Hello again!!

OH boy, things have been pretty hectic since the school year started. :D.


First things first: I LOVE MY NEW SCHOOL!!!! 
Well, the performing arts part of it. Highland sucks. The education is MUCH more simple than Jordan School District, the kids are 10x scarier, and our mascot is a Ram....really? And our colors are black and white? Really original. :P Oh well, i can deal with it. Especially not being in Jordan School District anymore. I HATE that district with a firey passion! I got one more day off of school than them for Thanksgiving, AND i got to have 2 weeks off for Christmas, and they only got ONE! Bahahaha you all suck. ;D The homework load lately hasn't been the best. I did VERY well in the 1st quarter! I tried to stay away form my horrible homework habits of middle school, and i got the best grades i've evr had! This quarter, however, i've fallen short. I'm trying to get it up, but being on Christmas break, and the ADD not helping at all... it's been tough, i'll leave it at that ;) I've had WAY too many lectures from my mom, and i'm determined to get my grades up...somehow..it's going to take A LOT of motivation :/.


Anyways, I absolutely LOVE SPA!! There are SOO many talented kids there it's ridiculous!! It took me a while to actually start talking to people and making friends, because the whole 'changing schools and meeting new people thing' was COMPLETELY foreign to me. But once i got to know all the freshman, i've started loving it!
...yes....freshman..
There's hardly ANY sophmores at SPA, and any that i've met, aren't very fun. Half of the freshman are totally immature and seem like they only go to SPA for an easy A. But the other half are fantastic! .


Now that i'm at SPA i'm finding it harder and harder to keep up with my commitment at my studio. Next year, i'm going to have to make one of the TOUGHEST decisions ever: SPA? or TDC?.


I went to a school 30 mins from my house for a reason: i want to have a career in the performing arts, most likely dance or musical theater. The problem is, i can only do that if i get the full experience out of SPA, which means LOTS of after school time.


But i can't do that if i'm dancing at a VERY professional studio 45 mins from my house; about an hour away from school.


I want to be on Dance Conservatory at my school, i want to be in all the musicals SO BAD, and i want to do everything i can at school, and get a good scholarship to a good performing arts college, move to New York or LA, all that jazz.


BUT i don't want to give up my training at TDC. I absolutely LOVE dancing at my studio. I LOVE everyone there, i get the BEST training in the country, i love all the teachers and choreographers i get to work with, and all the opportunities i get to experience. I've been away from dance for 2 weeks and it's absolutely KILLING ME.


How am i supposed to dance professionally if i don't get all i can get out of my full time at my studio?.


How am i supposed to get a scholarship and get any training in theater and singing if i quit my school? And it would be nice to get some attention at school for my dancing. I hardly think ANYONE knows (except for my mom) how hard i work everyday and how good i really am. (even tho i'm not the best).


WHAT DO I DO??!.


I hate making decisions.
It was hard enough choosing to go to SPA and leave all of my best friends to have fun without me at a high school that holds the BEST people in the world and has the BEST school spirit. (not to mention cute boys. almost all of my girl friends are hooked with somebody).


Ugh. I geuss i have A LOT of praying to do. Lol :) .


Well, i hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I hope to be blogging more often, but that probably won't happen until the amount of homework goes down ;)

New Blog??

I know i've only had this blog for about 2 months
But it's time for a change


As i told you all in my very 1st post here, I started this blog at around 12:30 AM, in about 10 minutes. I wanted a blog, and i wanted it right then and there. Therefore, i didn't exactly take a lot of time to come up with a title. :P
Now i'm regreting that, because i want to change the title completely, but that requires:
-creating a new blog and customizing it (which will take FOREVER cuz i'm picky)
-changing the website link (because "laughdancedreambrielle.blogspot.com" won't exactly match the new name of the blog, whatever that will be)
-telling EVERYONE that i changed it 
-and somehow converting ALL of my posts that i have on here onto the new blog because i want to keep them all!


So what do you think? Should i change the name and keep the website title? Should i change the whole blog all together? Maybe i should just change the look of my blog? (because it's very plain. At the time i couldn't figure out how to get those fancy wallpapers off of the internet, or how to get a cool title) Or should i just stick with what i have and just deal with it? :)

If you have ideas, PLEASE LET ME KNOW! I'm going to stalk some other blogs for ideas. If you really wanna help me out, you should too! lol :D

Boy Bands: My new love

This weekend has possibly been the best of my entire life. :)

We had hip hop choreography with Dana Wilson. I freaking LOVE Dana! She comes up with the funnest ideas when she sets a number, and her choreography is so cool and so fun.

The idea for this number is probably one of the best:

Boy Bands!


That's right! Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and New Kids on the Block. All combined into the greatest hip hop number EVER!! 

These are the songs she used. Please watch, and re-live your teenage/childhood years ;)

(I'm sorry i couldn't find the official music video for 'Larger Than Life." Youtube is stupid and doesn't have it. If you want to see it, just look it up on Google, that's where i found it) :)

It's cool.
It's old school.
It's hard-hitting.
It's just...so FANTASTIC!!

You just have to see it to believe it ;D

Thank you so much Dana!! We'll make you proud! And thanks to you, I have a new love for Boy Bands. I can't stop thinking about their music. All i want to hear is them for the rest of my life!! BAH!! I'M IN LOVE!!! :D

Girl's Camp :)

It's been a week since Girl's Camp, but i feel the need to blog about it anyway. :)

GC was great fun! We went up to Heber Valley camp (you know, that BRAND SPANKIN NEW one that EVERYONE dreams of going to?? Ya, that one) It was gorgeous. It was run by the nicest people, it was CLEAN, and the best part: we slept in cabins!! :D 
I loved the fact that the whole camp all looked so natural, yet industrial. All the pathways, for example, (The path to the pavilion, the path to the cookhouse where we ate, etc.) was all wood chips, and outlined in small logs. But the logs looked like they were man-made. As in, cut down a tree, cut it into pieces, and carve and sand it down so it looks nice. Nothing plastic, all real. Same with the benches at the pavilion. They were huge logs cut in half, and smaller logs with big "V's" cut out of them, set at each end of the big log for it sit in. All of these things just made it feel like a real camp, even tho it was brand new and the camp hosts drove around in brand new golf carts and there was a real blacktop highway leading to the other camps instead of a dirt road. :D

The only bad moment of the whole week was probably the overnight hike....

Look how peppy and excited we look....

We had no idea what was coming for us....

It was HORRIBLE. I WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN. First off, we are all 15-17-year-old teenage girls. I repeat: WE ARE ALL TEENAGE GIRLS! Why would they force us to do something like this in the first place?! I'm ok with camping, but not every girl in our ward is OK with camping! Let alone a hike to the middle of nowhere to sleep on the ground! Not even in a tent! And the worst part: it was a mile and a half, and the ENTIRE, i repeat, THE ENTIRE hike was uphill at a 45 degree angle. And it was hot, and the whole trail was bushes so our pants were wet and filthy dirty, and i was ready to throw myself off the trail, onto the hill, and roll down to my death.

But hey, once we got there it was ok. >:P
I still hated it >:(

 Once we got to the camp (which was on flat ground. HALLELUIAH.) The view was pretty. ;D

And i found a big mushroom :D

On a happier note the whole week was great. We made lots of memories there, we had fun activities, our leaders came up with the cutest, funnest crafts, and of course, the whole week was full of spirit :)

The best night was, of course, the last night of the week: Testimony Meeting. I was especially excited to share it with my dad, who came up the day before. It was the best Testimony meeting i've ever witnessed. It all started when this tiny little 12-year-old Beehive stood up to share her testimony. She hadn't been in YW's hardly at all, because she turned 12 late, but she was the cutest little thing, and i got to know her better at camp. The first thing she said when she stood up was, "I'm grateful for Brielle." she said more than that, but i don't quite remember. All I remember is that was when i started crying, i didn't stop for the rest of the meeting. Then i stood up and shared my testimony. It wasn't much, because i haven't had much of a testimony until i went to Book of Mormon Journey the weekend before, and i shared that. But i'll just tell you now that i'm grateful for the testimony i have right now, because it has strengthened me so much. Anyway, a couple people me, my dad stood up. His testimony was so honest. I can't say any more, really. After the meeting, i stood up and walked straight to my dad and gave him a hug. I had been sitting clear across the crowd from him during the whole meeting, and during the whole meeting i wanted to be next to him so bad. We stood there for a long time in eachother's arms. He thanked me for being so honest when i shared my testimony. I was so glad that he came up to camp. Even for 1 day. I love it when he comes :)

P.S. I'm sorry to those of you who read this and aren't LDS and maybe don't understand some of it. But since this is my new journal (see my 1st post here) i had to write it down. :)

P.S.S. Did i mention that during Testimony Meeting, we watched a huge lightning storm literally circle the mountain that our camp was on? Ya. Amazing. ;)

"The Dreamer" by K.C. Johnson

"The Dreamer dreams of things unseen,
The scepticts laugh, and the cynics scream,
Yet once in a while the Dreamer smiles,
He knows his dream can pass their trials,
'Impossible!' the experts say,
And they laugh the Dreamer's dream away,
But some believe and hope and pray,
So the Dreamer tries it anyway."


This poem was written by my uncle K.C. He has started writing and publishing children's books, and this was on the back of one of his books. I feel like this poem was written for someone like me. I am totally a Dreamer. People tell me that i'll never be as good as the best, or tell me that there's a very slim chance that i'll reach a goal. But i don't let that slow me down one bit. I hold on to my dreams, and make them happen. Notice how part of the name of this blog is "Dream." That's because i believe in dreamers like the one in this poem. If you have a dream, go after it. Don't just let it die because people get in the way and tell you that you can't live your dream. If you really want it, go for it. Make it happen. Have no regrets. :)

Note to self: get outside more often ;)

First off: I know it's been FOR-EV-ER since i blogged. Sorry, but when you dance from 8-4 for 3 weeks straight, then leave for New York for 2 weeks, then FINALLY have a week off from dancing, you don't feel very motivated to sit on the computer and type for an hour. 

However, i recently had an "A-ha" moment that i would like to share. :)

This past weekend, we celebrated the 24th and had our annual family reunion. My family and i packed up our stuff, drove down Heber Valley, into South Fork Canyon, and to one of my most favorite places on Earth: the cabin. :) It's so nice there. There's dirt roads to wander, fields to explore, tents to sleep in, a river to tube down, and just the scenery around you is gorgeous. It was so nice to get out of town, away from neon lights and fancy cars, away from dance, away from my house I hardly ever leave, and especially away from my phone! I swear i spend way too much time on my Droid. (But really, with it's 3G internet, solitaire, and a Facebook app, how can i stay away?? xD) Seriously, as soon as my phone lost service, i turned it OFF. No more texts. No more emails. No more Facebook updates. Just fresh air, trees, and 3 days for my own sanity. :)


One day, i sat down at the table outside on the patio to play solitaire. (not on my phone, with cards) I won the first game i played!! That hardly EVER happens to me, it usually takes about 3 tries before i actually win. I was so happy, i thought,"I should remember this moment, just for bragging purposes; exactly what i'm wearing, where i was at, the scene around me..." Then i really started looking at the scene around me. I looked straight ahead of me between 2 huge pine trees at one of the tallest mountains around. It was just so pretty. You don't see places like that any more, unless you take the time to drive at least an hour somewhere. Then i started to think about what this whole place must have looked like when my Great Great Grandparents bought this property. Back then it was just grass and trees. Then i remembered that my Great Grandpa built our 2 cabins with his bare hands.

I realized in that moment how lucky i am to have everything i have. A great grandpa who dedicated his time to bettering the lives of his children and grandchildren, and how much he must have sacrificed. I have such wonderful parents: My dad is the greatest (and only) priesthood holder i could ever ask for in our home. (it just so happens that at the time, my dad was working in the temple by our house, something he recently decided to start doing) My mom is truly the best mom ever. Even tho she can a be a bit paranoid, (as in i get more texts from her than i do from anyone else) how could i live without her? i wouldn't be who i am without her. I have the best opportunity for dance, i couldn't have asked for better. I even started thinking about smaller things i'm grateful for: Nice clothes, nice phone, and flat-screen tv, a roof over my head, 3 decent meals a day, candy....(i'm especially grateful for candy :D) Some people don't have any of those luxuries. They're lucky if they go to bed at night with food in there stomachs and a dry, covered place to sleep.

I think we should all really realize how lucky we are. We should all savor and remember moments like this all the time

The great outdoors really is great :)

California!!

My oldest sister Chelsie was recently married to Michael Sheflo in the Salt Lake temple on May 25. (exciting! i know!) Michael is originally from California (before he moved here to go to BYU and he met Chelsie :D) so last week after their honeymoon, we took a road trip to Michael's parent's house for an Open House, so that all of Michael's friends, family, and neighbors, could see them as newly weds :)

Yes. We found this shirt at a gas station in St. George xD

Please excuse my "natural" hair and no make up.

It wasn't a very long trip. We arrived at their house on Thursday night, the Open House was on Friday, and we left on Sunday (which was pretty much my fault because, again, i had to be at dance at 8am the next morning :P) But it was still really fun. :)

Brynn swimmin in the pool.

This is how much i swam that day :D

Open House. Posin' by the pool :D

it's FRIDAY!!

It's Friday everyone!! I just thought i would share with you some of my favorite 'Friday' videos :)

This is the original music video for "Friday" by Rebecca Black. If you've never seen it before.....just...be prepared ;D

So that was horrible, right? I'm not one of those people who would comment on the video and say,"Go die in a hole." But it really is bad. Her voice really bugs me. If she just wouldn't sing in a monotone and take some voice lessons, it would be 10x better :D

Well, this next video is 10x better than original. Trust me. 

Hilarious right? haha i love that one ^ so much. :D My favorite part is "My hand is a DOLPHIN!!!" If you didn't catch it.....shame on you ;D

This next one is a spoof of the original 'Friday' video that all my 9th grade teachers made and showed to us on the last day of school. Enjoy. ;)

"Rebecca Black, we don't hate you because you're famous. You're famous because we hate you." xD

I hope you all have a good Friday! :D

Until we meet again.

Today was my last day at South Hills Middle School.

GAH!! i was ready to cry!

It's sad because i won't see any of my friends at school possibly EVER again. For those of you who don't know, I'm not going to Riverton High next year. Let me tell you why...

About 3 or 4 months ago, a friend from school told me that she wasn't going to Riverton next year either. She was going to a school called the Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts.

I heard the word 'performing arts' and i was hooked.

I asked her more, and she said it was a complete performing arts school, and that it was in link with Highland High School up in Salt Lake, meaning it's stationed at Highland, and you take your core classes there, while you take your electives at the Performing Arts school. Her sister is going there as well, and was currently on the school's Dance Conservatory.

As soon as i got home, i told my mom all about this new school. I was so excited, and i wanted to know more about it. I went to the school one day to 'Shadow' for a whole school day. Basically i sat in the class like the rest of the students and observed. It was neat because i got to see what the school was like and how they run things around there. 

The best part about that day, was simply the kids that were there. Every class that i walked into, the closest person to me would notice me and say, "Oh, Hi! Are you shadowing today?" "What's your name?" "My name is 'so-and-so!'" "You will love this class, it's so fun!" "Have you liked the other classes so far?" "Which one did you like best?" "Are you planning on coming here next year?" and so on.

The best thing i heard from every single one of them that day was,"You'll love it here!" "I love this school so much!"

Since when do teenagers love school?!

I knew after that day, i would have the best high school experience EVER if i went there.

But i was torn between the two. Although SPA (as the kids at the school called it :D) was a great place to get experience, have better classes, and be more prepared for a performing arts college, i would hate to leave all my friends from Riverton, and miss out on going to the best high school I had ever heard of. 

Except SPA has the better teachers, better curriculum, and overall, better arts classes than a regular high school. Plus, should i do Dance Company, it's easier to work with my studio. Plus, a perf. arts high school looks awesome on a resume for a professional company, or a college company, or even a Broadway Musical, should i make it that far :)

But, if i go to Riverton, i wouldn't have to leave your friends, i would actually know someone that i would want to go to a dance with, and i could be on D-Co. with a lot of my friends. I wouldn't have to meet new people and try to make new friends.

You can see how a 15-year-old girl would make a big deal about this. ;)

Well, in the end, and due to inspiration from my family, my sisters, and one of my most supporting friends, i decided to go with SPA. One of my best buds (i won't name names) was pretty mad about it when i told him, and it made saying good-bye a lot worse. But in the end. I knew i had made the right decision. I knew going to SPA would benefit me much better for my future and the dream i want to pursue. And even tho i have to say good-bye to all my friends, i know it will be pretty easy to make new ones because all of the people at SPA are just very social anyway, and they'll make me fell welcome. Plus, i already have a friend from South Hills coming with me, and i made lots of new friends when i auditioned for SPA's Dance Conservatory (which i made! i'm excited!) who have already added me on Facebook! Woot woot! :D

ANYWAY, i got a little side-tracked. :D 

Overall, my last day was a great day. I will miss everyone i met during my 3 years at South Hills. I loved just about every minute of middle school, tho i'm very much ready for high school. :) I wish i could take you all with me to SPA. That would be the best! Earlier today, as i rode the bus home, i thought about Oprah Winfrey's final show last week. (yes, i'm an Oprah fan) One of the things she said in her final phrase was, "Some people ask,'Do you feel leaving the show is bittersweet?' Well, i say, 'All sweet. No bitter.'" It seemed to play the same way in my situation. Although i won't see hardly any of my friends again, i know i made the right decision by going to SPA.

So, to all my friends at South Hills, i leave you with Oprah's final words on her show:

"I won't say 'Good-bye.' I'll just say, 'Until we meet again.'"

Love you Oprah! :D

First post EVER! Yahoo!! :D

It's official. I've been pulled into the blogging business. (if you would like to call it that) the time is now 12:35 AM, and this is my first post ever! woot woot!! :D 

So how did it all start you may ask? It's quite the thrilling tale... ;)
About 3 hours ago, my family and i went out with my cousins to Chillis for dinner. Just to get together. It was lots of fun. We got to catch up on my sister's wedding that was just last Wednesday (which was so fun by the way) and we borrowed A LOT of their furniture to decorate for the wedding, so we returned it to them.


While driving home, i was flipping through the News Feed on my Facebook app on my phone (first thing you should know about me: i'm ADDICTED to facebook. it's really bad) I came over a post from a girl named Kami Reiser from my dance team. She had posted a link to her blog. I never knew she had a blog, so i decided to check it out.


I read the first post. LOVED it.
I read the second one. SO funny. it's so...her. :D
So i kept reading...
and reading...
and reading.
and reading...


I spent the whole 1 hour car ride home reading her blog until my phone died. 


I love her to death. She's the funniest, most laid-back, go-with-the-flow type of girl, and yet she knows every life lesson you could imagine. She is a HUGE inpiration to me, and after reading her blog, i have a renewed respect for her. She knows her life lessons. She knows she's not perfect. But she doesn't care. She loves herself for who she is, and for that she is a beacon of light that attracts all of those around her, and inspires them to be like her.


GAH! i loved every post i read on her blog! I was so motivated, i decided to share my own story, for years to come. I've read so many other blogs. It's just so cool to read about someone elses life and experiences, and to be inspired by that person. I have life lessons in my head all the time. and i wish i had a chance to share them. Now, i know exactly how to do that. 


And thus, my blog was born! :D 


I've always wanted to keep a journal. When i was younger, i thought it was the coolest thing to do, and it made me feel unique, old-fashioned. I felt like the little girls in the movies from back in native american times or something. Historians knew about an entire culture that had no records, just from reading a girl's journal. I thought that if i could keep a journal, i would love to look back on it, and show it to my future grandkids. Unfortunately, because of my ADD, i kept forgetting to actually write in it every night. Especially because i would hide it in a super secret place, where i thought no one could find it. (Again, i felt like a little girl from a movie. Yep, i was born an actress :D) and i would forget that it was there. :D

So, 2 years later, i tried again. I found that journal from so long ago. It only had about 5 entries, but it actually recorded the worst year of my life. Sixth grade. Long story, but i went through A LOT of drama. :P When i found it, i was motivated again, so i started another journal. 
That made it to about 3 entries. Then, because i'm a teenager, and i'm lazy, and i didn't want to stay up until 1 AM writing, i gave up. 


And i really wish i hadn't.


This year especially, i fell like i've learned so much. In dance, at school, I fell like i've matured just a bit more. I swear, nowadays, i find a life lesson in something as simple as learning a dance move. It's kind of crazy, but i've always had a thing for "figuring things out" as i like to call it :D


So here it goes. The start of a new journal that i hopefully (hopefully) won't give up on. Well, now that school's almost over, i'll definitely have more time to actually post something. (plus, typing is MUCH easier than writing ;)) So, until next time! I have sooooo many ideas to blog about. i can't wait to get started!! :D