Girls' Home Meet 2025

The girls had their home meet last night and it was a pretty good night. Not their best nor favorite, but they did well! Aidan and Patton (plus Patton's mom, Amy) came as well. I enjoyed visiting with Amy - as well as watching my girls, of course!

Since it's the home meet, our team gets to go in Olympic order . . . so vault, bars, beam, and then floor. Both girls did really well on vault - Emmy getting possibly her highest vault score ever? She got a 9.35 and would go on to take 1st in that event. Lucy got a great score as well - a 9.1 and earned a 3rd-place. Bars was pretty good for both girls, too. Although Emmy wasn't thrilled with her performance and/or score. Emmy got an 8.95 and took 3rd and Lucy got an 8.6 and took 6th. 

Beam . . . this is where it fell apart for Emmy darn it. Her warm-up was sooooo good! But then she didn't make her first flight connection (back handspring to a back walkover) and so she attempted to do it again (if you miss that connection, your starting value is a 9.5). Unfortunately she fell on her back handspring. Her jumps weren't as solid as in her warm-up and then she fell on her full-turn. She was not happy and shed a few tears afterwards. It may have helped a little bit that two other very solid and excellent gymnasts on her team fell twice as well on beam . . . such a bummer for them, though. Her score was a 7.0 and thus that put her out of a solid all-around placement. Lucy's beam was great and solid - but her score wasn't quite as high as usual for reasons we don't know!? She got an 8.85 and took 5th (not to brag, but to be honest - Lucy is usually 1st or 2nd in beam and this routine was very similar to all of those ones . . .).

Then it was on to floor. Again, Lucy hit a very great and solid routine - but didn't quite get the score we thought she would - another 8.85. I mean, two weeks ago she did almost the exact same routine and got an 9.45. Weird and a bit of a bummer for Lucy. But she looked awesome! She got 7th. Emmy hit a great floor routine and ended up with a 9.05, taking 2nd. As for all-around, Lucy and Emmy both got 4th. :) So not bad at all, but just a bit bummed with some of the scores and with beam, of course, for Emmy. But the girls seemed happy enough and afterwards went out with the boys and Lucy's bestie, Ruby, to Culver's. All in all, a great evening.

Here is the link to Lucy's routines and the link to Emmy's routines. 

I stole a couple of pictures from Lucy's Instagram . . . 

Senior night/last meet for Audrey. She was a beautiful and amazing gymanst and inspired my girls for sure!

The Day I turned 46

Another year older . . . 46 now. I'm cranking out these years, ha!

My birthday was pretty good. I had a good workout in the morning and then took Emmy to the seamstress who is making alterations on Emmy's prom dress. After that we tried and failed to find some heels for Emmy in our tiny town. We then went to the high school and checked out Lucy and I took the girls to lunch. I got soft-serve ice cream (my fav is frozen yogurt but none in my town and so soft-serve ice cream is next best) and my girls got smoothies and a cinnamon roll. :) That afternoon I took my dogs to Ridgway and walked the path there down to the river. It was warm and an enjoyable outing.

That evening Ben had asked our friends, Alex and Molly, to come over and help us make sushi. We had gone over to their house a couple months ago to make and roll sushi and I loved it and so asked Ben for sushi-making stuff for my birthday. He got me the stuff - plus had the Shockleys come over and do it with us that night. It was really great and fun and so delicious! The girls came back from gymnastics and enjoyed some sushi as well. Then Aidan came over and we all ate some yummy rice krispie cake. 

And that was pretty much that. I did talk to Miles that evening and, as always, it was great. He's just happy and positive and kind and it's kind of a nice change from the girls, haha.

Here are a few random pictures from the day: 

My friend made this for me and I felt very, very unworthy of it! It's gorgeous and simply amazing. 

It was hard to get a good picture on our walk as managing the two dogs on leashes is plenty of work, let alone getting a picture . . . :) But here they are cooling off in the lovely river.

A screenshot of me talking with Miles. :)

My sushi-theme bday gifts from Ben.

Making sushi - I am sad we didn't get a picture of Molly with us, too. Fun, fun night.

Happy 46th to me!

Legacy Meet

This was Emmy's 4th meet of the season and Lucy's 2nd - but was my first meet watching them (due to travel meets, Sunday meets for Emmy, etc.). So I was excited to finally see them in person. Emmy was really hoping (and needing) a good meet - she's had decent meets with some 1st and 2nd places, but her all-around has been lacking (mainly because of low beam scores). So she was just wanting to do good and so I was praying for her extra-hard the whole week. :)

Just as a side-note: Emmy competes in the highest level, Diamond while Lucy is in the next highest, Platinum. Different skill requirements, etc.

The girls invited their boyfriends to come and watch and so that was fun - and nerve-racking for the girls! But the boys must have been good-luck charms . . . at least Aidan for Emmy . . . Spoiler alert, but Emmy ended up taking 1st-place all-around! Yay! She's been working so hard and just really needed this boost and so that was awesome. Lucy didn't score as well as she wanted on bars (a high cast led to a poorly-executed back-hip circle and she actually didn't get credit for the skill at all because, well, her hips touched the bar thus negating it being a back-hip circle haha) . But Lucy still ended up with an awesome 3rd-place all-around finish because she was so solid on all the other events.

Emmy's review: She did the best vault I have seen her do with this skill (front-handspring full twist). She ended up taking 1st on vault. Bars she did great and ended up with a 2nd-place finish. Beam she didn't fall, but apparently didn't get connection credit for her flight series and so her routine began at a 9.5 rather than a 10 (but her connection was so there - if it were state, the coaches would have fought that call . . .). But she got an okay score! She had a great floor routine with a great score (9.3) but didn't even place. High scores were being handed out on floor . . . But, like mentioned already, she earned 1st all-around and had her highest all-around score of the season. She was so happy and how fun to have Aidan see her perform and do so well!

Lucy didn't have her best vault - I mean it was good and got a decent score, but she just had a few more steps than normal for her. It's a hard vault and so kuddos to her for going for it both times. Bars I have already mentioned . . . Beam she was solid! Her teammates (at least 5 or 6 of them) had all fallen, or missed connections, and all gotten low scores. The highest score before Lucy was an 8.3. Well Lucy crushed it, as she usually does on beam, and got a 9.05 - earning a 4th-place overall finish. Her floor was great and peppy and fun and she got a 9.45 - earning her 1st on that event, yay! Then 3rd all-around which was awesome and fun, again, to have Patton there. :)

The meet got over at 10:15 - pm. . . so late! Ugh. Then we have to drive all the way home. We rode up separately, and Ben and I got home around 11:30. The kids got special permission to be out later and went to Denny's and then came home. 

Here's the video link to Emmy's event. And here's the link to Lucy's. 

Lucy's 4th place beam.

Lucy's 1st place floor.

Lucy's 3rd place all-around.

Emmy's 1st place vault.

Emmy's 2nd place bars.

Emmy's 1st place all-around.

Emmy's teammates took 1st place as a team - so cool!

Girls with their boys. :)

Fun meet!

A Few Random March Happenings

 

We had a fun visit with Miles on his 21st (!) birthday. He's doing great and is happy!

We celebrated by eating one of his favorite birthday meals: elk pasties. :) Miles went to a ward member's for dinner and loved the special bread he requested instead of cake (concha). Fun!

Lucy had her first high school track meet - competing in the varsity level! She ended up doing well - getting 10th in the 100 meter dash (out of 60) and got 16th (out of 22) in the long-jump. She was happy and had fun! 

All done with her dash!

The long-jump!

Bella turned 7 on the 12th! She got to go on two walks (one with Emmy and one with me) and eat a spoonful of peanut butter. :)

And surpise! Jonas surprised us all with coming home for a week-long visit! So fun and we had no idea! We probably won't see a ton of him as he'll be out and about with friends, or just driving around, etc., but it's still nice to have him home and I am glad he gets a break from his deployment. Good times.

Bryce Canyon Ladies Trip

I was lucky to get to go on a ladies' trip to Bryce Canyon the first part of March. We headed out on a Wednesday and drove to our AirBnB in Panquitch, Utah. It was an awesome home and set up very well for a large group (9 ladies in total, with a couple staying either for the first 2 nights or for the last 2 nights). We used the hot tub at least once a day and just had a grand ol' time. 

Thursday we hiked in Willis Creek Slot Canyon - close to, but not in, Bryce. We decided on this hike for this day because it was going to be cold AND windy - gusts up to 35MPH. So being in a slot would help shelter the winds and it did for sure. The drive to the trailhead was a bit precarious on an extremely muddy road where we were slipping and a sliding all over the place. I hated it because I am an off-road/4-wheel drive wuss. Haha. Finally at a point in the road where there were some significant drop-offs, we decided to park the car and hike the extra 1.6 miles to the trailhead. The road was muddy, of course, but manageable for walking in. The slot hike was really beautiful and totally fun.

The group on Thursday consisted of myself and Heather (front); Heather 2 (a friend of Sarah's and now a friend to us all!), Alyssa (Heather's daughter), Ashley, and Jaymie (middle-ish row); Jody and Sarah (one of my favorite humans who lived in Montrose but moved to Johnstown a few years ago) (back).

Here we are on Friday morning - Ashley (who was heading out that morning back home to Idaho), Alyssa, and Sarah. Then myself (with closed eyes yay), Heather 2, Heather, Natalie (she arrived Thursday night), Jaymie, and Jody.

Friday we went into Bryce and had a great day. We hiked about 9 miles on the Fairyland loop. It was awesome and we experienced all kinds of weather - sun, clouds, snow, mild winds, etc. It was a great adventure and so beautiful!

Our nights were filled with hot tubbing, eating, and just talking and laughing. It was sooooo good!!!

February 2025

 I've already posted the major highlights of Feburary, but here are just a few extra random pictures:

Proof that Emmy does homework on the rare occasion . . . :)

Ben took Lucy and her best friend Ruby skiing at Powderhorn one Saturday. Lucy got a 4-pack pass for Christmas but had just gone once . . . life gets busy, I guess! So Ben was able to use one of Lucy's passes and they had a good day. Probably the warmest day of skiing/snowboarding they had ever had - maybe like 45-50 degrees up there. Fun. :)

The end!