excitement

so i have been talking to this girl i have never met via facebook email this is going to be in the same heritage room with me at BYU!!! ahh i am so excited.
so i found out who all the girls that are going to be in tingey 224 are and naturally i stalked them to the death to make sure they are all normal looking people and so far it is looking good!
i can't seem to locate miss emma marie though.
cute name but i don't know... how do you NOT have a facebook??
sketchyy...

but i have been talking to this one girl elizabeth bishop from northern virginia and she is a super nice girl. and i am excited.
also weirdly enough another girl from good ol' mountian view will be rooming with us! markie palmer. so i have known who she was because she was in my orchestra in junior high, spanish 2 with coleman, and chorale. so i know her... but i don't know her. i don't think we have had a legitimate conversation but we know each other exist. soo it should be good.

but i am so excited.


p.s. i got asked to prom... a week ago??
and i am stoked!!! i am going with tanner flake who is one of my best guy friends and i am just so excited because it is going to be great fun.
the poster says
"rachel! i would be eggspecially eggcited to eggscort you to prom!!"
and he put 240 yes i counted easter eggs on my front lawn.
soo after breaking them all open i found all the letters to his name except one A. ohh well... homecoming junior year he put 3 N's... i think he does it on purpose just to throw me off... but its funny. and i am excited!!

Fran Sancisco.

I went to San Fran over these past couple days with Chorale... and it was AMAZING!

really, so much unbelievable fun.

really.

so many memories and cool and hilarious things happened all in 3 days.

here is a recap.

1. SKYWALKER STUDIOS. george lucas's privet estate. yeahhhh we were only like 150 feet away from his house, wait MANSION. huuuge. we recored for like the whole day and it was tiring. buuttt while encore was recording i got to see a sneak preview of How To Train A Dragon or something in thee most amazing theater ever. seriously the sound system. unreal.

2. WICKED. loved it. not as much as the first time but i just looove the play and its just so fun to go see with all your bestest friends. 

3. HANGING OUT AT THE HOTEL. so fun. i love my choir. and playing ninja and getting kicked out of the lobby and just having a blaaaast everyy night. seriously soo much fun.

5. CHELSEA, KELCEY, ALEX, VAL, LYNZI. love all thesee girls SO much. our room rocked. and so did our food bag and boxers. seriously couldn't ask for better roomates. 

6. ALBINA ALLIGATOR. its real.

7. UNCLE RONNIE AND AUNT VICKIE. love them. seriously. too bad we aren't realllly related.

8. THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDE. its really huge and cool. go see it.

9. GHIRARDELLI SQUARE. um hi i ate the yummiest mint chocolate chip sundayy everr.

10. LOMBARD STREET. it is the windest street ever. so cool but a pain to get to. there are looots of hills in san fran.

11. HOBOS. there were some gross hobos there. with signs that were funny. like spare one dollar for weed. bahaha.

12. PLANE RIDES. hi i love airports and don't know why. but i had the funnest plane rides. they included having the guy embarrass chelsea and have jeff ask her to prom. spilling my ginger ale alllll over drew and his chem book and then all over jeff. laughing so hard i almost peed. trying and failing at making a squirrel origami out of a dollar bill. racing through sky mall.... and many more. so fun.

13. CHORALE. i love chorale. and everyone in it. it was so fun and i am going to be so sad to graduate.

14. OUR BUS CONVERSATIONS. wee had some funnnyy conversations on the bus. lets leave it at that.

all in all i looooved san fransicso. it was so fun and i love choir.

its spring!!

its officially everybody.

it is spring time.

my spring break pretty awesome.

we went snowmobling in fariveiw utah.

so great. i loved it. i love my family. and extended faimly. and tilly. and tyler...and yeah.

i didn't die but nathan palmer messed his lip/braces pretty bad and breanna smith had to get 7 stiches in her chin.

on the way home we went to the manti temple.

oh my goodnessss amazing.

it looks like a castle!!

i'm serious i am in love.

eexcept for the temple worker guys had no idea what they were doing i think...

yeahhh amazing.

so my wisdom teeth were... interesting

two of my bestest friends and favorite people inn the world came and visited me.

stephanie peterson and valerie goodman

love those two dearly

i feel bad beacuse i wasn't much fun or aware of what was going on. but i love them and the jamba they brought me.

oh and the story?

soo on friday, aka the day i got them out... i took a little nap and woke up around 630 pm

so i go upstairs, check my email and remember that the soccer banquet started at 6.

i was feeling pretty good so i decided since i was home alone i would just drive on over there.

so i pop in some pain pills since the numbness from the surgery was going away and i'm off like a dirty shirt.

soo about 730. about 45 minutes later. my good ol' coach is giving a speech thing about everyone of the girls and how he had such a good season and yada yada yada.

so suddenly i feel nauseous right?

so say "emily, i am going to throw up."

2 seconds later i am throwing up in a brown alberstsons bag and all over the floor.

in the middle of the quiet speech.

grrrreat.

so i leave the room with sherbear and some mom that is a nurse.

yeah, my parents were not there.

after about 5 minutes i go back in feeling better.

the banquet ends and as i am walking out with the lovely kimee and her parents i decided to throw up again! all over the sidewalk.

bending over and dry heaving.

what a scene

it was horrible

but the quents were so nice and drove me and the truck home because technically i was told not to drive. and kimee scratched my back while i dry heaved on my driveway as well. thanks kimmers. youda best.

that night was miserable and i realized i really can't ever take pain pills.

even with my leg surgery they had to try like 25 different pain pills so i wouldn't throw up!

i don't know whats wrong with me.

but it surely wasn't fun not being able to eat smile or show emotion for the next 5 days.

but its over now... thankfully.

and now school is starting and then i graduate.

ahhhhhhh...

oh and ps.

here is a picture of my little bruders face.

what.a.stud

wisdom teeth

i am miserable.
thats all


stories later

'purse'onally UNinvited

competitiveness is a disease
one without a cure.
and i deffffinitely have it.
baad

i mean who knew?? i always knew i was competitive.
and winning is always funn.
but i mean, relief society?
really rachel. calm down

and here's the thing. i wasn't even being that baad!
i was just quick

okay, here is the story

soo i go to relief society because i was invited right?
and its this whole cute thing for relief society's 50th birthday or something and they had a million cute purses and the theme was like "purse"onal and "purse"uit of happiness and stuff.
yeah cute.

so they fed us dinner.
yum
sang us a song.
sweet.
and then we played a game...
this is where the problems started


so here is how the game worked.
there was a big purse in the middle of the room.
sister baker stood at the microphone and would say
"anyone have tissues in their purse" and they would do everything from a church magazine to fingernail clippers. so fun
and everyone would race to see who had it and if they could get it in the big purse the fastest.

so i ended up being the official 'runner' for the table.

soo i was wearing slippery shoes and pretty much dove 5 times to get the items in the purse the fastest.
and i actually won 7 times and got the prize for having the most items.... even though they weren't technically all mine

soo here is where the bloddy/split open lip comes into play.

so the purse moved around the room a lot to make it fair for allll the tables and this item happened to be a cell phone


perfect

i didn't have to wait for the others on my table to dig it out of their purse... i just grabbed mine and ran

so i'm running to the purse i did not notice poor sister waring.
i guess she stood up right as i was going by and as i was literally throwing my phone into the purse i guess somehow i elbowed her or something and her lip legitimately bled until the night was over. which definitely was a good hour. but i mean i was in the back table and the purse was like 6 feet away from her. if that.
so i mean, she should have been quicker.
okay no i am kidding.
i should have been not so competitive and intense.

i really feel so bad
and i gave her the candy bar you win for being first.
because well, i won.

but i felt bad too.

but i did win 7 candy bars and well, kept none of them.

but it was sad
and i really feel so bad. and everyone got quiet and it was embarrassing and sad and i felt like crap and that i should just be dirt.


moral of the story is.
the relief society is never going to invite the laurels to their activities again because if they do...
i will be there.
and probably leave someone with a broken leg next time...

great.
it really is the story of my life.

President Dallin H. Oaks.

"even if he doesn't lift the burden, he will give you the strength to get through it"

today president Oaks came to our stake conference!
it was amazing and yes i did get to shake his hand.
i feel so cool and it definitely made my year.
we have a new stake presindency and my old bishop and one of my best friends dad is in it! whooo!

but President Oaks is the nicest man and his talk was amazinggg
i was a little bummed that the adult session was at the same time as sadies because i wanted to go more than anything... but speaking of sadies...
it was so fun!!

seriously, i loved it and my date was super.

for our day activity we did the AMAZING RACE. 

it was funn but we had to run like miless.

we were 

team blue

i love soccer. and i miss it soo much

we went cosmic bowling, hence the blue pictures...

and stephanie peterson and aaron forrest rocked the zebra look

meet mr and mrs fredrickson.

i love these girls

this is our 'mad' faces

we played this game where somebody says something funny, or sad, or just plain wierd and take a picture and see what our faces look like. probably we did this thee wholee night. so fun.

and this is me and my date drew.

we dressed up as Russell from the movie UP

"the wilderness must be elxplred... ka kaa, ka kaa!!"

so sadies was the bomb and so was stake conference.
what a wonderful weekend

flashbackss

so the other day i was looking for some food for lunch and i found...
THESE!

i pretty much almost dieeed.

seriously.

these are like my childhood.

i immmediately opened the bag, i didn't even ask mom for permission (i know wierd right?) and ate them.
andd ate them.

they are so good.
and it was like flashback x10 to my childgood

seriously

you should go to the store, and buy some. and enjoyy
ohh and i definitely did this... it was irresistable. i mean, how could you eat Bugles without doing this??

oh and today this grandma came in the house i was at for mutual and when her son was like 'oh look at all these beautiful girls!', she pointed at me and said these aren't all girls! thats a boy!

really.

and then she was like oh it is a girl?? after we corrected her of course...
and was like mad and said, 'she cut her PANTS OFF!'

she was disgusted and said it over and over as if it was a sin to wear my track shorts.

whathee!

...i've never had anyone react to me like this before...

weird....

corndogs and happiness

so this week was crazzzy... crazy crazy busy.
suprise right? ha thats probably all i blog about. is how busy i am.
but whatever.

wednesday
intersquad meet.
i didn't do nearly as bad as i had imagined but it still wasn't great.
lets just say i have lots of room for improvement!

thursday
probably the most stressful/worst day of the week.
i definitelyy got ripped by my coach for a good hour and 45 minutes.
why?
because i have a choir trip at the same time as the biggest meet of the year.
yeah.
pretty much my coach made it clear that i had to chose between my whole track season and the choir trip.
i wanted to cry.
soo i stressed out for a good 8 hours and then talked to my dad and found some good but confusing alternatives

alternative 1-
fly home early from san fransisco. super confusing.
alternative 2-
be really bad at pole vaulting.


personally i like alternative one. butttt i guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.

Friday
i went to the ASU gymnastics meet with the pole vaulters.
that was fun i guess... we went to in n out and yogurtland.
super yummy
but the meet is always super long and seems to drag on but this year i sat by my favorite cody stewart andd we had a nice little heart to heart for 2 hours and it made the meet not soo boring. thanks man.

Saturday
i went to the basketball game and we WON!
whooo. good job boys.
then we went to nielsons and i had uhh 2 corndogs, fries and a penut butter brownie concrete.
aka heaven. the lady recommended it too me and i trusted her and it pretty much made my life it was so yummy
so so so good.
and i had to fill up before fast sunday so of course...

so pretty much this week was good. full of studying for ap gov and failing and just being busy.
so fun.
and its raining.
love it but pleaaaase dry up by tomorrow.

monday is a vault day.
and i neeed my vault days!!

weekend madness

...caution... long post

so basically this weekend was crazy busy crazy.
but it was so good.

it started out with missing school on Friday and spending the day at Saguaro High School for regionals.
it was probably the most tiring/fun experience of my life.
probably i have never been so exhausted from just singing like ever.
our choir director lady was thee most intimidating person everr.
if you were doing one tiny thing wrong. like your vowel placement was just a little off.
she knew
and she would be like "you tenor. stop it. stop doing that right now or i will point you out"
out of 100 kids she knew who was doing it wrong.
it was scarryy.

but i have some great memories from that.
like, uhh eating 25 chicken nuggets and 2 ice cream cones for lunch??
or or having jeff fall on top of me because i was supposed to catch him??
yeah.
good ones.

but it was kinda sad because i spend like a million hours learning and falling in love with the music and then it turns out all i got was a puzzle because i was first alternate.
sad huh.
so maybe i cried a little when i was watching them do the dress rehearsal.
but it really was depressing.
buttt i didn't cry during the real thing. so its okay
and i did sing along. and the little boy and random lady sitting next to me (yeah, i sat by myself.) thought i was a freak for knowing all the words and stuff.
ha


ohh and then after fridays rehersal i went strait to my favorite persons house because it was her 18th BIRTHDAY!!!!
and we had a cute and very tasty dinner at her house with the girls and after had a bunch of people over for dessert and games.
and just dance is my favorite.
and that night was so fun.
and i love stephanie peterson so much its really unreal.
i can't even explain.
but i had so much fun with her on her birthday and i stilll need to give her her birthday present.
ah. i need to stop forgetting.
but uh yeah.
i love her.

then i went home and slept and woke up and went to regionals again.
pretty much the only time i was home that day was when i was sleeping.

same with saturday.
after regionals i got home, went to the bathroom (tmi, i know) ant seriously 20 seconds later went to my brothers basketball game.
now they did win which is a mjor accomplishent.
but something even cooler is that i ligitimately fell asleep, sitting on the bleachers for half an hour.
no, i am not kidding.
who knew. i mean i thought having a whistle blow every 5 seconds woul dkeep me awake but no.
i was so ezshausted i fell asleep then and there.

and then i went to home and slept for an hour, and then went to jr miss.

i know right.
crazy.
i was NEVER home.


oh and the BIGGEST news of the night was that...


dun dun dun...!!


MY SISTER IS OFFICIALLY ENGAGED!!!!!!


woooo crazy right?!!!

oh, pictures.
here!

good job guys!!!

hungover on happiness!

today was a good day.

i went to the dentist and i am still cavity free.
yup. never had one in my life.

and and i vaulted today for the first time since probably last year.
and that went a lot better than i thought.
and no, i am not the next cara carpenter.
but, i didn't look like complete crap.
so in my mind. it was a definite success.


i love pole vaulting.


but don't worry. by next week i will hate it.
and then love it again... its just how every unhealthy relationship works


ohh yeah, life is good.

i spend my days at school
and spend my nights watching the olympics.
and the rest of my time that i don't have i procrastinate.
i mean, i'm in college right???
no big deaal.
its so great.
i really love it.

oh and p.s...

this is definitely how i felt in Websters class today...

he was made me feel weird because he was rude.

and he was in a grumpy mood AND it was his 55th birthday.

poor guy...