Sweet 17?

Suprise! Allie was woken up today by 7 beautiful girls in their pjs to wish her an early happy birthday. 3 other girls showed up a little late, but we were so happy they made it. Everyone that came was (Ashley, Jamie, Kimmy, Kendel, Megan, Natalie, Christy, Rashenda, Christiana and Jackie). They began with a fabulous breakfast made by mother, Luke, Isaiah and me. French Toast, Waffles with Strawberries crushed and whipped topping, eggs, Bacon and Orange Juice. My anxiety was very much their when I was working on breakfast with all the people and wanting it to go right. I was shaking as I worked on breakfast.Allie was in a daze at first, she had no idea this was comming. Ashley said "come on get out of bed we'er here for you." it was funny. I recorded their awakening of dog pile!

We had a really fun obstacle course! The girls were split into teams and then the timer began. Two girls(Team 1 Megan and Kendle, Team 2 Ashley and Rashenda) had to link arms and pop a balloon between their backs.

They then run to the next obstacle where their other two teammates awaited them so they could begin their obstacle of "guessing what the other person what humming" (Team 1 Jamie and Kimmy Team 2 Natalie and Allie). That was suprisingly difficult for them. I put too many of my cultured songs on their from Wicked and Phantom. Luckly Allie and Natalie the Piano players were able to do a Phantom song, but Allie drew a blank on the name of the one Natalie was humming so it took them a while.

Back to the obstacle course, after humming they run to the next obstacle where their partners who had popped the ballons had to find 5 words (that described Allie) in the word search. And pop a ballon with their hands when finished.

Tossing sixlets into a teammates mouth and leapfrogging was next.

Leapfrogging took them to the chugging down milk from a baby sipper cup obstacle.

One of my favoite obstacles was this next one. I put a shower cap on a girl(for team 1 Kendel and team 2 Christy) and covered it with shaving cream. Their teammate had to throw cheetos at their head and 5 had to stick. The girls would move their heads around to try and catch them as well.

Frozen shirt was next to come. They (Allie and Natalie from Team 2 and Jamie and Kimmy from team 1) had to pull open a frozen folded T shirt, put it on and hug the person at the next station. Jamie and Kimmy had to hair dry and use water from the sink to dethaw theirs. Their team did go first so I think thats why theirs was so much harder to get undone. When I had taken the shirts out of the Freezer I knocked on them and they were hard as rock. It was so hilarious. Jamie ran to the bathroom and said "come on Kimmy the hair dryers all ready." Kimmy and Natalie got to be the lucky winners and wear the shirts. They than hugged their teammate at the next station.

A number was picked at this station which told them how they could draw.(if they picked 1. They put the crayon in their mouth to draw. # 2 (which both team picked) they put the crayon between their toes. #3 They drew with their hands behinde their back. Then mom gave them the scene they had to draw.

Last but not least was the banana and ping pong obstacle. A jump rope was tied around their waste with a string attached in the middle front of it and at the bottom of that string was tied a banana. They had to swing the banana to hit the ping pong ball to the finish line. That was somethin else.

The Last game I had prepared was Act it out. I gave the girls a movie(s) and one character that had to be in the scene and let them go from their. They dressed up, practised and preformed. Group one challenge: Highschool musical 1,2, or 3 Chad has to be in it. Natalie and Allie did part of 'Getcha head in the game' with some mad b-ball skills. Allie had a black fro wig cause she was chad.

Group two challenge: Highschool Musical 1,2 or 3 Sharpey had to be in it. Ashley and Jamie did 'What I've been lookin for' Ashley was sharpey and Jamie was Ryan. Jamie used a mullet wig tucked under a hat to be Ryan it was sexy scary!

Group three challenge: Kung Fu Panda Kimmy, Christy, Jackie and Christiana all painted their faces as different Kung Fu Warriors. They looked awesome. Kimmy was the teacher and Christy was stuffed to be the Panda. Christiana was the Tiger and I think Jackie was the Preying Mantis?
Group four challenge: Harry Potter movie 1,2,3,4 or 5 Hermione had to be in it. Rashenda, Kendel, Isaiah, Conner and Megan did the broom scene from number one when Neville Breaks his arm, and Harry chases Malfoy on his broom. Theirs was really funny. Megan was Ron and Malfoy so she would not wear a wig, then throw it on as malfoy then throw it off as Ron. Isaiah was the teacher and Conner was Neville. Rashenda was Heromine.

Mom was the Famous picture person and I was so greatful of that so that I could run most of the obstacle course. I recorded the Acting scenes to their arn't pictures of that,but they all looked fabulous.

All the girls hung out and played their own games til about 12:45 when mom and I served Icecream in waffle cones since Allies not a cake lover. They enjoyed laughing and playing cup and hand games at the table till the icecream was done. Allie was a little embarassed to open the presents cause she said thats not the thing that she cares about and you don't want to react in a more excited way to one than another causing hurt feelings so she pushed it off til we made her open them.

I got up at five to do all this... Decorating and getting everything in order, so after the party I slept for an hour and a half. All in all Allie was so greatful and totally suprised. She had a wonderful time and so did I watching them all.

I got a Hair Cut! Like the Bangs? I love them. When Allie first saw me with my new cut, styled by the hair dresser in a way that my clumsy hands are not capable of doing again, any ways she said, " I didn't even recognize you you look like a super model." I felt so good after she said that. Cause I had been kind of self conscious about it till she said that cause I wasn't sure if I like it. And Allie tells the truth so it made me feel beautiful! Thanks Allie. This picture is from After church..So you don't get to see it in the impossible to repeat hair styling.

Beautiful OREGON!!!!

I just love OREGON!! I feel the spirit and my heart skipps a beat when I get to see Gods handy work.

Disneyland!

Once again mom has lots of Disneyland pictures but they are all from my camera so I gotta show a few.Disneyland was a blast! Maddie tried more rides than Conner cause she had no idea what she was getting into. Mom, Conner and I love the Tower of terror, and Maddie said it make my tummy go up and down.

Pirates had Johnny Depp in it three times so we took pictures, even his movements were so similar it was crazy!

Maddie and I loved the Haunted Mansion as well, they changed it for Halloween as the Nightmere before Christmas. (Maddie also loved the Pooh ride, while Isaiah watched her as we went on Splash Mountain they went on it three times I think, then again once we were off our ride). Back to Haunted Mansion.It was awesome! Conner liked it but it was a little scary to him so He stayed closed to whoever his partner was, like me a few times.

As I enjoyed the rides, I thought of how awesom it would be to put together that sort of stuff, so much creativity. Isaiah thought he was going to fall out of splash mountain so he only tried that one once. My love for Conner grew I told him when he out of the blue tried Indiana jones after saying no all the past times that we had gone.

I love indiana jones. You may think the front is always the best, but in Indiana Jones if you sit in the back you get whipped around way more.

Allie and I bought two of the same style of rings and had lots of fun shopping together. Luke got the coolest hat for school. He looks like a studd. We also did trick or treating in California Adventure. It was alot of fun, but spendy. I had my face painted as a butterfly for trick or treating Wed. night before we picked dad up at the airport. (He flew in a few days later and then drove home with us). Anyways, A random lady saw me when I came to the front desk of a store, stopped talking to the cashier and said "hold on I just gotta look." Then she said turn your head to the side." It was pretty funny. Another lady said, you match. ( I did it on purpose, cause I really like to match... Thats my inside secret). My eyelids got burnt that day too! It wasn't extremely attractive.

The stroller was our best friend.. We didn't have to hold Maddie the whole time. We saw more characters in California adventure, besides the ones in the Disneyland parade. The night we trick or treated we saw lots of characters you don't normally see, that was great! I even saw Belle. I want to be Belle at Disneyland, one of my life goals. Halloween night was busier than the other days, and Luke got lost.... He prayed several times and we eventually met up.

Dad is truly a Kid stuck in an adults body. He loves his rides and wants to get the most out of every moment. I love that guy! Our first breakfast Dad got so much food (cause it was cook to order and they had tons of options), I didn't know how one person could eat all of it. Its like a kid if he were to go into a candy store and everything was free! It was entertaining.

The fireworks were amazing! I love music and lights and ART!!! Disneyland has all of them. ITS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!!!;)

Before we left the motel in Disneyland I took a picture of this car that I loved! I would look for it everyday. It was so beautiful! I was a little nervous somone might come out and get mad so after taking a few pictures I took a picture of a flower right in front of it so it looked like thats what I was interested in. The drive home was more enjoyable for me than the ride there cause it seemed shorter. One other plus, it rained milk on me. Conner gave me his cereal to dump out the window of the moving suburban... Iwill say no more, I think you get the picture. We saw the Medford Temple for the first time too, its beautiful. As I was standing outside the locked gates, cause it was Sunday I had the thought of how horrible it would be to be separated from Heavenly Father forever. It was a really neat impression and made me think. It was kind of scary to think of too. Maddie called Moroni Morosie.

It was so nice to get out of the house for this trip. I am home alot as I am recovering... and its hard sometimes. Mom is always there for me as well as Allie. My Famiy is so loving I love all their GUTS!!!

I know mom has Tons of these pictures on her blog but I was there as well and I need to tell my side of the story. I called aunt Heidi and she made allies beautiful Red dress. Chealsea did her hair and asked me to look at it. I said it needs to be balanced out more, cause all her hair was on one side with out the flower. I thought of a flower but felt imberessed cause she is a hair dresser and Im definately not. Any who, Allie said like what a flower, and I said yes! Mom had bought these red flowers for decoration and we borrowed one and it looked fabulous. Allie had adorable shoes on too, we ordered them about 4 days before homecomming. She got so many compliments and when people complimented her, I guess her date Kyle was acting like I know she looks good. For dinner Allie had her friends come to our house for hawaiian haystacks. Dad and the boys put up the tiki torches, mom and wanda made the food and I decorated. Mom bought some stuff and I created! We had a fish net in the center spred out with sea shells scattered about. I asked mom last minute if she could get some gold fish and she did with Isaiah. We put 2 cylinder vases on the table with live goldfish inside.(We put them in fresh water too fast and by the next day lets just say we didn't have 10 fish anymore). We had three candles the ones from on the piano that are different heights and are red on the table as well. We used china plates, glass pretty cups for orange julius and yellow smaller cups for water. I also took a pinapple and cut out the inside, like carving but not from the top down, from the side in. I then put a candle inside and made a small fruit display on the hutch with our other little hawaiian decorations on the main level of the hutch. They all got leis when they got to our house, played Password after and had a great time. Luke didn't want to go to Homecomming so he went with Isaiah and I to High School musical 3 and we all loved it! There were like six in the theatre. It didn't look like a winner from the outside, but oh it was. I actually am guilty of seeing it again cause Chealsea hadn't seen it yet(she is a Zac Efron fan, googoo eyes for him) and when we went including us two and Chealseas cousin Hannah there were 4 people in the theatre. I said why rent it, we got it to ourselves right now! The highschool musical 3 pic is from disneyland but it fits with what Im talking about, okay.

For the homecoming football game Allie and some of her cross country buddies cheered with the cheerleaders it was a blast to watch. Grandma and Grandpa Marchant came to that game and then spent the night. I curled my hair but living in Beautiful Oregon it was flat in no time due to a light mist floating about. I never thought I would see Allie even try to be a cheerleader. Lets just say we were happy that she has other sports she loves and is good at. Conner came up to me during the homecomming game and said "Lindsey I hope we lose, then Luke can come to Disneyland with us." and he looked and the score bored and said "YES!" I told him, I want to lose too so they don't move on in football this year, but you can't tell anyone that.

Being home this fall has been great. I have loved watching all the kids in sports. Luke's coach said "Your gonna be a star....." We always knew it was Luke by the way he stood and moved. One game he knew he only got half JV so they could use him on varsity so he just went out in normal clothes, it made him look like a sweaty studd.Allie got in shape for basketball. She said whenever it go hard she just remembered her goal, Im doing this for basketball or I wouldn't be here. Allie was not too happy with the outcome of districts her legs just wern't working like normal. I loved cheering her on. The morning I dropped her off for districts to ride the bus, cause she had to be there earlier than the rest of us, I had the sudden feelings flow my body as if I were going to be running, the excitement and fear, it was crazy.That was two years ago too...Time flies. Conner and Isaiah did amazing at soccer and Maddie enjoyed it too. One game the referee stopped the game and tied Isaiahs shoe, we was playing so hard he didn't even notice his extremely long shoe laces untied. Conner and Isaiah both played their hearts out and made lots of goals. Conner was mr. never stop playing soccer. Any time he could he would try to get us to play soccer with him or when I watched all the kids he finally got me into promising that after conference we would go play a little soccer at the elementary school.. thats all he wanted. Besides soccer maddie goes out in the gym with mom and I to "work out" she says. She ties up jumpropes and swings with them while mom and I do circuts(if thats how you spell it). And whenever she has played hard she tells me "Im sweaty."