BEST SUPRISE EVER!!!

Last night, tuesday the 21st my family got the best suprise in this whole entire world. My sister Bri and my brother in law Grant showed up on our front porch. I was totally taken by suprise and was estatic to see them though I could not believe my eyes at first. It was incredible. What was more my sister Kristi had known and had somehow managed to keep it a secret. This is a great feat especsially in my family. I am so happy to be able to share the days until firday with them. Tommorrow we are all going fishing at five am.!!! Grant has only been two or three times and has never gutted a fish so tommorow we get to teach him! I am looking forward to this so much!!!

Another Poem

So I was going through my old school work trying to find my "best work" for my PDP when I found this poem that I wrote my freshmen year of highschool. I liked it and thought you all might like it too.

A Peaceful Place

Do you
have a peaceful place
where you go for you quiet
treasured

where all is sweet

and nothing wrong

and nothings there

but quiet

Do you

have a place

where you long to go

but nobody knows

where nothing

can reach you

or take from

your secret oasis

is it calm

and serene

and just yours

to keep

Do you have

a place where

it's only you

and the wind in your hair

your own private place

in nature

where only you

are welcomed close

or are you

still searching

for that one secret place

where you can be safe

and nobody knows it... but you?

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My first week in photography

 

 

 

 

I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!

I love my photography class! I have only been to two classes so far but have already learned alot about my camera that I didn't know before. I learned about controling the lighting in your camera yesterday. I found out how to change the white balance, the f stop the shutter speed and the ISO. Still not exactly sure what the ISO does despite many explinations of what it is but if any of you know what it is and would like to take a shot at getting it to click with me I would greatly appreciate it. So far the only thing I have noticed about it was that when the ISO was really low, my pictures were black outside, but when it was high I had more clarity. Some thing I know about it are 1. I know it has something to do with lighting since that was our focus yesterday, and 2. dad said that it had something to do with shutter speed and video but I didn't really understand what he was trying to explain. Other than that I am clueless. I can't wait to find out what we get to learn about next class. I am really enjoying experimenting with the f-stop, and the shutter speed and know I would enjoy experimenting with the ISO a lot more if I could just understand what it is for. I have loved the homework so far, after all what homework could be better than taking photos? I will post some of the photos I have taken for the class later.

Highly anticipated new releases

In other news, I cannot wait until the 14th when the book I have been waiting for, for about 2 1/2 years is finally coming out. It is teh second book in the Beka Cooper series- Bloodhound. Another book that just came out that I can not wait to get my hands on is City of Glass the third book in the Mortal Instruments series.

Hurrah!!!

YEA!!!!! I FINISHED!!!! Today I finished the last two chapters of Revelations, thus offically completing my first time all the way through the new testament. Reading through the new testament was a huge testemony builder for me. I had always concentrated on the 4 gospels to the exclussion of all else that was in the new testement. It was a huge eye opener to see what wonderful doctrine is to be found in the rest of the new testament. Looking back I have to say that my favoriate part was probably Romans Chapter 8. I just love it. Espeacilly the last few verses on the love of God. This week has definitly been a week of finishing things because on tuesday, excluding virtue, I finished personal progress. This is good because tuesday happened to be the dead line. I just want to add my testamony to those of my sisters in saying that personal progress can truly bless your life if you take the time and effort to truly commit to the value experiances and projects. It is truly designed to help you become the daughter HEavenly Father would like you to be. I know that my testamony (and future home skills) grew greatly as I completed my personal progress, espeacially during this final push. I know that Heavenly Father inspired the program and wants all of his daughters to fulfill it. I am thankful that I had the opportunity to do so.
-taytay

Unpleasent suprise

Today we took Koda to the vet to get his boosters and vacination shots. At first Koda was very excited about this. He loves car rides and the only thing he loves more than car rides is being able to go into the place the car went(most of the time he can't). So Koda was very excited when we grabbed his leash and told him to come. He was estatic to find all the wonderful friend canines inside the vet clinic as well. However he(like the rest of us) was not to terribly excited about the long wait with nothing to do. Never mind though the long wait was quickly forgotten when the vet came in and started to pet him and give him treats. Noone is as forgiving as a dog, which makes this next part all that more funny. You see the vet needed to get his temperature and to do this you have to stick the thermometer up his butt. When the vet first tried to do this Koda whipped around as fast as can be and gave him a look that said "what the heck do you think your doing with that mister". The vet backed off pretty fast but soon returned with the mean stick (thermometer) and an assinstant named Charles. This time Charles held Koda with a muzzle on him as the vet stuck the themometer up his butt. Koda still bulked but was powerless to do anything about it. Charles then left the room. However, whenever he came back in the room Koda would scramble fast as can be under then bench that dad was sitting on. It was really funny. The funny thing was that Koda had no problem with the vet that actually stuck the thing up there, just Charles. What made this all the more funny is that Charles had to convince him to trust him enough to get him to follow him back to where they take the shots. It took him a minute but with a treat in hand he was able to accomplish this. Needless to say I don't think Koda will ever trust him again.

Senior Pics

These are some of my favoriate single or with just one other person senior pics

Senior Pics

Flower Closeups

Hey,
Thought i would post some closeups of the flowers in my garden with their names. Tell me what you think of them ok. Above-PrimRose Below- Hercules

Below- Peach Flambe- this is my favoriate in the whole garden

Bleeding Hearts in the pink and white verities

Gardening process

Hard at work and muddy to prove it. What could feel better than this?

Here I am planting the first flower. This was really a whole lot of fun
This trellice was so hard to get to go into the ground. We finally had to have dad come and hammer it in. Which we are really lucky didn't break it, it says not to do that on the packaging but we just could not get it to go in. Oh well alls well that ends well

Here I am hanging the millet spray, trying to invite the birds of the neighborhood. Come to find out that there is a bird that seems to have claimed this particular tree as its territory adn is there from early morning to late at night. Hopefully it will find a mate and then we will have baby birdies. But if not it does have a beatuiful song adn hummingbirds are not the least bit frightened of it.

Pre-planting View

This is a full picture of my garden before it was planted. Mom and I had spent the entire morning the day before shopping for them. They are so pretty!!!

Freeway Adventures

If I have learned one very important lesson in the last couple days it is this, never leave the house without the proper amount of gas in the car....

On Tuesday afternoon after volunteering at the fish hatchery down on the old Evergreen Highway i happily and obliviously made my way home. At first everything went great... Then I noticed the cop behind me. He is not what this story is about, however, as I uneventfully (Thank heavens) left him behind when I switched from the 14 to I5. It was just a couple minutes later that I started my true adventure. It was around 5:30 in the afternoon or in other words rushhour and so at first I noticed no problem as the cars were all going slow. Then traffic picked up and when I pressed on the gas in an attempt to follow their receeding figures I found out I had a big problem. When I pressed the gas it was like hitting the brakes. Now being the brilliant person I am my first thought was not, oh I bet I am out of gas, it was more like this... OH MY GOSH... Crap(insert glare at car) this car had better not blow up in my face. Now I should probably explain that thought. You see when I was young (no I don't remember exactly how old I was suffice it to say I was young) I had watched a program at my grandma's house where a woman had stopped to get gas. No biggie everyday occurance you are thinking, except for this particular woman forgot to remove her keys, created static electricity by getting up that transfered to her key, started to fill her car and BOOM! Her car blew up in her face. So since I was young adn impressitionable this has always been my secret greatest fear. My second greatest fear also has to do with cars it is of getting hit by a car going 60-70 on a freeway. So my thought immediatly after Crap this car had better not blow up in my face is... Get off the freeway..Get off the freeway.. Get off the freeway! Sort of like Mulan chants when she is on the roof and the fireworks are about to go off. Get off the roof, get off the roof, get off the roof. So I slowly but surley exit the free way my next thought being that i can pull of to the side of the road. But as luck would have it there is no where to pull over. Then I spot a road that leads off to teh left... I had always wondered where that went when we drove by to drop teh kids at school and had never seen anyone on it so in my mind it was an old abandoned road adn I could stop right in teh middle of it. Luckly when I got to the road i spied a parking lot at the base of the hill and managed to crawl into it because as I soon found out it was not an old abandoned road. It lead to a park. At this point I am thanking God that my dad just replaced my lost cell-phone and I call mom. While i am doing this I notice that the gas, thought the car is off, seems low. So one and two get put together in my mind and I figure out this is the problem. Mom calms me down, and then has me call dad on his cell. Dad asks where I am, luckly I am good at knowing where I am so I was able to give him really good directions. Next problem I am in our only car at the moment. So Dad gets a ride with Brother Azar. They show up about 45 minutes later. Lesson well learned. I will never forget to moniter my gas again.