So...it's been a while :) But I'm back on my blog! A couple fun things have happened in the last month or so.  The first big exciting news is that I auditioned in March for what choir to be in next school year, and I made it in to the top concert choir!  I was proud of myself for succeeding at something I really wanted.  After that was Spring Break to North and South Carolina...stay tuned for more picture/details on that one!  Right now I'm flooded with school, seminary, music, family, keeping up my hygiene, sometimes doing homework, having an extensive social life, sleeping whenever and wherever possible (which yesterday included drooling on my textbook at the kitchen counter) and doing everything else teenagers do.  The most exciting thing right now is that a week from tomorrow (next Thursday, May 3) I'll be 16! Oh, so much reminiscing....

Spring Has Sprung

The daylight savings switch couldn't have come at a better time!  The last few days have been do warm and beautiful!!  It's funny, come Monday morning all that the high schoolers could talk about was how INCREDIBLY tired they were because they got one less hour of sleep but yesterday evening it seemed like everyone was out doing something fun.  My family went to the park it our neighborhood and just hung out; it was so fun :)  We played basketball and kickball and swung on the swings.  Today was even more beautiful and all you heard at school was "Can we have class outside??" "It's so nice outside!!"  "Oh my gosh, I wish I was outside..."  I absolutely LOVE spring and the change of seasons.  When the daffodil shoots start to come up, my world couldn't be better :) 

Once on this Island

Neil and Grant were in this musical this weekend; I enjoyed seeing it so much! (twice :)  They both did SO well, especially Neil who had a lead role as Papa Ge, the god of death.  Here are some pictures

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof if we pursue the path that leads to it.
-Joseph Smith

March!

Happy first day of March :)  In my incredibly simple mind, March-May is spring, June-August is summer, September-November is fall, and December-February is winter...which means now it's spring!  Just the other day I noticed daffodils shoots starting to pop up - love it.  Unfortunately with March comes the very slim chance that the future will bring any school cancellations or 2 hour delays, but I am okay with that!  Today I was feeling crummy and I walked outside and it was just so hard to keep being sad when the weather and the world were so sunny and beautiful!  Also, tomorrow and Saturday Neil and Grant are in a musical at their middle school (called "Once on this Island") and I'm so excited to see it! Neil has quite a big role as Papa Ge, the god of death (hehehe :) Maybe I'll post some pictures when it's all said and done.  Grant loves to sing the songs and do his choreography in the living room, but Neil just tells us repeatedly that he can't wait to be done having rehearsals everyday.  We're way proud of both of em.  

A few from our friend, Einstein

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”