Beaufort, South Carolina

This past weekend my daughter had her final gymnastics meet of this competition season.  I'm sort of relieved but it is a lot of fun so I will miss it (til next October).  Her State Meet this year was held on Parris Island - that's right, THE Parris Island......where they make Marines.

We drove down on Saturday and stayed in Beaufort.  Such a nice little town.  I wish we would've had more time to sightsee and explore. 

Take a look around at what we did get out and see....

Me & my girl enjoying the beautiful day.

These girls are all teammates & they had a ton of fun.

I have to admit that my favorite part of the weekend was watching all of her hard work pay off.

She came in 1st place on Beam and Floor and finished 3rd place All Around.

Great job, G!! We're very proud of you.

Tiger Paw 2011

As some of you may know, we are a gymnastics and baseball family.  Well, baseball's just getting warmed up for a new season but gymnastics will be coming to an end at the end of March, so we are in full competition mode around here.

Last weekend G had a big meet down at Clemson University.  We always look forward to Tiger Paw and the girls have a blast.

Here are a few pictures from the days festivities.

What a fun time they had. 

Thanks for sharing our day.

1st Meet of the Season

What a busy weekend we had.  B had baseball tournaments all weekend long and since they were unplanned and thrown into the schedule at the last minute, we weren't at the last game on Sunday.  Why, you ask?
Well, that would be because we had a previous engagement with our daughter at her first gymnastics meet of the new Level 5 season.


She was so excited (and nervous).  I also get nervous for her and it goes by so fast that I usually don't take pictures during the actual competition but only during warm-ups.


Here are a few that I was able to get. Those blame gyms are sometimes so dark & icky, for lack of a better term, that the pictures don't always come out very well. 

Cute hair (didn't last long)

G's Scores:

Vault:  8.325 (5th pl)

Bars:  8.45 (7th pl)

Beam:  8.525 (7th pl)

Floor:  9.15 (2nd pl)

AA:  34.45 (3rd Place)

Team:  4th Place

What a fun day for her. She's off to a great start and I can't wait to watch her sharpen her skills as the season continues.  She'll get another chance to compete this coming weekend with our first home meet. 

I'd better start resting up now.

Hope you're having a good week.

Gymnastics Camp 2010

Wow! Time sure is flying by.

I can't believe we're on the downward slide of June and I've only posted 1 time.

What in the world?!?

I guess we've been too busy living life to blog about it - I'll try to do better.

Well, last week we were busy with gymnastics camp.  Olympia Gymnastics Camp, which is run by Olympic Champion Svetlana Boginskaya, comes to our home gym every year.  All of the girls just love it and she usually brings another Olympian with her and this year it was Chellsie Memmel.  She was so nice to all of the girls and they had a great time.

Here are some pictures from the last day when they put on their show.

Sorry I couldn't get the video of the routine to load - it was really cute.

She got to work with the Level 6's this week and was so excited.  She's on Level 5, actually, but is trying really hard to convince her coaches to move her up - they'll make their decision in August.

Here's Chellsie Memmel giving G her certificate and below is Svetlana and her wonderful team of coaches.

G added a lot of new skills - this week she accomplished:

Giants

double back handsprings on beam

fly aways

front tuck off the beam

and

switch leap on beam

Thanks OGC for a great week!

A Quick Trip

Hope everyone enjoyed the three-day weekend.

We did although it happened to be a busy one.

G had a gymnastics meet scheduled bright and early Monday morning, so that meant an overnight trip was going to be necessary since we had to be in Knoxville, TN at 7:30 am.

Hubby wasn't able to make this little adventure so the kids and I packed up and left town on Sunday.

Here are a few pictures from our quick trip:

We saw a lot of frozen waterfalls even though the temp was in the 50's. I guess it takes a few days of warmer weather to thaw those out. They were pretty though.

One thing I learned on this trip - it's really difficult to get good, clear pictures while driving.

We made it to our hotel. I thought the room was cute with the apple green, black & orange.

Since my son was forced to come along on this trip and would be around girls & gymnastics all the next day, I let him have his choice of things to do once we arrived.

This may have included a trip to Bass Pro Shops and dinner at his favorite restaurant, Cracker Barrel.

Another thing I learned on this trip - it's really hard to get good, clear pictures while trying to be discreet in a busy store.


It may have included a little swimming back at the hotel, as well.

Before the meet started.

It was a tough meet with a lot of tough competition from around the country. She did place in a couple of events and came in 6th overall. Not too bad and she had a great time in the process.

We had some friends that now live close to Knoxville and were able to come to the meet, as well. She really enjoyed that.

One final picture from our trip to Knoxville.

What did you do over your weekend?