high school here i am!

hahaha so i realized i never even updated over the summer....but it was AMAZING! the 4th of july show was definitely a blast!!
we even got a lot of friends from school to do it with us so that was way fun!!
and our family vacation to san onefre and big bear was tons of fun <3 hahaha especially with the 3 pregnant women :) and with lots of trips to the beach and disneyland my summer was just pretty much AMAZING! it was lots of fun to have alissa and marissa here too and i definitely miss them!! and me and some of my friends from church went to go see tara sillasen in annie jr put on by occt and she was WONDERFUL! and im pretty sure she could tell we were there before she even saw us hahaha
i had a fun get together at my house before my bday! We got a nice little bonfire in the backyard goin and roasted some smores, played catch phrase, and then headed over to the park to play sardines! and...big booty...and got a fun story to tell!!! :) hahaha then after we decided to go home....we went back to my house and talked, ate some treats, had a water fight in my backyard, and i opened presents! then we just kinda hung out and had a blast! of course i was halfway drenched thanks to laurel, matt and renee! haha it was tons of fun!
Youth conference was SO MUCH FUn! Every day we had workshops at the stake center (except for Thursday) and then we did fun activities!! On thursday we got to do baptisms in the LA temple! and go to the la brea tar pits!!! we had a bonfire at the beach. then on friday after workshops we went to in n out and our ward sang happy birthday to me in which the guy over the intercom joined in and pretty soon so did everyone! hahaha then we got to go to wild rivers!!! where it was sang a couple more times! hahaha plus we had a dance at wild rivers and so my birthday was pretty much amazing <3 on that saturday we got to paint fire hydrants in FV and i guess i didnt get the memo that we were supposed to paint the hydrants...not ourselves! but then again sister graves did paint almost my entire ankle so it wasnt all my fault!! then we went home and got ready for the luau/banquet! it was way fun! except...my "date" wouldnt really talk to me...kinda awkward hahaha but they had AWESOME food and really cool polynesian dancers! and laurel and jared kept me company <3 thank goodness PLUS there was this awesome fire dancer that performed outside kinda by the parking lot on the grass and that was REALLY cool! on sunday we had a testimony meeting which was actually REALLY good! and then that night we had a fireside at teh stake center and the speaker was AMAZING! so...youth conference was defintiely something that i will NEVER forget <3
at the end of august i got to go to utah with my mom for about a week and spend some time with the girls and thats ALWAYS fun :) we had a blast painting, crafting, shopping and just hanging out!!! hahaha BUt....summer is over and so school starts hmmm.....not quite sure how i feel about that! seminarys lots of fun (besides the waking up at 5 part... :)) and it definitely helps to start my day off right :) so im pretty much happy with my life!! hahah and i dont have a zero period so my friend kyra and i keep some decks of cards in our lockers for days when we have nothing to do between seminary and school :) on friday we had an AWESOME match of egyptian war and speed and i can just tell itll be a fun year! plus....RANDOM story! this one kid i knew in 2nd or 3rd grade across the street from me and we always hung out after school and then he moved in like 4th grade....now hes back at edison! random!! hahaha the edison football games are so much fun! weve won everyone ive been to so far so thats pretty cooL! the first varsity game i think we won 36- 0 and then the freshmen won this last thursday 41-0!! me laurel and tessa made up an AWESOME cheer for them that i might just have to get a video of for everyone to see! hahaha it waS A blast! then this past thursday varsity won 36-6! its defintitely been fun :) and there have been a lot of funny moments that were just kinda hilarious at the games!! it was funny though cuz the only people that we know on the football teams are people from our seminary class so we showed everyone our cheer in seminary and they all LOVED it! hahaha it was pretty fun!

ill have to finish my posts and put my pictures up later though :))

wow....its been a while...

hey!!!! i havent really been keeping everyone updated have i?
well...last thursday on the 12 was the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST auditions!!!!! and before the auditions sister hatch was giving me voice lessons...she is AMAZING! and the auditions were soo much fun! then on friday i went to the auditions to just hang out :) a whole bunch of my friends got call backs so i was hangin out with them! and then they all had to go inside for call backs so my dad came and picked me up so i went to babysit for chad and amber! then mrs wilson posted the cast list on schoolloop and.....i am...drumroll please...
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A VILLAGE COSETTE!!!!!
i am seriously SOO excited!!!! the townspeople are pretty much the funnest people to be because you get to do all the singing and dancing!!!!! it will be soooo much fun :0) and alex arnold is chip!!!!! she was so excited because thats who she really wanted to be and she is AMAZING at it!!!

and whenever i talk to my friend brooke i always call her mrs potts so just recently she decided that i needed a name too! so we thought about it very deeply because its a very serious matter and have come to the conclusion that my name is muriel :) we figured it was a very beauty and the beast name...so now whenever someone asks me who i am in the play i say muriel the village cosette and everyone thinks im pretty cool:) hahaha

on thursday was the first read through of the play and it was fun to see everyone's parts and how the play would work out :)
plus i got to read over a couple peoples shoulders to see the script :) hahaha

and last week on monday and tuesday after school i took a french mini course!! it was SOOO much fun! me and amanda had fun trying to pronounce the french words and then we would just laugh at each other and get out the camera to tape each others facial expressions...it was pretty good...and then we recruited dayna and micayla and we had a BLAST!!!!

then on saturday me my mom and sister draeger took a vacation and went on a road trip to UTAH!!!!! it was way funny cuz all the way up to utah the car had troubles starting but it started everytime...then we get to amanda draegers house to drop off sister draeger and when we tried to leave the car WOULD NOT start! we literally were sitting there for a half hour trying to get it start and then a nice boy came down from his apartment and finally got it to start...by the time he came down to help us there was probably a crowd of about six or seven people there already adn when he got it start everyone started cheering and it was a very fun, adventurous start to our vaccation PLUS we made new friends!!!! :0)
then we just relaxed on sunday and today we went to salt lake despite the fact that it was snowing pretty hard and went shopping! it was fun!!!! so were enjoying ourselves and our vacation but we do miss all of you in california!!!!!
Charlie has been CRACKING us up!!!!!! he gets so excited every time we go into the snow and dances to his favorite barney songs :) ill have to upload all of my pictures and videos when we get home...from utah AND show choir AND beauty and the beast AND lunch and pretty much all the adventures of life :) goodbye for now!!!!

IT'S OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She ordered the script and everything!!!! WE'RE DOING A PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am SOO excited!
The play is gonna be Beauty and the Beast Jr. and will be SOOOOO much fun!!!!!! Mrs. Wilson and Sister Busby got together yesterday and got everything figured out! they ordered the script and the props and everything!!!!
Last year Aladdin was SOOOO much fun and i know beauty and the Beast will be just as much fun if not MORE! It's our 8th grade year too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i AM SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Years!

I could not have asked for a better year. I have made so many new friends this past year at sowers and have become even closer to my friends that have been with me through elementary school, HB 4th ward, and the adventures of life and they are such great examples to me. I could never ask for better friends and would never trade our memories together for anything.
My family is the best family I could ask for! This past year I have gooten even closer to them (if thats possible) and I love them sooooo much!!!!! I am so happy that all of my brothers and sisters were able to come home at some point during this thanksgiving/christmas season and that I was able to spend more time with them. I love you guys!
I hope everyone has had as wonderful of a year as i have and I hope everyone has happiness in the year to come. Even though life can be a roller coaster ride at times, I know I am never alone and that no matter what happens i have friends and family that can pull me through just about anything! Happy New Year everyone!

YAY!!!!!!!

ok...so yesterday we were in show choir and im pretty sure we convinced mrs. wilson to do another play this year!!!!!!!!

it probably helped that mrs wilson was in such a good mood which was not expected...we were not exactly quiet in room 402 during the concert on monday so we were prparing ourselves to die a very painful death when we were lectured ont very calmly.....but the first thing she tells us when the bell rings is how proud oshe was of us...we figured we could go with that and listened tro her say how proud she was of us for the next 1/2 hour :0) and since she was in such a good mood we decided to pop the ? and after some pretty good persuading on everyones part and some memories from last year she finally admitted that she has been dying to do the sound of music as a play...she's just been waiting for the right year...someone also suggested beauty and the beast and she liked that idea too...so now i think shes feeling pretty confidant about it...if so i am SOOOO excited :0)

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so on wednesday we get to school and the morning announcements came on. (our morning announcements are on tv) Near the end our principal congratulated "the sowers show choir and concert band" on their "amazing performances" at landmark. then right before she was done talking, she said, "now to start off your day happily, we have a very amusing clip of our performers" right after she sais that me and allison looked at each other and were like oh shoot! so they switch over to the video clip and sure enough it showed us all in front of the oscar mayer mobile. luckily the sound wasnt working. so whenever i went into a class, either some of the kids or my teacher would be like "i loved the dresses!" (yep, the ones that are blinding and sparkly) my core teacher told us that he thought our choir teacher had an interesting taste in the fabric. hahaha...

then today we were rehearsing for our christmas concert next monday and we started the jingle bells rock where we have to wear the hats and someone wore it wrong and they were not there on saturday and asylin was like "you better put your hat on right!" and they were like why? and asylin was like we already had this problem with emily. we wouldnt want mrs. wilson to get mad at you too. and so i said thanks asylin...and then i put on my hat and started dancing and mrs wilson was like emily i think you just pick the retarded hats every time so rachel had me switch out hats and mrs wilson was sitting in the corner laughing....it was pretty funny!

my amazing weekend

Oh my goodness i have had so much fun lately :0) On Friday i presented my sciece project to my class and right in the middle of it, an announcement came on over the PA system saying that they were going to announce the winners of the viking pride drawing and it lasted 10 minutes! so is stood in front of the class with allison (who was holding my poster) and waited for 10 minutes before i could continue. at least i wasnt dayna. during her presentation the day before, the fire alarm went off as a false alarm cause someone thought they'd be funny and decided to pull it. it happened 2 times in her presentation. haha



On Friday night me and kelsey babysat for a family in our ward and then i spent the night at her house. On Saturday we did all of her chores and then hurried on over to my house to get ready to go to Barnes and Noble. Show Choir performed there and kelsey wanted to come see us. So i threw on my dress, got all ready and my mom and dad drove us to Bella Terra. they stayed and watched too. It all went really well, but during Jingle Bells Rock i realized that whenever anyone looked at me they started busting up laughing. well the people i knew at least. everyone else would simply smile and try to hold it in. i could not figure out what was so funny. i figured maybe the dance moves, but nope. When i asked my mom what was so funny she said that i was in the front row and i was the only one whos hat was on wrong. i asked her what she meant and she said that everyone elses santa hats went to the side but mine was bent the wrong way so the little white ball was sitting on top of my head right in the front. I told them that mrs wilson told us that once we were on stage, we were not allowed to mess with our hats cause that was not professional...i was the only one who listened and look what i get! ;)



After Bella Terra, Amber picked me up and took me to the FV Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony where show choir would also be performing. so alexis and carter and amber watched us and then after that amber took me to haley's uncle micheal ray's for her nutcracker party. it was a blast. we decorated gingerbread houses, played some games and just talked and had fun. i won one of the guessing games and ended up leaving with 327 pieces of chocolate....it was a pretty big jar.



Haley's dad dropped me off at chad and ambers and i went grocery shopping w/ amber cause she needed m,ilk. we ended up staying an hour and a half cause we realized that we needed to get the food that we needed for alexis's bday dinner the following night. when we got back to chad and ambers, amber showed me how to drink hot chocolate through the costco mint holiday cookies. it was SOOOO good! then we watched some old school ice skating, laughing the whole time and then we went to bed. The next morning, we kinda forgot it was fast sunday cause we were making alexis breakfast so we decided we'll fast next sunday...haha i went to church w/ them and then after church i helped tara sillasen babysit for the parents who are in ward choir.



when i got home, i slept and then we went to chad and ambers for alexiss bday dinner. we had roast, potatoes and artichokes. Ambers sister melanie came too and we had a lot of fun. That night when we got home i did a whole bunch of hw.



That brings us to today. today was a BLAST! show choir and band performed at the landmark community retirement center. So everyone in band or show choir ate lunch 4th period instead of 5th. after we ate, we changed into our costumes and walked to landmark. after performing, we started walking back, but the parents told us that we were going to walk down atlanta instead of indianapolis cause there was a surprise waiting for us. we thought oh yay well get ice cream cuz its so hot outside. we kept on thinking this until we walked into the vons parking lot and saw the giant oscar mayer wiener mobile waiting for us. we didnt get to ride in it. instead, we sang the jingle, got to touch the truck and grabbed a sticker and whistle and walked back to sowers. it was a pretty awesome surprise! hahaha