Busy....once agian

Hey ladies!
I know, I know, I know. I have been slacking. Slacking on my blogging. It is inevitable.
And I have the lame excuse of school. This year it has been crazy!
We are are were so busy this past year, and wow, what a quick year it has been!
School usually takes up most of my time,

but the free time I have left I spend:

Working on my portfolio (art)
Drawing, Painting, Sketching,
Personal Progress,
Reading my scriptures,
Seminary,
Volunteering,
Friends,
soon driving(EEKS!)
and of course whatever is put upon my plate.

I have also started up, yet another blog for my personal progress. It is this blog

http://onebloggingcrafter.blogspot.com/
It is called One blogging crafter.....and life as she sees it.

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School. Hmmmm..... what about school.
It has been going well. I am in
{SEMINARY}
English,
Algebra 2,
Drawing and Painting 2,
French 1. (Which has been exciting.)

The reason seminary is so big is because I go to seminary before school. Which is a hug hassle, but I do not regret it.
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Anyways that is all I have time for.
-Laura :) OH AND IT IS FRIDAY!!! YAY YAY YAY!
I'll try to blog more :)

Pray, Read,Smile :D

 

Buddy Bear and the Road trip

I'm back from my very exhausting trip, across the country and back! phew! My family (all 5 of us) piled into our van, as well as our huge suitcases. Unfortunately not all hotels are "Doggy Friendly" so we had to leave the Yorker at home. He expressed his sadness by sobbing atop his only possession in his house that he can claim his, His leather sofa. He begged saying, "I'll eat hamburger instead of steak, I'll also drink the tap water instead of being feed little ice cubes. I'll be good! I promise I'll only order room service for breakfast, and I'll sleep on the bed next to the air conditioning so no one gets cold." Okay so he didn't really say that, we just assumed that is what he said. So we took him to the doggy Hotel ( the vets office) and he waved goodbye with his sorrowful look as he begged not to have the cell next to bowzer the angry bull dog. Of course he is just a little drama king, and was taken very good care of, except they trimmed his very long nails, which I was perceive was very difficult for the vets, that they got revenge on us by sharpening his nails. Although I don't blame them, two Hulk Hogans, the sweet vet, the cone of shame and some medicine to knock him out, all while being strapped down to the table, wouldn't be enough to get his nails simply groomed. He will let you comb him, bathe him, and blow dry his hair, put him in a sweater and call him a baby, but he won't let you trim his nails. 

Pray, Read,Smile :D

 

The soda tab watch I made.

I have made over 100 soda tab bracelets, and I decided to make a watch bracelet today. It was easy, and I am considering making them and selling them.

I got a watch face at Joanns, and a cute crown charm from there also.

I just made the bracelet like normal and attached it to the watch and attached the charm.
I love it. I wear it all the time. :D
-Laura

Pray, Read,Smile :D

 

I have the coolest Aunt ever.

I just got this in the mail. A belated birthday present from the best Aunt ever! My Aunt Kim!!

A soda bottle filled with Goodies!!! How cool. She sent the bottle through the mail, and it went all the way from Utah to here on the East Coast!!!

And here is all the goodies inside. A Bath fizz, 3 magnets, monogramed sticky notes, an itunes gift card, a gemstone monogram sticker, A giant blue clip, a ice cream chapstick, flowers, and handmade necklace.  (Shown in the images below)

I really love it all! Thanks Aunt Kim!!

Pray, Read,Smile :D

 

Camp Booklets for Girls Camp.

This year I am a YCL for Girls Camp. {Youth Camp Leader.} And I was assigned to make camp books/schedules for all 150 girls and 50 leaders. YIKES! So I worked really hard and camp up with this design.

You print it back to back. And Walla! Beautiful. It is stapled and hole punched at the top. I might be doing a tutorial later. might be. not a promise.

BUT Girls Camp is ALMOST HERE! It's next monday, insanity! I haven't even packed. I am super Duper excited because our theme is
Heavenly Ever After.... A crown awaits you!
I love this theme a whole lot because it is so spirit filled. {Don't know what I'm talking about? learn more here }
As you can see by the schedule we will be doing a great amount of work to make this camp a success. I have been studying the subject in the scriptures. {Learn more HERE } and praying for the success of this camp. I love Girls camp. Last year was so fun!   And I know, Girls camp will be great this year too. I'll blog more later. :D <- SUPER SMILE
-Laura

Pray, Read,Smile :D

 

On a new road....

Well, This story is so cliche, but I am on the road to getting healthier. I posted (a while ago ) a post on me run/walking a 5k. Well I feel like that was a great start to getting on the road to getting "Healthy". I am overweight, and I know I need to fix it before  it leads to a life of being big. I'm not like the girl on HUGE. and I do not consider my self so big I need to go on one of those TV shows, but I feel like I could be, as I said before, Healthier. So my mom and I are working out this summer. Running, watching Richard Simmons, Lesli Sanson, and trying to eat right. I am considering getting the book
300 under 300. Which is a book of 300 hundred recipes under 300 calories. I don't know if it the diet for me, but it is worth a try. So wish me luck :)
-Laura

Pray, Read,Smile :D

 

My Birthday

So today is my Birthday! I'm going to Friendlys and I'm going to open my presents soon. I just wanted to say :THANK YOU for all the Birthday wishes! 

Here is me and my BFF Melody :) 
Pray, Read,Smile :D

 

Vast amount of subjects

Okay, if you are reading this blog post, 

TAKE A DEEP BREATH. I have a vast amount of subject I have yet to cover.

Let us start with.....hmmm..... Family, that is always a good place to start.

Here is some recent family photos

This is a photo of myself and my family (extended) when I was 4 or 5. I am the third girl in the front row.  The blonde one.  Geese this must me 2000, or 2001 .

This is a photo from last thanks giving, Buddy Bear (our dog) wanted the turkey so badly! And of course we had Utah style rainbow jell-O .

food pictured left to right( because my mom deserves to have her food remembered) Cherry, pumpkin and blueberry pie, a salad, Stuffing (MY FAVORITE) Yams, Turkey, gravy, rainbow jello, cranberrys, and crescent rolls. YUM!

This is a photo of us at Gettysburg, I love the way the sky looked.

And here is photos from my moms birthday. 

 I got her the coat

 This is the card I gave her. She laughed because it said "You know the perfect child, WHAT DO You mean who!?"

 My Aunt Kim, Mom, and sister Amanda and the wonderfully delicious coconut cake prepared by my aunt .

Yep, only one candle, and many umbrellas.

And this from my grandpas birthday. He had a German cake with  chocolate frosting, Grandpas favorite. 

This is from our trip to Hershey World 

 Mat loves Race cars. End of story.

This is us in front of the Hershey tours trolley.

 This is Amanda and Matt on the trolley.

 Mat looks so Handsome in this photograph

I love matts green eyes. Hate my plain Jane brown (ALL BROWN) eyes.

Now that I'm done talking about family lets talk about Hair. My hair.

I cut my hair. That is no surprise, I had posted it a while ago. Back in February.

http://lasgirl.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-got-hair-cut.html

But since that time I've taken more photos.

 This was a week after I got it cut.

And one day I woke up looking like this!

Obviously I have had worse hair disasters, remembering when I went BLONDE! (http://lasgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/dance-trip-hair.html)  But here are some photos that I took right after I became blonde.

SHEESH! I look weird. but I'm happier now.

Now let's talk about the RUN! This was for my young women's personal progress project for individual worth. I trained and ran a 5k. Our entire Young women's (and part of young mens, relief society, and missionaries .) trained for either the 5k of Half Marathon. I trained with my mom to walk/ run the 5k at the Frederick Running Festival,

We had a lot of support from the ward, and it was great the missionaries ran the 5k too! Our bishop owns a shoe store called if the shoe fits, and he encouraged us to do the race, which I'm so glad I did.

 We were the "We Believe group" we choose that because not only is it our Young men and Young Women's theme, but We Believed we could complete the race.This is us at the starting line, i am 11006, my mom is 11007.

This is Elder Astle running the 5k in his suit, and tie..

And here is Elder Jenks with a smile upon his face running the 5k.

Group photos!

Here is me finishing the race.

Here is my mom finishing the race too

WE BELIEVE!

Pray, Read,Smile :D