Ali's Audacious Escapades

Comfort?

2011-11-02T21:39:00.000-06:00

Taylor Swift?

Yes.

Ingrid Michaelson?

Yes.

Regina Spektor?

Yes.

High School Musical?

Yes.

Chicago?

Ohhhhhh YES.

#36

2011-07-31T22:12:00.000-06:00

What better way to eat watermelon than with spoons?

That's right,

there is no better way.

#3, Check!

2011-06-06T15:07:00.006-06:00

I've finished quite a few things on my bucket list but one of them is number three.

3. Write "forever" on my converse

My Shoe, Lissa's Shoe

My Shoe The Last Song Shoe

Lissa

Ali

For those of you who haven't seen "The Last Song", go see it...

now.

Then you will understand this.

But just know that in my case it's more like best friends forever.

Guitar

2011-05-20T23:52:00.000-06:00

I am completely and totally in love with the guitar. I could play it all day and all night if my fingers didn't start hurting.

I was meant to play the guitar.

I know it.

I just haven't discovered it until now.

Get Ready to Kick the Bucket!

2011-05-19T22:56:00.030-06:00

I'm not just excited about summer, I'm ECSTATIC about summer!

I don't know how I am going to get through these last days of school. But when I do I am going to have the best summer of any thirteen-year-old that ever lived. Trust me.

Below is what I'm going to do this summer, so after reading this you will already know how awesome my summer is going to be.

Enjoy.

Ali's Beauteous Summer Bucket List

Go to Daylight Donuts

Pull an allnighter

~~Write "forever" on my converse~~

~~Write another song~~

~~Learn how to ride a bike with someone on the handlebars~~

Go dumpster diving

Paint something...big

~~Sleep under the stars~~

~~Go on a midnight walk~~

~~Have a dance party~~

~~See someone famous in person~~

~~Get a tan line somewhere~~

~~Buy a camera~~

~~Have a sleepover~~

Go to DI and buy something awesome

~~Have a photoshoot~~

~~Do yoga on the beach~~

~~Be in a play~~

Keep my room clean for longer than a week

Plant a tree

Go to a bookstore and read for as long as I want

Write in my journal everyday

Have a High School Musical marathon

Get a manicure

~~Hear someone that's not me sing/play one of my songs~~

~~Go to the temple~~

~~Dye my hair with Kool Aid~~

~~Go to a drive in movie~~

Be able to do the splits

~~Wear a skirt everyday one week~~

~~Watch a chick-flick with my sister(s)~~

Run a mile in seven minutes

Go rock climbing

~~Make a music video~~

Go to a REAL Salt Lake soccer game

~~Eat a watermelon with spoons~~

~~Get better at soccer~~

Make a skirt

~~Go swimming~~

Go see The Fountains of Ballagio

~~Have a Harry Potter marathon~~

Read a book a week

~~Discover a good band~~

Not be scared of heights and jumping off high things

Go to a concert

~~Buy a pair of awesome shoes~~

~~Have a crush on someone~~

Hike Squaw Peak

~~Go to a temple other than the Provo one~~

Go to an art museum alone

Get a fake tattoo

Play tag at the mall

~~Tye-dye a t-shirt~~

Have a paint fight

Learn how to play every single one of Taylor Swift's song's on the guitar

~~Go see a movie at a movie theater at midnight~~

~~Make a new friend~~

Practice an instrument for half an hour everyday

~~Sing for an audience~~

~~Go on a road trip~~

~~Carve a watermelon~~

Go to the Provo Bakery (because apparently it's amazing but I've never been there)

Make duct tape shoes

Have a lemonade stand

~~Dance in the rain!~~

Name my guitar

~~Go to J-Dawgs~~

~~Hike the Y at night~~

~~Buy an awesome pair of shoes~~

P.S. If anyone would like to join me in any of these activities then just give me a holler!

THIS

2011-05-15T22:02:00.000-06:00

is how Ali is feeling right now

Because she just accidentally deleted all the 204 pictures that were on photo booth on her computer. So she feels like ripping her hair out.

The End.

Yoga

2011-04-27T20:39:00.000-06:00

If I could do yoga everyday of my life,

believe me, I would

Sooooooo...

2011-04-22T19:40:00.000-06:00

I got a haircut!

What do you think?

Yes?

No?

Feelings

2011-04-22T19:34:00.001-06:00

My feelings have been slightly mixed up lately. I'm not really sure what to feel...

I feel FRUSTRATED with the fact that I go to school everyday to learn but I don't feel like I'm actually learning anything.

SADNESS because all Christian and I have done lately is fight. Over stupid things too. We just can't stop fighting. It's like a desease that can't be a stopped, and it makes me sad.

ACCOMPLISHMENT with the new skill I just learned. I can play the guitar! Well... kind of.

LAZINESS because I don't really know what to do with myself and so I just lie around and do nothing.

OVERWHELMED with all that's expected of me. I have to practice flute and piano everyday, do math homework that I don't really know how to do, and pass all my end of year testing that I have to do good on or I won't get into American Studies or Enriched English next year. *sigh*

ABANDONMENT because my sister Laura is moving out even sooner than I expected and it seem like all my mom cares about lately is my nieces and my perfect married sisters that never do anything wrong. (But I still love them)

FAILURE because I have no skills. I wish I played a sport. But now that I'm almost 13 I feel like it's too late to start one. But I can bead, and I'm pretty creative. I guess I shouldn't say NO skills, just not as many as I would like.

HAPPINESS when someone tells me I look pretty, or laughs at my jokes, or when I watch soccer, or I hear a beautiful piece of music.

I'm obviously in a MOOD.

Treasure Hunt!

2011-04-16T14:27:00.000-06:00

Laura got asked to Senior Ball yesterday!

It started out with this beautiful basket and a note asking Laura to Senior Ball and to come find out who was asking.

We were really excited to get started

We followed all the clues and went to the seminary building at Timpview, our church, the Creamery, and Wasatch.

We finally got to a clue that told us to go back home. We were all confused about it but when we got back home we found a lovely surprise.

I think she will...

Bieber Fever!!!

2011-04-03T20:15:00.002-06:00

I started out to the movie theater with "Bieber Fever" plastered across my face expecting a stupid movie that would be so much fun to make fun of...

...and I came home with real "Bieber Fever"

I'm serious,

We even made shirts.

(and yes, Clark also made a shirt)

Happiness

2011-02-20T22:00:00.000-07:00

What could be better than spending the weekend watching soccer with your brothers in Mesquite?

Spending the weekend watching soccer with your brothers anywhere BUT Mesquite.

But I'm still pretty happy.

Be Mine?

2011-02-12T13:05:00.000-07:00

I love everything about Valentines Day. The red, the pink, the hearts and the kisses :) What is there not to love? This Valentines day I don't plan on doing much, 'cause I already did something quite mischievous. Tehehe...

This how it went:

Lissa, Lula, Dathyl and I contacted Stuart's Mom to see if he was home
She told us he was on a camping trip and wouldn't be back until morning
We cut out a bajillion hearts, made a sign that said "Dark Kiss" and found a bunch of Valentine stickers

We started walking to Stuarts house
A huge, scary dog almost killed us on the way
We arrived at Stuart's house
Stuart's mom showed us to his room
We made his bed
We stuck our hearts all around his room
We put our "Dark Kiss' sign above his bed
We scattered hearts on the floor

Lissa put up a sign that said "You Got Heart Attacked!"
We each sprayed about 400 sprays of Bath and Body Work's "Dark Kiss" perfume all over his room

We left his house feeling content and happy about our work

On the way home we could still smell the "Dark Kiss"

T-Swizzle

2011-01-17T06:17:00.002-07:00

Taylor Swift amazes me.

It's 4:30 am, I'm in a Las Vegas hotel (not a casino), I heard some noises out in the hall and my mom is snoring incredibly loud.

Taylor Swift seems to be the only thing that can comfort me.

Innocent

It's all right, just wait and see

Your string of lights are still bright to me

Oh, who you are is not where you've been

You're still an innocent

It's okay, life is a tough crowd

32, and still growin' up now

Who you are is not what you did

You're still an innocent

Long Live

Long live all the mountains we moved
I had the time of my life
Fighting dragons with you
I was screaming, "long live the look on your face"
And bring on all the pretenders
One day we will be remembered

I Love Her.

P.S. Christian and Clark just sat up and looked at me, not sure if they're awake or not. I should probably try to get to sleep. Good Night.

THE Best Sport

2011-01-15T12:24:00.002-07:00

Soccer is THE best sport

I don't actually play soccer but it is still the best sport. It takes the most skill, speed and thinking. Football just takes strength, baseball is just luck, and basketball just takes hight. Obviously, soccer is the best.

The reason I bring this up is because right now I am in Las Vegas with my family for Christian's soccer tournament.

To tell you the truth I haven't been to one of his soccer games since the last time I came to The Vegas Cup to watch him play two years ago. But when I was watching today it was so cool and I was so into the game. These boys on Christian's team have been playing since forever and they are so good. Every move they made during the game was just second nature to them. Everything was so precise, agile and quick, and EVERYTHING they did had a purpose. I loved it!

I wish I hadn't given up on sports so quickly when I was younger. I feel confident that I could have been an amazing soccer player, but alas, my stubborn belief that I could not play soccer kept me away from becoming a world famous soccer player. Oh well, maybe it just wasn't meant to be.

Haiku

2011-01-03T23:06:00.000-07:00

Haiku is beautiful. It takes away my stress and makes me happy.

I've been feeling slightly overwhelmed lately but I'm not really sure why. I might just be that I'm procrastinating all the important things that I need to do.

Aka: school.

Even though I've only been through one day of school after the break. Hmmm... I'll have to work on that.

Anyways, this is a little haiku that I wrote about the past year: 2010

Journey to grace to

Places the eyes do not see

Following a dream

Learning Things... It's Awesome

2010-09-02T17:33:00.000-06:00

A few things I've learned in the past few days:

I love getting compliments, they just make my day
Eighth graders don't actually call seventh graders "sevies"
Making friends is so much easier than I thought it would be!
Getting to class on time is hard
My shoulders, tummy and hips hurt all the time, I think I'm dying
Block schedules are so confusing
Auditions are pretty much the worst thing that ever happened to me
Dr. R bugs me, but so do a lot of teachers
I think I would die if I didn't have my friends and my family
It's amazing how nice some people can be and how annoying and mean and scary some can be
Elementary School is WAY better than Middle School

Stuff... Lots of It

2010-06-03T13:22:00.029-06:00

I haven't posted in forever, I know. But since I haven't posted, a lot of things have happened. I'll start from the very beginning of my iPhoto library.

1. I won the school spelling bee...

Ali, Saul
...and went on to the district spelling bee. Which I didn't study for at all. Which is why I got out on the word forlorn. I added an e right after the first r. I felt quite pitiful, but didn't really care either.

(Back) Mom (Front) Laura, Ali, Raya, Grandma

2. I had two of the funnest nights ever right in a row. On the first night I went with my friends Lula and Lissa to a class play that another class was doing. It was called "The Candy Bomber" and I loved it.

After we saw the play we went over to the BYU Creamery and and ate ice cream with knives. It was pretty much one of the best experiences of my life. No joke.

Leah, Ali, Lula

The night after this I went to see the play again but this time with Lola, Natalie and Lula. The play was awesome again and we went to the BYU Creamery again but this time we went with about half the cast. After we went to Leah's house and played night games.

That night was also really fun.

3. I got braces sometime in February and I hate them with a fiery passion.

4. The skiing season finished a long time ago, but as all these things happened a long time ago, I think it's appropriate. It made me really sad because I love skiing with a passion and my teacher this year was so awesome. His name was Logan but he let us call him Steve. I miss him so much. The end of skiing was a real bummer to me and I can't wait till next year.

Lola, Amy, Maude, Eliza, Ali

Lola, Amy, Ali
5. Spring break was so much fun. My cousins Ben, Joe, and Coby came from California to visit and Ben and Joe slept at our house for one night. We stayed up till 3:00 in the morning and had a blast. We played a card came called Poop-Squish. I know it doesn't have the greatest name but it's really fun. The loser is the Poop-Squish and the object of the game is to not be the Poop-Squish. We played it 12 times and we also played Monopoly Junior but we stopped that because I couldn't stop laughing and Joe went into a fit of hysterics. We were insanely hyper and everything is funnier in the middle of the night.

My cousin Joe is one of the funniest people I know and when I took these pictures I could not stop laughing.

Joe Christian

Joe

6. My sister went to prom! I went prom dress shopping with her and it was really boring. But at least we didn't shop for that long.

We didn't end up getting any of these dresses but they were both possibilities.

Laura

7. All year on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons I've been preparing with my cast and director to put on the Shakespeare play Henry V. In April we put it on for four nights and it was really fun. I played The Duke of Bourbon and Princess Katherine.

On one night a bunch of our friends came to see us and afterwards almost the whole cast and the people who came to see us went to the BYU Creamery. Then we went across the street to jump off a wall and take pictures. It was really fun.

8. The next night we did our play again and afterwards I walked home with my bestest friend Lula. We went to Subway and the Creamery and then came to my house. We found a mattress in my backyard and we adopted it. We have done so much stuff on that mattress. Eaten Ramen, eaten watermelon and made bouquets of flowers. Anyways, on the first night we listened to music and talked about the random stuff that we talk about.

It was awesome.

Ali, Lula

9. This day was so much fun. Lula and I were passing out invitations to my birthday party and we stopped at Leah's house to see if she wanted to go to the creamery with us. She ended up coming and she was glad she did. Lula bought a watermelon. Yes, she bought a watermelon for $6.47. Leah bought a cow balloon that we named Blackamillion and I bought nothing because I'm broke. We had to lug the watermelon all the way home with three people, two bikes, and one balloon. When we finally got to my house we flopped down on our mattress and ate our watermelon with spoons. It was glorious. We also tried to make paint out of flowers, leaves, water and watermelon juice. It didn't work. But the watermelon made it all worth while... ish.

Ali, Leah, Lula

10. My birthday was at the beginning of May and so I had a birthday party. It was a cooking party and so we decorated cupcakes and made mini pizzas. I had a lot of fun and I hope everyone else had fun too.

Raya, Madi, Grace, Leah, Emily, Ali, Anna, Natalie

11. Every year at my elementary school we have a track meet called the Hershey Track. Everyone from 3rd grade and older are supposed to compete in it. I look forward to it every year, and this year - which was also my last - was one of the best. I was on a relay team with my friends Lissa, Sage, and Daisy. Our team name was originally going to be The Four Lego Heads, because of this...

Lissa, Sage, Dathyl

... but in the end it was The Eight Legged Lego Trees. We practiced so much and so hard and our hard work did pay off. We got first in our heat and second in all. But we were less than a second behind the winning team. Our time was 1.02.22. (That's not one hour, two minutes and 22 seconds). It was our best time and we were really proud of ourselves.

Daisy, Sage, Lissa, Ali

I also ran in the 100 meter dash and got first place in my heat and third place in all.

Ali

12. Summer's here! I am so happy. On one of the last days of school we had an awesome end of year party. We played a game with oreos where you try to get the oreo in your mouth starting on your forehead.

Lissa

Lindsy

Dathyl

After this game we had a marshmallow fight! It was awesome and the marshmallows were everywhere. When we had picked all the marshmallows up we snuck up on my teacher Miss Lloyd and dumped the whole thing on her. It was so funny and she thought so too.

13. At the end of the year every year at my school they what they call "The End of Year Dance" each grade does their own dance that they've prepared. Every year the sixth grade does the traditional May Pole. It was really fun learning it this year with the rest of my class. The teachers told us that no class has ever messed it up in the real performance. Our class did. It was so typical my sixth grade class though. If any class ever would mess up, it would be our class. So it was actually really funny.

14.I graduated from the sixth grade!!!

Ali, Raya Ali, Miss Lloyd

15. Yesterday I rode this tandem. It was so much fun and a lot more exciting than riding a normal bike.

Kelly, Christian

That was my whole 4 months in somewhat of a nutshell.

(Sorry this is such a long post)

A New Favorite

2010-02-23T18:03:00.002-07:00

I have a new favorite book! Well, actually an addition to the many favorite books that I already have. It's "The Hunger Games"

I'm sure many of you have already heard about it or read it and I wouldn't be surprised if you had.

But it is one of the most intriguing books I have ever read and I read it in less than a day. I stayed up till 3:00 in the morning on Saturday night (or Sunday morning) reading it.

It's about a girl named Katniss in The Hunger Games. In the book there are 12 districts and Katniss is in the twelfth district. The twelfth district is very poor and most people are just barely making it through. Every year a boy and a girl from each district are randomly chosen to compete in The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a fight to the death between all the children chosen. In the higher districts everyone is trained to be in The Hunger Games their whole life and it's a privilege to get chosen. In the lower districts it's pretty much a death sentence. When Katniss's younger sister Prim gets chosen Katniss volunteers to take her place and compete in The Hunger Games.

I should probably stop explaining before I give the whole book away so I'll stop. This is about how much My friend Natalie told me and I was anxious to read it. I hope you are too. It's definitely a page turner and there's a sequel that I can't wait to read!

Photo Shoot!

2010-02-03T12:06:00.000-07:00

You know my earlier post about the trash can (We fixed it by the way). Well I wasn't standing on a trash can for nothing. I did it to make this...

and I didn't make that for nothing either.

I did an awesome photo shoot with Laura until she refused to be the model for any more photo shoots of mine. Apparently I was being ridiculous and what I was doing was pointless. She's a teenager, that's for sure. But I still did get some really good pictures before she ran away.

These next pictures are the ones Laura was saying were ridiculous (meaning the poses). She's right, they are, but it made my day that she was actually willing to do them.

I had so much fun and I want to do it again, but I think I'm going to need another model... any volunteers?

P.S. I'm sick again, I've been coughing a ton, and my eyes hurt. That's why I'm posting this in the middle of the day.

Sicky

2010-02-02T18:40:00.002-07:00

I was sick yesterday. I stayed home all day and watched a lot of movies, made a new favorite movie...

(The Princess Bride)

did a 750 piece puzzle

and used a lot of tissues.

I'm better now and am quite happy. Because I went to school today and saw all my friends and made it into the school spelling bee! I am ecstatic but terrified at the same time. Wish me luck!

(But I guess you don't have to wish me luck yet because it's not till February 11th)

Nerd Day!

2010-01-25T19:25:00.000-07:00

My class and I planned a surprise nerd day for our teacher and it was pretty awesome. She was really surprised.

Adam, Adam, Sage, Raya, Ali, Lissa

My 6th grade class...
most of them at least

We looked up nerd in the dictionary and it said:

"An unstylish person"

And a bunch of other boring stuff about intellectual people.
I was busting up laughing, then Miss Lloyd got mad at me.
It was a very eventful day

I didn't mean to...

2010-01-20T17:17:00.000-07:00

I really didn't mean to. But I didn't know it would get squashed if I put 9 encyclopedia's on top of it then stood on it.

I promise I didn't mean to.

The Mall!

2010-01-18T20:46:00.000-07:00

A few days ago I went to the mall with my friends and had a blast! We went into "Payless" and found the most amazing mirror.

We decided it was like Photo Booth - For free!

Ali, Lola, Amy, Lula, Beka
Amy said I looked like a short tourist with my camera and hat. It's so true!

Afterwards we modeled outside the mall while listening to "Glee". It was awesome.

Amy, Lola

Ali

Lula, Beka, Lola, Amy

I love them! I couldn't choose any other best friends. (I have other best friends, these are just a few of them.)

Christmas Eve

2009-12-31T14:18:00.000-07:00

My Christmas Eve was pretty much awesome. My cousins (the Hudocks) were in town for a big part of Christmas break and it was so much fun to hang out with them and the Esplins. We had Chrismas Eve at my grandmas house and had a ball. One of our family's traditions is that the grandkids always act out the nativity. This year I was Mary, Christian was Joseph and my cute adorable new niece Lydia was baby Jesus...

Olive and Penelope were the angels...

Laura, Raya and Saul were the wise men...

and Gabe was a lonesome shepherd being surprised and scared by angel Gabriel...

Then we sang some Christmas songs and Clark, Laura and Raya played beautifully for us.

One of the highlights of the night was Clark sitting on the back of the couch and suddenly falling off...

I got a picture of it.

It was also thrilling just to have Harriet, Naomi and Penelope there to play with.

Harriet, Naomi

Penelope

The Hudocks left :( But now My aunt Jennie is in town with my cute little cousin Dalton. I'm excited.

Ere to the Empire

2009-12-19T12:51:00.001-07:00

I just got back from doing one of the funnest things I have ever done....

(top) Emily, Lauren, Daisy, Ali (Bottom) Meri, Raya

I just got back from the space simulator overnighter up in Pleasant Grove!

It's really cool because you're an a "ship" inside a school and you have a mission assigned to you and you have to complete it. My mission was called " Ere to the Empire". We had to bring a klingon alien prince named Keldar to a certain place. And we did it! There were some really stressful and some really scary times. But it was still fun at the same time. Me and my friends from Wasatch were on the USS Odyssey spacecraft. My job was the sensors officer and I was in charge of telling the captain what was going on outside the ship, and launching the probes. The scariest part for me was when our helper person (His name was Gustof (Pronounced Goo-stof)) told us there was an intruder on our ship and that it could come out of any of the 15 hatches on the ship. Then Gustof told us that the intruder was eating through the power cords then we heard a crashing sound and all the girls screamed. Everyone was watching the door and suddenly it burst open and the person in charge of our mission (Her name was Emily but not the Emily in the picture at the top) jumped out at us. There really wasn't an intruder on our ship, Emily just needed a way to tell us that we were done with our mission for the night and that we would continue in the morning. When it was over and time to go home I was really sad because it was so much fun. So... if you ever feel like going to the space simulator, invite me!

P.S. Sorry this is kind of a long post

Lotion

2009-12-15T21:14:00.000-07:00

I don't know what I would do without this stuff.

It has saved my hands from a horrible fate many times.

If you know me well you know that during the winter my hands dry up to look like alligator hands. They crack and squirt blood and it really hurts sometimes.

In fact, my brother calls me "Alligator Hands."

(It's kind of ironic because my name is Ali and the first part of alligator is Ali, but that's beside the point.)

I also hate lotion. It's slimy and you can feel it on your hands like an hour after you put it on and all the cheap kind of lotion smells really bad. It doesn't have a certain smell but it smells bad.

One winter my mom actually decided to get me some lotion that I would use (Bath and Body Works). And it WORKED! My hands aren't nearly as bad as they were and if they do start to hurt I just put lotion on. It's amazing.

Thanksgiving

2009-12-01T20:32:00.001-07:00

My Thanksgiving break was the best, and I'm so sad that it's over. We went up to our cabin and had a blast.

On the first day we were there (Thanksgiving) we spent all day making thanksgiving dinner. I pretty much just made pies, everyone else did the actual dinner.

(Katie, Laura)

It was a relief when we finally sat down to eat, 'cause we were totally worn out. The rest of my family's and my break was spent at the cabin, either playing board games...

Randy (Clarks friend at the bottom) Katie, Mom, Christian, Clark

Katie, Christian, Sterling

Playing ping-pong and foosball...

Christian, Clark
Sleeping...

Laura

Clark

Since we had such a big group, we played "The Name Game" two nights in a row. In part of the name game, you have to do charades. It was pretty funny.

This Laura being Napoleon Dynamite and Bonnie being Mikail Baryshnikov. He's a famous ballet dancer.

When Laura was driving us home in Elmo (our car) she pretty much backed into a tree (she's still learning how to drive Elmo.) It was hilarious though, 'cause Clark was shouting "step on the brake!" and Laura was shouting "I am!" The tree ended being the brake.

Now Thanksgiving break is over and I'm back at school but I think I lived my Thanksgiving break to it's fullest.

Birthdays

2009-11-19T22:56:00.003-07:00

CHRISTIAN BARNETT's birthday was two days ago and he turned 13! I can't believe that he's already a teenager!

Christian is one of my favorite people ever. He's good at all sports, and plays all of them too. Whether it be for fun or actually on a team.

Christian is the perfect brother.

Today is one of my best friends, the one and only, NATALIE's 12th birthday!

We're best buds and have been since 3rd grade and she let's me and all her friends call her Natt.

She is one of the funniest people that I have ever met and is so freakin' awesome.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIE AND CHRISTIAN!!!!

P.S. sorry about the weird white spots

Grace

2009-11-04T18:29:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was the amazing, inspiring, tan, funny and my sweet cousin Grace's birthday!

Ali, Grace

We're best buds, but sadly, she lives in Hawaii (lucky) and I live in Utah :(

Grace, Eden

She's also pretty brave if you ask me. (Hence the garbage can.)

Grace is my hero and one of my favorite people ever.

Halloween

2009-11-02T18:43:00.000-07:00

I cannot even describe how awesome my Halloween was this year. The whole month of festivities was joyous, but the actuall night was magnificent. We went to my cousins house for pizza and pictures before trick or treating and we got to see all my cousins sweet costumes.

Top: Ellen, Wayne, Sterling, Katie, Annie

Bottom: Christian, Ali, Saul, Olive, Gabe, Raya

I loved all of their costumes. Wayne and his girlfriend Ellen were stick figures and I thought that was really clever. Katie and Sterling were Pumpkin Pie ( "Pumpkin Pi") and Christian was Swine Flu ("Swine Flew"). They made their shirts! Olive was so cute as a little giraffe and Gabe was pretty terrifying as a dead devil ( He was calling himself that the whole night but I still don't really understand.) I should probably mention Saul, Annie and Raya while I'm at it, so Saul was a Timpview fan, Annie was a flapper girl (Katie made that dress when she was in high school, and I think it's pretty rad) and Raya was an amazing fortune teller.

Christian

Ali, Raya

After our mothers were finished fussing over pictures and to be safe and bring a jacket and look both ways before you cross the street and bring a flashlight and stay with the group and so on, Raya and I finally set off to meet our friends. I didn't get any pictures, but Lola was a karate queen, (She had a pink wig on) Lula was a witch with a dress made out of garbage bags, Amy was Cinderella with the full on costume and Leah was some sort of masquerade person, I'm not really sure, but her costume was really awesome. When we finished it was really dark and my pillow case was pulling me down. Then Christian and I sorted out all our candy and admired it.

Ali

Christian

This is me having one of my very well known laugh attacks. Christian made a really funny face and I just started cracking up and my whole family sat there staring at me while Bonnie clicked the button on her camera.

In the end I've decided that I couldn't have had a better Halloween. (More candy wouldn't have hurt though.)

Pumpkins

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We carved pumpkins about a week ago and it was very eventful.

Adam, Ali

I'm pretty sure that out of all the pumpkins, mine was the goopiest, I have know idea why.

Laura

Bonnie

Isn't she HUGE?! She's due in 28 days. I'm going to be an aunt!

Bonnie did the Obama sign and we were joking around all night about her house getting egged or something like that.

This is Clark's "emo" pumpkin. I think it was sort of a self portrait or himself though.

They all turned out really awesome. (I did the cat.)

The Tales of Hoffmann

2009-10-24T12:08:00.000-06:00

My brother-in-law Adam was in BYU's opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was the bad guy in all three acts and when we went to see him after the opera in the green room we saw him with all his make-up on and he was scary.

Isn't he scary! He looked scarier with the beard on.

The opera was amazing! Adam was definitely the best. He killed like four people and when someone was dying, he would stand back, smiling. It was really creepy. I think he really enjoyed it.

Hero

2009-10-21T18:16:00.041-06:00

I played with my cousin's adorable dog today. Her name is Hero and is still a puppy, but she only has one major flaw, she jumps up on people, a lot. My little cousin Olive is her main target, Olive is small and likes to get very close to the dog. She got scratched twice today because of that. But we still had a fun time.

Aren't those big brown eyes just gorgous.

Hero is the perfect dog for the Esplins.

Spurts

2009-10-19T17:10:00.000-06:00

I have lots of spurts. I have music obssesion spurts. These are all of them in order.
1. Lenka
2. Taylor Swift
3. Postal Service
4. Owl City (It is an amazing band, check it out on the playlist at the bottom of my blog)
I also have spurts of creativity or ideas. One day I am sitting around having nothing to do, and the next, I get an amazing idea and I do it. My first spurt was the amazing...

hat of many colors.

My second spurt was my ball mobile.

Then there's my ghost's that I made in honor of the Halloween season.

But my most recent project has been these delicious sugar cookies.

This one took me like five days to get finished and cleaned up. But it was totally worth it.

School Pictures

2009-10-18T15:59:00.002-06:00

We got our school pictures back on Tuesday.

They turned out pretty good. But I look all slouched and I'm turned at a weird angle and one of my braids is hidden, and has anyone noticed how square my chin looks when I smile? I also look really tired because underneath my eyes it's kind of bulging out. At least my bangs look alright though.

I think I like it better in sepia...

or maybe black & white...

Nerf Guns

2009-10-17T12:11:00.000-06:00

There's nothing better than a Nerf Gun war on fall break.

Christian and I had one. I pretty much got creamed.

It was awesome.

Rainbows

2009-10-16T16:59:00.000-06:00

You can't capture the magnificence of a rainbow in a picture. But it was amazing.

Photo or Painting?

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Clark

Isn't this picture awesome!!!!

Doughnuts and Molecules

2009-10-11T17:35:00.000-06:00

I had an awesome Saturday. I stayed in my pajamas till 2:oo while I got all my chores done, then went to a doughnut party where I played with tons of my friends.

Beka, Lula, Raya

Lula was making me explode with laughter 'cause she kept saying she was having her "social security moment." It didn't make any sense, but it was hilaririous.

Lula having her social security moment.

We could never find Beka. She had always managed to run away from us somehow. once, we found her on the trampoline, and once almost asleep, but we got some good moments with her.

We were trying to get good pictures of the boys (meaning my cousin Saul my and brother Christian) playing football almost the whole time and I ended up getting hot chocolate thrown at me. But we got some good pics.

Christian

Saul, Christian

Saul

Christian, Saul, Jackson

I got some really cute pictures of the little girls.

Tennyson, Olive

Tennyson, Olive

My friends are masters at funny faces.

Beka, Lula, Ali, Raya, Meri

After the doughnut party Lula and Beka invited me to go play with them. We were playing on the bulldozer that was outside and we were biking and playing with it almost the whole time. It was awesome. We were in charge of Lula's little brother Mo Mo and Lula started calling him Molecule and he didn't even care.

Mo Mo, Beka, Lula

Lula

Mo Mo

We were really hyper, so we decided to climb the huge tree outside of Lula's house, and scratch our names into the bark.

Lula, Beka, Ali

Lula, Beka

Swinging with Puppy and Friends

2009-10-10T15:36:00.001-06:00

Yesterday, Leah, Raya and I were swinging while we were babysitting the dog and Olive. Leah took pictures of me swinging while singing, and I took pictures of her doing the same thing.

Ali, Leah, Ali

Ali, Raya, Hero (puppy)

Ali, Leah, Ali

Ali, Raya, Ali

This is me in the middle of falling off the swing and Raya and I laughing after I let go of the swing and fell on top of her.

Leah

Christian

2009-10-07T16:41:00.000-06:00

I love this picture. It's just so much like Christian. Right?

Funny Faces

2009-10-03T23:42:00.000-06:00

Clark, Steven

Laura

Christian

Laura

Clark, Laura

Ali

Clark

Steven

Ali

Clark

Christian

Laura

Clark

Ali

Christian

Laura

Clark

I'm pretty sure that none of these faces were intentional. I think they're awesome though.

New York, New York!

2009-09-12T22:06:00.000-06:00

We arrived at my cousins house around eight o'clock the next night. They live in New Jersey about an hour away from New York City. The next day we drove into New York. In New York we saw the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. I didn't realize how huge the Statue of Liberty is!

Christian

Ali

Laura, Mom, Christian, Ali, Clark

Clark, Laura, Ali

After the Statue of Liberty, we went into the city. It was the craziest, most hectic place I have ever been. I couldn't believe how many people there were. We went and had pizza first then went and saw "Shrek the Musical" on Broadway. It sounds kind of stupid, but it was amazing. The singing was amazing and the set was unbelievable. I loved it. We were so tired after that so we went straight home and straight to bed.

The next day we went to Six Flags in New Jersey.I didn't get many pictures but I can tell you, going on those rides was the scariest thing I have ever done. The tallest roller coaster in the world is there(Kingda Ka), but luckily it was broken, or else I would have forced myself to go on it. El Toro was the scariest one I went on. It is the only wooden one there and had an almost straight down drop. I was so scared, I almost died.My cousin Marcus who's family we went with and were visiting and who's like seven or eight is too brave for his own good. Marcus

He loves roller coasters, and his favorite one at Six Flags is El Toro (I think he's crazy). He was making fun of me the whole time about being too scared of the rides. But I had a right to be scared. Again, we got home pretty late and were zonked out right away.

Sorry if there's any change of font, color or underlined in weird places, blogger was not working with me today.

So much fun!

2009-09-11T17:01:00.000-06:00

You have to try this it's so much fun.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Denial_Designs/geosketch

Just change the numbers at the bottom, click in the box and enjoy yourself.

P.S. I got his from arwalton.blogspot.com

Friends

2009-09-07T18:18:00.000-06:00

Just wanted to share some of my friends with you. And tell you how awesome they are.

There's Lola,I've been friends with Lola since kindergarten. She does stuff like get stuck in really tall boxes during school and dances in flour with me. Lola and Ali

This picture is from the wax museum we did in fifth grade. We dressed up as a famous person and told something about them. I was Shirley Temple and Lola was Lucille Ball. Lola doesn't really have big red hair. She has short blond hair. And I look weird in this picture because I don't have my glasses on and without them my eyes look really far apart.

There's also Amy who always makes sure we don't get into too much trouble and cracks me up. She's also short, just like me, so I'm not the only one. Amy and Ali

Amy is so cute and she was one of the three friends that were with me at Big Springs. I look weird in this picture too, but that's just because of the hat.

Natalie is one of my friends that I don't hang out with much out of school but at school I talk to her during class pretty much all the time.

Natalie and Ali

Natalie is gorgeous and so stink'n funny. During math, she makes me fall off my chair all the time. She makes fun of me sometimes for singing in the halls and stuff like that but she's still awesome.

Leah is one of my favorite people ever. She makes me laugh almost every time I see her and she can make the funniest faces.Leah

She also has awesomely awesome taste in music. She's the youngest in her family, just like me so we've both learned a lot from our older siblings. This picture was at the top of our hike at Big Springs. I told her to say cheese and I got this.

Then last, but not least my cousin Raya, she's awesome. She's like a sister to me and we do everything together, that's why I have so many pictures of her.

Raya, Olive, AliRaya and AliRaya and Ali

Whenever Raya and I have sleepovers we talk and talk and talk and talk then finally get to sleep around one o'clock. We like all the same books and never fight. Raya is amazing.

I have lots more friends, Lula, Meri, Adam but I don't have good pictures of them but they're awesome too. Just like all my friends.

Raya, Ali, Natalie
Lola, Lula, Ali, Amy

(I'll tell about the rest of my east coast trip later.)

Washington D.C.

2009-08-01T19:53:00.000-06:00

Gma Bonnie, Ali, Mom, Clark, Christian, Laura

Last summer I went on a two week trip to the east coast and it was just plain awesome. This is just the D.C. part. A bunch of my cousins live near D.C. so we spent the first couple of days visiting them. We arrived in Virginia on Saturday July 11 late at night and were zonked out right away. We woke up in the morning and HUZZAHed to see all our cousins for the first time in 2 YEARS! It was wonderful. it was our first time ever seeing our twin cousins Harriet and Naomi.

Naomi

Harriet

They are ADORABLE! It was so much fun to play with them, especially because they're just learning how to crawl. My cousin Summer is also such a cutie!

Summer

She's 2 years old and is learning how to talk and it is so cute when she talks 'cause you can't understand a word she's saying, it is adorable!
That evening after church we all got together at the Hudock's house and had an awesome barbecue. Delicious! After that we all drove into D.C. and saw Iwo Jima and the Lincoln Memorial.

Ali, Christian, Laura

I had no idea how big they were, especially Iwo Jima. We also stopped and played on stone lions for a bit, we had way too much fun.

Eden, Anwen, Lily, Hope, Christian, Summer, Ali, Will

Ali, Laura

The next day we rode the Metro into D.C. with two of my cousins, Eden and Anwen and saw part of the Smithsonians. We saw the Museum of Natural history (where Night at the Museum 2 was filmed), the Museum of American History and the Air and Space Museum.

Ali and the Wright brothers

Ali, Anwen

My favorite one was the Natural History Museum because of all cool stuff about animals and all the huge insects that were alive. While we were in D.C. we went and saw my aunt Jenny's apartment. I loved it! Pretty much every room was painted a different color and the downstairs ceiling is really low so whenever I went down there I felt really tall. On her porch she had a little bench to sit on. It was so fun.

Anwen, Ali, Laura

My aunt has an adorable little white dog named Daisy that we play with all the time.

Daisy

The next day we got up at 5:30 a.m. and rode the metro into D.C. to get free same day tickets that they give out every day for the Washington Monument and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Anwen, Ali

We got tickets for both and then got a tour of The Bureau of Engraving. It was really cool to see the way they made the money that we use practically every day. They have to do so many steps for it to be ready to use. When we finally left we spent the rest of the afternoon swimming and got ready to leave early the next morning.

So Long, Farewell

2009-06-03T19:38:00.000-06:00

Today my big brother Steven left on his mission. I was so sad I really didn't want him to go but I know he'll be a great missionary.
He's going to the Philidelphia, Pennsylvania mission and he's really excited. Today at the MTC they didn't let the family go inside so we had to say goodbye to him at the gate. And I was the only one crying. The picture that I have over there is him and I know it's all pixeled but it was the best I had. He is such a great brother and I'm not going to get to see him for two whole years! I've made a goal to right him every week and I plan on keeping that goal. After Steven was in the MTC we went to Costco because my dad said he would buy me a camera for my birthday! We really only looked but I got a good idea on what I want. So in a few days I'll probably get to posting pictures! I'm way psyched.

My B-Day!

2009-05-09T09:36:00.000-06:00

Last week was my birthday! I know I should've written about it earlier but I just didn't have the time. So, anyways my birthday was on May 2 and it was pretty fun. For breakfast my mom made sausages and had bought some good sugar cereal the day before. After breakfast we had to rush over to my volley ball game and... we lost. But that's okay, we were really close to winning anyway. We spent almost the rest of the day in Salt Lake because we had to go to my third cousin's fiance's bridal shower. I really don't know why I got invited to my third cousin's fiance's bridal shower but it was fun and there was lots of good food. On our way back from Salt Lake we took a detour through IKEA ( One of my favorite places ever ) and my mom bought me an awesome desk. I really like it, but we havn't set it up yet. So that was my birthday and it was pretty sweet.

A Few Things About Me

2009-04-20T18:51:00.000-06:00

I'm the youngest of seven kids and pretty much everyone I know calls me a spaz. I kind of am sometimes but I can be normal too. I'm very social and I absolutely love to sing and dance. Not to the boring choir stuff but to fun music. I love photography but I don't have a camera so I won't be posting any pictures YET :). But be ready.

Good morning starshine the Earth says HELLO

2009-04-12T15:09:00.000-06:00

Hey world, this is my blog. I pretty much stalk the blogs of every one and their, dog, so I just had to make my own blog sometime and I guess today is the day.