CheerForce Takes it all in Long Beach

CheerForce is a Competitive Cheer Team with 5 gyms located throughout California.  They have always had great teams and have been a force to be reckoned with.

This is Sara's first year with the gym and she is a little fish in a big pond.  But what a pond it is!

Our San Diego Gym (where Sara's 2 teams practice) competed in Long Beach this weekend and the Cheer Pros California State Championships and they did incredible.

Eight teams competed and all eight teams took 1st place in their divisions, received state title jackets; with our Coed 5 team also taking the Grand Champion title and a check for $4000.  How Awesome is that.

Here's how hard it was to win
Tiny Level 1 competed against 3 other teams
Mini Level 1 competed against 10 other teams
Junior Level 2 competed against 3 other teams
Junior Level 3 competed against 5 other teams
Junior Level 4 competed against 1 other team
Senior Level 2 competed against 6 other teams (Sara's 2nd team)
Senior Level 3 competed against 5 other teams (Sara's primary team)
Sr Coed Level 5 competed against 2 other teams

Can't wait till next till this weekend when all 5 CheerForce gyms will be competing in Palms Springs at the Spirit Sports Duel in the Desert.

Gymnastics Prelim #2

Kaleb had his second prelim mid month and did fantastic.  All the level 4 boys have improved so much and it's great to see them compete.

The only down fall to the meet was that our boys were being given a deduction for their uniforms. How LAME!  Apparently our uniforms are to kool for level 4 and they are supposed to be wearing shorts and t-shirts to compete in.  Shorts and a t-shirt yuck!!  Our uniforms are very men's gymnastics and look awesome.

So with deductions Kaleb walked away with
Green - Vault
Purple  - High Bar
Purple  - Floor
Purple - Rings
Yellow - T-bars
Yellow - Pummel & mushroom

He improved on all his events and scored a higher color or the same color ribbon from the 1st prelim.  Since he had scored a Green on Rings last meet his coach and him added some bonus's to this rings routine.  He needs a little more work but he'll get a green again.

Job well done.

Sara's 1st Masquerade & Semi Formal

Ahhhhh How cute!

Since she's not allowed to date, she is allowed to go to her school dances where they are heavily chaperoned.  Usually more parents then  kids; just the way we like it.

Well back in November Sara says the school is having either a semi-formal or a masquerade ball in January.  Of course she's allowed to go since mom will be chaperoning.  We found her dress at Macy's after trying a bunch of dress on and her telling me she didn't want to try this one on.  She didn't like the dress on the hanger but after she put it on she agreed it looked good on her.  Yeah the hard part was over at least that's what i thought.

Earlier this month, like a week before the dance she informs me that it is now a masquerade ball.  Ugh!  where are we going to get a mask and have it delivered in a couple of days with out spending alot of money.  Well after looking all over the Internet we decided i'd give mask making a try.

We ventured out to several different craft stores and found the supplies we thought we'd need then went back home to try and figure it out.  Well getting the main color on the mask was difficult.  Matt and I played around with several options and after i left to take her to practice Matt got the right color combination and the mask was a perfect color match to her dress.  YEAH!!!!!

Her Dance was funny.  Don't you remember those Middle School Dances?  Not everyone understood Semi-Formal and there weren't alot of kids there.  They didn't dance and the decorations were sparse at least the DJ was good.

Okay so she's not allowed to date but one of the boys who happens to have great grades and be student body president did buy her ticket so i took a picture of just the two of them for memories sake. and of course i had to take one of the whole gang.  I though there dance was lame but Sara and her friends had fun and that's all that matters.

After spending all this time on her mask, and making it match her dress; she didn't even wear it.  But it still looks pretty.  you can't really see the glitter around the black but in person it looks awesome if i do say so my self.

Even though she never wore it at the dance i did manage to have her put it on at home so i could take at least one picture with her wearing it. you can see how well it matches......

i can't believe next year we'll be buying formals for High School dances.  where does the time go?

Sara Vegas Comp 12.2010

So this time I'm not slacking i didn't take video at comp and was waiting on another parent to make me a DVD.

So, Sara had her first competition with her new Gym this season CheerForce in Vegas; FUN!!!!!  The American Cheer & Dance Championships is a pretty large competition and gyms from all over the US come to compete.

All the CF teams did fantastic and were great to watch.  You really don't realize how competitive cheer can be until you are apart of it.  We had so much fun in Vegas!!!!

So here's the video, yes she's one of the girls in the air and she's even tumbling..

Her Primary Team Sr Silver took 1st Place and received a really cute National Champion jacket.

Her Second Team Sr Green took 2nd Place by .111 but was also awarded a judges choice award for best jump sequence.

All in all they did fantastic and we are looking forward to the rest of their competition season. 

By the way we are in SD this weekend (1/22) Long Beach the 30th and Palm Springs the following weekend (2/5-2/6) if you wanna go watch.





Kaleb Gymnastics Prelim 1

okay so yet again i am playing catch up.  As you already know Kaleb has been doing gymnastics for 1 yr and 1 month now.  His Coach Cody (who you won't see in the video) has been awesome.  We were very lucky to have him while he was at our Y and wish him the best in college and his new job.  You gotta love those coaches who are younger and really work with your kids.  He's the only reason Kaleb started and we are sad he left but happy too.

Any way Kaleb had his first Meet in December and he did really well.  Unfortunately i didn't get to attend because Sara had comp on the same day but Matt did go and video so sorry it's not the best video.

Just to give you a little info on the scoring best to worse goes:
Green
Purple
Yellow
White
Blue
Light Blue

         

Again Kaleb did awesome for his first Gymnastics Meet and has another one coming up next weekend Jan 23 here in SD.  I'll post results of the January Meet the next day.

Bows bows bows

okay so I've been making a lot of bows and even making some money off them.  Who would of thought. 

so I keep saying I'm going to get some pics up and so here they are finally



These are the 1st ones i ever made - they aren't to pretty but they worked.  

Here are the ones i made for Xmas for my nieces and let me tell you, little people bows aren't as fun to make

 



And here are some of the ones I've made for Sara or other people.

 

 

Well there are a ton more that I've made but it would take up to much room to post them all at least this way you all get the idea of what I've been doing.