SCHOOL!!!

School started this week... and yes I am a little afraid to say that I am excited!  It just reassures the world that I am a little weird.  But I really don't mind school.  It gives my life a balance and a schedule.  It gets me out of bed in the morning and puts me to sleep at night!  It's a great life.  With school comes sports and friends, so what's there to complain about?  Yes by the time summer comes back around I am sure I will be ready for that, but for now, I am excited for school.  We have a tradition at our house to model school clothes!  So much fun!  I got 3 new items and I love them all.  Livi got like 5 I think.  They are really cute!  And also on the first day of school, we take a picture.  It was a little weird not to have Sulli cookin' up grease to some Jack Johnson on Monday morning, but he is doing great in college!  We love and miss him!  We are ready for a new year of school!  

Ready for school!  I am really excited for my classes.  Notice I have my scriptures ready for Seminary and my trumpet ready for Band!  I love those classes!  I like all my classes.  School is just gonna be great!  Yeah for education!  

Tour de Clyda

Today, ladies and gentlemen, we will be taking the "Tour de Clyda."  But instead of 21 stages, like the "Tour de France",  there are only 5.  So please enjoy our tour.  (For your own safety, do not touch, or you might suffer the wrath!  kidding!!)

Alright people, please allow me to show you our first attraction: The Garden.  In my mom's lovely garden we have growing: peas, potatoes, broccoli, lettuce, carrots, corn, raspberries, and strawberries.  It will be very yummy when we harvest it and eat it! Take your time looking, but please do not damage the hardware.     

Ok, our next stage in the "Tour de Clyda" is: The Greenhouse!  This is where all the flowers start and where all the tomatoes end.  Also, please notice the beautiful flowers all around. Mom works hard to keep them alive and beautiful.  We don't have an "in greenhouse tour," but you can sorta' see how big the tomatoes are inside. Alright, moving on quickly...   

To: The Backyard.  Our backyard is beautiful here on the "Tour de Clyda."  The back flower bed is arranged spectacularly with all colors and varieties.  The lawn is always green and the sunflowers are TALL!    
Now we will turn to our right and go to the side lawn.  Please follow me.  First we have this cute little island with our pig and cow.  This bed is pretty much filled with the same things every year.  It is sporadic but I love it.     

This next attraction is my very favorite.  Honestly I think it is the best looking part of our whole yard.  It is the side yard.  The flower bed receives extra care.  Extra dead heading and water.  Please notice as we pass, the rocks behind the flowers.  A nice addition to the tour, don't you think?  Also, I think the boys would appreciate it if you took notice of the GREAT siding job they did.  That is the side yard. 

I will now highlight the flower that I especially like here on the tour.  I don't know the name of it, but I wish it was fake so I could give all of you one as a souvenir.  It is showcased in the side flower bed (last stage).  

O.K. you think that our tour is over?  Well, it kind of is.  To see the main, BEST, part of the tour you have to experience it for yourself.  We haven't found out how to capture the beauty of it all yet. This stage would be the love and fun we have together as a family at our own home. When we are together, you can't pass that up.  Whether we're working together, eating together, or playing together, you can feel the love.  That is the most Wonderful part of the tour.  

Thank you for coming all this way for the Tour de Clyda.  I am needing to go lead the next group through.  I am your tour guide, Tessa Teichert, and I have thoroughly enjoyed your company.  'Til next time.

BYU!!!

Okay, so Tessa went to a BYU basketball camp a couple of weeks ago, and I was pretty sure she'd blog about it, but she did so good I think she didn't want to get on here and brag about herself the whole time, so with a suggestion from my sister Taffy, and me actually wanting to do it, I'm going to do a blog about all of the fun stuff Tessa has told me about her BYU trip!  

This is Tessa with all of her prizes from winning so many of the games at camp.  First she got the award of Cougar of the day.  She got a car sticker (not pictured) from that.  Then she won lighting and got another sticker and her sweatband.  Even more impressive than those two is her 3 on 3 team and her 5 on 5 team both won the tournaments in her gym.  For that she got that awesome shirt, and a pair of socks.  The best of all was that Tessa was the MVP!!  For that she got the awesome shorts(which I have threatened to steal many times), her waterbottle, those socks she's wearing, and the flat basketball in her arms...don't worry, we pumped it up.  Then just for going to the camp she got her awesome bag and another shirt.  So, as you can see, her writing this blog might have sounded a little conceited, but what else could she write about herself but good?  Oh, and another one of her favorite things about the week was a food pass to the Cannon Center, BYU's cafeteria.  She said if she goes there to school she'll probably gain the freshman 30, not just 15.  Anyway, Tessa did great and had a super fun week living her dream at BYU. 

Oh, and this is Tessa using her awesome sweatband.  

Girls Camp and 4th of July

This last week was crazy full!!  I loved it... Tons of people all the time.  It was great!  On Tuesday we went up to Girls Camp at the beautiful Camp Ho-Nok.  It was so much fun!  We had a lot of time to just sit and hang out with the girls.  I made some new friends and my other friends and I got closer.  The skits were hilarious as always!  The theme of the whole girls camp was Temples. It was a great theme.  I felt the spirit a lot up there.  My testimony was definitely strengthened while I was up there.  Each ward for devotional chose a temple and to theme there camp around. Cokeville 2nd Ward chose the Hong Kong temple.  It was a very fun week...

The Crew!

Me and my sis!

Lookin' Dorky!

Cheese Heads!

This Saturday was a lovely 4th of July!  We sold some T-Shirts for out class fund raiser.  (We still have some.  If you want one, call me).  The highlight of the day was a rib barbecue last night at Aunt Linda's.  Olivia also MCed the Little Miss Cokeville Pageant.  She did great.  In the Patriotic Program the choir sang.  Me and Mom are in the choir.  Also, I played a trumpet duet with Jonathan.  It was a great day!!

Weber, Weber, Weber

So, it pretty much seems like I've lived there the past three weekends.  Weber State puts on some great team camps, so our teams go.  The first time we went down it was with our younger girls on the basketball team.  Well, pretty much just the seniors were gone, but Lauren was injured, so we were in a lower division.  It was good and we got a lot of playing time, but it's just not as fun when you don't win.  Then the next weekend we went down for volleyball.  That was a lot of fun, and I went with a whole different group of girls.  It was just us junior and senior girls that went.  The first day we had pool play and played 7 teams two games to 25.  We won them all, so it made it really fun.  The next day we went into tournament play, and didn't play quite as well and took 4th.  One of the best parts was we got to stay the night, so we didn't have to go down and back twice.  Then just this last Friday and Saturday we went back to Weber for basketball again.  The first day we had five girls, Katelyn, Celinda, McKenzie, Tessa, and I.  It was fun, and Tessa loved it because she got to play the "5."  She was especially proud when she actually got the ball in a post-up and scored!  The next day was even better because Lauren and Holly came and we got subs!  They were at EFY the day before, so we'll forgive them.  So, I'm pretty sure I'm not going back to Weber anytime soon, and that is okay with me.  We have Girl's Camp this next week and I ams so excited.  Maybe the next post will be a little better and will have some pictures from our fun.  So, this post is lame, the next should be better, but oh well, now maybe Tessa will stop nagging me about it:) 

The kids!

Here are some pictures of the kids that are still at home.  I just thought that I needed to make a blog and these were the best pictures I could find.  Also I need your opinion.  A lot of people lately have been saying that Olivia and I could be twins, just I have darker features than her.  People that don't even know us but have seen us, ask if we are related.  Like this one time, I was at a Jr. High track meet in Rock Springs.  I was lined up for the 800 meter run.  I was behind two Snake River girls.  They turned around and looked at me and said, "Are you related to that little blonde point guard from Cokeville?"  I said, "Yeah, that's my sister."  Then they were like, "I knew it, I knew you were related some how.  You look so much alike."  Like 2 minutes later, they turned back around and said, "It is weird how much you look like her."  And that isn't the only story.  A lot of people think we look a lot alike.  I don't know what to think.  You tell me.  Could we be twins, or are we totally different?  

Boy am I gonna miss these guys when I am the only one home!

Us!  We all fit into a little hammock swing.  It was awesome!

Olivia and I!

Ok, judge these ones.  Are we same same?

Livi, so cute!

Me!

The choice is yours.  Help us decide if we are same same, or not!  

70's Babes!

This is what goes on when we get bored here in Cokeville.  Well actually we weren't bored, we were being ourselves!  These are Mom's clothes from high school!  When Sadie and Hannah were here, we decided to do something spontaneous!  It rocked!  We had a lot of fun with our friends.  

Sadie Willardson was here these last two weeks and we had a blast!  We laughed so hard everyday!  We are sad she is gone.  Our house was more joyous with her around.  Now she is far far away in Alaska, in her igloo, and with her cute pet polar bear.  I hope she has a good time.  Also these past two weeks we had camps: volleyball and basketball.  They both went really well.  Last week was volleyball camp from Tuesday thru Saturday.  Then we had basketball camp Monday and Tuesday this week and we go to Weber basketball team camp on Friday and Saturday!  It will be so fun!  Summer, and all the beauties of it! 

(Beware, Pictures Galore!) 

Here is a picture of all the 70's babes!  These are Mom's old clothes!  Fun times!!

Bethaney had to leave before we went to The J for dessert, but here are the others of us, being our true selves!  

We liked to call ourselves, The Geek Squad!  Aren't we beautiful?!  haha

These were our two Amish girls, or Pioneers, we couldn't decide!  

Here are the close ups of us all... Our dear friend Lauren Beth!

Bethaney Briggs! ... look at her ankle... it looks weird... 

Hannah Pieper! 

Sadie Willardson!

Olivia Teichert! ... those pants elongated her rear end... It was hott!!

and Me!

Funny story to go along with these next pics.  We seriously went up to the Flying J!  We wanted dessert, but we knew we had limits.  The pants were so tight, we didn't have much room for anything else.  But when we got up there... of course there were people.  Here are some of the looks we got from them.  Serious!

Scared?... I think so!

Confused?... tell me about it!

Uncle Bill... what a look!

We had a blast and laughed so hard.  Then we walked some of the way home and more people saw us, but we didn't care.  We were a group of friends doing things that make us happy.  Friends are great and we should never leave them out to dry!  So many good times can be had with friends!  Keep them close!