Large Group Pictures

Here are some of the Large Group pictures I was in during the Bi- Stake Youth Dance.

Kierin Anderson

Jessica Bell, Emily Ferrin, Unknown Girl, Renae Bell

Anthony Pappas, Unknown Boy

Jessica Bell, Emily Ferrin, Renae Bell, Unknown Boy

Unknown Girl, Jessica Bell, Emily Ferrin, Renae Bell, Keirin Anderson, Unknown Boy

Emily and Anthony Pictures

These are pictures of Anthony Pappas, and me Swing dancing Country style at the Bi-Stake Youth dance in Longview. This was a lot of fun. I think that taking these Live action shots could not have been easy for the Photographer, because we were moving pretty fast. As seen by hair in face of first picture.

The Emily Pictures

Emily Ball, Emily ?, Emily Fields, Emily Bishop
Emily Ferrin
Emily Higgins

These are from the Bi-Stake Youth Dance. All of these girls are named Emily. Only 2 of them (The first 2) are NOT from St. Helens. Crazy huh?

Slug-bugin' to dance

Yesterday on the way to an Amazing Bi-Stake dance with Longview, I was in the Car with Sister Bonnie Smith driving, Tiffany Shot-gun, in the middle seat was Emily Bishop, Megan Waite, and Teresa Stone, And I was in the back seat with my invited non-member, but ever so amazing friend Emily Higgins. I don't know how the subject came up, but we started talking about cars. We were deciding what we would want our car to be. We all (well at least Emily Higgins, Megan Waite and me) decided that slug-bugs are really cute cars and were really fun. Then we talked about how we would paint our slug-bugs. I liked red with black dots (Lady Bug). Emily Higgins thought of a Yellow one with Black stripes (Bee). And Megan Waite said that she would make the windshield into eyes. We were having a lot of fun talking about cars.

The Dance was a lot of fun. I Danced with Anthony Pappas and he gave me an invitation to his Birthday Party which is the day before Youth Conference. I'll be staying the couple of nights at his house. Don't worry they have to different buildings to separate the girls and boys and there will be chaperones. He lives in Seaside, and there will be surry rides around down-town. I'm really excited. That night there will be a bonfire too. It's his Sixteenth B-Day. I can't believe how OLD I am. Most of my friends are ages fifteen to seventeen. How crazy is that?

At the Dance I also danced with Kierin Anderson. He is awsome and a lot of fun. We danced to a Micheal Jackson song called "Beat It" (at least I think that's what It's called) "So Beat It, just beat it...but you want to be bad, just beat it." It was a lot of fun. It's not a slow song, but we danced anyways. He would do a cool dance move, and then I would do one. It could be like a dance off, except we were working off of what the other was doing and dancing together. It was pretty fun. He's 16 yrs. old though. And I'm already 18 this is getting wierd. I got pictures with both Anthony and Kierin. I was also a part of an all Emily Picture. The Emily Picture has only Emily's in it and I think it includes all the Emily's that attended the dance. It is so cool. They didn't have prints at the dance, but the photographer said he would upload the pictures to his website, and then I could have access to them. I hope they get uploaded soon. I'm a little impatient. I'll put them up if I think to when they come.

Oh by the way, I learned how to Country Swing at the Dance too. So now I know West, East and Country Swing, Plus a little of that, is it eighties swing or sixties swing? I don't know, but I just call it regular swing because I've never heard a special name for it. I feel like a bit of a dancer! Well that's my update for now

Old enough for college?

Today my little brother Brian finds out that both Matthew and I are applying for colleges. Brian comes and stands right in front of me. He looks at me for a moment and then says, "Are you really old enough for college?"
"Yes, Brian, I'm graduating from high school this year." I said all mater-of -factly.
"Really? You look too young to be that old!" he says to me, then to my mother he says: "mom, is Emily really old enough to go to college?"

**Note** (my mom and I went to parent teacher conferences today... and they were interesting)

My mom's answer to this was "Physically she is."
So being the nice, sweet, not so confident TEENAGER that I am I say, "Physically?"
Then mom has a moment of realization of how badly that could be taken, and in trying to fix it says "I didn't realize how bad that sounded until I said it. I only was thinking about how I would handle it."
And I being the teenager that came out of a bad parent teacher conference, thought: 'UhHuh...sure.'

College

I just applied online to EAC (Eastern Arizona College). There will probably be more steps later. But it was so easy that I'm kicking myself for not doing it earlier. I hope I get accepted for the spring term. I also hope that I know soon enough to put this school on my scholarship application. I am goingto try to get the Tom Brumbaugh Scholarship. It's a music scholarship from the band department worth $1,000.oo. It is a band scholarship, but because I have a broken hand Ms. Hamblin said I can sing for it. I think that my only hope for winning this scholarship, is if I'm the only one that applies for it. The reason I think this is because I don't fill out practice records, or turn them in. oops (::( I also haven't been taking any private lessons for any of my instruments except piano, and that one isn't very impressive. I hope this all works out in the end...

Mormon Prom

I went to our Annual Mormon Prom in Longview this year. It was really fun even though I didn't have a date. I danced with several boys.
The theme was A Night at the Oscars. And I wona an Oscar!!!!!! I won "Best Picture" and my prize was the movie "Twilight". It's awsome to not have to buy it. I like picking the scenes that were filmed in St. Helens. Especially the High School.