Day #5

I think that yesterday was the most fun I've had this while trip! The beginning was kind of boring cause we drove around looking for a place to set up camp for forever! Of course it took two and a half hours to find, but it was worth it! There was a hill that had tons and tons of rocks so after the boys and I were done eating we went exploring. Pretty soon Dad, Aaron, and Carla went for a drive and left Bana with us. It took them about two and a half hours to go and come back in which time the boys and I created our own world. We named everything. Rocks, land, caves, passages. Everything. In my diary I drew a pretty crappy map of it but you never know maybe it makes sense. When the others got back we loaded up and went home. We explained to Dad what we were doing and he said that we'd made our own Terabithia like in the book. And it's totally true we did exactly that! We had hamburgers for dinner (well I did). then we just kind of sat around after that. Watched a movie instead of playing a game but it wasn't a very good movie so I'm not going to say anything about it.

Day #3

We didn't do much yesterday. Just really sat around for a while and then Aaron and Dad went on a very loooooooong drive. I'm not really sure where they went, but it took about five hours to do it. While they were gone I sat and watched the first "Lord of The Rings" with Duncan. And then I got out my homework and my MP3 Player. I did one page of math which I think is pretty good...though I really did want to do some math everyday, but obviously that hasn't happened and I don't think that it will. I got out a blank card Bana gave me and sat down to write Mom a letter. Next I went outside and read my book "Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo". So far its slightly confusing, but I know I'll get it pretty soon, I hope. I also got some mosquito bites while I was out there. I hate mosquito bites! After a bit of reading I went inside and watched the third "Lord of the Rings" with Duncan (can you tell he likes them?) of course when we finally got to the really good part Dad and Aaron came home and since the boys and I were making spaghetti, alfredo, and bread sticks. I got to see little parts of it, but that's really all. Oh well. Anyway, After dinner I took some pictures of Aaron, Hunter, and Duncan playing horse shoes. I only got pictures of Hunter's and they aren't the best, but I did get some. I went inside after that and got on the computer and talked with Mom while I wrote on here. Monopoly: World Edition which uses credit cards instead of the little fake money. And guess what!?! I've moved up one in the rankings every night so...that's right! Carla and I won!! Aaron and Duncan came in second and poor Dad and Hunter were last...again. Dad has been last every night so far. More coming soon!!

Bored...

So gym was pretty normal today. We did conditioning then we went to Floor. I did layouts, fulls, full and a halfs, and then tried to do doubles. I couldn't ever really get the double, but I'll work on it. We did ballet after that and then we went to Bars. I did stalder on straps at first and then Ilia told me to do back tuck back and I did like two turns before he told us to move the mats and do the yagure timers. Really quick I don't have a clew how to spell half of these things so my apologizes if you don't know what it is that I'm doing!! Sorry!! Next was Beam. I did like usually back handspring aerial and when I showed Ilia he said that they're getting better and that if I wanted to I could do them on the low Beam with pads. Um...I think that I'll work on getting them not just better, but good on the floor before I do them on the Beam. Just maybe. I did front tucks after that and I was going to do them on the Beam, but I wasn't doing them right on the floor so I didn't.


When Dad picked me up we went to Bana's and while I was eating my dinner my wire popped out of my bracket so now I have to go to the Ortho. Didn't I just go there a few days ago. ~sigh~

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!!!

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.

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?)

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!

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!

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!!!

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!!!

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!!

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.

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!

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!!

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!!!

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.

~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.

Time goes by fast when you're hoping someone will come over!

I called Sammie at 9:30 and her sister answered so I asked Mary if she and Sammie could come over. Mary said they could at like 12:00ish. So I was like OK. I called at 12:00 and they said they'd be over at 12:30 I guess 12:30 really means we'll be over at 1:10. We didn't really do very much, but it was still fun. They left at 3:15, but had to come back cause they forgot there DS.

After that I sat down and read my book. I did that for a while too. After dinner we watched a movie. It was pretty good, I don't remember the name, but it was good. Hunter and Duncan didn't really like it, actually let me refraze that Duncan didn't really like it, Hunter hated it!

Tomorrows fast Sunday so this might not happen.

Boring boring day

So Ilia is out of town with Taylor and Kendall for a meet so I didn't have gym today and I figured that when I was done with my homework that I would call Sammie and see if she could come over and have a sleep over.

Well, when I was done with my homework I realized that my room was a mess and started to clean it. When it was almost clean I called her and her mom told me that she was at play practice and she would be done at about 5:00 and she would have Sam call me. I know them and I knew she wasn't going to call I'd have to call them so at 5:30 I called and Dori said that Sammie was at her grandma's house cause she couldn't make it to pick Sammie up! Well great! I called again at 7:00 and asked if Sammie was home yet. Brandon (her dad) said that she wasn't, but that she would be in the next hour. I called at 8:00 again. No answer. I called them a couple times and still no answer. I called Sammie's cell and she answered, finally! I asked if she could have a sleep over and she wasn't sure so she asked her mom and called me back and said she couldn't tonight, but maybe tomorrow.

Oh well, at least my rooms clean.

Bing dingle dingle dee*

Gym was pretty normal today except for the fact that Taylor was sick so she didn't come. Anyway we did beam first and I did dance routines as best I could. Then when we were done with that we went to bars and I did the same old stuff as always, casts and half pirouettes. Boring! After bars we did dance routines on floor and them Ilia said and I quote "You know girls actually do conditioning again." Gosh could you make our lives any harder Ilia!!! It really wasn't that bad, but still.

When gym was over I went to ballet. I couldn't do everything, but I did do some so that's good. When it was time to do pointe I got my pointe shoes out so that we could sew on the ribbons and elastics. The only problem the store we got the shoes from didn't give me the elastics. So that didn't happen, but Kalee had me put there shoes on so that when we do get the elastics we know where to sew them.
After ballet was over me and mommy got in the car and saw the snowflakes on our windows. It's so cool cause if you look closely and the light is shining right you can see each individual snowflake!!


*It's the first thing that came to my mind!