A Big Catch Up Post

So it's been awhile since I last wrote (or typed depending on how you look at it...) and so much has happened worth writing (typing haha) about!
First of all I got my license!! Apparently I "just squeaked by" according to my driver tester or whatever you want to call him. In fact I believe he used to be one of those old gangsters that had one of those gangster accents but that might be just me. Anyways I got it and thats all that matters!!! Now the only thing left is getting a car! haha. That'll be the day....
Also, I went to Mexico in February for a week to go build a school down there. That was the most amazing experience I have ever had. Seriously. We traveled down there on a bus all the way from Saskatchewan, Canada to the Baja area in Mexico. Needless to say, it was an extremely long trip. We slept on the floors of the bus. Most people thought that was the best place to sleep.....I highly disagree. The one time I slept down there I was claustrophobic.
When we got to Mexico we went to this place called La Bufadora near Ensanada. It's an outdoor market where people barter for their items. I was the WORST at that. Eventually though I figured it out and I got a bracelet down to two dollars. I was very proud of myself :)
When we started building the school there were so many kids who wanted to play with us! I loved it! You had no idea what they were telling you but it was so great to see all their smiling faces. I made this one little friend named Pedro. He would run up to me and then I would make a crazy face and he'd run away laughing. It was so cute. Then I would do an action like waving my arms and he would copy me. I loved little Pedro. He was like a little ray of sunshine :)
We finished the school in 3 days which is crazy! It was a two classroom school. I swear I have never painted so much in my life! Every piece that went on that school had to be painted....twice. It was crazy. Anyways, in the end I had such a contented feeling about it all. It was so worth it.
After Mexico, we had a fun day in Disneyland on our way home!! I got to hug Pluto! That was defineately one of the happiest moments of my life! haha. I went on California Screamin too. Just so everyone knows, that's the biggest rollercoaster in Disneyland. It was amazing! I had such a good trip it's unbelievable. There are so many stories I could tell but this is all I'll leave you with for now :)
Oh! One more thing! I got a small job at our church. I'm what I would like to call a cleanliness technician or a custodian in other words....but hey! It gets me $100 each month....so it's something.

Rainbow Twizzlers: Life's Little Wonders

Oh how I love Rainbow Twizzlers! Not only do they taste amazing, they smell like play dough! It takes you back to the days when you actually considered eating play dough. Aaah, those were the days......

Band Trip 2010!

↑ Hailee, Sam and I on the rollercoaster!!

I have so much I could say about Band Trip!!! I'll give you the highlights so I don't get carpal tunnel.......
Well I guess I should start with Bill. Bill was the bus driver. Good ol' Bill had no idea where he was going I swear. First of all, we go down a one-way street the wrong way. (How he managed that, I'll never know...) Then we go into the parking lot of a hotel we're not staying in and we stay there for a good fifteen minutes. And the best blunder of all, we were driving around and we saw the stadium where the Edmonton Eskimos play and everyone was all amazed and everything. Then a few minutes later we're back at the stadium. Fifteen minutes later we're back at the stadium again and people are starting to wonder if Bill actually knew where he was going. Sure enough, fifteen minutes later we're back AGAIN! It was so funny.....
And of course, we went to the West Edmonton Mall and that was soooooo AWESOME! Me and Sheridan were on a schedule! We had mapped out all the places we wanted to go and we got everywhere in record time considering we only had 3 hours there!! So not enough time but anywho.....
And pretty much my favorite part of the trip was Galaxyland in the West Ed Mall!!! Let me just tell you, Mindbender (the largest indoor triple loop roller coaster in the world!!!) was AMAZING! It was funny because Me and Sam wanted to go on it. So we were almost at the front of the line and we were kinda getting intimidated by the bigness of it. I turned to Sam and asked her, "You know....maybe we should go on something smaller first....." and she agreed right away. So after our "smaller coaster" we told each other, "If everyone can do this than so can we!!" and we did. It was so nerve-wracking waiting for it to move. We expected the worst. So it started moving and me and Sam started screaming. It was absoluetly crazy! When you went over the loops, it was as if you blacked out for a second! Sam had felt it too! After the ride we went on it again right away! Soo fun! Then we made fishy lips for the camera on the coaster! haha

Band Trip!

I am so ready for our band trip this year!! We're going to Edmonton! We will be seeing Beauty and the Beast The Musical before anyone else! My band teacher got us all in free for a special presentation before the opening night! And OF COURSE, we get to spend some time in the West Edmonton Mall!!!! I am SO excited if you haven't yet noticed!

Good Friday Breakfast

As always, the Good Friday breakfast was a huge hit! Especially with all those crapes! (Don't know what crapes are? Please refer to the picture above ↑ ) There was one strange thing that happened with the food though. The eggs turned gray. It was so weird. It looked like silly putty. Not very appetizing.....
We had a great band! They are called the Hunter Family. They sing western gospel music. They were absolutely hilarious and so talented! The whole family was hockey players. The Good Friday breakfast was great!

Sweet Success!

So my DVD making expertise didn't go to waste, one of the DVD's I made sold for $85! Crazy! Apparently, everyone thought it was great but I could've done more with it. (Would it go for $100 then?) It was funny because when the auctioneer was finished auctioning off the first DVD that went for $85, he said "I'm so sorry the rest of don't get one! But.................I have more!" The whole crowd started laughing because everyone thought there was only one DVD, hence the huge price. So he auctioned off the rest which each went for $45. The whole auction made $17,000! When added to the crop it equaled over $73,000!
A pretty good job if I don't say so myself. 

I got my Learner's!

I've kinda got some BIG news! I got my Learner's license! Wooohooo!
I went for a drive today with my dad ON THE HIGHWAY! It's not like I've never driven a car before because I have. Around the farm and not on highways! So when I was driving I was only going 80 km/h so I expected people to pass me but when someone actually did I got so tense! It was crazy! It was still so fun though. Of course I had to pick up a Fuze as well when we got there. hehe

Snowboarding

I've got to say I'm doing pretty decent for my second time snowboarding! And defineatly not as sore! That's always a plus. I do have some battle wounds though. What I thought was a bruise is really going to turn out as a scar! It's quite a funny story on how it all happened....
Kortney and I were going down the hill or more accurately, the almost flat slope, and I started turning and I couldn't stop. I warned Kortney but she couldn't turn and then BAM! I hit her and I flipped over her and knocked my snowboard on her back. Her snowboard hit my shin and then we both laid there and laughed. Normal people would have been moaning in pain but we laughed. For the rest of the day, me and her were like magnets. All my crashes involved her somehow. Even with all the bang-ups it was a great day! I absolutely LOVE snowboarding! I wish we lived closer to the hill!
I'm proud to say that I can carve! Not great but enough to get me down the hill.....sometimes. ;)

Canada's Got Game!

Woo hoO! Canada has, at the moment, two silver medals, one bronze and TWO GOLDS!!! Maelle Ricker has one of the gold medals in her event, the Women's Snowboard Cross. Alex Bilodeau has the other in his event, the Men's Moguls. If you want to watch the gold performances of both of these awesome athletes, I've got the links!

Alex Bilodeau
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/index.html?assetid=52d2ac6b-bacc-4953-9082-911418932139

Maelle Ricker
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/index.html?assetid=91ebec6c-71fe-4a22-b4ec-2d8edeedce07&cid=rss

The Sledding Adventure

I absolutely get a kick out of sledding with my friends! Our youth group went sledding out at my friend, Arielle's farm. (Or out behind in the steep hills is more like it!) Anyhow, they had tubes there! Those are the best sled you can ever ask for! I don't care what people say about tobaggans and crazy carpets and saucers, tubes are the best.
Basically, everyone attempted to pile onto one tube. It did work! Barely. Then there was the pyramid.....well let's just say that didn't work as well. Keanna was on the top and I swear when we hit and a bump and she flew over us and on the ground, she was moving in slow motion. We went right over her! Thankfully, she was okay. It was still kinda funny though....
At one point, Shannon, Arielle and I decided to go on the tube together. There was this metal thing at the bottom of the hill that everyone tried to avoid. So we started going down the hill and of course, we started sliding over to the metal thing. I yelled "Abort!" and we all abandoned ship. It was pretty epic actually. This happened again except I was in the middle and couldn't 'abort' without the other two aborting first and they wouldn't. So I pressed my back into the snow in the middle of the tube and dragged us to a stop. Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. :)
It was so fun though. Good times.

What a Day!

Ok, so I went to town this morning with my friend Arielle. (She's got her license now so she can drive me places haha) She took me out to lunch at a fancy place called the Star Cafe and Grill for my birthday. (The party is tonight! I'm so excited!) And let me tell you, it IS fancy. They had a thirty dollar steak! That is ridiculous. But before you all think I'm insulting the place I'm not, because they have amazing food! It is SO good! She insisted that I dress up and let me tell you, that is NOT an easy feat for me. I'm really more the jeans and a sweater type of girl but I humored her :) I curled my hair. If I don't say so myself it looks pretty good!
Now, guess what I did in the place? I spilled my mango iced tea on the table! Of all places to be a klutz, why there?! Oh well, you got to embarrass yourself in public sometime! (And for me that seems to happen more often than not!) I had a pulled pork BBQ sandwich and mango cheesecake. It was so good.
After that, we had a few errands to do. I was supposed to rent a bunch of movies for tonight but, of course, the store was closed! Grr...but then Arielle pulled through for me and told me she'd bring a bunch of movies!
And I swear her family has so many movies and all the new ones too! They could run their own version of Netflix straight from their home!
On the way home I was wearing Arielle's bright purple sunglasses. I was talking about my orange ones at home and then she told me she had bought me some that would "supposedly" replace those. HA! Nothing can replace my orange sunglasses but we'll see.....
It all turned out to be a great day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Yaaah! I'm finally fifteen! And you know what that means?! Learner's license! Woo! The school buses didn't run today so that's another birthday plus!

Driver's Ed

Wooooooooooo! Wooooo! What is all this wooing you may ask? Well it's for one reason and one reason only. I am starting Driver's Ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That means I get my learners when I turn 15! Yaah! That's coming up by the way! ;) So far it's been a good little class. Lots of notes though. My friends keep asking me if it's slack. I always reply with a "HA!" That is not the case with Driver's Ed.
I'm required to have 30 hours in class training and 6 hours in car training. I am so excited!
Of course when I get a car (which won't likely be when I turn 16 or maybe not even the year after...) it has to be yellow. Not puke yellow but a nice dark yellow. That is my only requirement.
Well there is some pretty corny videos in Driver's Ed if I must say so myself. There is crash test dummies talking and cheesy jokes. Don't get me wrong, I love cheesy jokes just only when they're said by me. :)

I'm Carrying the Olympic Torch!

This is absolutely ridiculously HUGE news for me! I've known for a long time but I thought I'd let you know about this a week from D-day. hahaha. Anyway, I'm carrying the torch for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games!! I have all my gear and all my information. Sunday is the big day!

I got this awesome opportunity from a place I told you about quite awhile ago. Do you remember Sogo Active? Well that was my ticket to scoring the torch.

Of course, me being Miss Procrastinate I left the offer to actually one week after the deadline so as you may assume I am not buying my torch. (boo on me....) But I get to keep the uniform. (thank goodness!) I've got to say when I signed up for Sogo Active I expected nothing. But here I am now! Wow....am I getting corny or what?

It's funny because when I got my forms it was so precise that it made me laugh. And I quote "You will arrive at the meeting point at precisely 6:36 PM." Hahahahaha. It sounded so professional.

I'm still in shock but still so excited! Is that possible? Being in shock and excited? Oh well.

Swift Current Ball Tournament

Oh how I wish I had pictures to show you for this but the sad truth is I don't. Yesterday my baseball team headed to Swift Current for a ball tournament. I went up with my friend, Kortney. On the way up to pass the time we started taking pictures. Not just pictures of us but of random cars driving by! We were trying to guess the expressions on their faces. I felt so creepy but hey! When we got there the temperature was already a scorching 30 degrees! I'm telling you I felt so gross by the end of the day! Anyway, the first game we won 21 to 1. Easy as pie. (That saying doesn't make sense really, "Easy as pie"? Pie is NOT easy to cook!) After that game me and Kortney went to the mall since there was 3 hours in between games. When we were in Walmart we were listening to music cards, embarassing ourselves in front of the employees and haing a hilarious time! Our whole team ended up buying crazy sunglasses for the next game! Mine were bright orange! Good times. The second game was also easy as pie, won it by 11 points. The last game though was not easy as pie or was it since pie is not easy to bake? Anyway, we lost by 11 points. We still had a good time. We ended up getting second place. On the way home, me and Kortney decided we were going to sing all the way home. So we did. We sang every song we could think of. True story.

Small Talk

Last night me, my brother and my mom went for a bike ride. I took my camera along as usual. I snapped some pics. My brother thought I was obsessed. I snapped some more pics. You know, the same old, same old. It was a weird night. The weather was warm but chilly. (Is that even possible? O well.) Not windy though, which is good. Oh gosh, am I actually talking about the weather?! That's suppposed to be saved for small talk! Huh. O well, that's how I roll!

Band Trip to BC!

I loved this picture! haha someone was tired....

Our band class went on a band trip to Invermere, British Columbia! It was absolutely breathtaking! I swear I have over 20 mountain pictures on my camera. When you live in the prairies and you find a hill exciting you can expect a large amount of pictures! I also saw mountain goats for the first time. Well I have seen them in the zoo but not in the wild. There was this really creepy note written in the bathroom in our hotel room. I can't tell you what it says due to the fact it was in Chinese. Me and my friends called it the Chinese Curse! lol Good times! We traveled in the Cypress Cyclones bus. (The Cypress Cyclones are my town's hockey team.) This bus has a record of breaking down, and well we were no exception. It broke down right before we were about to leave BC. We were delayed 30 minutes but that was ok because I got some more pictures of the mountains!
PS- for your info all the scenery pics were taken from inside the bus hehe

My New Addiction!

Oh my goodness! I love Cooking Mama 2! haha Who knew that such a simple game could keep you entertained for hours? It's almost as good as bubblewrap! At first after I first bought it I was thinking "What did I waste my money on this time?" but after I got more into it I was thinking "Good-bye bubblewrap!". Although I think this game is great I do not suggest this for dudes. It's more of a dudette game.

Brianna Stands!

Brianna stands!!! She is so close to walking it's crazy. Her mom (my Aunt) was so proud of her! I had to video it so my Uncle could watch it back at Calgary. Just thought I'd let you all know the great news! ( I told you I can make her walk. Well she is going home tomorrow and she hasen't walked yet but she will! Mwa ha ha! O boy....)

Movie and Medicine

Yesterday I went to Medicine Hat with a few friends (Chelsey and Sheridan) to watch a movie. Chelsey being Chelsey had to buy some Jalepeno Sticks at Arby's in the food court before the movie so that took some time. She ended up stuffing them down her sweater to sneak them into the movie. You all know about the "No Snacks in the Theater Unless They're Our Own" rule. Nobody was watching to check tickets and there was 3D glasses on the counter. We all took a pair seriously thinking they were for our own movie and it turned out they weren't, so you can imagine everybody watching us strangely with our 3D glasses on.
On the way home I came home with my Aunt and my Grandma. My Grandma had some medicine with her. So we drop her off at her house and continue home. About halfway home and in the middle of the highway, Grandma phones and tells us she forgot her medicine and Grandpa was following us in his car to pick it up. So we found an approach on the side of the road and waited. It was pitch black out so we couldn't what kind of car was coming down the road. We saw a car in the distance thinking it was Grandpa and my Aunt honked the horn. It turned out to be some random dude. Well a few mistaken honks later Grandpa came and we went home. O Grnadma....