Delicious

All today, we've been cooking DELICIOUS food for Christmas dinner tomorrow, and just to eat today, I thought to was too beautiful to not show you!!

Orange Marble Fudge. It tastes JUST LIKE orange sherbet ice cream!!

But.... none of this awesome food would be possible without my wonderful Mom!!!

So, tonight I will definitely dreaming about this food tonight instead of sugar plums. I mean, sugar plums don't sound or look appealing after all the stuff we've made today!!

Pre Christmas Bananza

Well, I am really bored waiting for Christmas to come, SOOOOO I decided to write about our lives. Lucky You! You get to see what we did this December!!

Spencer's birthday party. Yep: me, my brothers, and a whole bunch of Deacons.

It was actually really fun.

Spencer in action.

Ryan's a cutie!!

The morning of December 20:

Yes, I'm pretty much incoherent. Well, give me a break, it was like 6:30 on a SUNDAY!!!

I don't function before 7:30 on a weekend (at the least!) Actually, I don't think any of us functions on a Sunday morning!!! :)

The Real Meaning of Christmas

Merry Christmas!!

OOPS

I just realized that I hadn't blogged about a Very Important Date last November!!! Well two. Number 1 was my birthday!!! Whoot whoot!! Erica is now the big One Six!! 1616161616!!!! Now I kinda feel really old because I remember turning 8 years old and thinking that 16 is FOREVER away. Now forever has come and I feel ancient.

Important Date #2: on November 25 (i think) I, Erica, got my licence. That's right folks!! Erica is a LICENCED DRIVER!!!! I can drive by myself, and I could drive other people too!!! So far I've made various trips to the library and my viola lessons, two trips to DI (Deseret Industries), three trips to the mall and one trip to Seagull Book. Wow!

O Chrismas Break!!

Well, it's a wonderful, amazing, awesome day to top all days this month so far. Why? you would ask. Well this is the first day of Christmas Break, and I MADE IT!!! I didn't collapse from learning overload, or go crazy with stuff to do. I made it to our wonderful two-and-a-couple-days-off-school break!!! Christmas is kicking up another notch. Mom is out buying the last gifts right at this very instant, and I'm cleaning my room (kinda) because, as Dad told me last night, Santa Clause doesn't give presents to children with dirty rooms. So now I get to clean up the pigsty that is my living quarters. yay. (I would include a picture of the 'horrific mess', but I'm too lazy to find the camera, take the picture, remember how to put that picture on the computer, and put it on this entry. Sorry. ;)

Sooooooo, other than no school, I'm going to have fun this week. Mom said that the best thing we could give her for Christmas was to help with the cleaning, and to not fight. Well, I'm working on the first one (see above) and the second one is going well so far. I have no idea what o get Daddy, but I'm working on it.

Merry Christmas!! May your Christmas be as wonderful as you could imagine!!

Bad Me

You know how blogs are supposed to be a journal? Well, if this was a journal for a class, I'd be gettin an 'F'. I've only done 44-ish posts for the two hundred something days that have occured this year. I need to write here more!!!! I'll try to write at least twice a week. The problem is that I'm a procrastinator. I put things off to the last moment. So, blogging has been at the bottom of my priorities list. THIS WILL HAPPEN NO MORE!!! I will faithfully write every week and keep you readers (hopefully) entertained with my crazy life!!

So Cold The Snot Would Freeze In Your Nose

Well, its no quite as cold as it is to freeze the snot in your nose, but it feels pretty close. It's been in the freezing temperatures all this week and it has snowed. TWICE!! Life feels trapped in a giant ice cube. BUT, I really an enjoying it. I love the feeling of being cold and then putting on clothes warm from the drier. I love it!!! The only thing I'm sour about is that it feels like it jumped strait from Summer to Winter. Well, you can't have everything.

Conference and Buddies

Today was the last day of the 179 semi annual conference (:] I think!) It was so wonderful. I learned so much anout EvErYtHiNg!! It was amazing to see the prophet in person (kinda). You just feel so good and I could feel his love for me. It was such a spiritual experience for me. I LOVE conference!!

It also was a great day because we had some friends from church come watch conference with us. It was so fun. They are such sweet people, and I love them to death!! Thers two of them, and they were so awesome with my family!! We had a wonderful time with them.

I can't wait for Conference next year!!

Wonderful

At this very moment, I'm at Timpview High School, blogging on a school computer. However, the wonderful thing isn't that I'm blogging, the wonderful thing is that I was actually able to access my blog!! Our school has a weird website blocker thing, and I wasn't sure I would be able to get on, but ,miracle of miracles, I was able to. So, here I am, just blogging around, waiting for 3:30 to roll around so I'll be able to go help out at the volleyball game. It just isn't practicle to get home at 3:00 ish on;y to have to turn around to go back to school for the game. Lucky Me! I just get to hang around the library, read, blog and do my homework while waiting for the really slow clock to rool around to 3:30.

At least, I'll get SOMETHING productive done while I'm here.

Evil Eye

Laughter IS Contagous

KAPOW

I want this week to be over. My brain feels like it will explode.

Lost!!

Have you ever wondered where all the time between 9:30PM and 6:00AM goes?? I mean, it feels like you close your eyes, go to sleep and the next thing you know, 8 1/2 hours went by and you don't feel rested at all. Maybe I'm just weird and this just happens to me, but you would think that I could AT LEAST remember what I dreamed or SOMETHING!!

If anyone can find my missing hours, I would love you forever and send you delicious imaginary cookies.

Only 1 Week!

You heard it here first, the Nelson clan has been in school for exactly 1 week. I can't believe it. I have so much work and stuff to do that it has felt like we've been in school for at least a month. Now, I get to go and do math homework. Hip Hip Horray!!
It really is funny how a week can feel like foreverr!!

Family

Go down to the bottom of the web page and check our family out!!!

Progress

I've been working on a song for the piano called "River Flows In You" by: Yiruma. Its really pretty (I think) and I've finally got it ready to show y'all. However, I make mistakes when I know something is recoroding me so here is the music while I try to get it right on film!!

Proof

Right here is real verifiable proof that I actually cooked dinner for me and my Aunt Meri. AND it even tasted good too. (It was scrambled eggs with vegetables and ham in it.) DELICIOUS!!

I thought that this was a really cut picture of Madde on the slip n' slide.

Cutest Newborn Ever!!

Meet Dayton Streiff!!! He was born on June 8, and I came over to help out with him about 8 days after he was born. Isn't he ADORABLE!!

Theres Me!!!!

He's dwarfed by the car seat!!

Madde is so silly!!

He sleeps so peacefully!! (Totally opposite from when he's awake. See the first picture!)

Tiny, tiny feet!!

His belly button fell off!!

Tsk, tsk sleeping on the job.

Madde loves being a big sister!!

Hunter!!! Look at the camera!!!

Hunter only likes walking the slip n' slide. NOT actually sliding on it! Madde n the other hand loves the slip n' slide!! (see the background)

Feeling Good!!!

Happy Memorial Day!!
So far its been a great day in Mormonville UT. At 8:30 this morning we (me, mom, dad, spencer, and joseph) hiked up Slate Canyon and the Bonneville Shorline Trail to get the the parkinglot of the "Y" hiking trail. It took about 2 hours to go there and back and we hiked far. (I don't know exactly, it was just far). I feel SOOOO good now. Even with the mud in my shoes and dirt up my legs. At least I didn't get anybug bites!

Lovely Last 14 Days of School!!

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Extreme Heat

It was really hot today (for me). I walked with mom to pick up the boys from school and it was extremely warm by my standards. WHY WHY WHY!! It was so nice and now its hot!! I loved our old 65 degree weather, but now its gone!!! : (. Im not ready for hot weather!! *Sob* The temperature today was 80 degrees.

Crazy 80s Project

So, I have to make a slide show 80s project thingie, and unfortunately I had to put pictures of myself in it. So, here are my pictures. I'll try to figure out how to post the finished product later!!

Wow!!

I was just foing over my schedule today, and I realized that my life is soo crazy and busy!!! I'm actually involved in stuff at school!!! Prepare to be amazed.

"Stuff That I Am Doing" (for the first time EVER, I have an extracurricular life!!! YAY!!)

1) Track from 2:15 - 4:00ish Monday to Friday (actually I'm doing field. I throw the javenin! Whoot Whott!!)

2) Being the Mia Maid Presedant

3) Prepaing for Girls Camp in a month as a YCL

4) Orchestra

5) Piano

6) Playing Piano at a baptism this Saturday

7) Finals are coming. Gulp!

8) Viola Lessons

9) School: chemistry (I'm actually understanding -- sorta), remembering Algebra 2 stuff from the begining if the school year, torturing my brain with Spanish, trying to find deep and meaningful comments/answers for the poetry unit in English Honors, doing all of the extra US History Honos homework that I didn't do in class because I was trying o do algebra 2 math stuff (see above), and....thats it.

10) Ummmmm. I can't think of a number 10, but I wanted my list to have a nice round, even number so this is number 10. There probably is a number 10, but my brain has been turned to mush because of Algebra and spanish sooooo I can't remeber number 10.

Of Starvation In A Moving Vehicle

While driving to California, you get very bored. That bordom causes you to o strange things such as:

: pretending that you are so hungry that you are eating the car. It was way fun and entertained us for about an hour (trying to get the perfect picture)

Heaven = Spring Vacation + Road Trip to Cali

This Spring Break, everyone except Dad (he had to work) packed up and drove to California to visit our Grandma Ruth (actually my great grandma!!). We had a really great time and had so much fun! Here are some of the pictures that I took. (Well Mom took some too.) It's only a small fraction of the pictures I took. In all I took 276 pictures total!!!!!

Grandma Ruth!!!!

Mom and Grandma

All of Grandmas great-grandkids. Wow!!

Us and Grandma at the National Cemetary

Visiting Grandpas grave in the National Cemetary.