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I'm going out to BYU in January, with all of my tuition paid for!!! And after my Pell Grant, my housing should be covered too!!!! Hooray for me!!!! :D I just got this about half an hour ago, and I'm still bursting with excitement! I'm so happy, and I just can't wait to go to school!!!! Hip Hip Hooray!!!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Growing Up Means Making Decisions...
So I had a thought today...and I don't know what to make of it.
There's a paper of important dates for the Seniors, and two of those dates that are within the next couple of weeks are the last day for schedule changes and the last day to submit a request to your counselor for early graduation...do you see where I'm going with this?
With the schedule I have right now, I would still be missing one English credit by the time the semester got over, but if we're still allowed to make changes within the next couple of weeks, I could change one of my classes for another English class...and graduate early, and go out to BYU in January. The application deadline for winter semester is October 1, so I would still have time to finish that too. I just don't know if it's the right thing to do, or if it's even what I want to do.
I think my next order of business is to write out some pros and cons and ask Dad for a father's blessing to help me make the decision that is best for me. I've definitely got everything figured out for once I get to BYU though, whether it's next semester or next fall. But anyway, I've got a lot of praying and a lot of thinking to do. I feel like I'm ready to be done with High School, but I don't know if I'm ready to leave home yet. If anyone has any feedback, by all means, it's welcome! Please, share your thoughts on the matter. :)
There's a paper of important dates for the Seniors, and two of those dates that are within the next couple of weeks are the last day for schedule changes and the last day to submit a request to your counselor for early graduation...do you see where I'm going with this?
With the schedule I have right now, I would still be missing one English credit by the time the semester got over, but if we're still allowed to make changes within the next couple of weeks, I could change one of my classes for another English class...and graduate early, and go out to BYU in January. The application deadline for winter semester is October 1, so I would still have time to finish that too. I just don't know if it's the right thing to do, or if it's even what I want to do.
I think my next order of business is to write out some pros and cons and ask Dad for a father's blessing to help me make the decision that is best for me. I've definitely got everything figured out for once I get to BYU though, whether it's next semester or next fall. But anyway, I've got a lot of praying and a lot of thinking to do. I feel like I'm ready to be done with High School, but I don't know if I'm ready to leave home yet. If anyone has any feedback, by all means, it's welcome! Please, share your thoughts on the matter. :)
Monday, September 7, 2009
A Word of Advice
Always keep a spare toothbrush with you, just in case your nephew decides he wants to use your other one to play in the toilet water...
Friday, August 28, 2009
HELP WANTED!
Needed: Someone to help me stay alive throughout my senior year!!!
It's the weekend, FINALLY, and really, if today hadn't been Friday, I don't know if I could have gone on living, not even kidding. I think I've averaged about 4hours and 45minutes of sleep per night this week. It's insane how much harder it is to get up that 1 hour earlier for seminary....and how hard it is to stay awake during seminary when you only got 4hours of sleep the night before. Ya, welcome to my life, and that's just the first hour of the day! Once seminary is over I begin my arduous day at school. My classes consist of Computer Business Applications (easy, but not usually much free time in class), English 4 Honors (I'm not even going there yet...), THESPIANS!, Physics (again, not too bad, but I am always working until the bell rings), THESPIANS!, Anatomy and Physiology (not quite as hard as I expected, but we just finished the first chapter, and he said now it's time for the hardest part, so...), and last of all Calculus (doable, although I was 2 days behind in my homework...). Anyway, after the first week of school I'm thinking, "You know what, this isn't going to be too bad. I can totally handle this just fine, so long as I stay organized and take care of myself, keep my priorities in order." Now I'm thinking, "How am I going to survive the day?"
None of my classes are extremely hard, it's just having so many that actually take work that's getting to me. That and the fact that I can't ever seem to get to sleep on time and I have to get up at 5 or 5:30 every morning. Plus I have to worry about college and my future, which is also kind of a big deal. :) At least I already know where I'm going! (All I have to do is get apply once the applications are available and get accepted! haha). Also the fact that my two fun classes (thespians) give me just as much stress/take as much time as my other classes doesn't exactly help the situation. Auditions were yesterday and callbacks were posted today, and I'm pretty sure I worried about that way more than my A&P test that I took today.
Really, if I can just get myself to go to sleep on time, I don't think it will be such a big deal, I just need to get in the swing of things. Although weekends are definitely going to be my salvation! The thing that's kind of put me over the top is realizing that I have to write 5 papers this semester for my English class. Ya, that's one a month! Piled in with Calculus and A&P homework, musical rehearsals, seminary, and applying for college!!! At least the teacher is smart and nice, and encourages us to papers we have to write for other classes and applications as some of the papers for her class. I'm mostly just overwhelmed with the thought of having to do my very best (because she will take nothing less, trust me!) on a multiplicity of papers.
Well anyway, it's getting late and despite my 2 hour nap earlier, I am kind of falling asleep as I type. I just kind of wanted to...complain I suppose, let everyone know how hard my life is. ;) Not really, my life's great, but it really is going to be crazy this next year, so I thought I'd share how much I've realized that this past week. :) And hey, if you don't mind, try and catch a little extra sleep for me here and there, would ya? (If only it could really work that way...)
It's the weekend, FINALLY, and really, if today hadn't been Friday, I don't know if I could have gone on living, not even kidding. I think I've averaged about 4hours and 45minutes of sleep per night this week. It's insane how much harder it is to get up that 1 hour earlier for seminary....and how hard it is to stay awake during seminary when you only got 4hours of sleep the night before. Ya, welcome to my life, and that's just the first hour of the day! Once seminary is over I begin my arduous day at school. My classes consist of Computer Business Applications (easy, but not usually much free time in class), English 4 Honors (I'm not even going there yet...), THESPIANS!, Physics (again, not too bad, but I am always working until the bell rings), THESPIANS!, Anatomy and Physiology (not quite as hard as I expected, but we just finished the first chapter, and he said now it's time for the hardest part, so...), and last of all Calculus (doable, although I was 2 days behind in my homework...). Anyway, after the first week of school I'm thinking, "You know what, this isn't going to be too bad. I can totally handle this just fine, so long as I stay organized and take care of myself, keep my priorities in order." Now I'm thinking, "How am I going to survive the day?"
None of my classes are extremely hard, it's just having so many that actually take work that's getting to me. That and the fact that I can't ever seem to get to sleep on time and I have to get up at 5 or 5:30 every morning. Plus I have to worry about college and my future, which is also kind of a big deal. :) At least I already know where I'm going! (All I have to do is get apply once the applications are available and get accepted! haha). Also the fact that my two fun classes (thespians) give me just as much stress/take as much time as my other classes doesn't exactly help the situation. Auditions were yesterday and callbacks were posted today, and I'm pretty sure I worried about that way more than my A&P test that I took today.
Really, if I can just get myself to go to sleep on time, I don't think it will be such a big deal, I just need to get in the swing of things. Although weekends are definitely going to be my salvation! The thing that's kind of put me over the top is realizing that I have to write 5 papers this semester for my English class. Ya, that's one a month! Piled in with Calculus and A&P homework, musical rehearsals, seminary, and applying for college!!! At least the teacher is smart and nice, and encourages us to papers we have to write for other classes and applications as some of the papers for her class. I'm mostly just overwhelmed with the thought of having to do my very best (because she will take nothing less, trust me!) on a multiplicity of papers.
Well anyway, it's getting late and despite my 2 hour nap earlier, I am kind of falling asleep as I type. I just kind of wanted to...complain I suppose, let everyone know how hard my life is. ;) Not really, my life's great, but it really is going to be crazy this next year, so I thought I'd share how much I've realized that this past week. :) And hey, if you don't mind, try and catch a little extra sleep for me here and there, would ya? (If only it could really work that way...)
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Motorcycles!!!
So I've realized that I only post about every two months....with two posts semi-close to each other, and then a two month break before the next two posts, haha. Anyway, there's lots of stuff that I should blog about and want to blog about that I haven't gotten around to, but I'm going to post about this first anyway. (Mostly because I know this post won't take near as long as the others, because there's not as much to say, hehe). So anyway, as most of you know, Joseph got a motorcycle about a month ago. I rode up and down the street on the back of it with him when he first got it, but I hadn't been on it since, until yesterday. :)
Joseph and I were going into Springfield to hang out with our friends, but he wanted to take his bike, and I didn't feel like driving in alone, so we decided to ask Mom and Dad if I could ride with him. :O Dad (of course) had no problems with it, but Mom on the other hand....well, she's a mom, haha. She was NOT excited for Joseph to have a passenger all the way into town, BUT, she consented. :) The ride there was a lot of fun, but it was very strange being on the road...not inside a car....but going just as fast as the rest of traffic. And communication....was basically non-existant, haha.
Unfortunately, the ride home was not quite as enjoyable. Well, I don't know about that actually....the uncomfortable things about it made it more of an adventure, haha. Let me explain. Joseph and I were running a little late for being home by the time Mom and Dad told us, so we just hopped on and got going as quick as we could. No big deal, except that my seat was wet from the dew. :( Joseph's was dry (of course!) but mine was....definitely not, haha. Then add to that the fact that Joseph was only wearing a t-shirt, and even though I had on a hoodie, I was wearing capris! It was definitely a chilly ride home for the both of us! Our friend left (in her nice warm car) about the same time as us, and when she pulled up to the stoplight next to us, she rolled down her window and says, "Nancyann, you look so scared!" "No," I informed her, "I'm just REALLY cold!" You see, my legs had been shaking like crazy through town. Eventually I was just numb though, so once we got onto 160, I didn't notice it quite as much, haha. But actually, once I got over the wetness and coldness, I think I enjoyed riding at night more. Mostly it was just really cool to ride when it was dark. (Although I'm sure Mom doesn't particularly like to hear that, hehe). Oh! And Joseph almost hit a bit at the four-way stop in Willard too! (I didn't see it though....that's just what he told me....)
Anyway, it was a fun experience, (and it made me feel really cool...), so I thought I would share. :) I hope you enjoyed hearing about it!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Crazy Sleeper
Wow, family is SO entertaining!!! A couple of minutes ago I was sitting in the living room, checking my facebook and people's blogs and what-not. All of the sudden I hear Paula (who is now officially living with us, I will have to post about that too....maybe). Anyway, I hear her urgently whispering my name. So I get up and go down the hallway to see what she is so excited about. She and Joseph have me look into our little brother's room, and this is what I found. hahaha. Hyrum, fast asleep, stuck between his mattress and the footboard. We were laughing so hard, but Mom kept telling us to quiet down, because if we woke him up he would be really upset. At the same time she didn't want him to hurt himself, so she went in and woke him up and had him climb back on top of his bed. The greatest thing is that apparently he had repositioned himself a couple of times in the last couple of minutes, this one just happened to be completely uncomfortable and hilarious!!! Wow, good times. :) I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. There would definitely be a lot less laughing in my life if it wasn't for my family. :)
Saturday, June 20, 2009
We're Artists!!!!
So I would have had this posted sooner, but the blogger kept messing up when I tried to upload the photos, so here it is, just a little late. :)
Alright, the other day Paula decided she wanted to take me out for a day to ourselves because since she's been with Keith, we haven't had as much time with each other as we used to (which is completely to be expected!). :) Anyway, she told me she was going to take me out, but that it was all a surprise, and I would just have to find out that day. So last Friday she picked me up from summer school and brought me back home. She had two shirts that she had made waiting for us on the couch, bright yellow ones with our names on front and 'We're Sisters' on back, they're so cute! So anyway, we get ready to go, and she tells me to grab a big towel too. So we get in the car and start driving and after stopping at the bank so that she could cash her checks, we drove to Sequiota Park...I think that was the name...it's on the south side of Springfield. I still had no idea what we were going to do, except that we were going to create something and it was going to be messy! Boy was that an understatement!!!
Once we got to the park we found a shady spot kind of on the edge of the park, away from everyone else. After we went searching for 4 medium rocks, she pulled out a big, white sheet...and then some paint. : ) We took the pink and painted war-stripes on each others cheeks and took a couple pictures before it got crazy. After the first set of pictures we went back to the sheet and started on our masterpiece. : ) We took the pink paint and did our foot and hand prints (we had to put the paint on our feet for each other, haha). Then we wrote our names on it....then it got fun. : ) We took all the other colors - blue, green, yellow, and red - and splatter painted. We put the paint on our hands and then shook our hands over top of the sheet, it was so fun! We decided that from far off it probably looked like we were doing witchcraft, hahaha. Next we decided we should take the bottles themselves and just squirt them onto the sheet in lines...and very quickly that changed to squirting them in lines onto each other. : ) We went CRAZY!!! (as is obvious from the pictures!) After all that we took more pictures with each other, decorated the car with window paint, and left for dinner!
We decided we were going to be cool and go eat in the food court at the mall. :D Haha, we got so many funny looks while we were walking inside! Then we saw an old lady with a walker coming, so we got off the sidewalk so she could go past us. After passing us, she turned around and asked us if we were sisters. We said yes, and then she asked if we were twins! I explained that Paula was marrying my brother, then she told us that she was a twin, and that as she and her sister were, they still looked exactly alike! She was so sweet! We started to walk away, but then I stopped and asked if we could get a picture with her, and I promised we wouldn't touch her, haha. It was really funny, because a little further up the sidewalk another lady who had already passed us stopped and listened to the whole conversation, haha, glad we could entertain her!
We went in and got in line at Sbarro, delicious! After the worker finished with the customer in front of us, he asked what had happened. Paula told him we were artists, he said he could tell. : ) When he asked what he could get for us, Paula asked for 2 pieces of pepperoni pizza, "prefferablly the big one." There were only 3 pieces left, so after he gave her the big one, he said he'd go ahead and give the other 2, so we got a piece for free! Hooray for cool fast food workers!!! Haha. After the deliciously large and cheap pizza, we went over to Chick-Fil-A and got us some ice cream cones. When we left we called our friends and finally decided to meet them at Ritter Springs Park. When we got there we told them all about our great adventures of the day and then walked down the trail to play in the river. So basically is was an AMAZING day! I have the best, most considerate and thoughtful friend ever!!!! I love her so much, and lucky for me, I get to have her as a sister for REAL!!! Friends are wonderful. : ) And so is taking a break to just chill and act like kids with each other. : ) Here are a few of the pictures, the rest are on facebook (it was hard to choose which ones to post!). :)
This is one of the pictures we took before it got crazy and we were so excited when we thought of the idea for it, we had to get creative on how to take it though, we had to put the camera on a rock to prop it up and then use the timer, haha.
Our final MATERPIECE!!! :) Beautiful isn't it?
And this is US after our final masterpiece! We look great don't we? :)
We had lots of fun taking pictures in the car. We took a lot more, but this is one that I liked a lot.
This is the lady we met walking into the mall that asked us if we were twins. :)
We wanted to take photos in the booth that prints them out in strips...but, like last time, we didn't have the right bills to pay for it...so we just sat in it and took our own! :)
Alright, the other day Paula decided she wanted to take me out for a day to ourselves because since she's been with Keith, we haven't had as much time with each other as we used to (which is completely to be expected!). :) Anyway, she told me she was going to take me out, but that it was all a surprise, and I would just have to find out that day. So last Friday she picked me up from summer school and brought me back home. She had two shirts that she had made waiting for us on the couch, bright yellow ones with our names on front and 'We're Sisters' on back, they're so cute! So anyway, we get ready to go, and she tells me to grab a big towel too. So we get in the car and start driving and after stopping at the bank so that she could cash her checks, we drove to Sequiota Park...I think that was the name...it's on the south side of Springfield. I still had no idea what we were going to do, except that we were going to create something and it was going to be messy! Boy was that an understatement!!!
Once we got to the park we found a shady spot kind of on the edge of the park, away from everyone else. After we went searching for 4 medium rocks, she pulled out a big, white sheet...and then some paint. : ) We took the pink and painted war-stripes on each others cheeks and took a couple pictures before it got crazy. After the first set of pictures we went back to the sheet and started on our masterpiece. : ) We took the pink paint and did our foot and hand prints (we had to put the paint on our feet for each other, haha). Then we wrote our names on it....then it got fun. : ) We took all the other colors - blue, green, yellow, and red - and splatter painted. We put the paint on our hands and then shook our hands over top of the sheet, it was so fun! We decided that from far off it probably looked like we were doing witchcraft, hahaha. Next we decided we should take the bottles themselves and just squirt them onto the sheet in lines...and very quickly that changed to squirting them in lines onto each other. : ) We went CRAZY!!! (as is obvious from the pictures!) After all that we took more pictures with each other, decorated the car with window paint, and left for dinner!
We decided we were going to be cool and go eat in the food court at the mall. :D Haha, we got so many funny looks while we were walking inside! Then we saw an old lady with a walker coming, so we got off the sidewalk so she could go past us. After passing us, she turned around and asked us if we were sisters. We said yes, and then she asked if we were twins! I explained that Paula was marrying my brother, then she told us that she was a twin, and that as she and her sister were, they still looked exactly alike! She was so sweet! We started to walk away, but then I stopped and asked if we could get a picture with her, and I promised we wouldn't touch her, haha. It was really funny, because a little further up the sidewalk another lady who had already passed us stopped and listened to the whole conversation, haha, glad we could entertain her!
We went in and got in line at Sbarro, delicious! After the worker finished with the customer in front of us, he asked what had happened. Paula told him we were artists, he said he could tell. : ) When he asked what he could get for us, Paula asked for 2 pieces of pepperoni pizza, "prefferablly the big one." There were only 3 pieces left, so after he gave her the big one, he said he'd go ahead and give the other 2, so we got a piece for free! Hooray for cool fast food workers!!! Haha. After the deliciously large and cheap pizza, we went over to Chick-Fil-A and got us some ice cream cones. When we left we called our friends and finally decided to meet them at Ritter Springs Park. When we got there we told them all about our great adventures of the day and then walked down the trail to play in the river. So basically is was an AMAZING day! I have the best, most considerate and thoughtful friend ever!!!! I love her so much, and lucky for me, I get to have her as a sister for REAL!!! Friends are wonderful. : ) And so is taking a break to just chill and act like kids with each other. : ) Here are a few of the pictures, the rest are on facebook (it was hard to choose which ones to post!). :)
This is one of the pictures we took before it got crazy and we were so excited when we thought of the idea for it, we had to get creative on how to take it though, we had to put the camera on a rock to prop it up and then use the timer, haha.
Our final MATERPIECE!!! :) Beautiful isn't it?
And this is US after our final masterpiece! We look great don't we? :)
We had lots of fun taking pictures in the car. We took a lot more, but this is one that I liked a lot.
This is the lady we met walking into the mall that asked us if we were twins. :)
We wanted to take photos in the booth that prints them out in strips...but, like last time, we didn't have the right bills to pay for it...so we just sat in it and took our own! :)
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