Cartersville Meet

A couple weekends ago, Sophie Grace had her first meet of the season. She's repeating level four, so she's had a year of strength training and polishing her routines from last fall. She and two other girls from her team from last fall stayed back and joined a new group of girls coming up to level four. We're very proud of Sophie as her coach has made a point to brag on her for stepping up as a "team captain" encouraging the new girls and helping the new team gel together well. She only has three meets this fall, and the bar has been raised to make it to the state competition in December. She has to have an all around score of 34 to move on. She had a 31.975 at this meet. Hopefully, the jitters are out, and she can knock it out next weekend.

Sophie with her buddy Shanna. They've been on a team together now for four years.


Sophie took third place on the bars! Highest place so far for her.




The dreaded beam dismount... Sophie's working to overcome a mental block on this skill. She goes off to the wrong side. ARGH! So hard for me to watch. Her coaches tell me that it will come when it comes. A gymnast's body is strong, but sometimes the mind is stronger.




This is another cutie that has been on the team with Sophie for a couple years.




Coach Megan with some of the girls.


Coach Megan had Sophie lead the team in open warm ups. It's been very encouraging to see her growth of character through this great sport.

The Fair Comes to Town

Last Thursday the girls and I joined friends for dinner and the county fair. The girls had a blast. I've taken them before, but it's been so long they didn't even remember it. You would think I had sprung for a surprise trip to Disney they were so excited. Ten tickets apiece and a monstrous amount of cotton candy provided enough fun for a month!

Sophie gets friendly with a heifer.


Take a look at this sheep. It looked like it had a spiral perm.


Reagan with the miniature horses


Sophie and Gracie visit with the goats. I hope she wasn't trying to share her cotton candy.


There were some of the coolest chickens ever!





Hayden, Gracie, Sophie, and Ethan


This ride went in an oval, but at the ends it would sling the kids around. I LOVE the look on the girls' faces here.


Grace and Sophie- I just had a flash forward eight years from now!


Grace, Heather, me, Nina and Mandy


Reagan rode this ride with Cassidy, and Sophie rode it with Ms. Charlotte. Looking at it now, I can't believe I let my kids on it. Holy cow! They were on the thing for about 8 minutes.


Look at Sophie's face. She doesn't look so sure about it.


Sophie and Ms. Charlotte


Reagan in the Fun House


Gracie, Reagan, and Sophie on the monster slide


What fun!


This rocks!