Oh competition day. We all felt like Beam was going to be good, well that wasn't quite true. We all fell on our routine (except for Taylor, of course) so Ilia told me and Sadie to do 10 series and dismounts. We had 20 minutes to stick them all. I stuck them right on time!! WOO HOO!! After that Ilia told me to do round off rebounds which I was kind of scared for cause I hadn't done them in like a month! But I did them and they were really good!!! Yippee! Next was Bars and I stuck my routine, but Ilia didn't like my first half so I worked on that. After a while of that we went to Floor. Ilia put us in an order and guess what?...I was last. Why me? Anyway I went for it and it was pretty good and I stuck it! Ilia sent us to move the mats that still hadn't been moved that the boys had put there on Friday night that were stacked up for Vault. It was actually a pain to move them! But when we finally got them moved Taylor and Kendall did there Vaults first then me and Sadie went. I stuck my first one, but fell on my second one so I had to go again. I stuck the next two though!! YAY! Then we were done so I got to go a little early with Mommy to pick up Duncan and since he didn't end till 8:00 I had time to sit and read.
When we got home I went and made myself some dinner, which was really good! I took a tortilla and put some mustard, mayonnaise, ham, pepper jack cheese, and cheddar cheese on it and voila you have 'Drew's tortilla sandwich rap!' Yummy. After I ate I sat down and I think I read my book (Eragon) for over an hour! I finished a lot! Now I have to get off cause I kind of kicked Mommy of so that I could do this so yeah!
*I have Untouched stuck in my head!!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Yet again I can't think of a title
We went to Floor first and we did routines. And when I say routines I mean routines like plural. I thought we only had to do one routine cause that's was we normally do, but no. I had to do three! We never do more than two and even doing two is very rare. Kendall did ONE and then a dance routine! No fare! Anyway, when we were part way done with Floor some of the people that used to go here of coached here showed up and we (me, Kendall, Sadie, and Taylor) learned that Hailee was going to dinner with some old friends. So that was pretty cool to see people that used to coach me. We went to Bars next and I did more routines. After a little while me and Sadie did half pirouettes and free hips. Bars was pretty boring after that. We then went to Beam and did routines. I did three routines stuck in all, but it took me a while to do them cause I kept going crooked on my series! Oh so annoying! After I finally finished routines Ilia told me to stretch. Daddy picked me up and we went to Bana's after I was dressed.
When we got to Bana's I ate and then I sat and watched some TV with everyone. The food Bana made was really good. Now that we're home I'm sitting here and watching some more TV with Daddy. Night!!!
When we got to Bana's I ate and then I sat and watched some TV with everyone. The food Bana made was really good. Now that we're home I'm sitting here and watching some more TV with Daddy. Night!!!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Got to write fast
OK really fast um yeah.
Gym was really boring we did routines on Beam and they were pretty good. I did two stuck then Ilia had me do round off back layouts with the pads. After a while of that we went to Bars. I did a couple of routines - I can't remember how many exactly - then it ended up that Ilia had sent us to Bars later than we were supposed to so we had to be done cause Natasha's girls were kicking us off. We went to vault next and since nobody had moved the mats that were piled up we just did round off stand up. It wasn't hard, but after a while it got really really really boring. Like its only been 20 minutes, but it feels like its been an hour kind of boring. But luckily after what felt like FOREVER Ilia told us to go stretch and it ended up that we were done a half hour early so I had plenty of time to get dressed for dance.
When I got to dance I discovered that my friend Lindsey had brought her friend from school so even though it was only one extra person so we only had four people it still felt like our class was soooo much bigger cause I'm so used to small classes. Five girls in the class at gym. Three at dance. Five in Young Womens. Seriously I have small classes, but I'm getting off track so lets see where was I...OH yes when I got to dance we did technique and it was pretty normal nothing too hard, but then we did pointe and that's when it started to get hard. There was some things that were really hard and some things I thought were going to be hard, but I did them really easy. So I guess that's good. When class was over Kalee kept me a little late so that she and Kymmerri could teach me the "Wild Things" dance for the recital. We're doing Alice in Wonderland for ballet. I'm "The Caterpillar!" And I'm also a "Card." Oh so much fun! For jazz we are doing Where the Wild Things Are and obviously I'm a "Wild Thing" and since there is so little people at our studio I'm also being in "Storm." Anyway we did that and I learned part of Wild Thing so I'll have to practice then we are learning more next week! Now its really really really really really really late so good night!!
Gym was really boring we did routines on Beam and they were pretty good. I did two stuck then Ilia had me do round off back layouts with the pads. After a while of that we went to Bars. I did a couple of routines - I can't remember how many exactly - then it ended up that Ilia had sent us to Bars later than we were supposed to so we had to be done cause Natasha's girls were kicking us off. We went to vault next and since nobody had moved the mats that were piled up we just did round off stand up. It wasn't hard, but after a while it got really really really boring. Like its only been 20 minutes, but it feels like its been an hour kind of boring. But luckily after what felt like FOREVER Ilia told us to go stretch and it ended up that we were done a half hour early so I had plenty of time to get dressed for dance.
When I got to dance I discovered that my friend Lindsey had brought her friend from school so even though it was only one extra person so we only had four people it still felt like our class was soooo much bigger cause I'm so used to small classes. Five girls in the class at gym. Three at dance. Five in Young Womens. Seriously I have small classes, but I'm getting off track so lets see where was I...OH yes when I got to dance we did technique and it was pretty normal nothing too hard, but then we did pointe and that's when it started to get hard. There was some things that were really hard and some things I thought were going to be hard, but I did them really easy. So I guess that's good. When class was over Kalee kept me a little late so that she and Kymmerri could teach me the "Wild Things" dance for the recital. We're doing Alice in Wonderland for ballet. I'm "The Caterpillar!" And I'm also a "Card." Oh so much fun! For jazz we are doing Where the Wild Things Are and obviously I'm a "Wild Thing" and since there is so little people at our studio I'm also being in "Storm." Anyway we did that and I learned part of Wild Thing so I'll have to practice then we are learning more next week! Now its really really really really really really late so good night!!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Movie Sunday
So we watched a movie tonight. It was really really good. It's called The Ultimate Gift. And if you haven't seen it yet then I highly recommend it. So um yeah go watch it!!!
OH and while I'm remembering here is some quotes that me and Sadie typed up. There all by Taylor Swift except the last one was Sadie.
With you, I'd dance in a storm in my best dress. - Fearless
In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team.
- Fifteen
This love is difficult, but it's real. - Love Story
All those other girls, well they're beautiful...but would they write a song for you? - Hey Stephen
She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts. She's ceer catain and I'm on the bleachers. - You Belong With Me
I can't breathe without you...but I have to. - Breathe
Breathe
Tell Me Why
Forever and Always
You can tell me that you're sorry, but I don't believe you, baby, like I did before. You're not sorry. - You're Not Sorry
They might be bigger, but we're faster and never scared. - Change
You're so in love that you act insane...that's the way I loved you.
- The Way I Loved You
This album is called "FEARLESS." And I guess I'd like to clarify why we chose that as the title. To me, "FEARLESS" is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of Them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare yo to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again...even though every time you've tried before, you've lost. It's FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can't breathe without them. I think it's FEARLESS to fall for your best friends, even though he's in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "You're Not Sorry", and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright...that's FEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.
If you want it, it's not going to change unless you believe.
So there is my quotes for the day. Um yeah.
OH and while I'm remembering here is some quotes that me and Sadie typed up. There all by Taylor Swift except the last one was Sadie.
With you, I'd dance in a storm in my best dress. - Fearless
In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team.
- Fifteen
This love is difficult, but it's real. - Love Story
All those other girls, well they're beautiful...but would they write a song for you? - Hey Stephen
She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts. She's ceer catain and I'm on the bleachers. - You Belong With Me
I can't breathe without you...but I have to. - Breathe
Breathe
Tell Me Why
Forever and Always
You can tell me that you're sorry, but I don't believe you, baby, like I did before. You're not sorry. - You're Not Sorry
They might be bigger, but we're faster and never scared. - Change
You're so in love that you act insane...that's the way I loved you.
- The Way I Loved You
This album is called "FEARLESS." And I guess I'd like to clarify why we chose that as the title. To me, "FEARLESS" is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of Them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare yo to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again...even though every time you've tried before, you've lost. It's FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can't breathe without them. I think it's FEARLESS to fall for your best friends, even though he's in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "You're Not Sorry", and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright...that's FEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.
If you want it, it's not going to change unless you believe.
So there is my quotes for the day. Um yeah.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Morning workout! Wow for real!
We haven't had morning workout in forever! It felt kind of weird.
After we did conditioning Brynnlee (yeah I know I'll ask her) had us do 10 of each of our leaps, jumps, and turns for Beam and then we did things on the Floor for Beam. Like I did punch front tuck and side aerials. My landings weren't the best, but they were pretty good! After we did those we did more of the new skills and stuff on the Beam and Taylor's headstand still amazes me. We then went to Bars and after we did casts we had to do 10 half pirouettes then I had to do 10 free hips. My half pirouettes are getting better and my free hips were OK, but it was a little harder today cause I'm getting a rip and free hips pull on the skin and it kills!!! OUCHIE!
After Bars we went to Floor and did leaps then did two dance routines. We were done after that so we just went and stretched.
When I got home I didn't really do anything. It was a pretty boring day. The most I did was sit on the couch then go out side and help Mommy spray paint the filing cabinets she got and then we watched a movie a little while later. So like I said, boring.
After we did conditioning Brynnlee (yeah I know I'll ask her) had us do 10 of each of our leaps, jumps, and turns for Beam and then we did things on the Floor for Beam. Like I did punch front tuck and side aerials. My landings weren't the best, but they were pretty good! After we did those we did more of the new skills and stuff on the Beam and Taylor's headstand still amazes me. We then went to Bars and after we did casts we had to do 10 half pirouettes then I had to do 10 free hips. My half pirouettes are getting better and my free hips were OK, but it was a little harder today cause I'm getting a rip and free hips pull on the skin and it kills!!! OUCHIE!
After Bars we went to Floor and did leaps then did two dance routines. We were done after that so we just went and stretched.
When I got home I didn't really do anything. It was a pretty boring day. The most I did was sit on the couch then go out side and help Mommy spray paint the filing cabinets she got and then we watched a movie a little while later. So like I said, boring.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Lots of routines!
OK so I didn't ask Brynnlee how to spell it yet, but really I promise I will...eventually. But anyway when I got to gym Brynnlee told us that we were doing routines today and that for Beam and Bars we would do this deal where if we stuck our first routine we only had to do three more routines stuck, but after the first one if we fell it just didn't count and we'd have to do another routine, but if you didn't stick your first routine then you had to do five more stuck that same way. Well after conditioning me and Sadie went to Beam first while Taylor and Kendall went to Vault and guess what...I stuck my first one! Than I fell on my second, but it's OK cause I stuck the next three after that! So I got done with that pretty fast and then I got to do full turns! Oh what fun. When everyone was done with Beam we went to floor and did two routines, but unlike Ilia we did it where if you fell you just kept going. Ilia NEVER I repeat NEVER lets us keep going if we fall on Floor! He does on other events, but not Floor so that was nice to know, but I didn't need to worry about it cause I stuck both routines. I had to do front tuck front tucks after my routines cause they weren't very good, but there getting better again! After we did leaps for a little while we went Bars and did the same deal as Beam. I stuck my first one and then the next three after that so I just had to work on half pirouettes and free hips after that, but Sadie and Kendall were both having a hard time with their routines and hadn't made any so they were crying then Taylor was crying cause she couldn't make her last routine. So after a little while Brynnlee called all of us over to talk to her and she talked to us and she said stuff like that she knows how bad it sucks when you can't make that stupid half pirouette for the tenth time and how you get so frustrated, but that instead of crying you have to take that frustration and turn it into energy cause crying takes away 30% of your energy. She then told us that we were all going to make at least two routines in the next 10 minutes without crying, but then she told me to just do what I was doing. So my friends did there routines and we were happy, for the most part at least. We still had a half hour left so me and Sadie went to Vault. We had to stick five Vaults and I only fell on one! After I was done with those five I was free to go with my dad to see Twilight for the fourth time! Yippee!
Me and Daddy had been planning on going to Olive Garden, but there was a long line to be seated so we went to Panda Express. The food was really good and I got to sit and talk with Daddy for a little while, but then it was time to go to the movie! When we got over to the theater and we were inline to buy our tickets I turned around and it turns out that one of the ladies that works at the orthodontist office that I go to was also going to see Twilight tonight! Ah what a small world it is. Anyway when we got in the theater it was very long till the movie started and I liked it about as much as I think I can and I'm starting to think that when the movie comes out on DVD I need to get it so that I can confirm things that I didn't notice the first couple of times I saw it. After the movie Daddy drove me home and I'm very happy to say that on our way we could see the U on the side of the mountain flashing red then white which means Utah won the gymnastics meet! Yay!
Me and Daddy had been planning on going to Olive Garden, but there was a long line to be seated so we went to Panda Express. The food was really good and I got to sit and talk with Daddy for a little while, but then it was time to go to the movie! When we got over to the theater and we were inline to buy our tickets I turned around and it turns out that one of the ladies that works at the orthodontist office that I go to was also going to see Twilight tonight! Ah what a small world it is. Anyway when we got in the theater it was very long till the movie started and I liked it about as much as I think I can and I'm starting to think that when the movie comes out on DVD I need to get it so that I can confirm things that I didn't notice the first couple of times I saw it. After the movie Daddy drove me home and I'm very happy to say that on our way we could see the U on the side of the mountain flashing red then white which means Utah won the gymnastics meet! Yay!
New coach!
Poor Sadie had to come to Russian today and she came on the day that we were having a hard time remembering things and the day that the light decided to go out on us! At first it was kind of faint then it started doing this flashing thingy that made look like we were blinking every half a second! Then it just stopped working and then all of a sudden it decided to do the blinking thing again for about 30 seconds then it went out again! Part way through class Mommy came in and gave me and Sadie our lunch. Mmmmm, food.
Since Ilia has to go out of town this weekend for Cody's competition we had to get a sub and the girl who is going to sub us is going to stay as Ilia's assistant coach! Her name is Brynnlee (I don't know if that's how you spell it so I'm going to ask her tomorrow so if I all of a sudden I spell it differently that's why). She's really nice. She was a gymnast and she made it to Level 10, but then it became too much for her and she quite when she was 17. She is an AWESOME coach!!! I'm really excited to have her as our coach!
Ilia didn't have to leave until 5:30 so after conditioning he sent us to Floor and Brynnlee told us what to do cause even though Ilia was there he wanted us to get used to having her coach us. I had to do five layouts then five fulls. It wasn't too hard, I mean I do those everyday! After that I did full and a half's onto the mat and I was having a hard time sticking them, but Brynnlee gave me some hints and then I was sticking them pretty easy!! I then had to do doubles next and I don't think I ever made it all the way around, but I got pretty close!! After we were done with tumbling we did dance routines then worked on our leaps then did one more. We went to Bars next and Ilia helped Brynnlee set up the Bars then Traci took him to the airport. Brynnlee had us to five sets of kip casts then I had to do four sets of two giants. We only had a few minutes left on Bars after that so she had me do three giant, giant kip dismounts and guess what!?!...I didn't peel off the Bar at all on my dismounts!! I haven't done layouts that good in a while! WOO HOO! We then went to Beam and since it was easy day we did dance routines, but since we had to share the Beams with this other group we only used one Beam and so while we were waiting for our turns we sat and talked with Brynnlee and filled her in on how things go around our gym and stuff like that then after everyone had done a couple of routines she told us to try and make up some skills to maybe do next year. There were lots of different stuff, but the one skill that everyone else couldn't do I did pretty good! It's actually not that hard it just hurts my arms a little! The funny thing that happened was that Taylor tried a headstand (on the Beam) and she made it and it looked awesome! She then tried to find different ways to get down from it, it was really funny and cool at the same time! In all it was a really good day at gym.
When Daddy picked me up from gym we went to Bana's and had dinner and sat and watched some TV with her. When it was about 8:45 I lay down on her coach and I was like asleep, but not asleep at the same time cause I could here everything people were saying and I could wake my self up and talk, but I was like in that sleeping mode. When we left I fell asleep in the car. We got home at about 9:20 and I really didn't want to get out of the car I just wanted to sleep! But I reluctantly got out and went inside and changed really fast then got in bed and fell asleep immediately. Oh I love sleep. I think I got about 11 hours counting the time I slept at Bana's and in the car.
Since Ilia has to go out of town this weekend for Cody's competition we had to get a sub and the girl who is going to sub us is going to stay as Ilia's assistant coach! Her name is Brynnlee (I don't know if that's how you spell it so I'm going to ask her tomorrow so if I all of a sudden I spell it differently that's why). She's really nice. She was a gymnast and she made it to Level 10, but then it became too much for her and she quite when she was 17. She is an AWESOME coach!!! I'm really excited to have her as our coach!
Ilia didn't have to leave until 5:30 so after conditioning he sent us to Floor and Brynnlee told us what to do cause even though Ilia was there he wanted us to get used to having her coach us. I had to do five layouts then five fulls. It wasn't too hard, I mean I do those everyday! After that I did full and a half's onto the mat and I was having a hard time sticking them, but Brynnlee gave me some hints and then I was sticking them pretty easy!! I then had to do doubles next and I don't think I ever made it all the way around, but I got pretty close!! After we were done with tumbling we did dance routines then worked on our leaps then did one more. We went to Bars next and Ilia helped Brynnlee set up the Bars then Traci took him to the airport. Brynnlee had us to five sets of kip casts then I had to do four sets of two giants. We only had a few minutes left on Bars after that so she had me do three giant, giant kip dismounts and guess what!?!...I didn't peel off the Bar at all on my dismounts!! I haven't done layouts that good in a while! WOO HOO! We then went to Beam and since it was easy day we did dance routines, but since we had to share the Beams with this other group we only used one Beam and so while we were waiting for our turns we sat and talked with Brynnlee and filled her in on how things go around our gym and stuff like that then after everyone had done a couple of routines she told us to try and make up some skills to maybe do next year. There were lots of different stuff, but the one skill that everyone else couldn't do I did pretty good! It's actually not that hard it just hurts my arms a little! The funny thing that happened was that Taylor tried a headstand (on the Beam) and she made it and it looked awesome! She then tried to find different ways to get down from it, it was really funny and cool at the same time! In all it was a really good day at gym.
When Daddy picked me up from gym we went to Bana's and had dinner and sat and watched some TV with her. When it was about 8:45 I lay down on her coach and I was like asleep, but not asleep at the same time cause I could here everything people were saying and I could wake my self up and talk, but I was like in that sleeping mode. When we left I fell asleep in the car. We got home at about 9:20 and I really didn't want to get out of the car I just wanted to sleep! But I reluctantly got out and went inside and changed really fast then got in bed and fell asleep immediately. Oh I love sleep. I think I got about 11 hours counting the time I slept at Bana's and in the car.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
GYM SLEEPOVER!!!!!
Gym was really boring. We did conditioning for an hour. Then we went to beam. Since it was comp day we had to stick one routine and I stuck my first one!!! It was actually pretty easy, but then I had to go and do round off layouts. Not fun. After a little while Sadie came over and did them with me so that made it less boring, but it was still boring. After beam we went to bars and Ilia told me and Sad to do five sets of good giants then we had to do half pirouettes, but giants took forever so we only got to do a couple of half pirouettes. We then went to floor and had to do a routine. I fell on my first one so I had to do another one, but that time I stuck it! While Kendall and Taylor went to vault me and Sadie tried to do front fulls on the tramp, it didn't work out so well. When Taylor was done with vault she came over and told us to go to vault, but we only had ten minutes left so when we went over to the vault Ilia told us to stretch, Taylor and Kendall weren't very happy, at all.
After gym we went over to the cheer side we were gonna get some snacks, but right before we were going to pay Natasha came over and talked and talked and talked with Colleen for a long time then she finally left and we paid for our stuff and we had to run and get dressed cause we only had 20 minutes to get back to Sadie's house, get her clothes, get Pepper, and then go and pick Duncan up from dance in Centerville! Well we got Sadie's clothes and Pepper, but we were 10 minutes late picking Duncan up.
Now Sadie is being very unhappy so shes making me let her tell you what we did when we got home!
Sadie:
hello well me and drew had so much fun. we made up dances to a few songs and recorded it on the camera. we had stayed up till 12:05 than we tried to go to bed and we were talking till 12:30 and than we tried to fall asleep. duncan kept hitting the wall and it was so annoying. kujgjkgugtukghutuigyugjgyiutgercghfdhtg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK it's Drew again and I'm going to give my version of the story now. So when we got home Pepper was really nervous, but after a little while of running around the house and investigating she was getting better, she was still nervous, but not nearly as much as before. After we had dinner we went down into my room and by then it was 10:00 and we were going to go to bed, but then we started making videos of us being really silly. Then at 10:30 we put Pepper to bed and we were going to go to bed for real, well that didn't happen. We started making videos of us dancing to Taylor Swift songs! We did a dance to You Belong With Me and Love Story they were really dorky, but it was fun! After that we listened to some songs then got in bed and "tried" to go to fall asleep. Ya well like Sadie said it was just after 12:00 and then we were talking for a while so when we finally stopped talking it was like 12:30.
We woke up at 5:30 and got ready for gym and when we got there Ilia wasn't there yet so we waited for a little while and then when he got there we went inside and started stretching. After a little while Mommy took Pepper out to the car so that she could "rest". Then after that we had to do conditioning and then we did ten casts on bars. We did beam leaps next and it was kind of hard at 7:00 in the morning! Sadly after that Ilia told us to do round off layouts with the pads. Boo hoo! Well they weren't so bad I guess. Finally 7:45 came and we were done and got to go home! And now me and Sad are going to go and finish my homework!
After gym we went over to the cheer side we were gonna get some snacks, but right before we were going to pay Natasha came over and talked and talked and talked with Colleen for a long time then she finally left and we paid for our stuff and we had to run and get dressed cause we only had 20 minutes to get back to Sadie's house, get her clothes, get Pepper, and then go and pick Duncan up from dance in Centerville! Well we got Sadie's clothes and Pepper, but we were 10 minutes late picking Duncan up.
Now Sadie is being very unhappy so shes making me let her tell you what we did when we got home!
Sadie:
hello well me and drew had so much fun. we made up dances to a few songs and recorded it on the camera. we had stayed up till 12:05 than we tried to go to bed and we were talking till 12:30 and than we tried to fall asleep. duncan kept hitting the wall and it was so annoying. kujgjkgugtukghutuigyugjgyiutgercghfdhtg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK it's Drew again and I'm going to give my version of the story now. So when we got home Pepper was really nervous, but after a little while of running around the house and investigating she was getting better, she was still nervous, but not nearly as much as before. After we had dinner we went down into my room and by then it was 10:00 and we were going to go to bed, but then we started making videos of us being really silly. Then at 10:30 we put Pepper to bed and we were going to go to bed for real, well that didn't happen. We started making videos of us dancing to Taylor Swift songs! We did a dance to You Belong With Me and Love Story they were really dorky, but it was fun! After that we listened to some songs then got in bed and "tried" to go to fall asleep. Ya well like Sadie said it was just after 12:00 and then we were talking for a while so when we finally stopped talking it was like 12:30.
We woke up at 5:30 and got ready for gym and when we got there Ilia wasn't there yet so we waited for a little while and then when he got there we went inside and started stretching. After a little while Mommy took Pepper out to the car so that she could "rest". Then after that we had to do conditioning and then we did ten casts on bars. We did beam leaps next and it was kind of hard at 7:00 in the morning! Sadly after that Ilia told us to do round off layouts with the pads. Boo hoo! Well they weren't so bad I guess. Finally 7:45 came and we were done and got to go home! And now me and Sad are going to go and finish my homework!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Are you sure it's a Tuesday?
It really doesn't feel like a Tuesday, but I guess that's pretty much cause I didn't have gym yesterday. Anyway gym was pretty boring cause after conditioning Kendall and Taylor went to Vault and me and Sadie went to Floor and we did full and a half's and yet more full and a half's and even more then only then when Kendall and Taylor were done did Ilia say to do doubles! Yay more Floor! Not. Then we did doubles and even more and yet more then we went to...Bars. Ilia told me and Sadie to do perfect giants. Well we did that for a while. And when I say a while I mean a while. Then we did free hips for the rest of bars. Sadie had to then leave and go to the Jazz game with her dad so the rest of us went to Beam. We were supposed to do all of our elements separately well I got as far as sticking one series and doing two leaps and two dismounts and a couple full turns before he told me, Kendall, and Taylor to go and put the pads on the Beam and do round off layouts (keep in mind I'd never done a round off layout even before I hurt my ankle). I was really nervous to go for it, but I did! After we did those Ilia told us to stretch.
Oh before I forget! Guess who came to gym today!?!?!?!?!?!.......................................................
HAILEE!!!!!
I've missed her soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!! It was soooo good to see her!!
I LOVE YOU HAILEE!!
Oh before I forget! Guess who came to gym today!?!?!?!?!?!.......................................................
HAILEE!!!!!
I've missed her soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!! It was soooo good to see her!!
I LOVE YOU HAILEE!!
TEXAS!!!
I'm going to separate the Texas trip so that it makes more sense!!
Oh and if you don't have a lot of time you might want to read this later! Hehe.
Saturday
While we (meaning Khyla, Kim, Mommy, Lena, Colleen, and me) were waiting to board our flight to Denver me, Khy, and Kim played war and normally it doesn't take very long, but this game took almost 45 minutes!! It was crazy! After the game was finished it was time to get on the plane. I sat next to Khyla and Kim while the adults sat across from us. It was lots of fun to sit in the plane and play games and laugh with my friends. When we got to the airport we had a three hour overlay, but it ended up being a two hour overlay cause since it was snowing in Salt Lake we left there almost an hour late! Anyway we got lunch and then after we had all eaten me, Khy, and Kim played Apples to Apples. Here is a picture of Khyla and Kim while we were playing!
Isn't that soooo cute!!!
The plane ride was fun cause this time we had an extra hour to do things! We played a bunch of games and I read my book for a little while and when we had about a half hour left of the trip me and Khy started looking out the window and I took a bunch of pictures of the clouds so here they are!
We were going through a cloud when I took this so that's why it looks all foggy.
We're in Texas!!!...
And we're bored too!
When we got to the Rental car place and picked which car we wanted me and Mommy followed Lena as far as we could then we had to find our way to the hotel that we were staying at. When we got there we went and found Jackie and her mom Marianne who were rooming with us. They gave us a room key and we went up to our room and put our stuff in there so that we didn't have to haul it around anymore. We then went and said hi to Sadie and Taylor who were down the hall from us. There moms told us to go over to the mall and get something to eat over there so we did and it ended up that everything was closing at the mall so the only thing that we could eat was drinks from Sonic so we left and went and found this Pizza place that was still open and ordered a pizza and brought it over to the hotel. After we were done with our pizza we were really tired so we went to bed.
Sunday (a.k.a Competition day)
After I woke up and had a shower and got dressed me, Mommy, and Jackie went down to breakfast and ate. The food was really good and part way through Micaela and Paiger came down and Kendall and Kenzie came down a little while later. Taylor and Sadie came down when we were almost done, but I still got to say hi and stuff. And Polina was there too! It was good to see her again. It ended up that her mom (Katia) was just a couple of rooms down from us!
When we got back to the room mommy did my hair for the meet and then I still had a little while before we had to go down to my meet. I was looking out the window and saw this:
Seriously who would name a field 'Dr. Pepper field'?!?! That's just crazy!
I then realized that I had forgotten to bring a little bag to put all of my stuff in when I went down to the meet! And I didn't really want to just carry around all of my stuff so me and Mommy went down to the meet and tried to find a bag. We also looked at leos while we were there and ended up getting me two very cute leos! I got a bag that is just the right size and so I think I'm gonna use that for all of my competitions from now on cause the other bag is just waaaaaaaay to big.
Katia came in and said hi to us before the meet and she said that she really wanted to stay, but her flight was leaving soon so she had to go. But I was really happy that I got to see her!
The meet was really good. I got a 9.275 on Beam!! Can you believe that! 9.275! I was so excited! On Floor I got a 9.125! I think that the judges on Beam and Floor were scoring kind of high. I stuck my first Vault, but fell on my second one and got a 8.775. Ilia didn't seem too happy about my Vault, but I thought it was pretty good and it was a good score so whatever. My Bars on the other hand was not good my free hip was so low I don't think it even counted as a free hip! I got an 8.00. I was think that I would place on at least Beam maybe Floor too, but nope! It was really really hard to place cause the only one our team that placed was Hannah! See this is proof that you had to get really really really high scores cause Hope got a 9.6 on Floor and she didn't place! Ya I know. And one girl got a 10.00 on Bars and another got a 10.00 on Beam. Oh well. It was a good meet anyway!
Here's me and Kayla.
After the meet Mommy, Ilia, Ruth, Sadie, and I went over to the mall cause we were going to go skating, but it ended up that there was hockey game going on so we were gonna go to the Cheesecake Factory, but then we decided to go to a place called Dave and Buster's where the whole down stairs area is an arcade with a restaurant in it! So we ate there and Ruth and Mommy gave me and Sadie some money and we went and bought a power card for each of us and one for Ilia so that we could go and play some games!! It was lots of fun!!! Me and Sadie used up 48 chips on our cards pretty fast then we got one card that had 100 on it and then we ended up getting another 100 chip one too! Ilia's card had 60 on it, but he didn't want the tickets all he wanted was to play the games! So in the ended me and Sad got 2,284 tickets!! We couldn't decided what we wanted so Ruth came and helped us and she said for us to get matching tank tops so we were going to then we decided to get five teddy bears for each of the girls in our class, but then Sadie said she would rather have a matching shirt with me! So we got the shirts!
After we left Dave and Buster's we were going back to the car and the adults took us out the completely wrong door and we had to walk (or in me and Sadie's case run) around 3/4 of the mall!!! Me and Sadie were thinking that since they were going so slow and the car was so far away we could walk back to the hotel before they got there!!! But the adults wouldn't let us. So we just kept running around the mall (outside) to get to it and every corner we would be like this should be it...nope not this one maybe the next...nope and it just kept going like that for a while. Then finally we got to the car!
When we got back to the car me and Sadie went up to our rooms and we got into our swim suits and went down to the pool. When we got down to the pool Kendall and Kenzy were there so we playing with them and did a lot of chicken fights! It was looooooooooots of fun! My mom got some pictures, but she hasn't uploaded them yet so when she does I'll put them up! When we got back to the room this is what my hair looked like when I took it out!
Monday
Mommy woke me up at 6:30. It was not fun. I finished packing and got dressed then we went down to breakfast. Again the breakfast was really good, but this time there wasn't anyone there! But that was probably because it was 7:00 in the morning. Anyway after we had breakfast we went up to our room and got our things and went on our way. I think that I fell asleep for a little while in the car, but I'm not sure. Once we got to the airport we dropped off the rental car and went to security. And surprisingly we were the first ones there, out of our friends at least. When Khyla and Kim got there Mommy gave me some money and I went with Lena and Khyla and got a snack and when we were almost back I saw someone that looked familiar over by where we were boarding and when I ran over it ended up that I was right it was KENDALL! How cool is that! So Kendall, Micaela, and Kenzy were all on the same flight as us!
When we landed in Denver I only had just enough time to run to the bathroom before we boarded the plane to Salt Lake.
I read my book for most of the plane trip home!! And guess what I almost finished it!!
And now here are some pictures I took on the flight on the way home.
Mommy and I. Sorry It's kind of blurry the plain was getting closer to the ground and it was kind of bumpy.
ME!! Don't I look happy to be home!!
Texas was fun, but I'm very happy to be home.
And to end this trip here is a picture of me and the two girls that I don't know what I would do without them in my life, Sadie and Kendall.
FRIENDS FOREVER!!!
Oh and if you don't have a lot of time you might want to read this later! Hehe.
Saturday
While we (meaning Khyla, Kim, Mommy, Lena, Colleen, and me) were waiting to board our flight to Denver me, Khy, and Kim played war and normally it doesn't take very long, but this game took almost 45 minutes!! It was crazy! After the game was finished it was time to get on the plane. I sat next to Khyla and Kim while the adults sat across from us. It was lots of fun to sit in the plane and play games and laugh with my friends. When we got to the airport we had a three hour overlay, but it ended up being a two hour overlay cause since it was snowing in Salt Lake we left there almost an hour late! Anyway we got lunch and then after we had all eaten me, Khy, and Kim played Apples to Apples. Here is a picture of Khyla and Kim while we were playing!
Isn't that soooo cute!!!
The plane ride was fun cause this time we had an extra hour to do things! We played a bunch of games and I read my book for a little while and when we had about a half hour left of the trip me and Khy started looking out the window and I took a bunch of pictures of the clouds so here they are!
We were going through a cloud when I took this so that's why it looks all foggy.
We're in Texas!!!...
And we're bored too!
When we got to the Rental car place and picked which car we wanted me and Mommy followed Lena as far as we could then we had to find our way to the hotel that we were staying at. When we got there we went and found Jackie and her mom Marianne who were rooming with us. They gave us a room key and we went up to our room and put our stuff in there so that we didn't have to haul it around anymore. We then went and said hi to Sadie and Taylor who were down the hall from us. There moms told us to go over to the mall and get something to eat over there so we did and it ended up that everything was closing at the mall so the only thing that we could eat was drinks from Sonic so we left and went and found this Pizza place that was still open and ordered a pizza and brought it over to the hotel. After we were done with our pizza we were really tired so we went to bed.
Sunday (a.k.a Competition day)
After I woke up and had a shower and got dressed me, Mommy, and Jackie went down to breakfast and ate. The food was really good and part way through Micaela and Paiger came down and Kendall and Kenzie came down a little while later. Taylor and Sadie came down when we were almost done, but I still got to say hi and stuff. And Polina was there too! It was good to see her again. It ended up that her mom (Katia) was just a couple of rooms down from us!
When we got back to the room mommy did my hair for the meet and then I still had a little while before we had to go down to my meet. I was looking out the window and saw this:
Seriously who would name a field 'Dr. Pepper field'?!?! That's just crazy!
I then realized that I had forgotten to bring a little bag to put all of my stuff in when I went down to the meet! And I didn't really want to just carry around all of my stuff so me and Mommy went down to the meet and tried to find a bag. We also looked at leos while we were there and ended up getting me two very cute leos! I got a bag that is just the right size and so I think I'm gonna use that for all of my competitions from now on cause the other bag is just waaaaaaaay to big.
Katia came in and said hi to us before the meet and she said that she really wanted to stay, but her flight was leaving soon so she had to go. But I was really happy that I got to see her!
The meet was really good. I got a 9.275 on Beam!! Can you believe that! 9.275! I was so excited! On Floor I got a 9.125! I think that the judges on Beam and Floor were scoring kind of high. I stuck my first Vault, but fell on my second one and got a 8.775. Ilia didn't seem too happy about my Vault, but I thought it was pretty good and it was a good score so whatever. My Bars on the other hand was not good my free hip was so low I don't think it even counted as a free hip! I got an 8.00. I was think that I would place on at least Beam maybe Floor too, but nope! It was really really hard to place cause the only one our team that placed was Hannah! See this is proof that you had to get really really really high scores cause Hope got a 9.6 on Floor and she didn't place! Ya I know. And one girl got a 10.00 on Bars and another got a 10.00 on Beam. Oh well. It was a good meet anyway!
Here's me and Kayla.
After the meet Mommy, Ilia, Ruth, Sadie, and I went over to the mall cause we were going to go skating, but it ended up that there was hockey game going on so we were gonna go to the Cheesecake Factory, but then we decided to go to a place called Dave and Buster's where the whole down stairs area is an arcade with a restaurant in it! So we ate there and Ruth and Mommy gave me and Sadie some money and we went and bought a power card for each of us and one for Ilia so that we could go and play some games!! It was lots of fun!!! Me and Sadie used up 48 chips on our cards pretty fast then we got one card that had 100 on it and then we ended up getting another 100 chip one too! Ilia's card had 60 on it, but he didn't want the tickets all he wanted was to play the games! So in the ended me and Sad got 2,284 tickets!! We couldn't decided what we wanted so Ruth came and helped us and she said for us to get matching tank tops so we were going to then we decided to get five teddy bears for each of the girls in our class, but then Sadie said she would rather have a matching shirt with me! So we got the shirts!
After we left Dave and Buster's we were going back to the car and the adults took us out the completely wrong door and we had to walk (or in me and Sadie's case run) around 3/4 of the mall!!! Me and Sadie were thinking that since they were going so slow and the car was so far away we could walk back to the hotel before they got there!!! But the adults wouldn't let us. So we just kept running around the mall (outside) to get to it and every corner we would be like this should be it...nope not this one maybe the next...nope and it just kept going like that for a while. Then finally we got to the car!
When we got back to the car me and Sadie went up to our rooms and we got into our swim suits and went down to the pool. When we got down to the pool Kendall and Kenzy were there so we playing with them and did a lot of chicken fights! It was looooooooooots of fun! My mom got some pictures, but she hasn't uploaded them yet so when she does I'll put them up! When we got back to the room this is what my hair looked like when I took it out!
Monday
Mommy woke me up at 6:30. It was not fun. I finished packing and got dressed then we went down to breakfast. Again the breakfast was really good, but this time there wasn't anyone there! But that was probably because it was 7:00 in the morning. Anyway after we had breakfast we went up to our room and got our things and went on our way. I think that I fell asleep for a little while in the car, but I'm not sure. Once we got to the airport we dropped off the rental car and went to security. And surprisingly we were the first ones there, out of our friends at least. When Khyla and Kim got there Mommy gave me some money and I went with Lena and Khyla and got a snack and when we were almost back I saw someone that looked familiar over by where we were boarding and when I ran over it ended up that I was right it was KENDALL! How cool is that! So Kendall, Micaela, and Kenzy were all on the same flight as us!
When we landed in Denver I only had just enough time to run to the bathroom before we boarded the plane to Salt Lake.
I read my book for most of the plane trip home!! And guess what I almost finished it!!
And now here are some pictures I took on the flight on the way home.
Mommy and I. Sorry It's kind of blurry the plain was getting closer to the ground and it was kind of bumpy.
ME!! Don't I look happy to be home!!
Texas was fun, but I'm very happy to be home.
And to end this trip here is a picture of me and the two girls that I don't know what I would do without them in my life, Sadie and Kendall.
FRIENDS FOREVER!!!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Taylor Swift
Since I'm a huge dork I'm going to put all of Taylor Swift's music videos up! I'll put them from which was made first to the latest one!
Tim McGraw.
Teardrops on My Guitar.
Picture to Burn. One of my favorites!
Our Song. This is such a cute song!!!
I'm Only Me When I'm With You. This reminds me of me and some of my very best friends (such as Khyla, Kim, Sadie, Kendall...)
Love Story. This is the song that comes on and me and my friends are so dork that we have actions to certain parts!
White Horse. This is her newest video. It premiered on Saturday. It's a very sad song.
So now that you have watched all of the videos that I am overly obsessed with you can go and buy her self named CD and her newest CD: Fearless!
Tim McGraw.
Teardrops on My Guitar.
Picture to Burn. One of my favorites!
Our Song. This is such a cute song!!!
I'm Only Me When I'm With You. This reminds me of me and some of my very best friends (such as Khyla, Kim, Sadie, Kendall...)
Love Story. This is the song that comes on and me and my friends are so dork that we have actions to certain parts!
White Horse. This is her newest video. It premiered on Saturday. It's a very sad song.
So now that you have watched all of the videos that I am overly obsessed with you can go and buy her self named CD and her newest CD: Fearless!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wheres this! Wheres that! Oh gosh I hate packing!
When I got home from dad's this morning I started trying to pack and of course I got slightly distracted! So long story my morning was spent doing packing a little then doing some homework and then trying to pack and maybe planning Valentines a little.
Then I had do go to gym and do conditioning and dance routines. I thought it was going to be boring, but Kim was there so I got to hang out with her and Beth was also there. Jenna (Beth's sister) was there choreographing Beth's Level 7 Floor routine! In the end Beth's routine looks adorable!! I love it!
When I got home I repeated the same thing as earlier, but this time I added dodging the boys playing "Lets pretend to kill each other with swimming noodles!" with there friends Elliot and Matthew. Plus I took a shower which got me away from the boys for a little while. But the later it got the more I had to pack cause when you have to wake up at 7:00 the next morning its best if you're at least mostly packed and now I'm almost all the way packed. The only things I don't have in my bags are things I need in the morning.
Well got to go to bed now! Bye! See ya in Texas!
Then I had do go to gym and do conditioning and dance routines. I thought it was going to be boring, but Kim was there so I got to hang out with her and Beth was also there. Jenna (Beth's sister) was there choreographing Beth's Level 7 Floor routine! In the end Beth's routine looks adorable!! I love it!
When I got home I repeated the same thing as earlier, but this time I added dodging the boys playing "Lets pretend to kill each other with swimming noodles!" with there friends Elliot and Matthew. Plus I took a shower which got me away from the boys for a little while. But the later it got the more I had to pack cause when you have to wake up at 7:00 the next morning its best if you're at least mostly packed and now I'm almost all the way packed. The only things I don't have in my bags are things I need in the morning.
Well got to go to bed now! Bye! See ya in Texas!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Last day
Poor Mommy got sick earlier and she couldn't take me and the boys to all of our things so she called Bana and asked her if she could take me to Russian and gym. So I was late to Russian, but I still got there. Russian class wasn't too bad, but I've deciding that I'm going to work harder on Russian this week! And it might help that me, Khyla, and Kim are all on the same flight to and from WOGA so hopefully me and Khy can work on some Russian!
After we did conditioning we went to Floor first and I was kind of nervous for my front tuck front tuck cause for some reason I've been having a hard time with that, but it was OK today and I stuck it. After Floor we were supposed to go to Vault, but it wasn't our time yet and so we had 15 minutes to do something and so Ilia sent us to Beam. I didn't stick my first three routines, but then finally I stuck it and went to Vault. Vault was good I stuck it really fast and then I called Daddy and told him that I would be done early. I went for my first Bar routine and then Ilia had me and Sadie to half pirouettes. About 15 minutes later we were done and daddy took me to Bana's house.
When we got to Bana's Daddy gave Duncan his b-day present and then we had dinner and watched some TV. It was lots of fun just to sit and talk with everyone. When we got home Daddy gave me a little pink and white stuffed puppy that is holding a bone in its mouth that says 'Sweet' on it! I really like it! I named it 'Boo'. so now me and Boo are going to go to bed!
After we did conditioning we went to Floor first and I was kind of nervous for my front tuck front tuck cause for some reason I've been having a hard time with that, but it was OK today and I stuck it. After Floor we were supposed to go to Vault, but it wasn't our time yet and so we had 15 minutes to do something and so Ilia sent us to Beam. I didn't stick my first three routines, but then finally I stuck it and went to Vault. Vault was good I stuck it really fast and then I called Daddy and told him that I would be done early. I went for my first Bar routine and then Ilia had me and Sadie to half pirouettes. About 15 minutes later we were done and daddy took me to Bana's house.
When we got to Bana's Daddy gave Duncan his b-day present and then we had dinner and watched some TV. It was lots of fun just to sit and talk with everyone. When we got home Daddy gave me a little pink and white stuffed puppy that is holding a bone in its mouth that says 'Sweet' on it! I really like it! I named it 'Boo'. so now me and Boo are going to go to bed!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Happy Birthday!!
We had been planning on having Sadie come over tonight and sleepover, but Ruth wants her to go to morning workout since tomorrow is her last day before they leave for WOGA so we're going to do it next Wednesday! I guess I can wait till then. Oh ya and before I forget today is Duncan's birthday so HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY DUNCAN!!!!
Beam was first and since it was competition day we had to do one routine stuck. In warm up I stuck my series perfectly like seriously perfectly no wobbles nothing! Then in my routine I fell, but I stuck the next one so that was good. We then went to Bars and I made my first routine and then I had to work on free hips. Next was Floor and in my routine I went for my full and a half then my front tuck front tuck and Ilia told me to stop and to come over by him. He told me that my full and a half was low and so I had to do full first pass and layout last. Then he told me that my front tuck front tuck was crappy and that it looked like I was crawling on the floor! How rude! So I went for my routine like that and then he told me that I can't rebound after my layout cause its a deduction. Well, Ilia I know that, but when you're used to doing things way harder it's kind of hard! After Kendall and Taylor were done with Vault me and Sadie went and we had to stick two IN A ROW!!! It was hard, but I made it.
After gym Mommy took me over to Lorill's house and I had hot chocolate with everyone cause I was to late to go sledding with them. Oh well the hot chocolate was good and very very very hot! Ouch! Hehe.
Beam was first and since it was competition day we had to do one routine stuck. In warm up I stuck my series perfectly like seriously perfectly no wobbles nothing! Then in my routine I fell, but I stuck the next one so that was good. We then went to Bars and I made my first routine and then I had to work on free hips. Next was Floor and in my routine I went for my full and a half then my front tuck front tuck and Ilia told me to stop and to come over by him. He told me that my full and a half was low and so I had to do full first pass and layout last. Then he told me that my front tuck front tuck was crappy and that it looked like I was crawling on the floor! How rude! So I went for my routine like that and then he told me that I can't rebound after my layout cause its a deduction. Well, Ilia I know that, but when you're used to doing things way harder it's kind of hard! After Kendall and Taylor were done with Vault me and Sadie went and we had to stick two IN A ROW!!! It was hard, but I made it.
After gym Mommy took me over to Lorill's house and I had hot chocolate with everyone cause I was to late to go sledding with them. Oh well the hot chocolate was good and very very very hot! Ouch! Hehe.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
2 1/2 hours to do what normally happens in 4!
I had to leave gym early today because we had more tickets to the Symphony and instead of starting at 8:00 it started at 7:00. I didn't think that I'd get through all of the events, but Ilia did. We did Vault first which didn't take long at all so I still had like an hour an a half to do the other events. We then went to Floor and I stuck my full and a half in warm up, but then when I tried to do it in my routine I messed up twice and Ilia didn't want me to try again (probably cause I had to leave soon) so he had me do full first pass and layout last pass. I then went to Bars while everyone else finished up Floor. By the time my friends were on Bars I had to do one more half pirouette and then I was ready. I stuff my routine easily and Ilia then told me to go and ask Andrea if I cold borrow one of the Beams for a couple of minutes so that I could do one routine. At that time I had 15 minutes to warm up on the Floor then warm up on the Beam and show Ilia a routine. I warmed up on the Floor for five minutes then on the Beam for five more and then I went for my routine and I stuck it!!! Oh yeah! I then hurried and changed and Daddy picked me up.
We really fast got a snack so that we wouldn't die of hunger and then we went to the Symphony tonight's performance was "Cho's Anatomy" it was lots of fun! I liked this one almost as much as the "Four Seasons". In the first half David Cho did a lesson on Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 55 "Eroica". It was very interesting and after the intermission they did the music with no stops and it was lots easier for me to stay awake when I was listening and trying to here the things that he had talked about. And on a side note when we got into Abravanel Hall we were walking in over to go and find our seats when I saw a boy that looked familiar and I turned to Duncan and said "Isn't that Henry?" (so you know Henry was the D cast Fritz in the Nutcracker this last year and Duncan was very good friends with him) and looked over and at the exact same time Duncan and Henry said "Oh HI!" And then it ended up that he was sitting two rows behind us so I think Duncan was happy that he got to see one of his friends.
Well, tomorrow is Duncan's Birthday and I'm getting him...oh wait sorry I can't tell he might read this!! Haha!
We really fast got a snack so that we wouldn't die of hunger and then we went to the Symphony tonight's performance was "Cho's Anatomy" it was lots of fun! I liked this one almost as much as the "Four Seasons". In the first half David Cho did a lesson on Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 55 "Eroica". It was very interesting and after the intermission they did the music with no stops and it was lots easier for me to stay awake when I was listening and trying to here the things that he had talked about. And on a side note when we got into Abravanel Hall we were walking in over to go and find our seats when I saw a boy that looked familiar and I turned to Duncan and said "Isn't that Henry?" (so you know Henry was the D cast Fritz in the Nutcracker this last year and Duncan was very good friends with him) and looked over and at the exact same time Duncan and Henry said "Oh HI!" And then it ended up that he was sitting two rows behind us so I think Duncan was happy that he got to see one of his friends.
Well, tomorrow is Duncan's Birthday and I'm getting him...oh wait sorry I can't tell he might read this!! Haha!
Monday, February 9, 2009
I'm tired and can't think of a title
We did Beam first and Ilia told me to do routines and to have my dismount be front tuck and that me and Sadie would do round off with pads afterward. Well, that didn't happen. I did three routine and after the first two every time he would just tell us more and when we had STUCK three it was too late to do dismount so we went to bars. I had been planing on doing my routine, but then he just told me to practice first half. So that was pretty easy. After that we went to floor and Ilia had me, Sadie, and Kendall tumble onto a mat and Taylor just had to do routine with easy tumbling (Why did she have to do so good on Sat and now gets to do easy stuff!) Ilia told me and Sadie to do three full and a halfs and three fulls. And he didn't want me to wear my rap, but it hurt so I really wanted to put it on, but I didn't cause I knew he would get mad and it was OK that I didn't cause after a little bit it didn't hurt too bad! Anyway after I was done with that we did leaps for about a half hour and then we were done.
I went over to the office and bought a candy bar for Duncan cause his birthday is Wednesday and I'm cheep and every year I get him a candy bar for his birthday. And while I was over there I got myself a candy bar and a little bag of chips cause it was only a dollar more so I spent a dollar 50 on two candy bars and some chips (and my candy and chips ended up being dinner).
When I got to ballet we did technique and it was a pretty good day I didn't have a hard time with too much of it. And after that Kalee showed me how to tie my ribbons on my pointe shoes and then we started doing stuff! It was lots of fun! There were somethings that I was kind of scared to try, but I did them and it worked out fine! At the end of class Kalee took some pictures of me in my pointe shoes so here they are!
I really like this picture I think it's really pretty! Thanks to Kalee for posing me!
I think this is my favorite.
I went over to the office and bought a candy bar for Duncan cause his birthday is Wednesday and I'm cheep and every year I get him a candy bar for his birthday. And while I was over there I got myself a candy bar and a little bag of chips cause it was only a dollar more so I spent a dollar 50 on two candy bars and some chips (and my candy and chips ended up being dinner).
When I got to ballet we did technique and it was a pretty good day I didn't have a hard time with too much of it. And after that Kalee showed me how to tie my ribbons on my pointe shoes and then we started doing stuff! It was lots of fun! There were somethings that I was kind of scared to try, but I did them and it worked out fine! At the end of class Kalee took some pictures of me in my pointe shoes so here they are!
I really like this picture I think it's really pretty! Thanks to Kalee for posing me!
I think this is my favorite.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
All American review
So I did OK at the meet today and I promise that I'll have my mom upload the video when she gets it all put together, but for now you'll just have to handle my boring way of explaining it!
Floor was first again which I wasn't very happy with, but it turned out to work out OK.
I warmed up and I was all set to go and when it was my turn I wasn't worried at all and I went for my full and the floor was so bouncy (and when I say bouncy I mean really really bouncy) that even though I didn't run hard at all I ended up doing a full and a half instead of just a full, but since I hadn't been planning on doing that I fell cause well ya. The rest of my routine was pretty good. I got 7.75 I guess the judges didn't think that it was as good as I had thought and it probably wasn't.
Then it was Vault. The mat that we landed on was really really soft cause it had a big piece of foam under the mats and it was really hard to stick. I didn't get to stick any in warm up and then on my first Vault the mat bounced me straight to my back! On the second Vault I landed it and did a bunch of steps back until I hit a mat that wasn't as soft and then I stopped walking. I got a 8.55 which is good, but I blame those stupid soft soft mats for making my walk back!!!!
Bars was OK. My free hip wasn't very high and I got to much momentum on my second giant and when I came down to do my kip for dismount I could do it without stopping after the kip and then my dismount was kind of low and it was piked. Oh well I still got a 7.60! That's good I guess.
For beam instead of doing what we normally do at meets where you warm up then jump off the beam then someone else goes then you go again and so on they just had you get up on the beam for two minutes and after that two minutes you were done warming up. Stupid right! Well I fell on series in my routine cause I didn't get to warm them up enough and plus not only did I fall I missed both of my feet on the second one so it only counts as one back handspring and then falling! Oh and when I was warming up Ilia told me to do a front tuck dismount instead of round off tuck, I don't know why, but he did. I got a 8.05 which surprised me since I fell and didn't even touch my feet!
I got 6th place on Vault. 11th on Bars. 10th on Beam. I didn't place on Floor. And I got 10th on All Around with a 31.95. So all in all with three falls and a stop on bars that lets just count as a fall that's a pretty good meet! Though I really don't care how I did cause I already have my score and Ilia doesn't care about my meets anymore he says that there just workout at a different gym! And they are cause now all I'm doing is working up to Level 9.
Floor was first again which I wasn't very happy with, but it turned out to work out OK.
I warmed up and I was all set to go and when it was my turn I wasn't worried at all and I went for my full and the floor was so bouncy (and when I say bouncy I mean really really bouncy) that even though I didn't run hard at all I ended up doing a full and a half instead of just a full, but since I hadn't been planning on doing that I fell cause well ya. The rest of my routine was pretty good. I got 7.75 I guess the judges didn't think that it was as good as I had thought and it probably wasn't.
Then it was Vault. The mat that we landed on was really really soft cause it had a big piece of foam under the mats and it was really hard to stick. I didn't get to stick any in warm up and then on my first Vault the mat bounced me straight to my back! On the second Vault I landed it and did a bunch of steps back until I hit a mat that wasn't as soft and then I stopped walking. I got a 8.55 which is good, but I blame those stupid soft soft mats for making my walk back!!!!
Bars was OK. My free hip wasn't very high and I got to much momentum on my second giant and when I came down to do my kip for dismount I could do it without stopping after the kip and then my dismount was kind of low and it was piked. Oh well I still got a 7.60! That's good I guess.
For beam instead of doing what we normally do at meets where you warm up then jump off the beam then someone else goes then you go again and so on they just had you get up on the beam for two minutes and after that two minutes you were done warming up. Stupid right! Well I fell on series in my routine cause I didn't get to warm them up enough and plus not only did I fall I missed both of my feet on the second one so it only counts as one back handspring and then falling! Oh and when I was warming up Ilia told me to do a front tuck dismount instead of round off tuck, I don't know why, but he did. I got a 8.05 which surprised me since I fell and didn't even touch my feet!
I got 6th place on Vault. 11th on Bars. 10th on Beam. I didn't place on Floor. And I got 10th on All Around with a 31.95. So all in all with three falls and a stop on bars that lets just count as a fall that's a pretty good meet! Though I really don't care how I did cause I already have my score and Ilia doesn't care about my meets anymore he says that there just workout at a different gym! And they are cause now all I'm doing is working up to Level 9.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Getting ready
Since we compete tomorrow Ilia had us do one stuck routine on every event.
WE started on beam and I was kind of nervous, but after I was warmed up I stuck my first routine!!! I was so happy! Sadly I was the only one that stuck my first one. Next was floor and Ilia told me that I had to do full for my first pass so I warmed it up and it didn't hurt to bad. I went for my routine and after I did my full Ilia said don't forget front tuck front tuck well, he hadn't told me that I had to do that until right then so I just went for it and I stuck it thought it wasn't very good. Anyway we went to vault after that and after I finally stuck two Ilia told me to go to bars and I was only too happy to do so cause my ankle was killing me! I made my bars routine easily and after that Ilia had me call daddy and tell him that we would be done a little bit earlier than we thought. Since nobody else was done and my free hips were crappy I worked on them. After a little while Ilia had us stretch and be done.
Since we got done early daddy took me to get dinner and after that we went to the Utah Gymnastics meet. We had a ticket that would get us in for free. It ended up that a girl and her mom that we know from a while back and we got to talk to them a little and I guess that she is competing tomorrow too!
The Utes did really good. It was the Supper Meet so there was four teams competing and the Utes got first SUU got second then BYU and Texas Womens came in last. My friend Megan goes to BYU and she received the most valuable performer for BYU! Isn't that awesome!!! She did really good!
So tomorrow is my meet and I'm pretty nervous, but I know everything will work out fine. And now I'm going to bed!
WE started on beam and I was kind of nervous, but after I was warmed up I stuck my first routine!!! I was so happy! Sadly I was the only one that stuck my first one. Next was floor and Ilia told me that I had to do full for my first pass so I warmed it up and it didn't hurt to bad. I went for my routine and after I did my full Ilia said don't forget front tuck front tuck well, he hadn't told me that I had to do that until right then so I just went for it and I stuck it thought it wasn't very good. Anyway we went to vault after that and after I finally stuck two Ilia told me to go to bars and I was only too happy to do so cause my ankle was killing me! I made my bars routine easily and after that Ilia had me call daddy and tell him that we would be done a little bit earlier than we thought. Since nobody else was done and my free hips were crappy I worked on them. After a little while Ilia had us stretch and be done.
Since we got done early daddy took me to get dinner and after that we went to the Utah Gymnastics meet. We had a ticket that would get us in for free. It ended up that a girl and her mom that we know from a while back and we got to talk to them a little and I guess that she is competing tomorrow too!
The Utes did really good. It was the Supper Meet so there was four teams competing and the Utes got first SUU got second then BYU and Texas Womens came in last. My friend Megan goes to BYU and she received the most valuable performer for BYU! Isn't that awesome!!! She did really good!
So tomorrow is my meet and I'm pretty nervous, but I know everything will work out fine. And now I'm going to bed!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Easy day......kind of
I had stupid old Russian today and when I got there Ilia hadn't gotten there yet so me and Khyla went and hid on the gym side. We did practice Russian, but we hid and hoped that Ilia had forgotten about class. But that didn't happen. Class was shall we say OK. I didn't know everything, but I did know some. ~Sigh~
When it was time to do gym I went over and started stretching. After we did conditioning Ilia sent us to floor to do dance routines. After a little while of warming up leaps and such we did them and then went and did ballet. We haven't done ballet in forever! It was fun cause we work hard, but we can talk and spend time a little more quality time together when we do it. It was over pretty was and then we were on bars and I had to do my first and second pass five times and then when me and Sadie went over to ask Ilia what to do he said 'Do more.' I was pretty bored with doing the same thing after a while so I asked Ilia how many more we should do and he looked at his watch and said go to Beam. It was pretty boring we had to do everything that was in our routine about five times.
Now I'm going to go sit down and read a book and watch a little TV with Daddy.
Night!
When it was time to do gym I went over and started stretching. After we did conditioning Ilia sent us to floor to do dance routines. After a little while of warming up leaps and such we did them and then went and did ballet. We haven't done ballet in forever! It was fun cause we work hard, but we can talk and spend time a little more quality time together when we do it. It was over pretty was and then we were on bars and I had to do my first and second pass five times and then when me and Sadie went over to ask Ilia what to do he said 'Do more.' I was pretty bored with doing the same thing after a while so I asked Ilia how many more we should do and he looked at his watch and said go to Beam. It was pretty boring we had to do everything that was in our routine about five times.
Now I'm going to go sit down and read a book and watch a little TV with Daddy.
Night!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Routine day
So today was competition day and we went to beam first and Ilia told us that we had to stick one routine. Well, lets just say that I didn't stick it the first time or the second or the third...you catching my draft. I couldn't stick it! Then of course Ilia goes outside for like two minutes and I stick it! But I stuck it so I was done with routines even though I did have to do series. Oh well. Next was bars and I after I was warmed up I went for my routine and it was really good, but Ilia made me do another one anyway. I was pretty mad, but after that I was done with routines and only had to do first half. We then went to floor and I had to do routine with easy tumbling just like yesterday. But unlike yesterday I didn't cry. Though my first one did hurt and my front tuck didn't and my last pass I kind of landed with most of my weight on my good ankle. Ya I know that's bad, but I didn't mean to! Then Ilia had us do one dance routine. After that did Vault and Ilia made me and Sadie do it until we stuck it! Which in case you didn't know took a while and was very hard and painful cause I'm still recovering from a sprained ankle and Sadie only got her cast of her wrist last week! But then we were finally done!
We went over to the office and got a bag of chips for each of us and Mommy picked me up and we went and got Duncan from dance. And now I'm really tired so I'm going to bed.
We went over to the office and got a bag of chips for each of us and Mommy picked me up and we went and got Duncan from dance. And now I'm really tired so I'm going to bed.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
I thought that you said Wednesday!?!
I know for fact that yesterday night right before I left Ilia said 'See you tomorrow Drew. We're Vaulting on Wednesday so get better.' and then today after conditioning he said 'Kendall, Taylor go to Vault. Sadie and Drew stretch and when there done you go to Vault.' So tell me this what happened to the we're Vaulting on Wednesday cause unless I'm going crazy its still Tuesday!! UGH!
So I did Vault and it didn't hurt to bad doing the round offs, but I had to run faster and punch off the board harder to be able to flip so that really hurt. And then after we were done with Vault Ilia told me to go to floor and do routine with easy tumbling! I tried a couple round off back handsprings and then I went for one layout. It really hurt so I was like OK I'm not doing anymore until my routine. And I didn't want to do THREE layouts cause just doing one killed and I knew I had to do at least two in my routine so for my second pass I did a front tuck since its the same as my really second pass just without the next front tuck! Since it was hurting so bad I asked Ilia if I could use my ace bandage and he said that I could and I was so HAPPY! When everyone was finally warmed up Sadie asked who wanted to go first and I said I did cause I wanted it to just get over with. I started my routine and I almost started crying after my first pass and I had to hold back tears through my second pass, but I couldn't hold them any longer after that last pass it just hurt too bad. Ilia told me to go and do toe raises and that didn't really help, but he wants it to get stronger so whatever. I had to do one more routine luckily just dance.
We then went to bars. I warmed up my second pass and then my first and I went for my routine. My routine was OK it wasn't the best ever, but my second pass is good and dismount doesn't hurt at all so that's good. After my routine Ilia had me do just first pass cause and I quote 'It's ugly.'
Well, thank you Ilia, thank you very much!! I was really nervous for beam cause my ankle still hurt and I didn't want to do series. I warmed up on the floor and it didn't hurt too bad, but it still hurt so I asked Ilia if I could do them on the low beam. First reason: I hadn't done them on the beam in over two weeks. Second reason: My ankle was hurting and I didn't want to do it wrong because of the pain and fall and hurt myself even more. Ilia didn't seem to happy, but he let me, but said that tomorrow I have to do my full routine on the high beam. It did hurt some, but I still did them and I'm still alive. My ankle is really swore now, but I'm OK.
So I did Vault and it didn't hurt to bad doing the round offs, but I had to run faster and punch off the board harder to be able to flip so that really hurt. And then after we were done with Vault Ilia told me to go to floor and do routine with easy tumbling! I tried a couple round off back handsprings and then I went for one layout. It really hurt so I was like OK I'm not doing anymore until my routine. And I didn't want to do THREE layouts cause just doing one killed and I knew I had to do at least two in my routine so for my second pass I did a front tuck since its the same as my really second pass just without the next front tuck! Since it was hurting so bad I asked Ilia if I could use my ace bandage and he said that I could and I was so HAPPY! When everyone was finally warmed up Sadie asked who wanted to go first and I said I did cause I wanted it to just get over with. I started my routine and I almost started crying after my first pass and I had to hold back tears through my second pass, but I couldn't hold them any longer after that last pass it just hurt too bad. Ilia told me to go and do toe raises and that didn't really help, but he wants it to get stronger so whatever. I had to do one more routine luckily just dance.
We then went to bars. I warmed up my second pass and then my first and I went for my routine. My routine was OK it wasn't the best ever, but my second pass is good and dismount doesn't hurt at all so that's good. After my routine Ilia had me do just first pass cause and I quote 'It's ugly.'
Well, thank you Ilia, thank you very much!! I was really nervous for beam cause my ankle still hurt and I didn't want to do series. I warmed up on the floor and it didn't hurt too bad, but it still hurt so I asked Ilia if I could do them on the low beam. First reason: I hadn't done them on the beam in over two weeks. Second reason: My ankle was hurting and I didn't want to do it wrong because of the pain and fall and hurt myself even more. Ilia didn't seem to happy, but he let me, but said that tomorrow I have to do my full routine on the high beam. It did hurt some, but I still did them and I'm still alive. My ankle is really swore now, but I'm OK.
Monday, February 2, 2009
What to say...
When I got to gym I was the only one there then Kendall showed up a couple minutes later. When we asked Ilia where Sadie was he said he didn't know, but Taylor was going to be late. So when we were all done with conditioning Taylor showed up coming straight from the airport. When Taylor was almost done with conditioning Ilia sent us to beam. I tried doing back handspring back handspring on the floor and it felt really weird and it was hurting my ankle. Plus my arms kept bending on my second back handspring because I couldn't jump as high from my first one so I was just kind of falling back and my arms wouldn't stay straight and because of that I was landing weird and it was hurting my ankle! So I did a whole bunch of series on the floor, but only leaps (tried really) and full turns.
Then we went to bars. Ilia told me to do routine, but I ended up not doing it cause I warmed up a whole bunch of giants then I did my dismount once and it didn't hurt, but Ilia told me to just do first half. So that's what I did for the last little bit of bars! Next was floor and all we did was dance routines and leaps.
Taylor got done early and Kendall had to go home with her so Tay asked Ilia when she would be done and he said 'Why?!?' and she explained that her mom was supposed to take Kendall home. Ilia said that she would be done whenever Traci got there. So at 7:00 Traci walked in and Ilia told me and Kendall to stretch.
When I got to ballet we did a lot of stuff at the bar and then some stuff in the middle. That hour went by pretty fast too! When it was time for pointe Kalee sent me to get my shoes so that we could sew on the elastics (which I have now) and the ribbons. We had been hoping that it would only take a couple of minutes, but it took us the whole class time to do it. Well, really Kalee was done with her shoe pretty fast it was the shoe I was doing that took awhile. Kymmeri and Lindsey did what Kalee told them to do one at a time so that they could correct each other and when she was done with her shoe she could correct them well, whens hes wasn't trying to fix what I messed up! But now I have pointe shoes that I can really dance in!!!
Then we went to bars. Ilia told me to do routine, but I ended up not doing it cause I warmed up a whole bunch of giants then I did my dismount once and it didn't hurt, but Ilia told me to just do first half. So that's what I did for the last little bit of bars! Next was floor and all we did was dance routines and leaps.
Taylor got done early and Kendall had to go home with her so Tay asked Ilia when she would be done and he said 'Why?!?' and she explained that her mom was supposed to take Kendall home. Ilia said that she would be done whenever Traci got there. So at 7:00 Traci walked in and Ilia told me and Kendall to stretch.
When I got to ballet we did a lot of stuff at the bar and then some stuff in the middle. That hour went by pretty fast too! When it was time for pointe Kalee sent me to get my shoes so that we could sew on the elastics (which I have now) and the ribbons. We had been hoping that it would only take a couple of minutes, but it took us the whole class time to do it. Well, really Kalee was done with her shoe pretty fast it was the shoe I was doing that took awhile. Kymmeri and Lindsey did what Kalee told them to do one at a time so that they could correct each other and when she was done with her shoe she could correct them well, whens hes wasn't trying to fix what I messed up! But now I have pointe shoes that I can really dance in!!!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
~sigh~
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.
It was a boring day.
After that I sat down and read my book. I did that for a while too.
It was a boring day.
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