My Favorite Things EVER!

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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...

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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

Some More Funny Stories

Hey Guys

So apparently you liked my other post about funny stories, so because I'm a people pleaser, I'm gonna write another one!

1. "It's not that hard!"
Once upon a gym practice, the whole squad was on beam.  We were basically all having the exact same mental block...leaps on beam. Now let me tell you something...you don't know real pain until you split the beam.  If you don't know what that means...

Courtesy of: Gif Shot

Yeah...that's what splitting the beam looks like...So back to the story, we were all being wimps and not wanting to do leaps because doing a leap gives you probably the highest risk of splitting the beam...here's why...

That's me by the way

After watching that video, imagine what would have happened if my foot had slipped when I landed...ouch.  I would have fallen, smashed into the beam, crashed onto the mat and lay on the ground in pain curled up in a ball holding my leg/ankle/whatever I hit on the way down for about five minutes.  It is not fun.  It's happened to me more times than I can count. In fact, it happened to me last night...   Oh my, this post is turning into a beam rant. Back to the story. So Tina, my coach, was getting mad at us for not being "brave" and just "going for it". She then proceeded to step onto the low beam, after screaming to us for ten minutes about how easy it was and how we wouldn't get hurt. She told us that it was so easy, she could do it.  What happened next was hilarious.  She did her leap on the low beam, landed wrong, rolled her ankle, fell on the ground and her ankle started to swell up....Yeah.  After this whole lecture of how "it isn't that hard" and how "we wont get hurt."  We didn't do leaps on beam that day...Her ankle was purple and swollen for like two weeks.

2. Little Tree
I don't know if you guys will find this story is funny as I do… but let's just give it a whirl.  Before we vault, we have to move mats and stuff so we can get it how we like.  My team does this thing called "ants “ where we get the mat and put it over our head and carry it like that because it's a lot lighter that way… kind of like ants… so one thing about ants is that if you're in the front, carrying the front of the mat, you better be really quick to duck when we throw the mat.  Okay slowdown Maggie… what I mean by throw the mat is when we get the mat to the destination we want it at, we all just throw it forward.  Sometimes we don't throw it hard enough and the person in the front gets knocked down by the end of the mat.  So we were moving a dead mat one time, A dead mat is just a mat that has been used so much that it's just floppy and dead, Tasia was in the front and we threw the mat, it landed on her head.  It was really funny because as you probably know, Tasia is freakishly tall, and basically she was standing there and the mat was flopped over her so she looked like a tree or a mountain or something.  We all laughed and said she looked like a little tree and now we call her "LT".

So I only told two stories because if I wrote another one i'd be hella over my word limit.
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Maggie

Some Funny Stories

Ok, so here are some stories of funny things that have happened at gym.  These are mostly inside jokes that my team and I have with each other. Enjoy…

1. I NEED A BAGEL!

Ok, so every day at gym, we stretch for about 15 minutes, and then we condition.  Conditioning, for those of you who don’t know, is basically doing hard stuff to make you stronger…(push-ups, burpies, pull ups, running, etc.)  Ok, so we were in the middle of doing push-ups, and Sophie was almost done.  She was getting slower and her arms were shaking and you could tell she was tired.  All of a sudden she screamed, “I NEED A BAGEL!!” and then, her arms gave out and she collapsed on the ground.  We were laughing so hard because we didn’t know why she said that.  Anyway, now we bring her bagels to every competition. 

2. Red Scrunchie

So we have pretty ugly competition leotards and we have been asking our coach, Tina, to get us new ones for years.  So one day we were on bars and I just made a comment like, “yeah, that'll happen as soon as we get new competition leos.” (meaning: that'll never happen)  Then tasia says to me, “Ms. Tina told me we were getting new ones!”  Naturally I ran over to Tina to ask her if it was true.  She said yes, we were getting long-sleeve, red and white leos.  Now I was super exited…but after a couple minutes, I started thinking.  Now heres a little bit of background info,  I loooooooovvve to have super cute braided/twisted/sparkly hair for competitions.  So I was thinking about my hair scrunchie collection… no red!!! This couldn’t be happening!  My hair always has to be on point for meets.  I looked over at Tina, she saw the panic in my face and asked what was wrong.  I asked, “The new leos…do they come with a red scrunchie??”  She thought that this was the funniest thing in the world because she literally fell on the ground laughing.  I guess you had to be there…Yeah, i’m pretty much a dork.

3. BONUS POINTS!!

So we were vaulting and there was another class that was using the end of the vault runway to do tricks into the pit.  So Tasia was just having a really sucky day because she was in a lot of pain because her foot was really hurting her.  So one of the idiots in the other class thought it would be a funny idea to throw foam blocks from the pit at Tasia when she was vaulting.

This is what a pit block looks like

Photo Courtesy of: funandfunction

Anyways, so Tasia was running full speed, ready to vault, when this kid throws a foam block at her face. Tasia, naturally still vaulted because if she didn't, she would smash full speed into a big chunk of metal and foam.  So she vaulted...it was bad...she landed...and then she tripped...into the wall.  Luckily she was smart enough to do an okay enough vault that she didn't get hurt.  She was just in a lot of pain because of her foot.  Ms. Tina, my coach, told us that we were done with vault.  When she asked Tasia what was wrong, she told her that some kid was throwing stuff at her. Tina told us, "boys are idiots, they don't think, you just have to think for them." -ok I promise this story gets funny soon- 

So Cody was just like...

Photo Courtesy of: memegenerator

She was like, "how are we supposed to think for them when they're throwing stuff at us?!"

Cody:

"How to vault"

1. Run as fast as you can

2. Make sure to dodge the flying objects

3. If you punch them away...BONUS POINTS!"

Idk...it was funny at the time...heres a picture...

I know, I know...I have a gift

That's all byeeeeeee!

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Some Stories of my Stupidity

So I guess you guys want to hear some stories of my stupidity. >

So that makes me feel great.  Just kidding, this will be a fun post!

1. The Karate Kick

Ok, so Cody and I were standing around, waiting at bars because we only got one bar set or something like that that day.  I don’t know, we were standing.  So anyways, I asked cody what sports her little sister, Tracy did.  She said that she did karate at Bobby Lawrence.  So we were joking around and for some reason I thought that I was a karate ninja and I could do a super cool karate kick.  I can’t.  So basically,  I ran and jumped up in the air and kicked my foot really high and cool.  It was awesome! Until…so I guess I kicked my leg too hard and I basically landed on my neck because my whole body slipped out from under me. …Twas not ninja-like.

2. The Leg Smash

So we were all standing around at bars… wow, a lot of terrible things happened me at bars… anyways, I was talking to Cody or someone I forget who, but anyways I didn't realize that Tasia was up on high bar and I jumped the bar and did a kip.  Right as I extended my legs out, tasia casted away from the bar, and swung down. Both of our legs smacked into each other with tons of force.  It hurts so bad and we both collapsed to the ground hugging our throbbing shins. The funny thing is neither of us realize that the other one was on the bars… that's a stupid we were.  Then we started laughing so hard that we cried!  It was a special time.

3. The Vault Flight

Ok, so we were vaulting.  It was my turn to go, and it was my first vault of the day.  Our coach, Ms. Tina, told us to warm up by just running, and jumping onto the vault (run, jump on springboard, land with feet on top of vault table).  Naturally, my first Vault of the day would be pretty bad… I ran as fast as I could and slammed my feet on the spring board.  Right in that second, I totally forgot what I was doing and my feet never quite made it onto the vault table.  Instead…this happened.  

I ran…

Vault Courtesy of: illpop

I jumped (by this point I kinda knew I was screwed)…

Springboard courtesy of: turngeraete24

I flew…all the way over the vault…

Girl courtesy of: clipartpanda

So basically I just kind-of hit the springboard and flew straight over the vault…It would have been cool…if I had landed it. Nope.  I hit the ground on my knees and rolled away.  It was very terrifying but then when I got up, my whole team was laughing and clapping!  Because apparently when I was in midair, I made a really loud bird-like sound.  Anywho…

I hope you enjoyed and don’t forget to vote on my new poll————>

Maggie