Thanksgiving day

1. dinner

2. parents

3. brothers

4. backyard baseball

5. satchel 

6. pies

7. egg nog

cleaning the sink.

At Angie's on Main St. they fill up that little sink with ice cream. To celebrate mine and lizzie's birthdays, we cleaned the sink. then I barfed. but not really. 

P.S. Did you know the "Dear Mr. President" by P!nk features the Indigo Girls? 

Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkrZyGay65E

sunday mornings... while the fam is at church. & I'm not...

here's what i did for breakfast: grabbed 2 orange rolls, 1 in each hand then i took a bite out of the one in my right hand then the one in my left as fast as i could. it was good.

also. I had 4 cream puffs. don't tell mother.

we cleaned out our garage yesterday and we all know what that means!!! we can park cars there!!!!!

THESE CRAZY PEOPLE:

left us alone overnight for the very first time. Walker and I make a great couple wouldn't you say?

He made dinner

I cleaned and made cupcakes

The next morning we sent them off to school!

Gabe watches satchel's bus all the way down the street. 

ALSO!

THESE:

Have become a big hit at our house. 

2 boys and 1 girl

we've been working hard this week, trying to help my grandma while our parents are in Puerto Rico which is why we (I) decided to have a date night. luckily my Grandma took the little boys with her to visit my aunt so the 3 of us and one incredible night. It was the most fun i've had in a long time.  

First we had dinner at our favorite pizza place. We don't like it 

for the pizza (necessarily...) We like it because of the Juke box and the billions of album covers that line the walls. We picked our favorite songs on the juke box and just goofed around, drinking root beer straight from the pitcher just because we could. (and we were the only ones there...)

Self timer pizza picture there on the left...

Then we went bowling. walker dropped a heavy one on his toe. Nolan danced around like his life depended on it and i lost terribly. I have never laughed so hard, these boys are so fun.  

on our way home, all three of us sat up front in my grandma car, rolled the windows down, turned the music up as loud as it would go and sang our hearts out. 

we we eat {and make} while we watch the superbowl.

Homemade red velvet cake pops. YUMMY! this is definatley one of the yummiest things I have made thus far (: to find out more, check out Bakerellas Blog. 

Homeade Bagels. 

Deviled eggs. 

Graham Crakers!

you've probably been asking yourself...

What has Grace been up to?

well maybe not. but here's the lowdown. 

For every A you get on your report card, you can get a free doughnut from Krispy Kreme, yummy. all together we had about 2 1/2 dozen warm doughnuts. fun family night. 

LOTS of Drill. Region was at Bountiful, State was at UVU. My mom drove Ann, Ryann, CC,  Ali and I down after 2nd period on Friday. We went to sammy's (our favorite) for lunch and the mall in between dance and kick. So much fun. Taking State was incredible, I have watched these girls for three years and have loved every minute of it. I LOVE MY MONDONELLES. 

a video I made of the awards here.

you know what I really really love!?

food that becomes food really fast. no... not fast food. like OATMEAL. Instant flavored oatmeal is the yummiest most great thing that was ever invented. all you have to do is add water. isn't that exciting. and popcorn. just put this little bag in the microwave and WABAM. popcorn. hot chocolate. those frozen teriyaki bowls my mom gets? little t.v. dinner things. the thing is... I don't even LIKE most of that stuff. I just like the idea of it. I do like oatmeal though. who cares if it's just empty carb calories or whatever mom. who. cares.

look what i did today.

I got my mini heart shaped frying pan (which a friend gave to me. named cynthia. for Christmas. from Urban. )

Made this... 

and poured it in. 

Result?

mini heart shaped pan cakebattery goodness. 

This weekend.

turned out so much better than i thought it would. With the boys and daddy in St. George, mom and i had a PARTY!! No seriously we had so much fun. I got to play with her a little bit and with my friends a little bit, it worked out beautifully.

FRIDAY- CHENOA TURNED 18! there was no school but i had musical the entire day, when i got home at 4:30 i jumped in the car and mumzie and i got dinner at my very favorite restaurant in the whole wide world, Royal India. I feel TERRIBLE for those of you who have never eaten here. yum. then we went and saw Secretariat.
 

The fastest race horse of all time. One of the best movies I have EVER seen. incredible.


When we got home I ran to Chelsea's and got dressed for Tiana's big party, we dressed as creepy zombies and I have to say we looked pretty dang good. pics to come soon. hopefully. anyway we had a blast and got dipin dots when we were done, then played at Chelsea's for a little bit.


The best part about dad leaving is that i get to sleep in mommy's perfect bed. ahhhhh. so lovely. So i laid down in moms bed and told her about the evening to which she replied, "dipin dots sounds good. lets go to walmart." so we got up and put some shoes on and messed around at Wal-mart... we didn't end up going to sleep until around 2 :)

SATURDAY- musical all day, phone got stolen which really... never mind, i won't get onto that subject. Chenoa had her birthday party, we had dinner at her house then went to nightmare on 13th.
 

(notice the incredible glow-stick hat :) I adore these girls. and cc. 



oh i love her.

 

chelsea kind looks weird. 


(CC took all of the above pics.)


Then i went home and slept.


SUNDAY- for breakfast we made ableskievers, those yummy danish pancake things. it was weird not to have to triple the recipe in order to feed the entire army, we just made a baby batch to feed two people. the recipe calls for buttermilk which we didn't have so my mother decided to make her own by dumping some vinegar into regular milk... the result was vinigarskievers, the dough tasted NASTY, but the final product wasn't too bad (: we skipped church because we are bad people. nah, just neither of us felt super great so we cleaned up a little bit and in so doing found a karaoke C.D. of JOURNEY! so we sang our little hearts out through the entire C.D. and laughed, played around and took these pictures: 

for dinner we had homemade root beer and pizza. the house was so quiet and peaceful. I think i will remember this weekend forever. (: happy grace. 

Day 2. a picture of something you ate today.

shoot. i totally forgot. well the only thing i have eaten all day was a grilled chicken cafe rio salad.



which was very yummy. oh! that and a pizza factory rainbow watermelon sucker. yum :)




Today was my last first football game. i can't believe it. i LOVE being a brave so much i could just cry. we lost 7 to 10 but i love life! i love my school. i love football. i love my friends. and my family. i can do anything good yeah yeah yeah... (if you don't know what thats from just don't even worry about it :)

day 1. a picture of yourself and a description of how your day went

(probably 1 of the 3 days that i got ready this summer...)

today. started out REALLY crappy. my parents yelling at me- i ended up with the whole kitchen to clean and three loads of laundry to fold. but then i went to my last day of work with these sweet little boys.



and i couldn't help but to be happy. Heavenly Father has blessed me with so much! we had a wonderful day at the park.



i'm not sure why anyone would waste their time watching this... but i enjoyed it :) thats Holden filming.

when i came home from work i took my brothers to the rec center for some simmin'. we had fun. then i made a yummy cake while they played wii. and now... i think i'll study for the ACT.

P.S. this is my 250th post :)

here's what's up.

warning: this has the potential to be a (very) long post.


i was supposed to go to another leadership conference with all the officers. but here's the deal... i don't have another $300 to spare. so i stayed home. and i'm glad i did. this is why.

on monday i went shopping with my mom. wouldn't have missed it for the world. and we ran through the sprinklers and we went to a Raptor's baseball game :)





on tuesday i took my nanny boys ( for lack of a better term) to the rec center. we had so much fun! (plus i got some good money :) then i got home and my dad asked me if i wanted to go to Paul Mccartney. OH MY GOSH!!!!! it was so amazing :) happy early 17th birthday to me. i had such an incredible time. (plus i met this cute girl) it was amazing that one person from my favorite band was standing in front of me. SEVEN ROWS in front of me!! yeah. ground seats, seven rows in front of a freaking musical genius. my dad went to paul Mccartney when he was 16! with his girlfriend... well im not cool enough to have a boyfriend so i went with my daddy :)he is so funny. we got this lady to take our picture and she asked where we were from so we told her and she said she was from montana!! then my dads like, "well it sucks that you drove all the way down here cuz Pauls gonna be in montana in 3 or 4 weeks." the look on that lady's face was priceless!! she freaked out a little bit and my dads like, "nah i'm just kiddin," she laughed pretty hard at that one. my brothers totally ended up with his humor... ANYWAY!!! the pictures!!

my IDOL!!!







then we went to in n out and got extra large drinks. i have never drank that much pink lemonade in one sitting.

Today i got up late, went to the bank, got some gas and went to gym. then i came home and mom asked me to take the boys somewhere... typical. but of course, we had a blast. i took them to wal-mart and let them pick out toys and treats (i spoil them) gabe picked out a tractor and satchel picked out water balloons. SHOCKERR! and we went to the park
this is a balloon filled with sand. it was very awesome. until it popped.






then i took these pictures-







then i made this cute cake... that i can't get a good picture of