Christmas time is here, happiness and cheer!☼

Hello everybody, I have had a great time visiting my great-grandma J and my Grammy Davidson. Grandma Heaton and Aaron took Angelique and me to Mesa AZ right when Christmas break started( and I mean right after school was let out and I packed a few more things. We got to grandma J's house about mid. AZ time. We slept on the floor and grandma H slept on a couch in the same room. We slept under an old blanket that fell apart on us in the middle of the night. Before I went to sleep I noticed some pieces that already fell apart. In the middle of the night, I woke up because some of the stuff got in my eye. Then I put all of the blanket on Angel. and got another blanket out of the closet and fell asleep. When I woke up there was pieces all over were we slept. Grandma J said the blanket had been with her in her house before she had moved and hadn't been in the heat a lot.
After that, I offered to make scrambled eggs for Angel. and myself. Then we went shopping/exploring through the big city. We went to a store were I found the perfect thing for Dad ( I'll tell you what it is after Christmas☺) Then we went to another store just down the street were I found some things for mom and I got my first ever glass cube ( I hope I sound excited) Then we went to a very huge shopping place were there is lots of out doors men stuff and fake animals and a tank full of different size fish. ( hint hint) It was like a museum and a gift shop all at once.
We wen to more places but I don't want to bore you( we went to the place were my mom and dad had their first date) We also went to the Mesa Temple and saw all the lights and nativities from all over the world including the Dominican Republic.
Angel. and I slept at Grammy's house that night and then went to church with her and then went home. ( I hope that didn't sound boring, 'cause we went to my cousins house too.
Now that I am at home, I get to wonder what dad is making with the Cedar wood that he got from the ranch( he spends a lot of time in there too)
Merry Christmas everybody

Pictures from school

At school, my keyboarding teacher let us go out side and take pictures (The school provides cameras☺) I took some cool shots (here you go Grandma♥)

Jealousy

For his b-day, my bro. Talon, got an Mp3 player. I thought if any one should get one of those I should since I'm the oldest and most responsible. And just to prove my point he goes and takes it to school when Dad tells him not to. If any of my readers agree please leave a comment.

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HI, guys

I know how to change the picture on the desktop. you right click on your mouse and then click on personalize. Then you click on"desktop background". Then you pick a picture and"poof" there it is(I'm just going to put some random pics on(I took the pic. of the skunk at the ranch about 30 ft away.)

Thursdays update

Today was the first day of school. This morning I just could not go back to sleep(I woke up an hour before I was actually was supposed to) so I got up and started my day. My classes are (in order) Choir, L.A., CTE intro business, Utah studies, Pre-Algebra, P.E., and Keyboarding.



After school, I decided to make a page to go in the front of my binder. Then I looked at my Dad's journal. I read something about that daddy thinks that if he got a dollar for every time a woman got offended, he could retire and live a good life. I also read that once, Daddy fixed a light out at the top of the temple. Later he was joking with the engineers about how many rumors he could spread if he had worked up there with a white robe and wings on. Any way I thought that was all kinda funny.

School starts (darn it)

school is starting and I had to get shots. I got a tetanus and a chicken pox shot. After that, Mom went to wal-mart and I was with her and we got a subway sandwich.(the picture on the left is a ball that got stuck in the vertex of a wall)

This year my brother and I are taking choir and at the same period. My brother is also a lunch worker for B Lunch(cool)I also have B Lunch but I'm not a worker.I also have P.E. with Talon.(my mom rescheduled T. just so that could happen.

My stiches are out! (now I can swim)

I got my stitches out the same day that I got sick. My daddy pulled them out for me. It only hurt a little bit. It looked cool without the stitches in the way. I have some before and after pictures of it.

I thought it would be nice to put on my picture of my Bugsy.

Sat/Sun

SATURDAY

On sat., we mostly watched T.V.and cleaned some. Then we played in the pool and watered the garden at the same time.(which didn't work very well). Mom saw that Fiddler on the Roof was on, so she made us watch it. It was very interesting.
That night I saw another cat that looked like Twitchy. It was puffy like her and gray but it had a white chest and paws. The other cats didn't seem to like it. I almost caught it once. Long ago when we first found those cats as stray kittens, we saw 5, but only caught four. After that one of the cats ran away after we got them fixed. I was wondering whether the cat I saw was someone elses or if it was the "5th cat".

SUNDAY
We went to church as usual, but Grandma Heaton went to. Wanna know why; because did a talk in sacrament meeting! It was about the Word of Wisdom. I started out by talking about it then I told a story about a Latter day saint who's name is Paul Kimball. He coached a rowing team and made them use the word of wisdom. In the end, his team one first place in all their races against experienced men. After the story, I talked about how my family uses the W.O.W. and then I bore my testimony. All through it, I didn't look up until I bore my testimony , my legs were clamped together and my hand was on my side. I seemed to talk very smoothly most of the time.
After church we had my favorite Sunday dinner; boiled beef ,mashed potatoes, gravy, biscuits, carrots, and broccoli.
All in all, was a great weekend.

River Regatta

Talons scouts had a River Regatta at Sheep's Bridge. Only Safia, Elody, and Beau didn't go. Dad was at work. They said there would be three races,(they had three prizes) but they only had one because of the rapids. Talon won it by two yards. In the end, there was a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd awards. Talon got a rubber lizard, a pack of gum, and some water balloons for his prize. After that, the boys decided to try and make their way up river in the deep area.
Mom insisted that we go home instead of play, because she wanted to pick up Elody from Candy's. I was so mad that we couldn't stay, but mom let us have popsicles for the scouts refreshments.
That night we stayed up till 11:00 listening to to Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, on audio

Daddy's stitches retold by Jileigh

One day, my dad was playing in the "dirty pond" with his brother Aaron and his cousin Travis. Aaron started drowning so my dad and Travis went to help him. They reached him at the same time. Dad banged his shin on something while he was helping Aaron out. He found out that he had banged his shin on an old trough, (which remains their to this very day, most likely). The metal had made a good cut down his leg, then grabbed under his skin and fat to make a air pocket for the dirty water to get into on the side of his leg. Apparently it didn't bleed much so dad wrapped it with a sock and walked home. His mom took him to the doctors afterward to get stitches. He spent two months in bed after that. It was only two weeks before school started when Dad finally was healed up. That was probably his worst summer ever. Dad said he was about 14 when this all happened.

I wish I'd never taken out the trash!

It all started out on a perfect Sunday evening. We were cleaning up the house and I decided to take out the trash. I lifted up the trash by the strings and pulled it out. I went outside with it to the dumpster. I put my left hand down on the bottom of the bag to lift it up to put in the dumpster. Unfortunately, there was a piece of broken glass sticking out of the bottom of the bag and I cut my hand below the base of my thumb. It made an inch long cut. I started screaming and then I started crying. I walked back into the house dripping blood. I washed it in the sink when I mom finally came in to see what was wrong. She told me that I probably would need stitches. She took me into her room where my dad was sleeping. (She found a perfect excuse to wake him up from his nap.) My dad called Dave and said, "you missed stitching up my thumb, so do you want to stitch up Jileigh's ?"Then my mom called Candy and asked if she would come over to babysit. Then we left. We met Dave at his clinic. He had his friend Diane with him to help. We went inside to an exam room. He put my hand in a tub of what I thought was blood, but it was diluted iodine to clean it out and prevent infection. Then the worst part was next. He had to put shots in my hand to numb it. I started to panic. So Diane told me to tell her a story. "One day my Dad was swimming with Travis and Aaron..." I started out. My mom was holding my hand so I could squeeze it. After the numbing took effect Dave put in 8 stitches to put my hand back together. Then we went home. On the way, my dad told me that I needed to keep my hand elevated and my fingers slightly curled so that it would hurt less. When we got home my dad gave me a Tylenol, but I couldn't swallow it. So my dad crushed it up and put it in some water. It tasted so nasty that afterwards water tasted sweet. Then I went to bed and went to sleep.

BLOG SLUMP RECORD

I think that I hold a record of the longest time to not type in your blog.(over a year) I decided to ask my mom to help me get back to writing in my blog. Did you know that I have 5 animals and they're all girls! Since I have a guinea pig my room has bits of waste all over it. ):-( Now that its summer I, have been sleeping in and staying up late(11:00 or later) watching back to back episodes of M*A*S*H then Touched by an Angel.

My goal or purpose of this blog is to put in stuff that my mom forgets to say. Its like deleted scenes or bloopers. I hope you enjoy this new version of Jileigh's Journal