Tessa's Senior Prom

So I did end up going to my senior prom. My dates name is Ryan Carr and we had a blast! We were in my friends Kylee and Ami's group so it made it way fun because I actually knew the people in the group. On our day date, we went to the San Tan mall and did a picture scavenger hunt. We had an hour to go and get 23 pictures. It was fun running around the mall. There was a lady that was working at Dillard's and she came up to me and Ryan and asked if we needed any help. So we were excited and she helped us get almost all the pictures. Some of the things Dillard's did not have so we had to go to other places in the mall. But we got most of them because of her. She was great! At the end of the hour, we all met up by Johnny Rockets and determined the winners and Ryan and I won that game. It was fun! Then we went inside and ate at Johnny Rockets. It was so good! After relaxing there for a while, we all loaded up into the huge car that fit all of us in, and headed off to go ice blocking. I have not done that in the longest time and it was so great! Luckily no one got seriously damaged during that activity. Some scrapes and bruises but no broken limbs or busted open gashes. :D We spend almost 2 hours there ice blocking then the boys took all us girls home to go get ready. After getting all prettied up, everyone gathered at Ryan's house to eat diner that his family served us. It was a huge meal and very filling.

After diner, We all got into the cars and drove over to the dance. But when we got there Ryan found out that he forgot the tickets at home. Haha. He was so embarrassed. I told him it was ok because the dance was less than 10 minutes away from his house, and that we would just go back and pick them up. So we drove back and got the tickets and arrived at the dance. We were there an hour after it started because diner went into the dance time but it was ok. We went in and danced for a little then my group decided it was time for pictures. So we went and it took 1 hour to get our pictures taken because of the line!! It was so crazy! But the pictures were worth the wait because they all turned out really nice. After the pictures we went to dance for a little bit longer and then left the dance and headed to another guys house that was in my group. We watched Brian Reagan and everyone was so tired some people even fell asleep watching it. So we all called it a day and headed home. So that was my crazy day!! It was such a blast though.

Ice Blocking.

2 graduates in 2009!

Guess what?!?!?! Amanda and I have graduated! Amanda graduated from Eastern Arizona College with her associates degree. She has come so far! Her college years have been filled with a lot of work. She has had so many band classes and the music arts teachers all know who she is. She has proved to them that it was worth them to give her that scholarship. She really loves music and has come a long way with her skills at both piano and flute. I have to say though, she does play the piano much much more than the flute. She did not only take music classes of course. She also packed her schedule tight with the classes she needed to take to graduate. She had such a stressful schedule but somehow made it through her first two years of college. She is going to work over the summer to save up some money and has been accepted to ASU. Way to go Amanda!!

I have graduated from High School!! YAY!! I was so so so tired of high school and I am so happy that I am not going back! I will be working over the summer and then after the summer I will be attending Eastern Arizona College. I have auditioned for the orchestra scholarship there and have been given a full tuition scholarship. I am so excited for that. I could not believe that it was full tuition. I was not expecting that much from it. The orchestra teacher also wants me to get some private lessons from him and he said that I can sign some wavers so that I can get the lessons for free! YAY!! This whole experience has made me excited about starting college. Here are some pictures of me and Amanda in our caps and gowns.

Hello... are you there?

Ok. So many of you may be thinking that the Ralph family has fallen off the face of this earth because we have not posted anything for a long long time. haha. Well guess what? We are still here and I am here to prove it. Now that I have time I will give you an update on what we have been doing lately. I will do this and some different posts for you today.

Ok first post...Well, there was Easter. Easter this year was so much fun! Alison, Blaine, Aaron, Spencer, Treyson, and Alyssa came here to Arizona to celebrate Easter with us. (sorry if some names are spelt wrong) It has been a long time since our house has been full of little kids excited to decorate eggs, and have an Easter egg hunt in the morning. It was fun watching them decorate the eggs in their own special style with a variety of colors and making the kitchen counters look like an Easter egg too. Then in the morning they had their Easter basket to look through and a present they were all dying to open. Then there was a fun Easter egg hunt that took a while because the Easter bunny did such a good job at hiding them. I loved watching them look in every nook and cranny for the eggs. :D Well here are some pictures of Easter. Hope you enjoy!