Tater Bug

December 6th 2006~December 25th 2007

Edward Tate Nelson

This post is for my cousin tate. He holds a very special place in my heart that will never be replaced. I love(d) every moment i spent with him. he always gave me a great laugh. Tate Is a very special boy and I'm going to miss him more than anyone can seem to imagine this is hard for me to write because he only passed away this morning. My Tater-tot is gone. I can't hold him anymore or rock him to sleep (sorry i must sound like beckie) but Tate was like my little brother and I miss as much as I would Baby Carsten. The pain is still very strong... GOSH I miss him so much. Tater was a very special boy and i love him so much. This is going to be hard to get over but somehow I'll manage. I miss him so much Its going to be so hard going over to Beckie And Graham's house and knowing that taters won't be there with a huge smile and a big hug. Carsten lost his best friend today... He'll never know what a special boy taters was. It Still doesn't seem real AT ALL you look at pictures and all that goes through your head is I was just with him how could he possibly be gone .Taters & Carsten will never get to be on the same t-ball team or wrestle with each other But i only hope that I can teach Carsten about Tate and let him realize that Tate still is his best friend and it will remain that way for all eternity.. This is so hard on me because I have grown very close to Tate and it will be hard for me. But I can not begin to comprehend the pain my aunt Beckie And Uncle Graham are going through. I Love Tate with all my heart and I'm going to miss him so much. I Love you Tate I'll love you till the moon stops shining and the stars stop glowing. I miss you so so so so so so so much Taters I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

I Am Legend

For those of you looking for a new movie to go see, go see I Am Legend. It was a really amazing movie, it is so sad but so intense at the same time. i hated how it ended i was so mad. UGHH! but other than that I LOVED IT it was such a good movie and i dont think I've seen a really good movie like that in a LONGGGGG time! so do yourselves a favor and GO SEE IT!

All I Want For Christmas...

OK MAN OF MY DREAMS HERE PEOPLE. Michael Buble is one of my absolute FAVORITE singers he knows how to win any girls heart and has the most ah-MAZING voice ever created. what can I say? the man is a bodacious beast ha ha j/k but he is very fine. I AM IN LOVE he has the most romantic voice and i Love listening to him whenever I need a good love song. here's some videos...

& you thought we weren't crazy enough...

Amber came over last Saturday to work on her dad's slideshow for Christmas. Of course that never happened we were WAY to hyper! So we decided how hungry we were and there was NOTHING!! So while digging through the pantry we happened upon some refired beans. So we cooked them in a huge bowl and had tostito's (sp?) with them.. And to make this dinner even more formal than it already was we added Martinelli's to spice it up ;) ha ha we were really bored. but then we also found cake mix. the pictures explain it for itself. then we topped it off with our traditional HANNAH MONTANA PARTY!!!!!!!!!!! we have the coolest song to Let's Dance! ha ha. It was a great night and I'm glad she came over I LOVE YOU AMBER!! (oh carsten thinks she's the hottest thing alive so that explains the picture

Choir Christmas Concert

So this Wednesday ( the 12th) is my high school's christmas concert. If you didnt know this before you know it now, but Highland High is known for its OUTSTANDING OUTSTANDING music programs which fortunatley I get to be in! so this Wednesday Is our concert @ 7:30 and Ms. Scholz & Mr. Hickman (my choir Directors) GO ALL OUT for the christmas concert and its PHENOMENAL. Chorale (the choir I am in which consists of boys and girls... mainly freshman) is singing a 5-part Bach, Before the Marvel of this night, a Jazz reminition of Jingle bells, and a special suprise number at the end with ALL the choirs. This has been a tradition for years and years. so if you have nothing to do COME!!!!! the concerts are always so beautiful and its free admision. (and this includes getting to see me look like a pilgrim in my uniform) Highland is on Guadalupe and Power... I think? but anyways COME and it'll be AWESOME!!!

SNOWBALL FIGHT!!!!

Non-Crappy Starring You! eCards on JibJab

ha ha these are my friends amber, zach, robby, and hillary we were REALLY bored HAHAHAA

Private

K guys I'm Going Private I need everyone's email so I can do this as SOON AS POSSIBLE I will be going Private on Wednesday so Let me get 'em so i can add you a.s.a.p.
thx guys.
~tori

Grandma & Grandaughter Night

Tonight (November 24) I got to go to The Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes at Dodge Theatere... IT WAS AH-MAZING!!! It was so cute and funny. the girls were unbelievable and were all synchronized PERFECTLY!!! talk about professional dancers!!! They ran through all the main stories and songs during christmas like... the Nutcracker, Carol of the Bells and even THE NATIVITY with real camels, sheep, and donkeys! it was so unbelievably GREAT!! Then Me and Grandma went to P.F. Changs for dinner MMmmmm thanks Grandma for a GREAT night!

Happy Thanksgiving

So this Thursday (November 22) was Thanksgiving. We spent the first half of the day at Pai's house and then went over to my Aunt Renee's house for a later dinner. Then came home to watch a dissapointing ASU vs. USC game (44 to 24.) Big Bummer but HEY! what can you do? So it was an over-all good day filled with AWESOME food. OH did I mention Dad made A TON of home-made pies? They were SOO good, chocolate silk & Pumpkin Mmmm. I am so grateful for everything in my life especially my wonderful family and friends! I Love you guys and I am thankful for all of you! Happy Thanksgiving/ Christmas, (I'm not saying Happy Christmas because of that stupid debate people are having I just like how the people in Europe say it) ha ha.

ONE MORE YEAR!!

This weekend i turned 15!!!! ONE MORE YEAR TILL IM DATING WOO HOO JESS!!!!!!!!! I was so excited. Amber threw a awesome party for me at the park and then saturday was "family" day and monday (a holiday) was spent at Eggington's with my aunts. it was an AWESOME birthday and thatnks everyone for all you do!

Alright, Alright, Alright, Alright, Alright HEY! E-F-Y

So This Saturday I got the opportunity to go to an E.F.Y day camp with Amber, Emma, Carson, Karson, & Tyler. It was SOO fun! We got to Grand Canyon University, (yes a baptist school go figure) And checked in. Then we got to listen to two great speakers, Brother Wilcox & Brother Hoffman. They talked on really great subjects and stuff I never knew. After that we all went out to the baseball field and had a TON of pizza and candy it was really fun. Then we went back into the auditorium and got to listen to a really great pianist named John Schmidt. HE WAS AMAZING! and quite hillarious Especially when atyler almost got knocked out by another guy ha ha. After that all the 14 year olds and up got to stay for the dance. IT WAS A BLAST! and we met tons of new guys! and me and tyler got a new record of 5 times we danced with each other. ha ha. It was an over-all GREAT experience and it brought back memories of efy.

Bounce U

So tonight was Bella's and Stratton's birthday party. It was really fun chucking balls at Jason, Sean, J.D, Josh, & John. so yeah it was fun for the most part.

HALLOWEEN, everybody's waiting for the next suprise...

Well talk about a fun night! MAN! so i went to ambers (you can all guess what probably happened) we went crzy nutto! JUT LOOK AT MY HAIR!!! so me and amber were the good fairy (amber) and I was the bad fairy & ashton was a football player. We met up with all our friends and had a total blast! thanks nik for a great show!! and out friends were huh-larious to see in their costumes!
Tori, ashton, & amber

CeRAzY CoUsInS

Me & J.d. in Nassau Bahamas

Notice Jd.'s eye! :o) Gavin, j.d. and tori

This isn't Crazy but it was cute, Tori, Pai, John, J.d.

Me & j.d. At easter
Don't even ask, Josh in who knows what

Okay, everyone has heard how crazy my cousinis & I can get (particually J.D. & Josh) But oh wow do we have the funnest time. I don't think anyone is as close as I am to my cousins I am SOO lucky to have them and have them be my best friends. I think I see them more than I do my own immediate family. HA HA but seriously they're the best. I love them so much! But J.d. Josh & I have the funnest time and think of the stupidest stuff sometimes. Here's proof:

Chub Rabbit + Captain Jay = FUN TIME!

This Friday we went to the annual family "chub rabbit" halloween party. Chub Rabbit has been a tradition in my family since my mom was really little and its so FUN! But this year was especially fun because....amber and Jess got to go with me! thanks so much guys We had so much fun! They helped out with my mom's station and it was huh-llarious I was cracking up! Amber looked awesome!!! i'll have to get pictures of her and jess from Ami... wink wink ha ha. But by the end of the night we had so many inside jokes! This was a BLAST all the aunts did a great job doing there stations and everything was so cute! I can't wait till my halloween party (maybe) out at the house. But the whole night was so funny!!! from watching Jess run through dirt with heels and amber going through a fence ha ha ha oh my gracious that was really funny!!! everyone looked so cute and I had a blast! thanks so much amber and jess for coming!!!! And thanks everyone else who put it all together it was a BLAST

I love my "brother!"

k Phyl is like my ultimate big brother! And i always have the funnest time with him hahaha.... K so here's a picture he drew for me(buzz)/ photoshopped(napoleon).... he's such an amazing drawer??? if that's what you call them. Because he hates to paint. I continue to be amazed at what this boy seems to accomplish and i can't wait till i see his name on disney!!! LOVE YA PHYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a hottie...tori is incredible

I love tori like no other...she is amazing in everything she does and i love her for it. I love how i can tell her absolutely anything and she totally understands. Everything we do...no matter how ridiculous it is, we always seem to have fun and make it the best of times. And how we just start cracking up before anyone says anything...funny FUNNY!! hehe, lol. i love my loving sister and i dont know where i would be without her. with all our dumb inside jokes(...i have to pee) hahahahhaha. i cant flippin' believe how lucky i am, she is the best friend ever ever ever. i love you!!!!! lol
~BRINKS~

Disney World

For the most part this trip was so much fun! I had a BLAST going on all the rides and doing stupid poses with megan for the camera. so here's the list of events that happened

Saturday: Xan and I board our plane at 12 o' clock in the afternoon and get to florida about 8. From the airport Maryann picked us up with Emily, and that's where our luck ran out. So we get in the car to find out emily had accidently turned on the windshield wipers and we had absolutley no idea how to turn them off. so me and xan are BUSTING UP in the back seat while Emily is trying to figure out the rental car it was funny. Then we get lost in the middle of orlando trying to find a flippin wal*mart, and this task my friends was not easy. we looked everywhere for this stupid thing and finally after about an hour of looking we finally found it. So that was our first night.

Sunday: Just General Conference, Quizno's, and the Orlando temple

Monday: Woke up rgith eyed bushy-tailed at 8, got myself ready and did megan's hair haha. We went to MGM on Monday, and it was.....okay. The best part of this whole entire park was Rockin' Rollercoaster starring Aerosmith. THE BEST RIDE EVER!!! it is so much fun! I can't remember how many times we rode it. Then there was the traditional Hollywood Tower Of Terror and its so cool because the one in disney world has it on random so you never know whats coming (on Top 7). & then the rest of the day was just spent chillin' and going through shows and just little rides. Then we ate at a 50's Diner where they actually treated you like little kids. it was really cute. then we went home and CRASHED....well eveyone else did of course i was up texting

Tuesday: Woke up again but this time we slept in and went to the COOLEST pool that i've ever seen in a hotel. Then we Got ready and went to Epcot. This was a really fun day and it started out with a really cool little ride that was hosted by ellen degeneris and Bill nye the science guy about energy it was really funny. Then we went to Test Track and that was realy fun! It's a car ride that takes you through the Test they do for new cars. REALLY FUN!!! Then we made our way over to Honey, I shrunk the audience and that was a 3D movie that was really funny, but kind of just a one time thing. Then the fun part started we got to wait in line for 60 minutes For SOARIN'...oh the Joy it is an AWESOME ride but I can't stand wasting an hour for it. Then, Me Megan, and Xan went and did Mission space, SO COOL!!! it was like a real spaceship launch it was a lot of fun. Then all the girls (Maryann, Me, Emily, Megan, Alli, & Xan) all got to go a PRINCESS DINNER!!!! it was so much fun! we met all the princesses but they were all really not that attractive. But our waiter was GORGEOUS so we took a picture with her. We all had different types of food from Norway and suprisingly it was delicious i loved it! Then we went home.

Wednesday: We woke up really early again for this day because we were going to Magic Kingdom all day. So we took the bus to magic Kingdom and got there at about 10. To start of our day we went on Pirates of the Carribean....Bad Move! All of us got stuck on this ride for thirty minutes listening to YO HO YO HO A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME. And yes this got just a little annoying. Then we just spent the day hitting all the rides...and one ride in particular we all were very fond of was (suprisingly) the teacups. OH MY WORD we HAULED!!!! (as megan and Jon put it) we were going so fast we had to stop after 2 sec. because Jon started getting sick it was so funny!!! everyone looked like drunkers ha ha. Then we hit the big rides like space & thunder mountain( thunder was closed =/) oh well we still had a lot of fun!

Thursday: This day started early by getting on the bus to animal kingdom at 9 o'clock. and let me tell you IT WAS HOT!!!!! We were all sweating like pigs but we still had a lot of fun on Expedition Everest, primeval whirl, Dinosaur (ask maryann for the picture!) haha and a safari. It was a lot of fun. Then we all headed back to the condos to get our costumes on because that night was mickey's not-so-scary Halloween party in Magic Kingdom. The funnest time I had during this trip! We all got to go trick-o-treating and go on rides that totally freaked me megan and xan out almost to the point where we were almost in tears...yeah they were that bad! Allie was Dorothy, Nathan was Jack sparrow, Megan was Minnie Mouse, Ryan was thomas the tank engine, Adam was Harry Potter, Xan was a Pirate, and I was Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas (what else?) There were the most AMAZING fireworks and we made a few trips to Autopia, The Teacups, Space mountain, Splash mountain, and just about every ride but we were able to go on these rides NUMEROUS times because there was NO ONE after all the fireworks and parades so we hit each ride at least 3-5 times it was AWESOME!!!

Friday:GREATEST HITS DAY ...this is the day we did all of our favorite rides at all the parks! talk about a lot of walking! when we were done with animal kingdom, & MGM, we headed over to Epcot to eat our dinner at the coral reef restaraunt (you eat in this huge aquarium with tons of sea animals) and then watched a gorgeous fireworks show calle illuminations, reflections of earth. it was SOOOO pretty i loved it. then me megan, emily, xan, and adam walked around all the countries. This was my absloute FAVORITE part about Epcot. They were the cutest reminitions of all the countries and they had the cutest couples there that just danced to the music in the street, but then there were the occasional drunkers who would be...well drunk and try to dance. It was really quite hysterical to me and Megan hahaha. We stayed out again till 12 that night and we were OUT by the time we got home, well except for me because robby and adam were 3 hours behind me so I had to stay awake texting them. Just kidding guys much love!

This trip was so much fun! and i was so lucky to have the opportunity to go!! I LOVED IT!!

thankful part 2

Today got me thinking how flippin' lucky I am to have my friends. I watch other People's friendship's go down the tubes and see what bad examples they were. But I am so glad that my friends are the BEST examples to me!!! They always know when to cheer you up and always put the biggest smile on my face no matter what kind of day i'm having! They're so good to everyone and treat everyone so respectfully! I am so dang lucky to have the absolute BEST FRIENDS AND FAMILY any person could EVER ask for geez....how much luckier can one person get? since I listed some of the funny things my family does i might as well list my friends "moments" of pure recklessness, craziness, & of course RANDOMNESS!!! Amber~ always having a new inside joke with me everyday and being the one i always end up talking and crying to, Hillary~ eating a whole watermelon and being the coolest girl, Robby~ being like a brother and teasing me everyday, Brinks~Random spurts of laughs, Emma~ always being my favorite, Taft~ Breaking my glasses, Tyler~having the FUNNIEST laugh on this earth, Zach~ being so good to Amber and Being so funny for just meeting him, Alex~ I've known him since 2nd grade but we really gotta catch up, Phulup~ MY BROTHER!!!!! i can go to him for anything, Jess~ always making me fell crazy and different, Kenna~TORIOREO (did i say enough?), Adam~Ganging up on Jake with me lol, Connor~ being HUH-LARIOUS (especially when sucking helium outta balloons), Kyle~being my Best friend since 7th grade (even though i made you cry), Nik~ OH GEEZ.....do i even have to explain? homeboy's got the weirdest things in his mind sometimes, Sterling~texting me while getting stitches and being a little TOO informative, Sean~ i get all my jokes from this stud and laugh my gutts out!Court~ IM SO SORRY I FORGOT YOU! we need to always remember eachOTHER's names. ha ha so i think i got everyone but if i didnt email me and tell me!!!! I REALLY REALLY LOVE YOU GUYS you are so fun and always make me look forward to going to school everyday! where would I be without you?

Thankful Part ONE

Going to church today and watching my little brother have the time of his life just being out of sacrament and playing around on the stage made me think how lucky i am to have my family! and watching my little sisters do their primary program and being so proud of them for memorizing their parts and wanting to learn more about jesus and always being ready for church before i am. It made me think how much better i can be as a person and how many more better choices i can make. I dont know where i would be without my Two most important tools everyday... my family and my friends. Every single one of my aunts is so easy to talk to and they're litterally my best friends, I love to hear my friends say, I wish my aunts were like yours...and, your so lucky your family does stuff like that! And I am SOOOO lucky I can go to them for anything and they just listen and they're so easy to be around!...Heidi, Ami,Beckie, April, JoAnna, Missy, & Mo, thank you so much! i dont think you realize how thankful I am to have you in my life!
Now for the uncles.... oh geez, without the uncles there would be no humor, no fights, no busting up laughing, no teasers, and no pranks. They're all just like my big brothers and i can even go to some of them for any of my problems! They're so Fun to be with and there's never a dull moment....whether it's John's random Dancing in a Cemetery, Graham acting gay, Jason's laugh, Sean's pranks on his brothers, Justin's....justiness, Derek's WWF show downs..oh wow, & Danny's adjusting to the Fam its all just too dang flippin funny!
As for the cousins... we have some moments haha.. im not listing every single moment of pure insanity that comes out of our head but here's a few....Gisele dancing in her underwear and Dad scaring the pee outta her, cienne's "sayings", Noah's prayers, Ethan's random outbursts of love, Easton peeing WHEREVER! Me and J.D's random inside jokes, Stratton and Cade going at it like little boys that they are, and Josh's "poses" i think i am the luckiest girl on earth to have my cousin go everywhere with me and be my best friend!!!
So thank you my family for being the BEST FAMILY ON EARTH!!!!!! No one else has a family as unique as mine and i am so FLIPPIN LUCKY to have you guys!!! thanks so much and i appreciate every single one of you!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!

Fun With the Camera

I Think Me and my friends have a little to much fun with the camera sometimes... but anyways these pictures were huh-larious and i couldn't just let them sit there in the file being undiscovered so here they are... OH WOW

Bethea Boarders

Skim Boarding On The Beaches Of St. Augustine

Wakeboarding @ suagaroThanks to Having NO girl cousins growing up i have become accustomed to the skateboarding, wakeboarding, skim-boarding, etc. etc. lifestyle thanks to my Uncles and cousins who are incredible at any type of "boarding". I'm lucky to be able to have this opportunity with my family because not a lot of girls "board" (except amber, Dolly girl, Ami, Aunt Heidi, Beckie & April) and i'm so thankful i have them because I don't have an OLDER brother who can teach me any of this. They are the BEST coaches and they're so fun to watch, and I learn so much from them! So here's a thanks to John, Sean, Jason, J.D, and Josh. (and us girls who can KICK BUTT!)