Alexa!

Hey y'all! So I'm so super excited for my buddy Lexy to join the blogosphere! I'm proud of ya, girl. I'm way pumped to see what she does for her 1st post cause she's hilarious...

Oh and P.S. her name really isn't Nancy- but it is for the side thingy

Oh and P.S.S. I did these colors for you, Lexy.

it's officially a holiday.

Due to the occasion, I thought I might tell you that that the highlight of my summer, I found out today, is actually going to happen! I get to visit the Redds, the California cousins, for a while in July ALL BY MYSELF!!! I am like freakin' excited about my little adventure!

Jeff & Janeen.

Bryan, Rachel, Amy, & Emily.

Stephen & Heather aren't pictured.

vacation, yo.

Camping Capers

Suppose I should blog about Girls' Camp that ended like three weeks ago...

It was grand, if I do say so myself.

Here are my absolutely Stupendous YCL's {Maddie Moffat and Katie Wilson}...

Our awesome skit with me as the Great Genie of Gratitude...

Me and my mommy...

My HILARIOUS buddy {Rachel U.}...

Kway and I in the cabin...

It's FOG, dawg...

And the awesome Jammin' therof...

I heart camp, yo.

A little somein somein...

{I'm taking on the extreme challenge of Angela Dunn to post 25 things about me. 25. That's a big number... wow...

Just to let ya'll know I started writing this on May 17th and I published on June 17th. Wow. I'm cool

{one}

I really like to do fun things with my friends, laugh, go to theme parks(don't we all?), play the piano, sing, email my peeps, listen to music, talk on the phone, watch movies, stay up late, eat junk food, pretty much party. ALOT.

{two}

I am absolutely PETRIFIED of police men. I know they won't do anything to me, and they really are good people that do really good things, but they just scare the living jeepers out of me. My other fears include clowns, the circus, circus music, the albino from the Princess Bride, large items falling on my head, the candy man, the ice cream man, jack in the boxes, chickens, Mr. Adrian Monk, Law and Order, large fish, and other inanimate objects.

{three}

My favorite word in the English language is "brilliant." It is just brilliant. I also like, actually love it with people of Irish, Australian, or English backround say it.

{four}

Words I that don't quite fancy me, might I say, are moist, custard, towelette, lick, raisin, leotard, custard, ointment, mate,and lots of other gross ones that would make this list into something larger than my life. Words I am afraid of are mortuary, mortician, murder, body, scene, crime, detective, and you can probably see that there is a theme rolling here.

{five}

My friends at school think that I resemble a llama.I honestly don't know whether it has to do with my obsession with the emperor's new groove, or my unconditional love for the creatures, but it certainly was out of the blue. I really don't mind having the looks of an extremely awesome animal.I actually think it's quite hilarious.

{six}

When I was quite the wee one, I had already developed a passionate love for ice cream. One day, my mom found me sitting in the freezer, eating ice cream with my bare hands, from a gallon tub. In 1st Nephi, chapter 18, it talks about Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, the son of Isaiah. If you look in the footnotes, it reads "destruction is imminent." Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz has forever more been my name throughout my fam.

{seven}

When I was about 4 or 5, when my sister, Angie's friends came over they would find me watching the Spanish Channel on TV. This is because I strongly believed that by doing this, I could learn Spanish. Ole! I've also been known to tape cotton balls to my self and pretend I was a sheep when I was little. Maaa.

{eight}

I absolutely LOVE traveling. Give me a place to go, and a way to get there and I'm gone. My dream vacation is to go to Germany and see all the old WWII sights and maybe go to Paris someday. I really just want to go to Europe. You may find this freakin' weird, but I also love packing for trips. I don't know what it is, but it excites me every time. Oh and tomorrow I get to go to Utah! :)

{nine}

24/7 slash all day every day, I have a new slash random song stuck in my head. It ranges from hymns to rock to Christmas carols to random songs that I don't even know. Currently it is Red Sweater- The Aquabats.

{ten}

I am obsessed with singing in the shower. I belt sometimes without knowing it, then I realize that I'm making WAY too much noise for just a little shower-singin'. Sometimes I forget the words in the middle of a song so I just sing "La" instead.

{eleven}

One of my pet peeves is when someone throws a surprise party for someone, and that certain someone doesn't act surprised. Even if you found out about it when you obviously SHOULDN'T have, put on an act for like 5 minutes and say something like, "Oh my gosh! You are way too nice!," or even like,"I'm so surprised." Get my point?

{twelve}

My season 6 American Idol is Melinda Doolittle. I thought that she had the most talent and was like the sweetest little chicklet you'll ever see. She is a good ol' fashioned belter and can sing any type of music she wants. She really is like the PERFECT role model for like how humble and nice she is and she always knows what to say when some little stupid/awkward thing comes up in a conversation or something of that sort.

{thirteen}

Me and my friends are nuts. We get bored like, all the time, so we start taking weird pictures and making chin puppets and all these weird little quirky things. Sometimes we turn on music and burst out dancing. We always figure out a way to have fun.

{fourteen}

I love to cook. Whether it's dinner for my fam, cookies, or cakes. Just creating good food tickles my fancy. Sometimes it goes wrong though, like the time when I set the stove on fire while browning some ground beef. That was a doozy. Speaking of cakes...(jk you guys are probably tired of my cake talk)

{fifteen}

Currently I am reading HP the 5th=Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Umm I'm actually only on page let's see. 42. It's pretty good so far. Oh, you guys probably didn't know I liked to read. Well, I actually love it, when I get around to it. Once I start a book, I'm glued.

{sixteen}

Remembering really random (I mean freakin' random, excuse me.) bits and pieces of information is my forte. I remember the shoes I wore to home depot in Utah when I was 7, and I remember a conversation with my madre at Mervin's debating what bag to get get for my kindergarten school year. How weird am I?

{seventeen}

I have one thing to say, and one thing only. I did not inherit the Dixon nose.

{eighteen}

I used to think I wanted to be a pro Ice Skater. Then I realized that it would probably help if I had ever been ice skating in my life. Then a zookeeper. Then I realized that animals are cute. Cleaning their cages is not.Then a farmer. Then I realized that I didn't want to get up at 5 in the morning and have go collect eggs from scary chickens and go milk the cows. Mooo. Oh and a pro singer. No reason. I just gave that dream up. Now I want to be a cake decorator.

{nineteen}

Umm... so I'm totally not telling you to use against me, but I am probably the most hardcore ticklish girl you'll ever meet. I'm ticklish everywhere.

{twenty}

Some of my favorite memories equal eating Grandma Dent's cookies/food/marshmallow brownies, playing in Grandma Dent's basement, talking to grandma dent, hearing Grandma Dent laugh, and hearing Grandma Dent say that something "tickles her."

{twenty-one}

The best store in the whole wide world is Target. You can get anything there. It is cheap. It is clean. It is cute. It is close. It is everywhere. I love it, like with a passion.

{twenty-two}

I love pink. I love baseball. I love guilty pleasures. I love the rain. I love windy weather. I love corduroy jackets. I love full tissue boxes. I love clean PE clothes. I love the smell of Chloe's hair. I love basketball shorts. I love new shoes. I love mail. I love email. I love little red cell phones. I love socks. I love tulips. I love teddy bear backpacks. I love my fam.

{twenty-three}

I love Chloe. I love Eve. I love Tyler. I love Devlin. I love Zach. I love playing with the 5 little kids.(aka my nieces/nephs)

{twenty-four}

My fave holiday is Christmas. I like it because I love the smell of Fry's in the candle section in December for the smell of cinnamon. I like it because I like wearing winter clothes that are red and green on the last day of school before winter break. I like it because everyone is happy. I like it because Santa Claus is cool like that. I like it because little kids leave milk and cookies out for Santa. I like it because we get Christmas cards in the mail. I like it because FM 99.9 is cool and plays awesome music.I like it because Sacrament meeting rocks the Lyn Rae choir like five times in one day.

{twenty-five}

I love life! It rocks my world! So do Reese's Fast Breaks, but life is cooler!

I really hope you find this one bit interesting and/or entertaining! Cause sometimes I question myself of that ability. The end.

Kway's gettin' old

jtlyk, the age of 14 is not old, but when put in reference to kylie rae shumway, it is. She is in an older sunday school class, supposed to be in an older grade, and is in mia maids. She is gettin' old. Happy Belated Birthday,yo.

A Piece of Cake

So even though I'm only 13, I've already decided my career. Making cakes. I created one for Kylie dearest, and I really enjoyed it and I think the recipients did too. :) I took a picture of me and my cake so that when I become rich and famous, (teehee:) I can refer back to my first cake. If you would like one of these might i say, mghty fine little devils, just give a holler.

*note: I used every ounce of self-pride i've got in me to present you with this bit of news.

eric the bear.

This yo is comin' home from da land of cold in exactly 5 months and darn, I'll tell ya, I'm excited. I'm not quite sure if he is, but I am. :)