photography.

so.. here are just a few shots of my bestest friend(: i know i'm a failure at blogging, but this is a three day weekend full of sleepovers, painting my room, and hopefully blogging! but... i'm going to start putting some of my photography right here... and i was going to start doing that this weekend... buuuut i forgot to convert my pictures to jpegs, sooo i can't put them on my computer, so that'll be next weeks project! i'm turning my life around people, i'm turning it right around.

she's gorgeous, isn't she?!?!

yep, more pictures of my sad attempt at photography will be coming soon! and all the blog posts i'm behind on... those are coming too!!

Sincerely,
Erica Michelle

dear blog.

dear blog. i am very sorry that i have been neglecting you. really really sorry. especially since i haven't gotten on tumblr or pinterest for a like a month now either. i'm sorry. the last couple of weeks have been... well, stressful. really really stressful. AP US History stresses me out. AP Stats stresses me out. FCCLA stresses me out (i'm Scenic Country District President but i'll tell you that in a while). AP English sorta stresses me out, but not that much. NHS stresses me out. Violin stresses me out. All-State and Adam's state Honor Choirs auditions stress me out. Photography stresses me out. and the list goes on, but i won't bore you too much. speaking of photography, my beautiful best friend let me take pictures of her last night!! (:

this, my dear friends is kelsey(: the first person that i've ever taken pictures of!! (like, with real photography, ya know)...

but anyways, more on that later! i have to work tonight- no football game :(
but after i get home, i've got a long long long long to do list for this weekend, and blogging about Washington DC, and life in general, is on that list(:


Sincerely,
Erica Michelle

what a week.

wow, that was, a long long long week.

and frustrating.

so, the biggest part of this week was when i deleted my facebook. and had kelsey change my password for pinterest. and tumblr. and i deleted my instagram app off my phone. and you know what? i got a ton done.

i did get my facebook back though, but nothing else. (merely because i don't really get on facebook very often)

monday.

sam brought me hot chocolate during choir (it was her open hour). oh, and it was from coffee trader. AKA the best hot chocolate in the entire world (i kid you not.)

my best friend > your best friend

after school, we had FCCLA cooking(:

then, i went home and did homework. (not too exciting)

tuesday.

tuesday, was not fun. i didn't do anything. except 7 hours of homework. i kid you not. SEVEN hours. it's amazing how much you can get done when there are no distractions. i literally sat at my kitchen table and did homework. i wasn't texting either, yeahhh... i got a lot done...

wednesday.

yeah, wednesday was a long day.
our FCCLA project got approved!!!!

and, yeah the vending machines got filled at school.

you're welcome.

the fccla girls understand (;

thursday.

you know what? if you have a bad day, wear a sweatshirt. because i had done my homework so well on tuesday and wednesday, i let myself get a giant, soft, gray (although i bought a black one too) men's sweatshirt. and i wore it on thursday. and it made me very very happy(:

i went to voice lessons, stats study session (at coffee trader... i got hot chocolate) and english seminar. busy i tell you.

oh, one thing i forgot to mention. we had a test in english on thursday (that's part of my seven hours of homework on tuesday) and everyone failed it, so i was freaking out because i didn't want to fail it. seriously. hardest test ever. possibly worse than AP chemistry was...

yeah

i got an 87%.

not to brag or anything, but i was so insanely happy i cried when i found out. (seriously, tears.)

i worked hard for that B+ (or is that just a b?). i stayed up so late wednesday, studied before school, during lunch, during every class basically, and my entire open hour (which is 90 minutes on thursdays). and now i never want to read about Oedipus or Antigone or Job or tragedy in general ever again. EVER AGAIN.



p.s., this is a random note. my ring broke last week. like, just broke. i didn't know rings could do that....

friday.
you know what's even better than wearing a giant sweatshirt? wear socks with toms. i know it might look strange, but it seriously think it made my day wonderful (oh, i wore bootleg pants so you couldn't really tell...) and it was great. my entire friday (during the day) was great!
and i came home...
and saw this(:
my mommy's homemade jam. you don't understand how delicious this stuff is. you don't.

then there was a football game, but sam and kelly and kelsey couldn't go so it was no bueno cuz it was just caitlin and i (deal with it, i'm friends with my best friends sister)... bbuuutt it was super boring so we left early. and i came home and sat on my couch and watched The Blind Side. basically, the best movie ever. i just really wasn't in a social mood. like whatsoever...
let's just say it wasn't a fantastic friday night.

saturday.
sooo... saturday i woke up, and went with Denise to take more senior pictures... (my mother believes in tons of pictures, ok??)... then, i did homework. all day. all stinkin day. until i had to work. thhheennn after work, i went to...
KATIE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (aka a scary movie and a barn dance)
scary move= not so awesome. (ya know, my deathly fear of scary movies...)
barn dance= freakin awesome
thhheenn, the few kids that didn't have an early curfew sat in the barn, wrapped in blankets, and talked. it's true. we talked for hours. until after one a.m... but then i had to go home cuz i do have a curfew. but it was amazing. in fact, it was so great that i made me really really sad... because, in less then a year i can't have these talks with Erik, Katie, Hayden, and Martell. because i'll be at college. and none of my friends will be there. it literally breaks my heart, because i love them all soo much. it's not even funny.

not the best picture in the world, sorry...



overall.
overall, it was a long week. filled with homework to the brim, no tumblr and pinterest (it's killin me, i can't even tell you) and... well, the realization that i won't be able to hang out with my amazing friends in less than a year. and i can't even tell you how sad that makes me. so, not the best week, but it could have been worse...

sunday.
sunday was a fantastic day! (other than the fact that i was super tired). after church, i went to katie's house (again) cuz we had forgotten to eat her birthday cake...

this cake was... the best ice cream, cookie dough cake ever. ever. 

annnddd, we successfully put katie's dogs in their fence. it took a lot of effort... but we wanted to eat in the grass without dogs sniffing around...

then, us girls sat their, eating cake, and talking for like two hours... oh, and mikelle gave a spiritual thought(:

yeepp, that was sunday...

monday.
ummm... homework, homework, homework. family home evening, dinner, homework, tthheenn... Kelly, Caitlin, Katie, and I got on Google plus chat and worked on our FCCLA project(:

tthheennn... katie and i discovered the beautifulness that is facetime. seriously. we have never facetimed... what the heck's wrong with us?!?!

so, obviously, that means that we facetimes for an hour last night(:

mainly, making weird faces at each other... and cleaning our rooms while we talked... it was great fun(:

tuesday.

sooo... during open hour, kelsey and i wanted food. because we like food... but then, we made the wise and healthy decision to go get water from sonic (cuz of the awesome ice) and it was fantastic(:

aannnddd.. that was it...

in less then two days i will be in...


Washington DC!!!

visiting ryan and tiffany...
be jealous(:


Sincerely,
Erica Michelle

ice and salt are a bad combination.

just trust me on this one guys. ice and salt are bad. bbuuttt that was today, i'll have to get there(:

monday. 

I really don't think i did anything exciting on monday, whatsoever. i did get home to a HUGE stack of college mail. and that annoys me and stresses me out. like a lot. dear colleges: i'm going to BYU, quit cutting down trees and taking space in my email.

...and i had to work. aanndd i didn't write my history paper which i greatly regretted on tuesday...

tuesday.

tuesday, tuesday, tuesday... mutual was pretty fun... we played a mormon version of taboo(:

then i had to write my AP history paper, which, my dear friends, should not be left until nine pm the day before it's due...

wednesday.

seminary,
carmel popcorn.
my seminary teacher > your seminary teacher.
just sayin.

 then... after school i had a BIONIC meeting, then we went and fed ducks(:

seriously, people complain about how boring montrose is and how there is noting to do... yeah, they're totally wrong. we find PLENTY of stuff to do, like, we don't get bored. people need to get more creative.

...and the ducks started chasing us... and it was scary (even though they just waddle, they can't exactly run).

thursday.

during access we had this leadership meeting thing... it was, well, very informative. so, us FCCLA girls, have officially decided on our project for this year... ssshhhhh, that'll be a different post.

during open hour kelsey, sam and i went to Qdoba, cuz we're cool like that

thursday night we all went to kelly's house to start planning our project, then, when i got home (at like ten) i started my AP english paper. bad idea. i was so tired. bbuut i finished it, and i'm not gonna lie, i'm a little bit proud of it(:

Friday.

i had to work till eight, but then Katie, Alisha, Mikelle and I went to Denny's (at like ten, don't judge.)

the milkshakes were, ummm, how you say... delicious.

i tried to win a stuffed obamas head... but i didn't :(

then, Erik, Mikelle, Katie, and I went and watched the stars for like two hours and talked. and it was just grand(:


saturday.

WE PLAYED CROQUET. yes, it's true (although we got bored of playing the proper way after like 10 minutes)

-with Kyle, Sam, Mikelle, and Katie

it was soooo awesome. yeah, i've officially played croquet. no big deal or anything (just kidding, it's awesome. and you should be jealous probably.)

then we had root beer floats at my house and it was just dandy(:

tthheenn, katie and i each ate a spoonful of tabasco sauce just to say we had.... BAD IDEA. my mouth burned for at least 30 minutes after. and i drank like five cups of milk. yeah, not so smart.

then, we being so smart and already having burned mouths, we decided to burn our skin too, with the SALT AND ICE CHALLENGE!!

so, you put salt in your hand, then an ice cube, and you have to keep it there for 60 seconds... not too hard right? wrong. it's so cold it starts burning your skin. not good i tell you, not good.

so this video cuts off the beginning and end... sorry :( it was even funnier if you were there though, sooo hilarious.

it seems like we're just insane, but it hurts soooo bad. like, i feel like i was pretty calm for how cold it was.
it's cold enough that it freezes your skin in the shape of the ice cube.

and your hand is cold for like five minutes afterward...
yeeaahh, i guess my friends and i are a bit weird. but i love them(: and i don't know what i'd do without them, and...
well,,,
ice is bad.

yep(:

the end

-Erica

travel.

so, lately (ok, for the last 6 months... but especially the last few days) the only thing i can think about is being able to see the world. that's all i want. to see places i've never seen, and meet people that are unique. that's all i want, ok?

homecoming week (part two).

wednesday (night).

powderpuff volleyball... strange, i tell you, very strange.

thursday. 

homecoming spirit week: tie die day (i don't have any pictures, sorry!)

soo... i went to school, and during first hour, sam and i decided that we wanted to make legit shirts for spirit day on friday and for the game... welllll, during fifth hour (it was a block day, so classes are an hour and a half), Sam, Kelsey, and I went to wal-mart and got 2 dollar craft shirts and cloth paint, and we made shirts, in the senior parking lot, dancin to our music. it was just dandyriffic(:

after school,
Kelly, Sam, and I had an appointment to get our eyebrows waxed. and let me tell you, i needed it. unfortunantly, my skin turned red and stayed that way all night. sam laughed at me and took a picture (you gotta love best friends, right??):

i went to a college fair. here's my little rant of this post.
DEAR WORLD (particularly all the colleges.. okay, all but one that was there) HUMANITIES AND HISTORY ARE VERY DIFFERENT THINGS. so, when i ask if you have a humanities major, DO NOT tell me that you have a history major instead. no.

after the college fair, Sam, Kelsey, and Kelly came over to my house to finish our legit shirts(:

friday.

homecoming spirit week: SPIRIT DAY!

in seminary we played an awesome game where we had to look up scriptures then shoot the nerf gun... it was fantastic(:

and we all wore our awesome shirts!

it was, well, fantastic(:

friday night was the homecmoing game! (not to spoil it, but we lost 19-20, it was a great game though!)

HOMECOMING ROYALTY...

so, let me introduce you, my dear blog, to AJ. AJ is my awesome friends/guitar teacher... he also is in choir with me, AND my dear blog, he was HOMECOMING KING!!!
and he soo deserved it!

oh, and he's in band too. and he has his own CD. and he basically rocks. the end.

saturday.

i woke up (quite late actually), cleaned my dad's office, my room, did a bit of homework... theeenn...

went to kelly house to get ready for the...


homecoming dance!

 once i got there, and realized we still had like 6 hours to the dance, i basically just sat on her bed and watched her curl cailtin's hair. sam, kelsey, sloan, kym, and shelby were all there getting ready too(:
let me say, this was the most fun i've ever had getting ready for a dance. ever. it was really calm, no one was stressed or tired, and it was amazing. not to mention, madeline (kelly's mom) and shannon made AMAZING snacks!!

this, my dear blog, is caitlins hair 2 hours of curling:

oh, how i wish i had that hair! then kelly put it up into this beautiful updo. i mean beautiful. seriously!

and kelly, well, she put all these adorable flowers in her hair:

and kelsey did my hair(: and it was AMAZING!! cuz kelsey's cool like that

sam and kym had to leave early (because they had dates) so it was just kelly, kelsey, and i left, and we ate this wonderful dinner that madeline had made. it was absolutely amazing!

and this is what we looked like when we went to the dance:

then we went to the dance!

so, overall, this was, hand down, the best school dance experience i've ever had. (i just don't think anything can be the FCCLA gala). why? because my best friends and i just got ready together and went to the dance and didn't care about anything. it was absolutely amazing. also, our dresses looked like our personalities (or wanna be personalities in my case... i'm too poor to always go vintage, and the lipstick drove me insane so i just don't think i could do that everyday) and, it was, amazing. i don't know how else to describe it. AND the dance was supppeerr fun too(:

after the dance we went to Denny's then spent the night at kelly's house. needless to say, i am sooo tired. i fell asleep on the floor while we were webchatting with my siblings. like, i'm going to bed in like 30 minutes.

sunday.

i had a lesson in young women's about dating. first, i should mention i'm the only laurel basically, so it was me and three leaders... but... there were cute handouts so it all turned out ok(:

yepp... that's been my wonderful, fantastic homecoming week(:

Sincerely,
Erica Michelle

and i'm wayy too tired to go through and re-read this post, so please ignore any typos(: