Swinging in the Park: The Junior High Years...

Junior High was an amazing time in my life! I had an incredible experience and I learned so many things! In 7th grade I shared my locker with the one and only Kaitlyn Swenson! We both made the cheer squad and so we would dress up on game days together! We also both decided that we weren't going to take PE and would count dance for that credit. So we would leave school early together and then carpool to dance! Loved it!

8th grade was my all time favorite year! I was a cheerleader once again and it was amazing! I think what made it so great was because I knew a lot of people. Don't take that as being cocky... haha but I had just taken the time to get to know a lot of different people and I think that made everything more fun! I shared my locker with the amazing Lauren Craig! We had been friends since about 4th grade. She was also on the cheer squad with me and so we saw each other a lot at school as well as away from school. I remember when I tried out for the cheer squad, me and my friend Jordan McKell made the 9th grade cheer squad. But we both made the decision to stay on the 8th grade squad with our friends. I made Jazz Club at the dance club 8th grade year as well. It was just overall an incredible year!

This is a picture of dress up day for Cheer! We all dressed up crazy and took crazy pictures!

9th grade year was awesome because we ruled the school! We were the oldest and had learned the ropes. I was also on the cheer squad and we didn't cheer for Oak Canyon anymore but had the opportunity to cheer for Timpanogos High School, which was a ton of fun! I also liked my first boy and he was on the football team! His name was Taylor Atkin haha. We sat by each other in Geology and it was so funny! We like never talked but everyone knew we liked each other... oh the good old days!

I also had a math teacher named Ms LeBlanc, yes she was related to Matt LeBlanc from friends! Anyways, she was the person who inspired me to become a math teacher! She was incredible and I learned so much that year! I gained such a love for Math. 9th grade year was amazing!