I'm sorry I...

haven't been updating my blog lately. Truthfully, I hasn't even crossed my mind. I just finished taking my finals this past week. I think I did well on all of them... I hope. I'm now sitting at 5 A's and a B at the end of this semester. We're now on Christmas break for the next 2-3 weeks. I wish we had longer. I really DON'T want to go back, but that's not my decision of course. Yesterday, my friends Allie and Katie came over after school because we had a half day. We really didn't have anything to do so we went through old year books and showed each other our pictures from past years. It was really kinda funny to see how we've changed, even in this past year. We also took a few pictures that are... let's just say... goofy. My favorite is one of me and Katie with scarves on our head in ninja poses. I don't know what we were thinking. Ha! Afterwards, Allie went home and me and Katie went to Desert Sky for Drama. They're working on their play for January, A Midsummer's Nights Dream. I was totally into it! The acting has really grown since last year. I remember two years ago when me and Bryce Peterson had to do a love scene together and he totally didn't even want to hold my hand... and now he's hugging people and holding their hands in the play. I was offended! What's wrong with me! JK! It was great to see everyone again. I was going to take pictures, but whenever I got ready to take one, my camera would die... :( Oh! My birthday was also on the 5th. Whoa. I totally forgot to blog about that. I am now officially 15 years old. It really doesn't feel that different from 14 though and I can't say it's any different. Just another year. I also got a Facebook this past week. I never thought that I would get one. I always thought that it was a terrible, dark, evil place. And I can't say that it's the BEST program ever...it's really not that fun. All you can do it email and post pictures. But it's just good to keep in touch with friends. I'm even friends with some of my leaders from church! Whoa. I'm hoping that over the break I can spend some time with my friends. Otherwise, I'll just be sitting at home eating chips and soda and watching chick flicks all day. Maybe I'll be getting up once or twice to check my email and then realize that no one sent me anything and then repeat the process an hour later. Oh, well. Some social life, right? Ha! My other goal is finishing my Personal Progress before the new value of Virtue comes out. I know it sounds bad... but I don't want to do the extra work. I'm almost done. I only have Divine Nature and half of Faith left to go. Wish me luck!

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It was Ryan's birthday on the November 9th. He's now 6 years old! When we moved here he was about 1 or 2. Whoa... time flies.

Hero for a Class Period

I am now a hero! Well, just for my fourth period World History class. We got the grades of our essays back and I got a "D"!!! Can you believe it? Well, I didn't study that hard... so it's not that suprising. But ANYWAYS I got a "D"! 

So, I took it home and looked over my mistakes (just like any good student would). And I noticed that there was one tiny... no.... HUGE problem in how my teacher graded it. I don't really feel like explaining it right now... but let's just say she counted up the points wrong. I would have actually recieved a "B"!!!! OMG!!! This was a big moment!

I went in during class and I asked some of my friends what they got on their essays and if I could take a look at them. They said yes, and I showed them what was wrong. I told them their correct score and (of course) they were pretty excited. I then went and told Ms. Cassidy what happened and she announced to the class that everyone's test was graded wrong. I raised up everyone's score about 2 letter grades! Whoo!

I got a "B"!!!

bum, bum, bum....

So, the other week we found out that someone hit our car in the school parking lot. I was FURIOUS! It left a dent in the back, on the driver's seat. It left scratches along the side of the car and part of the rear light broke off. The security at the school says that they are going to try and find the person who did it, but the chances of that happening are slim to none. So, almost everyday before and after school, I look around for white cars (there was white paint on our car) that look like they might have a bit of brown paint on them. I haven't caught anybody yet... but just you wait. When I find them.... they'll pay big time!!! 

Updating!!!

Well, tons of people are bugging me to update my blog... so here we go..... 

Well, nothing is really going on with me. I've been busy the last few days just doing homework like any other good high school student. I have a big essay coming up in my honors World History class about church in the Middle Ages and its influence on then and now. It's supposed to be 750 to 1000 words long. That's about 6 or 7 paragraphs, I guess. I'm really not that concerned about it; on the last essay I wrote, I recieved a 94%! So, it should be fine.

One of my friends invited me to go to a concert in Pheonix called Phocson... (I really don't know how it's spelled) with her. But it just so happened to be on my birthday, DECEMBER 5TH!!! And my parents already bought tickets to see a play at the Gaslight Theatre, so, as much as I wanted to go, I said no. Truthfully, I'd rather spend the night watching a play with my parents and having a relaxing night, than going to a loud, crazy concert with friends. Not to offend them if they read this!!! Sorry guys!!! Hee hee!!!!

 I really can't think of anything else new at this exact moment. The only thing that I can think of is the fact that I really want to go back to my old middle school and visit all of my old friends. Oh, I miss them all so much! But, they're all coming to high school next year... so I only have to wait for a little bit longer. YAY!!!

See ya! Hopefully this was enough of an update for you guys!

Going to Utah....

This past weekend, Dad took us kids to Utah. While there we visited Grandma. As soon as we walked in the front door, she was jumping up and down in her chair with excitement! I thought that it was the sweetest thing ever.
Here's Dad and Grandma. Smile!!!