Anticipation

 Sometime I think I have a serious problem with anticipating things.

Just to name a few..

- High School Graduation

- Getting Married/ having kids

-Summer

- Movie releases

- Sometimes even school projects. (But let me explain this one so my mom doesn't go off

about why I procrastinate them if i'm excited about them. I procrastinate them because

the only reason why I am excited about them in the first place

is because I have a grand plan about all the ways 

that I could make the project really awesome. But the key word is GRAND.

My grand plans for projects are generally to difficult to do them. Or I simply loose interest. Ha ha)

- Vacations

- Results of some sort (Choir, Musical, jobs, etc)

- Holidays such as mine, a friend, or a loved one's birthday, Christmas, etc.

- And believe it or not, mom and dad, occasionally books

So what I think I am trying to get at, is that we all anticipate things. It comes naturally,

and is pretty difficult not to.

 So, currently some things are coming up in my life, 

that I am definitely anticipating!

Just like it says above,

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION! Now don't get me wrong, I have had plenty

of great times in high school, like dances, and choir, and theatre, etc.

BUT I have been going to the same school since 6th grade.

With the same people.

It's gotten pretty old, especially having the background of a military brat,

moving every few years or so.

Had my parents let me, I probably would have switched on over

to Pine Creek High School where Carissa graduated from.

Although I say that, and at the same time, I think of all the memories that I have

at DCC. It's a hard thing to think about. Because I do have great friends and have been blessed with some pretty great opportunities while at DCC.

Which leads me to my next anticipation vacation.

Four days from now, I will be in New York City.

Where I will have the opportunity to sing in Carnegie Hall with Chamber Choir.

And let me tell ya! I. AM. STOKED!

We have all been looking forward to this for so long, 

that it almost seems so surreal that it is finally here. It's almost like it feels even farther away.

We even made T-shirts to wear on our travel days! :)

It's great because even though the pretty much all say the same thing, 

they are all so different.

Everyday since we've had 10 days left we have counted down on our fingers,

cause Sarah realized we had 10 fingers! Which is just a hilarious joke we have with her now.

So my best friend Anna sent this one to each of us.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA I about died laughing so hard!!

FOUR DAYS!! :)

I am currently reading the Hunger Games, 

I have like maybe 80 pages left of the second book, Catching Fire.

I definitely would recommend these books. 

I have never felt so many emotions while reading one book.

Suzanne Collins is a fantastic writer!

Hunger Games the movie comes out on March 23, 2012.

I want to go at midnight SO badly! 

This was the first trailer that came out.

And this is the second one, that I just found.

Doesn't it look fantastic?

OH and the music is phenomenal!

Read the books, they are so worth it!!

I'll have to let you know if I make it to the midnight showing or not. Ha ha

Another thing I frequently anticipate are results.

Of any kind really.

I waited to find out that I am in the spring musical.

We are doing Oklahoma. It is going to be a great show!

And even though I am just an extra, I still think it's gonna be a lot of fun.

In the fall, I auditioned for The Colorado Allstate Honor Choirs,

which I clearly didn't get into. But hopefully my senior year I will!

This was my score card.

I didn't do so hot overall but i got a 47 on my solo!!

I am so proud of myself for that. The audition is out of a 100 points and I got 66 total. Ha ha. 

I completely blanked on my intervals because of nerves.

But I am just bad at sight singing. Ha ha I am not gonna hide it. Ha ha.

But its finally starting to click with me and I am finally starting to understand,

which I am really grateful for.

I had two goals going into the audition. 

1. Get an 85 or higher overall

and

2. Get a 45 or higher on my solo.

So even though I didnt get the 85, I got the 45 and I am so proud

 of that score because I worked so hard on it.

So now it's time to focus on the hard stuff. 

Bummer. Ha ha.

Also coming up towards the beginning of March are auditions for

next years choirs at school.

We have:

Men's and Womens Choirs (Non-Audition)
Stormsingers (Audition Show Choir)
Prism (Audition Acappella)
Chambers (Audition Large Group)
and coming next year, an audition Jazz Acappella choir!
Don't worry though, i'll let you know which ones I get into.
Right now, I am currently in, Stormsingers and Chambers.
And that is ideally what I would like to be in again next year as well.

And of course I look forward to the Summer.
Hopefully I will have a job since I am only going to girls camp and probably Idaho.

I hope everybody has a great Valentines Day,
Even though I am not a huge fan of the day because I think that you should tell that special someone or whoever you love for that matter, that you love them every single day and not just once a year.

But Valentines Day just happens to be one of my best friend, Bailey's, 18th Birthday!
So Happy Birthday Bailey! It was so fun to celebrate with you last night! I love you girl! :)

Have a great week everybody! :)

Where has the time gone?

The days really are going by so fast!

Juust as a fair warning, this is going to be a very long post!

So my parents headed to Utah on January 21, and I headed to Krista's.

I stayed at krista's for 10 days, 

it was a blast, and im so grateful for their hospitality.

While staying at her house,

we celebrated Mama Reed's Birthday!

She turned 29 again.

Thanks for letting me celebrate with you Mama Reed!

We also celebrate Allison's 17th Birthday.

 Allison was looking out the window, because she suspected the surprise!

I mean really, who does that? Haha

But we still had a lot of fun!

 Her yummy cake that we brought her,

We ended the night in the hot tub,

followed by a movie called,

Midnight in Paris.

If you were to ask me, i would say

don't watch it!! 

It was SO boring!

Krista, Shyloh, and I all fell asleep,

and I don't fall asleep watching movies.

It's a bummer though because the preview made it look

really cute! But its not.

Oh, also on the morning of the 21st,

Krista, Shyloh, Sarah, and I 

all went to a spinning class up on base.

And it was much more fun the second time around,

because my bones weren't sore afterwards!

After the class, we decided to go grab some breakfast at

one my favorite places ever,

CHICK FIL A :)

Thanks for coming girls! It was so much fun.

Which also reminds me,

after breakfast we went to Walmart just up the road, 

and bought a window marker,

planning on decorating Allison's car

because she was at musical rehearsal 

all day.

So we buy the marker,

ask Matt if he knew if Allison drove to to school or not,

so you know what he does? 

He just asks her. 

Like its no big deal.

ha ha so once again, Allison was just looking out the front windows of the school

when we drove up.

We tried to cover up what we were doing, buut who knows how well that woked.

A few days later, one of my favorite people and cousins

in the entire world entered the MTC on January 25, 2012.

Ethan will be serving a two year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ 

of Latter-Day Saints in Benin, Africa.

I am so beyond happy for him! :)

So good luck Ethan!

I sure do love ya! 

To see what Ethan is up to on the mish,

you can read his blog which are letters he sends to him mom,

and she them puts them up on the blog for 

everyone to read.

http://togotobenin.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

That following weekend,

The Fierce-some four performed in the school's talent show,

Thundapalooza.

We sang in an a cappella quartet and sang

our own arranged medley of 

Ain't no mountain high enough and Where you lead

It was so much fun, and we did great!

This is what you get when we spend 2-3 hours a day

in a practice room everyday after school.

But we get the work done, and pull through successfully :)

I think we might get a few more songs down and see if we can

perform them at our next choir concert.

I don't know though, we will just have to wait and see what happens.

The paper chain hanging up behind in the last picture,

is the countdown until we leave for NEW YORK CITY!!

NBD. But we go to New York in 13 days!

These three fabulous girls are my roommates, and I seriously cannot wait,

as it is going to be the trip of a lifetime for sure!

 We are going to New York to sing in Carnegie Hall.

I mean, how many people can say that they have sung in Carnegie Hall??

While there, we will definitely be doing our fair share of sightseeing! 

We are going to the Statue of Liberty, the 9/11 Memorial, and the Metropolitan Opera

for a backstage tour, and of course going to see A musical on Broadway, just to name a few.

13 DAYS, AND OUR CONCERT IS SOLD OUT.

NBD.

On another exciting note,

CARISSA IS PREGNANT!!!

She is due on August 25, 2012.

I am so beyond happy for her!
(I am secretly hoping its a girl!)

So congrats Carissa and Kyle to starting your cute little family!

I can't wait to meet that precious little child of God. <3

Going back to the weekend of the talent show,

Krista, Bailey, Emily, and I all had a slumbover at Krista's house and

 we even built a fort like we did when we were all kids! 

It was so much fun.

 It was so much fun to hand out with these girls!

We thumb tacked all the sheets to the ceiling. Haha

I'd say that we earn creativity points!

Even though it looks kind of ghetto.. 

it was fun to make we thought it was awesome!

So at DCC, as a sophomore, you have to do this thing called a Personal Project.

(I didn't end up doing one.. ha ha)

But at the beginning of my Sophomore year in high school,

they introduced us to what a personal project is and all the fun stuff. 

I really wanted to do a quilt, about me. That may sound conceded,

but i didn't do it for that. I did it almost as a genealogy project (because I think everyone knows that I am horrible at keeping a blog!). That way my posterity can see

who I was, what some of my interests were, and what was important to me while i was in high school.

Over a year later,

I am still not finished. Here is my rough plan of what I want it to look like:

- There are 9 squares

- Inbetween each square, my background are music notes

- Each square (except for the pink) is a Young Woman Value (faith, divine nature, etc.)
- When i'm done, each square will say what value they are down the side. :)

 BUT i do have a few squares done!

This was the first square that I did.

I cross stitched the 2010 Mutral Theme, in the Fall of 2010.

This was the 2nd square that I did, in the Spring of 2011.

Each flower is a color of o Young Women Value, 

as well as a square on my quilt. :)

This was the third square that I did in the Spring of 2011.

I lettered in Choir my Freshman, Sophmore, and hopefully will my Junior, and Senior years.

Finally, I did this one yesterday on our snow day.

I painted the Salt Lake City Temple, I had a pattern that i found online,

but it was still fairly difficult.

I will keep you updated on what I get done. I think I am actually going to switch my

Choir letter to purple and do my handcart from the trek on the white.

I'm not quite sure though, just brain storming here.

And last but not least,

Yesterday we had a snow day!!

This was yesterday...

And this was today! 

 Sometimes it would be so nice to have a 4 or 5 car garage...

 Poor gladys..

 32" drifts!

Bahaha today we saw this guy just cross country skiing like it was an everyday thing!

It was so funny!

 There he goes!

Anyways, thats what has been happening on this side of the mountains!

I hope you are warm wherever are. 

OH! And enjoy the super bowl tomorrow! 

May the Patriots win! :)