Swimming across the lake

Something I forgot to mention about my trip to Michigan is that on the second to last day we swam all the way across the lake, from one side back to my Grandparents house. It took about 30 minutes but it was a lot of fun. I was pretty tired by the end and ready to be done. My little cousin Ryan, who is 5, swam across for the first time which was great for him. I am not sure if he actually swam the whole time, but at least he tried it!

The begining of my new soccer career

Yesterday I had my first practice in Iowa City, It was a lot of fun. I am very excited for the up coming season. It will deffinently make the hour and a half drive worth it. We, myself and two others from my old team, and we just kind of hung around a while getting to know the other guys. I already knew most of them pretty well, cause I had guest played with them. Then we started playing some, we just passed the ball around in a gride. Then we played some small sided posestion. After that we played on a small field to goal. We have another one on Thursday and the first game is only a few weeks away! I also have started training for Cross Country alot and out first meet is September the 2nd.

Protostar Camp

Last week I went to a creative arts camp at my church. It was so much fun! Every day we all showed up, 12 of us, and just hung around for a while. Then we practiced the dance we were doing as a big group, which was awesome! After that we split in groups, Drama and Spoken Word. I was in the Spoken Word group. At the end of the week we had a nice performance to show what we had worked on.

The whole group inclueding the adults

Team Baby (my team)

All the kids

Gurdians of the Galaxy

Two days ago a couple of my friends and I went to the "Midnight showing" (actually at 10:00 pm) of Gurdians of the Galaxy. It was really fun, The movie iteslf wasn't fivestar entertainment, but I wouldn't put it much lower than four star. I had a good mix of light heartedness and actuall serious plot line. Also, since we were some of the first ones there we each got gurdians of the galaxy pins,
Everybody except myself got a Drax pin, I got a Starlord pin. I would put up an image, but I couldn't find a very good picture.

After a week long vacation I am back to the bloging business. We went up to my Grandma and Granpas house which I haven't been to since last summer. My cousin, who is about a year older than me, and I had a great time. We did a lot of tubing and working out in my Grandparents basement, we even put the rest of the family through a circut training! We also tried water sking for the first time and that was awesome. My cousin, David, wasn't able to get up all the way but he got close. I got up on my first try and even tried to drop a ski at the end of my run..... It didn't work out to well. But it was still a really great time.

World Cup

For those of you who don't know, the final stages of the world cup were last month ending this month. USA did the same as they did the last world cup so not a huge success or dissapointment there.  Brazil, the favorties to win, got 4th after a stunning loss to Germany 7-1 and a loss to the Dutch 3-0. Germany would go on to win the world cup by beating Argentina in the finals.

Drivers Education

Today marks the day that I am officially done with Drivers Ed. I took my test yesterday and scored a 90% you need an 80% to pass. Today I got my certificate saying that I had done all of my 6 hours of drivning and that I had passed the test. Also, today a speaker fromt he DOT Drivers. (department of transportaion) She frankly wasn't very interesting. So, now when I turn 16, October 21, I can drive!!!! Better clear the streets so nobody gets hurt!