Happy New Year!

Just wanted to post and wish you all a Happy New Year!! Hope its a great year for you! :D Love Ya!

Shocking, Isn't It?

So i know this is like... a month late, but near the end of November, I was in the school play, Pride and Prejudice. It was a blast!! I'm very glad I joined Drama, and i cant wait for the next production! :)

In Pride and Prejudice i had two parts: "Lady Lucas" and "Amanda"and traded nights with Johanna Bowman. We rocked the show! Most of my friends were in the show with me, which is probably a big reason why i had so much fun. My good friend and cousin Kelsie was one of the two Elizabeth's, my best friend Hannah Zweifel played the great roll of Agatha... haha, and a whole bunch of people who are great friends to me were also in it but i would be here all day if i was listing everyone. They all did wonderful!!

Lady Lucas is a very old lady, a friend of Mrs. Bennett, and mother to Charolet (Elizabeth's best friend). She's kind of a mean old lady at times though. Defiantly has some 'pride' No wonder the shows called "PRIDE and Prejudice" ;) Lady Lucas was only in the very beginning, in maybe two scenes. When we started doing the show for real, they decided i needed a hat...So i had this straw hat that kept falling apart. lol I really hated that hat. Also, i went through a GREAT aging process through the whole thing... I went gray and suddenly had many many wrinkles! haha It was fantastic







My second part (or alter ego)was "Amanda". Amanda is basically an extra roll in the Ball scene. I really had fun with the part! I know that some people would hate to have a "small" part like this but i personally thought it wasn't that bad. I had about three lines. The weird thing was that when i come on and say my first two lines I talk to Elizabeth and Charolet as though I'm leaving, Telling them what a great ball it was and saying goodbye. Then the next time i come on, I'm leaving the ball again...It was very weird. I had to get a shawl for the second part because people were getting confused. And so was i...



And this was where i delivered my favorite line...."Shocking, isn't it? She hasn't kept a carriage in a twelve month!" haha Not twelve months, or a year, or 365 days...NO! A Twelve Month! hehe I really loved that line for some reason. And I'm sure by now nearly everyone in drama could recite it to you. Or at least make the reference to me from the line...


It was a great and fun production! :D

Thanksgiving...a little late

So for Thanksgiving this year, all my Mickelson family came down for some goooood eaten! I have a FANTASTIC family and I love when we have family get togethers like this. It was really special to me, because this was the first time in a long while that we've had nearly everyone come.


This is a picture of all of us. Everyone was there except for maybe 4... I love my family!

I had a blast hanging out with all my cousins whom I rarely see. I have a few cousins who I'm particulary close too, and we all were hanging out one night when they were all here and decided to take a "photo shoot" hahaha I have nearly a hundred pictures, and ALL of them are great! The pictures include my wonderful cousins along with me: Jess, Katie, Mickell and Jodi. (Jodi was the designated photographer for most of the pictures, so she wasnt in the pictures as much)

*Mickell, Jess, Me, Katie*


Haha, who doesnt love a good fake laugh picture?


Some epic Jumping


Then we kinda moved to the stairs...




Then we kinda fell down the stairs...


Then we went over to the park in the rain...And took care of some..uh.. "business" ;]


And to just be silly :)


I love my cousins!


Haha and this us in the middle of the road :]


And now, I notice that i dont have ANY pictures of Jodi here. So this was us "reaching" for Jodi...


and one of Mickell, Jodi, and I


All of us trying to squeeze into the picture...haha Where'd Katie go?


I LOVE my girl cousins! After we had out little "photo shoot" we all went to Valley and had a sleepover. I really value all the time i get to spend with these girls! The "girls clud" as some members of my family would call us ;) I can't wait till i get to spend time with them next! (and hopefully you'll be able to come too Kelsie!)

100 Things

Copy this and bold the things you have done:

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Totally copied a post from someone else's blog to your own?

Halloween (yes, I'm THAT behind!)

Hooray, McKenna is getting to posting!!! For all the...three or so of you who care. haha. Anywho... Halloween was great! I really wanted to be Elphaba. Go all out and become a magnificent green color... But non of my friends would dress up with me really, and I wasnt going to dress up THAT much if i wasnt even doing anything. So i half dressed up... Which was more then pretty much everyone my age. Where was the holiday spirit!?!?! Haha.



This is a picture of me and my great siblings! (Minus my brother...) Mace was Batman, Madi and Marin both Sharpa from High School Musical... And me, a very poor attempt at Elphaba. We all went over to the 'Trunk or Treat' and they trick or treated while i handed out candy. It was fun seeing all the little kids in their Halloween costumes. Some of them (their parents I'm guessing) went ALL out with their costumes. I felt a little undressed for the occasion!



After the Trunk or Treating I went to a Halloween party with a few of my friends. We went to 'The Vault' One of the Halloween spook Haunted House things that were going on. A few of my friends were in it. I wish I'd gotten pictures of them! They looked pretty creepy and cool! After the Vault we went to my friend Sara's house and had some Halloween fun. Games, Food, ect... It was a great Halloween! :D



Haha This is me trying to pull off a Elphaba/Batman look. Think its working? Hahaha

I was TAGGED!

hahaha I feel so special when I get tagged! It's like someone is telling me to post. And i have been told to post recently, So... I will now do this tag!

8 TV shows I love to watch:

1. Pysch
2. Chuck
3. Pushing Daisies
4. The Amazing Race
5. Survivor
6. American Idol when its on
7. Hero's sometimes...
8. Whatever's on i guess

8 things that happened to me yesterday:

1. I was awakened by the song of really loud music in my ear
2. Got dressed and ready for the State Football game
3. Went to breakfast at Parry's Lodge with my friends
4. Bus ride to state
5. State Game
6. Saw my cousin Jess :)
7. Watched our Cowboys lose state and feel sadness...
8. Bus ride home!

8 favorite places to eat:

1. My Home
2. Olive Garden
3. Rewind
4. Junction
5. Panda Express
6. Arby's
7. Uh...
8. Anywhere with food when I'm hungry?

8 things I am looking forward to:

1. Thanksgiving
2. Christmas (in that order, Thanksgiving comes before Christmas, sorry!)
3. Time to update my blog...
4. Time to actually read my many books I want to read right now
5. California Trip!
6. Tomorrow
7. The day after tomorrow...
8. Other stuff.

8 things on my wish list:

1. Money
2. An amazing phone
3. ...
4. A trip somewhere amazing
5. Some more money
6. A....... uh ya i dunno
7. ....
8. Money

8 people I tag:

1. Kelsie
2. My mom
3. Kaylie
4. Valerie
5. Amanda
6. Lisa
7. Angie
8. Stephanie (ANYONE AND EVERYONE!)

OK, OK, Wimpy attempt at a post, But I'll try to post some updates later. :)

My Eyelashes =] AND Homecoming

My mom took this picture with her camera phone. You can kinda see how amazingly awesome they are...Its still not that great though. haha.





I showed this lady i work with at the newspaper, Hilda my eyelashes when i had them like this. A few days before she was in shock because of my eyelashes on a normal basis. She was convinced i was a model or something when she saw my eyes with Mascara. hahaha Now you all probably think I'm VERY lame for posting THIS much about my eyelashes...But i consider my eyes my very best feature, so i gotta flaunt what i got!! hahahaha JK

So...Moving on from my eyelashes.... For the homecoming skit, my best friend Hannah and I volunteered to make a script. We spent like two hours coming up with ideas, then writing them down. It was a very satisfying skit. BUT... When we were having a meeting about it, this one guy pretty much changed the WHOLE thing! Needless to say Hannah and I were pretty P.O.(ed)cause they wouldn't even listen to us explain our idea, our script. (Ms. Painter gave us extra credit for it though when she read it, so its all good =]) Then when we had another meeting, or practice i should say...And they changed it AGAIN. But this new idea that they changed it to was actually better then the second. Still not quite as good as the first. Then we had to change it, YET AGAIN, because we had Matt Ramsay gay in the skit. =D hahahaha. Anyways. The final product actually turned out pretty good. I was really surprised. Our skit was way better then the Seniors skit (who won of course) but whatever. We knew we wouldn't win as freshman anyways. (My favorite skit was the Sophmores)
A quick re-cap of our finished product for all those who didn't have the pleasure of seeing it haha. A football player falls asleep in class and has a nightmare about the homecoming game, were all the football players (but him) are girls and SUCK. Then the "Rich Rebels" come out and capture them! The Rich Caption and him banter *would be gay here* then start to almost fight. They then they decide to settle it as "real men" hahaha So he pulls out his Rubik cube. The football player makes a big deal about how he doesn't have a Rubik's cube! And the Rich Captain says "Don't worry, i carry two at ALL times." he hands the football player the Rubik's cube and a random ref walks onstage..............




Hahaha Oh ya! I was the random fat ref!! I come (cheers in the background, lol. I almost lost it in uncontrollable laughter) yell a "GO!" then continue to walk offstage. Although while i am walking i "fall" and muh best friend Hannah runs stage and rolls me off. It was a had to be there moment, but i bet it's still pretty funny to hear about. Rich Rebel "wins" and they do something along the lines of BUT RICH NEVER WINS! (and they didnt, btw) Then he wakes up in class, and goes to win the game!! It wasnt the best skit, but who cares.
The whole week was Awesome!! I love homecoming week. Full of happiness, silliness, WINNING!!! I was worried about this game, but after the pep rally, i kinda knew we were going to win. THEN i knew FOR SURE, when the Rich Rebels were doing jumping jacks or something on OUR K. Then the football players did their thing where they walk in lines and say things that sound like grunts... But when they started doing that, the Rich Rebels ran back to their side of the feild. It was very symbolic to me. Very Epic. The game was a great one, very VERY intense. I had a fantastic time. :] Then after the game there was the dance. But i didnt go. Instead one of my other bestfriends Calli and I went back to her house and watched Psych! Which is one of my favorite shows. Calli got me hooked. And she has about four days worth of Psych's on her Dish so we pretty much watched that the whole time.

Blast From The Past

So as uh... Most everyone knows, this week is Homecoming!! *Cheers in the background WHOOOOO* And today everyone was dressed up from the past-Or a few did... Not many dressed up today. But my mom and I had fun last night and this morning making me an "80's Girl" Um... Why did girls make their hair so huge in the 80's?? Haha My hair was too heavy so it deflated after like no time at all. And i refused to cut bangs just so i could have "80's" bangs.=]It was pretty fun, and i think most people liked my whole outfit, hair and makeup. I didn't win the contest thing though, but that's OK. I didn't dress up to win. :]
Believe it or not i have never worn makeup. And when i say never, i mean never. So when my mom put all this makeup on me this morning i was AMAZED! I have CRAZY long eyelashes, I've always known that. But you should see my eyes with mascara. Most people thought they were fake. I was trying to take a picture of my eye's earlier but it didn't work.


(A picture more of my face, the picture above didn't really focus on my face)

So i decided to post some pictures more of my past....


(94')









(96)








(99')

MARIN! I never gave her a much needed Birthday Shout Out. So... Here is a birthday shout out to her, nearly a month late. (sorry Marin) LOVE YOU!




(00')


(08')

Tagged-Again!

THE FIVE
10 years ago I:
1. Didn't have a care in the world!
2. Was probably scared for my first day of preschool!
3. ...
4. Loved being Four...
5. Was enjoying my first little while in Kanab... MAN that was a long time ago!!

5 things on today's "to do" list:
1. Clean the Kitchen and do the Dishes... :P
2. Relax
3. Finish Reading My Earth Systems homework
4. Who knows, maybe post some more?
5. Finish my book

5 snacks I enjoy:
1. inside smores!!
2. bean dip
3. Fishy Crackers hehe
4. Soft Pretzels
5. I have a strange addiction to string cheese

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire:
1. WHAT WOULDNT I DO! hahaha
2. Travel to all sorts of places
3. GO TO WICKED EVERYWHERE ITS PLAYING
4. Hire a maid. I'd never clean again!!
5. Get all sorts of cool things... New cell phone... Buy things for my parents/family.

5 places I have lived:
1. St. George
2. Ogden
3. Sandy
4. Kanab
5. ...Kanab

Five jobs I have had:
1. Babysitter
2. Southern Utah News official paper folder/stuffer/labeler
3. A new one, Zion Pharmacy
4. ...
5. A maid to my parents. :P

I tag...
1. Cinda
2. Lisa
3. Kelsie
4. Kaylie
5. Amanda
6. Jill
-Fill Free to do this Tag also, if i tagged you for the other one!-and Vis Versa =]

Tagged! =D

What are the last three things you purchased?

1. I bought a DVD for my friend, but she paid me back.
2. um...Food!
3. My school clothes?

What are the last three songs you downloaded on your IPOD?
CRUSH~! David Archuleta. (thanks Dad) and some other songs...There were a LOT

What are your three favorite movies?
1. 27 Dresses!
2. Pirates (1-3)
3. Stardust

What are three things you have not done, yet?
1. The dishes :P
2. Mowed the Lawn(as in never done it)
3. Been on a date

What three things can you not live without?
1. My family
2. My Church/Beliefs
3. Food ;)

What are your three favorite dishes?
1. Italian Chicken with Rice
2. Chinese
3. Basically anything my parents make!

What are your three favorite TV shows?
1. American Idol, when its on
2. I really liked this show that was on awhile ago Pushing Daisy's, And its coming back on so We'll see if i like a new season on it.
3. Depends kinda on what mood I'm in and whats on i guess. i don't watch a lot of TV lately.

What are the last three places you have traveled to?
1. New York City
2. Palmyra (but same trip as New York City)
3. California

What are your three favorite desserts?
Too many to count!
1. Cinnamon Cake
2. Vanilla Cupcakes with this REALLY good frosting.
3. Milkshakes, or Glaziers

What are three things you would buy if money was not an issue?
1. Some things for my parents and Family.
2. A new phone (probably the Dare--Lucky Mom)
3. Huh, Anything and Everything! :)

If you could have three wishes, what would they be?
1. To do well in school this year.
2. To never have to do chores, (Or the Dishes!) again!
3. *very secret other wishes that i don't want to say...*

3 people I tag: (even though they may have done this tag before)
1. Kaylie
2. Kelsie
3. Amanda

3 more people I tag:
1. My Mom
2. Valerie
3. Stephanie

New York *part two*

So i haven't posted about New York for...A while.

~More from Thursday of the trip~ After we went on the ferry to go around the statue we got back on our tour bus. Merrill fell asleep. It had been a Long day! I woke him up when we passed the Trump Tower to tell him that Derek Jeter and this other hot shot Yankee played lived there.
We saw the Wicked Theater:


We didn't go to Wicked. I really wanted to, but my parents thought that because we have already seen it twice that we should see some other shows... Then i saw this thing that was like WICKED BEHIND THE SCENES where you could go and they take you backstage, give you a tour. They would show some original costumes, and i freaked out! Even though I knew that i couldn't go because it was only Saturday and we already had our plans for then...Plus you would probably would have had to get tickets in advance or something. BUT i thought it was WAY cool they had something like that. Someday i would like to do that. Or maybe when I'm on Wicked someday I can just go there-i wish!

As we came into Times Square we could see the Hersey's store place.


I was drooling! ha ha just kidding.
Fittingly, right across from the Hershey's was M&M's:


Now i was really foaming at the mouth! haha just kiddin


We got off and went to Olive Garden. It was a very different Olive Garden then i have ever been in. It had three levels. When we walked in my dad asked what the wait was. And after a long day of walking site seeing, being a tourist... We were all pretty worn out. She said it was about twenty minutes. But when she asked how many people we had and we said Four, she seated us and so we didn't have to stand and wait around. our waiter was horrible but the food was good. At one point we needed more bread sticks and our waiter was just staring out the window... Suddenly Merrill started laughing and he came over. Merrill said he was motioning for him to come over at his reflection in the glass. It was funny. We were glad we went when we did because after we came they suddenly got a lot of people! I think they just wanted to be in the same place as us. ;)

After we ate we walked over to the Little Mermaid. I have a book with pictures and things of the show. I really loved it! It wasn't Wicked, but i still really enjoyed it! So you should come over and look at my book sometime, because its really interesting and cool. They had heelys to make it look like they were swimming. Waved their arms to make the appearance too. Sierra Boggess, the Ariel has an AMAZING voice! Shows like this BLOW my mind. The LIVE music! I just want to watch the show, then come back and watch the pit Orchestra! I mean, how Awesome would it be for that to be your job? Playing your instrument for an amazing show like that!

After the show we headed back to the hotel via subway. Our hotel was about three blocks from the subway station. I never thought i was paranoid until we had to walk three blocks, at night, in New York. We walked past a couple Bars, a Few scary looking people... That just really scared me! We made it back alive though.

It was very nice to rest after a long day in the City!

Uh...More to come!

IT DIDNT!

I have no idea how to work the insert link...Oh Well this works too! :)

http://tmmmmmmt.blogspot.com/2008/08/little-more-ny.html

More Sense

OK...So I'm pretty sure basically everyone who reads my blog reads my mom's. BUT her post about Top of the Rock and the Subway kinda made more sense then what i said... Haha So here is the link to that. For all of you who I'm betting has already read it.
(I bet that wont work)

AND For any Twilight fans that have or are read/reading Breaking Dawn...What are you thinking about this book?!

New York, New York (so nice, they named it twice!)

OK So I've started this post about five times. But I finally decided that i should just post what i have then finish later (do what my mom did) So you'll be getting some of the same things twice if you read my mom's blog. I just got to the middle of our first day out in New York.

Tuesday night was the start of the trip. We drove down to Vegas and stayed at the Excalibur. Which if you haven't seen is like a huge castle. There were so many rooms it always blows my mind that there are SO many rooms. Anyway. So after we checked in we walked down the strip to the Bellagio to watch the water show. And If you haven't seen that, I suggest the next time you're in Vegas to go and watch it.

Picture of the show

Picture at the show

This is us (minus my mom who is taking the picture) back at the hotel. We had to get a picture with the TV. Notice we are watching the All Star Game.

Wednesday at five in the morning we left to the airport. Our flight didn't leave tell just after seven but they suggest you go early. As we were going through security my bag didn't make it through. I had illegal lotion. I had never flown before so I had no idea that if a liquid or something was over so many ounces... YA so they took my NEW lotion i had only used once. It was really nice Bath and Body Works!



Waiting for take off.
We had a layover in Atlanta Georgia, so we were in an Airport for about an hour and a half or so.

A picture from the plane coming into New York.
We lost about two hours and then there was a time change from Kanab to Vegas, and a time change from Vegas to Atlanta, then from Atlanta to New York. Then when i would text people in Kanab they were two hours behind me... Anyway. I was really messed up with all the time changes.
Once we got in New York on Wednesday we didn't really do anything except check into our hotel that was in Queens. Then we ordered pizza. Which I have to say was not the best pizza in the world. And instead of bread sticks in New York they have Garlic Nots. And i have to say i really prefer bread sticks, because i did not like those Garlic Nots.

Thursday We got up and walked to the subway to take us to Manhattan. The subway is not a happy place. Everyone on it is grumpy and tired.
So the first place we went was Top of the Rock. Which is the very top of the Rockeffeler Center.
We were SO high up!! 1st one is the Empire State building-if you couldn't tell- Pictures of uh.. more scenery. All those buildings! Central Park. Time Square(if you look you can kinda see the clock...)

After Top of the Rock we went on a bus tour. Oh Ya it was one of those double Decker buses. I've always wanted to ride one of those for some reason... Anyway. It had a whole bunch of historical sites, interesting places we saw. It was cool to see the skyscrapers close up. We don't have ANYTHING like that here in Kanab. (thankfully) It hurt my neck trying to look up to the top of some!

Then we went on the Staten Island Ferry, which just takes you around the Statue of Liberty. Its free. Something like a subway, for the people who live on the Island. We didn't want to pay to go over there because there isn't much to do once you are over there. They don't let you in the crown or anything anymore.


(I'll copy my mom) To Be Continued....