My Life...: 2010

Last year I wasn't old enough to go to homecoming but this year I am, and I got asked twice!:) I got asked to Syracuse's homecoming with this kid named Brayden Ryan, then I got asked to Fremont's homecoming by my neighbor named Trevor Ward. I feel pretty special being able to go to two homecomings!:) Tuesday afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. I get a call from Brayden asking me if I wanted to go get ice cream with him at around 5?" And I said.."sure, are you in an ice cream mood or something?" And he said.."yeah, and I'm also in the mood to see you!":) So he comes and gets me and before he gets here my dad comes out in church clothes and I was like.."dad it's just getting ice cream, its not a date." Well he didn't fall for that he ended up interviewing Brayden like he does with all my dates. Well after the interview we go to Artic Circle and stayed there for about 45 minutes and then came home. When we got home he came inside to see my new puppy. As we are looking at the puppy Rockwell whispers.."Madi, something is in your room." Ha and Brayden was like.."Shh!" It was a little too late for that. Then my mom yells.."hey Madi, come downstairs real quick." And Brayden is still with me, so we go down stairs there are rose pedals and chocolate kisses leading all the way down to my bedroom and as I got closer to my room there were more and more of them and they were all over in my room. And on my bed was a dozen roses with a note that said...Madi, now that I have Kissed the ground you walk on...and showered you with Roses...will you Please go to homecoming with me!? I had the biggest smile on my face!:) I was speechless, that was the cutest thing ever! Keep in mind that Brayden was still with me. That was a little weird having him there when I saw it but it didn't really bother me. He was also glad he got to see me see it:) While we were at Artic Circle his parents came to my house and decorated my room:)

Getting asked by Trevor couldn't have came at a better time!!:) I was inside talking to my parents and my dad was saying how I was grounded next week because I took their pop once again. You would think after doing this for awhile I would learn. Ha well he was saying how I was going to be grounded and I was like.."dad I can't that's homecoming week and the game is on Friday and the dance is on Saturday." He was like.."well it probably too late to get asked but if you do get asked then I guess your not grounded and you can go." And literally like 2 seconds later the doorbell rang and I went to the door and I got asked!!:) I was pretty happy!

Answering Brayden back was pretty fun. Me and his friends were going to decorate his car while he was at work but he didn't have a spare pair of keys so that idea didn't work out too well. So we decided we would decorate his room instead. In my head it looked pretty cute but as we started doing it, it wasn't really decorating anymore it was more of trashing his room. We put shredded paper everywhere, and I mean everywhere! In his closet, book bag, drawers, in his pillows and bed. Ha and we also had a pretty intense paper fight!! After trashing/decorating Brayden's room I felt pretty bad. We used 2 whole garbage bags full of shredded paper to cover his room. It looked like it had just snowed. I started thinking to myself that was pretty mean way of me to answer him when he asked me so cute. But he said he liked it so i guess it was okay:) At least the poster turned out cute!
Answering Trevor
So for answering Trevor back I decided i would just decorate his car at school during lunch. Ha well I didn't feel like carrying all the stuff to school so i just decided I would do it on Thursday night instead. I called up Jess and her and Meggen came and helped me. We re-used the pop cans he gave me and tied them to the bottom of his car so when he drove it would make noise. Haha well not all the pop cans were empty so in 5 minutes we drank 4 lemonades. We didn't feel so good after doing that. But in the end it all worked out.

Jessie just cracks me up with the faces she makes.

For the past two years 30 stakes, more than 3,500 youth in the Ogden area have been putting together this performance called...Arise and Shine Forth Youth Spectacular!!! It was performed on July 16th and 17th 2010 at the Weber State Football Stadium. Me and my sister McKell had the chance to be in it. At first it wasn't all that much fun. Early morning practices, practices in the cold and rain, practices every other weekend, as the performance got closer practices were 3 times a week for 3-4 hours. By that point I was ready to quit. But I had this feeling that I should just keep doing it because in the end it would be worth it. Oh and let me tell you it was so WORTH IT!!!! It was so amazing seeing that all the hours of practice and hard work that we put into it really did pay off. The Spirit was so strong there the two nights we performed it. It is just amazing to me how the spirit can touch people in so many different ways! As the practices were going on I kept telling myself...I can not wait until this is over! It is taking too much of my time, etc! But as it started winding down to an end I realized what a bad attitude I have had, and now that it is over I miss it so much!!! I miss seeing so many people that I know and even better meeting so many new people, Singing the finale songs, messing around, and so much more. Now its like, now what do I do with my summer? This experience was truly a once in a life time experience and I was so glad I was able to be a part of it!!!:) It is one of those things that I will never ever forget!
On our way to practice we saw this sign. I felt so cool!!!

McKell and her partner Todd
Me and my partner Rodney

Our team captains
My group

Zack got the chance to portray Joseph Smith for the Spectacular!

Mariah and Nikki
Part of the finale

The car rides up to the stadium got pretty interesting!

Me and Jordyn!!!

Me and Sara

One of the early morning practices