New christmas tree

OK!!!! So, today we had a fun time decorating, and GETTING OUR NEW TREE!! I love decorating the tree! I know it is kind of early, but WHO CARES!! :).  It was kind of strange getting a U-cut tree instead of getting a big giant tree but it was kind of nice getting a smaller tree!! Last year it broke our stand!!!! I love having the tree!! I love the smell of it too, reminds me of oregon!! Anyways, this will keep me alive for the next three weeks!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! Now it's time for........

Christmas Countdown & MySpace Layouts

NEW TV!!!, Concert, two big accomplishments!!

Yep, WE FINALLY GOT A NEW TV!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!! Our old one broke, and had all these lines through it, and so we got a new tv!! THANK YOU! It's AMAZING! It's nice to watch a movie without getting dizzy! :D 

So, we all got to go to moms AMAZING concert since mom was in the American Festival Chorus. Great job mom!! I would have put the picture of me, but it turned out bad, so here is one with mom and dad

K, so I am on the Honor roll for this first tri!! WAHOO!!! I have a 3.66667!! That is exactly what you are supposed to get including the points!!! I got As, one A- and c+ thanks to geometry :(. Geometry is way harder than algebra!! At first I had a 3.6111 thanks to an A- but today at the last minute I got it worked out!! It was because of an assignment I was not able to print out. That would have been so dumb to be below that by that much!!! I FINALLY HAVE SEMINARY! ITS SO NICE!!! Oh, and Last night went to bed semi early AND WOKE UP AT 9:00 AT MY OWN FREE WILL! Amazing right!! :D

African children's choir

Since I am in the cache valley children's choir, we got the chance to have a luncheon with "the African Children's choir". The night before our family had the chance to see them in concert. They were amazing!!! They had so much energy and there music was SO good!! The all are from Africa and were chosen by a organization to sing. Here is a video of them. You also may remember them singing on "idol Gives back" on american idol with Josh Groban.

When they first came out, they hugged everyone! They were so nice and very humble. They all said Please and thank you.  It was a great experience. As we had lunch we all played UNO. I asked one of the kids if i they ever got tired after all the dancing and he said "No. Not really". I  don't know how they do it and not get tired!

I I am trying to upload of them singing "goodbye" to us, but I can't get it to work, so check later to see if it's there!

Pushing Daisies......PLEASE DON"T LET IT GET CANCELLED!!

For those of you who have seen "Pushing Daisies" on ABC know that Pushing Daisies is A REALLY GOOD SHOW!!! Last year it did VERY WELL in terms of ratings and reviews and because of the strike, it was cancelled. But it started in the fall, but for some reason has been not getting good ratings. It has still been getting great reviews, but very poor ratings. So they have decided to most likely stop production at its 13th episode. People have been starting petitions and sites to save there favorite show such as http://savedaisies.com/. Fans are trying to get more people to watch it to possibly keep it. Because of this ABC already is thinking about stopping it and starting it in May instead. Please try to make this happen by watching it!! It's a great show!! You can also watch previous episodes online.

This is how I feel about it!! :)(Oh and for "wicked" fans, this is Glinda from it!!

Things to do at walmart

I have had tons of stuff going on that I want to post, but I do not have to much time because of my tests tomorrow and I just got this REALLY funny email. So, I will post more over the weekend...
14 Things to do at WalMart
> >
> > 1. Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at
> > 5-minute
> >
> > 2. Make a trail of apple juice on the floor leading to the
> > restrooms.
> >
> > 3. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official
> > tone, 'Code 3' in housewares".... and see what
> > happens.
> >
> > 4. Go to the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of
> > M&M's on lay away
> >
> > 5. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted
> > area
> >
> > 6. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other
> > shoppers you'll invite them in if they'll bring
> > pillows from the bedding department.
> >
> > 7. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and
> > ask, Why can't you people just leave me alone?
> >
> > 8. Look right into the security camera; & use it as a
> > mirror, and pick your nose
> >
> > 9. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the
> > clerk if he knows where the anti - depressants are.
> >
> > 10. Dart around the store suspiciously loudly humming the
> > "Mission Impossible" theme.
> >
> > 11. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through,
> > say "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"
> >
> > 12. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker,
> > assume the fetal position and scream. NO! NO! It's those
> > voices again!!!!"
> >
> > 13. Go into a fitting room and shut the door and wait a
> > while; and then yell, very loudly, "There is no toilet
> > paper in here
> >
> > 14. Get several bouncy balls and throw them down an aisle
> > shouting "go, pikachu, go!

Favorite SNL Videos!!!

These are the most hilarious videos ever!! You have to watch ALL of these!! For "the office" fans, watch the Japanese office video!!

Values tag

Ok, so I got a tag about things you value, and things you do not so, here it goes!! 

1. Family-They sometimes drive me crazy, but I still love em!! :)

2. FOOD!!!- Wow.....fast sunday tomarrow...don't know how I am going to survive!!!

3. Church- Were would I be without it? 

4 . Music- Can't live without it..

5.  Books/movies/tv shows- Right now I am really liking Dean Koontz books, I like twilight, harry potter...a ton more!! I like tons of movies!! I can't decide what my favorite movies are, but last night I watched When a stranger calls and disturbia!!! I love the office, and pushing daisies and I love watching SNL clips.  I couldn't really do this in six things...so I kind of combined the three...:)

6. Friends- I miss you guys!! :) 

Now things I do not value

1. Comercials- I do NOT like commercials. They drive me crazy!!!

2. Geometry - When exacly would you use this if you are not a builder??? 

3.  Swearing-  Why do people even swear?? But it really bothers me when people do

4.  Rap- rap music DRIVES ME CRAZY!!

5.   People who judge- I have one teacher who judges people, and it really drives me crazy!!

6.  My alarm- Makes me shudder!!

K, your turn!!

Funny quote

In my desperation of posts, I came across a funny quote that Obama said. I am not saying that I am against or for mcCain or Obama , I just thought it was pretty funny.

" We live in the greatest country in the world. I hope you will join with me to change it" :)

More posts coming this week..

In honor of halloween

So, I am becoming more and more desperate for posts, and I found this one...kinda boring..but, IT"S A POST!! 

Halloween Toys & MySpace Layouts at pYzam.com

Snow....in october??, out little salt lake trip

Yea. Its snowing....IN OCTOBER! AND WE DON"T EVEN GET SCHOOL OFF!! It was really weird!

Over last weekend we got to have a little salt lake city trip and stay the night in a hotel. The night before we got to go to spaghetti factory FINALLY and watch shrek the third.
Me in  the tabernacle 


Oh, this whole time I was FREEZING because I do not have a winter jacket yet and everyone else did. Clara got a little grumpy because she was so cold
But of course the camera helped her out and she had funny pictures taken of her.

Names

Your rock star name:

(First pet and current car) coconut van

Your gangsta name:

(Favorite ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Aggie blue mint chocolate chip

Your fly guy/girl name:

(First initial of first name, first three letter of your last name) M-Ben

Your detective name: 

(Favorite color, favorite animal) Green turkey (Not my favorite animal, just sounded funny!! :)

Your soap opera name:

(middle name, city where you were born) Allan Logan 

Your star wars name:

(The first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) benma

Your superhero name:

( The, then 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) The blue sprite 

Your nascar name:

(the first names of your grandfathers) allan bruce 

Your name:

(favorite food, favorite candy) Italian shockers 

Your witness protection name:

(Mom and dads middle names) Max Ann 

Your tv weather anchor name

(5th grade teacher's last name, major city that starts with same letter) Shepherd Seattle 

Your cartoon name:

(Favorite fruit, article of clothing you are wearing wit an I or y) Strawberry jeansy 

Your hippie name 

(What you at for breakfast, favorite tree) Toast pine

Your rock star tour name 

(the, then favorite hobby, and favorite weather element) The music rain 

K, now you guys get to do it!!

Yes, I am back...

Yes, I know...I have not blogged for a while for a few reasons: Nothing "exciting" going on, and really busy, so I am going to give you a tour of the house that we are renting.

This is my bedroom.  As you can see, the people who lived here before were very into BLUE. 

 This is our very brown family room.....:) 
This is the kitchen which is actually pretty nice.
This is my bathroom downstairs....by the way, the toilet is soft and squishy....so when you sit on it, air comes out of it....and it sounds..very interesting...:)
This is my brothers VERY messy room. Once again, BROWN 
this is the family room with our very "stylish" green carpet....
This is mom and dads bathroom....oh and  the door going to the left is mom and dads room so you can hear EVERYTHING that goes on in the bathroom....
This is mom and dads bedroom, with the eye opening wallpaper

YES!! BIG MOMENT ON THE OFFICE LAST NIGHT!!

GRANDMA IS HOME!!!!!, Crazy hair

Grandma is home!! Grandma came home from her 18 month mission in brazil!!! We are all so grateful and proud of the work she has done in Brazil!!! She got to stay at our house for a week with our aunt patti who is awesome!! 

Everybody who came to see her and the sign whitney made.

Grandmas Brazilian horn that she came down the escalator blowing!
Everybody with my grandma
While my Aunt was here, us kids got to mess up her and my moms hair a little bit... :)

Family reunion.

I am so sorry for not updating my blog for a while! I have been so busy since school started. I have tons of homework!!! But anyways, the second week of august we got to have our family reunion in island park, Idaho. It was tons of fun!! 

This is all the grandkids in front of our secret "family tree" that our family has been going to and carving our names in for years. 

This is everybody in front of a cabin that my great grandfather built and lived in.

  The guys there that were my age.

Whitney, me, and my cousin ellie playing cards.
My cousin britton on his birthday

We also got to go on a fun rafting trip but were not able to get any pictures. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!! The best part of it was pushing my cousin of when she was not looking.
Before the Family reunion, my and our family went to west yellowstone.

While we were there we went to the playmill and saw oklahoma. Before it started, whitney got to go on the stage for her birthday. She got kissed three times in one night! :)

new ipod

I have finally have gotten a new ipod since my old one got stuck in the wash. I got an 80 gb ipod classic. I am so excited!! I have a bunch of movies such as Dan in real life, flightplan, and a bunch of music! THANK YOU MOM AND DAD! :).

EFY, moving.

Well we have moved to Utah!! Things are going pretty good but a little crazy!!! I finally get my own room!! The pictures are all from EFY which was last week. It was a church thing were I stayed at the dorms at BYU and had a bunch of classes, dances, and games!!  It was tons of fun!! The first picture is my whole group that was awesome!!! The second is one of my friends that I already knew, and another person I met there.  The last is a picture of all the bottles of root beer and sparkling cider that we all drank in our dorm. One guy drank ten sparkling ciders in one night!! Crazy!! Oh and I discovered something about utah....TONS OF MOSQUITOS!! In the last two days, I have gotten 28 BITES!! AHHh!! By the way, I have my family reunion this week.  Should be fun!!

Barbeque, goodbye party

Some people in our ward were nice enough to put on a barbeque for us and invited people from our ward. It was really nice to be able to be able to see a lot of our friends. These are some of the kids jumping on their trampoline.  I was surprised it did not break!!

These are most of my friends from our ward and one of the young women's leader that is really nice. I had tons of fun with them!!

At my house we had a goodbye party with a lot of my friends from my ward, and people who left the ward after the ward split. It consisted of apples to apples, food, tormenting our neighbors, and having wrestling matches in the backyard. It was SO MUCH FUN!! I miss them already!! Also I probably will not do another post for a while because we are moving and because of EFY but I will try to do another post as soon as I can!!