Riverton Championship

We've had a fun-filled week of basketball games for the boys, a cheer performance at Desert Hills High for Bailey, and a cheer competition in Riverton for Bailey also. Caleb and Easton's teams are each coached by Mat and they are coming so far! Caleb's first game his team scored one solitary basket from a foul shot. This past week's game they wiped the floor with the other team. Easton's team is a mixture of kids from 5 different elementary schools. They are the smallest every time and don't win at all. They pulled off a 30-21 point win this week!

Bailey's team performed at a Desert Hills High School basket ball game on Wed. They seemed to struggle with their revised routine and Bailey decided not to do ANY back handsprings during her performance. One of the flyers on her team was dropped on her head during the performance! Needless to say I was NERVOUS for the spirit championship that was last weekend!

As I was videotaping Bailey's competition of course I was watching her. She forgot to do a front roll and then missed one of her tumbling passes. At this point I may have cussed a bit... Her team looked great and she isn't ever one to bring on deductions. She's cheered for 2 years competitively and the only time she's taken first is when they were the only team in the division. When we arrived at the venue we saw that her division not only had the most teams competing but two of the teams ALWAYS took the top spots. After seeing the errors Mat and I hoped that maybe they could at least place second or third. After they announced the second and third place teams our hearts dropped. Not only had they not called out Bailey's team but they hadn't called THE team that always takes first. The other team started jumping up and down and standing up to get reading to claim their trophy when they called out RAGLAN COAST CHEER!!! We were so happy that Bailey got to feel like a champion all weekend! She has worked so hard and 100% earned a first place!

Since we were heading up north for the competition we thought we'd make a weekend out of it and stayed at both Sandi's and A'mee's houses. The first night we were there we took all of the kids ice-skating at the Gallivan center.
Kris had connections for free passes and we like cheap so...

This was Caleb and Easton's first time on the ice to skate not fish. :) Caleb struggled a bit at first but after we tightened up his skates he did awesome. Easton never really got the hang of it but kept going the entire time! Fall after fall! He's such a tough kid.

Bailey has a friend that lives in Alpine so the minute we were up there we were getting calls for sleepovers. Since we wanted her to hang out with her cousins we opted to take Randi ice-skating with us. Cute girls!

SUCH a handsome fella! He thinks all of the girls in school are in love with him because he is on youtube and clearly famous. :)

Half of the bunch!

Overall, we had SUCH a fun weekend. The kids loved hanging out with cousins and playing in the snow. However, we are SOOOO glad to be back home sleeping in our own house!