Graduation

I am officially done with high school!! I have the tassel and diploma to prove it!

Thank you so much to those who sent me cards and other things!! They mean a lot to me. My plans are to work at Gardners, do Relay for Life, run in the Ragner Relay, and possible attend girls camp this summer. Then, come August, I will be headed to Laramie to the University of Wyoming. I am super excited and plan to work towards a Masters in Speech and Language Pathology. I am hopping all goes well as I move forward and embark in life. I have been told by many that these next few years will be fun and a major turning point in my life. I am glad I am somewhat prepared!! Thank you again to all in my life! 

State Track

Wednesday, May 20 the few select individuals who qualified for State headed out for Casper to show what they had worked so hard for this last year.  On the way we stopped in Riverton and had a small practice to get the bus junk out of our systems. Kirsten and I had fun running on their turf following the circles, letters, and numbers. Then we boarded the bus for the finishing time to beautiful Casper. Thursday we left the hotel and headed to Ihop where we ate up so we could be ready for the big races that day. The first event was the 3200 which I had the privilege to run. I ran it in 12:45, a new Personal Record!! Then I sat in the tent the rest of the day awaiting the last event, the 4x800. Our team, made of Kirsten, Randi, Abby, and myself, took sixth place and ALMOST broke the school record. I ran my fastest split of 2:36 and felt pretty good about the race!! The rest of the weekend I spent filming my peers and getting the best tan of my life!! OUCH! It was fun to finally go to state track; an experience I will remember for a long time!

I"M GOING TO STATE!!!!

So this is officially the first time in four years of running track that I will be going to State. This last weekend I ran the 3200m, 1600m, and was a member of our 4x800 team. I will be going to State in the 3200 and the 4x800. It was a great weekend! All of my races went well and I felt good about the results. I came in 6th in my 3200m  and our 4x800 team came in 4th. In the 1600 I came in 10th and only the top 8 go to State. So....on Wednesday I will board the bus and head to the beautiful metropolis of Casper where I will aim for a spot on the podium! Wish me luck!!

Track in Jackson

This past Wednesday the Star Valley track team boarded the bus for Jackson. The weather was yucky. There was rain and wind which made it very, very cold. None the less, we pretty much rocked the meet. I ran the mile in 5:51 a new p.r. and ran the third leg of our 4x800 with a time of 2:46; no 3200m this time. Ty feels like my I am getting to relaxed in the two mile so he put me in the 4x800 to wake my fast-twitch muscles up and get them going again. I felt pretty cool running the 800 a whole lot faster than I thought I could. In the end, despite the weather it was a great meet!

Baptisms for the Dead

Today we were able to go to the Idaho Falls temple  and do baptisms for the dead. It was a great experience like it always is except this time was a little different because it was Sydney Erickson's first time. It brought back so many memories of my first time in the temple and the many questions I had. Being the oldest meant that I didn't have anyone to lead the way for me, but we didn't let that happen to Sydney. Merrilyn and I made sure she knew why she was doing what she was doing and how to do it. It was a great learning experience for me. I also learned that right above the baptismal font is the celestial room in the temple. How cool is that?! 

We ate lunch in the temple cafeteria and then headed home. We were all bushed and slept until Swan Valley where we made the traditional stop at the square-ice cream store. Yes, JC did let us stop. :) 

It was  a great day!! And to end it I get to watch John Wayne movies with my favorite friends!!!