I called Sammie at 9:30 and her sister answered so I asked Mary if she and Sammie could come over. Mary said they could at like 12:00ish. So I was like OK. I called at 12:00 and they said they'd be over at 12:30 I guess 12:30 really means we'll be over at 1:10. We didn't really do very much, but it was still fun. They left at 3:15, but had to come back cause they forgot there DS.
After that I sat down and read my book. I did that for a while too. After dinner we watched a movie. It was pretty good, I don't remember the name, but it was good. Hunter and Duncan didn't really like it, actually let me refraze that Duncan didn't really like it, Hunter hated it!
Tomorrows fast Sunday so this might not happen.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Boring boring day
So Ilia is out of town with Taylor and Kendall for a meet so I didn't have gym today and I figured that when I was done with my homework that I would call Sammie and see if she could come over and have a sleep over.
Well, when I was done with my homework I realized that my room was a mess and started to clean it. When it was almost clean I called her and her mom told me that she was at play practice and she would be done at about 5:00 and she would have Sam call me. I know them and I knew she wasn't going to call I'd have to call them so at 5:30 I called and Dori said that Sammie was at her grandma's house cause she couldn't make it to pick Sammie up! Well great! I called again at 7:00 and asked if Sammie was home yet. Brandon (her dad) said that she wasn't, but that she would be in the next hour. I called at 8:00 again. No answer. I called them a couple times and still no answer. I called Sammie's cell and she answered, finally! I asked if she could have a sleep over and she wasn't sure so she asked her mom and called me back and said she couldn't tonight, but maybe tomorrow.
Oh well, at least my rooms clean.
Well, when I was done with my homework I realized that my room was a mess and started to clean it. When it was almost clean I called her and her mom told me that she was at play practice and she would be done at about 5:00 and she would have Sam call me. I know them and I knew she wasn't going to call I'd have to call them so at 5:30 I called and Dori said that Sammie was at her grandma's house cause she couldn't make it to pick Sammie up! Well great! I called again at 7:00 and asked if Sammie was home yet. Brandon (her dad) said that she wasn't, but that she would be in the next hour. I called at 8:00 again. No answer. I called them a couple times and still no answer. I called Sammie's cell and she answered, finally! I asked if she could have a sleep over and she wasn't sure so she asked her mom and called me back and said she couldn't tonight, but maybe tomorrow.
Oh well, at least my rooms clean.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Melt down
So I had a slight melt down this afternoon. I was doing my math and realized that we had to leave for Russian in an hour and I still wasn't finished with yesterdays math (still not finished) and I hadn't done any Russian all week! So I started to cry to mommy about the math and how I have to be finished with my lesson by tomorrow and then I sat down and needed to do Russian, but I couldn't stop my self from crying about the math and was nervous for Russian class and all of the crying led to me then getting a head ache. Mommy told me that it was because I hadn't eaten any food so I went and got some food and felt a lot better.
When we got to the gym I was really nervous for class, but it ended up that I did really pretty good! Khyla hadn't learned everything so she just repeated me and it all worked out. And Ilia was in a pretty good mood so that helped.
After conditioning we did floor and I tried doing my leaps and it worked out pretty well. It hurt my ankle a little sometimes and not at all other times. They were actually pretty good! Afterward we went to bars and I did the normal. Next was beam. I was doing dance routines when Ilia told me to do back handspring back handspring I was like are you serious?!?! And he was, but when I tried them on the floor it kind of hurt, OK it hurt a lot. I did it on the floor and then just did dance routines again. Now my ankle hurts really bad, but I tried it so he can't say I'm a wimp and I didn't try!!!
Now I'm just going to sit and watch TV with daddy. This will be fun!...maybe.
When we got to the gym I was really nervous for class, but it ended up that I did really pretty good! Khyla hadn't learned everything so she just repeated me and it all worked out. And Ilia was in a pretty good mood so that helped.
After conditioning we did floor and I tried doing my leaps and it worked out pretty well. It hurt my ankle a little sometimes and not at all other times. They were actually pretty good! Afterward we went to bars and I did the normal. Next was beam. I was doing dance routines when Ilia told me to do back handspring back handspring I was like are you serious?!?! And he was, but when I tried them on the floor it kind of hurt, OK it hurt a lot. I did it on the floor and then just did dance routines again. Now my ankle hurts really bad, but I tried it so he can't say I'm a wimp and I didn't try!!!
Now I'm just going to sit and watch TV with daddy. This will be fun!...maybe.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Um...ya
We went to MOMS Club this morning. It was lots of fun! Their weren't very many kids, but that was good cause the room we were was pretty small.
After we got home did our homework and had lunch mommy, me, and Duncan went to the gym. It was a good day, I guess. I did dance routines on beam then we went to bars and I got to do kip casts and half pirouettes, like always. After that I had to go cause normally I miss young womans, but tonight we were going to the Draper Temple open house and I really wanted to go!
Trisha picked me up at 7:00 and me, Trisha, Elise, Sammie, and Lauren headed down to where we had to meet. We had a little detour with getting pulled over, but we made it and everything worked out.
I don't know what to say about the inside of the temple. It was...amazing. I think that if I tried to put in words how it was I'd get it completely wrong so just trust me on this, it was beautiful, spiritual, and just all out and amazing experience.
Now I have to remember to take Mamma Mia! down to Lauren's house tomorrow cause she is insane and hasn't seen it yet!!
After we got home did our homework and had lunch mommy, me, and Duncan went to the gym. It was a good day, I guess. I did dance routines on beam then we went to bars and I got to do kip casts and half pirouettes, like always. After that I had to go cause normally I miss young womans, but tonight we were going to the Draper Temple open house and I really wanted to go!
Trisha picked me up at 7:00 and me, Trisha, Elise, Sammie, and Lauren headed down to where we had to meet. We had a little detour with getting pulled over, but we made it and everything worked out.
I don't know what to say about the inside of the temple. It was...amazing. I think that if I tried to put in words how it was I'd get it completely wrong so just trust me on this, it was beautiful, spiritual, and just all out and amazing experience.
Now I have to remember to take Mamma Mia! down to Lauren's house tomorrow cause she is insane and hasn't seen it yet!!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tired girl
OK, I'm really tired so I'm going to write really quickly and then go to bed.
Gym was...good. Taylor was there. After conditioning we did floor and then I did floor bar for a little while. it was then time for bars. I did the same thing as yesterday. At just after 6:00 Ilia called me over and told me to do a couple more half pirouettes and to then stretch. So I guess that mommy asked Ilia if she could pick me up early and he said yes, bu didn't tell me. Sadie wasn't very happy that I was leaving early, but she wasn't on bars with me for like a month so she can't say anything!!!
Mommy took me and the boys to Bana's and we had dinner and then after daddy was finished with Eclipse we went up to mommy's house and got Breaking Dawn for him and Hunter's coat cause he is a dork and forgot it at mommy's. How he did this I don't know cause seriously how can you forget your coat in below freezing temperatures!
Well I'm going to bed now cause I'm really tired so night!
Gym was...good. Taylor was there. After conditioning we did floor and then I did floor bar for a little while. it was then time for bars. I did the same thing as yesterday. At just after 6:00 Ilia called me over and told me to do a couple more half pirouettes and to then stretch. So I guess that mommy asked Ilia if she could pick me up early and he said yes, bu didn't tell me. Sadie wasn't very happy that I was leaving early, but she wasn't on bars with me for like a month so she can't say anything!!!
Mommy took me and the boys to Bana's and we had dinner and then after daddy was finished with Eclipse we went up to mommy's house and got Breaking Dawn for him and Hunter's coat cause he is a dork and forgot it at mommy's. How he did this I don't know cause seriously how can you forget your coat in below freezing temperatures!
Well I'm going to bed now cause I'm really tired so night!
Monday, January 26, 2009
Bing dingle dingle dee*
Gym was pretty normal today except for the fact that Taylor was sick so she didn't come. Anyway we did beam first and I did dance routines as best I could. Then when we were done with that we went to bars and I did the same old stuff as always, casts and half pirouettes. Boring! After bars we did dance routines on floor and them Ilia said and I quote "You know girls actually do conditioning again." Gosh could you make our lives any harder Ilia!!! It really wasn't that bad, but still.
When gym was over I went to ballet. I couldn't do everything, but I did do some so that's good. When it was time to do pointe I got my pointe shoes out so that we could sew on the ribbons and elastics. The only problem the store we got the shoes from didn't give me the elastics. So that didn't happen, but Kalee had me put there shoes on so that when we do get the elastics we know where to sew them.
After ballet was over me and mommy got in the car and saw the snowflakes on our windows. It's so cool cause if you look closely and the light is shining right you can see each individual snowflake!!
*It's the first thing that came to my mind!
When gym was over I went to ballet. I couldn't do everything, but I did do some so that's good. When it was time to do pointe I got my pointe shoes out so that we could sew on the ribbons and elastics. The only problem the store we got the shoes from didn't give me the elastics. So that didn't happen, but Kalee had me put there shoes on so that when we do get the elastics we know where to sew them.
After ballet was over me and mommy got in the car and saw the snowflakes on our windows. It's so cool cause if you look closely and the light is shining right you can see each individual snowflake!!
*It's the first thing that came to my mind!
Power out
I didn't get to write last night because every time that I would try to get on here the power would go out! So I'm just going to write about yesterday now and hopefully the power wont go out.
We had really good lessons at church and I had a lot of fun, so that's good. During sacrament I could see through the curtains and I realized that it was snowing! It didn't really stop till early this morning. It came down with little tiny flakes, but it didn't really stop.
At 4:15 we headed over to Duncan's Arrow of Light award ceremony. Duncan did really well on his little re telling of an activity that the scouts did and then afterward there was refreshments and Duncan and William got a lot of cookies! (Well, manly Will.)
After that my night was pretty boring. I just sat around and read either my book or Duncan's. But it was lots of fun!
We had really good lessons at church and I had a lot of fun, so that's good. During sacrament I could see through the curtains and I realized that it was snowing! It didn't really stop till early this morning. It came down with little tiny flakes, but it didn't really stop.
At 4:15 we headed over to Duncan's Arrow of Light award ceremony. Duncan did really well on his little re telling of an activity that the scouts did and then afterward there was refreshments and Duncan and William got a lot of cookies! (Well, manly Will.)
After that my night was pretty boring. I just sat around and read either my book or Duncan's. But it was lots of fun!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Crazy day
I called the Tyler's on the way to gym cause they had been wondering if I could babysit. No one answered the first time I called, but when I called again a couple minutes later they did pick up and they said that I could come over at one.
Same boring day at gym. Conditioning. Bars. Floor bar. And more floor bar. But at least this time I had Kendall with me on floor bar. Then I was on my way to the
Tyler's. I was really excited, there kids are so cute!
When I got there the adventure started. Zach had been put to sleep so that worked and me, Ethan, and Brooklyn went and watched a movie. When I went up to see if Zach was awake I found he was and he had slept on top of his bottle and gotten Ethan's bed all wet. But when I tried to get him changed he wouldn't let me. He would run away or cry his eyes out if I tried to keep him down. After about a half hour I gave up and helped the others get a snack. While I was making Ethan's he cut himself on end of the plastic rap that is supposed to cut the plastic rap not fingers. I got him fixed up and then kept on trying with Zach I finally got all his clothes off, but then I couldn't get him to let me change his diaper. After a while I held him down and had Brookie talk to him so he would cooperate and it worked cause after I got his diaper changed and got him dressed he was the happiest little kid! At one point when they were playing in this little tent Zach fell onto Brooklyn cause he was tired and when we got him off of her she had a cut by her eye brow. So now Brookie has a band aid on her eye brow. When Liz and Jared got back Liz took me home and daddy came and picked me up.
Daddy took me and the boys to see Twilight. For the third time I thought that it was really good even if the more times I see it the more I like some parts and dislike others. But it was a family thing so it was fun. And now I'm really tired and I think I'm going to go to bed.
Same boring day at gym. Conditioning. Bars. Floor bar. And more floor bar. But at least this time I had Kendall with me on floor bar. Then I was on my way to the
Tyler's. I was really excited, there kids are so cute!
When I got there the adventure started. Zach had been put to sleep so that worked and me, Ethan, and Brooklyn went and watched a movie. When I went up to see if Zach was awake I found he was and he had slept on top of his bottle and gotten Ethan's bed all wet. But when I tried to get him changed he wouldn't let me. He would run away or cry his eyes out if I tried to keep him down. After about a half hour I gave up and helped the others get a snack. While I was making Ethan's he cut himself on end of the plastic rap that is supposed to cut the plastic rap not fingers. I got him fixed up and then kept on trying with Zach I finally got all his clothes off, but then I couldn't get him to let me change his diaper. After a while I held him down and had Brookie talk to him so he would cooperate and it worked cause after I got his diaper changed and got him dressed he was the happiest little kid! At one point when they were playing in this little tent Zach fell onto Brooklyn cause he was tired and when we got him off of her she had a cut by her eye brow. So now Brookie has a band aid on her eye brow. When Liz and Jared got back Liz took me home and daddy came and picked me up.
Daddy took me and the boys to see Twilight. For the third time I thought that it was really good even if the more times I see it the more I like some parts and dislike others. But it was a family thing so it was fun. And now I'm really tired and I think I'm going to go to bed.
Friday, January 23, 2009
It's off!!
Sadie came to gym today and guess what, her cast is off! WOO HOO!! After conditioning I did floor bar and it got really boring. Then we went to bars. I did kip casts and half pirouettes. That was also very boring. When we were done with bars Ilia said that we could be done.
Mommy and I had been planning on going to the Utah vs. Washington gymnastics meet, but mommy needed sleep and Lena had an extra ticket so I went with Lena, Khyla, and Kim. We sat by Berklee and her mom. The meet was really good and I had lots of fun. It was the Power of Pink meet so the Utes had there normal leos, but instead of where the white is it was a light pink and where there sweats have red stripes it was pink too!
After the meet they took me home and on the way we played on Khyla's iTouch. It was lots of fun!! I took a picture of me, Khyla, Kim, and Berklee, but I'm at daddy's so I can't upload it. I'll upload it later thought.
*Update
Mommy and I had been planning on going to the Utah vs. Washington gymnastics meet, but mommy needed sleep and Lena had an extra ticket so I went with Lena, Khyla, and Kim. We sat by Berklee and her mom. The meet was really good and I had lots of fun. It was the Power of Pink meet so the Utes had there normal leos, but instead of where the white is it was a light pink and where there sweats have red stripes it was pink too!
After the meet they took me home and on the way we played on Khyla's iTouch. It was lots of fun!! I took a picture of me, Khyla, Kim, and Berklee, but I'm at daddy's so I can't upload it. I'll upload it later thought.
*Update
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Can't think of a title!
Russian class got canceled today so we got an extra hour of time to do things which was really nice. I just wish that we didn't have it tomorrow. Oh well.
My ankle was really hurting this morning. I had some pain killer and it didn't hurt as much. I just wish that it would stop hurting at all! It's so annoying when you can't walk normally down the stairs!! Ugh!
When we got to gym we were a little late and I thought all my friends (well, Taylor and Kendall) would be out on the floor stretching, but no there wasn't anyone! I asked Ilia where everyone was and he said that Kendall was going to be late and since Taylor and her carpool she would be there same time as Kendall, Sadie is sick, and obviously Hailee can't come with her knee. So I got to do conditioning by myself, but then Taylor and Kendall got there. I got to do a whole bunch of floor bar again. Then we went to bars and I got to do kip casts, again.
Mommy picked me up at 6:10 and she said we had to hurry cause we had to hurry down to Bana's house cause daddy was going to take us to see Twilight. When we started on our way to the movie it ended up that there was a huge traffic jam so we didn't get to go to the movie, but daddy said that we will go this weekend. And since we didn't go to the movie he took us to dinner at IHOP. The food was really good and I had fun sitting and talking with the boys and daddy. Now I'm sitting here watching TV with daddy, well I'm watching some of it and he is reading New Moon.
My ankle was really hurting this morning. I had some pain killer and it didn't hurt as much. I just wish that it would stop hurting at all! It's so annoying when you can't walk normally down the stairs!! Ugh!
When we got to gym we were a little late and I thought all my friends (well, Taylor and Kendall) would be out on the floor stretching, but no there wasn't anyone! I asked Ilia where everyone was and he said that Kendall was going to be late and since Taylor and her carpool she would be there same time as Kendall, Sadie is sick, and obviously Hailee can't come with her knee. So I got to do conditioning by myself, but then Taylor and Kendall got there. I got to do a whole bunch of floor bar again. Then we went to bars and I got to do kip casts, again.
Mommy picked me up at 6:10 and she said we had to hurry cause we had to hurry down to Bana's house cause daddy was going to take us to see Twilight. When we started on our way to the movie it ended up that there was a huge traffic jam so we didn't get to go to the movie, but daddy said that we will go this weekend. And since we didn't go to the movie he took us to dinner at IHOP. The food was really good and I had fun sitting and talking with the boys and daddy. Now I'm sitting here watching TV with daddy, well I'm watching some of it and he is reading New Moon.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
TOPs
So I didn't do much today, but I got the USA Gymnastics Magazine today and it's the "National Gymnastics Day" one so ya. I was looking through it and I found that it has pictures of all the girls that went to the TOPS Gymnastics camp and guess who went...KHYLA, AND BRITTANY! And my friend Polina. Polina moved to Colorado a couple years ago, but she's still a really good friend. So here's the pictures I found.
Tops A National Team.
Tops B National Team.
At gym I did the normal floor bar and then I actually did some kip casts to hand stand on bars, but then I had to go. Mommy picked me up and she took me to my Young Woman leader's house. We picked up the rest of the Beehives and did a little video about carma. Now all I can tell you about it is this: We took the clothes that the older girls brought back from there trip to India and we did a very fun and silly video. If you go to the New Beginnings for YW you'll probably see the video, but if you don't live around me you wont, but I will tell about it...after New Beginnings.
OK now mommy needs the computer and I need to go to bed. So ya.
Tops A National Team.
Tops B National Team.
At gym I did the normal floor bar and then I actually did some kip casts to hand stand on bars, but then I had to go. Mommy picked me up and she took me to my Young Woman leader's house. We picked up the rest of the Beehives and did a little video about carma. Now all I can tell you about it is this: We took the clothes that the older girls brought back from there trip to India and we did a very fun and silly video. If you go to the New Beginnings for YW you'll probably see the video, but if you don't live around me you wont, but I will tell about it...after New Beginnings.
OK now mommy needs the computer and I need to go to bed. So ya.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Boring day
I ended up not going to gym this morning since mommy wanted me and the boys to watch the presidential inauguration and Hunter had a orthodontist appointment so mommy had to take him to that. I don't really care since I only would have been doing floor bar again. So since I had all the time I wanted I spent the day icing my ankle, listening to my MP3 Player, and reading Fablehaven. My ankle is doing lots better and I can now walk almost normal on it.
After we dropped Hunter off at karate and Duncan at clogging mommy and I went over to the DI and I got some long sleeve shirts, sweats, and two belts. I really needed belts. I guess I'm a total girl cause I love going to the store and looking at clothes. Oh, so much fun!
After we dropped Hunter off at karate and Duncan at clogging mommy and I went over to the DI and I got some long sleeve shirts, sweats, and two belts. I really needed belts. I guess I'm a total girl cause I love going to the store and looking at clothes. Oh, so much fun!
Monday, January 19, 2009
This sucks!
I woke up this morning and I really didn't want to go. But I got ready and went. I did conditioning and then Ilia sent me to floor bar, but I hurt my left ankle and I'm a lefty so I couldn't get to handstand the way I normally do. I had to do it the righty way. It wasn't easy, I only made a couple half pirouettes over in like an hour and a half. Mommy then picked me up and now I'm so ready to just sit here and do nothing but listen to Taylor Swift.
No computer!
The internet service cost $13.00 a day so I didn't get a chance to write on here all weekend, but I wrote down what I did so now I'll go back and pretend like I'm writing them on the right day! Muahahahahaha!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
On the way home
We went to the buffet this morning it was really good. After we had our breakfast and got everything packed and ready to go we were on our way home. It felt a lot longer than the drive down, but we got to watch Another Cinderella Story, Hairspray, and Stardust. I love those movies. Especially Stardust. I also got to read a little of my book Fablehaven. When we got home I came in and fell asleep on the couch and I'm really tired now so I'm going to bed. Good Night!
Competition day
We woke up and were thinking about going with Traci and Ruth to the Paris Cafe for breakfast, but those plans didn't work out so well. Kendall and Micaela went to Einstein Bagels and me and mommy just went to the hotel buffet. It was really good.
After we ate we did my hair up for the competition and waited for it to be time for the meet.
We did floor first, again. I almost fell on my second pass, but I'm not sure if the judges counted it as a fall on or not. Oh well I got an 8.5 though. Vault was really good I stuck both of them easy and I got a 9.00! Bars was a little bit harder and I stopped after my half pirouette. I got a 8.35 the exact same as last week. And then it was time for beam. We had to wait for a while before we could warm up cause there was a line. I was ready for my routine and I wasn't worried at all cause I only had to get a little over an 8.1 and I'd have my score. I stuck my routine and then it was my dismount. I went crooked and landed with my foot halfway on the mat and half off. I sprained my ankle and rolled on to the concrete and now I have a bruise on my hand. It hurt so bad! It still hurts really bad. This lady came over and looked at it and told me it was sprained and to ice it and not do very much on it for a while. Mommy carried me over to the awards and Kendall sat on the chair next to me and put my foot on her lap and iced it. The good news is that I got my score! I also got 4th place on vault, but since I couldn't go up and get the award Abby (sweet sweet Abby) went up and got it for me! Our team got 5th place and I hobbled up to the stands for that since it was team. My friends let me take it home so that was nice.
After I sat in Sadie's room with my friends for a couple of hours we got to go bowling well I guess they got to go bowling. I got to sit there and watch them and have them ignore me. It wasn't fun. I think each of them said maybe a few words to me and that's it. And then they all just left when they were done I was sitting there with my eyes closed listening to my MP3 player and they all just walked off up to Sadie's room not a Drew do you want to come with us? No. They just left me there to cry my eyes out. It still makes me almost cry just talking about it. I mean come on I thought that we were friends!?! I'm really sad so I'm just going to upload some pictures now and go to sleep.
PS: Lets just pretend that its still the 18th cause we didn't go bowling till 1:00 so it still feels like it is.
Sadie, Sydney, and Taylor at the Level 9 awards on Friday.
Brittany at the Level 9 awards (with Sydney posing in the background).
Kendall Bendal!
Kayla in the hotel room.
Taylor bowling.
I can't get the video that I took of Sadie bowling to work so I'll upload it later when my mom can help.
After we ate we did my hair up for the competition and waited for it to be time for the meet.
We did floor first, again. I almost fell on my second pass, but I'm not sure if the judges counted it as a fall on or not. Oh well I got an 8.5 though. Vault was really good I stuck both of them easy and I got a 9.00! Bars was a little bit harder and I stopped after my half pirouette. I got a 8.35 the exact same as last week. And then it was time for beam. We had to wait for a while before we could warm up cause there was a line. I was ready for my routine and I wasn't worried at all cause I only had to get a little over an 8.1 and I'd have my score. I stuck my routine and then it was my dismount. I went crooked and landed with my foot halfway on the mat and half off. I sprained my ankle and rolled on to the concrete and now I have a bruise on my hand. It hurt so bad! It still hurts really bad. This lady came over and looked at it and told me it was sprained and to ice it and not do very much on it for a while. Mommy carried me over to the awards and Kendall sat on the chair next to me and put my foot on her lap and iced it. The good news is that I got my score! I also got 4th place on vault, but since I couldn't go up and get the award Abby (sweet sweet Abby) went up and got it for me! Our team got 5th place and I hobbled up to the stands for that since it was team. My friends let me take it home so that was nice.
After I sat in Sadie's room with my friends for a couple of hours we got to go bowling well I guess they got to go bowling. I got to sit there and watch them and have them ignore me. It wasn't fun. I think each of them said maybe a few words to me and that's it. And then they all just left when they were done I was sitting there with my eyes closed listening to my MP3 player and they all just walked off up to Sadie's room not a Drew do you want to come with us? No. They just left me there to cry my eyes out. It still makes me almost cry just talking about it. I mean come on I thought that we were friends!?! I'm really sad so I'm just going to upload some pictures now and go to sleep.
PS: Lets just pretend that its still the 18th cause we didn't go bowling till 1:00 so it still feels like it is.
Sadie, Sydney, and Taylor at the Level 9 awards on Friday.
Brittany at the Level 9 awards (with Sydney posing in the background).
Kendall Bendal!
Kayla in the hotel room.
Taylor bowling.
I can't get the video that I took of Sadie bowling to work so I'll upload it later when my mom can help.
Friday, January 16, 2009
The trip to Vegas
After running around frantically trying to make sure that I was ready to go we finally were on our way to Vegas. The drive actually didn't feel all that long. When we got they we saw Sadie walking in and when we got inside Traci (Taylor's mom), Taylor, and Ilia were all standing there talking with Sadie's family. Once we had signed in we went up to our room and got ready to go to the level nine meet.
When I went and signed in at the meet they gave me and bag and a wrist bang that would get me into all of the meets this weekend for free. When I got in there I found Sadie and we went out to sit with the girls competing. Taylor did awesome on vault and got a 9.2! The judges didn't give her the right score on bars and beam though so now Ilia is really mad and doesn't want to come here next year. Some of the girls from Olympus had scratched on floor since it is brand new and so its kind of hard. Ilia decided that if it was too hard for Taylor to tumble on then he wanted her to scratch as well, but this is Taylor we're talking about so of course she didn't scratch and it was an awesome routine.
Now lets rewind a little to when they were warming up for beam. Me and Sadie and gone over and gotten in line to get some food. We were just sitting there talking and I turned around a little and saw the girl that was standing behind us. It was the girl that played Duncan's sister in the Nutcracker this year. So I looked at her and was like 'Madison?' and she said ya with this look on her face like how do you know my name then I think she remembered who I was and said 'Oh hi!' I was very shocked to see so I asked her what she was doing here and she said that her sister was competing Level 4 so she was here to watch her.
Could this day get any weirder? Yes. Yes it could.
When we were at dinner guess who saw!?! Some of the judges! It was really weird. The dinner was good and I had fun talking with my friends. After dinner we headed up to my room to try and get Kendall to come up to Sadie's room with us. It worked but yet it didn't cause when we got to our room we got Kendall to come but mommy wouldn't let me and Micaela go cause we competed yet.
When I went and signed in at the meet they gave me and bag and a wrist bang that would get me into all of the meets this weekend for free. When I got in there I found Sadie and we went out to sit with the girls competing. Taylor did awesome on vault and got a 9.2! The judges didn't give her the right score on bars and beam though so now Ilia is really mad and doesn't want to come here next year. Some of the girls from Olympus had scratched on floor since it is brand new and so its kind of hard. Ilia decided that if it was too hard for Taylor to tumble on then he wanted her to scratch as well, but this is Taylor we're talking about so of course she didn't scratch and it was an awesome routine.
Now lets rewind a little to when they were warming up for beam. Me and Sadie and gone over and gotten in line to get some food. We were just sitting there talking and I turned around a little and saw the girl that was standing behind us. It was the girl that played Duncan's sister in the Nutcracker this year. So I looked at her and was like 'Madison?' and she said ya with this look on her face like how do you know my name then I think she remembered who I was and said 'Oh hi!' I was very shocked to see so I asked her what she was doing here and she said that her sister was competing Level 4 so she was here to watch her.
Could this day get any weirder? Yes. Yes it could.
When we were at dinner guess who saw!?! Some of the judges! It was really weird. The dinner was good and I had fun talking with my friends. After dinner we headed up to my room to try and get Kendall to come up to Sadie's room with us. It worked but yet it didn't cause when we got to our room we got Kendall to come but mommy wouldn't let me and Micaela go cause we competed yet.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Got to pack pack pack!
After conditioning Ilia sent me and Taylor to beam. I had to do two routines, stuck. I stuck my first and then fell on my series on my second, but then I stuck the next one. We then went to bars and after I warmed up I did a routine and I stuck it! I went and asked Ilia how many routines I had to do and he told me to do one more. While I was chalking up Ilia changed his mind and told me to go and do full and a halfs on floor. I fell on my first three then I got it down and was sticking them. I had to warm up my second pass after that and then I did one stuck routine and it was time for vault! I did vault for a while and then I was really getting sick of it so I asked Ilia how many more I had to stick and he said that I had to do one more. Me and Sadie then did a lot of stretching. We had got done early so we ran over to the office and called our moms and told them to come pick us up. Mommy got there fifteen minutes later and I made sure I had everything I needed for competition and we were home free!
After I made dinner and we ate very fast we had to go to the symphony. We went and saw Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. It was really good. I remembered some parts of it from when we studied Vivaldi, but not all of it. I now have to finish packing as much as I can so we can leave tomorrow morning for Las Vegas. So lets get packing!!! ~pack~pack~pack~yeah gotta pack~pack~pack~ Sing it with me!!
After I made dinner and we ate very fast we had to go to the symphony. We went and saw Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. It was really good. I remembered some parts of it from when we studied Vivaldi, but not all of it. I now have to finish packing as much as I can so we can leave tomorrow morning for Las Vegas. So lets get packing!!! ~pack~pack~pack~yeah gotta pack~pack~pack~ Sing it with me!!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Bad Day
We went to beam first today and since it was just me and Taylor we had four minutes to warm up and then we did one routine. We both stuck it so we got to just work on some of our skills. I had to do a whole bunch of full turns and then my jumps. After beam we went to bars. I had a minute and a half to warm up and I felt like I was ready after that, but apparently not. I fell over on my second giant, then the next routine I stopped on my kip cast dismount, the routine after that I fell on my dismount! I was so mad by then, but I went for my next routine and stuck it. I then of course had to do free hips. We went to floor after that and I warmed up and I was slightly worried about full and a half. Then when I went for my routine I fell on it. I went for two more routines and fell on both of them so Ilia told me to do a full for my first and last pass so I did and wasn't very happy. Also I hurt my finger this time on the full and a half. Boo Hoo! Ilia had me work on them while Taylor was on vault then I went to vault. When I was done with that Ilia said I could be done, but I asked him if I could work on full and a halfs and he said that would be fine, but we only had fifteen minutes left of our time for floor so I had to hurry. I went over to the floor and Sadie was over there so she finished what she was doing and I stuck a full and a half and we were done. Of course we were done an hour early. I called mommy and she said that I should just go over to the office and sit with Collen till she could pick me up.
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It wasn't too long till she came to get me, but of course there was a lady there asking about a class for her daughter and she was Japanese so mommy had to talk to her! They sat there and talked and talked about lots of different stuff and finally were able to go and pick up Duncan from his ballet class.
When we got to the studio we realized that we hadn't bought food and Duncan was going to kill us, but mommy had an idea that we should take this little coupon we have and go to Pizza Hut and get Duncan a one person pizza for free with it. When we went in to get Duncan we talked with Heather (his teacher) for a minute and then we were off to on our Pizza Hut hunt (yes hunt cause we can never find one.) We knew that there was a Pizza Hut in Rose Park so we figured that it was mostly on the way home and so we went there. But guess what!?! The Pizza Hut isn't there anymore. It got torn down. We were trying to think of where else there was a one and I knew where one was, but couldn't remember the street only the things around it. I thought we were going to go look for it, but mommy just kept driving home and when Duncan finally realized where we were he got mad and had a temper tantrum cause he wanted his pizza! Mommy told him that she wanted to surprise him and he didn't like the word surprise. She took us to Little Caesar's Pizza to get us one normal sized pizza and all have that.
While she was in the store me and Duncan had a fight and he hit me and I had a freak out and hit him back a whole bunch. When mommy got back in the car she asked what was wrong and I told her what happened with much yelling from Duncan saying that I hit him first. I started balling my eyes out. I can't really explain what all happened, but lets just say this I was having a hard day. I hadn't eaten in about nine hours, I'm nervous for competition, and Hailee's knee is making Ilia depressed.
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Once we got home I had some pizza and sat down and read Eclipse. I don't know why, but rereading any of the Twilight or the Harry Potter books seems to make me less depressed. And it did help a lot. And now since I'm depressed about Hailee here are some pictures of her.
Ashley and Hailee.
Paige, Taylor, Ashley, Sadie, Kendall, Hailee, and me. Micaela is in front of Sadie.
Hailee and Kendall.
WE LOVE YOU HAILEE!!
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It wasn't too long till she came to get me, but of course there was a lady there asking about a class for her daughter and she was Japanese so mommy had to talk to her! They sat there and talked and talked about lots of different stuff and finally were able to go and pick up Duncan from his ballet class.
When we got to the studio we realized that we hadn't bought food and Duncan was going to kill us, but mommy had an idea that we should take this little coupon we have and go to Pizza Hut and get Duncan a one person pizza for free with it. When we went in to get Duncan we talked with Heather (his teacher) for a minute and then we were off to on our Pizza Hut hunt (yes hunt cause we can never find one.) We knew that there was a Pizza Hut in Rose Park so we figured that it was mostly on the way home and so we went there. But guess what!?! The Pizza Hut isn't there anymore. It got torn down. We were trying to think of where else there was a one and I knew where one was, but couldn't remember the street only the things around it. I thought we were going to go look for it, but mommy just kept driving home and when Duncan finally realized where we were he got mad and had a temper tantrum cause he wanted his pizza! Mommy told him that she wanted to surprise him and he didn't like the word surprise. She took us to Little Caesar's Pizza to get us one normal sized pizza and all have that.
While she was in the store me and Duncan had a fight and he hit me and I had a freak out and hit him back a whole bunch. When mommy got back in the car she asked what was wrong and I told her what happened with much yelling from Duncan saying that I hit him first. I started balling my eyes out. I can't really explain what all happened, but lets just say this I was having a hard day. I hadn't eaten in about nine hours, I'm nervous for competition, and Hailee's knee is making Ilia depressed.
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Once we got home I had some pizza and sat down and read Eclipse. I don't know why, but rereading any of the Twilight or the Harry Potter books seems to make me less depressed. And it did help a lot. And now since I'm depressed about Hailee here are some pictures of her.
Ashley and Hailee.
Paige, Taylor, Ashley, Sadie, Kendall, Hailee, and me. Micaela is in front of Sadie.
Hailee and Kendall.
WE LOVE YOU HAILEE!!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
It's back!
A couple months ago I let Kendall's mom borrow my book Breaking Dawn and I've been bugging Kendall for a long time to bring back my book, but she would always say 'OK, let me talk to my mom' and then she would never bring it back! And the other day mommy gave me a idea so yesterday I wrote a note that said:
Paiger,
We hope you have enjoyed the book 'Breaking Dawn' by Stephenie Meyer, but it is over due and has been requested by others.
Please return the book.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Salt Lake City
Drew A Library
I gave it to her when Kendall left gym and today when I walked into the locker room Kendall said 'Oh, Drew here' and she gave me back my book. I was (and still am) so excited! I have my book back, oh yeah!!
Kendall is doing better, but it still hurts her to walk. Hailee on the other hand isn't doing better. We found out today that she has to go in and have surgery on her knee. I feel so bad for her! So since Hailee could only do conditioning and Kendall could only do conditioning and bars it was again mostly me and Taylor (with Sadie now and then.) We went to floor first and I was warming up a full and for some reason I ended up doing a full and a half, but since I hadn't been planning on doing that I fell and after that I went for the full and a half and I messed up, bad. I hurt my toe, I think that I jammed it so now I'm gonna have to have mommy unjam it in the morning (cause I don't really trust daddy.) I went for my routine even though my toe was killing me. We then went to vault. Vault was easy, I did it fairly fast. After that it was time for bars. We had to do routines and I was having a hard time sticking my dismount at first, but then I got it. Next was beam, and we had an hour to do it. Once again I had to do five routines. I felt good about them, but I kept falling on my stupid series! At least I finally got them done. And guess what?!? My friend Ashley (who quit in November) came and we got to talk to her for a little bit. It was so good to see her!
Paiger,
We hope you have enjoyed the book 'Breaking Dawn' by Stephenie Meyer, but it is over due and has been requested by others.
Please return the book.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Salt Lake City
Drew A Library
I gave it to her when Kendall left gym and today when I walked into the locker room Kendall said 'Oh, Drew here' and she gave me back my book. I was (and still am) so excited! I have my book back, oh yeah!!
Kendall is doing better, but it still hurts her to walk. Hailee on the other hand isn't doing better. We found out today that she has to go in and have surgery on her knee. I feel so bad for her! So since Hailee could only do conditioning and Kendall could only do conditioning and bars it was again mostly me and Taylor (with Sadie now and then.) We went to floor first and I was warming up a full and for some reason I ended up doing a full and a half, but since I hadn't been planning on doing that I fell and after that I went for the full and a half and I messed up, bad. I hurt my toe, I think that I jammed it so now I'm gonna have to have mommy unjam it in the morning (cause I don't really trust daddy.) I went for my routine even though my toe was killing me. We then went to vault. Vault was easy, I did it fairly fast. After that it was time for bars. We had to do routines and I was having a hard time sticking my dismount at first, but then I got it. Next was beam, and we had an hour to do it. Once again I had to do five routines. I felt good about them, but I kept falling on my stupid series! At least I finally got them done. And guess what?!? My friend Ashley (who quit in November) came and we got to talk to her for a little bit. It was so good to see her!
Monday, January 12, 2009
Quick note
Kendall hurt her ankle at the meet on Friday and Hailee hurt her knee again so it was mostly just me and Taylor today. We went to beam and I had to stick five routines. I stuck the first one and then fell, but I stuck the four after that so then I was done with beam! I guess that Ilia decided that the only thing that we needed to do routines on was beam cause he just had me do half pirouette kip cast free hip on bars. Then we went to floor and just did leaps! Afterward we went and did a little vault and were done.
I had ballet tonight so after gym mommy picked me up and took me to ballet and the first hour we did technique and instead of doing point the last hour we did conditioning so that our legs are strong enough for point.
Me and Khyla.
Kim and me.
And here is the two most awesome girls in the world! (With my legs in the middle, hey we were in the car!)
I'm now going to go to bed because I'm very tired and it took me long enough to kick mommy off and get on here! Good night! Or morning I guess if it's morning when you're reading this.
I had ballet tonight so after gym mommy picked me up and took me to ballet and the first hour we did technique and instead of doing point the last hour we did conditioning so that our legs are strong enough for point.
Me and Khyla.
Kim and me.
And here is the two most awesome girls in the world! (With my legs in the middle, hey we were in the car!)
I'm now going to go to bed because I'm very tired and it took me long enough to kick mommy off and get on here! Good night! Or morning I guess if it's morning when you're reading this.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Crystal Cup video
You can see video of Drew's meet at two places:
1. Her mom's blog (with Muse background music), or...
2. YouTube:
Vault - 8.50
Bars - 8.35
Beam - 7.45
Floor - 8.85
AA - 33.15
(posted by Lillian)
1. Her mom's blog (with Muse background music), or...
2. YouTube:
Vault - 8.50
Bars - 8.35
Beam - 7.45
Floor - 8.85
AA - 33.15
(posted by Lillian)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Clogging!
Me, Duncan, Hunter, and Daddy went and picked up Bana and Nama (who had drove down to Bana's house) and we all drove up to the place that Duncan's clogging recital was at. We got in and saved a seat for Mommy. Once the recital finally started they introduced all of the teams and then started the dancing! It was lots of fun. Duncan did very good. Duncan looked like he had fun too so that's good. After the clogging was over we went and got dinner and went home. After we ate dinner we turned on Mamma Mia. And played a version of monopoly where instead of money its credit cards so it makes easier to keep track of money. It was fun. Daddy won, Duncan got second, I got third, and Hunter got fourth. I hope my friends did good at there meet today! I guess that I'll figure out on Monday.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Competition and yet more competition
Daddy took me to Mommy's house this morning. I was almost all ready to go and then we started my hair. It took us over an hour just to put up my hair! And then we had to race to finish getting ready and then get out to my competition in time. But we got there and everything was just fine. Floor was our first event and I wasn't mad but I wasn't happy about it because having floor first meant beam was last. I was first so I had to warm up quickly so that I could rest before I competed. I stuck my routine, but I accidentally stepped out of bounds twice before my tumbling paces. My score card said that they only marked me down for one so I think that either they didn't see the second one or I was just on the tape so they didn't count it, but either way my score was: 8.85 I would have gotten higher than a 9.00 if I hadn't gone out of bounds. Vault was next and I wasn't nervous until we started vaulting. The landing was horrible! It hurt my ankles soooo bad! But I got it lucky. My friend Micaela fell in warm up and she hurt her ankle so bad that she couldn't compete her tsukahara and had to do front handspring. Kim was the only one that did a tsukahara pike (everyone else did tuck) and she fell on both of her them in competition. It was so sad to watch her limp back to her spot on the run way so she could do her second vault. Anyway the vault was bad. I stuck it somehow and got a 8.5
Bars was good. I connected my cast dismount from my giants and got a 8.35
Beam wasn't as good as bars. I felt good in warm up and I wasn't really worried, but I fell on my series and my full turn. I got a 7.45 Ilia wasn't mad at all he just said that it was ok and we are going to be doing a lot of beam from now on. I didn't place on anything, but I don't really care. I had fun and that's all that really matters.
After I got home from the meet and had lunch I finished getting ready to go to my dad's house and then me and my mom went over to the Utah Gymnastics meet. Me and some of my friends got to hold the scores. It was lots of fun. The meet was amazing. Everyone did awesome. At the end I felt really bad for Beth Rizzo cause she did an exhibition (it's a routine that they compete but the score doesn't count) and on her last pace (double back tuck) she fell and couldn't finish her routine. We couldn't tell if it was her ankle or her knee that she hurt, but she was in pain.
Tomorrow is the Level 9 and 10 competitions. I can't go to them cause Duncan has a clogging recital and so I'm going to that.
GOOD LUCK KENDALL, TAYLOR, MCKENNA, SYDNEY, SHIREEN, BRITTANY, AND HAILEE! YOU GUYS ROCK!
Bars was good. I connected my cast dismount from my giants and got a 8.35
Beam wasn't as good as bars. I felt good in warm up and I wasn't really worried, but I fell on my series and my full turn. I got a 7.45 Ilia wasn't mad at all he just said that it was ok and we are going to be doing a lot of beam from now on. I didn't place on anything, but I don't really care. I had fun and that's all that really matters.
After I got home from the meet and had lunch I finished getting ready to go to my dad's house and then me and my mom went over to the Utah Gymnastics meet. Me and some of my friends got to hold the scores. It was lots of fun. The meet was amazing. Everyone did awesome. At the end I felt really bad for Beth Rizzo cause she did an exhibition (it's a routine that they compete but the score doesn't count) and on her last pace (double back tuck) she fell and couldn't finish her routine. We couldn't tell if it was her ankle or her knee that she hurt, but she was in pain.
Tomorrow is the Level 9 and 10 competitions. I can't go to them cause Duncan has a clogging recital and so I'm going to that.
GOOD LUCK KENDALL, TAYLOR, MCKENNA, SYDNEY, SHIREEN, BRITTANY, AND HAILEE! YOU GUYS ROCK!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
What a crazy day
I woke up and did some homework and then somehow it was already time to go to the Orthodontist. I wasn't too excited about it either. So I went to the Ortho and it took forever. I thought we would never get out of there! We then got home late and had to get ready at light speed, then we were on our way to meet my ballet teacher to buy me my first pair of point shoes. We ended up having me try on a whole bunch shoes and then ordering the kind that I had liked the best and in the size I needed. And then we were off to Russian class. I hadn't practiced at all over Christmas break and I had a feeling Ilia wasn't going to be very happy about it. But it was fine cause I remembered just enough that he wasn't sooo mad and I had Khyla to help me.
I then went over to the gym side and started to stretch. 40 minutes later almost right after I was done with conditioning Ilia told me to warm up for floor. I did one routine and then went to bars. I stuck my routine easily and happily. I went to beam after that, I was a little more nervous about beam. But I stuck it and then went and finished up with vault.
My mom picked me up at 5:00 and we went over to the martial arts place and picked up Hunter and Duncan. Mom then dropped us off at me and Duncan's Nutcracker cast party. We met our dad there. The party was so much fun! It was good to see all my Nutcracker friends again. I would go into detail about what we did and stuff, but I'm tired and plus I bet you would think that I'm crazy. Now that the party is over and I have had a shower I think I'm going to go to bed so that I can get a good nights sleep before the big meet.
GOOD NIGHT!!(or good morning if you're reading this in the morning.)
I then went over to the gym side and started to stretch. 40 minutes later almost right after I was done with conditioning Ilia told me to warm up for floor. I did one routine and then went to bars. I stuck my routine easily and happily. I went to beam after that, I was a little more nervous about beam. But I stuck it and then went and finished up with vault.
My mom picked me up at 5:00 and we went over to the martial arts place and picked up Hunter and Duncan. Mom then dropped us off at me and Duncan's Nutcracker cast party. We met our dad there. The party was so much fun! It was good to see all my Nutcracker friends again. I would go into detail about what we did and stuff, but I'm tired and plus I bet you would think that I'm crazy. Now that the party is over and I have had a shower I think I'm going to go to bed so that I can get a good nights sleep before the big meet.
GOOD NIGHT!!(or good morning if you're reading this in the morning.)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
~Yawn~Yawn~Can I go to bed now?
My mom took my brothers up to Alta today so I was left home by myself. Ya I know you're probably think oh she must have had a ball, no I didn't have fun it was just plane old boring. Yes mom take this to heart and know that I'm not leaving home anytime soon cause life is just flat out boring without brothers to correct and get mad at. A mom that wakes up and sets things straight when we get mad at each other and then goes back to sleep so that we can argue quietly.
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Beam was our first event today. Ilia told us that we had 10 minutes to warm up on the floor and then 8 minutes to warm up on the beam. We would then do a routine. So we warmed up on the floor, warmed up on the beam and then started doing routines. Taylor went first and fell on her series (back handspring aerial.) Hailee then went and I don't really know what all she fell on, but she did fall at least once. Then it was Kendall's turn and she fell on her mount and her series (same as Taylor's.) And then it was me. I fell on my series. I then fell again on my full turn. After we had all done a routine Ilia looked at us and said that this was very bad (well, no duh Ilia!) We then had to do another routine. Taylor fell on mount. Hailee fell on tour jete (I looked up how to spell that.) Kendall fell on series. I then fell on series and the process of falling on at least one thing went on for about five routines. And then Taylor stuck hers but the rest of us were still having a hard time. Ilia then told me to go and do five series stuck in a row (Taylor was already doing that too) He told Kendall to stick five mounts and series in a row. Hailee had to keep doing routines. Kendall was doing her mounts like he had told her and she stuck one and was just standing on the beam fixing her hair and her leo and Ilia said "Come on, keep going!" and she was like whoa OK so she kept going and she stuck it. He then told us to go to bars. I was only too happy to oblige. Kendall and Taylor warmed up first, then Hailee, then me. Afterward we did routines in this same order. Taylor stuck hers but had a little problemo with her half pirouette so Ilia had her work on those. Hailee made her routine except for she stopped on her half pirouette. Ilia had her work on those too. Kendall fell on her dismount (double back) and had to do another routine. I fell on my dismount as well. Kendall stuck her next routine, but Ilia didn't tell her anything so she went for another routine and fell on her dismount and Ilia being Ilia got mad at her and was like why did you do another routine! Well lets see Ilia maybe because if she hadn't she would have gotten in trouble for not doing another routine! I did two more routines and fell on my dismount both times then fell on my giant the next routine. I can't really remember now, but I think I finally stuck my routine after that. So then we were all off to floor (to Sadie's delight.) By that point I felt like crying my eyes out and even now just writing about it makes me want to cry. We did floor. And that's all there really is to tell about it we warmed for 10 minutes and did a routine (two in Hailee and Kendall's cases, since they fell.) After that we were talking and having fun. We laugh so hard sometimes and over the most unfunny things. And then Kendall did something that if I tried to explain it wouldn't come out right, so all I can really say is this: You had to be there. Me and Sadie went to vault next (well, really I went to vault and Sadie did layouts off the vault.) It was easy I stuck my vaults easy. I was done a half hour early and me and Sadie got to sit and watch the others do vault. Well, actually sat over by the heater and did more talking about how hyper Sadie was then really watching our friends. In the end we figured that the reason for her sudden hyperness was the fact that she drank a large smoothie from 'Sips' and a bag of popcorn.
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I then went with mom to pick up Duncan from is ballet class. I sat and read in the car while we waited for it to be over. Oh, I love this book! It's so good and I've only read nine chapters. If you haven't read this book you need to. Now that I'm home I'm really tired. I have other silly little things to write, but I'm just to tired. The only reason you're getting a blog post that makes sense and that has the spelling right is because I can't stand have that little line under the words so I go back and fix the spelling. ~sigh~ I'm going to bed now. I really am. Don't even try to stop me cause if you did I'd use all of the power in my to punch you so that I could go to bed. I'm so tired that I'm now typing with my eyes closed and only opening them when I think that I've made a mistake. Good night, sleep tight! Don't let the bed bugs bite!
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Beam was our first event today. Ilia told us that we had 10 minutes to warm up on the floor and then 8 minutes to warm up on the beam. We would then do a routine. So we warmed up on the floor, warmed up on the beam and then started doing routines. Taylor went first and fell on her series (back handspring aerial.) Hailee then went and I don't really know what all she fell on, but she did fall at least once. Then it was Kendall's turn and she fell on her mount and her series (same as Taylor's.) And then it was me. I fell on my series. I then fell again on my full turn. After we had all done a routine Ilia looked at us and said that this was very bad (well, no duh Ilia!) We then had to do another routine. Taylor fell on mount. Hailee fell on tour jete (I looked up how to spell that.) Kendall fell on series. I then fell on series and the process of falling on at least one thing went on for about five routines. And then Taylor stuck hers but the rest of us were still having a hard time. Ilia then told me to go and do five series stuck in a row (Taylor was already doing that too) He told Kendall to stick five mounts and series in a row. Hailee had to keep doing routines. Kendall was doing her mounts like he had told her and she stuck one and was just standing on the beam fixing her hair and her leo and Ilia said "Come on, keep going!" and she was like whoa OK so she kept going and she stuck it. He then told us to go to bars. I was only too happy to oblige. Kendall and Taylor warmed up first, then Hailee, then me. Afterward we did routines in this same order. Taylor stuck hers but had a little problemo with her half pirouette so Ilia had her work on those. Hailee made her routine except for she stopped on her half pirouette. Ilia had her work on those too. Kendall fell on her dismount (double back) and had to do another routine. I fell on my dismount as well. Kendall stuck her next routine, but Ilia didn't tell her anything so she went for another routine and fell on her dismount and Ilia being Ilia got mad at her and was like why did you do another routine! Well lets see Ilia maybe because if she hadn't she would have gotten in trouble for not doing another routine! I did two more routines and fell on my dismount both times then fell on my giant the next routine. I can't really remember now, but I think I finally stuck my routine after that. So then we were all off to floor (to Sadie's delight.) By that point I felt like crying my eyes out and even now just writing about it makes me want to cry. We did floor. And that's all there really is to tell about it we warmed for 10 minutes and did a routine (two in Hailee and Kendall's cases, since they fell.) After that we were talking and having fun. We laugh so hard sometimes and over the most unfunny things. And then Kendall did something that if I tried to explain it wouldn't come out right, so all I can really say is this: You had to be there. Me and Sadie went to vault next (well, really I went to vault and Sadie did layouts off the vault.) It was easy I stuck my vaults easy. I was done a half hour early and me and Sadie got to sit and watch the others do vault. Well, actually sat over by the heater and did more talking about how hyper Sadie was then really watching our friends. In the end we figured that the reason for her sudden hyperness was the fact that she drank a large smoothie from 'Sips' and a bag of popcorn.
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I then went with mom to pick up Duncan from is ballet class. I sat and read in the car while we waited for it to be over. Oh, I love this book! It's so good and I've only read nine chapters. If you haven't read this book you need to. Now that I'm home I'm really tired. I have other silly little things to write, but I'm just to tired. The only reason you're getting a blog post that makes sense and that has the spelling right is because I can't stand have that little line under the words so I go back and fix the spelling. ~sigh~ I'm going to bed now. I really am. Don't even try to stop me cause if you did I'd use all of the power in my to punch you so that I could go to bed. I'm so tired that I'm now typing with my eyes closed and only opening them when I think that I've made a mistake. Good night, sleep tight! Don't let the bed bugs bite!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
"You in bad mood, Ilia"
Floor was first. I warmed up pretty quickly (at least I thought it was fast) and then I did my routine and my second front tuck was sooo high I thought I was going to fall! Ilia then told me to do one more and then I did front handspring layout tuck (onto a mat.) We did bars after that. I did my routine and it was really good. I did a another one and then asked Ilia if I could do dismounts and he said "No, you have two. You need like 5!" So I was like OK then I'll do three more routines, whatever. I did one more and then I was chalking up and Ilia told everyone else (who had already finished routines) to do one more of what they were doing and then take there grips off. He told me to do another routine. So I did four routines on bars! It wasn't that bad other than the fact that I was getting really tired from it. Oh and also Ilia spotted me on my first routine but then the next routine he only stood there and the next two routines after that he didn't even stand there. I was so excited! We went to beam after that and after I warmed up I asked Ilia how many routines I should do and of course he says "Million". UGH! I hate it when he says that! So I did three stuck routines and I was going for my next one and I fell on my series and the one after that I fell on my full turn so he was yelling at me because I fell on one full turn out of five routines! He sent me over to another beam and told me to work on full turns and then I had to do another routine. I did and I stuck it but even now I'm still really mad. I asked him after that what I should do and he told me (just take a wild guess) full turns. I was all sad after that but luckily Lena helped cheer me up at least a little. My dad came in a couple minutes early and asked if I was done and I told him no and just kept doing full turns for the next ten minutes. Ilia finally told me to stretch. I said "Bye Ilia, see you tomorrow" and he looked at me and said "Be ready." I went into the locker room after that and I was telling my friends about it and Taylor said he had said the same thing to her! Now me and my friends are slightly worried for tomorrow. I then went over to the gym office and got a coupon from Lena to get me and my family in free to one of the University of Utah gymnastic meets! Utah vs. UCLA Friday 7:00 at the Huntsman center. YAY! Ilia you were in a bad mood today.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Snow...snow...COMPETITION!?!
"It's snowing, it's falling, the old man is shoveling." (and maybe snow blowing, too!)
It has been snowing almost all day! It wasn't when I woke up but then a little while later it started and then it didn't stop for a loooooong time. The roads are crazy! It looks like the snow plows haven't plowed at all! Now I'm sure they have but, that just goes to show how bad the snow was.
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After conditioning we sat down to stretch for a couple more minutes but, then Ilia said "Go beam." and Hailee was like "Don't we normally do vault first?" and he said "Yes, but a half hour is not enough time." I didn't really care cause either way I'd be going to beam. So we went to beam and after we had finished warming up Ilia said that our first routine was a warm up and the second routine counted so, the usual. I was slightly nervous for my series, but I stuck them perfectly (well, almost perfectly.) and I wasn't to worried after that except for full turn, but I stuck them easily. After we were done with beam we went to bars and I ended up doing THREE routines (everyone else did one.) because I kept on doing a really good routine and then I would fall on my dismount! It was very annoying and then finally I stuck it. I then of course had to go and do them without the routine. When we were done with bars Ilia told Hailee, Kendall, and Taylor to go to vault and for me and Sadie to go and do full turns on beam. We did, but we wanted to make it a little more interesting so every time that one one of us did a full turn the other had to say something random to try and distract the other one (cause there's a lot of distractions at competitions.) it worked out pretty good. I then went to vault and Sadie came over with me and did layout of the vault (she fractured her wrist a couple of weeks ago on a round off whip back handspring.) Then after we did vault Ilia told us to go over with the others and do dance routines on floor. My mom came in a couple of minutes before we were done and told me that Ballet had been canceled because of all this crazy snow!
Well I should probably go and finish up my homework that I didn't do this morning and then go and eat some dinner. Maybe, I'll get the dinner first.
It has been snowing almost all day! It wasn't when I woke up but then a little while later it started and then it didn't stop for a loooooong time. The roads are crazy! It looks like the snow plows haven't plowed at all! Now I'm sure they have but, that just goes to show how bad the snow was.
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After conditioning we sat down to stretch for a couple more minutes but, then Ilia said "Go beam." and Hailee was like "Don't we normally do vault first?" and he said "Yes, but a half hour is not enough time." I didn't really care cause either way I'd be going to beam. So we went to beam and after we had finished warming up Ilia said that our first routine was a warm up and the second routine counted so, the usual. I was slightly nervous for my series, but I stuck them perfectly (well, almost perfectly.) and I wasn't to worried after that except for full turn, but I stuck them easily. After we were done with beam we went to bars and I ended up doing THREE routines (everyone else did one.) because I kept on doing a really good routine and then I would fall on my dismount! It was very annoying and then finally I stuck it. I then of course had to go and do them without the routine. When we were done with bars Ilia told Hailee, Kendall, and Taylor to go to vault and for me and Sadie to go and do full turns on beam. We did, but we wanted to make it a little more interesting so every time that one one of us did a full turn the other had to say something random to try and distract the other one (cause there's a lot of distractions at competitions.) it worked out pretty good. I then went to vault and Sadie came over with me and did layout of the vault (she fractured her wrist a couple of weeks ago on a round off whip back handspring.) Then after we did vault Ilia told us to go over with the others and do dance routines on floor. My mom came in a couple of minutes before we were done and told me that Ballet had been canceled because of all this crazy snow!
Well I should probably go and finish up my homework that I didn't do this morning and then go and eat some dinner. Maybe, I'll get the dinner first.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
I made it!
Well I made it to church at nine freakin in the morning. Seriously, I probably looked like a ghost! And now I should probably go and stretch so that I'm not sore tomorrow. But, I don't really want to I kind of just want to sit here and play on facebook with Lena and listen to Taylor Swift. ~giggle~giggle~
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Feels like a Monday
This is crazy it's Saturday but, it feels like it's Monday! I keep thinking that I compete in 4 days. Man I think this whole morning workouts is messing with my brain!
Gym was kind of different today well, at least for a Saturday it was. Instead of just doing tumbling on floor and bars we did every event. We did bars first and I made my first routine and I thought my dismount was good but apparently not cause Ilia did his little Russian thing that he does that is kind of like saying oh gosh and told me to do dismounts. So I did and he just kept on telling me 'Drew, straight body!' and it really felt like I was straight but he never let me move on and he was saying the same thing every turn. I swear no matter how hard I try he still gets mad at me! But, I guess he could just be nervous about the fact that competition is next week. And finally he told me to be done with bars and go to our next event. So I did and when I got my grips off I came out of the locker room Natasha (one of the other coaches) was on floor and I had thought that we were going to floor so I asked my friends and they said that we were supposed to be on floor but that it was Natasha's classes last event and so we were going to beam instead. At the time I was kind of mad but, then I was OK with it cause I'm glad we went to beam. Ilia had said that we had to do two routines. The first one didn't count but the second one was like a competition, just without the judges and scores. And guess what!?! I stuck both of them! My series were really good and I almost fell on my full turn on my last routine but, I didn't so YAY!!!
After beam we went to floor and I was having a hard time with sticking my round off back handspring full and a half but I decided that I would just go for it in my routine cause normally I can stick it then. I was worming up my last pass when Ilia asked me to show him a front tuck front tuck so I did. I fell on my butt. But, I did it! Ilia then told me that was my new second pass instead of front handspring layout what he didn't tell me was that I didn't have to do the front tuck open round off back handspring layout for my last pass anymore so I kept worming it up but, then he saw that I was doing it and told me to do round off back handspring full instead. I stuck my routine and it was really good. Then I just did tumbling while Hailee, Kendall, and Taylor went to vault and then I went to vault did a couple vaults and we were done!!
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After we got home I took a shower and then had my mom do my hair up all cute. We also took down the Christmas decorations. Our living room looks sooo much bigger without that huge tree there! Hehe. My little brother Duncan kept turning on the same movie over and over again, I think we watched Unaccompanied Minors like 7 times in about 8 hours!
No joke. I mean it's a funny movie but when you've seen it so many times that day...it gets kind of annoying. Well I'm off to bed now cause with a new year comes new church times. So now I have to be up and presentable by 8:45. This might not happen.
Gym was kind of different today well, at least for a Saturday it was. Instead of just doing tumbling on floor and bars we did every event. We did bars first and I made my first routine and I thought my dismount was good but apparently not cause Ilia did his little Russian thing that he does that is kind of like saying oh gosh and told me to do dismounts. So I did and he just kept on telling me 'Drew, straight body!' and it really felt like I was straight but he never let me move on and he was saying the same thing every turn. I swear no matter how hard I try he still gets mad at me! But, I guess he could just be nervous about the fact that competition is next week. And finally he told me to be done with bars and go to our next event. So I did and when I got my grips off I came out of the locker room Natasha (one of the other coaches) was on floor and I had thought that we were going to floor so I asked my friends and they said that we were supposed to be on floor but that it was Natasha's classes last event and so we were going to beam instead. At the time I was kind of mad but, then I was OK with it cause I'm glad we went to beam. Ilia had said that we had to do two routines. The first one didn't count but the second one was like a competition, just without the judges and scores. And guess what!?! I stuck both of them! My series were really good and I almost fell on my full turn on my last routine but, I didn't so YAY!!!
After beam we went to floor and I was having a hard time with sticking my round off back handspring full and a half but I decided that I would just go for it in my routine cause normally I can stick it then. I was worming up my last pass when Ilia asked me to show him a front tuck front tuck so I did. I fell on my butt. But, I did it! Ilia then told me that was my new second pass instead of front handspring layout what he didn't tell me was that I didn't have to do the front tuck open round off back handspring layout for my last pass anymore so I kept worming it up but, then he saw that I was doing it and told me to do round off back handspring full instead. I stuck my routine and it was really good. Then I just did tumbling while Hailee, Kendall, and Taylor went to vault and then I went to vault did a couple vaults and we were done!!
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After we got home I took a shower and then had my mom do my hair up all cute. We also took down the Christmas decorations. Our living room looks sooo much bigger without that huge tree there! Hehe. My little brother Duncan kept turning on the same movie over and over again, I think we watched Unaccompanied Minors like 7 times in about 8 hours!
No joke. I mean it's a funny movie but when you've seen it so many times that day...it gets kind of annoying. Well I'm off to bed now cause with a new year comes new church times. So now I have to be up and presentable by 8:45. This might not happen.
Friday, January 2, 2009
One week
In exactly one week is my first competition. I am kind of nervous but at the same time I feel like I'm ready for it. I have my Bar routine other than I need to work on getting to handstand on my free-hip and I need to get my dismount out of my giants. I am doing a kip cast dismount out of my giants right now and I think I'll be competing my bars like that. I have my Beam routine I just need to work on sticking everything, especially my full turn. My Floor is good...well I do need to work on my last pass but, other than that I'm ready. My Vaults are just fine.
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My best friend Sadie got back from Mexico today. She had gone for Christmas and I had really missed her and I'm glad she is home. We did Bars first. I went to Bars next I did my routine a couple of times then I finally made it without stopping on my kip cast after my giants. So then I asked Ilia if I could do just plain old dismounts. And I did that until we were done with bars. So like, 15 minutes. I then went to Beam I was having a hard time sticking my series (at first) which are back handspring-back handspring but, lately I have been sticking them easily. I don't know what was wrong. I was also having troubles with that darn full turn but, I stuck it eventually. Then after that I went to Vault and my vaults were good but I don't know maybe it was just me but the board seemed bouncier than normal. But maybe it's just that I was punching in the right spot. Hehe. And then Ilia was on the phone so I didn't know where he wanted me to go next and Hailee, Kendall, and Taylor were coming to Vault so I had to do something so I just went onto the tramp with Sadie but, then Ilia finally was off the phone and he told me to go to floor and work on my last pass, front-tuck open round off back handspring layout.
So in all it was a pretty good day. I just need to stay motivated and keep trying no matter how hard it is or how mad Ilia is at me and then I will be ready for competition.
Thank you Mom for making this amazing blog for me!
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My best friend Sadie got back from Mexico today. She had gone for Christmas and I had really missed her and I'm glad she is home. We did Bars first. I went to Bars next I did my routine a couple of times then I finally made it without stopping on my kip cast after my giants. So then I asked Ilia if I could do just plain old dismounts. And I did that until we were done with bars. So like, 15 minutes. I then went to Beam I was having a hard time sticking my series (at first) which are back handspring-back handspring but, lately I have been sticking them easily. I don't know what was wrong. I was also having troubles with that darn full turn but, I stuck it eventually. Then after that I went to Vault and my vaults were good but I don't know maybe it was just me but the board seemed bouncier than normal. But maybe it's just that I was punching in the right spot. Hehe. And then Ilia was on the phone so I didn't know where he wanted me to go next and Hailee, Kendall, and Taylor were coming to Vault so I had to do something so I just went onto the tramp with Sadie but, then Ilia finally was off the phone and he told me to go to floor and work on my last pass, front-tuck open round off back handspring layout.
So in all it was a pretty good day. I just need to stay motivated and keep trying no matter how hard it is or how mad Ilia is at me and then I will be ready for competition.
Thank you Mom for making this amazing blog for me!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
New Year, New Blog
My name is Drew and no, I'm not a boy. I am a gymnast at USA Gymnastics World in Bountiful, Utah. My coach's name is Ilia Belov. (And yes, he is a boy!) I have been doing gymnastics since I was four years old, and am now competing Junior Olympic Level 8.
My mom has given me an assignment to write every day about gymnastics, and to keep a record of what I did at gym that day. And so that I can have a place to put my goals and achievements.
This is me and some of my friends with Kristina Baskett, who is one of the University of Utah gymnasts. She choreographed my floor routine this year. I'm in the middle.
This is me and my best friend in the whole wide world, Khyla, waiting for our turn to compete at state meet this last year.
My mom has given me an assignment to write every day about gymnastics, and to keep a record of what I did at gym that day. And so that I can have a place to put my goals and achievements.
This is me and some of my friends with Kristina Baskett, who is one of the University of Utah gymnasts. She choreographed my floor routine this year. I'm in the middle.
This is me and my best friend in the whole wide world, Khyla, waiting for our turn to compete at state meet this last year.
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