Christmas!!!

I know I haven't posted in a while and I am going to try to be better at it but I thought that since Christmas is coming up I should post. I am so excited! All of the traditions that our family has makes it so fun. We have put all three of our Christmas trees up. Yes we have three! And our lights and decorations are up. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Merry Christmas Everyone!

History Is Made

Yesterday my high school swim team beat our rivals! They have been unbeatable for 6 years and we beat them! Its so exciting!

Back to "Life"

This week was my first full week back at High School. Can I just say that it is great to not be a freshman this year. I love not being at the bottom of the heap. I have a lot of hard classes this year. I have a lot of homework every night too. Seminary has started back up again. I like seminary a lot more this year. The teacher I have is really great. I find myself really getting into the New Testament. High School swimming has started up again. We had our first meet last week and I did really well. Yesterday we had our Young Women retreat. It was sooooo much fun, we went horse back riding. We also had our first home football game on friday. It was a blast. We played Evergreen high school and we won 21 to 14. So as you can see I'm staying busy. I hope everyone is doing well!

Other pictures from my birthday

American Idol concert!

For my birthday my Mom suprised me and took me to the american idol concert. I am going to marry David Archuleta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You Are Snow White!

Pure and trusting. You are a gentle soul who can get along with just about anyone. Everyone you meet instantly falls in love with you. How can they resist? You have a pure, lovable nature that's irresistable. Just don't trust everyone who comes across your path.

I'm so cool

I just want to tell you all that i am so cool. You don't even know! I am just so awesome that you guys are all lucky to know me! LOL JK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello everyone

Okay, i know that i haven't been blogging much lately but i think my mom has covered most of what has been going on in our lives so i doubt you have missed much. My summer mostly consits of swimming, swimming, and more swimming. I have practice 5 days a week, sometimes twice a day. One fun thing besides swimming that i did lately was a 3 week musical theatre class. It was super fun. We did a number of songs from the musical Wicked. We have also been going on the boat a lot. I also had my 15th birthday earlier this month. I had a great time. Besides the boat breaking down while we were out on the lake. That deffinatley was not the highlight of the day. But i had a nice long nap on the way home to put me out of my bad mood and the rest of the day turned out great. I took two of my friends with me and spent most of the trip giggling like teenage girls do. Another great thing that happened this summer was the olympic swimming trials. I loved watching all of my favorite swimmers compete. Recently, okay well two days ago, i started reading Twilight all over again. I LOVE that book! I have read all three books and I cannot wait untill the next one comes out on August first. Well thats pretty much it. I hope everyone is having a great summer. I will try to bolg more in between swim practices.

Hi Kennedy!

I am directing this post to Kennedy because she and I are the only ones who still blog frequently. (Except for jen who has posted recently and she is about to have a baby so you all have no excuse) Anyway, Kennedy, do you like this Lord of the Flys unit in English? I like it. I love building the structures. I am bumed because we don't have as many classes together this semester so I can really only talk about English. Well i guess I will see you tomorrow.

Happy Birthday (yesterday)

I would just like to let everyone know that yesterday was kennedy rushing's 15th birthday. Happy Birthday kennedy! (yesterday)

WOW

Wow, no one is ever on blog anymore. I go and put a bunch of pictures on my blog for your viewing pleasure and no one but Kennedy sees them! Way to go Kennedy! I am glad to see that at least one person is still a blog stalker. (Besides my Dad lol :)

more pictures

picture up date

These are just a bunch of pictures that I just barely put on the computer. Enjoy!

New York

I am so excited today I will get on a five hour flight and travel across the country to New York. I am really looking forward to it. We have so many fun things planned. We also get to see Dan, Jen, Erica, and Carson. I can't wait!

I Don't Really Have a Name for This Post

Well nothing important has really happened lately I'm just posting cause I have nothing better to do. Right now it's raining (big suprise.) It acctually hasn't been raining that much so this is kinda a change. I don't really have anything else so bye:)

Long Weekend

I have had a great time not having to go to school for 4 days. I got to sleep in and stay up late and, oh yeah I ordered my LETTERMAN JACKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited about it. They said that it should be in here in about six weeks. I can't wait! It looks really cool. I will have to put pictures on my blog when it comes in.
The only bad thing about having a long weekend is going back to school. I almost like knowing that I have to go to school on monday instead of knowing that i have to go back afer a long break. Well I hope you all are doing good. TTYL( for those of you who don't know what that means it's talk to you later)

Alyssa's Hidden Meaning

What Alyssa Means
You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality.You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in.You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising.You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong.You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know.You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do.

Letterman Jacket

I don't think that anybody besides my mom can even imagine how much i want a letterman jacket. I went with my friend to get hers and that just made me want one even more. They are mondo expensive though. And i only have to pay for half. Half a letterman jacket is 170, you do the math. So any charitable donations will be accepted. JK unless you really want to.

Stress Free?

I really don't think it is possible to be stress free. I have so many things going on right now and not enough hours in the day. It's like when ever there is a test in one class there has to be another test in some other class and there has to be a project due and there has to be a bunch of busy work that you have to get done at the same time that you are getting ready for all of your other things that you have to do. I sometimes try to think that I just have to get through the week and then the next week it will all be better but that is never true. The next week or day is always harder than the day or week before. I am so glad that we have a half day on Wednesday. I really don't know why teachers like to pile everything on and just watch us suffer.

I'm Back!!!!

Wow I haven't been on my blog for so long. Things are finally starting to wind down in my life. As soon as we came back to school from christmas vacation I had to get ready for finals and my life was just crazy. It seems like I can never not be stressed about something. This week I will be starting something new. I am going to learn to play the cello. I'm really excited it should be a lot of fun. Sorry again for being away for so long. Love you all!!!

By the way for those of you who don't know this is Micheal Phelps the greatest swimmer who ever lived.

Tagged

My True Color

What's Your True Color?

My Result: Black

Your color is black. The color of night. Serene and mysterious, black conjures up images of elegant evening gowns, dashing tuxedos, and gleaming limousines. Traditionally a symbol of success, black also represents power and an uncompromising demand for perfection. Not surprisingly, you tend to set challenging goals for yourself and do whatever it takes to achieve them — your strength of character is second to none. This unfaltering determination, along with your natural elegance, impresses people. But keep in mind that your personality might be intimidating to some. Try to temper your demanding side with a little softness — trust us, it won't kill you. Overall, though, black is the color of professionalism and achievement, which means it's clearly the color for you.

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Who Loves Me???

I am starting to think that no one loves me anymore. Everytime I check my blog there are no comments:( Is anybody out there????

Tagged Again

Okay, I really hate this whole tagged thing. But here it goes anyway.
1. I have really long toes.
2. I love Guitar Hero
3. I am really bad at giving directions
4. I read really slow. Most of the time I don't even finish books.
5. I get really worked up when it comes to being on time. If I am even just a little bit late I get nervous.
6. I am a big fan of a t-shirt and jeans combo
7. I love romantic fiction books(like Twilight)
I am going to tag Kennendy now :)

Thanks Again Kennedy

I am so proud of myself! I successfully put a new playlist on my blog withput the help of Kennedy. She showed me how to do it the first time and I'm so glad she did because one of my songs ended up not working so I only had one song one my blog.
I have a swim meet tomorrow so I should probably keep this short and go to bed. I hope everyone likes my new music!

Twilight

"Twilight": who are you? (now w/ pics) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Esme Cullen You're Esme. The sweet, loving, mother figure of the Cullen clan. You're extremely happy that Edward has found Bella and are very careful not to scare her off. Esme Cullen 88% Alice Cullen 63% Charlie Swan 63% Carlisle Cullen 63% Jasper Cullen 50% Edward Cullen 38% Bella Swan 38% Emmett Cullen 38% Rosalie Cullen 25% James 25%

I'm Back

I know I haven't posted for a while. I have been in Idaho having fun in the mountains of snow. I couldn't believe that there was so much snow. We went to a cabin in Island Park with the Dustin family. I had a lot of fun seeing all of my cute little cousins. They are all really the sweetest cutest kids I have ever seen in my life. I also got to see Jackson while we were staying at grandma Shari's house. GO COUGARS!!!!!!! That is his favortie thing to say. He will also inform you that he will be going to the Y for college. He is so cute. I can't wait to see everyone again. I hope that everyone had a happy new year. 08 will be great!!!!!!