Deep Roots are Not Reached by the Frost

So I found this picture and I can't decide what it is....any suggestions??

AP tests are almost here. The most terrible week of music is almost over. I don't know if I have it in me to endure much more emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually. There's about a month of school left and.....I don't think I can make it. And not making it means being grumpy all the time, hardly sociable, lots of headaches from crying, my friends not wanting to be around me, my family getting irritated with me, me getting more and more confused.......I feel hopeless right now. Why do people have to do things that make it harder?? Can I push my way through everything? The only way I know of doing that is shut down all emotion and not let anything out. I've kind of been doing that the past few days....do I keep with it and get through this last month?

Yesterday my family and I planted our garden for this year!! Here are some pictures provided by the great Lydia!! Tomatoes Peppers More Peppers Potatoes (they're under the ditch) Watering the Tomatoes Mi Padre Zucchini More Tomatoes Broccoli Georgia laboriously watering the onions. Our baby peach tree. We planted it last year! One of our maple trees in the front! And there it is! We had a very fun time, and as far as I know, no one got sunburned. :) Now we're going to be SO excited when late summer and fall come around. We're going to have a substantial amount of food. :) We're going to have onions, peppers, hot peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, green beans, pumpkin, and butternut, buttercup, acorn, yellow, and delicata squash. I think I got them all. So yeah!!

So today Ruby's friend, Tessa, came over to play and a little later her little brother came over because their mom had to go to work. He is the most adorable little boy! We've watched him many times before so he has gotten to know us and we've gotten to know him. Today was more exciting than usual because he was talking SO much and that wasn't how it used to be. His cute little boy voice is to die for and his fragmented sentences make it even cuter. Today it snowed about 8 inches so Georgia, Ruby, Tessa, and Emma went out to play in it. When Caleb, the little boy, arrived he wanted to go outside and join the party so we let him. About five minutes later he came up to the back door and opened it. Mom went over and asked him if he was done. "Yeah!" was his reply but then he promptly turned around and ran back to the girls. Mom closed the door. 2 minutes later he came back and opened the back door again. "Do you want to come in? Are all done in the...

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SOME VIOLENCE. Characters: Susan (Mother) Amelia (Daughter/Sister) Lydia (Sister/Daughter) Laurel (Sister/Daughter Setting: Begins in the Dining Room and eventually moves through the kitchen into the Family Room of the Theobald home. Scene 1 Curtains open. Amelia and Lydia are sitting at the dining room table doing their homework. Amelia: GAH!!! I hate this!! ( Slams down pencil and dramatically rests head in hands. Lydia continues to sit there reading, taking no notice of Amelia's distressing situation. Suddenly, Amelia gets an idea.) Amelia (to herself) : I think I will text my elder sister, Laurel, a random exclamation, just to see what she does!! ( Amelia proceeds to text Where are you?! to her sister. Giggles come from Amelia as she contemplates what her sister's reply will be. Giggles turn into random bursts of laughter which becomes uncontrollable laughter.) Enter Susan Susan : What is going on? Lydia: It's her friends. Amelia: No! No.....

Since I haven't written in a while I'll just write about what's going on currently. I got a new phone!! It's pretty much...well, how do I say this.....AWESOME! I like it quite a bit. :) Concerto Night drama that has yet to settle. I tried out then re-tried out because Jack had one spot left and 4 pianist that could have it. The next day the list for those who made it was posted and I wasn't on it, but then at the end of Orchestra that same day Jack said if I cut my 15 minute concerto down to 7 minutes then we can do it.....can't decide if it's worth it. AP Calculus. As long as I stay on top of it I'm good....but have I been staying on top of it?...not really. Well, for the past day I haven't. BUT, by the time I got home today it was finished because I worked on it during every spare moment. Pretty great. AP test will be scary though. AP English. Gah...this is going to be the death of me. English is harder to stay on top of because it's...

Yesterday my friends and I went down (that's right DOWN because it's south of Salt Lake, not north, mother....how many times must I explain that too you? ;) ) to Provo so we could celebrate our acceptance to BYU. We left around 5:30. On the way DOWN Julia and Dale were having issues....nothing out of the usual. Haha. The back seat was a bit hyper (myself included). Morgan was getting worried because once we got to Provo we would meet this guy she knows and she didn't want us to be embarrassing. :D When we arrived we decided to go to The Brick Oven. (GREAT PIZZA!!) And, a little extra happiness drifted my way when I called Laurel and she said she would love to come with her boyfriend, Sterling, to have dinner with us. So the 8 of us went to The Brick Oven and ate delicious pizzas. That was a blast. Probably the highlight of the evening. I learned (and promptly forgot) from Laurel how to say "You are too drunk" in Mandarin Chinese. At that point Julia was la...