54. February 23, 2010

I love dinner time.

I love dinner time with my family.

Here was our dinner... it was delicious!

"Mealtime conversations can be a genuine family lifeline to connect busy families swimming in a sea of hectic and conflicting schedules." ~Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

53. February 22, 2010

This room has always been my favorite...

and today I think I figured out why.

I love this wall, and the comfort it brings.

*It reminds me I can turn to mucis to help me when I need it-*

it can make me happy or give me and outlet for frustration.

*It reminds me I have a family that will always be there and will always love me.*

*It reminds me that there is a prophet on the Earth, called of God, to help lead me.*

*It reminds me time goes by so quickly so I need to live it while I can.*

*Most importantly: It reminds me I have a savior who loves me and knows me.*

"The soul that comes unto Christ dwells within a personal fortress, a veritable palace of perfect peace." ~Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

52. February 21, 2010

This is a pillow I made (yes made!)

Today this is the picture and the quote:

"Lead me, Guide me, Walk beside me..."

51. Fabruary 20, 2010

This is my friend Haley.

She'll probably kill me if she ever sees this picture on here... but it's a risk I'm willing to take :)

This weekend my sister had two extra tickets to a free Aggie's basketball game,

So me, haley, lexi and lexi's friend went up and went to the game and explored campus and such...

it was so fun :)

We were extremely hyper and haley made this face while taking a picture... it's my new favorite.

"These are the days that we will always remember.

Chasing the night to make our days better.

Sun sets and we're setting sail to another town.

Got all the windows down and the radio up!

Let's do it again, keep the rhythm with our hearts.

This is why we wake up, what it's all about!

Let's turn this up a little bit louder.

Keep singing along as the night gets longer." Chasing The Night by Every Avenue

50. February 19, 2010

Today me and 4 of my friends from math had a math party.

It was 4 hours long, and we got nothing done.

Probably because we everyone brought food, ipods and we are easily disrtacted teenagers...

Maybe next time...

"Empty chairs at empty tables. Now my friends are... gone. Here they talked of revolution. Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about tomorrow. And tomorrow never came...  From the table in the corner. They could see a world reborn. And they rose with voices ringing. I can hear them now. The very words that they had sung..." ~Empty Chairs At Empty Tables, Les Mis

As I mentioned before I'm slightly in love with Les Miserables, so you may be getting quite a lot of quotes from it for the next little while... enjoy :)

49. Februrary 18, 2010

I know this is kind of random, but I have recently developed a fetish.

I love jeans.

Everything about them, the feeling, the look... they are just great :)

So here's a picture of some jeans... hope you like it :)

“I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.” ~Tara Reid

48. February 17, 2010

Well I'm supposed to do a self portrait every month so here you go....

"She would never turn heads, and she wasn't what you'd call pretty, but she could be the kind of woman you would look at and think, I'd like to know her." ~ ~Cynthia Voigt, Glass Mountain

 (Thanks to my cousin Valerie for the quote. Sorry I stole it from your blog, hopefully you don't mind...)

47. February 16, 2010

I love my grandparents.

I love random suprises.

My grandparents on my mom side sent us a Valentine's Day suprise.

After shaking the box of conversation hearts for a while, I looked in and only one was showing the words on it,

it said Hello.

I felt like my grandparents were there saying hello and how much they love me.

It was amazing.

Thank you conversation heart.

And thank you granny and papa, I love you!

"Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories and Love."

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate .~Bill Cosby

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture. ~Susan Strasberg

46. Fabruary 15, 2010

I love the rain.

I could sit in it, watch it, and listen to it all day.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

45. February 14, 2010

This is what happens when you take a 5 hour nap...

You are up until 12:34 a.m.

“I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted -- stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.”

44. February 13, 2010

Today I spent the day doing nothing but reading... and a bit of cleaning.

I started The Kite Runner. It is great!! I'm excited to get further into it!

"That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. . " ~The Kite Runner

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors." ~Rahim Khan

43. February 12, 2010

So four years ago at Aspen's birthday party, we were playing a game

and some how it turned into an all out shaving cream brawl.

We had another one this year and this is the results...

The 6 girls from the party (Aspen, Tati, Tara, Jess, Sam and I)

The Shaving cream base, because we only had 5 cans and 7 people

My hair afterwards... it is discusting.

"A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.”

42. February 11, 2010

This is my friend Aspen, I have known her for over 13 years.

She is my best friend.

Happy birthday!

"Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” ~Kevin Arnold

41. February 10, 2010

Tomorrow is my friends birthday, and for years I told her I was going to get her a build-a-bear,

I finally did.

Meet Long Snot... Hope you like her Aspen

"Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.”

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.” ~Jeremy Irons

40. February 9, 2010

Well because of my lovely outdoor practice yesterday,

I came down with a cold... which is not my favorite thing.

However I love blankets and spent the later part of the day wrapped up in one lying in bed reading a book

“It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.” ~Marilyn Ferguson

39. February 8, 2010

Today I had my first outdoor soccer practice.

It was  a beautiful day...

But cold as could be!

"Sunny days keepin' the clouds away

I think we're coming to a clearing and a brighter day

So far away, still I think they say, the wait will make their heart

Grow stronger or fonder, I can't quite remember anyway"

38. February 7, 2010

Today was the Super Bowl

We had an OwAtchIrby Party (Owens/Hatch/Kirby)

It was so much fun, hillarious, and full of yummy food.

Of course no OwAtchIrby party would be complete without seven layer bean dip.

But one thing you must know is at OwAtchIrby parties there are two rules for 7 layer been dip:

1) It must be pretty

2) You must make 2, a normal one and one that half doesn't have sour cream and half doesn't have guacamole...

That was my job.

This look really sick, but it's because after we ate it and yeah... get over it.

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

37. February 6, 2010

Today me and my sister finally both got home just before midnight

Lexi came into my room telling me she was really craving Ice Cream with fudge it in

And asked if I would go to the store with her to get some...

The store we were going to go to closes at midnight so we had to hurry.

We went there and they didn't have any but I saw mint chocolate chip Ice Cream and started craving it,

but Lexi wouldn't by it for me...

Instead we bought a pound of sour patch watermelons, because they sounded good.

Filled her car up with gas, drove to wal mart and looked for it.

They didn't have Moose Tracks whichi is what she wanted,

So she got Bunny Tracks and I got Mint Chocolate chip.

On the way home some how we started singing a song we both had to learn in 5th grade,

"A, you're adorable...B, you're so beautiful...C, you're a cutie full of charms...D, you're a darling..."

We finally got home about 12:45, ate our Ice Cream and went to bed...

That is why we are ban from going to the store late at night.

Thank you lexi for the late night adventure, the random singing in the car, and the ice cream. :)

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you do, they'll still be there. ~Amy Li

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~Marion C. Garretty

36. February 5, 2010

I went to see (500) Days of Summer with my sister, and two of her friends,

It was a pretty fun outing, I'm not going to lie...

2 Quotes I remember from the movie

"Tom: What happens when you fall in love?

Summer: You believe in that?

Tom: It's love, it's not Santa Claus. "

"Tom: Darling...  I don't know how to tell you this, but... there's a Chinese family in our bathroom. "

35. February4, 2010

Today was a weird day...

I had multiple people comment on my eyes...

One on the color, another on their brightness, another on the shape, another on the uniqueness...

It was bizarre but made my day

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou

34. February 3, 2010

Today I came home from school with a headache,

here was my view for the day.

"Trust in God and in His willingness to provide help when needed, no matter how challenging the circumstance... It is comforting to know that God will never try you more than you can manage... No matter what occurs, no matter how topsy-turvy the world becomes, you can always have the... perfect love of your Father in Heaven [that] will never change... Why worry about future calamities or uncertainties over which you have no control? ... trust in Heavenly Father."

~Elder Richard G. Scott

I'm not sure why this is the quote, but I really like it. It's true, and I know it...

maybe that's why it's the quote

33. February 2, 2010

My English class just finished a book called My Name is Asher Lev by Chiam Potok,

at first the book is... strange.

I really liked the book, it gave insight to a whole new world

it made me think about things I never would have thought about.

Here are two of my favorite quotes from the book:

"'Everything is in the hands of heaven, except the fear of heaven. What can I tell you, my Asher? I do not know what the Master of the Universe has waiting for us. He gives us glimpses, and only glimpses. It is for us to open our eyes wide.".

"It is both a weakness and a strength to be so stubborn." ~Asher Lev by Chiam Potok

32. February 1, 2010

I came home from school and spent the afternoon wrapped in my favorite blanket.

My aunt made this for my mom when she was in college before my mom had any children.

My older sister and I fight over it daily!

It's my favorite.

It was a big part of my childhood...

it was my blanket to wrap up in when i was sick, cold, home alone or anytime really.

Today's quote is a poem:

Childhood Memories

my childhood was the time when i was innocent

when the world seemed to be fair

when my universe was around my toys

my childhood was the time when i lived in dreams

when everyone was selfless

when everyone appeared to be a friend

my childhood was the time when my life was full of colors

when sorrows never knocked my door

when smile was gift presented to everyone

my childhood was the time when love was pure

when there were no obligations

when tenderness prevailed

my childhood was the time which is long gone

tears flow from my eyes when i go back in my childhood

my childhood will never come back but

the child in me will never go

31. January 31, 2010

My friend brought over my Christmas present...

Sorry this quote is kind of long, but you'll get over it...

"Friendship isn't always easily described. Eskimos say have a hundred different words for snow. Unfortunately, the English language isn't quite as innovative, though it has vast opportunities to differentiate meaning. Certainly, Love is one of those opportunities. And so, too, is Friendship.

Instead of different words, we're stuck with simple adjectives. Close friend. Best friend. Childhood friend. Intimate friend. Trusted friend. Beloved friend. But whether you use adjectives or different words, few could deny the nearly infinite meaning in such a simple word.

We can't pick our family. But our friends can be as diverse and infinite as the adjectives we choose. Our friends reflect the choices we make in life."

30. January 30, 2010

In 7th grade one of my very best friends gave this to me.

I love it, I love the memories it has, and the memories it reminds me of.

The friend that gave it to me moved to California last year, and it reminds me of her.

I love it.

“Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”

29. January 29, 2010

Today 3 of my best friends and I spent the entire lunch period having an 'adventure'

What adventure? Spinning every locker in the hallway to 0 of course...

I used to make fun of one of my friends for doing it, but it was so entertaining!

I have found a new activity to get me through boring lunches :)

"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying" ~Bertrand Russell