Happy Birthday Dad

20 things that I LOVE about my dad:
1. He loves to serve others.
2. He brings out the positive side in everyone and everything.
3. He loves kids.
4. You could ask him the score from a football, basketball, baseball,etc. game from 20 years ago and he could tell you. (Well, maybe not that long ago)
5. He never answers his phone. (Maybe I don't LOVE that)
6. He reads his scriptures EVERY NIGHT no matter if he is extremely tired, if he is too tired he will read them right when he wakes up in the morning.
7. He makes PERFECT lines when he vacuums.
8. He gets all of us girls (including my mom) the same thing ever year for Valentine's Day! (We LOVE It!)
9. He gets mad when people say ANYTHING about a sports game from "The game was good" to "The score was..."
10. He gets mad when we don't give him a hug when he gets home from work.
11. He works very hard.
12. He loves doing yardwork.
13. He had a mullet in high school.
14. He went on a mission to Australia and loves to share memories about it.
15. He is a very good cook and loves to cook.
16. He loves to help us kids with our homework.
17. He LOVES BYU Cougurs.
18. He is best friends with is younger brother or as we say "Your little Brodder."
19. He always goes to get a haircut, wash his car, clean his car,etc. and hour before we are supposed to leave for a trip, and it makes my mom REALLY MAD.
20. And Best of all He is the Best Dad in the whole World!!!
Happy Birhtday Dad! I LOVE You so much and I hope that you have a great day!

Being Sick Sucks

I know that I have not posted for a while. I haven't really had anything exciting happen for a while, and I haven't been in the mood to blog either. I have also been catching up on homework from going to Utah for my Great-Grandma Mulford's funeral. It was very sad going, but it was very fun to see all of the cousin's we haven't seen for a while. Well on Wednesday night I got a sore throat and didn't think anything of it. On Thursday during the day and mostly around 5 or 6 PM I got a sore throat again and it hurt so bad. It hurt to open my mouth. So on Friday I came home and started crying, because it hurt so bad. This happened right after my mom canceled my doctor's appointment. So my mom looked at my throat and rescheduled my appointment. We got in and out of the doctor's office in about 15 minutes. It was the quickest doctor's appointment I have ever been in. I had been diagnosed with Tonsillitis. I had never heard of it before, and my mom said that the last time she heard of it, it was so bad that they had to remove your tonsils. They didn't have to remoce mine, luckily. If your wondering what Tonsillitis is like me it says below:

What is tonsillitis?
Tonsillitis is an infection or inflammation of the tonsils. The tonsils are balls of lymphatic tissue on both sides of the throat, above and behind the tongue. They are part of the immune system, which helps the body fight infection.

Tonsillitis often goes away on its own after 4 to 10 days.

What causes tonsillitis?
Most often, tonsillitis is caused by a virus. Less often, it is caused by the same bacteria that cause strep throat. In rare cases, a fungus or a parasite can cause it.

Tonsillitis is spread through the air in droplets when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes. You may then become infected after breathing in these droplets or getting them on your skin or on objects that come in contact with your mouth, nose, or eyes.

What are the symptoms?
The main symptom of tonsillitis is a sore throat. The throat and tonsils usually look red and swollen. The tonsils may have spots on them or pus that covers them completely or in patches. Fever is also common.

If you feel like you have a cold, with symptoms such as runny and stuffy nose, sneezing, and coughing, a virus is most likely the cause.

If you have a sore throat plus a sudden and severe fever and swollen lymph nodes, but you do not have symptoms of a cold, the infection is more likely caused by bacteria. This means you need to see a doctor and probably need a strep test.

My throat has never hurt so bad. The Doctor told my mom and I that Tonsillitis is worse than Strep Throat so I was not very happy, because my cousin's are coming on Tuesday, but it isn't contagous so I was a little more happy, but too sick to show any emotions.

I Will Miss You

While trying to decide what I should blog about I was reading other people's blogs and got to my aunt Steph's blog. I am so very sad that President Gordon B. Hinkley has passed away. The night I foud out what happened all I could think about was the picture we have of him in our house. It is taken to the side and he has a little hat on and a big smile on his face. I thought of how wonderful it was for him to be with his wife. It had to of been an amazing welcome for him. I was so sad, becuase he is the only prophet on this earth that I heve ever known since I have been born. He was so amazing to listen to at General Conference's. He was such an influence on me. I always wanted to run up to him and give him a big hug and thank him for all that he did for us. He was an amazing Man that I loved, and I will miss deeply. When I was looking for a picture of him I saw the second one that I posted and couldn't resist.

Time to Catch Up!

It is so sad that the holidays are over. They flew by WAY too fast. I had a very good Christmas though. My grandparents came out from Utah. Sad to say, but this was the first year I got presents for EVERYONE in my family and my grandparents with my own money. Actually, my mom bought my present from me to gracie and to ellie, and to my grandparents. So I didn't buy for EVERYONE. I guess I was trying to say I got everyone a present this year. I used my money for my mom and my grandma. It was a very good Christmas. We got Guitar Hero Rocks and 80s from "Santa" and everyone was playing it after we took a little nap after opening presents. We woke up at 5:15AM and after opening presents it was still dark out and we were all tired. We all took a nap from about 6-6:30 to about 10:30 or 11, then absolutely had to watch the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade. We also had a very good New Years! It has been busy busy busy since we got off of school!

Christmas Time

It is now starting to feel like the holidays!! Now that it has snowed and we have ALL of our Christmas decorations up it feels like winter, and the holidays! This is my favorited time of year. I am so excited for it to snow a lot and have it not be so rainy and icy. I aboslutly LOVE Christmas. My Grandma and Papa are coming out for Christmas and I am EXTRA excited about that. I love being with my family on Christmas moring opening presents at 5am. I Love how every is so nice during the holidays!!! I LOVE the music that is always playing in stores. I also for some reason love the crowds all over shopping for Christmas clothes and toys. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

And They WIN!!!!

All of us as a family have been waiting for this day to come for a few weeks. The Utah Utes vs. BYU game was on today. My dad is the biggest BYU fan out there. He is such a fan that he said that we will not have Christmas if they lose. He was going to go to the store last night after watching old BYU, Utah games so that time would go by faster. He is seriously to into BYU. The whole family ended up watching the game at about the last 30 seconds of the fourth quarter. We were all on our feet screaming, "WE WANT CHRISTMAS." They won and we were all very happy. Even Dexter, the dog. My dad was on the floor yelling YEAH YEAH YEAH!! My dad was very happy that they won, and we were very happy that we get Christmas.

The Season Has Begun!!

Last year in May I tried out for my school's Spirit Squad. It is a Pom and Cheer Squad. It was a 4 day thing. You had to learn a dance, then perform it in front of about 10 teachers and 4 high school cheerleaders. I made the squad, and it is A LOT of WORK. It is really fun though. Over the summer we had a 3 day camp with college cheerleader instructors. We started practicing everyday of the week except Wednesday and Sunday in October. We practice on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 3:15-5:30. On Saturday we practice from 8:00AM-12:00PM. We have games EVERY Tuesday and Thursday from 4:15-6:00. There are 2 games every Tuesday and Thursday. Each game is about 45 minutes long. We perfrom at assemblies, and at the games on the sidelines and at halftime. We practice longer than the basketball teams do. It shows too. We Cheer for both 7th and 8th grade basketball teams. They have not won one game at all since the season started. They are not very good at all. I love cheering and dancing. This is a really fun way to hang out with friends that made it, and have fun cheering and dancing!!

Busy...Busy...Busy...

Sorry that I have not posted for a while, but I have been super busy lately from cheerleading to babysitting!! My mom left a week from today to go to New York. On Wednesday I got home from school, watched Ellie and Gracie, did homework, then went to a young woman activity. Thursday, I stayed at school for spirit squad practice until 5:30. After that I came home and did my homework. Then I ate dinner. After that I went to party city with my dad to attemp to get a halloween costume, but they were all too skanky. Then we went to pick up pumpkins to carve. Friday, I stayed at school until 4:30 for Spirit Sqaud. Then I came home ate went out to get dinner, came home and ate, then I was so tired that I went to bed. On Saturday I woke up at 7:00 to shower and get to my school by 8AM for Spirit Squad Practice. I got home at 12:00 and then I ate and took a nap until about 3. I WAS SOOOOOOOOOO TIRED!!! After that I got Ellie and Gracie ready for our ward TRUNK-OR-TREAT!! THen I got ready and we went to that and got home at about 9PM. On Sunday we went to church then the girls and I went home with my mom's friend and we ate dinner and stayed there until about 7PM. I was sooo tired that I was asleep by 9:00. My mom got home Sunday night and it sounds like she had an awesome time!! I don't know how she is a mom! I could barley do a fourth of what she does!! I love you mom and am glad you had a good time!! YOu deserved it!!!

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