was a fireside for the Young Single Adults. I know I'm not one, but because my dad is in the bishopric I got to go. It was AMAZING, Elder David A. Bednar and his wife came and spoke along with Elder Snow of the 70. It was really neat, they did a question and answer and had people go around with Microphones so everyone could ask questions. I learned SO much last night and I wanted to just sit and hear him talk for ever, he is such a great speaker! And the spirit was so strong there. Two things I will never forget about this fireside, PRAYERS do get answered. and when an apostle of the lord bears his testimony he doesn't say "I know Christ lives, or I know Joseph Smith is and was a true prophet" he says I WITTINESS to you that Christ Lives, I Wittiness to you that Joseph Smith is a prophet. That was a big testimony builder for me! How I love this church and am so proud to be a part of it!!







Now on a less spiritual note, Staci did this and although she didn't tag me im going to do it too.

ONE WORD ANSWERS:


1. Where is your phone? pocket
2. Where is your significant other? none
3 .Your hair color? brown
4. Your Mother? amazing
5. Your Father? perfect
6. Your favorite thing? religion
7. Your dream last night? random
8. Your dream/goal? family
9. The room you're in? family
10. Your hobby? scrapbooking
11. Your fear? cockroaches
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? married
13. Where were you last night? Dallins
14. What you're not? Gothic
15. One of your wish-list items? clothes
16. Where you grew up? Mesa
17. The last thing you ate? chocolate
18. What are you wearing? sweatshirt
19. Your TV? big
20. Your pet? dead
21. Your computer? ??
22. Your mood? spiritual
23. Missing someone? friends
24. Your car? none
25. Something you're not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? Ross
27. Your Summer? Wonderful
28. Love someone? everyone
29. Your favorite color? green
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? yesterday
32.Something you crave? chicken
33. Why you blog? family

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

WINTER FORMAL

Here is the other one of Miya and Zander.. I dont know why it got out of place.. haha still so cute!

Me and Tanner

Again.. :)

Parker and Lexi! so cute

Love them!

this picture cracks me up!

Tannis and Tommmy

SO cute!

Miya and Zander! they were So funny

Lindsay and dallin! Such a CUTE picture

sweet


So Yesterday was WINTER FORMAL! SOOO FUN. It started out with our tradition of a sleepover at Lindsays house the night before with the girls! We had a blast all night! Then at 8:00 we had breakfast, made sure everything was ready, and got ready. We picked up our dates at 11:00 and were off to the mall. We did a picture scavenger hunt which was so fun, and hopefully soon i will be able to put pics of that on here. After that we got pizza and went down town to eat (on a street corner(that wasnt planned) haha. And then we took really fun pictures with the statues and at the mesa arts center. It was WAY cheap :) and SO fun! So we took the boys home, and then got ready. At 6:00 we did PICTURES (what these are from) at Val Vista Lakes. and my WONDERFUL sister Kylie who is amazing a photograpy took them. Her camera fell over because of the wind and basically got destroyed so we didnt get a group picture (we took one at the school) But her camera is under warranty so it will be fixed! THANKS KY! Then we went to CHARLSTONS to eat dinner which was DELICIOUS!!! that was so fun, and next we were off to the dance. Lexi was noninated PRINCESS and totally deserved it! It was so fun. After the dance we came back to my house for Krispy Kreme doughnuts, hot chocolate. and we wated a video of our pictures throughout the day and these ones, that kylie put together for us while we were gone! So nice. Then we watched a movie and went home! All in all it was SOOO fun and Tanner thanks for being such a fun date!!

SORRY.. Here is an update of the last few weeks!

Riding horses in the Desert, we (Jeff and I) had just got back and my mom was like wait dont get off I want a picture.. so thats why im next to the trailor! :)
Desiree, Me, and Kelci! I love them!

Loni, i think Crue, Walker, and Me riding the golf cart!

Sweet baby parker with his new brother!!

My mom said it looks like Ryler is going RRAAWWRR with his hands up to scare Parker. haha

At the hospital!

Happy Birthday GRANNY!!!! granny with some of her GREAT GRANDKIDS!! WOW

cute Ryler again.. i love this boy!

I went and saw him after my choir concert!

Me and Jeff at my concert!

THANKSGIVING!! The Littles came down for the weekend and it was so fun here at the "BRINTON HOTEL" with all them here!! I love when they are down, and i wish they didnt leave.. :( We had a really fun day at the DESERT as usual with all the family riding horses, golf carts, eating food, fire, and all that fun stuff!

- I asked TANNER JONES to WiNtEr FoRmAl!! It is this Saturday, so after you will see lots of pictures!

- December 2nd, I got a new NEPHEW!! Staci (my sister) had her baby RYLER SHANE ALLEN, and was in the hospital for less then 45 minutes before she had him! Way to go stack.. hopefully i will be like you :) by the way, Ryler is PERFECT and SO CUTE!

- Dec. 2nd, I also had my choir concert which went really well!

- December 2nd, Also GRANNYS BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday to the most amazing person i know! She is unbelievably amazing, and im so glad she is in our family!

- December 6th, BREAKFAST with SANTA! Its an amazing thing that MESA HIGH does, where they provide CHRISTMAS for 50 families who wouldn't otherwise be able to have it! Its such a neat thing, Friday night me and my friends were at Mesa until 9:30 at night setting up, and we even left before some people. And Saturday Tannis and I got there a little after 7. It was SO FUN playing with the little kids while the parents went into the back rooms and went "shopping" for what they needed. although nothing cost money.. obviously. It was so neat to see the families reactions. They were so happy, and the kids were so cute!

-December 7th. VESPERS! I wish I had pictures of this, because it was amazing! It was our "Christmas" concert that Mesa high puts on, but its only with AcCapella and Chamber choirs. Its such a neat thing, and a great way to feel the spirit!

I think that's about it.. Our volleyball team made it to STATE this year. But we got out in the first round against Gilbert. It was still a lot of fun, and now I'm playing club!

Alright Tan tagged me.. here are some Random Facts about me:

1. For Christmas, I like BLUE AND WHITE better then RED and GREEN

2. I love love love TRAVELING!! and CHICAGO is my favorite place to go, although I really want to go to CHINA

3. I hate cockroaches more then scorpions, or any other insect

4. I can pop my hip out of place!

5. I love QT, and I get YELLOW Gatorade every time I go there, and if I do get Horchata I always save half for my brother, and he does the same for me!

6. I love drawing and painting, but wish I was really good at it.

7. I LLLLOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEEE FOOD!! (thank goodness for sports or i would be fat!)

8. Oh and in case you didn't know, I have THE GREATEST FRIENDS IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. no joke!

9. I LOVE the Christmas lights at the TEMPLE!

HOMECOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kolter and Courtney!

Tannis and Brandon!

Lindsay and Booty (Robert)!

We had a DELICIOUS dinner at the Kings house (my dates house) and it was set up so cute!!

The girls, Lindsay, Tannis, Courtney, and Me :D

The Boys Kolter, Brandon, Booty, and Dallin!! :D

AW!!!! everyone looks so cute, and yes, booty (far right) is standing on the fireplace! haha

Me and Dallin!!! what a stud huh!



This was seriously SO fun!! So, Friday night the girls had a sleepover at Lindsays house and it was a blast just being crazy and spending time together! Then Saturday morning the boys picked us up at 8:00 and we went quading! (sorry i dont have any pics of quading) Brandons dad Brother Ray and his friend Brother Goodman went with us! we had 5 quads and 1 dirt bike, brother Rays quad broke, Booty and Lindsays quad broke, and Brandon and Tannis Flipped their quad (scary!) so it broke. Me and Dallin were riding right by them so we were able to be right there and help when it happened, Tannis is alright, she has some scrapes on each knee, and brandon will be okay, he is on crutches right now, his left leg got hurt pretty bad. but he should be better in a few weeks, luckily we said a prayer before we started because they should have been hurt a lot worse then they were! anyways, so by the end of the day Kolter and Courtneys quad worked and Our quad worked (and bro. Goodmans dirtbike) dont get me wrong, everyones quads worked for a while and one by on they broke, so we all did get to go for a long time! and brandon and Tannis flipped right at the very end, which really was good because the cars were right there! But i think me and Dallin had the most fun! haha cause pretty much everyone else had something go wrong. anyways, then we had lunch while we cleaned tannis and brandon up, packed up the quads and went home. Then the boys picked us up at 6:30 and we went to dallins house for that Delicious dinner, Steak and Salmon!! then to the dance, which was so fun. and after to Brandons house for RoOTbeEr FLoaTs! The boys could't have planned it any better! it was the funnest date i have ever been on! thank you to all the parents for all you did for us, for the boys for making our date SO amazingly fun. and for DALLIN for being such a FUN date!!!!!!!!

girls camp!!

these are the cute girls that were in the hotel room wiht me and rachel (we were YCL's)

Our skit group! and yes.. i have a diaper on my head :P

We went repelling!!! it was sooo fun and not that hard at all! thanks Bishop and bro. Gardner!

Hannah's hair got caught aroung the 8 ring and we had to pull her back up the mountian because she couldn't move, it was an interesting event, but we didnt have to cut off her hair!

Sister Arnett, me, Sister Higgens, Sister Thornhill!!

Cant you tell certification is so fun!

everyone that went repelling minus some leaders, and no beehives (only mia maids and laurels went repelling!)

Some of the girls in our tent!

Dont mess with Aspen ward... we will beat you up!

Me and Rachel teaching CAMP SONGS!!!!! probably my favorite thing about camp

I love rachel! we had SO much fun together!!!!

Our wonderful men setting up camp for us!!

how cute!



The first night we slept at our leaders house and it was actually a lot of fun, despite it not being real camping. the second night we went to the resort, hotel and that was fun too, even though it defitnaly wasn't camping!

So.. last night (Saturday) I went to Mountain Views Homecoming! I went with Ethan Smith, long story short he wanted to go with a girl from a different school, his brothers girlfriend knows me really well, and set us up. So we hung out a few times before so it wasn't a total BLIND date. Anyways, i had a volleyball tournament all day so i got home about 4:00. We went to my sister Staci's house to do some stuff, then i had to hurry up and shower and Staci did my hair! Isn't it so cute! Thank you Staci!! (the jewelry is also hers! )
AW :)
I had SO much fun! We had dinner at his house with three others couples that his mom made and it was delicious! Then we went to the dance, and after we went to another persons house in our group to play some games! Thank you Ethan!!

Rules: Each player answers the question themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 and posts their names. Have fun!

5 years ago I:
1. was 11
2. was in clogging
3. was ugly
4. gave lots of hugs.. oh wait i still do!
5. played on my playhouse and trampoline A TON

5 things on tomorrow's to do list:
1. School
2. volleyball
3. Homework
4. mutual
5. Make a fruit salad for mutual

5 snacks I enjoy:
1. any chocolate
2. cookies
3. ice cream
4. HOMEMADE ICE CREAM
5. anything gummy

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire:
1. give some of it away to help people
2. travel, a lot
3. save money so i never go broke
4. buy a nice house but not necessarily big
5. make sure i have a pool for this Arizona heat!

5 places I have lived:
1. My Mommy's tummy
2. My car seat
3. MY crib
4. you could probably say at mesa high
5. and of course my house
.. of course most of these places were for just months, but I'm sure i was there a lot! ha ha

I tag.. Emily, Dana, Janell, and Cortney! yes three for that blog, ha ha

Hey everyone. As of Tuesday I am going PRIVATE! so if you want to be able to read my blog send me your e-mail (or send it to my mom if you have hers and i will get it!) Thank you!!

VOLLEYBALL

So.. volleyball tryouts started the same day as the first day of school! And I found out on Wednesday that I MADE VARSITY!! I was so happy, and it was like a huge weight was lifted off me. I'm really excited for this season, I think we have a really good team and will do well, there are I think 8 seniors and 5 juniors on the team. And we all get along really well!! Mountain View.. get ready.. cause here we come! haha.. well I hope! :D