Procrastination is spelled A-M-A-N-D-A

It seems that Amanda put off her science project and book report project until last night. She had all weekend to work on them, but somehow she forgot about them. She and Shantell stayed up until midnight working on the projects.

Her science project was titled "Ice Ice Baby". Here is what she did with her project:

Hypothesis

Conclusion

For the book report thingy, Amanda made a merry-go-round of pictures based on one of those "Twilight" books. Her pictures included a vampire, a warewolf, some shredded pillows, a broken headboard, feathers, bruises, a clawing fetus, and other pictures. It turned out really nice.

Some Crazy Party

Aanmda aedntted the bahridty praty of one of her finrdes this enivneg. I am not sure waht they did at the prtay, but she cmae hmoe lnokoig like this. Alptpreany tehy had smoe srot of maekup fhgit.

The Neon Chicks

What is there to say about the Neon Chicks? They are a group of 12 year old girls on there way to girls camp at MIA Shalom. This was Amanda's first year attending. Shantell went a couple of years ago and stated that a lot of the girls had cots to sleep on. Earlier this year I bought 4 Coleman cots off of Craigslist.org so that Amanda would have a good nights sleep. I know, I was pretty naive in thinking that a bunch of teenage girls would get a good nights sleep at camp. They probably stayed up half the night reading scriptures instead of sleeping.

Dance Like Nobody's Watching

The Utah Academy Dance Studios had their yearly recital today. After I looked through the program to see what numbers T-y and Amanda were in, I sat there in awe of Amanda. She was in 12 of the 44 numbers. That is more than a 1/4 of them. That is a lot of choreography to remember. She performed flawlessly in them. It was fun to see her dance. Her countenance was beautiful and her smile melted my heart. You could tell she was having the time of her life. I don't think that I have ever seen her having so much fun performing. I then realized that it was probably because she had 4 of her friends show up to the performance. They are Mariana, Jordan, Garret "Larry", and Dylan. She has some of the neatest friends.

T-y decided at the last minute to be in the hip-hop dance. He does a pretty good job dancing, but tends to watch others dancing while he should be dancing. I think he had funner running around backstage with his friends then he did dancing. He did a good job.

PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Amanda's day started out by being awoke by some unknown sound coming from her room. She went in an woke up Shantell and asked her what that sound was. I was downstairs, so Amanda yelled "Dad, are you trying to find you cell phone?" "No", I replied. Why don't you look to see where the sound was coming from. She searched her room and finally found where the sound was originating from. We got Amanda a cell phone for her 6th grade commencement last night. I hid the phone in her room and started calling it around 6:50. Needless to say, she was super excited to finally get a cell phone. She needed one, especially since she has worn the numbers off of Shantell's phone from texting her friends 24/7.

Amanda was surprised to be one of the recipients of the "PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE". Amanda is an amazing student and is very popular amound her peers. It's no wonder that she won this award.

Here are some pictures of her and her friends at commencement. You can view the all of the photos here.

My room's so bright that I gotta wear shades.

Shantell was out of town this week, so Andrea helped get Amanda to dance class. Apparently Amanda forgot to bring along a costume used in one of her dances for the upcoming recital. (June 3rd @ UVU Reagan Theater) Andrea returned to our house to get the costume from Amanda's room and run it up to her at the studio. When I spoke with her later in the evening, she commented that she had to put on her sunglasses when she entered Amanda's room.

Shantell redid Amanada's bedroom while she was at Camp Big Springs last summer. Shantell redid her bedroom so it would represent a more "teenager" appropriate room. Shantell chose some really bright and spunky colors and added a Surfer Girl theme. It turned out really cute and totally caught Amanda by surprise. It brought tears of joy to Amanda. Amanda was super appreciative on Shantells hard work. Nice work Shantell.

Like, fer sure!

Amanda and her gnarly friends like totally thought it would be tubular to go to school today wearing fashions from the 80's. I was like barf me out, gag me with a spoon, but whatEVER! Amanda looked totally fresh, especially with her rad purple eye shadow. Amanda has some totally awesome friends. I took her to school and snapped a couple pics of her and her wicked friends.

Does Amanda look like a val or what?

La Familia tan Marvillosa

Here is a copy of her talk.

This photo of her mysteriously appeared on my phone.

Here is an additional photo that I snapped of Amanda earlier in the month.

Very Beautiful Girl

Well, I called to check to see if Amanda made the cut and would up leaving a contact number. I got a call about an hour later. The scout informed me that Amanda was a very beautiful girl and had great camera presence. She went on to say that they would like to meet with Amanda and I at 3:30 to discuss, finalize, and pay for the tuition. Here are the tuition options:

Needless to say, I declined the meeting. If it was truly an audition, then why weren't they auditioning for something? I guess they were really auditioning for an invitation to enroll in their acting school.

Amanda called Dallas and Mariana later in the day and found out that Dallas didn't get an invitation. Amanda was really torn up about the whole thing.

$18,000.00 an hour

Dallas, a friend of Amanda, asked her to go to an audition for theiCarly TV show. Amanda, Dallas, and Mariana were going to the audition with Dallas's mom today. I got a call from Dallas yesterday stating that a parent had to go with Amanda to the audition. So guess where I went today?

The audition was at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake. The last time I was at that place was when the Jazz played there. Dad used to be able to get great seats to the Jazz game from Frank Layden. Dad coached one of Frank's sons at Churchill. Anyway, we got there are were herded into a room. Once the room was full, about 200 people, we were given a sales pitch from Academy of Cinema and Television for Kids & Teens.

During that presentation one of the "Talent Agents" informed the group that productions cost are roughly $18,000.00 an hour and that our kids needed to be educated so that they would be wasting production time. She later went on to say how important it is to get an acting education for our kids. This is how the agent worded the need to enroll in their acting school

"If you want to be a plumber, you go to mechanical school. If you want to be a secretary, then you go to secretarial school. If you want to be an actor, then you need to go to acting school."

Each participant would then have to meet with a scout and read a jingle in front of the camera. We met with the scout and here is how the conversation went:

Scout: What is your name?
Amanda: Amanda Marilyn Berrett
Scout: How old are you?
Amanda: 12
Scout: Dad, how willing are you to support your daughter if she gets a call back?
Me: 127%
Scout: Thats an interesting number.
Scout: Did you get a chance to look at the pamphlet?
Me: Some of it.
Scout: Would you be able to pay the tuition fees if your daughter received a call back?
Me: Yes.
Scout: Ok. Amanda, please read the top jingle in front of the camera.

The scout gave us a piece of paper with some times to call them. We need to call them tomorrow between the hours of 9:00 and 10:00am. Amanda read the following jingle:

Poptarts
Bite into Kellog's poptarts, and get ready for something wild. Now with more fruit filling and wild berry flavors, for a taste thathat's better then ever. It's new and wild.

My bet is that all three of them will receive a callback. Stay tuned to see what happens.