just can't wait!

Hey it's kasiah I just wanted to say thanks to aunt christy for teaching me how to blog can't wait to start blogging!

It's Time

The Cousin Train

I'm showing Kasiah how to update the blog--it's been 4 months for cryin' out loud!!

BPA SLC

I know, the title has a lot of acronyms....But our BPA State Leadership Conference came to a successful close March 12-14. In the interest of saving time, I will (attempt to) quickly go over the highlights of this trip that was (for me) over a year in the making!...

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I got to go up to Boise a day early to prepare for the conference, and mom and Hayden were able to come with :) We stayed at the nicest hotel in Boise, and Hayden was able to see just what goes on "behind the scenes." One of the highlights of that day was going to Joe's Crabshack. I thought it smelled disgusting, but Hayden liked his shrimp:

Thursday, while I was in meetings, preparing for the conference, etc., Lacy, mom and Hayden all got to go to the zoo, where they had a fantastic time! :

The National Secondary President attended our conference, which was really cool! He absolutely fell in love with Hayden, calling him the "cutest kid in existance," which is exactly what we think of him, too :)

**Sorry about the weird layout of this picture - I was just too lazy to change it.

Lacy and I both had two competitions to go to. She competed in Advanced Spreadsheet, and I competed in Extemporaneous Speech. Then, we both did an Economic Research Project Team.

All of our hard work ended up paying off, too - we placed 1st at state with our Econ. Project, beating out fourteen other teams from around Idaho!!!!!

I also placed 1st in the state in my Extemporaneous speech (a huge surprise that I wasn't expecting!).

So Lacy and I will both make the trip to Dallas, Texas in May for the National Leadership Conference!!!! We're most excited about getting to go to Six Flags Over Texas, which is the national special event this year!!!

It was really depressing for me to leave my position and my officer team, but the loss was made sweeter by the fact that I have one last BPA trip to look forward to - and this time, Lacy can go too!! May 5th cannot come fast enough!

~Carlie

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Today, Lacy and Carlie competed in a National History Day Competition. The theme for the competition was an important individual in history. They chose to do theirs on Dwight D. Eisenhower. They saved it to the very last minute and did most of their project last night! They presented their board in front of judges and then were asked questions about it. The girls competed against about 20 other groups, and ended up placing 1st. Great job girls!

Really behind...

...on my blogging. I think this is the first time that I've even looked on here for months, let alone post something. But earlier this month (actually on the 19th) my mom and I got to go on another trip to Boise!

As the BPA State President, I was able to go to the 2009 Idaho PTE Legislative Luncheon. Basically, representatives from all of the student organizations (BPA, DECA, FFA, etc.) were able to meet with legislators and businesspeople from around the state to meet them and discuss legislative issues and talk about how PTE (Professional Technical Education) has helped them. It was all with the goal of preventing PTE from getting such large budget cuts...so I was basically acting as a junior lobbyist. But the whole experience was really amazing!

We drove into Boise a day early, did some shopping, and then got to spend the night at Aunt Sherie's house!! It was so much fun to be able to visit again and get caught up, and I only wish that we had an excuse to stay another night!! Aunt Sherie, my mom wants your e-mail or phone number and she'll call you and tell you how my grandpa's appointment went.

The next morning was early, because we had to go and find our parking places (we got permission to park in the legislators' private parking lot) and find the room where I had to meet to go over proper conduct, how to kiss up to the legislators, etc. I got to sit next to Rep. Nonini from Coer d'Alene, and he was really interested about my life, goals, etc. It was very nice to be able to talk to him. I also got to say a large part in the script, and got my picture with the governor!!!! Check that one off my list of goals.

But I digress...we're all doing well: the funeral home openhouse went splendidly, my mom got her Primary breakfast finished, and I got my last big scholarship finished (results for others are supposed to be forthcoming). We'll try to update with more news as it comes. Love you all!

-Carlie

Serious Errors

So there have been some serious errors in the judging for BPA. Apparently the group of judges that judged the financial related items simply put the teams and individual on the ranking sheet in order of the presentations and did not actually rank the students. So....instead of Carlie and Lacy not placing, THEY GOT FIRST PLACE!! They are SOOO excited and we are very proud of them!

Catch up

Here are some pictures of December-January.

Some of the cousins hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa Savage's.

Savage Family at Grandma and Grandpa's 50th Wedding Anniversary Hayden and his cousin Hannah dancing at cousin Rachel's Wedding Reception.

All the Savage Grandchildren at the Wedding Reception


Hayden, Kerry, and Kasiah

Pictures of the funeral home taken in November.

Lacy and Carlie on their way to Salt Lake City for a German Club trip.