Kansas City Gymnastics videos

Floor routine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-K3pyEtFyw
Pommel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdZkXpqabnY
Rings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrRGLnTnTz4
High bar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC-m3lAgwxI
Parallel bars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhIMGr0OTnA

I managed to find his scores on the gym website.  He definitely had some competition, but gained a large amount on the pommel to keep him in the lead.

Greta's choir concert

Maggie and I went to Greta's choir concert last night.  She wanted me to take some video to show the folks back home, here they are......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkCmizbTC4g&list=UUAOWX-wOARFYsMlXtYv82vA&index=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwzCqE2uc7A&list=UUAOWX-wOARFYsMlXtYv82vA&index=1

Weekend in Kansas City

Ben and I went to Kansas City this weekend for a gymnastics meet. Our first stop was heaven a.k.a. UGas to fill up the car.  You can tell he was pretty excited

We stayed at the Embassy Suites near the airport.  Ben loves everything about hotel rooms.  The first thing he had to do was check out the free lotion!!!!

A bunch of us went out to dinner at a BBQ place.  This was the plate of ribs that one of the kids ate!!!!

They covered themselves in BBQ sauce pretty successfully.  Ben and I had shrimp that was pretty good

Ben and Sean won the level 6 team award.

Not sure of the individual events, but Ben won first place overall

Science class

Ben is in the kitchen, teaching Maggie science.  I hear him telling her to be careful with something
I say "Ben, maybe you should put the matches away"
Ben waves his hand in my direction and says "Ugh, I'm a professor......."
well, all right then, I guess the house isn't in danger of succumbing to a science experiment (yet)

Affiliate Cup

This is Crossfit.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r6fLsQb5_gg

Crossfit 26 came 3rd overall.  What a great team!!!!

Don't do this......

Ben walked up to Starbucks after school, had a white mocha and read his book until I picked him up at 3:30.  Then he came home, sat me down, and told me all about how the principal from the middle school visited today to talk about moving to 7th grade.  He was so excited about choosing electives, having a locker and french fries in the cafeteria!!!

I am so not ready for him to grow up, but I have no choice.....

Busy day just running around

We had the pancake breakfast PTO fundraiser at Hudson yesterday. I dragged Greta and Vaiva out of bed and took them with me at 7 am to help out at the event. They need a set number of volunteer hours as part of the American Councils program and this was an ideal opportunity for them.  I was so busy at the event, that  I didn't have time to take any pictures or video of the pancake flipping, but the event was a huge success.  We had over 300 people and the line for pancakes was out of the room at one point!!!!

After that, we had to rush around to take Ben to gymnastics and then I took Greta and Vaiva to the mall.  Maggie and I ran into the Crossfit Affiliate games at Crossfit St Louis to support the 26 team for a while.  I'm glad I wasn't on the team, the workouts were killer!!!

After that, we went to pick Ben up from gymnastics and I took them to Bread Co to eat lunch (yes, more carbohydrates for the kids). 

By the time I got home, Greta called and wanted me to pick them up, so I got them and we went to Global Foods-a great store of us foreigners to get out fix of home foods!!!
After making dinner, I fell asleep in front of the TV!!!!!