"Sleddin' in a Winter Wonderland"

Fall is officially over! We woke

up to a white winter wonderland on Saturday

morning. After lunch, I went sledding with

Lexi, Sam, Cortney, Rex, Ethan, and the two

Jessicas. Afterwards, Ethan, and Sam came

over to drink hot cocoa. After that, we watched

movies from our Tokyo Stake days.It was nice.

Lexi had to go to work, but after that, her and

Gina and Sam picked me up, later picking up

Kelton, then getting hot cocoa at Maverick.

~"Oh bring us some freakin' pudding."~ haha

On Sunday, we had our normal church routine.

At 6:00, we went to Christmas devotional,

subsequently singing in Messiah practice. We're

performing the Sunday after next. Yes, very

jittery. On Monday, we went sledding again,

because Gina wasn't able to go on Saturday.

At first, we went to North Park, but the hill

there was not adequate for sledding, so we

tried June Brush Hill, but it wasn't steep enough,

and there wasn't enough snow, so shortly after

this, we took Lexi to a work meeting, met up

with Spencer, Amanda, and Jessica Melville, then

went to June Hill(different from June Brush)

in Meadow, and had fun going down once.

We went home, decorated the Christmas tree,

watched Mr. Kruger's Christmas. Daddy

took Lexi and I to Maverick for hot cocoa,

then watched Elf. Today, me, Lex, Gina,

Spencer, and Amanda went sledding again,

this time at a hill in Holden. I had to bail

a million times, and got hurt more than

thrice. I got wet and muddy. It wasn't

pleasant. I stubbed my pinky, and hurt it so

bad, I couldn't move it. Ouch. Now I am

sitting on the couch, and I still need to clean

the bathrooms. Life is confusing me.

Here are some of my thoughts lately;

"It's a Wonderful Day in our Millard High"

Thursday was mid-term, and I despise my

grades! Mr. Greider gave me a B+! I worked

my butt off in that class, and I got a B+!

Gracious. we have our Christmas tree up, but

we only have lights on. It's time to get the

advent calendars out! It's so exciting! the Iron

Man was yesterday and continues today. Sweaty

guys in wrestling uniforms. I promised Baby

Ras I would go watch him, but when I went

yesterday, I didn't see him. I saw his family. The all look the same. They're so cute. Why must life be so confusing? Especially

social & personal lives. argh. It's exasperating.

Well I need to get ready to go sleding right now,

so hopfully I can post more today or tomorrow.

Best friend: the ones that you can only stay

mad at for an hour because you have important

stuff to tell them.

'Cause I had a Bad Day'

Saturday, we had a family party with the Stouts,

party-ed our guts out, then Lex and I went to

Noah, Sam, Caleb, and Angus's movie premiere

for their zombie movie. They had some guest

stars too: Eden, Leah, and Kelton of people that

I know. After that, Noah, Eden, Sam, and Ethan

came over to our house and we played Balderdash

(the new version) We had fun~Aquatic Pineapple

Bubble Shampoo, American Peanut Butter Association,

Big Bubba's Hot Chocolate...~fun. I've been feeling

nerdly lately. Sunday morning, I went to the

Camp's house, with Katie, Josh(Camp), Courtney

(Jensen),Sam, Jessica(Wall), Osten, Tito, Gabe,

and 2 girls from Delta, and "Carl drove the big

grey van" to TLT. We had fun. It was at USU,

where many 4-H activities are held. TLT is a

4-H activity thingy, where we basically learn...

how to be leaders..., pretty much the same stuff

as Teen Council. We did some cool science

experiments. Lots of people came and talked

to us. They told us about other 4-H groups we

could join, ways we could 'help around our

communities',and stuffs like that. Lunch and

dinner on Monday was in the Marketplace, and

in the words of today's youth, it was awesome.

There was a costume dance and karaoke on

Monday night, but I was sick, so I wasn't able

to attend. I decided USU is in my top 3 colleges.

BYU is still #1. I've really been wanting to

write a story lately. I will, eventually. Not

right now. The first term ended on the 19th.

My grades for the first term are;

English A, 93

Algebra A, 96

Chorus A, 105

Computers A, 94

Biology A-,91

Foods A, 102

PE A, 95

Seminary A, 107

Advisory A, 100
I was relatively happy. My GPA was 3.95.

Biology was amazing. At mid-term, I had

forgotten to give some assignments in, so

I had a C-. Despite my 3 Fs, I raised it to a

A-. Cool, huh? I think my end-of-term-test

was in the top 10 of the class. Happy day.

On Halloween, Lex and I were supposed to

take Mia and Noah trickor-Treating, but

Lexi invited Gina and Sam and Ethan too.

We then went to our ward party. Me Lexi

picked up our sleepover stuff from our house,

then went to Kaitlynn's birthday-party-

pioneer-dance. My goal for the night was to

Nate to dance. Katie and I come up with some

schemes, but we had to leave early. I confronted

him about it later, and he confessed to me

that he had. Yay. I did the finger polka, and

then danced the Virginia Reel with Sam. To

make sure all the girls had a partner, they

had each girl put one shoe in a pile, on one

side of the room. All the guys lined up on the

other side of the room, then when Carl yelled

go, they all ran to grab a shoe. Whoever's

shoe they grabbed, was who they danced with.

A whole bunch of guys went sliding in their

hurry, and slammed against the wall. Ouch.

Caleb grabbed 3 shoes-what was he thinking?

So Sam went up to him, and said "Give me

my shoe back!" Sam's shoe had fallen off, and

Caleb had grabbed it, thinking it was a girls'

shoe. Sam also took another shoe him, because

he hadn't got one. It was mine. I had fun with

Sam. He kept trying to fling me. haha So then

Gina, Lexi, me, Ethan, Sam, Kalem, and George

went to Gina's house,where we played Phase

10(I won) and went on a Halloween walk to

the 'Big House' next to Gina's house. I swear

it's haunted. Then, the guys left, and us girls

watched Premonition and The Notebook.

Cute! We finally went to bed, and Lexi and

Gina woke up at 7, whereas I woke up at

10. This is Thursday. We had SEOP's we had

to go to. It was pretty good. Sorta boring.

Friday was fun. Just one of those days where

everone seems to do something funny. I

Algebra, when we were supposed to be doing

assignment, Matt kept making kissing noises.

after a while, Dillon turned around to see what

was going on. The expression he pulled was

so funny. I started laughing. Embarassing.

In chorus I went to sit by Nate, since we were

both sitting alone. I had fun talking to him.

We talked about random stuffs. I get to sit

by him in 2 other classes. I sat with a seat

inbetween us, since he doesn't want to touch

girls. But not because they have cooties. haha

Nate's my buddy. We both get to be villagers

in the musical. So, I came home, watched my

younger siblings, helped Mom, ate dinner,

and ate cookie dough with Mom, while watching

The Princess Bride, and the new Freaky Friday.

'Behind These blue-ish eyes'

Hola So, being the end of the term, it's been very,

very, busy. English, I had to type up an book report with one-day's notice. Algebra, I had to catch up on 3 assignments, and we had a pretest last time. Chorus, okay. Computers, I had 2 assignments. In Biology, we just had a test, and I had to type a report(We had a presentation a little while ago. I put the whole slide show together, and looked up all the information, while my partner did nothing. Mr. Greider came up to me the other day, and said "Have you given in the report for the hotspots?" I said, " No, I don't think so. I'll try and get that to you today." pretending like I had it waiting in my locker. I had to hurry with my computers assignment for the day, then type it up, while my partner did nothing.) In Foods, I've been dandy. PE has been peachy. And seminary has been extraordinary. We changed seats the other day. I like my spot. I get to sit by Nate. Nate's my buddy. Some people (ehem..Emily..) were curious about our running schedule for the summer....
Monday AM - Hard Run 4-6 Miles Monday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Tuesday AM - Easy 4-5 miles Tuesday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Wednesday AM - Hard Run 4-6 miles

Wednesday - PM Easy 3 miles Thursday AM - Easy 4-5 miles Thursday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Friday AM - Hard Run 5-7 miles Friday PM - Easy 3-4 miles Saturday - Medium 5-7 miles Sunday- Rest Hopefully, this will improve our running skills. Coach Moat asked me, Lexi, and Shelby to recruit people next year. I told him how I had helped recruit 13 people for Youth Court, and he said, "Ok, it's up to you, Natasha." haha

Adiós

" Wise Men Say 'Only Fools Rush In.' "

Life has been so busy, and crazy,and scary, it's disturbing. Last Friday(the 12th),Lexi, Ethan, and I went to Gina's house to hang out. It was so stinkin' fun! We played Mario golf, and l aughed our heads off the whole entire time we don't know why we were laughing. Some of it wasn't even funny. haha So after laughing our heads off, we went home. The next morning, we went to the Harvest Festival with Gina. The volleyball team was doing a fundraiser there, and so we helped them. MacConell came, and he brought his new puppy, Nikki. She's adorable! At 4:30ish, Gina took Lexi to work, and me home, but at 9:00, her and Kortney pickerd me back up, and went to pick Baby-Ras up, went to Mavrik (where Baby-Ras bought an over-flowing ice cream cone), then drove across the street to pick Lexi up from work. We went to Gina's house again, and Ethan met us there. We watched Disturbia. It was disturbing. Baby-Ras(AKA Josh) kept trying to scare us girls. It wasn't funny. We all thought we were going to die. I felt really bad afterwards, 'cause when the movie was done, Josh said his parents probably wouldn't have liked him watching it. When the movie was done, we had 13 minutes to get to Fillmore, drop Josh off, and drop Lexi and I off before midnight. On Monday, I was supposed to be on a Biology field trip, but I was getting braces.Nice, huh? Yeah, they're beautiful. They've already started moving! Happy day! They firs couple of days, my mouth was so cut up to the piont, it hurt to swallow! Tuesday, Youth court was canceled, so Lex and I went to Mac's(MacConell) house. We watched A Walk to Remember. Because of his sisters, he has lots of chick-flicks. It's funny. On Wednesday, I got to miss school(agian!) because I went to cheer my fellow team mates running at state. Bourne brought this sugar free chocolate and fed it to everyone. It was barf-worthy. Everyone got mad at him. "Why'd you feed this to us?" "Eeeewwww! It's gross!" Him and Lexi had a perfume fight-on the bus! He would spray Lexi with his colone, and she would spray him with her perfume. All the girls started screaming, and rolling down their windows. The girls took state, and we went to eat at the Rodizios in Trolley Square. We saw where the shooting was. The girls found a beautiful sale, and bought some cute shirts. On the way home, Mr. Anderson made us stop at Home Depot for his own personal reasons, then stop at Walmart for the 2nd time that day. Since we didn't want to go into Walmart, me, Lexi, and Mac went into Payless. Lexi got a pair of sneakers & a pair of black heels. I bought a pair of sneakers. Mac wanted(needs) a new pair of shoes, but he didn't like any of the shes we picked out for him. So he's still wearing the same black shoes. After school onThursday, our Lexi & Gina & Tashi threesome went to the seminary building so Gina and I could get our scriptures. We ended up staying and talking to BrothersLeotcher & Rasmussen. I was telling Br. Ras how my braces have given me a speech impediment, and Br. Ras told me a great story of how his dad had pretended to have a speech impediment for his room mate. Long story. A friend of his room mate's who thought he actually had speaking problems, asked him to double with her, his room mate, and her room mate. The whole date he purposely talked funny, and when the date was almost done, he blew his nose, and said, "That's better." in a normal voice. haha We went to pick Sam up, drove to Mavrik, drove Sam home, then quickly drove Lexi and I home so Lexi wouldn't be late for work. We got out early on Friday, so me, Gina, and Lexi kidnapped(not really. We asked permission) Josh, and went to Gina's house to play. We had so much fun. We played Apples to Apples and another game whose name I can't remember. We got bored, so all 4 of us hopped on Gina's 4-wheeler, and we drove to White Mountain. We played in the white sand, told funny stories, then drove home. Josh had to sit on the back, where there's this rack for putting things on. It vibrated really bad because it was right above the engine. It took Josh a while to recover. He kept saying, "My butt...the vibrations....the pain...". haha We drove back to Fillmore, returned Eragon to Video One Stop, and bought shaved ice while we were there. We sat on the swingsat North Park while we ate, then drove Josh home, drove Lexi to work, and then drove me home. Gina had to go to Ephraim. On Saturday, our ward went and did Baptisms For The Dead. That's my first time doing BFTD in the Manti Temple. We all went our seperate ways, and that night, me, Lexi, and Sam went to watch the volleyball game. When the game was all done, we went to Gina's house, with Kaitlyn, Ethan, Kortney, and Mike tagging along. We played Apples to Apples again, and we laughed our heads off again. We ate chips and dip, and drank grape Shasta, which makes us go crazy. We kept laughing like maniacs. Mike and Ethan would make fun of mine and Lexi's nad Gina's laughs.
I found this cute little quote.
Somewhere between the procrastination and the homework, and the incessant forwards and the friendships, and the nasty cafeteria food and the calls to each other complaining about crushes.Somewhere between the phone calls to old friends and the "I miss you's"and the "I love you's", and the "What are we doing tonight's" and somewhere between all of the changing and growing. Somewhere between the classes and the skipping classes, and the studying for tests, and the pretending to study for tests, I forgot. I forgot what high school is all about. I forgot what it meant to cry. I forgot that pretending to be happy doesn't make you happy. And that pretending to be smart doesn't make you smart. I forgot that you can't just forget the past in fear of the future. I forgot that you can't control falling in love. And that you can't make yourself fall in love. I learned that I can love.I learned that it's okay to mess up, and it's okay to ask for help and it's okay to feel like crap. I learned it's okay to complain and whine to your friends for the whole day. I learned that sometimes the things you want most you can't have. I learned that the greatest thing about high school isn't the parties or the hook-ups, it's the friendships, which mean taking chances. I learned that the things we want to forget are the things which we most need to talk about. I learned that letters from your friends are the most important thing. And that sending cards to your friends make you feel better. But, basically, I learned that my friends - old and new - are the most important people to me in the world, and without them, I wouldn't be who I am today.