jamie

friends

2011-06-05T07:44:00.001-07:00

I love all my friends so much!! I just can't explain how lucky I am to have the friends I have.

Productions End of Year Party. I am going to miss all the Seniors so so much now that graduation is over :( We sat around the campfire and talked, played WOLF, (which is why all our eyes are closed) and just had a ton of fun!
I never thought I would love theatre as much as I now do. I am really glad I decided to try it.

Productions party day 2. The next morning we went to Denney's for breakfast.

Some of the Laurels in the ward. I have a great ward!

Last day of School... :( Although I have to go back next year, I still can't describe how sad I am that the seniors aren't coming back.

Yesterday me and Juli went to Jordan's graduation BBQ. Below is Jord and above is his little brother. Too cute!!

Pro Start

2011-06-02T15:32:00.000-07:00

Pro Start is my cooking class at school. It is more complex than just a regular foods class. Instead of making food for ourselves and learning, we make food for customers, and we are forced to be creative and to try new things. It is such a great class. I can't even wait for it next year.

Our final project was to design and make a cake. Any size, any shape, any design. We chose to do a strawberry theme. Someone stole our cakes, so we ended up with a chocolate and an Oreo cake instead of strawberry cakes, but it still tasted good. I am very pleased with our outcome!

We used butter cream frosting and fondant for the dots, the ladybugs, the strawberries and the bow. We did not have time for the bow to harden, so it is sinking in the pictures, but it was really cute! haha

Dates

2011-05-31T14:03:00.000-07:00

Dates for my shows...
AUTUMN FEAST: October 3rd
DRACULA: October 26th- November 5th
CHRISTMAS CAROL: December 1st-5th
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: April 19th-30th

senior year

2011-05-29T08:33:00.000-07:00

As I have said many times before, I am scared of growing up. Next year will be my Senior Year! I am definitely excited, but I am super nervous. I don't know where I want to go to college, or what I want to do when I am older. In the mean time I am just trying to enjoy high school as much as I can. With the news I got yesterday, It's going to be quite easy to do just that!

Yesterday was our "Shawscars" which is like the Oscars for our productions class. Mrs. Shaw and the Theatre Officers choose awards (Best Female Actress, Best Male Actor, Best quote of the year, Best on stage mishap, etc.) to give out to students who work hard and fill that title. All the Seniors who are leaving can do a showcase to dance, sing, or do a monologue to show the new coming sophomores what we are all about. I won the award for "Best Female Ensemble Member". This is the award that I wanted really bad, so I am way glad I won!

Finally that night, it is announced what parts everyone will be in the upcoming shows. We already knew we would be doing "Fiddler on the Roof", but it was a surprise when Mrs. Shaw told us 3 other shows we would be doing...

First off will be our "Shakespeare's Autumn Feast". We did this last year. It is more of a fundraiser than a show. It is a one night dinner and show. We base everything as if it were back in Shakespeares time. We have servants, beggars, wine wenches, fairies, and the King and Queen. While the people are eating, we have students preform monologues from Shakespeare. Last year I was one of the fairy dancers. This year I am lucky enough to play the part of Titania! She is the Queen of the Fairies. She is the main dancer, and after the dance she gets to sit with the King and Queen and eat. She also has some lines. I was really really excited to get this part.

Our first real show is going to be the play "Dracula". I have never seen this play, so I am excited to read through it and see what it is all about. I will be playing a Vexen, which is a female vampire. I am really excited to take on this part!

Our second play is going to be a bit smaller. It is "A Christmas Carol". I have never loved the movie my family owns of Christmas Carol, but I liked reading the book, and I liked a different version of the movie that I watched. I am really excited to be doing this. I got the part of Ghost of Christmas Past. I would have never expected doing this play, let alone getting to be this part. I am definitely excited to do this!

And last, but definitely not least, was the moment all of us were waiting for. Auditions for "Fiddler on the Roof" were crazy. A lot of us were there until after 9:00 at night. We just kept singing, reading, and dancing for different parts. When we auditioned, I read for the part of Hodel (The middle daughter. She is strong willed like her mother. She falls in love with Perchick, the young student.) at least six times. I also sang for her and danced for her. I really wanted this part. I thought I might get it, but I didn't want to get my hopes up just in case. So when last night came, I was crossing my fingers for this part. I luckily got the part I wanted. I will be playing Hodel next year! This part is going to be a real challenge for me, but I am going to work really really hard. She sings in 4 songs- Matchmaker, Sunrise Sunset, Now I Have Everything, and Far From the Home I Love. I have never had to sing with a microphone on stage before. I have a little bit of stage fright, so hopefully all goes well.

Last night went a lot better than expected. Next year is my first time with solos and lines, but I am willing to rise to whatever challenge is necessary to fulfill my part as best I can!

Sorry I usually don't write this much, I just really want to remember every detail!

Family

2011-05-25T15:32:00.000-07:00

We had to retake family pictures with Amanda.

With so many of us, its hard to get good ones of all of us... We did pretty good though.

My family is so crazy! haha but I definitely like them...

wedding

2011-05-25T15:13:00.001-07:00

Kyle and Amanda Spackman

May 21st 2011

Logan Temple

Andrea, Mallory, Me.

Best Friends of Amanda.

Back of Amanda's BEAUTIFUL dress.

Emily, Me, Mindee.

Derek, Quinn, Kendall, Brian, Travis, Marshall, Mark

The whole family.

What a happy day!

We are such goofs, but we're cool ;)

Marshall is such a cutie!

It was such a beautiful day, and there were the prettiest flowers!

The boys.

The girls.

I love my sister so so much! She is seriously amazing... I love it every time someone says I look like her or that I remind them of her. I want to grow up to be just like her!

I love cakes. This one was absolutely beautiful.

Cute 60s theme.

Andrea, Hayley, Me.

Me, Natalie, Cheyna, Amanda, Andrea, Michelle, Danielle.

It turned out to be a fantastic day!

Welcome to our crazy fun family Amanda :)

lovin' life

2011-05-07T07:55:00.000-07:00

I never really have anything to post. Right now I am just lovin' life!! So many good things are happening :)

**I got one of the leads in "Holding Out For a Hero" that we are doing in our One-Acts, which are Monday.
**I got a job at the Syracuse 6 Movie theater.
**I just barely tried out for the Syracuse summer musical, "The Music Man." I am hoping for the part of Zanetta.
**Auditions for next year's musical is next week. We are doing "Fiddler on the Roof". I will have to do my research on that one.
**My brothers came home from college yesterday. Its always nice having them home.
**Only one more month left of school. Then I am a SENIOR!!! Although I am deathly afraid of college and deciding what I want to do, this is exciting.
**Kyle is getting married in two weeks from today.

Everything is just great in my life right now. I have really been blessed!

Easter

2011-04-25T18:47:00.000-07:00

Easter was really fun this year! We had an Easter music fireside on Friday that Dad, Mom, Quinn, and I sang in. Everyone came home, except the Mesquite clan. Everyone invited dates, and it was really fun.

Look at my pretty table decorations. :)
The whole fam!
Three legged race easter egg hunt.

Sunday we dyed Easter eggs!

These are all the eggs.

These are my masterpieces. :)

jr. week

2011-04-21T16:18:00.001-07:00

We didn't get pictures everyday...

Monday: Pajama Day

Me and Jules both wore footie pajamas! Mine were dinosaur and hers were spaceships. We put our hair in high pigtails with matching bows. It was so cute :)

Tuesday: Neon Day

I just wore a bright dress, bright socks, and yeah...

Wednesday: Nerd Day

Yup... haha
Thursday: Hawaiian Day
Look how cute we look :)
Tomorrow is pretty much a Spirit Day.

Spring Break 2011

2011-04-06T19:20:00.000-07:00

I love Spring Break and I love my family. Its been an amazing week!!

Just Dance

2011-04-03T08:31:00.000-07:00

Words cannot explain how much I love the game Just Dance. It is seriously so fun, and a great workout I might add. We played on saturday night. We only got pictures of Parker and Jordan though... they were playing the song Big Girl by Mika! haha

These boys are so gosh dang funny!

conference

2011-04-03T08:27:00.000-07:00

Went to the Saturday afternoon session of Conference. It was great to be there :)

Bryson, me, Andrea, Joey

We had a really good time!

Peter Pan

2011-03-31T16:22:00.000-07:00

Peter Pan went amazingly. We got amazing reviews! Of course we had to take some crazy pictures... haha

jake, andrea, me, hayley me :)

me and andrea

hayley, andrea, me

andrea, hayley, me

We made these cute headbands with the kiddos inbetween shows. I couldn't resist making them for all of us!

me and my new sister! haha

And now the good pictures that mindee took!

andrea, me, hayley, joey

andrea, me, hayley

aka (pirate, indian, mermaid)

Me and mindee and derek. Derek was so lucky to get the part of michael when we had too many people drop out. He has never done any acting before, but he was a natural. Everybody loved him!

Flying

Indian dance

I was also asked to be a pirate. We had too many drop out. I am the one holding the spyglass at the top :)

I love dancing, singing, acting, fighting, anything with theatre. It was a great show!

morp 2

2011-03-10T21:23:00.001-08:00

Our shirts.

me, bryson, dallin, haley, alyssa, brant.
dipping chocolates.

mmm ice cream!

we tried spelling tons of words haha here are a couple.

I had such a good time!

Thanks so much Bryson :)

MORP!!!

2011-03-04T21:40:00.000-08:00

*I love high school dances!! Morp is tomorrow. I can't wait...

*our shirts.
*theme is "Wild West".

*me and my cute date Bryson!

* I have practice all day tomorrow, so we did our day date tonight. We came to my house to dip chocolates. Peanut Butter, Idle Isle, and Caramel... mmm mmm mmm!

*more pictures after the dance tomorrow night.

family

2011-02-21T20:18:00.000-08:00

I love my family so so much! This weekend Kyle proposed to Amanda Thomas. Welcome to our crazy family Manda!!!

60's dance

2011-02-20T09:36:00.001-08:00

Last night was a 60's stake dance. I love dances! Devin, Quinn, and I went D.I. shopping... gotta love what they have. Anyways we got some pretty cool outfits!!

meggie's party!!

2011-02-18T22:04:00.000-08:00

Megan is one of my best friends! She has always been there for me, and she is just so stinkin' adorable... Happy 8th Birthday.

I love cooking and decorating. I made flower cupcakes (althought you can't truly tell).

We played Just Dance and High School Musical (the board game).

What a great day. Love ya Meggie!

kid day

2011-02-16T16:07:00.001-08:00

This week is SPIRIT WEEK!!! I love it... today was "be a kid day"

me and andrea
me, andrea, danielle

alyssa and me

danielle, daylen, me

aquarium

2011-02-07T20:33:00.001-08:00

Pictures are in backwards order but this is the boys playing just dance after the dance. They were so funny!
Jeff and his penguin

The penguins diving in, but the glass was way dirty so you couldn't see them very well.

Ben loved the stingray and they all loved him too. They were all seriously crowding around him!

Look and you can see some tiny cute little seahorse!

We made fish cookies, and gave them Swedish fish and goldfish.

We also decorated cute little fish lunch sacks :)

Preference

2011-02-06T14:41:00.000-08:00

Friday night all us girls had a girls night. We painted nails, made our lunches, made cookies, and just hung out. Saturday was Preference. I love love love high school dances! They are the most fun thing in the world.

First I need to show the behind the scenes of it. My mom is amazing and did a ton for the dance. She made my boutonniere and 3 corsages. She also sewed sleeves on my dress and cleaned the house and set up for pictures. What an amazing woman!!

We went to the aquarium for our date. I will put pictures on when I get them.

Me and my date Jeff Herbert. I promise his tie really matched, but the lighting and the flash doesn't make it look like it does haha

Nick and Jacey.

Alex and Joey.

Finally Alyssa and Ben showed up. ;)

Our cute group!!

The men...

Jeff, Nick, Alex, Ben

The girls :)

Joey, me, Alyssa, Jacey

What a fun fun day!

Bucket List

2011-01-30T16:05:00.000-08:00

I have been meaning to make a bucket list and cross things off it for a long time! I keep forgetting. For right now i guess these are my top things. :)

Kiss in the rain. ;) haha
Marry in the Logan Temple.

Go to Jamaica. [or really anywhere tropical]

Swim with dolphins.

Meet David Archuleta.

Go to Carlo's Bakery in New Jersey!

Great Grandma Florence

2011-01-30T15:50:00.000-08:00

My wonderful, fabulous, amazing Great-Grandma Florence Lamb Ashcroft passed away this morning. She lived to be 101. We will miss her so much!

UTA

2011-01-26T15:23:00.001-08:00

I loved UTA! It was amazing... I went to tons of classes about becoming a better actor and building my character. It was the best weekend of my life! I love Andrea Thomas and Jaclyn Arave.

The old Statehouse in Fillmore. Jaclyn's dad brought us here.
dance class

TANGLED!!!!

hotel room at night

mindee took us to the st. george temple

she also took us out to eat at the pasta factory

me and my cute nephew marshall

the indian

our puppets

UNO!!!!!!!

preference

2011-01-15T16:03:00.000-08:00

Asked Jeff Herbert to Preference. Can't even wait!!!

birthday

2011-01-15T16:01:00.001-08:00

Thanks to everyone for making it an amazing birthday!

birthday

2011-01-05T19:43:00.001-08:00

Yep, its my birthday today! I love my birthday :) I don't mean this to sound conceded, but the attention for a day is quite nice haha

17!!!

best of 2010

2011-01-04T18:28:00.001-08:00

Saw that Ashlie did this and I thought it was so cute so i copied her idea. I thought it would be easy, but I ended up putting tons of pictures!!

Sorry this is not in order at all.

Family reunion

Preference with Justin Brough

Homecoming with Tyler Phelps

Sadie's with Jace Saunders

DANCE! I miss it more than I ever thought I would...

My best friend/sister on my team Ali Saunders

Kyle's Homecoming

Baby Marsh Man

Harry Potter 7 premier

Choir Trip

Tangled... a great great movie

This pretty much sums up new years

My birthday

Grease

4 besties! Jaclyn Jamie Hayley and Andrea

I sure love to dance

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The Pageant

Happy New Year!!!

my room

2011-01-04T18:17:00.001-08:00

for ashlie :)

bed
hair and makeup

jewelry

random pictures and such

clothes and trophies

alarm clock

clothes

2010-12-30T10:33:00.000-08:00

1. If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?
I have always wanted long hair :) haha that would be nice if my hair would cooperate and grow!
2. What is one thing you absolutely want to do before you die?
Too many things... I want to go to Jamaica, swim with dolphins, travel EVERYWHERE!
3. Who is your favorite actor/actress?
I really am loving Ryan Reynolds right now (from the proposal and definitely maybe). Mandi Moore did a really good job in Tangled though...
4. Who inspires you the most?
A ton of people... my sister, my young woman's leaders, all the girls in young woman's, my mom, etc.
5. What is the best advice you have ever been given?
BE YOURSELF!! Don't change for anyone. haha that has gotten me through a lot!
6. What is your very favorite book?
The Secret Journal of Brett Colton. I could just read that book over and over again.
7. Give us a tour of your room... pictures please?
I don't have any pictures, and my room is a mess right now, so I might have to do that one later.
8. What is your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?
I love to make cookies, and curl up with my favorite blanket and watch my favorite movies or read a really good book.

christmas

2010-12-25T15:39:00.000-08:00

(my cake!)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

***I got: boots, moccasins, 2 skirts, 4 shirts, a cardigan, jewelry, Surfs Up, David Archuleta CD, trip to the spa, room decorations, etc. It has been an amazing Christmas with everyone home!***

family pictures

2010-12-25T15:28:00.001-08:00

Date

2010-12-19T08:42:00.001-08:00

Yesterday (Saturday December 18th) I went on a date with Josh Luck, and Joey Stenquist took Bekah Jensen. It was so fun. We went to the New Gate mall, the Joseph Smith movie, saw the lights, ate at Dragon Hill, and watched a movie.

Bekah
Bekah and Joey

Josh and me (close up haha)

Josh and me again

Josh and Joey

me and Bekah

Joey and Bekah

Josh and me

Joey and Bekah

Josh and me

Josh and Joey

Joey and Bekah

Josh and me

Bekah and me

Josh and me

Bekah and Joey

Joey Bekah Josh and me

tangled

2010-12-19T08:36:00.000-08:00

Went and saw Tangled on December 23rd with Abbie Lamb. It was such a cute movie. I highly reccoment seeing it!

Christmas

2010-12-13T19:06:00.000-08:00

(Hayley, Jaclyn, Andrea and me with the trees we personally decorated)
I love everything about christmas. The lights, the music, the trees, the presents, the smell :), everything! I love how happy and giving everyone gets. It is truly the greatest time of year!!

choir trip

2010-12-13T18:59:00.001-08:00

Alyssa, Me, Nick

Alyssa, Andrea, Kelton, Me

Jaclyn and Josie

Alyssa and Nick

Grease

2010-11-21T16:44:00.000-08:00

Grease was AMAZING! It turned out to be such a great show, and tons of people came. We got a lot of compliments. I loved everything about it. I can't wait for the other shows.

Me and Greased Lightning
Joey and me

me and mindee

andrea, josh, me

me, josh, andrea

me and jake

me and nick

josh is so dang good!

Greased Lightning

Teen Angel

Thanks for the pictures mindee!

sadies 2010

2010-10-24T09:00:00.001-07:00

Sadie's was a BLAST!!! I had so much fun. Thanks Jace :)

Our group
Vanessa and Tucker

Joey and Megan

Bekah and Jacob

Maddi and Josh

Grant and Haley

Jeff and Alyssa

Jace and me

marshall

2010-10-24T08:57:00.001-07:00

sadie's 2010

2010-10-03T15:28:00.001-07:00

Can't wait for Sadie's!! Its on October 23rd.

I blew up a ton of balloons and in all of them I put a 1 inch piece of paper. On some of the papers I put a letter of my name. Jace had to pop all the balloons until he found the ones with letters and unscramble my name.
Jace came back with 2 big bags of popcorn that I had to search through to find a TINY piece of paper that said yes.

homecoming

2010-09-19T20:20:00.000-07:00

Homecoming week was AMAZING!! I loved it so much...

Monday was painting shirts and the sidewalk. It ended up being a big paint fight.

Tuesday was the shaving cream war. I got it a lot worse than Tyler did!

Wednesday was the giant slip n' slide.

Thursday was the parade.

Friday was the tailgate party and the football game.

Saturday we went to the zoo, out to eat at Zupa's, pictures, out to eat at The Oak, to the dance, and after to Cade's to watch a movie.

The whole group was never there all-together for a picture until the dance, so for now you will just have to see it this way.

My eyes were closed but I guess that is okay...

homecoming 2010

2010-09-02T17:19:00.001-07:00

Baby Marshall

2010-08-08T07:36:00.000-07:00

Joseph cont.

2010-08-08T07:28:00.001-07:00

The show went amazing. We got some amazing comments from people who came. Syracuse Arts council made over double what they made from the last years show. It was such a blast and I will miss these people so so so much!!!

The cast

Brenden, me, Jake

me and Dayne [Joseph]

Megan, me, Kalea

Josh, me, Selina

Bridgette, me, Sarah

me and Jennica

lots of new friends!

Joseph

2010-07-30T09:36:00.001-07:00

Kendall and I are doing the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this summer. It has been a blast. We are both Egyptians and Kendall is also a servant for Potiphar.
Here is us at practice with the kids.

This is Joseph, Jacob, and all the brothers minus one.

Here is Joseph and the Narrators.

This is the kids choir and Joseph.

Come August 5th-7th at Syracuse High School to see us :)

SYTYCD 2010

2010-07-30T09:30:00.001-07:00

So I have pretty much been obsessed with so you think you can dance this year. I have seen every episode multiple times. I love it so much. These are the top 7 that will go on tour. The one on the very left and the last 3 on the right are still on the show. We will see what happenes in 2 weeks at the finale!!

boring

2010-07-30T09:12:00.000-07:00

So I haven't really done much lately. My life is pretty boring... I am just going to put some pictures of me and my friends hanging out :)

girls night/sleepover

2010-07-10T13:18:00.000-07:00

So this whole summer I have just been hanging out with guys. And I love it SO much, but I really needed a night with all the girls!

This is everyone who was on time. 4 others came later, and we didn't get pictures.

FUN TIMES :)

nothing

2010-07-06T21:28:00.001-07:00

I haven't really done much this summer... But I guess that's what its all about!

July 6th, 2010
Me, Brittney, Vanessa, Alyssa :)

Modeling poses haha

Jamie

Brittney

Alyssa

Vanessa

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!!!!!

Pageant results...

2010-06-13T09:13:00.000-07:00

This is my picture from the photo-shoot at Jeff Hodges Photography. He really does an excellent job, but I feel I look funny without freckles :)

me and Ashlie before it started

all the Teen Contestants in our production number outfit

my amazing hostess Lisa Chandler

my dress

and finally my award! I am the Miss Teen Syracuse Attendant :) Its pretty much like saying I got 2nd place.

Thank you to Ashlie Albrecht for helping me with anything I needed. I knew I could always come to you and you would give me the best advice!

Thanks Megan and Ellie for supporting me through this whole thing and cheering me on.

A million thanks to Marla and the rest of the committee and judges for helping me through everything and supporting me.

Thank you Thank you Thank you Lisa for all your hard work, and patience, and commitment, and calming and just everything you did. You are truly amazing.

And I don't have a picture, but thanks to my parents for all their support, emotionally and financially. It all came together because of you!

Thank you to everyone who came and supported me in this. I am so proud to have the most amazing family and friends ever!

Pageant

2010-06-12T07:36:00.000-07:00

Today is the BIG day. Miss Syracuse and Miss Syracuse Outstanding Teen Awards are given. I will just give you a rundown of how the pageant goes, then I will come on tonight or tomorrow and say how i did :S
-First is the Judges interview. I think it is 25% of your total score. They interview you for 7.5 minutes I think, and they are looking for honesty, correct answers, personality, etc.

-Then it is the actual Pageant:
*We start off with the Production Number which is just all the contestants do a simple dance together, and introduce themselves very briefly. I cannot remember how much it is worth, but I know its very small.
*Instead of doing a swimsuit contest, the Miss Teen girls do an active wear. It is worth maybe 15%. We dress up in something that is cute, and active. For example I am doing tennis, so I have a cute tennis outfit, and racket, and I just walk around the stage and hit poses that are cute.
*Next is the Talent Portion. It is worth 35%.
*Our final change is into our evening gowns. First off we walk around the stage, while the M.C's talk about our future goals and our families and such. The judges are looking for poise, smile, manners, etc. I also don't know how much they score us on this.
*Still in our gowns, we have an onstage interview. It is worth 5%. They usually make it more easy, and not something you can get wrong, but just an opinion question. Like for instance, they will not ask who is the mayor, or who is the vice president, but more of like, who in your life is your biggest inspiration, or what color describes you most and why?
*Lastly is our crowning...

PRODUCTIONS!!

2010-05-30T20:50:00.000-07:00

I MADE PRODUCTIONS! Ever since my brother Kyle was in productions, I knew I wanted to do it. I am so glad I am in it this year though. We are doing Grease and Peter Pan!
We will do Grease [musical] in the Fall. We need lots of money for Peter Pan, so with that, we will try to raise lots of money. In Grease I am a dancer. [shocker!]

Peter Pan [play] will be in the spring. I am part of the Indian tribe. This is my first year, so I think they put me in those simple parts to see how well I do. My goal for Sr. Year is to get a part with a name haha. We will see what comes, but in the mean time I am loving life and am so happy with what has been coming my way :)

comp #4

2010-05-16T13:25:00.001-07:00

May 8th, 2010

Kearns High School

It was cool having my sister be there to see me dance. Thanks for the pictures by the way!!!

show routine :)

outkast Sr. hip hop

Lyrical

splits

double stag

toe touches

me and bff Ali!

this is my dance teacher Chera. She has been my teacher for the last 6 years. Thanks for all you do Chera :)

choices...

2010-05-06T14:21:00.000-07:00

choices are always hard for me! I have decided not to dance next year. I am doing the Miss. Teen Syracuse Pageant this summer, and have auditioned for the Syracuse musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat. My next year will be plenty busy anyways...

English Honors
Pre-Calculus
U.S. History
Chemistry
Seminary
A Capella Choir
Pro Start (culinary arts)
and hopefully Productions if i make it :S They are doing Peter Pan and Grease next year!!!!!!

-I am taking Financial Literacy online because I don't have room for it. Also I have one class that I don't know if I can get out of, and if I can't, I will have to take early morning seminary for a semester... We will see what happens :)

comp #3

2010-05-06T14:15:00.000-07:00

May 1st 2010

2nds in all our dances.

Comp #2

2010-04-20T20:31:00.001-07:00

Taylorsville High

April 17th 2010

Jazz: First

Lyrical: Second and High Gold

Team Hip Hop: Second

Group Hip Hop: First and High Gold

Show: First and High Gold

dance comp.

2010-04-03T16:54:00.001-07:00

March 27th 2009

Jazz: 5th

Lyrical: 3rd

Show Routine: 2nd

Not our best, but not TOO bad.

Team Jazz
Team Lyrical

Lots of RWDS girls

Ali and me in Lyrical

Ali and me in Jazz

Kylie, Me, Ali, Bailee :)

LOVE YOU!

more dance pictures

2010-03-14T13:38:00.000-07:00

Ali and me
Kylie, Ali, me

a bunch of us. Katie, Megan, me, Ali, Megan, Kylie, Jancie.

so i discovered that i never really post what is going on in my life.. just pictures. Oh well hahaha

preference 3

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haha this one is probably my favorite :)

dance friends

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bottom to top: Katie, Me, Kylie, Ali, Kyla, Megan M.
left to right: Jancie, Miryka, Ali, Me, Katie, Megan J.

left to right: Me, Bailee, Kylie, Ali.

Elite, Extreme Sr. and Premiere Sr. at dance camp :)

more pictures

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Justin and me
The whole group

All the girls :)

Preference 1

2010-02-28T16:03:00.000-08:00

So Preference was a BLAST!!! Thank you to everyone who helped :)

There were lots of pictures on lots of different camera's so there might be a lot of posts with pictures whenever I get them. We started off rock climbing from 10-12... Justin dominated at it, while I was struggling to even get up haha. After we got ready and at 4 we took pictures, played games, ate, then went to the dance. Afterwards we had ice cream. Talk about a fun first date!

This is my corsage.
And Amanda Thomas did a FANTASTIC job on my hair. It turned out beautiful!

This is me in my dress.

TWIN DAY!

2010-02-23T14:08:00.000-08:00

Today at my school it was twin day. Danielle and I dressed up as twins... and we looked GOOD!

Preference

2010-02-14T15:20:00.000-08:00

Finally got answered to preference haha...

It was really really cute!

16...

2010-02-05T14:08:00.000-08:00

So I always thought when you turned 16 it is supposed to be some major change in your life... mine felt like nothing!

I told myself after 2 things happened I would feel more like a 16 year old. Well #1 was to get my drivers license. That one is done now and I feel closer to maturity. I love being able to drive myself. It is a little scary but the more I do it, the more I like it. My signature looks TERRIBLE though because I have never used one of those machines and couldn't see what I was doing. Oh well I will get over it soon enough I am sure. The second thing to finally make me feel 16 was to go on a date...

Preference is a girls choice dance. I am going, and although I wish my first real date was with someone who had asked me instead of the other way around, I am okay with it. I asked Justin Brough who is a Senior, and who was in my old ward. I am really excited!!!

Makeover

2010-01-19T12:39:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I had cute Megan come over for a makeover. We had lunch, did our nails, makeup, hair, and then took tons of pictures together. It was so much fun!

This was my favorite picture :)
Nails...

Oh man I need a tan!!!

Makeup and Hair...

And pictures!

It was such a blast. We ended up listening to the Hannah Montana c.d, and the High School Musical 1, and 2 c.d's. Thanks for coming Meg, I hope you had as much fun as me ;)

2nd 16th party

2010-01-19T12:34:00.000-08:00

my 2nd 16th birthday party...

alyssa, courtney, josh, me, thomas, hayley, and devin
courtney, me, alyssa

my dinosaur cake... (thanks mom)

It was fun... We just hung out and watched Good Burger! If you haven't seen it, and like random funny movies, you should watch it. Its the BEST!

16TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

2010-01-10T15:29:00.001-08:00

happy birthday to me... happy birthday to me... happy birthday dear Jamie... happy birthday to me!

Yup... i am finally 16! For my party I did the "ultimate holiday"! We just did a bunch of holidays in 3 hours! haha it was tons of fun.
Here are a lot of the people who came. The ones who wore close to on time i mean haha

We started off with St. Patrick's day. We ate green pancakes, green eggs, and green hash browns and had green milk haha.

After we decorated bags to use for the whole day.

After making bags we went to the seminary building for a 4th of July carnival. We played games like a ring toss, beanbag throw, knock the cans over, fish pond, cake walk, etc, followed by Travis juggling fire! It was so fun but I forgot my camera so I didn't get any pictures. :(

After the carnival we went to Becky's (my next door neighbor's house) where there was costumes for everyone to put on. We all got dressed up and went trick-or-treating around my neighborhood. We had already talked to my neighbors and given them the candy to give out ahead of time.

All of us in our costumes.

Halloween seemed to be everyone's favorite thing that we did.

After Halloween we came back to my house and opened presents and had cake and ice cream. I got some dang awesome presents too!

This was probably one of my favorites. A remote control car!

Finally was New Years. We made shakers, and just hung out, talked, and played ping pong and pool. Perfect ending to a perfect party!

Thanks everyone for coming, and thanks family for helping out. I could have never done it without you!!!

new years 2010

2010-01-01T14:31:00.001-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

I went to Hayley's house again this year.

This was us last year...
This is us this year... We added 2 :)

here's hayley

courtney

me and alyssa

thomas and hayley

alyssa and hayley

josh and thomas

and devin!

This is devin reading us a Pokemon book.

And whats a book without actions from hayley?

here is devin with his sword... haha

we played a flying disk game, a lot like elefun if you know what that is, but with disks. It got pretty intense.

The 4 girls

EVERYONE!!!

I promise its root beer, and dr. pepper. haha

SUPER FUN! thanks :)

ashcroft christmas party

2009-12-30T15:17:00.000-08:00

I love our Ashcroft christmas party every year.

This is me and my cute cousin Bergen. She refused to smile, so I decided not to be the odd one out. haha
Avery and me.

Brooklyn and me.

All 3 of them are so cute. I miss them :(

Ward Christmas Party.

2009-12-12T12:47:00.000-08:00

You've gotta love a good ol' ward party with your friends...

Cute little courtney always makes these edited pictures... haha
me and alyssa

devin is sitting on alyssa's feet if you can't tell.
I love that little girl in the background looking at us like we are freaks or something.

me with some ornaments on my ears... I made the star and was pretty proud of myself.

LOVE this picture of me and courtney... Alyssa is questionable.

All 4 of us
(devin, alyssa, courtney, me)

The girls

Waiting to see SANTA!

(all of us are balancing on the railings)

Us with santa... Gotta love the man.

We all posed like barbies with the fake smile and the bent arms.

I guess Santa didn't get the memo...

LOVE YOU GUYS!

CHRISTMAS TIME!!!

2009-12-07T05:40:00.001-08:00

Its Christmas time. Time to love, share, sing, give, etc.

This is our BEAUTIFUL tree we decorated last week.

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

Photo Shoot

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Photos of me and my family in Las Vegas...

Thanksgiving

2009-11-29T18:25:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving in Mesquite was beautiful.

The place we stayed at was so pretty.
Tuesday we went to the Strip.

We went to see the Bellagio, a giant water show which is amazing!

me by a huge present.

me by the "Eiffel tower"

a flamingo museum

statues...

the m&m factory

a huge fish aquarium.

Wednesday we went to the Excalibur show. It was so cool. You just get to eat and watch a show from the medieval times. It was awesome :D

some of the dishes.

Thanksgiving turned out awesome. Thanks everyone!

Lastly we went and saw new moon, which I LOVE!!!

DAVID ARCHULETA!

2009-11-09T19:51:00.000-08:00

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU dad for buying me the David Archuleta Christmas C.D! AHHHH best day of my life I love him :D

He is so blurry in this picture because It is a picture that I took of him... yes I know... I am so lucky! haha

Halloween in Mesquite

2009-11-02T14:58:00.001-08:00

Halloween In Mesquite is always so fun! It was so warm I was wearing a short sleeve shirt! WHOOP :) I drove to Touchan (don't quite know how to spell it) on the 30th to see thriller.

This is me, my mom, mark, pedro, and mindee at thriller on the 30th.

me and mindee
mom, mark, and pedro

scary zombie

me and mindee with the scary zombie. hahaha

When I get the pictures I will put up the pumpkins we carved...

Parties...

2009-10-25T18:45:00.001-07:00

Now that I am in High School, I found that I am going to a party probably every weekend!

Tilly's 16th Birthday.

Andrea's 16th Birthday.

My Halloween Breakfast.

Haley's 16th Birthday.

haha does it look like we are sleeping? We aren't! We stayed awake till 4 in the morning... I was so tired!

us at like 3 in the morning... zzzzz

haha there can be a lot of us if we all come together!

Halloween

2009-10-18T15:24:00.001-07:00

Halloween again.

I went for Miss America the first time. Next party I might be a zombie... who knows?

I was totally happy with my costume and got lots of compliments.

bored pictures

2009-10-11T14:40:00.000-07:00

So last Wednesday, me, Courtney, and Alyssa had nothing to do. We ended up going to the church and just taking a zillion pictures. Here are I think 25 of my favorite 63 I have loaded... haha there were tons!!!

It was a blast, and definitely something I will remember for a long time!

random pictures...

2009-10-07T14:49:00.001-07:00

I was just looking through my pictures and decided to put 5 random pictures...

Elite, Extreme Sr., and Premiere Sr. dance camp.
me and Alyssa goofing off at dragon hill.

me in front of some really pretty flowers at my grandparent's house.

me at Travis's wedding.

me doing an Aeriel on the trampoline.

Black Island Farms

2009-10-07T14:41:00.001-07:00

Me and my family went to Black Island Farms Monday night. It was so much fun!

The petting zoo with pigs,
turkeys, donkeys, goats, ducks, etc...

and llama's. ha ha I was so scared to feed it. I thought it was going to spit on me or something. ha ha

me sitting on a tire cow that you could rope.

and my favorite part of the night... they had pig races and chose 4 "kids" to go up, and I started screaming choose me choose me, and he chose me and my color was red, and luckily my pig won the race! I was so proud. ha ha I won this pig nose that I will keep forever!

Anyway we went on the hay ride, and went through the new moon corn maze for a couple minutes. It was so much fun though, I loved it!

new bathroom(ish)

2009-10-07T14:38:00.000-07:00

So thank you lisa for the amazing dinosaurs. I was so happy with them. If you ever need anything just let me know :D. I am happy to help!

Friends

2009-09-27T14:13:00.000-07:00

So with high school comes a new group of friends, and they are amazing!!!

David Concert
Football game

Late Start

Happy 15th Birthday

2009-09-07T10:43:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA!!!

saturday we went to JoshUA's house and woke him up and gave him some totally amazing presents!!!
and we wrote him a birthday song that alyssa played on the piano and me, courtney, hayley, alyssa, and thomas sang to joshUA.

It was so much fun. It is always a blast with these 3... :D

High School

2009-08-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

HIGH SCHOOL!!! I am finally in High School, and I love it so so much. It is a zillion times better than Jr. high. I love my classes even though some are going to be hard. I am so glad I am finally here. I feel like I am growing and maturing and I am loving it!

GO TITANS

I have been to both football games in which we won both thank goodness. haha

Girls Camp 2009 cont.

2009-08-16T16:39:00.000-07:00

Just some more pictures

courtney brough

me and hayley

chipmunk eating laffy taffy

bridgett, brooke, carrie, alyssa, me, hayley, amanda, sarah

amanda, carrie, brooke, courtney, me, hayley
[i think]

court and me

flower and weed skit

cover girl magazine poses

Hayley is Alyssa's best friend?

I think not! haha

Cabin

2009-08-15T18:44:00.000-07:00

It was fun at the Cabin. The first day was warm but it rained during the night and the whole first part of the day.

Brian and Quinn playing checkers
Us all hiking down to the waterfall

Hiking back

Brian and Travis jumped off this waterfall into the freezing water

We were guessing it was about 40 degrees

It is so beautiful there

Indian paintbrush

wild berries

huge beaver dam. It turned out to be a really good week but I am so glad to finally be home!