Picture perfect

You know those days when you realize just how much you hate being under someone's control? Yeah, story of my life for the past two days. Two days may not seem like much, but in this house, two days might as well be two hundred years.
From the outside I'm sure we look like some kind of family that belongs on the cover of "Utah valley magazine". Two kids who are both active in the church, play sports, and are honor roll students. Little can anyone see that living in a house like ours, is anything but easy.
Before you start thinking crazy things, we always get dinner, we don't get beat or anything but for some reason, I can't do this anymore.
The moment your name becomes a derogatory insult, you wanna cry.. The moment you get told to pack up cause your going to go play maid at your grandparents house who live 3,000 miles away, you wish you hadn't left your asics at school so you could run away. Literally. To the end of the world and never come back.
But what kills you most is having your own dad tell you you're a waste and the moment you graduate, he wants nothing to do with you. While your mom just glares at you as if you brought all this upon yourself.
I hate living here. Oh so much.. I can't stand being under the leash my dad wants me on. This is exactly why I hate mexican culture.. Men are not above women. I'm not going to treat anyone with any sort of respect who doesn't do the same for me. Ever.
I don't know why i got delt the card I did, but all i know is that I have one hell of a best friend who I can always call and bawl to. It kinda sucks when the person who you have to go to isn't in your family. That your actual family are the ones that you want close to nothing to do with simply because they don't realize anything other then what they want.
Picture perfect my butt.
Get me out of here yesterday.
I quit.

bob firman

this weekend when everyone ventured off to another day at school and it's rousing homecoming festivities, me and 43 other kids sat on a charter bus awaiting a rousing 6 hour trip to bosie idaho. why you may ask are 44 teenage kids willingly missing their senior/junior/sophomore homecomings???

well, for the seniors, we're either super duper dedicated to the well being of our team, or we didn't get asked cause boys are noobs.

we were headed to one of the most intense races of the season.

bob firman.

there were 11 states represented and well over 2,000 runners there.

pretty much, this race is a huge deal.

while we were on our warm up, these two boys ran by us and looked at our jerseys and said "you guys are mountain view...? like the famous one..?"

yes weird boys. we are the famous mountain view. jealous much?

then they kept on bugging us about our current team.

weirdos. but i guess it comes with the running shorts.

we ended up doing really well actually:)

we took third again:)

yay jay-vee girls!!:)

i'll post pictures once i get mine back and i'm not mooching time off my parent's..

the night before, as tradition calls for, we bought a goldfish. last year, coach's kid threw him into the lake we race around.. but we took better care of him this time!! he made it almost home..then he died...:( because TWO missionaries (or soon to be ones) didn't give xavier bjorn firman a blessing through the phone:(

but over all, i am SO glad i ended up racing. it was such an amazing race and trip. i heart my team:)

because i'm a girl

because i'm a girl, i have opinions:) 

about everything. 

whether i choose to express them, or not, is a different story. but trust me. they're there

from tampons, to the holy war this weekend. 

being a girl sucks. sometimes. but once we all get that lovely visit from aunt flow, we hate it. 

and by the third day...i really just wanna dance. 

ha. hahahahahahahahahah. 

yes. this is exactly why i spend a dollar more on tampons. because of this commercial

it kind of makes my life. 

and who doesn't want colorful tampons??? it just makes the worst week in the month, THAT much better:) 

now on to the 

HOLY WAR!!!

 

this lovely man had this to say in 09

""I don't like Utah," former BYU quarterback Max Hall said after the Cougars beat the Utes in 2009. "In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, I hate their fans, I hate everything ... I think the whole university, their fans and their organization, is classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year, and they did a whole bunch of nasty things, and I don't respect them, and they deserve to lose.""

Jerk. 

but now BYU has this man...

BUT the U has 

jordan wynn:) 

both teams are coming off losses. but utah is gonna win.

:) 

go utes. 

oh the many faces of me

while looking thoughout my facebook pictures, i came across

lots of different looks i have.. and let me tell you

they are hilarious.

so hilarious in fact, that i'm going to share them with you all:)

mid tourney and i'm having a blast!

LIA southern utah trip.. make a funny face!!

even in public places..:)

there was hope for me once!!!

and sometimes, i like to climb on things..or mascots..

:)

zombie? artistic? i dunno. i loved it tho

yea..

awkward roomies!!

passing out soonish? maybe? did i win? yes:)

smoothie mustache!

there.is.a.boy.carring.me..why?

hawt

sometimes i like facial hair..

yes, i can look decent when it matters

tummies!! midnight:)

latest and greatest. you try racing with 4 hours of sleep, allergies, a stuffy nose, AND sore throat. lets see how cute you look then..

shinsplit face!! i love my team:)

we won!!

perrrdy

ah! heels:( this is why i wear toms. ALL the time..

and this is why i don't have a boyfriend...

or am going to homecoming...

but it's okay:)

boyfriends are overrated and i rather race bob firmman then go to my senior homecoming.

come what may, and love it<3



"shut up. I'm a senior."

And the first week of senior year comes to an end, and i 

CAN  NOT say how much i already LOVE it :) 

SO much fun. 

so get this, ever since i was a freshman, i've had tons of honors and AP classes. I had those days when you wanted to poke your eye balls out with your fingers so often, that it became my new norm. 

heck, i even went to an accelerated science semester at UVU right before my junior year. 

and all thanks to this, i have a nice 15 credits on top of my already almost done 28 that are required for graduation. 

:) 

pretty much, if i really wanted to, i could've graduated last year. BUUUT i chose not to. so i left a few vitals for this year. 

Humanities is amazing. LOVE it. why did i not take it sooner??

Photo. Um. joke. thank you art credits. 

Seminary. Yes well, love it already:) 

Latinos in Action: joke. medal at graduation? yes. tons of service hours? yes. 

Computer tech. concurrent enrollment:) AND required for graduation

Financial Lit: quite eye opening already. AND required

Med English: gotta love coaches being teachers too. 

Cross Country: yes. well. yes. 

granted i don't have a free period, but with classes THIS easy, why the heck would i need one???

I'm so glad i busted my butt for the past 3 years. Now i seriously have art credits and 3 required classes all year. and i get to do whatever the heck i want:) 

yay for being a senior. 

late nights? 

no more:) 

math classes?

yeah right. thank you accuplacer. 

 being able to say "shut up. i'm a senior?" 

so worth it. 

while all my friends are struggling with millions of text books, i literally only have one. 

my med english one. 

love it. 

love it all. 

so much fun:) :) :) 

last few days of bliss...

ladies and gents.
this is the LAST summer that i, ali sanchez, will ever spend being underage
:)
mmhmm.
"with great power (being not 17:))  comes great responsibility(life:P) ."
this spring break, i plan on driving to

with these crazy ladies

:) 

BECAUSE by then i will be 18:) 

and by then, i will have already applied to the following schools

1. the U

2. Boston U

3. BYU-Idaho

4. BYU-Hawaii

and 

yes. 

5. BYU-Provo

for someone who's so against going to the Y, i sure am spending a lot of time, effort, and money to get in. 

but this is why. 

this right here is my dream car. 

cherry red sport wrangler.
removable doors and
topless for the summer sun:)
and this is my current ride..
 
only in green.
petunia has lived a very full life, she is nearing the end of it though. :(
so i need a new(er) car.
guess who offered to buy me a new(er) jeep sport wrangler IF i went to BYU????
these folks.

don't be fooled by their smiles and "i want what's best speech" people.

it's not true. they are out to get me. as simple as that. 

so i've given this much thought.

i'll go to the Y for a semester, get my jeep and then transfer to the U:) 

nope. i have to GRADUATE from the Y :P

BUUUUT 

they never ever specified WHICH byu...:)

hawaii here i come???:) 

BUUUUT :(
i still have my little heart set on going to the U:(


obviously, my parents hate me.

best-facebook-taekwondo-road-tripping friends for ever and ever

once upon a time there was a little girl who got beat up in kindergarten. 

her daddy took immediate action and put her into club taekwondo lessons. 

he put her in lessons without any intentions of taking her out any time soon. 

years and years AND years after, this little girl, named ali, started to love it and be somewhat good. 

eventually, thanks to some crazy man who was determined to ruin her life, 

ali had to leave her first tkd studio and venture to find a new one. 

she ended up with these two ladies..

 

(no joke, that's really her...

no.. really.) 

eventually, one of them screwed us over.. and i had to yet, again, move studios. 

this time with a team.

:)

when i showed up to this new place, i noticed this chick at the front of the line..(my spot usually) and i automatically did not like her. not one bit. 

the feeling was mutual tho. 

as soon as i walked into the back room, i gave my coach a glare that could kill. 

i hated him for making me move here. 

i hated that i had to now fight for my new spot.

and after our first class, 

i hated that she was in front of me cause she was older.

AND 

i hated her because her forms were BEAUTIFUL and our teacher commented on it. 

every 3 seconds.

i hated her.
and she hated me.
BUT
before too long,
we became besties :)
take  a look...

we have issues..

we took on vegas:) 

and haunted houses 

vegas:) 

"anything can get done with big boobs."

POCAELLO! 

color fest:) 

besties kick each other in the face before homecoming.
not a big deal
and now, she's leaving for the U!!! AHHH
basically, we're awesome ninja's who have an addiction to coffee.
go us:)
oh and britt, if you come home and we don't get together. i will kill you:)