Harry Potter

Does anyone else read these books over and over and OVER again and NEVER get tired of them? I know...kinda nerdy! I really wanted to start a blog so I could talk about books and things like that...now I am re-thinking that...I guess that I can do it every so often! NO ONE can pass up a good book! Harry Potter is my favorite series! Who doesn't agree? I know only one person who does not like these books........

I can not put them down when I start to read them! My mom can testify!

Halloween Party...SICK!!!

I've got a sad story for you...

I somehow agreed to help these girls in my ward with the Ward Halloween Party. I thought that it would be fairly simple and easy. Boy, was I wrong! We worked SO hard to get this party planned and about two days before it was to happen, we finally finished. I was so happy that we were done and soon going to DO the party and get it over with!! Little did I know that I was to get Strep Throat the night before and end up NOT GOING! I could not believe my luck! (I think that I might have seen a black cat crossing my path a couple of days previous!) :) I was not very happy! I thought about just going for ten minutes, but I didn't feel good enough! I was so sad! We were going to do this for one of our 10 hour Personal Progress Projects and we got in MORE THAN 10 HOURS! I was so proud and we were so happy! I was just not able to go!

These are pictures that my dad graciously took for me so that I could see that everything was successful!

On the Monday before Halloween, we decided to carve pumpkins! We couldn't get Margaret to smile "regularly" so this is the most "Normal" picture that we have of her by the pumpkins!

All in all, we have had a Happy Halloween!

Babysitting=Disneyland

OK today...

I babysat this family that has three children (all under the age of 5) for 10 hours! Yeah...I got paid pretty good though! $60.00! I can live forever with that kind of money! Haha!

The money--I decided--will be combined with my Birthday money. I will use this on our trip to Disneyland! We are going to my cousins Wedding in San Diego and we decided..."Hey, what the heck? Lets go to Disneyland while we are there!" I am way excited! I haven't been there for a LONG time...since I was 4-5! My little sister is especially excited!

Today was a LONG day!! ;)

Music

MUSIC!
Ok!! I LOVE the new playlist that I have added to my Blog!! It is so exciting! (If you can't figure out where the music is coming from, it is at the bottom of my blog and you can turn it off if you want.) I love music! My iPod (Probably to my mothers disliking...) is almost always on! I love it!

Jenny, Laura and Lauren inspired me to get one and I LOVE it! You should get one too!

Fun at the ARCADE!!

While at the cabin, we decided that we would like a day in Rexburg. This city is about an hour from our family cabin (which I will probably post about all too often). While everyone went to see The Dark Knight, me, my mom, Margaret, London and Hawkley went to have some fun while everyone else was watching the movie. I had decided not to see it. The scenes that my brother described to me were all a little out of my comfort zone. :) So we went to a little craft store called Porters, we did some laundry (for we have no washing machine at our cabin), and we went to the arcade inside of the movie theatre. It was more fun than you would think to spend 2 hours with "little kids" and your mom! :)

The puppets in this photo were bought while we were having fun at Porter's. They were later used as part of our family talent show!

You can tell what a fun day we had!

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Cabin 2007

The year that I am remembering is June 2007. They open the cabin in May, but not many people go this early in the year. We went just as the Raines family to our cabin because--unfortunatly--no one else was able to come. It was scary! I guess the earlier in the year, the more spiders you see! I couldn't sit down or eat something without checking to make sure that there were no spiders! This didn't stop the fun though!



This is our family Cabin. We love to go to the cabin with all of our cousins! It is SOOO fun! Everyone has a fun time!







This picture is of the people who built our cabin. My Great-great grandma and grandpa Shurtleff.





This is the fireplace in our cabin...we don't have airconditioning or a heater!





I guess that you could call this the "loft"...it is usually where the kids sleep! It is so fun to be with all of your cousins!



Typical cabin morning. Stay in your pajamas all morning!



Snake River...



Almost everytime we go to our cabin, we go to Yellowstone which is about 45-60 minutes away from our cabin. This is Margaret enjoying a rather large ice cream cone!



We love to see Old Faithful! It is very pretty!





Hot springs are very fun for us to see while we are there!



I think this is one of the Finger Lakes! Beautiful isn't it?






This video is of what we saw on our way out of Yellow Stone! You don't see buffalo this close up every day!

Our cabin is the best in the whole world! (Even if it has spiders!)

Margaret Collage

This is soooo cool! Laura had a cool collage on her blog and I was determined to know how to do it. I asked her where she got it or where she did it, and she said that she had made it on Picassa! So I went to Picassa and it took me about 10 minutes to figure it out, but now I can do it too! Everyone should do this! It is sooo easy!

This collage is about my little sister Margaret. I think that I blog about her too much, but she is an easy subject! Every picture is very cute in my oppinion! Every one shows her personality!

AFTER Missionary Week

Oh! Everytime that I think about my Ipod or my Blog etc., I think "Oh I can't do that right now" but I can...I have had my mind trained on the thought that I can't use those things, even though I have and I have wanted to, I just think, don't do it! Oh well. Now I can!

Yesterday was the last day of our missionary week. We visited houses in our ward and had companions that we went with. We ate dinner with the family and then we taught them lesson two out of Preach My Gospel on the Plan of Salvation. I went to an elderly lady's home where she lives with her Daughter. My companion and I were complaining the whole way to her house how much we HATE vegetables and I just have to say...I ate my WHOLE salad! Yeah I was proud of myself too! It was very "cute" as we called it. Her table was all set up with everything in the right place (Knife and Fork on the right, Spoon on the left, salad plate or roll plate above the spoon...etc...) and it was very nice. We ate what she called Chicken Kroquets (I don't know if that is how you spell that). They are some kind of chicken and sauce inside of a fried breading. I know that doesn't sound all that good when you explain it like that. We also had some pasta and salad as I mentioned before. We also had ice cream for dessert.

When we taught the lesson, I was feeling pretty good about it. I taught my half and Megan taught her half. We felt the spirit so much. We were glad that we were able to go to her house! I am so glad for the opportunity that I had to do this! I have been taught so much this past week! I am just gald for this experience!

Thanks for supporting me mom and dad! Love you!

Missonary Week

This week was "Missionary Week"...as you can see, I am not being a very good missionary! We were challanged to act like a missionary as much as possible for one week (Oct 7-14). We have been assigned companions and are going to teach a lesson out of Preach My Gospel to a family in our ward. My companion is Megan Baily and we will be teaching the Keel's (is that how you spell that?). I am really excited about this! We are teaching lesson 2 on chapter 3 on the Plan of Salvation. I have been reading scriptures about this for the past week and I dont think that I can learn anymore! I am just greatful for this opportunity! I didn't really know what it was until I was asked to teach about it!

Margaret's NOT Crazy!

Can you believe the facial expressions that one little girl can have? Aren't they so cute though? I have never thought that she was so cute until I watched these videos!

These were taken 1-2 years ago...they are not up to date.

(About 1 minute long)

Bread

I think that this poem is very funny actually! I wrote it when I was in 7th Grade! That might be a hint as to why it is titled and writen the way it was! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Bread

"Once upon a time," she said
"There was a piece of fluffy bread.
It happily smiled up at me,
And I laughed at it with glee.
I wondered whether it was real,
Or if I was really looking at an orange peel.
I really took a look at it,
And there wasn't any left of it!
Looking at my brother I said,
'Did you eat my piece of bread?' "

SNOW

I cannot believe that it snowed last night! It has now all melted away, but we had a good inch or so of snow! It was so beautiful and horrifying at the same time! It isn't time for Winter yet! It is only OCTOBER!

General Conference Fall 2008

Every General Conference, as a family we go out to eat "General Conference Breakfast". It is a tradition that we have had since I was little. This is our new favorite breakfast place to eat out (Mimi's Cafe). It used to be Golden Corral, but after about 10 years, twice a year of that specific place, we decided that it was time to try a new restaurant!



These fabrics were chosen by every member of our family, and were to be made into pillow cases. The pillow cases were going to be made into "General Conference Pillow Cases". My mom and I made them. It was actually more fun than you would think to have a new pillowcase just for General Conference! It helped the long hours go by quicker! We were much more comfortable! The fabric that I chose was the Daisy printed fabric!

Very Cute

In my opinion, this is a great picture! It was taken by a four year old! I think that it is the cutest thing in the whole world! It is especially cute if you know the little girl!

Winter

Isn't this picture pretty? I can't believe that it is almost Winter again!! I wish that summer would never had ended! All the same, this picture is worth it!