Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Looking Back: July

Accomplished:
-EFY
-Family Reunion
-Got two ribbons at Swim Champs

Need to:
-LOSE MORE WEIGHT
-EAT HEALTHIER
-Start summer reading for AP English

Next Month:
-EFY (again)
-Rachel comes home
-Family vacation
-High school swim team

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

No. Way.

So... AMERICAN IDOL AUDITIONS ARE GOING TO IDAHO FALLS! EEEEEP!  I've always wanted to audition for a show like that because I think it would just be such a great experience, but I've never had the opportunity because they're always too far away.  BUT Idaho Falls is only like two and a half hours away... ergo, I want to audition!  Of course, it's not the ACTUAL auditions.  It's like a small town bus or something.  I don't really know.  Just go to the AI website to learn about what exactly it is.  But anyway, I so want to go audition.  Even if I don't make it, the experience is still so great!  But of course my mom said no.  Like seriously?  I'm going to try my hardest to convince her to let me audition.  Because it's like my dream.  And I mean, I don't expect to go all that far anyway.  I'm going to do everything in my power to get me to audition.  Wish me luck!

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Definitely Not a Farm...

So, my mom decided that during the summer we would go on "fieldtrips" every once in a while.  And she had heard from a friend that there was a hummingbird farm 45 minutes out of town.  So that's where we went.

I was actually kind of excited for this!
A hummingbird farm... I hadn't ever even heard of one of those!
I was imagining a little place like a butterfly pavilion, but filled with hundreds of hummingbirds.

So we drove.
And drove.
And drove, and drove, and drove.

Until we were out in the middle of nowhere.
And it had been an hour and a half.  NOT 45 minutes.
But we knew we were going the right way.
There were landmarks.
Like, a cattle guard.
Or a lone tree.
Or an extremely large rock.
Because that's all that is out in the middle of nowhere.

And we arrive.
I thought that there was no way we were in the right place.
All that was there was...
A couple trees with hummingbird feeders by a little stream.
WOW.

We drove an hour and a half into the middle of nowhere for this?
So not worth it.
There were hummingbirds... like twenty.
And they were cool.
But it was definitely not worth three hours of my time out and back.


What a disappointment.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Happy Birthday One Direction!

Two years ago today.
At 8:22 PM.
One Direction was formed.


You may think... so what?  That doesn't affect your life that much.
But it really does.
I love them.
I love their music.
Fangirling over them has definitely changed my life.
Yeah, maybe for the worst.
But whatever.

I love them!

They inspire me. :)
My dreams are bigger.
And I feel like they are reachable too!

Happy birthday!

What better way to celebrate their birthday than to listen to their first song over and over and over again?
And sing it at the top of my lungs all over my house.


And when What Makes You Beautiful comes on the radio I have absolutely no choice but to turn it up all the way (which is loud in my car), roll down the windows, sing at the top of my lungs, and ignore the complaints of my eight year-old sister in the back seat.

I love my boys.


My creys. :'(
I'm so proud of them!

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Remember...

...When I posted about SoundCloud and was upset about how I couldn't post sound clips onto Facebook or Blogger?  Well... I can.  I just hadn't figured it out yet!  But here you go! :D


This is one of my favorite audio discoveries of SoundCloud. :)

When You Go to EFY, You Meet People

So, I watched this video at the church youth website... and the strapping young lad at :38, 2:38, and 4:11 may or may not be my C.O.W. (Crush Of the Week) from EFY.  And by may or may not, I definitely mean may. :D

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Soundcloud

Today I discovered Soundcloud.
I love it.
It's pretty much full of free downloads of mashups and remixes.
It's wonderful.
I just wish sound clips could be posted on my blog.
Poop.
You can't share them on Facebook either.
That's my number one wish right now.
That sound clips could be shared on Facebook and Blogger.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Crazy Dreams...

So... my subconscious is whack.I don't know what happened to it...
But something obviously did.
Because my dreams are full of crazy poo.

~~~

*Reader discretion is advised.*
(Not that they're inappropriate or anything... just really strange.)

Dream #1
While I was at Girls' Camp I had this dream that I was at Panda Express and I went into the bathroom.  While I was in there, my cousin Lizzie walked in.  She went into a stall, and I later heard her crying.  I went into her stall and asked her what was wrong.  She was crying too hard to answer me, but I noticed that she had a lot of scissors, and she was trying to flush them down the toilet.  My subconscious mind told me that she was crying because she kept clogging the toilet with the scissors.  So I told her to break them into little pieces so they would fit down the toilet better, but it still didn't work.  And she cried harder.  Then I woke up.  I still don't know why my subconscious mind wanted Lizzie to flush scissors down the toilet.  If there is some sort of deeper meaning to that dream I would very much like to know what it is.

Dream #2
Okay, so I'm going to try my hardest to describe this dream, but I feel like I won't be able to very well.  I'll give it a shot!  So... I was walking through this ghetto downtown area, and I needed to pee.  And there was this old shack-like store, so I went there to use their bathroom.  And while I was in there I saw this jar full of air soft pellet looking things.  But they each cost $200, so I was confused.  I asked what they were, and apparently they were flying balls.  (Weird, right?)  But what they did, was if you held it and thought that you were flying, then you flew.  It just so happened that I had $400 on me, so I bought two, because the more you have, the better you fly.  And it was super cool!  I love flying dreams!  So as I was flying I dropped them, (thankfully I was close to the ground) and they rolled into an intersection.  I was walking around the intersection, looking for them, holding up traffic for quite a while.  I finally got them, and decided I would like them to be bigger, so I put them in my mouth and chewed them.  And, like two pieces of gum, they stuck together.  So I had a larger flying ball thing.  And then I flew around some more until I woke up.

Dream #3
I was walking through a graveyard with some random person, and they dared me to dig up a body.  So, I did it.  It ended up being an old man.  With a purple headband.  ...Yeah, don't ask.  So I dragged him home with me.  Cuz that's what everyone does with corpses, right?  That night, the graveyard came alive... aka zombies.  So the zombies attacked my house looking for the body that was missing from the graveyard.  I had hid him in a closet, so they couldn't find him.  So instead they decided they would be satisfied with our brains.  I then realized that I needed to go to Walmart to buy a new shovel (why a new shovel? I don't know) so I could rebury the dead guy I had.  I couldn't go to Walmart alone, of course... so I had to find someone to go with me.  But I needed to avoid getting my brains eaten.  I realized that zombies are really dumb, so I just walked like a zombie, and they left me alone, thinking I was one of them.  I found my friend Hailey and asked her to go to Walmart with me.  She said, "Wait, I thought you were a zombie." And I was like, "No."  And she was like, "Oh.  Well I am."  It was weird.  But she came to Walmart with me anyway.  When I got there I realized I had no money, so we just stole the shovel.  And we took a blanket too.  As we went out to my car a policeman ran after us and said "Did you just steal those?"  And I casually said, "yes."  He said, "Thanks for being honest!  You can have them for free since you didn't lie."  So then we went back to the house.  The sun had come up, so the zombies were gone.  And I guess Hailey had magically become unzombieified or something.  But yeah.  And so we took the guy back and buried him.  So we were happy that no zombies would come anymore.  But they still came the next night!  And we were confused.  Like WHY ARE THE ZOMBIES BACK!  WE RETURNED THE BODY!  And then I saw it.  The purple headband (you thought it was irrelevant, huh?).  So I grabbed it and ran back to the graveyard.  Zombies were chasing me and eating my brains, but I was still surviving.  That's the cool thing about dreams:  your brains can be eaten and you still survive.  So I buried the headband with the guy and all the zombies magically disappeared and my brains reappeared.  The end.

Dream #4
So, I was at the stay-at-home EFY session in Twin Falls.  And both of my old counselors were there, and half of my old company In the Midst.  It was pretty awesome!  And David Archuleta was also at this session.  Which is weird.  Cuz he is like 22... and in Chile.  But whatever.  I couldn't get up the nerve to talk to him though!  Urghh.  But my friend McKay helped me get courage. :)  As I was walking to him, though, I woke up.

Dream #5
This is another David Archuleta related dream.  So sorry.  He spoke in my ward.  And after church I went up to him to talk to him.  Except he didn't look like David Archuleta.  He was actually quite unattractive.  And he was rude.  It was pretty much just an awful dream. :(

Dream #6
I forget... It was something to do with water-skiing and saving the world from my EFY session director gone bad.  But it was definitely weird.  My entire neighborhood was flooded.  I had to be secretive.  But that's pretty much all I remember.  So sorry.

Dream #7
In this dream I went to a double baptism.  For my friend Maddie (who had died her entire head of hair blonde) and someone else.  The baptism was like at a pool... and there was a band.  It was strangely cool.

~~~

So... originally this post was only going to have the first three dreams, but I kept having more strange-ish dreams, so I thought I'd throw them in.

Monday, July 9, 2012

Especially for Me!

EFY = Especially For Youth
-which is the purpose behind the blog post title.

EFY is definitely the best thing that happens to me over the summer.
And this one was by far the best I have ever been to.

*Insert pictures in a random order here.*

These are the boys of In the Midst.
Wearing bow-ties made out of M&Ms.
We girls gave them to them. :)

RayLyn was aware of the picture.
Alana was not.

This is the famed Joshua.
Listen for the name.
Someday he will be an Abercrombie model.
He was also my COW.
(Crush Of the Week)

My awesome counselor Jessica!
Who I will hopefully see at the Twin Falls EFY session!
Even if I don't go to EFY here... I'll still go see her.
She said that I am beautiful and elegant. :)

And Jensen!

Ryan.
AKA RayLyn's cousin
AKA Russell from UP!

And Jason!
Other awesome counselor.
Who told me that I remind him of his favorite aunt in teenager form.

 They will get married.
It would be the perfect company reunion.

 Morgan and I.
With our sexy attitude poses.
This was Wednesday night.
When we won both the skit and the poster competitions.
And then we watched fireworks.
(Another post coming for those.)

Meg!  She is such a sweetheart!
I love her so much.
I really hope she goes to BYU so we can hang out and be besties.

On Friday the boys gave us roses.
It was great!
They sang to us too!
And Joshua gave me my rose! ♥
With a little note. :)  In the note he complimented me on my singing voice and cello skills.  And he says I am a great example and have a strong testimony. :)  I just wish he had a Facebook or texting.  Just my luck that he has neither, huh?

^That should be a link to a (bad) video of when the guys gave us roses.
But I'm not sure if it'll work without my Facebook logged in.

My room mate was RayLyn Bryant.  And she is fantastic.  I'm so glad she came; she almost didn't!  On Saturday we threw bars of soap at each other. :)  It was fun.  We were so tired.  I was on 3 hours of sleep.                                                                          <----- And then she squeezed me half to death.  I miss her. :(

Some of the boys didn't get escorts in time and had to sing Baby.
And Ryan said he didn't know the song... bullcrap!

We were on the top balcony, and the boys came under the balcony and sang What Makes You Beautiful to us. :)  And the funny thing is... it was right after breakfast, so some companies were still doing scripture study, and they kept shushing us.

~~~

Maybe if you were cooler... you could have been In the Midst.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

EFY

Another post will totes be coming, but for now I just want
to touch on the highlights of the best week of my summer.

-Meeting a French boy named (yoo'-awn) and learning how to give high-fives in France.
-Hearing Ryan laugh.
-Watching the Stadium of Fire fireworks with thousands of other EFY kids in a field.
-Having a COW who could pass as an Abercrombie model.
-Making the Variety Show after four years of trying.
-Attending the most spiritual testimony meeting ever.
-Epically photobombing every picture I saw being taken.
-Being sang to and given a yellow rose by my COW.
-Getting three hours of sleep due to letter-writing.
-Throwing soap at/getting soap thrown at me by my room mate.
-The goodbyes.

I wish it hadn't had to end.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Fireworks

The Fourth.
At EFY we got to watch the Stadium of Fire fireworks.

And I decided that I definitely want to go to Stadium of Fire sometime.  Hopefully next year.









































Sorry for all of the pictures.
But it is just super fun to take and edit pictures of fireworks.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Gone again.

So... I'm aware that I just got back from Girls' Camp, but I'm leaving again.  To EFY.  So I won't be on to post for another week.  And after that we're going on a family reunion, so I might post on Saturday or Sunday, but then I'll have another week long break.  But that's what happens in the summer:  gone, gone, and gone again.

I'm so excited for EFY!  I really hope I have a great company and great counselors. :)  I'm sure I will! :D  I'm going alone, so hopefully my room mate is someone fantastic and wonderful!
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