I've Moved!!!

Hey im gona try this blogging thing again, but im gona try it out on a new websit that's easier to use. I hope you can all find it ok!!! Heres the URL!!!
http://morrillrecollections.weebly.com/

ROAD TRIP

This weekend Aasha and I took our first ROAD TRIP together and we had a wonderful time!!! We left after sacrament meeting to Kennewick. (in the Tri- Cities) As we were leaving it had started to snow in North Bend and just barely stick to the ground, so we were a bit nervous because it was supposed to continue snowing all the way until Monday night when we were planning on going home. We got to Kennewick in good time and had no troubles. We got to our dear friends, the Claybrooks around 2 pm.

(This is a old picture of their family)
We visited for a while and then Aasha and I helped Kristi make some pumpkin pie, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and pumpkin chocolate chip bread from scratch. After cleaning up from all of that we packed up the cookies and piled into their van and headed over to their grandparents house for a big Sunday dinner. We had a grand time!When we got home we made up some bean dip (it was supper good and super easy- 1 can of refried beans, 1 can of chili and 1 box of cream cheese, warm up and serve with chips)and watched "The Testament" which is a super good movie for any of you who havent seen it. After the movie we realized that we had not yet cooked up the bread so while we waited for that to cook Kristi, Aasha and I played Phase 10... like always I came in last, but we had tons of fun!!!

About 5:30 in the morning i had Audrey, Nicole and their cat climb onto the couch to sleep with me. SO CUTE!!!! We then had a pancake breakfast and after that Aasha and I packed up. We then headed out for our trip home. Things didnt seem to get too bad until we got to the pass. You could not see the roads, it was windy and snowy and were in two white outs. But Aasha proved herself to be a good and talented driver. Good Job Aasha!!!

Thank you so much sis for a wondeful trip!!! and Thank you Claybrooks for a fun visit!!!

I am thankful for...

My heart is very full of thankfulness today. I could literally go on forever with everything I'm thankful for but i thought i would share a few of them with you today.
I am thankful for the gospel- for being born into a family that is already in the church, because if i wasn't i probably wouldn't of found the church or accepted it. I am thankful for my parents and their loving example to me. I am grateful to have a big family, with three amazing sisters and an wonderful brother. I am thankful for my education, even if its not the greatest school I'm grateful to be able to go to school. I am extremely appreciative for all the leaders i have had in church and for the little seeds they have planted within me; because of them i now have the great love for the gospel that i have today. I am grateful for a living prophet who leads and guides us in a challenging world. I am grateful for trials- even if i feel that i have too many and that i cant overcome them i am grateful because of them i have grown so much! I am grateful for hot chocolate, fires, Christmas music, brushes to sing into, warm pj's, books, email, fruit, hair ribbons, contacts, facebook, mean teachers who push me to the limit. I am thankful for extended family members, homemade bread, holidays, cars to travel in, my dad's job, annoying cats that make my dad laugh, movies, mountains to climb, sunsets, bright colors, laughter, sadness, happiness, snow, sun, rainbows, primary kids who so willingly share they pure testimonies, fresh cut grass, family reunions and picnic's, electricity, cookie pans, camping, fuzzy warm coats, beautiful hair, BOYS, art, beautiful things, Michael Buble, the radio, river rocks, grooveshark, letters in the mail, Natalie Cole and chocolate...

I'm Back!

There is so much to go over since my last post, i mean i could literally go on forever!!! But I wont bore you with all that. So I will just briefly tell ya some basics.

I am now a Jr. at Mount Si High School. I am taking seven classes a day, i have morning seminary at six am!!! This means im up by four am, crazy, right? Then i go to the high school to take geometry with Mrs. Slecta, Chemistry with Mr. Hagler, Health with Mrs. Backstrom, U.S. History with Mr. D'Ambrosio, French 3 with Mme. Daudurand (we all call her Karine) and then American Literature with Mrs. Young-Blanchard. It's not the funnest schedule but it works, right? I am still taking art lessons with Beth Hays; and i have just recently just finished a cake decorating class for beginners at Micheal's Craft store. It was soooo much fun!












Aasha has finished her first year of college, and will be starting back up in January; which in her opinion isn't coming fast enough. Until then she works two jobs. She works at Kids and Baby Gap and Nine West (a shoe store).

Hyram is in seventh grade. He is in the regular concert band and jazz band; and he plays two instruments the trombone and the baritone. He is also really enjoying his trombone lessons every Saturday morning.

Tyra is in fifth grade and thoroughly loving it. Her old piano teacher went off to collage so now she is taking piano lessons from Sister Espanoza from the North Bend ward. She says its a little challenging but you can really hear some talent when she plays.

Hanna is in fourth grade and eating up all that she can learn in school. She is especially excited to be starting up violin lessons from one of my good church friends Katy Crowley.

Diana Whitlock moved out and now we have my cousin on my dad's side of the family living with us, Russell Hansen. He works at Jiffy lube.

As for recent news in my family we are all very excited because on the 22 of this month my Grandma Morrill will be coming up to live with us for one whole month!!! She will be here for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. And then to make news two times better my Grandma and Grandpa Patteson will be coming up for Christmas!!! Could my family be any more excited or happier? (hahaha) So as of now my mom is fixing up the laundry room for my Grandma Morrill to stay in and she has been busy for the past few weeks making homemade curtains for the living room, dinning room, Hyram's room and the laundry room; and might i say that she is doing a splendid job!!! My dad is constantly busy building fires to keep me warm (thank you dad!) working and he is fixing up a Volvo that he just bought for his new commuter car in the winter.

This will be it for now but i promise to write soon! Good night!

HaPpY vAlEnTiNeS dAy!!!!!

My second attempt at tie dying...

What do ya think?

BYU? Already?

So as most of you might of already heard... I really don't like school. Big whoop. Well last year and this year i have been trying so hard to fit in and make it work out, but sometimes it just doesn't work. Two of my classes this year i was especially feeling like i didn't fit or was learning anything. Language Arts and Geometry.
Iv heard so many great, wonderful, amazing and good things about WAVA, so i thought i would try it out. But because of miscommunication i missed the deadline... :(
That same night i was talking with my friend Emmy (a non-member Friend), and she was telling me about the program she's been going through for the past couple of years. She had only good things to say about it and was really pleased with the program. Can you guess who she is going through?
(Hint)


Yep... you guessed it! She's going through BYU Independent Studies.
Not only do i now have a way that i could maybe introduce the gospel to her, but She introduced me to a wonderful program! I absolutly love it! And cant wait to explore it more... :)

Animals?

Our cat midnight has always had to just put up with my family. So being dressed up as a Sugar Plum Fairy was nothing new to him...



Recently a lady my mother works for had to give away her two birds. So guess who got them? Yep, you guessed it, WE DID!!!
When we received the birds and heard their names (Bucky and Amanda)Those names were absolutely out! It took us about 2-3 hours to finally come up with the perfect names for them, but whew!... we did it!
Can you guess?

That's right! Lil'Abner and Daisy May
(Lil'Abner)


(Daisy May)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

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Lots of apples + Hungry Elk = NO APPLES!

My mom is helping Sister Thompson in the ward get ready for an applesauce making class that will be happening Tuesday the 13th. (which is tonight) Well Last Wednesday My mom, Aasha, Hyram, Tyra and Hanna all went over the the Noles (in the Snoqualmie Falls Ward) to go pick apples. It turns out that her nephew was there a few days before, and shook all of that apples out of the tree, and then put them on a wheelbarrow on her porch. She let my mom choose what she wanted, and then the rest she was gonna use for canning, and making Delicious other foods. Well my mom filled this giant box with these red apples, that would make perfect applesauce. She left them in the box out in the carport where we all thought they would stay cold and perfect! Well... We thought wrong...
We woke up on a Saturday morning. It seemed like a perfect day! And my dad thought, "What better way is there to start a day besides one that is started with a cup of homemade apple juice?" So he went out to the car port to collect a few apple to make his juice with; And this is what he found...


The elk not only ate up all of our precious apples... they also left hoof prints like this EVERYWHERE!

Little pieces of apples were left all over the carport... lucky elk!

And i was getting quit excited for that applesauce... darn.









Moral of the story is- Either you need to be more careful to where you leave your applesauce
Or
You need to always be ready to chase away unwanted guests

News Flash

Aasha wants me to let everyone know, that she has started up her blog again, the address is...
http://morrilllaughter.blogspot.com/

Cotton Eye Joe Problems

Last Saturday night, Aasha and Deanna really wanted to go to the stake dance, but i really didn't want to... but somehow they forced me to. All was going well, until they turned on my most favorite line dance song... The Cotton Eye Joe. I was actually having alot of fun, but then during the kicking part... My right foot when up and as it was just hitting the floor and my left foot was going up, someone behind me (don't have a clue to who it was... which is probably better cause now no-one feels bad for anything) accidentally kicked the back of my knee, and i rolled up on my toes and then fell backwards. I kinda landed on my bum and my right foot and my left foot was out in front of me. I sat there for a moment stunned, and alot of people came over to help me up. As soon as i stood on it, tears came to my eyes, and my right foot and ankle was hurting like heck! Aasha and Deanna were nice enough to leave the dance early. (even if it was only 3 minutes early) That night mom wrapped it up and i slept out on the couch, surely convinced that i had only bruised it badly. The next morn, it still hurt really bad and i couldn't walk on it. So dad took me into the urgent care in town. He told me that i pulled a tendon in my foot (luckily i didn't tare it or i would need surgery) and I also chipped a piece of bone off of my ankle. (Which is a common thing when you pull of tare a tendon in the foot) So now lucky me... I get to ware a most fashionable boot for the next 3 WEEKS! The i get an air cast for about a week or two, and then an ace bandage for a while. I also got a subscription for crutches, but... i don't think I'm gonna get them... i don't think ill like them. So i guess you could say that I'm starting this school year out to one heck of a lucky start, wouldn't you agree?

I GOT IT!!!!!

Today at 10 am i went in for my first job interview. I was so nervous. I spent like 1.7 hours getting ready, so that i looked really nice for the interview. I wore a white button up shirt with a thin black belt that goes over it. I wore some nice light colored blue jeans, with some 1 inch black and bronze heals that have a bronze flower on the front, and than i straightened my hair and clipped back the front. But even though i looked super fabulous (if i do say so myself) i felt so nervous. I got there about 5 minutes early, but i figured that early is better than late, so i went right in. The manager, Lindsy took me right back to her office. And she immediately started asking me questions about myself and why i wanted to work there, and where else i applied. And then she asked me why I thought i would be a great person to work for Carter's. So i told her that I am very good with other people. I love to be around little kids and I am a very bubbly and happy person. Lindsy turned to me with a huge smile on her face, and then said, "As far as I'm concerned... You've got the job!" I was soooooooo surprised! But i am sooooooooooo excited! I start on the third of September. She said that because I'm still a student, she's gonna let me help her wright my working schedule, so that i still have plenty of time for homework. I cant believe that I got it but i am so excited that i can now start to save for college. Gosh, I'm not even graduated and I'm already talking about saving for the future!

Sweet Sixteen At Last

So every one talks about how big of a party they are gonna have for their sweet 16th birthday. But they never really realize how hard it is to plan the party. You have to consider the expense, the excitement and the girly moments. I have spent half of this year trying to come up with something really fun to do. And I couldn't come up with ANYTHING! I thought I was gonna be a helpless boring 16 year old girl with no imagination.
Wednesday the 5th, After babysitting my mom picked me up to go shopping. I got a movie, a new shirt and a super pretty blue fancy dress. But then we had to get home to get Hyram to scouts on time. But little did i know what was waiting for me. I walked in the door. Hanna and Tyra had their hair braided, they were in matching shirts and skirts(very flowy like a poodle skirt), and they were both wearing roller-blades. Hyram had on jeans that were rolled up a little, White socks with his black penny-loafers, a blue t-shirt that was tucked into his pants, and a blue button-up shirt (un-buttoned)with his coller pulled up and his hair combed back. Definitely not ready for scouts. Aasha was dressed normal but had an odd smile. She looked at me and told me to go look in the kitchen. I walked slowly into the kitchen and... Jessica Adams, Molly Cordell, Kyra Betterige, Emmily McCann, Danielle Schott and Jammee Gregory all jumped out and yelled, "HAPPY SWEET SIXTEEN!!!!!!!" Next I was told to look in the dinning room. In my mind I'm thinking, who else did they invite, or what else did they invite! (eeeeeeeek!!!!) The dinning room was all decorated as a 50's dinner.




Posters, table cloth, records, cars, trumpet and licence plates. We all got a menu, and then ordered our dinner. Aasha was our waitress for the evening. When our hamburgers and beacon burgers were finished, Hanna and Tyra brought them in to us on roller blades. Just like an old fashioned dinner. After our fabulous dinner we watched Hair Spray, opened presents (Jessica- Blue shirt and matching flip flops; Molly and Danielle-Micheal's gift card; Jamme- necklace and bracelet; Emmy- cook book and sketch book; Kyra- lots of candy and a cold stones gift card), ate ice-cream Sundays, watched Grease and then the new "Race to Witch Mountain." We finally headed out to the tent at 2:40(ish) after making up beds we all talked alot. We were determined to stay up till 5 a.m. But that was kind of hard to do. Danielle fell asleep at 2:50 (ish). I fell asleep around 3:40(ish), Molly- 4:03 Jessica-4:20 Kyra and Jammee- 4:30. No one made it to five. Around 9:30 a.m we all woke up, came in to the house and ate German pancakes. And then everyone went home. It was a wonderful birthday. I totally didn't expect anything. (even if i was in the room when Aasha was printing up the invitations, or when plans were being made on the phone, or Jessica trying to keep it a secret and doing badly at that.) I loved my birthday and I think I'm gonna love being 16!

A Giant Leep into a Pioneer Trek

So much happened on trek that I could not possibly ever tell you everything. So I'm just gonna give a day by day description. OK?
Now lets start...
Wednesday~ Everyone met up in some place on a really hot and sunny hill to eat lunch and find out who our trek families were gonna be. I was put into the best family EVER!!!!!!! My ma was Tonya (Tony) and my pa was Lee Young. I had 4 brothers- Mike, Jared, Anthony and Cameron. Each one of them were super fun to be with, they were all always happy and they were very very very strong. I had 4 sisters- Adrianna, Emily, Chelsey and Amanda. Who were equally fun to hang with and equally very strong. The fist day we had to hike 13.2 miles. Or at least my company (Yellow- Kimball) did. There were two other companies Green/Blue Grant and the Red Huntington, they accidentally took the wrong road and had to travel a few extra miles. By the end of the day, we were all very tired and very worn out. I don't think that a stale roll and hot chicken broth has ever tasted so good in my life.
Thursday~ We woke up and ate a nasty oatmeal. (but of coarse i have never liked any cereal, so to eat oatmeal for breakfast was horrible.) Then two boys from every family were chosen to be apart of the Mormon Battalion. Our two younger brothers, Anthony and Cameron chose to go. I didnt really realize how strong they were until they were gone. That same day we did what was called a Women's pull. Where just the girls would pull the handcart, up 2 hills. Occasionally our ma's would help and sometimes some random lady who you don't know would come help push the cart and then dissapre. I don't know how, but for some reason this pull didn't seem any harden then when the whole family was there. (That day we hiked 6 miles) That afternoon we made it to a big open grassy field... The Salt Lake Valley. When we got there we ate oranges- which tasted sooooooo good. Then we played pioneer games, ate scones, drake pink lemonade and washed our hair. Or at least some people did, i didn't want to, because my hair doesn't braid. Then that night we had a hoedown.
Friday/Trek Sabbath~ This was the day that we got to put on a fresh new pair of cloths. It felt soooooooooo incredibly good!!! We went down to the stage for a little while, then we split off into company R.S and Priesthood. After that we had age group classes. Then we went to family council time. Next we went out into the woods, by our selves, for solo time. It was 3 hours where we got to read letters written to us by our families and write in our journals or read a church magazine or the sciptures. But Solo time was soon re-named as "Bug War." We made dinner as a family and then went back down to the stage for a testimony meeting.
Saturday~ This day we only had to hike 3 miles out and it was mostly easy we were told. But this day was the hardest out of all of the days for me. I had some really bad blisters on both of my feet that had popped. I could hardly walk on them, my stomach hurt I had a headache and I had a 102/103 temp. I was told i was not allowed to help push the cart. And then after 20 minutes of hiking behind my family, my ma and the Trek nurse felt like it was not good for me to be out in the heat hiking. So they made me ride in the first aid car the rest of the way down. Telling my family good-bye was the hardest thing ever. I couldn't stop crying, which was probably really bad considering i was also really dehydrated. But we all made it down the mountain safe and happy, so all was good.
Now most people would say that pushing a 500 pound cart for 22.2 miles up and down really steep and extremely rocky hills in a pioneer dress on very little food, drinking water out of a dusty cup in the heat for 4 days... well they wouldn't really say that's alot of fun... But to me, i think it was the best experience of my life. And i hope to go back many more times.