School and Stuff

Hey guys! This week was the first week of school. This year I am taking AP Calculus, AP American Language/ College Writing, Chemistry, US History, Digital Photography, Concert Choir, Seminary, and Floral Design (which I am hoping to change). It's a pretty good mix of fun, and work! :D
I'm glad to be back at school with all of my friends, and to actually be doing something with my life. Last night my friend, Rachel Johnson, had a volleyball tournament over at the school. I went to part of that, and she made some pretty sweet kills by the way. They won a LOT of their games. They played really well! I also went to the football game which we won 49-20. We were up against "The Stansbury Cripples." (Ha ha that's what my friend John called them.)
Oh. My. Goodness. I can't believe I haven't written about this yet. My birthday was on Sunday! On Saturday, I had a party with a bunch of girl friends. We played games, and were really loud, and then we watched The Last Song, which is actually a very good movie, even though it's starring Miley Cyrus. Then on Sunday, we had family over and we had dinner, and cake and ice cream. Later that night (at 10) I got to go tunnel singing up at BYU with Rachel, Lauren, and John. It was sooo much fun! On Tuesday, Tyler Garver came over to my house and asked me on my first date! It was a blast! We doubled with Andrew Holman and Abi Roundy. We went to Sonic and ordered at the drive thru, and Tyler paid in change because he thinks it's hilarious to do that. Ha ha and then we took our food over to the park by Walmart, Neilson's Park, and ate. Then we rode on the spinny swings for a while. After that we went over to Nickel City and played in the arcade. Tyler and I got enough tickets to get 2 potato guns and some tootie frooties. After that we went to Tyler's house and played a game called Settlement, and Abi completely wiped us out on that game. Ha ha It was a great first date! :D
Today I might go to the farmers market, and then I'm going to be busy going to someone's party. . . I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say what that is until later. . . and then I'm going to go to Steven Pelham's farewell party for a while, and then I will probably go to the stake dance. And ya, that's my awesome life right now.
Hope you all have an amazing weekend! Love ya!
-Rachel :)

Guitars and Things

Hola! Last week I woke up every morning at 7 to work in our front yard. I went up against killer wasps, freaky red spiders, and biting rose bushes. I was so happy when Friday rolled around, because I thought I was done! But, alas, no. I realized that the flower bed by our front door was not done! So this morning, I got up and finished it! Now I'm all finished with the front! I get to start on the back now. I'm trying to summon the motivation to do that. :D
Today Caleb came over for his first guitar lesson! He brought over his 12 string. It took us forever and a day to tune it because the top strings would always go out of tune by the time we got to the bottom ones. :D But finally we got it worked out, and we began. At that point we realized that a 12 string guitar is pretty much impossible to play. So instead, we just went right to the 6 string guitar. I tried to teach well, but of course, I'm not exactly what you'd call certified. I had a little packet thing kind of printed out, and I hope that helped, but only time will tell. He's going to practice, and then he's going to get back to me and let me know when he wants another lesson. :D
I now have a blog that my photography will be showcased on. Here's the address if you haven't seen it. It's also on my Facebook beneath my profile picture. :)
http://thru-rose-colored-glasses.blogspot.com
That's it for today! Love you all!
-Rachel :)

Mia Shalom 2010

We got back from Girls Camp today. I had such a FABULOUS time! The young women in our ward are so amazing, and they are a blast to be around!A couple of fun experiences:
-There was a family of deer sleeping under my cabin-Rayshaun used a painted paper plate, leggings, shorts, and an emergency blanket, to create a Nacho Libre costume. Then we ratted Rachel Johnson's hair to make her Esqueleto. We then used that in our cheer
-Almost got struck by lightning during singing in the trees
-I fell while carrying a cooler with Susie
-We found bear claw markings on trees, while on the hike
-We found cement step things and did the Karate Kid pose on them-We found a dead rat in one of our trash cans when we got up to camp
-Went canoeing-We found spaces leading from the top to the bottom floor of one of the cabins, and decided to play basketball/dodgeball/baseball/soccer with them and a bag of candy.
-We sang songs-We built a puzzle to symbolize our unity-Rayshaun and I skipped up and down the hill
-We played Psychiatrist
-We got rained on everyday
-Had an AMAZING testimony meeting, and got to hang out with our bishopric which is always a blast
Camp was seriously amazing! We have such an awesome ward and I loved getting to know everyone even better! I hope your week was even a fraction of the awesomeness that mine was!
-Rachel :)