WOW!!!!

Everybody learns something new everyday. What I learned today is that the longest word in the English language is 3,609,750 letters long (not including DNA molecule titles or chemical names). Wow! Now wouldn't that be fun to say! It means the current day or date between real and imaginable today, whatever that means ;)

All in 24 hours' time...

It's amazing what a person can do in twenty-four hours. The twenty-four hours I will be talking about is Sunday afternoon to Monday afternoon. On Sunday my little sister was playing a video game and I was watching. She was sitting the the banana chair on the floor to my right and I was sitting on the couch. I was suddenly hungry and wanted to go into the kitchen to get something. I walked behind Chrissie's banana chair and screamed out in pain. The back flap of the banana chair was pulled back and a nail was sticking out. I had a sharp pain in my leg and ran to the bathroom to see what happened. I have a cut about four inches long on my leg (it's not a continuous cut, but small individual cuts in a line) and it was bleeding profusely. I hurriedly bandaged it up. Within the first half hour, I had to bandage it up two times. It hurt so much! (by the way, this picture is the worst out of all of them)

Monday mid-afternoon I was making cookies. I got distracted and burned my arm on the cookie sheet. At first it just stung, but then it hurt very much.

Monday afternoon I stole Reana's phone from her because she got a picture of me that I didn't like and I wanted to delete it. I was wearing my new shoes and they were still slippery and not worn down yet. I ran across the kitchen floor and tried to turn into the laundry doorway but slipped a little and my knee hit the door frame. I went flying and landed sprawled out on the hard laundry room floor. Reana ended up getting her phone, and I hadn't deleted the picture yet. My knee hurt really bad and I somehow convinced Reana to give me "pay" for her hurting me. She gave me her phone and I deleted the picture :) I looked at my bruise and it is the funniest looking one I have ever had. It's that green thing with a purplish redish dot in it.

An Amazing Break!

Christmas break this year is fantastic so far. And it will most likely be fantastic for the rest of the break. Even though I caught a cold a couple days before Christmas and it's just now going away, I am still very happy.

My family (Amanda, Sami, Mark, and Audree) came to Idaho and spent about a week of Christmas break with us. My brothers, Craig and Keith, spent Christmas day with us and parts of Christmas Eve. For Christmas Eve we, like everybody else, have traditions to keep. We always go to my Grandma Bassett's house and eat a huge dinner, then go downstairs for our lovely nativity play put on by the children. We make our way back upstairs into the front living room and have our "talent show". This year we had a variety of stories, singing, and I think my aunt played the violin. We went home and we all got to open our presents from Grandma Bassett. We all got comfortable pajamas, and were extremely excited to put them on! After a while we all went to bed, tired from the long day.

Christmas morning we had to wake up at six because my brother, Craig, had to work and nine that morning (and having eleven people to open presents (12 if you count millie who had two presents) it takes a while...). Sami and Mark were very tired from the night before (Audree had a hard time sleeping here) and I felt so bad for them to have to wake up that early. We all headed downstairs and sat where our stockings were on the couches. We opened up our presents and thanked our parents and family members and we were done about eight or so. My dad made breakfast and we were happy to eat :) We played with our new presents until noon when we left for my Grandma Spencer's house. We stayed there until night playing with our cousins and family members.

Amanda, Sami, Mark, and Audree left yesterday to go back home to Utah. The whole week they were here, I played with Audree and my mom said she was basically connected to my hip :) It was a lot of fun which made it sad to see them all go :(

My Skipping Report

I decided to report on my whole skipping scheme. None of my friends thought I would really do it so they were shocked when they didn't find me in history. I have to say that yesterday was the best day I could ever skip. I went into the classroom and all the desks were completely full. Brother Fuller cleared his desk in the back and had me sit there. About ten minutes through, a girl had to leave for the period and Brother Fuller told me to take her spot. Brother Fuller's computer wasn't working so we didn't get to do the lesson (he always bases his lessons off the computer. After last year of seminary I despise PowerPoints). I talked to the people around me the whole time and it was so much fun! It was kinda sad when we had to leave. I still haven't been called about being truant, but hopefully Mrs. Hutchinson still thinks I'm Kaitlyn (my history teacher still doesn't know my name...wow).

Tomorrow is another day of seminary for that class, but I can't skip history anymore. At least not this semester. But I really want to go because they are eating and talking the whole period (Fuller's been very kind lately).

Tomorrow is a full day when it should be a half day. I think it is so stupid that they waste my time like this. We also have an assembly tomorrow that I'm not looking forward to. Pep assemblies at new schools always suck. But anyway, I am going out to lunch tomorrow with my friend Emilea and her sister Whitney. Yay! We wanted to skip since we aren't doing anything tomorrow, but we decided it would be best if we just went to school. We were hoping for a snow day but that most likely will not happen. How sad.

My Sister Is Freakin Amazing!

Look at the background of my blog. Isn't it just so cute?! Well I have something to tell you; you won't find it anywhere on the internet. Sami made it. She. Made. It. WOW! I think it looks stinkin amazing! She is so talented!
Yesterday Sami asked me what my favorite Christmas symbol and colors are. I said candy canes (I said snowmen and mittens as well but candy canes are my favorite :) ) and red and silver. So I have a customized wallpaper that nobody else could possibly have. Sami also made one for Chrissie and one for Carter but I think mine's the best since it is exactly what I wanted :)

Skipping Class!

As you can tell by my post "My First F", I hate history. I hate it so much that I want to pull my hair out every time I have to go there. I was trying to think of things that are awful but I would rather do instead of history (because almost anything is better than history). Number one on my list was: Skip history and go to Brother Fuller's seminary class instead. I have to say this is right up there with attending history. So I have planned to skip history next Wednesday (we have a test that I can't miss on Monday) and go to the dreaded class of Brother Fuller (even though skipping is probably better when it isn't planned ahead of time...). I have 5 friends that have him that period so I guess it won't be all that bad. But I had him last year and apparently his teaching skill has gotten even worse... yuck. So today my friends were warning me that it would be torture to go to Brother Fuller's class and I told them that was the point. It took me a while to tell them my plans. They were telling me all the things that have changed in Brother Fuller's teaching style and none of it was for the better :( I am almost about to just go to history. Almost.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

I was looking in my room today and noticed how full it is with things I love. I decided to post them! Some of them are random, but I still love them. I am posting them by subject and I have two favorites in each subject.

1. I LOVE PAJAMA PANTS

These are the pajama pants I am getting for Christmas! Even though I haven't worn them yet, I am soooooooo excited! I love these mostly because of the patterns :) They have Superman, batman, aquaman, etc. (and not the Hulk because he's gay)

These are the pants I got two years ago. They are so comfortable and cute! They are white with multi-colored snowflakes on them. This way I celebrate Christmas all year long :)

2. I LOVE MY SHIRTS

This is definitely my all-time favorite shirt. I have offended some people with it, but I still love it (does that sound cruel to you? Oops...). On the shirt it says 'make-up doesn't cure ugly people'. I use it as a pajama shirt and it is so comfortable. The black dots on the bottom are ink from a pen... we've been through a lot together.

This is my favorite day shirt. I think it is so pretty! It used to be Sami's but she gave it to me! I think it is such a beautiful shade of orange!

3. I LOVE PRINCESSES

My favorite princess ever is Aurora. I think she is so beautiful and she has the best looking prince ;). She has a lovely singing voice and the story is so much fun!

My next favorite princess is Belle. I have always loved brunettes (even though I'm a blonde... sigh) and I think Belle in the movie is pretty (prettier than in her fake pictures) and she loves to read like me!

4. I LOVE BLANKETS!

Superman is my favorite superhero and out of all my blankets I think this one is the best. This is a reversable blanket and on the back is a picture of the superman symbol and chains breaking all around it and I think it's amazing


This is my second favorite blanket! I absolutely love princesses and this blanket has my two favorite ones on it! This one does have a reversable side, but it's not as cool as the superman one :(


5. I LOVE BOOKS!


I love to read in my spare time. My number one favorite series is probably the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It's meant for kids, but I love them! I am so excited for the fifth to come out next summer!

Since I couldn't limit my favorite books down to two series, I decided on three. These last two are in a tie for favorites though. I love the Work and the Glory. They are amazing books that kept me entertained the whole way through. I also love the Inheritance series! I didn't know what to expect at first, and they are so full of everything you can think of! I am anxiously waiting for the fourth and final book but it will probably be a long while before that comes out.


6. I LOVE MOVIES!



My favorite movie is, of course, a princess movie. My favorite is Sleeping Beauty. Like I said earlier, I love her voice and I love the story. This is a movie that I can watch over and over and over again!


I also really like Penelope. I think this is a fun and cute movie with a good moral. It is a family movie and this is another one that I could watch again and again.


These are just a few of my favorite things. I could go on in scents, colors, etc. but I decided this post is long enough :)

A Trip to Baker

I have a friend that used to live in Baker Oregon and hearing all her stories about it, I want to go. Since we will both have our licenses by summer, we a want to go on a little road trip.

For the past few weeks, we've been planning our trip. And this isn't an empty trip where you plan it and you never go. We WILL go on this trip. Baker is about two hours away from here when you drive, and we will take turns. We're not exactly sure how long we will be there, but Emilea has lots of friends there that would be willing to house us for a few days. We are so excited! There are certain places that Emilea said we had to visit, so those are on the list (including an ice cream parlor, her elementary school, etc.). We were talking about our trip at lunch today and I am so STOKED! THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN!!!!!

We just hope gas prices will stay down. We are already saving up, but our lives would be better if we didn't have to pay too much on gas alone. Especially since we are paying for this trip on our own :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I am so excited for this Christmas season! It is already starting off so well! This year for Christmas I wanted shoes. I LOVE shoes! So yesterday we went out as a family because Carter needed tennis shoes as well as Chrissie (both of them had holes in their shoes). I couldn't help but look around for myself ;). I found some really cute flats and I am so excited to be able to wear them! Chrissie and Carter both found tennis shoes that fit them well and they like them. Then we went to Wally World to return some pajamas that didn't fit me. Mom and I looked for some more, but i wasn't a big fan of the styles. We went into the guys section to try to find superman pajamas. They had some, but they were all mediums and larges. I looked at the other ones and they were all lame like coca-cola, snoopy, ac/dc, etc. My mom pointed out another rack of pj's that I didn't notice before. They had a style of pajamas that had a whole bunch of characters from DC comics, including superman. And they had a small!!!!! YAY! After that I had to look for presents for the friends whose birthdays were yesterday. I couldn't find what I wanted from Wal-mart so we went to Shopko. We bought our stuff and then I noticed that we were right next to famous footwear which sells rocketdogs! We went inside and I found some really cute ones that were orange and pink which made me SO happy! I wanted to stop by Bath and Body Works (just a few stores down) because I have some soap that's Brown sugar and fig and I LOVE the smell. I wanted to get the lotion so we popped in and found out it was discontinued, but we could buy it online.

So I know everything I'm getting for Christmas (well from my parents, at least): shoes, shoes, a cake turner, and pajamas! And to top it all off, Sami is going to take me shoe shopping so I get to buy more shoes!

I can't believe It's already Christmas time! Day by day this year has gone by fairly slow. When I look back at the year though, it seems to have passed in the blink of an eye. I hope everybody has a good Christmas this year

Two Birthday Parties

ATTENTION! IF YOUR NAME IS DERYK HOWELL, DO NOT READ THIS!




I have two friends that are throwing their sweet sixteen tonight. I am so excited! The first one is for my friend Courtney. Every time she threw a party she would invite me, Sabri, Tucker, Gwen, Tyler, and Landon. They were always so much fun! We always play fun games and our favorite is the newspaper game (our favorite subject is fruit). I'm always pomegranate (Courtney's dad says pomegramanamanate), Sabri is always apple, and Tyler is always tomato. I stuck with pomegranate because hardly anybody every said it! Sabri and Tyler would always get in apple tomato fights where they would just go back and forth saying each other's fruit.
My other friend, Deryk, has her party at eight so I get to be at Courtney's for two hours. Deryk's party is a surprise! I love surprises! Her mother planned it all out for her and she e-mailed all of Deryk's friends to tell them what we were going to do. She was very vague, but I got that it was a murder mystery and that I had a part in it. The problem is, I don't really understand my part. This is what she sent me:

Becca,
The part you will be playing for the mystery is a crew member on the set of the play Rapunzel. You may be a "behind the scenes" type, or an actor. Come up with your own clever name (example, the director's name is Harriet D. Rector). Be creative!

Ummm... okay. What? I don't know what I am supposed to do and the party is tonight! I can't come up with anything for my character or name. This is a lot harder than it should be :(

Could it be any worse? Yes, yes it could

Somebody I know did a HUGE favor for me the other day and I wanted to show my gratitude towards them. I felt a thank you note was a little inadequate for the task which was completed. I don't know why but I just randomly decided to make a cake. Big mistake. I had it all planned out in my head and it didn't exactly turn out the way i intended. So let's start at the beginning.

I wanted to make a wonderful cake. This is how it turned out:

Just kidding. I wish it turned out like this. That would be amazing! I wish I could do that...

Anyway, this was my first time covering the cake with fondant. I've used fondant before to decorate a cake, but never to cover it. This was probably my number one disaster. Even though I am in fitness, I hardly have any arm muscle. The first problem was trying to evenly roll the fondant out. This picture is when I had been working on it for about half an hour.

Yeah, I know it's uneven. And very time consuming. I started on my cake right when I got home and I didn't finish until 9:25ish. I gave up for a little bit on the fondant and went for the decorations. I wanted to make a snowman to go on the front, and, of course, he had to be cute. I made a little pipe for him, but it looks like he is sticking his tongue out. It looks kinda ridiculous. I went back and tackled the fondant and it started ripping. Great. I tried to put it together again, but the cracks wouldn't go away so I just threw it on the cake. I put the snowman on and just burst into tears. I looked at my finished cake and it looked awful. I felt so embarrassed at how bad it turned out! After silently crying for half an hour in the kitchen my mom came up and tried to comfort me. It didn't do much. Just look at it and you will gasp in horror.

You sharply inhaled, didn't you? I knew it. I wanted so badly to fix it so I was trying to think of anything to help it. I did something. But it didn't help. I put Merry Christmas on the face of the cake and the letters kept breaking so it's hard to tell what it says. Since my fondant was ripping on the sides, I tried to put holly leaves to cover it up. I took a look at the finished product and started crying again. How could it possibly have been made worse?!
So now I am really embarrassed to give it to the person that helped me because who would want an awful cake as a reward? Nobody!