National Honor Society Banquet--End of Year Update #1

Ahh, so graduation is just around the corner, and I have neglected to post about any of my end of year experiences. So I will have multiple posts for you all to read and ponder.
First of all, for those of you who don't know, I served as Co-President of National Honor Society this year, or NHS. It has been crazy, but we finally had our end of year banquet.
I have been a member of National Honor Society for three years, I am actually one of the few in my class who can say that. When I graduate, I actually get to wear an NHS medal along with my honor cords. So that is lovely.
The banquet went well. I would have changed some things if I could have, but hindsight is 20/20.

Anyway, here's a picture of Mrs. Benson the adviser, me, and Caren in that respective order.

Here is one of my senior pictures of me in my jacket.

Being an officer for National Honor Society has been fun, but I am excited to move on with my life. BYU, here I come!!!

Prom

Alright, this is pretty good, I just waited a few days... but let us start with The Easter Egg hunt. Don't I look fantastic in my PAJAMA shirt (well, I was getting my hair done later and a button up shirt works best for that so as not to mess up the hair when changing)? I know, I just should have gone to Prom like that. Alas, it would not match Tyler if I did. Side note... FOUR out of the six girls in my group were in blue. FOUR! The other girl was in purple. Okay... now I can talk about the Easter Egg hunt. I got my thirty eggs, it was lovely, it is a fabulous tradition. I ran inside to be with the FOUR girls getting ready at my house. Three of which were wearing blue. I'm just saying.

If you read my mother's blog, you know that Tyler was early by ten minutes. Luckily, I was ready. After much panic on my part, I wanted to look simply perfect, and perfection takes time!

Cute couple right? I never would have thought that I would end up wearing red... but I did.

From left to right is BreeAnn McCleve, my best friend who lives in Virginia, Devan, her date, me, and then Tyler Tarter. I look SO short. But Bree was wearing heels, and I was wearing flats.

Tyler putting on my corsage.

Me pinning on the boutonniere for the FIRST time that night... I am not so good at that.

I suppose you all would like a description of the date. Well, they picked us up at five, then we went to Devan's, so his parents could take pictures. We then went to the Arby's in Orem. Now before you skeptics start, let me explain the whole thing... They set up a bunch of fancy dishes in the party room downstairs, and we ate on fancy plates, with fancy glasses, etc. It was way fun actually. A. I was not too worried about ordering anything way to expensive, B. I was not afraid of ordering something I wouldn't like, and C. I was with a bunch of friends, and I was going to have fun regardless. After this, we were supposed to go to a Twilight Spoof, but some people took too long getting to dinner. So we went to the Orem Mall and played couple hide and seek. It was great fun! We then headed to the dance to party the night away. (Until 11 of course). I was so tired by the end, probably because I got about fiveish hours of sleep the night before... oops!! I made it home, and I had an amazing night. Thanks Tyler!!

Pre-Prom Update

So, Obviously I do not have Prom pictures yet. Prom is on April 11. However, I thought I might update this blog to say that I have been asked, and I have answered. I should probably post some pictures as well. So here it goes.

One day, I came home from feeding the homeless, and I saw a dozen long stemmed roses on my counter with a card right next to them. They were for me from Tyler. At the end of the card it said that he wanted to ask me a question and to go to the back to find out what it was. So, I went to the back yard and there was Tyler holding a sign that said Will you go to Prom with me? I was pretty excited!!
So, I had to come up with a way to answer him. So I used a special little pan that we had to make a cake that looked like a mushroom. I put a paper with it that said, "YES! I would love to go to Prom with a "fungi" like you!"
So there you have it. My general Prom update. Yes, I have my dress, and I will post pictures of the dance at some point after. In that post I will describe getting FOUR girls ready at my house, the date, and how we pulled it off on Easter Saturday. Until then, this is Kassi Miller, signing out.

General Update and Sweethearts Picture... Finally, I know... seriously

Long overdue... I know. Sweethearts was well over a month ago. We all know I am REALLY bad at posting pictures. Didn't I post Sweethearts pictures after Prom last year? I'm improving!! Well, actually Prom last year was like... mid March, so not really. Whatever. In my world it works. So... if you read my Mom's blog you already saw pictures of us eating dinner and desert. Then we played games... but here is the official picture... yay!

Isn't it adorable? In case any of you were wondering, that is Tyler. But if you have done ANY sort of reading on my blog, you would know I went to Sweethearts with Tyler, wouldn't you?! That's right, I thought so. I had a great time. The other couple was Wayne and Meagan, but again, if you read my mother's post she has pix of them too. Oh, and Audrey curled my hair. She hates it when I don't tell people that I pretty much make her do that all the time.

Moving on to Skiing. I went with one of my dad's coworkers. Brother Lords. He is a partial owner of Powder Mountain up by Ogden, so he took me, Audrey, and Zach. I had a fantastic time. HERE is my mom's post w/ video commentary... yay. I was pretty good at balancing by the end of the day... but I had a hard time turning. The #1 rule was if we started going to fast, or felt out of control sit down. Simple, right? I am so bad at rules sometimes. There was this one stupid hill. I felt nauseous at this point, and I just wanted to sit down; however, I had to get to the bottom of the hill. I tried to turn, it didn't work. I started to go really fast,but I thought I was in control. I tried to slow down, yeah, that didn't work so well. I tried to stop, nope, not working so well. First I kinda crouched down a bit more, and I went even faster... which I knew would happen, but I saw some kid doing it, so I thought maybe it would help me have a little more control and be able to stop or something, I dunno. Once I realized that I definitely needed to stop soon I tried to stop while standing. Ha! So not working! So I remembered that I was supposed to sit down. That is where it was kinda tricky. I over think EVERYTHING. So I thought, I could sit down, but I would keep sliding on my rear, and probably hit someone before I can roll over. Or I can just fall on my side, which might hurt a little bit more. So, I contemplated that for a few seconds while going WAY too fast. (Brother Lords was yelling at me to sit down, but I could only hear him yelling something, I couldn't tell WHAT he was saying, because I was too far down that stupid hill). Anyway, eventually I decided to just fall on my side, one of my skis ripped off my boot, but was unharmed, and eventually I stopped. Another time, I don't remember which, I actually ran over my ski that came off, and my leg now has the bruise to prove it. All in all, I had a fabulous time, and I would love to try it again sometime.

Now for Macbeth. Due to the fact that my father did not feel up to it, I got to go with my little brother Zach to see it up at BYU. FABULOUS!! Macbeth is actually one of my favorite plays *side note, my favorite play is Phantom of the Opera which we saw this summer with the traveling Broadway cast, OH MY GOSH IT WAS AMAZING, but I believe I posted briefly about that sometime*. Yeah, it is kinda dark with the whole evil bit, but I think it is just showing that evil can consume your life if you allow it too. Honestly, it is showing how evil RUINS your life. Actually, that is a theme in half the things we read in AP English. Anyway. We had great seats, fifth row up, exactly in the center. Thanks Mom and Dad! They set Macbeth in MesoAmerica, kinda a Book of Mormon twist. Instead of Thane of Glames and Thane of Cawdor, it was Judge of Glames, and Judge of Cawdor. Macbett instead of Macbeth, stuff like that. It was excellent. There were a few changes, but I absolutely loved it. I had to explain to Zach what was going on some of the time, but heck, it was Shakespeare, he's 12, of course he's going to need some explaination. I know I did when I read it in AP English.

Okay, last of all, but not least of all... of course. The Draper Temple dedication. It was really nice to be able to go, I was exhausted, and it probably LOOKED like I was sleeping half the time. But I really was listening... in an exhausted sort of way. The speakers were great, the temple was gorgeous *yes, I went to the Open House, twice*, and the prayer was amazing. Side note... when we handed Zach the Kleenex/Hankerchief he almost wiped his nose... HAHA, I told him, No! That was not what it was for in this particular instance.

Anyway, that is my general update. If you read this, you might as well comment, you made it through the really long post, and it would be nice to know that SOMEONE appreciates these updates.

The end of the term...

Okay, it is fairly obvious that I am not always the most calm and collected person. I am a perfectionist, and I can be a wee bit demanding and controlling, and perhaps I procrastinate a lot. Normally, it is a balancing act, but it can be handled well. However, there is one week a year that I just kinda lose control of my balancing act. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to the last week of third term. It is just at the point where the end of the year (actually GRADUATION!!!) is just in view, but still... too far to reach out and grasp. It is the point where I am sick of that particular year, and I am ready for it to end. The rest of the year is fine, fourth term is survivable. It is that last week of third term that gets me. Luckily, there are only two days left. If I survive this week, I should be able to handle the rest of the year... wish me luck!!

P.S. I am going to post Sweethearts pictures... I swear. And more D.C. pictures. I will.. really!!!