beat me. i dare you. =)

100 words

Speedtest

so i was looking a blog that ie li belongs to, and found this little thing, so try and beat me. =)

ie ling of calm waters.

i realize i'm graduating in less than two months, but it really is for the good of the house. as you all my now with exception to tisha and natalie [the only people who read my blog who aren't family], wallpaper was invited to stay at our house but it has long overstayed its welcome. i believe that paper has been in my room since my oldest sister was a teenager. so thats a long time.

anyhow, ie li thought it'd be a nice idea to practice her interior design skills and i must say she did an excellent job. i love my new room and it makes me really happy and calm. i guess thats why they call that color calming waters. =) anyway, i wont bore you any longer but here are before and after pix!

response to newport-lovin

i wanted to post a response with a picture, but i guess you can't do that. so this is for ie li anne:

i'm glad you enjoyed yourself! i hope you didn't worry about mei li too much. she was in great hands. i mean, just look at the hard work dad did:

can't wait for 12.12.08

Hey everyone, i thought it'd be nice to post something this afternoon. So, i don't really know what made me think of it, but i decided to look at the cast for the upcoming movie Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. As many of you know, i am a huge fan of this series because it's teeny-bopper, adventurous, fantasy, and love all mixed into one. What teenage girl wouldn't love that? so anyway, i stumbled across this little video from MTV news and i just thought i'd share it with ya'll. it comes out december 12 and i'm hoping to be there opening day in utah i guess...freezing in the snow? haha. anyway, if you haven't read them, do it. I guess i'm just talking to Ie Mei when i say that. so with that, happy sunday! i hope it's restful and fabulous! xoxo. check it

it's official...i'm obsessed

so, i've never really been into american idol, but ever since heartthrob david archuleta entered the competition, i can't help but tune in on tuesday evenings at 8:00 to watch him...over and over again. =) so the first week i saw him, i voted maybe 5 times. the next week it was 10, then 20 and up to 40.

and then, i discovered that i could vote twice as many times if i use mom's phone at the same time. so guess how many times i voted for david archuleta tonight... that's right, 90. haha. no, that is not a typo, that is a nine and a zero. but i will say that i voted 60 times for brook and 80 times for jason castro as well.

i hope that my voting makes a difference. I LOVE YOU, DAVID ARCHULETA!


and p.s. thank you to ie li for "introducing" me to him. =)

spring break

alright, so i'm back for a post. =) spring break was a couple weeks ago and it wasn't very different than the others. you know, i went to washington d.c., and indiana, saw the family, the usual. even though i'm 7 and 14 years apart from my sisters, they are my best friends and i never miss an opportunity to visit them. a first for us west sisters was going to a concert. carrie underwood anyone? she was great! and i am now in love with josh turner because his voice is SO deep! [would you go with me, josh turner, check it out] anyway, it was great spending time with my nieces and nephews as well. they are my pride and joy. we went to the children's museum and the park and a cub scout pack meeting. enjoy the pictures! thanks for the wonderful times sistas!
best friends forever!

my pretty princesses♥

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movin' in!

so guess what everyone. i have a place to live this summer. and that is at hinckley hall; helaman halls. and i also have a roommate. her name is cassie crabb. =) woot woot! it was a stressful procedure. cassie and i watched the computer screen until that clock striked 10:00 provo time. we picked room 1208 so i'm hoping it's a good one. =) anyhow, sorry this blog is lame. but just thought i'd update ya'll. xoxo, excited cougar!

high schoolers are busy

So i guess it's been a while. I've acquired so many sites I can't keep track: myspace, facebook, blogger, byu, email. Anyhow, since it is a slow night I thought it'd be a great opportunity to catch ya'll up on my life as a california high schooler. So I had a fabulous birthday party a few weeks ago. It was held at a small, quaint bowling alley in the city of Montrose. It had eight lanes and was the perfect size.





Among the V.I.P. attending were the Jeremy West family [Always a pleasure], about 50 friends from church and school, and some stragglers who just found their way to the bowling ally that night. =) I wish everyone could of been there but you can just observe some of the pictures and pretend. And just a little side, I have a question for all ya'll out there. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I thought that on my birthday I was supposed to be the star...?

Who does this kid think he is? One of the cutest things alive or something?

Next on the agenda, Youth Day. For those of you reading my blog who did not attend a catholic high school, it is basically a big catholic teen gathering at the Anaheim convention center. There are about 5000 teenagers there every year. Yes, three zeros. Anyhow, I've been attending for the last three years and I do enjoy it a lot.



There was a great speaker there named Jason Evert and he spoke about chastity and modesty and all that stuff. Nothing I didn't already know, but it's nice to witness someone of another faith addressing the subject. He also referenced a couple of teenage girls who wrote a department store demanding modest prom dresses and how they ended up working for the store to help with the modesty issue. If you didn't know already, they're Mormon. Amazing that it had such a big impact that it even reached outsiders.


Last but not least, ward talent show! That happened this saturday. It was a fabulous event filled with 20 something acts. Needless to say, some were much better than others, but I do commend everyone for getting up there. =) Doug solved his rubik's cube, my sunday school teacher performed on his guitar, and six lovely young women from the ward put together a tapping, clogging number. So here are the highlights, enjoy!


Background on this song: My sunday school teacher and his friends used to go to the Shell station everyday during their college days and bought Henry Weinhart's root beer [can i get a spell check on weinhart?] Anyhow, one day, they went to the shell station and there was no more root beer to be found. And in the words of Ben Hill, " So I went home that day and wrote a sad song about it."



And this is the oh so cute tapping/clogging number. It was a perfect finale!

my weekend

hello all. i guess it's been a while. anyway, just wanted to upload this cool video for all to see. this is cassie singing the national anthem at the South Pasadena Boys' Varsity Basketball game yesterday. i think she did a fabuloso job. enjoy!

an unusual but fabulous weekend.

so, this weekend started off like any other. hanging out with friends. I invited my friend Lauren Hogue to come over on Friday and have a sleepover with me. So I was asking her if she wanted to watch a movie, and I pulled out Anne of Green Gables, one of my all time favorites, and asked if she had ever seen it. She replied, "That's funny you should ask because the actress in that movie is coming over to my house on sunday for tea." I was in complete shock. I mean, it had to be a joke. How coincidental is that?! I just didn't have words. I was so jealous and I told her she was sooo lucky. Anyway, we had a sleepover with Cassie and then she left around 1:00 on Saturday. Five minutes after she left, she called me and said, "Hey! So, I just told my dad about how you love Anne of Green Gables and he said that if you want, you can come over on Sunday to meet her. And you can bring your dvd and she'll sign it for you." I think i literally jumped for joy.

So today is Sunday and guess what I did. I had tea with Megan Follows, Anne with an "e." She is a very nice person; very down-to-earth. She has two kids, 16 and 14; a girl and a boy, respectively, and she drives a mini-van. I must admit that I was hoping to meet Anne Shirley, but Megan Follows is great too. She is actually quite different than Anne. She is much older now, but when she smiles, I can see that young girl who played Anne. So to all my fellow Anne fans, here are a couple pictures. =)

go cougars!

hello to my fabulous readers who i love so much! I wanted to inform you that as of January 10, 2008, I am officially a byu cougar. =) So that makes six for six in the west family. I will be starting this summer and I'm super duperly excited. Thanks for all of your support! I love you all dearly!