In the fast lane

I changed my blog name! I thought it was more applicable to my entire being being tied to water. Get it?
like the fast lane like the lanes in a racing pool? I mustn't give myself too much credit, but I'm pretty darn clever. I do believe that it is better to live life in the moment though so a bit hypocritical? Who cares. I like this title better and it was fun designing  another header image :). Have a good day to you all and remember that my blog is now found at www.inthefastlane-molly.blogspot.com!

Lake Powell Pics

You know how like in the beginning of July I said I would post pictures from Lake Powell? Well its a month later and I'm finally getting around to it, so here is proof I attended Lake Powell 2014. 

Driving the house boat

Life jacket twins!

Wakeboarding ready

here we go a selfie taking

Rainbow Bridge

Touristy much?

tubing. 

 kamikaze

(suicide jumps)

mouse funeral :(

model status

kneeboard.

wakesurfin'

cliff jumping

illegal cliff jumping

HFS

lets go surfing now

everybody's leaning how

WIPEOUT

wakeboarding

FLOP.

Just for the record, I did surf  but I don't know where the pictures of me surfing went...

Busy summer.

Yeah, I know I've done a pathetic job on keeping my blog updated, but I am about to amend that! I have had a very busy summer jam packed with lots of fun vacations and activities.

At the very beginning of summer my family traveled to Utah (with the exception of my dad because he had high adventure) to spend  time with the mix family. We got there on a Thursday evening after a painfully long 11 hour car ride and that's all there was to that day. On Friday we went to my cousins house in Riverton and swam and chilled. We went to the Fault in Our Stars that evening, and let me say, that is one of the best adaptions from book to movie I have seen like EVER. Saturday was dedicated to the Sutherlands we did a "Temple Tour" which was when we went from the Oquirrh Mountain temple to the Jordan River temple to the Draper temple all in a days worth! While on the grounds my aunt Zalia started a "selfie war" we had to use the back camera on our phones to take a winning selfie without any knowledge of what it would look like. We had a barbecue in the evening and had fun with cousins. My cousin Josh had just returned from the London England south mission that Wednesday and we were going to attend his mission farewell... Which was amazing. It was followed by an open house which was equally great. On Monday morn' we went to a cabin for a mini family reunion with the mixes that could attend. My cousin Baylee and I pulled an all nightwr we just had tons of fun in the woods! We left the next morning only because we had another great adventure..... GIRLS CAMP!!

This years theme was anchored in Christ so it was fun to see all the ward cabins' nautical decor. It was a really fun experience and I can't wait for next year. For more on girls camp go to this link:

http://bloominghappily.blogspot.com/2014/06/girls-camp-2014.html?m=1 

A week after girls camp, my family and I went to...."drumroll please"..... LAKE POWELL!! I have been wanting to go for forever after seeing pictures and hearing about it from various people over the years and I couldn't believe I was to blessed to go this year! We went for a whole week, Sunday to Sunday and it was one of the most fun weeks of my life! I learned to wake surf, I nailed wakeboarding, I went on jetskis for the first time and I just had a whole lot of fun living on a lake. I slept on the top deck under the stars for the first couple of nights and let me say, the stars were just unreal. With no light pollution since there was hardly any man made light for miles around, it seemed that every star in the universe was right before your eyes. The large rock formations and patterns in the rock were amazing. On one of the days were traveled to rainbow bridge and it was so cool like there are no other ways to say it, it was plain out cool. Although no one was prepared for the hike to it, and it was kind of hot, it was fun. On the last few days, the water would be perfect In the morning and it would get sort of windy early in the evening. That was kind of a bummer since it limited our play time. One day we went cliff jumping because it was a little to breezy for boating. we jumped off one cliff that was about ten feet high for a little but the boy found themselves a little more adventurous and decided that 25 feet in the air was a good adrenaline rush. the lake cops just happened to be out and about that day decided that the 25 foot cliff was not legal because the rule is 15 feet or lower.... luckily we didn't get a ticket we just didn't know. President Rodgers (the one that invited us) thought that it was all illegal and was happy to hear that we didn't completely break the law. we went for ice cream runs at dangling rope and all sorts of cool things. it was easily one of the best weeks of my summer, but we will have to see because I am going to EFY next week!

The past couple of weeks have been pretty chill with the exception of Tanner's baptism (my Sutherland grandparents traveled down for that event. I've seen them so often in the past couple months its no longer hard to say good bye!.... not sure if that's a good thing..) as for now I'm preparing for another trip to Utah and getting ready for highschool (I'm a freshman already!)

I will work on gathering pictures and put them on another post :)

DONE. (like officially)

Yesterday was 8th grade promotion and that means I am officially graduated into high school...... but I still got four more years of high school to endure so lets not get too excited. After the ceremony my family and I went to Chipotle for dinner... not super fancy but hey,  it was goooood. When we got back into the car (six of us in the Acura because the minivan doesn't have air conditioning and it isn't very stable) Tanner said something very funny. Well, I'm not sure it was that funny, it was more of my dads reaction that gave it the comedy... 

Tanner had sat down and said, "I'm kind of stuffed."

My dad replied with "That's the Chipotle effect."

Today was the last day of school. We spent the whole day doing nothing. And I'm not even exaggerating. my teachers set aside THREE whole hours for signing yearbooks... which is fun for like the first twenty minutes when the halls are lacking air conditioning. I put my signature in most peoples yearbooks with an arrow pointing to it saying "for when I'm famous" although I don't really want to be famous... I just didn't know what to write to people I hardly know and plus it seemed funny. At lunch the school provided little ice cream cups which I did not oppose. During lunch, Cameron, Lorin, and I went into Mr. Lee's room to say our farewells and sneakily rolled copied pictures of Ficuses into his paper towel dispenser. After lunch all the 8th grade went into the gym and watched a video the computer media teacher had made for us. At the end of the day everyone started crying and hugging each other and being all sentimental. I did not cry. I am just so glad to be done with middle school. It was a good three years at Akimel and i had a great experience. I'm excited to face the new challenges of high school and start the next chapter of my life.

Almost done!

This weekend was the eighth grade promotion dance. It allowed me to get a new dress and shoes. While other girls were getting their makeup done at the MAC counter and getting bad spry tans, I did my own makeup. Some of these girls were getting $200 dresses and treating the dance like senior prom. I got a dress that I would be able to wear to church again and my tan was all naturalé. It was a really fun expirience hanging out with my friends and seeing everyone's outfits. I must say my friends and I did not dance much since we kind if had a crappy DJ but just being with them was great. I went with my friends Sydney and Lorin. We went by one of the Lakewood lakes before the dance and brother Robbins took our pictures. Here is a couple from the lot!

(I believe this is one of the very few normal pictures we got)

Goofy faces!

Ugly faces (where are the boys?)

Awkward family photos.

Whatcha lookin at Sydney?

Lorin and I 

Sydney and I

Just me!

"Mom can I hang myself with these strings?"

Walkin'

DV here we come!

After the dance we went to IHOP and ate crepes and pancakes. We leagues at these picture and just had a good time. I'm so done with being in middle school and I'm so glad it's finally over!

Tinting glass jars

Today Cameron and I went to Micheal's in hopes of finding a craft to occupy our Friday night, and we found glass milk jugs and mason jars! We decided to tint them. We found a method on Pinterest and I thought I would share! 

First you will need:

-Water 

-Mod Podge

-A jar

-Food coloring

-Parchment paper

The recipie called for 1 part water for 2 parts Mod Podge, but it was a little thin so I would suggest to put a little more Mod Podge in the mixture.

Next, mix I your food coloring for your desired color. I would suggest to go HEAVY on the food coloring if you want intenser colors. 

After that, pour the mixture into the jar and tilt it around until every single part of the inside is colored. Set it upside down on the parchment paper on a cookie sheet to let the excess drip off.

Once all your jars are colored, put the cookie sheet with your jars on it in the oven at 200 for 1/2 hour to 1 hour or until transparent. Let your jars cool and don't put them under cold water while they are hot or else they will crack.

Tinting jars was great fun and we had a great time! Cameron and I even designed blog headers for our blogs! (Pictured on the top of my blog) Hope you enjoy the instructions for tinting glass jars!

March Madness

My month of March so far has been CRAZY. And no, it has nothing to do with basketball. Let me tell you about my journey through this month...

It all started in March 1st or as the youth would call it... Game Day. It was the day of the Gilbert temple cultural celebration, a day where 12,000 LDS youth would gather in discovery park across the street from the temple and sing and dance for president Thomas S. Monson. The forecast was 100% chance of rain and sure did live true to that! (haha pun! The show theme was "live true") the rain held out all day until about half an hour before the performance was to start and of course it started pouring super hard! So all the youth in their ponchos and with their umbrellas stood out on the muddy field waiting for the prophet to arrive and we performed for him and president Eyring on the pourin rain! It was an amazing experience and I night I would never forget. I felt the spirit so strongly and my testimony was greatly strengthened.

The next big thing I did was finishing personal progress! I worked really hard the week of spring break and got it done a couple of hours before new beginnings! I earned my toung womanhood recognition and now I'm done! I'm so glad I got the experience to do personal progress and it has blessed my life immensely. I was supposed to finish it before I got my iphone but then my old slide phone and iPod got stolen on a lake trip so I got it early. Now I have truly earned it!

Here is the last huge thing that happened to me was going to Disneyland! I got the opportunity to go to Disneyland with my school choir and perform in the music in the parks festival! It was great fun and it was great to be back from four years of Disneyland hibernation. They changed so many of the rides, added stuff and not to mention, I am no longer scared of roller coasters! On this trip I went I. California screamin' for the first time, tower of terror with my eyes open for the first time, and I was about to go on space mountain for the first time since I was six but then a 5.3 earthquake hit Anaheim and we had to leave the park. When the earthquake first hit I was thinking I was on a metal ramp and some really fat guy was walking up it but then I looked down and realized I was on concrete and I was I and earthquake! We didn't he to go on space mountain but we still had an awesome time.

This March was crazy and I hope April is a bit calmer. But I still have school and projects and two more months till summer. 

Hi, I'm Molly.

Hello, I'm Molly. I am new to the world of blogger so here is a bot about me!

•I love to swim, go to the lake, go to the beach... If you haven't figured it out already, I'm a fish.

•I am a Mormon

•I love to read 

•Some of my favorite foods are watermelon, strawberries, blackberries, and pineapple (hence 1/2 of my blog's name)

•I love music and I am in my school'a honor choir plus, I take piano lessons

•I consider myself artsy and I like to sketch and paint (and there's the other half)

•I'm in 8th grade, but I only have about 51 days left of the school year (including weekends)

•I love Pinterest a little too much :)

•I'm 14

•I love my friends and family a ton

Hopefully you will keep reading my blog so you can learn even more about me!