How long has it been?

A very, VERY long time. I had a great summer, and am now enjoying high school. I am sick today tho, I am not going to write much.

I got my learners permit, then I accidental slit the side wall of the tire and popped it. :( I didn't mean to, it was just I really suck a parallel parking. lol So I have been grounded from the computer. oh well. I am back now! Hope all of your lives have been going just dandy!

One down two more to go

All of the roalty got together to get our float done by the 25th. We then put it in our first parade! It was so fun! There were two parades on 25th so I was on the float in the one and did marching band in the sceond one. During the first parade the marching band was right behind us, and I then realized what an important part the bass drum plays. We didn't have any in the first parade, and it sounded really tinny. :) Oh well we sound amazing any way!

Here are some pics from making the float and both parades!

Here is 3 out of 4 of the roalty working on our float!

Here is our sign we put on the back of the float!

Me painting a part of the wood that we had forgotten!

Our wondeful helpers that came to help us! Miss Emery is in the castle with the staple gun and her mom is in the yellow shirt :)

My mom and BrinLee's mom working on our hand holds

Our Tiny Tot working and playing with the glitter! :)

Our hand holds!

Trasporting our float :)

Float!

More of us on the float in the parade!

The marching band with out a bass drum!

Me after the parade, heading to the other parade where I will be drumming

Princess to Percussionist :)

Me and my bass!

More bass!

WOOHOO I CAN DRIVE!!! (legally... :D)

Yesterday we took the long treck to Price to go get a birth critificate so that I could get my learners premit! I can now drive legally with someone over 21! I was so excited! I drove home and to karate then to the store after karate! There are still a few things that I need to work on, but I am getting better! The only sucky thing is that I can't get my actual drivers license till one month after my birthday, beacuse I waited too long to get my learners, and you have to have it 6 months before you get you license.

Here is my pic with the permit!

Wow. first in a life time

Last night I was crowned Jr. Miss Castle Dale. I didn't expect it at first, but then I realized that this was something that would stick with me the rest of my life. I was happy, yet sad. I didn't want to win really, and I didn't think I would. I was worried about doing marching band and Castle Dale roalty all at the same parade! I am more calm now tho. I feel that I will do what ever I am needed to do. I wouldn't have been there last night if it wasn't for Brittany and Rachel. We decided all together that we would do it, and I almost dropped out. They made me stick with it and I was happy that I did. I am thankful for all of my friends and their support that they gave me. I am thankful for my mom sticking with my during the hard times when all I felt like doing is crying. I am thanful for my grandparents that had to drive 3 hours to come down and see me in the pageant. I am also thankful that my grandpa was nice enough to be my escort, because my dad couldn't make it. I forgive my dad for not being able to make it. He had a previous engagment, and he couldn't find a sub for it.

Here are the pics enjoy them!!

My mom giving me a have confidence in yourslef kiss


Me and Savannah talking. She was asking me questions about my karate class


Brittany is evidently very proud of her curling iron. No She is just holding it up so unwind the cord. We are looking at Rachel she is telling us that she had to go get her sisters track shoes that she forgot


Getting my hair done!


Me and my awesome, amazing, fun, wonderful gorgeous, friends! I love you Brittany and Rachel!


The wonderful group that I got to work with! These are the competeing Jr. Miss Castle Dale girls! All 4 of us!


My mom doing my hair and beibng silly


Helping my grandpa with what he was supposed to do while escorting me during the evening gown walk


During the opening number. We had to wait like this for the girls to get done with their dancing solo thing at the being on the song


Me doing the split. I am also in the process of puting my hands up so they are blury. This is after the opening number, after anouncing who we were and what age we were


Me striking a pose before I go one


ME during the sportswear walk. I did my karate as my sportswear, but they still talked about my writing


Another violin one


This is me while playing my violin for my talent. I played Unchained Melody by Alex North


Now were are those shoe again?? Oh here they are!


The back of my hair


Mom caught my unsupecting!!! Iw as spraying smelly good stuff on me before I went out for the evening gown walk


Me and my escort (my grandpa) after the evening gown walk


This is all of the grils that competed for different titles at the pageant


Talking with the girls around me as we waited for the crowns (they forgot the crowns... lol!! and it looks like I am trying to talk through sealed lips)


Having fun with Rachel as we were waiting for the crowns to get there


The relization of my name being called by the Mayor for Jr. Miss Castle Dale is just kicking in.... my first thought was oh crap

Being Crowned by last years Miss Castle Dale Shelby, she was also the one that put the pageant together. With out her, we would not have had a pageant this year. Way to go Shelby!


(from Left to Right) Jessica L., Miss Castle Dale; Laurel J., Jr. Miss Castle Dale; Savannah W., Little Miss Castle Dale; Brinlee H., Tiny Tot.


Ah sigh! It is all over! We are all relived


My mom, grandma and grandpa, and me after the show


Me conversing with the people! No just kidding :D. I am talking to one of my other friends that came to support all of her friends in the Pageant


Me with my grandparents after being crowned


Me with my friend Rachel, who of which also competed for Jr. Miss


Me having a little fun with some my friends after the pageant was over :)

More of graduation

This is the slideshow that was shown at our graduation. It is random pictures of my graduating class. It is put to The Climb by Miley Cyrus.

(Turn off my music at the bottom, then let it load first! It works better that way)

And we are done

Well summer had officaly started for me! School is out and I am going to miss it. I am now moving on to the High School, and I am going to miss SRJH. I was only there glaf of 8th and all of 9th but it wioll always hold a special place in my heart. My frineds are really sad. They spent the last three years there, 7th, 8th, and 9th! High School, here we come!!
We had 9th grade graduation on Wednesday earlier this week, and it went pretty well. Our theme was Hollywood, but our class of '09 theme was Stop and Stare. Here are some of the pictures from it, plus a small movie of the dance we preformed for everyone. It goes in Order of how I posted them. The getting ready part of the pics are at the bottom. :) Sorry!
My friend Brinne and I. I love this girl!!

A closer picture of our threesome

This is Rachel, Brittany, and I. Our beautiful threesome.

One of just me and the clap board

This is me and my parents by our huge clap board sign

This is me and some of our group. We ae missing people tho. Colors are odd, because I had to fix the lighting on it. We took it without the flash oops!

This is another group pic. We are missing some people again.

This is me and some of my friends after graduation!

This is me getting my certificte. I passed 9th grade! WOOHOO :D

This is me walking out on the "Red Carpet" (graduation was a Hollywood theme)

This is Miss Rachel, the girl that has made a HUGE difference in my life! She look wonderful!

This is one of my greatest friends Brittany. She looked great in her blue dress

This is all of us when we were done! We had two other friends there, but they had to leave earlier.

This is me after we were all done with my hair and I was dressed

This is my other friend McKayla (Mac), and she looked gorgeous as usual too! We did our hair at her mom's salon. It was fun!

This is my friend Mia. She looks gorgeous as usual!

This is what the back of my hair looked like when it was done. We did a worm bun. Turned out cute if you aske me!

Wow, a lot to write

Well, maybe a TON to write...

The school year is coming to a close and I am thinking about my math grade which could be better. I am thinking about all of the things that have been thrown on us at the end of the year. I am thinking about the closing program for my graduation.

There, as you can see, is a lot that I am thinking about.

For the closing program for school, the 9th grade is being taught a dance that we have to perform for our parents and everyone else. I was put at the very end of the line when we were lining up to be placed with the guys. Now let me tell you that this was no ordinary line, this was a height line. You had to line up according to your height. The girl in front of me was taller by 1/32 of an inch! We were so close in height that we are almost the exact same size. She took the spot in front of me so that I was the last one. We were paired off, and I ended up with a boy that I really didn't mind at all. He is pretty cool. We were about ready to start, and he decided that he didn't want to dance any more. I was then placed with a boy that I had REALLY hoped that I could avoid getting paired with him. I know it sounds EXTREMELY mean of me, but he doesn't even want to do this, and he texts the whole time we are practicing. I wouldn't mind being with him if he enjoyed it.
We are set up in a diamond formation. Two corner couples, one front couple and a back couple. Well the supposed to be diamond I am in only has me with my partner. No one else. So when we are practicing, I have to practice with my partner, and when we switch places, I am doing it all by myself, and so is he. The dance teacher says that when we learn the whole dance, and get ready to be split up into the 3 different sections, (we are doing the dance 3 different times, so that every one has a chance to dance, and so we aren't all crowded on the floor.) we will have a whole diamond. We have a few more days of this until we are done! WOOHOO!!! :)

At school we did a little program for the school, and instead of singing Ye Shall Have A Song, we sang Big Spender from Sweet Charity. We had tons of fun with it. No one but the girls chorus and 2 teachers knew about it. We dressed in short shorts or skirts and legging. Some of us wore fish nets. I wore hot pink legging, and black fish nets over the leggings. I wore short shorts with it and high heel thingys. We had so much fun shocking the teachers and students. We had one of our teachers wear a suit, and come suantering down the stairs. He was our Big Spender. One of the girls had him sit down at a little table and poured him a glass of Diet Coke. We then sang the song, and at the end, I was choosen to go up and put my hand on his shoulder and say out loud, "Hows about it... palz?" We had SO MUCH FUN doing it!!! (now let me tell you. This is a very condenced version of this.)

I have been lazy in my posting lately! Sorry!

For spring break awhile ago, I went to Oregon with my granparents and spent a whole week with them and my aunt, uncle, and cousins. It was my first time seeing the ocean, and I was so amazed at the size of it! BREATH TAKING!!! It went on forever! We watched a storm brewing over the Pacific. It was the most amazing thing I have seen in my life. We also took a hike to a suspension bridge. It had a waterfall off to the side and it was wonderful! Before we came into Portland and Oregon City, we stopped at Multnomah Falls. It was really pretty! One huge waterfall and a smaller one below it. We took a lot of pictures. I don't have enough room to put all of the pictures we took up, but I will put some!

I will put them in the post under this one :)