life is busy

Well, the holiday season is here and alot has gone on in the past couple of months. School is almost half way done and im drowning in hmwrk for honors classes. im excited for break to start. Rock climbing is amazing as always, i love my team! im heading out to a comp in oregon next weekend and im getting psyched!! im hoping to climb a lot more and maybe head out doors and crush on the real stuff. so far i havent gotten hurt so im crossing my fingers it will stay like that :)

this weekend my mom got first place at a cookie exchange. (she mad

e a native latin american cookie) i also volunteered at a festival called Redmond Lights. it was a blast. its was a great way to start the holidays! the HUSKIES won the apple cup, thank god! but sadly the BEAVERS lost the civil war :( at least half my pride is still

in tacked.

overall life takes up a lot of time but so far so good :D

Ketchup.. hehe

So, A-Champs was a BLAST!! it was at KCAC (king county aquatic center), the coolest pool i have ever swam at, its an Olymic size pool shrunk to two 25yrd pools. 1 of my relays got 7th and the other got 8th (out of 16) and my team got 8th overall (out of 26).... it was loads of fun... the sad thing is, no more swim team for a year :*(...

after swim team ended, my mom and i went to ontario, canada... when we got there we took a road trip with a fried of my moms and her daughter... the best part is that we were cramped in a mini cooper :D... other than that, it was a blast!

now im doing rowing every weekday till school starts... its really fun but hard.

im happy school is startng soon and cant wait to be a 9th grader.

thats about everyting

Prelims... AKA semi-finals

Monday was Prelims and i was so excited to be at my first prelims... all of us were wishing so hard to do great.. and... we ALL did!!!... every single person on my team that made it to prelims moved on to A-Champs (Finals)... both my medley and free relays placed 8th, so now at
A-Champs we will be competing against to top eight and scoring big points for our team!! the only downside is that A-Champs is tomorrow so we have to wake up at 5AM to make it there by6:45ish... BLAH!!... its going to be a long, exhausting, and GREAT day!!!

Crazy Life!!

i have had a non-stop, crazy, and an extremely exhausting summer so far. swim season has come and gone so amazingly fast. i was shocked how much climbing effected my swimming (in a positive way)... in my first 13 races i got first. last night (Thursday) was the last meet of the season, now all that's left is prelims and league champs... I'm SOO pumped!! ...most of my summer has been focused on swimming but i try and kee

p my life as balanced as possible. we have a exchange student from Spain here. she is nice and fits right in w

ith my family, its been a blast havin her here but she is leaving in two weeks :(...

also,

in two weeks i leave to Toronto, Ontario with my mom for vacation... this will be my ONLY time to relax this summer cause after i get home i start rowing everyday at 7am... Blah!!... today my dad and i head out on a small two day road trip to Forks, Ruby Beach, and other places (that i don't remember the names of) ...i love and hate having such a busy life... but it keeps me wondering whats gona happen next, so life is never boring.

SUMMER!!!

the stress of school is finally gone! today was the first full day of summer and it was fun, but COLD!... swim meets have started and rock climbing on team, for me is now down to just Fridays. my friend and i went climbing at Vertical World Redmond this weekend and had a blast leading while most of the team was at devotionals. i am soooo proud of my team mates for doing so well (and my coaches for helping everyone get so far) and wish the ones who made it nationals the best of luck... I LOVE U ALL!...
swim team is a blast, as normal...im working on getting a 25.59 in my 50yrd freestyle to beat the pool record (im at a 28.02s). my relays dominate with A times (BDQs) in both the medley and free 200yrd relay, at B meets im left to swim only 50yrd breast stroke and back stroke, and 100 IM.. Blah!... Overall the first day of summer rocked!! its going to be a great Summer!

SIDE NOTE: i will add pictures once i upload to my computer..

Vashon Island

today was a day of adventure with the family. my mom and dad decided it would be fun to go to Vashon Island for the day since we have never been there before. my brother and i had no clue where we were going, all we knew was we were going to spend most of the day in our cramped car. we all piled in to our ford escape around 12pm and headed to the ferry. it wasn't the nicest of days but we grinned and bared it. when we got there we spent most of our time in down town and ate at the Hardware Store. it was AMAZING food! after eating we headed out to the lighthouse. to my dads dismay, the lighthouse was small. oh well. on the beach though, my mom and i went camera happy and took pictures of rock, shell and piece of drift wood we could find. it was a fun, interesting, and slightly adventurous day on Vashon Island for me and my family, well maybe not my brother (he read through most the trip).

Summer is almost here!!

after Friday there are only 3 weeks of school left minus a long weekend! now that swim team started and climbing is coming to an end the last of the school year is going by so fast. also with due dates in in June the end seems so close. in leadership career day has past TOC is comming up and the 9th grade boat dance soon. YAY its almost summer. the badthing is finals are soon.. EEEP! Well hopfuly, the end will turn out great!

MSP testing

The MSP is the new WASL and it isnt very great in my oppion. its not much different from the WASL and it didnt test us much on what we learned this year but last year in 7th grade. luckly... ITS OVER!!! and next year there is no MSP for 9th graders. ihave a years break. this also marks the 3 weeks left in school point! YAY

regionals... the end is almost here and a new beginning starts

this weekend was SCS (Sport Climbing Series) regionals. i didnt do as well as i had hoped but im a now prepared to come back next year and completely crush. it has been a great learning. next year it will be my year. i have had so much fun climbing with my friends and getting so strong. Swim team is started and im looking forward to A times and hopefuly getting a 25 sec 50 yrd free style to beat the record... fingers crossed. its a large goal but ill still try. last year my best time was 29sec so if i get a quicker dive and faster turn ill be golden. i put 200% into all my sports but know there is room for error. as climbing season comes to an end, swim season comes to an open and i say goodbye to the fear of falling and hello to the fear of running out of breath. My arms will no longer get pumped but now go numb. there is still about a month left of Vertical World team so i will not say all my goodbyes till next year yet. as a new year comes i am prepared to brake records in swimming and crush like i have never crushed before in climbing.

Swim team!! (Finally)

yay! i finally started swim team (on Monday)! i have been waiting for it to start since it ended... it is soooo nice to see my swim friends again... we are all family there... we all started talking like we saw each other the day before...our coaches this year rock... last years assistant coaches are the head coaches and the assistant coach is an old swimmer and my friends brother... practice was like any other... just as hard.. just as fun.. just as painful =)... it felt like we had never left... Go Tsunamis!!! We rock!... this year is going to be awesome (like normal).

Daughtry

on Sunday evening i went to a Daughtry concert with my mom! the funny thing is we got the tickets so long ago we forgot bout the concert until a couple days before...it was at the WAMU theater in Seattle... the theater was quite small but it was sold out (i didn't like the smallness)...it was a great concert CAVO opened up followed by Lifehouse (who i LOVE!!!) and finally DAUGHTRY!!! so cool to see them live...we left 20min. early cause of traffic and it was a school night i and i was sooo tired... i love concerts they are soo much fun... thanks mom!

GO SOUNDERS!!!

on Saturday i went to a sounders soccer game with my dad after yearbook camp. this game was my first real sounders game. i went once before but a long time ago and they weren't a big team. the match was against the Columbus crew and sadly we tied (blah refs). i had tons of fun with my dad! our seats were amazing. we stood the entire game and the fans are so supportive. before going to the game we had a couple of hours extra so we walked all the way to westlake to eat and back to quest field... blah LONG walk but it was worth it. GO SOUNDERS!

Go Mariners!!

last night i went to my first mariners game! it went into the 12th inning and sadly... we lost :( but it was a great game! we had high seats (sec 316) but we had a good view of the field. we had 2 extra tickets so lezlie and her dad joined us. we shared a huge snow cone.. it was soooo hard to eat. nat the game i was being a shutter bug (like always) and got some great pics. i had loads of fun with my mom, dad, lezlie, and her dad! im at safco field again for yearbook U. and at 7:30 im off to a sounders game!!!!!!! GO SOUNDERS! GO MARINERS!

yearbook seminar!

today in at safco field from 8am till 10pm for yearbook university. I'm so excited, this is the start to me being editor for next year! the first speaker is John Cutsinger and boy is he funny (he also has a serious hate for freshmen)... I'm so syched for the rest of the day!! this is such a great experience and opportunity. the bad thing is i cant upload pics, my sd card isnt working :( Oh well...... Ben VanHounten is the Mairners photographer and he is here talking to use and later will be teaching us! Cool!

Team practice

Last night at practice we we did circuits and grueling nines. i have only completed one of the three circuits but I'm working on the rest :). Nines are...ugh... but help with endurance so they're important. I was SO sore after and today, i could barley open my hands. I know it comes with the teritory and someday im going to be beast!