Have you ever noticed that you always get sick at the worst of times? Well, I do. I have a sore throat and my choir concert is in two days. It wouldn't be too bad to skip out on the concert, but I have to sing in two small groups, and one is for me graduating. That's kindaaa important. Oh well. I am drinking a lot of water and resting, so there's not much else I can do.
It's so hot here. And humid. and it's causing me to take a bath/shower twice a day just so I can cool off. =/




I'm off to take a shower. Again.
Aubrey
PS
I know I sound whiney, but...
No buts. I just know.

I am 14 years old . . .
or 168 months old
or 730 weeks old
or 5116 days old
or 122784 hours old
or 7367055 minutes old
or 442023334 seconds old
Yep.
I'm fourteen years old. Exciting... I went on a shopping spree with Mom for clothes. That was good. I needed some shorts and that kind of stuff, so it was good that I went.
Yesterday was my birthday party. I had a good group and it was very fun. We played all sorts of games, and then they raided my closet and put on random clothes and we paraded around the block. Apparently Susan Pfiefer saw us... Oh well. I might post pictures later.
Today I found out I don't have a legal birth certificate.
Okay, not REALLY, but they won't accept mine for my passport. I don't know the details...
Let's see, what else is happening? Ah. I'm going to a Girls Camp party today, and then tonight we're going to the LHS musical. I'm excited for that.
Tomorrow I'm singing in church. Scary. Luckily it's with 4 other girls. Annie and I (the altos) know our part, but I'm a little worried about the sopranos. They'll get it though. They're great singers.
Wellllll. I think that's all for know!

Utah... And Testing. And the whipped cream game!

I hate driving to Utah in Mom's car. Bleh.
That aside, our trip was fun.
Katelyn entertained me during Nikol's graduation. It was exciting to see her walk across the stage though!
Another fun part was the family party. I got to see lots of my cousins, so that was great.
At one point I was trying to entertain Josh (Herrin) by playing on the slide and he kept saying, "No you go first" and "Ladies first!" Wow. He's trained!
When Nikol and I were waiting in line to board our flight back, I saw a guy who I thought I recognized. I thought he just looked like Mr. Rogers, but when Nikol saw she said that it was actually our former stake president. Oops. I was a little off.
Now that I'm home, I've been having test for school every day from 9-12. Tomorrow's my last day- HALLELUIAH! However, I admit that it really wasn't that bad. I even made a couple friends.

Last night I had YW. I can't tell you what the first part consisted of because it's a surprise, but I can tell you that the second part was a blast. We played all sorts of weird/fun games with them. One of my favorites was the whipped cream game. It basically consists of:

1. Getting a parter
2. Ones the... thrower and the other is the... catcher.
3. The thrower puts a glob of whipped cream on their wrist
4. The thrower hits the arm with the whipped cream with the clean arm
5. The catcher tries to, well, CATCH the whipped cream in their mouth.

It was so fun. We made sure everyone washed their hands and wrists before and after. =)

We are family!

This is another exciting thing we did at the party. It's called spider. Super fun. Super scary, but super fun.

Hold on tight!

I think we got the most air. =)

This is Megan being... Megan.

Earth Day

Okay... Was today Earth Day or was is yesterday? I dunno.
Anyway. Yesterday I went to the community center for Earth Day with the YM/YW. Though it turned out to be a Beehive/Deacon activity, because nobody older came. It was great. Who knew just picking up trash could be so fun? We did find some interesting stuff though... Tires, credit cards, bones... Yeah. Then we went back to the community center and got all this free stuff for the service we did, like posters, mixing spoons- made out of recycled plastic! (Oooh, ahhh...)- a t-shirt, a bag, and much MUCH more. I was shocked at how much eco-friendly stuff there could be... Plates made out of sugar-cane so you can put into compost!? Hm.
...I forget things very easily... So I don't remember anything else too exciting that has happened in the past while. Oh well. Nikol told me to post. Is this good? =)

Achoo, ouch, bleh, cough, ect.

I'm sick. Wahhh. And I have to miss going to Utah because of it. Here are my symptoms: Sore throat, headache, runny nose, MAJOR headache, and sunburn. Heh. That probably has nothing to do with the sickness though. =)
Well. How about I go onto a happier subject? Yesterday I spent nine hours at Krista's house. We we started watching a movie, but we discovered in was 6 hours long and got a little discouraged. But mom rented the movie for me again so I can finish it if I get bored of laying around and drinking water all day. I'll probably watch it tomorrow.
Krista has a tennis court right around the block, so we went there and played for about two hours. It was SO FUN! I'm horrible at it, but it doesn't matter when you're just playing with Krista. =)

I really don't have much to write about, but I'm just trying to pass the time away and get better- fast. Hmmm. I guess I could do something more productive, like work on school or something...

Easter

What're you lookin' at?
I love that picture. And his outfit! SO CUTE!

Easter was eggsellent. Very punny, right?
No, but really, it was great. We got to see Ryan, Andrea and Jakob. I always love that! And to top it off I get to go to Utah on Wedsday! YYYYYYAYYY! I MISS FAMILY! Especially Amy and Danny AND Katelyn. =) But anyway. Easter. Yeah, we had a competitive Easter egg hunt. I got 41, I believe. It was a fun night!
Funny story. Apparently we didn't get some of the Easter eggs. Of course. No one gets all of them, right? Well- no worries. They didn't go to waste. Karmen apparently found them all, opened them, and ate them. Or someone did. Because earlier today, we found a bunch of empty easter eggs all over the grass. Hmm. It's possible. After all, Karmen has also shucked corn and ate it neatly right off the cob.


What a dainty animal we have.

I like long walks on the beach with elephant seals.

(Don't you love how my blog post is a mile long because of all the pictures?)
Oh man! It's be fun lately! First I'll write about our trip to San Mateo Memorial Park. It was SO PRETTY with a crazy amount of trees. The campsite we were at was beautiful, though we didn't stay there much during the day.

We went on a guided tour to a beach with tons of elephant seals... It sounded like it'd be 3 miles of boring torture, but it was SO FUN! It was basically a long walk on the beach! =) We saw probably 100 elephant seals, although apparently there were a thousand. WOAH. They're actually really cute, unless they are a full grown male. Then... Ugh. Since it was on a wildlife preserve, they didn't clean anything up... and I mean anything. We probably saw around eight dead bodies of elephant seals. Lovely. Smelled lovely as well. And to top it off, one of them had deteriated from the inside out so we got to see a nice shell. But most of them were... well, graphic.A beautiful view from the guided tour.

That's a lot of seals.

A cute baby elephant seal! Awww! I'm asking for one for my birthday. Hahaha.

Then we went to the cove beach right next door to the elephant seal beach. We didn't stay there long though.

Mom and Dad looking wistful.

After THAT we went to Pebble Beach. That was awesome because we (we being Dad and me) got to climb all of these rocks and then we went down to the actual pebble area. Mom and I then decided that it'd be fun to take off our shoes and walk around in the pebbles for a while and then wade in the water. Hm. Painful. But fun.

I loved those rocks!

I think Dad enjoyed it too. =)

The next day we just hiked all around and found all kinds of cool stuff like the swimming hole and a large amphitheater. Plus the trees were so fun to hide in.

Banana slug!

I see youuuu.


A swing thingy! Yay!
Peekaboo!
What a pretty creek!
I forgot how fun camping can be!
Wow. This post is getting pretty long, so I'll do another post about Easter. =)
PS
I figured out how to do a slideshow, but by the time I did I had already uploaded about half of these so I was too lazy. Heheh.