BIG News :D

So I have a couple BIGish things going to happen to me in my near future and I would like to tell you all about them! ...And some other things ;)
First of all though, I would like to thank all my followers for following me. It really is nice to know you enjoy reading my posts (as I read one of my fellow bloggers post :)) Its really great to read all of your blog posts as well!
I would also like to give you guys my Instagram deelio so you can follow me on that as well.
Instagram user name: kennaphotography (I believe that's it. If you have trouble finding me PLEASE let me know :)
So as some of you may already know, I LOOVE music. Music is one of my main sources of life. OK maybe that's a bit of an exaduration but you get my point.... I hope. ;) ANYWAY man, I get off track quite a bit dont I? Well back to the music thing, I was wondering if perhaps any of you had any new suggestions of music for me to listen to? I am always craving some good new tunes to listen to and would love some new suggestions. I listen to just about anything but some cool little, 'not as popular' songs are really cool as well. So anything youd like to suggest to me is amazing and will be much appreciated.

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This sortof has to do with one of my BIG news stories to tell you. So about a week or two ago I went into my band teachers office to play for him to be placed in a band for next year. (It is mandatory if you want to be in band) and I didnt do as well as I would have liked to but I still did pretty good :). I have been waiting for what seems like forever to find out what band I am in and it was figuratively killing me. And to make the waiting even worse, my band teacher would tell our class something along the lines of: 'Oh ya, Ill have all that posted outside the classroom tonight.' Come back in the morning... nothings there. 'Oh ya, we'll have those posted Thursday.' Thursday rolls around... nothings there. 'Oh ya we'll have them posted by Friday.' again, nothing. And then today, FINALLY they were posted outside the classroom after school. I literally think my heart skipped a few beats when I heard they were posted. As soon as I could, I rushed down to the band room to find two pieces of paper posted on the bullitin board outside the classroom. One page had the band a step up from mine - symphonic/advanced (My band this year was the lowest band :P) and the other was for the highest band in our school- wind ensemble. I searched the names under the Symphonic one first and saw the names of two of my trumpet friends and my flute friend and many more in my class. But not my name. Then I looked at the wind ensemble list and under the trumpets.....there, was my name. Im still in shock. Its going to be quite the adventure I think. Im super excited but that also means Im going to have to make some new friends with those who are probably a school year or two older than me O.o. I was also looking on the list and theres only one person (french horn) that i know and talk to daily so theres going to be A LOT of new faces...


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My other big news has to do with my face. Now some of you may be like.... should I read this? DOnt worry its nothing bad ;) It GOOD big news. So in about a week I get my braces OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. And if you cant tell, im super excited. I have had these things on my face for about three years now! Dont get me wrong, I like them and appreciate their cause but its about time I get them off I think. ;) Its going to feel very, very weird though. They took some brackets off of a few of my back teeth and it feels EXTREMELY weird. I can only imagine what it will feel like with all of them off.

And last but not least, the last of my BIG news! I dont remember if I told you all this or not but just in case I didnt;
For band if you have a solo prepared, you can play it for an adjudicator with a piano accomponist during a event called District Festival, who will listen, take notes on your intonation, rhythm, sound, professionalism, etc... and then afterwords give you some advice. If you do really well, you get a 'Superior rating' meaning you are qualified to go to state; meaning you play for another adjudicator a few weeks later in the capitol of your state! Its all very exciting yet nerve- raking. So I have been taking private lesson and my tutor helped me prepare a solo for this. It was super fun to learn and such a great song. And guess what this girl was rates? SUPERIOR. :D
This Saturday my family and I are driving up to the capitol for the State Music Festival where I am playing my solo yet again (with improvements) for another adjudicator and some other soloists from around the state. I am super excited and yet nervous. But thats normal right? ;)
So now that I've chatted your ear off I better let you go for now. Ill talk to you later though! Let me know what you thinkn whatever, just leave me a comment! I love hearing from you!
~McKenna

Birthday Week!, SUN BURN, The Vow

[Actually started writing this post on the 23rd of April but got side tracked and forgot about it till today the 28th so just bare with me ;)]

Well Hey There! Long time no talk, am I right?

So whats up with this new Blogger look? (For those of you who have you're own blogs and know what Im talking about.) I know all the changes to sites are supposed to make it easier or whatever but it does take a while to get used to. I had learned a few nifty tricks for the previews look and then they change it and you have to figure out how to do it all, all over again.

Anyway! So it was REALLY nice here the other day and I got a SUN BURN! I know I shouldnt be happy about that but Im just so glad the sun is finally here!! Yay!! I normally dont care for lots of heat and Im normally complaining its too hot out but Im not complaining any more. Ive been soo happy for these sunny days. It really gets you excited for Summer to get here! But its coming fast though! Yay!

So this Thursday is also my birthday! :D Im super excited. It seems like forever since my last one ;). AHHHHHH its coming soooo fast!!!

My friend, her grandma and I also went to the movie theater and watched the movie The Vow. It was a really good movie. Very sweet, sad, romantic, some things that made you laugh. I would definetly suggest you see it sometime :)

So! Songs of the week!

Mat Kearney - Ships in the Night

 

Arena - Panem's Best - EP - The Tributes

Bruno Mars - Somewhere In Brooklyn

Video of the Week!:

Hunger Games Music Video! "Arena" - The Tributes

Okey Dokey Guys! Ill talk to you later! Let me know what you think of the music and the video! Hope your all having a good time!

~McKenna



Song(s) / Video(s) of the week!

Hello everyone :)

Video of the week:

I love this band now :)

Song(s) of the week:

Remix ;)

Good song I think you'll like :)

Electric President

Just a quick little post today! Enjoy the videos/ music! Let me know what you think in a comment! I love hearing from you!

~McKenna

Hello everyone :)

So how many of you have ever watched a Toby Turner/ Tobuscus/ Toby Games video? If you have not; YouTube the heck out of it because.... dang girl... or guy... which ever (if you have watched a Tobuscus video you will most likely... hopefully... get my pun... thing... just watch. please) they're awesome.

So for those of you who have (or havn't....) -->

Toby is in a commercial for the Just Dance :) Pretty funny.

Ok... that was random. But random is cool right?

ANYWAY... so what have you all been up to lately? Havin some fun doing your 'stuff'? Let me know what you've been doing in the comments :) Have you had a spring break yet... or do you get one? I just finished my first one EVER.... How about you. First spring break ever? Tell me about it.

Ok this is getting really um... interesting. I should probobly go before I make it any weirder.....

See ya :)

~McKenna

Song (s)/ Video(s) of the Week

Happy Monday Everybody! Its my first day back at school from Spring Break and I'm actually not as tired as I thought I would be. :) Its also the beginning of 4th quarter which means that there's only like 40 more days until SUMMER!

So here is your weekly dose of awesomeness:

Song(s) of the week:

Video Games - Lana Del Rey

We Run The Night (feat. Pitbull) - Havana Brown

I Just Wanna Run - Downtown Fiction

Video(s) of the week:

Drunk Driving Awareness - Hightop Productions

Day 1-Bean Man Productions

So there ya go! these are some of my favorite videos/ music for the week! You should definitely check out those videos too! They are really cool. Go check out their actual YouTube page too! They are really awesome :) Plus some good taste in music ;)

Songs Of The Week :)

So thanks to my friend at http://christinastoreyfashion.blogspot.com/, I'm now going to do a song of the week once a week as consistently as I possibly can :) So I was checking out her blog and saw she was doing a Song Of The Week. I thought that was an AMAZING idea so I asked if I could do the same thing on my blog and she said yes. How cool is this going to be guys?!?

I actually think though, that I will do SONGS of the week because it would be IMPOSSIBLE for me to choose just one song. :)

So here are my songs of the week for this week- April 2nd, 2012:

Be OK - Ingrid Michaelson

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra (1932) 

Why Am I The One - Fun

Non Photo-Blue - Pinback

So there ya go! A few songs for you to check out over the weekend! :D Let me know what you think about them and maybe even suggest some songs to me in a comment. I'm actually getting kind of inspired to do a few YouTube  videos of the week now. What would you think about that?  :D

~McKenna

Hunger Games Premiere, New Hat, Unoffial movie productions, :)

Heyo! I'm back!So on Thursday night/ Friday morning I went to the midnight premiere with a few of my friends! We've been counting down to this for a finniking looooooooooooooooooooong time (hehe hunger games nerd pun). We got there a few hours early and had to wait but it was totally worth it :) It was so much fun waiting too. My friend Zac and I played a few games on my iPod and then we laughed and talked and we all started to play a Hunger Games card game but it took us like the whole rest of our time to even figure out the directions. ;) haha.

Seneca Crane from the Hunger Games.
I'm in love with this man's beard ;D

I also got a new hat this weekend! Its really comfy, fun and cool ;) And a new haircut ;)

So I found this really cool unofficial movie production 'dealio' on Facebook. They have a YouTube account so you can watch all they're videos there. You should check them out! Pretty dang 'shnazy' :D
Heres the link to their facebook page:
Bean Man Productions

I hope you've all had a good weekend and have a good week! Have you seen the Hunger Games yet? Did you go to the premiere? What'd ya think? Let me know! I love hearing from you! :D
~McKenna

What are your plans?

What do you plan on doing with your life in the future? Or do you have any plan at all?

Today my English teacher was talking to us about how we are going to have to get serious about life and all and work hard and try to understand things in more detail... Don't get me wrong, shes a good teacher and all but this just rubbed me the wrong way. I started thinking about how I already do think more in depth about certain things but what fun is that? I need my me time, all day everyday. I don't want to change just to please someone else.

I know this isn't exactly what my teacher was talking about and no offense to her at all or anything but it really got me thinking about what I really want to do in my life. How I just want to be ME and have fun with everything and anything I do!!

What are your thoughts on this? Anyone have any plans or thoughts on your future? Or, if you are already in an occupation, do you love it? If not, what would you rather do?

NYAN CAT!

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So how many of you have seen this cat? If you havnt, well, you have now! Ive sortof seen him before from my friend but then today in the halls someone had drawn this cat, taped him to the wall along with a trail of rainbow behind him! Isn't that awesome?!? Tonight on Facebook, my friend posted this link to NYAN CAT and his little song he sings over and over and OVER AND OVER!!!! Its kindof a nerdy thing to do but you can see how long you will 'NYAN'. How long will you? (*laughs* as you can tell, Im having a hard time starting to post smiley faces again! Plus he doesnt believe I did it so Im going to go a few extra days I think just to.. I dont know prove it a bit more? *laughs* P.S. If you have NOOO idea what Im talking about, check out this post so you can catch up on the no smiley face thing) Well, only a short post tonight! I have to finish studying for two tests tomorrow! 'Night!
~McKenna

Joy, Friday, Smiley Faces and Parkour

Its FRIDAY! Believe it or not you actually made it through another week of school and its drama..... Congrats!

 Ive actually had a really awesome week!

On Tuesday my school band had a band festival the girls had to wear dresses and the boys had to wear tuxes. And since our school is pretty close to the University (were it was being held) we walked there and it was REALLY cold! My fingers were about frozen when we got there! We played a few songs in front of some other school bands and some judges and then listened to the other bands play the rest of the day. It was super fun!

The next day was super fun too! Believe it or not Wednesday was a math competition. I'm just a nerd like that. Math is actually one of my favorite subjects! So some of us who wanted to, went to that competition all day (which was also at the University)! It was really fun. Only I had to make up a few yucky assignments and quizzes since I missed.

Have you noticed anything different about this post? I bet you haven't but WAIT WAIT don't go looking.... unless you really want to.... OK... go ahead... 5 seconds
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Alright. did you figure it out? Well, if you haven't; I haven't been using ANY smiley faces! Wanna know why? Sure you do. That's why you're here!
So I use smiley faces a lot when typing on any electronic device. And when I say 'a lot', I mean A LOT!!!!!! You may have noticed this before but anyway!.... I was texting one of my best friends and we were talking and eventually I ended up saying that it would be very hard for me to stop adding smiley faces to everything and that eventually turned into a challenge. For me atleast. I said that I wouldn't type a single smiley face untill the end of the week. My friend, being the stuborn but funny person he is, countered back with 'You can stop next Wednesday' that way it would be a WHOLE week without me typing a single smiley face! He doubts I can do it so Im doing it to prove him wrong! Only 5 more days to go......

So I have recently found a great intrest for the sport of Parkour! (Of course I have not attempted it but it looks fun!)Incase you dont know what that is: "the sport of moving along a route, typically in a city, trying to get around or through various obstacles in the quickest and most efficient manner possible, as by jumping, climbing, or running" (credit to Dictionary.com) You could probobly youtube it and find some really awesome videos of people doing it too! I really think it would be something really fun to do! Although it could be reeeaaaaalllllly dangerous..... still... I would LOOOOOVVVVEEEE to take some pictures of people doing parkour! Maybe a summer job?!?

 Here are some really cool Parkour pictures that unfortunetly I didn't take but wish I had!

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I hope you all had a good week! Comment below and tell me your fun plans for the weekend? Any inspiring words for my long 5 days left of no smiley faces? Talk to you later!
~McKenna

Pistures much needed! :)

So I think its about time I put some pictures. Its been way to long since I'v actually posted anything for that matter! ;) Thanks for putting up with my 'unscheduled' posts. Life is busy ;) SO.... heres some of the pictures I'v taken recently. I have been having way to much fun with Instagram on my Ipod. ;) hehe

At my friend's 15th birthday party we went to light the candles on her cake when we saw this:
a piece of the cake gone and only a little notice was left reading; "Quality Control Was Here." ;D How great is that.

One of my favorite quotes :)

Ok so my friend Hannah and I were eating some popcorn when we pulled out this piece of popcorn.
Tell me that doesnt look like a bunny!?! :D

Friendship. :)

My Dad decorated my Moms car for Valentines day! How sweet! They were all over the car when my mom came out of her work ;)

How have you all been? :)
Hunger Games is coming out in theaters in less than a month!!!! Ahhh! Im so excited! Ive already got tickets to go with my friends to go to the premiere. ;) What about you guys?

Ooo! So check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzp2D4jriM8
Its super sad but also really good :)

~McKenna

For Thou Are Graciously Here --translation--> Hello

So for my Drama class this semester I had to memorize a monologue and guess which one I was given? No other than Romeo and Juliet. And who am I? Thou are fair and kindly Juliet. ;) so for the past week and a half I have been studying up a storm. Last night I was up untill 11pm! On a school night!!! :O lucky I memorized it and was 100% ready to have my line check today.... Only instead of a line check, we watched a performance on DVD.... So your telling me, I stayed up 'till how late on a school night for no reason? Oh my. ;) and no offense to those of you who are but I am NOT a big fan of Shakespeare at all. :P oh well I've memorized it and now I'm going to "boss" (do REALLY good) my performance. :) have any of you had to memorize a monologue before? If so, what was it? Anything funny happen that you would be willing to share?

125th birthday of world's largest observed snowflake and my playlist

On this day, 125 years ago (1887), the worlds largest snowflake to ever be observed was recorded in Fort Keogh, Montana! :D How cool is that? It was 38cm (15in) in diameter! :O Thats crazy!
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Fun little fact for the day :). So I've been adding a few more songs to my iPod and I now have 16 songs ;) Yay me! I thought it would be kindof fun to add my playlist onto my blog so you could all see what I was listening to. Unfortunetly I dont know how to add a MP3 player or anything to the side of my blog so it would be very helpfull if any of you guys had any tips on how to do that. thanks. :) [I also have the Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever - CD my mom gave me. Amazing!] Anyway, playlist:

1. Deep Shadow ("The Hunger Games" Trailer Music) --> ZerOKilled Trailer Music
2. Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall --> Clodplay
3. Good Feeling --> Flo Rida
4. Hunger --> Vitaliy Zavadskyy
5. Hunger Games! "I Wanna Go" - WinterSpringPro
6. I Like It Like That (feat. New Boyz) --> Hot Chelle Rae
7. Dowtown Girl --> Hot Chelle Rae
8. Iridescent --> Linkin Park
9. Safe & Sound (From "The Hunger Games" Soundtrack) [feat. The Civil Wars] --> Taylor Swift
10. Set Fire to the Rain --> Adele
11. Stereo Hearts (feat. Adam Levine) --> Gym Class Hereos
12. Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) [feat. Ludacris & DJ Frank E] --> Enrique Iglesias
13. We Found Love (feat. Clavin Harris) --> Rihanna
14. Why Don't You Love Me (feat. Demi Lovato) --> Hot Chelle Rae
15. 1,000 Ships --> Rachel Platten
16. Beautiful Freaks --> Hot Chelle Rae

Well I hope you enjoy :) I know, im obsessed with Hunger Games ;). Haha. Any more suggestions? Im totally still looking for some! I dont care where you're from or what kind of music it is! I love listening to all sorts of music! Check out the poll on the side of my blog aswell! Comment! Love hearing from you! Untill Next time!

~McKenna

Study, Finals, SNOW DAYS, Ipod, Study, Finals, Hunger Games, Portal, Long time no see....... *pants*

Well hey there! Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time no see huh? Well, lets see, whats happened since we last spoke........... EVERYTHING! Holy Camolie!

Before I begin, I wanted to share a little quote some of my classmates made up in H Geometry the other day... So they were trying to come up with good Chuck Norris quotes about triangles (because that was basically what we were working on at the time) and someone said "Chuck Norris can draw a triangle with 2 obtuse angles." The next thing they came up with was "Chuck Norris can draw a triangle with 4  angles." Of course, that still wasn't as good as it could be so they kept thinking.... Then finally:
"Chuck Norris can draw a triangle with four obtuse angles." Perfect ;)

So as some of you may know the end of the semester if actually here and gone and those of you in high-school know that meant finals. *shudders* yuck. My school splits our finals up into 3 different days, 2nd and third period for two hours each on the first day and its a half day. The second day is a regular day with the next 3 finals in it. And the last day of finals is 7th and 1st period for another 1/2 day. Well where I live, I've never EVER had a snow day in my life and we get A lot of snow during the winter. So when my school called for two snow days in a row, I couldn't believe my ears! TWO WHOLE SNOW DAYS! Back to back! :D Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The other thing, the snow days let us have a 5 day weekend because we also got Monday off for Teacher Prep Day! Tuesday, the 8th graders came and visited the school on Tuesday so we didn't finish our finals that day either ;) he he. I just had the last of my finals today and may I say.... YES!!!! ;)

I have not posted anything for awhile so that also means I haven't posted any pictures! Check 'm out!:

Hunger Games anyone? Oh my fudging goshness..... Those books have to be like THE BEST books...... EVER! Who agrees with me? Wait before I ask you that I should probably make sure you've read them.... Have you? Dude/dudets if you haven't. Do it now! Even if you don't like reading I can almost guarantee you'll like these books. They're just ThAt GoOd! For those of you who have;

Gale or Peeta?

My friend Hannah and I have also recently been loving the game PORTAL 2! Its so fun and mind boggling :) It takes some thinking but overall its super fun. Its sortof hard to explain so I guess you could Youtube it? Its REALLY fun! :)

I hope all of you are having a great life. Good luck with school, work, and what-not. ;) Hope to hear from you soon! Comment and let me know what you think! I love hearing from you! L8tr!

~McKenna

Hello From IPod

Hey everybody! It's McKenna! Except I'm not writing this from my computer..... Alrighty then smarty pants, you might think, then what are you writing this from?.... (ok, so I know some of you already figured it out from the title but this is still fun ;) )My new IPod Touch!!!! :D I can't believe I actually have an iPod :) Alright so now I need your help! I want to put on some new music and apps on here but need some suggestions !!!! :) Anyone out there who is willing to help me out, please do!
Hope your Christmas was great!!!!!!! Let me know what you got down below. That is, if you want to :)! Thanks again!
~McKenna

Its here :)

Well we've finally made it to Christmas break! Well at least I did today. My cousins actually got out last Friday I believe! Lucky haha.So who's excited for the Holidays? New Years? Can you believe that it is almost 2012? Crazy!

Alright so that was pretty random but I don't really have a theme for this post. Its just a bunch of hodgepodge mix mach stuff today. :) But that's OK because sometimes its fun to do just that. :)
How was every one's week? Or well, half a week I should say.

So my December actually hasn't even been that snowy until TODAY! Its crazy! Its normally really cold and chilly by now! I bet there's about 5 inches out there already! This morning, when my Dad was taking me into school, it was so slick and it was pretty hard to see the roads because of the snow storm! Well :/ I'm not sure if you can exactly call it a storm but it was snowing hard. It was snowing BIG FAT flakes! :) But, my mom just informed me that during the next few days its supposed to warm up again so by Sunday there may not be that much snow left. :/ Dang.

So I plan on doing a little reading over the break. Does anyone have any suggestions? I love reading almost any kind of books so pretty much anything you suggest I'll check out :) Thanks

Tomorrow I have another orthodontist appointment and they are going to attach my last back molar tooth to the rest of my teeth/braces. O.o The problem? That back tooth isnt in very much so the braces are going to be REALLY pulling on it. :/ And that means my mouth is gunna hurt for awhile. :P

Any way! On a happier, postive note, cookies are yummy. :) Like REALLY yummy. Especially with milk.

Oh my gosh! I don't know how many candycanes I ate today! CRAZY! lol. I bet I had one in like every class today. :) Haha I dont like the multicolored ones though. Traditional red and white are my favorite. :) Except candy canes are sticky and they make my moth all sticky sometimes. haha. How about you? Whats your favorite kind?

Well, thats proboblly enough rambling for now. ;) Hope you have a great rest of the week and a very merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanika, whatever you celebrate. :)

Untill next time!
~McKenna

Christmas COOKIES! :D Yummmmm

So what did I do over the weekend? I made Christmas cookies of course! My parents, being the creative people they are, came up with the idea to make Christmas cookie trees!

Cute huh?!? :D Who wants to know how to make these? :)

1. First make some cookie dough (gingerbread would work too) and if you want to make it easier on yourself, dye the dough green ;)

2. PUT FLOUR DOWN ON A TOWEL/HANDS/ROLLING PIN/DOUGH ;) seriously or it will stick but not too much or it wont stick at all! Knead the dough a little bit, than roll it out with a rolling pin.

3. Use some multiple sized star cookie cutters and cut different stars out! (Your tree will look taller and more tree like with two of each size)

4. Place the cookies on a pan and bake them in the oven! :) Don't peek until they are done, they might run away! ;D

5. Frost them up! Dye the frosting green but leave some white if you want snow on your trees!

6. Stack them up and add any candies you want as decorations.

You can also decorate plain cookies too ya know!

YUM YUM YUM! Enjoy! Yay! Getting close to the holidays! Who's excited? :D