christmas!!!

i get to have my own special christmas at the cherrys!! it was so fun.

we did presents and make cookies and hung out! there is nothing like spending time at the cherry home. especially when the fire it going. its so cozy!

sister cherry liked what i got her! so did joe! i got him some missionary cds!

as you can see i was extatic about being there...

making sugar cookies was adventurous...

trevor came over for a bit too!!

so cute! i was wearing a new shirt too!

after things had calmed down and joe had gone to work, becca and i decided to take funny pictures of us doing random things. it was hilarious. we took about 60 pictures but couldnt out them all on here. but these ones were really good!

uhh i dont know... i was talking on the phone...

onward!

my sound of music pose. the hills are alive!!

hope everyone has an awesome christmas. cant wait to hear how everyones goes. christmas at our house is going to fun too!! merry christmas!!

havin fun in utah!

im here in utah and im having so much fun. hannah and i spent yesterday getting ready for kaylas birthday party that we had today. i decorated her cake and cupcakes. they looked so cute! everyone loved them. it was also aunt seans aunt debs birthday so we celebrated them together. it was a hit and kayla was happy almost the whole time which was amazing cuz she didnt take a very long nap today. its been a blast so far. miss everyone in california!!

a thought from dad...

i found this equation on a piece of paper that dad had scratched out a while ago. i dont know how he comes up with these things.
got to love it.

its the little things...

i just wanted to write a little thing. tomorrow is superhero day at Winship. bethany isaac and i have been working most of the week getting them ready. isaac is zorro. i made a hat and a cape with gold strings. it looks awesome. bethanys herp is joe cherry. she totally came up with this. we made a shirt that has cherries on the front and the back it says "joe cherry is my hero." its pretty awesome. well, we finished isaacs outfit and he was pretty excited about it. he was running around the house and letting his cape fly behind him. i called for him and he came flying down the hallway toward me. he jumped up and off a chair then landed on the floor. he slowly rose and quietly said, " oh whoops..." bethany and i look up to see that is was buttoning his pants. he got so excited and was running so fast that his button came undone. it was hilarious. i was thinking about it and its the little things like that make our home a loving and wonderful place to have grown up.

"you may think i died long ago in the wilderness but its not true. im still alive!"

So life has begun to go a million miles an hour! I have started Humboldt and I'm likin' it. It's a lot different than high school. I'm taking 19 credits and I have three really small jobs. I work at Brother Childers Insurance Agency as a file girl, I grade papers for a teacher, and I hang up posters in Eureka for the HSU Music Department. I've met some people in my classes from all over the place. I know people from Alaska, Texas, Hawaii, Virginia, Southern California, and Indonesia to name a few. It's cool to meet people that didn't grow up here and see how different their lifestyles are.
I'm attending the Humboldt branch and I'm likin' that too. Miriam Jukes is the Relief Society President and we are becoming good friends. She's really cool. People have moved here from out of the area that are going to HSU and attend the branch too and they are all pretty awesome. Joe and I are the new gospel doctrine teachers. We switch off every week and help each other out with the lessons. I am also the branch pianist and he is also a branch missionary. I was able to be there with he and his familywhen Joe got the ordained to the office of an elder and got the Melchizedek priesthood . That was really special that I could be there. His bishop said he wouldn't even think to not have me there.
My family is going to Utah in a few weeks and I'm not able to go. I have too much school and I have a few performances for the Humboldt Symphony and I'm watering grandma and grandpas plants while they're out of town. I have to hold down the fort here in California for a week and a half. But they plan on having tons of fun.
Well I hope this is enough of an update for now. I'll get some pictures on here soon!!

caught in mid air

courtesy of jared. during our trip to moonstone beach friday. it was such a beautiful day. y'all would have been jealous.

our spontanious adventurous road trip!!!

so i was talking to joe last thursday night and he said that he finally had three days off of work and he was thinking to ask me if i wanted to go down to jackson near sacramento. i had planned to do something else that weekend already so i didnt think we should go. i got home that night and realized... what am i thinking!! that would be the coolest thing ever. we have been wanting to go down the since may!! by friday evening we had everything in line and by 9:45 saturday morning we were on the road to jackson!!

we stopped in willits for lunch and needless to say we decided to get some root beer so we could take some funny pictures.

drinking while driving? is that a new thing?(if you look closely, its not even open)

right as we came into the valley on highway 20 our air conditioning quit. we had no idea why but it was not good. it was about 1:30 and it was starting to get hot. it must have been about 110 degrees in that car. we couldnt put the windows down cuz we were oging 75 miles an hours down I-5. we had to sit there and take the hot air coming through the vents. splended eh?

we stayed at the saldates house. the cherrys and the saldates honestly grew up in eachothers houses. they are all really close.

we went to jamba juice saturday night. this is joe and maria. we just called her ria. she's beccas age.

and this is jake. he is joes age and the first saldate that i met. he has come up to humboldt a few times to visit the cherrys. hes always got a joke up his sleave and is really fun company.

hard core monopoly game- star wars version. jordan totally killed us all and the game finally came to an end at 1:30 in the morning. no one goes to bed early in the saldate house.

becca and i went down to sutter creek near the saldates house. the cherry and saldate kids got their picture in the paper when they were playing this creek. it was a little dark but we could still see it even though you cant in the pictures.

at 9:30 on night we three decided to go to the park by their house. why not? it was a nice night. it was way fun playing on all of the play equiptment and talking about girl stuff. yanno.

joe was excited to finally go on a trip with his new ipod.

this is jordan and becca the morning we left. we had to get up early and no one was enjoying that part of the whole thing.

this is me the morning we left. i had to be awake cuz i drove first.

becca and i in willits on the way home. after this point, we were on the home stretch. it took an hour more to get home because of bad drivers and road construction. joe almost didnt make it back in time for work tuesday night.

drivers awake then drivers asleep. it was a long way home. the last hour we got pretty crazy and delerious from being together in a confined car for so long. im sure we were quite a sight when we got home.

Finally- Graduation!! (Part 2)

Friday-My Graduation!!!

All Medleys know who this is- Grant. he is still going strong and always tells me to wish the other medleys well. what a ledgend!

i pretty much lost my voice after graduation cuz this is what i was doing the whole time- yelling!

so cute! the other day i had my hair like this and i told the cashier at eh store i was graduating. she asked me from which middle school. figures. i got a tan on my feet from all that sun! rockin the chaco tan!!

pushing hour two...

i used my friends cell phone to get the attention of people in the stands.

brittney and i didnt get a picture together at 8th grade graduation so i ran to her before she could leave this time!

michael and i have had quite a senior year together. he escorted me to homecoming, we were in limited... we have just had a grand ol' time.

me and the butler brothers!!

again what an awesome family! i love the cherrys!

oh isnt he just so cute! i dont know about that one on the right though...

me and becca! pretty much best friends!

mommy and daddy! man i have everything cuz of my wonderful parents. i love them so much.

Senior Olson! i had him for three years of spanish. i always gave him a bad time about his mullet and sombrero grande! you're the man, Ols!

me and my favorite roscoe brothers!

i have known fanessa since seventh grade. she is almost completly deaf but that has not hindered us from becoming great friends. i really liked this picture of us too. she is such an awesome person!

and yes i totally wore my hot pink dress to graduation and it was awesome. it hung out of the bottom of my gown so people could spot me from far away- and it worked! the pink cord is from doing a senior project. i was on the music pathway and performed in the senior recital so i earned it to have at graduation!

Finally- Graduation!!

Im sorry its taken so long to get these on here. i was having major problems getting them onto the computer. but they are so good! i was really happy with all of them.

thursday- joes graduation

i took 230 pictures at joes graduation. sister cherry hired me for the job but i was going to be there anyways. but choosing these few pictures to put on here was really hard!

Waiting for everything to get rolling... we got there really early. i didnt get pictures of doug and cody together cuz they didnt get there til later. darn it!

Kristin and i were the junior camp directors at girls camp last year. we became really close. i really liked this picture that i took of her so i put it on here!

"I kinda like high school. maybe i dont want to graduate just yet... then again..."

oh yes. one of the many epic pictures i got at graduation. this was my favorite.

for a whole day, he was graduated and i wasnt! whats with that im older!

here we go. the cherry clan! what a great family!

this is sean murphy- joes very good friend. one of the only ones that kept him out of trouble during high school.

these are a few of us mormons that graduated this year that were at arcata highs gradutation. Katie, Kristin, me, Joe, Danny and Troy.