Future Olympian

First I will tell you that we had a great Christmas/New Years Party with my family.  Since my sister and I were not there Christmas day we decided to celebrate on New Years day. We had the usual massive amounts of food, lots of friends and family and this year we added Christmas presents to the mix.  Emily added yet another puppy to her collection and has a total of 5 now. Looks like we will be having a "puppy themed" birthday for her this year. My mom made Anna & Emily little raggedy ann dolls this year and they are very cute. Complete with a heart that says "i love you" My sister and I both looked at the same time to see if the heart was there. We also both got raggedy ann dolls that my mom made when we were little.

This is a huge blow up ball that Noah got for Christmas. 

You can get inside of and roll all around. 

Emily thought is was great fun!

Now onto the future Olympian part.

Emily's second cousin Braeden turned 1 on Christmas day and we celebrated on Saturday. We all agreed that it was the best birthday party we have been to.  It was at a local gymnastics place and we had the place all to ourselves. I am pretty sure that the adults had way more fun than the kids.

Anna's routine on the balance beam. Perfect form

 Emily's mount on the uneven bars

Doing a front hip circle

Front handstand

Release move

Stuck the landing

A new apparatus - swinging rope

Zachary on pommel horse

Emily's new approach to the vault

Trying her swing in the uneven bars

The boys wanted to see if they could knock the other one off the floor

Zachary 

Neil

Shane

Enjoying a snack after a hard days competition

The Birthday Boy!!