Happy Memorial Day!!!

It's the first official day of the first official week of that period of time popularly called "Summer." Is everyone excited or what!?!?!?! we should give each other our summer schedules so we can get together! fun fun!!

Stuffy Stuffy Stuffy Stuff

Hey ya'll. I'm sad that I won't get to see all of your smiling (sometimes not smiling) faces. :) I have really enjoyed getting to know you this school year. BUT this must NOT be the end of our friendship! We must have (or more!) frequent visits one with each other. We must have a day where Abbey and I can come to Paradigm and be shadows. We will have so much fun! We need to get together after I get home and before Erica starts her bear lake thingy. It will be a birthday celebration for Kimberly, Abbey, Tianna, Erica and I, since we have not had an official party for everyone. Love you all!!!

Love,

Leigh

The end of the beginning

And so it is that we end another year of high school, each going our separate ways. Some are off to other schools, while others are anxiously awaiting the time when they may return to those familiar halls. There are friends who are graduating and mentors who are leaving. And yet, we all may part, knowing in our hearts that we will see each other again. There shall be laughter under the hot summer sun and peaceful quietus in the winter. All is not forever, for indeed, with those tools duly named "social media" we have the miraculous ability to bridge the gaps of distance and time with friendly companionship. And so, my dearest friends, weep not as we part, for all is not ended, but rather, it is newly beginning.

Feast and Ball!

FEAST AND BALL WAS ON SATURDAY!!!!!!!
We had the epicest, grandest time.  Tianna came over for the night, and we plotted evilly for the following day, which included lots of cleaning, and then going to buy tiaras from Claire's.  Then Kimberly came over and we did a sort of chain-of-the-doing-of-the-hair. 
PS Kim, you must post pictures because I very lamely forgot my camera.  Ppht. 
Kim had a gorgeous, sparkly hot pink dress, Tianna had an awesome possum, light pink dress with a jewelly dealie thing on one of the sleeves, and I had a black dress with a red jacket and sash.  See upcoming pictures for details, released to you soon from our very own Kimberly DeWeese.
When we got there, I must admit that everybody was GOOOOORGEOUSSSS!!!!!!  The main function of dinner was spent googling around at everybody in all their princessiness, and also involved me pretending to dump lemonade on Alyvia's head, and threaten Kimberly with death.  Ahem.  Yeeeeeaaaah.  Sorry, Kim.  The breadsticks did something to me.
After that, we went to the gardens, which contained just about every color of bloom imaginable, along with about ten million others.  There were beautiful fountains and statues, and trellises, and a secret part of the garden that went under a wicker tunnel, through some awesome, fairy-tale-kind-of-coolness doors, and opened onto a lovely, quiet part of the garden (the aforementioned quietness, of course, being completely bamboozled by the entrance of Codie, Kim, Forrest, Sarah, Sam, Tazia, Tianna, and myself).  There was this awesome waterfall with a bridge going over it so you could look out, and a little stream winding its way through the garden in general.  MAN it was cool.  Needless to say, many of us took off our shoes and rarely stuck to the paved path, wandering off into the grass (and may I just say that the grass was a quality green and exceedingly soft)
The dance itself was indeed quite fun.  Those of us who had no date friendily stole other peoples or danced with stag guys.  We collapsed pretty thuroughly about halfway through, but got up again, and now have about ten million blisters all over our feet.  :)  Anywho, it was lots of fun.

Stuff

Anybody read any Andrew Clements books? They are actually really good. He has some kids books as well as some teen books. I just finished one of his teen books. It was good. :) When do we find out who is going to become the new SBO? Monday?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M WRITTING THE MOST TERRIBLE, WONDERFUL, AWEFULL, AMAZING SCENE EVER!!!!!!!! It even rivals "The death of Mell" (or at least it's going to, once I actually write it...hehe) I LOVE DEATH!!!!!!! (the people, not the thing. Just thought I'd clarify.)

MUUUUAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

See the title.

STUFF!!

OK!!! Random splurge of ten million things!
First of all, we are almost done with my dress, and I am SOOO excited to show you!!!  It is black and velvet red.  (And NO they are NOT Twilight colors)
Second of all, TWELVE DAYS LEFT OF SCHOOL!  Stress, excitement, and sadness.
Third of all, PARADIGM'S GETTING A NEW SEMINARY BUILDING and I won't be here for it.  Meh.
Fourth of all, FEAST AND BALL'S ON SATURDAY!!!!
Fifth of all, there is a wierd lump on my shin bone that is rather worrying my mother.  I shall keep you posted.  :)  PS don't worry too much about it, it's probably nothing too bad. 
LOVE YA!!
Oh yeah.  Sixth of all, I am officially on the 111th page of my book.  Just thought you should all know.  :)

Party at my house with potatoes!

I just had an awesome sleepover with Abbey! We Dutch Ovened lasagna and potatoes w/ bacon!! YUmmILisIOUs!! We also wrote an awesome song for EFY spoofing "Kiss the Girl" from Little Mermaid.
Funny thing is--this was completely spontaneous! Abbey was walking with me out to my car and my madre asked if Abbey was coming with us because we could bring her back to be picked up because my mom was coming back to see Alyvia and the play. Somehow it ended up that she slept over and we cooked and sang and watch Les Miserables in concert 25th anniversary (Me:) "wait for it...it gets better!" (Abbey:) "How could it possibly get better??!!!?!" ***scream*** (cuz it got better!!)
Awesome fun stuff...We've got to have some adventures this summer, people! Party at my house with potatoes! =P

Sooo......about Feast and Ball.....

I am wondering who is going. does anyone have plans for that day? Oh!!! and are not you all SO happy that they lowered the price?!?!!!!!! YAY!!!!! Aaah!!! I just realized, it's in NINE DAYS!!!! and I still haven't asked anyone!!!!! *officially freaking out*

Quote of the Day!!!!

Ok, so I haven't been able to figure out how to make it work for other people to edit that, but if you just email me your quote of the day, everybody, then I can put it on, at least until I figure out how to let you do it yourselves :)  And actually, Kim, I think the day of the dead is later in the summer.  Cinco de Mayo is just welcoming in the warmer seasons, I think.  Although I am probably wrong.  Hold on, let me check.  Ok, I was wrong.  Heh.  Heh. 
So, actually, it's the day that the Mexicans celebrate their heritage and freedom.  It's not like their Independence Day or anything, but it's just kinda a collaboration of celebrating a whole bunch of good things that have happened to them.  Plus I think they just wanted an excuse to party.  :)

by the way.....

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!!!!!! IT IS THE FIFTH DAY OF THE FIFTH MONTH!!!!! HAPPINESS ALL AROUND!!!!! (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Cinco de Mayo (however you spell it) the day of the dead?)

quote of the day????

how in the pineapple do I add my "quote of the day" to the side thingy over there -->??

I DROVE A CAR FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!

Yup. I drove a car. Pretty exciting, even though the rest of you have already driven cars, but this was my first time. I drove in a random church parking lot. I thought I was gonna crash a million times, but I didn't. Ha. :) It wasn't even close to crashing, but I thought I was gonna crash anyway. I managed, on accident, to back up into a parking space perfectly. Now if I can only do it on purpose. Yeah. YAY!!!! POWER!!!

The End. :)