TORO CHEER!

Ever sense I can remember I have wanted to cheer. As my oldest sister Beth was a Toro cheerleader, and also my other sister Heidi. I have been experimented with, in stunts as a young child. As I have grown older and reached quite a height in my growth there is no way I can be a flyer, but I prefer to back, there's nothing better than having complete control of the stunt. I have been to countless completions, the most boring sporting event to watch possible (take that back nothing beats baseball). But I've always wanted to be there, on the track cheering for football, or basket ball, as my sisters did it, and they were what I wanted to be.

So when I was 13 I decided to actually try out this dream and put it into effect! I started taking tumbling lessons at Desert Devils, and 8 months later I tried out for their cheer team. I made team four, but was still a semi-failure, because I did NOT have my backhand spring, and as competition came we didn't have time to work on it. So as I had an awesome time at cheer, met the most amazing people, and learned so much the past year Desert Devils, I still wanted to be that Toro Cheerleader! That’s all I EVER wanted! So as tryouts getting closer I decided to be determined to through away my mental block and get my back handspring. So after many private lessons with my AMAZING coach Clint! And many backyard lessons with my sister Beth, I DID IT! I was soo happy, and I was ready for tryouts.

I went the first day realized everyone hand a round off back-handspring serious with a tuck, lay-out, or full to finish it off. I went home and cried in the arms of Heidi, and continued going to the clinics and when tryouts came I removed all my fears and performed everything to the best of my abilities, and more! So when the numbers were posted, I didn't even want to discover mine wouldn't be there, but I went anyways.... and it was! I wouldn't believe it! It blew me away, and when I came home my sister Beth had gotten me flowers and candy! She’s the best and it made the day even better!

So as my dream has come true, I have practice at 5 in the morn 3 days a week! Which I'm ready for it! I would expect no less because I want this to mean more to me and REALLY TRULY LOVE IT!

schedule!

My, Oh My! i don't think could fit anything else in my schedule. I've been so overwhelmed i just want to stay home and be sick, but i can't other wise I'd miss out so many things and then I'd be even more stressed out! with cheer, violin, piano, track, school, homework (two totally different categories) and church, although I've never seen church as taking up my time, but when i look at my schedule it kinda only takes up hours. everyday i have something or a few things that consumes more than an hour of my time, and then 1+1/2 to 2+1/2 hours of homework, plus the days that I have projects and tests. So I have decided my schedule is over booked, and as other things have occurred I've had to miss way to much track and now I'm looking in the future I'm going to miss even more practices and meets. I feel terrible for committing to something now that i have to quit, but i committed to cheer a long time ago, and i want, and need music in my future, and my future cannot go anywhere without school. If i truly loved track I would fit it in my schedule, but i obviously am not in love with it, because I am not going to over book myself, it's unhealthy, and my cheer skills and focus in all other aspects of my life have been unfocused and unable to progress. So now I committed a dodgey crime, but honestly the track team is not what i wan and enjoy. So hopefully I will be able to focus and excel in my life, even if it's not my 100 meter time.

RECAP!

Where to begin, it’s been almost a year from the lost post, and I’m sorry, but school… I’ve never been so crazy in my life. So I’ll try to recap. In May I started cheering at desert Devils. OH HOW I LOVE CHEER! I do not believe in pom poms. I am a completive cheer leader. Then school was over and summer hit! Oh how I love the summer in Az, When you walk outside and you’re instantly warm and hot and the sun just feel so good, and right. My summer started out with the best concert of my life!!! Fun.!! I have it written somewhere, maybe on the One year anniversary. (Haha) then I left for Stake youth conference, then EFY, Family reunion, D.C., California, Girls Camp, then Sedona. Working at my parent’s office, whenever I was in town, cheer, every single day, and every single opportunity. And then school started… High school grades, honors classes, and still at the academy, going to school with 5^th graders. May I say I LOVE IT! I love the Uniforms, the teachers that give a CRAP LOAD of homework, the one that will talk about television shows during class, the one that puts reality into math, the one that inspires me every day with music, the ones who understand I’m young and have a life to live, and take that into consideration when helping me plan my future, and all them for loving me and caring for me, I am forever in debt.

This past year has been so crazy! With absolutely no more free time at home, somehow, every so often I add something new. I feel as if me family has become one where we’re always doing something, with supportive parents and family members, from watching my father ride his bike, my mother’s quilting conventions and classes, Jayton’s baseball and basket ball games, and my cheer competitions, and orchestra concerts. Yet I love them all and I’m never willing to give them up. I’m sick of writing at the moment and this is terrible but I hope this is a recap of this year. Although so much has happened when I am in the mood I shall write more.