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Summer

Man, I really miss Summer, the sun, the warmth, the early morning runs, trails, camping hiking, all that good stuff! Plus, I was really tan :)

Rainy Day

Well today was a rainy day and I had a long ride out to Weber State so I took some pics. Very creatively I named my post Rainy Day, kind of like my last one was foggy night :) These are all also unedited

A foggy Night

All pictures are completely unedited and taken on a foggy night, and the third one was taken with my camera phone.

Abortion again

Obama recently lifted the ban on the United States' support of Abortion. I have already said a lot on this subject. Please read my post on Abortion

Stormy Sea

Life is a stormy sea of waves and rain
Your boat is tossed and you look out in fear
The sun seems not to shine and you feel pain
The clouds oppress and darkness seems to leer
The waves will crash upon your darkened life
And you may feel as if no one is there
The sea is dark, foreboding, full of strife
The water churns and rages, yet you stare
And blinking back tears looking into night
You cry out for help, thinking "who will come?"
A light will not shine reaching hands, no sight
Despair portends to drown and seeming numb
A light shines forth a hand that reaches me
None other than the man from Galilee.

Drawing

I've kind of learned to like drawing, so these are some drawings I did today in class, and no I'm not creepy, the assignment was the anatomy of the skull :)

Trail Runs

It's times like these in the cold winter months that I really miss summer training, especially the trail runs. You'd wake up in the morning and drive up to the canyon, you step out of your car into the cool, crisp, clear, canyon air ready to run. Your team is all around you and you start warming up excited with the anticipation of racing up the mountain. Your warm up is done and you stretch, again surrounded by the pristine mountain air as the sun begins to creep up over the mountain to rest warmly on your back. The stretching is done and your adrenaline begins to rage full force as you contemplate the many hills that lay before you. You begin and immediately you're going up a hill your mind blocks out everything except the thought of getting to the top. Trees flash by you as you get on your toes and power up the hill. Raspy breathing surrounds you, you've reached the top, but wait that was only the beginning, more hills await you. You nimbly dodge rocks, ever pushing, mind always on the goal, reaching the top. As the hills appear before you again and again you begin to wonder will it ever end, you begin to slow, but then a voice from behind you speaks up between breaths. "I'm coming for you, what are you going to do about it?" It's coach, you can't let him beat you, you reach down within you and draw out every last ounce of strength to push, push out the pain and move up the hill. You surge ahead legs and lungs burning as your body screams out in protest of the punishment you're forcing it through. You see the last hill and your whole body refocuses on the goal, the top. Legs pumping, arms swinging you push over the final crest and see your reward, you've reached the top, the pain is over, you are victorious.

That's why I love trail running.

My version of brad's ferris wheel pic, and some others

ok here's my version of one of my favorite pics of BrD, his ferris wheel pic. It's actually made out of kinex, my brother and the cub scouts built this, he got a set for Christmas.


Here's a random pic of stucki I'd forgotten I had. I think he's stretching :)



And here's a picture of a picture my grandma had of me when I was little, probably like two. It's kind of funny :)

Indoor track

Indoor Track has started up in full force this week! We officially started team practices yesterday with an early morning workout. That's right our coach made us get up and be at school at 5:45 a.m. on the first day back from winter vacation, crazy, yet for some reason we showed up anyways :) We're having early morning workouts every other day and on the other days we have practice after school. Unfortunately there are some conflicts with our next two meets, still the training will be good preparation for spring track, the winter is similar to the summer for cross country in that we're trying to maintain a base for track that will let us just start improving immediately when track starts. I can't wait, especially for the mile, it's my favorite race!

A day at the Y

We took my sister back to the Y today and there were a ton of cool looking shots thanks to the snow. Most of these are taken while riding in the car and I had to zoom so the resolution is kind of bad so they're not that great but I thought they were pretty cool.

A day at temple square

Today my family went to temple square to do baptisms for the dead, unfortunately it was kind of a last minute decision and my temple recommend was expired so I took my little brother around temple square for like 2 hours! Here are some pics I took thanks to Andrew's suggestion.