I've Been Tagged! Here Are My 8 Things:

1- I LOVE to sleep in. And I will sleep until 11:00 if my parents let me.

2- I have 40 Littlest Pet Shop pets.

3- Once, when I was little, I was getting down to run around right after I had put a carrot in my mouth. My mom said, "Marissa! Stop before you asparate that carrot!" I simply stopped and said, "What's a carrot?" I obviously meant to ask, "What's asparate?" But, they were all laughing.

4- My favorite restaurant EVER is Sizzler. Sometimes I get steak and sometimes I get shrimp.

5- I used 3 different wheel chairs during my recovery from A.D.E.M. I named them Squeaky, Blackie, and Little Bug. I HATED Blackie - but, I didn't mind Little Bug - who came home with me. Luckily, I never really had to use Little Bug once I got home.

6 - At one point in my life I owned around 300 stuffed animals. That's right ---> 300! My mom is pretty good at making us simplify - so, now I only have about 30.

7- When I grow up I want to be a Pre-School teacher. I just LOVE kids.

8- I'm probably one of very few who has more than one "first word". When I was 10 months old, I said "light" and when I was learning how to talk again after being sick, I finally said, "fish" ... well, it was more like "fi ...", but they knew what I meant.

That was fun. Tag Maddie Browning ---- you're it! You need to tell us 8 things about yourself that others might not know, okay?

10 Happenings in My Life

1. We went to SanDiego Beach. We had a blast!

I loved - I mean, LOVED - the beach. And I LOVED eating at the Cheesecake Factory. I got fried macaroni and cheese balls. So good.

2. Brandon and Tina were here for a week! We had lots of fun. Here's what we did on the 4th of July with everyone:

We had a yummy Swedish pancake brunch, hung out - I love baby Kyle, and went to a baseball game with fireworks.

3. My latest Littlest Pet Shops:
My 2 pandas - Twinkle and Sparky
My squirrel - not named yet ... any ideas?
My raccoon - Bandit
My ferret - I just traded Foxy, my fox, for this ferret named Jacuzzi.

4. I went to see the Harry Potter movie this afternoon. I loved it, but some parts were very scary - like the dementors and the bad guys masks.

5. I've been missing school. Today I went through all of my old school stuff and found a book of stories I wrote in the second grade. My favorite poem was a Halloween one. We used to sing and say poems a lot in the 2nd grade.

6. Me and my mom have to do a HUGE part in the Sacrament Meeting Primary Presentation. I'm really nervous - but, we'll practice lots and lots.

7. Mom signed me up for gymnastics. It's gonna be really fun. I can't do a cartwheel yet, so I should learn a lot too. I DEFINITELY don't know how to do a flip.

8. What I'm reading right now: Smashed Potatoes and Other Thanksgiving Disasters. That's kindof a funny book to be reading in the middle of Summer, huh? But, it's a good book.

9. High School Musical 2 comes out next month! That's why I put up the new song. I'm excited. I'm gonna have a big party ... the first day it comes out ... August 17.

10. Does everyone know I like to swim? Love it. We had an underwater camera - and we took pictures under water, but we don't have them developed yet. So, when we get them, I'll show them to you.