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.

I am a Sevy now!!

As I walked into a new setup, school and so much more,boy was I excited! I was not nervous like any other seventh grader. To be honest I had lots of choices that I had to make. I could choose between Hillside or Wasatch. Every month, I would be set on one school and then the next, the other. But finally, I came to a decision. Wasatch Junior High. Even though I have been shoved in to my locker, been hit by a skateboard in the head, lost my flip flop while coming up the stairs, Been knocked over by the faculty door, ran into a few walls, and humming softly in class when the humming gets gradually louder with everyone staring at me, and lastly having twenty different people opening my locker for me. Boy those are all the embarrassing moments that I've had. But I am not sad or angry with my choice, I am so happy. I enjoy being there.
I LOVE the classes that I am taking!! I love my teachers.
My keyboarding and CTE (Career Technical Education) Classes, are so fun and not boring. My teacher is Ms. Stubbs, she plays 99.5 every day, it doesn't get better than the Fray, Taylor Swift, Lady GaGa, Colbie Caliat, and Daughtry. It keeps me focused. The keyboarding class is helping me to learn lots of fast ways to type words and my name.

My English Teacher, is so upbeat. She is one of my absolute favorites. She is the dream teacher. She's positive, kind, cute, she reminds me of my aunt Melanie. Her name is Ms. Wallace.
But she also is helping me learn new things that make English 7 so much fun.

Math's a little crazy, Mrs. Derres, scatter brained one earring wearer, hairy armpits, but still okay.

Lunch, Subway, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Smoothie and Ice Cream Bar. WOO!

CTE: Learning what career I want to do when I grow up, how to cook, sew, write checks out to people, learning how to fill out a deposit slip

Spanish: So much fun! Being able to speak a second language is so much fun!!!

P.E.: Ran the mile and made presidential with a total time of 8:19. Cut time is 8:40

and

Science: WOW! Learning about atoms, and the periodic table is so much fun

I am so glad that I have had the experience to be at Wasatch Junior High. HOW FUN!!!

LIFE IS NOW SWEET AS A MAGNOLIA CUPCAKE!!!

My Summer Highlights

I have decided to update my blog with a top 20 list. This summer was like a sparkling seashell in the ocean. I have loved doing things I have not done before and old things that I have done.I hope that next summer will be like a sparkling Glitter Toe.

1: Going to Disney Land. That place was full of laughter. Going on all of the high drops and roller coasters. I would never have done that!!

2: Going to rough out camp. Roughing it out with friends!! Having Cook Outs. Celebrating with flower head bands, Navajo Tacos, Scripture reading, and so much more. Plus sleeping in a tent full a friends. Hannah! Gabby! Elizabeth! Kate! Hayle! Alexis!

3: Doing two triathlons with my cool mom! Winning the relays, Doing Echo and Women of Steel. Swimming in a freezing cold lake and a freezing cold pool. Both of these had steam coming out of them.

4: Going to Beehive Camp. Repelling from a rock, going on the zip line, having cook outs, having a cute counselor: Bandanna, being involved in the Legendary Ceremony, Meeting One Clear Voice, and promising to soar like an eagle.

5: Getting Glitter Toes, Purple with sisters and green with a friend.

6: Making it to conference, swimming the 50 Breast, 50 Free, and Lastly the IM.

7: Sewing lots of cute skirts, but enjoying one week with a cousin.

8: Enjoying a writing camp, feeling a lovely breeze with a pencil in my hand.

9: Going boating with the ward at Youth Conference, and riding a horse.

10: Going in the ocean unexpectedly, with cousins, especially with my sweet cousin Abby.

11: Playing with neighbors, and sisters on our 1st swing

12: Enjoying the lovely pool every week. Playing with sisters, diving tricks on the diving boards.

13: Going to corner market, mint- chocolate, cookies and cream, and vanilla - chocolate yogurt. YUM!!

14: Relaxing and pouring my feelings out at the piano

15: Swimming with friends: Hannah, Carolyn, Annie, Jayne, Mikaela, Erika, and so many more.

16: Doing Baptisms with Claire, Hannah, and Carolyn. Plus eating at the Lion House with them.Splitting cake, mashed potatoes, what a true friendship.

17: Watching the stars at camp

18: Hiking with the Hatches, Hannah! Red Butte

19: Having Sleepovers with Gam and sisters!

20: Watching movies with sisters.

WOW! I have had such a fun summer. I have loved going to camps and all of the above. This has been the most memorable summer ever! I will never forget the french braids with Claire and Hannah from camp. Getting the lion hair, Disneyland. Splash Mountain, and so much more! Boy am I blessed!

THE BEACH! (and the happiest place on earth)

The first week of August, was spent in California. We went to the beach and disneyland. This trip made me realize that I am not afraid of the ocean. When my cousin and I were little, we were afraid of the ocean. But we had told all of our older cousins that we would go in the ocean EVERYDAY this year, and that promise came true.

Our cousin Abby had driven down with us a day earlier. We left on July 31, and got to Vegas and spent the night there and on Saturday we left and got to the beach at 2:00 CAL. time. Abby's family would get there Sunday. But she came with us a day earlier. One of the most surprising moments was that it was 100 degrees at the beach and when my mom asked us what we wanted to do, We all joined in and said "We want to go to the beeach and jump and ride the waves!" So we did. The water was really warm, but everyday, it got colder and colder. But we still went in the ocean everyday.

On Wednesday, we went to Disneyland. THE HAPPIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD!! We went on all of the tough and scary rides. We saw shows and parades and so much more. Here is a list of all my favorite rides:
10: Star Tours
9:It's a Small World
8: Mad Tea Cups
7: Astro Orbiter
6: Buzz Light Year
5: Autotopia
4: Splash Mountain
3: Matterhorn Bobsleds
2: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
1: Indiana Jones and Space Mounatin!
We went on a lot of fun rides and saw shows. I loved a lot of the rides. We went on a lot of rollercoasters. We had funny pictures from Splash and Space mountain. It was really fun. I also realized that when I was five years old, I missed out on a lot of fun rides.
The Beach and Disney Land were a blast.

Mom, Dad, Take me again!!! :)