My life so far.

Not much has been going on different. We went to a Utah Falsh game tonight, they were playing the Bakersfield Jam. This is the D-Legue, the people who almost made it. If there was a D-Legue in the Bloging world, Garret/Porter blog would be on it. Oh and while we are on that subject. This next bit of information in extremly important(not really). The Porter/Garret blog is a fraud. They make all there stuff up. This is really just to bite back on the retorts on me. It's christmas break, so we will have some fun with this. I am extremely depressed with the fact that aparently the Writers went on strike. I am disipointed about the fact that the office is canceled. It will probably be over when Grandma and Grandpa come home, so congragulations. Well, thats about it. Bye, don't support Porter/Garret.

ceder city

This past week has been a fiasco(?) of events. After my last post, I had an amazingly busy day on Wednesday. We had our swim practice till four O'clock, and got home at 4:30, I had piano at 6:00, and then had a team dinner at 7:00. We had pizza, it was really good. The next day we went to school until lunch, then we Left for ceder city. The bus ride was very long, we had a meet in richfeild so we stopped there first. Our coaches kept calling this meet a "practice" meet. We lost, which is to be expected if we all thought it was a practice meet. Our coaches still got mad at us of course. I got a recording of it. It is pretty good stuff. I listened to it be for one of my races, but that is in a later part. She called us mediocre(?). I wore uncle marks tattoos, and I would like to note that uncle marks swim cap is pretty popular, and mandee loved hers. Our swim meet in ceder city went over very well. Before I get into that, on Saturday, we had to get into groups and had to do a fear factor/some other game-like-thing. Well, one of our..."tasks" was to eat something, but they would not tell us what. I happened to be the one on the team who was known for eating allot. I thought I could eat anything, worms, dirt, but they happened to bring out pickles. I hate pickles. I was sure I could choke down some regular pickles, but these pickles were disgusting. I kept a straight face through the whole ordeal, but I thought I was going to through up. Another one of the tasks was to go and do 3 flip turns in the swimming pool. The pool was out side. It was snowing. The fence to the pool was locked but people climbed over it. Not everybody had to do it, just to clarify things. The maintenance man was really angry. That's about all the exciting stuff. Now for our meet. I listened to my coaches rampage before the 100. I went from a 1:07 to a 1:03. I wanted to drop 5 seconds. That was all of my event for that day. The next day was the best. Our bus driver Bob brought his kid. I was calling him bob Jr. then I learned his name was chance. I started calling him Chauncey. He was trying to act really cool and I picked him up by his ankles. He continued act cool from that position, then I dunked his head in the water. He started to freak out then. He is 6 years old. Then I did a 200 I.M. I went from a 2:53 to a 2:48. It was great. We have another meet this week and I can't wait. This kid Jesse Roberts is like the next Micheal Phelps. He did one of those cool back-to-breast flip turns, but got DQ'd. I officially got the funny kid of the team title, somebody said to me today, If you tell any more jokes, I am going to have an 8-pack. I also got the kid who eats food really fast title, and the biggest shoe on the team title. We also took Grandma and Grandpa to the MTC. It was really cool to send them off, not cool as in, yes there gone, but cool as being there.

That's it.

I got Tagged.....I guess

6 random facts.....about me....possibly

1. I would like to be able to dunk before my 16th birthday

2.Martin Luther King Jr. Day rocks

3.I like the animal armodillo and also the siberian tiger, and the yak

4.I recently visited California

5.I have starred in one full 1/4 length movie

6.If I owned a circus of dancing silverware.......that would be awsome.

I wouldn't mind doing this again, but if you don't want to waste time tagging me......

I tag, Uncle Peter......

It's Been a While

Well, I guess it has been a while since I have been on. People have been bugging me about updating it, so I guess I had better do it now. Lets see....since the Saint George marathon, (just as a side note, I would like to state that G is a funny letter.) um I have been enjoying the swim team, it has been tons of fun. We have had about 3 meets and have done well in all of them. I have done well in all of them personally, also. I have been swimming mostly fly and free(either 100 or 200). I am also on the 400 A team, and the 200 B team. One of our meets they had me swim breast and the 200 IM. I did pretty good in my IM, the coach said when I got to my breast it looked like I had had enough (because I was going so slow) then I hit my free style and was flying. Apparently it is just my breast stroke. In my breast stroke, when they hit the buzzer we all jumped in and everyone was down to the other side by the time I had made it half way. It was a one hundred, so I was halfway on my third 25 when everyone else had finished. When I was turning to go to my 4th 25 I cut my toe, so it was a bad experience overall. I hate breast just to clarify thing right now. So my times as of now, are:

100 fly: 1:19:?? (would have been 1:18:?? if I hadn't got DQ'd)

100 free: 1:06:??(I think?)

200 free: 2:31:??(my first time!)

200 IM: ??:??:??(I have a horrible memory)

So there you have that. I tried out for the baskettball team, that was fun. I had to get up at four in the morning, to get there by 5 O'Clock. Yes, AM. I didn't make it, but it would have messed things up for the swim team. Well, other then that, for those who don't know, we went down to California. It was alot of fun. We made a movie, Some title you want to call it. If we put it on YOUTUBE, I will put it on this blog. Candice painted my shoes, I have gotten alot of complements. It was great to hear grandma and grandpa talk. Thanksgiving was fun. Playing basball was fun, and also playing in the turkey bowl.

We are doing fine in our new house, and we all fit pretty comfortably. Kaitlin made the baskettball team, and there first game was tonight. School has been great.

St. George Marathon Continued

Yea, so then we went and we waited at the end of the marathon for them. We got there right as the very first runners were coming in. They look like they were hurting. I started to take pictures of weird people on my moms camera. I got pictures of harry guys, old people, people holding hands, some guy that was chanting somthing, and some other weird oddities. Then as I wasn't looking, my mom says, "Hey there is a guy with a bloody nipple, go get a picture." I got up and started running as fast as I could. I was doging in and out of the people traffic, then I got to a ditch. There were people all over the side I was on. So I go and jump over the ditch then, as I jump back, I misplaced my foot. I slipped and fell, I could have gotten the perfect picture. I missed it. I saved the camera, but I ripped a hole in my jeans. I walked back to my mom, and she started freaking out. I was wondering what was going on. "Mom, it's just a pair of jeans, you can't fix them here!" Apparently I had scraped my knee pretty bad. It hadn't hurt until I saw it, but thats okay. So thats about when Uncle Nathan came around the corner, He looked fine. Aunt Jill left to go wait for him. Then, a while later, Uncle Peter came around, followed by my dad. It was great. The boys started running with him, I would have but it would have looked weird to see a limping man try to run. Times:
Uncle Nathan: 3:27:--
Uncle Peter: 4:22:--
My Dad: 4:37:--

Other Highlights of the past week:
Well, we have to start packing up stuff for our new house, so we have been doing that, but of course, we also got a new X-Box. We are still geting work done though. I went in and took my learners permit test, I got a 78%, out of the 80% I need. I needed one more question. The question was:
Marjajuana does not affect your driving.
a) True
b) False
I read it like this
Marjajuana does affect your driving.
a) True
b) False

So yea, I was annoyed about that. Thats about it.

St. George Marathon

So last week almost, we went down to St. George. I just haven't had time to post. My dad, Uncle Peter, and Uncle Nathan were all running in the saint George Marathon. In my opinion, they all had a different perspective of the word WINNING:

My Dad-Not cramping up until after 18 or 20 miles

Uncle Nathan-Beating a certain time

Uncle Peter-...I really don't know what he was thinking

Now these are just my opinions, so don't quote me. So the morning of the race, we woke up at 4 in the morning. We took Uncle Peter and my dad down to the hotel where Uncle Nathan was staying (we were staying at my Uncle Lanes). We then proceded to drive to the place where we would wait for the 3 men. We got there at 5ish. We tried to go to sleep in a 6 person tuck with 8 people in it, with a band playing in the background. If you can guess, we didn't get much luck. So we just sat in the tuck awake. At 6:30, the wheelchair people came ( they let them go by first). After that, we had a while to wait. Then Uncle Nathan came past, followed by my dad, followed closly by Uncle Peter. Then after about an Half an hour, I saw my old biology teacher, Mr. Hallam. The office is coming on so I will right the rest in the next post.

Update (Short Edition)

Okay, for those of you who don't like to read, here is my short edition of what has been going on:

1-Couldn't get a mens volleyball team started

2-In the Spanish Fork Press for Trucker Convention

3-Joined FFA/State Fair

4-Welded for the first time: scary

5-Got another Swim Coach

6-Life Rank in Scouting

7-Girl on Swim Team from Bakersfield

8- Selling House

UPDATE

Okay, so nothing much has been happining latly, but I am going to tell you what has been happening between the nothing happening:

1- My mens volleyball team idea has been....not rejected, but given up. The guy I talked to said that I had to go talk to the state school board, and then it would just get more complicated from their, so I just decided that It wasn't worth it. By the time I get one started, I will probably be a junior. They said I could start a mens volleyball club, but that dosn't sound as cool.

2- I was in the Spanish Fork Press. I went to some trucker convention and then they tracked me down. I then had to get my picture taken with the trucker and his truck. The convention was pretty cool, I got 4 doughnuts, 3 Fruit drinks, and 2 free tardies. I got my friends to get in the picture to, but I forgot to mention it was going to be in the paper. They also quoted me. The inside of the turck looked pretty cool. They guy has to go through 18 gears to get to 75 mph. The heading of the article was FUTURE TRUCKERS!!! ( it used a more formal word than tuckers). We now joke around that we are in the FFA and the FTA (Future Farmers of America and Future Truckers of America)

3-I found out that welding was a FFA class and joined it. We then went to the state fair and wathed a guy make a wooden sculpture with a chain saw.

4- I welded for the first time today!!! I was already to do it, but then I got up to weld, put the sheild down, and Freaked out. It was pitch black in there. I thought I might weld my finger off(?). I was on MIG welding, so the weld comes from a wire that is fed through the pipe. There was a slim chance I might hit my finger.

5-We got a new partner swim coach.

6-I am now a life in the Scouting program

7- There is a girl on my swim team who used to swim with Liberty High I think. She new me and Jordan were related.

Thats about it. .....Oh, were selling our house

Party

Today I got to go to a party for homecoming week. It was tons of fun. I was just sitting here at home and my friend, (Derrick) Winkle, calls me and asks me if I want to go.

I said okay let me call my mom and see if it is okay. My mom was in Saint George with my dad, because he was in a golf tournament. I called her up and asked if I could go. She said yes, but I had to do some work first. I did my work, winkle called me, and his mom came and picked me up. Well, we got there a half an hour early, so we just walked around a bit. Well then it started and me, Even and Winkle went to play volleyball and were later joined by Kenon and a group of girls. So over the intercom in school before the party they had said that we were going to swim at the party. I really didn't want to swim so me and Winkle didn't get suits. After a while we decided that we wanted to swim. Even though I told Winkle not to do it, he called his mom and she drove out and gave us swim suits (Winkle owned two swim suits)(side note: Winkle has the coolest mom, except my mom of course, and all my aunts.). When we jumped into that water it was freezing cold, so we didn't swim for very long. When we got out Kenon was still playing volleyball so we went and played. We did that for the rest of the party. It was tons of fun, and I decided I am going to try to get a men's volleyball team going at our school.

My Def Leppard Concert

Yesterday I got to go to my DEF LEPPARD CONCERT. It was amazing. We left the house at 5:00 and the traffic was horrible on the way up there. We had to pull into a church parking lot because we could walk faster than we could drive. So we walked about a half a mile to the USANA ampitheater. Since the traffic Horrible, we got there at 7:40. The concert started at 7:00. I was hoping that Styx was opening, because I didn't know to many of there songs. When we walked up to the Ampitheater, Foreigner was just finishing Jukebox Hero. Then as we were going to are seats, they were playing Hot Blooded as there closing song. So we had missed Foreigner, but

Styx was amazing.

They had so many great songs. There Lead singer was halarious, It looked like they had put him on the piano so it would look like he was doing somthing. He had a good voice, but in one of there songs he started attempting to, what looked like, river dance. He had his hand behind his back, and he was moving his feet all over the place. Well then Styx finished, and my dad went and bought me a cool Def Leppard t-shirt. Well the line was huge, and we got back just in time. Def Leppard came out and started to play right as we got to our seats. They had an AC/DC soundtrack playing when and when they came out they cut the sound and lights and then the loudest explosion of screams I've ever heard

exploded from the audeince. Def Leppard was amazing, the lead singer was a little fat, but hey. We were standing for so long, the bottom of my feet were hurting, and I had to sit down every ten minutes. My ears also started hurting because the girl sitting behind us would scream this high pitched scream every song. So all in all I had a blast, but I got to tell you, I had no idea how many non mormons there were in Utah. They had people drinking every where. One person past out 3 rows in front of us. There were two people to the left of us that wern't drinking. It also stunk really bad. If Def Leppard hadn't been there, I would have left. So other then the drinking, this was the first and best concert I have ever been to.

swim practice again

well this is going to be a short post. I didn't mention that the first day of swim practice, we same 1500 yards. Today in swim practice, we had to swim 4000 yards. I am so sore right now. We had to do 25 yard sprints, then get out and lay down then push up of the ground with our elbows and toes. We had to hold that for 15 seconds

The Scarlet Pimpernel/ SF Football

Last night we went to a musical production of the Scarlet Pimpernel. It was really good. There were to people from are ward preforming in it: Nan wride, and her son, Shea wride. If you havn't seen that movie, it is a pretty good one. We took grandma and grandpa with us, and they liked it too. The main character did a really good job acting, but his singing was okay. The bad guy lead, did an amazing job acting and singing. It was a way better show than I thought it would be. I also went to my first school football game!! It was and awsome game. We were losing 00-30 at the end of 2nd period. Then we were 07-30 at the end of the 3rd, and by the end of the game it was 28-30. Timp view kept kneeling the ball, so they decided to just call the game. There was only :47 seconds left on the clock. It was still really great.

First Swim Practice

Yea, so we just had are first swim practice for the swim team. It was way fun. It felt weird, because I was still "in" school, but I wasn't actually in school. There are alot of people, and they are all really good. It was a ton different then swimming for the city. There were some people from the city team that also are on the school swim team. I am way excited, because this is the first school team that I have ever been on. I am glad I am actually doing somting to support my school now, other than dressing up in the school colors. I am also going to one of our school football teams tonight, this is the first one I have every been to.

First Day of High School

So yea, I started my first day of HIGH SCOOL. It has been and okay first day. I took some pretty good classes:

• Welding Tech 1
• Drafting Cad 1
• Chemistry
• Swimming
• Spanish
• Algebra 2
• Fitness for Life (P.E.)
• English 10

Thats just the 1st semester. I am taking early morning sciminary, so don't freak out. The second semester I am taking Health and Computer Tech and the rest are the same. The Swimming class is for Swim Team. We have A day B days at the High school so all the classes are about an Hour and a Half long. I hope the rest of the year is fun!!!!!!

Learners Permit

I Just turned 15, so I can now get my Learners permit, I cannot wait to drive. I guess I drive alot anyways, but now I get to drive on the Freeway. The Rays live up here now, so my mom says she will be sending me up there alot so me and my sarcastic remarks are out of the house. But yea, my mom is excited because now I can go get the groceries. I think she is excited, alot of the people around the ward "arn't". They keep saying, " I will have to look out for you on the road,"

Hey Everybody

I wanted to make a blog, because I am different then the rest of my Family. I decided that there are probably some things I would like to post that my dad probably won't for our family blog. Some of those things could be my day to day activities and maybe my swim times and such, so enjoy!