Jazzy gymnastics

Did I mention in an earlier post that Rory and I were over Wellington Jr. Jazz this year?  It comes with him being a council member for Wellington City and is a ton of work.  I worked really hard to get the school district to let us hold some games at the elementary school (we still had the older kids play at city hall) and that made coordinating the times and age groups a lot easier.  Not only did we have to unlock doors and set up chairs for all the games, but Rory coached both Kadee and Connor's teams and even refereed a couple games.  Our awesome nephew Taylor helped with the refereeing as well so it was fun to have everyone at the games to visit with.  So anyway, for all our hard work, the Jr. Jazz program gave us free tickets for a Jazz game on April 12th.  We also had some left over from the tickets we ordered for people to purchase if they wanted to, so we loaded up our car and invited Jessi and Brady to meet us there.  When I say we loaded up our car, I'm not kidding.  My mom watched Kinlee and Debbie kept Matthew so we took:  Connor, Kadee, Jordan Shorts, Gavin Miller, Chet Anderson, and Logan Bradley.  The kids were so fun to listen to in the car, the girls were giggling so hard and the boys were so "annoyed"  but I absolutely loved it.  We had to stop at Sams Club and that was an adventure in itself.  The kids had so much bottled up energy from being in the car that they ran around that place like nobody's business.  I finally convinced them to sit at the patio display while we checked out.   At the arena we met Jessi, Brady and their kids out front and headed in.  Each of the kids took money for the game and when we got to the arena they couldn't wait to spend it.  With our Jr. Jazz tickets we got free hot dogs and drinks so that was our dinner.  After that the kids had cotton candy, popcorn, red vines, and each made sure to spend every dime their parents sent them with.  Everyone left the game with a souvenir and possibly a belly ache (actually I know Gavin had one, he ate so much and ended up getting sick the next morning).  Porter, Connor, Gavin, Chet, and Logan sat a few rows down from us and danced their little hearts out.  Jordan and Kadee were pretty calm and sat with us the whole time.  It was such a fun game and I loved taking all the kids with us.

Jessi and I in our matching shirts (not planned)

Jessi and Brady

The boys

Jordan and Kadee BFF's


So... last night was Kadee's last night of gymnastics before summer break.  I decided to go and watch and record her and take some pictures since we didn't do any meets this year.  She did a really good job, but I think she was kind of being silly at times. :)  Kinlee went with me and she LOVED it.  It's all she could talk about and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have 2 gymnasts when we start back in the fall.  This year she did all around, which meant she got to do the beams, uneven bars, tumbling, trampoline, and more.  She has really come a long way and can almost do the splits (she probably has my flexibility  I danced for years and never could do the splits all the way down).  So glad she finally found something she loves and I really hope she sticks with it and continues to improve.  We have been blessed with so many talents in this life, the trick is finding what we are good at and sticking with it.