Celebrating A Great Sporting Weekend

Since K's meet was in Daytona, we decided to keep our hotel in Daytona for both Fri and Sat and head to Disney for Sat and Sun.  We had a great time celebrating with both kids and their fabulous efforts in their meets Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.

Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain Railroad, Haunted Mansion and Dole Whip before heading to Epcot for dinner!

We started our Sunday on an Expedition up Everest and then went searching for Dinosaurs and took a trek through the safari of Africa.  We grabbed a late lunch at the Rainforest and then headed for home!

AAU Florida State Gymnastics Championship Meet

I made these for both my kids for their big championship meets.  I also made some for K's Level 3 friends.  The kids thought they were great!

The State Meet had a Wizard of Oz theme.  Kendall competed in the Emerald City Gym at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach.

Getting tired of seeing my camera in her face!

She hates beam so it was good that it was first and she got it out of the way.

She did a great job on vault.

Her floor routine was greatly improved from her last meet!

Getting ready for bars with her friend Annah.  Gotta chalk up!

Waiting their turn for warm up on bars.

Coach Ashley prepping K for her kip and her last event of the meet.

She got her KIP!!!  She's been working on it all winter.  It's not required, but it does allow her to be scored out of 10.  She did a fantastic job on bars.   Again, a HUGE improvement from her last meet.

To view a video of all 4 of her events, click HERE to go to a Vimeo link where you should be able to see the video I created of each of her routines.

Her goal this season was to score all 9's or higher.  I'm happy to report that she did it this meet!

Beam 9.225 - 2nd place

Floor 9.57 - 1st place

Vault 9.350 - 3rd place

Bars 9.450 - 1st place

Her (total) overall score was 37.6 which was high enough to earn her a 1st place All Around!!!  Second place All Around was 36.4 so it was a solid win!  Since her score was 36.0+ she earned her Elite pin.  That means she is considered in the Elite category of the Level 3's.  There are 4 different categories for scoring.  She started as a Novice.  Moved up to Advanced after her first meet but never earned enough to make it into the Open.  She skipped right over that and scored high enough for Elite.  Her coaches trained her well to peak at the right time!  

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Her coaches dressed up for the theme of the meet when they were needed on the floor to coach.  It was so wonderful that Brianna and Olivia along with her other teammates were there to hand out her awards and cheer for her victories!

Everyone was so excited for her and so proud of her.  She was beaming because she saw the results of all those months, weeks, days and hours at the gym.  It finally paid off!  The best part is that her big brother was so proud of her that he told his teacher about how well she did, but neglected to tell her how well HE did at his track meet.

IMSC Championship Track Meet

Ra finished up his track season with the Independent Middle School Conference Track & Field Championships last week.  

He's been running the 1500/1600 this year.  He's been doing pretty well considering this is the first time he's really tried running for sport.

Pre Race pep talk from Coach Hamel

At the meet he ran the 4x800m relay.

The handoff!

He was on the B team and they finished in 2nd Place.  He got a medal from the meet for his relay!

This was his time from the 1500m race.  It was his best time ever!  I was so proud of him and how hard he ran.  He gave it his all and did a great job!

Another way this boy makes his momma proud - he says good job and nice race to the other runners!

We are so glad that he got to be a part of the track team this spring.  He realized that he does have an ability to run and run well.

2nd Grade Fun!

There have been a lot of fun activities going on in 2nd grade this spring.  

They took a field trip to the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine.  It was K's first time here.  She had fun checking out all the different gators and crocs.  She especially liked watching them eat the rats!

They also performed in a play about Moses as an entire grade.  All 3 classes did a fabulous job!

Getting ready to take a bow

The all loved singing Pharaoh, Pharaoh at the end!  Sadly, I can't get the video to load.  Check back incase I can figure it out.

Birthday parties every weekend - or at least it seems that way.  We've had to say no to some...but thankful for all her many friends!

Butterfly Centers at school.  They had caterpillars turn into butterflies in their classroom and they learned all about them.

So many activities going on in the next 3+ weeks of school.  Field Day, Mother's Day Brunch, 2nd Grade End of Year pool party...the list goes on!

It's Always Football Season In Jax

Ra has really enjoyed playing football this past year.  He played tackle for Providence and in the winter and spring he's played flag football for i9.  His winter team struggled a bit but his spring team is LOTS of fun.  We've loved watching him play.  He's got a such great sportsmanship and numerous parents of the kids' on his team have shared how much they love having Ra on the team.  They love how he keeps them motivated and positive and his example to the younger kids on the team.  

This is what K does at his meets...Kinda like what he does at her meets...Oh well.  They do get excited for each other when they do well.

Date Night!

Providence hosted A Night To Remember Daddy/Daughter dance.  Andy and Kendall were so excited to go!  I took Kendall to get her nails done and then braided her hair and got her ready.  It was such sweet time together prepping her for her date!

I was able to pull off the hair do that she wanted!  Whew!

 What a beautiful couple!

Daddy and her Dancing Queen

Some of her girl friends at the dance.

She was so happy to have Daddy all to herself and do something special together.

She was on stage dancing with her friends.

My beautiful girl - She's growing up too fast!

Andy's friend and former boss was at the dance with his 7th grade daughter and took this video of Andy and Kendall dancing together.

Since Dad and Sis were on a date, Ra and I decided to do the same.  We went to Al's for dinner.

Then we went to the movies to see God's Not Dead 2.  What a great movie for us to see together.  We had some pretty in depth, adult conversations about the movie.  I love being able to do that with him.

Both kids had a great time on their dates.  They both told us multiple times how much fun they had.  It's a great investment in our kids' future relationships and marriages.