FCCLA

Today I went on a FCCLA trip. It was in Provo at BYU. I got a silver. I think that's pretty good considering I did my project yesterday, and I decided what to say this morning on the bus. We left at 5:45 A.M. That sucked. I even actually slept on the bus. I can like never sleep in cars or buses. But, I really slept (I wonder why :D). Pretty much everyone got a silver, and we all get to go to state. It will be great! Thanks to Mrs. Fauset for all she does for us!

Drivers Ed

So the other day Mr. Price had me drive. I drove with Heather Bruce. It snowed the entire time. Luckily for me, it didn't stick. I've never known a person to change the radio station so many times. He did it every song! No Joke! That was annoying. I'm going to have to drive extra with him. You see, I don't get much driving practice. Mandy has the car everyday except Tuesdays. Tuesdays don't work for Cassy. Oh well. Eventually it will be over!

Ice Skating

Yesterday I went Ice Skating with the Y.W. for the first time. It is very much like roller blading but on ice. When we got there they first gave us these hockey type skates. Elizabeth went and changed her skated to figure skates. She said they were much better. So after that everyone (except for leaders) changed their skates. I learned that I like the figure skates better. Everyone I talked to like them too. I never fell. I came close 1 time. Well if you count going on one knee (trying to keep Emy from falling) falling, then I fell. Everyone had a great time. I think I need to go ice skating more often! Sorry there are no pics. I decided I better not try to skate and take pics at the same time.

Shout Out To Birthdays

This is just a quick shout out to all of the Birthdays in January! Hope you had a great one!

How It Came About

Some of you mary be wondering how that flaming goat cheese came about. Well, it's actually a really funny story. Before we go to the mall in Grand Junction, we go eat at the Blue Moon. On the time that we went all the appetizers were 1/2 off. My aunt and her daughters decided to get a bunch of appetizers to eat. Most of these were in a different language. The waitress came and took their order.

As we were waiting for our food, we saw the waitress. She had a couple of small plates and a shot of Brandy in her hands. We watch her come closer and closer. We were all wondering what we had ordered or who had ordered the Brandy. After a few seconds of wondering I thought it had to of been Aunt Ann. She was the only one who ordered something we didn't know about. 

While the waitress was setting down the plates Aunt Ann asked her, "What is this for?" The waitress replied, "It's for your cheese. Now don't any of you drink it or else you won't have flaming goat cheese. You'll just have plain old cheese." Then she walked away.

We all just stared at the Brandy, shocked that we had ordered something like that. The waitress came back with the goat cheese. She set it down on the table. Then she told us (Aunt Ann, Avan, Anna, and me) to scoot back. The flames can get close. So we scooted back. Then she poured the Brandy all over the cheese. Then she asked us if we were ready. We said yes. She took her lighter and lit the cheese. 

It was awesome. The flames didn't go as high as I had expected them. There was a lot of heat though. The fire stopped when the alcohol burned out. We cut the cheese and ate it. It really wasn't that bad, or at least I didn't think so.

Flaming Goat Cheese?

So as many of you know the Mathis and Thayn families (or as now the Gardner and the Thayn families) go to Grand Junction, Colorado for the after Thanksgiving sales. For lunch we eat at a bar called the Blue Moon.

So in my Speech and Drama class yesterday we played a get to know you game. You had to write down 2 I Haves and 1 I Haven't. My first I have was I've eaten flaming goat cheese at a bar. I can't remember my second I Have. My I Haven't was I've never been to four corners. 

As my teacher Vickie Jessen read these off we had to guess the person. Everyone knew it was me because mine was the last card. So she read the first one (the flaming goat cheese). Everyone just stared at me. My friend Heather Bruce was like, "It's true. She's told me."

Vickie then asked how they made it. I couldn't think of the word Brandy. So I told them that it was goat cheese and they put alcohol over it. Then they light it on fire to have a cool effect and burn out the alcohol. 

Needless to say, I shocked everyone(HeHeHeHe)! Vickie read the others, but I don't think anyone heard them.

1st Date & Prom

All right Marie, here is the story for you. Then you won't have to ask Carol for a report. So on Monday I went on my first date. I went with a kid in the 11th grade (no I won't put his name without his permission). He took me up to the mountains (yes, I just said the mountains). Scary how there is not much snow. Anyway, he took me to see some Mountain Goats. His family had been up there over the weekend and they could see them. Well, We didn't see any.

So we went back to the dam up at Rock Creek. There we had a picnic. We had hot dogs, Doritos (the best chips), cookies, and pop. We talked about random things. After dinner he told me is back up plan was if I didn't like the mountains, he would have taken me to Pinnwillies. For those of you who don't know what Pinnwillies is it's a place to eat with really good food (or so I've been told) out in the middle of nowhere. So I thought man I should have said I hate the mountains. 

He also told me at first he was going to take me to the movies. His mother told him to be more original. So we went to the mountains (he said that was an idea she gave him).

We got home. While he was walking me to the door he asked me to go to prom. Talk about shocked. Not shocked that he asked me, shocked that it was on the 1st date we had ever had. So the thought running through my mind was I don't know. By accident I said that out loud. Then I told him I would get back to him on that. 

So I've spent the last 3 days thinking on how to reply. We decided to go with Sweetish Fish. I'm going to put them in a jar. On the jar I'll have a poem that says Count The Fish and You Will See, If You Can Go To Prom With Me. For If it's odd the answers no, but if it's even then I'll go. Towards the bottom of the jar (inside) I'll have a note that says Eat As Many As You Want To Make It An Even Number. 

Thanks to those who gave my the ideas. Maybe I'll use them for some other things.