State XC and Birthday!

Tuesday the Pine View High School went up to Salt Lake City for state! It was a long bus ride up there but it was still fun. My team is so crazy! There wasn't a dull moment the whole time up haha. When we got to our hotel we got our room assignments, changed, then went on a short 2.5 mile run to get our legs up and going! Then we all showered and got ready then went to dinner. I went to TGI Fridays with a bunch of people that included our team coaches. It was really funny! I thought Coach Holt was going to get us kicked out or something. There was a total of ten of us and we were all so loud. Coach was telling us funny stories of when he and his buddies would get bored and try to get away with things. Haha it was really funny, lucky for us there wasn't to many people in the restraunt. After dinner we went back to the hotel and had team meetings. Coach Holt gave a really good speech to us about how this years girls set the goal for the rest of the years to come. It was really cool, I thought he was going to cry haha. After the coaches inspired us for the race the next day we had team captain meetings where we ended up singing happy birthday to me, eating cake, and just talking haha we are such girls!

The next day we woke up ate a pretty darn good continental breakfast, got ready, and went off to the race! We had a little bit till we ran so we all played soccer, volleyball, frisbee, and just walked around talking to the other teams. Then the race came and everyone was really excited and nervous. The course was hard! All grass with crazy huge hills and it just seemed like it would never end! We did way good though!! Boys took 3rd and girls took 12th! Which is way good compared to earlier years! :D After the races we stayed for awards and then went home!

We stopped in Provo for dinner and we just went to the mall there. I guess its a good food court there or something beacause like five other schools were there also. In honor of my birhtday, my friend Cassidy thought it would be cool to have the whole cafeteria sing happy birthday to me. So, she got up told everyone to start singing and right then and there I got sang to. Haha a little embarrasing but still pretty cool :D. On the bus ride home everyone was pretty much dead so we all just relaxed, listened to music, and slept.

It was a really good time! Especially since we didnt have school and we just got back from a long weekend so for us it was extra long!! Even better :). When I got home it was about 10:30 so I got to open one present which was perfume and it smells pretty good. Then I went straight to bed. The next morning I had school :/ so I got up, dead tired, and went to school. After school I got to open the rest of my presents which consited of clothes, clothes, and more clothes. :D YAY! Oh and chapstick!! I'm addicted to that stuff. Thank you Grandma for the towel! I like butterfly on it! :D Thank you Chanda for the earings they are very cute! :) Thanks to everyone else for sending me stuff I may have not recieved yet such as cards etc.

Morgan made me a very delicious cake which I got to eat after coming home from Canta Bella!! Which reminds me: My choir has Christmas cds we are selling for $10 to raise money for our Disneyland trip in the spring. IT IS SO GOOD NO LIE! I am in seven of the songs on the cd and everyone should buy one! They are great presents for anyone and you can give them away to family member and friends. If you would like one just let me know so I can send you the cd. They are only $10 and totally worth it!

That is the run down on me for now! Sorry its really long and kind of boring!

Love,
Chandler!

Photoshoot

I did another photoshoot with the amazingly talented Valerie. We went to this old barn kind of place with a lot of tress and stuff and they turned out pretty good. The hard part will just be figuring out with five photos I want for senior pictures. If you want to check them out just go to mysimplephotographer.com and click on proofing. Then click seniors and then click on me! It asks that you enter in your e-mail but don't worry they don't send you any coupons or reminders or anything like that. Let me know which ones you like! "D

Homecoming!

Okay so last Saturday was my schools homecoming dance and it was way fun! For our day date our group went to Sand Hallow resevoir (a.k.a. the lake) and we went wakeboarding and tubing and all that good stuff you do out on the lake. Then the boys dropped us off so we could get all dolled up! When my date picked me up we went over to my friend Nick's house for dinner. It was so cute they had tables set up outside in his backyard and they had candles, tableclothes, flowers and all kinds of cool stuff. Those boys are good at getting their moms to decorate. So after a dinner catered by some mexican place, we took probably 10,000 pictures courtesy of Nick's mom and two sisters. We didn't get to the dance till about 9:30 and it ended at 11:00. The best part is we didn't even stay the whole time haha but the dance was way fun! After a long day everyone just went straight home. It was a good day/night and my date Derek was awesome!!

The next Saturday I went to Desert Hills homecomng and that was also a blast. I was asked my the Italian forgein exchange student Nico. For our day date we also went boating haha. I did a little wakeboarding and tried wake surfing which wasn't really all that great haha but still fun. We also did some cliff jumping and I ended up totally landing on my back! It hurt so bad!! I didn't even really sink and I couldn't breathe I had to be rescued haha. I have a huge battle wound (bruise) on my leg that covers literally my whole thigh. It's crazy! Im way sore from that but it was totally worth it haha.
After the lake, we went and got ready, got picked up by our dates, and went to dinner. The dinner was way nice! We had a three course meal with two forks and everything. They even gave us sorbet so we could cleanse our pallets after every course! They went all out. After dinner we went to the dance and had a blast! We were at the dance for about three hours and then it ended so my date took me home. The whole day was pretty great!

Yet another Cross Country Entry

All of my posts are probably going to be about Cross Country (XC) from now on haha it's like my life now! Well a huge part of it! The team just went up to SUU for a meet. We did okay...the boys took 2nd place which is way good! We had I believe 3 of our boys in the top 10 so thats good. We didn't do that well though because it was all grass and you run slower on grass. Unfortunately, I didn't get to race because I have an injury. I am over pronating in my feet. What that is, is my ankles turn in a lot when I stand so all of my weight is on the inside of my feet and i'm not getting any support for my feet so it's pretty painful. When I start running it travels up to my knees and if I don't get it fixed it can go all the way up to my neck! So I have been taping my feet for support and I should be getting custom insoles for my shoes so I can get the support I need in order to run! We go up to BYU this weekend for a race and hopefully I can run! So cross your fingers!

In other news. I was just asked to Homecoming on Saturday. I was asked by a guy in my grade his name is Derek Bird. I don't him super well but I do know that he is really cool and nice so I am excited! He asked me by putting a "dead person" in my bed with a little R.I.P. gravestone and a poster said I would die to go to Homecoming with you haha. So i'm either going to answer him by having the same grave stone and have a poster that says rest in peace I would love to go with you! Or, Rett came up with an idea to be like "my MUMMY said it was okay so YES!" haha and I would toilet paper his room! I will most likely do that because I love trashing people's rooms! haha

So that is pretty much the run down on my life right now! College started up for me this last week and it is already taking up a huge part of my days! But so far its pretty easy just time consuming! Oh also my choir group Canta Bella starts practice tomorrow!! I am super duper excited!!!

Hurricane Invitation

Saturday we had another meet at Hurricane High School. It was at 8 in the morning bleh. The course was really easy and really fast though! I like how the did the races to. In my first race they did JV and Varsity girls together but at Hurricane they did JV then Varsity so there wasn't as much people to worry about beating! At the start of the race us four JV girls (I know thats a lot!) we got togehter and did our prayer and cheer and then we started the race! On my 3rd lap -which is really only half a lap- me and this girl were neck and neck and we decided that it would be fun if we raced! So we started just sprinting to the finish line and neither of us were letting the other one win. Just before the finish line though she barely beat me. I was mad but it was fun. Her name was Chanden and she goes to Cedar-not like that matters but just letting you know! Afterwards we started talking and promised to never race again haha we basically killed each other we were so dead but it was worth it. I ended up taking 7 minutes off of my time which is awesome! I also didn't finish last either which is even better! Haha so our boys took first place and 7 of them placed in the top 10. Our girls took 3rd and 1 of our girls placed in the top 10. Not a bad day at all! :)

XC

For my senior year my friend Taylor convinced me to do cross country with him. So, I started running in the mornings and after school with the team. Luckily Coach Holt was going easy on me and only made me do 3 miles every practice till I get in better shape. The team is really fun and crazy! I don't know how everyone can stay focused when they run. Anyways I had my first meet on Wednesday at Ceday High. It was supposidly an easy course but I almost died haha. It really wasn't that bad I just was struggling a little bit haha. Our boys ended up taking first out of all 7 or so schools and 4 of our boys placed in the top 6 which is really good! The girls took first! Just so everyone knows I came in last! YES! Haha but hey someone has to keep up the back and make sure everyone makes it through right? My time was 35.something ha and everyone ran 3.2 miles. We did really good and I was dead tired after so my cool down consisted of a lot of walking. A cool down is where you jog like a mile after you run-crazy I know but it's not that bad after you have just been running and sprinting and stuff. My next race is this Saturday at Hurricane High School and this course is supposed to be really fast. Its all paved and there is only like one little hill so that's good for my part. My goal is to just finish. I don't care if I come dead last, at least I tried and I finished strong just like I started.

First Day of School

The first day of school was pretty fun and boring at the same time. The seniors(thats me!) and juniors didn't have to show up till noon because the school was doing sophomore orrientation so that was always good. I didn't have to be there till like 1 though because I am taking two college classes in the morning at Dixie so my friends Taylor, Nick, and I wandered the halls and bothered everyone haha it was pretty fun! We went to our classes too though so don't worry. I have the easiest classes. Third period I am a teacher aid for an English teacher, fourth period I have ceramics! Fifth and sixth are college seventh I have social dance - with all sophomores :S and eighth I have seminary! That class is going to be so much fun! Just think of all the fun and crazy kids in the school and you have my seminary class. Poor Bro. McKarther....haha so ya that was my first day of school!