The New Year

It's so weird to think that today is the last day of 2010. An entire year has gone by. It seems like just yesterday I was running down the hallway when my mom would interrupt my sprint and have me go all the way back and walk, oh wait that was yesterday. =P I've been thinking about how things seem to go faster and faster, and with so much to do and so little time it's like you can live through an entire year and totally miss it. An entire year has gone by. 365 days, 8760 hours, 525,600 hours. How crazy is that? It makes me look back and really appreciate the life I have to live, and reminds me not to live with regrets. In the big scheme of things it's not worth it. Why live such a short amount of time with regrets and remorse? So here's to 2011, and all the time that wont be wasted on trivial issues, and minor problems, but rather all the new memories, it will bring. I love you all and am so glad to have you in my life!

Dear tourists

Dear Tourists

Welcome the Midwest, here in Minnesota, you will find lots of activities, especially during our cold, miserable season many refer to as winter. If you are intending to pass through, or actually stay and visit for a few weeks, you are in for quite a treat. We have winds that will chill you to your bones and leave you shivering cold as you exit any heated building. We have snow reaching heights that will trap you indoors for days at a time. We enjoy slipping and sliding down freeways and highways causing collisions, which create lots of damage. But that's certainly not all, If you are not lucky enough to enjoy these activities and get to hit the slopes, you will enjoy going down hills, breaking bones, and getting whip lash. Or you could enjoy skating on lakes, if you pretend not to see the warning signs stating "Thin Ice" Imagine how much fun you will have falling through the ice and freezing to death.

Please do not have too much fun, and be sure to come back and visit us again soon =)

Yours truly,

The Minnesota Residents Who Are Dumb Enough To Live Here Year Round

My sister

I have a gorgeous sister, hands down!

Stupid Technnology

I hate, Hate, HATE technology. Did I say that clear enough???

HATE

Stupid technology went and broke on me, and now I have to wait 3 weeks to get it back. GRRRRRR Now I remember why I don't trust anything that has a micro-chip for a brain. They break down, crash, and BURRRRN.







And This all happens before I throw it out the window =)

12 years

You know all those people that say High School is pointless, well I have developed a list of things I have learned, and can now take with me out of High School. =)

HIGH SCHOOL HAS TAUGHT ME:

1. How to Conserve Liquids- After you have been forced to endure lunch's with a mere pint of milk, you must adjust your habit of over drinking.
2. Sleep is a privilege not a right- After staying up late writing papers, filling out tedious Work packets, you quickly figure out how precious every hour of sleep is
3. Watching a sunrise is not Romantic- When a student is up before the sun each morning, the bright sun in your eyes is not sweet, and lovely like the movies make it. Lets face it Its pretty lame that the movies think it is.
4. If you Fail in lifeyou can retest-No matter what life brings you, you can always retry it until you do better, right?
5. Everybody Can Dance-It doesn't matter who you are, or how off beat you are, you can dance because you went to a school dance and learned how to get low, and the soldier boy
6. As long as the teachers don't see your phone it doesn't exist-Hidden pockets are a nice commodity
7. Listening to your "boss" (teacher) talking puts you to sleep-Best naps are when instructions are being given.
8. Everything you learn in school will be used in the real world-Isn't that what every teacher tells you in order to motivate you to learn?
9. The use of the Restroom is not to be abused or else it will be taken from you-You have to ask EVERY TIME you need to relieve yourself when you are not in school, right?
10. There are at least 1,000 dots per tile in the ceiling
11. That people don't know how to fight anymore-Cat fights and pulling each others hair is not considered fighting.
12. Being popular is everything-Because Status is everything.
13. Being late is OK as long as you serve detention-because thats how it works in the real world right? They wont fire you as long as you serve detention.

Because this is how the real world works.. Right??

hmmm.. maybe I need to take some lessons elsewhere?

Missy's Senior Pics

So with the fall season being here, Lots of things have been going on, School has been going well, Dog sitting the last week, only increasing my want for a dog, Working with the drama team, and church a lot. Also I found time to take a friends senior pictures, Missy, who is like a sister to me, asked me to take her senior pictures for her, and of course I said yes, which was TONS of fun, we spent 3 hours together taking pics, and I spent a few hours editing, and here are the final results =D

BOING

Sunday should have been a normal day

1. wake up
2. go to church
3. hang out with people afterwards
4. eat lunch
5. come home

So how did saving bunny rabbit slip in there?

Duluth

I am, actually, kinda proud of myself. I always told myself I would swim lake Superior, I just hadn't thought today would be the day. Today, my family spent the day in Duluth, after awaking and greeting the day with a wonderful smile, and a joyful attitude(all lies shhh ;P), My family checked out, and went down to lake Superior. Kierra, who had been insisting she had to swim out to this building about 50 feet off the shoreline, finally got her wish, when my parents agreed to her excursion. I, of course, could not let my younger sister swim out, and be stuck watching her, only to be reminded that she could do it, and I didn't, later in life. So, I agreed to join her.

I had only one small issue with this, excursion.

The water was barely 50 degrees.

50 feet, in 50 degrees.

But I wasn't going to back out. I placed a foot in and almost immediately lost feeling. The rocks under the water were slippery, and the waves kept pushing me. I slowly slid in up to my knees, then my waist, until I was sitting down, the water up to my neck. The waves kept pushing me back to shore as I sat, trying to adjust to the cold temperatures. My body quickly numbed, until I felt nothing. Kierra stood beside me, still only up to her ankles, Mitch(some random person who was already at the house) yelled, egging us on, telling us "just go!", so I did! I dove in, and swam, to the house, Kierra, not to be out done was right on my tail.

I hopped onto the ledge of the house, and the first thing I noted was, the cement that should have hurt as I hit and skimmed my legs over, didn't. Thank God for the numbing water =)

Kierra and I got inside climbing to the top of the 15 foot building with ease, meeting Mitch.

We sat on the roof for a while, feeling the sun warm us up with great effort, when we suddenly realized we had to face the cold again, on our swim back. The feeling had already come back to our bodies, and this feat was not looking kind. I looked into the water, and said "I wanna jump off this thing" Mitch laughed and told me he had done it hundreds of times, and so I told him if he did I would, he of course jumped off with no issue, climbing back up the building to make sure I would be following.

Kierra chose to climb down and swim back, as I scooted to the edge. The dark water looked hardly inviting, and the sharp rocks in the distance did nothing to ease my worries. Mitch was telling me to just jump, but Kierra swam directly below me, yelling how cold it was, and refusing to move. I was stuck until she chose to go back to shore, or into the building. Her relentless cries only made me reconsider jumping into the chilling lake all the more, but Mitch wouldn't have it, I was going to go in whether I wanted to or not.

So after 5 minutes Kierra finally decided to go back into the building so we could jump, Mitch went first yelling the whole way down, and hitting the water with an icy splash, and swimming fervently back to shore. I then slowly stood up, the wind blowing from the West with rapid haste . I looked down, sucked in a deep breathe, and jumped before I could think about what I was doing.

It took a second before my feet hit the water, my chest tightened, as the cold overcame me again, racing to the top of the water it felt like minutes before i found the surface again. I began swimming back, reaching the shore, gladly welcoming the warm sweater that awaited me.

This very easily may be one of the dumbest things I have ever done. But I'm glad I did. I overcame lake Superior, and took a leap that my brother nor my sister could take. And bragging rights in themselves are always worth it, kidding. =P The real reason I'm glad I did it, is now I know, I overcame it, I didn't let any fear hold me back, or keep me from doing something. If I had, that would have been a real shame.

Senior pictures 2

Senior Pictures

So I went up to Fon Du Lac, WI for a week last week, to spend time with my brother, sister-in-law and their family, Well with this being my senior year, Ryan offered to take my senior pictures, and I finally got them back today. I was extremely excited =) so here's a few of them lol