Studio C!!!

I had, like, one of the best valentines days ever!!!  A lady in our ward works at the BYU broadcasting building, which is where they do Studio C.  It was one of their filming nights, and there were extra tickets!!!  She let my friend know, and so they came and picked up Mark and I so we could go see a live showing.  We drove up there so we could get our place in line, and played hand games for an hour before we got in our seats.  We then got to watch the prop guys do the finishing touches on the stage sets.

The Sets at Studio C.

Camille and I waiting for the show to start.

Mark and I.  He looks like he’s having such fun doesn't he? :)

Yep, I’m sooooooo happy!!!

The applause sign.

After waiting in our seats for about half and hour, Stacy came out and had us do a cheering scale.  We started at one, and when we got to ten, the Cast burst in and the music started playing, and it was totally epic!  Then they filmed a bunch of sketches that will be aired in April.  My favorite was the mind-reading one.  I’ll post it when it’s available.  In between the sketches Stacy came out and did question and answer with the cast.  There was also two lies and a truth, with a t-shirt if you got it right.  And Steven and Whitney shared their best and worst valentines day stories.  It was so fun, and the cast was really funny.  There was a new bisque guy sketch, and it was really good.

That Wednesday, for Young Women's, we got to go and take a tour of BYU Broadcasting Studio’s.  And guess who we saw rehearsing?  Yep, Studio C.  Here’s a picture.

We also got to see the camera’s that they use.

Here’s where they do all their cooking shows.

Here’s where they do the live broadcasting of the football games.

This is the head control board.

Here’s where they do the slow motion replay stuff.

Here’s the little control box they use.

This is one of the make-up rooms.

After we were done, we took pictures with the cutouts of the cast.

With Stacy!

With Jeremy!

With Jason!

With Matt!

Then my friend went and caught Mallory while she was coming out of the Studio, and got a picture with her.  Lucky! :)

And if you read this whole blog post and you don’t know who Studio C is, here’s some of my favorite video’s. Enjoy!!

Pie, Quilling, Etc.

Yesterday we raked and dumped leaves for nearly two hours.  After that we went to the Smiths pie party.  It was way fun to see all the people from the 17th ward.  Now I totally miss it!!!

Along with raking and eating pie, I quilled a paper necklace.  It took nearly three hours, but doesn't it look so good?  Thank you to Grandma for the beads!! :) 

Hope you all have a wondrous week!

P.S Be sure to check next Sunday, it’s Fall Break this week, so there should be a good post! :)

Fall Party

Instead of doing a trunk-or-treat, our ward does a fall party a few weeks before Halloween.  This year I got to help with the face-painting.  I also ate chili and scones, went on a hay ride, and played with kittens.  After the party was over, I went over to my friend Sarah’s house with two of my other friends, Hailee and Camille.  We watched the first Harry Potter movie.  Halfway through, everyone fell asleep, including the dog, except for Camille and I.  They didn’t wake up until the Bishop came over at 10:30 to pick up Camille.  We had fun anyway. :)  Then, on the way to drop me off, Sister Dangerfield’s car died.  Her son and my dad came and tried to jump-start it, but it didn’t work.  I finally got to bed at 11:30.  I love the weekend!

Heber Valley with 17th Ward

We met at the stake center with all the other wards at 8:00 on Monday morning.  After we talked to each other for about an hour and a half while we waited for everyone else to get there, we FINALLY loaded the buses at 9:30.  We got there and got our bunks all set up.  I was on the top bunk over Alisa. 

On the first night we were there our ward picked a tree around the amphitheater and sang Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.  It was very nice and all the other wards songs were beautiful too.

On Tuesday (I think) we went to the Challenger Course.  There were a bunch of different stations that had activities that related to life.  First we did the spiders web.  It was a giant fake spider web that was strung between two trees.  You had to get every member of your group through one of the holes without touching the tree and without touching the lines.  I think we got everyone through. 

We also did shark island.  It was a rope swing in between two aspen trees.  You were on a pretend sinking ship and you had to get the rope and swing to the door mat that was the safe island. 

My favorite thing on the Challenger Course was the high course.  First you had to climb up a fifteen foot pole with notches in it, then walk across a high wire, holding on to another wire for balance.  When you to got to the end of the high wire, there was a little platform in a tree.  A lady there would hook you up go a rope, take you off the other rope, and you would zip down the zip-line!  It was fun.

On Wednesday we went to the lake and did canoeing.  I had a canoe with Vickie and Betsy.  It was really fun!

On Thursday we had ward time and made really cute duct tape purses. 

And on Friday we had testimony meeting. 

And on Saturday, we cleaned up and went home.

Next week I will post about Girls Camp with the New Ward.

I love my awesome friends!

As most of you know, we recently moved into our new home.  Last Sunday I went to our new ward, then went home and didn’t go to 17th ward.  I still wanted to go to mutual though, so my Dad dropped me off back in Spanish Fork.  I ran up the parking lot and around the corner.  My friends had there back to me and were standing under the overhang, so they didn’t see me.  I yelled “I’m back guys!!”  Alisa turned around and grabbed me in a huge hug, and Vickie yelled “Group hug!!”  I was totally squashed.  It was one of the best moments of my entire life. 

I just want to thank my friends for all the wonderful things they do for me and how welcome they make me feel!  I would also like to thank all the people that helped us pack, move, clean, and unpack.  A special thanks to Sister Albertson, you are such a saint, I don’t know how we would have managed without you!

I am way sad to be moving, but I will come back and visit all the time, and we are only ten minutes away (hint, hint). 

Hope you all have a great week!!

Best Daddy Ever!

I have the best Daddy ever!  Mark and I really wanted to go fishing early in the morning, at the lake by the cabin at Yellowstone, since that was the best time to fish.  We begged Rachel to go with us.  She told us she would.  We tried to go to bed quickly so we would not be so tired in the morning.  Mark set the alarm on his watch for five thirty.  He came and woke me up to get dressed so we could go.  Rachel was sleeping next to me, so I tried to shake her awake.  She woke up enough to tell me that she had gone to bed late and wouldn't be going with us.  I went downstairs in my clothes and asked Mark if we should just go to bed, because I did not feel comfortable to go with out a grownup.  Then Daddy got up and told us he would go with us, but first he had to take a shower and eat something.  And he did!  We got there about 6:15 and fished until 7:00.  We didn’t catch anything, but it was still fun to be with Daddy.  He is the best!  

Yellowstone!

One of my favorite things about Yellowstone was the mud puddles!  On the road to my mom’s cousins cabin, there were two huge mud puddles, each about ten feet long.  They were so deep that you had to drive about twenty five miles an hour to get through them.  It was totally awesome!  The cars were a mess!

We saw a ton of animals.  Among them were skunks, bison, a bear (from very far away), a weasel, and a wolf.  Grandma, Grandpa, Becca, Katie, and I were driving back to the cabin from Mammoth Springs.  It was very late, and I was dozing off, when the car swerved.  I sat up and asked what had happened.  Grandpa said a wolf had run across the road.  So, I didn't actually see it.  But I almost did.

Girls Camp

Girls Camp was so awesome!  I will tell about it from the beginning.  On the first day we got there before all the other wards, and set up early.  We set up our mattresses ( really air mattresses and foam pads) and our sleeping bags.  We set up our backpacks at the ends of our beds and explored the cabin.  There is a three foot gap dividing the two cabins and rafters that you can climb on.  I got a bunk under Vickie.  We have so many girls in our ward, and so few bunks, that only the beehives and some of the leaders got a bunk inside.  When everyone else got there we  had a flag raising ceremony and some more free time while everyone else got set up.  After that we went to dinner, and had a very good devotional about applying the Young Woman's Theme.  Then we went to sleep, but I shouldn't call it that, because no one went to sleep, because we were all getting used to it.

On Wednesday we read a chapter in the Book of Mormon then went to flag raising ceremony.  On the way back through a trail in the woods, Tori and I were discussing bears, when suddenly we heard a really loud scream, and something big, brown, and furry charged across our path about three feet away from us.  We both screamed and finally regained our senses as it reached the edge of the path.  It was a deer! 

On Thursday we were supposed to go to the lake, but there have been so many recent deaths at lakes that we went on a hike instead.  It was three miles but it didn't seem that long.  Tori and I taught friendship bracelets to a bunch of girls and leaders.

On Friday we had a testimony meeting as a ward.  It was my favorite part of Girls Camp.  It was so spiritual, and after we went inside we read the testimonies that our parents wrote us.  That is when I started to cry, it was so touching.  It was definitely what I will look forward to next year. 

I got a mobile with the young woman values on them, a stuffed animal dog named mittens, a notebook and pencil with a cloth cover, a book made into a bag, and some really cute hair things. 

Hope you have a great week, and I will try to post more often!

Klutz!

This week I got to have a late over with my best friend Tori.  I was soooooooo fun!  We made friendship bracelets for two hours!  We checked out lots of different styles, and Mom taught her how to make a chevron.  After she went home at ten o’ clock, Mom and I stayed up until eleven doing friendship bracelets!  The reason I called this post Klutz is because I learned how to make friendship bracelets from a book I got from a company called Klutz, because it gives klutz’s something to do.  I also have Klutz books on sewing, twirled paper (which is how I make my twirled paper things), and battery science, and I LOVE THEM!  They are always what I do when I am bored, and so I am rarely ever bored!  If you want some good craft idea’s go get a Klutz book!  When I was at Robert’s, I saw one on Face Painting, which I am asking Mom to get me for my birthday because it looked so fun, one on Hemp Bracelets, and another that looked really, really fun is Gel Bracelets.  You take the gel that it comes with, which is four different colors, and do designs with them or put them on a mold I guess.  As you can probably tell by now, I really like making my own bracelets.  Hope you have a super-duper week!