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.

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

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!

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!!!!!

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. :)

Lots of routines!

OK so I didn't ask Brynnlee how to spell it yet, but really I promise I will...eventually. But anyway when I got to gym Brynnlee told us that we were doing routines today and that for Beam and Bars we would do this deal where if we stuck our first routine we only had to do three more routines stuck, but after the first one if we fell it just didn't count and we'd have to do another routine, but if you didn't stick your first routine then you had to do five more stuck that same way. Well after conditioning me and Sadie went to Beam first while Taylor and Kendall went to Vault and guess what...I stuck my first one! Than I fell on my second, but it's OK cause I stuck the next three after that! So I got done with that pretty fast and then I got to do full turns! Oh what fun. When everyone was done with Beam we went to floor and did two routines, but unlike Ilia we did it where if you fell you just kept going. Ilia NEVER I repeat NEVER lets us keep going if we fall on Floor! He does on other events, but not Floor so that was nice to know, but I didn't need to worry about it cause I stuck both routines. I had to do front tuck front tucks after my routines cause they weren't very good, but there getting better again! After we did leaps for a little while we went Bars and did the same deal as Beam. I stuck my first one and then the next three after that so I just had to work on half pirouettes and free hips after that, but Sadie and Kendall were both having a hard time with their routines and hadn't made any so they were crying then Taylor was crying cause she couldn't make her last routine. So after a little while Brynnlee called all of us over to talk to her and she talked to us and she said stuff like that she knows how bad it sucks when you can't make that stupid half pirouette for the tenth time and how you get so frustrated, but that instead of crying you have to take that frustration and turn it into energy cause crying takes away 30% of your energy. She then told us that we were all going to make at least two routines in the next 10 minutes without crying, but then she told me to just do what I was doing. So my friends did there routines and we were happy, for the most part at least. We still had a half hour left so me and Sadie went to Vault. We had to stick five Vaults and I only fell on one! After I was done with those five I was free to go with my dad to see Twilight for the fourth time! Yippee!


Me and Daddy had been planning on going to Olive Garden, but there was a long line to be seated so we went to Panda Express. The food was really good and I got to sit and talk with Daddy for a little while, but then it was time to go to the movie! When we got over to the theater and we were inline to buy our tickets I turned around and it turns out that one of the ladies that works at the orthodontist office that I go to was also going to see Twilight tonight! Ah what a small world it is. Anyway when we got in the theater it was very long till the movie started and I liked it about as much as I think I can and I'm starting to think that when the movie comes out on DVD I need to get it so that I can confirm things that I didn't notice the first couple of times I saw it. After the movie Daddy drove me home and I'm very happy to say that on our way we could see the U on the side of the mountain flashing red then white which means Utah won the gymnastics meet! Yay!

Getting ready

Since we compete tomorrow Ilia had us do one stuck routine on every event.
WE started on beam and I was kind of nervous, but after I was warmed up I stuck my first routine!!! I was so happy! Sadly I was the only one that stuck my first one. Next was floor and Ilia told me that I had to do full for my first pass so I warmed it up and it didn't hurt to bad. I went for my routine and after I did my full Ilia said don't forget front tuck front tuck well, he hadn't told me that I had to do that until right then so I just went for it and I stuck it thought it wasn't very good. Anyway we went to vault after that and after I finally stuck two Ilia told me to go to bars and I was only too happy to do so cause my ankle was killing me! I made my bars routine easily and after that Ilia had me call daddy and tell him that we would be done a little bit earlier than we thought. Since nobody else was done and my free hips were crappy I worked on them. After a little while Ilia had us stretch and be done.

Since we got done early daddy took me to get dinner and after that we went to the Utah Gymnastics meet. We had a ticket that would get us in for free. It ended up that a girl and her mom that we know from a while back and we got to talk to them a little and I guess that she is competing tomorrow too!

The Utes did really good. It was the Supper Meet so there was four teams competing and the Utes got first SUU got second then BYU and Texas Womens came in last. My friend Megan goes to BYU and she received the most valuable performer for BYU! Isn't that awesome!!! She did really good!

So tomorrow is my meet and I'm pretty nervous, but I know everything will work out fine. And now I'm going to bed!

It's off!!

Sadie came to gym today and guess what, her cast is off! WOO HOO!! After conditioning I did floor bar and it got really boring. Then we went to bars. I did kip casts and half pirouettes. That was also very boring. When we were done with bars Ilia said that we could be done.

Mommy and I had been planning on going to the Utah vs. Washington gymnastics meet, but mommy needed sleep and Lena had an extra ticket so I went with Lena, Khyla, and Kim. We sat by Berklee and her mom. The meet was really good and I had lots of fun. It was the Power of Pink meet so the Utes had there normal leos, but instead of where the white is it was a light pink and where there sweats have red stripes it was pink too!
After the meet they took me home and on the way we played on Khyla's iTouch. It was lots of fun!! I took a picture of me, Khyla, Kim, and Berklee, but I'm at daddy's so I can't upload it. I'll upload it later thought.

*Update

Competition and yet more competition

Daddy took me to Mommy's house this morning. I was almost all ready to go and then we started my hair. It took us over an hour just to put up my hair! And then we had to race to finish getting ready and then get out to my competition in time. But we got there and everything was just fine. Floor was our first event and I wasn't mad but I wasn't happy about it because having floor first meant beam was last. I was first so I had to warm up quickly so that I could rest before I competed. I stuck my routine, but I accidentally stepped out of bounds twice before my tumbling paces. My score card said that they only marked me down for one so I think that either they didn't see the second one or I was just on the tape so they didn't count it, but either way my score was: 8.85 I would have gotten higher than a 9.00 if I hadn't gone out of bounds. Vault was next and I wasn't nervous until we started vaulting. The landing was horrible! It hurt my ankles soooo bad! But I got it lucky. My friend Micaela fell in warm up and she hurt her ankle so bad that she couldn't compete her tsukahara and had to do front handspring. Kim was the only one that did a tsukahara pike (everyone else did tuck) and she fell on both of her them in competition. It was so sad to watch her limp back to her spot on the run way so she could do her second vault. Anyway the vault was bad. I stuck it somehow and got a 8.5
Bars was good. I connected my cast dismount from my giants and got a 8.35
Beam wasn't as good as bars. I felt good in warm up and I wasn't really worried, but I fell on my series and my full turn. I got a 7.45 Ilia wasn't mad at all he just said that it was ok and we are going to be doing a lot of beam from now on. I didn't place on anything, but I don't really care. I had fun and that's all that really matters.


After I got home from the meet and had lunch I finished getting ready to go to my dad's house and then me and my mom went over to the Utah Gymnastics meet. Me and some of my friends got to hold the scores. It was lots of fun. The meet was amazing. Everyone did awesome. At the end I felt really bad for Beth Rizzo cause she did an exhibition (it's a routine that they compete but the score doesn't count) and on her last pace (double back tuck) she fell and couldn't finish her routine. We couldn't tell if it was her ankle or her knee that she hurt, but she was in pain.

Tomorrow is the Level 9 and 10 competitions. I can't go to them cause Duncan has a clogging recital and so I'm going to that.

GOOD LUCK KENDALL, TAYLOR, MCKENNA, SYDNEY, SHIREEN, BRITTANY, AND HAILEE! YOU GUYS ROCK!

"You in bad mood, Ilia"

Floor was first. I warmed up pretty quickly (at least I thought it was fast) and then I did my routine and my second front tuck was sooo high I thought I was going to fall! Ilia then told me to do one more and then I did front handspring layout tuck (onto a mat.) We did bars after that. I did my routine and it was really good. I did a another one and then asked Ilia if I could do dismounts and he said "No, you have two. You need like 5!" So I was like OK then I'll do three more routines, whatever. I did one more and then I was chalking up and Ilia told everyone else (who had already finished routines) to do one more of what they were doing and then take there grips off. He told me to do another routine. So I did four routines on bars! It wasn't that bad other than the fact that I was getting really tired from it. Oh and also Ilia spotted me on my first routine but then the next routine he only stood there and the next two routines after that he didn't even stand there. I was so excited! We went to beam after that and after I warmed up I asked Ilia how many routines I should do and of course he says "Million". UGH! I hate it when he says that! So I did three stuck routines and I was going for my next one and I fell on my series and the one after that I fell on my full turn so he was yelling at me because I fell on one full turn out of five routines! He sent me over to another beam and told me to work on full turns and then I had to do another routine. I did and I stuck it but even now I'm still really mad. I asked him after that what I should do and he told me (just take a wild guess) full turns. I was all sad after that but luckily Lena helped cheer me up at least a little. My dad came in a couple minutes early and asked if I was done and I told him no and just kept doing full turns for the next ten minutes. Ilia finally told me to stretch. I said "Bye Ilia, see you tomorrow" and he looked at me and said "Be ready." I went into the locker room after that and I was telling my friends about it and Taylor said he had said the same thing to her! Now me and my friends are slightly worried for tomorrow. I then went over to the gym office and got a coupon from Lena to get me and my family in free to one of the University of Utah gymnastic meets! Utah vs. UCLA Friday 7:00 at the Huntsman center. YAY! Ilia you were in a bad mood today.