My First Week Of School (Late)

My Dear Stalkers,

Wow! I am a Junior! What? How did that even happen? I'm not sure. It's so weird to know that I have to start thinking about college! I have to do applications at the end of the year, I think they said.... I already know where I'm applying... Southern Virgina University, Brigham Young University, Argosy University and many more... I want to go into psychology and I'm pretty sure that won't change. Anyway back to high school... I have some cool classes and some... not so cool classes. Sad part about it? I have no classes with Cody OR Camille!!!!!!!! I miss them!!! I'm surviving though, which is good. Wanna know what I have? Sure.

1) Seminary (Brother Fletcher) Savannah is in my class (:
2) Advanced Choir (Cam) Savannah is in that class too (:
3) Spanish II (Don't know his name O.o) At The Middle School UGH
4) Chemistry (Mrs. Fairchild) Its good.... So far...
LUNCH
5&6) Socratic Seminar (Ms. Brough) Sigh... Mr. Dye rocked.
7) Geometry (Mr. Gilbert) He's cool
8) Debate (Ms. Petersen) At the Middle School UGH

Pretty cool huh? Yeah. But I have 2 classes at the Middle School which stinks. Why? Because I have to take the bus down there and I'm late for that class and then late for the next class. I don't like it. I can't wait until the new school is done. It's on 1600 north so I could pretty much walk there.... I might be doing that..

What else is exciting about this year?
I'm 16!! What does that mean? DATE DANCES!!! and more importantly DRIVING!!! WOOOHOOO!! I need to take drivers ed still but it will only take 9 days and then I can take my test... All I need to so is sign up.. Sigh. That might be a while.

So, I will try to keep y'all posted about school and all my magical adventures.. See you and love you all!

Your Loving Stalky,
Ally Skinner

My First Date!

My Dear Stalkers,

Yes. (: You read the title right, I went on my very first date. When? On my Birthday! My stinkin' Birthday! It was awesome! Can I tell you about it? Of course I can!! (:

First!! On Thursday August, 27th Cody called. He asked if I was free enough to ask me a question. I said sure... (I always have time for Cody). SOoOoOo he asked if I was doing anything on my birthday. I didn't have any plans because I totally intended on not having a party. He asked if he could take me on a date. (: YES YES YES YES YES!!! "Um, yeah that sounds good. I'd love to" I was so cool. He told me that the whole day was a surprise and that I would find out the day of. I was so excited.
So, after that I asked my dad and Cody called dad and mom and told them the plan. (: He finally called me on Monday the 30th and told me that he would pick me up at 9:00AM and drop me off at 3:00PM, and to wear shoes I could walk a lot in. What could it be?
I was so excited I could hardly sleep that night.
I got up at 7:00 and started getting ready. I was so nervous I could hardly eat but, I managed a bowl of cereal. . . He called me in the middle of brushing my teeth and said he was on his way. I tried to tell my mom exactly how to answer the door.
"Okay mom I am going to be upstairs and hes going to knock on the door and when he does you answer it. Let him in and then I will walk down looking awesome." Needless to say it went nothing like that. Anyway. . . he picked me up and said that we would have to take state street all the way back to his house because the freeway was closed. Of course it has to be closed on my birthday. It was fine. I smiled the entire time. We eventually got to his house. He said that we were supposed to take a train from Sandy to Salt Lake... but we missed it... That's okay!! We had his mom drive us to. . . . . Temple Square. Smile Smile Smile.
WOW!!!!!!!!! Seriously Wow!! I couldn't ever remember going there. Such a special place.
We started off in the visitors center and looked at all the pictures and read. We went up to the "special room" as Cody calls it. It had a sculpture of Jesus and a painting on the wall of the sky.. Wow... no words could describe how cool that was.. I felt the spirit. We sat there for a bit and decided to check out the rest of the square.
We decided to cross the street and go into the conference center.
We went in and an elderly lady took us on the tour. My face hurt so bad, I was smiling. We went into the auditorium where conference is held. The lady asked "Do you guys want to go down to where they speak?" as soon as those words came out of her mouth I said "Yes! Can we really?" She took us down. I had a bounce in my step. I was so excited.
Did you know 21,000 people fit in there?? Wow!!
She took us back up and out. We looked at the Book of Mormon room were they have all these paintings of the stories. So cool!! Then we looked at the hall of prophets. (: All their pictures. She asked if we would like to see the garden on the roof. YES! So she showed us up there and the waterfall. So amazing. She took us back downstairs and that was the end. We thanked her and headed off to our next stop. The other visitors center thingey. We looked at the model of the temple cut open. I can't wait to get married in there someday.
We decided to check out the beehive house. We got a tour by to lovely sister missionaries. It was so cool to see that house. Wow. I had no idea! If any one hasn't seen it then... They MUST go. So after that tour we went to the Navoo Cafe. What did we eat? Soup. It was sooo good, but we weren't that hungry.
This next part has a couple of pictures. Ready? Great.

Beautiful


This is our tradition from now on. . . We are going to go back every birthday and take this same picture. Every year.

. . . Cute huh? . . . . Yeah (:

So after that Cody said the funniest thing to me... He said "Hey, How about I take you to Deseret Book and get you a bookmark?!" after we got done laughing we finally agreed.
So we had to cross the street and I thought that it would be the smoothest thing if I said "Oh, can you cross the street or do you need me to hold your hand?" But When we got to the light he ran across. Darn. So we went in and had a blast. He looked like a kid in a candy store! He got me a bookmark (: It has a scripture on it. It says:
"Keep my commandments continually and a crown of righteousness thou shalt receive."
(D&C 25:15)
"And for each who observes [the commandments] there the promise of a crown, a queenly crown for each daughter of god, a crown of righteousness and eternal truth."

Its awesome.

After the store we were walking back and here was my chance. Deep breath. We were walking across and I managed to say that and we held hands (: (: (: (: (: He teased me about it... A lot. But it was fine. (: worth it(:
As we were walking a guy stopped us and asked us some questions.. There went his hand. Ugh I was mad that the guy ruined my moment. I won't say the whole conversation.... But he started bashing the church. UGH. Cody did really well at answering his questions. My missionary. (:

So after that we got back in the car and drive home.. I was there 15 minutes early (: got to love Cody, always on time.

He walked me to the door and gave me a hug. What a perfect end to a perfect day.

Your Loving Stalky,
Ally Skinner

An Ode To J

My Dear Stalkers,

As you all know, I have only one sibling. My awesome brother Jaden. He is only 6 months older than me and we are best buds. How is he only 6 months older? Adoption my dear stalkers, adoption. That's another story for another time. Today's post is an ode to Jaden. I call him J all the time, it's weird to call him Jaden because I'm so used to calling him J.... ANYWAY...






So here are things about him!!



He is my favorite person in the world. And my favorite brother!!!












He goes on crazy magical adventures with me.













We chase imaginary penguins around.

We both sleep talk... to each other.

He is parshly Korean.

He is 6'2. Extremely HANDSOME!!!

Ladies??

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I'm totally kidding. I will eat you.

He puts up with my weirdness.

We went fishing (:















He is soOoOoOo smart!

He Helps a lot of people.
This is a picture of the group he voulenteers with called camp seek. It's a group (like a day camp) of little autistic kids. They are so sweet. Most of them are low functioning and have a hard time with normal activity. Jaden is an amazing person for going and helping out almost every day! Not to metion the other 2 or 3 groups he goes to other days.

We ALWAYS have TONS of fun!

Main point. I love Jaden he is my awesomely awesome person. I dont know if he reads my blog but I hope he knows. I LOVE YOU JADEN.

Your Loving Stalky,

Ally Skinner

Just The Way You Are

My Dear Stalkers,

Check out the song written about me!

Oh her eyes, her eyes
Make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair
Falls perfectly without her trying

She's so beautiful
And I tell her every day

Yeah I know, I know
When I compliment her
She wont believe me
And its so, its so
Sad to think she don't see what I see

But every time she asks me do I look okay
I say

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

Her nails, her nails
I could kiss them all day if she'd let me
Her laugh, her laugh
She hates but I think its so sexy

She's so beautiful
And I tell her every day

Oh you know, you know, you know
Id never ask you to change
If perfect is what you're searching for
Then just stay the same

So don't even bother asking
If you look okay
You know I say

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

The way you are
The way you are
Girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are. . .


Okay so the song wasn't written for or about me but I think it's a nice song. I like how the guy is talking about how much he likes the girl. I think everyone is amazing and they deserve to be told so. Sooooooo... YOUR AMAZING!!!!

Your Loving Stalky,
Ally Skinner

Fell To My Knees

My Dear Stalkers,

The other day! I went on a walk with Jaden. And was it a magical adventure! For Sure! ...ish... So we had to go to a 3 mile walk. And we were acting really odd. I decided that we were going to see who could crawl the longest on their knees. It was really interesting for everyone to see I bet. Looks on people's faces were priceless!! Anyway! We got candy! what did I get? what I usually always get. 3 musketeers and skittles. Makes me happy.
Anyway, last night my friend that I met at EFY called me. (Andrew) and he had me talk to him and his 3 friends. They were having a party. It was a pretty interesting conversation.. They sang to me. Final Fantasy song. They were awesome, they said that once I met them they would sing again haha. Can't wait to see that.. WELL.. Thats all the magical adventures for now...

Your Loving Stalky,
Ally Skinner

Why I Love Camille Hauglid

My Dear Stalkers,

I love Camille for TONS of reasons. . . He are a few. . .

We Make UHmazing Backlavah!!


She ties my Shoes for me (I had a picture I swear)


She had great taste
(She told me to wear the socks with the shoes)



We Share!
-She has her own folder of music on my iPod.

She puts up with my weirdness!
-And most of the time joins in.

We have so much in common!
-Opinions
-Beliefs
-Music
-Cody
-Awesomenessss

She helps me be a better person
-She helped me to get into the habit of praying and reading scriptures
-She's helping me with her personal progress

I can be myself around her
-I could go to her house in Penguin pj's and she'd still love me
-I can tell her my honest opinion on everything

I can talk to her about anything
-And she won't beat me up.

We both burst out into the same song...

L . . . is for the way you LOOK at me
O . . . is for the ONLY one I see!!!
V. . . is VERY VERY, extraordinary
E . . . is EVEN more than anyone that I adore
AND LOVE WAS MADE FOR ME AND YOU.....

...I bet she sang it while she read this...

Anyway!! That's only a couple of the reasons that I love Camille! She is one of my best friends and my first friend at Maeser. I can't wait to hang out with her when I get back to Utah... Don't be too jealous. She's amazing.

Your Loving Stalky,
Ally Skinner

Hello Times Square!!

My Dear Stalkers,

I was watching T.V. The other day and a guy on the news said "If you wouldn't post it on a billboard in the middle of Times Square New York, then don't post it on the internet". I thought it was a great thing to say. I think some of the things people post on the internet... Shouldn't be posted. It's a great philosophy to live by. Anyway!! Do you know what else is on this week??? SHARK WEEK!! I have watched it every night so far. It's pretty interesting. It makes me want to go surfing. Not. Sharks are scary especially when you are surrounded by water. Like me. But I enjoy watching it. Oh also... Okay, you guys are all going to laugh at me or disown me... The Bachelorette Season Fanally was on last night... It was a total surprise to me who she picked. Yes, I admit to my sick weirdness with this show. I have watched it for a while... I keep up with it and honestly? I look forward to it every Monday. This season the girl's name was Ali. Okay.. I know none of you want to hear about this sOoOoOo... Have a greatly awesome, spectacular day! I love you all!

Your Loving Stalky,
Ally Skinner