Not tired.

I have the most terrible sleeping patterns. I go to bed late, and get up early. I am so hard on my body, but yet my body is sooo good to me. I'm very lucky. 


I love being a teenager. 


I took a nap from noon until 4:30 today. Ahh, so so nice. Christmas day was lovely. I absolutely love my family and friends. 


I am so blessed. 

Highlights from the break so far:

Alex getting engaged to Tori

Christmas Eve Lake trip

XBOX kinect 

Parents getting iPhones

Exec scone breakfast and gift exchange

2AM chats with Heidi and Alex

Playing with the nephews

Friend gift exchange

Gingerbread house making with Kenz and David

Movies, games, and late night chats with Brady and his fam

Megamind with the cousins

Cuddling/ falling asleep with my newest nephew, Jett

P.S.- Favorite gifts I received: New YW Recognition Award necklace and brand spankin' new scriptures. Black with a snap flap. Yiiii.


Peace and Love
-abs

Cell phone.

Sometimes, some of life's greatest moments are captured... by a cell phone. The cell phone isn't just something we communicate with vocally or through text messaging; the cell phone is something much more. Social networking has engulfed every single one of us. Tweeting and Facebooking has become a DAILY ritual- hourly for most of us. 

So. Here are a few great moments captured by a cell phone over the past few months of my life.

bowling every day.

just cuddling in the car.

she fell asleep at region. 

tandem in the school? yes.

dress like Ben G. day. of course.

me at my finest.

sick nails, by THEE alison rodriguez.

on the Y with bungle. state tennis.

my little witch.

she's great.

niiiice. future multi-tasking mother right there.

love.

my three best friends.

savin' lives, left and right.

11/11/11. 11:11PM. me with my wish balloon on dixie rock.

you go girl.

pieing shelbs.

tender moments.

i'm a sucker for sunrises.

oh hey, papa.

alex's instagram.

Three cheers for technology!

peace & love,

abs

Truth.

I really should go to bed.

I don't get much sleep. I keep busy and the days I COULD go to bed early, I go and play. Typical senior in high school. (i'm not complainin')

I have a lot on my mind right now. I just finished my last college app for priority deadlines. 

Life is so good. 

A year ago, I was being a cute little junior in high school. I remember the Madrigal Christmas trip like it was last month. Now the Christmas trip is here again.

If this past year went by fast, then this coming year is going to cruise by.

A year from now I will be graduated and almost done with my first semester of college. Where will I be? 

We'll see.

For now, remember who you are and be true to what you know.

Peace and Love

-abs

why is life so good?

I'm convinced it can't get any better than this.

I thank the man upstairs.

For now... Peace and Love

-abs

Warrior Nation.

I seriously can't explain to you how happy I am. 

Why?

Here's why:

SCHS beat Dixie, who previously beat us, which pushed Dixie out of first and ushered Snow Canyon in the lead. This victory helped us take the Region title. Region champs, again. Madison and I at first doubs, went UNDEFEATED. Then, the region tournament (sept. 30) snow canyon showed great strength again:

MaryAnne- 3^rd seed for state, Kennedy- 2^nd seed, Bergen- 2^nd seed, 

Madi and I- 1^st seed, McKelle and Emily- 1^st seed. 

Hafen & Harrison

Go warriors. Getting that first seed for Madison and I was not easy: we won 6-4, 7-5.

Then STATE. State was the weekend of Homecoming (oct. 8^th) and us warriors were excited. But so so nervous. There was a rain delay which got in our heads. We were FURIOUS. But, Jeremy told us to embrace it. We had practice that Thursday and it was the best practice ever. 

We left for State on Friday. We watched Forever Strong that night. Boy, were we ready.

First day: Everyone won first round except MaryAnne, who had the hardest match. She played so awesome, her and the girl she played HUGGED after their match- that’s how good it was.

1st round match vs. Juan Diego

....So this leaves 4/5 of SC’s players still in. 

Then all 4 of us won our 2^nd round matches, which put Kennedy, Bergen, Me and Madi, and McKelle and Emily all in the SEMIFINALS. Semifinals?! Holy fetch. Because of the rain delay, we stayed up over the weekend and played the semi’s on Monday. 

2nd round match vs. Grantsville

Mine and Madison’s semi final match was CRAZY. We lost the first set 3-6, and were getting a little nervous. We both just said to each other that we weren’t leaving this match until we won, so let’s step it up. We watched Rocky 4 the night before, and Rocky went 10 rounds with Ivan. He didn't win right off. He had to FIGHT. 

We knew that if we wanted this, we had to fight.

We then came barreling into the 2nd set with so much fire, and soon enough we had a 5-1 lead. We lost 2 games in a row but then closed the set at 6-3. 

Split sets. 

We took the required 10 minute break and just kept ourselves pumped up. The other team was kind of crying and they looked all depressed so we made sure we took the complete opposite approach. We were ready.

...We then won the next set 6-3. 

The crowd cheered so loud and Madison grabbed me and hugged me so hard. 

WE MADE IT TO THE FINALS. 

Baggs and Jeremy came running onto the court and just hugged us hard and held us so tight. We did it. 

Baggs looked at me and said "I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud."

We checked into the desk and reported our scores to the director. she looked at her watch and said “Congratulations girls. You made it to the finals. Your match will start at 1:45. Good luck.” 

We had 30 minutes.

waiting for the finals to start

Kennedy and Bergen also made it to the finals and were both about to face Judge Memorial. 

Before the finals matches started, Jeremy, Baggs, and Booth all talked to us. Telling us how proud they were of us. We huddled together and just talked. Talked our nerves out, talked about how far we've come. 

Just talked.

All of the finals matches seemed like a blink long.We all lost our finals matches. Madison and I played well, but lost 6-3, 6-2. It was a good match, and actually a lot of fun. We went "balls out" as Jeremy would say. I'll be honest, it was all kind of a blur though. The other team, Ogden, deserved the title, but we made them work for it. We really did.

We heard Ogden getting interviewed after our match and the reporter asked "so, you came through this whole tournament pretty easily, making it to the finals. was your finals match an easy breeze for the two of you?" they responded, "no, we really did play our best out there and we had to in order to beat those girls."

That's right. 

After all the matches were said and done, everyone gathered around the director's table. She called up each position for 2nd and 1st place and awarded us our medals. When she got to first doubles she said: 

"and our 2nd place state champions for first doubles, we have Hafen and Harrison!" 

Everyone cheered and we got pictures holding our medals. At the end of the specific position medal awards, she hushed the crowd.

"Now, your 3A 2nd place State Champions, we have 

Snow Canyon High School!" 

The place went crazy. Everyone cheered for us. We ran up to the trophy (I grabbed it and kissed it first of course) and we were all so happy. One of the happiest moments of my life so far.

Warrior Tennis, I love you.