The following is an excerpt from my journal. I'm going to use the same spelling I used in the book because its funny.
A little background. My parents gave me this journal for Valentines day when I was 8. A few months later, on April 11th I was baptized and Grandma Taggart sat me down and told me to write in my journal about this special day so that I can remember and cherish it later. Well... I do cherish this journal entry, but NOT in the way grandma was probably hoping I would.
How I felt
Chapter 1
how I felt when I was Baptized is hard to Deskrib. but I can. I felt like a mirmermaid when he lifed [lifted?] me dowen my dad did it.) and I also felt like a duck swimming under the water. or like I was swimming and the water tuched my face. or lik on a windy day when the wind taches my fase. or like some one tide me up with rope, and they throw me in the ocean. and I dround. But most of all I felt Happy.
How I felt
Chapter 2
When 12 men cearcled around, and the blesing was said I whent to seit down. I felt like: I had a new can panyan of something or somesort. but enyway I felt happy.
And that's 8 year old Kaitlyn for ya.
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Okay, I found another one that I wanted to share, because its really funny. I was SUCH a brat. I can't believe it. Looking back at my journal is really surprising because I was everything that drives me NUTS now. I was such a little Drama Queen!
Enjoy:
Today is laborday and I am shut in my room with my sister because we got in a fight and my mom said that we are the most self-centered people she has ever met. Ya the gurl (really? gurl? haha) who babysits 4 her so she can go to the temple, without even getting paid. and I am self-centered. I am just so sick of hailey's messes. Sure Jamie & Kenna get along but they r young. we got along when we were young. And they don't have to share a room. hailey always puts her stuff on my side and when I show her what it feels like she throws a shoe at me and it hits me. It is so hard 2 b the peace maker all of the time. When she says her room is "clean" I look over and see the floor clean but her bed is cluttered and she NEVER THROWS ANYTHING AWAY EVER. She has papers EVERYwhere. Now you can see how I feel.
Yeah.. I was a brat! I used babysitting so my parents could go to the TEMPLE... THE TEMPLE!!... as leverage. Wow.
BOO.
One thing that I always took for granted growing up was my mother's laundry skills.
Another thing was the free.99 that it took to do said laundry.
Now... I'm in college.
Living on my own.
Now I have to go and get one million quarters every time.
...and haul my pile down two flights of stairs
and across my apartment complex to get there.
I haven't done laundry since I got back to Logan.
Over two weeks ago.
yeah... thinking its about time.
AHHH soo much FUN! I wasn't expecting this past weekend to be that great. I was mostly bummed that we had a long weekend after only a week of being back to school! I feel like I would have felt more in need of a break had it been the next weekend. But Whatev... It turned out to be pretty rad. Sorry in advance for the following play-by-play but I don't know how to fully describe how epic my weekend was any other way.
Friday
Friday afternoon I went and had lunch with my girls Kacee, Carlie, Corie (and I'm Kaitlyn hmmm lots of ka's) at the Hub. I was planning on just buying some pizza because I CANNOT resist the pizza lady... but when I got there she WASN'T SELLING PIZZA!? WHAT? She was selling something else! What!
How could Pizza lady sell anything BUT pizza? It just doesn't fit!
After lunch Carlie and I went back to her place and watched Night at the Museum.... Hey Dumb dumb.
While I was still at Carlie's house, Chelsea Dawn Kerns invited me to go to the free Dashboard concert in Ogden so when I got back from Carlie's house I went straight to Ogden. It was totally worth the drive! I even made it to where I was supposed to be without getting Lost. My mom would be so proud.
After the concert, we followed tradition of eating at an Arby's. (Whenever I'm with Chelsea and Jason we always eat there. We're going to eat at an Arby's in every city before we die I swear!) From there we went to a friend's house in Ogden and listened to boys play the guitar, something that never gets old :)
I had planned on going back to Logan that night, but Chels used her utter persuasive-ness and talked me into going to Orem instead. Which, lets be honest, didn't take THAT much persuading. We finished off the day with guitar hero into the early hours. Wow. Don't tell me that wasn't an awesome day, because I will fight you. And that's no lie.
Saturday
Woke up, got ready for the day. Went to In-n-out with Chels and Jay..... delicious. Chelsea did everything in her power to get us to stay longer, but Jason and I had to get back on the road to the beautiful spectrum and all it's glory.
Carlie picked me up from my house and we got some hot chocolate on our way to the game. Hit the spot. Sat in the 2nd row and watched the Aggies beat Boise State! I LOVE THE AGGIES!
After the game I went to Wendy's with Hanah.... another tradition. Jared Quayle was there....oh how I wish he wasn't married. Beautiful man. From there we went to the Fun Park planning to only stay a little while... but instead we danced forever and then we went bowling!
Sunday
9:00 church. OUCH! I woke up at 8:51. yeah...
Came home, took a much needed nap. Went to a missionary fireside. SO good! after that I went to ward prayer, came home, watched Mulan and Horton Hears a Who.
Monday
Sat at home and cleaned for most of the day. Later that day a friend from the ward invited my roommate Kelsie and I to go rock climbing!
I hadn't been rock climbing forever. It was fun... but my arms were KILLING ME!
Yeah... definitely time to go.
And THAT was my weekend. Hectic, fast-paced, but ROCKIN!
Christmas Break. One whole month of no school. A few people have called me out on being "anti-social." I am not trying to disagree with that fact, because most of that time I spent at home with my family instead of out with people my age. Call me crazy, but I enjoyed my Christmas Break all the same. (Wow, I might as well move to a nursing home, eh?) I love my family. My sisters are my best friends! I mean, look how beautiful these little gems are!
(The picture on the top left has my baby cousin with McKenna haha. It's hard to get a picture of her not blinking :D)
I might be just a little biased, but my sisters are lookers!
Hailey
Hailey was my arch nemesis growing up, although I must say I was smarter about my tactics than she was. We would both get into trouble for doing the exact same thing, and I would go in my room and listen to her continue to argue with my mom. She always ended up with the harsher punishment, which I absolutely loved. She threw a wood easter egg at my head though, so it was pretty even.
Right before I left for college the first time Hailey and I created a super bond. We were idiots for not getting along for so long, because we are the same person. She is someone that I can tell everything that is going on in my life. She is a crazy fool.... I can't see how anyone could talk to this girl and not fall into instant love. For example:
Irresistible.
Jamie
This gorgeous lady has the whole Vernal Middle School male population drooling. All the men want her, but she doesn't want anything to do with them. Or so we thought...
This last week I got a text message from Thing 1 (Hailey) that read, and I quote:
Jamie likes a boy!
This was HUGE! I had been trying to get this information out of the girl for soooooo long! I have no idea who this boy is.... but he must be a big deal for this information to emerge from Jamie. She's like a vault, baby, locked down.
..... And I got her to take a crazy picture with me. It's like a right of passage in the Sprouse House.
McKenna
This girl. I have often been accused of playing favorites in the little sister world... but sometimes I just cannot help it. Since the beginning of this girls life she has been hilarious and awesome. Especially when it comes to taking pictures. At one point I had a photo album that was titled "The photogenic life of McKenna Sprouse." The most prized possession of said album is as follows
but also includes THIS
and This
Although you might not know it from her pictures, this girl is sooo smart! She memorized all of the articles of faith before she was 8 years old! She is also one of the most giving people I have ever known. Thats right people EVER KNOWN. She knows the birthdays of everyone in my family (something I didn't know at her age) and she makes a hand made present for each persons birthday and for other holidays such as Valentines Day and Christmas.
She is just hilarious. I was calling my mom back the other day and McKenna picked up the phone. My mom was busy so we talked for about an hour. She kept giving me a play by play of exactly what she was doing at the moment, including counting every single step that she took on the way to her room. (so she could clean it and go to Subway for lunch) haha. It made me miss home.
Moral of the Story
Call me crazy for staying home and hanging out at home for the month of Christmas break. I don't care. Why go out when you have 3 of your best friends at home who will love you no matter what? I know this is sounding all warm and fuzzy and super cheese, but I don't care. I love these girls!
