Super Awesome Giveaway

So I found this blog "The Birds Say 'I Love You'" and I just happened to pop up the right time! Ky is having an awesome giveaway. I guess there is this band called "Heavens to Betsy" and well you must listen to this acoustic song...




 Aren't they awesome! Well Ky is giving away, I believe, 3 of their CDs! Whoo hoo! How awesome. If you would like to read her interview with them and enter to win go here!

Just a Little Update

So here I am posting from my new iPod touch! Well it isn't exactly new because I bought it used. I was way excited when I saw it on eBay. Anyways, I think I will be able to post more. It won't always be a long post but I want to try posting a couple times a week updating you on how I've been. I will even use some Instagrams! {follow me -- @byutatortot}

I will always be doing this monthly photo challenge where there is a topic that I have to interpret to take a picture everyday. I found it through Kenzie from aboutkenzie.blogspot.com. You can view those on my Instagram or I will post them weekly here!

So what have I been doing lately? Well basically just dance, running, and school. It has been really crazy and stressful! Dance is about to hit its peak and I am training for track. It third quarter in school which means that can basically kill someone so adding my schedule on top of that. Well you can imagine what happens there!

In a couple of weeks we will be going I a dance competition for dance. I am über excited! I just love my dance girls so much and I can't wait to party with them!

Anyways I hope I can post often! Have an super rad day!

Xxx

Teeny

I made it!

First semester of sophomore year... COMPLETE! {Well I still have forty-five minutes, but I was bored in my web design class} This year has been tough. Much harder then it ever has been. I am in a much needed Christmas Break. Oh my goodness can you believe it is Christmas!? I'm excited for this year. My parents decided we are going to have an "oldfashioned christmas." We are going up to our ranch where the weather says it will be in the "high 0's." {We aren't used to this. We like the sunny town we live in.} We are going to cut down our own tree, make a snowman, have the fire going and have hot chocolate. I am psyched! No service or internet for four days, and I can same I'm excited. 

Until then....

Here are some inspiring pictures from Pinterest! ***Come follow me!***

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xxx

teeny

More Pictures from Footlocker

**These are all pictures my coach took that I have edited!**

Finish Line

Finish Line

Reservoir Hill... The last hill!

Poopout Hill

The Pier

Riley at the start line!

Riley Running

We had to wait in this long line to get our packets!

Footlocker 2011

Seriously the best time of my life! I had a lot of fun, no doubt! It was a long bus ride but as soon as we got there it was no regret!

Some bad quality panorama shots of our hotel room... we were kind of bored. Are room was kind of ghetto, juss sayin'!

We went on a run that night an hour after we ate. Lets just say I will never think of Panda Express the same, EVER AGAIN!

More from the hotel room:

This sign makes me worried. Will someone please explain it to me!?

We had a lot of food!

Just chillin'!

The next day we went to the course to pick up our packets and get familiar with the course. Let me tell you this course is killer! The first mile is pretty chill, but right after you have got switchbacks sent from H-E-double hockey sticks! Then you have a downhill that pounds your knees! Following that is "Poop Out Hill" it is called that because you really do poop out. Next is a small down hill before you are going uphill AGAIN! This hill isn't to bad but since it is about 2.5 miles into the race you are about dead. Then it was downhill from there. Tough course, but despite the difficultness it is really fun. Honestly, I am a hill person. I LOVE hills. Weird... I know. 

After that we headed to the Museum of Tolerance. All I can say is wow! I learned so much and trust me this isn't a happy museum.

Following that note we went to the beach. It was freezing and I wasn't really dressed in the right attire. We paid for overpriced pasta and then wondered around the pier. There was a carousel so we just had to go on it!

The Pier!

We had fun at the arcade and spending seven dollars to earn tickets to then buy the most hideous stuffed animal duck EVER! Actually I don't even know if it can even be classified as a duck!

Pictures of the beach:

After a long day we went back to the hotel. I was exhausted so I basically passed out the second I got into bed! We woke up at 5:30 to get on the bus and get to the race. The nerves were hitting me. I knew this race would be hard and not my best time (hardest course I have ever ran!) I was determined to do my best and I did. Sure I pulled my hamstring during the first mile, but I did make it in 25:36. Not bad in my opinion!

We hit the bus and headed home. I will definitely remember that weekend!

xxx

teeny

p.s. I used Pixlr to edit my photos. Definitely go check this place out!

 

truly inspiring

if you need some inspiration watch this!

this is really how i picture dance. take this video however you want but i think it can inspire anyone!

in need of an update

it has been WAY too long. i feel so bad!! my goal for this blog is to talk about my life, an online journal in fact. i haven't been doing to good with that. my last post was what? over TWO months ago! my goal now is to post at least once a week. i can do this. i always find my self sitting on my butt bored on sundays. why not spend it blogging???

lets get on with the update!

Running to the finish at the BYU
classic.

*cross country season is over. this makes me extremely sad. miles have gone down to running just 4 miles a day and it doesn't feel right. we do have a race in California this weekend. i am so excited for this. not only will i miss some school, but i'm excited to go up there and have fun. my little brother will be coming with us and thats fun! we are taking a charter bus up and spending time on the pier one day. we will always run on the course just to see how it is. the race is going to be tough.  i haven't ran in it before, but Riley has and he said the hills are nasty. there are these switchbacks that kill you and some of the fastest runners WALK! what? bring it on **FOOTLOCKER!

the first quarter of school is over and we are already half way through the second! we had a three day break for thanksgiving and we start back up tomorrow, monday. only 18 more days until christmas break and boy am i ready! this has been the toughest year of school for me. my 4.0 streak was broken last quarter in math and chemistry. that will be different this quarter!

nothing is really happening with dance. just the same old, same old. practicing every other day. i really wish we could practice everyday though. since our school just got a drill team this year everything has changed and i don't like it. i feel jipped, but whatever. if drill never came then i probably wouldn't have done cross country. oh, but we did have the shakespeare festival. we always have fun with that. what happens is there are classes all day for two days, but also adjudicating. we took a dance from our concert it did really well with it. i can't remember our official judging, but the judges were quite pleased! we also got our team pictures done a couple of weeks ago.

officers!

officers... again.

the team!

again...

this is a picture of us after we performed in an assembly.

well, thats it! more posts to come.


*a post on the the season will be coming up soon!
**after Footlocker i PROMISE a post. with pictures even!