thank you ali. i love getting tagged.

Ali is a champ. She's a great friend and has a great blog. I was tagged by her and will answer her questions to the best of my ability.

4 shows I watch:
1. In the Middle. Such a hilarious show except now Hulu doesn't play it but the daughter that runs cross country just kills me because it shows how pitiful the sport of XC is.
2. Disney channel when I'm at home. Love all those shows besides Phineas and Ferb
3. Occasionally Glee when it's not so skanky which it has had the tendency of being lately so not so much watching of that anymore.
4. I guess the next top show would be like sports center when I'm in the training room but I'm really not a huge tv watcher. I'm more into movies I think.

4 things I'm passionate about:
1. My family
2. My friends
3. Keeping a balanced life
4. Traveling and learning new things from new people and places

4 phrases I say a lot:
1. Oh baby baby
2. I feel like..........(fill in the blank)
3. I know right?!
4. For real?

4 things I've learned from the past:
1. Relationships of all kinds are important and you can learn something from everybody.
2. Savor the present instead of worrying about the past or future.
3. There's never a bad time to let someone you love know how much you care for them.
4. We really do have it pretty dang good.

4 things I did yesterday:
1. Dressed up in long elf like socks with white fur on the top.
2. Went to Barnes and Noble and received free wrapping on an item I purchased. So great.
3. Ate another chocolate from my Milka aka delicious advent calendar.
4. Saw so many people seeing the lights at Temple Square. Apparently the cool hangout place on a Saturday night.

4 places I would love to visit:
1. Greece
2. Costa Rica
3. New Zealand
4. India again

4 things I'm looking forward to:
1. Christmas break and seeing Naomi and Sage (and Annie and Matt too I guess)
2. Having my own classroom
3. Indoor season
4. Going to the temple when I'm older with my husband and being a cute old couple who hold hands and go to the temple together and make delicious goodies for all the neighborhood children.

4 things I love about winter:
1. Sleeping by the Christmas tree every night with Jayne
2. Fun winter clothes such as scarves, boots, coats, etc.
3. Drinking hot chocolate up the wazoo
4. CHRISTMAS!!

With that I finish the questions and I now tag: Ms. Jenny Welling, Mrs. Jenna Transtrum, Ms. Megan McAdams, and Ms. Danielle Ycmat.

jazz game

Monday night we went to the Jazz game and when I say we went to the jazz game I'm not kidding. One of my dad's friends gave us front row tickets. Literally. I was at the half court line with my feet on the court. Some of the highlights:

-Trying to get a ball from one of the dancers slash Jazz Bear. I think there's a rule no giving anything to front row people.
-Seeing my dad really try to get the attention of the Jazz Bear because he knows him.
-Yelling out to the players when they were so close trying to see if they would look at me. I think one time Raja Bell gave me a little head nod.
-Watching these little dancers during the half time show. We were very close and got to see all their facial expressions.
-Jayne being scared one of the players was going to land on her and hurt her.

happy thanksgiving

i'm grateful for......

-my family including Finnigan mostly because i just like seeing how much my dad loves him

-my aunts and grandma. they always make family vacations more fun.

-my cousin sunny who beat me at chess numerous times this week

-the traditional family dance party around the table and that cho got to participate in this year

-the thanksgiving sing along we have every year

-my grandma barbara because she teaches me fun things like how to make yo yos and she is very good at them while i was struggling on some

-the snowmobiles up at the cabin. it was freezing as can be seen through my grimace more than smile but we went off some sick jumps and cho tipped us every time she drove

-nature and that i live in a place where there are seasons

-my cousins and food and the fact that we had a cool table with no parents

-my parents. love them.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter 7 was really great. We went Friday afternoon so there was no line and it was cheaper but yet it was close enough to the premiere that we didn't feel left out. Good move. It was very good. Megan came with us even though she literally had JUST seen it like twelve hours before but it was great. Later that day we went to my home for this fun soup party where we ate lots of soup and people brought money to donate to the food pantry. All the soups were delicious and it was just enjoyable.

Posing on the stairs. Thank you to Brett for being our photographer.

Boy do we love music. Mozart as you can see is our favorite.

Rachel's awesome cousin Suz came to the movie with us too. Megan had this great idea of the heart.

This is the BEST movie theater in Provo. It's never that busy and it's just as close as the University Mall one and we just love the Riverwoods. Oh and a movie ticket is like two dollars less than anywhere else. It's amazing hands down.

We thought we should get to the movie an hour early to wait in line but to our pleasant surprise there was hardly anybody in the theater so we roamed around the Riverwoods Mall for a bit and stopped in Modern Display where they had Christmas decorations up! All the wreaths and bells and mugs got me soooo excited to put up decorations.

Before the movie. I got some Hi-C. That drink is the definition of bomb. Look it up in the dictionary. Hi-C and milk are my favorite drinks ever. Oh and hot chocolate and chocolate milk and Crystal Light.

I love my friends.

I honestly don't think my group of friends could get any better. I love them!! a lot.

89 is so fine!

Yesterday was a big day.... Matthew played in his first ever football game!!! Whoop whoop. He played in like 13 plays I think and he did fabulously. Apparently his blocks were really good according to my pops and other family members including the legend LaVell. I made quite the scene when he went out on the field-lots of screaming and picture taking. Waiting till the fourth quarter was sooooo worth it.

This is a second row quality picture here.

Some girls from the team. We got to go down to their field and make the tunnel for the team to run through. Lots of excitement. We almost got ran over by some tuba players and we were screaming our heads off trying to give high 5s to all the players.

On the field...Playing...Doing work.

Some more of my homies before the game.

Happy Halloween

Halloween always includes a bunch of various activities that span from the beginning of October to November. Even in my music class today we were still singing Halloween songs. I'm confused-am I supposed to be listening to Halloween music or Christmas music on Cozy 106.5? But anyways all the festivities were very fun this year. They included:


Rodriguez and I carved this amazing Texas pumpkin and when I say we I mostly I mean Rodriguez while I entertained him and played music. What a champ.


Megan and I in our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costumes after a dance put on by Rising Star Outreach which is the group I went to India with this Summer. It was so fun to see pictures of the kids and my friends again. I miss India a lot.

The crew that went to the Alpine Village dance party. So many priceless faces in this picture.

Nate O, Maddie, Cam, Rach, Megan, Me.....that's a good group yeah that's a good group

I went and watched Megan and Kelsi at their Halloween half-marathon. Here they are with all their friends. Such an inspiration baby....13.1 MILES



The McAdams clan plus Kelsi. Take notice of their sweet medals please. I'm glad they live in Draper now so I can see them more often.

Rachel and I trying to take a nice picture together but we couldn't stop laughing. This was around the time that we spent an hour and a half deciding what to be...and we came out on top

Lindsay and Dave aka the Flinstones. I really wanted to take a picture of them like they were going to the Sadie Hawkins dance and persuaded them that if they let me take it they would make it on the blog. Ha I love them!

Presenting the best costumes in the house-Shamu and my trainer Rachel.