Saying Goodbye :(

Wow. This has been one crazy year.

If you are unaware, this blog is an assignment for Honors English and my teacher told us to write our final post about ways we have changed this year. Since I live on the wild side (and because I asked Mr. Parker and he said it was ok) I am going to write more about THINGS that have changed in my life over the year.

1. Cody Quit Gymnastics
If you are a peasant and didn't know... My best friend quit gymnastics at the beginning of the year. It was tragic at the time but it's A-OK because were still friends, even though we don't necessarily see each other nearly as much as we used to, we still hang out and play pool *trying not to laugh at how much me and cody suck at pool because people are still taking the sage test rn* It still sucks not having Cody at gym but its all good in the hood.

2. Kylie joined our team!
After Cody left, gymnastics was kinda rough, no offense to my other teammates but I didn't have my twin, The Co to my Ma (maggie + cody = maco). BUT THEN...Kylie joined and at first I was all like "Ew she's gross and also better than me at beam" but then I was like "hey, she's kinda chill".  Over the school/competition year we became BFFs. Basically now Kylie is my sister. We are the kind of friends where we are so close that we can fight with each other instead of awkwardly agreeing with each other so we don't hurt feelings.

3. I had the best season of my life.
This competition season was one of the best. I placed at every competition and my team always swept the podium! I got some of the highest scores ever and had a blast.

4. I started training with the Optional Girls
This year, about half way through the competition season, I started training with the optional girls (level 6-10). This was an incredible opportunity for me because I got much better coaching and the gymnastics was just more fun. This is one of the main reasons why I did so well at State and Regionals.

5. I got 2nd All-Around at state
At the beginning of the year, if you had told me that I would get 2nd all around at state, that the difference between me and first was 0.025, that I would score a 37.1 and that I made the state team, I would tell you that you were crazy. I know for a fact that these scores were a direct result of my new coaches and training schedule! State was an amazing experience and I wish I could do it all over again!

6. I competed for Utah at Regionals
I had an absolutely AMAZING experience competing on the Utah State gymnastics team in Long Beach at regionals. I met so many amazing girls and had an amazing experience. The Utah team got 3rd (that's really good)!!

The Utah State Gymnastics Team

7. I quit
Sadly this competition season was my last. I have decided to quit gymnastics. Gymnastics has been one of the best decisions I have ever made and I am so thankful. Thank you so much to everyone who has made the past years of my life so amazing. Thank you to my team for all the amazing memories and experiences. I will never forget any of it! I love you all to the moon and back!

Goodbye,
Maggie

I don't know why but this picture of me and Kylie running into
the sunset seemed necessary. 

My Favorite Things EVER!

Oh hey there

My blog is BLUE.

I can't be tamed

1. COLORFUL pens
Yes indeed I have an unhealthy addiction to colorful pens. I think I have like 50% OCD and I know every white girl ever says they have OCD but I legit think I do...but just a little. I don't get like creepy death images in my head or do things like walking through a door over and over until I get it right...I just like things to be organized. But I'm getting off topic. Basically I have 3 planners...School, Life, and Other. I really like my planners to be neat and color coordinated...hence the colorful pens. I don't know why but I ❤︎ LOVE ❤︎ when everything is super colorful. I write my notes, my homework and everything else in colorful pens...it just makes life so much more exciting! Just ask Kylie...

K: "Maggie what do you want for your birthday?"
M: "Pens"
K: "Pens?"
M: "Pens."
Also, Kylie will tell you about how I don't let ANYBODY touch my pens because they will ruin them! *cough* Kylie I still hate you for squishing the tip in on my blue pen in St. George *cough*

My favorite pens

2. Lip Balm
Oh dear goodness gracious...I am obsessed with lip balm. I couldn't tell you how many lip balms I have because it would take probably a week to find/count all of them. The weird thing is...my lips get chapped really easily which is really mind-boggling considering the fact that I re-apply my lip balm every 5 minutes. I buy Baby Lips, ChapStick, EOS, Burts Bees, Wet n Wild, Carmex, Nivea and any other kind of lip balm you can imagine. I LOVE LIP BALM.

I found this on the internet and it sums up my feelings.

3. Fuzzy Socks

I LOVE FUZZY SOCKS!!!!

yas

4. Mike N Ikes
Hi my name is maggie and i'm a mike-n-ike-aholic. The first step is admitting you have a problem amiright? I cannot put into words my insane obsession with the fruity, delicious, chewy candies that are mike n ikes.
If you have never tried mike n ikes...
Step 1: Get out of my life
Step 2: Never speak to me again
Step 3: Go getcho self some mike n ikes because that shit is delicious

For all you peasants who don't know what mike n ikes are.

Well that's all for this post friends. I hope you...

HOLY MACRAL MY FAVORITE SONG JUST CAME ON PANDORA AND I JUST THOUGHT I SHOULD TELL YOU THAT IT IS MY JAAAAAMMM!!

k bye

State Meet!

AAHAGHAHAAAJAAaaa!!!!

Holy Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuacamole!!

I probably just had THE best 3 days of my life!

Wednesday
Kylie and I set off for St. George! It was about a 5 hour drive...it seems really long but it was fun because we watched movies and jammed to music the whole way down! We went to our resort and immediately hit the pool! We swam for about an hour and then hit the spa! We went in the steam room, the 'relaxation room' and the INCREDIBLE showers! (seriously though I can't even describe how cool these showers were!) We headed into town for pizza and a movie! It was a SUPER fun night!

Thursday (MEET DAY!)
We woke up early Thursday morning and sat in hammocks to watch the sun rise and then headed to the resort restaurant for breakfast. We enjoyed a breakfast buffet and tried to get in touch with Brenna and Tasia. We had about 2 hours before our spa appointments so we went on a short hike. We found this huge rock spiral thingy in the middle of nowhere and walked through the entire thing! (It was questionable because it looked a little satanic). We "sacrificed" our hair ties at the middle of the spiral because apparently you have to sacrifice something. We went for a quick dip in the pool and we ran into Brenna who just so happened to be on her way to the spa! Since our spa appointment was in about 30 minutes, we got out of the pool and went with Brenna to the spa. We showered and changed into robes and slippers and headed into the "relaxation room" to wait with Brenna...and guess who happened to be in the relaxation room...TASIA! When they called me and Kylie we headed up to the salon and got our hair and makeup done. After our spa treatment we (the 4 of us) walked to all of our rooms to get our leos and warmups. (this took a while because the resort was VERY spread out and we were all in different buildings (except for me and Kylie of course)). Afterwards we headed to the meet!! It was about a 30 minute drive.

The competition went AMAZINGLY! I won't bore you with details but I got 3 personal bests on vault, bars and all around!
Scores:
Bars: 9.355
Beam: 8.9
Floor: 9.4
Vault: 9.4
AA: 37.1 (!!!!!)

Awards was amazing! As we were waiting for our awards, these meet people came up to Me and Kylie and told us that we were in the top 5 of all 72 girls there! That meant that we had made the Utah state team to compete against the other states at regionals!!!!

Awards:
Vault: 1st
Bars: 2nd
Beam: 4th
Floor: 2nd
AA: 2nd

The girl that beat me and won first all around beat me by only .005!!!!!!!
All in all one of the best meets i've ever had!!

Saturday
We got up early again and cleaned the hotel room and packed our bags. Emery has a pool house in St.George so we went there for a pool party! It was great! We drove home and it was depressing because our amazing trip was over :(

Here are some pictures!!

In the "relaxation room" at the spa

Pool Party!

Pool Party Selfie

Driving into St. George

The relaxation room

xoxo
Gossip Girl

Jk

-Maggie

Ella

Once there was a girl named Ella. She had pretty hair. Ella always wore doc martins and jeans. Ella sat across from Maggie in English. Ella was always stressed about geography and theater.  Maggie liked Ella, but Ella thought Maggie was a poo.  Maggie helped Ella remember vocab words and memorize capitals and whatnot. Ella was internet famous.

Ella was also a theater star.

Creds to: Rachel Frain

Creds to: Rachel Frain

Creds to: Rachel Frain

Maggie looked up to Ella because she was radical and also famous. Maggie was just a peasant compared to Ella the famous chick. Maggie decided to interview Ella so that one day, Maggie could be famous like Ella.

Here is a short interview with Ella the super star.
M: Why are you so hip?
E: I don't know it's hard to be as hip as I am, you can try your hardest but you'll never be as hip as me. What's the capital of Iran?
M: How did you become so famous?
E: So one day I went to the shop and it was pretty intense because all these people were like can you act for me and I was like ummm I guess
M: Who is Maggie to you?
E: She's a pesant...obviously. She can do some flexible stuff but she's not quite as famous as me…Yet… She'll get there
M: How are you so bootyful?
E: You have to buy all the makeup and get lot's of plastic surgery and then maybe you'll be as beautiful as me but probably not.
M: Do people just bow down to your feet when you walk by?
E: Yeah...a lot of them smell me and then kiss my hands...and my elbows
M: Are you as cool as Ke$ha?
E: Umm...Wayy cooler than Ke$ha
M: But you don't have a money sign in your name
E: Ya I do.. Ella Fedder$en
M: Thank you for letting me interview you
E: Ya I bet it was a pleasure...for you not me.
E: Can I have a piece of gum?

Then I interviewed one of her aquainteces...Francessca
M: What do you think of Ella?
F: I think Ella is just too fab so I don't even know why we are friends...
E: ...We're not


Ella has a blog ----> blog

Then Maggie tried to take a picture and Ella freaked because she thought it was paparazzi

Thanks for reading,
Maggieeeee

Whats Happnin?

Hey there friends
I just wanted to give you some quick updates on things that are going on for me right now. (does anybody actually care?)

1. State
In about 48 hours I will be on my way (a 5 hour drive) to Saint George for one of the most important meets of the year...STATE MEET! If I do well at state meet (get a certain all around score) then that means I qualify to go to regionals...which just so happens to be in LONG BEACH! Hell Heck Yes!!! (Are you happy Kalli?). Anywho I am suuuupper excited to go to the warm weather and poolside lemonades in saint george but I am also super nervous! I may or may not write a blog post about it but idk bro.

2. New Schedule/Training
If you don't know this (I don't know why you would) but I am no longer doing the same training schedule and I am not training with Tina anymore. Xcel Gold (Maggie, Kylie, Tasia and Brenna) are training with the level 6 girls now which is AWESOME!! The coaches are much better and I love getting to train more hours per week! The only thing that kinda sucks is that we don't get to train with Emery...single tear

3. Bye Tasia
Tasia has told us the extremely sad news that she isn't going to compete next year. She is going to finish out this competition season and then quit. She does have a good reason though. She is a pro ski racer and skiing and gymnastics just don't mesh very well. It sucks but it's better for her because she had a crazy insane athletic schedule. When she wasn't skiing she was at gym and when she wasn't at gym she was at school. She also gets a lot of injuries which sucks because injuries suck.

Well I guess that's all I have to say in this post. I really have no idea what to post so you guys should leave comments telling me what you want me to post about. Hey guess what...this is my last post of this quarter! Wow that went by really fast! If you didn't know already, we are required to have a link and a picture in all of our blog posts. I don't really know what to put a picture of so I'll just give you a picture of the hotel I'm staying at in St. George...

The hotel i'm staying at in St. George...can you tell
why I'm excited?!?! Creds

Here's a link to a random website -----> Click for a surprise

Ke$ha Later,
Maggie

Team Dinners Part 2

Oh hello there friends. Welcome back

If you are cool then you probs read my post called team dinners and in that post I mentioned that I would be making "Team Dinners Part 2"...so here it is...

The Spaghetti and Salmon Dinner

The spaghetti and salmon dinner was hosted by Brenna and it was at her house (obviously). This one was very fun because Brenna is like super rich and so she has a huge basement and it has a beam, tumbling mats, and more! As you can imagine, a bunch of gymnasts with a huge basement and gymnastics equipment made for a very fun night. Another super fun thing we did was play twister... This may not sound super exciting but when you are a gymnast and you can do backbends and splits and such, it was very exciting and much more fun!

Quotes of the night:

"hold on one sec, I have to go fart in a pillow" -Brenna

Brenna: *farts*  ♫"oops I did it again"♫

(Playing twister) *Maggie pushes Kylie over* "I win!"

All in all the spaghetti and salmon dinner was a very fun night and one of my favorite team dinners so far!

Here are some pictures and videos from that night.

Twister!

Just to give you an idea of what our team dinners are like...

The Chinese Dinner

Now I bet you're wondering, why the heck did you have a Chinese dinner?? This dinner was hosted by Tasia. Her dad just so happens to be the Chinese teacher at Roland Hall so he decided to make us Chinese food.  Tasia lives right across the street from PCMR and also right across the street from A private pool.  It was super fun because it was just me Tasia and Brenna (everyone else was out of town) and we had so much fun running around the neighborhood and night swimming in the pool.   When we got back from the pool dinner was ready and let me just say it was delicious!

Storytime!  You can imagine in the middle of February it was quite cold outside and we happened to be walking around in our swimsuits so to stay warm, we wrapped our towels around our necks like capes and it was quite funny because we looked ridiculous and we were pretending that we were Buzz lightyear.

Another Story! When we were done swimming we decided to get showers at the pool.  As I mentioned earlier we walked there in our swimsuits so we didn't exactly have clothes with us. After our shower I used my towel as a skirt and Tasia's sweatshirt as a shirt and I looked very hysterically terrible!

Here are some of the pictures that we took that night! (we tried to be artsy in the picture of us jumping into the pool together... Shortly after taking that picture, tasia pretty much landed on me in the pool which was not a very fun time)

My Great outfit

Me and Brenna being superheroes

Our towel capes

Jumping into the pool

Gosh darn it I'm already at my word limit!

Guess that's it for this post
Bye Felicia,
Maggie

Team Dinners

Every Competition, we have a team dinner the night before. Every dinner has a specific theme, here are some stories of the team dinners this year.

The Spaghetti and Chicken Dinner
The first dinner was hosted by ME and it was the spaghetti and chicken dinner. It was christmas themed because the meet was christmas themed. When you walked into my house there was a little tree with presents that had fuzzy socks in them and they were freaking adorable. (It'll make sense later)

Aren't I such a good drawer?

So here are some stories from this dinner.

1. Emery passes out
At dinner we were telling funny stories from practice and we were all laughing so hard and I'm pretty sure someone spiked the apple cider...but anyways Emery was laughing really really hard and she started choking on her food and that just made her laugh more and she fell off her chair and passed out because she was laughing/choking so hard. It was great.

2. Slip N Slide
As I mentioned earlier, we all had fuzzy socks on. Now I happen to have hardwood floors in my house and things were just doomed from the beginning. First of all, Emery was running and then she stopped but not really because she slid for like 20 feet before she hit the edge of the carpet and flew forward and face planted onto my couch.  Next, Brenna slid on the floor and plowed down Tasia in the process. THEN being the idiots we are, we decided to do gymnastics on the hardwood floor. (I never said we were smart) Brenna did an aerial and when her feet landed on the floor they slid and she ended up in the splits!

The Pork and Penne Dinner
The pork and penne dinner was hosted by Kylie and it was before Bailies.

Here are some funny stories:
1. The swing room
Kylie has a room in her house that nobody uses so her parents installed swings and BOOM "the swing room". Anyways, we were all up in the swing room and it wasn't necessarily one thing that happened but we were basically all swinging into each other and the wall and we all ended up bruised and semi concussed.

I'm sure something really hilarious happened at that dinner that I don't remember but I seriously don't remember much from that dinner...maybe someone spiked the apple cider again...Thanks obama

That's all the words I have room for in this post so I guess I'll have to make a part 2!

Ke$ha Later,
Maggie

Kylie.

Kylie. Farber.

My bae

Kylie didn't make it into my first post which just so happened to be about my team.  This is because Kylie wasn't even on the team yet.  But she is now sooooo...

By the way....

A history
Kylie was born on June 20th, 2002 in Utah. (does anybody actually care?)  Kylie used to be in the optional levels which pretty much means that she was REALLY good!  Unfortunately,  she broke her foot and couldn't do gymnastics for a year.  As you can imagine, Kylie lost a ton of skills from being away for so long.  When she came back, she joined the Xcel team.  (just so you know, Xcel Gold is about the equivalent of level 5/6).  So that's where we are now, months later, she's on the Gold team.

Funny Times
Here is a list of hilarious stories that have happened with Kylie.

1. One day, me and Kylie decided to race across the beams.  We were going to jump over each beam until we got to the end. Like this...
   

Anyways, we thought that we were GENIUS and that this would be great!! So we ran and started jumping over the beams. Kylie however, tripped over a beam and face planted into the ground...taking me with her.

2. One time (last weekend to be exact) the whole team was over at Kylie's house.  We were up in her room dancing and such (as girls do) and we noticed these boys were staring at us rather creepily (is that a word?) We watched them secretly and they went back to their house. But then, like 10 minutes later, they came back...with a cross bow.  They started hiking this mountain right behind Kylie's house.  We decided to follow them (and be spies). We got in all black clothes and started secretly hiking up the mountain behind them. At one point Brenna (in the back) whispers," Guys, guys...spy selfie" at that moment it was like the funniest thing ever because she was trying to hold out her phone and take a picture and Kylie was trying to push her down so she wouldn't give us away and she was like duck facing as she was trying to push her and it was one of the funniest things i've ever seen. Anyways the boys mysteriously disappeared and we ended up just hiking to the top of the mountain to watch the sun set. It was a good time.

Us being spies

Artsy Picture at the top of the mountain

So yeah! That's all you need to know about Kylie Farber. Did anybody actually read this entire post? That's all for now kids...
Bye Y'all

GO AWAY!

If you are reading this, STOP!

K go

But really you need to go away and read some other blogs

I am here to tell you of the other blogs that you should read because they're so hip.

Ella's Blog
Ella's Blog is one of the best ones out there. Its about a bunch of stupid stuff...hence every one of her blog titles.  I loooove her blog and I laugh so hard every time I read it.  If you aren't reading Ella's blog, I don't know what you're doing with your life.  She is so consistent with her posts (unlike me) and will not let you down! She blogs about the most random and relatable things ever and I highly recommend checking out her blog.

#SneakPeek

Zia's Blog
Sometimes when I read Zia's blog I have to contain myself and try not to laugh so hard that I pee my pants. Zia blogs about some of the funniest things and stories that I love reading.  She likes to make fun of her past self and rant about her satanic step mother.  If you have not yet read Zia's blog you should give up and go home (and also read her blog).

Some quotes from her blog:

"She's got all these connections because she's practically a goddess so I will use her to get in contact with the president of Bangladesh, Abdul Hamid, and convince him into adopting me."

"That was pretty much because before then I had absolutely no life and pretty much spent all of the time pretending I was a water buffalo"

"My dad broke up with {My step mom} because he finally realized what a psychotic bitch she was!"

Zia's Blog

Allie's Blog
Allie ain't cho ordinary gal...and neither is her blog.  Every other girl in 9th grade honors english blogs about the same thing...their life, beauty, and rants about everything.  Allie on the other hand blogs about scary stuff and the illuminati and conspiracy theories and such. BTW I get creds for Illumi-NAH-ti And even though she NEVER POSTS ANYTHING!!! she is still cool and so is her blog so...

Allie's Blog

Teia's Blog
So basically I don't read Teia's blog in public because I don't like publicly laughing like a donkey while falling off my chair and peeing my pants because her blog is so gosh darn funny!  She makes fun of everything in the best way possible and I just love it.  If you haven't read Teia's blog yet...I strongly recommend that you do because it's great.

Some quotes from Teia's Blog:

"Paris: Juliet is hot.
Mr. Capulet: Nah son, she's like 12.
Paris: Oh well she's hot, I'll probs marry her."

"It might just be me, but I feel like the president looks a lot like Barack Obama?? I think this could be the start of a revolution."

"Once my bra strap showed by accident when I was at school and police sirens started to sound and children started to cry and the government shut down and buildings blew up and I got suspended because nobody can know teenage girls wear bras."

Teia's Blog

AAAAAANNNNYWAY
That's all the blogs I can tell y'all about because i'm at my word limit. I'll probs make part 2.

K Bye

Unfinished Posts

So Teia and Ella both did this and I think that it's pretty brilliant.  Basically they shared some posts that they started to write and never finished.  Here are some posts that I started and never finished.

Things that piss me off
When people smell bad
I just...I think that the most repulsing thing ever is when people smell bad, like...put on some deodorant.   And especially at gymnastics, I mean...I get that were working out and you're not gonna smell like daisies, but come on, put on some deodorant ya nasties. Another thing that drives me crazy is when people try to cover their stink in loads of perfume...like...you just made the problem worse for yourself.

Things I'd rather do
So sometimes...I just have those days when I don't feel like going to gymnastics. Here are things I'd rather do...

1. Binge watch Pretty Little Liars
2. Eat an entire box of cheeze-its.
3. Cry every time Hannah chooses Jake
4. Wish Disney would bring back That's So Raven
5. Read Ella's Blog
6. Organize all my gymnastics medals
7. Listen to The Jonas Brothers
8. Wish Netflix would put Drake and Josh back on Netflix
9. Glue on fake nails (even though they would fall off on bars)
10. Take a bubble bath
11. Look at old pictures I took on photo booth in 6th grade
12. Binge watch Hannah Montana
13. Look at leos on GK
14. Wish I was Hannah Montana
15. Cry because I'm not Hannah Montana
16. Call Zia
17. Go to Hawaii
18. Take another Bubble Bath
19. Sleep
20. Make Brownies
21. Watch Christmas Movies
22. Be a Ninja Turtle
23. Cry because I'm not a Ninja Turtle
24. Be Beyonce
25. Doodle
26. Watch Miranda Sings
27. Watch High School Musical
28. Get my eyebrows done

Rules you should live by

1. Don't be afraid to fail
Never pass up the opportunity to do something amazing just because you are afraid of failing. Go to Africa, go whale watching.

"To me, Fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."

2. Live like Larry
Take risks, be bold.

Creds: Pintrest

So there you go...some posts that I started to write and then got bored with and never finished.  Sorry if this post was random and weird, but I just felt like sharing this and it's my blog so I can do whatever the heckity heck I want to.

Bye Felicia,
Maggie

GTC Meet

Why hello there!

This weekend I had yet another competition! This one was in Lehi at a gym called GTC.  This is one of my teams favorite meets!

Our first event was beam, YIKES! Brenna went up first and I was second.

*side note*
Just so you are aware, this is the order the team always goes in at competitions:
Brenna
Maggie
Kylie
Tasia
It isn't in any particular order, we just like it that way.

Back to beam.  I went up after Brenna.  I stuck everything but my cartwheel and scored an 8.45. Beam wasn't our best, and you can't blame us because it was our first event of the competition.

Next was floor.  We waited, and waited, and waited, until finally it was our turn.  I walked onto the floor and did a great routine.  Except that I tripped over myself a little bit in one of my dance moves. I scored a 9.25 getting me first place!

After floor, we headed over to vault.  I had okay vaults, not my best. I scored a 8.85, third place.  The funniest thing happened at vault though.  When tasia was going, she hit the springboard and the moment her hands hit the table she made the funniest noise! She was like. "HUUUUUUHGGGGHHUH!" We were all laughing so hard!

Our last event was bars.
If you remember from my last post, my bars were not very good because I got a huge deduction for not having a vertical cast on high bar. But this time was different! My cast was great and I got an 8.9!

My scores!

Awards!
We waited FOOOOOORRRRRREEEEVVVEEEERRRR!! I'm not joking.  After bars we waited about half an hour for awards to start and then there was about an hour of awards before my age division.  But finally we started awards!
Vault: 3rd
Bars: 5th
Beam: 7th
Floor: 1st!!
AA: 3rd

In the team awards, our team placed 3rd which was really good considering there was like 14 teams there.  Kylie did really well and scored first place all around.

After the meet we (of course) went to noodles and company for some celebratory noodles!  It was super fun and we had a great time.  After noodles we had some cupcakes from Sweet Tooth Fairy!  The meet ran really late so basically we were eating dinner at around 10ish.

Overall this was a pretty good meet! Here are some pictures!

Waiting for Floor to start

Sideways, but whatevs

After awards

Back at noodles!

Kylie taking ugly snapchats.

That's all for this post, vote on my poll!

Maggie

P.S. My next meet is the winter classic which is not for a couple of weeks

Bailies Meet

EW

BAILIES


My team when we found out we were going to Bailies this year...

Creds: pix good

Just so you know, Literally every person on my team absolutely hates this meet.  We always do terrible at it and we just hate meet overall.

But this year, was different.  We all did very well at the meet and we were very happy with the turnout.

Our first event was vault. We had a great warm-ups and all four of us stuck our vaults and were fully satisfied with our scores.  I got a 9.025 which I was very happy with.  We were excited and nervous as we headed for bars.

Next was bars.  I was especially nervous for bars because I had been falling in my squat on in practice almost every time.  Warmups shook me up because I made exactly one squat on.  Brenna went before me and I was second.  I saluted the judges and turned to face the bars.  I stood on the springboard for what seemed like forever trying to get my nerves to calm down.  I kipped up, stooped my feet onto the bar and jumped. I made it!!! I nailed my routine and stuck the landing. Unfortunately, the judges thought otherwise.  I scored an 8.25. Everybody was shocked and my coach ran to the judges to investigate! The judges were stubborn poops who wouldn't change my score which kinda sucked.

Next was Beam.  We took our grips off and immediately started beam warmups.  Brenna warmed up first, she fell in every single skill she did.  I warmed up next, I fell about 4 times.  This was making us nervous.  Brenna got up and did an ok routine with 2 falls.  I went up next, I stuck every skill except for my stupid cartwheel. 8.625.  After me, Kylie went up.  She fell in her full turn, and fell flat on her face in her dismount.  Tasia got up and nailed her routine. Beam overall was pretty bad for the team.  We had to shake off beam because we still had one more event left.

Last was floor, my fave.  I messed up on some of my dance moves at the beginning, but overall I did a fabulous routine.  I stuck my roundoff back handspring back tuck and my front tuck.  I got a 9.150.

Awards was the best! Kylie, Brenna and Tasia were all competing in the same age division, and I was in a different one.  Kylie rounded up 4 gold medals including one for all around! My scores were...
Vault: 1st
Bars: 6th
Beam: 3rd
Floor: 1st
AA: 3rd

Me on first place!

But the best thing by far was that our team won First Place in team awards!! This meet was by far better than the last and we were all satisfied with our awards! We celebrated by going to Noodles and Company to continue our tradition.

Here are some pictures:

Team Photo Before Bars

The Trophy!!

All our medals

Celebratory Noodles

My Medals

Some Swaggin Videos

Ok so I kinda like to make video edits of me and my friends doing gymnastics and I thought I would show you them...

1. My Birthday
So fun story.  All of the clips from this were taken on my birthday.  Shortly after filming on beam, I injured myself.  What sucks though is that we didn't get it on film.  So basically I was in the hospital on my birthday...aaaannnywho, here's the video...

2. The Cow
This video was taken a couple of days before Halloween.  I made a cow costume for Halloween last year. I was originally going to write a post about Halloween and put this video at the end...but that post never really happened.  I laugh every time I watch this because it's such a swaggy video, but i'm in a cow suit sooooo...

3. Me and Kylie
Once upon a Saturday, me and Kylie were bored.  We decided to go outside and try to take some artsy gymnastics pictures.  We ended up taking slow motion videos so that it would be easier to pause them and screen shot them.  We had a bunch of slow motion videos on my phone so we decided to make a movie with them, this was the result...

4. Back Tuck
This video was taken on the same night that me and Kylie took our clips for the previous video, this is just a video of Kylie doing a back tuck that I edited really cool. I love the background of this because the sun was setting and the sky looked orange and cool! Enjoy...

5. Bruh
This video was taken a long time ago.  It was taken on the very first day I'm going to do a back tuck (so a while ago).  At the time it was like the coolest thing ever for me and I was really excited so I had Tasia film it for me. Later, I added some music and slowed it down a little, here is the result….
(BTW if you were wondering why I called it "BRUH" it's because I posted it on Vine one time and I have no idea what to caption it so that's what I did...)

6. Bars Dismount
This video was taken the day I tried this really fun and weird dismount on bars.  I filmed my whole routine but I just decided to edit and add music to my dismount.  So here is the video...

That's all for this blog post. I hope you enjoyed watching these because some of them took me a long time to edit.  I will probably do another one of these posts in the future when I make more videos, but for now I only have 6. Ok byeeeee

Maggie

22 Hours of Gymnastics Later...

So you would think that over holiday break we would get a break from gymnastics...think again.  Over holiday break they pretty much doubled our practice hours. We had practice every day over break except for Christmas Eve and Christmas.

Our workout schedule was like this...
Monday, December 22nd:  1-3:30
Tuesday, December 23rd: 5-7:30
Friday, December 26th: 9 am - 2 pm
Monday, December 29th: 2-5
Tuesday, December 30th: 2-5
Wednesday, December 31st: 9am-2pm

The days that were 6 hours each were called "gymnastics camp" these were the days that we got the most work done.  All of the levels came to the gym and we rotated through events and coaches. This was nice because we got to get corrections from new coaches that we had never been coached by before.  On these days we also got to work new skills and take a break from the same old routines.  Kylie got a new beam dismount, a round off back tuck off the end...I was too scared to try it.  I worked on fly-aways on bars.  A fly-away is where you are swinging on the high bar and you let go and flip once before you land. Like this...

Creds: gymnastics coaching

On most of the days during break, Kylie and I got to work in with the level 5 and 6 girls since that's about the level we are.  It was really fun to train with some new girls and make new friends.  One of the girls we met, Taylor, was from Ohio and was staying in Park City and training in our gym over winter break!  She told us that at her gym in Ohio, they had 4...yes 4 floors, 15 beams, 6 sets of bars, and like 5 vault runways!

Our last day of Gymnastics camp was on New Years Eve, it was another 6 hour practice. I was the only one there from our team. I worked with the level 5 and 6's again. This time was a little different, because we worked less on Beam, Bars, Floor, and Vault, and more on tramp, tumble track, and rod floor.  This was fun because tumbling is my favorite! I got my tumbling to be more powerful and I even attempted some layouts. (key word being "attempted".)

It wasn't JUST tumbling on the last day...because if you've ever tried to do backflips and twists for 6 hours straight...it doesn't end well.  We worked on bars and vault a little.  Here is a video of me working bars...(no fly-away :( )

So I guess that's all! But I'm not at my word limit yet so let's talk some more!  I am having a meet this weekend in draper...BAILIES. *dun dun duuuuun*. We all hate the Bailies meet, so prepare for a rant when I post about it.  Literally last year at that meet:

• I got a 7.8 on floor (my best event)
• Brenna completely forgot her beam routine
• They registered Cody in the wrong age division.
• They didn't even register me!!

Ok byeeeeee.