Emily's Gymnastics Meet

This past weekend Emily competed in her second gymnastics meet. She did so well and we are so proud of her. :)

Overall, she had the second highest all around score on her team. She had the highest score from her team on the vault. But even better, she got the highest score on her beam routine out of all of the girls on her team AND out of all of the girls her age there competing against each other. WOW!!!! These meets are the real thing with real judges and everything! One of the judges was a Nationally Ranked judge that had even judged at the Olympics! We have learned they just don't hand out good scores, the girls really have to earn them.

I know as parents we are all so proud of our children, but as we watched her perform her routine I sat so amazed and so unbelievably proud of her. She had worked so hard and her hard work was paying off and it all showed in her routine. Jeff and I were so nervous for her!! I have a hard time just walking across a beam, but Emily is so confidant and performs as if she is just standing on the floor! I think she looks so graceful as she is doing it. To me, the beam is one of the hardest apparatus' in gymnastics. Just one little wobble, she could fall and all of her hard work would be for nothing.

Anyway, I have included her routine for you all to see! The filming is not the best because we were far away from her, but you can at least see what she is doing. (Please ignore the music in the background that is for the girls that are competing on the floor and all of the people screaming. There were some loud people there!)

Pretty good, huh......