What if...

What if...

-Mach 5 went to worlds
-We went to New Orleans
-I didnt go to Worlds last year
-I didn't have a job
-I never did gymnastics
-I never went to cheer with Tiffany
-I didnt do UCA
-I didnt do cheer in HS
-My parents werent divorced
-I grew up to be a cheer coach
-I never decided to go to college
-I never graduated from HS


What if Mach 5 went to Worlds in 2014? What if we went to New Orleans and got a bid to go to The Cheerleading Worlds. That's any cheerleaders dream is to go to Worlds of Cheerleading. Where teams from China, Austraila, and even Aftrica come to cheer all in the same place at the same time. I would do ANYTHING to go back to Worlds again and be able to cheer with the best cheerleaders in the World.  It will be super hard to accomplish. We have to work our butts off at practices now so that we are trained hard enough to go there. It will take 120% of dedication at all practices and 150% effort in order to get there. If we actually did go to worlds, it would be just as fun as it was last year. The work we put in at practice will be what we get out at our competitions. We are supposed to go to New Orleans to get a bid in February but im not totally sure that is even going to happen. Our coach just had back surgery and will be out for a while and we really dont have a good coach right now which means every single person on the team needs to step up there game and figure out what they want.  On top of that, we have had over 5-6 people just quit in the past month. No one knows how big of an impact that makes on a team if you dont finish out your commitment to a team. If everyone wants to go to Worlds that bad, they will make it happen. Its all a matter of how bad you want it. The will to put in your effort and time and dedication at practice will only lead to better performances at competitions. We go to Branson next week and will see how branson goes then we go to a couple others before some of the big ones. Im praying that we will be able to go to atleast New Orleans if we cant go to worlds but its all a matter of Gods timing and what he wants. We are puting in extra practices every week to make our goal happen and I would seriously love to go and put in all of the effort that I have to be able to go to Disney World, Florida in order to compete at the Cheerleading Worlds.



What if I never became a cheerleader? What if I never did gymnastics? What if I never went to the one cheerleading practice with my cousin? What would I be now? Who would I be now?
This topic is crazy for me. Condsidering I have been cheering for 12 years now, I dont know where my life would have led if I choose another sport, or didnt even be in a sport. Its weird to think about that stuff but its true. I had played softball a little bit in middle school but stopped when I got to high school to do HS cheerleading. Im glad I did that because it kept me busy and on my feet. Literally. We cheered at basketball games and football games which was so much fun. Honestly, I have so many more friends with being in cheer than Im sure I would have if i never did cheer. Most of my classmates supported me as being a cheerleader and always supported me in assemblys and at games. It was really nice to know that they all loved watching me do what I love. Also, with competitive cheer, I have SO many friends within my gym. Most of my friends currently are all in cheer with me. They are the ones by my side the most and trust me with everything. Without cheer I really dont know how many friends I would still have since I graduated from HS. Cheerleading has brought me through a lot and taught me so many things about sports, people, and even my body. It will bring me through the bad days im having and most always the good! I have also been many places with cheerleading. I have traveled to at least 25 different states just being involved in cheerleading. I think that this has made me love to travel and go places especially if its with my second family and best friends. I wouldnt be near as active if i wasnt in cheer thats for sure. Everyone always has to say, "cheerleading isnt a sport". I prove them wrong. Thats every cheerleaders job is to prove all of those haters wrong. It is a sport and I will always support that no matter what.



What if gas prices weren't so high? What if you only had to pay a little amount for a full tank of gas. If gas was at a lower price like less than a dollar or even a "dollar something" I think it would help out America tremendously. The thing is, a lot of people have cars but gas prices have become so high that they can not aford to put any gas into the cars that they have. America would have so much more money to spend on other things if gas wasnt so sky high. Im not even sure how it works and who and or what bring gas down or up but they need to compromise and understand that if we didnt have to pay a full $80 everytime that we filled up our cars, a lot of people would be able to pay for insurance, food, shelter, and other necessry things that our society needs. Also, the people who work wouldnt have to spend half their pay check every week to fill up their cars to get to work and run the errands that they need to run. When you actually add it up, gas prices literally take up your pocket of money. If you write a plan for every week how much money you should spend, its a ridiculous amount.

Fear -looping-

There are a lot of things in life that I fear. Some things that I shouldn't fear and somethings that are okay to fear. A big fear of mine is little creatures. Spiders, snakes, and little bugs always make me sick. I can barely kill a spider with out my mom. Snake on the other hand are super scary and I never want to cross ones path.  Fear can also mean in the real world. It could be that you have a fear of growing up. I somethings do have this fear just because you hear so many different things from older people and a lot of them make it sound so bad. But you just have to think that God has everything planned out for you in his mind and his timing and we just have to remember that.  A fear of being good enough is a fear that a lot of people also have. It's like you have gone through a lot and just wonder what you are even doing wrong. Fear of not being good enough has to do with other people as well. Surround yourself with people that you love and never treat you that way and you will not have to worry about that. A fear of career is another thing that I have. Everyone will always ask me, "what are you going to school for?" or "What do you want to do when you grow up?" I get scared because i am just going to school right now for my general education and get that out of the way.  I think about what I want to do later for my career and honestly i still don't even know. I have thought about physical therapy and sports medicine but I don't even know if i want to go though that much schooling to get to it. I want a job that is fun to do and one that i would love to go to everyday. I also want one that is going to pay well and get me through. Another fear is one that a lot of people have. Its just the fear of being alone and not having another partner to share experiences with. This is a common one and sometimes I do feel it too.  Sometimes people feel that they will not find "the one" but I  just have to keep reminding myself that its not up to me, its up to God who is for me and who I'm meant to be with! Dealing with fear is hard but is always preventable when you have God by your side to help you through it all. He will guide you and help you through your fears and worries. Going to church could also help with your fears and let you get your mind off of things.




"Dealing with fear is hard but is always preventable when you have God by your side to help you through it all." I believe that anything is possible if you have God with you. I have grown up in a house where we have gone to church every Sunday and worshiped. I was even at the point where when I got older, I would go on Wednesdays to a little Sunday School class. I grew up going to church at South Haven Baptist church which is where my parents got married. We went to that church for almost 14 years. Through the experience there we went through about 3 different preachers. The first one moved off to live with his family in another state. The second one came along and we LOVED him. He was the nicest person you could ever meet and  was always there for anyone at anytime. He was actually the guy who baptised me when I was 8 years old. He did me a lot to me and I looked up to him every Sunday. Months past, and he confessed to having an affair on his wife for about a year. He resigned and we got a new preacher. This preacher was one that was very confusing in his words and very hard for a 12 year old (at the time) to understand. The church called North point Church had just came about on Norton road out north and the one on Sunshine . We noticed that the one on Sunshine was not even 3 minutes away from our house so we tried it out there. After the first day at North point, we loved it even more! The people there were super friendly and welcoming and made us feel like we have always been there and known them forever. I met new people and friends and summer camp for the church rolled around. I wanted to go so bad so i begged my mom to go to it. I ended up going to their camp for a week at Evangal University and absolutely loved it! It was the most fun I had had in a long time. We worshiped every night and sang and talked about God. So many loving people in one place, I knew we had came to the right church for us. We are currently still there today and love it more and more each day that we go.  I hope I can live for God more and more every day.




I believe that having an affair with someone is crazy. I know a few people that have had affairs and I do not respect it or support it at all. The first one I had noticed was my pastor at my old church. We were there at the church for over 14 years and loved it there. Next thing we know, our preacher is up front talking about how he has had an affair on his wife for over a year and he was going to resign because of it. We moved to North point another church and the exact same thing had happened. We absolutely loved our preacher and he was always someone you could look up to and trust. (so we thought). He came up in front of everyone one night at church and had confessed that he had an affair on his wife for over a year as well and was resigning from the church. Everyone was so shocked because we had never seen it coming from him. We didn't judge him for it, people make mistakes but I do not respect that kind of stuff. Another situation is about my Uncle. My Aunt Netta and Uncle David had been married for about 16 years. They were a happily married couple with two young boys about the ages of 16 and 12 now. In 2012, my aunt was suspecting some suspicious things going on with my uncle. She looked at his phone and he had messages with another woman who he had been seeing. Nothing had been said to her about anything so she confronted him about it. She told him straight up what she saw and what she thought about it. He was shocked that she had found out and basically caught him in his foot steps. He wasn't completely sure what to do but eventually came out and told her what was going on. He said he wasn't happy and wanted a divorce. They soon got a divorce, he moved out with his other woman and they have lived together for about 2 years now. He thought it was the better choice but in the long run it wasn't because he told me the other day that things weren't working out so well and he regretted things. He is now wanting to live by himself and see his kids when he can. I do not support cheating or "affairs" because i think it is wrong and unfair to people. It is being dishonest and disrespectful to someone that you are supposed to "love."

Gymnastics Years

I started gymnastics when I was about 2 years old. My mother put me into it because i was always climbing around on things and was always the adventurous kind of kid. She put me into classes there that were just for fun but still taught you tumbling and things.  I was the kind of kid who hated to wear leotards and always wanted to just wear shorts and a tshirt but being in gymnastics they told you to wear a leo every single practice.  Eventually i got used to that and put up with it. I made many friends in gymnastics and loved going to every practice/meet. Since I was so little we only went to the little meets in town but i was too small to know that there was anything better. I went to a few gymnastics meet and got 1st at every meet/event. I was always super excited because I got a trophy and metal from each one.  That meant the world to a child so small and Innocent.  I eventually started getting good at it and making improvements every time i would go in. The first easy skills are called a cartwheel, round-off, back walkover, front walkover, forward roll, backwards roll, etc. I mastered those skills and moved onto the bigger skills like back handsprings and front handsprings. I got my back handspring when I was about 4 years old and fronthandsprings not long after. Getting these skills are the building block to better tumbling of all sorts of kinds! Very exciting as a kid and even as an adult looking back on it now. After being in gymnastics for about 5 years, I got tired of going to practices and bored at that age so I quit and switched to Cheerleading at a gym called "Springfield Elite" at the time. Gymnastics helped me tremendously with tumbling and skills that I eventually carried over into cheerleading which became my life and passion. I still do cheerleading till this day and love it just as much as when I first started at the age of around 7 years old. I'm very blessed that God led me in that direction after gymnastics because its been very helpful. Id say my mother was very smart to put me in gymnastics at that age because I benefited a lot from it.

New Orleans Competition 2013

My cheer team, Elite Athletics, went to New Orleans last year for a cheer competition.  The plan was to all meet at the gym and leave together on two vans that we had rented for the trip.  We met around 5 that Friday morning and noticed that one of our teammates wasn't there. After calling him 10 times in a row and him not answering, we all hopped in the vans and drove away to his house to personally pick him up from his house.  30 mins later, we got our teammate and hit the road to New Orleans!  The trip all together was about 12-13 hours.  It was honestly one of the most fun trips ever because I got to ride with my second family and spend the whole weekend with them.  We got into New Orleans about 7:00 that night. After unloading all our luggage from the vans into our super nice hotel off of Bourbon street we headed out for a team dinner.  Team dinners are always so much fun because we all can be our crazy selves around each other.  After dinner we all went back to our rooms to get sleep for our big day of competition the next day.  Waking up at 6:00am to get all ready and prepped to go, we loaded the New Orleans shuttle and we were off to the arena where our competition was held! With much excitement and nervous feelings, we got to the warm up room and warmed up our stunts and tumbling and hit the competition mat as best as we could.  Walking off the floor that day with only dropping one stunt was a really good thing.  Let me add, this was a Worlds bid competition so it was huge! Worlds is the biggest cheer comp. ever and its any cheerleaders dream.  That night we ate dinner together and walked the crazy street of Bourbon and laughed all night with our teammates.  Still needing good rest for the next day we rested up and were off again to the competition arena! It was the last day competition so we had to make it the best! Our team went out there, and hit all of our stuff and rocked the floor the second day!  After performing we had to wait for the nerve racking awards.. A couple hours later, awards rolled around and our section was up. They called off all the worlds bid winners and our name was not called. We all looked at each other confused and upset. Seniors were crying and really upset cause it was their last year. Our coach came over and said that we had actually got a bid to Worlds in Disney world. The judges had messed up our score sheets so we ended up getting a big to worlds and we were definitely the happiest people in the building! Best moment of my life!

Lincoln Log

This lincoln log can represent anything. It can be a building block to many different things that you want.  The log can also help you build on if you had more logs to attach to the first one.  For Mrs. Anthonys case, it can be a hazard.  If left on the floor, someone could fall or slip  right on it and really hurt themselves.  Thankfully thats not the case for my teacher.  She approached the log before she stepped on it, picked i tup and thats what became our writing prompt for today.  If you look deeper into the log, it can be seen as a big log as if in the woods.  Put many of those together and you could make a big fire pit and/or bonfire. Make a party out of it. Also it can represent big rocks as like the grand cannon.  If you put a lot of those lincoln logs together you could have the grand cannon.  I personally have never been so maybe im completely wrong about that, but im just going to stick with that thought about it for right now.  Many little kids play with these logs and build them together tomake bigger things and attach many of them together to make a big masterpiece.  Its hard to write a lot about this lincoln log, but ill just keep going.  It can represent a person.  You can build things off of putting people together and reuniting with one onother. If you put more than one together, you could have a family or even a friend group.  If you have a family or friend group of the logs, the only way they will "stick together" it to attach all of them with the indentions that each of them have on their sides.  Never stop building onf your friends and family because they will always be there for you no matter what.  Keep your friends and family attached to eachother and never let go or let them fall down or fall apart once they are put together. Its almost like legos. you just about attach each lego to another one to make a piece. 

Jung Typology Test Reflection

When I took the Jung Typology Test, it said that I am the kind of person that likes to be in charge. This is true about me because I like to be in charge and give directions to people. I just have always been like that. It also said that I am a person who gets wounded easily and cant contain my emotions. This is VERY true about me and I can get pretty emotional at times and just cant control it. When its coming... there is no stopping,  The test says I am a protector such as a medical person of elementary school teacher. I love protecting people and helping them out with anything the best that I can. The test basically explained who I was in many different ways.  I am the type of person who likes to get the job done, be there for people, and who will work their hardest to get something done or accomplished.  I personally think the test could help me in college because it tells me who I am and what kind of qualities I have and also the ones that I lack on so that I can improve on those as well.  It can help me as a writer by just showing what  kind of things I like to write about.  It could even help me on figuring out what to write, or how to write it.  Shows the type of writer I am as well.  But then again, I am my own person and no one can really say what I am or what I like or don't like so I just be myself and not worry.

About Me

 I am a freshman in college.  I'm a very outgoing person and love to meet new people.  I did gymnastics for 5 years, and I have been a cheerleader for Elite Athletics for 12 years now.  Cheerleading is my life and passion and I plan to own my own gym one day.