My Friends. My Team. My Family.

My life has been tons of fun lately. It's been a huge change. I have now graduated from high school and now it's time for another chapter in my life to start. College. I'm very excited yet scared. Most of my friends are moving. I will truely miss them but I'm very glad I got to know them. They have been great examples in my life. This is for my parli family. I have learned and grown a lot from these amazing people. I'm glad they are apart of my life.

Tara Greenwood- For being the most amazing parli coach anyone could ask for. She was always patient with me and the team. She is there through hard times and fun times. She took our team to Florida and because of her we got to go to California too. I love how she cares about each of us as a whole but also when we each individually had troubles. She is the best coach a team could ever ask for. She has taught me more than I could ever imagine I could learn. She put many hours into getting tests, binders and assignments ready for our team. I will never forget her and she will always be our Mama Tara.


Chad Greenwood- For helping us get a team started. He started to teach us parli and we would meet during lunch. He put up with our noisyness during lunch, but he didn't care he would always get up and help us with any questions we had. He always looked for answers in Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised (10th version) and find them. He is always so willing to do things for this team without any hessitation. He is an amazing coach. I will always remember him wearing his awesome hat.

Jakob Greenwood- For being the cutie pie of the team. Jakob always had a smile on his face. Whenever I was not in the best mood, I would look over to Jakob and he would give me the biggest smile. That always brightened my day. He does his 'gangster' look, knows what to do when we say 'say a prayer'. He is the cutest. Whatever you say he will slap his knee and laugh his heart out. He may be three, but he knows what he's doing.

Tyler Griffin- For always having a positive, happy attitude. For being the little giggler. Everytime you laugh I can't help but laugh along because of the happiness you radiate. He would never say a bad thing about anyone, he is always making everyone feel good about themselves. He's also very innocent in this world. (: He has taught me that things happen for a reason, and I thank him for that. He is always so bright and very blessed. He is always there when I was down. He knows how to make me happy! He would always get free stuff and has taught me to speak up and to just ask. He also knows how to pose for the camera.:) I am very blessed I got to know an incredible person. He is my best friend.

Brianna Anderson- For always being a sweetheart. She is our team chairman. No one could ever take her spot. With out her I don't know where our team would be. She knows how to use that gavel and she is the brains of the team. I love it when she laughs and smiles it would brighten the room and make everyone oh so happy! She always looked in Roberts for the answers during secret problems and would correct us when we were wrong. She always kept us in line. I would get nervous at some points when we did the script, but when I stood up and said "Madame Chairman" I felt comfortable and I know I can trust her. I couldn't have asked for a better chairman.

Ashley Jacobs- For being our team Treasurer/Secretary. She is such a amazing person. She is not afraid to be herself. She always gives compliments that made my day. She is always full of happienss. She would ask questions that would get Mama Tara thinking. Way to go!! She is incredible! She is an amazing example. I have learned so much from her actions. I will never forget when she came in back to the hotel room at Florida with tears coming down her face, because she gave someone a Book of Mormon. Now that is incredible! Thank you for always being you girl! :)

Kristian Huff- For being the jokster. He aways makes you laugh and life worth living. He knows how to do the smoulder very well. He is the 15 year old who doesn't get invited to the executive meetings :). But we still love him to death. He is an amazing actor and singer. When I grow up I wanna be just as good. Hopefully someday, maybe in heaven. He always knows how to get the publics attention. Whether he does his "caveman". Or his "reptile" noise and actions. He always has an audience looking at him. He is our team rockstar. He is the coolest 15 year old ever!

Rachel Shelton- For being my mental twin that totally understands what im saying when I can express it myself. She wasn't afraid to act like an idiot with me. Because we know we are ourselves and we don't care what others think. She has taught me to keep my head up and look towards what's best. Whenever she would sing the room would just light up. She has an incredible voice. She always knows how to make me laugh. When we are "evil" we have our evil laugh. When we have suggestions, they tend to be the same. When we are together, we get hyper. That is why she will always be my mental twin. January Babies unite!!

Spencer Chappell- For being himself through it all. He learned so much in so little time. Everything he learned the team learned in two years. He is amazing and never gives up. He has taught me so much. He taught me that shopping with a boy isn't bad. It's actually quite fun! Build-A-Bear was quite the experience. ;). He is so sweet and cares if something is wrong. If the team decided to do something, he would stick with it. He wouldn't try to change it. He has the brightest smile, it would always make me want to smile as well.

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5TH PLACE IN THE NATION!!!! AND ALL ON THE 70% AND BETTER NAP TEST!!!!

1 Team, 1 Dream, 1 Competition, 1 Family! HOSA NLC, Parli Pro 2011, Top 10, lots of laughs, PTR, Disneyland, 'Cash' Cab, Golden Gavel, A Whole New World, front row for WORLD OF COLOR, random singing, many tears, a million smiles, unforgettable memories, and a goat. I will always love my Parli Family! Dang, "I really like how this looks!" crazy pictures on rollercoasters, crazy pictures in general, ...just being crazy! skipping through disneyland and dancing to World of Color, going on indy at midnight, fireworks, knotts berry farm, meeting mickey, minnie, goofy, pluto, rapunzel, mary poppins etc.. dancing in the big room, once upon a time, and happily ever after, shower caps, taco bell, attractive kid, butt clippers, "remember that one guy, from that one competition, from that one school? he was soooooo hot." meeting awesome people from all over the country, "Blue look mahvoulous" unforgettable experiences with our Parli family! I love you guys!!!!!!!!!!

"Everything happens for a reason, believe in yourself, hold your head up high and know it's going to be alright. :)"

Update! :)

Preference!! Jeremy and I. Our EXCITED pose!


Preference Group!! Josh/Jeanine, Jeremy/Me, Iniki/Anne, Tanner/Mariah, Justen/Keley


Sweathearts Day Date (Rock Climbing!!) Ryan/Lisa, Luke/Holly, Jordan/Me, Marinda/Spencer


Sweater Swing (Beauty and the Geek)Front: Carson/Marinda, Me/Rickey, Justen/Anne Back: Ashley/Zach, Zach/Rachel, Nicole/Cole


Parli Team (@ State) Rachel, Spencer, Brianna, Kristian, Me, Tyler, Ashley

Well, we are almost in the fourth month of 2011 and I haven't updated my blog since October, I believe. Here is a quick sum up of what has happend.
DECEMBER: I went to Preference (Girls Choice) with Jeremy Jensen. It was a freaking blast!! Loved it! We had a super fun group! There was...Anne Bendar & Iniki, Keley Barzeele & Justen Kho, Mariah Carr & Tanner Grenko, Jeanine Lyons & Josh Dolinar and last but not least Jeremy Jensen and I.
JANUARY: Well to start off the New Years Party me and the Stake Youth Committee put together was a huge SUCCESS we had 1204 people show up! Heck yeah, that's what i'm talking about! I also have my birthday in this month! Very special because it was my 18TH birthday!! I celebrated it with Rachel Shelton, Felicia Arbon and Jeff Jarmon. We also had Ana Lewis (in spirit) she couldn't make it but we still thought of her. When I got home I had a surprise outside. It read.."Sweethearts?" in big letters with glowsticks. Jordan Haralson asked me. I also went to the Spontaneous Dance (Boys Choice) with Bridger Card. Dinner, games and dance were a blast!!! I loved my group!
FEBRUARY: This is the month of love!! Haha only in somethings. Anyway...as I mentioned I got asked to Sweethearts. That was a total blast. We went rock climbing and after we went Costa Vida for lunch. I think that's where we went...hm. Later that night we were all sore from rock climbing. He picked me up in a freaking nice car and it even had HEATED SEATS..I fell in love (with the car).
MARCH: Sweater Swing (Girls Choice). I asked Rickey Callister. Oh my can I just say he is a freaking stud. Gotta love that boy! The theme was "Opposites Attract" and we did Beauty and the Geek. All the girls were Beautys and the guys were Geeks and dang they pulled it off good!! We had an amazing race, murder mystery and a freaking awesome time! What also happen in March was...HOSA STATE COMPETITION!!! Parli Pro kicked butt this year!! Our highest test score was 96% and our lowest was a 87%. We had an average of 93%! Heck yeah, that's what i'm talking about!! WE ARE GOING TO NATIONALS AGAIN!!!! Last year it was Florida and this year it's California! OUr youngest team member, Kristian, is now Utah's FIRST Parliamentarian!! Yep you read that right! Congrats boy!! My Parliamentary Procedure team rocks!
RANDOM: My brother comes home from his mission in like 45 days!!! I'm freaking excited!! Also, I am now on the LAST term of my high school career. It's been a fabulous 4 years of my life!! I will sure miss my friends. But i'm ready for what comes ahead.

HoMeCoMiNg!!!

Here is a summary of Homecoming!!....Billions of laughs, tons of fun, laser assult, 10 amazing teenagers, "The Thing Game", A long puffy dress, being treated like royalty, slow dancing on the drag, goldfish, Magleby's, The Best Homecoming Ever?. . . I say. . .HECK YES!! I had pretty much the best homecoming date EVER!! He is super sweet and knows how to make a girl smile. He is such a gentleman. For the day date we went to Lazer Assult in Provo. It was tonsss of fun, laser tag is my favorite!! When he first picked me up, niether him or his friends would tell any of us girls what we were doing. They just said, "You'll see, but we can promise you girls will have fun!" That made me happy! So he picked me up at 1:20 and dropped me off at 4:30. As I got in the car I see a gallon of goldfish in the backseat!!! I didn't believe he bought the huge box!! It was awesone!! While we were on our way we would ask each other question to get to know us more. We were listening to some interesting music, Kevin played "Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros" and dedicated it to Crystal, Me, Kaleb and him. It's a pretty cool song. Anyways...after lazer assult we went to Andrew Sheridans house to play "Name that Thing Game" something like that. It was tons of fun! When he dropped me off Tori was already at my house to do my hair. We curled it as you can see and put a red headband with a bow in it. It matched the same color as my dress...PERFECT! At 6:30 he came back to pick me up and his tie matched PERFECTLY with my dress!!! Now that takes skill!! We were both proud of ourselves for that. I could not put the boutiner on; i tried and tried and tried and tried. I couldn't do it. Finally Tori got it on. Phew! Kevin Hartly and Tori took a few pictures and then we were off. We went to go pick up Crystal Gish as you can guess, Kevin's date. After we headed to dinner which was MAGLEYBY'S!!! AHHHHHHHH! It was soooo good! I got a salad and he got Teryaki. He pushed out my chair and pushed it in as well. Sydney Jensen and her date Evan (don't know his last name, I think he went to another school) met us there. Kaleb was taking pictures and I heard him say "Hey beautiful look this way" (I ignore it) then he says again "beautiful look at me" So I look and he takes a picture. Gotta love it when guys do that. So there was TEN of us total. I was expect only 3 couples (like Talysa told me) After dinner we headed to the dance, we took pictures both group and singles. He wanted to do a "romantic" picture as he put it. For our group picture Talysa Anderson and Crystal Gish wanted to do something but the picture lady was really rude and wouldn't them (for no reason). So they had Kevin, Crystal, Kaleb and I in the front. Kevin and Kaleb were kneeling and Crystal and I sat on our dates knee. Apparently Kaleb has bad knees and I felt soooooooooooo bad sitting on his knee. But we hurried and took the picture. After we headed on the dance floor. There were a few good songs but mostly just rap...which you can't dance to. There were a few slow songs but thats about it. While Kaleb was busy taking pictures Sydney Jensen and her date come up to me and her date says "grab my hand" so i grab it and Sydney grabs his other hand and he says "spin" we both started spinning and making our dresses puffy! Before you know it, Kaleb comes up to us and says "this is my date" and takes me away. It was hilarious!! An hour and a half later we ended up leaving and slow dancing on the drag. I didn't know the first song we slow danced to but I suggested to play "I don't wanna miss a thing" which is the theme song. We slow danced to it which made me happy. By the time the song was over he was hugging me and thanking me. He told me he was happy that it was me he went to homecoming with. It was very sweet. AFter slow dancing we were heading to Kevins house. Apparently Jeff Heilbut and Kaleb were both having a race to get to Kevins house. Let me tell ya, it was very dangerous and double the speed limit. We played more of that "Name that Thing Game" and after he took me home at midnight. We were at the door for like five minutes and it felt like he gave me 15 hugs! He hugged me for like the 16th time and gave me a kiss on the forehead. (Something I didn't expect but saw it coming) It was a night I will NEVER forget!

"Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart."

Homecoming is Coming & I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing!

So this Saturday is HOMECOMING!!! I get excited, but then sometimes I get super nervous. I love it when I get excited, but I highly dislike it when I get nervous. Our theme this year for homecoming is "I don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith. Homecoming is Semi-Formal. But my dress i'm using is all the way Formal. It's pretty much a prom dress. I don't know if that's a good thing. But oh well. It's red, long and puffy! I love it! Thanks to Courtney who is letting me borrow it. Today I went to the mall to buy a Shawl/Shrug for the dress. It's black and is 1/4 lenght. I saw Talysa Anderson with her friend there. I showed her my dress and asked her a few questions. I asked her who was in our group and she said: Her and Jeff Heilbut, Me and Kaleb Rasmussen, Aubrie Broadbent and Andrew Sheriden. <---- That's part of why i'm nervous. The group. I don't even know half of them! Okay, I lied. I know half of them...Talysa, Me and Kaleb. But that's it! I also asked Talysa if she knew what we were doing for the day date. She asked Jeff and all he was saying is that not to worry, you girls are going to have tons of fun! Well that makes me happy but I like to know what we are going to be doing :) haha! Well I will let you all know how homecoming went. Here is a poem he wrote to ask me to Homecoming. Okay so here is a quick background. I asked him to Morp last year but he got asked an hour earlier. It was a bummer but that's totally fine!! I'm glad it worked out that way. Here is the poem... It chills my heart and hurts my soul to say, We're going to have to wait for another day. Lucky for me I can promise to, Make all this sadness up to you. You're too sweet a girl to turn down, Leaving not a smile, but a frown. Here I am, begging, "One more chance?" Come with me to next years Homecoming dance!

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well.  Just get up and dance."

MoRp 2010

                                                        Well I just recently went to my Junior Morp (May 15). The theme was "Beach Party" It was tons of fun. I had an awesome group. Jon & I, JC & Heather, Spencer & Rachel, Hyrum & Morgan, Jeff & Felicia. For the day date we had a paint gun fight. It was the bomb! In my opinion there were some ups and down but hey nothing is perfect. The theme this year was "Beach Party!" So we had a Luau! Each couple was a color. Jon & I were GREEN! JC & Heather were PURPLE! Spencer & Rachel were RED! Hyrum & Morgan were ORANGE! Jeff & Felicia were YELLOW! After the luau we headed to the dance. It was not the best dance, I thought it was kinda lame. Plus non of the guys were dancing (they were lame too haha just at the dance) Since the dance didn't go well we headed outside on the football field and played Missionary Tag, Duck Duck Goose, Tag (but stay on the white lines) It was fun! It was a memorable day!

"Morp is like Prom but backwards"