My big break

Yooo bloggers! Hi. This whole week, I've had the song "Without Love" from hairspray stuck in my head. Why? Well...there's a line in the song that goes,"Without love, life is my big break with laryngitis". And I have had my big break WITH laryngitis. Well maybe not my BIG break, but still. The point is, this whole week I've sounded like a ten-year-old boy who only sometimes has a deep voice, with a lot (emphasis) of squeaks in between. Not fun. I sounded like a goose last Friday until about 2 days ago, which was a boatload of fun. Especially because I had a madrigal performance.  And then there's my loving, supportive, sympathetic family. HA! HA. HA. HA. Yeah, I wasn't made fun of AT ALL. Riiiigght. Every other word, there would be a little high-pitched interval that made it sound like a dog whistle, or maybe like I was honking. Either way, it didn't sound good. But it's ok now, because I can talk again. Still can't sing, but I'll get there. So if anyone wakes up and can't talk, I feel ya.

Fancy that...

THIS IS SO WILD. It's completely crazy. And a bit wibbly-wobbley, if you want to call it that. So, yesterday I was hired to take care of my neighbor's dog AND the gecko that they were watching for a friend. We used to have geckos, so I figured I could take care of this one. I was feeding the lizard,(his name is Rango), when I noticed that he had a spot shaped like a "3" on his head, just like our old lizard, Sammy.Then, I saw that he had the exact same water dish as Sammy, and the same log. No way . SAAAMMMMYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! The prodigal lizard returned.

Whoops. The pictures are not in order... oh well. Its pretty easy to figure out which ones are which:)

Picture problem

I may have a problem. My iPod is currently home to 936 pictures. Yep.

Pic # 1. Maddie and I took this on he way to the speech tournament. We both has to hold these faces and stand in very awkward positions for one of our performances.

#2. This is before my friend Rachel got her face stuffed into it.....

#3. Lucy was sleeping upside down:)

#4. WHATTUP FISHES!!!! Partysaurus Rex. YouTube it. :)

#5. Sarah's friend Hunter and me. Oh, and two pirates from Peter Pan:)

#6. I thought this was so cute:) Doctor Hoo;)

From this point on they're probably just random pictures :)

Big endings

Today was the last day of my middle school cross country career...but it's ok, because I figure I went out in a good way. It started with me wiping out on the track. Yes, it's possible. No hills, no potholes, no tree roots. Just flat, flat, and more flatness. We were running 200 meter intervals of jogging and sprinting, and I was on the very edge of lane one. We just got turf on our football field this summer, and there's a slight drop from the track to the turf. Not big, but it's there, trust me. So I'm sprinting a 200, and i accidentally missed the edge of the track with my foot and BAM, down I go. It was a pretty snazzy fall, though. I even somehow managed to get dirt on my face, knock out both of my earrings, and do a double somersault-like maneuver, and then pop right back up and start running again. To make it even better, the high school soccer, football, and girl's cross country teams just happened to be there. Thankfully, Sarah didn't see me. My coach did though, and when I came back around by the start line she said, "Nice dirt streak, Gunderthunder ", and let me go wash it off. At least she called me Gunderthunder. I've been pushing really hard for that nickname lately. Anyway, that was my last big middle school cross country thing. Oh, that and yelling,"I AM NOT A KID" when one of the football players said to wait for the little kids to cross the track.

Yep, that's me. Out with a bang.  :)

How to make wonderfully horrible cookies

1. Find your very favorite sugar cookie recipe. Make sure to be excited to make it.

2.Add the butter. Make sure to forget half of the needed amount.

3.Add the eggs. Mix in, then add another one for no reason.

4.Put in the rest of the ingredients, not paying any attention to specific directions.

5. Put into the fridge to chill for two hours longer than needed.

6. Remove from fridge and pound your frustrations out on it with a rolling pin. Cut out shapes and place in oven for about 8 minutes.

FROSTING

1.Pour milk,butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla into a bowl and mix a little. It should come out looking like badly made oatmeal.

2.Add more powdered sugar and more milk, until it slightly resembles frosting.

*optional*
Color the frosting some seasonal color to mask the fact that it looks nothing like frosting.

Enjoy!

Slacking..

Ok,ok, I've been slacking. Sorry, but it's been an exciting world as of late. Why? Well....

1. Girls Camp! Funnest week of my life! We had an amazing skit that involved a parody of the YMCA song, and a last minute Princess Bride addition. It. Was. Awesome. Apparently I'm famous for being the "mawwage" girl:) I'll post a video once I get a hold of one.

2. Cross Country. It's been fun, and hard. So far its my best season:) It's done next week though, and it'll be nice to be able to go home after school:)

3. Doctor Who! My new nerdy thing. Love it!!

4. Stake dance!!!! I went to my first dance last week, and I was lucky enough to go to a multi stake dance. SEVEN STAKES. It was awesome, putting aside a VEERRRYYY awkward first slow dance. It was his first time too...

5.School. Not very exciting, but I feel an obligation to include it anyway. Moving on.

6. Speech tema.! One of my favorite parts of the year- speech season! I'm doing a duet with my friend Maddie about two very misplaced kindergarteners, and my solo is a shakespeare-y funny thing. I'M PUMPED.

Yeah, I know it's kind of lame, nut they'll get better once i get back into the swing of things:)

Boy Fighting

You'd think that in a house full of girls, my poor dad would never have anything to do with "boy playing". You would think wrong. Sure,we have a closet full of barbies, and littlest petshops, and other girl toys,but we also have a huge arsenal of nerf guns. My personal favorite is the automatic disk-throwing  "Vortex" , with the machine gun in close second. Sarah, Dad, and I are also very skilled at the art of Kung Fu. Just ask mom about it, she sees it in the kitchen all the time. We've also been known to yell out threats at each other, like the other day at the pool when two ladies were talking about how nice it is to get away from all the rowdiness that their boys cause, when I suddenly yell,"DON'T START SOMETHING YOU CAN'T FINISH, SARAH!!!". Lesson: There is no escaping "boy fighting" .

More Lucy :)

This is our adorable dog in a nutshell.


Name: Lucy
Nickname: Lucy Lou, Climpaloon, Tigger,Luce.
Likes: Chicken, beef jerky,riding shotgun,playing under her tree,partying
Dislikes: Doggie biscuits, the vacuum, the mop, the washer machine
Friends: Arlo, Tommy,Pippa,Samson,Rocky, Murray
Favorite toys: Loofa dog and Cow
Aspires to be: A therapy dog
Skills: Sitting, finding dead birds.
Hobbies: Soccer,football,golf, shovel-chewing

Lucy

If you reference my last post, you would be aware of a glorious truth:
WE GOT A DOG.
Her name is Lucy. She loves peanut butter,her blankie, her bear, and he tennis ball launcher. She's the most adorable thing you've ever seen:) Me and Dad drove 9 1/2 hours last Friday to go get her, listening to Ceasar Mellan's audiobook on raising the perfect puppy the whole way. She fell asleep on my lap, but for most of the way she slept on the back of my seat and completely took it over. Grandma suggested I blog The Chronicles of Lucy, so more will probably come;)

New members

To put it simply:

WE

ARE 

GETTING

A 

DOG.

Thank you Mom, especially because you've been losing sleep over the subject. 

Deep thinking

I've been thinking lately, and I just had to post this. So you know how there are those overly paranoid that check behind their shower curtains for a murderer or something? Well, I have a question for those people:

What EXACTLY do you plan to do if you find one?

Favorite movie/tv quotes

AACNAIB! -Shawn Spencer, Psych

"Thirty-seven"
"He was dead!"
"He twitched!"
"Thats because my axe is embedded in his nervous system!!" -Legolas and Gimli, Lord of the Rings

"He either wants us to go to the back of his throat, or he wants a root beer float!"- Dory, Finding Nemo

"Mawwage. Mawwage is what brings us togevva today. Wuv, twue wuv, dat blessed awwangement, da dream wifin a dweam." -Princess Bride

"Chancho, sometimes when you are a man, you wear stretchy pants in your room. Its for fun." -Nacho Libre

"I'M GOING TO BOISE!!! YEEAAHH!!" -Dallen, Singles Ward

"Much like Lady Gaga, I was born this way." -Shawn Spencer, Psych

"Buckle up, bra."
"I'm not your bra, quit calling me that."
"Ok...sister." -Rick and some other guy, Forever Strong

"They think I do not know a buttload of crap about the gospel. But i do!" -Nacho Libre

"Olo?"
"Oh, sir, I believe its 'Hello'"-Megamind and minion, Megamind

"What are these?"
"BOOGIE ROBOTS! BOOGIE!" -Gru and Dr. Nefario, Despicable Me

"Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret."- Ron, Harry Potter (#4)

"Can Dobby say something before we start? Dobby loves you!" Firing Dobby,  BYU Divine Comedy

"C'mon son!" Ed Lover, Psych

This is just part one. More to come! :)

Tork

Tork.Tork tork tork,tork tork tork.(Is that even how you spell it?) For those of you who don't know what tork is, APPARENTLY, its resistance against a lever that makes it work. Or something like that... 

But, my fourth grade physics education did not cover tork. This knowledge would have been greatly appreciated while helping my dad assemble the lawn sweeper. I was using a wrench thing, and it wasn't screwing the thing in, so my dad says,"Use some tork Abby!" I get up to go look in the manual to find out what tork is and looks like. I thought it was a tool of sorts. But then I heard dad go, "Resistance! Tork is resistance!" Ohhhhhhhhhhh. I see where they're going with this!

Rambling(again)

Lately I've been doing a lot of summing up in my posts. Don't judge. But I'll continue anyway.

-I discovered my skill in hockey. I AM FREAKING AMAZING.I havent scored any goals, but I have stopped several. I did what I had to do even if it meant giving several bruises to the people surrounding me. But all's well that ends well, right?

-I'm going to a Harry Potter themed camp this summer!!! *girlish squeal* I'm so excited! I'm already in the process of making a shirt that says, "Stay calm because Weasley is our king" . Awesome, right? I think I'll bring a tie and my wand.

-I've decided to learn how to play tennis. I'm not very good, but its getting there.

-Me and Sarah went to The Hunger Games. It was sooo good!! I bawled like a baby when Rue died. I'll be the weird person sleeping outside wal-mart the night it comes out on dvd. We've already made plans to go see the second one dressed as people from the capitol with some friends.

-Did anybody else see David Archuleta singing in the MTC choir at conference? Sarah and I were scoping out the missionaries and calling dibs on the cute ones, when mom suddenly says, "Oh that Elder Archuleta is cute." Sarah and I both went "AAAHHHHHHH ITS DAVID!!!!!" , and proceeded to text out friends.

-I've colored through an entire coloring books with gel pens. One less thing on my bucket list.

Welcome to the dark side

My sister Sarah has created a blog. So, welcome to the dark side.We don't have cookies.

This post is dedicated to my dear cousin Emily. Thanks Emily for...

-Introducing us to BYU Divine Comedy. We've been bingeing on these for the past week. They're so funny! My favorites are Provo Utah Girls,Matt the Shoulder Angel,and The little Mia Maid.This is why I can't wait for college:)

-Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes... Love it!

-Wonderful Facebook Funnies

-Making us laugh with your hilarious blog

-being one of my only followers

-My new blog name. I think ill start a blog for Sarah too:)

:D

Magic Drawers,Lord of the Rings,Awkward shopping, etc.

A non-brief summation of the past few weeks.

We got hooked on Lord of the Rings. It was an edge of the seat nail biting movie for me, because I've never read the books. AND no one bothered to be nice enough to tell me the whole story beforehand.Sheesh. Its hard to keep your Sarumans and Sarums straight , and figuring out where Gondor is, who died, who came back to life, what the dwarf's name is, the whole shabang. And don't even get me started on the suspense. I thought Gandalf died, but apparently he didn't, and I was left in the dark. Not fun. I told mom if Legolas died, I wasn't watching any more:) So, just remember, read the books or "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" -Gandalf

On friday, we went shopping. Sarah and I had one main goal: Victoria's secret. Don't worry, its not what you think. Our friend has some really cute eyeliner from there, and so we were on a mission. Unfortunately, Dad had to come with us, because they weren't going to let us roam around that huge mall alone, and I don't think he was trusted with the Gymboree gym bucks:) So, we had to drag our poor father with us, and I noticed he was staying as close to us as possible to make known that he was with us, and not of his own accord. Poor guy must've lost some man points for that.

My iPod mysteriously appeared in a drawer. That is all.

Today in young women's, we were about to sit down, and so I pulled out a chair for me. Apparently, Sarah had been planning on sitting in that very chair. She tried to sit, and THUNK. I don't think Ive ever laughed so hard! And then, of course I'm standing there holding the chair. Talk about incriminating, right? don't worry, she got back at me later by punching me in the face on accident.

Our house is no longer safe! Dad bought about 10 different nerf guns for a stake activity, and you can't turn a corner without getting shot. I even wear this belt that holds ammo.Its pretty cool, I think. Mom calls me Rambo.

I think thats just about it. I'll end with a Chuck Norris joke.

Chuck Norris won american idol with sign language.
:)

I'm back!

I haven't been on here in a looong time! We went to Utah for christmas and I've been completely swamped lately. I'l get better about posting:)