2012 Prom!

Last weekend I went to Prom with one of my close guy friends.

Let me say, it was a lot of fun!!!

(My dad, my mom, my sister, and a very sweet woman at the dance did the honors of being our photographers. )

My guy friend. He is just awesome.

After we finished with pictures, he drove me over to the library where my mom had been working all day with elections. We were going to meet up with my cousin and his date and then drive to Prom together. And apparently, they had a surprise waiting for us that they refused to tell us about.

We were standing in front of the library with my mom when I saw my mom’s head turn at the sound of an approaching vehicle. Confused, I turned around.

I gasped.

It wasn’t a car.

The boys had gotten us a limo.

I was stunned. I was standing there looking back and forth between my guy friend and the limo. He just stood there smiling at me.

As we climbed in, we found my cousin and his date inside. As we drove to dinner, I just sat there amazed. It was so sweet of the boys to get us a limo. I had never been in one before (I’ve looked inside one before, but never stepped in), so this really meant a lot for them to do that.

Even though we arrived later than expected (as the limo had taken time to get), dinner was amazing. I tried salmon for the first time in my life and LOVED it!

We arrived at the dance near the end (but that was okay ), but as we walked in I was blown away. The music was great. The decorations were INCREDIBLE! The time and effort put into every little detail blew me away. But the centerpiece was my favorite out of everything: a floor-to-ceiling Eiffel Tower. It was HUGE!

Can you see the Eiffel tower on the left? The centerpiece looked just like that, but on a floor-to-ceiling range. (And it wasn’t pink. )

We had only an hour left, but we took advantage of every second. Dancing, conversing with friends, etc. They also had picture portraits you could have done with your date or a group of friends.

Or a group of friends.

After the dance was over, we still had an hour left with the limo, so we took a ride around the city. This was my favorite part – where we just talking and laughing and enjoying the lights of the night as we drove by.

This will be a night I will never forget.

Mirror Mirror On The Wall…

Hey My Darlings!

Thanks for all of your comments on my post about my Green Protein Smoothie. It’s one of my favorites to make on a busy day, or just on a day where I’m craving a smoothie!

As promised, here’s the link to the “Dear Daughter” Letter I had printed in the front of one of my quote books. Print “Dear Daughter” Letter Here! It’s really special to me as one of my good friends gave it to me before she moved.

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What did I do this past weekend?

Friday morning was spent buying me a watch with a stopwatch at Target for the Literature AP test in May (I perform better when I can see how much time has passed without having to look up at the clock on the wall),

…Btw, the music underneath is the song “If The Savior Stood Beside Me,” and we’re singing it at the YW Recognition Night coming up this next Sunday (YW Recognition is a special night where my church recognizes the girls who have completed their Personal Progress, which is a program designed for the young women to become more like our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ)…

Going shoe-shopping at Payless – my other ones like these are ripping up and BOGO is going on where I live, so we headed over there for a new pair. ,

And then heading over to Kohl’s to use the “$10 Gift” they had sent me.

While I was at Kohl’s I got this cute little blouse! I spent only $1.51 on it compared to the original price of over $38!!! I live really close to a Kohl’s store (I can walk to it as it’s less than a quarter-mile from my house) and I love that they send me those “$10 Gift” (as in $10 off $10, aka — $10 from Kohl’s) card all the time! Thank you Kohl’s! <3

Later that day (Friday evening) I went on another date (yeah, that makes three dates in the past week or so ) – he took me to see the new movie “Mirror Mirror.” I was giggling the entire time! It is such a great movie; I REALLY like how it’s PG and is squeaky-clean (no language or anything). It’s a very cute version of Snow White and I would definitely recommend it! After the movie, we went to Jim’s and had dinner (I had the tilapia with beans and a salad on the side).

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My Saturday was spent coloring. Seriously — with the exception of the dance I went to that night, I was coloring for my Sunbeams ALL day (there was a lot of little details in the activity that involved intricate care, so it took a pretty long time). My sister helped me out (I am so grateful for her, as I probably would have been up all night coloring if it hadn’t been for her). Even though teaching can take time to prepare, the smiles on the faces of my little Sunbeams are worth every second.

Speaking of the dance, this is what I wore. (I also tried braiding the front of my hair along with the flower – it’s kind of hard to see it in the picture, but it’s right in the front). I was super crazy all night line-dancing (my favorite!), bouncing all over the place to the upbeat songs, and learning two dances from France and Canada.

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I promised to show my Prom dress – here it is!

I’m 5’4 and I have to wear heals for this dress to be just barely above the ground. I’ve been 5’4 for a pretty long time now, and a lot of my friends are taller than I am. I guess I’ll always look up to them.

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Is it very difficult to take a dress to the dry cleaners? I’ve never been there before, but I know I need to go get my dress cleaned before the big day. Also, I don’t know where to find one of those clear plastic coverings to keep my dress in so it stays clean and stuff – do you know where to find/look for one of them?

Do you love any excuse to bake cookies? We’re having another one of those fund-raisers in my church for Girl’s Camp for the young women and for all the Scout Camps the young men are attending, and I get to make red velvet cookies, cupcakes (I’m thinking of making chocolate ones, but I may change my mind and make peanut butter ones ), and chocolate covered pretzels. I also have some zucchini in the fridge, so I’ll make sure to take pictures showing how I make my mom’s favorite zucchini bread and my favorite way to make chocolate-covered pretzels.

Do you have “assigned” spots for certain items in your room/home? A certain organization of your room? For example, I keep my purses on my front door handle, my earrings and pictures on top of my desk on the right side, my journal on the side table to the left of my bed, and my closet is organized left to right by color (red-pink-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple-brown-grey-black) and by item (blouses-shirts-tanks-cardigans-jackets-dresses-skirts-jeans-nice pants).

xoxox,

I Was Asked To Prom!!! <3

Hey my Lovelies!

Thanks for all of your comments on my Blueberry Coconut Protein Pancake. I will definitely be making the protein green smoothie soon (just need to go to the grocery store first) and some sweet-potato spice bars, peanut butter chocolate chips blondies, and

What’s been going on in my life recently?

I put together these three notebooks with some of my favorite drawings, quotes, handouts, and little scribbles I’ve done with my friends.

A letter I hold dear to my heart. If you would like a copy, just let me know!

Some pictures I drew when I was younger.

From a journal entry I did when I was in first grade. (We lived in England at the time.) It makes me smile to look back at these and remember those days.

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A couple recipes I’ve tried:

Alex’s High Protein Cookies – (you can find her recipe here) I topped each cookie with a chocolate chip instead of mixing them in. Very good! I love how these have chickpeas in them.

Tara’s Coconut Dough Balls – (you can find the recipe here) I loved how coconutty these were. They were gone VERY quickly. 

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Some things I’ve been making:

My Homemade Cinnamon Rolls (whole grain). I made some of these for my early-morning scripture study class a few weeks ago. They were really good and they loved them, too.

My Chia Protein Pancakes – topped them with homemade peanut butter. I blended the pancake batter up in my blender twice this time and added a little more baking powder. The batter was smooth and thick and made perfect pancakes!

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I went to Target the other day…

And I got four blouses and a pair of jeans: the shirts were each $7.00 and the jeans were only $7.45! For jeans that fit really well, I HAD to get them.

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I’ve been spending time with my kitties:

Hi Chip!

Oh, and have I ever introduced our queen of the house?! Here she is:

Hi Dale!

She likes to mess with me.

And eat my clothes.

She’s such a little angel, right along with Chip. <3

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I WAS ASKED TO PROM!!! The young man who asked me was really cute about it; he pulled out the note from a Reese’s pieces box while I was at a football game with him and his family and gave it to me. I was not expecting it at ALL! He’s one of my guy friends and I’m really excited to get to go with him.

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Did you have a nice weekend? The football game was a lot of fun; we learned about birds and insects today in Sunbeams; I also watched four movies this weekend including The Prince of Egypt, Joseph: The King of Dreams, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (the 1997 one), and Disney’s Pocahontas. I loved singing along to each of them while I did some work on my computer. 

Do you prefer working out alone or with a friend/companion? I like working out with friends, as we can catch up with life and both get in a good workout at the same time.

Can you believe that today is 100 years today since the sinking of the Titanic? April 15th, 1912. The history in the textbooks that we learn about always seems like hundreds of thousands of years ago, but it is actually just a few generations ago. I feel so bad for those people who had been on that ship and never saw their families again.

xoxox,