Me!!!

Since I haven't written in a while (a "while" as in a couple years)  I will give a briefing about myself:

Hello! My name is Jocelyn Jane Boren (mostly known as JJ Boren). I live in the beautiful state Utah! In in 8th grade. I will be turning 14 in November. Yay! (I will finally be allowed to go to school and stake dances which I'm super excited about!)

We've got some great arches.

Beautiful sunsets every evening. They never disappoint.

Beautiful sunrises every morning, too. They never disappoint either.

I have been playing soccer for about 3 years now. I absolutely LOVE it! My team is called Utah Stars, and we have been playing together for 2 and a half seasons. Last year we were a AA team, but this year, Coach Patrick (who is the most positive, and skilled coached eva!), said this year that he thought we were ready for... Drum roll please... STATE SOCCER! We are doing... Fairly well. We have won 2 tied 1 and lost 2. But despite the scores, I personally think that we are doing the best we ever have as a team. We work harder, and we care to each other. It's love all around! I had never made so many friends that are so different from me. But It's great. It's like we have our own little family!!!

 Soccer... We lost that game...

 Soccer... Again... Still the one we lost...

But we got ice cream afterwards, so who cares!!! (Love Kate's face BTW.)

I am a very musical person. I have played piano for as long as I can remember, my fantabulous mom as my teacher, and I have been playing flute for a year and a half for our school band. And... I LOVE SOUNDTRACKS!!! I will listen to all my favorite stuff in one playlist.I have some poppy stuff, I have 80s, I have soul, and I have soundtracks. All in one. Its Amazing!!! For instance, I'm listening to season 2 of doctor who right now. *sigh* so good. All my siblings say I'm weird to put all my music together but... I DON'T CARE!!! I DO WHAT I WANT! And that is what makes me JJ.:)

I'm obsessed with Harry Potter and Doctor who!! You can not find a bigger fan. I love the composer for Doctor Who ( Murray Gold), I love every single character and actor in there, and it's just plain fantabulous! Same goes for Harry Potter. I love all of the composers for it. The books are so amazing! I have read the series about 100 times, but it never gets old. Thanks JK. Plus, as a bonus, I have plenty of other nerdy geeks friends like me that appreciate DW and HP too. (Though, of course, I'm the nerdiest of them all).

Favorite Dr.

My Hogwarts house

As for colleges. Yup. All of the people who know me will know what I'm gonna say next.  BYU IS MY TEAM!!! I love watching football! Byu hasn't been doing so good this season, but I'm always there for them. They're my boys! I'm already shapin' up my grades so I at least have a sliver if a chance of getting in even though they start looking at your grades at freshman year. But gotta get a head start!

My familia! I have 2 parents (I bet you're saying, no der), 6 siblings, and one dog. Yes. My dog is a part of my life. She is my live stuffed animal. I snuggled with her, I play with her, and I kiss her. I live my puppy so much... Even though she mostly just lays around practically all day... I love my siblings! I wrestle with 'em all the time, and play all sorts of cheesy games. My parents are always there for me. Not to mention they make me snort everyday with the corny jokes they put in my lunch every day. Thanks Mom and Dad.:)

 Trying to take a selfie with Dahl.

Everyone has to be in the selfie...

 Snuggling with my fluff-ball.

 Me and Grace at the school Book Fair! Don't we look fine?

 Me and Kate before the disapointing BYU game against the Utes. I'm not bitter...

 Taking family selfies at Spencer's ordination 

#futuremodels!

More selfies...

Well, that's me folks!

Sicky!

Kay. A couple weeks ago Kate got sick. That same week she got ME sick and so I ended up going to school and throwing up which is super embarrassing. Anyway, my point is, is that ever since Kate got sick everyone else thinks that it'll be okay if they go ahead and get sick too.

After my puke accident, Mom got sick (she's STILL sick). She mostly just is coughing and not feeling great. Then Mom got Kate sick again. Then Kate got Grace sick. Then Grace got Dad sick and so we are just going to go around, and around, and around, and around... and maybe around one more time.

I'm not sick again yet, but I know that the germs are after me next... then Spencer. We must survive (though I'm almost positive that I'm going to get sick over the weekend)! Hopefully I will stay germ free for at least the rest of next week. I can... not...miss...any...more...assignments....

That's another long story from all the other times I got sick this term! Lucky me. But luckily the new term is starting so I have a fresh start. That's why I don't want to get sick. Well, nobody wants to ever get sick.

Well I hope next time I will be writing to you, fellow bloggers, I won't be in my PJ's with a bunch of tissues by my side (dirty and clean).

A Mostly Fun Week

While my parents and Faith were on a senior trip at San Diego, my grandma and grandpa got to  take care of me and m siblings. it was super fun on the first day. We went bowling and out to lunch. We had just a dandy time...... Until the next day. I woke up and went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection. I had bumps all over my body, including my face. It looked like a rash. I ran to grandma and she had a look at me. She decided that we just put on some medicine and hoped it would get better. So we went on our morning walk. My rash was looking a little worse. Then we went to Ceramic painting. ( It was either that day or the next.... I can't quite remember.) But when we got there the rash was still bugging me. I was feeling a little puffy but not too bad. We picked out our statues to paint I picked out a soccer ball bank. I decided to paint it green and blue. and I painted 2015 yellow. While I was painting, I noticed grandma in the corner of my eye staring at me. I looked at her and she said, " Are you feeling OK?"  i said " I feel fine" But then I realized that I was feeling a little hot. I went to the bathroom. I almost jumped when I looked in the mirror. You would be able to tell that something was wrong with me when you took one look at me. All the bumps I had on me turned bright red. I was so embarrassed. I wished every second that I had my hoodie with me. But seeing as it was summer, it was still in the back of my closet. When I went to sit down I was getting even worse. That was enough for grandma. She called grandpa and told him to get some medicine. Then she called the doctors office and asked about the rash and what it might be. We went out to take a break and we went to Artic Circle for lunch. Then we went to finish painting. After we finished we headed home. That night we were going to see Inside Out, a movie about your feelings inside you. But seeing as I was in bad condition, me and grandma stayed home and watched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban instead. When they got home we did songs and prayers and called it a night. Since it was so hot that night me and Grace slept on the couches down stairs. Grandma checked on me a lot and took my temperature a couple times and then I finally got to sleep. I woke up and was feeling even more worse. I looked at my self and I was as red as a cherry. My eyes were so swollen it was hard to keep them open. So grandma took me to the doctor (aka Tanya). They took my blood pressure and they had me do a blood test. It turns out that I was allergic to the medicine I was taking before for a problem I had with my bladder. Then we went out to lunch. The rest of the week was just dandy! That night after the doctors me and grandma went to see Inside Out. We also had our power out for a few hours. It was fun! We also went to a museum. I was a great week and it was so fun to spend time with my grandparents. Oh! I almost forgot that Buddy my fish died. So I got a new one. This time I got a girl. I named her Swift. She was the smallest in the store. I love her! 

Buddy

I have had a wonderful fish ever since January 19. I had gotten my new fish Buddy after the terrible death of my other fish Bubbles even though I had only had him for a couple days. But we figured out what was wrong and we got a heater and made sure that the temperature was always good and positive. He is a hilarious fish! He is more active then most betta fish are. But sometimes he acts a little stupid and he runs into the glass of the bowl over and over again! I'm glad I have such a healthy fish! :)

HALLOWEEN

I think that this Halloween was the best yet! I know I say that about every year but I mean it this time! This year I decided to be a crazy BYU fan. It was so much fun. I had a crazy wig, a BYU shirt on, navy blue sweats, navy blue and white shoes on, and Y's on my face. I only had Y's  on for school because we weren't allowed to wear "Large Amounts of face paint" on. 

Me as a crazy byu fan. of course with my byu pumpkin.

 carving pumpkins

 Dahlia got a little present in her hair(Oops!).

 whats pumpkin carving without doughnuts?

 mom made some fantastic pumpkin rolls with a pretzel sticking out.

 she also made a buffet in a pumpkin

 what lovely punch mother!

 BYU WILL RISE AGAIN!!!!!

 Getting ready for trick-or-treating!

AGAIN! BYU WILL RISE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!

our school always has a carnival after school with fun Halloween games and a haunted house. Me and my BEST friend Mya went into it. It took a while to finally push her in line. (You're a scardy cat, Mya!) Her dad said my costume was scary to him because her family is a Ute family. Shame. I'm still trying my best to convert her to the good side. Any way when we finally got to the haunted house doors, the guy who  was in charge of the enterance, He told us that there were three levels. The first level wasn't scary at all. the second level was a little more scary. The third level was super scary. Since I was with Mya we had to do level one, or she would pee in her pants. It wasn't scary at all! After the school carnival we went to our dad's carnival. We played lots of games and we even went to a photo booth! I'm Happy I had a fun Halloween! BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Washington

This summer my family decided to go to our old home. Washington. It also was Abbey's request before she left for her mission. We missed the waves and all the animals. But we were so glad when we finally got there.


But me and Grace were at our grandma's house for a thing that grandma calls "grandma camp". We had a blast there! We got new toys for the play room, went ice skating, went to paint statues, and had a tea party! It was so much fun. Me and Grace ha to give about 1,000,000,000 thank yous!

First night and getting all  settled

new toys!

We were sad when our family came to pick us up. But also excited to go to our cousin's house in Oregon. 

The next morning we set off for our next adventure. there was a cool river that was beside the road that went on forever! There was also a volcano near by.

There was also a really pretty mountain at one of our stops, so I had to take a picture of it!

Then we finally reached the city we were looking for. Portland! 

There is a bridge that is the border of Oregon and Washington. It was super cool!

We got to go to our cousin Sydney's practice with her mad skills with aerial acrobatics. But we still had a while until  her practice so we went to a museum with dead animals. 

Me and my cousin Sydney at her practice.

 The museum of DEATH!

Then finally we got to go to the practice. She was amazing! I'm not even kidding! She was so graceful.

I really think that she would break every bone in her body! We had a good time at their house. Simon works at Papa Murph's so he brought home pizza and soda for us. It was delish! 

The whole crew! (sort of)

Then we got to go to Mt. St. Helens. Mt. st. Helens is a volcano that erupted a long time ago. When my parent's were on high school. The top blew off and shattered into peices. This wasn't the kind of eruption wasn't a lava eruption. It was and eruption that had lots of hot rocks flowing down the mountian like a mud slide.

Anyway Grace bought a little stuffed cougar there. He is wry cute!We also watched  a short little clip about the explosion.Then when we were done we got ready to go once more. When we got to our camp sight right next to the beach Abbey practically screamed!! We jumped out of the car and ran to the beach to jump over the waves!! I'm just going to put all the ocean pictures together to make it easier. plus I don't even know witch beach is witch.

we found these slugs when we were heading to one beach

Another one!

 We also went on a ferry to Seattle! It was a very beautiful ride.

People put food out for the seagulls and they tried to catch up with them but they failed.

Seattle!!

We went to a forest before and it was super cool!

We went to an aquarium. It was next to a huge ferris wheel!

 There was a huge fish! And it was bright blue. We named him Smurfy.

outside the aquarium there was a HUGE ferris wheel. I just wanted to jump on board!

Smurfy again!

 we also went to a whale watching park. Ok. My whole life I've wanted to see a Orca (killer whale. I prefer Orca!).

I HAD to take billions of pictures so I would never forget to awesomeness!

I want to thank my parents and everyone that made this trip possible. I'm so happy that I got to go to my birth place and see my  second cousins. And lets not forget to thank grandma and grandpa for their love and that they invited me and my sister to their house. Thanks guys!