Sunday, April 18, 2010

Have fun reading!

Even though the four of them lived in a huge house, they still preferred to sleep in the same room. There house was big with five rooms in the basement and 3 on the top floor. They were all very close cousins and loved to do things together.


Walking out the back door, Sandy looked at the beautiful yard that they had put in. The back yard had a beautiful garden with many plants growing. Six different planters through out the yard, all with flowers and bushes. There were 12 trees in the middle of the yard (planted in a circle) and in the middle of the trees was gazebo. The gazebo had a tale on it with some chairs and flower pots all over. There were also two hammocks. Now besides the 12 trees there was n orchard with 150 trees. They had planted apple, peach, cherry and plum trees. There was also, definitely, a lot of grass to run and play on.

If you were in the front yard there would also be much to see. A beautiful walk way up to the front door that had flowers all along the way on both sides. There were also 2 other planters on each side of the front yard. There were 8 trees in the front. Each were in clusters of four (on each side), and in the middle of the trees there was a bench and some more flowers. Plus there was plenty of grass to run on, just like the back yard.

While Sandy was going through all this in her mind Amy had come out and was also looking around.

“It sure is a beautiful yard isn’t it? Asked Amy with some pride in her voice.

“Yes,” said Sandy, breathing in the fresh air. “Alright let’s get to work. You can begin pulling the weeds out and I’ll start mowing the lawn.



They finished cleaning and fixing up the whole yard by the time it was 11:30. Now it was five to 12 and they were just finishing cleaning up.

“Jessica are you ready to go to your party? If you are you can leave any time you want. We’ll finish the guest rooms tomorrow.”

“Yes, I just need to gather my things.”

“Alright. Amy, Lauren, how about we go and hang out in the music room?”

“We’ll be right down!” They called out together.

Sandy sat down at one of the four pianos and began to play. Amy and Lauren came in and Lauren asked, “Well, should we play a duet or something. We could sing that song you’ve been working on.”

“Good idea, ok we will sing it. We’ll each sing a verse and we’ll sing the chorus together.”

Sandy began to sing the intro and Amy began to sing. In the middle of the chorus the door bell rang. They had all been sitting on a piano bench and jumped up and ran to the door at the same time. Sandy reaching the door first opened it.

“Hi Jake and Erin, where’s the rest of your family?”

“There on their way over.” Jake replied.

“Ok, why don’t you two come on in the house. So, guess what we are doing tonight?

“What?” Asked the twins who came in the door way with their parents and little sister.

“Well hello you two!” Sandy said with a smile bending down to give Kyle and Carson, the twins, a hug. “How are my little adventure buddies doing?”

“Good.” They said in unison.

“Sandy, Lauren and Amy, are you sure you are ok doing this?” Mike asked with a smile.

“Of course they are.” Jessica replied walking down the stairs. “Well I’ve got to go to my work party. I’ll be back around five. Oh and I’ll stop at the grocery store and get that list you gave me.”

“Ok, thanks Jess. See you later.” Sandy called as Jessica walked out the door.

“Bye,” called the twins, waving there arms wildly.

“Bye you two.” Jessica called back.

“Mike they will be fine, why would you ever worry about them. Oh by the way Sandy, my mom called and said they might send some on early to help get everything situated.”

“That’s fine with me. Well why don’t you to go well feed them dinner and everything you can even come home later if you want.”

“We’ll think about it, now I want all of you to be well behaved.” Amanda said looking at her children.

“Bye,” her and her husband said together and walked out of the house, closing the door behind them.

Laila Daae

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Thursday, two weeks later


The phone started to ring so Jessica who was by the phone picked it up.

“Hello?”

“Hi, Jessica, this is Mrs. Allred, I was wondering if Sandy was at home by chance?”

“She is, just a minute, I’ll get her.”

“Thank you,” replied Mrs. Allred.

Covering the phone with her hand Jessica called out, “Sandy, the phone’s for you”

“Ok, thanks, you can hang up now I’ve got the one downstairs.”

Waiting till Jessica had hung up, Sandy nodded her head and then answered the phone.

“Hello?”

“Sandy this is Mrs. Allred, I know you’re not in school anymore but do you remember when I asked you to bring me those drawings of yours. Well, I sent them into a landscaping company and they liked what they saw and they want you to work for them! You don’t even have to go and get an interview.”

“You sent them in and I got the job!” Exclaimed Sandy. “Thank you so much.”

“You’re welcome Sandy, you really deserved it. You were my best student you know. Ok, they said that you will start whenever they get back from a family reunion and that they will call you then. They also said that your designs that I sent to them have already sold. So they won’t start the landscapes until you have started to work for them but they have already sent you the money for your 5 designs. They also said that you should get your money today.”

“Oh thank you so much, how can I ever repay you?”

“No need for that. Well I’ve got to go so good luck when you start your new job. They sent some information with your money also. The company is the Scott Anderson Company. Ok, bye Sandy and good luck!”

“Thank you and good bye to you too.”

Putting the phone away, Sandy screamed with joy.

“Sandy are you ok?” asked Jessica in a worried voice.

“Yes I am just fine, absolutely fine. I got a job with the best landscape company.”

“You did!” screamed Jessica.

“Yes, and I’ll start whenever they get back from a family reun….”

She never finished the sentence because she realized that there visitors coming for a family reunion were the Andersons. The owners of the Scott Anderson Company!

“Sand whenever they get back from a family what?”

“Jessica. There the family that’s coming to stay at our house for the week. They own the company I just got hired for.”

“That means you’ll get to meet them before you start working for them. That’s good isn’t it? Why aren’t you happy” Jessica asked seeing that Sandy had a frown on her face.

“I am it’s just……….. Oh never mind. Well we’ve got to start getting the house ready, they’ll be here in two days. Ok, so we need to clean up the guest bedrooms, works on the yard today, well let’s just say we need to do a lot.”

“Alright, what do you want me to do?”

“Amanda is bringing over Jake, Erin, the twins and baby Sarah. Mike and her want to go on a date till around 8 o’clock. They are coming over at 12:00. What time is it?”

“10:15,”came Jessica’s reply as she looked down at her watch.

“So, you and Lauren can work on cleaning up the kitchen and TV. room for now. Amy and I will go out and start working in the yard. When you’re done in those two rooms, send Lauren out to help. Then you can go to your work party.”

“Sounds good to me, I’ll go and find those two and tell them the plan.”

As Jessica was walking down the stairs Sandy hesitated. When Jessica had asked why she had a frown on her face, she hadn’t told the truth. She felt like something was going to happen today and it was going to change all her life plans. Her plan was to go to work for a year, leave on a mission and then get married if she found the right guy. Why was she having wired feeling then? Her plan was a good one and she wasn’t doing anything wrong? Oh well she thought walking into the bedroom her and her cousins shared, to change into some work clothes.

Laila Daae

NEW STORY: I NEED YOUR OPINION!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Ok, so I am going to take a break from the story this time because I am not really in the mood to write the continuing part of the story. I have ideas and everything but I am not in the mood to be writing them right now so I am just going to write how I feel. I am getting tired of that story. So here is another one that I have been working on. If you like this one better just tell me because I would gladly continue this one.


Opening up my window early in the morning I sat down on my window seat and looked out the window. Waking up at 6:00 in the morning people were beginning to wake but not too many. Enjoying the fresh air and the beautiful farm land behind the house I looked out and began to think. Ready for a new day and something new I began to plan my schedule. Go to school, work on the yard and clean the house wow that’s something exciting. Not really. I’m ready for a new kind of day! I screamed in my mind. I want to do something different. I mean I’m 20 years old for goodness sake. I want my life to go on. Yes I do have my wonderful three cousins living with me but there all gone and not coming back till next Saturday and today is Thursday. They had gone to visit there family and to get a vacation in before the summer hustle.

I’m graduating tomorrow! It popped into my head. So I won’t be alone the whole week then. My family is coming today at noon, and there staying till next Saturday. It won’t be that bad any more. I thought excitedly.

While this was all going through my head the sun had come up and it was now 6:10. Jumping up I scurried to my closet to find an outfit to wear for the day. One more day of school and then I don’t have to go to school any more. Coming out of the bathroom I looked at my out fit making sure I was modest. Satisfied with what I saw I hurried, washed my face and did my hair.

Hearing a noise in the hallway I went to go see what it was. The phone was ringing. Picking it up I answered it. “Hello?”

“Sandy, I’m so glad I caught you before you left” It was my dad and I knew that right away. “I have a favor to ask of you. Could our old friends come too you house in two weeks for a family reunion?”

“Sure why not, who is it?”

“Do you remember our old friends the Andersons, who your mother and I used to babysit?”

“Yes, there oldest daughter Amanda lives right next door.”

“Well, they would like to have it at your house and stay for a week, with Scott Anderson his family, his brothers family and there dad. Is that ok?”

“Ok, that’s fine, so when are they coming?”

“They are going to come the not next Saturday but the next one after that. So a week after we leave.”

“Alright, so when are you leaving to come down to Provo?”

“We’re leaving around 10:30 because it’s about and hour and a half from Layton to Provo at the most.”

“Ok, see you around noon then, love you dad.”

“Love you too, bye”

“Bye”



Walking down the stairs I didn’t realize that what I had just talked about to my dad would change my life forever.

Sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast, I was looking at some drawing I had done for my last assignment in college at BYU. Well it wasn’t exactly an assignment though, my teacher who taught me everything about landscape designing, asked if I would give her a few of my drawings to look at during my class period. I told her of course, not knowing why, and was now narrowing them down to my top 5. Picking my selection and putting them in my portfolio I left for my last day of college.

Laila Daae

Well, we realized that after we had just sat down, my brother and I thought it was funny, but my parents, who were sitting just behind us didn’t. Then all of a sudden the Andersons came running onto the plane, running franticly to get to there seats, when they saw us they waved, and my parents waved back, but my brother and I just slouched in our seats, hoping that they wouldn’t see us. Of course they did and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson sat next to my parents and there two kids, a son and daughter sat right next to me and my brother. This plane ride was going to be horrible.


Luckily I was able to ignore them for the first ten seconds so that I could collect my self and calm down, but still I wouldn’t say that ten seconds was enough. The Andersons, they…, well… , I just don’t know how to describe them, all I know is that they get on my nerves so bad. They think that they are genius freaks and so they have to tell everyone everything that they know, and they have to prove people wrong if someone goes against their word. That is one reason they annoy me so bad. They also like to stare at you when they aren’t talking and when they look at you they just smile and stare, smile and stare. Really I could come up with many reasons why I didn’t like these people, but you would get bored so I will continue on with the story.

The son and daughter started to talk to us just as I had predicted and were going on and on, I thought my brains were going to explode. I didn’t know what to do but stare straight ahead. Then the girl, named Amanda, decided to take a nap, she said, “ I need my beauty sleep to go to England and I have awaken way too early for today, so if you will excuse me I am going to take a nap. Please no noise or my mind will burst.”

Her mind will burst! What about my mind, I am going insane because of her and her brother. Seeing that his sister was going to nap the boy, named Rick, decided that he would talk to me an boy did he talk. He was about 3 months older than me and he said that the two of us were best friends. Ha Ha! I don’t think so, not in my life. He went on and on until my brother asked him a question. I looked at my brother with a thankful face and told them I would be right back. I had decided that I was going to go and find a flight person and ask them if they had any empty seats I could move too and how much longer the flight was going to be. Walking down the isle I found a lady attendant.

“Excuse me,” I said in a questioning voice, “do you know how much longer the flight is before we arrive in England?”

“Well, we haven’t even gone across the Atlantic Ocean yet sweetie, and we have to stop in New York first, so I would say around 5 more hours.”

I looked at her in horror. 5 more hours of this…….. I think I could go insane…!!!

Monday, March 22, 2010

So I am posting this a week late, sorry.  Though to make it up I will post the next one at the latest by tomorrow.  Here is the next section of the story.

“Mom and Dad please don’t send us on a trip with the Andersons, please!” Was my desperate plead.


“And why not!” Demanded my father in shock from my pleading.

I couldn’t answer so I went back to the subject that was on hand before I started to plead. “So we are leaving in a week, what do we need to bring for sure?”

“Just the usual trip stuff, but you will definitely need a good pair of walking/running shoes; we will be doing a lot of running. Pack enough clothes for about a week and a half, we will be gone for around 3 weeks, but we will do washing so that we don’t have to bring too many clothes along. You might want to leave room for souvenirs; there are a lot of places that we are going to see.” This was all said excitedly by my mom.

“Now why don’t you all go back to what you were doing and on Thursday next week we will do our packing,” said my dad with a smile.

Oh I couldn’t wait for this week to just fly by, and then all of a sudden it was Thursday night and the week had flown by fast.

The house was getting cleaned, straightened; there was luggage all over the living room floor, plus a little more in each of our rooms. We were all hurrying as fast as we could so that we could wake up early for tomorrow morning, we had booked an early flight and the plane would be leaving at 7:30 am. So that meant that we had to be there at 6:30, but my dad wanted to be there t 6:00 just to be safe, so that meant that I was waking up at 4:30 tomorrow morning and so we had to get to bed early. My mother was saying that we needed the house clean before we left; the doors locked the garage locked, to stop the newspaper while we were going to be gone and to have our neighbors collect our mail while we were gone. There was a lot to do before we could leave so we were all working as fast as we could not wanting to waste any time. Finally it was all done and my dad said we would have a quick salad and bread dinner and then go to bed, so we did just that and then we all jumped in bed to get a good night’s sleep.

Though I don’t know how many members of my family got much sleep, because I know that I didn’t, there was no way that I was going to fall asleep right away, but some how I did it. Then I ended up waking up at 4:00, a half an hour early because I couldn’t fall back asleep, so I decided to get my self ready and clean up my room. My dad, mom and brother got up early too, earlier than expected, just after me and we were ready by 5:00. So our family decided that we would go even earlier, but when we got there and waited for a half an hour we realized that the Andersons weren’t there.

To be continued.........

Thanks for reading,

Laila Daae

And have FUN!

Sunday, March 14, 2010

I am tired of writing boring posts, it is no fun, I don’t enjoy writing them and I don’t enjoy reading them so I am going to try doing something else for this post. I am going to write a story that is if it is alright to write for the class I am posting for. Here I go.

The wind blew into my room as I sat in front of the opened window and stared off into the beautiful world in my back yard. Everything was beautiful, the flowers, grass, trees, sky, everything. Gazing into this all I didn’t realize that my brother had come into the room and was staring at me. Hearing someone clear their throat I turned around and saw my brother standing in my doorway.

“Mom and Dad want us in the living room ASAP.” Said the voice of my brother and then he turned and walked towards the living room.

“Alright, I’m coming,” I answered after him as I got off the window seal and walked out of the room.

My mind was spinning and I couldn’t believe it. Was my dream really going to come true, were we finally going to Hawaii? I couldn’t wait and ran up the stairs as fast as I could to get to the living room. My parents had been debating over where we were going to go on our family vacation. Running into the living room my parents looked up from the laptop that they had sitting on my dad’s lap.

“Well,” said my dad once everyone was sitting down in front of him, “we have called this family meeting to tell you where we are going on our family vacation. I have some good news for you and some bad news for you, the good is that we are leaving a week from today; the bad news is that we aren’t going to Hawaii but somewhere better. We are going on a trip across the Atlantic to the Europe area.”

I couldn’t believe it, the Europe area, I had wanted to go there more than Hawaii but I had never told my parents before because I thought that we would never go there. It had not ever crossed my mind that we would actually go there. I looked up at my parents and said, “Oh mom and dad we don’t need to go to Hawaii, and this trip will be just fine.”

“I am glad you agree because like I said we are leaving a week from today so we must prepare fast.”

“Why are we going so soon though?” That was my question, we hadn’t really ever gone somewhere this far before on such short notice.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you, because my friend and his family are going with us too and he has already booked our tickets.”

“Which friend would that be?” Asked my brother, just younger than me, who sounded a little concerned.

“The Andersons, the family that we had over for dinner around a month ago, don’t worry; we will have a great time.”

THE ANDERSONS! My brother and I looked at each other in shock………..

Laila Daae

P.S.

I know this is different, but if you have liked it so far look for the next section in the next few days.

March 7, 2010

In my English class we just finished Romeo and Juliet and I really don’t know why people complained about it or why they have in the past. I actually like the story very well, I mean the writing is definitely different, but so is Dickens writing. He has a nice way of putting things even if it is this long description, and if there way of talking is weird, because it is, Shakespeare is just a good writer. He is a true writer and knows what he is doing. I some ways I wish I was that good at writing. I have to admit that I didn’t like the part that I had to memorize a passage, but I guess it wasn’t too bad, and I got it done.


I hadn’t really read the whole story, I mean I knew what it was about and everything, and I liked it. I didn’t really know that Juliet was good at wining, Romeo too, and that Romeo wasn’t very patient. Well that would have to be one way of putting it, and that is one way that I would describe the two. I didn’t know that they married like less than a day after they met. I didn’t know that Romeo was banished; I guess that I never really listened to or read the story. I have to admit that I liked the way that they pronounced the words in the story; they just had an interesting way of talking.

Romeo and Juliet is the kind of story that I liked at time and then I didn’t. There were parts where I was like why were they being so dumb and then other parts where I absolutely liked how things turned out. For example, I liked how Tybalt and Paris were killed, but I definitely didn’t like how Romeo and Juliet killed themselves just because of their families. I think that it is ridiculous how people can be mad at each other for so long, it ruins the generations after them too just because they are mad at each other. I didn’t even catch the reason of why they were mad at each other, was it even mentioned in the story? If it was mentioned I guess I wasn’t listening to that part well, and I thought that I listened pretty well.

I have to say that I liked watching the different versions of the story after we read it; it helped me understand it better and it was quite entertaining. I had no idea that there were that many versions of Romeo and Juliet, I mean it makes sense to be caught up with the style in life. Romeo was and adventurous, day dreaming boy, who seemed to be struck with the sight of a girl at one time or the other. He sure did change mind a lot and moved really fast, I can’t imagine marring someone when I am older and not telling my parents, that is just dumb. Then there was Juliet who thought a bit more than Romeo but was captured pretty much when she first saw him. I never knew that the story was so good and I am quite glad that we read it in English.

Thanks for reading,

Laila Daae