More weekend fun from April 11-13th

Mrs. Jules was sweet enough to check in on me and see if I fell off of blogger land. :) My life has been crazy with schooling the kids, girl scouts and gymnastics. I'm hoping to catch everyone up with all that has been going on around here.

So, continuing off from my last post the next morning Jill picked me up at 6:45 a.m. to make it the Girl Scout Service Unit Manager's breakfast. After breakfast we headed to the Annual Meeting.

Jill and I won Outstanding Leaders of the Year award for the council. It was very exciting. We've been leaders together for 6 years (7 this Fall). We have two troops. The amazing part is Jill doesn't have a daughter in the younger troop but she gives just as much to that troop as she does to the older troop (which has her daughter in it). We knew were nominated but we told the Council if they didn't pick us as a team (which is not how the award is given out...only given to one individual) then we didn't want to win it because without the other person we are not who we would be. It takes both of us to make the troops run as smoothly as they do.

 

The next morning (Sunday) we headed to Portland for Andrew's Regional meet. We were very proud of him to make it to Regionals. He did get a medal on vault for 5th place.

It was a long day. There were 97 boys in his session which meant we were there for 5+ hours for competition. Boys came from Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Washington state to compete.

 

This is a picture of Andrew waiting to get on the pommel. He started on pommel and ended on the floor. Floor is his favorite event.
Andrew 7.9 (floor), 6.4(pommel), 6.85(rings), 9.45(vault), 8.35(parallel bars), 7.3(high bar), 46.250 (all around)

Weekend in-review

Friday was haircut day. Andrew has to get his hair cut every 6 weeks because it grows so much and then it begins to look like a puffy ball on his head. I wanted him to get a high and tight and Andrew told Kim (hairdresser) to give him a military cut. We've never done that before because we don't like the look but I usually let the kids do what they want in regards to hair cuts. He was shocked when she was done because he thought that would give him a flat top. Maddie let him know several times that she hates his hair. It will grow!

Jay, Andrew and I spent the weekend in Portland (girls at G'ma's house) so we could go to Andrew's gym meet. It was his first meet of the season. And his first meet as a level 6.

The next two pictures are us a TGIF's waiting for our food before the meet. Jay and Andrew are doing their Blue Man look.

 

 

He was the only one in his age division for his level. He is competing in the 8 to 9 age division (determined by your by age on Sept. 1st). The next age division had a lot more boys in it (10 to 11 age group). So, he took 1st place on everything. So, he got a gold medal for getting first place All Around. His coach is "admiring" his medal! :)