Gymnastics Season is Here

Ashley, Maria, Kate, Cici, Shayne, Emily

Yesterday the girls competed in Burley at the Let the Games Begin Meet.  This "practice" meet is done at the beginning of the season to make sure everyone has the required skills, so it's more casual than any other meet.  In fact, they don't even post scores!  The girls do receive a score card at the end.
Emily scored a 9.1 on vault, 8.725 on bars, 8.25 on beam, and 8.5 on floor.  Her all around score of 34.575 has already qualified her for state, so it was a great start to the season.

 Today was Community Day at the YMCA, so Emily took her friend Tobie.  The girls spent about an hour rock climbing and a couple hours in the pool.

Halloween

Emily went as a hipster Panda this year, although she regretted that costume and decided that she really would have preferred an inflatable costume.  She was also wishing she had an animal pajama onesie (a giraffe, specifically) because that's what all the "big girls" wore to gym.  Out of the group of 7 she practices with, only two of them are still in elementary.  The rest of the team is middle school and high school, so they're always referred to as the "big girls" and Emily really looks up to them.  She was so bummed not to have a costume like them that she even refused to put on hers for the gymnastics Halloween party.

She wanted her pumpkin to resemble Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas.