Picture Moderation

Yo.

Yes, Mom. My bed is made and my room is clean and I'm just going to do this really quick thing!!!

I'm gonna try to do more of these. It's like an update in one picture! This is me falling through one of Janessa's living room chairs yesterday because she "forgot" to tell me it was broken.

A "Picture Moderation" is like this:

Things to take note of:

• I am wearing my awesome new Trek bloomers and love them!
• My Guys and Dolls tee shirt that looks super cute!
• My new haircut. Now you've finally seen it!
• My braces. I don't think you can really see them, but they are green and teal.

And that is a "Picture Moderation," folks!

Quote of Today: That was random!

Tagged Again/ Making Fun of Myself

Yo.
Lizzie here.
Well, it's not like I'm going anywhere. I have a feeling it will be me every time. If you're looking for Esther's blog, it's at http://22dancers.blogspot.com/. Oh, and, by the way, she tagged me (and Jessi, and Janessa, and Dad.) Here goes nothing...
You've already so of these answers, but here it is again:

How old are you? Well, I go around and tell everybody I'm fourteen (at the end of the Summer), but, in truth, I am thirteen. Woe is me.
What grade are you in? Ninth!!!
Do you have a crush? I crush anybody that gets in my face. Consider yourself warned. Why are these always the first questions they ask? Humph.
Have you ever kissed a person of the opposite sex? It's GENDER!!! Oh my heck!!! Gender! The world is going insane! But no. I haven't.
What was the last song you listened to? Uhhh... Oh! Disappear by Hoobasank. That's kind of my new obsession.
What's your favorite food? Yes!
What's your favorite color? Green. A healthy green. You can do so much with the color green. It can be happy or sad, Bright and dull, it can go with anything and it doesn't stain too easily, it means "go" and I'm a "go" type of person... the list is endless.
What's your favorite breakfast cereal? Raisin Bran and Golden Grams. Oh! And Cocoa Pebbles! Best part- no wheat!
Are you a Beehive, Mia Maid, Laurel, Deacon, Teacher, or Priest? No, I'm totally a Priest, Duface. Duh.
Are you more clean or messy? Spotless. We need to revise these questions. How about, "Are you spotless or not?"
Are you nicer or meaner? Bad grammar. You need to look those up in the dictionary, I'm not sure those are correct. Moving on...
What is one of your best memories? I have a couple of those, and, you know, a lot of them involve camping. In Duvall (Washington), our ward would always go to this lake with an island in the middle of it and camp there. I also really liked this last campout. I felt like I met a lot of new people that night. Plus, Girl's Camp is the bomb!
How many times have you moved in your life? Oh, don't get me started! A couple times when I was a baby, in between fifth and sixth grade, and then in sixth grade I had six different full-time teachers, and here I am. As many times as I've moved, though, this is the only place where I haven't begged my parents to home school me or let us move to Australia or something. It's the only place where it's felt like home and I am free to be myself (which means talking... sometimes even too much)
What do you want to be when you grow up? A Mom, for sure, but I want to study at Julliard. I want to write music. I think it would be the coolest thing on the planet Earth if I could write a musical. Because I like writing music, I'm into the Theatre, and I love writing stories! You know me...
If you could have three wishes, what would you wish for? Straight A's, no pain for the rest of my life, and smiles to spread from ear to ear, male and female, bond and free... yeah, you get the picture.
What's your favorite movie? Oh, there are so many! My all-time favorite movie is Stardust, but the movies What About Bob?, Bill and Ted's Awesome Adventure, and I.Q. never fail to crack me up. They are hilarious! The only chick-flick that has ever made it into my top five was Charly. It's pretty good for a sob story!
What would be the first thing you did if you won a million dollars? Well, I'm the kind of person who always says she's going to buy something, and I raise enough money, but I can never bring myself to buy it. The only things I've ever actually bought were presents, music, and movie tickets. They're kind of my weakness.

Okay, guys, you know the drill! Here are the rules:
-You have to answer all of the questions and add your own.
-You have to add your own question at the bottom of the list and answer that question, too.
-You have to tag at least four people.
-There are tag-backs.


Thanks to everybody who actually did it last time! You guys (Esther and Lizzy) are the best! This time, I tag Jessi, Dad, Taylor, Chantel, Janessa, Whitney, Ashley, Sister Howel, Sister Oyler, and Sister James.
To Dad and Jessi: Esther tagged you too, so you only have to do it once. Make me proud!
Well, wasn't that fun?

Updates you have probably noticed, but if you haven't, let me point them out for you: I added new music, as well as a picture I just found. Cute, isn't it?
And... that's about it. I love Hoobastank! Especially that song Disappear. Wow. Pure genius.
I am really trying my hardest to put more pictures on this blog.
You can now comment, whether you have a blog or not. So, comment, people! I feel unloved! Not really. Just... kind of.
I have had a blog for a year now! It's amazing how time flies when you have a blog.
The first post I ever wrote was called, "Hello!"
Man, I just realized what a kooky little girl I was- sorry- am. I mean, look at the post! It's all cheezy and... well, look at it!

"Hello, world of bloggers!
"I suppose I should post good news on my blog...
"Summer is in the air, I've just showered and I feel so clean, my sister did awesome on her dance recital yesterday, I tried out for a musical theatre class at school and I made it along with several other friends, my Mom said I can take acting and singing lessons this summer along with my piano lessons, I'm going to go to Seattle soon, and my friend and I began planning for a kid's summer camp we run. We did it last year, and made lots of money (the kids are so cute). And I've started a blog, with help from my Mom! The only thing that could be better is my Dad being here. He's in Colorado visiting his sister as she graduates law school. Oh, well. Won't he be surprised that I've got a blog? It's official now, isn't it?"

Come on. Was I ever actually... like this?
Once again with the comments thing.
Anyways, if you liked that, you'll get a kick out of this: http://99luvbugs.blogspot.com/. Wow. Just beware. When you open it up, it opens to a bunch of Miley Cyrus songs, whereas here, it's Nickelback. Was I deaf back then? I mean, seriously!
Consider yourself warned.
The cupcake is pretty cute, though.
Oh, for those of you just getting caught up with my blog, this is where I post about my life and then make fun of what I did yesterday.
Speaking of yesterday, yesterday, my Mom said, "Don't you guys just love Summer?" to which Matthew replied enthusiastically, "Wait... it's Summer?"
The kid's a little slow, don'tcha think?
Oh, well.
I love him.
The biggest, bestest news of my life:

JESSI COMES HOME TOMORROW!!!

Dad is home, the Teachers (and Priests) are home, and life is almost good enough to call night games, except Jessi is not home. Arrgg!

Anyways...

EJ Super Summer Camp (remember us?) starts up on Tuesday. Today I am making pinatas (I can't do the squiggly line on top) as an example. Wish me luck!

The Quote of Today is in honor of my first blog ever. It was the first Quote of Today. Once again with the cheezy personality!

Hasta luego!

Quote of Today:

Personality Test

Okay... this is really creepy!

There's this thing going around where you answer certain questions about you (kind of like 20 Questions, except there are way less questions and the result is totally creepy) and the program can figure out your personality!

Watch...

1. What are you most afraid of? Needles, pins, and embarrassment.
2. What is your favorite breakfast food? General Conference brunch. You know... raspberry kookan, coffee cake, Christmas eggs (which we never eat on Christmas)...
3. What is your favorite lunch food? A turkey and mustard sandwich. That's it. No dressings- ESPECIALLY MAYO!!! EEEWWW!!! Depending on my mood, I will also add a leaf or two of lettuce. Yum!
4. What is your favorite dinner food? I'm a soup person. It doesn't matter what time of year or what kind of soup, just as long as it's soup. :)
5. What is your favorite color? Green! I'm not very picky about the shade, as long as it's a healthy shade.
6. Do you get along with boys and girls equally? Well, my best friend is a girl, but... yeah, I get along with boys.
7. What are some of your biggest talents? Music (singing, guitar, piano, composing), computers, organizing, making friends, and writing.
8. Do you enjoy the outdoors? Sure. No offense, Utah, but I "enjoyed the outdoors" a lot more in Washington. Green! Breezy! Perfect! I do like winters here a lot better.
9. Do you keep a good journal? I write in it about twice a month or so. My journal is actually like a scrapbook. I keep everything- from programs to tickets to pictures to notes to receipts- in there and write about everything that happens in my life.
10. Do you enjoy school? Kind of. I like the whole learning thing and my friends are there, but... does it have to be so long?

My personality based on how I answered the questions: You are very artistic. You love to create. You do not necessarily get bored easily, but you enjoy improving the fun of things.

You get along with everybody and this will help you in life. You are very close to yourself and know how to deal with problems very well. You are very organized and well-kept, so your life will be very well balanced. Your priorities do not get in the way of your social life. You are probably very energetic. You are very smart, though you may not realize it. Keep people close to you, and it will help you in your life.

Wow! Spot on! Well, except for the part about me being smart and everything.

I think it doesn't just look at your answers, but how you answer the questions. I mean, how else could they tell that I'm energetic?

Oh, well.

Okay, I know this post appears to look really big, but I swear, it's not so much reading as it is looking at pictures. You'll see what I mean in a second here.

Anyways... I'm just kind of sitting here right now. We were going to hike to the "G" today, but it ended up raining. Funny how that works out, huh?

News: Yesterday, Austin and Larissa got married. I haven't seen the Jensens in forever; and I finally got to!

Dad comes home on Saturday. He saw Les Miserables last night and said it was very good.

Other news: my Mom bought me Ben and Jerry's ice cream! I haven't had that stuff in years!Trek!!!

I am so excited!

We are seriously going to look like the weirdest bunch of Pioneers ever. I mean, have you read the list? We're supposed to bring sunglasses, a bonnet, a skirt, an apron, socks (mine are polka dotted), BLOOMERS, and such.

My bloomers are as cute as can be! They are bright green with blue, pink, and purple guitars running down them. I would have a couple of pictures to show you, but, at the moment, all of the pictures I've taken in the past... week aren't uploading very well.

Man, I'm excited. This is going to be great. :)

I finally go the pictures of Guys and Dolls. I'm sorry it took me so long; I know it's been over a month now, but with end-of-the-year-tests-and-parties-and-other-stressful-things, I've been a little... occupied. Here they are:

Dallin (my actor). It makes me laugh to see this picture of him because he's wearing mascara! It's also totally showing his personality. He's hilarious.

Marie. She played one of the leading female roles, Sergeant Sarah Brown.

Keaton. She was Miss Adelaide, another lead.

The all-around, famous Tyson. Sorry it took me so long to find a good picture. :)

Janessa. Her parents were in charge of the picture-taking, so there were so many, many pictures of her; it's so hard to narrow it down to one! I'll do two, just for laughs.

Cameron. I don't think I've mentioned him before, but he's a really cool guy and I just couldn't resist showing off his sweet pants!!! Aren't they the best? Actually, you probably can't see them as well as I thought you could, but they're green. Ha!I hope you all enjoyed that.

For more pictures, I will try to post a slideshow (made so kindly by Sister James for all of the cast members) in the near future that has many more pictures.

I finished my book (it had a cheezy ending, but other than that, I would give it an 8.7 out of 10. I'm a very harsh judger) and I think I will take Katie's advice and read number two.

Dad's coming home tomorrow night. I've missed him so much. Three weeks is much too long. I think I already said that... oh, well. My mind's been going crazy lately.

All, right. I need to go sew some pajama pants with my Mom.

The Quote of Today is from I.Q. You might have to read it several times before you get it. It's really funny!

Signing out!

Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Crazy driver! They should make people have to pass a test before they can drive!

Summer Fling!

Yo.
Miss me?
News: Today is the first official day of SUMMER!!! I'm a ninth grader now! Yeah! You know, it's really weird how last year, when we became eighth graders, which isn't such a big deal, we were bouncing off the walls with excitement. But now that we're ninth graders, we're like, "Cool. What else is new?"
I am reading a cute new book, The Mysterious Benedict Society. It is very inventive. It's not quite my level- it's probably for a fifth or sixth grader or something- but it's very entertaining.
My Dad never reads my blog and he chooses now to read it, like when I get a haircut or something else that he's not supposed to know about! Oh, by the way, he is on the other side of the planet for those of you who are unaware. He is taking my dream vacation!!!
He saw Mozart's birthplace and got a live concert, he saw two famous places to make pianos (they have four extra keys, but they are much more expensive), he is eating chocolate covered pretzels the size of his head, he saw where The Sound of Music was filmed (Maria's abbey, the stairs where the children learned how to sing, the graveyard where they almost got caught, the stage where they sung right before they ran away, and where they were married towards the end), and Auschwitz. Ahhhh!
For more information and detail about his trip (be prepared to be jealousified) and pictures, visit http://davehaws.spaces.live.com/ and don't tell him I sent you. I'm sulking at him right now.
We had night games on Friday, and it started out boring because everybody was late except for Jessi, Leia, Kyrie, and I (thanks, girls!), but eventually people showed up. It was a lot of fun; we played "Ghost in the Graveyard," "Capture the Flag," "Tunnel Tag," "Missionary Tag," "Kick the Can," (except it was, "Kick the Football") and then we went home to games like "Rummikub," "Conga," and "The Last Word." I think everybody had the most fun with that one.
I've been tagged.
Janessa tagged me into doing a Bucket list. I've never done one of these before, but I think it's just where you make a list of about 20 things you want to do before September 1, 2009. You have to complete at least 10 of them before that date.
You ready for this?

• Become a contestant! I want to compete in contests, whether it is writing poetry or short stories or a song or preforming piano or guitar.
• Finish at least two Value Projects. I've been working on my Faith Value Project for well over ten hours now; it's been more like fifty. I need to just get it over with. I'll also work on another one.
• Hit the books. I shall read at least one thousand pages by September 1st. Comment and recommend a bunch that I should read!
• Roll in the dough. I need to make some money this year. Sure, we'll be doing Summer Camp, but I want to make a little more than even that.
• Read my scriptures every day. Every single day, got that?
• Get more active. Whether it's doing ten push-ups a day or going on a walk, I want to exercise a little more, instead of sitting at my laptop and blogging all day.
• Dance. Oh, this will be so hard! I CANNOT dance. I can't put enough emphasis on that. But, with Trek and EFY and stake dances coming up, my Mom wants to give me a few one-on-one dancing lessons. Do you think I can do it?
• Go places! I'll save up for a day at Lagoon or Seven Peaks or something, but I want a small break from reality. Maybe a weekend at the cabin will be enough.
• Improve. I want to be way better at piano and guitar by the time Summer is over. I'm also deeply considering organ lessons.
• Organize. My closet and bookshelf are driving me nuts!!! I can't find anything!
• Wake up with the Sunrise. Normally, Summer means, "sleep in, no makeup, and pajama day until noon," but I want to act no different than if it was a normal school day.
• Cook. I could work this to my advantage, right? Cooking a meal once in a while could be a good thing. I want to cook at least 5 meals for my family.
• Serve. No school does not mean no work. Maybe I'll volunteer every now and then.
• Participate in at least one 5k. My Dad and I are going to do it this year.
• Keep track. I need to take more pictures and write in my journal more.
• Party. Whether it's night games or a swimming bash, I will throw at least two more parties this Summer.
• Keep in touch. I want to call people up, and write my Grandparents (on their mission in Australia). Comment and write your email so I can write to you, too!
• Try new things. I will try at least nine new dishes, games, parks, things, and so forth. Who's with me?
• Learn 20 new words. My vocabulary is stellar, but no school will hurt it. I want a word of the day. Let's see... should I start now? How about Merriam-Webster's word a day thing? The word for June 1 is "tenebrous." It means, "1: to shut off from the light : dark, murky, 2: hard to understand : obscure, 3: causing gloom."
• Live a little. Yeah, I'm not so good at putting myself out there. I will hike up to the "Y" (and I don't really care if it's not that big of a hike), the Timpanogas Cave in under an hour, and... I'll come up with some of this stuff on the spot. You know me, right?

Sound good? I think it's twenty, but I'm not checking again. I tag... well, my followers. Tag! Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Mom, the fish is mad! Mom, I think he wants to eat me! Mom! Mom?

Yearbook Day!

The best day of the year!!!
No, like seriously.
More on that later.
I'm sooo sorry I haven't gotten to blog lately! I swear that with summer coming up and all, there should be at least one post every week. Plus, I'll have a lot more to talk about. ;)
I am watching I. Q. right now. This is my favorite movie ever lately. If you have seen it, good for you. If not, see it!
Other news: I GOT A HAIRCUT!!! I got it very short this time, and every single time I look into the mirror, I freak out. I don't recognize myself! It ends right between my neck and my ears and I got it streaked with blonder highlights, too. The last time I had a haircut this short was, well...
Let's just say that I was younger (I hope they loaded all right).
Now for the big event of today. Yearbook signing!
No, seriously, everybody coming into Junior High next year, it is the best day of the entire school year! Explaining... you go to all of your classes: A1, A2, A3, A4, B3, B4, B1, B2 (also known as a C-day) for about 40 minutes each and get them signed by all of your friends. It's amazing! It's fun to see what everybody comes up with, too. Some people write about a funny experience you had with them, others write a little quote (some examples are, "Have a green smoothie," and "Hugs, not drugs"), and some wrote a sweet little message that only lasted one sentence.
Well, for the most part. There were still others that just wrote their name or drew a picture or wrote their phone numbers down. Today, a lot of people just wrote, "I love your hair!"
It's really a time where you get to sum up your whole year in a short message that your friends can all take home during the summer and remember you by. There were some people that cried the whole time. I laughed. Especially when we ditched (with permission) B2 to visit Mr. Brooks and get his autograph.
"Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie," he writes, "What to say? There are no words to describe this quite- well, once quiet student that has now evolved into a friend of Janessa's! Is this a good thing or a bad thing one might ask- yes- Mr. Brooks might say- this is a very good thing! You three [probably Janessa, Jessi, and I] were great! I'll most likely miss you guys! Mr. B."
Ha, ha!
Tomorrow is the last hour of school. Jessi isn't coming, so I don't see a point, but I guess I'll go anyways to cheer the teachers on in Battle of the Bands, teachers versus students.
I mean, if you think of it, the bus ride was the best part of my day. Why not? I was with all my best friends, normally eating, talking, and laughing, and school stress hadn't quite started yet. So, with the bus rides being over (because life is never complete without Jessi being there), why go to school? Is there a point to this madness? Oh, well. I'll bring my yearbook and (hopefully) finish up my signatures.
Time for Young Women's. We re going to watch Miss Utah speak. Fun!
By the way, if you are reading this right now, tomorrow night, we are celebrating school being out with teenage night games tomorrow night, from about seven-ish (you'll probably get a phone call) to ten-ish. Hope you can make it!
The Quote of Today is from I.Q. It's the best line of the whole movie!
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: This is Ed Walton. If you had a nickel for every nickel he has, you would have a lot of nickels.

Shopping

Yo.
Lately: As You Like It is on Saturday afternoon, the end of school is coming in fast and... yeah! Everything's going good!

The "S" word.

If you come into my house and say it...

-Dad will think, "computer supplies!"

-Mom will think, "groceries!"

-Esther will think, "clothes!"

-Matthew will think, "toys!"

-I will think, "music!"

The title says it all. I am thinking of shopping.

My kind of shopping.

On the list...

Music!!! Both of these books included vocal music, guitar music, and piano music for every song in the musical. We also got some arranged Hymns book. Yea! I swear, some of this stuff was created especially for a girl named Lizzie Haws (me!). We also got a guitar bag. I gotta go; I'm writing this before school and the bell just rang. Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Pigs fly!

Lemon Bars

Yo.

As of yesterday afternoon, there are over 900 cases of swine flu in about 18 countries. There are 20 confirmed deaths.

Just so you know what you're dealing with.

Ew.

I added Whitney's picture to the last post, just in case you missed it.

Now for the title...

(I'm trying to use more pictures on this blog...)

Lemon bars!

So.
I come downstairs yesterday after working on a Young Womens value project, and my Dad is cooking! Wow. Something must be up.
Now I look over to my Mom. What is she doing...?
Yup. Making lemon bars.
My first reaction is: "No way! I've wanted lemon bars for forever! How did you know?"
Wait a second.
My second reaction: "So... when's the meeting?"
:(
But guess what, people? I am still standing here today! I did not die! She brought some home with her! Hooray! They are in my locker right now, waiting to be eaten for lunch. Yum...
On that happy note, the Quote of Today is from Jessi's blog.
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: If I had a pig, I'd name it Swine Flu!

Miscellaneous Stuff

So.
In this post, we will cover many things, including swine flu, Guys and Dolls, closing night kisses, the Create video, pictures, and much, much more.

Swine flu prevention tip: DON'T DO THIS!!!

Oh, yuck.

Every time I see this, I think, what kind of parents laugh and grab the camera?

Helllloooooo... huge life-threatening disease going around!

I bet this kid was the first to die.

I hope the parents are happy.

Next subject: the Create video. I think I've sent this out in an email before, but I wanted everybody to see it. This is my all-time favorite talk (by President Uchtdorf), and it gets to me every time I see it. Did I spell Uchtdorf right?

*sniffle*

I'm hoping that it worked; I've never really done a video on my blog before. I guess there's a first for everything!

Like hugging.

Funny story.

I hugged a boy for the first time this week... and every day since. By the end of the show, I was hugging everybody!

Guys and Dolls is over!

I'm not sure whether to cry or laugh. I'll do both!

Pictures soon to come.
I just realized that I've never shown you a picture of anyone besides me! Well, there was a picture of Janessa, but she was crying. It's no good. How about a quick introduction?

Sorry... I don't have many pictures besides the birthday ones, even though that was back in September. I might have some better ones.

P.S. I'm going down all my old blog posts and trying to find pictures of everybody I've ever mentioned. It may be awhile.

Presenting... Jessi Freeman: the ultimate BFF.Katie. Who could make a Snoopy look cuter? I'm sorry it's a little blurry...Kyra. She's now in Australia... :`(

Janessa. I couldn't find a good picture of her, so I went on her blog. I hope that's okay. It's a lot better than the pictures I had... what? Did you think I would let you get a model picture like you have on your blog? Oh, by the way, this is us on the Fourth of July last year. I was handing out fliers for Hale Center Theatre in the Provo parade. Yea, me!

Whitney. Wearing a cute, homemade David Archuleta fan club shirt. Isn't she so pretty?

Sadie B. Cute as ever, but she moved out of the neighborhood. I miss you, Sadie! Emily is behind her. She is a little newer to the neighborhood.

Jamy. A little blurry, but you get the idea.

Taylor. He's the newest newcomer of them all. I got this one off of his blog, too.

That was fun.
I don't know why I've never shown these pictures before; I've always had them!
There are a bunch of other people to meet, but I can't find pictures of them.
Bailey, as soon as you see this, can you put a picture on your blog so I can copy it on to here really fast? Thanks!
Last subject: Closing Night Kisses.
A tradition at Musical Theatre performances.
Here’s how it works: every girl in the play runs off stage as soon as the show's over and puts on the brightest, reddest lipstick you've ever seen (and a lot of it). Then, they proceed to chase every boy in the building down to kiss him.
A couple of people wanted a kiss from me (like Dallin and David), but they didn't get one.
Tough luck.
On the bright side of things, I did give out hugs! On the bright side of things, I did give out hugs! Tee, hee. Okay. I need to go now. The Quote of Today is Dallin's idea of an "invitation." There wasn't, by the way (you'll get it later)
There is are new songs and a new background, by the way. This one seems a little more… I don’t know… me! Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: There’s still room for one more kiss!

Backstage

Tahlia says, "hallu! howz are you peeps? isn't Lizzie just amazing?? All in favor, raise you right hand and say 'YEA-YAH!' i know right!"
Lizzie says, "I agree!"
Hello!
News on the Swine Flu: 60 people in Mexico have died already, 3 people in Utah (at least) have it, and it has hit almost every continent on Earth. Mr. Obama has "appointed" an expert on the flu. Wow. Nervous much?
So.
I am backstage at Guys and Dolls right now (Sister Oyler, you have two more nights!!!) with a bunch of my BFFs, including Tahlia, who wrote the above message.
Sarah's here now. It's time to continue National Treasure.
Yes, Mom. I finished my homework.
The Quote of Today is from Mrs. Brande.
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Is this worthy of one of your Quote things?

Swine Flu

And yes, I am writing this post in full knowledge of the risk that an angry mob may kill me if I continue writing.
Hi there!
So... do you have it yet? The Swine flu? It is in (supposedly) eleven states already. Two schools in Utah have been shut down because of it.
I am becoming Bob Wiley! Paranoid because of a stinkin' disease! Yikes! I'm going to start walking around with a tissue in my hand and... and... and...
So.
I'm already coming up with an emergency package for when I get it (and yes, I will get it, it's just a matter of when I will get it). Included is my iPod (so I will die with This is Just a Dream by Carrie Underwood stuck in my head), laptop (so I can email my family our last goodbyes on the downstairs computer), journal (so when I die, the scientists can study how my brain was affected while I was dying), Book of Mormon (so I will have a better chance of making it to Heaven), chocolate (because all the girls in our ward and I made a pact that we will die with chocolate in our mouths), and a guitar (so I will die composing).
I think it's a pretty good list so far!
Now all I need to do is a) repent, and b) say goodbye.
Goodbye, cruel world! I love you all!
I will always remember... the bus rides and car crashes and stuff.
I will miss you, but it probably won't take very long for the rest of you to join me.
The Quote of Today is from Mrs. MacFarlane. It seemed very appropriate.
Hasta Luego! FOREVER!!!

Quote of Today: There are two things you must do in this life: die and pay taxes.

Naughty. Bad. Evil.

I am in school right now.

I know that must sound weird, because it's a Saturday, but get this: 

They leave the library doors open!!!

The only reason I'm here is because of a double dress rehearsal for Guys and Dolls. Janessa and Whitney and I are here... I have absolutely no idea where Tyson is. Don't ask me.

I'm bored.

And hungry.

I only got four pieces of pizza.

It's hot in here... not the library, but this outfit. Imagine me in long black pants that are all itchy and stuffy and rest on your stomach and not your hips. Now put me in a long white shirt, black flats, and a short purple band jacket with fringe, and you have me in the mission band outfit.

Geez. I keep telling you about the play. How about you all just come see for yourself?

I'm so brilliant.

Guess who's with me? Yup. It's darling Whitney. I think Janessa went home. She got bored or something.

I don't blame her.

I'm running out of steam. What should I talk about now?

I'm soo bored!

Uh...

Now Whitney is turning on Netflix on her computer. What should we watch?

We're turning on What About Bob?. Wait.

Never mind.

You have to install it. And a password to do that.

We'll just watch Psych.

Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

I'm Actually Not Sure What to Call this Post, Because it Covers so Many Different Wonderful New Arrangments and Events in My Life Lately!

Yo.
I left off with us going skating, right?
Well, guess how that day ended?
Come on, you should know me.
In the hospital.
Ha, ha.
We were snowball dancing at Classic Skating Center (dumbest game ever invented, by the way) and I fell on my right arm. Cole dropped me. Funny, huh? I ended up spraining my wrist, damaging all of the tissue that runs up the arm, and when my doctors (Callie and Tyson- funny how that turns out) took a very long look at the x-ray, they realized that I broke my arm and wrist a long time ago and never knew. It healed on its own, but a little wrong.
At least I added to my collection of hospital bracelets, right?
Ha, ha.
New news: Rehearsal for Guys and Dolls started. It's going great! Janessa and Whitney and I are in the acting part, and Tyson is in the cockpit (I think that's how you spell it) playing the cello. We are all very good, except I'm going to have nightmares about my outfit tonight: a hot pink fifties prom dress with puffed sleeves that would be mistaken for the world's biggest hot air balloons from three hundred miles away! Not to mention the most ridiculous hat I've ever seen before! I'm sorry I put that ugly picture in your minds. Ew. Please forgive me (keep in mind that if I really cared about your nightmares, I would have just erased that part).
The bus ride to school (always the most "amusing" part of my day) was interesting today.
If you really want to know, ask Janessa. Or Jessi. Or Tyson. Or Logan. Or anyone else in the usual torturous bus group.
I amuse myself.
I signed up for next year's classes. I'm on the Utah Scholar's program, even though I want to go to college in New York. Blogging no longer seems like a possibility in the ninth grade:

-Ninth grade honor's English
-AP human geography
-Honor's world civilizations
-Geometry
-Ninth grade girl's PE
-Biology
-Computer tech (an essential class you have to pass to graduate high school)
-Foods (the easiest class on here)
-Mythology
-Spanish 2
-Seminary


*sigh*
:/
Have you ever read the Maximum Ride books? Well, I just checked out Fang's blog. It's really neat. Now that I've got your attention, here's the site: http://www.maximumride.blogspot.com/.
I suppose I'll get some sleep now.
Leave some comments, people! I feel unloved!
The Quote of Today is from Taylor's blog. Well said, if you ask me!
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: I love snowboarding!

Party of the Year

So.
We're watching Bolt right now.
I hope everybody's spring break is going well!
Day one (Saturday): I got to hide the Easter eggs! We hid over 200 eggs, all with candy in 'em. I think we still have two or three left to find.
Day two (Sunday): Easter! We ate lots of food and I got some pink earphones from the Easter bunny.
Day three (Monday): I sat at home and wished I had a life.
Day four (Tuesday): I sat at home, did some homework, and wished I had a life.
Day five (Wednesday): We got our pictures taken for our passports (AUSTRALIA!!!) and got Cole. We then went to the Legacy Lehi Rec Center to swim. It was awesome!
Day six (Thursday): The best day ever! We went to BYU Campus- complete with cinnamon bears, the Creamery, a fur Museum, and bowling. Confession time: Every single time I've ever gone bowling, I've come in dead last. I've never gotten a strike or anything. But I came in second both rounds!!! Of course, one of those times was a tie with Cole.
It was a pretty awesome day.

Now for where the awesome Party of the Year title comes in.
When we were deciding what to do with Cole when he came, I was so excited! We were going to have a party every day and call night games every night. But it snowed. I was so sad! I was determined to come up with night games anyways, so we threw the best party ever. Sadie J., Bryce, Jessi, David, Daniel, Tyson, Taylor, Janessa, Andrew, Emily, Bailey, and Cole's friends, Alexis, Lindsay, and Kim all came. It took me forever to find Tyson and Taylor; I had to get both their parents' cell phone numbers to find them! Sorry, Jamy and Logan. You were on vacation!
We had a bunch of junk food, had a dance off, played Do you love your neighbor? and Mafia. We tried to play Scum and Spoons, but they didn't work out.
After a couple of hours, a couple people left and we played Mad Gab and looked for What about Bob? (we couldn't find it; sorry guys!) and played Ticket to Ride (Tyson and Taylor brought it) and a whole bunch of other games. We had a live band playing in the background (David and Daniel took turns playing my guitar) and Cole danced. I was on a team with Tyson and Taylor. We won, of course! It's nothing personal, it's just that we're better than you. That was from Madagascar 2 for those of you weirdos who have not seen it yet.
All in all, it was the best party ever! It was a good group and we had so much fun. Except we need to do it somewhere else next time. Popcorn was everywhere!
We'll do it again, okay?
The Quote of Today is a pickup line to get a cellphone number that Tyson taught me.
We're going skating now. Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Do you have a cell phone? Does that cell phone have a number? What might that number be?

Just for Jessi

Break! Jessi needs this information!
You can use it too, but it is especially for her.
Ahem.
The background sites are:

-www.aquapoppydesigns.blogspot.com
-www.delightfuldots.blogspot.com
-www.thecutestblogontheblock.com
-www.pyzam.com

There you go!

Quote of Today: Get it? Got it? Good!

My Most Embarrassing Moment

Ever since Preschool, it's been wetting my pants at the pumpkin patch... until now. I think the fall I took this morning would defiantly beat that.
Yes, the fall.
:'(
I couldn't sleep last night, so I was up pretty late. Up late means... up late! I woke up ten minutes before the bus came! Ahhh! YIKES!!!
So.
I'm running down the street to catch the bus. You know our bus, where it goes around the island in Renaissance once, so it comes back to the first stop again. I've always just caught the bus the first time around, but today I didn't. And it was icy, otherwise I would have ran. So, I get down to the bustop and I don't see the bus. I'm walking back up (sad and lonely), where Brother Christensen offers me a ride to school. All of a sudden, I hear the bus behind me. Run! Icy! Slip!
I'm right in front of the bus... running... ahhh!
I fell and did three summersaults down into the big dip at the stop and when I tried to climb out, I slipped back again.
Eventually, I got out and got to the bus (as in, everybody, as in first and second bustops, as in all of my friends had seen). Everybody was laughing. Logan made it a little bit better by saying that he fell a couple of embarrassing times, but not by much. Thank you for trying. :\
My socks just got done drying.
Waaaaah!
I got the Quote of Today from Cole.

Quote of Today: If life gives you lemons, make orange juice and sit back and watch the world try to figure out how you did it.

So.
Great news: when I said that I had a 3.95... whatever number that was, grades had not yet been finalized. Mrs. McMurray put in the scores for a huge assignment yesterday evening that landed me with a 4.00!!!
I'm so excited I'm going to SCREAM!!!
Except not really.
Other news: Taylor saw my blog (which is exciting because none of the other boys in our ward would ever make that attempt, no matter how many times I try), I'm going to see Alex for dessert and games right after the Hootenannie on Friday (guitar recital), and tomorrow's youth night is Trek kickoff! I get to go this year!
Woo-hoo!
It's amazing how after all of that amazingly happy stuff, I can still be so sad.
Why am I sad?
I left my iPod at Cole's house yesterday. Boo-hoo. I always carry my iPod around, whether I'm going to listen to it or not! It's weird without a bulge in my pocket all day. It makes my sooo lonesome. Wah!
Oh, one other thing: I get to have my braces tightened on Thursday. Reasons why this is bad: it hurts, it kills, and I have to miss two and a half classes to get them that way. Reasons why this is good: I get to change the colors (I think I will do black and yellow, like a bee), it is helping to straighten my teeth, and I get to miss two and half classes to get them that way.
I'm trying to be optimistic here.
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Don't stand between me and my iPod!

Wheat List

So.
Uhhh... I have already run out of things to say. Starting over with "so..."
So. Shoot! I messed up again! From the top!
So. Nevermind. I just needed to get the right tone of "so-ing." I'm not in a "so" mood tonight. I'm in a... bubblegum mood. Still chewing, but out of flavor.
How's this? Taylor finally wrote on his blog and is coming to Junior High next year. Is that scary or what? We went to the power plant for joint YM/YW, and it was really neat.
No, seriously. It was neat. Except for when the boys tried to convince me that the power plant is run by hamsters and that there's an underground monster that threatens them into it.
I ended the term with all A's and one A-! Woohoo!
By the way, Morgan is marrying Jenna.
In memory of me and the wheat that I can't eat, I would like to take the opportunity to list some things that have wheat in them.

Wheat is included in...
-Cake
-Cookies
-Crackers
-Cupcakes
-Cheeseits
-Bread
-French fries
-Chicken noodle soup
-Mayonnaise (no joke!)
-Chips
-Hot dogs (I'm not tempted)
-Brownies
-Hamburgers
-Some oatmeals
-Chicken nuggets
-Some ice creams (the most important ones)
-Ho-hos
-Cereal
-Granola bars
-Flour
-Most fruit snacks
-Licorice (ahhh!)
-Everything!!!

I'm hungry. Wheat is so filling!
Gotta run! Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: We don't really have to build on a rock, right?

Not Quite Yet a Friday

The pizza will be here any minute.

In the meantime, I sit here and research a science "endangered species" project. My topic? Ocelots. Gorgeous ocelots. Beautiful, graceful creatures.

What I learned about them: they may be beautiful, but their teeth aren't made for chewing. No, their black teeth are made for tearing. They tear up their food and swallow it in one bite. They are also very clean. They don't leave a single speck of meat left on the bones. Unlike other felines, they like water and actually swim very well. Oh, geez. I think that everything I have written about on my blog lately has to do with school. Schooling, homework, studying... It's taking over my life! Oh, no!

Let's start on a clean slate. Today was my first shorts day! Deep dark secret time (no repeats): I am a size 28 in mens. I like mens shorts better than girls shorts. They're comfier. Deep dark secret number two time: I am actually a 26, but I like the longer shorts. Hee, hee! Guess what else? We finally got to eat outside today! Hooray! It is getting warm! Woohoo! And the term ends tomorrow and I have a... hold on... let me look it up... 3.9250! All A+s and one B+! Yessssss! What else? Uhhh... Oh yeah! Morgan (as in cousin Morgan, as in brother of Daniel and Caleb, as in son of Aunt Janet, as in awesome Morgan) is getting... MARRIED!!! I'm so excited! Whoops. I forgot to ask who he's getting married to. Maybe I should do that... Woah! Wouldga look at the time? Gotta run! Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: I'm just a girl standing in front of a guy telling her that he loves her.

Saint Patty's Day

I apologize for my last post being not exactly what you are looking for on my blog. It's wasn't very bubbly of me, but hopefully it gets me a lovely "A."

Happy Saint Patty's day! May you live without fear of being pinched!
So.
My Saint Patty's day was saved by Mom. I have no green except for the stuff I wore on Friday. I didn't want to wear that green shirt again, so I borrowed Mom's extra extra large green tee. Thanks Mom, only Janessa and Logan pinched me today! I have bruises to prove it!
I can't imagine what I would have done without it.
No, seriously.
I'm making a CD for keyboarding right now. Coldplay, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Jem... I'm not missing anybody too important, am I? Anything on our little playlist at the bottom will be on there, for sure!
New background! I hope Sister Howell and Sister Oyler aren't too mad at me for changing it! The old one... just wasn't summer enough for the season! Will you please forgive me?
I can't live with the fact that you won't forgive me, so please do.
Today was a very good day!

A1- Science with Mr. Woolley: We went outside today, and the weather was perfect! I learned that I did good on a test (he calls them FFLAs, for "fun filled learning adventures," but I prefer the term, "test"), and the term ends Friday! I should get a very happy report card back.
A2- US History with Mrs. McFarlane: I actually like this class. I know several people that would say that they hate it, but I like it. Don't spoil my mood.
A3- Spanish with Senora Anderson: We watched two movies in this class today. It wasn't the most exciting day of Spanish, but at least we didn't have a million hard assignments to do, right?
A4- Musical Theatre with (deep breath) Mrs. McMurray, Mr. Stokoe, Mrs. Chenowyth, and Mrs. Garlick: These teachers must not communicate very well. Today they were getting all upset with each other because an email had been interpreted wrong or something. I sat in the back writing a song the whole time.

How was that?
And then, before the bus ride home, the bus driver let me sit in her seat until it was time to go. It was fun! They make those seats extremely comfortable...
Woah, would you look at the time? Dinner calls!
The Quote of Today is from my buddy Calvin and his buddy Hobbes.
Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Health Project

Personality break. I'm sorry, normally I can be bubbly on this blog, but today I need to cut the sassy stuff short so I can actually sound like I know what I'm doing. The following is a health project. I was gonna do a song, but we only had a week and there has to be lyrics. No way, Jose!
Ahem. Serious time.Guess what?
Drugs are bad!
Dictionary dot com defines a drug as "a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being." But that doesn't mean that all drugs are good. In fact, it states the definition of drug abuse right below:
"Drug abuse has a huge range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. All of these definitions imply a negative judgement of the drug use in question (compare with the term responsible drug use for alternative views). Some of the drugs most often associated with this term include alcohol, amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, methaqualone, and opium alkaloids. Use of these drugs may lead to criminal penalty in addition to possible physical, social, and psychological harm, both strongly depending on local jurisdiction. Other definitions of drug abuse fall into four main categories: public health definitions, mass communication and vernacular usage, medical definitions, and political and criminal justice definitions."
Yuck.
Maybe a little too wordy for me, so let's try and break it down a bit for you, okay?
Drugs help you recover from diseases and give you strength. Are we clear on that?
Step 2: Take the correct quantity of the drug, don't get associated with bad (illegal) drugs, and don't share prescriptions.
Here are a couple more facts about drugs that you may want to sit on:

-It is illegal to take prescription drugs from somebody else or buy drugs you shouldn't be touching. You can be charged with many years in prison or a very big fine. Although, when you think about it, you are really punishing yourself when you take them.
-Alaska is the worst state when it comes to drugs, but everywhere in the world, studies show that the most common place to find drugs are in schools.-Every year, the worldwide drug usage goes up, sometimes doubling what studies showed the year previous.
-Effects of drug abuse include: multiple types of cancer to your throat, larynx, blood, lungs, stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, and cervix. Ew.
-Most people can tell if you've been abusing drugs. Your grades in school cannot exceed all C's, you smell bad, appear drunk all the time, and suffer from something similar to what my favorite Disney character, Dory, suffers from. At least, I think that is her name...
-People who bond well with their family are over 85% less likely to abuse drugs, take bad drugs, sell drugs, smoke cigarettes or marijuana, or anything like that because they have probably discussed not taking drugs with their family at one point or another.
-Preventing bad drugs or accidents associated with drugs from reaching your home: quality family time, stay fit and active, decide now to never take drugs and help others to make the same decision, recognise your talents, strengths, and weaknesses, and, believe it or not, people who play an instrument are much more likely to ever take drugs.

Guys, drugs are dumb. Don't use 'em, and you won't get hurt.
I mean, why do that to yourself? Not only is it a federal offense to take most of them, but you'll almost always die from the consequences of taking them. Let's see... thousand of dollars... a couple years behind bars... death...
It's the elongated version of suicide.

Do the smart thing.
On the positive side, it is now shorts weather! Hooray!
Hasta Luego!

Quote of Today: No, a year ago, I would have set the papers on fire, put them back in your purse, and then walked out.

Family Pictures

Do you love the introduction?

Hello my loyal fans! I see we have numbered over 1060 visits to my blog, which means that somebody about six people have seen this blog about ten times (or the other way around)! I've taken care of the other thousand visits...
Mom's at a meeting and Matthew is playing legos. I'm not sure I know what Esther's playing with.
Is that...?
Ew!
Put it down!
Now the moment we've all been waiting for. Family pictures! Yeah! I have placed a caption on each picture, so you can have an idea of what is going on in each one.

Awkwardness... may I take a moment to share with you that this is not Esther's real smile? That's right. This is what we call "not warmed up yet."

Still not warmed up yet...Cute as a button doing the splits...

I know this picture should probably be in the "Group Pictures" section, but this is mostly Esther and her personality.You can fly! You can fly! You can not quite fly, but you're pretty dang close! Twisting... spinning...

This one always makes me dizzy. Consider yourself warned.Matthew's Pictures
These are a couple cute pictures of Matthew being himself. Simple as that.

Hiding behind a balloon? Seriously, who does this anymore?
More Matthew. I don't think he knew what to do in this one, so he just stuck his arms right out there. It turned out pretty good. Great job, Matthew!We took a couple of pictures of everybody. This is one of Matthew's pictures, which I have re-named as his "High School Musical Shot." Get it? He's jumping!Matthew is quite the breakdancer in our house. Here's a picture of him in action.

My Pictures
Me. Just me. The braces, the hand waving, the laugh, the... curled hair (so hard and buggish. Why do I do this stuff again?). Oh, well. At least the pictures turned out cute. :)

Smirk. I am cool. Thinking. I don't know what I'm thinking about, I just am, okay?Here I am, maybe a little more into character, because I am always happy and laughing and when I laugh, I put my hands on my knees. I don't remember what was so funny right here that I was laughing at. Was it the fact that I was getting my picture taken, or did somebody say something funny? Anyways, my Dad insisted that I not delete this picture, so it must be pretty neat.More of that "character" stuff!Our Parents' Picture

This picture is my Mom and my Dad. On my Mom: She says that she doesn't like it when they take her picture as much as when they take our picture, but I think I like this picture, too. It's really cute! Most teenagers can't say that about their Mom, but look at how lucky I am to get to say it. Then there's Dad, handsome as ever. What a couple!

Group Pictures

The cutest family on Earth. Sorry guys, but it's true.

Gimme some love...Outa my way! This is my spotlight time! I said MOVE IT!!! This is kind of an example of what goes on at our house. Esther is all, "People! See me! Me! Me!" And Matthew is, yes, a little more hyper, but not as upset over the spotlight. But don't take it from me. You know what they say, "A picture is worth a thousand words."This is a picture of just the girls. No Matthews, no Dads, just girls.I am desperately in love with this picture! It is my laptop desktop and it's really full of great personality from both Esther and I.

Another cute picture of Esther and I, coming right up!In these next couple of pictures, they asked us to hold hands and jump. It didn't work out as well as they thought. In this one, I think my cute scarf was the problem.In this one, I was the only one jumping, and so I had to lift the kids up, which is hard in the air, especially when Matthew was pulling down on me like that.Yea! It finally worked!This time we're on the ground. Make sure you get in a glimpse of Matthew, who is below Esther and I. And look at our happy smiles!I know. I'm amazing. The kids really "look up" to me. This picture just goes to show how big of a gap there is between the kids and me. I'm even slumping! Esther and Matthew are standing straight up! For those of you who just joined us here on Lizzie's blog, Esther is eight (that's six years younger than me) and Matthew is six (eight years younger than me). There are no other children in my family, though I have always wanted an older brother. It could still happen!

Geez, this grumpy thing that inserts pictures won't let me insert anymore. Something about, "exceeding my limit?" What's that all about? Anyways, I gotta go! Hasta luego!

Quote of Today: Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind.