Bohemian Rhapsody

This is the Boys and Girls Chorus at my school. It is mostly 8th graders in the choir, and the boys LOVE this song so they begged the girls to sing it too. It was stuck in my head all the time and they played it at Lagoon like 5 times while I was working, but it's so awesome! I'm on the far left and on like the third row but you can't even see me. I'm a soprano so I sang the really high notes. It was so fun! We had some guys from Boys Chorus play the guitar, drums, and piano. My dear mother kindly recorded this for me :) I love her <3 <3

My Weekend

I'm so happy right now! I hear thunder!! I hate it when it rains, but I LOVE it when there's thunder and lightning and it rains super hard. But it's still sunny outside...hmmm makes it even more cool I guess. The sun's shining, I hear thunder, it's warm outside, and it's pouring.

I've started hanging out with this guy named Mike Fifer. He's a really cool kid. And before I get a bunch of weird questions from people saying "Ooooh do you like him??", I'll just tell you No, we're just friends. I promise you. Anyway, we decided to make a video on Friday just of a stupid news report thing for fun which involves a missing cat, a shooting, and American Idol. It was so hilarious, the shooting was my favorite. I went out on the street with four of my friends and we all had guns that shoot out little green balls that Grandma Carol got me for Christmas. My other friend, Chandler, pretended to be a pedestrian who happened to be filming and he saw see us fighting and shooting and yelled "Oh my gosh!!" and then I saw him and shouted "Hey! He's filming!!" So everyone would ran after him and started shooting him. He then fell to the ground and then Sariah would step in front of the camera and shoot him one more time. It was so cool! I know my describing doesn't sound very good, but just take my word for it that it was awesome.

So on Saturday I went to work at Lagoon. I did "Up Up and Away" which is where you squirt water onto a target and as you do that, your Pokemon character goes up and the person whose Pokemon gets to the top first wins (I was going to say "whosever Pokemon gets to the...." but I don't think "whosever" is a word. Or is it? This is going to bug me.) It's pretty simple to work. The thing that I don't like about games though is because you have to stand outside for hours and beg people to come play your game. I don't mind bugging people, I'm getting paid for it. But standing there kills my legs and feet and by the time I'm done, I'm just dying. It really wears me out and time seems to go so sssslllllllooooooooowwwwwwwwww. When I got home, I felt so dead. I was so exhausted I didn't even want to move. My head was also hurting and my throat. Both had been hurting me since the day before (Friday). I wasn't having a lot of fun.

The next day I went to church and got a cute journal thing to write down in every day and say how I saw the hand of god in my life that day. It was delightful.

On Monday, I had to work again. I did Whac a Mole that time. Mike Fifer came to the park to hang out with me while I worked. I told him to lean against a wall and don't make it obvious that he's talking to me in case my supervisor got mad. I did pretty well with that game and my supervisor was really happy with me and even gave me a high five =D When I was off work (I got off an hour early!), I went to call on the employee phone to get a ride home after I checked out. I spent about ten minutes calling home, Mom's cell phone, and Ashley's cell phone. I don't know my dad's cell phone which is really dumb. I didn't have my cell phone with me (also really dumb), and I didn't know what to do. So I just started walking home. I was so hot and it took forever just to get halfway there. It usually takes me an hour to walk home from Lagoon so it isn't really my first choice of getting home, but I don't know most of the other employees and even if I did see them I probably wouldn't ask for a ride, since most of them are guys and one of them thinks he's the coolest kid alive and another one I used to like, and he liked me. He's the one from my first post in February. Yeah, there's no way I'm going to ask for a ride from him if I saw him. He's a nice guy though. So I'd been walking for about half an hour and I was so tired and hot and sweaty. I was walking on the sidewalk when I noticed a car had pulled up by the curb. Someone poked their head out and Lo and Behold!! it was Uncle William! It took me a couple seconds to register who he was. Him, Aunt Wendy, and the Twins n' Kenna happened to be on their way to my house to visit. I was so relieved to be given a ride. When we arrived at my house, Ashley said that she got a call from a "451" number but didn't answer. I told her that was me, and I hope she felt bad after that :) It's all good though. Because my favorite uncle came to the rescue!! (I used to rate my uncles and he was always #1. I think John Stevens was #2 and then Joe Black might've been #3.....it was forever ago. I love them all equally.)

Later on we went to Marjorie's and hung out. I read for a bit and then fell asleep on their sofa. Jordan then came up and scared me really bad. That was so mean of him, and I couldn't sleep again after that. We had extremely delectable food there and then we watched "Bedtime Stories". It was marvelous.

Today at school, I changed spots in choir so now I can actually hear myself sing. The past two people I've sat by are really good and really loud singers so I could never hear myself. Now I feel weird singing and the whole time I was wondering Do I really sound like that? Can everyone else hear themselves sing? Is the person next to me even singing? It was a bit disconcerting. And then Ms. Swallow wanted me to sing the solo again. Ugh, I probably sounded horrible. Well I can never tell. I thought I did so terrible with Solo and Ensemble last February, but I ended up being one of the best. For that story, check my first post in February again. It was weird because she had me sing in the microphone. And even though I know what a microphone does, I guess it didn't really click that: yes, my voice will be very loud. It freaked me out a little when I started singing.

It dawned on me last night that I can be driving in less than 5 months. That is way creepy and I had to calm myself down. I'm still a kid! I shouldn't be allowed to drive for another 3 years! But I guess I am 14.... I'm growing up way too fast, dang it. Watch out Farmington residents, Celeste will be on the loose soon!

The back of my head has been hurting since Friday and it hasn't gone away. It's not too bad in the day, but at night it hurts especially bad and it's annoying. I don't like taking pain medicine unless it's something really bad, but it's getting annoying having this. And like if I nod my head then it hurts. When my instructor at Lagoon was talking to me, I had to remember not to nod my head and just say "yes" because otherwise my head would hurt. I hope it goes away soon.

I guess this is the end of my post. Thanks for reading, it's makes me so happy!

Just Out of Curiosity

Hey I'm just curious who does read my blog. I only know of a few people so I'm just wondering if there are more people and who they are. So if you could, just leave a comment to let me know you visit here every once in a while. Even if you happen to be someone from England or New York or Wyoming who I don't know (which I highly doubt), I would still like to know. It would be very much appreciated.

My Oh So Exciting Life

Hmmm what should I talk about? I'm only posting because I'm bored.... I guess I'll just tell you more about the events of my oh so exciting life.

I'll first say that I added and took away songs to my playlist because I found that when I got on my blog, I'd turn down the volume when the music started. What's the point of having a playlist if I don't even enjoy listening to most of the music on there? I do like the music, but I never feel like listening to it. I decided to put on some songs that I happen to like that are from movies and Kingdom Hearts. I love songs like those and they're pretty sweet. I still have a couple from Nickelback and Five for Fighting however. Anyway, I like my playlist much better now, and I hope you won't turn down the volume when you hear it.

I had Lagoon category and was put in the race games category which is simply delightful.

I went to see my school musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" on Thursday. It was reallly good and funny. A lot of my friends are in it and it made me so excited for next year when I'll be in musical theatre too. I went with Mom because she's the best Mom ever, and she got me a cute new scripture bag and pencils and a big pink highlighter afterwards. Isn't that nice?

I watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy and was screaming at the end of it. How could they?

I played night games with some neighborhood peoples on Saturday night. We played Capture the Flag and Becca and Ghost in the Graveyard. Then we did some random stuff. This guy was spinning me around for the fun of it (?) and let go mid-spin and I landed on my back and hit my head. That was fun.

I got 90% on my geometry CRT's. Isn't that dandy?

I made chocolate chip cookies today. They're yummy.

I accidentally scratched myself with my pencil and made it bleed :P

I got hit with a "soft" ball today in gym. My friend also found out who the guy she like likes and wasn't very happy. She released her anger by punching my arm twice really hard. She's actually pretty strong and now I have a lovely bruise.

Right now I have a craving to do gymnastics or tumbling really bad. Probably because I was just doing tick-tocks and seeing how many I could do in a row. I'm still pretty good at them. I hope I can start doing tumbling soon, maybe when Mom gets a job.

Gosh there's not much to talk about. I guess this will just be a short post. Well then, au revoir.

The Day of the Mothers

I think most if not all of you have found out that today is Mother's Day. It would be shameful for me to pass this day without saying something to my wonderful mother and grandmothers. They are amazing women and mean a lot to me.

So, my mother Wendy. She is an awesome mom and I love her so much. She has done so much for me. This past Monday, she took me shopping for clothes and last night she bought me a beautiful skirt and shirt. My mom has a good sense of style. Most of the clothes that she picks out for me I love and the clothes she wears are always very nice. I've always been proud to say that my mom doesn't dress in ugly mommy clothes or have a mom bob. She went to my track meet on Friday to watch my minute and a half of running and cheer me on. No matter what sport I did, Mom has always supported me. She went to my soccer games when I was younger and sometimes was my coach. She paid for me to have swimming, dance, and gymnastics lessons. With my dance classes, she went to all of my recitals and supported me. When I did gymnastics, she went to every single meet that I had, even the once in Cedar City, and there were more than ten meets and each one lasted at least 5 hours. She cheered me on the whole time and made me feel better when I didn't do very well. She paid for all of my gymnastics things and for private lessons so that I could get better. At home, she spotted me in the living room when I did back-hand-springs. She takes me shopping and does many fun things with me. She has forced me to do piano which I have come to love to play and helped me get better. When I was in A Brand New Year, Mom took me shopping for my clothes for that and took me to my practices. Mom helps me with school work and values education. In fifth grade, she even home-schooled me. She got history, spelling, math, and reading books for me and taught me more that I would have if I stayed in a public school. When I went to do CRT testing at the end of 5th grade at my original public school, I had learned more than my class did. Whenever she gets a calling, she does a great job with it. When she did Activity Days, she had super fun things that we would do and I always looked forward to it. In Young Womens, she was still a great teacher and I was so happy that she came with to girls' camp. While there, she did everyone's hair. She used to play the piano for the relief society and now plays for primary. And even though she really doesn't like it, she practices the songs and dutifully does it and does a wonderful job. While I was in 4th and 5th grade, she went to beauty school. She worked very hard and sometimes took me with her to her school. Even though she didn't finish, she is now very good at cutting hair and dying it. She cuts my hair all the time and used to love to high light and dye my hair. Mom went back to college a couple of years ago and got her Master's Degree at Weber State University in just two years which is amazing. Mom did like 20 credit hours a term which is crazy. She worked so hard and got straight A's. Those two years were hard having her at school a lot and she had to study and do homework a lot. I'm so proud of her for getting her Master's Degree in Accounting, and I know that's something that I'd never want to do. And today after sacrament meeting was over, she let me lay down on her for about ten minutes which was relaxing because I was really tired. There are tons of more things I could say about her, but then this post would never end. I love my mommy!!!!

Okay, now it's time for my wonderful Grandma Joan. She is on mission in Mongolia right now and I'm so proud of her for going. I always look forward to seeing Grandma Joan. She likes to play games so I'm always begging her to play with me. Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride are my favorites to play with her, and she is very good and competitive. She isn't the kind of grandma who will let you win, she fights hard which makes is extremely fun. I've only beat her two or three times at Settlers, but those were very proud moments of my life. I love going to visit because she has such a nice house and she's fun to be around. I love to just talk to her, play games, help clean, cook, or even read beside her. She helps me a lot with math and piano since she's amazing at piano and used to teach junior high math. Grandma Joan has a very strong testimony in the church and always makes sure that we have family prayer. I love her so much and hope that I can be as great a grandmother as she has been.

Now I get to talk about my Grandma Carol. I love her very much. I can remeber having a lot of sleepovers at her house and her dogs, Sparky and Edison. She would always have Dinty Moore stew which I had every single time, and she had Nesquik chocolate milk. She always had Bugs Bunny videos that I loved to watch. She had tons of toys that I played with, and she would spend forever to make sure that each of us sleeping over were warm and comfortable and had enough to eat. Grandma Carol always buys us stuff at the local dollar store. They are such cool gifts, she would usually get us stuff like socks, stationary, clothes, pens, notebooks, and a lot of other cool stuff. She always wants to hang out with us. She would take us to the movies, temple square, or just to her house for a sleepover. I have many really fun memories of her and I love her so much. I remember a time when my whole family was super sick and we couldn't do much so we were just all laying at home and she came over and brought us some sprite and gatorade and took care of us which was really nice. Another time I was feeling sick so my parents left me at home while they went to church and I woke up about an hour after church had started and was throwing up and I couldn't think of anyone to call so I called Grandma Carol and she came down and took care of me until they came home. She has been a great grandmother and is always there for me and I'm so grateful for all of the stuff she has done. I really love her.

Those three women mean a lot to me and have greatly impacted my life. All of my aunts are really great women too, but I don't have time to list everything they have done. But I love all you aunts too and am grateful for every one of you. Happy Mother's Day!!!!!!!!!

Mom at my gymnastics meet in Cedar City in 2006.

Grandma Joan at some place....anyway doesn't she look nice??

I feel bad because this is the only picture of Grandma Carol that I can find, I searched for a long time. If you look past my little sister, Emma, and my dog Daisy's back side, you'll see my dear grandma to the right of the picture right next to my other little sister, Hannah. This was Easter three years ago.

Christmas Eve 2006

My Grandma and me about three years ago when most of the Steven's family stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's house for a couple weeks in the summer. That was such a fun time.

Grandma Joan and Granda Wesley.

Mom's graduation last year when she got her Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.

I didn't even know I had this, this was forever ago!! This is Grandma, Grandpa, Amanda, and me (behind the camera) playing a game at Grandma's house in California.

My Haircut and Picture

Wow I'm on a roll here! It's only been three days and I'm already posting again! Let's see if I can keep this going, then my posts won't be so long. Hopefully.

Lately I've been wanting a change with my hair. It's been annoying how it always looks the same and I want something new and exciting with it. A bunch of people have told me they like my hair the way it is, but I didn't care what they said. So yesterday evening, I asked Mom to give my hair a trim and put in some layers. She made me straighten my hair first which was a bit annoying because it takes forever to do and I like my hair better when it's curly. But I did indeed spend a long time in my bedroom straightening my hair to make my mom's job of cutting my hair easier. After my hair was straight, I went upstairs and got my hair cut. I did say just a trim but Mom ended up taking off like three inches or something. She then spent forever thinning it which sorta hurts because it pulls at my hair. But she gave me a lot of layers and when she was finished I was pretty happy with it, even though I couldn't tell what it would look like curly because it was straight. at the moment I looked down at the bathroom floor and there was tons of hair down there, it looked like enough to make a wig. I couldn't believe that most of that had come from me.

So today I washed my hair and tried to style it my usual way when I found, to my delight, that it took me less than ten minutes to do. I was ecstatic and it looked so good! At school not a lot of people seemed to tell that I had done anything to it. I, however, could see a huge difference and I love it! I'll have to post a picture sometime if I ever get around to it.

On my status on facebook, I said that my hair was as short as a boy's hair and freaked out a couple of my friends. It was funny.

On Friday night, I stayed up until 3 AM drawing a portrait of me using my 7th grade school picture since I've been learning to draw the human face in art this year. It's not perfect, but I think it's good considering it's my first time ever doing it. Check it out:

My 7th grade school picture that I drew.

And the picture that I drew while half asleep! Hopefully I'll get better at this.

This is pretty cool to me because I've always wanted to be able to draw like this. I've wanted to be an artist for as long as I can remember because I would watch Stephanie draw and she is amazing! She's also the reason why I love piano so much and am currently attempting to learn to play "All of Me" (I can play the first three pages pretty fast and the next three slowly, but I'm getting better!!). Hopefully I'll be as good as her someday.

Mom's Graduation

Today I got to happily miss school because of my mother's graduation. For those who maybe don't know, she got her master's degree in accounting which is pretty impressive and something I'd never ever want to do. I still don't know what I want to do when I'm older, maybe human resources or a teacher.....

Anyway, last year I got to go to her bachelor's degree graduation. She made us go to both of the ceremonies so I had to sit in a huge stadium and watch people talk for a long time. I remember the first speaker was pretty funny, but the second one was a woman who was a deacon of some religion, and about thirty seconds into her talk I was asleep. I brought a book with me to her graduation last year, and finished the whole thing in one day.

So back to the present. Mom only made us go to the second ceremony thing where they put some cape thing on her and take her picture and give her some papers saying that she graduated. My dad, my sisters, and I went to the book store to get some stuff before it started for fun and looked at some awesome Weber stuff. I don't get why they call it a book store, they didn't really sell that many books. Hmmmm.

So we hung out at the "book" store for a while and bought some nifty stuff and then went to the ceremony. We got there a bit late so we had to sit pretty high up which was making Ashley and Hannah nervous. I was afraid to trip, because if I did then I would probably fall off of there. I wanted to throw my candy down on the people below, but I didn't think Dad would be very happy with me, or the people who the candy hit. So it finally started and all of the graduates started walking in a line to their seats while we had to stand and clap for a long time and hear the same song over and over and over again. I was very excited when I saw Mom down there walking so I yelled "Oh my gosh! That's my mother!" really loud but then Dad shushed me and Hannah and Ashley started laughing. Whenever we had to clap for something, I clapped as loud as I could and kept clapping until everyone else had stopped. I was forced to sit there and wasn't allowed to listen to my ipod while guys in weird, colorful, medieval graduation outfit things talked about how wonderful school and Weber and how good his education-filled life has been and blah blah blah. A couple of the things they mentioned were interesting though.

They finally started the annoying graduation song that never ends and had the graduates come up and do their stuff and receive their weird capes and fois de papiers. The masters of accounting started first, thank-goodness, and Mom was like 6th in line. When they called her name I shouted as loud as I could "GO MOM!!" so that everyone would know that her awesome daughter was proud of her. I saw her smile when I yelled that :) After she was done walking and shaking hands with the old people, I was able to get out my ipod and watch "Heroes" season 1 with Ashley.

After the graduation was over, we met up with Mom. Dad got a card and wrote "Congratulations Wildcat" on it which reminded me of High School Musical. He also got her a Weber teddy bear and Weber chocolates. We then took a few pictures. I wanted a couple of us acting like wildcats, but no one else was too keen on that idea. I though it would precious.

We then drove away from that school and to "Granny Annie's Family Diner" which I had only been to once before. The first time I went there, I went with Mom before seeing "The Scarlet Pimpernel" at Davis High School and we paid for our whole meal with coins. Mom was afraid that she embarrassed me but I thought it was funny. So we went in and I had a delicious bacon cheese burger. I can't even describe how good it was. Mmmmmmmmm :P And I had fries. When we started to leave, Hannah was hanging back at the table and was quickly stuffing left-overs from my plate into her mouth and other scraps. She acted like we never feed her. We started to walk out the door and she ran back to the table and grabbed some chips from my plate. Then right when we got home, she started making noodles. I haven't been able to eat Top Ramen since I dissected a frog in science and this stuff inside of its stomach looked like Top Ramen noodles. Eeeeeeww!!

I played basketball outside for a while and then happily took a three hour nap before waking up to go try out for my stake musical. It took me like 15 minutes to walk to the Stake Center for just a two minute try out. Thankfully, Heather Lieber gave me a ride home. I think I did ok, and Bro. Barlow said "you're in" so I take it that I wasn't bad then.

Ashley said she's never going to invite me to her graduation.

I got 92% on my geometry test!!

I made Seven Layer Dip for dinner tonight. It was so good. I'm a wonderful chef thanks to me having to cook a lot.

I hope my music playlist doesn't annoy you. I just chose some random songs I like including some piano and Disney ones.