Yay! Yay! Yay! Today is the Hanabi-taikai in our city! Hanabi means fireworks in Japanese. So it's a...fireworks festival! With all the booths of food, games, the fireworks, wearing your yukata (a summer kimono)...IT'S SO FUN!

My quilt is coming along. I'll post another picture of it Sunday or Monday.

The picture is of my cousin, Hannah. She just turned 2 on June 1st. Isn't she cute? She's my mom's baby sister's oldest daughter. She's eating her late birthday cake because her dad was in Hawaii for business, and he just came back!

When you're stuck home during summer vacation, it seems like there's nothing to do. I'm stuck home because I have no money, and nobody to do anything with. Everyone has to go on vacations for the summer and abandon me!

I have crushes on people from movies but I have just realized that I only have a crush on the character not the actor. For example I like Jack Sparrow, but I don't really like Johnny Depp. I like Will Turner, but not Orlando Bloom. I love Aragorn but I don't like Viggo Mortenson. It looks like they didn't make as much money off of the second Pirates movie as they did the first one. But who knows. It's still out in the theaters, and it might do better.

I just went and saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2 for the second time. I saw it when I went to Utah, (because it came out first there), but I liked it so much I went and saw it again with my Japanese friends. It's so good!

Lately I've been so busy planning Girl's Camp (I'm the secretary)that I've had a meeting almost everyday. I don't think that we need that many meetings, but oh well. It's Japan. I've been gone so much since I've gotten back from Utah that my mom says it still feels like I'm in Utah. And I think it's true. Luckily Girl's Camp is on the 3-5th of August. So it will be over soon. I'm excited, because a lot of fun things have been planned, but it's been really tiring.

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 ROX!

I love High School Musical!

About me

(above)my dad in high school

1. FIRST NAME? Alexa
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? My middle name was
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? When I was at the airport, on the 13th.
4 DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING: YES!
5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? turkey
6. KIDS? It would be scary if I had any
7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes, but I would tell her to be more friendly and patient with people
8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? Yes! I write in it every day!
9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Yeah, right!
10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yep.
11.WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Heck no! Not in a million years!
12.WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? The fruit loops with marshmallows in ‘em
13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? sometimes
14. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Not at all
15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Anything with cheesecake in it
16. SHOE SIZE? 7 1/2 slim
17. RED OR PINK? pink
18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? I never want to do anything for myself, only for other people, so I only get things done if it’s for other people
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My realtives (okay, okay the Rodenbergs too!)
20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SAY I LOVEYOU? YES!!!!!!!!!!
21. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Light blue denim and bare feet
22. LAST THING YOU ATE? Rice chex
23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Noah snoring in bed
24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Tickle me pink
25. FAVORITE SMELL? Sugar!
26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THEPHONE? My dad
27. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU AREATTRACTED TO: smile, hair etc
28. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? I love you EMILY!
29. FAVORITE DRINK? C.C. Lemon!!!!!!!!
30. FAVORITE SPORT? Basket ball!
31. EYE COLOR? blue
32. HAT SIZE? I don’t even know
33. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No, and I’ve never worn glasses too
34. FAVORITE FOOD? Mexican
35.SCARY MOVIE OR HAPPY ENDING MOVIE? Scary movies make me have nightmares for weeks! They are evil! So I like happy ending ones
36. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED AT THE MOVIE THEATER? Pirates of the Carribean II - it was so good!
37.WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Black with Minnie Mouse on it
38. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer!! Totally! I hate being cold!
39. HUGS OR KISSES? hugs, sometimes kisses.
40. FAVORITE DESSERT? anything with chocolate and nuts
41. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Dunno
42. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? I’ll be nice and not answer this one
43. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? Fatality, but I want to read The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
44. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? A Japanese temple/shrine
45. ON TV? Nothin’
46. FAVORITE SOUNDS? dunno
47. ROLLING STONE OR BEATLES? Beatles, funner to sing along to
48. THE FURTHEST YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? The US (wait, is the US my home?!!)
49. WHAT'S YOUR SPECIAL TALENT? singing
50. WHEN & WHERE WERE YOU BORN? September 21, 1991, Provo, UT

Back again!

I’m alive again! (JK) I just went to Utah. You guys knew that right? Well I’m back, after being there for a month. I stayed only with my family, but I got to get together with friends too! It was great to see the Cluffs and the Rodenbergs. I haven’t seen you guys forever! And when I came back, I got to see Yuli! And I hope I get together more than once while she’s here. I really wanted to get together with Courtney and Katie!

I’m working on a quilt right now. All the pieces are hexagons (6-sided pieces), and the pattern is called "Grandmother's Flower Garden Quilt". I'm going to make this bed size, so I've still got a long way to go. I'll keep posting pictures of it as I go along!