Okay, this was an interesting week. Tuesday I went to the West Jordan High School Choir Performance. Kat and Sam Boldrin and Justin Cook and Tanner DeHaan are all in those choirs, and let me say those choirs are amazing. It helps that they have a choir director who really knows what he's doing- Mr. DeHaan, who lives in our ward. Quin and Jason will both be in Choir at West Jordan next year. I'm going to do choir at Hillcrest. I'm currently signed up for Mixed Choir, but Aerin says that Sophmore guys can sign up for Concert Choir, cause they need more guys.

Thursday was out Combined Choir Rock Concert. Midvale Middle's two choirs and Mount Jordan's two choirs combined to make one big combined choir, and along with a live band called "The I.B." We created the most epicly awesome Middle School Concert of the YEAR! We were rocking out all night to Beatles and Queen, along with other rock songs like "Kiss from a Rose" and "Heartbreaker". I got to do a Solo for "Here, There, and Everywhere" by the Beatles, as well as do my own part during the finale, "Hey Jude".

Away from Concerts, Friday after school was the Ninth Grade Dance. It was kind of lame, cause it was only an hour long and they only played two slow songs, and only like 30 people showed up, so the gym was empty, but that made it kind of cool too, cause we had like half the gym to ourselves. And Gregory showed us just how good of a dancer he is, which was a little surprising, though not much.

After that, Evan invited me and Daniel to go to the Blaze game. So we went, and we got the stadium, and they told us that we had to stand in the Box Office line to get our vouchers turned into tickets, so we were all like "Where's the line?" And then we saw it... And it wrapped around the parking lot... It was HUGE. So Evan's dad was like... "Let's go to a movie." So we went and saw Iron Man 2. Interesting movie, not one of my favorites, but I liked it.

Saturday was boring...

Sunday evening we had Raechel and Calvin over and we played games. It was pretty fun. I love those guys.

Today we went up to Brigham City, went to visit my Grandpa at the Cemetary, and then went to Aunt Joelle's house. Megan had her baby today, so I have a new baby cousin.

(I think that's how you pluralize hi... It doesn't seem grammatically correct, but His doesn't make sense and Hies lookes wierd.) It's been too long since I've posted, so... Yeah.

In these two weeks- that's 9 days- I've been to Science class 3 times. (Or will be. I'm counting the rest of this week.) It's kinda interesting, but everything is during 3rd period...

Oh yeah! I haven't mentioned how Solo and Ensamble went! So, I mentioned that the original plan was to do and duet with Paige and do a solo, but Paige still has no voice. (Actually I think by now it's mostly back.) So she canceled most of her numbers, except for one or two. So that was off... But I still tried out my Solo, and it made it on to District! So that's where I'll be on Thursday.

On Friday we have the talent show, and I'm performing "Make My Day" with my guitar. I'm excited, and a little nervous just because I'm not sure how good I really am, and I'm afraid I'm not going to do the song credit.

I got to go to church with Aerin and Steph on Sunday. It was awesome. I love those guys...

Okay, let's see... Things that have been happening lately.

Concert Choir is still the best class of the day. Guitar is going well, but it's mostly review right now.

Spencer got his Arrow of Light. (He'll be 11...  in 12 days...)

We're going over to Midvale Elementary tomorrow to do presentations (in spanish) about Health. Our topic is Hygiene... There's just one small problem. Paige is sick! She's in our group, but she's been sick the past few days, so we've had to improvise for our rehearsals, and I haven't been able to practice our duet. I really hope that she's feeling better tomorrow. :(

I went with Ryan and Garrett to see Avatar on Friday. It was pretty cool. Really Epic. I liked it.

Aerin is finally ungrounded! YAY!! Maybe now I can finally do something with her and Steph. (Or at least talk to her. :P )

Umm... I think that's most of my random rambling for today. :D

Christmas time is something special
Something that just warms your soul.
Something that fills you with peace
And always surrounds you with joy.
Sounds of Christmas, oh how joyous
Hear them everywhere you go.
Silver bells, their pretty ringing
Christmas songs, their wondrous sounds.
Friends surround you, laughing, smiling
Rejoice in their beaming joy
The feeling you get when giving
Is the brightest in the soul.
May we feel the joy of Christmas
May we laugh and love more now
Sing the praises to the highest
Happy Birthday, to my Lord.


I felt like writing a Christmas poem. So I did, just now. There's my improv, how do you like it?

Anyways, I'm having a great Christmas week so far. Just wanted to share my joyous activities.

Monday, I went to West Jordan High School for their Choir Concert, which Kat is in. So are a few of my friends that I know from being friends with Kat- Emma, who I didn't actually get to see, and Sam, who I met at a region dance. She's a really good dancer. Anyways, the concert was beautiful.

Speaking of beautiful...

Ha ha. I wonder what she's going to think when she sees this... "Jarom's such a dork..."

Last night, I went to Hillcrest High for Aerin's Choir performance. It was absolutely beautiful. Aerin has the best singing voice of anyone I can think of. Dagget, I wish I had remembered to take my camera to that... then I would have pictures of Aerin and Steph, two of the best friends in the whole world! I LOVE ALL OF YOU!

Saturday I went to a party at Kat's house. It was awesome seeing her and Aerin and Steph again! They're all awesome. (Quin too, but I see him every day.) I had a ton of fun! I have the best friends.

Time for another tribute! Here's to Kat!

Thanks for being such a nice friend! Thanks for your smile. You always have a way of making me smile. You're the best!
Love you all! May your sword be sharp and happiness follow you!

Okay, so I have done a horrid job of blogging Because of the California pictures. But I'm going to try to pull it back up. This post was actually written a week or so ago, but It's just being posted now.

Saturday, the 11th of June, I had the privilege of seeing my good friend Aerin's Baptism. (And her sister, Steph, who I kinda know.) I was really excited for it ever since I learned she was getting baptised. (I keep wanting to spell Baptised with a z...) It was kinda funny when so many of her friends from Midvale showed up they had to move us into the Chapel. Besides me, Trevin, Luke, and Riley, showed up, along with a bunch of ninth graders that I only know as faces and names. We took up a whole pew.

It was really spiritual, even (and especially) when Steph couldn't think of what to say as she bore her testimony. Afterwards a line formed as Aerin gave out hugs and received gifts. I held back to wait until there were less people, and by the time I got up to her, she had so many gifts she could barely hug me and take mine. But she did, and then kept receiving people. I followed the other Trojans to the other room, thinking she'd be behind us. Five minutes later, she had barely moved five feet! Later she said that was because "Everybody wanted pictures!"

So I'll do another tribute here. Here's to Aerin!


Thanks for being such a fun friend! Thanks for your testimony, and your excitement, and the spirit you bring, especially when you sing!
And Thanks for the new motto. This is something I think I knew all along, but you helped me realize it.
Purity is

BEAUTIFUL

I was thinking about how I have so many amazing people in my life. All my friends, my family, my teachers, everyone is so great. I was thinking, maybe I'll start doing an Amazing person of the month. If you'd be interested in that, say so, and if you'd like to be part of it, send me a bunch of information about you, anything you can think of! I think I might make a questionnaire, but of course I haven't yet.

I also have a list of amazing things. This list is of things that caught my eye, made my jaw drop, and made me say "Wow..." Cause I couldn't think of anything else to say.

1. McKayla Whitehead's Dancing. (I have to say though... We have two dance concerts a year, and I gave it to her the first on of this year. The second one was kinda disappointing compared to the first... but she's still the best dancer I know. (That I've seen dance, at least.))

2. Rachel Kirkland's Spelling (We had a Spanish spelling bee... and she won every round except one, which our team won.)

3. Aerin Loizos's Singing. (She told me she liked singing, and I expected her to be really good at it, but when I actually heard it at the Concert, she was way better than I even expected, and that was a lot!)

4. Rachel Davis's Drawing. (I gave her that for this drawing:

I asked her to draw me a picture of a dragon coming out of it's egg. She didn't even have to do it... but the result was Amazing! By the way, Rachel, I can use this picture now for whatever I want, right?)
Also, I'm looking at this list, and I'm thinking... Why are there only girls on it? Come on, guys! You need to step it up! Just Kidding. Chances are, if you're trying to impress me, you probably won't. I want to give a big shout out to everybody I know:

Thanks for being Amazing!

Yesterday I went to Gene Fullmer's swimming pool with Quin. No one came to his house before, so he was afraid no one was going to come. He was afraid he'd have to be with me for 3 hours. But then right as we got there, so did Maya and her little sister Lexi. I got to make friends with Lexi, and she's going to Midvale next year. After a while Rily showed up and so did Quin's friend Kat. We had a lot of fun. Afterwards, we went to Quin's house, where we found Aerin waiting. I was glad to see her again, especially because she was gone the last three days of school and I never got to say goodbye to her in person! But I'm going to see her again soon, especially because of the news she gave me: She's getting Baptised! Yet another thing to be excited about. Quin was really annoyed because he's not going to be home for it. But I'll be back from California, so I can't wait. All in all, I had a lot of fun. Next time, maybe I'll host!