Heavens To Betsy's Good Gravy

I hope that you all enjoyed the title of this post. I just like saying that sometimes. So yesterday was the 4th of July and I had such a fun time. I woke up much to early and went to a breakfast at the stake center. Then I went home and put on my funky costume for the Rupert parade. ( I was helping for the Dance Festival, by the way that is the last week of July.) Anyway I had a good time doing that and it was pretty fun. After the parade, we went to my cousin's Grandma's house to eat lunch. It was so yummy. We had pulled pork sandwiches with two salads, fruit, chips, and a yummy drink. After that we kinda sat around waiting for our parents to take us boating. During that time, me and Connor and my cousin Ceci went to buy some tanning oil cuz we didn't want sunscreen. The oil smelt like,and ok if you can understand this, it smelt like how a tiger's blood flavor snow cone tastes. Confusing I know but that is like the only way I can describe it. Anyway we went boating and had a wonderful time. Oh a while back we went to the Regatta and I took some sweet pics so I will post those too.( See if you can find a hidden pic in one of them)

I Was Right!

I was right. Girls camp was sooooooo much fun. I can't tell you all of the gory details but I can tell you that it was sooo wet and rainy. On Wednesday we had a hike and a devotional in the mid-morning. Then we went to a fun project. We were decorating black flip-flops with water balloons. (and it was ironic because it was raining a little when we were doing this.) I didn't finish all the way, but neither did most people. We went swimming after we made our flip-flops. We all looked so cute in our pink camp shirts with our bandannas and our flip-flops! And most of us had crazy hair. I will put on a picture of my after camp hair as soon as I can. After we went swimming and had a fun time we came back to find that one of two tents, mine and eight other people's was leaking. We rolled everything out of the way and tried to cover everything while we ate dinner. Right after dinner was picked up, it started pouring and we were all trying to keep our belongings dry. We had a back-up plan. Since we were about ten minutes from Lava Hot Springs, and my Grandparent's own a house up there, we went to stay there. Our YCL's told us to pack everything we needed except our mats. So here I am trying to pack all of my crap into all the bags I can find. We were all so stressed out and tired and we just wanted a bed at that point. Anyway, we got to the cabin, (house) and UNLOADED everything we had packed before. Anyway, all was well that ended well and we had a great girls camp.

Girls Camp

I am so excited to finally go to girls camp. You know when I turned 12 it was bitter- sweet. I mean I was happy that I was finally involved with tons of fun stuff, but I was sad because I had missed the temple celebration by 10 days. I know it was a test of my faith and I wasn't going it alone. Connor missed the trek by a few days so I think he knows how it feels. I also missed Stake Girls Camp but there were two other girls from my ward that missed it too. And both these experiences taught me a lesson; the Lord works in ways that would not always be our own. Life goes on and I will have plenty of fun adventures. Oh, I forgot, I am going to apply for the traveling team in clogging. Next year they are taking a tour I think in Portugal (most likely) and I have a slight chance of making the team. You have to be 14, but by then I will be 13 and very nearly 14. Anyway I will just wait to see what happens.

One of the best things in the world is..........

NEW MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, thanks to the help of Jessica, I saw the preview of

New Moon the movie. My Jasper is still gorgeous! especially when he

almost kills Bella. And I will admit that Jacob is hot. From what I have seen, it looks like it will be

so much better than Twilight. They even got the phasing right. I think that with a new director,

the movie will be a thousand times better. I also heard that they tried

to put everything form the book into movie form. Anyway, I really want to see it

like so bad. Thanks Jessica, you saved me.

TEAM JASPER ALL THE WAY!

This is pretty interesting!

Hey so there are a few things I will be doing this summer and I thought you might be interested in them.

1. Go to Retreat For Girls w/ my friend from Nebraska
2. Read
3. Go boating and tubing
4. International Dance and Music Festival
5. Read............................
6. Babysit
7. Play with friends
8. Sleep....... get some Z's in there.
9. Huh....... well maybe other stuff too.
10. Read some- wait did I mention that.
11. Whoops sorry!
12. Pretty exciting.

Coolio!*

Ok so I was playing around on my computer with pictures and such and I happened to find out how to add text to it. So this is what turned out. Anyway it also let me post it on my blog. Coolio!

Is It Spring YET?

Well howdy to all of y'all out there. Um, I don't know what was with the whole Western freakishness but- anyway, I made some changes to my playlist and my blog description. One song I put on there is very strange for a 12 year old girl, but I always sing it with my class. Speaking of school, the last few days just seem to drag just to annoy you, am I right? Well there are only like 2 weeks left and I am SO excited! The only thing that would make spring better is, warm weather, although rain does get me out of mowing the lawn. Well, today is only the first day of May, so weather is unexpected. For all I know, it could snow tomorrow.