New Pic!

Hey guys! well first off i hope that all of you had/have an awesome Christmas. so anyway for the longest time I have been trying to find a pose i like to do with my violin. well i finally found it. On friday i went to the Melaleuca Christmas party where they had Kurt Bestor and Jenny Oaks Baker performing. afterwards i got one of her music books that she signed for me. on the cover is this really awesome picture that i just loved. of course i could not replicate it exactly (i mean look what the photographer has to work with ha ha!) but i wanted to try. the only difference between hers and mine is, i am looking a diferent direction, i dont have ornaments hanging all over my dress, and i am in the SNOW! yep, i put a dress on and plopped in the snow! just like that, nothing underneath me, just snow! ha ha it wasn't that cold, accept my hands hurt pretty bad afterwards! o well! i really like that you can see the snow falling and that it is unique. it might look weird to everyone else, but i just wanted to try it out, and see. so anyway, i want to know what everyone else thinks, so leave me a comment, or answer the poll. (or both! ha ha) i just want to hear from yall! so incase you hadn't already seen it at the top of my blog...ha ha here is said picture....

All my family knows me! i like to pose, and find out cool new ways to make a picture look good! so if this is a complete flop! ha ha tell me! but anyway! BTW! i am TOTALLY LOVING CHRISTMAS BREAK! and have a happy holiday season! love yall!

CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!

So thanksgiving was AMAZING, but I am now really really excited for Christmas. i saw this tag on someones blog, and thought it was cute, i am bored, so what the heck! it is obviously about Christmas.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? WRAPPING PAPER! what is more fun than the suspense of unwrapping a present.
2. Real tree or Artificial?i like real trees, but my mom has this prelit artificial tree that we use. she says its because our house is too small and what not, but she really just hates putting lights on.
3. When do you put up the tree?the day after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down?My mom has this terrible tradition of taking it down the day after Christmas. i have always hated that.
5. Do you like eggnog?YESSSSS especially with sprite in it
6. Favorite gift received as a child?ummmmmmmmm, i have no clue.
7. Hardest person to buy for?KELLI...O MY GOSH i need ideas
8. Easiest person to buy for? my dad?
9. Do you have a nativity scene?several! love them
10. Mail or email Christmas cards?we never do Christmas cards, but i like the mailing idea better
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? o it is just too embarassing to tell online. if you wanna know ya gotta ask in person!
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Forgotten Carols and Christmas shoes
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? as late as possible, i have a hard time not giving things, or telling people early! "]
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? ummmm maybe
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? my moms fudge, and ham
16. Lights on the tree?Of course! Ours are white.
17. Favorite Christmas song? Christmas Shoes
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? i cant imagine not being at home for Christmas
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? ummmmm probably not
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? well, we used to have a star when i was little, but now it is a big bow with christmas bells on it.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? PAJAMAS!!! other than that no of course not!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? being disappointed when it doesnt snow
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? well our tree is purple themed and it is BEAUTIFUL. my favorite ornaments are the blown glass teardrops, my first christmas ornament, and the crocheted snowflakes
.24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?. well we always have roast beef but i like ham better
25 Favorite family Christmas tradition?ummmm, pajamas, dinner with grandparents, family, candy game, ya.


I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE CHRISTMAS!! and of course our tree is ALREADY up!

Skating

so, on friday me and a bunch of m class mates from my old school had this sort of "reunion" thing at a local skating rink! oh my gosh it was soooo fun! i love to see all of my friends, but it was also fun to have something to do with them. so i had never been roller blading before, so it was quite the experience! i am sure that i provided quite the entertainment for my friends! and amazingly enough i only fell down TWO times. yess, you read that correctly, i, kendee, grace of all graces, only fell down TWICE will on a little tiny row owheels!! amazing i know!! i'll tell you the stories of me falling. the first time i fell i was skating with my friend, kelli and i rolled up to her and said, "hey i am getting a little better"
then kelli was like "yeah, all you just have to kind of center your body."
i replied with a "ya right, my body hasnt been centered a day in my life."
then directly after that statement i just crumpled into a pile on the floor, which really really hurt. i wasnt even shaking! then, plop, i was down!

the second time i fell down was towards the end of our skating trip. the whole time i was skating i was thinking that it felt alot like skiing to blade. because your feet are strapped into these boots and your feet are just going straight sort of. well, also when you learn to ski they teach you to stop by turning your toes in quickly, with some force obviously, and you stop. well let me just tell you, from experience, that does not work! instead of coming to a nice peaceful stop you fall down in a very pretzel-like way. also landing with a great amount of force on your knee. well, i never bruise. the only really good bruises i remember having came from a softball in my face and some other time i tripped. well i have this big old bruise on my knee from my lovely fall! i also somehow managed to get a nice one on my thigh. i dont know how that got there. probably from fall onto the break. i dont know, it just appeared! so anyway, it was sooo much fun and even though i stink at roller blading, it was a blast!

DR SLAUGHTERSSSSSSSS!!!

Okay so tonight, in a traditional Halloween fashion, my and my two best friends, hector and kelli, and hectors cousing Lexi, went to DR. SLAUGHTERS!!! YAY!! it is this big old spook ally in the old Fred Meyer's building!! HOLY COW IT IS IIINNNTTTEENNSSEE!! i went a couple weeks ago with some of my other awesome friends, but for some weird reason tonight was scarier. The guy with the knife in the bedroom followed us into the hall, and started scraping his knife against the wall. Making this big scrapy knife sound, of course!! and there was all kinds of things jumping out at you, and there was a ton of strobe lights that are SOOO disorienting! the weirdest thing was that kelli has the weirdest scream that sounded like the people jumping out at us, and she was about to make my arm fall off!! WOWSERS!!! so anyway, i think that i am cursed when it comes to the chain saw guy that chases you out, because last time i was there, i ran into the wall when he chased me, and this time i fell flat on my face!! LIKE FLAT DOWN!! HA HA!! my knee is all skinned up, but it was HILARIOUS!!! so ANYWAY!! it was a ton of fun!! FORTUNATELY THE STUPID BLUE MASKED GUY WASNT THERE!! If you want to know the whole story, ya gotta ask!! its a GOOD one!! YA, dr slaughters was REALLY scary and it was a great thing for halloween! DEFINATELY WORTH THE 8 DOLLARS!! i thought that it was weird that the second time i went was scarier, but it was!!! it definately felt a little shorter, even though i couldnt run due to the people in front of us, and the little puddle of kelli that wouldnt let go!!! ha ha! it was fun! Chuckie, lamo this time!! but i did see the hillbilly! he came out of a window hit an ax against the wall and getting close to us with it!! SCARYYYYY!!! yeppers, definately would recomend it! i loved getting to see my friendies i havent got to see in forever!! ya it is like really late right now, so this is pretty much a brain dump! the only people that will get this is the ones that have been through!! anyway!! i will stop wasting your time now and just say to all of my familia out there.......


I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED FOR THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!

Handbags!

i love handbags, sorta like shoes, and if i add this little blurby to my blog i get 25 more chances at a FREE ONE! so can you! all you have to do is go to this link!

http://www.handbagplanet.com/


add your first name so they can put it in your email, and your email address, pick the one you want and wait! they hand out one every hour! so ladies, if you add your own blurb to your blog you will get 25 new chances too! ha ha! so anyway just thought that you would want to know! have fun!

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

i am sooooo sick! i have had a KILLER migrane since thursday, and since friday i have been running a pretty good temperature. it was up to 102 but it went ALL THE WAY down to 101.5 today! woopty doo! i have wanted to DIE for the last two days i feel so rotten! 13 years is pretty long right! ;) i hope i get better because this is the real pits. so anyway just as a happy side note, IT SNOWED!! I LOVE SNOW!! ok so now i have the comfort to know that we will not be disappointed with a halloween with out snow!! ha ha! YAY! so anyway i hope i get better soon, so i dont have to miss anymore school! thats it for now! toodles!

Sandcreek......eek!

so today was my last day at white pine charter school. starting monday i will be at sandcreek middle school. i will be in orchestra and life 101 (aka cooking and sewing) for my electives. i am scared to go and it was hard to leave my old school. i cried alot and was sad to leave, but i am also really excited to come to sandcreek. so monday ill be starting. i may not come back alive, but ill try

New Students, a new grade, and a new instrument.

so! i am officially going to get 2 new students!! YAY! i am even more excited because it is for a GREAT cause!!!! My teaches Joe and Jacie Sites have this amazing program called Strings for Kids. i am sure that you all have heard of the discounted lunch program that gets low income kids free or discounted lunch. well it is the same thing. joe and jacie have brought hundreds of kids free violins and guitars and a school program. well they also offer the same kids discounted lessons in the shop. well, obviously they dont want to offer their studio space with popular teachers, so they give two students to the higher advanced people that are older that have the skills to teach. so any way i am excited about that because it will be for a GREAT cause! also, i am officially learning a new instrument!! THE GUITAR!! ha ha! i had my first group lesson today! it took me a second but then i really understood it!!! it is really fun, i am using a strings for kids instrument right now (they give them free instruments too), and i am hoping i can find somebody's to borrow! anyway, school also started....bummer. it is okayish. i am 100% possitive that my math teacher is a hippee. no doubt in my mind! he he! o well he is good though! anyway hope ya'll have a GREAT day, and remember to SMILE!!!! :)

MRI

So today i was privaleged with getting to do yet ANOTHER MRI. as many of you know i had to get one when i was 10 due to a disease in my leg. and as many of you also know, i have been having back problems all summer. so my doctor decided i need a scan to make sure it was connected to my leg. so i had to lay on a table similar to this one and then you get put inside this little tiny tube. just to help the image along, you can see the outside that is flat with the 3 gray marks, then it slopes down to the angled part, then it slopes again into the enclosed tube. well my head was right underneath where it becomes the enclosed tube. so they did a lumbar scan (lower back) for 25 minutes, a pelvic scan for 25 minutes, then they had to give me an injection of dye and do another scan for 10 minutes. so that whole time (which ended up being a litte over an hour) i had to HOLD STILL! no moving!!! AAAAAAAH! it was really hard! and they way an MRI works is by a bunch of magnets banging together to make loud knocks and sounds! it is soooooooo lound! oh well i survived! so the scan came back clear and there is nothing wrong with my lymph glands (which were screwed up with my leg), spine, kidneys, or nerves! so now i will try to make any inflamation go down with ibuprofen, or have to do physical therapy! fun fun! so any way! coming up in kendee's medical future....possible thyroid medications, and a tonsil removal! now that i have bored you with all of this crumb....toodles!

BUMMER!

Okay, i know you all are sick and tired of hearing about my student but I PROMISE that this will be the last one about her. Why can i promise so asuredly (sp???? ha ha!)??? because she QUIT!!! Yes, after a single MONTH of playing she QUIT! Her mother paid over $100 to get the equipment necisary to start, and after only a MONTH she threw it all out the window!! I am sure that those of you who now Ms. Isabella (not lazalde!) can understand alot of this. she said that she was quitting because it didnt "fit her" and that it wasn't "for her!" Well so anyway i thought yall would want to know this!!! so now i desperately want another student...DESPERATELY!!! I love it! So there goes my extra summer job out the window, that means im stuck scrubbing toilets and floors at a dental office for a living! BUMMER!!!!! if any of you know of anyone who needs a violin teacher, i would LOVE LOVE LOVE to be their teacher!

BREAKING NEWS!!!

I am SURE that all of you guys could care less, but this is HUGE news!!!! As i am sure you can all imagine the repulsive sound of a new, squeaky violin student. I was one once too! But, as if there wasnt anything worse than the sound of a violinist playing on their bridge by accident, making a high pitched, scrachy, squeak, or the lovely honor of your student wanting to be just like you and pushing the bow down as hard as they can, making any starting note sound grinding and nauseating, nothing is as bad as those blasted twinkles!!! the very first song a young musician learns is twinkle little star, which is horrible enough, but along with the theme, there is 5 (yes 5) variations! so for the entire month of june i was privlaged to teach the repulsive string of repetitive variations. dont get me wrong, i LOVE teaching and want VERY badly to have MANY more studesnts, but the twinkles i just cant say the are enjoyable! But back to my point! yesterday we GOT TO PASS OFF THE TWINKLES!!! it was SOOOOO worth the popcicle i gave the girl!!! YAY!! we are making much progress, and she seems to be extremely talented!!!!!!!!! so now that you have wasted time reading this pointless blog entry about extremely important violin milestones, i am sure that you are thinking, "wow does she even have a life outside of violin, her last 3 post have all been about fiddle and such." i can comfirm that i do have a life, as lame as it may be, and i do not only think about violin!

Fiddle Contest

So yesterday i was in a contest, right here in idaho falls, called fiddlin on the falls! i was initially planning on being in the Junior (13-18) Novice division. (which is for people who have never been in this division before), but my teacher decided that should be moved to Junior Standard!!! SCARY!!!!! so after the judges threw our division a few curveballs, it was FINALLY over! I got to the Colonial Auditorium (thats where it was) at 9:00 and it didnt get over until 10:05!!!! So i guess you all are wondering how i did. well i before yesterday i had never gotten anything above fourth place, and had never won money. well, yesterday i got THIRD PLACE!!!! I AM SOOOO EXCITED!!! I got $100 and a large, heavy, trophy!!!! It was fabulous! i know that third doesnt sound that fabulous, but i am SO excited! i am very proud of myself!!!!! YAY!!! so anyway, just a little insite on my weekend.

Teaching

Okay its official...


I AM OFFICIALLY A TEACHER!!! i have 1 viloin student! YAY!!!! We are about to have our second lesson in an hour! it is really fun and rewarding! She is about 10 years old and is doing great! granted i will be estatic to get over the dreaded TWINKLES! but, it is great and i love it! and you can even call me official because i have been PAID for the month of june! i love the extra $40 a month!!!!!!!! so i have a summer job that lasts until october and then she will probably continue! so ya i love it and i am excited! o and as a side note...i have a fiddle contest on friday and i am REALLY scared!!!!! so anyway wish me luck!!!!

SHORT BUS!!!!

Well this morning I was looking at somebody's facebook page, and and saw this! It is only the COOLEST thing EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So the reason that this is only my new favorite thing is because of my amazing smartness! As we ALL know I am definately not the brightest lightbulb in the tanning bed! So, my friend (Hector) decided it would be real funny to call me Short Bus. He mentioned that he was going to call me this, but it took a while before he actually did. Well the first time he said, "SHORT BUS, come here!" I imediately answered! So this picture is the coolest because it very muchly depicts ME!!!! Love this picture!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know i am special!!!

YOURS TRULY!!!! ;)

SHORT BUS

DISNEYLAND!!!!!!

Okay so here is finally some proof of you trip to disneyland!!!! it was WAY WAY fun! My cousin Megan and her baby Breck came with us to disneyland which TOTALLY made it 30x funner! my favorite ride was screamin, and space mountain, and most all of the other ones!!!!
so here is some pictures so some people will stop bugging me about it (HECTOR!)

So this picture is my mom and i on the buzz lightyear astro blaster things! i look like i have some mental disorder, when really all i am trying to do is shoot the little Zs on the wall!


This is me at Seaworld petting a stingray! they felt really awesome! BTW i am the frizzy-haired one with the blue and brown shirt on! I looked great all during our trip!


This is the Sandiego Temple. or what you can see of it considering this was taken on the freeway!
I think that it looks like something out of candyland. It was super beautiful, the picture doesn't do it justice.

This here is us at the rainforest cafe! i look really great right here, once again! i am also really sunburned but you cant tell! my mom thinks her hair looked crumby but we were on vacation, o well!

And this is not me or my parents! this is megan, her son breck, and her husband tom! this is totally the coolest picture EVER!!! i just had to put it on here, because it displays how much fun we really did have!

this is my dad on one of our favorite rides, THE MALIBOOMER! i wasnt on it at this time, but it was a way cool ride. this is how it goes. it shoots you 180 feet into the air in like a second or so, then back down half way, then back up, then down, and you get off, barely able to walk in a strait line! it was way fun! i also like the barf-gaurds in front of you. (the plastic shields!) so ya that was fun!

this picture is sideways, but it is my mom and i about to go watch this show called, "Its tough to be a bug," that is 3-D! it was way cute, but they made us wear this lovely little glasses! cute, i know! and so this is the foyer out side the theater with a bunch of buggy movie brouchures! this was my favorite, so we had to get a picture with it. So behold in all its glory, the DUNG and I!!

so ya we totally had the funnest time ever! it was great but i am glad to be back in idaho! even if we got snow last week! it was like 95 degrees in Cali! tooooo hot for me! it was way fun to see our family and to go to disneyland! so ya now you can see the pictures and stuff about our trip!

On His Mind

Have you ever thought of Gesthemane,
And wondered, did He see me?
Did He bleed a drop, and think it's mine,
Or when the nails were pound in, was I on His mind?

Was it just a sea of wide faces,
Did He really live, was he at those places?
Did He raise the dead, or heal the blind,
When the nails were pound in, was I on His mind?

Is He always with me, always around,
Even though I've never heard him eek a sound?
Will I ever see Him, will His heavenly hosts I find,
When the nails were pound in, was I on His mind?

Yes! He was here and He will speak,
"Well done my good and faithful servant," would be the peak;
To a vigorous test, He paid the price, He broke death's evil bind,
And when the nails were pound in, yes, I was on His mind.

~Kendee Owen
4/3/08

This is my life in a nutshell.

I aquired much of my insanity to the people I hang around!!! We do a ton of random things and have an attention spand of about .oooooo1 seconds. There is never a dull moment when I am around them, I am always smiling. I have a great life!!!! These people make me giggle at least once EVERY day!!!!


This is my friend kelli, I know you've seen this picture before but it is a choice example of what kinds of stupid things we do.
And this is my friend Hector. I don't quite know what to say about this but this is like I said, my life, my friends, in a nutshell

WHAT A HILARIOUS, FABULOUS, AND NEVER LACKLUSTER LIFE!!!!!!

MY FAVORITE GIRLS!!!

These are my favorite people ever!!!!!!!!!! These are all of the girls on my mom's side. On this side we are all super-close anyway, but all these beautiful ladies are my favorite!!! Out of 13, from the bride over (to the right) are all of the girl cousins we have, including me. Being the youngest, I look up to all of these cousins like my sisters. I really love to be around them, and hope I can be like them. All of my aunts, my grandma, and of course my mom are all inspirations. They are all women that are great examples and, even if unknowingly, have showed me how to be a good person. They are all women that I will always love!

From Left: Aunt: Kerri, JoDee, Chris, Mom, Grandma, Cousin: Amy, Rachel, Me, Megan, and Brittany.

LOVE THEM ALL!!!!!!

BUDDIES!!!!!

THis is my best friend kelli rae and I being complete idiots! my dad took these pictures for us!

I really don't know what the heck is going on here!!!! i look really possesed!!!!

Okay this one is sorta cute! we are kinda spacing off though!

Here is one that we actually being serious

the pic at the top of my blog is my favorite!!!

so anyway this is one of my favorite people eva!!!!!!

BLOGGING!!!!

So I guess I have a blog now!! I have many different names i have been dubbed. Kendee, that was my parents idea, Grace, sorta self-explanetary how I got that, Short Bus, (thanks Hector) I guess I am a ditz, and every once in a while a select few call me Kenny! I also get called many different things by the ignorant that happen to not be able to say it! so any way as you an tell by my title I LOVE fiddling! I have been playing since I was five. (8 years total) I have placed in several contests across the state. I also love math (I know weird!). So anyway here is my blog!

So if you haven't figured out why I am named grace the above picture should define it for you!!