Friends are Like Flowers

My friends are awesome. I guess that they are kind of like flowers. On Halloween I invited some of my friends over and we made an amazing and scary haunted house. It was the best Halloween ever. Here is a little about each of my friends and what flower they are to me.

Chelsea: Chelsea makes everything so much fun! She's on my basketball team. She has an awesome since of style and is really good at tennis on the Wii. She loves Disney princess stuff. She always makes them laugh. She would be a really great fashion model. If she were a flower she'd be a bright one with big floppy petals and lots of pinks, reds, and oranges.

Emily: Emily reminds me of Liberty! She's on my basketball team. She kind of takes care of me. She will always agree with me and go with me. She's always nice. She is really smart and good at climbing trees. I love her artwork and awesome handwriting. She would be a great artist I think. If she were a flower she'd be a cute little light purple daisy.

Kristina: Kristina is a born leader. She's Emily's older sister. She's a year older than me and she always makes sure that everyone is happy. She is a cheerleader and she's really good at it. She is also in leadership. She is smart and is a good artist. I think she own a business and run it when she grows up. Her flower would be a blue tulip.

Rebecca: Rebecca is just the nicest person ever! She always is friendly and hardly ever gets sad. She is really pretty. She's really athletic and can do a cartwheel (so can Emily). She is a fast runner. I think she would be a great consultant person that helps people be happy. Her flower would be a pink rose.

Alisa: Alisa is SO pretty! She's a freshman. She is always happy and she is kind of quiet. She is in track and leadership. She is a fast runner. She is really smart. She is scary when she pops out of a door in our haunted house. If she were a flower she would be a really pretty blue, yellow and white flower.

Jenny: Jenny is a really good person. She's a freshman. She just got baptized and goes to seminary every day. She is good at painting peoples faces for haunted houses. She is friendly. She should be teacher (not of school, of something else probably) when she grows up. She should be a tall flower with a long stem. It would probably be red and black.

Alex: Alex is such a sweet person. She would never say anything bad about her friends. She hugs me a lot. She always says thank you and tells people how nice they are. She is good at playing video games. She helps me not be scared of dogs. When she grows up, she should work at a daycare and take care of little kids. She is so good at it. Are there any brown flowers? Her favorite color is brown. Her flower would be big with pretty petals.

Brieanna: Brieanna is my new friend. She is sooooo nice. She just called and even though she goes to another church a lot she is coming to the ward party! I can't wait! She is so funny, friendly, and amazing. She smiles a lot. She should be a secretary at an agricultural building/veterinarian when she grows up. (She told me that she likes ag class.) If she were a flower she'd be a red poinsettia. She loves red.

Sarai: Sarai is really nice. I don't really talk to her that much because she isn't friends with my other friends that much, but I think she is amazing. She loves her family a lot. She is good at basketball and she's pretty. She isn't loud and annoying ever. I'm not sure what she should be when she grows up, but I know she'll be great at it. If she were a flower she'd be a blue forget-me-not.

Hannah: Hannah lives in Elko and sometimes I don't get to see her for a long time, but when I do I have so much fun. Hannah is really pretty. Her room always looks perfect and she's really good at playing the Wii also. She is really hilarious. She always goes to church. She is righteous. I love playing with her. When she grows up she should do peoples hair and nails. If she were a flower she'd a pink iris. (Is there such thing?)

Whitney: Whitney lives in Fernely. I usually see her only once a year when she comes for sewing camp. She is an amazing seamstress. She is smart and loves to read. She loves to play games.(just like me) She is really righteous. She should be a writer when she grows up. If she was a flower she'd be a marigold.

Taylor: Taylor is my favorite girl cousin. She is funny and so fun to be with. I haven't seen her because she had to go and move to North Carolina, but I miss her, a lot. I wish she lived closer. . . way closer. She is good at soccor. She should be a movie star when she grows up. Her flower would be tropical looking with yellow, pink, red, and blue.

Dain: I haven't seen Dain longer than anyone else on this list. I cry when I read the letter she gave me when she left. She is so funny, smart, and amazing. She was like my best friend when she was here. She likes to read and is really beautiful. She is good at putting makeup on. She wanted to be a flight attendant when she grows up. I hope she does. Her flower would be red and blue. It would be really pretty.

I love all my awesome friends. I'm glad I have a beautiful bunch of flowers!

(Sorry Braeden, this post is just for friends that are girls. I think you are just as good a friend as anyone on here. You're a great cousin.)

Well I'd better go to the ward party. I wonder how many of my awesome friends will be there.
Bye!
p.s. If you're wondering, I think I would be a yellow rose if I were a flower.

babysitting during chicago

babysitting during chicago

for three days,
lina

and morgan
whew!

and school too

desi helps
desi is nice

suddenly crash, crash, crash, bang my head, the table is turned, broken, crying

bad day
next day, lemonade is spilt, toy train is broken, tired after play practice
first day, jump rope broke the light, glass to clean, then make lunch

school, helping lina, crying lina, sleeping morgan

it's not that bad


but, . , . , . , . , . , . , . it is

someday over the rainbow, somewhere

going to grandma's, sleeping, we liked ammon's room
grandma is a good grandma

grandpa, nicely fixing the table,fixing it for real

not funner, never funner
singing in oz


Tired, way way tired

awake, heating up chicken nuggets
awake again



When is mom coming home again


? one more day
making pizza tomorrow, making pizza today


is that a black car, hugging mom, hugging liberty, hyrum is there, hugging him, and dad
eating smiling,
presents?
headband, happy day

most fun
lina making messes, it's ok, mom is here


"I never want to you to leave me to babysit during Chicago again, mom? I'm glad you're home."

home, sleeping in my bed, home

Money

Money is something that I need a whole lot of. I'm not the kind of person who saves money well. (I have other strengths.) I buy clothes, jewelry, and all kinds of stuff. I also want to get Desi a nice Christmas present. Us three girls take turns having each other and I have Desi. (We drew names the first year, but now we like having a different person each year. )

Anyway, in the last 2 times I went to clothes stores I spent over $100! I was kind of worried! I did have my Sunshine money for this season, but I had spent it all. I didn't have a way to make money. Even if the lawn mowing season wasn't almost over, I still wouldn't want to mow lawns. If you haven't ever mowed lawns all day long in the heat than you're lucky! I don't think I was meant to be a landscaper like my Dad.

Yesterday I found out something I was meant to be!

I was at school for band and choir. Dad said that if I wanted to make some money I could type out a bunch of names, phone numbers, email addresses, and focus individuals for PBS. I did it. I was surprised at how much I liked doing it. Some of the people on there had really crazy handwriting. I had to decide and figure out what it said. It reminded me of indexing.

Later on last night Dad wanted me to work some more. It was even more fun. I got to copy out a typed page about one of Dad's PBS kids. Then I got to listen to a recorder that Dad had talked into. It was also about PBS. Now I feel like I know all about some of Dad's PBS kids.

Dad says that he has lots more things he wants me to do. I'm like his new PBS secretary. Being a secretary is a lot of fun! Plus I now have money for Desi's Christmas present.

(I have a good idea about it too!)

I'm Being Surpassed!

I'm being surpassed! Desi has written a blog post everyday. I can't keep up. Now instead of writing a page everyday for school, Mom said that Desi can write a blog post everyday instead. She is really good at it too. Maybe she'll inspire me.

Maybe.

Sisters

Since it seems like a trend to theme our blog posts after Tina, Trampa, Lina songs than I guess I should join in the trend. They have a song called Sisters.

My sisters (being the lovely girls they are) now have blogs. It was Desi's idea. She is a really good writer and has written on her blog 3 times in 3 days. She is just like Thelma. (They are both the second child. . . and girl. )

Liberty, on the other hand, hasn't written at all on her blog. We just made her one. We hope she writes something, but it's ok if she doesn't. While we were on the Internet she was playing with Mall Madness with Lina. She is amazing, isn't she?

I love my sisters. I'm so blessed to have them. They are the best.

Oh, anyway, I almost forget, there blogs are www.deseretjohnson.blogspot.com and www.libertyejohnson.blogspot.com. They are great.

Disaster Dinner

It tasted normal, but it was hard to get. Here's the crazy story.

It all began last night at Wal-Mart (don't you love Wal-Mart?) We were in a hurry to get to play practice on time. Desi needed to pick out fabric for her Halloween costume. Mom went with her and left me at the Subway in Wal-Mart with nothing but $35, a Subway card, and 4 hungry children. I was scared.

We had already gone over exactly what I was supposed to order (like 19 times) and so I thought I would do fine. I didn't have to wait long. The line was short. When I got to the front I said Hi and started ordering. This cranky looking high school boy was the one working there. I ordered everyone wheat bread and their preferred meat. (check!) After that things just kind of went downhill.

Hyrum did NOT want lettuce. I got him lettuce. (accidentally, really) Then, after ordering topping stuff for Mom's and Desi's sandwiches I said, "That's all." The trouble was that I still wanted vinegar and oil and mayonnaise. It was too late. Then I didn't remember if Lina wanted olives. She was sitting way far away on a table. Just when I had sent Liberty to go ask her, Brianna Archeleta from band tapped me on the shoulder.

"Hi," she said, "What are you doing?"

"Ordering Subway for seven people," I told her.

Then it was Morgan's turn. He couldn't decide. He took forever to tell what he wanted and what he didn't want. While he was deciding our cranky Subway worker and all the people in line behind us in line glared at us.

Finally the sandwiches were done. I started ordering drinks for everyone. When I was just getting done I realized that the kids meals came with drinks. I also forgot to order chips. It was probably OK though because we were 81 cents (Is there a cents sign on the keyboard) short. I didn't know what to do. I tried the only thing I could think of. I handed him the Subway card. It turns out that we had a reward on there to get a free drink. It worked out!

I thought the worst was over when Hyrum came over to me. I need a cup. He had gotten a soft drink. Up at the place where you order there was a bunch of fancy holders for the different sizes of cups. One was all out. Hyrum grabbed the smallest one. I think it was size small but I wasn't sure.

At the same time that was happening Liberty was asking me if she got apples with her kids meal. (Count on Liberty to want healthy food. She even got white milk over chocolate milk! ) I looked up at the picture of the kids meal and sure enough there was a picture of apples with it. I told her that I didn't want to ask for apples so if she wanted them she could ask. She didn't of course. I felt kind of bad. During all of this all the little kids were begging me to let them go get chips. I felt bad again when I told them no. I told them all the money was gone. Hyrum said he had two dollars and that he would buy a bag of chips with his own money. I told him no way.

I had to hurry and eat my sandwich so we could get to play practice. I had accidentally ended up with cucumbers (ew) and no mayonnaise on my sandwich. I tried to make Lina eat. She didn't take more than two bites out of her sandwich.

Right then Desi ran up to me and showed me her new fabric. I was purple. I handed her her sandwich which I actually got right. She asked for her drink. I realized I hadn't bought enough drinks.

She asked for chips too. I told her again that we had spent all the money. She and Mom couldn't believe it. (That's inflation for you. ) Mom didn't stay long though. She went to check out and left us to clean up. During that process we dropped two sandwiches and spilled a thing of chocolate milk. While Lina started crying Desi and I tried to mop up the mess. An old lady sitting at a table next to us started laughing.

It was definitely a Disaster Dinner. I thought that that was all that went wrong. It wasn't. I just realized that I they never gave me Mom's water bottle.

It was a crazy night but it was worth it. Play practice was a lot of fun!

Oh the Bees in the Trees and the Bats in the Breeze Couldn't Do What the Jitterbug Does

. . . and I'm proud to be a jitterbug where at least I know I'm with my sisters. And I won't forget the Mom who drives who gave the right to me. And I'll gladly dance right next to my partner to help the Wicked Witch. 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love the land of Oz. God Bless the Jitterbugs. (and the U.S.A)

Last night play practice was fun but tiring. They have the music now and everyone knows the Jitterbug dance really well. It's going to be so fun!