THIS.IS.IT.

AAAAAA! most incredible movie EVER !!!! it made me so happy. okay so if you know me, you know i am OBSESSED with Michael Jackson. (not in a creepy way, ya know? just like... his music.) I was saving my money to go to is concert in 2010... but ya know.... he died. anyway Michael Jackson's This is It is just a documentary and music video about the rehearsals for his This is It tour. (which he never got to go on cuz ya know... he died) it's pretty much as close as you can get to going to his concert and it was only $5.50! haha but really he is the sweetest most humble generous person whose favorite thing to say is "God bless you."

yummy

ya wanna know what i am like addictied to right now? POPCORN! which is weird because i really have never been a fan of popcorn before!!?. EVER!

more photography assignments...

I LOVE getting photography assignments because it means my mom can't tell me to clean my room or help make dinner or anything while i'm taking oictures. i just yell back " this is homework mom!" :) i really really wish i had had more time to take some great photos for the term final-free choice assignmnent... but there is just too much to do!!!! so here's what i came up with :)

MY favorite people

In high school... your friends are your life. i can't imagine what i would be like without my friends- they mean everything to me! and yes you too ali.. i just don't have any recent pictures of us :) but i was talking with my mom the other day and she said after you graduate and start your own life and get married and such, your friends aren't nearly as important as they used to be. she says that very few of the friends that i have now will remain my friends forever. that made me want to cry. that's so hard to believe! i love my girlfriends with all my heart and it will be so hard to graduate and leave them as we go our own separate ways. but why worry about the future i always say. embrace the present. for now, we are crazy juniors ( and junior HIGH SCHOOLERS :) (kelsey and jay and maddie :) whom the bountiful cops know all to well. but i love us and our spontaneous fun-ness and all the random crap we do just so we can say we had a fulfilling weekend :)

Halloween Dance

We had tons of fun, our group was the best ever :)

editing... the second one is the original

i got another one on the photography wall :)

BasEbALl SeAsON

"GWACIE!" i hear as i walk through the door. it's gabe, he's running up the stairs carrying some toy as he runs he starts to talk, just babbleing on about something, trying to show me the toy. he trips over his pants that are a little too long for him. i pick him up and cover him with kisses. he laughs and kisses me back. his nose is snotty any his kisses slobery but i am happy. i'm home. Finally. home is my haven. school is overwhelming, stressful and confusing. everyone is sick and tired, no one is fun. I'M sick and tired. of school. i have friends, i promise :) lots of them who i love. it just feels wierd. at home, no one is judging, everyone's laughing, you don't have to think. all you have to do is put on your jammies and a sweatshirt, grab a blanket and a bowl of ice cream, climb onto the big red couch and watch baseball until you fall asleep.

poem for english

The Great Lover

By Grace Holloway

These I have loved:

Smiling faces; a brown brothers black hair,

The rush of a waterfall; the smell of a grandmother’s hug,

Bubble baths and baby feet, rain;

Clean, warm laundry; the crack of a baseball against a bat;

The sticky kiss of a little toddler;

The taste of warm French-fries;

The laughter of little boys;

The feeling of holding a pencil;

Long green grass and my baby bunny;

Clean sheets; music

The sound a camera makes as it captures an image

A fresh strawberry, still wet;

The sound of a crashing wave

Seeing my breath when it’s freezing outside;

Lots of cousins; talking with aunts;

Taking pictures; pumpkin pie shakes and Christmas trees

The smell of hot chocolate; my favorite old jeans;

The roar of a crowd; grape popsicles; Yogurt Stop;

Watching my favorite movies in clean jammies;

Freshly cut flowers and sand;

Hugs and the sting of ocean water;

The sound of an airplane taking off; the click of a wallet closing;

Singing out loud; dancing with friends, and the smell of little boys fresh from the tub.

All these have been my loves.

(Modeled after a poem by Rupert Brooke)

Macro Photo assignment...

here's some of MY faves... we'll just have to see what the teacher likes. :) actually... to tell you the truth, i'm not a big fan of ANY of these...

"Grace, can you just hold on a second?"

She used to get up and make breakfast and eat with me. we'd gab and laugh and talk about the day ahead of us. then she'd take me to school and i would tell her i loved her as i walked into the seminary building. After school and work she would pick me up and i'd have her for myself for 10 whole minutes.

I never stop talking. it's a disease. there is probably something wrong with me. i try to stop but there is always to much on my mind and i start to go crazy if i can't tell anyone.

My mom never stops listening. That is one thing that makes her so lovable. Latley, however, i have had no time to talk to her. i get up in the morning and without eating, drive to school by myself and then home again after work. it's torture. i'll come home with all this random stuff i learned or weird things that happened to me or something nice that i did or a score i got on a test or what fun thing we did at lunch or something funny one of my friends said or how one of my teachers is a major pain in the butt or... (okay you get it.) It all sort of spills out of my mouth at once but for the past two or three weeks i've gotten this response "Grace, can you just hold on a second?" she's got to change a diaper or run an errand or make some calls. i feel like there's just not enough time for me. then when all the boys are in bed and my dad is watching T.V. i will climb under the covers and snuggle with my mommy. and then, it all comes out. a never-ending sentence full of random, useless information. as i talk my mom starts to fade until she's out cold. i kiss her on the cheek and she whispers "sorry, i'm so tired, we'll talk tomorrow."

Okay so i made a goal over the summer that i really wanted the photography teacher to put some of my work on the wall in the classroom or in the display case outside. i haven't made it in the display case yet but i was overjoyed when i saw these two on the wall :) The very first assignment we had turned in!

sitting in PHOTOGRAPHY! :)

Aunt Karen

Thats who i'm thinking about sitting here in photography doing absolutely nothing. Aunt Karen is.. My role model. I adore her. I seriously wish she was my mother. we always have so much fun together she's so super cool. She lives in Arizona so I feel like i NEVER see her. but we still facebook at text and call. She was kinda my nanny as i was growing up and i still blame her for my terrible nail-bitting habbit :) So even though i doubt she'll ever read this, i love you Karen. I hope i can be a strong, powerful woman and awesome an mom like you when i grow up :)

okay.. now you see homecoming pictures :)

Top 10 worlds best movies.

Okay my life in pretty much based around three thing. The books a read, the music i listen to, and the movies i watch. ( and my family, my friends, my religion and tons of other stuff but lets pretend it's just those three okay?) so here are my movies, i have all of which memorized and ingrained into my head :)

- Hot ROd

- Iron MaN

- Akeelah and the BeE

- NapolEon DynaMite

- FRied green tomatoes.

- NACH LIBRE (kels you knew that was coming)

- SchooL of RocK

- A Knights tale

- Sand LOT.

- ICe AGE

aaa they make me smile :)

the pictures. (and yes that is a random man with no pants on)

cali.fornia

There was too much noise. too many boys. too much sand. but it was an adventure to say the least. camping on the beach; not exactly luxury but who can complain when you're playing in the ocean everyday with your best friends? the 15 hour drive. was torture. was there even a world before there was iPods? and phones? and awesome books? I'm pretty sure not. and by the way... be prepared for pictures. lots and lots of pictures.