20 Highlights of My Summer...

This Summer has been so fun!! I have enjoyed it, and have learned more things that I never knew. I had a fun summer, and I would like to tell the whole world about it. Here is my Top 20 fun things that I did this Summer.

20: I started out my summer, up at BYU. I did a swim camp, where I learned a lot about nutrition, the secrets of swimming, more fun workout sets that I have never done before, and more great tips about my strokes. I also enjoyed eating at the Cannon Center. They had the yummiest food. Between Eggs and Pasta. That week was a little slice of Heaven for me.

19: I enjoyed waking up a 6:30 five days a week. I swam all summer, and worked really hard, so that I could go to conference, and show everybody who I was made of. I loved carpooling with Hannah, and still got new tips on all of my strokes. I loved swimming at the Tennis Club.

18: I also enjoyed a week at Beehive Camp. There were a lot of spiritual experiences, I memorized a new scripture. It is 1 John 4:19: It reads: "We Loved Him, Because He First Loved Us." That scripture has now stayed close to me, and I have learned to love him even more than ever. <3


17: I also got glitter toes. Twice this time!!! :) How can a summer be without getting glitter toes!!! I know that I am a little obsessed with them, but honestly, I just am in love with them. I got Purple again with my cousin Abby in Las Vegas, and then I got an Orange with my darling friend Gabby. I love Gabby, she is so chill, and mellow. I feel I can talk to her about anything, because she can let me trust her with the things that I have to tell her. Thanks Gabby!! :)

16: I did two triathlons this summer, Echo and Women of Steel. I did both of them with my mom. The Women of Steel, was a disaster. They cancelled the swim, so they had me do a mile run, but we did pretty well, we got 5th in our age division. But when we did Echo, I swam in a freezing cold lake, but we got 2nd place out of our age division. I have a goal that maybe next year or the year after that, I will get to do one all by myself.

15: We went to California this past week, and I loved it. The ocean was nice and cold, and the waves were nice and cool, I got a lot of great things there, like a pair of new sunglasses, a pair of Vans, and a pair of Toms. We went and got Tutti Frutti, you've gotta love that!!! I got Cookies and Cream and Chocolate, and then I put Oreo bites and Cookie Dough bites on it. It was Heaven.

14: Speaking of yogurt, we found so many new places, We basically went out three times a week. I loved it. I think that it tasted the best when we had it after meets. We went to Fresh Twist, Top It, Yogurt Stop, and Tutti Frutti. I loved going and getting yogurts with my family. It was a big highlight for me.

13: I made it to conference!!! I made it in the I.M., Backstroke, and Breastroke. I place really well. I was 10th in the Breastroke out of the whole league, I was 13th in the I.M. out of the whole league, and then I was 7th in the whole league in the Backstorke. I made the I.M. and the Breastroke in the Prelims. and then I made the Finals in the Backstroke, so I got to swim in the top 8 with all of the harder girls.

12: I went and spent a weekend up at a YW leaders cabin with all of the YW. I enjoyed talking and catching up with my friends, swinging on a hammock, making dinner, and so much more.

11: I got a phone!!!! I love texting my friends, I can catch up with my cousin in Vegas, I can talk to my friends for fun, or just again catch up.

10: I went to Dick's and Dairy Keen for dinner a few times. I love there shakes, and their burgers. I enjoyed them.

9: I played the Piano a lot, in YW, and a ton at home. I love playing the piano, I love being able to go and sit down and play. I enjoy it so much. Thanks to my great teachers.

8: I enjoyed reading some good books, Forest Born, Hunger Games, and Fablehaven, and of course sop much more.

7: I enjoyed going to Las Vegas, and seeing my cousin come home from the Hawaii Honolulu Mission. I enjoyed hearing his thoughts and testimony about the gospel. I loved seeing my cousin Abby a lot this summer too. I enjoy spending time with her. She is a doll. We text and go in the ocean together. She is my ocean buddy. I love ya Abby!!!

6: I enjoyed reading the New Testament a lot this summer. I enjoyed being able to follow Christ's footsteps,

5: I enjoyed being able to go to the Temple a lot and to go and do Baptisms with my friends. I love love love it. It brings a special feeling to my heart. I love it.

4: I loved listening to music this summer. I listened to Mindy Gledhill more, and James Taylor and Carole King.

3: I enjoyed swinging out on my swing out in front, or walking down to Sno Shack with family or friends.

2: I enjoyed playing with Ruby. She is so funny and mellow sometimes. I love it. She does the funniest things. She learned how to catch, and other things. She is so smart.

1: Probably the best thing that I did this summer, was spend time with my family. I loved being able to laugh and talk with my family. It was the best.

Even though Summer is over, These memories will always be in my heart. I loved enjoyed doing these things. This Summer, was a blast.

Soaking It All Up.

Summer! Summer! Summer! Summer! My favorite time of year. You have NO Stress, you feel that all the big projects have flown off your shoulders. You say hello to flip flops, my favorite kind of shoe. Bright Pink...Purple...Black....Brown... So many flip flop colors to choose from.

Lots and Lots of camps and trips.....Beehive Camp....BYU Swim Camps....Beach Trips.... Hiking Trips... Doesn't Get any better than that!

Oh do I love Summer!!

But you can't forget the soft cold creamy ice cream or frozen yogurt, topped with a little bit of cold frozen hard Chocolate Chips, or crunchy Oreo cookies, maybe even little bits of Cookie Dough!

The blond hair shines off of your arms. You are no longer pale anymore, you are tan.

Playing the piano all day. Getting better and better and better. I love it!

Going to the pool every week, jumping off of the diving boards, feeling like you are flying.

Having sunburned shoulders and ears.

This is what summer is all about.

You wait for it all winter; This quote even says it

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that

there was in me an invincible summer."

~Albert Camus

This is what I have been waiting for, showing off your fancy bright colored toes, eating frozen yogurt, having sunburned shoulders and ears, having a cute tan, playing the piano all day,feeling the sand in my toes, and soaking and sitting in a good book. This is my dream summer!!

It will never get any better than that.

The Dashing Lighning Fast School Year...

7th Grade...
It has gone by so fast! This year is a memory, It has just felt like that I was walking into Wasatch Junior High School.

I have had a lot of great memories with friends, academics, and other things. I took a great variety of classes, and have loved experiencing each and everyone of them.

I have also loved the friends that I have made... Zoe, Katie, Charlotte, and so much more.

To me when I walked into 7th Grade, and saw all of the different variety of people, I thought it was like a big jar full of names and there were little slips of papers and I had to draw a few,

This year has made my world spin round and round!

Cheers to a great year!!!

December

This Christmas has been great for my family and I. We spent lots of time with our family, visiting our puppy, helping lots of Eritrean people, listening to music with my cousin Abby, playing the piano, sleeping in, and slowing the days down.

Tomorrow night on New Years Eve, I am going to run a 5K with my cool dad, the race starts at 11:30, and we try to beat the New Year. My goal is to be in by 11:50. My dad and I are very excited to run together.

As a family, we saw lots of fun movies. We saw Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Princess and the Frog. They were both good.My sisters and I saw them both with cousins.

Lots of fun parties at Gams. The soup was great, the program was great, and the gift exchange was fun.

YW Mutual. Going to a Live Nativity. Seeing live animals, drinking warm Hot Chocolate, laughing with friends. Doesn't get any better than that!

Meeting new people, helping them, loving them, making them smile, Watching them light up the world with their coffee creamed skin and brown eyes. Meeting Jimati and her four girls, Meeting Rahawa, Arsema, and Divora. Delivering Christmas Trees to 9 Families 36 people.

December has been so much fun. I can't wait to get our puppy in January. I am looking forward to Girls Camp, Hikes with friends and family, and so much more.

The New Addition to our Family

For one of my families presents that we got for Christmas, was that we are getting a puppy!!

Our family is so excited to walk the puppy and play with it.

My uncle Jeff's dog Marley had 11 wonderful adorable puppies. There are 7 Male and 4 Female.

We are going to get one of the females. She is very mellow but is fun to hold. The family named her Izzy, but we are going to change her name to Ruby. We are very excited.

We will get to pick her up the week of January 20. Right now, she is 4 1/2 weeks. She turns 5 weeks on Wednesday.

We can't wait to have another chic in the family. My dad is so excited!!! Here's to a great 2010!!!

October 14,2009--- Bampa's Birthday!!!

Yesterday was my grandpa Jack's birthday!!!

It has been around eight or nine years since his cancer and when he died.

But every year on October 14, we go down to the baseball diamonds where he was a coach at that very place, and we get white balloons, sing happy birthday to him, and sing Families can be together forever. There's are night.

Just this past day, I have been thinking about the memories that we have had together. I thought about how:

Him and I sat there and we would play Sorry together, and that was fun and how he would always throw me up in his arms and say "I Love You Lizzie Beth" and I wold laugh and my reply would be: "I Love you too Bampa Jack!!!"
Another memory would be me bringing up my favorite barbie in two pieces, the body plus the leg. He would say " Oh of course I'll fix that" and he would super glue and she would be good as new.
The last memory, was this very special memory:
Every time he would come home from the hospital, with my two uncles helping him up the steep cement stairs and as he walked in, he would be so much better, with a smile on my face and on his, we would run to each other, and say HEY!! I MISSED YOU!!!
I enjoyed each and every moment of my playtime with him.
Those four years of love and games were worth it.
I Love You Bampa!!!!
Can't Wait to See you!
Happy Birthday!!

The UEA Weekend.

This Weekend and Week has been pretty cool. It doesn't get any better than a five day weekend.

Going Hiking, Going to SuCasa and a Hires Grasshopper shake as a family. General Conference. Sleeping Over in Kylee and Willa's Room for three nights in a row. Playing in the cold weather with neighbors. Taking great talks away from the room and into my life. The ones I liked, were:

Elder Eyring and how we can be better
Elder Hales about testimony
How about Elder Holland's !!
Ann Dibbs and how we should not let go of the iron rod!!!
President Monson and how he talked about service!!

Going to my grandma's helping her out with her chores, and taking her out to lunch.

This weekend was also great for me, because I got to spend time with my family.

My sisters and I got to stay up late and watch movies, Monsters VS. Aliens for the first time,we loved it! We had to watch Caliou with Willa, and we also got to have sleepovers all four nights!! We each brought our baby dolls and we got to play house. We had three separate families and we were all sisters. We also got to walk done to our neighborhood coffee shop and rode our bikes down and brought warm silky hot chocolate.

My mom and I got to go and go shopping for Halloween costumes and went to the new Khols and got to see all of the fun shoes and my sisters and I had a ball in the massage chairs area,and the Elvis music, and enjoyed the laughter.

Working for my grandma was fun. I took her out to lunch for her birthday, and we organized her drawers, and we dusted lots of her shelves and we had lots of fun stuff to do!

A lot of people said that they didn't want to go back to school, but five days is enough! Not six, or seven just five.