Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, my whole family (on mom's side) got together. They all came to our home this year and it was really a lot of fun. It was good to see everyone together again. Unfortunately Lauren and Jake were unable to come and we missed them, but it was still a good Thanksgiving.



As tradition (started by Laura and I) us girls make the mashed potatoes. I must say, they turned out rather well this year. Last year the potatoes weren't completely mashed, but this year we had a goal to do better...and we did :)



On Friday, we went to the Lights at Temple Square. It was really crowded because it was the first night the lights had come on for the year. It was a lot of fun to see the lights again. Especially with my cousins.



The Salt Lake City Temple looked so beautiful.



Everyone who had Thanksgiving dinner with us....Not inculding Ben who was playing a video game down stairs and we forgot to get him and Natalie our other cousin who was taking the picture.



Us girls went down to the park and took some fun Thanksgiving pictures together. We had a ton of fun. I wish the break would have lasted at least a little bit longer, but I'm "Thankful" for the time I had. :)

October 2009.....

Fall Break was wonderful. No school, no homework, no stress. Tons of fun, family, friends...what more could I ask for? :)



Halloween was fun. These are the pumpkins that we carved. Margaret and Scott carved a Harry Potter pumkin, and mine is just a little somthing random.


Yep...thats me. Take a good look. I went over to my friends house a girl, and came home a man. I got into the car to be picked up and Dad gave me a funny look and just smiled. Oh....Good times.

General Conference- October 2009

It has only been the first two sessions and already I have learned so much. I absolutely love General Conference. I am so grateful for the lessons that I learn and for the time that I have to spend with my family. Being together as a family and enjoying the talks that are shared is just about the best thing in the world. I look forward to conference time all year long, and when it is over I can't wait until the six months are over and we can do it all again.

Getting Better

Ok....knowing that I have a facebook, a blog, a cell phone, and and E-mail...sometimes I wonder why people ask what I am doing....?? :)


Anyway, today (I am proud to say) I made another cake. A rather good one if I say so myself! :) Yesterday, I bought a small cake decorating kit with the icing bags and tips and things. I was so excited to start that I did last night and I finished this afternoon.

The flowers were hard to do, and I had to teach myself how to do them with an old cake decorating book that we have. I was rather pleased with the outcome of the majority of them.

Take a look at my previous posts about cakes I have made...this ones is the best I think...:)

Oh Boy...

I sure haven't blogged in a long time! It is a little wierd how fast time seems to go. One minute you are blogging, and then about a month later you realize that you haven't blogged for that long!

My cousin Rachel is going to stay with us for about a week and a half...just for fun :) We are going to go down and stay tonight at Lauren and Jakes house, conveniently placed on BYU campus. My cousin and I plan to stay the night and then wake up early tomorrow and walk around campus and go to the bookstore and stuff...my only problem is...money. It seems like whenever I really DO need my money...I sure don't have any!! Oh well...I guess I'll learn someday! Maybe my mom can loan me some!! :)

A Birthday And An Anniversary

I guess that I have found what to do over the summer. I enjoyed making these cakes, but it took ALL day in the kitchen to do it! I was only out of the kitchen for about three hours all together! I'm crazy I know!

This was Jakes birthday cake. I had a lot of fun making it! It was interesting to see how it turned out! I didn't think that was what it was going to look like at all! I like it though!!!





This was a cake that I was going to make undercover, saying that I was making it for fun. Of course, a little six-year-old sister cannot keep a secret forever and ended up telling Mom and Dad before I was done. I sure liked this cake! It tasted really good!

Cake

Have you ever tried to make fondant for a cake? It is fairly easy, but mine turned out a little runny. I did well for never having done it before. I will have to try and make a better cake sometime...I know that I can make good cakes now though! You should try it!

Yep. The picture says it all. Do I need to explain how happy I am? School is torturous! I feel like I've been liberated. Like I've been let out of prison after a life-sentence! Yeah! I feel that good!



I'm excited for next year though, I got accepted into Honors English. I had to do a writing prompt and the looked at my past English grades...turns out that I am a good "candidate!"

My stake held a Fireside to kick off our Stake Youth Conference. We had Hillary Weeks perform and John Bytheway spoke. It was really good...

Happy Memorial Day!

Enjoy your day off!

Fire....

This is the latest edition to my "painting" fun! I really wish you could see the detail better...

Paint

You know the "paint" program on your computer? Well, I have a, lets say, addiction to it!

Example A:

Example B:

Example C:

Example D:

Example E:

I wish you could see the detail better...it took a very long time! What else am I supposed to do thought? Homework?? :)

I have not blogged for the longest time that I think that a snail could have typed up a couple of posts! Haha! I'm sorry if you don't understand, but I thought it was funny!

Spring Break was last week and I was about to cry when Dad asked if we had any homework on Friday! I did NOT want to go back...and now I have about 10 tons of homework and about 5000000000 projects to do...yep. You can feel sorry for me if you want. :)

On the first of March this year I set a goal to write in my journal every day for a whole week, and...I have written in it for exactly one month and 21 days! I know you should be proud of me! Haha!

EVEN STEVENS!! (Lauren, you should come watch them with us!)

WOW!! I have not blogged for a LONG TIME!!

Scott and I have found our lost TV Show Even Stevens replaying the episodes on Disney XD. I love that show! Have you ever seen it? It is just about the funniest and the best show on earth!

:)

Tagged! (Again...)

Yes, that's right. I got tagged again, by Lauren. I was just sitting here and thought that I needed to do something than, well, sit. So I will do my tag.

I thought that this picture is a great picture for this post. You have to know about that much knowledge to be able to do this tag! Haha!

I am supposed to say 25 interesting things about myself. Here we go:

1. Some of my favorite movies include: The Goonies, The Sound of Music, The Secret Life of Bees, Yours, Mine and Ours, I will probably think of another movie in a minute...

2. I love to read!

3. I can't live a day without listening to my iPod :)

4. I have the best family! Love you guys!

5. I would like to go outside more. I tried to go out today and read on our swingset, nope. Not a good idea! BURR!!

6. I moved my room around in a weird posistion and I love it!

7. I think that my little sister is cute if she is not crying.

8. I like to write.

9. This is kinda weird...I always remember my dreams while I am doing something and I do it like 4 times a day. Maybe that is too weird? Eh?

10. Hopefully my brother wont read this one, although I am pretty sure he knows...I often go through his iTunes while he is gone and add some of his music to my iTunes...:)

11. I loved Keyboarding class last semester and my friends hate it...does that make me abnormal?? :)

12. As you can see I like to make little smily faces! :) :)

13. I like to draw things....Depending on where I am and if I am not being forced to color by Margaret...:)

14. I sometimes get carried away with making calendars for my Young Women's class!

15. I just had to ask my sister what else was interesting about myself.

16. I know how to sew and my little sister talked me into making her a doll...it turned out kind of weird looking...:)

17. I love to play the viola. My mom hates it when I ask her what a note is on the piano though because the viola has a different cleff! Sorry mom...

18. I would like to learn how to play the piano well, and the cello, although that might be a while until I actually can...

19. I often stay up late at night reading a good book.

20. I drive my parents crazy when they are trying to go to sleep and I stay up and pester them...:) It is not intentionally I promise!

21. I quite like to make up poems...they are very interesting sometimes...refer to my post: Bread

22. Sometimes I have to tell myself for a few hours that I love school.

23. I am extremely weird when it comes to loving office supplies! I do, what can I say? When I am an adult, I want my calling to be the ward librarian! That would be awesome!

24. I like doing math when I get it.

25. I can't believe that I thought of this many things about myself!

Well, there you go...That took a good long time to do!

I am now tagging Laura...good luck!

MaRgarEt

Isn't this picture funny? Every time that I see it I laugh! I really have no idea what she was doing!

I guess I miss her and mom so much that I decided to blog about her! I miss you guys! See you soon though!

St. George Tabernacle

We are in St. George right now. We went to church today and we skipped sunday school and our other meetings.



We (the Raines family except Margaret) went home and decided that we would go to the Tabernacle that is here down in St. George. We went and I have personaly never been there. I really thought that it was neat! We saw somethings and heard somethings about it that I have never heard before. I actually had never even known that there was a tabernacle in St. George. We learned that it had taken fifteen years to build it and only five to build the St. George temple.
Yep that is our day! My Aunts church starts at 2:00 pm!! UGH!! It was hard to have to wait that long, but we do have 1:00 church at home!

Tagged!

I guess that I got "tagged". That means that you have to go to the 4th album in all of your pictures and the 4th picture in the 4th album you have to blog about.



This was taken Sunday actually! Margaret and Lauren decided to make a Cheesecake. They made mini ones in a cup cake pan! They were actually pretty cool! Marg is obviously very happy to help! (And to make a weird face!) :)

Title Background

Do you like my Title-background-picture? It is a picture of the Tea Cups at Disneyland that I cropped and customized in Picasa. I thought that it looked really cool and decided to put it on my blog!

Our Day

Yep. This was our day today! You just kind of feel like laying in a bathtub with your clothes on! :) Margaret does this often, which I find very amusing!

THE END!!!

IT IS THE END OF THE SEMESTER!!!

I am soooo happy! This last semester wasn't so hot! I get great classes this semester and I am WAY excited!

Hope it goes well eh?

Winter

I love this picture. I took it yesterday in the afternoon. It was so beautiful that I just had to take some pictures! This is why winter is worth everything.