As Of 8-22-09

I miss my Gracie-girl and Phia, and my little Star Wars fanatic. They are so adorable (: They are in Wisconsin, and I don't know when I'll see them again. Summer has been going great. It's hard to believe that school starts on Wednesday. Class of 2010 (: U-High! Our Idaho trip was amazing. I love floating down the Boise River. I also went to a party last night. Well, a Mormon party. It was fun. Today we performed Baptisms for the Dead which was really great. We had 10 YW. I was also glad I got to babysit for Melissa and Ryan Ingram on Wednesday. Erika is so big and Morgan is adorably hilarious! Anyone agree Ice Blocking is fun? I might do that tonight!

Jacob, Sophia, and I. I don't know what she was looking at. Nothing interesting was on t.v!

We were very suprised Sophia was actually looking AND smiling at the SAME time!

Gracie-girl and me(:

Sacramento, California Temple!

Chris and Charia Jankowski and I on the Boise, ID River

I had just finished reading the Jonas Brother article from Good Housekeeping when I decided to go back to my room. Twenty minutes earlier I had been locking my door and unlocking it with the key, because I am a bored almost seventeen year old. So when I left my room I didn't relaize I shut the locked door. I turned the knob. No luck. I freaked. So I asked Jacob to open it...without the key. To which he gruntled his displeasure. He tried taking off the doorknob. No luck. So he set up a ladder and climbed onto the porch overhang and popped off my screenw. He then climbed inside, unlocking my door. Then he proceeded to climb back through and readjust the screen.

Take a look at the video (:

Everything?

So this year has been pretty good. I got through it in one piece. I survived. And what kept me going was EFY this summer. And Miss Taylor Swift and her inspirational song writing skills.

This year could have gone a bunch of different ways but I kept on the strait and narrow with all my might. I remembered who I was. Mostly because my spanish teach is half of a Mormon. I just wish drama could die. But if there was no drama, girls would be boring. And guys don't like boring girls. Really. This year was pretty good. I wanted more excitement but I think I ended up with a perfect amount of fun. Prom, Spring Break, New Friends!

Summer here I come. Camp, EFY, Utah, Idaho, cousins, Grad parties, endless shopping, and endless tanning.

school has ended
it's time to celebrate

fitting in with the summer fun

let the warm sand warm our very hearts

let the heat of summer carry us

let it help us progress
through the year we gained knowledge
let us use it
we can dream big goals
we can dream anything
let's learn to play the roles
roles that define us
our souls
finding our inner beauty can teach us
teach us to live to our fullest
let's be fearless

©Alyssa Ruiz

Youth Conference-Casca "Everytime We Touch"-Lip Sync

Ball?

This is Wehilani playing with my dog Emma the day after Christmas.

Parental Control

Hey all. I had to do a spanish video as part of my semester grade. We based it off the MTV show, Parental Control. It's hilarious! Go check it out :]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uWy8MRGMfc&eurl=http://bulletins.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bulletin.read&authorID=198178638&messageID=6253696122&MyTokeniurl=http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/0uWy8MRGMfc/hqdefault.jpg&feature=player_embedded

Girls Just Wanna Trick or Treat

Maybe by the title you can guess I was Cyndi Lauper for Halloween. Well I tried to be her. She usually wore puffy dresses...and I don't own puffy dresses so I went with leggings, a skirt, a big shirt, and crazy hair and make up. I wore my costume to school and a lot of people said I was the best 80's girl they had seen all day. I didn't do anything special, like I didn't trick or treat...I stayed home. But the Drew's showed up! And they hung out with us for like 40 minutes and the Millers from my old ward showed up to trick or treat from us. They took me home with them and we watched Iron Man. Great movie! Iron Man is hot too! Gosh. Anyway Saturday we went to the Prop 8 rally. We waved signs and yelled a lot. Then we went to lunch with the Peel's and stopped by the Drews to see their bathroom. Idk. And we went home and I put on Pearl Harbor and fell asleep for like 5 hours! The thunder woke me up. I did 8 worksheets of hw I missed last week. I was absent cause I was sick, and another day because I went on a field trip.

Anyway, we got my quarter grades in the mail and I would have had straight A's if I didn't have a B in Chemistry. Here's a picture of my costume!