Christmas!!!

I love Christmas!!! We've had a really quiet Christmas this year, with just the 4 of us. Wow, it has been weird. We still had a good time and I finally got....drum roll please.....MY UGGS!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been wanting these things for like a year and a half. They make me EXTREMELY happy! I also got a sweater, some earrings, a sweatshirt, a cd and a bunch of other fun stuff. Tanner got, believe it or not, a paninni maker, and he LOVES it. He spent all afternoon thinking up new ways to make a paninni. So weird. My dad got an indestructible phone and my mom bought herself a Mickey Village. :) Then we went to Marilyn's for an intense round of bingo. So, good time had all around! Merry Christmas everyone!

Natural Helpers Retreat

This year I got into Natural Helpers, a program that lets students and teachers vote in people they trust and can talk to. We had a retreat at pine creak yesterday and today. The point of it is to educate natural helpers on how to help people with their problems. It is also a blast! My camera is being dumb and taking really blurry pictures, but be sure to watch the video at the end!

A random picture of Megan!
Ashli Rose
We were supposed to bring something that represented us, so I brought my old tap shoe. This is my little friend Frankie trying them out. Sorry about the video, the end is a little nauseating.

So much for growing it out.

Yeah, I've been growing my hair out since the 5th grade, and then one day I got a whim and chopped it all off. Just like that. It is cute, but it is short! What do you think?

The numbers don't lie...

72.7 million first day....breaking the 67.2 million record held by the Dark Knight....26.3 million from midnight showings...I don't care who you are. This is a dang GOOD movie. Some of you may be biased, but you know deep down that nothing beats this. :) I will admit, the first one was kind of lame. But this movie was the best thing ever. SERIOUSLY. There you have it. :)

My life....

Gee, life doesn't stop being crazy when school starts!! I have been running around like crazy and I am tired! Not that I really mind it, i like having stuff to do! School has been good, so far not too much homework and I like my teachers. For the most part... I started doing cross-country this year and even though I am awful at it, I like it! Yes, mom, I am glad you forced me to do it at first. =) Anyway, I don't really have much to post about for now, but there is my update. Oh, something that happened, just a side not, doesn't really matter much... I GOT MY BRACES OFF!!! now THAT is something worth celebrating! i had a picture for ya'll, but i can only get to it from my mom's computer, and she just left for CA tonight. Ugh, she gets to go see those babies! :)

I'm (FINALLLY) 13!!!

My birthday was like a week ago, but my mom informed me that my birthday had been postponed because we didn't have time for it. :) Well that wasn't totally true, we did have cake and stuff, but I also had to weed, wipe toddlers bums, some other non-birthday appropriate stuff. Now that I've had my real birthday, I can feel thirteen!

These are some of my birthday presents...and yes that is a Taylor Lautner t-shirt.... he's my future husband...=)Thanks ash i love you!
Me and Ash
Me and Jess
Katy and Kaylee...this is the ONLY picture i got of Katy!
Jess got jealous of Ashli with mickey...this birthday was madness. Love you guys!
Tiff being her dramatic self!

Adventures in crazyland...

Whew! These last couple of weeks have been total madness. But we had fun doing it! Amy and kids got to Mimi's house 2 weeks ago. Then, I went to girls camp with Mimi's ward (and had a BLAST by the way). By the time I got home Chad, Amy, and babies were there to play! We have been running around like chickens with our heads cut off ever since. Now things have quieted down some, but Patrick and Kennedy are still here while there mommy goes home to pack. In the midst of the madness, we have all taken a turn with a cold-like bug. Anywho, there was still some fun had, and here are a few pictures. Sorry, another long post!

These were Patrick and Emily's FAVORITES. Nana bought some disney costumes, and all the wanted to do was dress up. Shown here:Buzz Lightyear and Tinkerbell.

Oh, just Annie being precious..it's nothing new! :)

Cute kids at the fair. They loved going to see the animals, eating doughnuts, and the highlight: the rodeo.

It's not a very good picture, but I thought all of them in their jammies was cute.

Oh wait, more cuteness! I just adore her!

She makes a pretty cute cowgirl, don't ya think?

Levi is a big hit with the kids, because he doesstuff like standing on teeter totters.=)

Patrick and Emily helping Chad blow out the candles..

Buying ice-cream with money from their own wallets was one of Nana's strange ideas, but they liked it.

The kids being cute with Mimi.