USA FEVER!!

IT HAS BEGUN!! USA SOCCER FANS are showing their LOVE! I never knew so many people liked watching SOCCER!

salt lake

I've been up in Salt Lake this summer and with the crazy weather we have had this whole year. AKA snow in May and a ton of rain it has also showed me how beautiful Salt Lake really is. The mountains are green and every day I'm outside to see the sun set I am amazed by the beauty that I'm surrounded by. Just the other night I was driving home from practice and was amazed when I looked off the freeway to see three temples shining bright amongst all the lights. Its pretty cool to be able to see that! What a great place I live! Here are a few pictures from a few sundays ago. The weather was so crazy. So pretty tho! I was driving so wasn't able to catch the double rainbow.

life lately!

So its been a while since I've written on my blog so I thought I would do a little update of what I've been doing this summer so far. I got to go home after school got out for a few days and had a great time. It was not very long was the only complaint! I came back to Utah cause I started summer school not long after finishing my spring semester. I'm taking two classes. A nutrition class and a business statistics 2 class. Not so much fun! I would not advise anyone to take summer classes. Try jamming stats into a 5 week class! PAINFUL! hah...But since I've gotten back to Utah I have also been playing on a summer team called the Utah Starzz. Its a WPSL or women's premier soccer league. So basically my team is made up of girls that play or played at byu, utah, utah state, uvu, and a few other random schools. I enjoy it cause you get to play with a lot of players you have never played with and its a little more laid back as far as the pressure that you are usually under in college. I've been able to travel a few times with that team to play some other teams in the league. There are actually teams all across the country so they put us in divisions. We went down to St. George and to Tucson and Phoenix to play games so far. I also get to drive to Provo 2-3 times a week for our practices. That is quite the adventure! I've also gotten the chance to work out up here a lot. We have a strength and conditioning coach that works us out 3-4 times a week. We lift and run monday, tuesday, thursday and run on fridays. Its been good and I feel as if I have gotten much stronger. Things have been going well and I'm really enjoying my new ward up here in Salt Lake. I only wish I could go to more of the activities they have (softball, tuesday night hikes). The most recent thing that is going on in my life is soccer camps. I am working for the University of Utah soccer camps and this week we have our UTE KICKERS camp. I have a group of 13 girls ranging in age from 8-11. Man is that fun to try and help them become better soccer players and just have a good time. My new nick name is Milk DUDS and my other teammate katie is KIT KAT. I'm hoping they will bring us the treat we are nicknamed after on the last day of camp!

The best part of the summer thus far tho would probably have to be the fact that I have been waking up at 5 to watch world cup games. I am exhausted by the end of the day after watching games and working camps and going to practice but World Cup only happens so often so you gotta sacrifice some sleep for it right!?!

things I LOVE about HOME!

1. Talking to my best friend who's serving his mission in JAPAN on the phone.
2. Going to movies with my DAD on Monday nights.
3. Riding preston and weston to schoool on my mom's bike!
4. Going to IN'N'OUT burger with my mom and preston and preston only eating half of the stuff he orders...oh and the fact that I can still eat in'n'out when on a diet! like that too!
5. Watching my brother all day in the REGIONAL golf tourney. He posted the 2nd highest score of the day by the way! 2 EAGLES and 2 BIRDIES. finished 1 under. I THINK I WAS THE GOOD LUCK CHARM. My mom and I had fun following him around for 7 hours of golf!

Its only been a little over 2 days and I've already had a blast! I love my family so much! HOPEFULLY THE POOL WILL WARM UP TONIGHT!

Love them!

All I can say is I <3 you all! Thanks for being a part of my life!!

NBA

So I've slightly become a bit of a jazz fan since I now am considered a resident of UTAh...Lame I know. But You cannot help cheering for a cute white guy like KYLE KORVER who can drain the three and is pretty good looking! My roommate Abby asked me what team I liked the most and I didnt' really have an answer because the truth is...I love college basketball and would watch the sweet sixteen over an nba playoff game. Sad to say I guess cause the level that the players are in the NBA is amazing and I'm not taking anyway from them. I love Steve Nash, LeBron James, and guys like that. Well guys like that that are not named KOBE BRYANT or MANU GINOBOLI! So for now I guess when people ask me what team in the NBA I like beside my answer of the guys that I like I will add in the JAZZ.

GO JAZZ! TAKE DOWN THE LAKERS!!! PLEAAAASSSEEE!!

smelly basement!

AH so I was cleaning up my room today and went to put away some of my jackets in our storage room and found two big puddles of toilet water and other things that are found in the toilet. And let me just say its a little smelly down here in my room! AH landlord please answer your phone soon!!!

end of spring soccer

So I just want to do a quick post about this spring soccer season. We ended our season in the fall much earlier than we would have hoped to after not advancing to NCAA's, so we got back to work pretty soon after the end of our season in november. We had individual pracites as well as running and weights. Starting in January when we could officially start practices we have been lifting 2-3 times a week, doing speed and agility work 2 times a week, running fitness tests once a week, and practicing 5 days a week. Needless to say, its been a long time of waking up at 6:45 for practice. This spring we had 5 days or weekends we could play. We started off spring down in Texas at Texas A&M. We won one game and lost our second game down there. After that first weekend of games we had a long while till we got to play again. We played Westminister in the cold/rain/wind at thier field cause ours was covered in snow. We won that game and I actually got an assist. Our third day of games we were down in provo at the Byu tourney. We didn't do well at all and played like we were missing some of our important players in the middle, we were but it was no excuse for our poor play. We play our last game tonight and I'm ready to finish our spring off right! We havent' worked this hard. Ran that many fitness tests. Sweat that much. Bled that much. Yelled that much. been frustrated at things that much. TO NOT WIN OUR LAST GAME...and propel us into our fall season on the POSITIVE side of things we need to be on! Lets get em girls!

familia!

So this weekend was a great one...well besides the 10 hr bus ride down here to vegas from salt lake...actually take that back I enjoyed it. My team is so much fun and I love everyone of them in a different way. But this weekend my team (utah utes w. soccer team) drove down on a big charter bus for a game today against UNLV. Oh and yes our bus was complete with WiFi and satelite tv. Kind of crazy how technology has become. But on our way down to Vegas we got stuck in the gorge between st. george and mesquite for about 3 hours. It made for quite the team talk. Funny stuff, but being home is the best. You just don't realize how important family is until you are away from them. The little brothers coming to my game, eating lunch with your parents and my second mom and family (the CLARKS). So I had my game this morning. The family came to watch and then we went to cafe rio. Later my mom dad and I went to the movie the LAST song! It was actually better than I expected. But a little sad. I cried a little haha. But being home is the best! I just love it and my family so so much! It's dad's 46th birthday tomorrow...love you dad! YOUR the best dad ever! Thanks for everything you do for me!

Texas Spring Games

So we headed down to Texas on Friday to play a few spring games. We played Sam Houston State University this morning at 1pm. We beat them 1-0 and probably should have put a few more away but it was good to get out on the grass and play a game with a full team together! We worked out some of our first game back jitters and played pretty well in our second game against Texas A&M, though they still got us. They called a hand ball on me in the first five and scored the Pk and then scored off a miscommunication on a corner not too much longer in the first half. Dalley had a great header off one of our corners but their post player cleared it off the line. I thought we played well against a team that is ranked very high nationally. We have a few things to work out and I think that we can be a really great team. All the hard work we put in in spring has started to show and is worth it when you get to start playing games and see it on the field.

Well back to the COLD of Utah tomorrow morning early.... :( but at least I'm going back with a little bit of sun!

goodbye FACEBOOK

I've decided to delete my facebook or "deactivate" it for the time being! It takes up too much of my time and is almost pointless! I mean if people really need to talk to me they can call me right! Its crazy how much our world relies on the non-personal conversation side of things now a days. i mean how many of us feel totally comfortable having a face to face chat now?!? Crazy how technology can change us for the good and bad!

joys of spring soccer

RUNNING, LIFTING, RUNNING, LIFTING, RUNNING, A little soccer in there, more RUNNING...

So if I don't look like an olympic powerlifter by the end of the semester I will be happy...one good thing so far is the fact that I passed the shuttle test monday and now get friday off while everyone who hasn't passed practices the shuttle test so we can all pass...oh joy right?!? Well thats a little of what every morning this semester has looked like this far!

BEST SNOW ON EARTH!

So ever since I have taken my last final I have been snowboarding!! I invested in a season pass to park city resort and couldn't be happier!! I got a way good deal on it thru the U's snowboarding club and have already payed it off with how many times me and my teammate Lauren Porter have gone! So much fun! I'm getting way better!! THe second time i went this year porter coninced me to go off some jumps and I hurt myself a little but after a week off I'm back up there and have gotten a lot better!! ITS good to ski or board with people that are way better than you cause they push you to get better! TODAY we were going down double blacks and I had a blast!!

I THINK THIS MAY BE THE FIRST TIME IVE EVER SAID THAT I LOVE THE SNOW IN UTAH!!! I think this is the reason a lot of people live here! It truly is the best snow on earth!

These pictures are from the top of one of the Park city runs! Love Porter!!

Lack of flavor on a FRIDAY NIGHT!

AHH there is nothing going on and its FRIDAY!! this makes me sad!! Julie and I are sitting in our living room being mad cause everyone is studying and not doing anything! So we may just give into the peer pressure and go to the library and study with everyone lol...

HOW CRAZY SOCCER IS or CAN BE!

So this clip is from BYU's game yesterday against New Mexico.  THis girl is crazy and is now suspended indefinitely from Soccer at NEw mexico!!  Just goes to show how physical and rough soccer really is!  

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4628040&categoryid=2378529

friendsss

I love my friends!  I am so lucky to have such great people around me that I can act like a complete idiot and they still love me!  

Soccer and School...

Its that time of year again FALL, which means soccer is in full swing along with starting a swamp of reading textbooks, writing papers, taking test and quizzes, and being a little stressed at times.  But these are the best times in life right?  Well I hope so!  I know soccer is going well right now and I'm really excited for this season!  We have started off well and hopefully can keep things going!  9 goals in two games, 2-0 record, my first goal in college, and only one goal scored on the defense!  Pretty good!

hikes, bears, bikes, parties, treats, chocolate, slurpees, oh CANADA!

I have been up in Canada with the family this past week and am sad to have to go back to salt lake to work.  The family all is just beggining to get here and I have to go home. :( its kinda sad!  But The time I have spent up here has been awesome!  I've hiked to the peak of VIMMY with my sister and Jessica and Amy!  That was a blast! We rode bikes the first 6km and then hiked up to what we thought we would never reach!  We saw three bears on the trail and some big tracks from a few.  We sang and yelled about the whole time to warn them we were coming.  We were on the top of a mountain that overlooked pretty much all of southern alberta and Glacier.  AMAZING!  it snowed on us on the top for a little bit.  Me and AMy also tried to do Akamina ridge earlier in the week but ended up getting to forum lake after hiking through snow and decided to stop cause there was too much snow on the ridge so we turned around and hiked down then back up to WALL lake!  Crazy.  I think I hiked about 45km in the two days we hiked!  ITs been awesome!  Chocolate, slurpees, and treats everyday!  Yeah I think I may have to go back on to a diet when i get back and loose about 5 but thats vacation for ya!  Anyways, more to come!  I"ll put photos up and more about the trip in a few days!  

first week of camps and boise...

So I got back to utah on sunday night last week and started off the week really busy.  Monday morning I woke up and went to weights at 830 up in salt lake so I left around 745 to make sure to be on time.  Let me just tell you weights this week were hard!  MOnday, tuesday and thursday lifting made for some sore legs and arms!  After weights I went to a training session for the camp that would follow later on in the day.  This weeks camp we had little soccer players ranging from 6-13.  I got paired up to coach with LaLa and Morgan and we had a group of mainly 10 year olds.  Wow they were full of energy and putting on three hour training sessions when the jump on your back unexpectedly and kick balls  at you can be kind of long sometimes but it was fun.  We had some fun girls.  We got rained on a lot and had to be in a small space inside a few times but overall it was enjoyable especially when that check came at the end of the week!  I missed the last day of camp to travel to boise with the Starzz...A team i'm playing on this summer that is composed of players from a bunch of different college teams in utah...we have some byu kids, utah state, idaho state, uvu, utah, and maybe a few more.  Its been fun.  We tied our game 1-1 last night and have another game today.  Hopefully we can pull out a win!  

vegas...

I will miss the vegas and the people there who have left or are yet to leave but will soon!