We're here!

We finally  arrived in Vegas!

We started off this afternoon after church.

We drove for quite a while in the car.

I was pretty dang excited.

Look at how exciting this is!

We started off with about 151,472 miles on the gauge.

Which...would have been more helpful if we knew where we ended. :P

Kyle hung in a hat.

Our other stuffed animals had a council.

Yeah, we're a little crazy. ;)

Katelyn was so excited! :D

That's how big my mosquito bite was. :C

The horizon looked kind of cool.

And I drove!!

Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle!

The sunset was pretty sweet.

And then it became dark.

Katelyn was sleepy.

I was still excited and hopeful.

Cheesy smile to photograph Katelyn!

Look at that Las Vegas light-line.

Oh, yeah. I'm awesome, in Vegas.

Bright lights baby.

yes...

Silly child.

I'm a little obsessed with picture taking...

When we first arrived!

Look at that blue, it's epic sauce.

Oh look, my aunt! :)

The fat, pregnant Daisy dog!

Shaidyn and Lexie were up to greet us.

Daisy, you're so lazy. And your belly is silly. :P

Oh how I've missed them.

Mom was excited to arrive.

Look at that fat dog.

Too bad Tyson wasn't there...

And Minnie was asleep...
So Daisy got lots of attention.

No Daisy, you're not supposed to be on the couch! Silly dog. :P

Shaidyn's gecko (is that what it is?)

It was pretty sweet.

Lexie has a plethora of My Little Ponies.

Holy crud, look at those.

And she made me play with them (she's only 5 1/2, but look how big she is!)

Kenzie was up too. Haven't seen her in a while.

Wow...distorted fat dog picture.

She sleeps funny. Tee hee. :D

Goodnight y'all! ;)

HAPPY BIRFDAY BETH!!!

Today is a momentous occasion.

Today is the day that my best friend, Beth Foley turns 16.

It's quite exciting.

She really is an amazing person.

We like to draw with chalk :)

(That's a T exploding with pink and yellow streams of lava)

We play at parks

(We really are quite immature)

We chill at Heather's house.

She makes funny faces in pictures :)

She looks ravishing

She draws fruit in my yearbook

(And other exciting things)

She gets bored sometimes...

We chill a lot in grass

(Last year I missed her birthday party at Sami's, but I heard it was epic)

She's deserving of a duck cake.

She plays a wicked flute solo

(Don't we look lovely?)

She pulls off a mean mustache.

We dress up epically in neon clothes :D

We randomly dance!

She did Science Demo

(She was the curtain mistress)

She has great dexterity and balance

She looks awesome in my hat

And she was a stage manager for two plays :)

She's pretty much one of the coolest people I've ever met.

Love you Beth!!

Happy Birthday Beth!

A Magical Land, Far, Far Away...

I'm going to Las Vegas tomorrow.
I'll see my cousins...
But mostly I'm going to get some cool stuff for a great deal. :)
I'll stay there tomorrow and Monday night.
And on Tuesday, we (my mother, sister, and I) will go to Cedar City.
And we're going to see two plays.
I'm rather excited. :D
It's gonna be a great week.

Amazing Book Ending

Today I rediscovered a book ending that I loved once.
The book was Forbidden Sea.
It pretty much made me feel giddy.
I wrote it all by hand one night.
Sometimes I wish life was like this. :D

I’d never seen anything as sad and pitiful as the battered-looking figure sitting on the damp beach, his back hunched, head buried against his knees. In an instant, I recognized the old cap and the mass of red curls hanging in wet ringlets about his head. His clothes were heavy and wet upon his body, as if he’d jus come from the water.
“Denn?” I spoke softly, not wanting to startle him.
His head snapped up in surprise. He looked at me with blurry, red eyes, his freckled cheeks a raw pink. I stared in amazement. Had he been crying? Never in my whole life had I seen Denn Young cry. As I watched, his expression changed from one of complete wretchedness to utter amazement.
“Adri? Denn said in a disbelieving whisper.
I nodded.
“ADRIANNE!”
Denn sprung up with the speed of a cat, sweeping me into his arms. Encircling my waist, he lifted me high into the air, spinning me around and around. I clutched him around his neck in surprise. When we finally drifted to a stop I felt dizzy—not all of it due to spinning.
Denn set me on the ground and gripped me by the shoulders, as if to reassure himself I wasn’t a figment of his imagination.
“Is it really you, Adri?” Denn’s voice had a breathless quality, as if he’d been running a long distance. “How can it be? I jumped in—diving and searching for you for yours—but you were gone. Gone forever. I couldn’t go home and face your mother. I’ve been sitting here all night.” He stopped dead, a troubled look rippling over his handsome features. “You’re not going back, are you? I mean, it’s not like Lady Lauretta?”
I looked into Denn’s face and saw true fear lurking in his eyes. Fear of losing me. He’d missed me after all.
“I’m not going back, Denn. This is where I belong.”
Denn hugged me against him, my chin pressed snug against his shoulder, his left hand cradling my head, the right hand pressed deep in the small of my back. His heart pounded hard against mine. Never had I been so close to Denn. Never had he touched me with such fierce tenderness, as if I were a treasure too valuable to let go. It felt so right.
I slipped my arms around his waist and let myself melt into his embrace, not caring what might happen next. For this one moment, Denn was completely mine.
I heard a familiar voice, a simple whisper in my mind.
Why not?
Denn jumped, jarring my chin painfully from its comfortable place. Drawing back from me, he looked around in confusion. I gazed up at him, my pulse racing. Had he heart Jendayi’s voice, too?
“What’s the matter?” I asked.
“It was nothing. I just—” He looked at me. A look unlike any he’d given me before—tender, full of possibilities. He rested his strong hands on my shoulders, squeezing them between his fingers. His eyes narrowed. Releasing me, he moved backward a step, his gaze moving over me slowly from top to bottom. What was he looking so gob smacked about all of a sudden? I looked down at myself and about swallowed my tongue.
Oh blessed day, I’d completely forgotten I was still trussed up in that horrifically fancy blue dress. Water dripped from its hem as it clung to my body in a most improper fashion. Denn tried not to stare, but failed utterly. I touched the top of my head in alarm and discovered the golden combs were still in my hair as well. I must have looked like some sort of waterlogged royalty washed up from a shipwreck.
As if in a daze, Denn took off his hat, and twisted it nervously between his hands. I’d always imagined Denn removing his hat for me someday, but now that it had happened, I felt strangely nervous.
“The mermaid was right,” Denn said lowering his gaze. “I’ve been a fool.”
“What else is new? Put your hat back on, Denn. I’m not Cora Lynn,” I said.
He stared at his cap as if he’d never clapped eyes on it before, but he didn’t put it back on. “No, you’re not Cora Lynn. Putting on for her was so easy for me. That should have been my first clue something wasn’t right. I need to have my head examined for being such a dashed idiot.”
“You’re not that much of an idiot. Cora Lynn is awfully beautiful.”
“So are you,” Denn risked another glance at me, his eyes lingering on my face. “I don’t know why I couldn’t see it before.”
“It’s this silly dress. It’s gone and made you feverish in the brain. If you keep this up, Denn, you’ll turn spoony on me. I don’t think I could stand it. I’ve always loved you exactly as you are. No frills.”
“I didn’t exactly return the favor, did I?” Denn asked.
“No. you never did.” I could feel the traitorous unshed tears burning in my eyes.
Denn cupped my chin in his hand, tracing his fingers along my cheek. There was something new in his touch. Something I’d long given up hope of ever finding there. Now that it had come, I found myself trembling.
It was exciting but uncharted territory for Denn and me. Something inside us wanted to boldly sail forth, but neither of us quite knew how to begin.
Not yet, anyway.
Denn reluctantly dropped his hand. Fumbling awkwardly with his hat for a few moments, he placed it crookedly back on his head. Without thinking, I reached up and straightened it. Denn smiled down at me, ridiculously pleased. I knew then I would never be sorry for leaving behind the handsome Sea Prince in his perfect palace. He was not my Denn. My wonderful, red-headed best friend. We grinned at each other as if the whole world was a brand-new delightfully wonderful place.
Denn bowed low before me, his old teasing smile returning. “I will see you home, lovely lady.”
I grinned mischievously up at him. “Yes, you may walk me home Mr. Young.”
I watched as his ears turned pink. He looked a little uncertain as he spoke. “Uh, I meant—I mean—may I walk you home?”
“I said you could.” I admit I enjoyed the moment far too much.
Denn lifted the edge of his cap for a moment to scratch his head, completely baffled about how to proceed on such uncertain ground.
“You’ll have to let me sneak inside the cottage alone, though,” I said. “this dress will be hard enough to explain away. Can you imagine Auntie Minnah’s reaction if I also had to try and explain why I was supposedly out with you all night?”
Denn blinked in dumbstruck silence. I don’t think he’d thought of it in quite that light before.
“Oh, come on you dolt. Let’s go before my family wakes up and finds me missing.” With a playful toss of my head, I ran up the beach, my bare feet kicking up soft sand. Denn’s heavier boots soon pounded after me.
I ran, laughing with pure joy into the salty wind. The sound of the ocean roared all around us. I felt like singing.
Finally I was where I’d always wanted to be.

I love it!!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2

Yeah, I just got back a little while ago.

I loved it.

Some quick notes:

• Hermione really makes an awful Bellatrix Lestrange.
• "Hermione! When have any of our plans actually worked?" -Harry
• I love Neville. He is honestly the best.

Harry: "I realize it's not much to go on."
Seamus: "That's nothing to go on."

Seamus: "There's only one Harry."
Ron: "Shut up, Seamus."

• "I can bring it down." -Seamus
• McGonagall Rocks!
• "I've always wanted to use that spell!" -McGonagall

Lupin: "It's the quality of one's work, not the quantity of workers that determines success."
Kingsley: "Who said that?"
Lupin: "Me."

• Hermione's To Do: 1. Have life threatening experience. 2. Destroy Horcrux. 3. Make out with Ron.
• (Pulls himself up) "That went well." -Neville
• (Runs screaming) "Goyle set the bloody place on fire!" -Ron

Harry: We can't leave them!
Ron: He's joking, right?

• "If we die for them Harry, I'm gonna kill you!" -Ron
• Snape. I'd just like to say. Thank you for being awesome.
• Haha, harry died. ;)
• "It looks like King's Cross Station...only cleaner." -Harry
• "Of course it's happening inside your head, harry. Why should that mean it's not real?" -Dumbledore
• Voldemort has a fat head.
• "Not my daughter, you bitch!" -Mama Weasley, yeah go!

Seriously. Holy Stud Muffin. 

And some other quotes.

The end. :D  

I passed!

I got my AP Test score today.
As you may know, I took AP Chemistry this year.
I took AP Chemistry...as a sophomore...with no previous experience.
Anyway, it kind of sucked.
But today, I got my score in the mail.
And I got a three.
So Huzzah! :D

I never really knew the extent of his talent...

Hugh Jackman is amazing.
Honestly.
I never really knew he could sing until this year.
But he's just awesome.
And I love his humor.
Huzzah for the Tony's! (2009?)

1776-The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Haha :)
This is kind of cool.
Because his name is John (or Johnny).
And really, that guy is evil.
Huzzah with enthusists with too much time on their hands!!

"It's Getting Better"

Wow...I can't believe I never discovered this before.
I also can't believe they actually created this.
This is legend-wait for it-dary!
See this.

Giveaways are fun :)

So I follow a bunch of reading blogs.
Because they always have new interesting books to review.
And sometimes they have give-aways,
Which is awesome. :)
And this one Blog is doing a giveaway.
So, that's cool. :D

More Things to Love

I love dressing up Mr. Freckle on special occasions.
I love staying up late reading an awesome book.
I love collecting crazy quotes and using them.
I love eating otter pops with my bros and sis.
I love sitting with my cat in my lap.
I love dreaming of all the things I might do someday.
I love sitting around watching Yu-Gi-Oh.
I love writing emails to my friend Beth.
I love mini golfing (failingly).
I love driving in 25 mph zones.
I love taking random pictures.
I love learning new songs and lyrics.
I love reminiscing with my friends.
I love making a plan.
I love my life. :)

It was worth it though...

I stayed up way too late last night.
I was kind of up until 2 doing a puzzle with my mummsy and sister...
And then, even though I was kind of tired,
I made the mistake (but a wonderful mistake) of starting one of the books I read last night.
And then I was up until after 5...
So after getting only five hours of sleep...
And being book high last night,
I'd just like to say:
Two-Way Street, Thanks you for being so awesome.
Your language may be foul, and your content mature, but you were SO funny!
Huzzah! :D
(I wish I had another book by Lauren Barnholdt right now!)

Huzzah! New Books. :)

I went to Barnes and Noble today.
I had $20.
Huzzah!
I bought two new books. :D

Crush Control
and
Two-Way Street

Love my life! :D

Happy 4th

It's the fourth of July, yippee. :P
I spent the time from 11-12 filling and tying water balloons.
It is officially the worst job ever.
My fingers were killing me by the end.
But I survived.

And then I had a delicious lunch/dinner type thing at about 3.
Chicken sandwich, hot dog, chips, cherries, and root beer.
Om nom nom. :)

Mr. Freckle got in the spirit. :P













Fireworks tonight.
And the month + surrounding this day.
I dislike fireworks. >:C
But I guess I'll live.

Happy 4th.

OMG!!

Hugh Jackman, I never thought I'd say this...
But...I love you.
Thank you so much for being so awesome.
Because of you, I get to see epic Les Miserables.
Huzzah!
I only wish it could be sooner. ;)

(click here)

Hahahaha :)

This is the essence of Divine Comedy.

Epicness.

Huzzah for Evil! :P

YouTube on Blogs

So why won't this work on my account?
It works just fine on Mr. Freckle's Blog.
But noooo...apparently no YouTube Videos for me. :C
(I guess I'll just have to use his Blog to get them.)

Harry Potter 7

As we all well know, the very last Harry Potter movie is approaching.
And so, in order to prepare myself, I currently behold Part 1.
And in honoring the movie, I feel the need to link this to my favorite scene.
The Seven Potters.

That is all, I give my permission for you to return to your own insignificant lives.

Fred: How do you feel, George.
George: Saintly.
Fred: What?
George: I'm holey. (Points to the lack of his ear).

Ron: Oh no, what am I gonna do? My wife's all alone downstairs.
Harry: Ron, you don't have a wife.

Oh yes. :D

Om nom nom

Today I went to Juice Press. Twice.

Once with Heather.

and once with Katelyn.

I got only one though.
It was a Raspberry Retreat.
And it was delicious.
Love Juice Press. :)
Huzzah!

And while I was there, I saw this awesome bag.

Happy July Everyone...

So it's officially July.
Yay! (Kind of)
This shall be an exciting month.
Some exciting things that are happening this month:

Firstly, my very awesomest friend
Beth Foley is turning 16 on the 17th.


Secondly, my awesomely awesome guy friend,
Jon LeBaron is also turning 16...on the 17th


And my crazy awesome friend
whom I've known since we were both basically babies,
Rachel Davis is also turning 16...on the 17th!


Yeah, that's right, I know three (actually four, but three good friends)
people, all the same age, turning 16 on the same day. Huzzah! :D

And on the 21st, an awesome seqel comes out. Uncommon Criminals!
The sequel to Heist Society, by Ally Carter. Yay! :)

Also happening in July, things that have to happen, but I kind of wish didn't:

The 4th Celebration-where many of my insane relatives will
come to my house and be loud and somewhat annoying.
Fortunately my grandfather brings delicious homemade rootbeer.

Girls Camp-July 28-30

And it'll keep getting hotter and hotter. :C

And other things...which I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Should be an interesting month...