Skeeters

These are the coolest things ever! You just move the handle back and forth to make the "Skeeter" go. In the picture is my cousin, Kendra- she's the one with the fake teeth in- and my sister, Cortney. While we were in Utah, we would go outside and ride these for hours and hours. The weather was SO nice! We did so many things up there to get excersize and i loved it! We went on tons of hikes, went rollerblading, swimming and so much more. It's way easy to excersize up there because it's not 110 degrees outside, like here. My cousins got these skeeter things at a swap meet for really cheap and i don't know where you'd find them here, in Arizona, but i sure do want to get some because they are just so dang fun!

Longboarding

Preston Riggs left his longboard at my house, so my sister and I decided to figure out how to ride it. We were going crazy and rode on our stomachs and all that fun stuff. We crashed A LOT, but it was WAYYY worth it! My sister takes pictures of everything and anything, so we got out the camera and took some crazy pictures of us on the longboard. It was so much fun! My brother goes longboarding all the time and he told me this once. J.C.-my brother- and his friend were in Fountain Hills longboarding down a huge hill. He told me that the fastest speed record on a skateboard was made there. The time was 42 mph. Imagine going that fast on a skateboard! My brother is SO CRAZY and wanted to see how fast he could go on a longboard. Longboards are very, very shaky and not sturdy. J.C. asked his friend to drive right behind him to see how fast he was going. He started down the hill and said he was scared for his life! J.C. said that he wanted to jump off, but if he would've done that, he would've broken TONS of bones. So he stayed on and was trying not to freak out. When he got off, his friend told him that he was going 39 mph! If he would've gone just a tiny bit faster, he could've made the world record! That's crazy! Right after he just could've gotten so hurt on that longboard, he went to jump off some cliffs. I swear, my brother is gonna end up breaking all the bones in his body!

The Dune Accident

This is me-on the left. yes, i have my huge ugly cast on- my sister, Cortney, and my brother, Jordan about to leave for the dunes. When my family went to the dunes for spring break, i took two of my cousins, their friends and my little brother on a Ranger ride. I didn't even know the friends, so i just rode off with a packed Ranger full of kids younger than me. The Ranger didn't have seat-belts in the back, so i just told Jordan, Carlee and Sidney to hold on. I've ridden in the back before and it's pretty bumpy, but i knew that if you hold on, you'd be fine. We rode around the dunes a little and we were getting pretty far out there, so i started to go back to camp. In order to get back, you have to go over some pretty big bumps, so i told the kids in the back to hold on really tightly. Sidney didn't listen and kept putting her hands up. On one of the bumps, she flew up and hit her head on the roll cage. When she came back down, she was screaming,so i told my younger brother to see if it was bleeding. He lifted her hand off her head and saw it was bleeding really bad, so he jumped out of the Ranger and started running. I had no clue he was that scared of blood! When i turned around to see how bad Sidney's cut was, i just turned back around and stepped on the gas as hard as I could! There was a gash about two inches long and it went so deep, you could see her skull. that was the scariest thing i've ever seen in my life! I got Jordan back in the Ranger, finally, and we started driving back. Jordan's so nice, he held his hand over her cut so she could hold on. Everyone in the Ranger was screaming, and i just sat there and tried not to cry. When we got back, my mom nursed her back to health and calmed her down until her dad got back from his ride. When her dad got back, he took her to the hospital and she had to get 9 stiches. My family left right after they did, because Jordan felt so bad.
We went camping right after school got out and he wouldn't ride in the Ranger, let alone drive, because he didn't want anything to happen,so it took him a while to get back in to the swing of things. He still wonders how i get back into that same Ranger and drive like nothing happened, but now we have seatbelts, so i feel so much safer!

Ice-Blocking

While my family and I were in Utah, we went ice-blocking down this hill. We were going crazy! It was so much fun and we all have bruises and scrapes from when we fell at the end. We would go on our knees-so hard- and on our stomachs. Going on your stomach hurt really bad, but it was definitely worth it! My favorite was the traditional "sit down on the ice" tecnique-also the easiest. All of our booties were soaked and we were really tired from having to walk up the hill, so we decided to go get some ice cream. When we got to the park, some kids were watching us go down the hill on our ice blocks, so when we were done, we just left the ice for them to use, but it was smaller, so it must have been harder for them to go down the hill. We also took our towels so their pants were probably soaked by the first ride down the hill! Ice-blocking is a BLAST and if you've ever done it, you definitely should!