Monday, June 30, 2008

I CAN'T WAIT



Yes I know I have two of them, but one of them is more permanent and has milliseconds. :) hehehe

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Up date! (Marching Band and life, plus writing)

Hello I am have not blogged in a little while and I decided that I would. I am going to do an up date about couple things. Here it goes!

Marching Band: We finally got off the wonderful brake that our band director gave us. It was a good two weeks of sleeping in, and now I am back to waking up ridiculously early. :) We practiced our new song called Patriotic Spectacular for our parade on the 4th this morning like we did yesterday morning. But today our director decided to make us march again down the street from the high school. We marched farther and faster then we did the first week. It was horrible!!!!! The bass drum kept slowing me down and getting me out of line. When we got back from marching I collapsed on the front lawn! I came home and slept for 3 hours.... It was glorious!!! Don't get me wrong I absolutely LOVE Marching Band! It is just a lot of hard work in the early morning :)

Life: I am having a pretty good summer and have enjoyed the more time I have to read and write! I was in a cleaning mood and decided to CLEAN my room. If you have or know any teenagers you understand that their type of clean does not match Parents type of clean... well I turned that around yesterday, at least for me I did. My room is now spotless and no it is not all stuffed under my bed or in my closet. It passed my moms inspection so I am good! All of my clothes are hung up in my closet or are in the dresser. My brothers' rooms are all still pig styes though. I woke up this morning to my clean room and thought that it felt so empty. I think it is better to have and empty feeling room then to have a messy full feeling room.
Some of these pictures of my room turned out crappy, but oh well... All the things behind my head board are blankets not junk :) such a pretty room isn't it? :)
This is my desk... you couldn't even see the surface of it, and I am sure that my turtle was very scared of things crowding the side of her tank, let alone things almost falling in it. Now it only has my books lined up on the side of it :)
This is, or was I should say, the dresser of doom..... I could not find anything in it or on top of it. Now I can see where all of my jewelry body sprays, and other things are :)

Writing: I have come up with some AWESOME ideas for my new story I have decided to write! I have the first chapter and the first sentence of the second chapter. I know that that doesn't seem like a lot but I am proud of myself for coming up with such an awesome, or at least my mom and I think, story idea. I got my writing abilities from my mom, but I also got my passion for writing from her too :)

Friday, June 13, 2008

After Girls Camp jitters :)

I got back from Girls Camp at about 2 o'clock this afternoon. I had an amazing time. The food was GREAT, the activities were awesome and I had a fun time.

I had some very cool experiences there. My testimony of prayer grew. I was snipe hunting with some of my ward (hehehehe it was fun), and I fell through a pokey bush. It hurt, and I can not believe I didn't see it :) Any way I had had a scarf on when I fell through the bush, and didn't notice that it was gone until we were ready to go back to camp and get some sleep. I could not leave without it because it had special meaning to me. A friend and I stayed after to look for it. We checked all of the places I had gone, including the bush, and could not find it.

When we were looking around the bush I had fallen in, I fell in a very deep critter hole that 2 other girls from my ward and a leader had fallen in also. My shoe got stuck and I tried to pull it out, but I only succeeded in pulling my foot out of my boot. I reached down to grab it but the girl that I was with smacked my hand out of the way and said that she didn't want me to stick my hand in there. That she would carry me back to camp and come in the morning to get my shoe out with a stick. I looked at her and shook my head, (I was trying to get my shoe out the hole the whole time she was talking… it was not working) and said to her that if my shoe was not coming out with my hand it was not going to come out with a stick. I reached back in and retrieved my shoe after pulling really hard on it. I put it back on and left, sadly, without my scarf. I was really worried that I was not going to find it and I said numerous prayers that I would find it.

The next day, the 1st and 4th years went on a hike. We walked right past were I had lost my scarf, but I didn't have enough time to go look for it again, so I my other friend I was hiking with if she would pray that I would find it. She said ok, and when we stopped to rest later she prayed that I would find it. After we hiked a mile, most of the girls went on to go another 1/2 a mile. I was feeling really crappy, and sick so I turned back with a leader and hiked back to camp. When we got to the place where I had lost my scarf on the way back, I asked if I could look for it again. My leader kindly said yes, I went off to look for it. I came back empty handed and I decided to show the famous hole that the 4 of us had fallen in. She was amazed at the depth and when she looked up she pointed over to a place that was partially hidden by the bush. Lying there was my scarf. I was so happy and grateful. I walked back to camp with a smile on my face, and a bigger testimony of prayer.

We had a devotional Thursday, and it was wonderful. The stake leaders had made three different Iron Rods leading to the same place. When my ward were put on the Iron rod we walked past the River of Unclean Waters and the Great and Spacious Building just fine. Then we got to a place were there was one stake leader that told us to put on the eye covers we had, and it was supposed to represent the mist of darkness. We walked without our site to guide us. We all held fast to the Iron Rod and when we got to the end, one of our leaders was there to embrace us. She said to me in my ear, good job Laurel, welcome home, partake of the fruit. We sat down around a tree that had white lights on it and read a note that our leaders had wrote to us. Then we ate Tree Top fruit snacks, they represented the fruit of the tree. It was an amazing night. Our Stake President talked to us and he sang with one of the stake leaders. It is a night I will ALWAYS remember. (Iron Rod scriptures 1st Nephi 8:1-35)

I love Girls Camp. It will always have a special place in my heart.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Girls Camp

Tomorrow I am headed out to the great outdoors to go camping with my stake. My stake has girls camp really early, way earlier then other wards I have been in. We are going to be camping for 3 days, once again a day shorter then I am use to.

Any way, besides that I have been looking forward to this for a long time. I always feel the spirit at camp strongly. Testimony meetings are full of tears, but are special to me and always will be. In my old ward we had what you called Destinies. It is where the stake comes down from their camps and we gather together and have a spiritual meeting. The first night's meeting is always the best. I love them and I am sad that this ward does not have them.
Last year at girls camp, the stake presidency decided to wait and dedicate the camp till we were all there. It was amazing. Then one ward got really sick and all of the leaders were sick and all but 4 girls were sick. It was horrible. After one of the activities the 4 girls who were not sick knelt in a meadow and prayed that their ward would get well and would not get anyone else sick. At dinner that evening, their whole ward was there and they were all well. I know that prayers work and that was just another witness to me that they are answered.

I am exicted to go, and in fact I should be packing right now teehee :)

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Its my Life

I really like this song!!! My mom and I agree that Bon Jovi gets better looking as he gets older. :) hehehe I think all teenagers or any one could relate to this song.... or teenagers want to right? If that makes sense :)

Enjoy!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

School is out and Marching band is in...

School got out on May 23rd. So that is my excuse for not writing on my blog or writing my story.....it as been really busy. The last day of school was fun, I got to hang out with my friends and part all night!!!! Ok... maybe not all night :)

Marching band has been fun... when I am not banging my fingers on the rim of the drum... owe!!!!! I play the violin, but it is not a Marching Band instrument, so they stuck me on the smallest bass drum. The bass drum is still too big and it hurts my back like crazy!!! It makes me feel like I am pregnant. Or at least I think so :) The uniform is black and yellow. It is the high school colors, and the uniform is heavy plus marching in black is not my idea of fun, it will be a killer to march in. AND having the bass drum on my chest isn't going to help. Our first parade is this Saturday the 7th. We've only had a week to work on the song we sound pretty good, but having been on the drum for only a week is well... I am going to suck and mess up cadence just to put it to you straight :) teehee I will try not to mess up.

I will put a picture of me in my uniform up later tonight

Love your big sister