Saturday, January 30, 2010

Have you ever had one of those days where everything seems to be going good and the day turns out to be wonderful, nice, relaxing and full of fun, all at the same time? Today is one of those days, I just had a good time, being home and going places. I just turned on the TV and was going to change it to a channel to watch one of my favorite shows when the TV turns on and one of my favorite movies is one TV. I decided to watch it, for one reason of I love that movie, and the other reason was because one of my favorite TV shows was delayed for the night. Well, the movie is made by Hallmark and I didn’t realize until tonight how many movies my family has that were made by Hallmark and we have been pleased by all of them. They are all just fun family movies, at least I like them in my family.

Well, besides having a good day today, I have made it through another week of school! That makes me really happy, and it went well. The bad thing is I have had a cold since Thursday and I haven’t exactly been feeling the best, luckily I am well enough I can go to school and stuff, the bad part though is I have been sleeping in later than I have wanted too. I never like getting sick, it is never fun, it always seems to ruin the plans that you have, do you think so? I mean, you plan to go on a run, or to the store, or somewhere fun, like I was planning to go to my brother’s basketball games, but I slept in because I was really tired from my cold and I had to miss some of the games that I was planning on going to. I made it to the other two games that we had today though, so I made it to half of the games my family had. As you can see, we have four games every Saturday and a game the day before on Friday. Luckily two of those five games are church ball games, but we still go to those because they are entertaining. Basketball games have a tendency of being quite entertaining, I am always into the game. Basketball is my family’s favorite sports and three of my four brothers play on teams, they all play basketball though. We just have fun playing and watching the game. I have some pretty entertaining stories from being at basketball games.

Guess who won the BYU/ Utah game? BYU!!!! I was so happy, I was hoping they would win and they did, my family is big BYU fans. Our neighbor hood has many BYU and Utah fans so it is always fun to see what kind of tricks are played on each other when the two teams are playing. Like for example my neighbors across the street, one of them is a Utah fan and so around Halloween we carved a pumpkin with BYU and put it on our porch and then carved one with a U on it and crossed it out and put it on their front porch. The wife got a kick out of it because she is a BYU fan. She has even put a big BYU flag on their yard to tease her husband, just to have fun.

Have fun everyone and SMILE!!!!

Laila Daae

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Who has read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series? If you haven’t you are missing out on one of the best books in the world. It is a book that just draws you right in, you don’t want to put it down when you are reading it. I felt that way exactly, my parents would have to tell me to put it down and do my homework or something. Well you should read the book, everyone that I have talked to that has read the book loved it. I am so excited though because there is a movie coming out that is based on the series and I can’t wait, yes I know it won’t be as good as the book, because books are usually better then the movie, but I can’t wait to see it and it is coming out so soon. The trailer for it looks amazing; I sure do hope it turns out good. I know that my brother and I want to go to it.

Well, from reading that paragraph you can see that I have read that five book series, well I love reading that is the reason. I would read all day if I had the time, but of course there is school, homework and all the other daily life stuff to do that I usually don’t have much time for reading at the end of the day. (*Note: I have probably already written about this on my blog.) I just finished The Illustrated Man, which was quite interesting, I mean all the space stuff and everything, and it was still good though. I would have to say that my favorite book that I have read in the past month is Pride and Prejudice. Yes I have written about this many times on my blog already but I love this book, it is amazing, I watched the movie again this past weekend. Right now I am reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, I have only read a few pages of it so far, but it is still very good, from what I have read in the first few pages. I hope to finish this book soon, hoping that I don’t have too much homework.

For those of you that don’t like to read, I would say that you should try to find a book that looks good and try to sit down and read it. Most of the people that don’t like to read don’t take the time to try and read, I know that from experience, I used to dislike reading very much, my parents had to ask me many times to get me to read for school. Now though, they have to ask me many times to put the book down, you see what I mean? If you just take the time you might actually find out that you have a passion for reading. You will find an adventure that you never though you could find if you just open up a book and give it a try. When I am reading I am in a whole new world.

Sincerely,

Laila Daae

Sunday, January 17, 2010

The end of the term!!!!!!! I am so happy, I have been waiting for this for so long, though I am a bit sad because now we have to get used to second semester. I really liked my first semester, I have to memorize my new one and get used to my new classes, oh joy. I can’t complain though because we don’t have to go to school tomorrow or Tuesday. That makes me really happy, I can spend time with my family, read, sleep, I will just enjoy those two days off of school. I hope that these two terms will be easier too, or just go on better then the first two did. Ninth grade is hard, I mean I have heard a lot of people say that, it is harder then seventh and eighth and it is considered high school so that gets everyone thinking. I know it gets me thinking. I was talking to my cousin not to long ago and we were talking about how weird it is that I am going to high school, and it is weird to consider my uncle a grandpa now, and my grandparents are great grandparent. It is all weird, I mean a lot of things changed this past year and a lot of things have already happened in these last few weeks in January. Well besides the fact that I think everything is weird I guess I could come up with a better topic to talk about.


This is scary; did any of you read the front page of the Deseret News this morning? The front page was about the earthquake that is supposed to happen along the Wasatch front and it could be in the 7 magnitude range. Isn’t that scary and the weird part of it is, I am using weird again, is that my friends and I were just talking about this in school like two weeks ago, about the Wasatch front and the earthquake that is supposed to happen. Ya, I was eating my breakfast this morning and I saw the news paper on the counter with a big headline on the front page and that is what it was about. Other that reading about that my day today was actually really good for a change, I mean my Sunday’s don’t usually turn out that good, but today was fabulous.


Ok, so I love cooking, but today, I was laughing as hard as I was looking at my brothers faces as they saw the desert that I had made, so it was supposed to be brownies with chocolate chip cookie dough on top. The cookie dough was a little dark and my brother’s faces were so funny, I was laughing so hard, and I think they tasted gross; those were the worst brownies I have ever made. I am usually a good cook, I mean my brothers usually love what I cook, today was hilarious though, I have a stomach ache from laughing so hard, and from tasting the brownies, though the rest of my family thought they were good.

Sincerely,

Laila Daae

Sunday, January 10, 2010


My last entry didn’t make any sense, at least to me, but my whole theory about my writing is that none of it makes sense. Well this past week sure has been a hectic one, second term is almost over and it seams like teachers are just trying to pack in a load of homework before the term ends. I mean it is insane, I have stayed up so late this past week doing homework, long assignments that to me seam like they were just jumbled together, something to fill in some empty assignment slots. For example, in French we had a test everyday for the past two weeks and sometimes there is more then one test in that class in just one day. Crazy, and then on top of all those tests in French I had tests in almost all my other classes, don’t teachers think we have enough to study for already, plus do the assignments they give us? Well that is just something that was bugging me a lot.

How about talking about something pleasing other than homework, like when school is going to get out! Though the weird thing is I will be going into 10th grade, really weird. My family is already talking about an idea for a family vacation for the summer. So yes the second semester hasn’t even started and my family is already talking about where we want to go for our family trip this year. Well one reason would have to be because we can’t decide if we are going to fly out there or drive. If we fly we need to buy our tickets as soon as possible and if we drive we need to pick hotels to stay at along the way. I can’t wait till the summer and I sure do hope that we go where we are planning.

I really don’t know what else to write about, I have just had so much on my mind lately but it is all about school and I have already written about school. Why not writing about what I am reading right now. I just finished Pride and Prejudice around a week and a half ago and I loved it. I have already watched the movie twice. It was amazing, I was really disappointed when it was over, I mean I knew the whole story line and everything it is just I didn’t want it to end there. I am always mad about how books end, I just want them to go on and on, continue the story don’t just stop it there, that is what goes through my mind after finishing a book.

The book I am reading right now is Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury and it is actually quite interesting. I have never read a book written this way, it is just totally different from the books I have read, which is good in a way. It is good for me to read different varieties of books. This book is definitely better then I thought it would be. It has really surprised me, I mean the part when he realized that he was alive, that just surprised me, I don’t think like that. That is just not the way I think, I like this book though and hope it ends good.

Sincerely,

Laila Daae

Yesterday, after I had written my post I started to think about the title of my blog “Laila’s Letters”. Shouldn’t my posts be more in the form of letters if my blog is Laila’s Letters? I think it should, and it would be more fun to write that way, so I am going to start writing it that way, in the form of letters.

Monday, December 28, 2009

One more week of freedom, I think that it is a great way to put it, freedom, and school sometimes just seems like torture. Well New Years Eve is coming and I know that I have plans with family friends. These are friends that we have gotten together many other times for New Years Eve, staying up late to watch movies, play games, eat and talk, that’s what you do when you’re with friend’s right? Or even go places, but in a way it is too cold for that right now. With these particular friends we have done many things, we used to live by each other 7 ½ years ago, we have gone to rodeos, gone out to dinner, gone to cabins/lodges in St. George, have gone to Disney on Ice, Salt Lake on many occasions and many more places.

I have never realized how many different places we have been with them until I started writing this. We, my family, have so much fun with them, they have kids that are close to our age and it makes it fun, that way we aren’t bored to death. Friends mean so much to me and have a great influence on my life. This family is the perfect example of good friends, they are a fantastic family and I know that whenever my family is with them we have a great time and don’t like having to leave. I don’t even know if this is making any sense, but I want to write about friends.

Everyone in my family is my friend, they just are without question. Then there are my friends in my neighbor hood and my friends at school, my friends at school are like life savers for me. They always make me feel like I fit in with them and they are always kind to me. I always have a lot of fun with them, in the parties that we hold, during school, or even just hanging out. We always have something to laugh about and we always have a caring touch. My school friends are a perfect example also of great friends. You know how every one is always saying when you go to Jr. High to pick good friends, well that is exactly what I have done and I am happy with my friends at school. I hope that next year in High School I will be able to pick good friends also. I know that I am going to have to learn to have that much fun with my friends in my neighbor hood as I do with my friends at school. It will be a challenge for me to do that but I know that I will over come the problems that I have with my neighbor hood friends, but I am really thankful for my friends at school for the way they are. Friends are a really big influence, so pick the right friends.

One more week of no school before going back and I think that I am going to enjoy it.

Sincerely,

Laila

Christmas Vacation/ Winter Break

Christmas has come and gone and now the New Year is coming. I have had a great week, the week of Christmas, I have enjoyed every minuet of the week. Only one more week of no school and then we have to go back to school. I don’t want to but oh well, I guess I better finish my homework this week too. This past week my family and grandparents have been playing games, watching movies and eating, as my dad puts it. It was a lot of fun, my family goes to a movie every Christmas Eve morning, the movie my family chose was The Princess and the Frog, it was a fun movie, interesting with the voodoo, it was weird every time the voodoo guy appeared on screen. It was a really cute movie, a day or two before that my mom, little sister, grandma and I went to a movie for fun, a girl’s night in a way. The movie we went to was Julie & Julia; I loved that movie that was a great movie. I was mad though in the end that Julia was so rude, I mean it was rude of her to act that way, though I won’t say any more for those of you who haven’t seen it and want to see it. Still though I like it and Amy Adams did a really good job.


Another movie my family and grandparents watched was the John Adams movie, it is a long six of seven segment movie, but it is fantastic. I absolutely loved it, it was about John Adams and his life and one reason I loved it so much is because I love American history, especially that period of time, John Adams was a pretty amazing man. Actually, my grandparents and I stayed up late last night to finish the last two segments because they are leaving today to go home and my grandpa and grandma wanted to finish it before we left. So I went to be late, but enjoyed the movie a lot. My family also watched Night at the Museum 2, Bed Time Stories, Love finds a Home, Prince Caspian, Elf, Polar Express, While you were sleeping, and the fifth season of Monk, maybe a few others also, I just don’t remember the rest if we watched more. The movies that we watched were either movies we got for Christmas or movies that my grandparents had never seen before. Yes I know that it is a lot of movies, but when it is cold out side what else is there to do, though we also ate and played many games. We stayed up late many nights after the movies to play games, like Phase 10, Geo/derby, Jenga and then Wii games. It was a lot of fun, my grandparents and my parents stayed up later then all of us kids to play Phase 10 over and over, because that is a fun, competition at full blast game.

Oh, it is the Christmas break! Or what ever they call it, the Winter break, but it is the break and it makes me happy. I only have a little homework, well now that I’m thinking about it I do have homework in Geometry, Geography and Biology. Oh boy, that will be fun, but I have two weeks to do my big projects so I will be fine. My grandparents got in town Friday afternoon and we have been having a lot of fun lately, getting ready for Christmas and everything. We have been watching the fifth season of Monk too, we have been laughing so hard even if we have seen some of them already. I love that show and I am sad that the season is over now. The TV. show is great and always has me laughing, like the one where the guy who is Mr. Monk’s doctor of something is going to retire. That one is hilarious. The last show of the eighth season to end the whole show was great, I am still mad though that it is ending. I really enjoyed that show. Another funny show was 1 vs. 100, which was a good show, just a funny show. Really, I don’t even know where this post is going I just needed something to write about and I guess it is a whole bunch of random subjects. Plus my subjects go from one to another. Well, I guess I will try to make more sense for the last half of my blog.


Like I could write about how bad I am at writing! I am a horrible writer; it is just not something that I am good at. I mean I like coming up with stories but I am not talented at writing them down on paper. My grammar, punctuation, everything about it is wrong, the way I word things, the voice, I just can’t get it right. My dad’s job is a writer, he is good I can just tell you that, he can edit my papers so well; I mean he finds all the little details. I like making up stories, using my mind to catch others, but when you put it on paper it never comes out the right way. It always goes wrong, never the way I though it would turn out and even sometimes worse. If you asked one of my friends to edit my work they would find many mistakes, writing just isn’t one of my talents. I wish it was, but it just isn’t even if I work hard at it.

I’m good at lots of things, I guess, at least that is what my parents say, they are always trying to encourage me to keep at it and give it my best effort. Some of those things would be piano, drawing and photography. I love taking pictures of the outdoors, I would love to have my own studio one day, and take pictures out in the open. I love drawing landscapes too, they are so detailed that it challenges me, which is a good thing, and I also love drawing animals. Piano is just another thing I love to do, the music and how pretty it sounds, it just all makes my day, unless I have trouble with a piece.