My Little Models

so you guys all know how boring it can get on sunday afternoon so this sunday Alora was bugging me to straighten her hair so i did then she said "lets be models!" so we started to take pictures of her then Lynnae came in and was wondering what we were doing so i told her to sit down and i would do her hair too. Then we took some adorable pictures of her as well. all in all it was a great way to spend some time with my little sisters and past the time on sunday.

Choir CD's on Sale Now!

The Choir that I am in has just released a new recording that is AMAZING! this CD is titled A Season to be Strong, it will be available around the first of December. Presale orders are now available. The cost for the CD is $5 for presale and $6 thereafter. If you would like a presale CD, email my director with your name and send a check to the choir for $5 at: UVCC, PO Box 713, Spanish Fork, UT 84660
Bowcutcl@ldsces.org

My GRAND Daddy

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandpa who passed away in May. The reason for my title of this post was whenever I would see him he would poke fun at my dad saying my dad was just my dad but that he was my GRAND dad. With all the thinking and crying I’ve done lately about him I thought a good way to deal with my feelings would be to write them all out. So here are the 10 things I loved most about him. They are in no particular order because I could never pick what trait I loved most about him.

1. He loved to read. I remember whenever I would go to visit him we would get in and my grandma would be on the couch asleep with the T.V. on and my grandpa on the couch with the lamp on reading a book. He read through his local library and had to start ordering books. Even after his second to last stroke when he was unable to read he started ordering books on tape. Because of this love he has helped me love reading which has helped me succeed in school. I will be forever grateful for this.

(His Favorite book)

2. His great Endurance. My grandpa had every reason to give up. When he was about 14 months old he was in a terrible fire and spent most of his young life in and out of hospitals. He was teased about his looks and had a hard time dealing with other kids but with his great endurance he got through it.

3. His love for animals and children. My grandpa had one of the most loving spirits about him. Kids would just come to him. One man was astounded when he saw George surrounded by children and some sitting in his lap “Are all these kids your
Grandchildren?!” my grandpa answered him that no - he had never seen any of them
before.

4. His great love of the Savior. God always came first in his
life. He often said “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” and he always
encouraged us to have God as our friend even if our choices in life were
unpopular with others He taught us to love learning and always seek the truth. He told us
that as a young man working on the railroad that he was pretty tough and
could cuss as good as any of them but every night he was drawn to read
the Bible and each weekend he attended a new church. One time some
girls invited him to a square dance at the LDS church and he enjoyed
himself. He decided to attend church on Sunday and felt something
different. He said that even though it was a little noisy with the babies
crying that he could still feel a strong spirit there. He decided to
investigate and got hold of as much literature as he could. The spirit that
he felt grew within him until he knew that he had found the truth that the
Bible talked about. The day that he was baptized a member of the Church
of Jesus Christ he considered his new birthday.

5. He had one saying that he as long as I can remember stuck to “Life Short Eat Dessert First” I can still remember the many times he would sneak into the freezer and pull out the carton of cherry ice cream and dish us up a bowl right before dinner.

6. His joy in gardening. He often told us that his name “George”
meant ‘man of the earth or man of the soil’. He also became known as
the “Hollyhocks man”. Total strangers would stop to admire his variety of
hollyhocks and stay to talk for an hour or so. I always remember him having his HUGE flower bead of hollyhocks in the front of his house they were truly beautiful.

7. His sense of humor. Our family always teased him about being “sarcastic”. But he informed us that the dictionary definition of sarcasm was ‘with the intent to hurt’ - so the correct term for him would be “jovial”. His sister told my family that he was always a big tease - but he was never hurtful or mean. His teasing was gentle and never embarrassed her.

8. His patience. He was always a very patient man and hardly ever lost his temper I can only remember him ever losing his temper once when I was living with him and he didn’t completely loose it. I hope one day that I will be as patient as he was.

9. This next thing was not necessarily a thing I loved about him but it was a memorable thing. He HATED getting his picture taken. He never let us take his picture except for the one time when my dad made him sit down with us girls and take a picture although he didn’t do it willingly he still did it. I wish that I could have gotten more pictures of him to remember him by but I guess ill just have to keep a picture of him in my heart.

10. The last one on my list would be all of the late night stories he would tell me. I remember laying on the hide a bed with him and asking him to tell me a story before I went to sleep. He asked me what story I wanted him to tell I would ask him to tell me about when he was younger. He would tell me “Oh you don’t want to hear about that again!” I would tell him of course I do and he would finally give in. although his stories were meant to help me fall asleep I would be to interested in his story and end up staying awake for the whole thing.

Although I could keep going on and on about the things I love about my grandpa I will stop there. Even though I don’t like the fact that my grandpa is gone I know he is in a better place and will be waiting for me in heaven one day. I love you grandpa!

Era Night

Ok so it took me awhile to post this but a couple of weeks ago in YW we had an era night where we all dressed up in our favorite era. it was a lot of fun we had a fashion show and had treats and watched a video on the types of things that were "cool" in the different era's. anyways here is all the picts from the fashion show.

RIP Calvin:(

On Wednesday a kid from my school Calvin Hansen died in a car accident. If you attend or know anyone that attends a Spanish Fork school we are trying to get as many people that care to dress up in their Sunday best on Monday in respect for this boy that we lost.

Crazy Hair Day

This week in my school it is school spirit/drug free week and yesterday was crazy hair day because doing drugs will make you crazy (don't ask me) so i decided the easiest way to make my hair crazy was to rat the WHOLE thing it hurt sooo bad but it was way fun. it wouldn't have been so bad if i didn't have to re-rat it after every class and use a half a bottle of hairspray but hey crazy hair day only comes once a year. All in all it was a lot of fun.

Fireside this Sunday

FIRESIDE
SUNDAY-SEPTEMBER 21ST at 6:00 pm
MAPLETON STAKE CENTER
475 N HIGHWAY 89 (1600 West)
The program will end at 7:00 pm. It will be followed
by a special send-off to our seniors and a reception
for choir and family members. It should end between 8:00-8:30 pm.
this fireside is going to be the same program that we performed on tour and it should be really great i would luv it if any of you could come!

IM GOING TO CANADA!

So this morning at choir Carl came and told us where we were going to go on tour this year and as you guessed from the title I'm going to Canada! We are also going to go to Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

Not Mine!

The other day as u know Greg and Justin got my house. Well it turns out that Angie Clayson is the one that gave them the forks. So on Tuesday Natasha and i went and gave their forks back well it turns out that they wont claim them. so now we have to find someone that will.

Payback (on us!)

ok so this morning my mom came in to wake me up and told me to grab my camera. so i was thinking "y would i need my camera to get ready" then she told me to go outside and to my surprise someone finally got us back! Thanks for the forks Greg and Justin!

My Saturday

Ok so on Saturday my mom Nicole and I went to the mall at about 10 in the morning and started our big adventure (trying to shop for school clothes.) First we did the needs (bras underwear the works) Then came the wants! my sister and i ended up getting all together 3 new pairs of pants, 5 new shirts, a hoodie (for me) ,a vest (for Nicole), a belt, and 2 pairs of Etnies. It was very big spending day for my mom if you can only imagine. but in the middle of this big shopping spree we had to stop shopping and get lunch so that gave our feet a little break. then we resumed our LONG shopping trip. When we had finally finished we headed home on the way we decided we needed drinks so we stopped and got drinks at sonic and finished our trip home. All in all we were shopping for a little over 5 and a half hours!! even thats a long time for me to shop but it was allot of fun. Thanks Mom!

Initiation for the New Young Mens Presidency

ok so me, my sister, and a couple of other people in the ward have been welcoming the new young men's presidency in. A couple of weeks ago we got the president's car(Brother Knudsen's Car) by taking a WHOLE bunch of yarn and wrapping his entire car in it. The next Sunday he told us that it took him 45 min. to get it off! well thats only half of the time we spent putting it on. But this week we went and got one of his counselors(Brother Flake)

this time because we couldn't do the same thing twice we took almost 60 balloons and stuffed them in is car with about 20 of them that said "welcome to ym's!" we still haven't thought of what to do with the other counselor so if you have any ideas let me know.

My Trip

This weekend my family took a quick trip to Delta, Colorado for my newest baby cousins blessing.
Sense the blessing was on Sunday we had a little time to spare because we went out on Thursday. But if you have ever been to Delta there isn't much to do there. So the best thing we could think of to do is go to the dollar store,the drive-inn, and the theater. We watched The Mummy 3, Hell boy 2, and The Dark Night. The Dark Night was AWESOME!! Then on sunday morning we got up early and went to church and watched the baby blessing then went to my grandma's house and had lunch. Then i got to hold my new baby cousin who was way cute! then we made the 5 hr. trip home.
It wasn't much of a trip but it was a good weekend getaway.

20/20

so yesterday i went to the eye doctor for my yearly check-up and guess what i still have 20/20! im so glad i wont have to do it again for another year though i hate it when people mess with their eyes let alone mine! but it made me feel good that so far i don't have my mom's or my dads eyes i got lucky and i have my grandpa's eyes which were almost perfect till he was 78 and even then it was because of his strokes that he lost his sight. so lets hope i keep his good eyes.

Young Womens

Today we had young womens and we played volleyball it was fun to see some of our girls try and serve and thats really saying something cuz im not very good either but to be worse than me was pretty funny to watch. I think the funniest thing though was watching the leaders try and play don't get me wrong they were good but im not used to seeing people of their age run like they did. And i wanted to give one big thank-you to sis. newman for coming i luv it when ur there it makes it all that more enjoyable!