Long Time No Write!

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't exactly kep you all up to date with everything. Not that you all even really care what I've been up to anyways haha. Alright let's see. Last weekend I went to the Liberty High School Homecoming for the first time. My two best friends kind of had to drag me. After being to enough church dances I had decided to never go to any more dances. For some who attend church dances, you know what I mean. but I, being the great person that I am :P decided to do this for them. So, we all got read yover at Kaitlyn's house and headed over! For the first 15 minutes, the longest 15 minutes ever, I was thinking of all the things I would have rather been doing. which at that point was just about anything. but we finally found some people we knew and I got a thought in my pretty little head. Maybe if i start going crazy and just dancing to the music, I can trick my mind into thinking this is fun! So I did just that! And you know what? I don't think it tricked my mind al all, I actually did end up having a blast! The only down side was that everyone is all sweatiy and gross and your feet and calves hurt really really bad from jumping up and down for 3 hours strait. but the pros definitely outweighed the cons that night and I can't wait for next year!

Suggestions Wanted!

So I have decided that I really want to write a book. I have no clue what about though so I have come to the conclusion that I could ask the few readers of this blog for any suggestions they may have. I think I want something funny, but a real kind of funny. That everyone can relate to. And don't worry, if I end up writing anything it would be better written in ideas and content and with spelling and punctuation than I have written these blogs in. So if anyone has any ideas for me feel free to send them to me. My email address is livluvlax22@comcast.net Thanks!

Surprise!

I wake up, it's about 9. I go downstairs. Eat breakfast. Go on the computer. Watch some TV. As you can tell, this is a boring day. It's weird, something just seems...odd. I can't tell what it is though, which bugs me even more! I even text Kaitlyn and tell her that something is up, I'm probably just paranoid but something is just fishy and I can't drop the feeling! I had been out of the house with my older brother and when I got home i had the strange feeling that there was a presence inside my house. For a second i thought, did my mom throw me a surprise party? It's like a week past my birthday. So i get inside and no one is there. Huh, must be something else that's bugging me then. It gets to dinner time and we make little individual pizzas. As i am eating mine, suddenly a furry cover goes over my eyes. "AAAHHH! What are you doing?!" I hear the giggles and laughs of 3 girls. I know who it is now. My three best friends Kaitlyn, Mckinna, and Shayna. They begin to drag me and I fall out of my chair with a mouth full of food still. "At least let me finish my dinner!" I say. "Nope!" They say, and continue the dragging. I had no clue what the heck was going on and i would not make it easy for them to do whatever it was they were planning on doing with me. We get into the car and go on our way. I forget to pay attention to what direction we are going so I'm not able to tell where we are. Dang it! "Umm, what is all this about?" I ask. "It was your 16th birthday! We have to take you somewhere!" Kaitlyn says. "Umm, my 16th birthday was a week ago guys, why is this happening now?" I question. They tell me to shut up and just go with it. Ugh, fine. The car stops. I'm really scared now. We get out and I hear a ton of cars and shopping carts. Winco was the first place that popped into my mind for some reason. "Are we going grocery shopping?" I ask. "Just wait!" They answer. I hear a person walking by and I say, "Help! They are kidnapping me!" What a jerk, they didn't do anything about these impostors! We enter into our destination and my blindfold is taken of. We are in Baskin Robins. "Pick an ice cream!" Mckinna says. Ok, this isn't bad, i think, i had nothing to be scared about. So we all pick an ice cream and sit down at a table where they sing happy birthday loud and obnoxiously enough to kill all the people within a 50 foot radius. After they are done i apologize to all that are near us. They hand me a box that contains a super cute book bag and the amazing Boys Like Girls CD! Yess! I love these girls. We finish our ice cream and this is when Kaitlyn says, "Ok, put the blindfold back on!" No. Not again. "Isn't this it? You took me out to ice cream and now we get to be done." "We might be done, we might not. Just put it back on" Obviously there is more. Dang it. We get back into the car and are on our way again. the whole way i try to decide what places they would take me to. We stop and get out of the car and walk over some grass. Where the heck are we? I wonder. Someones house, odd. They are smart, it was my house and they had just taken a different way to get to the door. They lead me inside where they take me into a room and slide off my blindfold. "SURPRISE!" Is what about 10 people yell. My eyes almost popped out of my head and i can feel my face getting red. "I knew it!" I say, "This is what has been bugging me all day! I knew something was fishy!" I decided that that was a super power i had. The ability to tell when something was going to happen. Which could definitely come in handy! We all played games, watched a movie, went to some other places and had a blast all night long. I've never had a surprise birthday party before, and I will always remember this one.

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The Trip (of hell) to Utah

Alas! It was time for Lizzy an I to fly to Utah and see our wonderful sister and brother in law! We had been so excited and we couldn't wait to be able to do loads of shopping(well more me with that one) and go camping and just to be able to have a little time withou the parentals would be nice. Anyhoo, we had my best friend, Kaitlyn's wonderful father, take us to the airport seeing as he also had a flight to catch.

As we are making our trip there he begins the ever famous "Hey guys what direction are we going?" game. Along with other various questions, most of which I have no clue of the answer. Then he starts talking to me about boys and I decide to joke with him and start talking about kissing and he goes "Ah man! You made me go the wrong way because you're talking about nasty stuff!" My plan worked, it got him off that subject very quickly! Haha so readers take note, if your parents or any other adult for that matter starts talking to you about the boys in your life, just start telling them about how you plan to execute your first kiss and they will surely drop the subject, espesially if you make it sound really gushy. Plus it's a blast to see their faces as you tell your story. Trust me it will work, at least with a man, women may be harder to drop the suject.

So after we had arrived at the airport we went to the front desk to pick up our tickets. The man there looked at us and asked our ages. Lizzy says, "I'm 14", and I say, "I'm 15". (Not anymore though!) With what happens next I just thought, we should have lied! He escorted us to a different desk and the man there told us that I being 15 could not escort a minor being 14 onto a plane. She was less than a month away from being 15 for heaven's sake! Anywhays, they then put a big red bracelet on Lizzy's wrist with capitol letters that say MINOR on it, and made us pay $100 extra for reasons completely unknown. This ticked me off soooo bad! I mean come on people, like paying more money would make me any more responsible than I already was! Idiots! I decided just to put the anger about that incident in the back of my mind because we were going to have so much fun! Little did I know what was going to happen next.

So we check our bags on, go through security, and go to the waiting area till we can board the plane. The man in at the information dest by the boarding gate spotted the bracelet lizzy was wearing and took our tickets and decided that we were too young and stupid to know how to board the plane ourselves so he handed us over to another person who was incharge of helping the old people in wheelchairs. When we get to the actual plane door a flight attendant with one of those big smiles plastered to her face takes our tickets and holds onto them. Since when did she have the right to do that?! That ticket was mine! We were then handed off to another flight attendant who must have thought yet again, "These girls must me too stupid to get to their own seats, so i'll just take them there myself." She also decided to make small talk the entire way to where we were seated, which was near the back of the plane so it took what seemed like an eternity to get there. Lucky us! NOT! "Have you girls done his before?" she said. "Yeah, like a billion times" I said back to her with the evil eye. "Oh good so you must be a pro at this" she says. Eventually we got to our seats. Whew! I was so glad that was over, I was so mad! But glad it was over. Ohhh boy was I wrong! Because the next thing I saw was that first flight attendant walking down the isle, that wreched smile still plastered to her face. I think it even grew a little! Ohhh man, what next?! She had come to tell us that we were to stay put on the plane after everyone else unloaded until they came to get us! How could they do this to us?! We had lives to live, places to go, people to see, shopping to do! And once again I thought that this nightmare couldn't get any worse. Well I bet you know what I'm going to say next, IT DID!

After the plane FINALLY landed, we waited there for about 20 minutes and the flight attendant came back to us and told us we could feel free to go sit in the first class seats! Whoopdy FREAKIN doo! Like that was going to help! So when we got out of the boarding hall and into the actual airport a woman stopped at the desk there and asked to another woman, "Do you want me to take them to Dusty's Den?" What in the world was Dusty's Den?! So they loaded some kids up on the little vehicles that older people ride through the airport in. Oh no, I was NOT going to go throught this airport on that with all these people watching me. So I didn't, we walked there with the woman. But we would'nt follow her, we just walked right beside her. And since we were doing that when she took the left turn we took about 2 steps more before we realized she had turned, but not before she said, "No no girls, nice try!" Oh no she did not just say that to us! She was accusing us of trying to escape! We weren't trying to, but i'll tell you, I wouldn't blame anyone for running for dear life from this hell hole emprisonment. So we turned into the place where she had giuded us and yes, Dusty's Den was exactly what I had guessed it was, a kiddy corner. NOOOOO!!! This was torture! Lizzy and I just stood at the back wall to wait when one f the workers there says, "Why don't you girls come sit down?" I'm like, "No, we are fine waiting here, we are leaving soon" She says, "No, why don't you come sit down." But not a question this time, a demand. I gave her the evil eye and go to sit down in those little tiny chairs where not even your whole butt fits.

A minute later, my sister calls me asking us where the heck we were because she was waiting outside for us to come out. I told her in a loud angry voice (just to make sure they know I am mad at them) that we were being held hostage and I dodn't know exactly what was going on and what they were trying to do. So I ask a woman there what in heck I had to do to get out of here and where my sister could come to get us. She told me that she would have to get a security pass and comeinside to find us and sign papers to release us. So I tell this to Melissa and she has to now go find parking and do all of these things which she has no cluse how to do. She goes and asks one of the men that works at the airport to help her get a pass and to find where this Dusty's Den place was located. You won'e believe what happens next, he gets mad at her! He's like, "You should be ashamed of yourself for not being here ealrier to pick up your little sisters" I would have kicked him where it hurt. How dare he? He didn't know anything about what was happening! So eventually she got to the prison we were in and saved us. But before we left I pulled out a gun a shot them all.

JUST KIDDING! We left and went into the parking garage when she FORGOT where she parked her car! We eventually found it after searching not for way too long and were headed out. Then we had a wonderful rest of the trip. More stories to come about that though. And just a note, yes I do realize that this is quite a funny story because if I was reading this I'm sure that I would be laughing my head off at whoever this happened to, but it happened to me and it was TERRIBLE so I've been writing this with a scrunched up full of anger face. And another note, this may have made me seem like a very violent person, and lizzy did say that I had the look of a killer on my face, but I am a very friendly person. However I'm pretty sure that if I had one ounce less of self control, that I would surely be in the papers under the most wanted girl for killing about 2 men, and 6 women. But since I do indeed have self control, I do not have any cops to run from and nothing I need to go talk to the bishop for. WHEW!

So that is the our trip (of hell) to Utah. Thank goodness we didn't have to fly back! The end!

Girls Day!

It's always fun to get together with a bunch of girls friends and get all pretty and go out and have some fun isn't it? Well, that is what we did! We all went over to the Thayne's house and did makeovers and hair and then went to the Tuesday market to look at all the little fun boothes they have down there. Following that we went back and had some Delicious birthday cake made by the wonderful Mama Thayne because it was Emily's 15 birthday. Yay! After that we all watched the ever so corny Secret Life of the American Teenager. Did I mention it was oh so corny? Then we went and drew on our very own henna tattoos. It's always great to have friends like these who will help uplift your spirit and make you happy. I love you girls!

Fun Day!

So the church held a huge youth conference and there were these classes to learn about feeling the spirit, modesty, missionary work, dating, etc. So after it was all over there was a big dance held outside in the stadium at Pacific University and it was SO MUCH FUN! Now I've never enjoyed dances because of all the creepy guys and my lack of friends. But I've been lucky enough in the past few months to score some really great friends. Anyways we jumped around all night long getting the biggest headaches and sideaches from dancing around so much. But it was totally worth it!

The Big One (if you havn't read The Vendetta, read that first)

So you know the whole war between Janet and I? I made her some dinner and I didn't get anything back for a week so I figured she either left on vacation, or she had given up! I hoped it was the second one. On Sunday night I heard the phone ring, and it was the enemy, requesting to speak to my mother. She wasn't home though, but she didn't really need to speak with her at all! She wanted to know if I was home! So she could go through with the evil plan. She then called Kaitlyn and told her to go to my house. Kaitlyn rushed over in a panic and came running up the stairs demanding to know if Lizzy and i were any part of what Janet needed to her to come to my house for. I assured her I was as clueless as she was. But Lizzy, she knew something. However she was sworn to secrecy. We were out of luck! A little while later we hear Janet and Chad's car pull up to the house. We run to the window and see them coming up the walkway with the dishes from the meal I had made. We welcomed them into the house and started a nice conversation. She had admitted defeat! Finally, victory was mine! Or so I thought. She and Chad were saying how good it was and that they couldn't possibly think of something to top that. In my head I was thinking, "Oh that's so easy to top! Come on! Maybe they are just getting tired of this and bored with it" So I accepted their defeat and was happy. Then Janet pulls out her camera and shows us a video of her little dog Abby playing with some rats. Nice cover! The camera was later used in her evil plan! The doorbell rings, and she says, "Sarah, Kaitlyn, you better go get that". We stop dead in our tracks and think oh, no, what has she done? We go to the door and open it up to find two boys, sorry, men, standing there with signs in their hands that say I'm here for Sarah, and the other, I'm here for Kaitlyn. And they had masks on with the actor's face on it. Except for The one who came for Kaitlyn, his had a question mark on it because she hasn't finished the book so she didn't want to see what he looked like. Our mouths drop to the floor. We were completely convinced she had given up! We invite them inside and they pull cookies out from behind their backs and give them to us. Then they ask us to lead them to the piano. Apparently they have a performance, this scared us. So eventually after knocking into tables and couches they get there and one of them starts playing the piano while the other does interpretive dancing. It was quite the show. We were laughing our heads off! When they were done they sang us a song and left to their car. This all happened and none of us even saw each other's faces! We didn't know them, and they didn't know us. Now I don't quite know how we are going to top this one, but one thing is for certain, it is not over! So tune in later for "The Crushing of Janet!" Muahahaha!

ANNOUNCEMENT!

So Elizabeth and I often get into little quarrels that may or may not turn violent. When it does it is usually because she thinks she is tougher than I and she tries to prove it. She ALWAYS fails. To the human eye most people think, oh yeah, Lizzy is the stronger one, shes bigger than that little Sarah and can take her. I am her to tell you that this is BULL HONKEY! I can pin her to the ground within seconds of her little chicken noises she makes to try to draw me in. She is always in denial of her weakness, but it is there, ooohh let me tell you it is there. This just needed to be said. So don't mess with Super Woman, aka me, aka Sarah :)

The vendetta!

As many of you know, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series are an obsession in our household. Unless of course there is a stronger word. I, Sarah,(like you even need to know who i am, i'm the only one who writes these things) am insanely excited for the movie to come out. Though I do think, no, I know that it will be a piece of crap compared to the amazing books. I'm sorry, but Robert Pattenson, you are no Edward. I am trying my hardest to accept you, but it is a task too hard to handle. Hopefully before December 12, the holy date, my heart will have softened. But for now I have not replaced the true Edward I have created in my mind with you.

Now for a little story that goes along with talking about these characters. So I went on a bike ride the other day, and decided that i would go to visit a dear dear family friend. Janet Murdock. We were sitting and talking and eventually the subject came to twilight. We began discussing the new book that will be coming out in I believe 15 days(I can hear the heavens singing!) and how amazing it will be. Then the conversation turned to one almost of violence. It was when we started talking about him, Robert Pattinson. The Edward to be in the upcoming movie. I am definitely not a fan. There are numerous reasons for why he should not be the actor for this character. But all is said and done so I have accepted there is nothing I can do to fix this disaster. Anyways, I was literally flailing my arms around complaining about this terrible thing that has happened and Janet was sitting there trying to calm me down and explain to me that I need to accept him. I, being the stubborn girl that I am did not take her advice.

Later that night I come home from young women's and as I am waling up the steps to the door and I see a single piece of paper with a picture of Robert Pattenson which says, come on Sarah, wont you give me a chance to be your Edward? I promise, I wont let you down. Love Robert Pattinson. The first thing that pops into my mind is what? Is this some sort of weird joke? Wait, JANET! I immediately started thinking of how to pay her back. I had a plan, but instead of doing it right away, I decided to go give her a little visit, you know, to make her think all was good. Little did she know that I had a score to settle, a vendetta! So we sat and chatted and I played with her grandchildren and talked about melted M&Ms and she made a few dirty jokes(bet you didn't want me to post that huh Janet? muahaha!) And then I left due to the fact it was now getting dark out.

The next day, yesterday, I decided to go though with my plan. I, and my partners in crime, Kaitlyn and Lizzy, rode over to her house on our bikes. I had a pack with my materials for the payback. On the windshield of her car I put a picture of Robert Pattinson which was poorly printed due to the fact we had no ink, a note that said something about him being so ugly he ruined my printer, and big tomatoes all around him(though now that I think about it, garlic may have been a better plan). I was so scared that she would see me, she was sitting by her computer right through the window that was almost directly in front of the car. I rushed to finish, I taping the pieces on while Kaitlyn rolled little pieces of tape for me. As soon as we were done, we ran to our bikes and rode away yelling, "JANET!!!" Hoping she would go outside and see it before it grew dark outside. When we got to the end of the street I froze and said. "Oh no! I forgot my sunglasses! They're on the hood of her car!" I sat there on my bike seat in terror of what I knew I was going to have to do. Kaitlyn says, "They'll be ok, she will know they're yours and just take them inside" But I could no longer trust Janet! She could have held then hostage! So I quickly rode back and set my bike beside a bush in her front yard. I then stealthily snuck to the front of her car, went to the edge of the front of the car and stuck my hand up, grabbed my sunglasses and ran back to my bike. Whew! I had done it. We rode back home and thought all was well. Little did I know that she would continue this battle.

This morning as we were sitting and watching television, the doorbell rang because a package had arrived so we went to retrieve it. When we were closing the door there was a paper attached to it. Another note from Janet. This one read, "Dearest Sarah, rumor has it that you think my hotness melted your ink while printing my picture. Actually I'm surprised, usually my icy coolness prints quite well...lets test my theory...(then a couple pictures were printed) Yup, I still have it, cool to the touch, yet still smoking hot! I know what you're thinking(No really, I KNOW what your thinking, it's my gift. You're just not listening to your heart. Try harder Sarah, I know you can do this! Robert.

This is just a little note to you Janet, this war, is NOT over!

Story to be continued(until she gives up)...

Just an FYI...

I want to appologize for the picture you see up at the top of this page. Though I, Sarah, being the daughter of two beyond crazy parents, I did not purposely put a picture of the family without them in it. We havn't actually taken a family picture together in a VERY long time. Sorry mom and dad, i still love you... :)

Oh Elizabeth...

So we were having family home evening as any good mormon family should every monday night... ha. Anyways we were reading an article about Cancer, nutrition, and the word of wisdom and Lizzy was assigned to read the section about standards for temporal health and it reads as follows, "While the Word of Wisdom does not rely on scientific proof..." So she is reading this sentence and immediately when she gets to "does not rely" she says, "Ha, they spelled the word 'really' wrong!" This began a giggle fest among all present and definitely created yet another reason to back anyone up when they say that Lizzy is a dork.