The Glygs

These are my glygs. I’m not going to tell you what that means. But they’re probs my best friends.

Happy Birthday Harry!

I have nerdy friends.... OK fine I'm a nerd too. Yesterday was Harry Potter's birthday (obviously). We celebrated by drinking butter beer and trying to re-create the cake Hagrid made in the first movie. Oh, and we sang to him.... in British accents.

T-Shirt Recycling

What do you do when you’re out of High School and have 30 t-shirts that would suggest otherwise?

You have your mom make you an amazing quilt!

My mom spent hundreds of hours of labor making this blanket.

She gave it to me for Christmas. She calls it “The Quilt That Stole Christmas”

I absolutely love it. I love my mom. It now graces my bed at college.

Every patch (aka t-shirt) has a such a meaningful memory. Here are a few:

Being Glinda, Auntie Em, and an ensemble member in Wizard of Oz.

Sadie’s 09 when we were all different sodas

Utah Ambassadors of Music, European Tour

I love that these still have the collars on them!

Student Government

Among other things.

I’m so happy with how it turned out.

Halloween Fun!

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays! It must be the whole changing your identity thing. Actually, I think I just associate it with our Halloween decorations at home. I asked my mom if I could come home for a weekend just so we could put up Halloween. I don’t think she would do it if I wasn’t there and I couldn’t bear that thought.

Here is the parade of costumes this year:

Bryn was a zombie flapper.

Megan was Velma from Scoobie Doo.

Venice and Forrest were Esme and Count Olaf.

Professor Trelawney.

The Party.

We had a pumpkin carving contest and I got my “Y” pumpkin :)

For our ward party, Venice was Dolores Umbridge so obviously we had our differences throughout the night.

Harry Potter nerds forever!

Happy Halloween!! (Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner….. YAY!)

Chocolate Party

A friend (maybe not “friend” anymore) challenged me to go three weeks without eating chocolate.

I did it.

Then Friday, I got to live again!! BYU chocolate parties in our apartment are the best….

Homemade chocolate fondue…

Packaged and delivered to the Mormon Rave going on next door (we danced hard and drank Apple Beer)

Kelsee and I very happy to eat Oreos again!

The crew with our Spongebob Party Hats….. not sure I’ll ever have a chocolate party without these.

Looking Back On The Years of Cedar High

Well folks, I’m heading closer and closer to graduation and see the next two weeks slipping away so fast that I decided to do this post now. I want to reflect my high school years. Remember how I became the girl that’s about to graduate and head off to the college I’ve been dreaming of since…. forever? Let’s go in order, shall we?
Freshman Year
Oh yes, the year I entered high school with my best friends Chanel Anderson and Kara Stewart. Still having every desire to be popular, look pretty all the time, have a boy like me…. The year I was grounded all the time, had to turn in my phone at night, was proud of my 3.6 GPA, was about to quit violin, and made some of the biggest mistakes and causing the biggest regrets of my High School life. I mean it’s no wonder I’ve used all sorts of defense mechanisms to forget this year. But still, I know I couldn’t have become the better person I am now without all those things. Plus, it was still fun. I was in orchestra, had a lot of friends, had my first experiences with state music events like Solo and Ensemble, and got familiar with all of Cedar High’s traditions.

Sophomore Year
I got on top of things. I was passionate about music again, was in the pit orchestra for Big River, received my first 4.0, spent weekends four-wheeling (until the big accident), became friends with the amazing and beautiful Kelsee Jackson, was in German club, got my driver’s license, went to my first dances with dates, saw Wicked in Salt Lake, and again had wonderful, wonderful friends. I think this was my favorite year after being a Senior. It was relatively stress-free and I met a lot of new people. Oh, I just remembered, this was my first full year of school with braces. Yummy!

Junior Year
Definitely my hardest, academic year. Actually just overall my hardest year, but fun and definitely not my least favorite. I was in AP English, German 2, and Chemistry 1010 and 1050. I made up for all my slacking from Freshman Year and finally made it into Honor Society. We were all given more freedom. I could drive my friends down to St. George for a day to simply hang out, shop, ice skate, find adventures at Costco, go to the lake, and jam out to music. I got to play a violin solo with the Orchestra of Southern Utah. I made plans for Senior year by running for a Student Body Office and auditioning for Madrigals. I became especially good friends with Kaitlyn Friese. I also lost a best friend. This was the year my testimony of the LDS church grew the most. I had to overcome a lot of trials and really stand on my own in making decisions that involved being a righteous member of the church. I was and am lucky enough to have so many friends to talk about the gospel with, especially with my sister, Caitlin, being gone on her mission. They helped me so much. I almost forgot to mention my mom. Wow, my mom is amazing. She became my best friend. She became the person I wanted to confide in the most. What a wonderful mother I have.

Senior Year
I’m sorry this post is so much longer than I intended it to be, but I’m almost done I promise. Wow. This year has been great. My mom said to me the other day, “I haven’t had a child that was involved in as many things as you.” I suppose she was right. I had the opportunity to play a lead role in our school musical, The Wizard of Oz, I was in Student Government, Orchestra, Madrigals, German Club, Honor Society, Athena, and named Cedar High’s Music Sterling Scholar (which I consider to be my greatest accomplishment). I took on teaching 4 students, whom I love. Speaking of love, I also fell in love, it’s a crazy, wonderful thing. I was also Seminary Class President and Laurel Class President for half the year.  I got to be in Utah’s All-State Orchestra. I made it into BYU, which was a blessing and honestly a miracle. I’ve loved meeting so many new people and being involved in so many things. High School has been good to me. I’m going to miss it but I look forward to moving on to the next stage of my life.