2013

     2013 was an AMAZING year for me! I have learned a lot, made tons of new friends, gained new talents, and learned quite a bit more about myself. Here is a recap with pictures; kind of like one of those flipagrams but one that you actually have time to look at the pictures.

In January I went to Washington DC with my School Choir for a competition, we took first over-all at Nationals, and that right there my friends is Obama's inauguration. This sounds too good to be true? It felt too good to be true! Honestly Logan High School has a first-rate choir instructor who makes the best out of everything he has. How many other choir teachers do you know that take their kids to Nationals where they take first over-all, and then also takes his kids to the presidential inauguration afterward?  (we didn't get that bad of spots either considering how big the Mall is and it had more people in it than some states have)

My School's Basketball team got painfully close to taking state, even though we did't take state we still got recognized for best high school student section pretty much ever. It was an unforgettable experience being  a part of such a vast crowd all rooting for one cause (we decked our self's out in white for every state playoff game as well, so that we looked more synchronized)

Hiked to the top of Angels Landing in Utah with my family

Crimson and Gold became one of my most frequently worn colors as a Senior Class Officer.

Ended my second year working at Domino's (I've been working there for two years? yes I started when I was 15.) I  enjoyed working there but quit this year because I was doing too many extra curricular activities to have a job.

I turned 17! (I have a tradition on my birthday to watch the sunrise to a new year of my life, this was the pic I took that morning)

Got asked to sing with a band named The Cotton Bones, on the Fourth Of July, on the corner of freedom boulevard. 

Went to EFY for the 4th time

At my school for homecoming week, just like every school, we have loads of traditions like, Senior paint the street, movie on the lawn, girls powder puff, homecoming parade, the football game, and of course the Homecoming dance. I had a hand in every activity that week, and even sang the homecoming theme song "It's All About Us" (by He Is We) in front of the whole school at the Homecoming Assembly with the SCO (Senior Class Officer) president. (That was a big accomplishment for me, it was scary! but I'm so glad that I did it.)

Got excepted to go to USU for college! :)

Was in my first musical, TITANIC, I played the first class surviving passenger, Eleanor Widener. This is my husband in the musical (yeah I know right? we made a cute couple, and we had a stage kiss) I realized doing this that I love doing musicals! I wish I had done more, and I will definitely jump at any chance I get to be in another musical!

"For she's a Girls State Girl, and a girl you ought to know!"
I went to Utah Girls State over the summer (a Government program for girls to set up their own government for a week, run for offices in it, and make a GAZILLION new best friends from all over the state of Utah) There hasn't been a week of my life where I have learned more and grew more than the week I went to Girls State.  I was in  Rampton city, and met Governor Gary R. Herbert while there. (If you went to Girls State also, PLEASE comment on this and tell me your experience! :)

Went to Disneyland!! Seriously one of my favorite places on this earth!

Went BACK to Washington DC in December for Close-Up. (Close-Up is a program for high school Junior and Seniors all over the country to come together and participate and learn about the government. I definitely recommend doing this if you get the chance!) Ignore the annoying finger of whoever was taking the picture, I still love this picture of the group of kids from my school that I went to Close-Up with at the FDR memorial.

    2013 was a truly unforgettable year for me, but ready or not here comes 2014 which will bring, huge changes, life changing decisions, new people, new talents, turning 18, college, new challenges, opportunities, and who knows what else! Come at me 2014!