The Happenings of Late....

Since I haven’t posted many pictures lately, I thought I would post some.... wait I have put a lot of pictures up lately..... but that sounds better than "since I have been posting so many pictures, I thought I would post some more".....so.... never mind, I wanted to put some pictures up to show you my exciting life!!! Hahaha. :)


I started off the year by going to Knott's Berry Farm in January. I went for a class trip, and it was really fun! There were no good pictures of me, (I took most of them) but there was this funny one of my friend Brandon I thought I would post.


Here is one of the roller coasters, call Ghost Rider. It was very bumpy....

I took this picture after youth temple baptisms, and I think it looks neat. It turned out pretty good considering it was taken with a cell phone camera!


In February I got sick and I had to go to the hospital and it was a pain :P I'm glad I'm better now! Oh, and one arm band says "Fall Risk" cause I fainted, but that's a long story.... The other one says "allergies" because I'm allergic to some medicines.

Here is what took up most of my life..... Rehearsals!!! Here is one of the first dress rehearsals, and that is Silvia and I. Fun fun fun!


On the first day of tech week, it hailed really hard, and it looked like snow. Here is Even holdinging a "snowball"

A close up on the hail. It look really cool!


I think this was before a dress rehearsal, or our first performance. We were getting all fancied up. :)

After the play was over and there were no more performances, we went to DISNEYLAND!!! It was really fun! We have year passes, and some of our really good friends also have year passes, so we all went together. This is our picture from Space Mountain. I'm the one in the blue shirt screaming my head off, my friend Kraig is behind me making crazy faces, and my friend Lulu is next to me looking very calm. (Lulu is my sister's best friend, and loves loves loves roller coasters, and I that’s funny because my sister hates hates hates roller coasters.) Anyway, Disneyland was really fun and we went for 13 hours and didn't get home till after midnight. It was awesome. 

Well, that's been my life lately, pretty good, but very busy! Hope you've had a good year so far!

Books Read in 2010

Looking back on 2010, I guess I read a lot more then I though I did! I read a lot of books I liked, and some I did not really like, and a few I hated. But mostly, I liked almost every book I read! I read 41 books in 2010, and for all but 6 of them, it was my first time ever reading them.

For School:

Across Five Aprils

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Amazing Grace of Freedom

Uncle Toms Cabin (I listened to it, not read it though)

Romeo and Juliet

As You Like It

Macbeth

A book on Abraham Lincoln

Tartuffe

Oedipus Rex

King Lear

A Man For All Seasons

The Phantom Tollbooth

String, Straightedge, and Shadow

Carry On Mister Bowditch


For Book Clubs:

The Chosen

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

The Swiss Family Robinson


Series of Books:

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident

Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code

Artemis Fowl Opal Deception

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows1

The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse

Percy Jackson and the Battle in the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

The Hunger Games

Catching Fire

Mockingjay


Other Books I read for Fun:

Fablehaven 5

Peter and the Starcatchers

Under the Lilacs

D'aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

The Horse and his Boy


Here is my favorite book that I read this year for each category:

Sci-fi: Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code

Fantasy: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Adventure: The Swiss Family Robinson

Fiction: The Chosen

Non-fiction: I didn't read any that I liked...

For School: Macbeth

Re-read: The Horse and His Boy

Yay for books! :)

As You Like it

You may or may not recognize that as a Shakespeare play, but it is and I am going to be in it! That is the play we are doing for my local home-school school's Shakespeare class. (Did that make sense?:)) I think it will be really fun, and I am so excited! The problem with our class is that we only have three boys in it and twelve+ girls. So, we had to change almost all of the boy roles to girl roles. The only parts that are staying boys are the the three guys that get married. We are also doing the play as an Island/ship theme, so it will be really fun! If you have read or seen As You Like It, you might remember that there are the two dukes that don't get along, and that one was banished. Well, I am playing the banished duke, named Duke Senior. Except since we are doing an island/ship theme and we changed it to a girl, I am Captain Sonia. I am so excited! I was so nervous waiting to find out who I am playing, I probably checked my email every twenty minutes on Monday afternoon when we were supposed to (and did) find out who we were playing. I am also happy because I have ton of friends in the class, so I will get to see them a lot! Well I am really excited, and rehearsals start next week so I'll be busy, but having fun!

BTW: I think this will be my first post for that school blogging I said I was going to do a while ago. Finally!

What I did today

My mom is going to have a "Home School blog carnival", so I thought I would participate after I saw my friend Marianne's post.

-Woke up at 5:35am
-Lay in bed for 10 extra minutes
-got dressed under my blanket because I was freezing
-Got ready for seminary
-Woke my dad up so he could take me.
-Had fun watching the temperature drop down to 36 degrees while driving in my dads car
-Went to seminary
-Said goodbye to my dad before he went to work
-Lay down on my parents bed (under the blanket:) because I was still cold
-had 2 home-made blue berry muffins while checking my email and my friends blog
-Did my hair in about 7 different ways before I decided on one
-Practiced piano for 35 minutes
-Looked at and edited my Shakespeare and my Civil war class papers that I wrote (mostly) yesterday
-Put tonight's dinner in the crock pot
-Made a fried egg and ate it
-Emailed Marianne for help on a paper
-Played a game with my sister in exchange for me to be able to wear her hairbands any time I want without asking in the week.
-Ate most of a small can of corn
-Did more school work
-Ate some Carl's Junior that my mom got on the way home from somewhere
-Wrote all of the above on my laptop at the kitchen table while eating Carl's Junior
-Played fetch with my dog Molly (um, in the kitchen actually...)
-Did more schoolwork
-Did math
-Researched for my talk on Sunday
-Read another great talk that I'll put up a link to sometime
-Re-discovered how nice it is to do schoolwork while laying on the couch with your dog as a foot/leg warmer (hey, she is the one that chose to lay on me:)
-Emailed Marianne back and forth about school a few more times
-Discovered how painful it is to completely change the side of your head your part is on for the first time in forever, braid it very tightly, then undo the braid 7 hours later
-Wrote this
-Did some laundry
-Made Pasta and a salad
-Ate a yummy dinner that was Chicken with egg noodles and a salad
-Killed a spider
-Took a shower
-Read a little bit from Little Pilgrims Progress
-Tried to publish this post, then the Internet died so I couldn't
-Fell asleep on the couch for an hour, the woke up at 11
-Put the rest of dinner away
-Put the clothes in the dryer
-Went to bed!

It was busy but fun day!

Civil War Poem

I had to right a poem for a Civil war class I am taking, so I thought I'd post it. Here it is!

Did the Die in Vain?
By Me

Did they die in vain,
To keep the free from the pain,
Of permanent separation?

Fighting across the nation,
Lincoln’s emancipation,
Two countries fighting each other

Brother against brother,
Weeping tearful mother,
The Battle of Bull Run

The North won,
The South was out run,
Did God lend a hand?

Together we stand,
One nation, one land,
In God we must trust

Shakespeare Fair-again!

Here are the pictures from the Shakespeare Fair I mentioned in in a post a couple weeks ago.

The royal goblets on the royal table.

Getting ready to have two of the students coronations. From the left: My teacher Sister H, Rachel (who is about to become Queen), me, Emma, and Dante (who is about to become King)

Rachel and me.

Thank you Marianne for letting me use some of her pictures!

My Little Red Riding Hood Story

For a Class I took in the fall, we had to right a story and publish it somewhere. I chose to publish it on my blog. The assignment was to wright a version about little red riding hood that makes her suffer. In my version I thought it was funny because only she thought she was suffering. I hope you like it! (If it is to small to see, you can just clik on the picture and it will enlarge on its own screen)




The End

Sewing Lessons and Babysitting

A couple of weeks ago I started taking sewing lessons from a nice lady in our ward that recently moved in. A couple of years ago my Dad taught me how to use our sewing machine, but like I said that was a long time ago and I have forgotten a lot. (Plus, I am almost convinced that our sewing machine is defective. I really think it is, I'm not just saying that because I didn't know to use it! Now I do know how to use it and still seems defective:( Any way, I have been learning (and re-learning) a lot of stuff and have bean having a lot of fun! Right now my sewing teacher and I are working on a skirt for me! It's almost done, I'm so exited!


Here is a picture of me working on my skirt!


Here's another picture of me working on my skirt, along with my sewing teacher's four year old daughter. (More about her later) Oh, and don't worry I'm not burning the fabric, I made sure I wasn't pressing down for the picture!


Earlier this week at another sewing lesson, my teacher asked me if I could watch her daughter after my next lesson on Friday. I didn't have anything else that day so I said of course!

Here is another picture of the cutest little kid ever! We had a lot of fun playing while I was watching her and we played a lot of little games that she loved.


We played Mr.Potato Head and tried to make the weirdest faces we could!


We also played with one of her favorite toys, blocks! (to be specific, Blocks with letters on them:)
As a side note: She was convinced that the "T" in "ROCKET" was supposed to be upside down, I thought that it was so cute I had to take a picture:)

My Fair Froggy (and Tadpoles)

Every Wednesday I take a writing class at a local home school family's house, and yesterday I was a little early. There is another younger kids class right before my class, so while I was waiting I went out side with the family's youngest sister, Hannah. While we were were out side she asked if I wanted to see there hot tub, because they had a lot of tadpoles in it (don't worry, the water was not hot; it only has about 8" of rain water in it) while we were looking at the tadpoles I told her that they were really neat and asked her if we could catch some and if I could bring some home. She said yes, so we had a lot of fun trying to grab some without falling in the water. In the end she and her 10 year brother caught 8 tadpoles and 1 very young frog for me to bring home (I say young frog because it still had a very small tail). (I tried to catch some, I really did, but could never quite get a hold of one) She gave me a jar to keep them in, but when we got home they looked a little crowded so I split them up between two jars. So now, today I tried taking pictures of them, but all of them were pretty blurry. Here are two of the least blurry ones:
The frog's and some of the tadpoles new home. I have not actually been keeping them out side, because I read that if the water gets too hot, the can die.
Flying through the air with the greatest of ease! (More like losing it's balance at the edge of the jar and half jumping, half falling kerplop into the water below: )
One last picture of their new home. (The frog is inside of the green magnifying glass)

My Shakespeare Class and Play

Last week, we did the Shakespeare play that I was in. It was SO FUN! I can't wait to take another Shakespeare class next year. This year we only had 7 kids in my class total, but we did it! The play we did was the Merchant of Venice which is a really funny play. I played the part of Nerissa, Portia's lady in waiting. I had alot of lines, but I memorized all of them.

Here is a picture from last February. When almost all of the kids in my Shakespeare class were able to go on a field trip to the Old Globe theater, in Balboa Park. It was really fun and I learned alot. it was especially fun because my friend Emily (the same Emily as the one in the Easter picture) was able to come also while her family visited us from Washington state.

Here is a picture of my friend Emily and I before the field trip started.


This picture is of Portia (her real name is Elisabeth) and I after the play. I liked wearing the costumes and I really liked my dress, and I thought that every one else's costumes looked nice to, especially Portia's outfits.


Here is the scene with the casket test. It was very funny and Bassanio did a really good job at memorizing all his lines. He had alot!


And here is the last picture of the entire cast. It was tons of fun and I LOVE acting, even though I get so nervous before the play starts. Well it was a fun year and I can't wait to do it again next year!