My Year

So every year I write a "letter" through email about what I did and what I liked and it is normally really long. I post lots of pics about everything I've done and more so this is going to be looooong! But I hope you take the time to read it!


So I will start off by saying that this was a very hectic year. It was also a great year. I hae changed SO much. I really don't know where to begin. I guess I will start with the sad. This year my grandma, who I was very close to, died. It was a very sad time. I loved her so much and it was the first time I lost someone that was SO close to me. I really miss her but it tought me that I can get through hard things. I did everything with her. I want her back but I know that with the lord I will be with her again.

So moving on. I finished 6th grade this year which was a huge relief. I started 7th grade and I really like it. Here is a picture of me this year!



Not the best pic but it will work. I have really changed. 7th greade is MUCH better than 6th grade I would have to say. I have made so many great friends.


This summer I went to sports camp again. I always do the multisport which includes: kayaking, tubing, beach day, catermaran, and boat day. It is so much fun. This year my instructers were Jamie, Hannah, and Jimmy. They were great. I was also blessed because my parents paid for my friend, Kennedy, to come. We had SO much fun!






Also in California this summer we got to go to Seaworld. We have year round passes so we got to go lots. We met a family names the Boyds so we had lots of fun with them! Kennedy also got to come with us there! We we crazy. It was so much fun because at one point I was going crazy and Kennedy was trying to cound how many people were staring at me. It's weird how things like that happen.


I am also grateful that I got to get closer to my friends over the last year. I really like that I had the opurtunity to let to know them better. Here are so pictures of them and me and them and other people :).



I was also very fortunate to get to have a "sister." Sister Golding- I am so glad that I met you. You are so much fun to hang out with and I love your family! Tyler and Ethan are sooooo cute! I hope you don't move for a long time! (emphsis on the long!)

So this Christmas we went to my cousins. We always do something with them. On Christmas Eve we went to In -N- Out.... that is their tradition. Then we went to look at Christmas lights. On Christmas day we opened presents, used them for a while, and then more of their family came over. It was a great Christmas.

So basically this had been a great yar. So much has happened. I wouldn't change one thing. Some sad thngs and good things have come out of 2007. It was a challenging year to get through and I am sad and happy to see it go!! :). Thanks everyone for being my friends.

What can I say about today..... LOTS!!

Well last night... I had a MAJOR anxiety attack! I mean it was aweful. I was scared out of my mind! And my brother was makng fun of me and scaring me more! I don't know how he could have been that mean- but he WAS!

So today was going to be a work work work day.... and it was! I was so excited becauseI was going to get my phone today. So after screaming and yellling and lots of fighting with my brother (ghe basically controls me) I got to go. We were getting an upgrade so online and in stores its normally and $120 phone but we were going to get it for $20! So we go to get it at Verizon. Well I found the color I wanted- white with navy. I am soooooo excited by now. We go up there and thet tell up sorry but here we only have a $50 rebate and not $100 rebate. You have to order it online....! So its going to be here in 5 days. So we go to order it online! Then they don't even have it in white and navy.... I have to get in red!

I am so mad about that ordeal. And then on top of it I had to clean all day. Basically it was a horrible day that I wish had never happened.

Ok so today was a normal day. Well I don't know what to call it. We came home from California earlier today. We've been on work mode... :). We watched tons of Cold Cases. I am currently sitting on my dads bed typing this and am bored out of my mind. I had a great time at sea world and will post pics later. 

Christmas has been a blast so far!! I got:

-Wii

-New Ipod nano in Maroon 8 gig

-Make up case with loreal lip gloss, smackers lemonade case of lip care, and m&m chap stick, and Juicy Couture perfume

-LDS girl beauty book with gorgeous CTR round necklace

-CUTE lang shirt that's v neck in a pale blue

-Ipod dock that plays my ipod music anywhere and is a radio

-A book from my dad

-Dachshund ornament

-Lots of candy

-Blanket Kennedy made me

-Poem that Kennedy wrote me

-K neckalce that my grandma got me

-Nature calender my grandma got me

-2 new dresses

-CUUUTE pajamas

-I am going to get a cell phone.. idk if I am going to get the chocolate anymore. My grandmas phone is going to get a free update and they have cool phones I can choose from

-WEbkinz bag from my aunt- webkinz, lip gloss webkinz, webkinz cards, and webkinz charm inside

-HSM tour book

-The movies the Notebook and Flicka

-I tunes gift card

-and my mom is going to get me a Jamba juice

I am expecting some things from people in my ward sooo ya... I have had a great christmas. 

100th visitor

There's been 100 visitors on my site!!! YAY! And the record was set on Christmas Eve!! How special!  The lice shampoo makes my hair SOOOOOO greasy. It looks UGLY!

Today is Christmas EVE! I am so excited. I am here in California with my cousins.... it's actually warmer here than it is in Arizona!! Tonight we are going to go to In -N- Out for dinner and look at Christmas lights. It is going to be so much fun! 

Well today has been an interesting day. We drove in the car mostly and it actually wasn't too bad. When we got here we just kinda had diner and hung out. Then we went to Steven's Christmas Piano Recital. He did so good- he was the best. Then I came back and read the book Twilight some more. I'm basically finished and I just started today. Its pretty good I guess. There are lots of books that I like a lot better but this is good enough to keep me occupied. 

Ok... so after my lst post SO much has happened. I don't know if I even want to write it but I will.... :).


Well I have posted so much abou tmy lice. 5 times I had it before it went away. It's been gone for 4 weeks and I am so happy. Well my brother was itching and found a bug. My mom was like its not lice it isn't but whne she looked at it IT WAS! So I was relieved it wasn't me. Well my mom looked at my hair aqnd I HADE THEM! I am going to have to cut my hair short this time.... ugh!

Well admist all this I am sitting on the couch and we have this gate to get o our front door and it was making noise like someone was trying to get in. I was wondering why Leo wasn't barking. I was getting kinda freaked out after 10 minutes so I called my mom out and LEO was stuck in the bars!! I was crazy. We are lucky he tried to get back in the house and didn't run away! I twas so sad and I felt so sorry for him.

Well alot more has happened- but I'm not going to write about it. It's not that interesting.

SO YA- hope I didn't bore you!


Katie

Hey!

Been awhile since my last post- sorry! Last night was the ward christmas party. It was soooo much fun. I took like 30 pictures with Ethan and Tyler. They were all like TAK MORE TAKE MORE! I'm going to upload some later! We went from room to room and they told the story of baby jesus. It was a wonderful program! I loved it. Today I am going to see PS I Love You! I am so excited because it looks like the perfect movie. I love love love chick flicks. well anyway I'll post pics later~ 

Well... to start off I have to say it's been a good day.

First, I gave Kennedy her present and I think she liked it. I had a good time watching her face and seeing her be excited. I always love that about giving gifts. It's the best part!

At school nothing interesting really happened. Kennedy have everyone their gifts and stuff like that but nothing else really. I did not have to go to P.E because my back hurt so I stayed with Mrs. Miller and that was fun.

After school so far I have been at Kennedy's helping her with her IPOD!!! I got her that.... it was the christmas gift. Today is Connor's birthday and since I am here I think I am going to get to see him open his presents. So ya.... WRITE MORE LATER. Diffinitly expect writing on my fun babysitting "gig" last night.

Katie

Well I've actually had a good day- the first in a while. Kennedy's present shipped in and I want to give it to her tomorrow if her mom says it is ok.

Well today at schoolw as good. I had a great time talking to marisa a nd helping her with some issues she wanted to talk to me about. Blake, who sites next to me in Math, was being hilarious. You see Tyler got Lexies pencil grip stuck in this one thing and I said, "Hey Guys! Hey a grip!" I just burst out laughing. Blake kept saying things like oh KAtie ehtat was a good one, you got us there, and you did it on the spot, and stuff like that. It was hilarious.

Well nothing else much except for today I wasn't really sick and nothing bad happened so... YAY!!

Katie

Updates

I have made lots of updates of my blog to make is more fun for you and more accessible. I have added cute quotes on the site bar and cute quotes at the very bottom. I have added a hit counter so you can see how many people have been on my site starting today. And I have added a subscription thing. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!! You don't have to be a ember to subscribe- all you have to do is enter your email and it will send you updates on me and my site! I hope that you find this blog more accessible and fun!!

~*Katie*~

Ok so the day before yesterday my friend, Marisa, spent the night. We had soooo much fun! We talked alot, texted, talked more (mostly about boys and god), went to see August Rush, watched movies, and went on the computer. And of course took hundreds of pics. We had so much fun!! On saturday we went to GALS and went caroling. It really put into perspective what it is like to live in one of those homes. Then after we had pizza and ice cream and it was.. yummy!! Then Marisa came bak over and we just did more of what we did the day before. That night my mom took us to T&M for dinner even though we had Pizza for lunch. The last two times marisa has come over we T&M so I guess it is going to be kinda a tradition. Anyway... I love Marisa and I hope she comes again soon! 
 

12/13/07

Ok so I am going to consider today am OK day. School was ok..... boring as usual. Today in PE I was so proud of myself because I was physically active healthy in 4 things out of 6 which is good for me. After school we had a movie for NJHS where we watched Surfs Up. It was fun because I got to hang out with my friend, Jacob, and learn more about him. He told me a pretty funny/embarressing story about himself which was hilarious. I had fun in the bathroom today with Marisa and Kennedy warming our hands. I am going to add something that I made on here.




Isn't it cute?


Well anyway tonight our home teachers are coming over so I guess I am excited about that!!
TTYL

xoxoxoxoxo
Katie

Today a friend and I got into an arguement. You see, over the last couple of months I have been bottling up feelings. I am normally not the type to not tell someone something but I just didn't know how to tell her how I felt. And today when something was said I just came out with it. I feel so much better and I think (I hope) my friend does too. I love her with all my heart and I want to say somethings to her .

• I'm sorry if I got you mad
• I just couldn't stand it any longer
• I don't love you any less
• You are still my best friend
• I am glad that I finally got this over with I have been holding it in for weeks
• I hope I didn't hurt your feelings as much as mine were hurt

I hope that this list clears some things up. I love you so much and I don't know what I would do without you. I know you may think that I could easily find other friends and that is true- but none of them would be like you. I know that you know what you did and that it hurt me and I am glad that you can accept that. I may not be able to forget and I hope that you don't hate me for that. But I will not remember grudgingly- I will remember that through the hard times (and those were the hard times) maybe you weren't there but I could feel you- like you WERE there.

Katie

Ok so I am going to write a little about my day!

First off- I went to school. I was going to go home at lunch which I did. So here are the events in order!

• Hunter is writing a book and he showed me his ffront cover and wants me to be the first one to read it
• I went to language arts where we had a great discussion and I had a soda
• I remembered to get my progressed report signed for math and then we took another pretest for the benchmark we are going to take this Friday
• I came home
• My mom supprised me by getting Pizza at TandM
• I watched 3 Cold Cases
• Picked up Kennedy and William
• And now I am here. Later today for mutual we are going to have a fun progessive dinner where we have like a snack or drinks at one house, dinner at another, and desert at another house.

I am going to take pictures at the progressive dinner so be prepared for pictures later!

Katie

Waterbed Prank

NOTICE:
Before you start I want to let you know that since this is in a different language there is a sin that says "DO NOT LAY ON BED." Click the link below to take you to the video! It will change you life because it is SO hilarious!


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-619545829969039225&hl=en

THIS IS HILARIOUS!!!! Man I couldn't stop laughing.

I guess that way that you would describe this day is "ok- sorta good- sorta bad. I will make a list of all the events that have occured.

1. I made my hair look SUPER cute today
2. I am sick (UGH)
3. I ran a mile in 12 minutes and 24 seconds and that is including walking
4. I got a water and ice
5. This kid made fun of me and called me a bad name
6. Science was actually ok today

So those are just some of the main bad and good events that have occured so far today. IT could have been a better day but it also could have been a worse. I am glad that sister golding is blogging again (after being sick) and I am also glad that she made a new post. I AM GOING TO MISS YOU WHILE YOU ARE IN UTAH SISTER GOLDING! I HOPE YOU CAN STILL POST!

I'll post a later blog tonight if anything happens and if I just feel like typing or anything I will post more!!

Katie

Well I was suppose to be babysitting for the Goldings today but I guess there was a misunderstanding and now Tina is. I was sad at first but I realized I'll probably get another chance at a later date. So I here- in my moms bed- doing nothing sadly but talking to this blog- who can't even READ because it is an internet machine. Tomorrow is Stake Conference and I am excited because I am in the choir and I am going to get to preform. My dad says that I should go to both sessions because only the choir members are aloud to go to both and I will get to see from both point of views what splitting the stake is going to be like. So I am still deciding. Any suggestions? 

More interesting

I feel like no one reads my blog. What can I do to make my blog more interesting? ANY SUGGESTIONS?! Thanks!

Katie

Well I am sick.... :(.  I hope to be able to go to GALS tomorrow! I really do. I stick reading books all day. I just finished A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. I am sure many of you have seen the movie or know him as the author of The Notebook. I must say that it was such a fast read and so romantic. Not so much romantic because there is so much romance but the way they treat each other. I must say you have to read it. 

I am really mad that I didn't get into Honor Band. My teacher nominated me and the people who chose  you don't hear you play they just say like oh we need a trumpet and here's one lets have you. So the only reason that Diego got chosen over me was because his name was first! It was so unfair. And HE got to go last year and I didn't. I really didn't have a good day yesterday. I also had to babysit for the ward so the women could have enrichment and the kids were so bad. I don't know if I will do it again. 

Well I hope I didn't bore you. 

Katie

Ok so nothing much to report about today. I had an average day and nothing outstanding happened. I am currently writing a book about a girl who has a brother who is Bipolar so it is basically me letting out my feelings through a character in a book. I think it is helping. I hope that you guys have had a great week, I also would appreciate you guys replying to my posts more. And people who read but can't reply can you email me and tell me you are reading my blog? Thanks!

Katie

Electric Light Parade

Ok so yesterday was the electric light parade. I preformed with my band. First thing first I am going to post some pictures.

Torie is so cuute!

Me playing my beatumus trombone

Steven is SUCH A DORK!

Me and Jacob. We had a better one where I

didn't look like such a dork and we were closer

together but it was too blurry!

Ok so now that I got the pictures on I will tell about it. This was my first concert as part the the CGMS band so I was really excited. We don't have any good pictures of us when it was dark and thw whole band had chirstmas lights on our instruments. If you look close on these pictures you might be able to see them- they aren't turned on.

We were scared that my back would hurt because of my back problems because it did when we proticed but it didn't. I think that was because at practice they made sure we had them held high but at the actual thing they didn't.

Before we went we were at the school for about 2 hours. We had to get the lights put on our instaments and prepare and stuff. It was a very hectic time. It was hilarious because steven was like making fun of lows and stuff. Also to make sure that the lights wouldn't fall off we had these white things that held them in place and I had only 5 on my trombone! I thought this was normal but then I saw Jacob's trupet and he had 34! It was crazy.

Well anway on the way there I sat with torie on the bus. We were listening to music. It was fun. My mom marched my me. We did that just incase she had to like take me out of the prarade or something- but we didn't.

After that we went to my dads office to have hot chocolate and stuff. We ran into the goldings so they came along. We ha a great time. Brother golding was lift Tyler's eyelids when he was asleep and it was creepy. Ethan looked tired which we later found out was not true when he threw up. It was so sad. I hope that he is feeling better poor guy. But all in all it was a great night!

Katie

Niagra Falls was so beautiful  Me and my mom in the school of the prophets

Our family in the Smith Farm The beautiful statue in the Joseph Smith 

 visiting center

So here are the pictures I've promised you for forever!! The pictures on my new york trip! I am only going to post four for now because I am do busy.... but I promise sometime soon I will post the rest! hope that you like them! 

Katie

So yesterday I babysat for Kennedy's neighbors- Grant and David. They were very well behaved and I think that they had a good time. We watched movies and ate junk basically. I didn't know that they had a baby monitor so when I was down stairs I kept hearing this crying like it was coming from a machine and finally I figured out. I had a good time and I hope that I can babysit for them sometime in the near future.


Also Sister Golding I am looking forward to babysitting for you. I think that Ethan and Tyler are excited too!

Katie