I had to go to the Ortho today. It wasn't very much fun. I hate going to the Ortho cause it always hurts my teeth!! Anyway while I was waiting for Duncan to be done with his appointment I sat and read my book. Thinks happened that left me speechless. When I got to gym we did conditioning and then Ilia had Taylor and Hailee do ballet since they're hurt and had me, Sadie, and Kendall do leap complex on Floor. It was actually really hard and tiring. I'd forgotten how much strength it takes to do leaps. When we were done with leaps complex we did tumbling complex except for we didn't do all of the tumbling stuff at the end. That was also equally hard. After Floor was Bars. Sadie and I went to strap bar first and did the same thing as yesterday. We then did those front tuck thingys. I'm getting a lot better at them!!! They're actually not that hard when you get the hang of it!! Soon we had to go to Beam and of course I did the same as yesterday: back handspring aerials and then leaps. But unexpectedly Ilia told me to do front tucks on the floor after a while and then he had me do it on the Beam with pads!! SCARY!! Ilia kept on telling me not to change what I was doing and to just keep on doing it like I was on the floor and eventually I did it good. We then stretched and Dad came and picked me up.
Now I'm going to write about how I feel about my book.
So first I should say that I finished Fablehaven. And things happened in it that I can't explain because you have to read it to know and because even if I could write about it I wouldn't know what to say. I feel like when I'm reading Fablehaven I become Kendra. I feel what she feels I see things the way she does and even when I stop reading it I still feel like her and now its more than ever. Even when I just think about it I'm Kendra again. I know that sounds weir, but yet I know its true. Now I have to stop writing because Dad wants me to go to bed.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
New skills
We did ballet after conditioning and then we went to Bars. Me and Sadie did giants first and then we went over to the pit Bar and did back tuck to our backs form swings. We then went to strap Bar and did timers for Stalders (not sure if that's how you spell it). And then when we were done with that we went to Beam. I worked on back handspring aerials onto the mat for a while and then when I thought that they felt pretty good I tried it on the Floor. I stuck them and I think they were mostly good, but I still need to work on them lots and I need to go higher so that it doesn't hurt my ankle so much. I did switch leaps next and now my hip hurts from so many leaps!!! AAAAAA!!! After I stretched I went and got dressed for dance really fast and then Mom took me up there.
When I got to dance Kaylee wasn't there because she is out of town so we had Heather!! After about 45 minutes of technique we went over the "Storm" dance since I couldn't really remember it. We then did pointe for a half hour and then alternated between "Storm" and "Wild Things" for the last half hour. Now I have to go to bed! So see ya!!
When I got to dance Kaylee wasn't there because she is out of town so we had Heather!! After about 45 minutes of technique we went over the "Storm" dance since I couldn't really remember it. We then did pointe for a half hour and then alternated between "Storm" and "Wild Things" for the last half hour. Now I have to go to bed! So see ya!!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
State Weekend
3/29
Sorry I didn’t write Friday night or Saturday night! I just got so busy!! I might not be able to remember everything, but I’ll try the best I can to let you know what I did.
3/27
After I wrote on Friday I ate my food and then Lena called and said that she and Khyla would come and pick me and Mom up and take us to the Level 9 meet!! The girls did awesome!! Floor was first. Kendall did fall, but she still got a 8.45!! Taylor did amazing as usual! She got a 9.075!!! Go Taylor!! Their Vaults were also very good!! I’m so proud of them!! On Bars Taylor did awesome, but Kendall had a hard time because for some really weird reason – this never happens to her – she fell on her free hip and her dismount. Oh, Kendall! I think you need a hug!! After we talked to her for a while she stopped crying and we could sit there and have fun. Kendall stuck her Beam again!!! Taylor had a one fall, but she still got an 8.35!! I sat with them for awards and they all got awesome places! Kendall got 9th in the All Around and Taylor got 5th! We had to leave before they did Team Awards, but I think that they got 2nd place. We went to the store on the way back to the house and Mom got some food to make Chicken Spaghetti for lunch on Saturday. When we got back to the house I got in my PJs and went to bed….
Here’s the Lvl 9 scores:
Vault Bars Beam Floor AA
Kendall 8.85 7.40 8.80 8.45 33.50
Taylor 8.925 8.70 8.35 9.075 35.05
McKenna 8.925 8.80 9.25 7.90 34.875
Sydney 8.65 9.20 9.00 9.20 36.825
Shireen 8.425 9.375 9.025 9.00 35.825
Brittany 8.725 9.00 9.05 8.975 35.70
3/28
When I woke up Saturday Mom told me that I had a half hour to get ready and then we had to leave for Duncan’s clogging competition. I did it though it was a little hard to eat and get everything ready in time, but I managed. When we got to the competition Duncan went and found his class and sat with them. While we were waiting Mom and I sat and watched the dances. After a little bit we went and found the clothes stands and stuff like that and we ended up getting me two shirts and we found this shirt that had ‘CLOG’ in bubble letters and in the ‘C’ it said ‘clog’ in lots of different styles, but the size that we found wouldn’t fit Duncan so we just kept looking and then I found one!! So now Duncan has that shirt and he’s been wearing it all weekend. Duncan and Alyssa did great!!! They were a little off of the music, but they still ended up getting a 1st place. They were both awesome in free style too! Duncan got 1st and I think Alyssa did too! When we were waiting for the scores to be posted Mom sat me down and did my hair. She had to redo it a lot because it felt to loose or she didn’t like how it looked or something and then when we got back to the house all of the elastics were popping so she had to do it yet again! After that I sat and read my book and then we had lunch and I read for a little after that, but then I got tired so I had a nap.
When I woke up from my nap I got ready for my meet and then pretty soon we were off!! We got to it early so I sat around for a little while and then it was time to start. After open stretch we did walk in and they gave each team a car that said the name of the gym on it and we all decided that we wanted to take it to the gym and hang it up!! Floor was first just like the Level 9s. I was 3rd so I had to warm up pretty fast. I felt like it was a pretty good routine and Ilia said he was happy with it so that was good. I wasn’t thinking I’d get any awesome score, but guess what!?!…9.2!!! Oh, yeah!!! Sadie did an awesome routine as well!! I stuck both of my Vaults, but Ilia said that I would have gotten a lot higher score if I had kept my legs tight in my round off, but I still got an 8.75 so YAY!! On Bars Sadie had a bad fall on her free hip and her dismount, but instead of just a normal fall it was where on her free hip she slipped as she was coming up and she did a flip onto her back and on her giant-giant-layout she did the first giant and when she was coming down to do the second one she pealed off the bar and did a very scary dismount to her back again. I didn’t know what to do to help her and she wouldn’t really talk when you tried to talk to her. ~sigh~ I did my Bar routine and apparently it was good cause I got a 8.7 so that’s good. On Beam I went crooked on my series in warm up and then when I went for it in my routine it was straight, but not all the way straight so even though I tried really hard to stick it I still fell. I stuck the rest of it though!! I thought that it was a good routine other than my fall, but I guess not cause I got a 7.95. Sadie on the other hand though didn’t even want to compete Beam after what happened on Bars and it ended up that she did the most amazing routine and got a 9.1!! I’m hoping that will give Sadie back some confidence she was losing on Beam.
When we were all done we sat down on the Floor and waited for awards to start. While we waited me and my friend Stephanie from GTC kept on switching where we would sit one minute I’d sit with the GTC girls and then the next she would sit with me and my friends. I did pretty good in the awards I mean its not like I’m doing this just for the awards, but sometimes it’s fun to be able to say that you won. Anyway I tied for 4th place on Vault, 6th on Bars, 10th on Beam, and…….1st on FLOOR!!!! YAY!!! I’m still overly happy about getting 1st on Floor. I’m not sure when I’ll get over that maybe never. I didn’t think that I had qualified for Regionals, but I did. Micaela, Paige, Abby, Hope, Hannah, and Kim also qualified. Hannah and Kim qualified for the Regional Team. I’m not really sure what that means, but it’s still cool!!!
When the awards were over I talked with Steph and she invited me to go swimming with her and her friends from GTC. I wanted to go, but Khyla had also invited me to go swimming with her and I didn’t want to leave Khy out so I invited her to come with Steph and me. Khyla ended up not going swimming at all because she had forgotten her goggles and didn’t want swim without them. I went swimming with Steph while my friends in my class all had a party together, without inviting me of course. I’m slightly bugged by that, but oh well. I had lots of fun with Steph, Madi, Frannie, Lauren, and some of the girls from Air Bound so whatever. When I got back to the house it was late so I went straight to bed.
Here’s the scores for Lvl 8:
Vault Bars Beam Floor AA
Drew (me!!) 8.75 8.60 7.95 9.20 34.50
4T 6 10 1 7
Sadie 8.725 7.00 9.10 8.90 33.725
Micaela 8.65 9.025 9.10 9.30 36.075
Paige 8.625 9.275 8.80 9050 35.750
Abby 8.35 9.00 9.50 9.15 36.00
Hannah 9.025 9.40 8.70 9.00 36.125
Hope 8.90 8.95 8.95 8.90 35.70
Kim 9.05 9.05 8.85 9.325 36.275
Khyla 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 40.00
1 1 1 1 1
Stephanie 8.475 8.225 8.70 8.80 34.20
3/29
When I woke up this morning I had to race to get all of my stuff packed so that we would leave at 11:00. I felt like I was a little rushed, but it ended up OK cause I got everything packed. When we stopped for gas on our way out of town I got a drink and a snack, which ended up lasting me the whole ride home!! I read my book at first, but then Mom wanted us to watch a movie called “Fist Full of Dollars” it was actually pretty good. It wasn’t the best and not very much happened, but it was good. When the movie was over the boys wanted to watch “Iron Man” and I didn’t really feel like watching another movie so I read my book for the rest of the ride and it went by really fast!!! When we got home I sat down and read more of my book, but then Mom made me go and unpack. When I was done I went and read my book some more. And now I’m almost done with it!!!
Sorry I didn’t write Friday night or Saturday night! I just got so busy!! I might not be able to remember everything, but I’ll try the best I can to let you know what I did.
3/27
After I wrote on Friday I ate my food and then Lena called and said that she and Khyla would come and pick me and Mom up and take us to the Level 9 meet!! The girls did awesome!! Floor was first. Kendall did fall, but she still got a 8.45!! Taylor did amazing as usual! She got a 9.075!!! Go Taylor!! Their Vaults were also very good!! I’m so proud of them!! On Bars Taylor did awesome, but Kendall had a hard time because for some really weird reason – this never happens to her – she fell on her free hip and her dismount. Oh, Kendall! I think you need a hug!! After we talked to her for a while she stopped crying and we could sit there and have fun. Kendall stuck her Beam again!!! Taylor had a one fall, but she still got an 8.35!! I sat with them for awards and they all got awesome places! Kendall got 9th in the All Around and Taylor got 5th! We had to leave before they did Team Awards, but I think that they got 2nd place. We went to the store on the way back to the house and Mom got some food to make Chicken Spaghetti for lunch on Saturday. When we got back to the house I got in my PJs and went to bed….
Here’s the Lvl 9 scores:
Vault Bars Beam Floor AA
Kendall 8.85 7.40 8.80 8.45 33.50
Taylor 8.925 8.70 8.35 9.075 35.05
McKenna 8.925 8.80 9.25 7.90 34.875
Sydney 8.65 9.20 9.00 9.20 36.825
Shireen 8.425 9.375 9.025 9.00 35.825
Brittany 8.725 9.00 9.05 8.975 35.70
3/28
When I woke up Saturday Mom told me that I had a half hour to get ready and then we had to leave for Duncan’s clogging competition. I did it though it was a little hard to eat and get everything ready in time, but I managed. When we got to the competition Duncan went and found his class and sat with them. While we were waiting Mom and I sat and watched the dances. After a little bit we went and found the clothes stands and stuff like that and we ended up getting me two shirts and we found this shirt that had ‘CLOG’ in bubble letters and in the ‘C’ it said ‘clog’ in lots of different styles, but the size that we found wouldn’t fit Duncan so we just kept looking and then I found one!! So now Duncan has that shirt and he’s been wearing it all weekend. Duncan and Alyssa did great!!! They were a little off of the music, but they still ended up getting a 1st place. They were both awesome in free style too! Duncan got 1st and I think Alyssa did too! When we were waiting for the scores to be posted Mom sat me down and did my hair. She had to redo it a lot because it felt to loose or she didn’t like how it looked or something and then when we got back to the house all of the elastics were popping so she had to do it yet again! After that I sat and read my book and then we had lunch and I read for a little after that, but then I got tired so I had a nap.
When I woke up from my nap I got ready for my meet and then pretty soon we were off!! We got to it early so I sat around for a little while and then it was time to start. After open stretch we did walk in and they gave each team a car that said the name of the gym on it and we all decided that we wanted to take it to the gym and hang it up!! Floor was first just like the Level 9s. I was 3rd so I had to warm up pretty fast. I felt like it was a pretty good routine and Ilia said he was happy with it so that was good. I wasn’t thinking I’d get any awesome score, but guess what!?!…9.2!!! Oh, yeah!!! Sadie did an awesome routine as well!! I stuck both of my Vaults, but Ilia said that I would have gotten a lot higher score if I had kept my legs tight in my round off, but I still got an 8.75 so YAY!! On Bars Sadie had a bad fall on her free hip and her dismount, but instead of just a normal fall it was where on her free hip she slipped as she was coming up and she did a flip onto her back and on her giant-giant-layout she did the first giant and when she was coming down to do the second one she pealed off the bar and did a very scary dismount to her back again. I didn’t know what to do to help her and she wouldn’t really talk when you tried to talk to her. ~sigh~ I did my Bar routine and apparently it was good cause I got a 8.7 so that’s good. On Beam I went crooked on my series in warm up and then when I went for it in my routine it was straight, but not all the way straight so even though I tried really hard to stick it I still fell. I stuck the rest of it though!! I thought that it was a good routine other than my fall, but I guess not cause I got a 7.95. Sadie on the other hand though didn’t even want to compete Beam after what happened on Bars and it ended up that she did the most amazing routine and got a 9.1!! I’m hoping that will give Sadie back some confidence she was losing on Beam.
When we were all done we sat down on the Floor and waited for awards to start. While we waited me and my friend Stephanie from GTC kept on switching where we would sit one minute I’d sit with the GTC girls and then the next she would sit with me and my friends. I did pretty good in the awards I mean its not like I’m doing this just for the awards, but sometimes it’s fun to be able to say that you won. Anyway I tied for 4th place on Vault, 6th on Bars, 10th on Beam, and…….1st on FLOOR!!!! YAY!!! I’m still overly happy about getting 1st on Floor. I’m not sure when I’ll get over that maybe never. I didn’t think that I had qualified for Regionals, but I did. Micaela, Paige, Abby, Hope, Hannah, and Kim also qualified. Hannah and Kim qualified for the Regional Team. I’m not really sure what that means, but it’s still cool!!!
When the awards were over I talked with Steph and she invited me to go swimming with her and her friends from GTC. I wanted to go, but Khyla had also invited me to go swimming with her and I didn’t want to leave Khy out so I invited her to come with Steph and me. Khyla ended up not going swimming at all because she had forgotten her goggles and didn’t want swim without them. I went swimming with Steph while my friends in my class all had a party together, without inviting me of course. I’m slightly bugged by that, but oh well. I had lots of fun with Steph, Madi, Frannie, Lauren, and some of the girls from Air Bound so whatever. When I got back to the house it was late so I went straight to bed.
Here’s the scores for Lvl 8:
Vault Bars Beam Floor AA
Drew (me!!) 8.75 8.60 7.95 9.20 34.50
4T 6 10 1 7
Sadie 8.725 7.00 9.10 8.90 33.725
Micaela 8.65 9.025 9.10 9.30 36.075
Paige 8.625 9.275 8.80 9050 35.750
Abby 8.35 9.00 9.50 9.15 36.00
Hannah 9.025 9.40 8.70 9.00 36.125
Hope 8.90 8.95 8.95 8.90 35.70
Kim 9.05 9.05 8.85 9.325 36.275
Khyla 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 40.00
1 1 1 1 1
Stephanie 8.475 8.225 8.70 8.80 34.20
3/29
When I woke up this morning I had to race to get all of my stuff packed so that we would leave at 11:00. I felt like I was a little rushed, but it ended up OK cause I got everything packed. When we stopped for gas on our way out of town I got a drink and a snack, which ended up lasting me the whole ride home!! I read my book at first, but then Mom wanted us to watch a movie called “Fist Full of Dollars” it was actually pretty good. It wasn’t the best and not very much happened, but it was good. When the movie was over the boys wanted to watch “Iron Man” and I didn’t really feel like watching another movie so I read my book for the rest of the ride and it went by really fast!!! When we got home I sat down and read more of my book, but then Mom made me go and unpack. When I was done I went and read my book some more. And now I’m almost done with it!!!
Ready for State Meet!!!
3/27/09
I wrote these posts while I was in St. George, but I couldn’t upload them because we didn’t have internet access.
We’re in St. George!! We left yesterday at about 1:30 and got here at about 6:00ish. After we were sitting around for a while we went to go and get some food. We found a place that looked good, but the wait was about a half hour so we decided to go somewhere else. We ended up going to “Ruby Tuesday”. It was really really good! We had lots of laughs. When we got back to the house that we rented we all sat down and watched “Ferris Buhler’s Day Off”. It was soooooooo funny!! Bwahahaha! ~sigh~ After that I got ready to go to bed. I slept really well. The bed was so comfy and I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night at all! Normally when I’m not in my own bed I wake up a lot, but I didn’t!! When I woke up I ate some breakfast and then took a shower. It felt so good to get clean. When I got out Mom, Hunter, Duncan, and I all sat down and played “Uno”. I of course never got 1st place, but I did get 2nd a couple times though!! YAY!! Hunter, Duncan, and I were playing with Duncan’s remote control helicopter when Mom said that we all had to do our homework. I finished everything pretty fast, well other than Russian, which I spent a while on because Dad was helping me. After that the boys finished there homework while I read my book. Oh I forgot to mention that I finished “Eldest” on Wednesday and now I’m reading “Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”. I LOVE THE FABLE HAVEN BOOKS! I loved them before, but I love them even more now and I’m not even half way done with this book!!!! Daddy and Duncan went to get Pizza while I was reading, but after a little while I got up and went out side. I climbed the rock fountain since it’s not running because it’s too cold. Even though it’s like 60 degrees. Oh well. When I went inside Mom had me type up my Writing story for homework and now that Dad and Duncan are back I’m going to finish eating. I’ll write more later!!!!
I wrote these posts while I was in St. George, but I couldn’t upload them because we didn’t have internet access.
We’re in St. George!! We left yesterday at about 1:30 and got here at about 6:00ish. After we were sitting around for a while we went to go and get some food. We found a place that looked good, but the wait was about a half hour so we decided to go somewhere else. We ended up going to “Ruby Tuesday”. It was really really good! We had lots of laughs. When we got back to the house that we rented we all sat down and watched “Ferris Buhler’s Day Off”. It was soooooooo funny!! Bwahahaha! ~sigh~ After that I got ready to go to bed. I slept really well. The bed was so comfy and I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night at all! Normally when I’m not in my own bed I wake up a lot, but I didn’t!! When I woke up I ate some breakfast and then took a shower. It felt so good to get clean. When I got out Mom, Hunter, Duncan, and I all sat down and played “Uno”. I of course never got 1st place, but I did get 2nd a couple times though!! YAY!! Hunter, Duncan, and I were playing with Duncan’s remote control helicopter when Mom said that we all had to do our homework. I finished everything pretty fast, well other than Russian, which I spent a while on because Dad was helping me. After that the boys finished there homework while I read my book. Oh I forgot to mention that I finished “Eldest” on Wednesday and now I’m reading “Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary”. I LOVE THE FABLE HAVEN BOOKS! I loved them before, but I love them even more now and I’m not even half way done with this book!!!! Daddy and Duncan went to get Pizza while I was reading, but after a little while I got up and went out side. I climbed the rock fountain since it’s not running because it’s too cold. Even though it’s like 60 degrees. Oh well. When I went inside Mom had me type up my Writing story for homework and now that Dad and Duncan are back I’m going to finish eating. I’ll write more later!!!!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The little things
Beam was first yesterday, as always. When I was going for my series I was straight, but just like at Bear Country my hand slipped and I fell, but it wasn't my routine so it wasn't as bad. Anyway I smacked my whole right thigh on the Beam and went up to my friends and was like "Guys, I can feel the bruise forming!" and sure enough after about a minute my leg turned purple, but then oddly it went away just as fast. I also scraped my hand down the Beam and got a little burn on my hand it hurt so bad!!! It still stings!! I went for my routine after that and I stuck it so that was good, but I don't think Ilia saw my really really crappy full turn cause when I went over to him he told me to do leaps. I did do leaps, but I also did full turns. We went to Bars next and my burn hurt so bad that I had to go and get a band aide so that my wristy wouldn't rub. I made my first routine and then Ilia had me work on free hips. THEY WERE REALLY GOOD!! In my opinion. Ilia just kept saying they were bad, but they were good for how low mine normally are and now I just have to push my shoulders open more so that I'm in handstand and then I have to make sure I always do that!! Haha! When we were done with Bars it was our time for Beam, but we were already done with it so Ilia had us do ballet. It was slightly boring, but fun at the same time. When we were done Ilia had us do dance routines on Floor and then when we were done with those we did these things that I don't know how to spell so I'm not going to say what they are. We were done after that and I was getting dressed for ballet when Mommy came in and told me that I didn't have dance cause Kymmeri had a performance for school.
When I got home I started to read. After a little while I figured out how many possible hours I have to read and how many pages I have to read an hour. 35. I have to read about 35 pages an hour. I did it! I did two hours of 35 pages each hour so that's like 70 pages!!!! EEEEEP!!! I think I really can do this!! Since I read for so long I didn't get to write on here so that's why I'm a little late. Now it's time to be super speedy with my other homework and then...READ!!!!
These are the pictures that Kendall took in San Jose. Yes I know I'm depressed cause I still can't get mine to work. Boo Hoo.
In case you couldn't tell all of those pictures where its me, Kendall, and Taylor with Sadie occasionally frowning to the camera is that hour we were waiting to go to Beam.
See now she doesn't look tired!!
I love this girl!!!
Almost to the airport!!!!
When I got home I started to read. After a little while I figured out how many possible hours I have to read and how many pages I have to read an hour. 35. I have to read about 35 pages an hour. I did it! I did two hours of 35 pages each hour so that's like 70 pages!!!! EEEEEP!!! I think I really can do this!! Since I read for so long I didn't get to write on here so that's why I'm a little late. Now it's time to be super speedy with my other homework and then...READ!!!!
These are the pictures that Kendall took in San Jose. Yes I know I'm depressed cause I still can't get mine to work. Boo Hoo.
In case you couldn't tell all of those pictures where its me, Kendall, and Taylor with Sadie occasionally frowning to the camera is that hour we were waiting to go to Beam.
See now she doesn't look tired!!
I love this girl!!!
Almost to the airport!!!!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Morning workout!!!
So since my friends don't have school today we did morning workout and then we're going to have normal workout later. We only had an hour so we did conditioning fast then Ilia sent us to Beam. We did dance routines for about 15 minutes. It was hard! Don't believe me well next time you're at the gym at 9:30 in the morning and you're half awake and half asleep try doing a dance routine on the Beam. It's not as easy as it sounds. We went to Bars next and did the front tuck drill things. I'm really getting better at them!! We were done after that and now that I'm home I should probably do my homework and get some food before I die!!!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Really fast chat!! (hehe)
So I had gym this morning. 9:00 is just insane, but anyway when I got there none of my class was there so I just waited and then Sadie came and right when gym started Kendall got there. She and Ashley had had a sleep over and they were going to hangout of after gym also so Ashley got to stay!! I miss Ash so much!! After we were done with conditioning we went to Bars. Ashley had her grips so she did some stuff with us and she did strap bar. We were going to do kip cast with Ilia at first, but then he decided that he wanted us to do those swing timer things on the pit bar. My swings were better today and I actually could do the flip and after I did it for a while it got almost (emphasis on the almost) easy. We ended up only doing those on Bars, but I was totally fine with that!! We went to Floor next and I worked on doubles again. I got farther around today so I guess that's good, but I probably wont get to work on them next week cause Ilia will want us to do routines everyday since it's State. Oh, well. When we had like 10 minutes left of gym we got out Kendall's camera and took a picture that Hailee had wanted to take all week. It was waaaay cute!! Anyway after we took a bunch of pictures it was time to stretch and I'll post pictures when Kendall sends them to me.
When I got home I called Natalie to see if she could come over and hang out and after a long time of calling her and having her check with her mom and then waiting for her to come we finally got to hang out!! Yay! I love Natalie she is such a nice person!! We went over to Sammie's house (which isn't really her house right now I guess) and we jumped on the tramp for a while and then her dad came so she had to go. I wish that she didn't, but oh well. When Natalie was gone I went inside and got my book out to read. After I read for a little while I fell asleep on the bed. Oh I love naps, don't you? When I woke up I went upstairs to find everyone making something so I went back downstairs and got out my book to calculate how many pages I have to read every day so that I can finish Eldest before Tuesday so that I can read Fablehaven. Well I've got to go read now and let Mommy get on the computer!!
When I got home I called Natalie to see if she could come over and hang out and after a long time of calling her and having her check with her mom and then waiting for her to come we finally got to hang out!! Yay! I love Natalie she is such a nice person!! We went over to Sammie's house (which isn't really her house right now I guess) and we jumped on the tramp for a while and then her dad came so she had to go. I wish that she didn't, but oh well. When Natalie was gone I went inside and got my book out to read. After I read for a little while I fell asleep on the bed. Oh I love naps, don't you? When I woke up I went upstairs to find everyone making something so I went back downstairs and got out my book to calculate how many pages I have to read every day so that I can finish Eldest before Tuesday so that I can read Fablehaven. Well I've got to go read now and let Mommy get on the computer!!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Routines!!
Beam was first and guess what we had to do!?! Routine!! Yay. Not. Anyway I didn't stick my first routine, but I stuck the next one and since I was close to falling on my full turn I asked Ilia if I could work on them and he was fine with it so...I did. My series though those were good in my routine. They were sooooo straight!!! We went to Floor next and my routine was really really really good!! My front tuck front tucks were high and like normally my other two passes where good. Next was Bars. My routine felt really good today. I don't think I've done a routine that good in a while!! When we were almost done with Bars Ilia told us to do these thingys where you swing and then do a front tuck off the Bar as you're dismount. Well, the swinging for it was really hard and Ilia kept getting mad at us and I don't get why! I mean it's like he thought that we should be able to do it perfectly our first time! I never ended up flipping into the pit cause the weren't good enough. I really felt like slapping Ilia after that. We were done after that so I stretched and was DONE!!
When we got home I read my book for a little while and then went up stairs and watched the last three events of the Utah vs. BYU gymnastics meet. Utah did awesome!!! BYU didn't do the best, but they had a couple really good routines!!! I'm really tired now so I'm going to go to bed now.
When we got home I read my book for a little while and then went up stairs and watched the last three events of the Utah vs. BYU gymnastics meet. Utah did awesome!!! BYU didn't do the best, but they had a couple really good routines!!! I'm really tired now so I'm going to go to bed now.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
It all started with a handstand...
After conditioning I did a handstand when Taylor walked over so she decided to do a handstand contest and after that it ended up that our whole class was doing it!!! And then when we just kept on doing it Ilia said that we had five more minutes to play and then we had to do Floor. We all wanted to play the back tuck game, but Hailee couldn't do back tucks with her knee so she did back walkovers instead. Since I was right next to Hailee and it's kind of hard to fall on a back walkover and I was having a hard time sticking my back tucks, I kind of lost really fast. In the end it was just Sadie and Hailee. Hailee said that since she didn't really count that Sadie was the winner!!
On Floor I did doubles on to the mat. I didn't ever make it all the way around, but I'm getting closer!!! I think that I just need to twist a little bit faster and then maybe I'll have it. Ilia sent us to ballet after that cause we still had another 40 minutes before Bars and we were done with Floor. Ballet was like usual. Boring. When we were done with ballet we went to Bars. I did the same thing that I have been doing all week. Parts of routines. My half pirouettes weren't very good today. But my free hips were actually good!! Now really fast about Taylor. She decided that she wanted to try her gienger on the normal bar today and guess what!?! SHE CAUGHT IT!!!! YAY!!! Go Tay! When we went to Beam I asked Ilia if I could do back handspring aerials on to a mat. He said I could, but that instead of back handspring aerial to do just plain old aerial on to a mat. At first I kept on touching my head, but when I showed Ilia he told me what to do and it was a little bit easier after that. Now to tell of Taylor's second new skill of the day. She has been working on front tucks on the low Beam lately and I guess she felt like they were good today so she asked Ilia if she could do it on the high Beam and he was fine with it so...SHE DID IT!!! Again, GO TAY!!!
When me and Daddy got to Bana's house I got some dinner (which Hunter made by the way.) It was really really good. Yummy spaghetti. I sat and watched some TV with everyone when I was done eating and now that we're home I'm sitting here watching Nim's Island. I really like that movie, but all of my friends that have seen it seem not to like it. Oh well, whatever! Now for Nim's Island.
On Floor I did doubles on to the mat. I didn't ever make it all the way around, but I'm getting closer!!! I think that I just need to twist a little bit faster and then maybe I'll have it. Ilia sent us to ballet after that cause we still had another 40 minutes before Bars and we were done with Floor. Ballet was like usual. Boring. When we were done with ballet we went to Bars. I did the same thing that I have been doing all week. Parts of routines. My half pirouettes weren't very good today. But my free hips were actually good!! Now really fast about Taylor. She decided that she wanted to try her gienger on the normal bar today and guess what!?! SHE CAUGHT IT!!!! YAY!!! Go Tay! When we went to Beam I asked Ilia if I could do back handspring aerials on to a mat. He said I could, but that instead of back handspring aerial to do just plain old aerial on to a mat. At first I kept on touching my head, but when I showed Ilia he told me what to do and it was a little bit easier after that. Now to tell of Taylor's second new skill of the day. She has been working on front tucks on the low Beam lately and I guess she felt like they were good today so she asked Ilia if she could do it on the high Beam and he was fine with it so...SHE DID IT!!! Again, GO TAY!!!
When me and Daddy got to Bana's house I got some dinner (which Hunter made by the way.) It was really really good. Yummy spaghetti. I sat and watched some TV with everyone when I was done eating and now that we're home I'm sitting here watching Nim's Island. I really like that movie, but all of my friends that have seen it seem not to like it. Oh well, whatever! Now for Nim's Island.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Comp day
Beam was first today. After I was done warming up I went for my routine and sadly I fell, but I stuck my next one so it was OK. And I think that's pretty good considering the fact that we only had a half hour to do Beam and it took 20 minutes for all four of us to warm up. So really I had ten minutes to do my routine! I know I'm so good. We went to Bars next and my routine was actually pretty good. I worked on free hips afterward, of course, but then finally we were done with Bars and we went to Floor. Floor was actually really good. I stuck my front tuck front tuck easily and they were pretty high too, well I think they were. And last we went to Vault. I went for my Vault and I stuck it so I asked Ilia how many we had to do and he said 'Show me two in a row.' Well me and Sadie thought that he would count it if I stuck the next one so Sadie let me go and I stuck it, but Ilia said 'One more.' So I ended up sticking three really good Vaults...in a row!!!! Yes I'm that good.
When Mommy picked me up we went up to wait for Duncan at dance so I got to sit and read for about 40 minutes. I got pretty far into my book too!!! The boys are watching Harry Potter so I'm going to go and watch it with them now so see ya!
When Mommy picked me up we went up to wait for Duncan at dance so I got to sit and read for about 40 minutes. I got pretty far into my book too!!! The boys are watching Harry Potter so I'm going to go and watch it with them now so see ya!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Lets see.....
After we did conditioning we went to Floor. We did back tucks on to the rezzie. They weren't the best, but they aren't really bad. After we did those Ilia had us flip the mats off and I did full and a halfs. they're getting a lot better, but I still need to work on them. We went to Bars next and did parts of our routines. I thought that my free hips were better today, but Ilia kept getting mad at me so maybe they weren't. ~shrug~ My free hips also felt better today so I'm hoping that they actually were. Next was Beam and I was kind of worried for my series, but I did them so I was OK. We had to do (like bars) parts of our routines. I did series, leaps, full turns, and dismounts and I was supposed to do back handspring aerials on to the mat after, but I didn't finish in time so I just stretched.
Daddy picked me up and we went to Bana's house. Hunter's sick so it was kind of weird to not have him there. I just hope that he feels better. OMGosh! It's only 10:00 and I'm done writing on my blog! I'm thinking that I'll go and watch TV with Daddy now. So, yeah.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!! (did you wear green?)
Daddy picked me up and we went to Bana's house. Hunter's sick so it was kind of weird to not have him there. I just hope that he feels better. OMGosh! It's only 10:00 and I'm done writing on my blog! I'm thinking that I'll go and watch TV with Daddy now. So, yeah.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!! (did you wear green?)
Monday, March 16, 2009
Keeping him happy!!
So when we were starting conditioning Ilia told us that we had to keep really happy today because it was exactly 16 years since he was out of the army and 8 years since he came to the U.S. so I'm not really sure why we would have to try to make him happy about that, but we did anyway.
Hailee asked Ilia to time her on her ropes to see how fast she was going and she got 4.3. I guess that is slow for Hailee. Wow four seconds to climb that is madness! I took six point something which was fast for me!!! Anyway after that Hailee asked Ilia if we could race in conditioning and he didn't care so we did! At first the groups were going to be Hailee, Taylor, and Sadie on one team and Cody, Kendall, and me on the other, but then Ilia was like 'Oh wait! It needs to be Cody, Kendall, and Sadie! So that it can be orange head team!' (if you don't understand the orange head just ask.) So me and Sadie switched teams. My team kept on winning, but then our last couple of things were handstand stuff and my team wasn't so good at handstands well, Hailee was, but me and Tay not so much. Anyway after conditioning we went to Beam and Ilia told me to do back handspring aerials on the floor, but then when I started doing them he said that I needed to do them on to a soft mat and that we would do them later so just to do my leaps. I did leaps for the rest of Beam and then we went to Bars. On Bars we did parts of routines so I did some giants first then half pirouettes and free hips last. My free hips are getting a little better, but they're still pretty crappy. WE went to Floor next and I just did layouts and fulls on to the mat cause I was supposed to work on full and a halfs after fulls, but my fulls weren't good today so I never moved on. We did leaps after that and then Ilia told us to do full pirouettes, blind fulls, and these other blind/half pirouette things on the floor bar. I could only do a half pirouette and a blind half, but I could do the other thingys!!!
When Mommy picked me up from gym we went up to dance and Kalee said that instead of doing technique and pointe we were going to finish learning "Wild Things" and start learning "Storm". The first hour of class Kalee and Kymmerri caught me up with everyone else and then Kalee had us finish the dance so now we're ahead of the others! The second half of class we started "Storm" so we are also ahead in that because Kalee hadn't even started it yet so, yeah. I really like the "Wild Things" dance and I do like "Storm", but it's really hard, confusing, and really really fast!!! EEEK! Anyway I have to go to bed now so see ya!
Hailee asked Ilia to time her on her ropes to see how fast she was going and she got 4.3. I guess that is slow for Hailee. Wow four seconds to climb that is madness! I took six point something which was fast for me!!! Anyway after that Hailee asked Ilia if we could race in conditioning and he didn't care so we did! At first the groups were going to be Hailee, Taylor, and Sadie on one team and Cody, Kendall, and me on the other, but then Ilia was like 'Oh wait! It needs to be Cody, Kendall, and Sadie! So that it can be orange head team!' (if you don't understand the orange head just ask.) So me and Sadie switched teams. My team kept on winning, but then our last couple of things were handstand stuff and my team wasn't so good at handstands well, Hailee was, but me and Tay not so much. Anyway after conditioning we went to Beam and Ilia told me to do back handspring aerials on the floor, but then when I started doing them he said that I needed to do them on to a soft mat and that we would do them later so just to do my leaps. I did leaps for the rest of Beam and then we went to Bars. On Bars we did parts of routines so I did some giants first then half pirouettes and free hips last. My free hips are getting a little better, but they're still pretty crappy. WE went to Floor next and I just did layouts and fulls on to the mat cause I was supposed to work on full and a halfs after fulls, but my fulls weren't good today so I never moved on. We did leaps after that and then Ilia told us to do full pirouettes, blind fulls, and these other blind/half pirouette things on the floor bar. I could only do a half pirouette and a blind half, but I could do the other thingys!!!
When Mommy picked me up from gym we went up to dance and Kalee said that instead of doing technique and pointe we were going to finish learning "Wild Things" and start learning "Storm". The first hour of class Kalee and Kymmerri caught me up with everyone else and then Kalee had us finish the dance so now we're ahead of the others! The second half of class we started "Storm" so we are also ahead in that because Kalee hadn't even started it yet so, yeah. I really like the "Wild Things" dance and I do like "Storm", but it's really hard, confusing, and really really fast!!! EEEK! Anyway I have to go to bed now so see ya!
Keep forgetting
I keep on forgetting to upload this so it's a little off date, but oh well.
If my face was a pizza this is what it would have looked like last week when I was in never ending pain.
To make your on pizza go here and play this math pizza game and then create your own pizza!! Haha!
If my face was a pizza this is what it would have looked like last week when I was in never ending pain.
To make your on pizza go here and play this math pizza game and then create your own pizza!! Haha!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Weekend
I don't really feel like putting what I did on Friday at gym, but I'll put everything after that.
After Mommy took me home from gym on Friday she put my hair up and then Daddy came and picked me and the boys up and we went up to the Utah vs. Florida meet. It was Senior night at the U. It was Kristina Baskett and Nina Kim's last time competing in the Huntsman Center. They did AMAZING!!! I'm really going to miss watching those two at the meets. ~sigh~ After the meet we started the drive up to Logan and at about 9:45 I lay my seat back and tried to sleep. I didn't expect to fall asleep, but apparently I did and I fell asleep and woke up when the same song was on so I didn't even think I had and then I looked at the clock and it said that it was an hour later than I thought it was. Oh well. When we got to our hotel I got in my PJs and went to bed. Sleep felt so good.
When I woke up in the morning I looked at my watch and it said 7:57 which meant that my meet started in three minutes. I got dressed as fast as possible and Daddy drove me up to the meet. He dropped me off and then went back to get the boys and check out of the hotel. I ran inside and started open stretch with my friends. I was really tired. But I woke up before we had to do anything dangerous so that's good. Floor was our first event and I did a good routine, but I fell on my front tuck front tuck. That's OK though I don't really mind. My score was the same as San Jose, 8.2. I watched Sadie and then I had to run to the bathroom. Natasha's girls went first on Vault so me and Sadie sat down and rapped ourselves in Micaela's blanket cause it was cooooold! When it was finally our turn we warmed up pretty fast and then competed. I wanted to go first, but Ilia said that he wanted Sadie to because apparently my Vaults are better than hers. Whatever. Sadie stuck them which she has been having a hard time with and guess what!?! She got a 9.125!! Go Sadie!! I stuck both of mine as well and was given a 9.225! Bars was the same as usual. Pretty bad, but I'm working on it so don't worry soon I won't be getting these scores. I got a 7.75. On Beam I felt ready for my routine I had done a good warm up and I wasn't worried at all. I fell on my series because even though I was totally straight and everyone thought I was going to stick it my hand slipped and I could have saved it, but my ankle kind of gave out on me. Ah the full turn well lets see I'm not really sure what happened there, but I fell on that and I'm thinking that I didn't turn all of the way so ya. I got a 7.8. ~shrug~ We went to awards after we were all done and guess what I only got one medal, but it was a good one. 1st on Vault!! Oh ya baby!! We got 1st place in the team awards so that was also very exciting!!
I stayed and watched the Level 9s and then Mommy took me back to Daddy's house. Kendall did absolutely amazing! She got two 9s and her all around was a 35.05! Go Kendall!!! Taylor did just as good as she always does so YAY! Her all around was 35.2. Kendall got 4th on Beam!!! OK I guess that I'll stop talking about what my friends did and move on.
When I got to Daddy's house we sat around for a little while and then we all went to the store to get to some stuff for dinner and breakfast for in the morning. When we got back from the store Daddy made us some sandwiches and then we sat down and watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Oh I love that movie! After that I went to bed.
Overview of the meet.
Vault - 9.225 - 1st Place
Bars - 7.75
Beam - 7.8
Floor - 8.2
All Around - 32.975
After Mommy took me home from gym on Friday she put my hair up and then Daddy came and picked me and the boys up and we went up to the Utah vs. Florida meet. It was Senior night at the U. It was Kristina Baskett and Nina Kim's last time competing in the Huntsman Center. They did AMAZING!!! I'm really going to miss watching those two at the meets. ~sigh~ After the meet we started the drive up to Logan and at about 9:45 I lay my seat back and tried to sleep. I didn't expect to fall asleep, but apparently I did and I fell asleep and woke up when the same song was on so I didn't even think I had and then I looked at the clock and it said that it was an hour later than I thought it was. Oh well. When we got to our hotel I got in my PJs and went to bed. Sleep felt so good.
When I woke up in the morning I looked at my watch and it said 7:57 which meant that my meet started in three minutes. I got dressed as fast as possible and Daddy drove me up to the meet. He dropped me off and then went back to get the boys and check out of the hotel. I ran inside and started open stretch with my friends. I was really tired. But I woke up before we had to do anything dangerous so that's good. Floor was our first event and I did a good routine, but I fell on my front tuck front tuck. That's OK though I don't really mind. My score was the same as San Jose, 8.2. I watched Sadie and then I had to run to the bathroom. Natasha's girls went first on Vault so me and Sadie sat down and rapped ourselves in Micaela's blanket cause it was cooooold! When it was finally our turn we warmed up pretty fast and then competed. I wanted to go first, but Ilia said that he wanted Sadie to because apparently my Vaults are better than hers. Whatever. Sadie stuck them which she has been having a hard time with and guess what!?! She got a 9.125!! Go Sadie!! I stuck both of mine as well and was given a 9.225! Bars was the same as usual. Pretty bad, but I'm working on it so don't worry soon I won't be getting these scores. I got a 7.75. On Beam I felt ready for my routine I had done a good warm up and I wasn't worried at all. I fell on my series because even though I was totally straight and everyone thought I was going to stick it my hand slipped and I could have saved it, but my ankle kind of gave out on me. Ah the full turn well lets see I'm not really sure what happened there, but I fell on that and I'm thinking that I didn't turn all of the way so ya. I got a 7.8. ~shrug~ We went to awards after we were all done and guess what I only got one medal, but it was a good one. 1st on Vault!! Oh ya baby!! We got 1st place in the team awards so that was also very exciting!!
I stayed and watched the Level 9s and then Mommy took me back to Daddy's house. Kendall did absolutely amazing! She got two 9s and her all around was a 35.05! Go Kendall!!! Taylor did just as good as she always does so YAY! Her all around was 35.2. Kendall got 4th on Beam!!! OK I guess that I'll stop talking about what my friends did and move on.
When I got to Daddy's house we sat around for a little while and then we all went to the store to get to some stuff for dinner and breakfast for in the morning. When we got back from the store Daddy made us some sandwiches and then we sat down and watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Oh I love that movie! After that I went to bed.
Overview of the meet.
Vault - 9.225 - 1st Place
Bars - 7.75
Beam - 7.8
Floor - 8.2
All Around - 32.975
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Well I don't even know what to say...
Like the title says: I don't know what to say, but I'll try to say something interesting, but I can't guarantee.
We went to Floor first, but all we did was dance routines. I'm not really sure why cause even though it's Thursday (so it's easy day) lately it hasn't been as easy cause it's still competition session. Anyway after we did Floor we went and did ballet for a half hour then went to Bars. I did a couple sets of giants then worked on my half pirouettes. They're getting better, but I still need to work on getting to handstand then turning and not touching my feet on the mat. After those I did free hips. As always they aren't very good, but I'm trying so I'm hoping that if I keep working at it that sometime soon I'll finally get it to handstand. We went to Beam next. We only had to do one routine and luckily I stuck my first one. So after I did my routine I worked on leaps. I did that for a while, but then Ilia told all of us to go and stretch.
Daddy picked me up and we went and got some food then went to Bana's house. She isn't doing so good. She doesn't feel good and her back is hurting her again. But I don't want to talk about sad things so lets move on! We stayed at her house for sometime, but then it was time to go. On the way home we stopped at the store and got some juice and some food for breakfast. And now that I'm home I think that I'm going to sit around with Daddy and be happy that for once I'm finished writing on my blog before 11:00 at night.
We went to Floor first, but all we did was dance routines. I'm not really sure why cause even though it's Thursday (so it's easy day) lately it hasn't been as easy cause it's still competition session. Anyway after we did Floor we went and did ballet for a half hour then went to Bars. I did a couple sets of giants then worked on my half pirouettes. They're getting better, but I still need to work on getting to handstand then turning and not touching my feet on the mat. After those I did free hips. As always they aren't very good, but I'm trying so I'm hoping that if I keep working at it that sometime soon I'll finally get it to handstand. We went to Beam next. We only had to do one routine and luckily I stuck my first one. So after I did my routine I worked on leaps. I did that for a while, but then Ilia told all of us to go and stretch.
Daddy picked me up and we went and got some food then went to Bana's house. She isn't doing so good. She doesn't feel good and her back is hurting her again. But I don't want to talk about sad things so lets move on! We stayed at her house for sometime, but then it was time to go. On the way home we stopped at the store and got some juice and some food for breakfast. And now that I'm home I think that I'm going to sit around with Daddy and be happy that for once I'm finished writing on my blog before 11:00 at night.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Go Hailee, Kendall thinks its your birthday, go Hailee...
So we started on Beam and when we were warming up on the Floor Cori (Hailee's mom) came in with balloons, boxes of cookies, and roses. And Kendall looked at them and thought: Is it Hailee's birthday? No. Her birthday is in July. Then when she saw the balloon that said 'Way To Go!' on it she ran over to Ilia and said 'Ilia is Hailee going to Utah!?!' he looks up at her with a I don't know if I'm supposed to say look on his face and says 'Yes.' YAY!!! Hailee is going to Utah!!!! We were all jumping for joy and we couldn't stop! We kept warming up cause we had to, but it was kind of hard especially for me cause when you're trying to do back handsprings straight, but you can't do it because you're in pain and no matter how hard you try you can't put enough weight on one leg it's really hard!!! Ugh! Anyway I went for my routine and of course I didn't stick it because of my series, but I think Ilia was excited for Hailee so instead of telling me to do another routine I only had to do series and then about one minute later when I had my energy back from my routine he told me to do one more series then get my grips on. Well OK Ilia, whatever you say. We went to Bars and by the time that we had our grips on and we were chalked up and ready to start warming up Cori told us that Hailee was there and so we had to go over and take the Balloons and Roses to her. She had the BIGGEST grin on her face I will never forget that! Love you HAILEE! We went back to Bars an warmed up then went for our routines. Mine was pretty good, but as always my free hip wasn't good so I worked on those for the rest of Bars and then we went to Floor. My Floor routine was actually really good!! Well, at least I thought it was. Since we got done with Floor early and it wasn't our time for Vault we waited and while I was waiting I asked Ilia what time we would be done at I guess that since I asked that when it was our time for Vault he asked me if I had to leave early and I was like 'Well, I have Young Womens...' I didn't even get to finish my sentence before he decided that me and Sadie were going first. My Vaults were OK, but I've done better. After Vault I went and got dressed really fast and then Mommy took me to Young Womens.
YW was lots of fun! One of the Leaders (Joanna) works at the Capitol so she took us on a tour. We got to go into all of these really cool rooms and we even got to watch the House of Representatives vote! It was pretty cool. At the end of the tour Joanna took us to her office and we got lollipops and she gave everyone who wanted one a big poster of the Capitol so now I have an awesome poster!! Haha!
YW was lots of fun! One of the Leaders (Joanna) works at the Capitol so she took us on a tour. We got to go into all of these really cool rooms and we even got to watch the House of Representatives vote! It was pretty cool. At the end of the tour Joanna took us to her office and we got lollipops and she gave everyone who wanted one a big poster of the Capitol so now I have an awesome poster!! Haha!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Really really fast!
OK I have to write this really really fast so I'm not going I'm not going into detail!
We went to Floor first and my routine was pretty good and I did go low on my front tuck front tuck!!! We then went to Bars and Ilia told me and Sadie that we had to do three routines and guess what!?! I stuck all three in a row!!! Next was Beam. Oh Beam. On one of my series my friends forgot to pull the spring board (that's for mounts) back. I fell back and my back bone went right into the edge of the spring board. It hurt really bad! I stuck the next two routines, but it still was hurting me. Ilia told me to go and do round off rebounds. I was going crooked on my cart wheels and I was kind of scared to go for my round off, but I knew I just had to go for it so I did and I kind of went crooked. I missed my feet and fell, I scraped my leg on the Beam and got a huge bruise. I'm telling you Beam burn hurts sooooooo much more than carpet burn! ~wimp~ I also hit my arm and my head on the Beam, but that didn't hurt it was just my leg. This is going to hurt when I go to sleep tonight! Boo hoo!
We went to Floor first and my routine was pretty good and I did go low on my front tuck front tuck!!! We then went to Bars and Ilia told me and Sadie that we had to do three routines and guess what!?! I stuck all three in a row!!! Next was Beam. Oh Beam. On one of my series my friends forgot to pull the spring board (that's for mounts) back. I fell back and my back bone went right into the edge of the spring board. It hurt really bad! I stuck the next two routines, but it still was hurting me. Ilia told me to go and do round off rebounds. I was going crooked on my cart wheels and I was kind of scared to go for my round off, but I knew I just had to go for it so I did and I kind of went crooked. I missed my feet and fell, I scraped my leg on the Beam and got a huge bruise. I'm telling you Beam burn hurts sooooooo much more than carpet burn! ~wimp~ I also hit my arm and my head on the Beam, but that didn't hurt it was just my leg. This is going to hurt when I go to sleep tonight! Boo hoo!
Monday, March 9, 2009
Hmmmmm...
After conditioning we went to Beam and I did a couple of routines they weren't the best, but they were OK. And of course I had to do leaps after that. Wow...shocker! We then went to Bars next and after I was done warming up Natasha's girls started to come to Bars and Ilia remembered that it was Monday and we were supposed to go to Beam twice, but we were done with Beam. Anyway I did one routine then I went and took my grips off. Hailee stayed on Bars so that she could finish her stuff up and then go home. Taylor stayed on Bars cause she was working on giengers and she was sooo close to catching it! Ilia didn't know what to do with me, Sadie, and Kendall so we sat there for a while waiting for him to think of something. Since nobody was on Floor Ilia asked us to go and see who's time it was on Floor and it ended up that it was Andrea's time, but she was on Beam at the time so Ilia sent us to Floor even though we weren't even supposed to do Floor that day Kendall asked Ilia what we were supposed to do and he said that we had to do routines and Kendall was like 'Really?!?' so and Ilia said yeah and Kendall was like 'Well, I just thought that since we weren't even supposed to do Floor today we wouldn't have to do routines!' so Ilia said 'If Taylor catches the Bar then you won't have to do routines.' so for the a while whenever Taylor went we would scream 'Go Taylor!!!' and after a little while she finally caught it!! YAY!!! Oh yeah! So since she caught it we only had to do plain old tumbling so that was good. We then went to Vault and did round offs onto the mats, again.
Mommy too me to ballet and when I got there I went in and we did technique. Time went by really really really fast and by the time we were done with Bars it was time for pointe. Pointe was pretty good. It's getting a lot easier!
Mommy too me to ballet and when I got there I went in and we did technique. Time went by really really really fast and by the time we were done with Bars it was time for pointe. Pointe was pretty good. It's getting a lot easier!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Clogging Boy!!!!!
So today was Duncan's first Clogging Competition and he did awesome!!!!
When we got there we sat down and waited a while then he went up and did freestyle. He was the only one in his age group for that so we knew he was going to get first and when he went over to the desk to get his pin he wasn't surprised that it was a first place pin, but later on when we found one of our friends that has been doing this for a while explained to us that the judges give them a score and if they are above a certain score they get 1st and same thing with the 2nd and 3rd so really he could have gotten 2nd place if he hadn't done so AMAZING!!! For the team dance they did really good! Duncan was a little off the music, but I guess that most kids in novice don't really do steps they just kind of do jumps and stuff, but Duncan's class is ahead cause they're doing steps some of them even look better then the kids in beginning!! Anyway his team got 1st place!!! So they are qualified for Nationals! So cool!!!
When we got back from the competition our cousins from Logan were just getting here so we said Hi to them, but then they were off to go to the Draper Temple. I didn't really do anything after that except for sit down and read and read and read some more. But when the cousins got out of the Temple they called us and we met them at 'Wendy's' cause Grandpa thought that it would be good for us to get out of the house since the furnace isn't working so its absolutely FREEZING!!! Brrrr. When we got home I sat down and read my book. And now I'm going to bed!!!
When we got there we sat down and waited a while then he went up and did freestyle. He was the only one in his age group for that so we knew he was going to get first and when he went over to the desk to get his pin he wasn't surprised that it was a first place pin, but later on when we found one of our friends that has been doing this for a while explained to us that the judges give them a score and if they are above a certain score they get 1st and same thing with the 2nd and 3rd so really he could have gotten 2nd place if he hadn't done so AMAZING!!! For the team dance they did really good! Duncan was a little off the music, but I guess that most kids in novice don't really do steps they just kind of do jumps and stuff, but Duncan's class is ahead cause they're doing steps some of them even look better then the kids in beginning!! Anyway his team got 1st place!!! So they are qualified for Nationals! So cool!!!
When we got back from the competition our cousins from Logan were just getting here so we said Hi to them, but then they were off to go to the Draper Temple. I didn't really do anything after that except for sit down and read and read and read some more. But when the cousins got out of the Temple they called us and we met them at 'Wendy's' cause Grandpa thought that it would be good for us to get out of the house since the furnace isn't working so its absolutely FREEZING!!! Brrrr. When we got home I sat down and read my book. And now I'm going to bed!!!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Whatcha Gonna Do Do!*
*Do not ask, cause even I don't know.
On Beam we did two routines then we went to Floor and I did some tumbling onto the mats. My fulls were kind of weird today, but my full and a halfs were pretty good! After I was done with those I did front handspring layout. I haven't done them in forever, but they were actually good! So yay!!! We went to Bars after that and I did two routines then worked on half pirouettes. We got done early today cause we all had to go places.
Mommy took me and Kim to the Utah Gymnastics meet tonight so that was lots of fun! Plus on our way out there we went to one of our old friends house and picked up some girl scout cookies! Yummy! The meet was really good! The Utes scored a 197.350 and ASU scored 194.350! AWESOME!!
GO UTES!!!!!
On Beam we did two routines then we went to Floor and I did some tumbling onto the mats. My fulls were kind of weird today, but my full and a halfs were pretty good! After I was done with those I did front handspring layout. I haven't done them in forever, but they were actually good! So yay!!! We went to Bars after that and I did two routines then worked on half pirouettes. We got done early today cause we all had to go places.
Mommy took me and Kim to the Utah Gymnastics meet tonight so that was lots of fun! Plus on our way out there we went to one of our old friends house and picked up some girl scout cookies! Yummy! The meet was really good! The Utes scored a 197.350 and ASU scored 194.350! AWESOME!!
GO UTES!!!!!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Sorry!
I feel bad cause I haven't really had time to write every night and then when I try to remember the next morning I can't remember what we did! I know I'm bad! So Sorry! All I can say about Wednesday was that we did routines and I did them all easily and they were good!
I remembered to remind Ilia that I had to leave early cause I was going to my friends play 'Peter Pan' and guess what he already remembered!
After we were done with conditioning Ilia told us to go and do ballet! Yay! We haven't done it in so long! After ballet my legs were kind of hurting from not doing gym ballet stuff in awhile. We went to Vault next and Ilia made us stack the mats up again and do our stuff like that. After we were done with Vault we went to Bars and I did a couple turns of giant-giant-kip cast dismounts then Ilia had me do half pirouettes and free hips. My first one was soooo amazing! Mommy saw it and after gym she said that it was gorgeous! So yay! After a little while of doing those I went over to Ilia and said 'How many more should I do? Cause I have to leave in like...three minutes.' and I guess he forgot cause he was like 'Oh right you can be done Drew.' Thank you Ilia.
When we got home my Young Women leader was pulling up right when we pulled up. So instead of going inside and getting somethings to bring I just switched cars and we left, but I wish that I had gone and got somethings cause they I would have had some money to spend getting a drink, which would have been nice, but anyway the play was really good! Sammeie, Chamberlain, Natalie, Brook, Brynn, Tommy, Matthew, and Elliot all did really good! Sammie, Chamberlain, Natalie, and Brook were all 'Lost Boys'. Brynn was a 'Wendy Shadow' and a 'Pirate'. Tommy and Matthew were 'Pirates'. It was actually pretty funny to watch them! Haha! Elliot was a 'Indian Brave'. He had this really big hat that was made out of feathers! It was awesome! The whole play was good and I had lots of fun. I was kind of sad that Sammie wasn't 'Jane' (Wendy's daughter) tonight, but Brook was so that was cool, but now I want to go to the other cast cause I want to see Sammie as 'Jane' and Sam as 'Smee'. Plus I'd kind of just want to see it again, but I don't think that I can cause tomorrow night I'm going to the Utah Gymnastics meet and Saturday I can't go cause it's at noon and Duncan has a Clogging competition. Oh well, maybe I'll just not get to see them. :)
I remembered to remind Ilia that I had to leave early cause I was going to my friends play 'Peter Pan' and guess what he already remembered!
After we were done with conditioning Ilia told us to go and do ballet! Yay! We haven't done it in so long! After ballet my legs were kind of hurting from not doing gym ballet stuff in awhile. We went to Vault next and Ilia made us stack the mats up again and do our stuff like that. After we were done with Vault we went to Bars and I did a couple turns of giant-giant-kip cast dismounts then Ilia had me do half pirouettes and free hips. My first one was soooo amazing! Mommy saw it and after gym she said that it was gorgeous! So yay! After a little while of doing those I went over to Ilia and said 'How many more should I do? Cause I have to leave in like...three minutes.' and I guess he forgot cause he was like 'Oh right you can be done Drew.' Thank you Ilia.
When we got home my Young Women leader was pulling up right when we pulled up. So instead of going inside and getting somethings to bring I just switched cars and we left, but I wish that I had gone and got somethings cause they I would have had some money to spend getting a drink, which would have been nice, but anyway the play was really good! Sammeie, Chamberlain, Natalie, Brook, Brynn, Tommy, Matthew, and Elliot all did really good! Sammie, Chamberlain, Natalie, and Brook were all 'Lost Boys'. Brynn was a 'Wendy Shadow' and a 'Pirate'. Tommy and Matthew were 'Pirates'. It was actually pretty funny to watch them! Haha! Elliot was a 'Indian Brave'. He had this really big hat that was made out of feathers! It was awesome! The whole play was good and I had lots of fun. I was kind of sad that Sammie wasn't 'Jane' (Wendy's daughter) tonight, but Brook was so that was cool, but now I want to go to the other cast cause I want to see Sammie as 'Jane' and Sam as 'Smee'. Plus I'd kind of just want to see it again, but I don't think that I can cause tomorrow night I'm going to the Utah Gymnastics meet and Saturday I can't go cause it's at noon and Duncan has a Clogging competition. Oh well, maybe I'll just not get to see them. :)
OK OK!
OK so I can't get my camera to upload the pictures I took and I haven't had a chance to have my mom try to figure it out so since I know you are probably dying I will give you the scores, but I'm going to put what we did over the weekend cause the more I think about the more I realize that we didn't do anything so if you want to know what we sort of did then go here to see what my mom wrote about what we did!
After standing around forever because the girl in front of me couldn't get her music to start and the judges finally decided that they wanted to watch me I did my Floor routine and got a 8.2. On Vault I fell back on my first one because Ilia said that if I started to go backwards to take steps...so I did it just that I kept going so the five eight inchers that were stacked up a little ways back from the Vault stopped, but then I had to concentrate so that I would stop laughing. I stuck my second one and got an 8.9 and Ilia said that it was one of the best Vaults hes ever seen me do! YAY! On Bars it wasn't my best routine so I only got a 7.45, but oh well! Then after we sat around for an hour (no joke, it was an hour)we warmed up Beam and I got a 8.05.
So Floor: 8.2. Vault: 8.9 Bars: 7.45. Beam: 8.05. I got 9th place on Floor. 4th on Vault!!! YAY!!! 11th on Bars (out of twelve girls.) 8th on Beam. Then 8th on All Around.
I will post the pictures that I took when I can finally get them to upload.
After standing around forever because the girl in front of me couldn't get her music to start and the judges finally decided that they wanted to watch me I did my Floor routine and got a 8.2. On Vault I fell back on my first one because Ilia said that if I started to go backwards to take steps...so I did it just that I kept going so the five eight inchers that were stacked up a little ways back from the Vault stopped, but then I had to concentrate so that I would stop laughing. I stuck my second one and got an 8.9 and Ilia said that it was one of the best Vaults hes ever seen me do! YAY! On Bars it wasn't my best routine so I only got a 7.45, but oh well! Then after we sat around for an hour (no joke, it was an hour)we warmed up Beam and I got a 8.05.
So Floor: 8.2. Vault: 8.9 Bars: 7.45. Beam: 8.05. I got 9th place on Floor. 4th on Vault!!! YAY!!! 11th on Bars (out of twelve girls.) 8th on Beam. Then 8th on All Around.
I will post the pictures that I took when I can finally get them to upload.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
But you said just leaps!?!?
So Ilia sent us to Floor after we did conditioning and Taylor told Ilia that her back hurt and he sat there for a minute then said to just do leaps and dance routines so we did and then after a little while he was like "Drew! Sadie! Kendall! What are you doing you have to do tumbling I only told Taylor to do leaps!" OK Ilia just so you know when we ask you what to do and you say just do leaps and routines we only do that!!! Gosh! So we started tumbling and when me and Sadie had done some good fulls we moved onto full and a halfs and mine were actually pretty good today! And I don't know how we got on the subject, but we started talking about how some of the most used words by people are um, like, gosh, so, and k (instead of OK). And so the rest of the time on Floor we would be talking then one of us would say something and someone else would start to laugh and we couldn't stop it! Even when that's the thing we were talking about! Haha! So silly. Anyways after Floor we went to Bars and me and Sadie did some good giants then did half pirouettes. My half pirouettes are getting lots better! So YAY! :) We went to Beam next and did three routines. I stuck my first one then fell on the second and stuck the two after that! My series were pretty straight today so that helped a lot. And since my leaps are getting better, but they still aren't very good I worked on those then gym was over so we went and stretched.
I don't know what is up with me and "The Veronicas", but here's two more songs by them.
"When It All Falls Apart" I think this is my favorite of there songs.
"4Ever" I don't know where, but I think I've heard this song before.
I'd tell you about what we did at Bana's and stuff like that, but that would spend time that could be used to read my book so see ya! Night!
I don't know what is up with me and "The Veronicas", but here's two more songs by them.
"When It All Falls Apart" I think this is my favorite of there songs.
"4Ever" I don't know where, but I think I've heard this song before.
I'd tell you about what we did at Bana's and stuff like that, but that would spend time that could be used to read my book so see ya! Night!
Monday, March 2, 2009
It's coming!!! (so stop worrying!)
I'm haven't finished (actually I haven't even started) typing up what we did over the weekend in California, but don't worry I'm getting to it and you will have it soon. Maybe. Anyway back to today! After conditioning we went to Beam and Ilia told me to do 25 leaps because that's where I got my deductions last weekend. I made it up to 14 - good - leaps then he told us to go to Bars. And of course I had to do half pirouettes and free hips. We did that for awhile then when Hailee was done with Bars Ilia went home really fast (he wasn't feeling good) and had Hailee coach us for the rest of Bars. When we were done with Bars we went back to Beam and I finished my leaps then had to do round off rebounds. When we had about a half hour left we went to Vault and did drills where we would do the round off then just stand up on to the mats that were stacked up. After we were done I changed really fast and Mommy took me over to ballet.
It was just me and Kymmeri today so we did technique then when we got to pointe we did lots of exercises for our pointe and to make sure we were getting on our box and and my ankle hasn't really ever fully gotten better since I sprained it and what we were doing was really hurting it so after we were done with those and we were just doing normal stuff my ankle started to give out on me. So we finished pointe early and the last half hour of class was spent teaching me the rest of the "Wild Things" dance. Son now I'm caught up in that dance and I just have to practice that and next week we're going to work on the "Card" dance.
Now I have to go and plan out how many pages I have to read everyday for the next two weeks because Duncan is a little meanie and even though I asked Mommy month ago if I could read the next Fablehaven book first and she said yes he is saying that he should be the first one to read it because I take forever to read books and so I said 'Duncan it will probably take me a week!' and he said 'Ya, so I won't get to read it till a week after it comes out!' um...news flash Duncan its a WEEK! But anyway since I'm reading Eragon and I still have to read the two books after that and he is be rude I have to read two and a half books in two weeks!!!! Ugh! Duncan if I don't finish I don't care what you say you're NOT READING IT FIRST!!!!!
Bye now!
It was just me and Kymmeri today so we did technique then when we got to pointe we did lots of exercises for our pointe and to make sure we were getting on our box and and my ankle hasn't really ever fully gotten better since I sprained it and what we were doing was really hurting it so after we were done with those and we were just doing normal stuff my ankle started to give out on me. So we finished pointe early and the last half hour of class was spent teaching me the rest of the "Wild Things" dance. Son now I'm caught up in that dance and I just have to practice that and next week we're going to work on the "Card" dance.
Now I have to go and plan out how many pages I have to read everyday for the next two weeks because Duncan is a little meanie and even though I asked Mommy month ago if I could read the next Fablehaven book first and she said yes he is saying that he should be the first one to read it because I take forever to read books and so I said 'Duncan it will probably take me a week!' and he said 'Ya, so I won't get to read it till a week after it comes out!' um...news flash Duncan its a WEEK! But anyway since I'm reading Eragon and I still have to read the two books after that and he is be rude I have to read two and a half books in two weeks!!!! Ugh! Duncan if I don't finish I don't care what you say you're NOT READING IT FIRST!!!!!
Bye now!
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