The Day of Sports!!

 Saturday was a crazy day! Tessa had her State Meet at 7:45 am in West Valley. She and I woke up long before the sun to get her hair ready and eat breakfast and get to West Valley by 7:45.

Since we needed two cars anyway, Paul and Damon waited to come until after warm ups and the events had started. This meet was a qualifier for the Regional Meet and Tessa really wanted to qualify, so she was a bit more nervous about this one than she has been for other meets. Her first event was beam and she ended up falling off twice. She was very frustrated with herself and disappointed. So much of her routine was great, but her feet landed right on the edge of the beam on her cartwheel. She scored an 8.2, and I could see it was really hard on her when her score was posted. I hoped she would be able to shake it off and not let it affect the rest of her events.

They moved to floor next, and she definitely didn't let her beam score effect her there. She did so good!

Her leaps, back walkover, and back handspring were the best I've seen her do all season. I was so proud of her for getting back out there and doing her best after a frustrating start to the meet!!

Vault was next and she did well on that too. And then they went to bars, and Tess absolutely rocked it! She was so excited to end the meet with a 9.7!!!!

We added up her scores and she qualified easily for Regionals. Yay!!

The people doing the medals ceremony were incredibly unorganized and the whole thing was very confusing and took way longer than it should. There were many girls that were left out completely, or were told they got a certain place and then a coach would go talk to the man, and then he would call the whole group back up and they would have to change places and medals. It was kind of a nightmare. Luckily Tessa's level went relatively smoothly and she wasn't involved in all the confusion of the other levels. She placed 4th on vault.

7th on beam.

2nd on floor.

And 1st on bars!!

And she finished 4th All-Around. 

Arete took 1st place. We're so proud of you Tessa!! You did an awesome job at State! Congratulations on qualifying for Regionals!

By the time the team trophies were given out, there was a mom that was in a screaming match with the guy giving out the medals. It got real ugly. He told her she had 5 minutes to get out of the building before he called security to remove her. We were happy to get out of there!

Grandma & Gramps came to the meet, which was so nice of them! Tessa loved having them there.

Cheree had taken Rockwell to his game for their warm-ups, so Paul, Damon, Grandma and Gramps were able to rush straight to Provo for the game. Tessa and I were hoping to make it, but with the chaos of the medals ceremony, we only made it for the last possession. That was the possession Rockwell was playing quarterback, so I'm glad we were able to see that. His passes looked awesome!

As soon as Rock's game was over, we all headed straight to Lindon for Damon's soccer game. I was so excited to see his game since I missed his first one. He was a little timid at first. But then he scored a goal, and something was lit in him and he was all in after that. It was so cute! He played a great game!

Gramps got a little nap in during Damon's game. :) I don't blame him. That was a lot to cram into one day!! It was so nice of Grandma and Gramps to spend their whole day supporting their grandkids.