Day (7)

Catie hit me so many times with her pillow this morning!! I woke up to find her sitting in a chair beside my bed with a disgustingly cheerful smile pasted on her face. Danielle wanted to let me sleep in but, of course, Catie would not hear of it./ After passing out fliers around the newly built houses, Dereck picked us up and droce us to the condos. Danielle, Catie and I sprinted to as many condos as possable. Then we went back to 'Faith Community church' where we were given lunch. I wasn't hungry at all(because i had had over 9 cups of kettle corn in the car on the way to the church) so I sat i the church and journeled(sp?) a little./ Right after lunch we went to Idaho to visit the Napoleon Dynamite sites(which do not excite me at all). So I was stuck in the car for who knows how many hours while all of my friends took billions of pictures of the side walk where napoleon was riding pedros bike(well not really but they were taking alot of pictures). The movie sites where dull and uninteresting but idaho is very pretty. Then we went to 'Ruby Tuesdays' for diner where I got a side ceaser salad(that i took about 5 bites of) and a baked potatoe(that i at about half of). Then at last we drove home.

Princess Pink

oops

ok so now some of you might be wondering wat exactly i was thinking when i posted twice about day six in utah. Well, the one without the title is the original post. When i realized my mistake i clicked on the back button instead of clicking, edit post. Then when i went to view my blog i realized that i what i had done and that some of my readers might be confused, thus the reason for this post. Sorry about the misunderstanding =D

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Day (6)

This morning Danielle came in at about 7:00 and told me to get up. I said OK before promptly falling back asleep. Then Elise cam in and I think she told me to get up. But i fell asleep. Again. Then Catie and Elise cam in. Caties face was set in a determined frown. I pulled the covers up to my ears when i saw her raise her pillow. The pillow came down not once, not twice, not three times, not four times but way over five times!!!!!!!!!! She then ripped off my covers adn i stuck my head under my pillow. WEhn i had made it clear that i was NOT getting up she pulled up my shirt(i was on my stomach so yes i was completly modest) and put her freezing cold hand on my back. I screamed and bolted out of bed. So today we have passed out fliers. Catie got to talk to somone and i have been falling asleep in the car./ After passing out fliers Derek took us to the mall where we were given money for dinner. Chelsea, Alexa, Bethany, Emma and I went in to Zumiez where we got into a conversation with an LDS guy who worked there. Then I dragged Bethany and Alexa into Haripo(i think) and we tried on fun dresses. After that we were taken to watch Night at the Museam in the theater.

Princess Pink

This morning Danielle came in at about 7:00 and told me to get up. I said OK before promptly falling back asleep. Then Elise cam in and I think she told me to get up. But i fell asleep. Again. Then Catie and Elise cam in. Caties face was set in a determined frown. I pulled the covers up to my ears when i saw her raise her pillow. The pillow came down not once, not twice, not three times, not four times but way over five times!!!!!!!!!! She then ripped off my covers adn i stuck my head under my pillow. WEhn i had made it clear that i was NOT getting up she pulled up my shirt(i was on my stomach so yes i was completly modest) and put her freezing cold hand on my back. I screamed and bolted out of bed. So today we have passed out fliers. Catie got to talk to somone and i have been falling asleep in the car./ After passing out fliers Derek took us to the mall where we were given money for dinner. Chelsea, Alexa, Bethany, Emma and I went in to Zumiez where we got into a conversation with an LDS guy who worked there. Then I dragged Bethany and Alexa into Haripo(i think) and we tried on fun dresses. After that we were taken to watch Night at the Museam in the theater.

Princess Pink

Day (5)

Well, I stayed in bed really late today. That was mostly because i couldn't figure out wat to wear(to all my guy readers, wat a girl wears is a very big deal. just in case you were wondering =D) i let Catie do my hair cause Dereck isn't here yet. Danielle says that we might be passing out fliers for vrossing church(whoever they are) then for lunch we will be goingto a place called Thanksgiving Point. After luch we'll go to a town coffee house in Ephriaum(wherever that is)./ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is sooooo freezing!!!!! It started snowing! Acually snowing!!!! I could barely feel my fingers. We're in the van now. I really hope we don't have to pass out more fliers. it is so cold..../ I did have to pass out more fliers =(. But hey, i'm doin it for God and i guess that's all that matters./ Not quite sure where we are now. I'll have to check. On the car ride here,(still not sure where 'here' is). oh, we're at Cabelas. kindov a country mall./ Now we're finally at the coffee house in Ephraium. Try Grace Ministeries Club is a group of college people that I'm guessing are in some kind of band cause they have been in a few concerts. They meet at the coffee house that has 3 sitting areas, a basement and dorms upstairs. One of the college guys if playing guitar./ The sofa i'm sitting on is really comfortable. wow, random, i must be tired. After the Bible study that we were allowed to join in on was over, everyone either went to the computers or the kitchen. Of course i went to the computers and emailed mom./ I'm home now. That car ride was so dang long!! i almost fell asleep on someone i was so tired. We got home and i went to check the internet. Catie brought out Dreyers Dibbs(big, BIG mistake) and i ate about a 1/4 of the box. =) oops. I have to take a shower(joy) tomorrow which means i will have to get up earlier. I hope that i will be able to acually get up tomorrow......

Princess Pink

skateboarders

Today after going to the zoo with the Rowlands and Atalie, (that's who i drove down with, alot of people from the home school group were there too) i came down to, at the request of Michelle, to jump on the trampoline with water balloons. (it was quite a sacrifice to come down seeing as i had just gotten into some flanel pjs and was VERY comfortable reading on my bed) I had alot of fun. well Catie and Michelle live right next to a mormon church. the church has a big parkinglot with stairs and rails, so as you might guess, this attracts skateboarders ALOT. we have grown quite used to this and never really think twice about them(with the exception of the one time when our neighbor yelled at them and they came and broke the rowlands fence. =D oops) so michelle is standing and i am laying on the trampoline waiting for catie to fill her balloon up when suddenly i hear michelle start to talk to someone. (i didn't see who it was at first cause the sun was in my eyes) he started asking her questions about where she went to school, what grade she was in ect... i started to panic not knowing who in the word this raggamuffin was so before Michelle could answer i quickly cut in by asking quite tersly if he needed anything. He gave us a cocky smile that made me wish i had better aim with a water balloon, before dissappearing over the fence. " i should have asked him if he wanted a facefull of rubber and water" i comented wistfully. Not wanting any more trouble michelle went inside and got her M4 automatic air soft gun which, unfortunetly, she did not get to use on any human targets.

Princess Pink

Day (4)

This morning our host family fixed us breakfast. It was very nice of them./ Today was the first day that we passed out fliers. The mountains here are beautiful. I think that we're done now. Caite, Danielle and I were the first ones in the car so we were making our way to the back when Derek pushed the gas. It was more then a little tap becase i went flying and soared into an empy row. Danielle asked Derek to do it again so she could get it on tape, Catie started Lauging and Derek started apologizing./ We're back at the church now. Andrew (the only college guy that went) was passed out on the chairs, but how he's sitting up again./ Now we are at Chilies(i really don't like chilies very much)/ Passing out fliers was really fun today./ I'm back in my room. Elise is on-line. WE got home early today, which was nice. When we got home i crawed into bed and almost fell asleep, but Catie checking her blog woke me up and made me decide that i wanted a blog. So i got one.

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My sister Beth

Well if you visit Caties blog you probably already have read this story, but i'd like to tell a different version of it. So as you can guess this certain post is about my sister who just recently turned 18 and is, no doubt about it, the biggest blonde clutz i have ever encountered. So i get up this morning and am going school when the phone started to ring. My mom went to go pick it up. Suddenly i hear her gasp before she breaks out into uncontrolable giggles. As it turned out last night at around 3 am my sister and her friend were asigned our neighbors house to t.p.(it was senior ditch day today and t.p. the juniors night last night) If you want the story my mom heard from our neighbor Mrs. Rowlands just go to Caties blog. When i was told the story by my mom i too started laughing, but when i heard my sisters version......well i kinda lost it. When she got home and we all sat down at the table mom and i looked at her expectantly. So she began her story. Last night, she had gotten a call from her friends asking her to come to their house because they were going to t.p. the juniors. They were asigned a group and given probably a list of names of the juniors they were supposed to t.p., and, of course, Beth got Johnny. So she and her friends got in their car and went to t.p. johnny, this is her story,(i will relate it as best i can) " my friend and i got to his house around 12(acually it was 3 according to mrs rowlands) i knew right away that we were going to get caught because i saw that the windows were open, but i dissmissed the thought. so i'm being really quite and careful, but my friend had no such intentions. first she dropped her keys, then she was being really loud unwrapping the toilet paper. Suddenly the door flies open and I hear machine gun fire!!! i almost wet my pants when i saw Mr. Rowlands shooting at us!! i quickly dived behind their car with the thought of 'he's acually shooting at us!' in my mind. My friend ran off to her car with Catie behind her," and well, you know the rest. =) if you don't just visit Caties blog. You'll be in for a very good story if you do.

Princess Pink

Day (3)

(another extract from journal)

Today is Easter Sunday. We're in the car on our way to pick up Bethany and BreAnn. Last night we watched parts of 2 movies on T.V. We found Stephanies camera and took a video singing happy easter. (i just watched everybody else make a fool of themselves =D)/ Now we are at church and i'm sitting between Emma and Elise waiting for church to begin...../ This is too cool! i totally forgot that the Lins were going to be here. It was fun getting to see them/ Church was amazing. I have never been in a service when i acually listened to the whole thing. I'm on my way to Wall Mart, i think, to do some game that jeramy has planned./ That is one of the weirdest games i have ever played. But hey at least it was fun. When we got to the store each person was given 1$ and was told to go into the store and buy as many things as they could for that one $. After the game we went back to the church and now my side hurts cause everybodys making me laugh so hard. *sigh* that's so annying. So far we have pretty much just hung out at the church. I watched everybody play apples to apples. Then we went to Sonic and now we are vack at the church again sitting in the pews waiting to hear the panel of converted mormons give their testamonies./ I'm back at my host familys house and Catie, Elise and Danielle are sharing what they learned. It was so amazing hearing them (the panel) talk and tell what their life had been like and what they had been through.

Princess Pink

Day (2)

(extract from journal)

Last night i stayed up reading. I could NOT get to sleep for about 3 reasons. (1) The hall light was on (2) i had a computer in my room that had a constantly playing slideshow that was very bright and (3) One of the wats would not leave me alone! First it came up on my lap, then it sprawled completely over me. When i finally went to bed the cat crawled under the covers with me. When i turned onto my other side the cat moved also and put it's paw on my hand. lol, it was pretty funny. This morning i got up (not right away of course) and Derek picked us up in the van and now we are on our way to Temple Square./ Right now we are sitting in an upstairs room at Sandra Tanner's house. She is a Christian who used to be a Mormon. She will be giving us some helpful details about the Mormon religion./ After we went to listen to Mrs. Tanner we went to the Hard Rock Cafe(i'll be posting pic of the Cafe soon) It is so AWESOME!!! Righ now i am sitting at a table with Catie, Michelle, Elise, Salli, BreAnn, Amy, Derek and Danielle. The cafe is huge and has pictures, posters, costumes and guitars covering it's walls. There is a T.V. sporting mostly music concert things wherever you look. We should be getting our food soon, so now i'm going to go show Michelle, Elise and Catie, the pretty pink dress that i found upstairs with Emma./ After we were done with lunch we went to look around a nearby mall./ Now we're at Temple Square. They have gorgeous flowers here!(i'll be putting up pics of the flowers) we will be taking a tour, hopefully soon./ Wow! now we are sitting in front of a collosal statue of Jesus,(we are finally on the tour) The walls have pictures of the universe on them./ We just got out of the church of later-day saints conference center. The conference room was HUGE! It was unbelivable! now we are in a room listening to our tour guides./ When we were done touring, we were driven to a mall where we got dinner and i went with Emma, Chelsea, Catie, Michelle and Elise to some fun stores./ So now i am sitting on my bed with a stomache ache and a suitcase to clean. *sigh* i'd better go do it. Thank you God for a beautiful day.......

Princess Pink

my mission trip to utah: day 1

like i said in my other post, i recently(well not that recently) got back from a mission trip to utah with my jr. high group from church. the following posts will be in order of what happened on my mission trip. the posts will be comming directly from my journal.

April 6th 07 Mision Trip to Utah Day (1)

This morning i finally finished packing at like, 8 in the morning(we were supposed to be at the church at 8:30) We picked up Catie and Michelle(our neighbors) and headed to the church at about 8:35. Bethany, Emma, Chelsea(all girls from my Jr. High group) Amy(a college person) Mr. Codding(Bethanys dad) and I are all in a car together dricing down to Sacramento./(the slashes signify the time laps between each journal entry) Chelsea me and Catie (in that order) are sitting next to each other on the plane. Cody, Max and Riston(Jr. High boys) are in front of us and Elise, Michelle and Alexa(Jr. High girls) are across from us./ Catie was my 'buddy' for lunch. Jeramy gave each pair 20$. Catie, me , Elise, and Michelle went to Burger King(yuck) adn sat together. Elise got a HUGE burger. Jeramy came by and told her not to let the burger eat her. (oh, just in case my readers are wondering, Jeramy is our Jr. High pastor) I got a couple good pics of her eating it. Catie and i slpit something sense neither of us were very hungry. Chelsea and Catie are both eating sunchips nect to me and the chips smell weird. Chealsea and i were going to watch "freedom writers," but the plane ride isn't long enough.(for once) Instead we're listening to music that is thankfully free(the movies weren't) Catie is playing brick on her ipod(never could get past the first 2 levels) sense i have her headphones./ We are here safely and are now waiting to get a car. Everyone is taking pics./ The rest of the ride we played M*A*S*H. Bethany me and Catie are in the back. Right now we are sitting at a country store called 'Cracker Barrel'./ Now I am at my host familys house with Danielle(Catie and I's college person) Elise and Catie. Righ now we are watching 'The Sound of Music'. I forgot my devotional in Mr. Coddings car(oops). Elise and Danielle will be staying in the back room, Catie will be in the living room on the fold out couch and i will be on the futon(sp?)

so that is pretty much it for the first day of my mission trip. i'll be posting more about that week later but for now.....my fingers are very tired.......

Princess Pink