My Pets :)

My first pet was a dog, named Makita. My parents bought her before I was born, and she died at the age of 13 when I was 10 years old. Since she was my first dog and she had been there all my life, it was really hard to see her die. :( She had to be put down because I think her spleen or something ruptured, and she was internally bleeding. She had cancer as well. I watched her being put down. It was one of the hardest things i had ever seen happen. :(

My third and fourth pet were two rabbits, Molly and Rory. :) They were so cute and snugly, I loved them will all my heart. Molly was such a fattie, she would always steal Rory's food because he eats slower than her and is a little smaller than her. I had to get rid of them when i moved across country, because rabbits don't do well with traveling. :( I miss them very much.

My fourth pet was another dog, Penny! She was the opposite of Makita. She was crazy, she would randomly start running around the yard like a maniac. It was really funny though :P She also really loved to play bite, which hurts because her teeth are so sharp. She finally cut that out. Penny is now almost 7 years old, and she's much much calmer than she was a few years ago.

For a few weeks a had a pet mouse, Olivia. She escaped from her ball one day, and she was running around our house for about a week, then my dad caught her and put her back in her cage. But she wasn't there for long..She escaped again! She must have somehow squeezed her little body through the bars in her cage. My dad set glue traps all over the house, and she got stuck in one of them..the one that was in my room! I cried so hard, it was hard to watch her die. I got really attached to her in those few weeks.

About 4 months ago, I got a pet turtle! My boyfriend caught her in a creek for me :) She's sooo cute! I named her Telulah, Lula for short. She lives in my room, in a 10 gallon turtle tank. She eats worms, but recently I've been giving her store bought turtle food. She seems to enjoy that. :P Lula is so precious, I love her to pieces. :)

Trip to California, Summer 2012

July 6-16, 2012 I went to California! Me and my family stayed at my aunt and uncles apartment, in San Diego. We got there around 9:30 PM, 12:30 AM our time. So were were very tired! And we woke up super early, because it was actually sleeping in, if we were back home. Jetlag is very fun. At all.

My aunt and uncle live near a bunch of restaurants, and one of them is a Mexican restaurant, so I went there and got carne asada burritos aaalll the time! They don't have that where I live now. It makes me really sad.

On my first full day in Cali, I went to the mall with a bunch of my old friends! I missed them so much, it was really great to see them again.

On Sunday, I went to my old church and got to see all my old friends there. :) After church, me and my family went to In-N-Out and met our family friends, the Parks there. Afterwards, we went to the beach for the first time in over a year! It was amazing! I missed the beach soo much, and swimming in the ocean. :)

For the next week, we visited old friend, and went to the beach a million times, it was great. When it was finally time to go home, I was sad because I wasn't able to see a few of my good friends, and I wasn't able to visit some places I really wanted to go to. It's really hard to cram a bunch of activities in only 10 days!

My Birthday!! :)

This past Tuesday was my birthday! I just turned 17. :) It was a great birthday. I brought donuts to my Bible class at school, and everyone really liked them and wished me a happy birthday :) My mom brought me fazoli's for lunch, and my friend Hannah made me a bunch of cupcakes! She so sweet :) The cupcakes looked and tasted amazing.

That night I went to Hananoki, a Japanese steakhouse. The food was so good! my grandparents came from West Virginia to celebrate my birthday with me, and my boyfriend came to dinner with me as well. My mom and dad and brother were there also. I had a blast! :)

A bunch of people from school wished me a happy birthday, and sang to me. My friends from California wished my a happy birthday over facebook :) My cousins and aunt and uncle from Oklahoma called me to sing me happy birthday and say hi. :) I love my family! They"re so great!

Yesterday, I got a happy birthday card from my nana and cousins in Australia! She also gave me some pictures of my family who live in Australia. I loved it! :)

This year I had a really great birthday, even though most of my family couldn't be there with me. I usually have a birthday dinner with my aunts and uncles and cousins in California, but not this year :( I was sad, but I still had fun. :) This is also the first year I haven't had a birthday party with all my friends. I usually do that, but I didn't feel like it this year. This year, all I wanted was to have a few people at my birthday dinner, so that's what I did. :)

My Favorite Quotes

These quotes, I found on the internet, and I really like them :) although I don't know who originally wrote them...

  "Your're too young to let the world break you." -anonymous
    "Don't lose hope, when the sun goes down, the stars come out." -anonymous
    "When I leave this world, I'll leave no regrets, I'll leave something to remember so they don't forget I was here." -anonymous
    "Yeah, she's smiling, but don't let that fool you. Look into her eyes, she's breaking inside." -anonymous
    If people are trying to bring you down, it only means that you are above them." -anonymous
    "True love burns the brightest, but the brightest flames leave the deepest scars." -anonymous

These next quotes, I know who wrote them. :)

  "Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius; and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous, than absolutely boring." -Marilyn Monroe
    "You could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him." -Haymitch from The Hunger Games
    "The only thing stronger than fear is hope." -President Snow from The Hunger Games

I found these next quotes on tumblr.com.
    "Never regret something that made you smile, because at the time, it was everything you
wanted."  -anonymous
    "When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics." -anonymous

I have like a million more quotes that i really like, but obviously I can't share all of them. Hope you enjoyed them! :)
 

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is my favorite book ever!! The movie is amazing too :) I can't wait till the second movie in the trilogy comes out, Catching Fire. It was a great book as well. I bet the movie will be great too :) It comes out November 23, 2013! Man...that seems really far away. The last book in the trilogy, Mockingjay, was a very good book also! :)

The Hunger games is about North America, in the future, which is then called Panem. Panem is ruled by the Capitol, and they control 12 districts. Every year one boy and one girl between the ages of 12-18 are chosen to fight till the death in an arena, on live TV. There are 24 tributes, and only one winner. Katniss volunteers as tribute when her little sister, Prim, is chosen. Katniss has to make sure to win so she can keep her mother and sister from starving, because Katniss usually provided the food.

When the Hunger Games movie came, I wasn't really interested in seeing it, because I didn't know what it was about and I didn't read the books. But my friend begged to go see it with her, so I did and I loved it! Then I decided to read the books, and I really enjoyed them. Can't wait to see the other two movies!! :)

My Week

This week, I've had a lot of fun so far! On Monday after school, I went to get fitted for my cheer uniform. Can't wait till I can try it on! Cheering is so much fun, I can't wait till the first basketball game of the season, so I can cheer with my team :) Then on Tuesday, I went to a potluck at my chiropractors, and everyone who came brought a healthy dish. It was really good! And today after school, I have to go to a four hour class on something about driving...I'm not sure exactly what it is. I wish I didn't have to go to the class today, because now I'm gonna miss youth group at my church :/ Thursday, I have cheer practice after school! Can't wait for that :P Then on Friday after school, I have my tumbling class. I love my tumbling class because it really works my muscles and increases my flexibility skills :) I can now do a back bend kick over! I've been working on that for about a month now. When I was younger, I took gymnastics for a few years but got tired of it, so I quit. It didn't take me long to get the strength back to do it again though! (: And..that's basically my whole week! Oh, and my birthday is in about 2 weeks! I can't wait, I totally love birthday's :D This year my birthday is on a weekday, which I'm kinda sad because i don't like going to school on my birthday..I'd rather stay home and relax, but oh well :) I'm also sad that I won't be able to celebrate my birthday with my friends back in California like I do every year :( I miss them, but they'll text or call me and wish me a happy birthday :) Friends are great <3