The Royal Wedding

Glorious.

I absolutely love her dress. 

I've always had a fascination with wedding dresses, and her's is exactly how I've always pictured mine.

The trees, the dress, the bride, the groom, the church! Everything was glorious!

I've always had a place in my heart for fairytales. :)

If only.

If only we weren't running the duplicate annihilator, then I would be able to use iPhoto. 

This is one of those times where I am very impatiently, ready to bash the computer into the wall patiently waiting until I can use it so I can show you pictures of the Tulip Festival that my dad and I went to!

It really was an eye-candy overload.

But you'll just have to wait, because our computer is being slow.

Sorry.

But when I do get the pictures, your brain will probably explode from all the foliage.

I'm sorry about that too.

Bye.

He is Risen!

Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre.

There laid they Jesus.

In the end of the sabbath, as it began to down toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen.

Until this year, Easter had never really had a profound effect on me. It had always been about Easter eggs and candy. I thought about the Savior, but I never really understood the great thing that he did for us.

I went to the Carl Bloch exhibit in Salt Lake this weekend. Bloch is an amazing artist who is able to put a lot of feeling into his paintings. But the one painting that really stuck out to me, and probably changed my life, is not one that is well known. It is called Down From the Cross. I stood there staring at it for a long time, nearly moved to tears. The painting depicts Jesus being taken down from the cross. It shows the ladders they used to get him down, and it shows them laying him on a white cloth. In the bottom corner of the painting it shows the nails, and the crown of thorns that had been reverently laid on a cloth.  I had never even thought about that part of that whole ordeal. At that moment, Jesus was dead. His spirit had left his body. He had gone through a horrible ordeal, just so we could return to our Father in heaven. I can't even imagine what it would have been like for those men, to have to take down their Savior's body from a cross. I can only imagine their joy when he was resurrected!

So I challenge you this Easter, and all this year, to think about what Christ did for us.

In the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer, Amen.

Not a big fan.

I'm not a big fan of people who put bad quality cellphone pictures as their profile picture on Facebook. Was that a run-on sentence? And yet here I am, with exactly that. I feel like I'm going against all that I believe in! At least it's not one of me looking in a mirror and puckering my lips. Now that's a big pet peeve of mine.

Here is the picture. Bad quality (shiver...), and bad lighting. But who cares?! I like my earrings.

Whilst battling over whether I feel okay having a bad quality picture on Facebook, I planned my seminary devotional. It's going to be on Easter! I picked this particular time to give it because I love to talk about Easter, and I don't want someone going up there with a bored look on their face just to read a scripture mastery. That's another one of my pet peeves. So I am going all out. Actually, all I'm doing is showing a video from lds.org, and reading a scripture. But it's going to be PROFOUND I tell you. PROFOUND. 

Here ya go.

2 Nephi  2:6-8

¡Tengo dieciséis años!

I turned 16 yesterday. I didn't really think that I was going to have a fun birthday, because I hadn't planned anything fun. BUT THEN, my fabulous friend Wanda threw me a surprise party! It was so awesome! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! Everyone who came is awesome and gorgeous! 

Top Left: Haylee, Kallie, Lindsey, Kaitlen, Yok, Deichae, Wanda, and Veronica

Bottom Left: Natasha, Kanako, Madison, me, and Megan

My lovely friends. :)

We all gathered around and discussed our first activity, making ice cream! We put all the ingredients into a tin can, duct taped it up, and started the relay race. Kicking it, a wheelbarrow race, and a three-legged race. 

The ice cream was delicious.

We then went inside and was surprised to see plastic all over the floor.  Underneath the plastic were paper "tables". We enjoyed our meal on the floor. :) I was surprised at how excited everyone was to eat on the floor!

The meal was as delicious as the ice cream. 

We then moved to another table, and enjoyed my birthday cake!

Then we moved on to present opening! I got great presents from everyone. I also got a lot of chocolate, which I was very happy about.

After present opening, we played a game called: In the Manner of the Adverb.  The game was so much fun, we played it for two hours! My mom said that she hasn't laughed that hard in a very long time.

I am so glad that Wanda planned that party. I couldn't have had a better birthday! I celebrated my actual birthday by eating at JB's, shopping, and watching some ballroom dancing. I am so tired, I almost fell asleep in church today.

Anyway, I'M 16!

Tick tock

Hey, you wanna buy our house? It's pretty awesome, and... it has a pool. We did some huge improvements to the house (it used to be pink).

 I really don't have anything to talk about... have you ever wondered what my room looks like? I bet you haven't, but I'm going to show you anyway.

IT'S CLEAN!

I have decided that after I turn 16 (my birthday's on Saturday!) that I will keep my room clean. Like that will happen, but I'll try.

OH MY GOSH, my 16th birthday is on Saturday.

Flower time.

4-2-11

When you type 4-2-11 (without the dashes) in your phone, it spells: Ha:)

I'm swimming in useless knowledge.

Have a good General Conference weekend!