Ouch!

This Thursday, I jammed my finger really bad! My mom was visiting teaching and Landon, Miller, Tyson, and I were playing Three Flies Up (a game played with a football-similar to Jackpot)in our backyard. We were having a lot of fun! But then while I was running to catch the ball, Tyson and Landon ran into me. The football hit my finger and I then fell on it. Well, it was all down-hill from there. I ran into the house, and waited with an icepack on my finger for about two hours until my mom got home. It's better now, but still bruised and a little swollen. I guess this is just one of those things that hurts now and you laugh about later!

Birthday Time!

Yesterday was my birthday, and the day before that was my party. I had a ton of fun! I had a candy themed party Saturday, July 10th. It was a small party, only me, and my friends Somer, Rachel, and Mikaela, but it was still a lot of fun! We started out with cake and ice cream, my mom had made the most amazing cake! After that, we played a game where there's a sandcastle of flour with a whopper on top. You take turns cutting the mound of flour until someone make the whopper fall, the person who made the whopper fall has to pick it up with their mouth, while in the process, inevitably covering their face in flour. We payed this game many times, often with numerous whoppers on top. Throughout all of this, I was the only one who didn't once make the whopper fall. My mom suggested that I become a surgeon instead of a lawyer, I denied her suggestion. Next, we played a game in which you put socks on your hands and see who can unwrap and eat ten candy bars the fastest. I won that game, but regretted doing so when I started feeling sick. We then played a game called the Skittle Challenge. In this game, you take turns drawing two skittles out of a bowl without looking. If you get two of the same color, you can eat them, if you get two that aren't the same color, you have to put them in your mouth, but can't chew or swallow them until you draw two of the same color. You continue doing this until you have only one person left who hasn't spit theirs out. Rachel easily won this with a grand total of forty-six skittles in her mouth at one time (the highest number out of the rest of us was twenty-four.) We then did our last thing which was a candy scavenger hunt in the dark. We used flashlights to find the candy. Once we had all found all of the candies on the list, we made candy trains out of the candy we had gathered. After we were all done, we played on our Bonzai (an amazing blow up water slide) the rest of the time.
The next day was my real birthday, we started out the day with presents. My favorite was the iPod touch which was awesome! After that my parents and I went to pick up my grandpa and Annabell so we could all go out to breakfast. Annabell's birthday had been the day before and we had had a family party at her house. We went to Cracker Barrel, which has surprisingly good breakfasts. After that we had to rush to my brother Tyson's basketball game. We pretty much hung out at my house the rest of the day until seven-o-clock when we went to see Ice Age Three: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was REALLY good, and the perfect end to a great day!

Tennis Camp

For the past four days I have been going to Tiger Tennis Camp from 1:00-4:00. I loved it! I got to work with the coaches that I will have next year for my middle school tennis team, and a lot of my friends were there. The coaches were really nice, and I learned a lot! Today, since it was our last day, we did a doubles tournament, where you play with two people on each side. We played six original rounds, and then about three or so tie-breaker rounds. In the end, there was an individual winner, a second place team, and a third place team. Believe it or not, my team won second! I was very excited(and hot and tired.) I had a ton of fun at the camp, and I can't wait to play next year!

Blogs Galore!

This week, I really wanted to get Tyson to start a blog. I suggested to him that he start a blog in which he would keep up with B.Y.U.'s sports games. My idea worked, but I ended up having to make the blog (Tyson supervised.) Well, of course, when Justin saw that now both Tyson and I had blogs, he wanted one too. I agreeded to this and made him a blog as well. I thought that this would be the last of it, but then Justin needed help writing in his blog, and of course, I was the lucky one asked to help him. Now, none of this seemed too bad, and I was glad that they were both starting blogs, but then they decided that they needed to add more to their blogs. I had to help Justin find a background on www.thecutestblogontheblock.com, which took a while because, since he is a boy, and since Tyson was there telling him that all of the backgrounds were much too girly, he had some trouble finding one that was masculine enough for him. Then Tyson decided to use my mom's suggestion of putting a poll on his blog, where people can vote for who they think should be B.Y.U.'s MVP. Well, let's just say that it took a while for me to find out how to make a poll, and to actually get it to work. All in all, a simple suggestion turned out to work a little better than I wanted it to. But even with all that, I am glad that I was able to finally convince them to start blogs!

Oh Where, Oh Where Could it Be?

In July, I will start going to Young Womens. One of my goals this year is to complete the activities in my Faith in God booklet before I go to Young Womens so that I can earn my Faith in God award. I am having some trouble doing that because after completing my pedigree chart, I couldn't find it, I figured that I had just left it somewhere, and that it would turn up soon, so I didn't think much of it. Well, it's been about a month now, and it still hasn't turned up! As the days go by, my suspicions of either Ryan or Abigail having taken it, are continuosly growing. I sure do hope it turns up soon!

Valentines Party

This year, my mom decided to let me have a Valentines party. She suggested that I do a mystery, so I did. She got one off of the Internet, and got it all ready, the clues, the dinner, the setting, she did it all, except the invitations and the guest list. I invited Mikaela Sircable, Rachel Ramos, Hannah Stapp, Amanda Ganas, Abby Smith, and Sommer Harris (Mikaela was sick so my mom had to fill in for her.) When they got here, we played sticker tag, which was a ton of fun, (who knew trying to get stickers on people could be so tiring.) Then we got started with the mystery, we prented to be detectives, and had an important meeting. We then had dinner, during which we figured out who the culprit was. Then we solved riddles and cracked codes to find the dangerous hidden secret(my mom was amazed at how quickly we figured the codes and riddles out). We found out what it was and then celebrated by playing hide-and-go-seek in the dark, and having fried ice cream for desert(it's much better than it sounds.) Afterwords, we played giant spoons, and then took everybody home. I had a ton of fun and am very grateful to my mom for working so hard to make the party fun!

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