Happy Birthday Teresa!!!!
Happy Sixteen! I hope you are enjoying your birthday here in our house!
Love, Becca ;)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Hahaha funny story!
Today I went tubing with my family. It was a lot of fun and dangerous, but really funny at the same time. After I had gone down one of the runs, I started walking with my tube up to where the tube pull was and tried catch up with Chrissie. There was a little boy standing over to the side and he said, "Hey you!" I didn't know he was talking to me so I kept walking. Then he said it again and I turned towards him and said, "Yeah?" He smiled and said, "Can I have your number?" I couldn't help but laughing a little and I asked him how old he was. He happily replied he was ten. I said, "Sorry, kid. I'm almost sixteen!" His face kinda dropped (do I really look that young?!) and he looked back at me. He said, "Can I still have your number?" I laughed again and sarcastically replied, "Maybe if you have an older brother," and walked away. It was so funny I was laughing for a while :) I feel kinda bad for him though...
P.S. This is my 40th post :D Yay!
P.S. This is my 40th post :D Yay!
Pure Relief!
I just want to share something that makes my heart jump with hope and excitement. I was thinking about this yesterday and I didn't exactly notice until then how happy I was from this little piece of information.
On Trek (a year and a half ago) I had three brothers; Austin, Alex, and Tanner. I think Tanner was the one I was closest to, so I got to know him kinda well. We never really got to know where he stood in the church. He knew a lot about it, we just weren't sure if he'd gotten a testimony of it yet.
A few months after Trek, I saw him at school. I can't explain how sad I was when I saw him. He'd dyed his very long hair black, he had piercings, and he was hanging out with the wrong friends. It's a sad thing to think that he had such HUGE possibilities.
I haven't seen Tanner since our last Trek reunion which was about two weeks after Trek. A couple weeks ago, we had a Dance Festival kick-off. After it I was looking around and was surprised to see Tanner! A gigantic wave of hope, happiness, and relief went over me, and I almost started crying. Tanner was dressed in Sunday clothes, he didn't have his piercings anymore, he had a missionary haircut, and his hair was back to blonde. He looked so happy too. I just can't explain how joyful that made me, how relieved I was that people can make such huge changes like that. It was absolutely amazing seeing him overcome that.
On Trek (a year and a half ago) I had three brothers; Austin, Alex, and Tanner. I think Tanner was the one I was closest to, so I got to know him kinda well. We never really got to know where he stood in the church. He knew a lot about it, we just weren't sure if he'd gotten a testimony of it yet.
A few months after Trek, I saw him at school. I can't explain how sad I was when I saw him. He'd dyed his very long hair black, he had piercings, and he was hanging out with the wrong friends. It's a sad thing to think that he had such HUGE possibilities.
I haven't seen Tanner since our last Trek reunion which was about two weeks after Trek. A couple weeks ago, we had a Dance Festival kick-off. After it I was looking around and was surprised to see Tanner! A gigantic wave of hope, happiness, and relief went over me, and I almost started crying. Tanner was dressed in Sunday clothes, he didn't have his piercings anymore, he had a missionary haircut, and his hair was back to blonde. He looked so happy too. I just can't explain how joyful that made me, how relieved I was that people can make such huge changes like that. It was absolutely amazing seeing him overcome that.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Dance Festival
So we had our first practice for the dance festival yesterday... fun fun. We are doing a country swing/line dance. That right there kinda put everybody down immediately. I have a friend in a different Stake that is doing the Salsa. I'm extremely jealous, but life goes on. Anyway, there is a website that has videos of the dances I'm going to learn. If you want to check them out, go to the blogs I read section on the right hand side of my blog and click on dance festival. The first video is to "you can't stop the beat" from Hairspray, and I am actually kinda excited about that, but I have no idea how they will get the boys to do that. The next two videos are the country crap we're doing. Yippee.
I just have to say that I am kind of mad about this whole thing. If you're going to get us to dance, have us dance. Not just two songs, we can do better than that. I think it's kinda lame that the last time they did the dance festival everybody did four dances. And if they had us do that, each Stake would get two dances. That would make me happier because then we wouldn't just have our line dance :( I don't even know why they are just teaching us two dances this year...
I just have to say that I am kind of mad about this whole thing. If you're going to get us to dance, have us dance. Not just two songs, we can do better than that. I think it's kinda lame that the last time they did the dance festival everybody did four dances. And if they had us do that, each Stake would get two dances. That would make me happier because then we wouldn't just have our line dance :( I don't even know why they are just teaching us two dances this year...
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Winter Ice Carnival
My family went to McCall yesterday to look at the ice sculptures. They were so fantastic! Just like every year, I was in total amazement. We saw so many, and we took a lot of pictures. My favorite one was definitely the castle!
This year's carnival was very enjoyable! I am excited to go again next year!
My second favorite was kind of weird :) There was one that was totally random and I don't understand what it is. But it's a fat man sitting on a large table type thing. Behind it is a cave, and behind that is a huge slide! But he was my new buddy and I couldn't help but hug him or go down the slide :)
This year's carnival was very enjoyable! I am excited to go again next year!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
New Year's Eve
Oh my goodness! I totally forgot! I had a huge story about my New Years celebrations, and I completely forgot to write about it! So off I go, back to December 31st.
Okay so I didn't have any plans for New Years Eve (no surprise there) except watching my little sister. That day I was asked by my neighbor to take care of her dog while they just took a quick road trip for the holiday. She asked if I could go to their house at night on New Years Eve, and in the morning for New Years Day. Well I got caught up with a video game I was playing (games can be addicting) so I didn't notice I was supposed to go until about 11:30 at night. I got all bundled up and asked Chrissie if she wanted to come with me. She said yes so I waited while she got all dressed. Without even thinking, we went outside and started walking to Emilea's house (well we weren't walking. Chrissie wanted to race so we were running). To get to Emilea's house, there is a dark pathway that you have to take.
I had forgotten that people like to party on New Years. We were walking through the pathway and some people started yelling at us. Chrissie and I just kept running and made it to Emilea's house very quickly. We played with the dog for about half an hour and, of course, I forgot about the people that yelled at us.
It was time to go home and Chrissie wanted to race again so we were running. When we got onto the pathway again, the same people started yelling at us. I guess they were prepared for us this time, because some of the jumped the three foot fence and started chasing us. They were chasing us!!!!! They looked about late teens, early twenties and VERY physically fit.
After a few seconds I noticed they still hadn't caught us! Me and Chrissie aren't particularly fast (like, at all) and we were still freely running. I looked back and they were drunkenly staggering, trying to keep up with us. I also noticed that Chrissie had stopped running. I didn't want to scare Chrissie so I kept saying, "I'm going to beat you Chrissie!" Chrissie kept walking. I looked back again and they people were walking away! I don't know why, but they just left us alone! We were just in front of my house and I was breathing so hard! Chrissie caught up to me and I asked her why she didn't run. She simply replied, "I ran out of juice."
First of all, you don't run out of juice! If you are being chased, you don't just stop! You keep running as if for you life (which may sometimes be the case).
Note to Self: Next time, don't try to not scare Chrissie. Scare her so she will actually run!
Moral of this story: Don't go out walking on New Years Eve. It's bad news all the way around!
Okay so I didn't have any plans for New Years Eve (no surprise there) except watching my little sister. That day I was asked by my neighbor to take care of her dog while they just took a quick road trip for the holiday. She asked if I could go to their house at night on New Years Eve, and in the morning for New Years Day. Well I got caught up with a video game I was playing (games can be addicting) so I didn't notice I was supposed to go until about 11:30 at night. I got all bundled up and asked Chrissie if she wanted to come with me. She said yes so I waited while she got all dressed. Without even thinking, we went outside and started walking to Emilea's house (well we weren't walking. Chrissie wanted to race so we were running). To get to Emilea's house, there is a dark pathway that you have to take.
I had forgotten that people like to party on New Years. We were walking through the pathway and some people started yelling at us. Chrissie and I just kept running and made it to Emilea's house very quickly. We played with the dog for about half an hour and, of course, I forgot about the people that yelled at us.
It was time to go home and Chrissie wanted to race again so we were running. When we got onto the pathway again, the same people started yelling at us. I guess they were prepared for us this time, because some of the jumped the three foot fence and started chasing us. They were chasing us!!!!! They looked about late teens, early twenties and VERY physically fit.
After a few seconds I noticed they still hadn't caught us! Me and Chrissie aren't particularly fast (like, at all) and we were still freely running. I looked back and they were drunkenly staggering, trying to keep up with us. I also noticed that Chrissie had stopped running. I didn't want to scare Chrissie so I kept saying, "I'm going to beat you Chrissie!" Chrissie kept walking. I looked back again and they people were walking away! I don't know why, but they just left us alone! We were just in front of my house and I was breathing so hard! Chrissie caught up to me and I asked her why she didn't run. She simply replied, "I ran out of juice."
First of all, you don't run out of juice! If you are being chased, you don't just stop! You keep running as if for you life (which may sometimes be the case).
Note to Self: Next time, don't try to not scare Chrissie. Scare her so she will actually run!
Moral of this story: Don't go out walking on New Years Eve. It's bad news all the way around!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New Beginnings
Okay so since it's February, we had New Beginnings for young womens tonight. We were just told on Sunday that we would be singing a song. Great..... For you to understand this, you have to know that only like two girls in our ward actually sing. And we were only given Sunday and a little time on Monday to practice. Jeez, give us more time, people! I think it's called "Keepers of His light" and it's a really pretty song. But I was terrified and I thought we would totally butcher it. In young womens on Sunday we all listened to the song being sung on a CD, then a woman played it on the piano. Then we all stood up and started singing. I was completely amazed. Sounds actually came out of our mouths! Who saw that one coming?! But it actually turned out very well and we got a lot of compliments tonight :) YAY!!!!
Question. Why do we welcome the new Beehives in at New Beginnings? There was a girl that we 'welcomed in' that had been in young womens for almost a year. I think it's kinda silly to notice them all at the same time, after some had been in the program for a while. Oh well. It doesn't really matter.
But I am actually really excited for the new young womens value, virtue. We had a great program tonight speaking about it, and I'm glad the first Presidency added it.
Question. Why do we welcome the new Beehives in at New Beginnings? There was a girl that we 'welcomed in' that had been in young womens for almost a year. I think it's kinda silly to notice them all at the same time, after some had been in the program for a while. Oh well. It doesn't really matter.
But I am actually really excited for the new young womens value, virtue. We had a great program tonight speaking about it, and I'm glad the first Presidency added it.
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