The Scariest Day of My Life

RIP Betsy DeArmon. Died on the 18th of May 2011

This is the damage to my car, I'm so lucky I didn't have anyone in my passenger seat. I have a broken windshield, and a broken tail light.

It was a day just like any other. I didn't have a fourth period and so after Seminary I was on my way home, I took Sidney home and I was just driving home. In Springville there aren't any stop signs on Center street except for a few places so I drove straight through like I usually do because there weren't any stop signs around. I was listening to All American Rejects and I saw something red from the corner of my eye and then I blacked out and I had gotten hit!





I got in a car accident and what did I first think of? Well after I stopped in someones yard I saw my phone made sure it was still working I looked down at the passenger seat floor and I hoped my sunglasses weren't broken. (What? I bought them at walmart and they're my favorite)





After a second of irrational thinking I got out of my car, don't know why, and freaked out, i could NOT stop crying. I just kept crying and crying and crying and my chest hurt really bad because of my seat belt. I kept sitting in my car and getting up and everything just kept going in circles and I kept hoping that it was a dream and I really didn't kill my car.(well an old lady did)





Funny story about this the police and firemen and paramedics were there and were asking me if I'd called anyone and I said I hadn't so they told me I should. I told them my parents were both at work and that my mom was in Provo and my dad was in Ogden so they told me i should probably call my mom, so I did and it kept ringing and ringing and ringing and it finally went to voicemail. Yeah I got in a car accident and my mom didn't answer her phone!! It was funny afterwords but at the time I was freaking out. So I called my dad and he told me he would call my mom and have her come and get me.





I got some injuries from my car accident, I have brusies where the seatbelt was. I have one on each hip, one on each of my knees, and one on my NON broken foot. So that was the scariest day of my life, right now we're in the process of getting all the insurance worked out and trying to get me a new car!

The Fruity Pebble Doughnut AKA The Thing That Made My Life

(Fruity Pebble Doughnut)

You see how great this thing looks? Well we were watching a movie on President Monson in Seminary and Brother Wetzel said that half way through the movie we would get doughnuts. Well half way through class we got up and were looking and picking our doughnuts and I noticed one that looked really interesting it was one that had fruity pebbles on it. I was talking a lot about it and Sidney finally said "oh just eat it" so I did I was eating it and it was so different. Sidney said she wanted a bite so i gave it to her. Then the thing that made my entire night was the fact that Bro. Wetzel asked if I was a germ-a-phob and I said no and then he asked if he could have a bite and i said yes and HE TOOK A BITE! That was the highlight of my life so far, yes this is before I got in my accident in case anyone wanted to know.

Pawley's Island!

Nuff' Said

That's where I"m headed to this summer and I'm so freaking excited!!!

Graduation

Graduation is finally coming upon us! I graduate in a month! It is insane to think next month so like 30 days and a couple of hours i will have graduated from high school and I wont be a "minor" anymore.

Today in church our bishop gave us seniors something for institute and he talked about us going to a meeting for the singles ward next week. I was thinking "Woah woah woah I'm not a young single adult!" Then I realized that I was wrong and that I am a young single adult and I could be going to a singles ward in the next couple of months. Thats insane!

Sorry no pictures this post, I need to get better at documenting things. I promise I will post about Sweetheart Royalty, and my two California trips soon!

The Weeping Angels (Blink)

Recently I went over to someone's house to watch Doctor Who. We ended up watching a really scary episode because I haven't ever seen it. It's an episode called Blink.
The alien in this episode was a "stone angel" or a "weeping angel"

The Weeping angel is the scariest kind of alien because they don't just kill you and take your energy. They send you to a different time and let you live to death. The reason they have they're eyes covered is not because they're weeping its because they are afraid of seeing another angel. Because if they see another angel they will really be stone. They aren't really stone to begin with but they can only move if someone ISN'T looking at them.

Well in this episode Sally Sparrow "meets" the angels at this old house, and her best friend gets sent to the 1920's. And it seems that every time Sally talks to someone about the angels that person gets sent back in time.

If I could I would want to make it so I had never seen the episode so it could feel like I was watching it for the first time again because its one of the better episodes. BUT if your going to watch Doctor Who PLEASE don't watch that episode first. Watch the first episode because Blink is kind of a creepy episode and I believe in watching every episode from the beginning to now.

The Doctor

So one Friday, I think, in the middle of november, or was it october? I can't remember but I went over to Sidney's house and Annie was there, we were watching some hilarious shows like Jim Gaffigan, and Shaun the Sheep and such. Annie then suggested we watch the first episode of the new Doctor Who, I knew we had it on our instant netflix cue at home but I hadn't ever watched it.

That one night has changed my life, I am in LOVE with the doctor, well more importantly David Tennant. I know y'all are wondering who he is. Well if you have ever seen Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, you've seen him, he plays Barty Crouch Jr. in the movie. (Just as an FYI in the first season it is not David Tennant) so I watched the first season of it and I loved it, but I was a little apprehensive about having a new doctor in the second one, i mean it was Barty Crouch Jr. the guy who stuck his tongue out the whole move. Well was I sorely confused. I love him, a lot, he is one of the best actors and I love that he fulfilled his life long dream of wanting to play Doctor Who.

Anyways that's all.

Thanksgiving 2010

I've added pictures for your viewing pleasure, be warned there is a lot.

So for Thanksgiving this year we went back east to Maryland! Its my parents old stomping ground, and that's where my sister was born too. It was my Dad, David and me. We were there for a week, we left the Saturday before and left the Saturday after.

We got to the airport about 8 and got through security and such without too much of a problem. And no I didn't have to go through a full body scanner, SLC only has one and we weren't in that line. Before we got on the plane we got lunch and then we got on the plane.

On the plane they showed the movie "Salt." I didn't like it that much, it didn't keep my attention and it was kind of boring. We got to Maryland around 4 EST. We got to Fredrick about 5 530 and so on Saturday we just had dinner and hung around my uncles house.

Sunday we went on a hike out at Monocacy battlefield. And after that I needed to just relax so we just hung around Fredrick again. We also went to the Here Kristna Temple Virgina and we made a special trip for me to see the Washington DC Temple (Where my parents were sealed). It's kind of funny because we didn't need to make a special trip because every day after that we saw the Temple!
(This is the best picture I could get of the temple from my phone while we were driving down the belt way)

Monday we went to DC and we went to the Air and Space museum for a little bit then we went to the Post Office for lunch. On our way to the Post Office we passed by the National Museum of Art. I've wanted to go to an art museum for awhile, but I knew my dad wouldn't go with me to it. And David definitely would not go either. I wanted to go to get some culture and see an art museum besides the Springville Art Museum.
The pictures above are all from the Air and Space museum
The first picture is the closet I could find of a gas mask, its a Doctor Who episode

This totally surprised me, I talked to my dad and asked him if I could go to the museum by myself, and he was a little hesitant, but he let me! I felt very odd going by myself because I'm used to my dad taking the lead and guiding us, so doing something by myself for a change was an odd thing. I left my backpack checked in and just took my wallet and phone with me around.

The place is HUGE. I sort of did a full scan of the bottom floor and barely got to the second level in that one afternoon. Some of the paintings and sculptors were odd. There was this one that looked a kid I know so that was funny.
( This is of the ceiling above where the fountain is)

(This picture is of the fountain on the second floor of the museum)

That night we had dinner with my Aunt and Uncle who live in Tacoma Park. Which is right by the "border" of Washington DC. It was a great dinner, which was very simple but it was great. I love having relatives that are vegetarian like me and my dad.
(don't mind the picture being a little messed up, T-mobile was having issues, i got a picture from Tedi that was a little messed up.)

Tuesday we went back to DC. This time we tried to go through the capital but it was just David and I and I couldn't figure out how anything worked and I didn't like leaving my dad. But we got off the metro stop at Union Station and there was the biggest shoe I have ever seen in my life! It was outside just because of a shoe sale in the Station. After we tried to go to the capital we went to the Native American Museum for lunch because my uncle we were staying with suggested it. It was really good. So after that David and Dad went back to the Air and Space and I went to the East part of the Art museum which is more contemporary and new. I went through that building pretty fast because there wasn't too much art. So I had heard from my relatives that there was a walk way between both of the museums. I had yet to see it but I went down to the very bottom level of the East building and I found it! Just to clarify it was a walk way but there was a book store and a restaurant in there too.

This is the shoe, huge right?

I called my dad and let him know where I was so he wasn't worried and tried to look at all of the art in the North end of the West building, still there was SO much art. That night we were able to do to one of my favorite restaurants Panera Bread. It was great.

On Wednesday we kind of just took it easy. We had lunch with my dads friend Steve at an all vegetarian Chinese restaurant. We kind of go all out when we go there and everything was really good. Also that night we went to my cousins Belle and Joey's house for a cousins night only and we had pizza and we played a game that was really fun. It was like pictionary and legos combined.I love this picture, the because my little "nephew" Hurley is now in the Priesthood :)

Thursday was the big event, the reason we were there in Maryland, Thanksgiving. I decided this year I would pace myself and not completely pig out and make myself sick. So I decided to eat a light breakfast and just let myself eat a lot.

Because we were going to have a van full my dad asked me if I would drive down with my cousin McCamie who was leaving for Miami the next day to make room in the van. I did and I had a great time chatting with her.

Dinner was great, I paced myself and I didn't eat as much as I thought I would. The tofurkey was delicious too.

Friday we went to Wonder book and then Gettysburg in Penn for the day because it wasn't that big of a drive. So we spent some time there, we saw the movie and my uncle bought me a book because I had run out, I had read all of the 5 or 6 books I had brought with me on the trip. We went and hiked on Little and Big round tops and then we got fries at McDonalds and then headed home.

Saturday we packed some and then we went to Antitem with my cousins John and Alexandra and we hiked there a little bit but not as much. Then it was almost time for us to leave for the airport so we headed home packed and then we headed to the airport.
We got there in plenty of time to sit in the skydeck and just watch the planes. I kind of wanted some Starbucks so my dad gave me some money and i went on a quest to find and retrieve starbucks.

I noticed that from my walking around that security was kind of crazy and there was a lot of people so when I got back to my dad and David I told them how crazy it was and so we sat there for a few minutes and then we headed to security. After we got through security we got dinner and then went to our gate and waited for what seemed like forever to get on the plane.

That plane was one of the funniest I've ever been on, everyone had their own screen in front of them and you could watch a variety of movies tv channels and you could even play games! So the plane ride didn't seem to be too long. Then we finally were back in UTAH! I loved it except for the snow and cold. But my mom picked us up and then we finally got home!

I know this is a really long post and kind of boring but I like documenting my experiences.