SOME ECARDS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT

...except when they dis twilight .

icky.

being sick + almost the end of term = big fat no no. highly do not recommend that one.

i tried going to school, but that lasted a whopping hour and a half. eeeee.

& just to top it off, i think i got taylor sick too.

but when i came up from my cave-like-bedroom downstairs,

i checked my e-mails & something just brightened my day!

releasing breaking dawn february 11th! cuuh-razy. (you can read the article here)

better believe the nelson sisters are going to get that baby at midnight!

well.. i'm off to sleep some more. maybe dream of edward while i'm at it..

-taryn

i can't feel my feet & my eyes are getting heavier by the second.

carnivals.

let's just say volenteering to chase after balls little children have thrown accross the park wasn't the funnest booth to man. they said i'd get to run the mph gun & meet dale murphy.

no gun.. no murphy.

oh well, it was fun.

now here are some randoms.



1. playing croquet with the cousins.

2. re-doing my magnetic board!

3. cut down the ol' pine tree, TIMBEERR!

4. extra magazines lying around? send them my way.

5. $0.49 bean & cheese with extra green sauce.

6. (lovin pizza right now) peperoni & artichoke from the wasatch brewery. yummm.

& annie said....

"I do not care that every day of my life is not full of events, dates, or plans."

ditto.

that's all the randoms for now.

-tar

p.s. i absolutely want/need this. & i'm doing everything in my power to win.

how's this for dramatic post of the year?

 i had every intention to blog about efy today.

well, i'm not in the mood.

i found myself on my knees last night.

i just want my old friends.

my old family.

music is the only thing that can describe it.

paramore.

franklin.

emergency.

let the flames begin.

let this go.

for a pessimist i'm pretty optimistic.

whoa.

playing (the man upstairs).

         

-taryn

overload.

i woke up today in a little debbie downer mood.

{1} snow. like really? you just ruined every hope i had of having good prom pictures. i need sunshine & green.. you cancel both of those out. not to mention i'm going to be freezing my bum off all day.

{2} i basically had the worst dream ever. & that always puts me in bad moods.

{3} my alarm this morning was a phone call from dad telling me to clean the church. YAY, my absolute fav. it atually wasn't that bad & we went to magleby's after, so.. it was all cash in the end. (2 claps for their all you can eat pancakes & buttermilk syrup. i think i'll be fine until dinner).

{4} i'm nervous?

but i'm also very excited for tonight. we spent last night at lowes xtreme air sports for our day date. there's nothing better than jumping into a huge pit of foam & not getting injured. we all decided that we could probably sleep in the pits because they were so soft. :) then we went to the malt shoppe, ate shakes, & talked for 2 hours. love this group!

wanna see a sneak peek of my dress?

she's a puurrdy thing ain' huur?

i'm real excited to show her off tonight.

tay & i are both in the same group,

so wish us luck! :)

-taryn & taylor

i think i'm psychic, because i imagined things would happen today - then they did.

you know, i think i should get my tonsils out because i have strep...

AGAIN!!!!!!

yes, i skipped school. yes, i did miss an a day. yes, i am going to have loads of make-up work. {i hate missing a days, they're the worst.} & yes, while i was in the doctor's office i out-weighed every other patient by 93 pounds {because i ate 1 burger in 2 days i lost 2 pounds, HA! shows how much i eat e'rryday.}

today wasn't all blue & gloom, though.

i spent the day with my lovely mother. {& tay when she got home from school} we laughed and watched the tele, particularly the  "william & kate" movie on lifetime. now, i'm suddenly obsessed with their story of royalty & romance.

then Timps Angels wrote this on my wall on facebook.

Taryn,
Congratulations on next years Student Council. You are going to do awesome, and you can seriously make a change at THS. There are many people who secretly look up to you; never change who you are for anyone, unless its for the better. 

what pals! the whole dramas anonymous thing was getting way out of hand. i soon found it annoying & rude rather than funny & entertaining. yet, people started making ones that said nice things about people. 2 claps for the saints in the world.

-tar!

here's an earful.

i applied to be a lifeguard at seven peaks water park because there are a couple girls in my ward who work there and have the time of their lives. you get paid to stand in the sun all day, who wouldn't want to work there? i got called back for an interview on wednesday and i thought it went really well, but that was only half of the interview. the other half was a swim test yesterday. beside the fact you had to wear a 1 piece and my purchase the night before could have looked like i shopped in my grandma's closet, it was easily the hardest thing i have ever done. easily.

i mean, i aint on the swim team, but i can swim. the first part of the test was easy. you just had to swim in a 13ft pool for 3 minutes, then the last minute you had to hold your arms above the water. not so bad.

i heard the brick was hard, but i never imagined it to be that hard {okay. it's not an actual house brick. it's just a weight in the shape of a brick so that's what they call it.} you have to swim accross the pool, grab the brick at the bottom and continue to swim backwards with your head and brick above the water. i didn't want to fail so i kept trying and trying to swim to the other end, attempting to hold the brick above the water, but everytime i kept going under and losing my breath. i honestly almost drowned. i finally just had to drop the brick and hold onto the lane divider to catch my breath. the lifeguard in charge of the drill dove into the pool to grab the brick, then came up to tell me i did a good job. honestly? i just failed. please don't tell me i did  a good job. he told me i can do it as many times as i wanted. to heck i was going to go back and try it again.

the third part was just saving a life guard. nbd.

then we had to swim 3-100's. {a 100 is there & back, there & back}. okay, here's the part where the "i aint on the swim team" comes in. i was so tired after the first 100 and i still had 2 more to go. swimming is seriously sooo tiring. you use your whole body to swim. not just your legs or arms. your whole body.

after the 2nd 100 with me being the only one left in the pool with a huge line of people waiting their turn, probably laughing at me struggling, i was [ this ] close to quitting. my intentions got the best of me and i just thought, maybe this isn't my place to be. my body was hurting too much and it was just too hard. but then i thought of how dissappointed my family would be because they all know how bad i want this. how dissappointed i would be. something inside me just told me to keep going. thankfully it was enough to help me finish.

that was the last of the test and i was ready to go home. i hopped in the car and just started bawling. i could barely feel my arms and legs. they said if you pass the swim test they'll call you by the 23rd to take the lifeguarding classes and be certified. i'll honestly be surprised if they call me back.

well i guess i can say i learned my lesson. i got home knowing that i didn't do the best, but i did my best, and that's all that matters.

-tay

20 down 11 to go

Day 20 - your hobbies

i don't consider the word hobby to mean something you're good at. i think it means something you like to do. 

i like to blog. i like to play basketball. i like taking pictures. i like to hang out. i like attending sporting events. i like to listen to music.i like to watch people {that sounded way to creepy, i just mean that i'm a people watcher - i enjoy watching people} i like to play the piano. i like to sing. i like to watch movies. i like to run for fun, not for distance &/or time. i like to play outside.

i've been slaving away at this dang computer all. weekend. long. no lie. friday night instead of going to a birthday party i stayed home to work on my student council portfolio. saturday day i stayed in my pajamas and didn't shower because i wasn't planning on leaving until i got the dang thing done. saturday night i {finally} showered but hopped right back into my sweats. paige, taylor, and myself had a sleepover at lindsay's house. better believe this laptop traveled with me & i slaved away on my poster rather than watching eclipse: edward & jacob fast forward. sunday day i woke up early to get started on my video to come up with ideas and such. after church taylor and i filmed it & it was time to go to the cousins house for treats. better believe i slaved away at this laptop the whole way up, the whole time there, & the whole way down. & here i sit - taking a break from the dang video that BETTER turn out.

all i know is that i hope it's all worth it! i'm scared out of my mind.

-taryn

ree-wind!!

meet makayla.

her mother just posted these fun little pics on facebook.

we suuureee partied when ever we were together!

love her. :)

Day 19 - something you regret

this may or may not have taken a lot of thought, i can't decide. i've never made a really, really big mistake or descision that has haunted me or anything like that.

there is this one time that i can remember, though.

for some reason i've been thinking about this certain thing a lot lately. maybe because new things came to the surface recently that i had absolutely no idea happened. 

i got in a fight with one of my best friends. a big one, too. no details need to be said on this world wide web but i will say that it got pretty ugly. i said things, she said things. i just got so heated & mad about what had happened & blew up! i always justified how mean i was with saying things like, "oh - she {did this} to me, i had a reason to get mad" but really, i said some harsh things. it's never ok to "get back" at someone - regardless of how bad they hurt you. some words i expressed had never come out of my mouth before.. yeah, it was that bad.

i regret some of the things i said. not all - but some. even though we've apologized to each other & are still friends, our relationship has never quite been the same. i hope in the future i can learn from this & maybe count to 10, take a deep breath & walk away :)

-tar

getting out of hand.

this whole "broken computer" thing is getting out of hand.

but dont worry, we have big plans for valentines day!

{they may or may not include justin bieber}

so what if we spend our day of love celebrating our celebrity crush?

seems reasonable, right?

i think so.

-tay

happy happy birthday tori dear.

wait... a birthday? another one? yuuup, ms. tori ware :) tori is THE NICEST person ever. she's so sweet to e.ver.y.one. i don't understand how she does it. she's like the female version of tanner marsh- she knows everything without being too nosey. people trust her & that such a hard thing to find- especially in high school. thanks for being such a great example to us tor!

we love you!

she had a party today & we were only able to stay for about.. well.. 8 minutes. (we're shaking our fists at basketball practice, which by the way, was not fun today. the lady days make it hard to enjoy doing things that have the words running, or energy because we all know those words make the cramps worse)

all happy birthdays aside..

today was rather.. overwhelming. (which is a common occurance when it's that time of the month) the alarm didn't go off in time. i didn't get to eat breakfast. the weather is wayyy too cold outside. breaking news on the latest drama at THS... w-o-w is all i can say. i can't think straight when trying to learn the other teams plays.. its difficult when we already have to remember 30+. people try to correct me & it just makes me mad. {that big lump formed in my throat. you know, the kind you get when you're sitting in the movie theatre watching the sad movie but you just don't want anyone to see you crying..}

but also

sar told me i looked way cute even though i got ready in 16 minutes this morning. brother christiansen taught a comforting lesson in seminary. medical anatomy, need i say more? having dad make me & tay pb&j sammies & eating lunch with him in his classroom. watching tate play with his friends in daycare. mrs. thomas putting my photo in the art show & telling me how well i did on the shooting assignment. playing with sar & ker, oh how i'm excited to reconnect with them in 2 weeks! going to tori's party and honking at the trillions more guests we see on our way out. rachelle talking to herself when she missed her freethrow. going to the mall & just being crazy with tay! mom bringing us dinner & listening to us complain about school & (cough cough) certain teachers. picking up brooks from work. sky.

i guess this is the post you get when my hormones are going wild. -tar

read it & weep.

i got an email from MTV & was more than dissapointed. i'm a twi-hard, sue me!! this article was just terrible. the movie was my favorite out of the series & seriously not that bad at all. you can check it out here. grab some tissues because it made me cry.

-taryn

the worst christmas present ever..

we know these last posts have been sooo lame and all about celebrities, but we promise this will be the last for awhile. . . . . .

they're over.

we've always been fans of the band, but have recently become obsessed. like seriously, they're all we have been listening to (aside from biebs, jonas, and bsb..our 9 year old little girl lovies). we can't get enough of their album Brand New Eyes, our friend makayla got it for us. every song is sooo so soooo good & the lyrics are PRIME. like really, we're more than upset. right as our obsession was increasing they break up. oh well, guess our punk side will just have to find a new love to replace. still though, they were our FAV.

r.i.p. paramore, we're oh so sad to see you go.

-twinners

we're so pretty after 2.5 hours of practice.

1. fake a smile.

2. practice was definitely not fun today. horrible, actually.

3. same clothes, same face.

"wait, is there a mirror on the court? or are those just the twins?"

very funny, sunshine.

-twinners

taryn & the horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day.

today was awful.

1. i wanted to sleep in after i heard my alarm go off, so i set it to a later time. oops, i also set it to pm. me & taylor didn't wake up till 7:08. that leaves us a total of 22 minutes to get ready for school.

2. lady days. who likes those? especially if you're me. constant excruciating pain & you can barely breathe without feeling like [insert descriptive word here]

3. mr. saxton's class. need i say more?

4. crowther likes to make fun of me in pre-cal...embarassing, but sometimes humorous. today, not so funny. don't men know not to criticize women when they're extremely hormonal? not cool, sunshine.

5. coach kavika + basketball conditioning = HELL. do you think my poor core area could handle running and working my tail off today? nope. so i called daddy & explained the situation. whenever you metion the words "girl problems" to him, he does whatever he can to make the conversation end quickly.. even if it means checking me out of school. I LOVE HIM.

6. i'm telling coach crandall and coach kavika that i'm getting checked out. why they ask? "um.. because... i need to go to the store for my mom." as if you can't tell, i'm a horrible liar. i was afraid that if i told kavika i was on my period he would just say "oh suck it up, you're fine." yeah, excuse me sir? have you ever been on a menstrual cycle before? didn't think so. i left the gym as fast as you could say idiot.

7. midol works wonders. i'm a firm believer. but when the heating pad can't be found, that's not ok with me. i call mom who's at work & start bawling. way to keep your cool, tar.

8. i forgot NHS applications were due today. i had to type a one page paper on myself {i absolutely hate talking about myself} in 20 minutes & run it down to the school. i forgot to have mom sign it, so i forge a signature. did the signature look like moms? nope. did it look exactly like mine? yep.

9. taylor & i were almost killed in an accident today. people need to learn how to control their speed when rushing down a hill. luckily no one was seriously injured, except my eyes as they saw my life flash before my eyes.

10. i desperately needed some chocolate to calm down my estrogen level while i was watching the best friend, sarah, play volleyball. kavika was sitting near the snack shack, and i was afraid he'd approach me & ask about my lies to get out of his class. i waited a little too long because kavika went & sat right at the snack shack table, as if he knew exactly what i was going through my weak mind.

let's pray tomorrow's better.

 2 more days until thursday, halla.