Whipped-Cream

Another first for Isabelle!!!

She got her first taste and funfilled experience of eatting whipped cream topping the good ole way... straight from the canister. She saw our friend do it, and really wanted to try it, so Eric gave her some. It shocked her at first, and spit some out, but then realized that it was GOOD!!!

Again, again!!!

Time with Friends

This last weekend was super busy, but fun... State and then a great time with some friends and their kids. It was a great dinner, great conversations and interesting watching our kids play, from ages 11 months to 4 years old, but they seemed to do just fine (unless the tricycle motorcycle was in view).

Enjoy!

Hmmm... do I have to eat more daddy?

I'm going in....

BIG HUGS!!!
These two really enjoyed eachothers complany!

The coveted tricycle!

My turn to throw it at you, no mine!

All of us!

State is done!

This last weekend, our three post-season gymnasts had their State Championships at the T-Dome (Tacoma Dome) and did AMAZING!! I get to brag if I want to.

Two of the girls competed on beam and the 3rd one was on Uneven Bars, Vault and Floor. They all three had their most flawless, stuck and strong routines that I have seen all season! WOW!

Got to love the chalk dust flying everywhere, it makes beautiful specs on the lens and photos.

Since we did not make it to state as a team, all the individuals are placed together when going to all the events. So here is a photo of our 'team' that we went around with Friday night. This was such a great group of girls, some we knew from past meets and others we met on Friday and will for sure see again in the future. We made a game too, and decided that we were a 'competing' team, so we followed our 'team' score to see if we would have won, and with a 179.45 we would have come in 2nd place at state. We made it a great time!

Unfortunately, seeing that we were in session 3 for the day (Friday) which started at 5pm with warm-ups and 6:20 with march-in, we did not start the awards part of the evening till 9:30ish... by the time we left the T-Dome, it was 10pm. And since most restraunts close at 11pm, we did not get our olive garden dinner. We all just went home.

That was a good thing too, since one of our girls MADE IT TO FINALS!!! on vault! So we had to be back at the T-Dome at 9am Saturday. She did amazing and finished 8th in the state on vault.

All that is left for this season is the end banquet which is next week.

GO BEARS!! Till next year!!

Random photo Update

Piggy Back fun!

Stop! Gimmie That!

Diego's helper (using the monitor as a walkie-talkie
and hooking it to a belt while wearing pajamas)

On a trip to Snoqualmie Falls... Yes, I hiked to the bottom while 8 months pregnant... I did a engagment photo shoot there, dragged Eric with me for some quality outside time, and exercise... they had fun! The couple offered to take our photo too. :)

Allie and Isabelle! Allie has been a big part of my life, since I met her my first year teaching, when she was in 3rd grade. Two years later she was one of my junior brides' maids and then 3 years after that, she was one of the first ones to hold Isabelle while we were still at the hospital. And in a few weeks, she will again be at the hospital to be one of the first to hold our son!

Work Baby Shower

There are two of us on the staff that are having new additons to the family, and it so happens that we are 'due' the same day, March 17th, St. Paddy's Day. So the theme was 'luck and well wishes.'

One of my co-workers, a few months ago, got Isabelle hooked on lollipops... he was actually the first person to ever give her one, and now when she sees him, she says lollipop please before a hello or anything. She does say thank you!! So when my co-worker found out she was coming to the shower too, he brought a pocket full of them... there is not a single picture of her without one in her mouth... I take that back, there was one of her eatting cake. :)

Present time

Thank you to a great staff!!

(you may be wondering who that guy is sitting on the couch... that is the other one expecting a new addition to his family... His wife works in Seattle and was not able to make it, so he gotto open all the presents and enjoy the cake).

Subs, Districts and now STATE!

Two weeks ago, we had a gymnastics meet, sub-districts, to try to qualify for Districts. At subs we did not make it as a team to Distircts, (they olny take the top 6 teams and we placed 8th). However three of our girls had amazing talent on their events and moved on to districts! YEAH! And one of the girls was the Bars champion!!! (below)

So then last Saturday was Districts. Those three girls were all fighting for their chance to qualify for a spot to move on to State. What were the chances that all three of them would qualify?? Slim to little, since there are about 50 or more girls going for 6 individual spots per event. Great news is!!! They, all three of these talented girls, qualified on at least one event!! WOW!!! And they are headed to the State Championships this Friday. AND one of the girls was the reigning Vault champion!!

It is almost time to celebrate a delicious Olive Garden dinner tradition... Yumm for late night Friday night dinner!

Post-Season Gymnastics

It is that time of year again where the THS girls' gymanstics team has been amazing and in the league, so far we are in about 8th place amongst 17 teams. Not Bad! This coming Sat, Feb 6th is Sub-districts, which will confirm who actually goes into true post-season. So there are only 3 more weeks of gymnastics; all saturday meets from this point on. This has been a long season... mainly the lack of sleep while being pregnant has made it extra long. But there is a light and it is almost over. :) In case, the SPSL.org website has the times and places for those meets.

I'll post some photos of the girls' high flying and tumbling soon.

Our varsity squad sporting their new leos!