Referee Clinic

Hello, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday was the referee clinic. Thursday and Friday were from 6:00 pm to 10. Saturday was from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Me and this girl named Paige, who was also taking the clinic, carpooled. I met this girl who went to Nampa that was my age and her name was Jessi. Well anyways Thursday and Friday we learned about the Laws of the Game. Saturday we learned a little of more on the Laws of the Game and then we took the test. It was 100 questions and it took about an hour. To become a referee you had to get 75% or higher. The instructor said he would give the person that got the highest score a really cool referee flipping coin. The person that got the highest score was this high schooler from Boise, he got 84%. That is really high. A few years back, my mom took the test with Josh and she got 83% and she is a really good test taker, so for this guy to get that score was amazing. Anyways I would like to introduce the newest referee in my family. Yes! I passed the test! I got 77% and I am an official referee. I have a badge and everything. I hope to make a lot of money off of this!

Temple

The temple that our stake goes to said that the youth can get temple recommends from one of the bishopric members and go do Baptisms for the Dead whenever they want to. So when I turned of age I got a recommend and we started going to the temple weekly. Sometimes my brothers and sister would miss a week. Well I didn't miss one. I kept going every week for six weeks and one of those weeks just me and my mom went. She went and did initiatory while I did Baptisms. There were alot of people there. Usually there is just about forty people but this time there was more like 100. Me and my mom were a little late so there was standing room only. And at this point I hadn't had any breakfast. So I was standing there and I felt like I had to sit down or else I was going to throw up or something. And then I thought, what if I faint? And all of the sudden I just started to get black spots in my vision and I thought, I'm going to faint. And then suddenly I was on the ground. It felt like I had just lied down on the floor and went to sleep and I was thinking, am I on the ground, wow this is embarrassing. and then one of the girls that were there said" Mary, you just fainted." And they sat me up and started asking me all kinds of questions. And they gave me some orange juice. Jesse's friend, Kali and her mom were there, and also our other friends, Zoey, Raigen, Brighton G. and Kimi F. Well they took me out to the hall and lied me down on some benches and left me with a really nice lady. When my mom came by to come pick me up she saw me on the benches, she said," Oh, your waiting out here?" and the lady told her that I fainted. So she took me home and also took me to McDonald's. I did get confirmed before we left but not baptized. They figured I fainted because I hadn't had any breakfast and I had locked my knees. These last two weeks the temple has been closed and I had to break my streak but it was a really fun experience and I will start it up again soon.

Teachers

Well, I got the teacher that I wanted. We are going school shopping on Saturday. I was going to be a Library Aide but there was a form that you had to turn in and they didn't get mine and so they didn't put me on the schedule. The only spot was during choir and I didn't want to give choir up so I gave up being a Library Aide with all of my friends. But my friend, Terrika, has almost the same schedule as me. I am so exited!

School

Oh my gosh! Summer has gone by so fast!! Today is registration and I get to find out who my teachers are! I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I can't wait to see if any of my friends are in my classes. And my friend Bailey is going to be in 6th grade so Me and her friend, Allie, get to tell her that she is a little 6th grader! haha Well that was done to me a lot by my sister and other people. Its only two weeks until the first day of school and we haven't even gone school shopping. I just can't wait! I really hope to get a teacher that Jesse and Joseph have all ready gotten. Jesse got him twice because he was in sixth grade at the time and Jesse and him moved up to seventh at the same time. They both really liked him. I really hope at least some of my friends are in my class!

Failure Daddy Daughter Pack Trip

Last week we had a Daddy Daughter Pack Trip. This is where Jesse and I get some of our friends and their dad's and we go on a llama pack trip. This year we invited Kami and Alesha C. and their dad. We also invited Sarah K., her dad, Savannah, Kenzie, Annie M., and their dad. We planned to go to a place called Boulder Lake. Then when we woke up the day that we where going to leave, it was really rainy and we decided that we didn't want to go if it was going to be like this the whole time. So we just set up a tent upstairs and had a sleepover, bu before that we went to a movie. The next morning we woke up and we felt like we could stand one night in the rain and we packed up and went to a different place southwest of here. Well, we were driving and we had barely gotten thirty miles away and the Suburban broke down. So we called Sarah's mom and she came and got us. When we were halfway home, her car ran out of gas and Kami's mom had to come and give us gas. So we got home and we didn't have a car to go in because the truck's brakes were bad. Instead we went to opening night of Night at the Museum 2 and after that we went to Carl's Jr. and played on the toy there. It was very fun and we had a good time. It wasn't a total failure. In fact it wasn't a failure at all.