Running in streets

Saturday as I was on my way home from dropping a friend off at her house, I took a side road home, that I don't normally take. I was driving down the road, and there was a lady in her car to my right, stopped at a stop sign. She decided to go, probably thinking it was a 4 way stop..it wasn't. So I slam on my brakes, and toot my horn at her, and started mumbling to myself about it, but then something caught my attention up ahead in the road. A little boy ran right into the road, like he was running away from something. If I had kept going, and that car didn't stop me, I would've hit him, and probably killed him. He came out from between two cars, so I wouldn't have saw him until I hit him...
I was so ashamed afterwards, because I was getting so frustrated with the woman for going when she wasn't supposed to, when it was probably God saving me (AND the little boy) from having something traumatic happen. Anyways, I'm so thankful that she pulled in front of me, not just because I didn't hit the boy...

Little Man in a Fix

I know this is really late, but here it finally is! This is one of the worst
dances we do in the festival.
If you watch it you'll see that they almost drop
the girl at the end of the dance. Its very painful to do, and looks
so scary while watching because
it looks like any of the girls could fly out into the
audience if the men dont have a good hold on them, but everyone
in the audience loves it! When
I danced 2 years ago, I was doing this dance with
my partner and my brother Timothy, and with all the sweat and
it being so hot, they lost hand holds
and dropped one us girls. She was fine, but it made
her slide a little ways on the wooden floor. =o

Scandinavian Dance

This dance is called "Swedish Weave". Its one of the all time favorite dances for everyone, but I don't think the video gives it justice. The front man looking into the crowd is one of Jonathan's best friends, and later on you'll see Jonathan dancing with his partner. Look for a maroon looking vest and a girl in all maroon, I'm pretty sure they're the only boy/girl partners wearing maroon. ;)
I'll post one of the "flying" dances later, called "Little Man In a Fix".

Scandinavian Festival

Awwwwww!

Yippeee! Its the Scandinavian Festival this week! Even though I'm not in the festival this year, I had to at least dress up once in my costume! The festival started yesterday, and basically all the festival is, is eating and dancing. A lot of dancing. The food is great, its something I look forward to every year.

Bro. Branden, Sis. Dayna, Sis. Britt, and ME!

Anyways, I took some pictures of Brittany and I in our costumes. Tomorrow I'll try and post some videos of our Scandinavian dances, it won't be as cool watching it as a video, but it'll give you a little taste of what we used to do every year. ;)Just a picture of our full dresses. Lots of layers...soooo hot!Looks like Brittany is throwing up. I don't think we were expecting this shot to be taken. ;) I just look...weird.

Random picture of us. Britt's whispering and I'm trying to look shocked. Not a great actress.

Wall-e

Wall-e

Now that the weekend is over, the owner of the Chinchilla stopped by to see if I'd like to keep him. He's too cute to leave at the library, and I convinced mom to let me keep him here! Yaaaay! He's such a sweet little guy, how could you NOT keep him?!
Anyways in the short time I've known him, I've kind of gotten to know his personality. He's very curious (but I think all Chinchilla's are) when he's out of his cage he runs through the whole house in a big circle and does it over and over again. Sometimes even managing to run head on into something he didn't see...such as a sewing machine covering case, someones ankle, a chair..etc. And he likes running down the hall really fast and jumping off the mirror right before he runs into. That's why his name is Wall-e. ^-^ Seemed like the perfect name for him. Thanks dad! :)

Breaking Dawn Release Party

Left to right: Amy, Brittany, Me, Kristen and Mandy

I'm taking a quick break from reading, so I can post, hehe. Sis. Kristen, Sis. Brittany, Sis. Mandy, a friend of mine (Amy), and I all went to the release party last night at Borders. It was...interesting. There were a lot of people dressed as different characters, and lots of people with home made T-shirts for a contest they were having. It was absolutely crowded with teen girls...I can count on my fingers how many teen boys were there...not many at all. Lots of teen girls screaming, shrieking and hyperventilating all night long. It was sometimes scary, sometimes funny to watch. But a experience for sure. I've never been to a book release party, so I didn't realize how crazy it would get. Chelsea, if you look closely enough, the guy in the front with the backward hat, was dressed as Emmett. Also, this is just a shot of all the Twilight Fans.

Once we were lining up in line , it was amazing how many had come out of hiding in the rows and rows of bookshelves and crowded around. It was hot, sweaty and LOUD.
So, Chelsea, here are the pictures of our Release party that you weren't able to attend. =( Maybe we can photoshop you it. ;D

Our copies of Breaking Dawn...We stood in line for about 20 minutes, we had a GREAT spot in line.

Just a pin they were handing out to people if you asked for one. Won't wear it again, but still cool! ;D

Chinchilla

I just love saying that word for some reason! But anyways! I've been wanting to get a pet Chinchilla for a while now...actually since last Tuesday. I was shelving books at work and they had a book on pets, and the book had a section on Chinchilla's. They're SO cute! They look like a rabbit/mouse. So, I asked mom if I could get one, but since we already have a boring bearded dragon lizard, we can't have a Chinchilla....at home. BUT I can have him at the library, if I do the research and everything. Not sure if the library will actually let us have one, but we need some kind of pet there!!
So, anyways, mom told a lady from the library what I was thinking about doing, and she has some Chinchilla's! She called me this morning and asked if I wanted to baby-sit a Chinchilla all this weekend so I can figure out if its the right kind of pet for me and for the library. I'll definitely post some pictures of my little adventure with the Chinchilla! :)