Thanksgiving

We went to Idaho this year for Thanksgiving, and quite fun it was. 

I finally learned how to play football, thanks to my cousins and Uncle Chad.  My opinion has changed on the sport as of now.  Fun to play.  Still ludicrously dull to watch.  Oh by the way, BYU ROCKS UNCLE DON!!!!!!!!!!

We spent the majority of Thanksgiving playing amazing board games and frying our brians on TV, as well as playing football and eating LOTS of delicious food.  I also learned that to play my cousin Tyler in Monopoly is to sign your own death warrant.  Uncle Chad taught me backgammon, then beat me at backgammon.

The next day we went to see the new movie Shorts.  Don't see it.  It's the single most stupid thing I've ever seen in my life that involves a staring contest, a motorcyle-riding ten year old, and a giant booger.  It really gets worse as you keep watching.  Ugh.  As my mother said, "An hour and a half of my life I will never get back."  I also had lots of fun with Sydney and Kate when we got home, playing imagination games and goofing around.  Fun, indeed!

There was nothing too eventful about the ride home except that I got a very sick stomach on way too many Mike Ikes.

Then we headed to the Harpers' house for the cousin party, watched Mr. Boogedy (HE SNEEZED ON 'IM!) and Sleepless in Seattle (a movie I'm sure my dad had quite an entertaining time watching at one part where these two people are destined to meet, but they're getting on and off different elevators going to separate places and most likely will never see each other again.  Not that he was really watching the movie.  I think he was more laughing at the four teenage girls clutching each other and screaming at the people on the TV screen not to get in the elevator that would speed them away from their destinies.  Intense.)

And to top the evening off, BYU WON THE GAME!!!!!!!

And just today I gave a talk in church that I no longer have to worry about, whew, and met a new friend named Taylor who moved in down the street.

Needless to say, this was just about the best weekend ever.

Apart from the Mike Ikes.

Formal Dance!

Yello!  As has been mentioned in other blog posts from Momma, I went to my first formal dance on Friday!  It was SOOOO much fun.  Weirdly enough, getting ready was just as fun as the dance.  There were five of us going in one little group.  Tianna, Leticia, Madaline, Audrey, and I all went over to Tianna's house after school.  Once we all got there, we walked down the block to Jessica's house, where Jessica did our hair amazingly.  We had fun talking and laughing while we were waiting for each other to get our hair done.  After we were finished, we headed back to Tianna's house for pizza and getting ready.  Here are some pictures of my friends and I before the dance.

Tianna -

Madaline -

Leticia -

Audrey -

Me -

All of us-

We had a lot of fun.  Once we got there, however, I lost my ticket and could not find it anywhere, but when Tianna and I saw it lying in the parking lot.  It turned out okay, but I was pretty freaked out for a sec there.

Anyway, when we got there, we had a lot of fun jumping up and down and weaving in and out of groups of dancers.  I danced with my friend named Andrue, who taught me how to swing (by the way, long dresses are REALLY hard to dance in), and did it very well (he's an amazing dancer).  I got dipped for the first time, which was both fun and kinda freaky because you have to trust the other person not to drop you.  I trust Andrue but there was still that moment when I realized I was falling backward that kinda made my stomach fall down to my heels. 

Fun, though.

Anyway, we had an amazing time.  THANK YOU TIANNA, LETICIA, MADELINE, and AUDREY!!!!! PLUS TIANNA'S FAMILY!!!!!!

AND MY MOM FOR LETTING ME BORROW HER CELL PHONE!!! (if you'd like details on this, please email me, but it seems too dull a story for a blog :) )

Halloween Funness!

Okay.  Here's my recap on Halloween!

First of all, our AMAZING grandparents from Idaho came over and spent the day with us!
We went to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (a show I completely reccomend), which was soooo much fun!  We also got to play Masterpiece with Grandma!

So I've had a hard time deciding on a costume for this year.  Originally I was going to be Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon, but I couldn't really get everything together on time, so I've been a number of things.

1. For the Halloween Dance at our stake, I wrapped my legs in Smarties and duct tape and called myself "Smarty Pants"
2. For the Ward Trunk-or-Treat, I put on as much of my Artemis costume as was ready, but I ended up just about freezing my limbs off since I did not take the weather into account while designing the costume
3. For the pitiful "Unique Hat and Hair Day" that is the only stupid thing that the administration for school would pass for costume day, I stuck as many of those flower clippies as I could find in my hair, borrowed some of Mr. Macy's green hairspray, and called it good. (by the way, yes, Dad, several people tried to smell my head.  Another several asked if the flowers were attached to a shower cap.  I'm dead serious, that's what they said.  You want names?  Mango!  Scott!  Kevran!  Hannah!  Tori (known to Matt as Victoria)!  Allie!  Sarah!  And several others who have asked to remain anonymous in this blog post!  People are weird things.)
4. I was a totally lame snowboarding person for the Halloween recital.  I stuck on gloves, a scarf, coat, beanie, and sweats.  Cheap, right?  I was gonna be a street bum, but Mom didn't want me to cross dress and girl street bums are no fun to dress up as.
5. Finally, on Halloween (drumroll)......
I was a jailbird!  Sweet, kind, lovely, and utterly amazing Aunt Anne let me borrow her costume!  (by the way, Aunt Anne, I will be returning it just as soon as it comes out of the wash.  Otter Pop incident.)

6:00 Halloween Evening - I'm doing dishes and feeling slightly sorry for myself that I'm not going trick or treating.  My friend Brynja calls.  I get on costume and don't feel jailish enough so I stick on black beanie and smear black marker all over my face.  All better.
6:30 - I head over to Brynja's house, eat a cookie to get my stomach ready for all the junk that will soon be heading into it.  Our friend Kiera comes over and we head off. 
6:45 - We head to the houses on the outskirts of the neighborhood, where not too many people are going.  They give us way more candy because nobody's coming to their houses.  We get really sick of saying "Trick or Treat!" So instead switch to different things at everybody's houses.  A few: "HACK HACK HACK! Swine flu!" "Phantom of the Opera!" "Monster Mash (with awesome background music, of course, thanks to Kiera's beatboxing abilities) and a full version of "Jingle Bells" with slight adjustments.
About 7:30 - We switch from saying those weird things to acting out weird things.  Example: They open the door to see two motionless bodies in the background while I stand there innocently and says "Trick or Treat!"  When they fork over the candy and are staring at the motionlessness of my colleagues, I look behind me edgily and then ask for two garbage bags, after which the two bodies reanimate and collect their candy.  Yeah, we're weird, but man was it fun to see people's faces.
8:30 - Return home, watch the dumbest movie ever ("Something Wicked This Way Comes").  Stuff myself stupid on candy, dream of Otter Pops.


The End!