Timeline-2011

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here is a (not so) quick but quickest overview of my 2011. If you want to know it all, just read my entire blog. Good luck!

February 11th: (which happens to be my brothers birthday) was when I started this blog! A very important event I'd say.

March 19: (no post) Stake Cinderella Ball

March 3rd: The beginning of Into the Archives. Over there under "Labels" is a tag called ITA. Click on that.

April 11th: I got the ultimate haircut of the decade! Actually I'm serious. I might not get my hair cut that short for at least 10 years. It could happen though. I'll have to see...

Mid-Mayish: I got my goodreads account. Yup that was a great idea! I'd sugest you get one if you haven't already.

May: Passed my first year of early morning seminary. Well OK maybe I did more then just pass seeing as I got the Stake Presidents award and all.

February-March-April-May: I LOVED track yet again! (That's 3 years of running yo!)

May 23rd: I turned 15.

Very end of May: Track awards ceremony.

June 10 & 11th: Stake YW 4th year high adventure-thingy.

June 2-5th: Can you say Chicago?

June 20-24th: I rocked Stake YW girls camp as a 4th year...without a voice the entire time. More info if you read that post.

June 29: (no post) I went to the local amusement park for the first time (never having been on a roller coaster) and seriously had a blast! I had no idea how my body would react to roller coasters because my dad loves then and my mom doesn't so there was a 50/50 chance whether I'd survive through the day. Well...it stayed 50/50. I was feeling sick over half the time but I couldn't help it! I LOVED the big rides! My favorite was the Patriot. A crazy loop-de-loop-really-fast ride.

My least favorite? The Boomerang. After just once I was really sick and it happened to be right before lunch...which I didn't eat. After an hour of groaning and laying on a bench I got up and ate 2 cups of ice cream and was magically better! Who would have guessed?

During a break we had fun with everyone's phones:

 When it got dark it was almost better than day light! The place looked like Christmas in June.

We were seriously there all day. About 10am-10pm. Turns out that is about the right time. Sick enough to want to go home but still satisfied that I had gone on all the rides I wanted to.

July 7-9th: Rode on school buses. AKA had a nice stake youth conference.

August 5-6th: Partied in Nauvoo with my "other ward".

August 9: (No post) Stake Seminary kickoff. (Seminary already?) We didn't do much but play on the playground...which turned out to be really fun!

October 13th: I started a blog that I post on daily. Mostly videos...but a few other things too. helloyoutube.blogspot.com

October 31: (no post) Seminary Halloween costume party. Everyone dressed up as someone or something from the Old testament. A few of them were a little stretched...

Happy 11/11/11!

December 27: I got my YW Recognition Award

December 25: Christmas Day

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

2012 is going to be awesome! (unless we all die of course :D )

Our Favorite Plague

In seminary this year we are learning about the Old Testament. Currently we are talking about Moses and the whole plague thing. The other day Brother Norton had all of us split up into small groups of 3 or 4 and fill out a paper about the 9 plagues (it didn't include the last one about dieing firstborns) and also draw our "favorite" plague. When our team figured out that our favorite plague (if you think about it, that really is a hard decision seeing as we wouldn't want to go through any of them) and I volunteered to draw. We decided on the frog plague.

Exodus 8:2-8

2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

 3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:

 4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

 5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

 6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

My drawing became the laughing matter of the day. I could hardly finish it because we were laughing so hard. A bit dorky eh?

Not All Seminary Videos Are Boring

Most videos played in seminary are...well pretty boring. And old. Way. Too. Old. Hopefully they fix that soon. But thankfully I found that the boring part is not completely true. I, along with the rest of my classmates, were pleasantly surprised when out teacher showed us this one on Friday. It's still old but that makes it even funnier.

When I came home I promptly favorited it on YouTube and showed my family.

1st year. Check!

OK so I passed the first year of early morning seminary yeah yeah big deal. But really anyone can do that. You just have to be there 80% of the time or something like that. You don't even have to pay attention really. Case proved by a few people I happen to know. (No names)
"zzzzzzzzzz..."
*elbow jab* "a-hem."
The trick is to get the stake presidents award.  These are the requirements for D&C and Church History (which was this years course):

Memorization:
-Memorize all 25 D&C Scripture Mastery scriptures AND re-pass them off at least 1 month apart or fill out a paper for each.
-Memorize current First Presidency and Twelve Apostles in order of seniority.
-Memorize the Latter-day Prophets in order.
Reading:
-Read the entire D&C.
-Read the D&C for 200 days for at least 10 minutes a day.
100% Attendance:
-Make up absences (30 max)
-Have less than 30 tardies/leave earlys
Bonus:
-Read the D&C for 100 consecutive days and get the 100 Day Reading pin. (Which I got and already lost.)

OK. Now I sound like I'm bragging. I'll try not to...but I did that too. The award is a framed certificate and a necklace (I think a pin for boys). The other certificate is just for passing. I did all that for a certificate and a necklace? Man I really must be crazy.