a memorable memoial weekend

following with the theme of being busy, memorial weekend was no chance to slow down. but, it's all good since it was filled with fun things. saturday afternoon me, amy, allison, grace and a couple other girls went to mrs. cortes' house for a BBQ. previously that day, i prepared for the BBQ by ridding my bike down to the grocery store and picking up the necessary ingredients for making a peaches and cream tart. yummy! the rest of the morning was spent baking and later going to the BBQ. it was fun...allison shocked us all with her ability to actually grill food since cortes couldn't figure it out (haha). on the not so shocking side, she also ate an entire half a fruit tart she brought and then the remains of mine. crazy girl! :)
we also eventually brought leah (mrs. cortes' step daughter) out of her shell a bit and got her to play with us.

i spent monday with amy, august and grace, as we all rode bikes down to seal beach. it was a blast! definitely have to do that again sometime.

me and amy playing in the waves...they are so entertaining haha

handstand!

i like to chase august...

awesome picture

i found a cool shell

we thought grace was going to take a picture of our shadows ha :)

we can fly!

our odd way of hugging

love the beach hair!

well, hopefully you will be getting more frequent updates on here as soon as this craziness of my schedule is over. as for now, that is all i have time for. hope all is going great!

what a busy week!

you'd think that now track is over, it would leave me with lots more time, but apparently not. so much has been happening, so i'm sorry for the lack in my updating (not that anyone cares all that much). i'll just take you all briefly (well somewhat briefly) through my week last week.
monday was the NHS awards thing...really not exciting. branden and i spent the entire time talking and i almost fell down the steps, but other than that it was pretty boring.
tuesday night was much more fun, as the high jump team met for their annual dinner at CPK. i sat at the end next to coach and across from matt and ryan, so we all just talked about college and plans for summer. then somehow matt brought up being released into the wilderness with nothing but a chicken, rabbit and a knife while not being caught by people looking for you. coach and i pointed out that the chicken could give you away if the feathers were left anywhere. but, matt had the solution and i quote "you could make a nice little pillow...or better yet a chicken suit! then you could walk around and attract more chickens to eat!" and then he proceeded to flap his arms and make chicken noises. hilarious! what was better was the fact that he was totally excited about his idea...oh, matt. after dinner, hannah, amy (sybesma), matt, ryan and i stood outside and talked for about an hour.
wednesday, i had been planning on going to the Long Beach Rescue Mission, but then got caught up with yearbook senior tributes and spent my wednesday afternoon working on the book with allison and lauren.
thursday after school i went running with allison for a bit. it only took us about 20mins to find me some cloths and running shoes. yay! i ran about 2.5 miles with her and then let her keep going while i went home and showered before returning to meet up with allison again at swingin' the night away (we were taking yb pics).
friday afternoon was good; i went over to my cousin's (kristi) apartment to make cupcakes for justin's going away pool party the next day. we had way to much fun with our baking! we made these double chocolate cup cakes (from scratch) and then frosted them with the most wild colors! we first put on a layer of our homemade chocolate butter cream frosting and then did different designs on top with colored cream cheese frosting. we also spelled out "WE'LL MISS YOU JUSTIN" across them. the were amazing! after our cupcake making, we watched the office...season finale! and oh my goodness what a way to end the season! SO CUTE!!!! i'm seriously obsessed with the show. haha. we also walked up to a craft store and got some fun stuff and then had a dance party in the living room...good times.
saturday the whole family came over for a pool party to send justin off...back to utah for the summer. it was a lot of fun. later, after everyone left, i babysat katie for my parents while they went to some event. she fell asleep watching wallie, so i had to change her into her pjs while she was sleeping. it was tough, but i did it :)
sunday was quite relaxing. i manged to get my car washed and go for a run. later, i went to pick up justin from whittier, so he could have dinner with us and spend the night...yes just when i thought i wouldn't see him again haha. but it was fun. we got some yogurt land and then were hanging out upstairs about to play some wii and the walls started shaking. justin looked at me with this shocked look (he had never felt and earthquake before) and i immediately realized what was happening and simply go "oh look we are having an earthquake". he again started at me as a couple pictures fell off the wall...intense! we just sat on the couch waiting for it to stop...probably not the smartest plan since we were in a room with tons of glass, but hey. we are alive. the big one is coming... :)
well, that should bring you all up to speed on my life. school was school today...i did dissect a cow eye in anatomy, which was pretty cool. and i almost got thrown in a trashcan by gabe, but other than that, it was a typical day. or as typical as a day can be in my life. it was the last monday of my senior year though! it's a quite melancholy feeling this graduating is.
oh well, i'm off to play some tennis!

"there ain't no reason things are this way..."

"...but it's how they've always been and they intend to stay." powerful yet subtle. just think about it...is their a reason we live this way? in ignorance. kind of makes me think of the saying ignorance is bliss...

just something to think about

starting to come to an end...

and i'm not quite sure how i feel about it. today was my last day of track, and although my jumping was quite frankly, crappy, and i did not progress on to CIF, i feel pretty much at peace about it. nothing like when tennis ended and i was crying my eyes out haha. anyways...i think for one, i was pretty ready to be done with track as it is nearing the school year and most of the time i'm pretty ready to be done with school too. for another thing, i don't think it has really completely hit me that it is over.
the weirder thing is that it hasn't really hit me that we are graduating in five weeks, but yet it still seems so far in the future. but, as the course of the year has gone on, i have changed my tune. at the beginning i seem to remember saying that i didn't know how i was going to be ready to graduate by the end of this year. well, now i have quite different feelings on that subject. for one, college isn't so intimidating since i know where i'm going now and i have some awesome people going with me. for another, i was thinking the other day how much most of my class really annoys me. like i have maybe six or seven people that i think i might stay in touch with and other than that, good riddance. sounds harsh, but it's the truth. this might sound kinda weird, but i know for a fact that at least two of my friends agree with me on this; instead of missing my classmates and peers, i really believe that i will miss my teachers more. i think they have made my experience in high school what it was. obviously i wouldn't miss all of them, but people like ms. admiraal, mrs. cortes, mr. bras, mr. tamminga etc... i will really miss.
well, enough on the subject of my being ready to move on because the reality is that i need to focus on enjoying every minute of my life to the fullest.

sunday i went to disneyland with amy and my family, which was a blast. amy and i went off and did our own thing and then met my parents with katie for dinner after we were soaking wet from splash mt. (amy made me sit in the very front ha). there were a lot of goth people there, which was kinda strange...i thought it was marilyn manson's birthday or something, but we never did find out what was going on. whatever.
today i had my AP literature exam, which was oh so much fun. 3 fun filled hours of multiple choice and essays! yes! no, i guess it wasn't too bad and seeing as i couldn't care less about it and didn't put an ounce of studying in, i'm not too concerned if i get college credit or not for it.
well, other than that, nothing too exciting has been happening. i'm looking for a job now, so i can make some money over the summer. so, i'll keep ya'll posted on what happens with that...i know you can't wait, right.

thanks for reading!

service day, psychics and more! oh my!

well, it’s definitely been an interesting weekend…interesting week for that matter. thursday we had a track meet in which i managed to jump 4’8” (a hole lot better than practice’s 4’2” haha). friday was our service day at the special olympics at Cal State Fullerton, where me and Allison went around taking pictures the entire time for yearbook. we also almost got a marriage proposal from one of the athletes, meaning he was special, so we didn’t want to say anything like “get away” when he walked up and says “hey, you two. i like girls with yellow hair…they attract me. they look like barbie dolls and i want to marry one. you guys are pretty close to looking like barbie dolls…” and then he walked away. we were just kind of like “oh…” and really didn’t know what to say. oh well.
later that day, Allison and i had to work on yearbook stuff, so we went and grabbed a delicious lunch of pita bread, hummus, strawberries and frosting from pavilions and then some boba to top it off. fabulous! we started attacking eachother with boba when ms. myhren left the yb room and then got the unsuspecting sasha marson, who was sitting in the hall way waiting for her family, since there was some speech contest going on with the elementary. we then left school to go to whittier and pick up justin, so allison got to meet more members of my crazy family. justin and i dropped off allison at her grandpas house and then proceded to travel back to my house.
but, alas, we were detained as we passed by a psychic reading place and justin wanted to get a price quote to see if it was under $10 so she could “read his future”. both of us were just curious, since we don’t buy in to the whole psychic stuff. it was sort of on a whim and we ended up sitting in this woman’s house waiting for her (that’s where her business is). after 20 mins of waiting, we wanted to go, but first had to explain to the nanny, who was the only one there, that we were leaving cause we didn’t have time. the problem with this was she only spoke Spanish and the minute i showed signs of understanding and communication in Spanish she spoke at full speed and justin and i were left to hand gestures and looks at one another, trying to determine what she was saying. oh the things we get ourselves into…
when we got home, we went out to dinner with my parents and katie. within five mins of sitting down at the table, justin was handing me something from katie and hit his full lemonaid glass right into my lap. yes! sticky and wet all dinner long… I thought it was funny and he just felt so bad. never a dull moment. When we got home and I had cleaned up, we played some wii (my family is obsessed with our wii) and justin and I decided to go to a movie and see X men. Justin being justin, he didn’t tell me it was opening night and all the showings were sold out till 11:45. he picked out another move (i don’t even know the name) and we probably only watched 15 mins of it. it was the worst thing I have ever seen! every other word I kid you not was the f-word. they said it at least 3-4 times in a sentence and I don’t think there was a sequence of two sentences without it. and I’m not exaggerating. Not to mention in the whole 15 mins we were in the theater I saw more nudity than I have ever wanted to see. I was pretty much sitting there trying to block it out and finally turned to justin and said that I couldn’t take any more of it. he was like “yeah i had no idea it was going to be like this or k would have never taken you to see it” and we left to go see if we could exchange out tickets for the 11:45 showing of X-men. it was a much better place to be. good movie. except we didn’t get home until like 2:00! i was so tired!
thinking about that first movie though, I was just in shock of what is actually allowed on movie screens. it’s sick! do you ever have those experience where you are just shocked that something can be that bad and it makes you realize how sheltered you really are? honestly, i think it is a good thing to be sheltered. the more you can block out of this world the better. oh well, it’s a shame people have to be like that. makes me question what has happened to the human race and where it’s going.

well, on a lighter note, I babysat katie tonight after taking jus back to school. we baked gingerbread cookies and then decorated them. she had fun with that. :)

oh, and here are some pictures from my birthday last week.

i am not psycho, julie!
hahaha love it!aw...we can act :)he was trying to put a carrot on my head. weird...

wow...we look normal for once? what is the world coming to?oh, wait...here we are...the world is safe we are still odd underneath
he was trying to thow me over the banister...great! look at allison's face! hahaha

and then they teamed up on me... great do i really want to live with her next year??? haha just kidding. i'll just be sure to sleep with one eye open.

august is excited for something. cake?

aw, cute :)

well, that is the short update on my life. will be back again soon.