And They Lived Happily Ever After!

Congratulations Heidi and Sean! They were married today in the Houston Temple! Heidi and Sean are both from my ward so I have had the pleasure to know them both since I was like 7. They are the cutest couple and we are all very happy for them and wish them happiness in their new life together!

I just love this picture!

All the pictures were so cute I couldn't put just one! :)

Youth Conference Part 2!

I finally have pictures! Because I couldn't bring my own camera there aren't very many good pictures of my so most of these are group pictures. I tried to put them in some what of an order. Well here we go!

When the cars dropped us off they told us we were in Jerusalem. We then had to pack up all our things and travel into the wilderness.Camile and me waiting for the guys to come back because they had to walk all the way back to get the brass plates.King Benjamin talking to all of us on his tower! Everything was so realistic!Abinidi! This was one of my favorite reenactments!

Abinidi being tied to the stake :(
Poor Abinidi :( This looked so real! Everyone thought Windsor ( the guy playing Abinidi) had actually caught fire!

Enos telling his story to the yellow nation.Samuel the Laminite! This was another really cool reenactmentThe iron rod! The tent in the back is the big and spacious buildingThe tree of life! The sweet fruits were marshmallows :)

Sister Dibbs (President Monson's daughter!!) talking to the yellow nation!!

Wow!Sister Dibbs then talked to all the young women!

This is my tribe! They were all awesome!

After each reenactment we had a "therefore what" were we talked about what we had just seen.Another therefore what with my tribe!Me and Stefi! and our very pink faces :( we got soooo sunburnt! I got second degree burns on my sholders! ouch!Our sages! (tribe mom and dad) Brother and Sister Marsh! They were the best!

Battle training and learning the HakkaMy nation (yellow) learning the Hakka!Marching in our straight rows of 10 off to battle!Charge!

After the battle we all wrote down on a piece of wood a bad habit we wanted to stop or something we wanted to do better. We then threw the pieces into a big fire

Jordan, Amber, and Taylor! My beautiful friends! :DThey blind folded us on the way to the last reenactment.

We sat blindfolded while we were hearing the noises of huge thunder storms and to signify they three days of darkness.

This was the most amazing experience in my life!

The whole group! I'm in the second to last row on the bottom in the right middle (does that make sense?)The land we stayed on was beautiful!

I loved loved loved youth conference! It was the best experience of my life and I cant wait till next years! This is only a few of the thousands of pictures they took. If you want to see some more or are just really bored you can go here http://gallery.mac.com/tomkunz

There still putting up more so I'll probably have more posts coming!

Dog Show Art

This year in art we did not do "dog show" as one of our projects. We could still do it, but we had to do it on our own time. Because of this I have been working every weekend for the past month and a half. But at least my hard work paid off! 10 students art pieces were chosen to go to the Dog Show. I'm hoping that I can make this a tradition because this is the second year in a row. This Year:

Last year: (I think I've improved)

I'm really into a lot of abstract colors and I love Andy Warhol. (that's where I got the idea for this year) I will let you know when I find out who placed!

80's Dance!!!

For this months church dance we had 80's theme! It was amazing! I think half the fun was dressing up and doing our makeup/hair!Brittani, Shelby, me, and Leah

We took lots of pictures :D

Brittani and Leah! cutee

More pictures! They all walked home with me after school so we had a lot of time to get ready and have fun!

How cute are we? Extremely!

Were finally at the dance! It was so fun! Taylor (last on the right) coulnt come over so we met her there- thats when the real fun started! Love ya Taylor!!

After the dance we had to wait a while for our ride... so we took more pictures!

I love this! (I'm wearing Josh's shoes- that's why they have pen all over them)

The whole group <3

Youth Conference!!

Let me just start by saying-Wow! AMAZING! This was defiantly one of the best experiences of my life! Everyone had to dress up in Book of Mormon attire. Thursday night we had a dance (normal clothes) and then they told us about what we would do. Bright and early Friday morning we met at the church in our costumes. We then drove up to the wilderness! We had to walk allot and carry lots of heaving things. They did so many amazing reenactments of different Book of Mormon stories. They did Abinidi, sons of Jared, Enos, Alma the younger,King Benjamin, and when Christ visited the Americas. It was AMAZING! We got to have huge battles with swords and shields. It was soo fun! We slept in tents Friday night and did more reenactments and battles all day Saturday. There was so many people there! We were all asigned tribes with about 12 people in them. I loved my tribe! We couldn't bring cameras but don't worry they took lots of pictures and will give them to us soon! I will be posting more stories of funny things that happened there, but I'm out of time so ill have to tell you later!

Congratulations!

Congrats Kristy! We just recieved news that my aunt Kristy is going to have a baby!! She is about 2 months in and were all very excited for her! I loved how she told everyone- she sent us all an e-mail saying "this is the cutest shirt!" and when we look at the picture we see Rissa (her baby girl) wearing a shirt that says 'big sister'!

We love you and are all very happy for you! :)

NJHS

Good news! This year I was accepted into NJHS - national junior honor society. They had a big ceremony to celebrate all the new members. When they would call your name you would stand up, walk and light your candle in the "candle of knowledge" then shake hands with the principal and get your certificate. I was sooo nervous! I just knew that I was going to trip, blow out the candle of knowledge and catch something on fire. But when they called my name I was fantastic :)

My certificate!
Waiting in line for my name to be called...

Lighting my candle in the "candle of knowledge"

Shaking hands with the principal

Waiting for all the hundreds of names to be called...standing in tall tall heels... getting burned by the candle wax... Such fun! :)

By the time we were done, someone had accidentally blown out the "candle of knowledge", caught the paper around there candle on fire, and everyone was burned by the hot wax. The things we do for school :)

Katie the Critic

I'm soo excited to write this post! I have just read an amazing book and cant wait for you all to hear about it!
Tittle: The Red Necklace
Author: Sally Gardner

I give this book an A.

The Red Necklace has everything! Mystery, Romance, Magic and everything else that makes up a good book. I don't want to give away to much because I don't want to spoil it for anyone. (because I know you're all going to rush to the library to get it) The story takes place in Europe in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution. Sido, the marquises daughter, has been hated by her father all her life. Yann, a handsome mysterious gypsy, was orphaned at birth and raised by Tetu', who helped him understand his magical abilities. When these two teenagers meet they feel a strange force pulling them together. They later are forced to work together to stay alive. In doing so, they learn about their past, future, and the joys of love and family.

General Conference

Luckily for general conference we can just listen to it on our computer. We turn the volume up way loud so we can hear it all over the house. I went around and took some fun pictures of what everyone was doing.

I was working on sewing my costume for youth conference! Fun! (more posts on that later)

Mom was helping :)

Josh was sitting on the front porch enjoying the fresh air

Claire was up all night sick :( so she took a nap

Melanie shares a room with Claire so she was also up all night

It was such a nice day that in between sessions we went on family walk. After conference we had hamburgers on the grill and ate outside on the picnic table.