Do I Really Care About My Teeth?

So today during my Seminary class, we were grading things and playing some Christmas games. During that time, we also received some Starburst candy. Well I didn't want them then so I put them in my pocket for later. Later that day, I made a "fun" trip to the dentist's office. A little while ago, I discovered that one of the fillings that I had fixed like 4 months ago had chipped off. So I went back into the dentist's office today to get that taken care of. Well as I was sitting in the uncomfortable chair, some of the Starbursts from my pocket fell out. And I bet you can imagine what the dentist was thinking. Well let's just say that everyone there got a little chuckle out of it. So pretty much, they probably think that I don't care about my teeth and all that jazz; all I do is eat candy and sweets. It is a no wonder that I have bad teeth. Well honestly I do care! I just forgot to destroy the evidence that would say otherwise. :D Apparently everyone told Mom about it as well when she went in later for her checkup. Ya...I am a laughing-stock at the dentist's office now. Yay.....
~MeL

Procrastination

Hey everyone! So sorry for neither mom nor I posting anything for a while. Life here in Price has been pretty hectic lately. Mom and Dad have both been crazy busy with work, and I have also been pretty busy with school and work.
As many of you know (how could you not know with Mom telling everybody she meets? that's right, even strangers practically), I was selected as the Math Sterling Scholar for this year. Well let me tell ya, it is not all that it is cracked up to be. The outcome is nice, all that you learn and everything, but the work... ugh. We have deadlines where a number of pages have to be done. Well....this coming Thursday I have 10 pages due, and let's face it, I have none done. Awesome isn't it? Well I am close on several of them, but none done. I have one word that describes my life altogether: Procrastination. Yup that's me. For my science fair project in 9th grade, I waited until like the week before to do my observations, and the night before to do my report and everything else. :D Also, I remembered last night at about 10:00 that I had a lesson that I had to teach in Young Women's today. Ya that was a shocker. I about had a heart attack right in the middle of family prayer, and I was saying it! You know, even though I procrastinate and get frustrated everytime I do it, I still do it. I haven't figured that out yet. People tell me to change my ways (mainly Mom and Dad), but I usually don't listen (don't tell Mom!).
~MeL

"Brad's Not Afraid of the Dirty Work"

Our dear and my favorite uncle, (don't tell anyone else that!) Brad King, is running for the Utah State Senate, and because he is doing this, he is gathering his forces, namely his family in Price, and having them be in parades for him. I have been in two of them so far, and I love it! Uncle Brad, in both parades so far, has been placed right behind the horses. So his lucky job gets to be the pooper scooper! However, he has made a clever slogan to go along with it. "Brad Is Not Afraid of the Dirty Work"!
In both of these parades I had the "privelage" of handing out candy. It is actually really kind of scary. Here you are, being nice and throwing out candy, and here these little short kids run up to you screaming "GIVE ME CANDY!! GIVE ME CANDY!! CANDY!!!". It has made me pretty much terrified of little kids; at least ones during a parade. But I would rather hand out candy and deal with the little people than pass out flags to all of the old people. That was the other job option and I had no desire to talk to old people and answer all of their questions about Brad King. They are far worse than the screaming kids. Lucky for Mom, that was her awesome job, and she did incredible at it, although a few times, she did fall behind. But who could blame her when she has 20 questions coming from everyone?

~MeL~

The first picture is of Peach Days in Ferron, and the rest are in Green River for Melon Days!

DISCO

Well here are pictures from the Homecoming dance last night. Many of you know I went already, because Mom tells everybody everything about my life. So here they are. My date was Dayton Martindale and I had a blast with him! The theme for the dance was throughout the ages, as this year is Carbon's 50th year. So anybody could go and dress up in any of the last 5 decades. We chose to dress up in DISCO style. It was amazing. Plus, if we dressed up in full costume, we got a $1 discount. Woo! But anyways, here are our pictures from last night.

In this picture, our faces look kind of odd, and that is because we were trying so hard not to bust up laughing. We were not succeeding very well.

PS- The white thing around my neck is my ID badge that we have to wear at school now. It is totally lame. They made us even bring it to the dance, otherwise we would not be able to get into the dance. LAME!

~MeL~

"My Little Buttercup"

Here it is! My homecoming video talent performance! I must say though, it is not near as good as the one we did at the actual assembly, but it is still good and hilarious. Unfortunately, we had very limited space so we are crunched together, and you cannot hear our tap shoes. Sigh.. but overall, you still get the same effect. For homecoming queen, by the way, I did not win anything, but I also did not really care, but I still felt especially honored that my peers see me that high up there. So thanks to them! Love you all!

(I apologize for the sound effects. My camera does not work the best and it has problems recording things. I did not want to use the one on the video camera, because that would require extra time and effort to convert it to a digital setting thing. At least, that is what Dad says... ;D)

~MeL~

Homecoming

As many of you know, I was nominated for Homecoming Queen. Well here are the pictures of the assembly where I had to "gracefully" walk across stage (I wasn't so successful in that part), answer a question, and perform a talent. My talent was tap dancing to the song 'My Little Buttercup' from the Three Amigos. It wasn't really tap dancing though, mostly just making a bunch of noise with the shoes. Unfortunately, we had some technical difficulties witht the video camera, so I don't have the actual dance...yet. The camera recorded everything else but the dance, but my friends and I are going to re-dance the dance. As soon as that is done, I will post it here, but until then please enjoy the few pictures we have of it.

~MeL~

Great Things

Well this was my first official week of my High School Senior year. And I must say that it certainly is great. School is alright. I am taking some interesting classes this year, and most of them I am excited for. I am taking Seminary, Calculus, Government & World Civilization, Nutrition, Intro to Literature, and Human Development Through the Life Span. The last two classes being at the college. Well anyways, back to the title of the post, I have officially discovered three great things this past week.

1-Concurrent Enrollment = Taking classes at the college while still in high school is perhaps the greatest thing ever! I am taking four classes at the high school and the rest are at the college. My whole afternoon is devoted to college classes, which I only have on Mondays and Wednesdays. So pretty much, I get out of school on the other three days at 12:00. (Technically at 11:30, but there is lunch then and Mom says I need the "social time")
2-Heating Pads = This past week, I have been having some pains throughout my body, which I blame school stress for, but I just plop the heat on the painful area, and BAM!! I feel much better.
3-Banana Flavored Icee = I don't know if most of you know, but i LOVE Icees! Yesterday I just felt like I wanted something cold and delicious, so I decided to make a pit stop at Maverik and get an Icee. To my surprise, however, there was not a blue raspberry Icee or even a cherry Icee. There was a banana Icee! I know that sounds interesting but honestly, it is perhaps one of the greatest things I have ever discovered! I love them! In fact...I just might go and get another one today! Yay! :D

So there you have it! The three greatest things of the week! (thus the name of the post ;D) And know that it is because of Concurrent Enrollment that I am home writing this at the current time. I am NOT sluffing school. And that is just so that I do not get fifty phone calls from everyone making sure I am doing the "right thing".
~MeL~

Looking Back at Prom

Well it has come to my attention by certain family members said that I needed to put my Prom pictures on our blog for you all to enjoy. So here they are. Now keep in mind, as you are watching this video, that most of these pictures were taken when I wasn't looking and so I probably looking pretty retarded. But just pass by those pictures and memories as you think of me. Think of the good things that I have done. Like all of the times that I come and visit everyone! :D

But anyways, enjoy the video. By the way, I had a blast at Prom! My date's name was Andrew Bates, and for everyone asking, he IS slightly taller than me. So I believe that I did accomplish something there! So right before we went to the actual Prom, we had dinner at the church, which was delicious, and after Prom, we went to one of the guy's house and played Apples to Apples and ate cheesecake! It was sooo yummy!

~MeL~

Grandma's Camp Review

Well this is an amazing video of photos that Mom took of her week with th grandchildren. The five oldest grandchildren attended, as Mom will not let any child who is not potty-trained come to Grandma's Camp. However, even without the excitement of the two 1-year olds, the kids and Mom had a great week and loved every minute of it. I do not know the full extend of what took place during the week, since I was not in attendance, but I do know that they went swimming, made pedigree charts out of cookies(!), decorated a flag, did multiple crafts, also decorated mugs, and ate lots of popcicles! Woo! They also went down to Grandma and Grandpa Christensen's in Beaver, and Grandma Blackburn's in Minersville. There, they played nightgames and got to spend quality time with their great and great-great grandparents. But if you would like full details of the week, please contact Mom! Enjoy the video!

~MeL~

Finally...

Well the King Family Blog is finally in order thanks to my dear sister Mikelle. Apparently creating this whole blog thing is a lot harder than expected. It didn't exactly help where I am pretty much incapable of figuring out anything that has to do with technology. Anyways, now that our blog is up and running, we will be doing our best ('our' meaning Mom and I) to keep up with this, although I cannot make any promises. Our family tends to get a little busy when the school years starts and that happens in about a week. So if you could be somewhat patient with us, it would be much appreciated.
~MeL~