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!

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!!!

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!!!!!

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. :)

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.

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!

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!