Laurie's World

Last meet of the season this weekend, before Level 7 State. This meet was a little different from any other meet we have ever gone to, in that the top three finishers from each level (disregarding age) were invited back to Finals today. So Rachael’s session was yesterday at 5pm, and today we went back at 1pm for the finals as she placed 1st on Vault with a 9.10 (Personal best ever for Rachael on Vault). But i am getting ahead of myself…Let’s talk about yesterday first…Rachael placed third AA with a 35.10.

As I said before 1st place on Vault with a 9.10

3rd place on Beam with an 8.475 (she fell on her full turn),

Tied for 4th place on bars with an 8.65 (this is the best bar score she has had on bars this year as a level 7!),

and…
4th place on floor with an 8.875

So she came home with another neck-load of medals…we are going to need to rent a storage locker for all the medals soon.

Now for the big news…Rachael went back today to represent her team on the vault…and along with her team mates on the other events, they won first at the Finals today…so they won a $1000.00 cash prize!!! Wahoo!!!

Had a big meet today at the convention center in Seattle. I was a little off my game and forgot to take pictures at the awards ceremony…but Rachael had a great day! She had a personal best on beam with a score of 9.325…WOW! She placed on every event in a very tough age group, so we are very proud of her. Vault 8.55, bars 8.55, floor 8.65. AA she placed 4th…which is a major accomplishment due to the caliber of this meet…there were 33 gyms in attendance from many states including California, Nevada, Idaho and Oregon.

Here are (supposed to be) the pictures from Brooklyn’s sweet 16. She invited her friends to a movie and Red Robins…She even let me tell the restaurant that it was her birthday…so they came over and sang to her. Now any of you who know Brooklyn know that she has NEVER let us do that…so it was fun!

I am waiting to get the pictures form Brooklyn in a format I can put on this blog…

Something very cool happened a few weeks ago that I have been remiss in mentioning…Jackie is our household humanitarian. She went with Rick D’Aoust and his two sons (Tim and Emerson) to cook for 70 people at a homeless shelter (tent city). She must take after her mother

Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of this…