Tzeitel Don't Forget the Baby!!!!

You know what stinks???

When something that you used to really love and enjoy...becomes a chore.

It breaks my heart to say this...but that is what has happened with blogging.

So for now I shall say farwell and leave you with a song:

If you find it's me your missing, if you're hoping I'll return.

To your thoughts I'll soon be listening, in the road I'll stop and turn.

Then the wind will set me racing as my journey nears its end.

And the path I'll be retracing, I'll be homeward bound again.

Bind me not to the pasture.

Chain me not to the plow.

Set me free to find my calling.

And I'll return to you somehow.

Letters From the Undeceased

Dear EverybodyNose,

I am so SORRY that I have been neglecting you. I'm a terrible blogger.

Love,

Lazy Blog Author

Dear Fellow Bloggers,

I apologize from the bottom of my heart for neglecting you all. I'm a terrible blog friend.

Love,

Person Who Needs to Catch Up On Your Lives

Dear Life I've Been Living Lately,

You have ups, downs, and in-betweens. You make me laugh, cry, scream, and cry some more. Thanks for showing me what it's all about.

Love,

Natalie

Adorable

Chloe is so good to me!

She bestowed this beautiful award upon me!

So now, I get to show you all four things that I think are adorable. #1

#2

#3

#4

Don't even try to tell me that these kids are not to die for!!!!!

Alright now I get to pass on the award.

You can put it on your sidebar then tell your readers about 4 things you think are adorable.

Then pass it on to 4 people.

(Only if you want to, no pressure.)

1. Ann Marie
2. Amy

3. Chloe

4. Shelby Lou

Did Ratalie Drop Off the Face of the Earth???

No I'm not dead.

I guess the best way to sum up where I've been the last couple weeks is this: And this:

And of course this:
Being in Les Miserables was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
I absoloutely LOVED it!!!!
We had the GREATEST cast that Westwood had to offer!
Last weekend we put on three fantastic shows and had an amazing turnout!
Looking back now I have absoloutely no regrets and am just heartbroken that it's all over.
Thank you for everyone who came to the show!
I hope you had as much fun watching as I did performing!!!

Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also

So Sadies is coming up here in a couple weeks.

I asked my good friend Jacob and he (being a gentleman) answered me just a few days later!

I'm so mad I forgot to take pictures of the asking.

But here's what I did: I put the letters of my name on seven of these and stuck them in peanut butter. (Jacob has an obsession with the stuff.) Gave him a posted that said:

"Don't be a Nugget, come with me to Sadies!"

So he answered with a box of Marshmallow Treausres.

In the cereal were gold coins, papers and a ring pop.


The papers said:
I'd love to go to Sadies with a Jewel like you!!!

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reason Number 336 Why I Love Steven!!!!!

So you remember Steven? Yup, that's him.

I love him.

Ready for the latest reason?????

Every year at WW the week before Valentines day is Love Week.

It's a tradition that every student in the school gets a heart with their name written on it hung up in the hallway. Well this morning I saw my heart and this is what it looked like:

Do you see the two little words?

Yeah someone wrote that.

A close up:

If you can't read the words it says;
"You're Ugly"

Yeah, sad huh.

I mean it's obviously not a huge deal, I mean I don't hang my happiness on how people view me!

But still.....

Well I told Steven about this and look at what he made me:

If you can't read the sparkles it says

"Is Hot"

So he made that specially for me and taped it to my back for teh rest of the day!

See why I love him?

It was seriously so sweet!

He's so good to me!!!!

Challenge for the day:

Go tell someone you love them.

It just might make their day.

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Susannah has a beautiful smile, happy is a very good look for her.

I Almost Killed My Best Friend and Lived to Tell the Tale!!!!! Oh and Then I Saw a Movie.

So you all know The Rusty. I talk about him all the time.

Just a refresher:

I love the kid.

He's like my brother, one of my best friends ever.

And tonight I was almost the death of him.

Fact: Rusty is DEATHLY allergic to ALL peanuts in ANY, WAY, SHAPE, or FORM.

Like, one bite and he could like drop dead!!!!

So tonight The Jessica's and I made a Dairy Queen run for 4 blizzards.

Reeses for Jessica #1, Reeses for Jessica #2, Cookie Dough for Rusty and Butterfinger for Parker.

Well I'm getting in the car trying to figure out which one is which and thinking I have it right, give each Jessica what I THOUGHT was a Reeses Blizzard.

Then we get back to Kairleigh's and I go inside and give what I THINK is the Cookie Dough and Butterfinger to Parker and Rusty.

Then I go back out to the car, and the Jessica's proceed to tell me that they are currently eating a BUTTERFINGER and COOKIE DOUGH Blizzards.

OH.MY.GOODNESS.

My. Heart. Stopped.

I fumbled to get the car door open but couldn't find the handle, finally I RUN PELL MELL through the yard and into the house, the minute I'm inside I'm screaming:

"RUSTY DON'T EAT IT"

As I get into the room they were in I'm still screaming and freaking out and he goes

"I didn't eat it. We smelt it."

THANK.GOODNESS.

I walked out of the room thinking:

"WHAT IF HE HAD EATEN IT!?!?!?"

And just the thought was too much for me.

I started BALLING my eyes out!!!!

I don't think I'd ever been so relieved or felt so stupid in my entire life!

Of course, Rusty heard me crying and came out to make sure I was okay.

HE was making sure that I was okay!

HE WAS THE ONE WHO COULD HAVE DIED!!!!

AND HERE HE WAS COMFORTING ME!!!!

Just holding me and letting me cry, reassuring me that he was perfectly fine, it wasn't my fault.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Okay, call me a drama queen, tell me I'm crazy.

Actually don't.

I don't wanna hear it.

Maybe I'm prone to overreact to these kinds of things but you have NO IDEA how scary that was.

*sighs at the recollection*

Lesson Learned:

ASK FOR DQ TO TELL YOU WHICH BLIZZARD IS WHICH!!!!!!!!!

After that dramatic episode....it was time for some Silver Screen Drama!!!!!

I read this book two summers ago and

FELL.IN.LOVE.

When I saw they were making it into a movie I was so happy I almost fainted!

So needless to say, when Sister Emily called me up tonight to go see it I HAD to say yes.

So here's the deal, I know most of you are going to see this and I don't want to ruin anything for you so just let me say this:

They changed ALOT of things!!!!

And I'm not sure how I feel about it all!

Somethings I thought they got spot on.

Others they changed to the point of me wanting to yell:

"WHAT THE HECK???????????????"

But some of the liberties they took, I thought, really helped the story and made it a great movie.

So yeah I guess this is kind of a lame review.

But I'm way interested in hearing what you all have to say about it.

We must discuss!!!

Have a Fabulous weekend!!!!!

Musings of a 16 Year Old Girl With Too Much Time On Her Hands (My Dad Made Up This Title)

So I have this fetish with naming inanimate objects....

I'd like you all to meet:

This next guy is my lover!!! Oh Pokey! He is slow but he gets the job done!!!!!!

Oh wait...he's not an inanimate object....

that's okay!

We still love him!!!!!

Epic In Every Sense of the Word

Well this past weekend was epic for two reasons.

We'll start with this:

I saw Titanic for the first time.

Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!

Love. At. First. Sight.

There's something about watching an amazing chickflick in your pajamas with junk food and all your girlfriends!

(Plus Rusty.)

It just made it that much better!!!! Image from Here.

I will marry Jack Dawson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Image from Here.

Can we just feast upon him for a moment?

Image from Here.

Now I'm torn!

Who do I love more...

Peeta Mellark or Jack Dawson????

What say you?

Now for the main event:

The Cocopah Half and Full Marathon

Yuma, Arizona

Saturday, January 23rd

After my grandpa's death in September, some of the family decided to participate in his memory for his birthday which would have been this month.

My sisters Emily and Bekah, and my Aunt Johnelle sprinting in from the Half.

Bekah's biggest fans!

I told Emily to show me what champions look like, this is what she came up with.

Em with her #1 cheerleader! Her hubby Brett!

Barely awake but ready to cheer on the fam!

Sister Sarah and Aunt Pam finishing the Half!

Bekah went back and ran the last mile with them.

Aunt Kathy and Sam ran the last couple yards as well.

Victory!

Can I just say that my dad is a stud????

The man is 53 years old and ran a FULL MARATHON IN 4 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!

My Super Sisters!!!!!!!

All the girls!

I love my family!

This was such a great event to witness!

Between the two races, we had 11 runners and ALOT of cheerleaders all wearing our red Team Reg shirts.

If you click on any of the pictures you can see the shirts better.

Under the Team Reg it says:

"Still Hangin' in There"

One of many Regisms that my grandpa was known for is this:

"I'm still working on my S.H.I.T. program."

Man I miss that guy!

Image from Here.

In other news, I missed EverybodyNose's Birthday!!!!

As of January 15th, this here blog has been alive for one year!!!

It's been a great one!

Here's to many more!!!!!

A Parade, My Decor, Oh and I'm a G

Yeah I've been MIA this week....life has gotten crazy!!!!

Between school, blood drive, Les Mis rehearsal and being a normal human being....there's not alot of time left over. But heres a little somethin somethin to hold you all over. On Monday, Westwood Stuco was in our towns MLK parade.

Isn't our "banner" awesome?

Love it!

Barely awake.

Me and my Bethany!


Oh Steven! We love him.


So alot of bloggers out there post pictures of your cute houses and your decorating jobs yadda yadda yadda. Well....there is only one room in my house that reflects me.
The Woman Cave.
AKA my bedroom.
So I thought I'd just give you a little taste of my room.
This little lovelie houses all my purses belts and junk.

From left to right:

*The N book was my 12th birthday present from my amazing sister Bekah! It's completely homemade and is 12 year old Natalie in a nut shell!

*The awesome Natalie sign in the background was my Christmas present from Brina, again homemade! Love it!

*The picture of me and Tyler....

Remember my post about Winter Formal and how me and Ty were dancing by ourselves at dinner and my friends were taking pictures of us?...yeah. Kair took that picture, Jessica printed it out, put it in my frame and gave it to me for Christmas. Hahaha!
*The super cute white frame was my birthday present from the awesome Ann! Yes I am such a slacker and haven't put a picture in it yet....but the frame is so cute that it's worth displaying, pictureless and all!! I will get a picture in there soon!!!!!

*In the very front is a little picture of the whole Stuco family at Winter Formal.

*And the Knight in Shining Armor......is a story for another time.

So sometimes I like to pretend I'm a gangsta.

Peace out yo!

Crazy Kids and a Cowch

So the other day Jessica was driving down Brown and Horne and saw this awesome Cowch.

She told me about it and we KNEW we had to go take pictures.

And here's what we got: Yeah its blurry but at least they're in the air.

And daaang Rusty's got hops!

I'm laughing by the way...

His face made my day.

I thought of the wicked King Noah when I saw this.

B-ritt and Sammy playing patty-cake.

My friends are so cute!

Flexing their triceps brachii, heck yes I've been paying attention in anatomy!

Rusty was naughty.

No comment.

Can I just say that I have the best guy friends ever?

This one made me so happy!!!!

I love how Brittni's the only one making a normal face.

Have a happy MLK Day!!!!!!!