A Blue-Eyed Blonde

I'm a driver

2011-09-30T18:35:00.000-07:00

So a few firsts to announce....
Guess who is an official driver...This girl is!!! I am so excited to finally be able to drive. My mom has even let me take the car a few days a week! It is the bomb!

I went to Homecoming...funnest thing of my life. I also went on another date this past week...also a party!

The first girls choice is coming up...I am stoked. Sadie's here we come:) All in all...Life's GREAT!!!!!!!

S.T.O.M.P.

2011-06-28T20:04:00.000-07:00

STOMP: Summer Trying Out Moroni's Promise
The Challenge: Read the Book of Mormon by the end of the summer.
The Goal: Gain a testimony of the reality of the Book of Mormon.
Challengers: Washington Fields 11th Ward youth leaders.
Challenge Accepted By: The youth of the Washington Fields 11th Ward

The youth were asked to read five pages daily and in the end try out Moroni's promise. As I took on this challenge I set some goals of my own:
1. Gain a better understanding of the Book of Mormon
2. Really study the scriptures
3. Become better aquainted with my Savior

This challenge has been such an amazing experience for my brother and I. He is 13 and also took on this challenge. As he and I have begun reading and talking together, we have strengthened not only our testimonies, but our relationship as well. The challenge ends on August 27th and I am excited to see how my testimony of the Book of Mormon and my Savior will grow.

Summer fun

2011-05-22T18:44:00.001-07:00

Summer fun by Carter Cluff featuring yellow flats

Short sleeve tee
$58 - tenover6.com

Hydraulic embroidered short
$35 - tillys.com

Sperry yellow flat
$118 - coggles.com

Stone jewelry
110 GBP - karenmillen.com

Kenneth Cole chain necklace
$38 - endless.com

H M antique ring
3.99 GBP - hm.com

H M scarve
6.99 GBP - hm.com

Dorothy Perkins waist belt
5 GBP - dorothyperkins.com

H m sunglass
4.99 GBP - hm.com

Random Obsessions and Such

2011-04-23T17:26:00.001-07:00

Where to begin? With summer nearing, summer fever is setting in. So my friend Randy and I are beginning our summer obsessions.
1. Bracelet Weaving. It sounds nerdy, I know. But look at the cuteness! (Thanks to Randy for the hand modeling.)

2.Face-Stalking. Congratulations to those on my friend list...you have been thoroughly face-stalked.:)

3.Fun new hair ideas. We have been searching high and low for cute up-dos. We have a few favorites.

4.Lip Dub videos. I want to do one. So bad. Search them on youtube. They are rad! Does anyone even say that anymore? Well, I do.
Well thats all for now. There will be more to come, I'm sure.

World Traveller To Be

2010-12-18T15:24:00.000-08:00

I want to go to so many places in the world. I am posting them all here so that I don't forget all of the places, or to get there one day. My friends are invited to any number of these places. I have to have one friend with me always though. So... drum roll please. In no particular order..

1.China

2.London

3.Italy

4.France

5.Argentina

6.Germany

7.Dubai

8.Spain

9.Australia

10.Switzerland

11.Sweden

12.Jamaica

13.Denmark

14.Mumbai

15.The Bahamas

16.Greece

17.New Zealand

18.Jerusalem

19.Romania

20.Finland

So there you are. Merry Christmas!
-Courtney

Night

2010-11-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

I am super interested in The Holocaust, so I was really excited to read this book. It was a true story written by Elie Weisel, a Holocaust survivor. The tragic tale of his awful journey really opened my eyes to the horrors of the Holocaust. The book is an amazing memoir, filled with tragedy and despair. Absolutely worth reading.

Great Expections

2010-11-24T08:47:00.000-08:00

I had read this book before but it had been a really long time, so it was a good refresher. I didn't like it at all when we started it but by the end I loved loved loved it. I love the idea of trying to be something your not and then realizing it wasn't a very good idea. I love that Dickens constantly keeps you guessing and springs things on you all the time. A must read for sure!

The Princess Bride

2010-11-23T18:13:00.000-08:00

In Honors English 10 we have read quite a few books and I thought I would post my opinion of them. We read The Princess Bride first and I really liked it. It was witty and clever and the author, William Goldman, added his own opinions and ideas into the text. All in all it was a good book and had a lot of exciting detail and action.

Birthday Fun Times!

2010-11-23T17:07:00.000-08:00

So I realize I've been really behind on posts. School is sooo busy! So here is my birthday, just a tidge late.
So my best friend Tianna, is amazing. She came over to my house bright and early to do my hair and makeup, which just happen to be my two least favorite things to do. Besides that lovely surprise, my mom went and got doughnuts for breakfast. They were delightful.
Another added bonus came when my mom brought me and my friends In-n-Out for lunch, also delightful! After school my mom picked Tianna and I up from school and we went shopping!! So fun. I learned this birthday that my friends and family are seriously THE BEST!!

EFY!

2010-07-07T20:06:00.000-07:00

This summer I got to go to EFY!! It was absolutely amazing. I met tons of new friends. I went with my friend Emily who just moved to Kaysville.

Day one- Meet your counseler and company. Orientation and then eating. Lots of eating.

Day two- Classes all day. I went to some amazing speakers and learned a lot. Free time spent at the creamery eating fries and ice cream. DANCE!!

Day three- Classes all day again. More awesome speakers. More free time. More ice cream and fries.

Day four- Session director devotional. Young men and young women activites. More ice cream and fries.

Day five- Strength of Youth activity. Service project. More fries and ice cream. DANCE!!

Here are a few pictures. I didnt do very good at picture taking.

I won!!!

2010-05-08T17:58:00.000-07:00

This Friday was election day. I was running for sophmore class secretary and to my great surprise I WON!!!!!! I want to say thank you to all the amazing help I had from my mom, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and neighbors. A special thanks to Kim Mckone and Felisa Sorenson. Kim helped me with my fantastic posters and banners, and even took the time to make me a t-shirt. Felisa did my e-trade video in one day and came over in the late hours of the evening to record our voices. You guys are so amazingly talented. Thanks soo much. I could't have done it without you.
(pictures to come)

Birthday Party!

2009-10-10T11:12:00.000-07:00

I turned 14 about 2 months ago and I am finally gonna post some pictures! HORRAY! I had a carnival birthday party and I had seven girls there. It was a lot of fun! We had a photo booth, tatoos, cotton candy, popcorn, a ping pong toss, a dart throw, and lots of delicious food.....made by my mother of course!!

Photo Booth pictures for your enjoyment!

Christmas Tree

2008-12-04T15:46:00.000-08:00

Every year we each get to decorate mini Christmas trees! This is mine this year. We do this every year and we each choose a theme for our tree. It's one of our many fun Christmas traditions.

Gratitude Journals

2008-12-04T15:28:00.000-08:00

Last year around Thanksgiving, my mom made us these gratitude journals. I was not very successful in my gratitude recordings.

This year however, I reread the talk by Henry B. Eyring and decided to try again. I really have been able to find many things to be grateful for that I usually take for granted!

Poor BYU!

2008-11-24T16:14:00.000-08:00

My poor BYU lost to the dreaded Utah on saturday! How embarrasing! I really wished they could have beat the Utes so that I wouldnt be dead on monday at school! Oh well better luck next time! Anyway because of the Utes big win my friend Emily(yes shes a Utes fan...disgusting!) decided it would be funny to rub it in my face by doing this:

Spanglish

2008-11-12T18:21:00.000-08:00

I am happy to announce that I now speak Spanglish!!! I have been taking Spanish at school and now know enough to kinda carry on a basic conversation. Hopefully, soon enough it won't be mostly about food!

Funny Story

2008-11-08T11:28:00.000-08:00

This girl at school was telling me all about her brother the other day. His name is Dustin Mo. She was telling me all about how he lives by himself in this ginormous house, and how he was so excited to see his own name in the phone book for the first time, so he gets the phone book and, of course, goes straight to his name... only to find that it is spelled Bustin Mo. How great right!

Halloween

2008-11-05T17:59:00.000-08:00

Sorry about the lack of postage!! My Halloween was a teenagers Halloween. I was not allowed to trick-or-treat this year because of the age factor. How it would be to be a kid again. I did dress up despite the fact that I was not permitted to go trick-or-treating. I was a rubiks cube. Your probably thinking oh...how cute, right? Well it wouldn't be so cute if you had to wear it to school> I couldn't even fit through the door. Between classes and at lunch I wore the costume, but during classes I did not. Try getting this thing on the bus!

New to Blogging

2008-09-22T15:51:00.000-07:00

I'm new to this whole blogging thing, so if any of you have any ideas that may or may not help me, feel free! I'm super excited to be a part of the blogging community! Yeah!