2011

Well, 2011 is about to come to a close, so I figured I’d write on my blog for the last time this year.

2011 has been pretty good to me, I’ll miss it, I got to see Rajon, which was probably my highlight of the year, other than my summer, which by far has been the best!

I’m kind of excited for 2012 and the new things that it will bring, I’ll be graduating, and going onto college, and that freaks me out a bit.

I tell my mom all the time that I’m gonna get married right out of high school, so we’ll see how that turns out.  I still plan on marrying Rajon Rondo, and instead of buying a mountain like I said before, I’ve decided that we’ll buy our own island, I mean come on, if you had to choose between a mountain and or your own private island which would you choose? The island of course!  But I think we might still get the mountain as well, because we’ll be so rich we can have both!

So if you ever need to get away from whatever, hook me up and you can come visit on my mountain or my island!

Well… that’s about all I got, see ya later 2011.

2012… HERE I COME.

The Time Has Arrived...

Well, the time has come, tomorrow morning my family and I will be driving to the airport to pick up my big brother coming home from his mission,

It has been a whole 2 years, plus 1 week that I have not seen my brother, but it only feels like he has been gone for only 3 or 4 months, these past 2 years have just flow by!

Anyways, it still hasn’t fully sunk in that my brother is actually coming home tomorrow morning, I am however excited to see him.

There are a few things that are bad about his homecoming, for one I’ll have to share my bathroom again, and share the basement for that matter; I’ll have to give him his stereo back, and I’ll have to share my car “The Beast” with him.  But there are also good things, I’ll have some company down in the basement now, and I won’t have to clean the bathroom all the time!

I am sad however that he is coming home because I won’t get to brag about my brother being on a mission, and how cool he is.  Now he’ll just be my older brother who lives at home with us. J

So now we wait, we have about 10 hours until his plane arrives, we’re in for a long night, can’t wait to see my brother, he’s been a great example to me these past 2 years, he’s my hero.  Love you brother!!

BYU football.

Well I just arrived home from another BYU football game down in Provo, BYU played Utah State University, it was a great game, except for Jake Heaps, he is a wiener and needs to learn how to be a better quarterback, so it’s a good thing that Riley Nelson came in, cause he saved us from almost loosing.  We did however get to see some great offense from USU, some great defense from USU, and yet, BYU still won, it was fantastic!

There are so many things that make football games what they are, like the cute little baby boy that sits in front of me, he is just so darn cute!  Or the crazy guy to the side and in front of me dances crazy every time a song comes on, and flings his arms like a fairy on occasion, or the guy on the other side of my dad who almost never stop’s talking, or watching the students in the student section make fools of themselves by dancing like maniacs, and my brother in-law has threatened me that if I ever act like that or dance like that at a BYU game he would dis own me, and also the yummy cougar tails, which is a really long maple donut, but I strongly advise to not eat those on a hot summer day, because you will feel like crap for the rest of the game and for the rest of the day.

Anyways, football is just great, I love going with my dad, he is just the greatest, I can’t wait to go with both my dad and brother next year, it will be even funner!

Hats off to Utah State for playing a great game, and hats off to Riley Nelson for not being afraid to be hit like Jake Heaps and playing like a real quarterback should, and hats on… because the guy next to me had TERRIBLE B-O, or as my uncle would call it (cause it was so bad) BBO.

Fall

It is almost fall, and fall happens to be my favorite season.  I have several things that I love about fall that make’s the fall my favorite season, to just name a few:

1. Football!!!-  it is by far my most favorite sport to ever watch, and I’m so excited that my dad and I have season tickets to BYU football this year, so I’m pretty stoked to go to the BYU/ Utah game tomorrow, It will be EPIC!!

2. Halloween! -  It is a fantastic holiday that I still celebrate by going Trick-or-Treating. (Yes I plan on going this year.)

3. Tree’s/ Leaf’s- I love when the leaf’s start to change colors, I think it is so gorgeous!

4. Thanksgiving! - I think it is my favorite Holiday, I love being around my family and eating food, it is just fantastic, it will even be better this year because my brother will be home!

5. PIE!!!!- I happen to love pie, in fact, I’m in love with pie, it is my most favorite desert in this whole world, my favorite is apple pie, it is just so stinkin’ delicious! Last year at Thanksgiving I had 2 slices after dinner, then that night at the hotel I had 2 more slices and in the morning I finished it off, it is just wonderful!

6. My birthday. - Even though I’m scared to turn 18 and grow up, there are still plus sides, I can vote, (In fact, election day is on my birthday) I can legally buy dry ice, I’m considered an adult, will I act like one? Probably not, not that I do now anyways. ;)

7. Carving Pumpkins! – It is my favorite Halloween tradition!

So those are just a few things, I’m super excited for this fall, it’s going to be pretty great, my brother comes home in exactly 7 weeks from today, and I’m so excited for him to come home.  I’m really excited for Thanksgiving, and to be around my family, fall is just going to be amazing, I hope you enjoy your fall as much as I’m going too!!

p.s. I think I’m gonna make myself a pie… mmm...

Things that scare me and a few things that I hate..

Well, to start, I had seminary today, and as I was walking a flock of birds flew right out in front of me.  So to start out with the things that scares me most:

1. Birds- they are terrifying, you never know when they are going to take flight, or when they’re going to poop.  What if it lands on your head?!  I also don’t like the fact that they can fly whenever they want and I can’t.

2. Ostrich’s- I know they also birds, but these birds I fear the most, they scare the crap out of me, what with their huge eyeballs and their stupid scary feet, I don’t like them.

3. Swimming in the ocean and having a killer whale swim with me like in Free Willy- I know this would probably never ever happen, but I’m terrified of swimming and having a huge whale swim up underneath me.

4. Spiders- they are just gross, and I killed one with my bare hand the other day, but he was just a little guy.

5. Coming face to face with mountain lion, on a mountain- they would probably clobber my face off.

6. Water Snakes- you never know where they are going, and let’s be honest, snakes should not be in water.

7. Gorillas charging at me- since it’s already happened to me (bless the glass that saved my life!) I know what it’s like, and it is frightening, I mean their face when they are coming at you is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

8. Getting attacked by a moose- I don’t wanna get in with it with a big moose with huge antlers.

9. Modern Family (TV show) getting canceled- That is my new favorite show, and if it was canceled I would probably die.

10. Waking up, to find out that my whole life was a dream, and I really live in a trailer park- that would just be awful.

OK! Now for some things that I hate:

1. Toast crumbs in the butter.

2. Soup skin.

3. Lizards.

4. Birds.

5. Cigarette smoke. (Makes me want to barf)

6. Yappy dogs.

7. Bad drivers.

8. When the Disney characters run away from you at Disneyland.

9. Back wash.

10. Rats and mice.

Anyways, those are just a few, I could probably go on for a long time, but this is long enough for one day. J

Country.

 

Hello!!

So it's almost been a week since I've posted, but that's just cause nothing really exciting has happened recently.

Well for about the past week, I've been a little obsessed with country music, I think it’s because my friend from Montana was down here this last week, and all the good memories of Montana came flooding back into my mind.

I spent 6 of the best years of my life living in Missoula Montana, and it is the best place I’ve ever lived in my life.  Everyone there is just so laid back, and just as chill as you can be.

I think what I miss the most about Montana is definitely the country feel, like all the ranches, and definitely the smell of cows and horses, (call me crazy but I LOVE that smell!!)  I really miss going to the river in the summer and catching crawdad’s.  I miss going to my friends cabin, and canoeing on the lake, the floating islands and swimming.  I miss going to Lewis and Clark cavern’s, and going fishing at Tucker Pond, and bringing home a bucketful of sunfish, and playing with them in the bucket of water.

I miss driving out to French Town to play with friends and I kind of even miss the lame homeschool choir, which was actually kind of fun since I did it with friends!

A lot of the time I wish I still lived in Montana, I miss that place quite a bit, it’s home to me.  But now I’m here, growing up, which is probably the scariest thing I’m ever going to have to do right now in my life, I’m terrified to grow up and be an adult, it scares the livin’ daylights out of me.

I still wish I was 5 or 7, still living in Montana, and having no worries at all in the world, life was good back then.

Anyways, deep down, I’m a country girl, and maybe I’ll marry a cowboy if the whole Rajon Rondo thing doesn’t work out, but I doubt that. ;)

Well I haven't posted for a few days, I know, I'm as shocked as you are, but alas I am here posting now.
Last night I had the chance to go to the ReAL Salt Lake soccer game, with my sister and her husband, my other sister, my 2 cousins and my uncle, I quite enjoyed myself, other than the fact that Fabian Espindola is a total noob and should learn how to really play the sport and not give up, he is a real jack wagon and a few other names that I will not post...
ReAL did happen to win though, 2-1.
Now I don't really understand much about soccer, like the whole off sides rule, I totally agree with my other uncle, (he wasn't at the game)if they got rid of that rule there would be so many more goals which would make the game more fun and exciting, we also agree that if you just pick the darn ball up and run with it you will also get more points.
Also yesterday was BYU's first football game of the season, and I totally should have painted my whole face blue, but I didn't, I'm ashamed...  But that game was pretty great to start the season off, yes it should have been better and BYU shouldn't have bee so sloppy the first half, but we still won against Ole' Miss, 14-13, and you can thank Kyle Van Noy for that.
Today I went up to my aunts house for a family dinner.  Family dinner's are always enjoyable I think, especially with my family, we are pretty much the best, and probably the funniest, and if you're not in my family I'm truly sorry, cause you're missing out.
For starters, you probably don't have a 13 year old (boy) cousin who walks in the room and does this retarded dance for no reason, and who is so skinny when he sucks his gut in you can almost see right through him.  You probably don't have a cousin (girl) who dresses up in mask's and capes and takes a rubber knife and spatula outside and does a crazy dance so we can see her shadow through the window. You probably don't have a cousin who cane practicably eat a huge slice of watermelon in one bite, or uncles who play with remote control cars.  You won't ever know what merry Christmas really means, and you may not know who "The Chow" is, and for that I am also sorry, cause those are just some of the priceless memories that we get as a family.
I probably take my family for granted, but I really am blessed to have these kinda messed up people in my life, cause that's who we are, we probably could get some help too, but what fun would life be if we normal?  I'm definitely not normal, my family and I, we are SOOOO not close to even being a teeny bit normal, cause we're cool like that. 
So since if you don't have a family like mine, I'm deeply sorry, and if you do, I'm also sorry. ;)
Until next time... 

Institute.

Tonight I went to my very first institute class, with my sister and some of her friends, mind you I'm not even 18 yet, (thank goodness) so i'm not even considered a young single adult.  But I am young and I am single!
Anyways, when we walked in I happened to notice that a big section of the benches were taped off in the chapel so you couldn't sit in them, I asked my sister why they were taped off, she says "So people won't sit back there and sit up front." I then replied, "I could sit there if i wanted too... it's just tape.  Single adults must be pretty dumb if they can't get past tape." (I humor myself.)
Then they were passing the role around, which I thought was a sign up dating sheet, which is genius for the single adults, so when it got to me I realized that it was not a dating sign up sheet, which was disappointing, cause I definitely would have signed up. :)  

After institute was over my sister asked me if I saw any potential husbands in there, I scoffed and said no, while I was thinking of my future and my future husband, which I will now share about.


Next year, on July 14th, 2012, I plan on marrying Rajon Rondo, for those of you who do not know who he is, he is a professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics. 
This is him below. 

Anyways, it all started way back when in the NBA finals, but it really started when we made eye contact at the Jazz game against the Celtics, February 28th 2011. (Yes, we really made eye contact)
Before all of this, I planned out our lives. After we get married, we are going to buy a mountain, and we will live on this mountain with our mansion at the top, we will have a tram going up to our home from our garage at the bottom of the mountain that will house all our cars.  Also on the mountain I will have my hair salon, which for now, will be called "The Cuttin' Corral" (the name may change, so don't get to attached. and yes, I stole it from Napoleon dynamite.) 
We will also have really cute black babies, and yes, I have names.
Da' Sean, J' Covan, my twin boys, Orangejello and Lemonjello, and if I have a girl, Shaqueem, and I'll be honest, I want more boys than girls, girls are just to dramatic and boys are better.
So ya, Rajon and I are going to have a pretty good life, we're also going to have a house in Boston where he plays, and a few other summer getaways, like in Fiji, or the Bahama's, and  probably one in Hawaii, that my brother can stay at and keep the house running, if he chooses to move to Hawaii after he comes home from his mission.
So if you ever need a good getaway, you can always come visit me and Rajon on our mountain! :)
He's just so dang attractive, and yes, he is converting right now if you are wondering.

Summer 2011

I know I've already posted today, but I'm still pretty excited about this whole blog thing, and I'm still not sure how to ever use it. :)
Anyways, since summer has just ended and senior year just starting, I'll make a toast to my last official summer as a home-schooled high school-er.
My fantastic summer started out with the first week of June, where i went to St. George Utah for probably my last session of EFY, with my amazing cousin Kazlen.
It was probably the most spiritual experience I've ever had, my testimony was strengthened by the people i met and the examples that they are to me and my amazing counselor Elysse, who has helped me so much, she probably has know idea how much. 
I had such a fun time getting to know new people and learn more about the gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

 This would be me with Grandma.

 This chair/ couch train was boss.

 Best counselors ever!

This was our sweet lunch lady who came and talked to us every day, her name is Dixie, and i miss that woman a lot!

And this is the best company I could have asked for!


A couple weeks later I had my (technically) last year of girls camp, pretty sad to think about, i'll miss girls camp a lot.  
I had the chance to work with the 4th year girls in my ward, and those 3 girls are amazing, they strengthened my testimony with theirs and they were just great examples! 

 This is the 4th year girls, and my co- YCL (I guess you'd call it that...)

 We live the Hawaiian/ thug life at G-Camp

This is where we stayed, not to shabby. :)




Right after girls camp I went to Astoria Oregon to visit the Grandparents, and I can't tell you how much i love Oregon, it is probably my most favorite place in the world, and I just love the coast there!

 Tillamook cheese anyone?

 This would be the creeper cheese guy, who kept looking at me, so of course I took his picture.

 The Goonies house!!

 This is the cemetery that we like to go visit.

 and I like to play dead in the cemetery.

can you say fog?


Also while we were up north, we went to my cousins wedding in Sedro Wooley Washington, and a couple weeks after that my other cousin got married in the Salt Lake Temple, both from the same family, it's so weird to me that everyone is growing up and going to college or getting married, to be honest, it scares me.


July 13-16, I had my last Youth Conference, we had the chance as a stake to go up to our stake property and reenact the Book of Mormon, and it was one of the coolest experiences of my life, we were all separated into tribes, and my tribe was the best.  I was also on the Youth council, so i helped plan this, and so many hours were put into this youth conference what with costumes, reenactments of stories from the book of Mormon and so many other things.   
I didn't take very many pictures at Youth conf. which I really regret now, but there was a pretty sick moon one night that i happened to get a shot of.

The rest of my summer was filled with late nights with friends, missionaries leaving on missions, friends going to college or back to college, crazy thunderstorms with insane lightning!!  Drivin' out to Grantsville Utah out in the middle of nowhere, and I love it out there, and one day i'll live there!  Lake day's with family and a family reunion at Tracy Aviary, which is ironic since i'm terrified of birds...
My summer has been great, I won't forget the people I've met, the friends I've made, the late nights doing absolutely nothing, star gazing, and so many other things that i could list but that would go on forever. 
It's been real Summer 2011.
just a few more things I love about summer. :)

 The Temple!! :)

 a good watermelon

Grantsville, it' so darn beautiful!!

Smiths grocery store incident.

Well to get this blog started, I though I would share just how much of a klutz I really am.
It all started last Saturday, when mother sent me to Smiths to buy ice cream.  Beef (Maya) came with me, and it was raining real hard, so we ran to the door from the car, and my first mistake was wearing flip flops, second mistake was not jumping onto the rug like Beef did.  So as we were running into the store, I, not so gracefully slipped on the tile and flopped to the ground, where Beef laughed.  We then continued to the ice cream isle, when my leg started to hurt, so I pulled my shorts up to look at my shin/ knee, to find a huge red mark, then it started to sting.
The next day, it started to scab over, and I also noticed the huge bruise that goes all the way from my ankle to just below my knee, fantastic.
A week later, I still have a huge scab that looks like beef jerky.
So welcome to my blog, love it, or hate it.
Signed,
-The Wedge.