I love my Parents!

On Saturday, Mom, Dad, and I went to the Menifee lake after the BBQ to take some pictures. The lake was gorgeous and taking pictures was a lot of fun. I love Mom and Dad. They are so awesome :)

Love,

Chelsey

Voila!

Whitney helped me edit this photo on Picnik today. It was so fun! I’ve played with lots more photos the rest of the night. More coming soon of the BBQ and lake from yesterday.

Oh! Dad hurt his collar bone (we think it’s broken) at the BBQ yesterday. Even missing work tomorrow :O  . Please pray for him. Thanks!

Love,

Chelsey

Hi Everyone!

Shari, Mike, and Porter came to visit this last week. It was a lot of fun! Mike and Porter had run a half-iron man Saturday morning, and then they came down to our house from there. Poor Mike was so sunburned!

So, when they were here, we chilled at the house a lot while they rested. We ate lots of good food and went swimming a lot! Swimming was definitely the most fun part because it was hot! The puppies went swimming a lot too. They all like it too, except for Brawny. They were such good friends!

 

Baby was moping around after they left. She expressed her sadness with lots of extra barking and piles of poop. Poor little girl.

 

Oh, we saw the movie Hoodwinked 2 as well. It was really dumb. No one liked it. Oh and Porter was a crazy driver. Shari warned me not to get in the car with him… I should’ve listened. Haha.

Oh, while they were here I had my AP Psych exam. And the day after they left I had my US History exam. Tomorrow I have my AP English exam. And then I am all done with AP exams forever! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! I’m celebrating with a 2 hour flute lesson on Thursday! So excited! My poor flute has been deprived of playingness since I’ve been studying.

Oh! And for Julia’s birthday present I made her these delicious chocolate peanut butter cup cupcakes! They were yummy.

Oh, I do love cupcakes so.

Anywhoo, I’m going to go hide in my dungeon and study the rest of the day. Oh, and workout again (twice a day now. Intense schedule!)

Love,

Chelsey

Trying Something New

As part of 2011 ‘Create’, I’ve been trying a lot of new things. Making new things, talking to new people, driving different ways to get somewhere. It has been so fun! I like expanding my horizons, it makes the world feel limitless.

So, one new thing I tried yesterday was making cake pops! Kasey and I were hanging out and celebrating Easter/Earth Day/Good Friday with making a cake and we turned the cake into little cake pops. They didn’t turn out very adorable (some of the poor little things looked mutilated) but they are so delicious (as we already knew from Shari’s famous cake balls :) ) and they were so fun to make! I’m going to try and make some more for Easter tomorrow.

This was definitely our most pathetic little cake pop.

 

After making cake pops, Kasey and I played horse and tried to figure out a jazz piece on piano. It was such a fun day. Can’t wait for our next creation!

Love,

Chelsey

It’s Her Birthday!

So, this post is a wee bit late, but I wanted to write about my absolute favorite Ashypoo for her birthday! Ashlyn is one of my veeeery best friends and she is so funny and sweet and I love her! Even with going to different schools we have managed to stay best friends now for twelve years! And gosh, we have had sooooooooooooo many laughs in those twelve years from singing Wicked at the top of our lungs (with Airheads) to having so many cooking mishaps. How blessed I am to have her in my life. 

To celebrate her birthday, she came over and Julia and I made her a cake and sang and celebrated and all that happy stuff. I love birthdays. It was fun :) I think Ashlyn thought it was fun too.

These are the shoes I made Ashlyn for part of her birthday present :)

And this is the masterpiece cake that Julia and I made her. Not only was it adorable, it was soooooo delicious!

 

We all ate a bit too much cake… we were soooo full!

Overall, I would count the night as a success, and I’m so excited Ashlyn is seventeeeeeeen! Happy Birthday Ashlyn!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Chelsey

 

PS my fav picture of us ever!

Working Out Again

So, I’ve started going to the gym again. Julia and I have done some pretty awesome workouts the last couple of days. And now I am soooooo sore. I think I will amputate my arms. And legs. And abs. And go shovel down some pain meds. Aaaawwwww. I can’t wait for tomorrow!

I love the gym!

Love,

Chelsey

Live With No Regrets

Today on BYU TV there was a show on a girl named Burgon Jensen. She was born with retinitis pigmentosa, and was blind by the time she was three months old. By the time she was five she started to lose her hearing too. However, she did not let this hold her back at all.

Burgon was enrolled in “mainstream” (public) school, where she attended normal classes with everyone else. She has learned Braille and American Sign Language. That’s not all though. She also performed (singing and dancing) in a play, has traveled across town alone, and so much more. I love her motto: “Live With No Regrets.” She is such an inspiration with how resilient she has been. There is a great article about her here.

Love,

Chelsey