Girls Camp!

Girls camp was super fun! I only went up for one night with my mom but it was fun. When we got there we had an obstacle course and it was intense! We had to army crawl through mud and we had to climb over walls and do all sorts of stuff! It was a blast, except I only brought one pair of pants and they were very dirty after having to do the obstacle couse 6 times!
That night the Bishop made us dinner and it was delicious! He had chicken wrapped in bacon and potatoes, and salad, and marble cake! It was all made in dutch ovens so it was that much more amazing!
Then we had our testimony meeting which was cool. The bishopric and leaders gave us envelopes with stuff inside and after we bore our testimonies we got to pore the contents into the fire. It turned the flames blue! It was really neat. The bishop gave all of the leaders and YW personalized walking sticks. They are really cool and it was a great gift!

The next morning we all ate breakfast and then went to the flag ceremony with the stake. Our ward did our ward cheer and it was really cool! It goes like this:

We like mormon boys and we cannot lie
You other sisters cant deny
When a boy walks in with his scriptures and his case
and a smile upon his face you get
a date!
A celestial mate but wait!
He's going on a mission
Leavin you wishin,
that you had a man!
Somebody to hold your hand!
Deacons, WHAT?!
Teacher, NO!!!
We don't like your features!
Your brothers are hot and you are not
So give us a righteous priest!!
*grunt*

It was pretty much the greatest cheer/rap I have ever done! Then we packed up all of our stuff and left before all of the crazy rain came! Oh! We also made really cool necklaces out of paper, scrabble letters squares, string, and modgepodge??? Spell check! It was really fun being there with Morgan, McKenna, and my mom. The theme for our ward was superheroes so everybody got really cool capes! It was my last year at camp and it was super fun! :D

The Cove

My mom has been bugging me non stop about updating my blog which is a tad hypocrytical because she hasn't updated her's in at least a year! So the latest with me is pretty much....I work and I moved out of the house! Yes, everything is fine! Whenever I tell people I moved out they all freak out and ask if everything is okay. So just know that everything is okay. I am living ten minutes away from my house in a house with my two best friends and one of their aunts lives upstairs. So far everything is pretty bueno! We cleaned the entire basement out and repainted everything. We call the house "THE COVE" because the accent wall in mine and Kylie's room is called Pirates cove. Besides, every house needs to be named right?! Living on my own isn't really scary or anything. Its kinda nice. No offense to my mom! I am just independant okay! Haha sometimes I might think what am I getting myself into but I will learn alot and have fun at the same time!

School starts in August and I am super excited. Kristie and Erin also move up which will be fun! I'm not taking a lot of classes because I need to work but I am taking some! Mostly all the boring ones though.

That is pretty much everything.......I graduated! In case I forgot to blog about that. It's a pretty big deal apparetnly. :)

Until next time!
-Chandler

Vegas Trip

For my graduation trip my parents got my and my best friend Kylie a room in vegas! My family, of course, would be with us but we were free to do whatever we wanted. We just had to keep my parents posted on our daily activites. We drove down on Tuesday, checked into our hotel, and went to the rainforest cafe for dinner. Our waiter was really funny and he kept teasing Kylie because she was being so picky about her drinks and food. After dinner we all went back to our rooms and just hung out. Kylie and I watched a movie and then just crashed.
The next day, Kylie and I woke up and went to the pool. We were there for about two hours just tanning. After that we went back to our room where we showered and got ready. Then we just kind of hung out and watched CSI until dinner time! We went to the cheesecake factory and then Kylie and I went shopping! :) I got a shirt, which shows of my newly tanned skin very well! After dinner, we went to the Apple store and played on the Ipads. Then we went to the Mirage hotel to go to the Beatles store. Unfourtanetly for us, it was closed. However there was the coolest rainbow wall and floor so we played on that for a bit. Then we went to our hotel and watched anonther movie until we fell asleep.
The next day we went, once again, to the pool to tan! After a couple of hours we went to our hotel got ready then went to the bodies exhibition! It was pretty much the coolest/creepiest thing ever! I got to hold a lung and kidney. After the exhibition we went to the Beatles store! I got a sweet shirt! Then we went to dinner! After dinner we went back to the hotel and tried to pop popcorn with blow dryers because the hotel didnt have a microwave! Sadly it failed and we melted the trash can haha. Then we fell asleep watching Pirates!
Then today we woke up, got ready and packed up the car. Then we went to the arcade and bought best friend necklaces with our 20 tickets we earned! Haha then we had the security guard take a picture of us. He was a good sport and took a picture of us :) Then we went and bought pretzles for the road! Then we went through a lion habitat where we watched two lions play fetch haha. Then we got on the road and came home!
Now that I am home, I will unpacked and then party!

Graduation Day

Today I graduated!!!! But before we get into that I will start at the beginning of the day. I got my yearbook and it is so sweet! Then I sat in the hallway and signed yearbooks and just hung out. Around 10am I went over to the recreational center where a bbq was going on. There I ate some food and hung out with the rest of the school. Then Kylie and I came to my house and got ready for graduation! Once we were ready we took some pictures and I opened a present from my Grandma! She got me a really cool charm bracelet. Then someone came to the door and there was a limo outside!! Turns out Nicks parents got a limo for Nick and his close friends. So we got in, picked everyone else up, and then partied in the limo until we got to the Burns Arena. From there the ceremony started! It was so surreal! It was pretty boring but exciting at the same time. After the ceremony was over my family, dad and Alex, and myself went to dinner at Haven. Then I went to Zack's graduation which was pretty fun! After that I hung out with my dad and Alex for a while and then I went to my friend Braedons house where we hung out and watched Harry Potter! Around 1:30 I came home because I was dead tired! It was the coolest day ever!

Tightwad

Today was awesome! I didnt have school and it was Tightwad! Tightwad is a dance where it is super cheap. The tickets per couple were only $2! I went with Zackary, Kylie went with Josh Gracia, Taylor went with Sara, and Nick went with Kaitlyn Lindsay. For the day date we went to a park and played tennis and then played Apples to Apples! I love that game, sadly I lost though. After we played games we went to In-n-Out for dinner then went to the dance. The dance was covered with packaging peanuts and foam and cardboard boxes haha. We just danced the night away and took pictures! There was a wall of cardboard boxes between two poles and our entire group except for me ran through it! It was so cool I took a video of it! Haha after a while we got tired of dancing so we went to Taylors house where we met up with some other friends of ours and had a bonfire. It was a way fun day! :)

Whats New?

I have got to get better at writing on here everyday! So lets get up to speed! I am currently working at Dairy Queen! It is so much fun! Everyone that works there is just so fun and crazy, im pretty sure I fit right in. There is another new girl who was just fired haha her name is Martha and she was a meany face. She really didnt like me for some reason...we all decided it was because I was better than her and she is just jealous especially since she had worked at a Dairy Queen before. So thats new. I just got my senior announcements today! I am so excited I graduate in a few weeks! AAAHHH!!! That is way to crazy! I am super excited though! I have my college final next Wednesday and im kind of nervous! I am going to study like crazy because its for Biology and biology is an intense subject!

Some big news!! I was Senior Ball queen! :) That was the coolest thing ever! The king was one of the schools disabled kids his name is Jared Call. He is the neatest kid and so happy! The dance was way fun! I went with Braedon Porter and we had a super crazy scavenger hunt! One of the things we had to do was take a picture with a pologymist family haha so we secretly took one except they knew what was going on because they all looked really angry in the picture haha. We had another one where a couple in our group had to sit INSIDE a cooler so we went to the freezer section and ironicly there were two freezer empty! So Kylie Soreneson and Brandon Bringhurst got in there and we got a picture! It was so fun. The dance itself was way fun to. The best part was people coming up to me during dinner and stuff and asking me why I was wearing a crown. I should have said I was a princess (like a real one) but I didnt haha. The next sunday I recieved my patriartical blessing. It was the coolest experience I have ever had! The second I walked into President Wades house you can just feel the spirit and I could have cried right then but I decided to save it for the actual blessing where I bawled my eyes out haha. It was worth it! I cant wait to get it and read it over and over! :)

Then last saturday the 24 I went to Zacks senior ball at Desert Hills High School. For our day date we got to ride in an airplane!! It was so cool! I got to be captain and I FLEW THE PLANE!!! It was so awesome! The instructor of course helped me out a little but I pretty much flew the plane by myself for a good 10 minutes! We were going 125 mph! At 5000 ft in the air! I turned the plane and everything! COOLEST THING EVER! After the plane ride everyone met up at a local park and we just played a ton of games for a few hours. It was really fun :) It was my very last formal dance! Well-for high school that is. It is still sad though!

That is pretty much my life in a nut shell right now. Nothing really exciting going on....oh Tayli Sorenson/Stowers had her baby! Nixon James :) He is so cute so now I have a nephew! Well kinda....haha but im excited hopefully Kylie and I can go up this weekend to see him! :)
Thats all for now! When I think of more I will put it up here!

My Upcoming Week

Alright! SO just so everyone is up to date, I finally got a job at the local Dairy Queen!! It is surprisingly fun and way chill and also easy so i'm happy! Other than that my life is just busy busy busy. I am never home anymore! This week is going to be even worse and super stressful....so looking forward to it. First off Monday and Tuesday is baseball tryouts (I am Pine View High School's Baseball manager) so I have to go to those and do paper work and all this other stuff. Then I have choir practice both days until about 7. Then Tuesday along with tryouts and choir I have mutual and maybe a basketball game. Wednesday, the baseball team is doing a golf tournament from 8am to about 1pm to raise money for funds that I am helping with. After the tournament I am helping with a girls body cast. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening I have work :( [yes I work Sunday I know but you have to work at least one Sunday a month]. And in between all of this I have to battle a sore throat, a Biology paper, math homework, government homework, a huge math test, financial literacy homework, and probably a lot more. I even have chores and graduation stuff to do. This should be a fun week.

Well thanks for letting me vent! I will let you know how the week turns out! :)

Oh and in all of this craziness some good does come from it! My best friend Kylie is moving back to SG next week! YAY!!! :)

Junior Prom!!

Alright last Saturday I went to Junior Prom with Zack and it was so much fun! For our day date all the girls got picked up and the boys made us breakfast which was actually really good! I was so proud of them! After we ate we all loaded up our paintball gear and went paintballing. It was really fun! The first round I got out after like 10 minutes haha I got hit in the neck. It was quite depressing and hurt a little bit but it wasn't to bad. The next round we did couples against couples so it was pretty much kill anyone as long as it isn't your date haha. Zack, of course, got out before the game even got started! So I was left all alone to defend myself. I lasted pretty long and then I got nailed in the head...We did a few rounds like that and then we had a girls only round.
This round was super fun because it was every girls first time going paintballing so the odds were more even haha. My plan was to sit in a bush until someone came towards me and I would just shoot them down. Which worked pretty well :) It got down to me and one other girl Claudia and we ended up killing each other at the exact same time haha it was funny!

We also had a girls against boys round which was pretty intense! I only had one kill though...but it was the guy in our group who was in the army so go me! I kill one of the most experienced people there haha and then I got out...

After paintballing we went to Iceberg for lunch and then the girls were dropped off so we could get all pretty for the boys :) My dress was really cool! I borrowed it from my friends sister. It was plaid with a really cool hat and gloves. I looked pretty cool if I do say so myself.

Zack came and picked me up and we did the whole put the flowers on each other and take a million picture dealio which wasn't to bad haha. Then we all met up and went to dinner at a Thai restraunt and it was pretty delicious! Then we went to the dance where we just partied all night long! The whole day and night was really fun and I am glad I got to go :)

Body Cast

Alright I finally did my body cast and it is really cool! A body cast is basically a plaster molding of my body haha. I was laying on a board with layers of plaster on me for about an hour and a half. It was quite enjoyable? I glued puzzle pieces to my shirt because it looked pretty cool haha. Lately I have just been cleaning it up and making the casting look as perfect as possible. Then I will go through and paint it white and paint all of the individual puzzle pieces different colors :) When I am done with that it will be sent up to a state art show in Utah :) I'll be sure to put the finish product on here and keep you posted on the art show! For some reason it won't let me post the pictures of it on here so check out my facebook if you want to see it! I will try and put some on here :)

Long time no see!!

Alrighty..so it has been quite sometime since I have posted anything on my blog! My last entry was from state cross country and it has been a long time since then. I will try and sum up what I have been doing. Okay...so where to begin....lets go with thanksgiving! Thanksgiving was so awesome! The girls and I went down to our dads and it was really fun. We had tons and tons of delicious food made by Alex. We had family friends come over to which was fun. One of the guest brought a game he made and actually sells. It calls "Poo". It is a card game and it is actually really fun! We played it for quite some time. The game is pretty much monkeys throwing certain amounts of poo at other monkeys. You can clean off your poo, dodge the poo, or even fling it back. It sounds really weird but it was fun :)

Next would be....I dont know. I know I have done a ton of fun things but I just cant remember any of them. I should probably update more often...

Okay we will talk about Zack! Thats a good topic :) So Zack is my current boyfriend HURRAY! He is really cool and funny and I am pretty positive everyone would like him :). Thats pretty much all about him haha we have been dating for 3 months, we have known each other since 7th grade and ya!

Christmas time! I love Christmas. We spent Christmas here in Saint George which is always a good time. I just hung out with friends and performed many times with my choir group Canta Bella :) I wanted to go snowboarding this Christmas but I didnt :/ thats okay though next year I will, right? I got lots of clothes and all kinds of good stuff for Christmas :)

Ya that is pretty much it...if I think of more things I will be sure to put them on here. There will be more entries coming in though! I have a body cast and a dance coming up!! Therefore I will put details about it on here :)

Love,
Chandler

State XC and Birthday!

Tuesday the Pine View High School went up to Salt Lake City for state! It was a long bus ride up there but it was still fun. My team is so crazy! There wasn't a dull moment the whole time up haha. When we got to our hotel we got our room assignments, changed, then went on a short 2.5 mile run to get our legs up and going! Then we all showered and got ready then went to dinner. I went to TGI Fridays with a bunch of people that included our team coaches. It was really funny! I thought Coach Holt was going to get us kicked out or something. There was a total of ten of us and we were all so loud. Coach was telling us funny stories of when he and his buddies would get bored and try to get away with things. Haha it was really funny, lucky for us there wasn't to many people in the restraunt. After dinner we went back to the hotel and had team meetings. Coach Holt gave a really good speech to us about how this years girls set the goal for the rest of the years to come. It was really cool, I thought he was going to cry haha. After the coaches inspired us for the race the next day we had team captain meetings where we ended up singing happy birthday to me, eating cake, and just talking haha we are such girls!

The next day we woke up ate a pretty darn good continental breakfast, got ready, and went off to the race! We had a little bit till we ran so we all played soccer, volleyball, frisbee, and just walked around talking to the other teams. Then the race came and everyone was really excited and nervous. The course was hard! All grass with crazy huge hills and it just seemed like it would never end! We did way good though!! Boys took 3rd and girls took 12th! Which is way good compared to earlier years! :D After the races we stayed for awards and then went home!

We stopped in Provo for dinner and we just went to the mall there. I guess its a good food court there or something beacause like five other schools were there also. In honor of my birhtday, my friend Cassidy thought it would be cool to have the whole cafeteria sing happy birthday to me. So, she got up told everyone to start singing and right then and there I got sang to. Haha a little embarrasing but still pretty cool :D. On the bus ride home everyone was pretty much dead so we all just relaxed, listened to music, and slept.

It was a really good time! Especially since we didnt have school and we just got back from a long weekend so for us it was extra long!! Even better :). When I got home it was about 10:30 so I got to open one present which was perfume and it smells pretty good. Then I went straight to bed. The next morning I had school :/ so I got up, dead tired, and went to school. After school I got to open the rest of my presents which consited of clothes, clothes, and more clothes. :D YAY! Oh and chapstick!! I'm addicted to that stuff. Thank you Grandma for the towel! I like butterfly on it! :D Thank you Chanda for the earings they are very cute! :) Thanks to everyone else for sending me stuff I may have not recieved yet such as cards etc.

Morgan made me a very delicious cake which I got to eat after coming home from Canta Bella!! Which reminds me: My choir has Christmas cds we are selling for $10 to raise money for our Disneyland trip in the spring. IT IS SO GOOD NO LIE! I am in seven of the songs on the cd and everyone should buy one! They are great presents for anyone and you can give them away to family member and friends. If you would like one just let me know so I can send you the cd. They are only $10 and totally worth it!

That is the run down on me for now! Sorry its really long and kind of boring!

Love,
Chandler!

Photoshoot

I did another photoshoot with the amazingly talented Valerie. We went to this old barn kind of place with a lot of tress and stuff and they turned out pretty good. The hard part will just be figuring out with five photos I want for senior pictures. If you want to check them out just go to mysimplephotographer.com and click on proofing. Then click seniors and then click on me! It asks that you enter in your e-mail but don't worry they don't send you any coupons or reminders or anything like that. Let me know which ones you like! "D

Homecoming!

Okay so last Saturday was my schools homecoming dance and it was way fun! For our day date our group went to Sand Hallow resevoir (a.k.a. the lake) and we went wakeboarding and tubing and all that good stuff you do out on the lake. Then the boys dropped us off so we could get all dolled up! When my date picked me up we went over to my friend Nick's house for dinner. It was so cute they had tables set up outside in his backyard and they had candles, tableclothes, flowers and all kinds of cool stuff. Those boys are good at getting their moms to decorate. So after a dinner catered by some mexican place, we took probably 10,000 pictures courtesy of Nick's mom and two sisters. We didn't get to the dance till about 9:30 and it ended at 11:00. The best part is we didn't even stay the whole time haha but the dance was way fun! After a long day everyone just went straight home. It was a good day/night and my date Derek was awesome!!

The next Saturday I went to Desert Hills homecomng and that was also a blast. I was asked my the Italian forgein exchange student Nico. For our day date we also went boating haha. I did a little wakeboarding and tried wake surfing which wasn't really all that great haha but still fun. We also did some cliff jumping and I ended up totally landing on my back! It hurt so bad!! I didn't even really sink and I couldn't breathe I had to be rescued haha. I have a huge battle wound (bruise) on my leg that covers literally my whole thigh. It's crazy! Im way sore from that but it was totally worth it haha.
After the lake, we went and got ready, got picked up by our dates, and went to dinner. The dinner was way nice! We had a three course meal with two forks and everything. They even gave us sorbet so we could cleanse our pallets after every course! They went all out. After dinner we went to the dance and had a blast! We were at the dance for about three hours and then it ended so my date took me home. The whole day was pretty great!

Yet another Cross Country Entry

All of my posts are probably going to be about Cross Country (XC) from now on haha it's like my life now! Well a huge part of it! The team just went up to SUU for a meet. We did okay...the boys took 2nd place which is way good! We had I believe 3 of our boys in the top 10 so thats good. We didn't do that well though because it was all grass and you run slower on grass. Unfortunately, I didn't get to race because I have an injury. I am over pronating in my feet. What that is, is my ankles turn in a lot when I stand so all of my weight is on the inside of my feet and i'm not getting any support for my feet so it's pretty painful. When I start running it travels up to my knees and if I don't get it fixed it can go all the way up to my neck! So I have been taping my feet for support and I should be getting custom insoles for my shoes so I can get the support I need in order to run! We go up to BYU this weekend for a race and hopefully I can run! So cross your fingers!

In other news. I was just asked to Homecoming on Saturday. I was asked by a guy in my grade his name is Derek Bird. I don't him super well but I do know that he is really cool and nice so I am excited! He asked me by putting a "dead person" in my bed with a little R.I.P. gravestone and a poster said I would die to go to Homecoming with you haha. So i'm either going to answer him by having the same grave stone and have a poster that says rest in peace I would love to go with you! Or, Rett came up with an idea to be like "my MUMMY said it was okay so YES!" haha and I would toilet paper his room! I will most likely do that because I love trashing people's rooms! haha

So that is pretty much the run down on my life right now! College started up for me this last week and it is already taking up a huge part of my days! But so far its pretty easy just time consuming! Oh also my choir group Canta Bella starts practice tomorrow!! I am super duper excited!!!

Hurricane Invitation

Saturday we had another meet at Hurricane High School. It was at 8 in the morning bleh. The course was really easy and really fast though! I like how the did the races to. In my first race they did JV and Varsity girls together but at Hurricane they did JV then Varsity so there wasn't as much people to worry about beating! At the start of the race us four JV girls (I know thats a lot!) we got togehter and did our prayer and cheer and then we started the race! On my 3rd lap -which is really only half a lap- me and this girl were neck and neck and we decided that it would be fun if we raced! So we started just sprinting to the finish line and neither of us were letting the other one win. Just before the finish line though she barely beat me. I was mad but it was fun. Her name was Chanden and she goes to Cedar-not like that matters but just letting you know! Afterwards we started talking and promised to never race again haha we basically killed each other we were so dead but it was worth it. I ended up taking 7 minutes off of my time which is awesome! I also didn't finish last either which is even better! Haha so our boys took first place and 7 of them placed in the top 10. Our girls took 3rd and 1 of our girls placed in the top 10. Not a bad day at all! :)

XC

For my senior year my friend Taylor convinced me to do cross country with him. So, I started running in the mornings and after school with the team. Luckily Coach Holt was going easy on me and only made me do 3 miles every practice till I get in better shape. The team is really fun and crazy! I don't know how everyone can stay focused when they run. Anyways I had my first meet on Wednesday at Ceday High. It was supposidly an easy course but I almost died haha. It really wasn't that bad I just was struggling a little bit haha. Our boys ended up taking first out of all 7 or so schools and 4 of our boys placed in the top 6 which is really good! The girls took first! Just so everyone knows I came in last! YES! Haha but hey someone has to keep up the back and make sure everyone makes it through right? My time was 35.something ha and everyone ran 3.2 miles. We did really good and I was dead tired after so my cool down consisted of a lot of walking. A cool down is where you jog like a mile after you run-crazy I know but it's not that bad after you have just been running and sprinting and stuff. My next race is this Saturday at Hurricane High School and this course is supposed to be really fast. Its all paved and there is only like one little hill so that's good for my part. My goal is to just finish. I don't care if I come dead last, at least I tried and I finished strong just like I started.

First Day of School

The first day of school was pretty fun and boring at the same time. The seniors(thats me!) and juniors didn't have to show up till noon because the school was doing sophomore orrientation so that was always good. I didn't have to be there till like 1 though because I am taking two college classes in the morning at Dixie so my friends Taylor, Nick, and I wandered the halls and bothered everyone haha it was pretty fun! We went to our classes too though so don't worry. I have the easiest classes. Third period I am a teacher aid for an English teacher, fourth period I have ceramics! Fifth and sixth are college seventh I have social dance - with all sophomores :S and eighth I have seminary! That class is going to be so much fun! Just think of all the fun and crazy kids in the school and you have my seminary class. Poor Bro. McKarther....haha so ya that was my first day of school!

Super Fun Trip!!!

Disclaimer:I am already putting on a bunch of pictures(bare with me) but if you want to me more just go to my Facebook page :)
So the past two weeks my little sisters, my dad and my step mom all took a huge trip to all sort of places! First we went to Dinuba and saw my grandparents. We only stayed for about half a day but had fun! We rode a horse and went to Sals for lunch.
Then we went to our Aunt Amy's in San Fransisco! It was cold for me and my sisters but to everyone else it was normal haha. We just hung out and went to the dog park. It was fun. One day we went into downtown San Fransisco and spent the day with Kimiko! It was really fun-we did a little shopping and ate lunch. Next we took a 12 hour drive to Hermiston Oregan! The drive was long and pretty much was no fun but well worth it. Alex's friend Michelle lives there and it was lots of fun! We went boating and went cliff jumping, tubing, and wakeboarding.
We ate a ton of yummy food and even stayed in a tent in the backyard! Well the little girls did. Her little boys luke and skyler were way funny and entertaining.
They had a rope swing that we were on for a while and we went swimming a lot! Those few days there was really fun and pretty! They had amazing sunsets. Random fact about Oregan: It is illegal to pump your own car with gas in Oregan. Next we went to Seattle to our Aunt Barbaras. It was so much fun! I even got to hang out with a cousin my age! Which made it even better. We played a lot of croquet and went swimming down at the lake which was really cool because it had a diving board thing out in the water. We spent one day in the Seattle Center where we played carnival games (i won a gecko!!) rode a roller coaster and went to a cool fountain.
We saw the space needle but didn't go in it. One night that was really cool was when they took us to see the Seattle skyline. It was so pretty!! Alex and my Dad made us close our eyes so we could get the full effect and it was definetly worth it. We also went to the public market one day which was really cool. There was stuff everywhere you looked! We even saw the very first starbucks ever! Me and my cousin Karina got these awesome hair things called wonder buns where you can make a perfect bun in about 2 minutes and it is so easy! Even Morgan can do it! The last day we just hung out and went to a place called Pegasus which has awesome pizza! Then from there we went to Quilcen(i think thats how it is spelled) and stayed at my Grandpa Stans! It was so pretty. There was so much to do in such a little town! We picked a million blackberries and some raspberries and made them into a cobbler which was delicious.
We rode a quad which was fearsome! It was camo with a skull helmet and a flower for a touch of girlyness! Haha we went clam digging one morning and that was pretty intense! We dug a whole lot of clams up. We even found a ton of sand dollars!! They were everywhere! That night -after a fun day of hiking trails, rope swinging, quading, and relaxing- we went down to the beach and had a bbq.
It was so delicious! We went kyaking right before which was way fun except I got really wet. The best part was smores though.
Everyone ate some and I got a million pictures!
One morning me, Morgan, McKenna, Arika(our cousin), and Grandma Linda all went on a 3.6 mile hike and it was cool. It was really pretty on the top even with all of the cloud cover. After that we didnt really do much cuz we were all really tired but we did play a lot of games like Yahtzee and Scrabble Slam. I highly recommend them both! The food throughout the entire trip was amazing! Everything(especially at Grandpa Stans) was fresh! Like litterally everything and it was sooooo good! I got a lot of cool pictures too! Oh we also went to Port Townsen! That was REALLY fun! Alex grew up there so she knew all the places to go, natually. We went to an old abandoned Bunker and it was really creepy at first but way fun once you get the feel for it. We just went through all these little pitch black passage ways and climb ladders and all kinds of fun stuff :). After that we went to some huge amazing park with some crazy long indian name! It was really cool it had a pathway to walk to the beach and flowers everywhere and room to run around-all that good stuff kids need! We had a little picnic there and then we went to a drive in theater! We saw Harry Potter which was good but long! We all came home and crashed after a long day! We left Quilcen Sunday afternoon and flew into Vegas. Except for Dad and Alex they flew into San Diego. It was my little sister's first flight and apparently it wasn't all that exciting haha we didn't even get peanuts!! But oh well maybe the next flight we will. Our mom picked us up at the airport and we stayed over night in a hotel. The next morning we got up bright and early and went school shopping! It was fun and very productive. We were talking the whole time and i'm pretty sure my mom was getting annoyed after so much haha. All in all awesome trip. Awesome people. Awesome towns and an awesome time :D