Merry Christmas

I  haven't blogged in quite some time, but I am starting back up! I won't bore you with excuses, but one of my New Year's resolutions is to blog more!

 

Anyway, I wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas! It is a little late, but better late than never! I had a great Christmas. One of the best gifts I received were hand-written letters from my family members about how much they loved me and it brought tears to my eyes. We did this for everyone, and it was so nice!

 

In light of the Christmas season, I just want to thank my friends and family for always being there for me! You guys are amazing! I can't express enough love toward you!

 

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have a great year!

One Inspiring Weekend

Last weekend I watched General Conference with my family. IT WAS SO GOOD! I loved the messages that they gave and the life experiences they shared. It is really an inspirational time for me and I am so lucky to be able to watch it!

 

President Monson gave the announcement that boys can serve a mission at 18 and girls can go at 19. This was really life changing for me because I might get to go on a mission now! I have never really thought about the chance, always thinking that I would be married or getting my education when a mission was available. Now I might be able to go without messing up any of my plans!

 

General Conference is available to watch at lds.org if anyone wants to check it out or rewatch some of it. I promise you will not regret it!

 

On another note, I will be doing a summer wrap-up soon! I have put my pictures onto the computer and now I just have to upload them here! Thanks! I will get those done real soon. Promise!

Happy Birthday Bud!

Yesterday was my brother's birthday and I just wanted to take a minute and wish him a good one! He is 10 years old now. 10? Double digits already? Oh where has time gone? Really everything is going by fast and I just want to savour each and every moment!

 

I will post pictures soon! I just have to figure out how to upload the pictures to my computer as it hasn't been working so well lately. I will get on that! I have just been really busy since I started HIGH SCHOOL! Do you hear how crazy those words are? I am a high schooler. It's almost too much to believe!

 

Happy Birthday Braiden! I love you so much and you are such a great brother! I hope all your birthday wishes come true!

 

In other news, I am a driver with a permit and I need to be practicing more, so keep your loved ones off the sidewalks and out of the roads!

Summer Wrap Up Next!

We have had a great and crazy summer here at my house! August has been a blast, having Girls Camp and the 4th Year Hike, and the hanging with friends and going school shopping! Tomorrow we leave for Glacier, so I will catch up on everything that has been going on after we get back, I promise!

 

I have been catching up in technology lately. I recently got a Pinterest account and I love it! There are lots of fun things on Pinterest! I have created several meals and tried out lots of hairdos that I found. There are also a lot of good fitness tips that I read and other goodies. All in all, I am glad that I got a Pinterest! Maybe some of my business comes from being on Pinterest...

 

Anyways, I have had a lot of fun this summer and I am sad to see it come to end. Maybe because I am partly terrified of high school and what it will bring. Well wish me luck! For now I will just enjoy my last week before the last breath of summer slips away...

Birthday Bash

So I missed quite a couple birthdays on my busy break from blogging (try saying that 5 times fast). I want to go over a quick recap of the great birthdays we have celebrated this year!

Lauren's was first on January 15th. She turned 13 years old and is now officially a teenager! Someone please help my mother! For her birthday, she got a package of 16 inch Twizzlers! They were insane, but she loved them! My mom also made a cool flower cake to celebrate. It was quite the occasion to celebrate another teen entering our house!

Ethan's birthday was next. He turned seven on the 15th of February and to celebrate he had a lego party with his friends. It was a lot of fun for him and the boys to build and build!

My dad and I celebrated our birthday in April. We went to Robintinos and had a great time with family! My dad went over the hill this year and so we had to tease him about that.

For my mom's birthday, we celebrated at the Spaghetti Factory (as usual) and had a good time. I got a picture of her and my baby, who was born the day before!

We have done a lot of celebrating since the year has started, and I am excited to keep on celebrating! It has been a lot of fun and I can't wait until the next birthday that comes around!

Christmas in July!

Yes, I do know my months. I know that is hard to believe, but its true. I just need to get caught up on my blogging now!

We had a gingerbread decorating party. This is a great (and yummy) tradition that allows us to be very creative! I love it so much! Even with all the candy we eat, we still manage to put some onto our houses!

Twinners!

Grandpa decorating

Then we had to decorate the tree and get it all ready for the big night!!

We went to Festival of Trees and there was a Tangled tree there! I almost died.

The cool set that my mom and grandma made for the Festival. Great job!

And of course, Christmas just wouldn't be complete without the Oakley Christmas party!

Cousins!

Lauren and me with Grandma Roberta

We took our annual trip to Temple Square. All the lights are so pretty and I love looking at them!

Christmas morning

As to why Lauren has a bow on her head...I honestly have no response to that!

It was a really great Christmas season!!!!! Finally I am done with 2011 blog posts and can hopefully catch up!

Anniversary

Today is the two year anniversary of my favorite band, One Direction!!! They are My Newest Obsession and I am so proud to be a Directioner!!! I am so proud of my boys and how far they have come!!

Two years ago, 5 boys were told they were not good enough to continue on the British X-factor. It was a hard time and lots of tears fell. Then they were called back onto the stage, and told they were no longer solo artists, and they formed a band called One Direction. This happened on July 23, 2012. They started out as 5 strangers with a dream, but now they are 5 brothers who inspire dreams.

To celebrate this glorious occasion, I decided to make a cake. I planned to make it very good and magnificent, and probably the best cake in the whole history of the world. Well... it turned out a little differently.

There you go. It is a very simple cake, but sometimes the simplest things in life are the sweetest, and boy does this cake taste sweet! I am so grateful for my mother and sister who helped me pull of the feat! I don't think that it would look this good if it wasn't for them!

Goodbye June

I have been slacking lately in my blogging. Life has been so crazy in the summer! First we had Disneyland, then I had EFY, and then we partied with the Gittens until the left. Then there is also the fact that I am lazy and my computer won't let me put any pictures on. So hopefully I will post more soon.

At the moment, I am just awed in the fact that June is already gone and I am one month closer to being a high schooler!!!! Oh it's insane. So I will just do a little recap on what I haven't posted about and what has gone on in my life for the past little while.

• I won Language Arts Student of the Year. That means that out of all of the 9th grade students at my school, I was the best at Language Arts. I am so happy and still so overwhelmed!
• We had a great time with our cousins and family when they came out from Georgia! They were here for almost a month and we had so much fun! I miss you guys!!!
• I have loved keeping up with all of my school friends! These friendships really do last and I am so grateful for all of my friends! You guys are the bomb!
• Going to Lagoon has been a blast! We have been a couple of times this summer and it is very fun!
• EFY was such a great experience! I have loved every single minute of it and I can't wait to go again!
• I am very excited for our anual Fourth of July bash up in Oakley. That is a tradition that will hopefully last forever! It is fun to see the family and celebrate our country.

So that's a little bit of what is going on in my life right now! I will post more soon!

Introducing...

Niall Greyson Frazier!!!! For my Teen Living class, we had to do the baby assignment. And by that I mean I had to carry around an 11.2 pound baby doll for four days because he is my child. It was a long four days, but it was also kind of fun. I took lots of pictures (they aren't very good because I took them with my phone) and I wanted to share them. So here is my experience as a teen parent!

Where I'm From

In English, we had to write a poem called "Where I'm From." We were given an outline and then had to fill in the blanks to figure out where we come from. I wanted to put mine up here because it says a lot about who I am, and where I come from.

I am from chocolate, from Kirkland Brand, and clothes that are someone else’s.

I am from the two story, interesting house that stands by the houses of neighbors that have been our grocery supply when time is little.  

I am from the pineapple plant that never grew, the fake fern that’s almost as old as I am, though there’s really no way to tell.

I am from singing around the piano and not being afraid to speak my mind, from Denise and Frazier and Furlow.  

I am from the thinking too hard and the dreaming too much.From “Wait until you are older” and “You made me proud.”  

I am from the LDS church, from temples built high upon mountains and scriptures to read at night.

I’m from downtown Salt Lake and exquisite Europe, from delicious roast that became a Sunday family tradition and caffeine free diet coke that I am sure was my mother’s own special way of protecting us from addiction and sugar highs.  

From the running on the roof and then laughing for hours about it later. From the beautiful face and the contagious laugh.

I am from trips to Disneyland, from keys being pounded on the piano, and trying to outdo each other as siblings just can’t resist.  

I am from the good, the bad, and the in between, from the family that always pushes me forward, and takes me where I am to go.

To An Amazing Mother...

Here is to the best mom on the planet! As Mother's Day was just the other day, I am so glad that I have my mom here with me. She is amazing and great! I could go on and on about her because I love her so much, but I would be here all day. The most important thing is that I love her, and that I couldn't ask for more. Thanks mom for being such an amazing person, and happy Mother's Day. I hope that someday I will be as good of a mother as you are to me!

My Newest Obsession...

...is One Direction! They are this hot new boy band from the UK that I am in love with! They are really good singers and I love them to death!

This is Liam Payne and he is an amazing singer and super hot!

This is Harry Styles (the name really fits!) and he is weird but in my opinion the best singer.

Louis is... loud, crazy, and insane, but that's what I love about him!

Zayn is the bad boy out of the band, but he's cool.

And the personal favorite is... Niall Horan! He is the only Irish member of the band and is amazingly nice, hot, funny, ect. I could say more but I would be here all day!

I love them so much and I can't wait to see them when they come to Utah! Now you know my latest obsession... Look them up on youtube or itunes so you can become obsessed too!