To: Erik The Coolest Guy In The World

I'm dedicating this post to Erik Vachon.

In Loving Memory Of

Erik Vachon, October 31, 1982 - October 4, 2006

I really wish I could just call, and talk to him right now, tell him HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! He'd be 26 today if he were still here with us. I have no idea how hard this has to be on his mother and family, but LuAnn Schutt (his mother) is one of the strongest women I know, and I'm sure she's holding it together for the rest of her family. He was an amazing, outgoing, creative, funny, loving and a lovable guy, he just made everyone around him feel like they were important and valuable. Never take people for granted because you never know when you might never see them again. Because it's not worth it in the end to know that your last words to that person were hateful, or you didn't say goodbye because of something stupid even if you were only joking. Always say goodbye and tell them that you love them, no matter how upset you are it's not worth it to feel like a loser in the end who never said goodbye, take my advice.

When I was eight I swore I was going to marry him, when I was of age of course, he entertained the idea mostly just for my sake, but I like to believe that he would marry me in the future!!! I don't know exactly what happened or what he was going through, I just wish I could have been there for him, if that could have helped, and I wish he could just come back but we all know that doesn't happen in real life, only in fairy tales.

ERIK R.I.P

I miss you so much Erik, wish you were here to see me turn fourteen, but I'm sure your watching from somewhere. I'll never forget the awesome person you were and still are in every ones hearts who knew you. I love you and miss you. Here's the goodbye I never got to tell you.

Goodbye, I'll miss you and see you again someday!!!

P.S

I'm still waiting for you to propose to me when I see you next time! LOL!

Famous Quotes

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”
- Will Rogers


“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Christopher Columbus


“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
- St Catherine of Siena


“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
- Helen Keller


“We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”
- Talmund


"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
- Theodore Rubin


“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas A Edison


“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco


“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji


“When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Franklin D Roosevelt


“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill


“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
- Muhammad Ali


“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve


“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
- Sam Ewing


“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucious


“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas A Edison


“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”
- Donald Gardner


“Success is what you attract by the person you become.”
- Jim Rohn


“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”
- Hubert Humphrey


“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
- Jim Rohn


“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”
- Victor Hugo


“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”
- Po Bronson


“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
- Benjamin Mays


“More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”
- Anonymous


“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”
- Earl Shoaf



I dedicate these quotes to Ali, a girl you all wish was your friend.

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.
~Author Unknown


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
~Author Unknown


If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.
~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
~Grace Pulpit


There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've ever had.
~Author Unknown


Best friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
~Author Unknown


A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
~Attributed to Heather Pryor


What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~Aristotle


Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
~Flavia Weedn, Forever,


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~Oprah Winfrey


A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
~Lois Wyse


A true friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
~Frances Ward Weller


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.
~Author Unknown


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
~Eustache Deschamps


A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
~Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
~Sicilian Proverb


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~Elisabeth Foley


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
~Henri Nouwen


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
~Dave Tyson Gentry


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
~Plautus


A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~William Penn


Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate

No Ones Perfect

Have you ever had a person that you looked up to, or thought highly of and they disappointed you doing something stupid? I have, and it hurt terribly. When you look up to someone you expect them to live up to your expectations. You can deny it but no matter who you are, at one point in your life you looked up to someone. Whether it was your mom, dad, brother, sister, family member, friend or the neighbor next door, I don't know who it was or is. One thing you need to learn now is that no one is ever going to live up to your expectations, because their not you and their only human, not God. I have had a few people I admired let me down hard, and it took me a long time to get over it, but due to recent events I have come to realize that nobodies perfect not even me (I like to believe I am some times LOL). Nobody wears a halo, and nobody wants people to think that they do, it's okay to think highly of someone, because if you lower your standard and except anything you get from somebody than that makes you the bigger disappointment. No one wants to feel pressured to be perfect to please someone else, because if it's someone you care about and they care for you as much as you do for them than they don't want to let you down, it's probably one of their biggest fears, I know it's one if mine. I don't want to disappoint the people around me, I want to be someone people can be proud of to say that's my daughter, sister, or best friend. But if you have no standard for someone to meet than they have nothing to live up to, and no one wants that either. You have to find that happy medium, and except that no one is perfect, people will make mistakes and hurt you, just don't let that be your excuse to give up on someone. You have to expect the best out of everybody but be ready for the worst. Be disappointed in them, let them see how much their actions hurt you, but also love them, forgive them and except them for who they are. Because I will repeat what I said before, NO ONE WEARS A HALO!

Emotions...

Hatred is a funny thing, you get so consumed in how much you hate someone that you forget to see the good in others. All you do is see negative, and it makes your life miserable, hatred, anger, bitterness it will all just eat at you until there is nothing left. Until your nothing but an empty shell. I promise you it's not a life you want to live, no one wants to be your friend, people go out of there way to avoid you and you end up doing nothing but feeling sorry for yourself. It's pathetic and childish, you have to learn how to grow up and get passed it, forgive your enemies, it's one of the hardest things you will ever have to face. But once you forgive them (truly forgive them) you can move on and it will be like that person never existed, no one says you have to be friends just because you forgive them, and the thing you should always take from the experience is knowledge. What you will do differently next time, what you DON'T want to be like, and hopefully be a better judge of character and maybe you will be the one in a million who never has to face it again. Just remember don't let emotions, especially stupid emotion like anger or hatred run your life, I have personally seen it happen to people all my life, I'm seeing it happen in some right now, but don't be that person. Be the upstanding loving person that I know every living being has in them. Your not born with hatred, and it's never too late, you can still change your life to the way you want it to be, don't let people, circumstances, or emotions make your life, you control it so be better than that. Nobody will ever be perfect, I know I'm most definitely NOT!! But you can try to be the best person you can be, and that's all I ask for, because I am so done with people throwing their lives away because of like I said before, people, circumstances, or emotions.
So I want to wish you all a happy, loving, laughter filled life with the people you love and forget the one's that would put your happiness in jeopardy because their not worth it.

P.S
Family does not count in any of this, and always remember blood is thicker than water.

FOOTBALL!!!

Who doesn't love football? (I'm not actually asking for you to leave your opinion if you don't, if are a football fan feel free to leave a comment). LOL! GO CYCLONES! Last night Varsity kicked Coronado's butt, 49 to 0, today was JV and we killed them again 52 to 6. They left out of there with their heads held down in shame. At today's JV game, one of the boys from Coronado shoved one of our guys after the whistle (bad sportsmanship, they were loosing,) so they got into a fight and the kid from Coronado ended up getting his helmet knocked off. The ref's didn't see it so it never got called, and one of the parents from Coronado, in the stand came out of the bleachers (this guy had to be late fifty's early sixties) jumped the fence, poorly, and came out on the field. He started yelling, pointing fingers, shaking his fist, and then pulled something out of his pocket and started shaking it around, it was absolutely hilarious. I thought I was gonna fall over back wards and roll around laughing, he made such a fool of himself that they finally called the police on him, about five minutes later two cop cars showed up and the guy was finally quiet for the rest of the time. One thing I learned from all this is that if your older than twenty five you probably shouldn't be jumping fences anymore.
Alright well I have to go my sisters have a gym meet today so I have to get ready for that, I'll tell 'ya how it goes.

P.S
Happy Birthday to my baby sister she's turning nine today, she's growing up so fast, I remember when I used to change her diaper times sure have changed.
Ta Ta For Now!!

Real Friends

One thing that I have come to realize in my thirteen years of life, is that people will disappoint you, betray you, lose your trust, hurt you, etc. But if you can't get past those few or more people, then your biggest disappointment will be yourself. Because if you never get past the people that hurt you, and give others a chance, you can never move on to find the true friends that would do anything for you, love you, stand up for you, are there for you, know exactly what to say when your upset, and sometimes have to tell you things that you don't want to hear. I have been through many people that I thought were my friends, and in the end had to face reality. I think that if you try to please people and suck up to them, then obviously their not worth having as a friend. Now I'm not saying that you will never get into a fight with a friend, especially a best friend, because they are willing to face the consequence of telling you something you don't want to hear, and possibly lose your friendship if it's what it takes. But if you lose the friendship because you can't get over what they said to you, (if it's truly in your best interest) then you don't deserve a friend like that. And maybe it's time you take a look in a mirror see if what you see is what you would want to see in yourself or what you would want to see in someone else. Because if it's not, you might want to start trying to change that, I promise you will miss out and lose friends. Now should you tolerate a person (family doesn't count in this by the way) just because you don't want to hurt their feelings, so you would rather make yourself miserable NO!!! You don't have to be rude or nasty, but you tell them how you feel and if they don't like it too bad, it's not the way to live your life always trying to please other's. If someone doesn't like you for you, and you have to try and be something else to make them happy, than they don't deserve you as a friend. If you want a good friend you might want to start with having one like mine.

P.S
To my Best Friend,
I just wanted to say thank you for getting me through some of the tough times, being sympathetic when I was just being whinny, for being my shoulder to lean on, for always being supportive, pushing me when I wanted to give up and telling me to suck it up and drive on!

I love you girlie;)

Hiya!!!

So if you've read my last post than you'll know that I went to my sister gym meet this weekend, and they did pretty well. Both of them messed a few parts in their routines but I think it's just cause they were really nervous, it's only their second meet of the season. Paxton (my sister) took fifth place on beam and second on floor! Miranda (my other sister) took sixth on floor fourth on vault and sixth in the all around! Their whole team ended up taking second place, so that was an awesome meet!!! I was really excited I hadn't seen them do gymnastics in a while, I've been really busy, but I was happy to see them and impressed!
The Cyclones won again, their opponents were Widefield, we've gone undefeated all season so far. The score ended up 47 to 7 they kicked booty! I felt really bad cause towards the end they were putting JV guys in, and my brother was gonna play except he hurt his knee and is going to the doctor for an MRI, so we're all crossing our fingers that he'll be okay. Me and Ali are going to the next Varsity game on Friday, I'll let you know who wins!
My sisters Paxton and Franki both chopped all their hair off today, to their chins, I have to admit it looks really cute I was afraid it wouldn't but they are definitely rocking it! Miranda is going to get hers cut to her shoulders and layered tomorrow I think, by our stylist Kristen, who by the way is totally awesome.
Ali's birthday is coming up on November 26, and she'll be the big 16 so we are going to go see New Moon opening day for her Birthday. My Dad's and mirandas birthdays are in October, my moms and paxtons birthdays are in November, and last but not least MY BIRTHDAY I WILL BE 14 time to party, time to party!!!!! I can't wait because that means only one more year until I can get my drivers permit and two more until I can get my licence and then a car!! Which I am hopping I will get a good job so that I can get a Mustang GT, Smokey grey, black racing stripes, with tail fin and black leather interior. Everybody says it won't happen; but I'm gonna work really hard and when I do get it I will take pictures and post them on here for you all!
Some really exciting new'!!! We got extended here for another year and I am so excited, I never really liked it anywhere before. But I love it here although I would definitely want to move closer to the mountains, but if it means we get to stay I will take the dusty planes and bare with it.
Ali gave a speech the other day on how we should support our troops and it effects them etc... and the teacher and class loved it so much that she is doing an encore speech and some people from her class are even going to tape it. It was so cool and it especially meant allot to me because my dad is navy and he's deployed for six months at a time and it's really hard for us to cope with it, I can't imagine having him gone for years at a time. It would absolutely kill me and my family because he is so much apart of this family, so I was really happy when she told me her topic and how well she did on it. I don't think I could ask for a better best friend than her we agree on so many things and tell each other things that sometimes we don't want to hear, but we get over it and haven't had a fight yet so I'm hoping it will stay that way forever, because she is totally an awesome best friend!! We are going to try out for the dance team next year at the high school, so if your reading this please cross your fingers for us? Thanks!
By the way my Mom just had her seven month non smoking anniversary so we are all very happy for her and proud! Well that's all I have to write for tonight besides it's almost midnight so I've got to hit the sack and get some beauty sleep for tomorrow.

See Ya Laters!!!!

Catching Up

HI!
Yes I know I haven't been on in a long time, been crazy busy with everything, but I want to make an apology to my very faithful friend who checks my blog all the time and never sees anything new. SORRY ALI :)!!!
Anyway let's move on to a more exciting subject...like FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!! Now who doesn't like football, me and my best friend have been going to a game almost every weekend since the season started, and it never gets old wooohoooo!!! It has been so much fun, the Cyclones (are high school football team, which my brother also plays on) have won every single game! But they didn't just win they stomped the other teams.
My sisters are starting up their gymnastics meets again, actually I am going to one on Saturday. They are both level fives now, and i can't wait to go see them in competition! My other sister started gymnastics again, and she seems to be doing awesome so I'm happy for her.
Oh and then we get to MEEEE!!!! I played volleyball over the summer, worked horses, hung out with my best friend, (only for part of the summer I would tell you why but she might murder me in my sleep, but we had an awesome time when we did hang out) and we both got really cute hair cuts which I'll have to post on here one of theses days. I went to a dance with my best friend (By the way in case you guys don't know already her name is Ali) we had an great time and danced with guys all night. Well anyway I'm sure I could tell you more about how fun my life is but I have to get off and do some homework.

Ta Ta For Now!

Hi everyone I am really tired and can't fall back asleep, mainly because it's already nine in the morning. So I decided to show you some totally awesome pics my friend made for me and my family enjoy!!!

My poor innocent blog has been neglected again.

Hi everyone I know that I haven't been on lately I've just been crazy busy. I am so excited that summer is getting closer and closer, this year just seems like it's flying by. Almost like I blinked and winter is pretty much over. Except today winter is back, we're supposed to get like a foot or two of snow!!!
So let's catch up on everything that's happened since January. Well January was kind of boring didn't really do much that I remember. February was cool and sad at the same time. It all started with my friend who was supposed to go to Disneyland with her family on the 7, they were all so excited. I think I might have been more excited for them than they were for themselves. Well I got a call from Ali (one of my best friends) saying that they weren't gonna be able to go because their tax returns didn't come when they said they would, and that's what they were using to pay for the trip. So I told her to come over right away and that if she wasn't gonna get to have a blast in Disneyland then she would at my house. So she came over and I did her makeup, we went to Kohl's and shopped for a few hours. We blasted the radio and sang along with every song that came on. We got back to my house and ate dinner, played Dance Dance Revolution and Apples to Apples all night long we took a bunch of pictures (I will be putting those on here as soon as she sends them to me or you can just go to her her blog and see them if you go down the right side of my page you will see hers and just click on it). We got up the next morning and went on an awesome trail ride with two of my horses and then we dropped her off at her house.
A few days later I called to invite her to the movies with some of my other friends to find out that they got their money in time anyway and got to go. I was practically jumping up and down with excitement. Then me and my family put up a whole new fence for my pasture because the other one was crap that only took two days, two very long days. My mama QUIT SMOKING that was a really hard thing for her to do but she did it and we all are very happy for her. Tha was about it for February, and we really haven't done all that much for March either, just working in our backyard making it nicer and with my horses a lot now that it's starting to get warmer out.
Oh my brother is starting his drivers ed soon and my sisters birthday is in a month so she's really excited I haven't even decided yet on what to get her so we'll see.
Well that's all for now talk to you all later, bye bye!!!! :)