Funny Disneyland Story

Hello again. I passed my pre-preliminary moves and free skate. I will be competing at the end of March in San Diego at La Grande. 
I did finish and run the 5K through Disneyland. I had a blast! They had characters lined up on the sidelines for you to take pictures. The next day you get a twilight ticket into Disneyland. Here is a funny story about when we were on the Astro Orbiters in Tomorrow Land. My brother got his own rocket (he is 15) and my mom and me got into another. She had to be in front since I am a little bit taller than her, but not much. As soon as the ride started, my mom started screaming at the top of her lungs: "I WANT TO GO HOME"! Now this ride is just like the Dumbo one, only a little bit faster. We never even got to the top, since my mom had the controls. Of course, I wanted to be as high as possible, so I fought for the controls. Unfortunately, I never got them. She was screaming so loud that the people above us were laughing their heads off! You could hear them! Now the rockets are her absolute least favorite ride in Disneyland. However, since it was so busy, we only went on two rides: Thunder Mountain, and the despised rockets.
Yesterday we baked Sugar Cookies for Valentines Day. It was wonderful to have the family frost the cookies together.

December 12 2011

December 12 2011, Robert Lake died in his home in Lake Havasu City, AZ. My great-grandfather was 84 and lived a good and long life life. As he is up in heaven, he watches his wife and his 2 daughters prepare for the funeral, along with his 2 wonderful granddaughters and grandson. He had many hobbies including fishing, shooting, and mini airplane making. He lived with his wife Clara and his dog Jo Jo. His caring daughter has been looking after him for the past 10 years. I will always remember you Grandpa. XOXO

Today is the big day

The holiday show is tonight at 7:30. I'm so nervous. Yesterday was the full dress rehearsal with hair and make-up, and I landed only one out of three Axels. I was so nervous that I fell on my crossovers going into my Axel . Then the other Axel girls got so close that I didn't want to jump on anybody. Wish me Luck !!

I'm Back!!!

Hi. Sorry I haven't written in forever! My Axel in finally consistent and I'm  almost landing my double Salchow. No more harness for me. (except for all of the rest of my doubles. Ugh). Today is the dress rehearsal for the holiday show. I have 3 Axel parts, and hope I land them. I can't believe it is already December. I have a pre-preliminary test in January. I hope I pass! And now your pretty much up to-date, and I am going to Disneyland on Monday. Hooray!! I'm really excited!!

How's school? Well, its getting harder now that I'm in ninth grade. Biology is a pain 'cause of all of the vocabulary words. Math is math with lots of equations and Cartesian coordinates.  Yesterday, I had homeschooling classes and in one of my classes, I made 3 beautiful flower magnets. I would put pictures up but I don't know how. Sorry.

Labor Day Weekend

Happy Labor Day weekend!!   Hope all is well!  On Tuesday, my mom and I went down to Anaheim, which is where Disneyland is, so I can get fitted for some new skates. We went into the shop, they measured me, and said since they don't have any skates in my size in stock, they are going to have to order them. It may take from 5 days to 5 weeks for the shop to get them in, but I hope that it is only 5 days. While we were in Anaheim we checked out the rink, which was only across the street! It is where the 'Ducks' hockey team train! And I was finally able to see pair skaters! It was amazing! They were even doing some really crazy lift where the male skates backwards with his arms not touching his partner and the girl is upside down grabbing on to his bottom half!! If any one knows what that is called, please let me know cause it was spectacular. At my rink, there are never any pair skaters, ever. So that was really neat.
    My coach recently taught me something new that I have been wanting to learn, a flying sit spin. A flying sit spin is were just as you are about to start your sit spin but you jump into the air in your sit spin position and when you land you start spinning.     I start school on Tuesday, or should I say I 'officially' start school on Tuesday. Since I'm home schooled, I kind of work on and off throughout the whole Summer. I know that probably sounds like torture to some of you, but I like it 'cause then I get a head start on everything. Happy Labor Day!!!!!!!

Hello!! I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. I had my Private freestyle lesson with my coach and she gave me some bad news: I'm not allowed to attempt any Axels or Double Salcows until I get some new skates. :(  I'm not exactly thrilled about that, but I'm planning to go down to Anaheim for a fitting sometime this week. I have been going through some songs for my next competition and I have found some really neat songs such as: I believe in fairies-peter pan; overture-the little mermaid; and overture-singing in the rain.
My mom, my brother and I have signed up for the Disneyland fun run. It is a 5k through Disneyland park, and I am very excited!!  You run at 10:30 at night on Jan. 27 2012 and they have the characters for people to take pictures with, as well as bands playing music. I am so excited, I mean, How often do somebody get the chance to run through Disneyland?!!  Anyhow I'm looking very forward to it.
My mom made the best blueberry cake/bread today!! It was so delicious!! It was her own recipe! I also just ate a homegrown Watermelon from our garden and It has never tasted so good. I now know what a true watermelon tastes like. 

The competition

My first competition was on Saturday and Sunday. Compulsory on Saturday, and artistic and technical on Sunday. I was very nervous for my technical program, I was afraid of messing up on my step sequence, or wobbling on the landing of my half loop, or not holding my sit spin long enough, or being shaky on my right back-outside spiral. As you can see I had a lot of pressure for that program. But I was much more relaxed with my artistic solo. But I got 1st place in compulsory 1st place in artistic and 2nd place in my freestyle 4 technical program. It might sound funny, but I'm prouder of my 2nd place than I am of my other first places, cause I competed with two girls that 6 months ago, I would never even dreamed of competeing with them. My aunt (the 'allthingsyummy) gave my beautiful pink roses that she handed to me after my artistic program. They are the best pink rose smelling roses that I had ever smelled.

My 13 year old cousin helped out at the competition with me, she was the ice captain (she made sure that everybody was where they were supposed to be), and I helped out with the interpretive events and whatnot. Then my 15 year old cousin was the announcer, so that was very funny to hear his voice echo from all sides of the rink.

So now I can finally move on to more challenging things like the double Salcow that I have landed 3 times.  Tomorrow is my lesson, and I am very excited, so I can finally move on with my skating journey.