I've come to a decision:

I'm going to start a new blog :]
and that blog is called:
My new blog, :)
Soooooo go check it out!
This current blog will still exist, but I won't post on it. So if you ever wanna stalk on parts of my sumer vacation, it'll still be here ;] haha
well, I guess this is "adios"...
( kinda :] )

I'm sad that... ( plus some other stuff )

... I got sick this summer and it limited my activeness in more than one way
... that I didn't write in this blog very often :[
... I don't/didn't have time to write as much anymore
... I'm not very good at keeping a journal/diary thing

... but I'll get over it.

So as you all know, I've had a rough summer health-wise. I'm not going to get into that anymore. But yeah. So despite my lack of keeping up my own blog, I have been keeping up with other blogs that I just adore and those are:
A Beautiful Mess
This is a blog run by two sisters who have the cutest style! They have lots of DIY crafts and such :]
Bleuird Vintage
I also like this one :] Its a blog run by a mom of four kids, and I just really like her style. She also has cute recipes and crafts and ideas :]
I've been following both the owners of these two blogs on Instagram ( I'm @harrriet, A Beautiful Mess is @elsielarson & @emmaredvelvet and Bleubird Vintage is @bleubird )

I have also really enjoyed reading all my families' blogs this summer :] So yeah. haha

Well I'm thinking about staring a new blog. Maybe. Just something to use as like a stress relief thing. But I don't know yet. Meh.
Maybe I'll just continue this blog. Blah blah blah blah blah... :]

Soooo I like blog posts with pictures. So here's some pictures! :]

Walter, the turtle :] :* 

Daisy, the turtle :] <3

* These shots were taken during a mini turtle cleaning / photo-shoot / mommy-turtle time :] 

If I continue this blog I'll post more about it. These were all edited on my iPod.

Ciao for now! :]
( or maybe not . . . adios? )

Fast Forward Ketchup

Okay so fast forward:
Lisa came over it was super awesome, then we went to the beach the next day (the Saturday after the Fourth of July) and that was the night I got sick.
I was babysitting with Jack, and after we put the two little cuties to bed, we decided to watch a movie. Next I got a major headache and then I was really cold. I lay down and then sat up and then I got really hot, kinda like the chills. When we finally got home I was super thirsty. I got in bed with a super headache and an upset stomach. I woke up in the night and threw up a couple times. Then I went back to bed just fine, but unfortunately it happened again. When I woke up for good in the morning it happened again, but I had nothing left in my stomach so it was just like a really big hiccup over the toilet (it was painful and nasty). So then for that week I had a headache and was tired and hot and weak and bleh. I got up to a 103 fever.
Next it was my joints. They were sore and ugh. It was just hard. As of right now the only thing that is still wrong is the problem in my knee and sometimes a tweaked muscle in my arm. They have me on a anti-inflammatory and pain pill so I think thats helping. And its been over a month since I've gotten sick.
 A WHOLE MONTH OF MY PRECIOUS SUMMER WASTED! :[
And we weren't even sure if we were gonna be able to go on vacation. The doctor wasn't sure if I was in the right shape to travel. We did end up going, but we had to leave later than we had wanted. I'll do a whole post on Utah later :]
So yeah. Ask questions in the comments if you have any because that was kinda vague.
So thats it! I'll also have a post on our Balboa coming up too so look for that!
Okay well,
Ciao for now!
:]

Fourth of July

Since I am still unfortunately immobile, I will blog. My friend STILL hasn't sent me the pictures yet ( love you Zoe ;] ) from when we went to the Spectrum, so I'll just move on.
Fourth of July started out early Wednesday morning - the annual 5k Lake Forest firecracker run! This year the participants included Porter & Jed, my friend Pooja & I, and my dad. Jack wasn't sure if he had time to run because of his spot in the parade this year. He was playing percussion in the El Toro marching band :]

Pre-race pictures with grandma. 

I didn't even find Pooja in the crowd until like literally a couple minutes before the race started :]

 Post race picture.

 My final time was 29:53, which is good because my goal was to beat last years 30 minutes ;] After that we stopped by our house and then went to our ward's pancake breakfast. I invited my friend Zoe and we met her there after the race. I think she enjoyed it! :] We had also invited dad's old boss Lisa, who came to watch Henry do the flag ceremony. Next we went home and showered and then went and saw the annual parade! Guaranteed candy, noise, and many different church bands/handouts. 

 Jack doing his part in the marching band with his cymbals! See his sneaky smile? lol :]

 Merida! This was a random part in the parade where people ( who we actually knew! :] ) dressed up as Merida ( aka Summer ) and some random assistant dude ( aka Chase ) and horses through the parade route! Awesome :]

Then we went home and got ready to go to a BBQ at our cousins the Coe's! We were going to swim and eat and hang out. I ended up not swimming but I had fun! :] All the rest of the boys swam though, and we may or may not have locked them out a couple times... ;] Funnnnnnnnnn. 

The next thing we did was kind of random. The boys went to the Sun and Sail club to swim some more, while I stayed home and watched Figure it Out :] I love that show. Then my dad came and picked me up and we all went down to the club to watch fireworks so I wouldn't be home alone. 

FIREWORK PICTURES!

Without Flash...

With Flash!

The fireworks were great and the Fourth of July was overall awesome! 

Ciao for now! 

:]

Brace yourself - This is gonna be a long and random one!

I haven't been posting because since last Saturday I've been pretty much out of commission. I got really sick and my joints and muscles are still all sore and kinda swollen. I do wanna post, but I don't have some of the pictures I need. I want to post about about a few things: when we took my friend Ashley to the Spectrum, the Fourth of July, my running, when our friend Lisa came over, and maybe explain this sickness a little more.
So my friend texted me allllllllll the pictures from when we took Ashley to the Spectrum, but it was right before my parents shut off the ability to send/receive pictures on my phone, so I have them, but I have no way to get them to my iPod or the computer :[ So I asked her to email them to me, but its hard because we're all very busy. I will post them as soon as I get them, but I don't want to get too out of order on this blog.
Fourth of July I have have pictures for, but like I said I don't want to get too out of order. I may post them if I get desperate but ya know.
I don't have pictures of me running, but for all I know my mom could have been sneaking pictures of me so I'll ask :b I just want to explain it a bit more :]
My dad's old boss Lisa is super awesome and we started sometimes having her and her kids and sometimes their friends over to 'babysit' us. It's really more like a mini party with lots of junk food. ;]
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So I started writing this post like a week ago and then yet again, this sickness prevented me from finishing and posting. So, just letting you know that this was written a week ago and now being continued so I can finally keep posting! :] I know you've all just missed me so much ;]
Okay so continuing now:
Ironically the next mini topic was this sickness. Well really in that post I just waned to explain it more and stuff. I obviously don't have any pictures from my sickness ( that would be grody ) but its been going on for so long and its such a rare thing for someone older than 5 to get that I thought I should explain it. Okay so now heres some random pictures that don't go along with any of the posts I will soon write!

Me and the awkward helmet for rock climbing at Girls Camp.

 My friend Carmany and I in the rock climbing gear at Girls Camp!

I was painting rocks before the Fourth of July and decided to also paint my hand! :]

Fireworks form the Fourth of July!

Okay, well I'll try and blog again soon! 

Ciao for now!

:]

Girls Camp! :] (In Lists & Pictures)

Girls Camp 2012

Wed. June 27 - Sat. June 31

YCLs: Christine, Addy, Sam, and Brooke

Cabin #: 18, Black Bears

People I knew in my cabin: Carmany & Connie

Best Part: Crafts, free time, and testimony meeting

100th Anniversary Challenge: It was the 100th anniversary of Grils Camp, so each cabin got a challenge. Ours was 'Write 100 love notes.' We each had to write 6, and our cabin finished the first day!
Theme: Arise and Shine Forth: Be Stellar!

Wednesday: Make camp journals at Stake Center, Find out cabin numbers, Leave, Arrive, Find cabins, Unpack, Lunch, Free time ( crafts, explore, and hang out in cabin ), Dinner, T-shirt hand out, 100 Challenges, Skits, Desert, Cabin devotional, SUPPOSEDLY lights out ( but some girls in my cabin wanted to stay up late and tell stories, keeping the rest of us up too! :[ )

 Exploring the swimming pool I never knew they had!

 Swinging on a rope swing! :]

 My name tag and bunk.

The inside decorations of our cabin.

 Our cabin ( ours was at the very end of the camp )

 View at the beginning of the skits before it got dark and cold.

 Mailbox and location! ( This was the same exact camp I went to for sixth grade science camp, and everything looked really familiar! )

Thursday: Arise ( We locked the door the night before and no one was awake in the morning to unlock it so the Lites weren't able to sing their annoying wake up song with the MEGAPHONE ), Breakfast, Scripture study, Certification rotations, Lunch, More rotations, Make lip gloss, Free time (crafts, love notes, archery, and Uno in our cabin ), Dinner, Stake presidency rotations, CUPCAKES (that was one of my favorite parts ;] ), Campfire songs, Lights out! ( I had a plan that night so that I wouldn't stay up late and I would get a good sleep AND IT WORKED. I fell asleep before they turned off the lights! )

Archery Range!

I really wanted to have a Katniss/Merida/Hawkeye moment but out of the 6 arrows I shot, 4 missed :[ I was really, really bad lol. 

Friday: ( Definitely the day I was looking forward too, and it lived up to my expectations! :] ) Arise ( We didn't lock our door that night because the Lites told us not to and they woke us up with their song through a MEGAPHONE which was unnecessary. We also heard later their was a bear in the camp that night and we didn't lock our door because the Lites told us not to ), Breakfats, Ward Bishop time, HIKES! ( Each different age group had different qualifications, and the Beehives was a 25 minute walk to the lake to canoe! It was my first time and it was uber fun! The Miamaids had like a 4 mile walk to a stream haha. ), Free time ( rock wall, crafts ( wire ring, altoid tins, head bands/bracelets ), swimming, mini shower ), dinner, Testimony meeting, Snack, Cabin devotional, Lights out! ( We actually ended up  staying up a hour later than lights out teaching a non-member about the Gospel, which was cool. :] )

  Rock wall, which was actually realllllly high.

 Literally crossing a river ( stream ) on a fallen tree. ( Those are my friend's feet )

The canoes and the lake!

 This used to be an Altoid tin, I until I went all mad-skilled-crafter on it and made it into this; a polka dot backed whale with an H. Mhmmmm ;]

The canoe and me!

RANDOM NOTES:

• If you read the scriptures, good things will happen. 

Exhibit A: One of our YCLs opened her scriptures for a devotional and found money.

Exhibit B: My friend who rarely reads the scriptures read a couple chapters one day and found the chapstick she lost and desperately needed in her pocket which she turned inside out before while she was looking for it. 

Exhibit C: My other friend also read them quite diligently and then found $6 while we were walking through camp ( she returned it, of course ) 

MORAL OF THE STORY: Read your scriptures! 

• On Friday night, there was a bug thing in our cabin and someone actually broke our light trying to ill it. But luckily one of our awesome leaders was able to fix it! :]

Ciao for now! :]

*May be posting more pictures from different sources as I receive them*

*This post may be updated as time goes on and more pictures are received!* :]

Explanation

Hi guys! I haven't posted in awhile because last week was really busy! Monday and Tuesday I had plans each day and I needed to pack for Girl's Camp, which was from Wednesday to Saturday. It was really fun! This next week will also be pretty busy, so some posts will just be miscellaneous pictures with caption explaining them. So, just a heads up! Monday I went with my friends and we "kidnapped" my friends who is moving ( Ashley )  and took her to the Spectrum ( I will be posting miscellaneous pictures for that one event )! And then later when I got home and went on a run, like a good little soon-to-be cross country runner girl should ;] Tuesday I had another babysitting gig with the Millers! It was good :] It was a bit harder than last time, but I'll get used to it and I'll learn! Then later that night, I went on another run with my friend. Those runs were DEFINITELY needed because the couple days at Girl's Camp I ate SO much junk, because the food there wasn't exactly awesome. I'll have miscellaneous pictures of Girl's Camp later, too. I'm running the Lake Forest 4th of July annual 5k, so I really need to run to stay in shape for that, and for cross country ( and to work off all the junk )! :] Okay, so just I just wanted to explain why the next couple of posts may just be pictures with explanations :]
Ciao for now!
:]