SADIES '11

wooo! sadies was pretty awesome this year! after decorating for the dance a whole bunch of people came over to my house and we ordered pizza, played games, watched tv, and just hung out. the theme for sadies this year was famous duos/movie stars. my date and i (aaron k.) dressed up as juno and bleeker.

it's harder then you think to dance around with a pillow under my shirt! it was a pretty fun night with some pretty fun people if you ask me. i have the best of friends :)

happy thanksgiving!

i have so much to be thankful for. i have a wonderful family and i have the bestest friends anyone could ask for. what more could i need?

i love thanksgiving!

best weekend so far!

okay so, first week of school was kinda lame. until friday night. i had my wards country fair which is always a blast and then the first football game and dance of the year was on friday night. if you know me, i LOVE dances. and have been craving to go to one all summer, and i was kinda worried that it wouldnt turn out how i expected it too, but it turned out soo much better. i flippin crowd surfed! thats how amazing it was! being surrounded by a whole bunch of sweaty teenagers was pretty gross but in the end, best dance so far.

and so it begins.

first day of grade 12. wow, i cant believe that i am almost done high school forever. its a bittersweet feeling. it felt like just yesturday that i started grade 10 and how i excited i was to be with the big kids. and here i am, the big kid now.

heres some pictures of my best friends and i on our first day :)

ECHOOOOOOO

woot woot! one of my best friends is taking me to echo for a few days! i have never ever been! its gunna be a good way to end the summer before school starts up again :)

hmm..

today has been an interesting day... it was both happy and sad and im feeling mixed emotions right about now. i went to church with my mom like every normal sunday and in sacrament meeting they released the young women leaders. i have been with these same women since i was like 14 and have grown so close to them. it was devastating releasing these women. then out of the blue, (while i was still tearing up) they called my mom to be the new young womens leader. what?! MY mom?! i was shocked. of course i am happy for her and wish her all the best but this is gunna be an interesting last year of young womens for me... we will see how it plays out.. wish me luck.

--jwood

girls camp

so the last couple of days i was at girls camp. haha ya, it was quite interesting to say the least. this time was different. whenever i was at girls camp, i was always the youngest. but this time, i was one of the oldest. it was so weird, seeing all the little beehives running around, thinking i was just like them 5 years ago. i hope i wasnt that annoying when i was their age. but i realized, i have one camp left and then i am done forever. so camp pretty much went like this, we got up, ate food, and then went and swam in a really discusting lake. but we did it anyways. and we repeated that for the next 3 days. so it was really longggggg and really hot, like 25+ weather everyday. it was great. well at the end of camp, as always, we have testimony meeting. all the laurels got up in a row and it was amazing to see all the older girls be such great examples to the younger ones. i hope i am an example to them in every way possible, just like they are examples to me.