Photos Now, Update Later

I spent this last weekend at the Tacoma Dome with these three girls. They are so amazing! The one in the middle was a finalist! WOW

Catch Up

This post is dedicated to cathing up on Isabelle. Enjoy the photos

Ready to work out... haha

She loves to turn on the CD player and push play to hear her music.

Night Night

There is mac & Cheese all stuck in her hair... she was having a great time smearing and screaming. A big bath followed.

She found this gardening wagon at my parents and wanted a ride. Wheeeee

She loves this hat! There is a matching scraf too.

Districts Bound!

Last Saturday, 'my' girls went to their Sub-District competition and had a wonderful day. Since our practices normally start at 5:30am, they had no problem starting at 8am. They were awake and flying down a very springy, spring floor. Unfortunately, I got a call at 6:30 that morning that our number 2 girl was super sick (sleeping on the bathroom floor all night - sick) and wanted to come and support her team but not compete... We told her no and to stay home and rest. Therefore, being down one girl, we put in our alternates. With that... we told the girls to do their best and to 'stick it' :)

They did!! We started on Bars and they got their seasons highest bar score. Then to Beam, where we had a couple of falls (guess where we are working hard this week??!!) and to Floor, where they stuck gorgeous routines! and last Vault. At the end of session one, we were in 3rd place, of the 8 that were there. However, there was still session two, where 7 more schools were competing. We went to lunch, enjoyed eachothers company and then back to the school to watch the end of session two and await the final scores of which teams would make it on to Districts.

Fifteen school sat on the spring floor... we went through all the individuals that placed on each event, then the All Arounds (one of our placed 4th in All Aound with a new personal best)... then ist was time for the team scores. We new our score, 161.95, but we weren't sure where that placed us. They started at 15th place and went down... 7th place... not us --- Yes! we were in the top 6!! And then it was us, we placed 6th and as a team, WE ARE GOING TO DISTRICTS!!!

Gymnastics

This has been a great season of High School Girls Gymnastics. We had such a huge team this year, that instead of cutting (which we probably should have done) we made a Varsity team and a JV team. We began the season with 42 girls, and ended with 36. 5:30 am practices did not detour many girls... instead it made them more dedicated. Here are a couple shots of the team and individuals at competition.
Seniors hard at work on beam :)

Varsity squad


Celebrating a win

Bad Things Happen In Three's

... and usually within a week period.

I can say that this is now a true statement... though only one major 'bad' thing happened, the others were mostly just unfortunate.

1. As we all know, I was clocked in the face by one of my JV vaulters a week ago Thursday. Though this hurt, a lot, it was hilarious and I did not end up getting a black eye. It will go down as a funny memory at the end of season banquet.

2. This last Tuesday, on my way to school from early morning practice, 7:15 am to be exact, I was rear ended while sitting at a red light. The girl that hit me was a Senior at some HS and this so happened to be her second accident (her fault too) in the last month. Once we pulled over, I saw my damage, back passenger side fender is now a dimple instead of a corner. Her front end driver side was way more banged up. We exchanged info, of course, and I called work to tell them I would be late. Yes, I did get injured in this very first car accident of mine, not bad though. Just my lower back, which I went to my doctor that night after work. I am to go back next week sometime, but it is getting better, just aches a little and only hurts if I turn.

I am getting rental on Monday for a bit over a week while my car is getting fixed. Yeah that this her insurance is taking care of everything. It is making this very easy. I am just GRATEFUL that Isabelle was sleeping safely at home with daddy.

A side note: It was snowing that morning, and the girl that hit me slide on the ice. NO excuse, I know, slow earlier and leave space, however that was the circumstance.

3. Another unfortunate incident... Thursday (exactly one week later) I 'lost' my car keys. Somehow after I opening my car and getting Isabelle in the car after practice, the keys had disappeared. GONE! WIth the help of one of my varsity girls, her mom and my assitant coach, we search my car for an hour... took everything out, put it back in, came up with possible 'what ifs' that could of happened to the leys, We finally gave up, and I called Eric to come and get me. I waited at the gym, inside with Isabelle for another hour until he got there. Once Eric arrived, to give me my spare key, I got Isabelle back in the car, and we caught a glimpse of something shinny and purple between the seat and the door... my keys. WOW... I am a dork!

The good news was that it was the end of the day, at the end of a very long week, and it ended well. The better news was that Eric just shook his head and laughed.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Conversation

Isabelle and I had our first real converstation last night during our bedtime ritual.
It went as follows:

Isabelle: Here mommy, ba.
Mommy: Thank you sweety
Isabelle: Where is it? (shrug)
Mommy: Where is what?
Isabelle: Milk.
Mommy: Daddy is getting it.
Isabelle: ok
She then leaned back and got comfy and waited for the milk.

Most conversations to this point have been me telling her what to do, where we are going and her repeating everything I say... "Did you hear that?" "Hear that?"

Loving the small stuff!

NEW HIGH!

Wednesday night our varsity girls pulled out a new all time team high score in the history of THS Gymnastics!!! The high flyers got a team score of 161.25 We still came in second to a team of all club kids, but that is still awesome.

ROAR... GO BEARS!

KT.. this is for you

Normally, I would have called you tomorrow about this one, but you in SC so instead I'll write it so EVERYONE can hear. And yes, there will be many run on sentences! :)

Tonight we had our first and only JV meet. JV meet... not varsity... so no high flying. We are one touching on vault... already did the warm-ups... getting ready for the judge.., and here comes one of our new handspringers, who can do this, however one hand slipped on the board a tiny bit, which meant, I guess, that she chose to not keep her body tight, in a straight line, and she clocked me with a beautiful left hook... literally spinning me to the ground. Of course it happened soooo fast that I don't remember seeing her fist come at me... though I tried to duck, I didn't succeed. My glasses went flying off and broke (luckily I packed my contacts... don't know why, but glad I did) and I came up laughing SO hard that I was crying. There were a couple of "ooohs" and "oh mys" that I heard from near by girls, the judge and the audience, of course. But know one I knew video taped it... that would be funny to watch... and critique the girl as well... go figure, teachable moment. hahaha

Anyways, I was told to get ice on my eye right away to help stop swelling and the possible bad black eye. Won't that be funny to go to work with a black eye...

There is a larger bump now on my upper cheek and some darkness appearing. However, there will be no pics of this.... well I shouldn't say that, some girls on the team took some pics with my bag of ice and the girl that clocked me... but my eye was just red then... guess I'll have to wait till morning. I do have a MASSIVE headache though and my nose hurts too -

Well, it is 11 pm, I have a bit of a headache still and I have to work tomorrow, good night all!

PS... our JV girls did such a great job, I was impressed by them! AND the girl that knocked me down placed on 5th vault. How funny is that!

Mid-Season Report

Gymnastics is rocking this season... oh wow! Last year our best meet score was 143.4 This year our lowest is 151.25 Our all time high rocks at 158.7 These girls are truely amazing in their flying abilities.

We have two meets left for the season and then there is post season, which we are sitting very pretty for. We are currently in 6th place, and the SPSL takes 6 teams with them to districts. Hmmm... can you say "Yeah us... we have a shot!"

One of our girls was even on the HS Game Time with Paul Silvi from King 5. I Tivo'ed it of course, but dont' have the slightest clue on how to get that on a DVD and save it for later.

Anyways, big, huge meet tomorrow night... wish us luck!

PS... We have had all our meets (but one) where the floor is one or two wrestling mats in which the girls must fly and tumble on. Tomorrow night is a spring floor... literally the girls will be flying with the extra spring in their jumps. :)

GO BEARS!

Life

Life is wonderful
Life is full of the unexpected
Life is busy
Life is an adventure worth taking
Life is fun
Life is crazy full of people, love and happiness
Life is not slowing down for 5 more weeks
Did I say life is wonderful?


It started in November with the massive flooding and great neighbors. Then December gave us a massive amount of snow that kept us stranded for 8 days through the holidays and again great neighbors. The snow melted and we flooded again... for 3 days under water 15 feet from the house, though there was a good current running out to the wetlands, which meant the house would remain safe.

(side note: For those that knew us in our Pacific house... our old house and surrounding neighborhood was all over the news... all under water. We are very grateful that we moved to this house, through all its constant turmoil!!)

Now we are under a blanket of FOG... for days now, the fog is there when I get up at 4am and there when I get home at 5 or 10pm. If there is a glimpse of sun and blue sky... turn around... the FOG is rolling in all eerily (spelling??)

What's next?? hahaha Who knows.

Oh yeah... the wind! How can I forget the howling currently outside. Guess the sound is like second nature now. Wind blowing down the chimney pipe, branches and other things hitting the sides of the house. Luckily, the power is still in tact, unlike Saturday morning at 6am, when (it seemed like forever!) the power flickered on off on off on off for about 3 minutes. Scared us all... well mostly Isabelle. Her monitor likes to have power, otherwise it is all static and the on off scared her. It also scared Eric and I later that day when our computer wouldn't turn on, and instead said 'No operating system' For those that are not computer savvy, that is a VERY bad sentence to read on a computer. It means that for the most part, you have lost everything. Good thing, I have a smart and 'patient' hubby and "Dr. Hubby" was able to fix our computer baby and saved all our files. Phew! We are glad that the surge protector was on and working. That is what saved us.

Saturday to Saturday

We got snowed in last Saturday night, and yes, we finally got out today. We went to celebrate Christmas with the Morceau family (Eric's side).

Thank you for a wonderful Christmas and family time spent! Loved the new Guitar Hero. :)

Celebrate! Snow Fun

'Tis the season for celebrations! It is Christmas, the New Year is close and we have a plowed driveway! Does this mean we can get out yet?? That is the question of the hour and tomorrow we will find out. Till then...

All day Christmas it snowed and blew, making the drifts even bigger. But today it was calm, with blue sky and time to go out and play in the new foot of power (which lays on inches of ice and feet of packed snow).

Snow Angels

Snow ball fight... I win
Eric and the Snowman

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

There will be many Christmas' this year, the first being today!

It is a most beautiful Winter White Christmas, my first white Christmas.

Three Generations

Great Grammy with Isabelle

Snowy Photos

Enjoy some photos I have taken. You can tell what I went outside to take, and what has been taken from inside. :)

Stormy Day!

Animal Tracks... neighbor dogs

Beauty after the storm

Random picture of snow

Little Maple tree out front

Front Porch