Desmond's Bath

While the girls & I were cleaning, Desmond decided he wanted a bath.  Instead of asking for help, my self-sufficient little boy just helped himself!

Dinnertime

Judges Cup Meet Results

Lydia's 2nd meet was today.  This one was local, but it was still an early day.  Wave took this picture of  Des sleeping during awards.  It was really loud, so you know he was a tired boy!

Lydia had another successful meet!  This meet was much bigger than last weekend, so awards were given up to 8th place.

Lydia earned a trip to the podium for every event!


Here's the summary...

3rd place on VAULT (A great improvement from last week when she got last place.)
7th place on BARS
8th place on  BEAM & FLOOR
7th place ALL-AROUND

Once again, her team took first place!  Yay, Byers!

If you'd like to support Lydia at her next meet, it's September 10th at 8am at Byers Elk Grove.

Meet At Mavericks - August 14, 2011

As most of you have heard, Lydia's first gymnastics meet was this past weekend. It turned out to be a great first experience for her (and me!).  Use the link  to view the pictures and videos we all took throughout the trip.  2011 Meet at Mavericks

On Saturday, Grandma Susie came to Sacramento and we all piled into her car for the trip to our hotel in South San Francisco.  After a long trip due to the heavy traffic, the kids played in the pool & hot tub with their Daddy. We followed that up with snacks and drinks at the hotel happy hour.  Wave and I picked up some fast food for Grandma & the kids then went out for sushi by ourselves.

Sunday morning, we were up at 6am.  Lydia's hair still takes me a while to put up properly.  We were out of the hotel at 7am.  The trip to Moss Beach took about 1/2 an hour.  Breakfast muffins & orange juice were a pretty good on-the-go meal.

It was chilly in Moss Beach.  My favorite, foggy-type weather.

The meet started at 8am.  Byers competed on beam first.  Amazingly,  Byers girls earned the 1st, 2nd & 3rd best scores in Lydia's division and they held for the rest of the meet!

We are so proud of Lydia for her 3rd place score on beam!  Beam is the event that she has shed the most tears over in practice.  Parts of the routine were really hard for her to master and a fall caused her a lot of anxiety over the dismount.  3rd place at her first meet is a great accomplishment!

Along with 3rd place on beam, Lydia tied for 6th on floor.  She ended up with 7th place all around.  Her all around score qualifies her to compete in the Level 4 State Championship on November 19th or 20th!  Byers took home 1st place as a team. Here are  the  full results for her division.