A Work in Progress

Also, I loved this video.

(this and the last post were by Mariah Elena)

Personal Progress History

“You can soar if you find out who you are and why you are here. There are two important days in a woman’s life: The day she is born and the day she finds out why.”

-- Elaine Anderson Cannon

Right now I am learning about the history of Personal Progress. It is AWESOME to read about how this program has grown, changed, and developed. One of my favorite things I learned about tonight was the past Young Women Presidents. I hear of, and therefore feel close to, the Prophets we have had in this dispensation, but I have never given much thought to the Young Women Presidents! They are sweet.

Links:

 Young Women Presidents, Overall History, Timeline, Surprise!

Untitled, for creative issues

Laura, once again!

I have nothing in particular to talk about in this post... Imma just type until I run out of things to talk about. And I'm probably gonna change subjects really fast, so try to keep up. 8D

Today was early out at school on behalf of parent teacher conferences (which I did not inform my parents were occurring today...) so I spent my extra free time making cupcakes. Yellow cupcakes! Yellow is my new favorite color, as sometime around Christmas. I want a yellow car.

My amazing friend Eric came home on Monday -- on leave from the Navy. Apparently being in the military makes you super ripped, because Eric tackled me and I have bruises all over my arms.

All my midterm grades are A's! :D Yep, you're jealous.

I have a super huge assignment in photography class. (worth 1900 points; most assignments worth 50 points...) Photo's supposed to be a super easy class, but this is gonna take tons of work. I guess that's what I get for doing nothing all trimester...

My English teacher is really old and falls asleep in class pretty much every day. We don't do much in that class either.

Speaking of English class, I personally witnessed Emma quite wonderfully reciting her poems for Poetry Out Loud in her English class yesterday. We had a substitute in my class, so I told him I was going to the bathroom but I actually crashed Ems class and watched her do her poem. SHE DID AMAZING!!!!

*another random letter in the middle of a blog post haha*

Dearest Emma,

I most ardently enjoyed your Poetry Out Loud poems! I am considering participating in Poetry Out Loud next year because you have inspired me! I am also extremely proud of you for getting your driver's liscence. Because of your astounding feats, I think that you should take the public speaking class next year. This class will most definitely help you grow spiritually and expand your horizons.

With all due respect,

Laura Jo

*last name, once again, withheld for security purposes*

*el fin*

I joined this cool club last week called Youth Volunteer Council. There's bunches of awesome people there and they do lots of fun service stuff. Obviously, it's not as fun as our service club, but really, who can beat us? Speaking of service, our service club is having a tie drive soon! The LDS church sends missionaries all over the world to spread the gospel, and new converts in more remote places often do not have the means to purchase new clothing to wear to church. We are collecting old ties (and money for shipping, if ties cannot be provided) and sending them to missionaries to give to their new converts.

I kind of really want some awesome dance skills. Anyone want to teach me?

I'm taking the ACT on February 12. I'm not ready. O_o

Ugh. My computer is being spazzy. :P

Cheyenne -- you'll probably never read this, but I LOVE YOU TO PIECES! and even more than that...

Here is a picture of my cupcakes:

(They're not near as good as Emma's... sorry haha)

Well, enough of this...

Learn dance skills!

Listen to loud music!

Don't get caught doing illegal things!

<3

Laura

Emma Shall Conquer!

Not only did I, Em Ro, win the marker war, I won another grand feat! I got my license first. Go me. Ü I won! No spelling errors. Another win. Woot!

(;_;) (^_^)

This is Mariah!

LET’S TALK ABOUT TESTIMONY BUILDERS!

So as you may have guessed, my computer randomly decides to shut down on me about Google-powered things. Like Gmail and BlogSpot.

Well today I wanted to update our service blog, but to accomplish this task I would need to be able to sign in. I told myself that if I had faith sufficient enough, I would be able to log on. If I just had faith, He would open the doors and I would be able to do this.

I got into Mozilla and typed our web address. I clicked the log in button and HE DID NOT FAIL ME. This may seem small to you, reader, but I know He did this. And I know He is happy I trusted Him.

I think He did it because it was about a service project our club is going to do. I don’t know if everyone wants to do it, really, but I know I do. It just feels right. So anyway, I think He was trying to help us.

Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.

(Book of Mormon | Alma 37:6)

Accomplished? Maybe...

Laura here, once again.

It is now Monday.
And I am at school.

Things I accomplished last weekend:
1. Marker fight (tons of fun, but quite brutal)
2. Cleaned my room (dirty again now)
3. Went to church (stake conference)

Things I did not accomplish last weekend:
1. Homework (I have a life)
2. Dye my hair (didn't get around to it... roots are still brown)
3. Cinnamon challenge (scary. maybe someday)

Things to do this week:
1. Study for the ACT
2. Do homework
3. Go to Eric's welcome home party (he's on leave from the Navy :D)
4. Get a decent amount of sleep (probably not going to happen)
5. Finish reading Pride and Prejudice
6. Meh... some other stuff. Quit stalking me.
7. Advertize for our blog some more? Perhaps... :D

Don't forget your happy face!
Have a marker fight!
Learn to do the lawn mower dance! haha

<3
Laura

Books, books, and more books!

Hello, everyone!
Laura, here!

So, as you may or may not know, I love to read!
I love books with all my heart!
I love books so much, that I intend to write them for my future profession!
Reading makes me happy. :D
A few weeks ago, I found a list of 100 imensely-enjoyed books floating around Facebook.
I, being quite daring and brave, have decided that I am going to read that entire list.
And, not only am I going to read all of them, but I am going to watch the corresponding movie (if there is one) after (NOT BEFORE) I read each book, and I am going to do a small project with each book to help me understand it better.

Here is the list:

Okay, nevermind. Blogger isn't letting me copy/paste it on there.
Maybe I'll put it on later.

Book #1 is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, which is a favorite of Emma's.
My project for this book is learning to play the song Liz On Top of the World, which is from the movie Pride and Prejudice and a favorite of mine, on the piano.

I will keep posting back about my progress on this list.
I have not set a deadline for this goal, because there are actually more than 100 books on the list, (example: the list says "The Harry Potter Series" and "The Complete Works of Shakespear") and some of them are long (example: The Bible (yep, that's on the list too :D)) and I will be getting a job soon so I will have less free time.
But I will try to be expedient.
Wish me luck!

<3
Laura

NEW PICTURE!

SO there. It is a new picture! Yay you!
PARTY TIME!!
EM RO
Spelling: ZIP

Written from a school computer :D

Hello, world!
This is Laura, posting from a school computer. :D
I'm in photography class right now, which is a pointless class in which we do absolutely nothing.
This is what I decided I'm going to do this weekend:
1. Do my homework. (that's number one so I'll remember to do it haha)
2. Marker fight at Ems house tomorrow! :D
3. Gotta clean my room. This one's not gonna happen.
4. Go to church.
5. Die my hair.
That's all.

*Random letter in the middle of the post*
Dearest Emma,
I am writing this epistle with fancy Pride and Prejudice-type words, because that is what I am reading right now and I most ardently enjoy it. Recently, I have come across a quite unfortunate intrusion in my well-being; namely, our blog picture. I see it as being quite unusual and slightly disturbing. I most ardently wish that you change it immediately.
With all due respect,
Laura Jo
*Last name withheld because this is the internet and I don't want any creepers stalking me...*
*End of random letter*

Hmm...
Cinnamon challenge?
I think yes!
Maybe...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISTAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I freakin love you bunches and bunches and hope that you have the best birthday ever even though I want to punch your parents for not buying you stuff and I hope that you have lots of fun being a legal adult and stuff! (haha you're still too young to drink and rent cars)

Have a fantastic day!
Don't do drugs!
Don't have sex!
You know how it goes... haha

<3
Laura

I LOVE THIS SONG!

Last Sunday I went to my sisters ward for church! It was great! I went to primary and helped with the precious sunbeams. They introduced me to this BEAUTIFUL SONG!
Okay.... it wont show on the blog. SO PLEASE GO CHECK IT OUT--> If I Listen With My Heart

I hope you enjoy!
EM RO
No misspells

Poetry, Twitter, and Blind Poodles

Em__Ro is coming to you live from her living room. Tis 6:42 in the morning and I have nothing better to do... Okay I might, but I don't want to think about it.

Poetry Out Loud. Why do we have to be forced into competition? Last time went SO WELL. (cough cough NOT!) Well at least this year I can read an Emily Dickinson poem. That makes the task a lot happier for me. Except all her poems are short. DilEMMA!

Last night I could not sleep to save my soul. So I went on to Twitter, what else would a tired body think to do? So I wrote several.... ten to be exact..... tweets. In one I commented about how I do not care the Justin Bieber has a new hair cut. Because of the one tweet that mention the cumulative fan club kid I now have two new followers. Both are ardent fans that absolutely love Mr. Bieber.

Getting followers is easy. Just type: Justin Bieber

THE END

Spelling:) Only 2

Four Words on Mariah’s Day

Epiphany

Adventure

Beauty

Fun

This is such a great song and movie! <3 I hope it brightens your day with the message it holds!

Another Feeling

By Ruth Stone

Once you saw a drove of young pigs

crossing the highway. One of them

pulling his body by the front feet,

the hind legs dragging flat.

Without thinking,

you called the Humane Society.

They came with a net and went for him.

They were matter of fact, uniformed;

there were two of them,

their truck ominous, with a cage.

He was hiding in the weeds. It was then

you saw his eyes. He understood.

He was trembling.

After they took him, you began to suffer regret.

Years later, you remember his misfit body

scrambling to reach the others.

Even at this moment, your heart

is going too fast; your hands sweat.

 

 

I have changed my mind about Richard Cory. This is the poem I will be doing for Poetry Out Loud!. I better get going. :) I am very excited.

HAPPY NEW..... DAY!

SO....
I have found a new nick name of which I quite enjoy!
EM RO!
Spelling: ZERO.

I CAN POST NOW!

WHAT HAPPENED!?! I CAN POST NOW!

HALLELUJAH!

I CAN POST!

Google is working. *tears of joy*

That is all!

Love, Mariah

Hello 2011! : )

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Laura do not stress about being six days late....

HAPPY TEN DAY BELATED NEW YEAR!

Well I am not feeling very thoughtful or sentimental. So instead of talking about how great 2011 will be I will just talk about how AWESOME I am. HOW EXCITING! This year will be great though, because I am forcing it to be so.

Lately I have been enjoying cake decorating! Wanna see some of my work? WOW! It must have been some time since last I wrote. Ehh oh well. I am here now. NO WORRIES! 8D

My first cake.... (I feel like I am talking about my children... haha)
Here I might as well name it. Oops. It is showing it above I think. Well I shall name it JOY! YAY!

Then I made cake number 2 and 3. THe pumpkin one is for Halloween.... SHOCKER. Then one of my FAVORITES!!!! My Phantom of The Opera Eating Experience! YUM AND BEAUTIFUL! Oh and just so you know.... CHRISTINE SHOULD LOVE THE PHANTOM. Okay.

CAKES, CAKES, CAKES!!!!! Just recently I made a cupcake masterpiece. (notice the word piece follows the I BEFORE E rule. WHOA! ONE OF THE FEW WORDS THAT DO. I will vent about that another day.) So anyways, for my niece's (oh look another I before E follower ;) !) baptism I made this delicious cupcakes yay. I rock, I know.

Well I feel to lazy to proof read my writing and I really don't care to write more so see ya.
Spelling errors: Only one! How great. I actually have been helping others spell!!! I KNOW TIS WONDERFUL.

New Years (six days late)

Happy New Years!
Yes, I am quite aware that New Years was six days ago, but I have been procrastinating a bit more than I find acceptable lately, so I decided just now that a late New Years post was better than none.
Shall we guess who is writing this post?
Is is Emma?
Of course not! Emma would have misspelled something by now...
Is this Mariah?
Of course not! Mariah would have bourne her testimony by now...
If you haven't guessed yet, this is Laura. (aka Laur, LoJo, JoJo, Bugaboo, Scout, etc.)

Here are some of my New Years resolutions:
1. Do better in school. I get good grades, but I'm secretly a bad student.
2. Get into college. And not a stupid college like Salt Lake Community College.
3. Do more service. Service is good. It also helps with New Years Resolution #2.
4. Complete Personal Progress again. Not sure how this one's gonna go... I worked on Personal Progress for 3 1/2 years to finish it the first time, and now I have a year.
5. Try to eat less junk food. I don't want to die when I'm 40.
Yes, I know that these are pretty dumb resolutions, but I must assure you that I have some good ones as well -- they're just super important to me so I'm not going to post them online yet. Maybe when the year ends I'll tell you about them.
Also, one more thing... I'm generally an unambitious person, so all these resolutions are really general and have words like try and better, so then if I don't do too great then technically its not really failure. Maybe I should have a resolution to stop doing that. Next year.

If I were Mariah, I would include a paragraph about how great 2010 was and all the things I've learned and how my testimony has grown.
But I'm not Mariah.
But for the sake of it, I will include something.
2010?
Not what I anticipated.
What have I learned?
I dunno; a lot of stuff.
Testimony?
Fabulous.
Enough said.

I hope that all you blog readers had wonderful New Years and Christmases and Hanukkahs and Kwanzaas and Other-December-Holidays! Anyone who cares to can comment and tell us about your holidays if you really want to... I don't know what I'm saying exactly, but in all other blog posts I've read they end with an invitation to comment.

Wear a jacket!
Learn how to quilt!
ASK SOMEONE TO SWEATHEARTS! (viciously directed at Mariah and Emma)

<3
Laura

Happy Anniversary from We Three Can't Agree!

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for the last year that we've had.

This time last year we were downstairs in Blaine's office typing away. We had to call our friend to ask about cute layouts for our homely blog. Now we have an adorable blog with a cute llama picture to fit with it. We had pizza then--we have pizza now. Much has not changed, but much has. And much will!

For as Obama says,
"Change is good."
*cue subliminal message*

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hello, there.

"Mariah, will you swim with dolphins when Emma has an aquarium?" Laura murmers as she tries to stay awake.
"Eh... I don't know," Mariah says.
Emma is by the window talking about her future aquarium, filling Laura and Mariah's minds with dolphin knowledge.
"Captain--Seargent Pepper."
Is Emma talking about dolphin names?
"Lightning, and Cosmo..."

Happy New Year again! This is a peak of what happens when we get together. :)