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tis the season.

I simply love the Christmas season, like all others. It is just a magical wonderful time of year. It seems everyone is in good spirits and bonded together. I am blessed enough to be able to go home this year for a couple weeks and hang out with my family because before I was only going for a day. I count the blessings that Heavenly Father has been kind enough to give me. I consider myself very lucky even when times are tough. I truly am grateful for everything and cannot wait to see my family this weekend and next week when I go home. Life has been wonderful to me.

home.

So I didnt get to go home for thanksgiving due to work. However i did have a lot of time off this week so monday night after work I packed up and went to Green River. There is just something about Green River in the winter/ Christmas time. It is has the charm of small town christmases and is so amazing. I got to watch harry potter again and saw burlesque which is wonderful. I hung out with my bestie Johno whom i hadnt seen in over a month and a half. I also saw my mother who I hadnt seen in almost 2 months. It was also my dads birthday which was the main reason i went home. Meghan and I decorated the house and made him a cake and I just hope he knows how much we love him. I got to see quite a few other people from the ward and all my theatre friends. Oh how i love going home. Hopefully I have some time off for christmas so i can see my girl bestie Jamin whom i havent seen in about 4 months now and it is killing me.

Harry Potter

So anyone who knows me well knows that I am beyond obsessed with Harry Potter. I love it more than anything. I just wanted to let everyone know how wonderful Harry Potter 7 part 1 is. It is close to the book and just as epic. SPOILER- dobbys death scene had the entire theatre in tears, It was wonderful (not the death part but the epicness of the scene). I have seen it a couple times now and it just gets better every time. A bonus- the acting is actually really good in this movie. for those who have not seen it yet. get your butt to the theatre and go.

Thankful.

I am so thankful for all the things I have in my life.

For...
A beautiful apartment.
A beautiful home in Wyoming
Loving parents
The blessed life I have lived.
Moving to utah- not only has it been wonderful, but I have become closer to people I normally wouldn't have.
Johno- He is my best friend ever and I am so lucky
Team Kemily- Kelly helped me through everything last year.
My sister Meghan.
All my wonderful friends

Best vacation ever.

So back in 2007 when I was a senior in high school, the announcement that Harry Potter would be a theme park was made. My father told me that if I could wait that would be my senior trip. So I waited and this past week I got my senior trip!!!!! It was seriously amazing. The best thing ever. We flew to Philadelphia on Wednesday night because Terry had meetings there so Thursday night I walked around and went to Liberty Square and saw the liberty bell and independence hall again. Thursday we flew to Florida and Friday we went to universal studios to HARRY POTTER LAND. It was AMAZING. The street was phenomenal and so realistic. The forbidden journey ride is unlike any other ride out there. It takes you through a wonderful story, a realistic dragon and creepy dementors.  Saturday and Monday were spent at disney world and tuesday was at harry potter land again. sunday was spent at church, visiting the temple and relaxing. On monday we went to all 4 disney parks in a day and rode nearly everything we want to. Terry and i got more done at Disney World in 2 days then most people do in a week there. Overall it was the best trip and so fun to be able to spend all that time with my father. 

this is in independence hall in a replica of the presidents chair.

 the beautiful castle where the forbidden journey ride is

 this would be me in front of dumbeldores office.

 me and terry with flags of the houses

 this is our picture from the forbidden journey ride

 durmstrang and beaubaxtons

 this is me in disney world near alice in wonderland

 ok so i know this picture is blurry and you cant see it, but terry and i really wanted to ride splash mountain but did not want to get wet, so saturday we went to wal mart and bought 88 cent ponchos and brought them back with us on monday. well we waited till probably 7 to ride it and there was no wait. so we took our ponchos and didnt get wet. so we took our ponchos off and decided to ride again instead.. well terry put his on backwards and in the picture he is covering his face so he wouldnt get it wet, and i was doing the same so we looked ridiculous but it was soo funny. annnd the workers let us ride it again without having to move.

 this is the beautiful cinderella castle lit up for christmas

 the hogwarts express conductor....for those of you who dont know terry (well and those who do know him) He is the best best father ever. and i know nearly every child would say that of their fathers, but for real i am so lucky and blessed to have him. He took time out of his busy schedule to go with me and completely was into it all. We both had so much fun. Terry  (ps i call him terry as an old family joke. all his brothers would call him ter and it kinda stuck with my brother and i especially when we would try to get his atttention and the screaming of dad wouldnt work. some would say it is disrespectful but to him its funny. of course i still do refer to him as dad most of the time.) is so supportive of me and always has been. I am the daddys girl in the family and have always been really close. my love of golf comes from him and sooo many other things about him. He would do anything for anyone....He is a bishop and the best one. It will be so sad when he is not anymore, but he is always willling to do anything. I am so lucky to have him always watching out for me and doing the best things ever.

 the frog choir

ooo and the liberty bell....

xoxo e.

update.

I feel all I ever blog about is a much needed update. Oh well. I like to keep track of things.

I finally moved back to Utah. Salt Lake City! I love it. for the first little break I just hung out and caught up with old friends. And then I got a job here at a salon and so far i really like it. it was a really good choice. At the end of september luke, laina, ashlee, and meghan came to visit me to to the traditional haunted forest weekend. friday night we went to the mayan for dinner and to nightmare mansion and castle of chaos. both were pretty fun but nowhere near as good as the haunted forest. saturday luke meghan and i went to frightmares at lagoon, which was also a  lot of fun. except for the fact my tire popped on the way and it sucked. other then that it was way fun. later that night we went to the haunted forest which is always the best. at the haunted forest i found another haunted forest ticket on the ground. it only had the half to enter into the forest but i figured hey i can go again for free.

Then October 13th. this adorable little boy turned 1. My nephew is just the funnest cutest thing ever. He is a good baby and rarely cries. I just adore him.

also in october these girls came to see me- frizz and laina. we had such a fun time. we went to lunch and frightmares and shopping and the haunted forest- where they let me use my free ticket i found to not only the haunted forest, but the nightmare mansion too. 

then... after these lovely ladies left my 2 favorite boys came to visit me. we *surprise surprise* went to frightmares!! i  just love frightmares and am so happy i put my season pass to good use. johno is the best to me. he makes me feel like the best person in the world when really he is. He is kind and loving and deserves the best. i could be having the worst day ever and he would still put a smile on my face. it has been so hard to not be able to see him everyday. we communicate in nearly everyway possible- twitter, facebook, blackberry messenger, phone calls, and snail mail. he deserves the best guy ever.

kelly and i drifted during the summer which made me really sad, however we both knew the reasons why and knew we would find our way back to rekindle TEAM KEMILY. i miss him like crazy. we are so good together- if you want the honest truth believe me you will get it. if you need a good heart to heart it will be great.

together with my boys we are unstoppable. we can take the world if we wanted to :) we are an unbreakable bond. i cant wait to see them.

also in the midst of all my visits from friends, i managed to sneak a trip home in while my parent went to hawaii to stay with my sister. i had tons of fun. i had a bonfire at my house, and i went to lots off free movies and dinner with the friends and did lots of hair and johno and i celebrated our friendiversary!

thats all for now. xoxo e

I've learned that people wyll forget what you say. People will forget what you did.... But people will never forget how YOU made them feel 

21! 21! 21! 21!

august 23! a day that will never be forgotten!!!

21!!!

for my 21st birthday i was expecting it to be pretty lame-1. because i do not drink 2. becuase school was starting and it is  a busy time. 

well my darling little sister knew i was stressing over it and planned and threw me a "surprise party"

nick snuck me to the theatre sunday night by blindfolding me and driving me around for forever. 

nick un-blindfolding me

me and karen

me and with my harry potter nerd cake

also for my birthday on monday night a bunch of friends went to 9 iron grill for dinner. It was delicious.

my cake

at dinner

me and johno at my partay!

the updates of all updates

Summer has gone by so fast. I can't believe it is the beginning of septamber and school has already started for a lot of people. My summer has been great though. This post will be in a small series so i do not bore people haha.

We shall start with June.

this year i made a few different lists with people on things to accomplish this summer.

one was four wheeling. above is me and luke fourwheeling.

this would be me meghan and my cousin tanner at my grandma hardings family reunion. they do one each year in Montpelier Idaho at the cabin. Most people said it was more of a harding family reunion because all my uncles showed up.

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also in June, i went to lagoon a lot. meghan luke me and frizz all bought season passes and tried to take advantage as much as we could. i definitely cannot wait to go to frightmares in october!

The 4th of July! was spent at nicks house roasting marshmallows and watching fireworks on his roof. Jamin and i also discovered that the best treat in the world- nutella and jetpuff marshmallow cream on 2 graham crackers. It is amazing. Jamin and i also went back to lagoon after a huge drama fest at the theatre. we were supposed to go with many others but decided to go alone and had a great time. 

august was full of adventure. Lowell finally gave jamin and i the yes on the party room, so in july we started painting a giant mural of disney charcters and so i practically lived at the theatre. i also had my last few days in town.

me luke meghan and andrea exploring "top of the world" you can see the whole town of gr and some of rs. it is pretty amazing.

the theatre crew on my second to last day of work!

the trifecta

me and my bestie nick

some of the giant mural

the mural included pinnochio, robin hood, monsters inc, nemo, toy story, jungle book, aladin and jasmine, alice in wonderland, ariel, belle, cinderella, snow white, princess and frog, mulan, pocahontas, incredibles, and peter pan. it was quite the amazing experience and i learned i could paint. 

tiana is my favorite.

also this summer i wanted to make a summer twenty ten playlist.

songs included:

1. kids in love-mayday parade

2.like we used to- rocket to the moon

3. liberty walk- miley cyrus

4. permanent december-miley cyrus

5. teenage dream-katy perry

6.airplanes part 2 -b.o.b ft haley williams and eminem

7. not afraid- eminem

and any more i cannot think of..

now onto the new chapter of my life.

updates!

Ughh it has been far too long. This one is going to be pretty lame haha. As far as my last post goes nothing has changed. I work a ton and play a ton too. I started selling my flowers at the farmers market and it was so fun! I cannot wait to do it again. I have been busier then ever lately with all the many projects I do and cannot wait for a break! I am going down to utah on Tuesday next week to try and find a job. Hopefully it all works out!

summer

Okay, so I definitely realized blogging is not my strong point in the summer. So far this summer has been quite amazing and it is only two weeks in!! I have pretty much spent all my time at the theatre working, hanging out, working some more, doing extra stuff and just having fun. My goal is to get 115 hours in 2 weeks. Think I can do it? You bet.

I have hung out a lot with the theatre crew which has been really fun catching up and hanging out a lot. Jamin is back!! We have been doing extra stuff like crazy to make money. We have also been watching movies like crazy.

Toy Story 3- saw it MONDAY and it is AMAZING. So so good. A little sad but great new characters and a wonderful plot.

Party party party! We have been spending quite a lot of time at his house hanging out.

summer summer summer

so summer started last week for me and so far it has been great.
i love not having any school
i love that i get to sleep in...until work switches to summer hours:(
so far we have all hung out at jareds house
we had a campfire and roasted marshmallows
kelly and i also took an epic drive to vernal which started off as a quiet relaxing drive around the gorge that led us to vernal utah. it was quite the adventure
this week jamin is in town and i finally watched iron man 2 which i loved.

summer 2010 will be amazing 

prom

this year i had girls ask for me to do their hair months in advance for prom- i am talking back in december. anyway may 8th was a crazy busy filled day of hairspray, bobby pins, and curling irons all for prom. i LOVED every minute of it. i got pictures of everyone but will only post my sister.