Courtney's Blog

TeEtH!!!!!!

2009-07-15T11:24:00.001-07:00

On June 8th I got my braces OFF!!!!! I was soooo excited!!! I love being able to see my teeth! Here are some pictures!

Girlz Camp

2009-07-15T11:07:00.000-07:00

June 9-13 I went to stake Girls Camp. It was sooo HOT!! There were bugs EVERYWHERE, and the bathrooms were pretty gross....but I had a great time with my friends and ward. We had a Tornado warning while we were there. We waited in our cabins until we heard on the intercom that everyone needed to make there way to the YCL cabin. We arrived to the YCL cabin with a few girls upset and scared. We prayed and sang hyms, primary songs, and fun camp songs to get our mind off things. It was raining really hard, but it was a great spiritually experience. The tornado didn't hit us, it had gone around us...the lord did answer our prayers. Here are some pictures I took from camp.

The inside of our cabin...Julia, McKall, and Olivia

The outside of our cabin...and McKall!

Me and Cassie

DEER!!!! There were deer everywhere!!! We saw a few albino ones too!

Me, Julia, and Emily

The ride home!

Emily and Olivia

CoLoRaDo!!!!

2009-07-15T10:47:00.000-07:00

On June 16th my family drove all night to get to Colorado. It was a LONG drive! We arrived to the cabin on June 17th and waited for our cousins, grandparents, and aunts and uncles to arrive. Here are some fun pics from our trip:

Our cabin

Me, Tiffani, Britany, and Breanne taking fun pictures

All the cousins standing next to the Winter Park Resort sign

Me, Tiffani, Britany, Jake, and Breanne eating bread sticks. We ate so much...we were all stuffed and weren't hungry for our pizza.

Everyone that stayed in the cabin..except my dad...he was taking the picture.

My family.....we weren't really in the picture taking mood.

Presents

2009-03-28T10:42:00.000-07:00

Thanks to everyone that got me a present. I love them all!!! I had a great birthday, you guys made it so much fun.

All the presents

McKall: thanks for the purse and flip-flops they are soooo cute!!! I can't wait to use them. Also I LOVE the card! haha

Julia: Thanks for the candy, Dr.Pepper, and the Dr. Pepper chap-stick. I can't wait to eat the candy and drink my fav drink ever! the chap-stick smells amazing haha!

Lexie: Thanks for the Picture frame, lipgloss, and bracelets. I can't wait to put a pic in the frame.

Alexa: Thanks for the awesome shirt. It is totally me, I can't wait to wear it. Nikita thanks for the card, it was awesome, it made me laugh! haha

Grandma: Thanks a ton for the dress, I love it!!! Love you tons!

Mom and Dad: Thanks for the sweatshirt, the dress, and Twilight!!! Your the best, love you tons!

Turpins: Thanks for the necklace, I wore it with me new outfit I bought. It tied the outfit together.

14th BiRtHdAy!!!!!!!

2009-03-28T07:37:00.000-07:00

Friday, March 27, 2009 was my 14th Birthday!! I was (and still am) excited because now i can go to dances!! For my birthday I had to wake up and go to school :( but... I had lots of fun!! My friends went in early and stuffed my locker with balloons, candy, and Dr.Pepper but a teacher came and took it all and told them they would have to get it after school. :( So after school we went and got the candy and Dr.Pepper. Then around 5:30 my friends came. We ate pizza and drank Dr. Pepper lol, watched a scary movie (shutter), ate cake and ice cream (they sang happy birthday to me in opera and regular lol), then we played Hockie Six, listened to music and me, Alexa, and Lexie all did the Macarena, then we watched extended scenes from Twilight, started watching Twilight, then went in my room and talked. I had lots of fun! Thanks to all my friends that came.

us watching the scary movie

The cake

Top: Me and Lexie Bottom: McKall, Julia, and Alexa

Lexie, Me, and Alexa doing the macarena

TeNnIs MaTcH!!!!

2009-03-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

So Tuesday, March 24, 2009 I had a tennis match. We played against Clark. I played with Gabby, my doubles partner, and we WON!!!!!! It was my first win! I was so excited, we won 7 to 5 and it was a really close game, but we played hard and WON!!!!!!! Here are some pics from the match:

This is Natalie (a friend), Gabby (my doubles partner), and Me

This is right after the match, i was giving high 5's to some of my team members
This was during the match, our coach was giving us a pep talk....and it worked lol

The Alamo

2009-02-14T20:47:00.001-08:00

Our last day in San Antonio we decided to go to the Alamo. Lucky for us we got to DRIVE to a parking spot a minute away from the Alamo! It was a good day to go to because they were doing a re-enactment of what happened. Sadly, they didn't do any shooting :( , but it was still fun. After the Alamo we started on the long drive home.

Us in front of the Alamo

my sisters and me with a lady in a big dress (she was in the re-enactment)

soldiers (in the re-enactment)

This trip was lots of fun! Even though we had to WALK a lot, it was still fun, and the best part is that I got to spend it with my family! (well all of them but Tiffani)

Tower of the Americas

2009-02-14T20:22:00.001-08:00

After Ashley finished her choir concert it was about 2. We were all exhausted and decided to go to the hotel and sleep! After a good nap we got ready to go do something fun. If you have ever been to San Antonio then you know that you have to pay for most of the parking , so we had to walk EVERYWHERE we went. 1st stop: Tower of the Americas!

On our way we say this face statue and couldn't help but stop to take a picture with it.

After a 30 minute walk we finally reached the Tower of the Americas

This is a picture of us looking out the window at the very top

Kylie and me at the top

the view from the top

When we finished with the views we met up with some friends to eat dinner. We WALKED to a Mexican restaurant and waited an hour to get to our table, during the wait we had already decided what we wanted to have. So after 10-15 minutes of sitting at our table we had our food! It was really good Mexican food!

After dinner we WALKED along the river walk and it was really pretty. Then went back to the tower of the Americas to watch a 4-D movie and see San Antonio at night. Then WALKED back to our hotel and crashed at about 12. Out feet were killing us!

San Antonio at night

us waiting to WALK back to the hotel

San Antonio

2009-02-14T20:13:00.000-08:00

On Friday 13, 2009 Ashley's choir got to go to San Antonio to sing. We had to wake up at 2:20 a.m. to be able to be on the road by 3:30 am. I slept in the car till 7:30, then we arrived at the convention center around 8:25, so we got to walk around while we waited.

This is us waiting for the rest of Ashley's choir to get there

Kylie and her friend waiting

Ashley and her friend in their TMEA outfits

Ice Day!!!!

2008-12-25T10:31:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday, December 16 we had an ice day. School was canceled!!!! I had a sleepover with my friend McKall on Monday night, because my mom said school would either be delayed or canceled, and if it wasn't it would be fine we could just be late to school. These are some pics of us sliding on the ice:

Kylie and Ashley had their friends over too. Kylie had Maddie and Ashley had Ryan.

Ashley, Ryan, Kylie, and Maddie

Young Woman Christmas PaRtY!!!

2008-12-18T16:55:00.000-08:00

This is McKall, me, and Julia, we all went to go get a ball at the same time and almost all of us fell off the couch, luckily it was just McKall that fell.

McKall, me, and Julia

We all had so much fun there was lots of talking, eating, and having lots of fun with white elephant.

Peace!!!

2008-11-26T13:23:00.000-08:00

My friends McKall and Julia went with me to the mall see Twilight for our 2nd time. While we were waiting for the movie to start we were walking around the mall. We came to this little cart store and we saw peace necklaces. So we got these awesome matching peace necklaces.

Late Night Surprise

2008-11-26T12:54:00.000-08:00

This is what i woke up to when the door bell rang at 11:30 p.m. This is what I woke up to clean at 8:30 a.m. This is what took about an hour and a half to clean.

FuN wItH PhOtO BoOtH

2008-11-23T16:24:00.001-08:00

Me and Kylie

Kylie

me and Ashley

Twilight!!!

2008-11-19T17:17:00.000-08:00

I'm really excited for the Twilight movie to come out. It comes out on November 21 which is tomorrow, and I'm really, really excited. I'm seeing it at midnight with my friend, so it better be good. Also Thanksgiving break is coming up in two days so I'm really excited for that too.

hAiR fUn!

2008-11-02T15:36:00.001-08:00

I was really bored on Saturday so I asked my sisters if I could do their hair and make-up, Kylie said no but Ashley said sure. So I grabbed a bunch of ponytails, clips, and bows. I did a ton of different hair styles before I picked the right style. After I finished with Ashley's hair, make-up, and picked out her clothes, I grabbed the camera and began to take lots of pictures of Ashley and Kylie. It was so much fun.

Kylie laying on her blanket

SLEEPOVER!!!!

2008-11-01T11:03:00.000-07:00

Halloween night McKall and I had a sleepover. We had lots of fun, we were up till 1:30(it isn't that late, but we were really tired). When we woke up my mom wanted to take a picture of McKall and I in these crazy socks i bought for crazy sock day at school. Here are some of the pics.

Making our socks match

Me and McKall making funny faces

Halloween Night!!

2008-11-01T10:09:00.001-07:00

Halloween night I went trick-or-treating with my friend McKall, she was a baby and I was an angel. After we finished we went back to her house and then Tiffani, Conner and Caden came and picked us up. Then we to Conner and Caden's house, there we talked, played Halloween bingo, ate pizza(and candy), then listened to music really LOUD!!!!

McKall and Me playing Halloween Bingo

From left to right: Katie-telling us where to put our m&m's, Ashley and Maddie.

Conner, Tiffani and Caden before they came and got me and McKall.

The back of there Papa Murphy shirts.

mUrDeR mYsTeRy pArTy!!!

2008-11-01T09:09:00.000-07:00

Last weekend Tiffani and I had a murder mystery party and some of tiff's friends came and some of my friends came. We decorated pumpkins, played real life clue, and watched Prom Night. Everyone was screaming! It was freaky! HaHa!

This is one group that decorated the pumpkins. Theirs was a witch. From left to right it is:Madison- Ima Gudsweeper (the maid), Tiffani-Lady Victoria (Hostess), Chase- Hemsley (the Butler), Mike- Dr. Greene (CSI person), Cole- King Tut.

This is my group. Ours was a vampire! We were all dressed up as people for the Murder mystery. From left to right: McKall-nanny, Krista-Detective Assistant, Me-News reporter, Julia-Crazy Scientist, Brooke-Miss Scarlet, Melanie-Lady Lavender

Ima and Hemsley

Conner-Detective and Caden- Doctor