It has been forever since I have posted. I don't even want to because I have to much to catch up on. I'll just give some highlights.

~I turned 16:) I am so excited, and glad to have a car:)
~Jed has got his mission call to Taiwan Taipei and leaves on July 21st.
~Jed also got home the first week of May
~ another on Jed is that his team in nationals in their division in Basketball.
~I just got back from an amazing week at EFY and made lots of friends.
~I am almost scuba certified, and am planning for a trip in a few weeks.
~This summer is jam packed.

I have been busy lately, having just finished with school for the school year, but I only have 1 more semester left until I get my AS degree:)
got to go, but i try to keep things posted:)

Brinley's Baptism Invite

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

Today was to Oquirrh Mountain Temple Dedication. It was really neat, as the 2^nd on this summer that I have had the opportunity to attend.

We made it there but the doors were already locked, although Bro. Christensen was there and let us in. we were sent to find a spot in the high counsel room, which I think was one of the better seats. They showed a lot of pictures of the temple while were waiting, especially of the "Mirror room", as my little sister likes to call it.

There were a few speakers, most of which talked to the youth in attendance, I thought that it was really cool that they would direct there attention to the little kids, to prepare to enter the temple. They talked of the importance of the youth programs like the Personal Progress, Faith in God, and Duty to god, as the pathway to entering the temple and getting your endowments.

One of the speakers encouraged the youth to write in their journals, and record how we felt during the dedication. I felt the spirit throughout the meeting, I know that there are where ever there is a temple there is a house of God. Although there are temples all around the world, I believe that there are also other holy places, When Moses saw the burning bush, he was told to remove his shoes because he stood on holy ground, I believe that where ever Heavenly Father resides is holy. That could be in your own homes, in the mountains, and in nature itself.

I was once told that the sacred Grove in New York is to far away, you need your own sacred grove. Although there aren't any wooded places close by, there are place that I can go to talk to my Heavenly Father.

Quick Catch Up:)

When ever I work on designing my blog, I usually don't postL so I am trying to make that not so.

I don't even know where to start. So I guess I will start with Basketball tournaments for Jed. Jed played in 2 recruiting tournaments and got 2 Major scholarships. He got more than 2 but the ones that he his trying to pick between is Houghton University, and Southern Virginia University. I am excited for him, but school starts in like 3 weeks, that means that he will be gone in two!!! It also means that he is leaving next week to go and tour them, another few days without my brotherL.

Work with the Horses is doing well, but we will see what happens when school starts (yikes!). However I left for a week, only to find that I am now in charge of only 6 horses including my own 3 in my section, as opposed to the 11 that I had when I started. There were 3 that moved in the last week!!!

We went to spend 2 days in SLC 2 weeks ago and wouldn't you know it, we stayed for a week and a half! So it has put us behind in a lot of things, including seeing my BFF who has been here all summer and leaves next week, but she is far enough away that I haven't seen her yet! I hope that we do get to see each other.

While we were in SLC we got the news that my Great Aunt Janet, died of a brain tumor last Mon. She was always friendly and happy, but has been battling cancer of one form or another for a few years now. Her Funeral was Sat. and even though it was under sad circumstances, it was fun to see all my cousins that I don't get to see very often, I think we made a record, and saw some cousins that we haven't seen in forever twice in the last 3 months! Although the first meeting was betterJ

Happy 4th!!!

Happy 4th of July!!! I was looking back, and saw that I have a bit to catch up on:)
I guess I could start with last week. Last week was Girls Camp (Was it really only last week!?!) WE went to Navajo Lake, and had a great time. It did rain ion us on Thursday and Friday, but other than that it was great. We went on a bike ride (Navajo Lake trail) that was really fun. We went on a hike that was also way fun and challenging:) I think that the most spiritual thing that I did was a Hold to the Rod activity. My great leaders had made a trail that was like walking through Lehi's dream, They had a Great and Spacious building (The bathroom), they had a river (Tarps that they laid on and tried to got you to help them/pull you off while walking across a log) Them they put blindfolds (Mist of Darkness) on us and put our hands on "The iron Rod" (A rope tied between trees) and had us walk holding to it while they tried to per sway us to let go and follow them. At the end the had music playing, a pine tree that they had decorated with the fruit (Temple Paper Molds). It was really fun and cool.

After Girls camp I had some unexpected things happen. On Monday I got a call from C.W. saying that she was trying to leave town - back to where Koda is from - and that if I wasn't going to ride him she could take him back until the beginning of October, or we could see if we could work out a deal from C.J. to see if we could keep our horses there, since the horses didn't have shade, and Koda's owner said I could only keep him if he had shade. So I called C.J. to see what I could do. I Learned that she needed someone to muck out stalls, and that I could trade work for boarding. So I said that that was awesome, and that I could start this week. Well I didn't know that It would be so much, I have to pay $100 each horse per month. and I need to work of 3 horses at $125 a month at $5 and hour. So I am trying to work that off.

On Tuesday, I had a neighbor call and ask if I could start making cookies for her, and that she wanted 6 dozen cookies to begin with for her freezer:) I Haven't finished working it out with her though.

Finally to this weekend. Yesterday We spent preparing for a community party, including a "The Stars and Stripes 5k Stride", Breakfast and games. We also had a flag raising ceremony for a flag that Mom has been helping with for a scouts eagle project, and they also dedicated the other 28 Eagle Projects. YAY!!!

Today, we got up early, and went and set up the Race stuff, helped with the breakfast stuff, and was ready for registration at 6:00. The race was good, but there was a problem with the computer, so it took a long time to get the results, and to get the Awards Ceremony:(, other than that it was a good success. We had only 30 Pre-register, and finished the race with 55 Participants registered. So I think that it went pretty good.
Thats all for now:)

2009 Ragnar Relay :)

This weekend was the 2009 Wasatch Back Ragnar Relay. It was a BLAST. Basically, It was a 12 person team running the 188 Miles from Logan Utah, to Park City Utah. It was so fun.
Our team ran 188 miles, split into 12 people, ech running 3 legs. It was way fun, and I can even walk normal today:)I think that the best part of the race, was cheering on the other racers, Our van was the only ones that would cheer on any other runners but our own, It didn't matter what team you were on, we were cheering for you. I think that from the reaction that we got from the runners, if there was a vote on their favorite van (Beside their own) It would be ours. :)
I am so glad that I did It, and didn't back out, like I thought that I would a few times, especially after the Tri where they doubled our run to 6 miles. I can't wait to do it next year, as we have already signed up for the 2010 Ragnar.
GO RAGNAR!!!

Quick review

I haven't posted since the Tri!?! It seems like that was FOREVER ago. Lets see, Since then I have gone to EFY (The best place ever) for a week, - That was really fun, and testimony building - I had Youth Conference the first week of June, - A mini EFY session for the stake:), Where I also got to see Natalie and Mallory Harr (My cousins that i haven't seen in Forever - and last week we were going to Lake Powell, but we decided against it, instead we went to Sand Hallow, I went Hiking in Zion's ( I did Angles Landing with the Heatons, and we did it barefoot:) It was really fun.
I am doing The Wasatch Back Ragnar Really this weekend, but I hope that I can do good as I haven't trained :(
I've got to get back to Cookies:) bye.