National Cheer Competition in Salt Lake City

We left for SLC on Friday. We had to be at the Salt Palace at 8:00 a.m. hair done and make up on. Much to my horror, we were trying to get the girls ready and could not find the hair stuff or make-up bag in any of our bags. I knew that it was in there when I packed. So the morning did not get off to a great start, but thank goodness for the other moms, they saved our bacon. Got the girls hair done, wigs and all, and one of the cheer moms did their make-up. Each of the girls performed once, and then they narrowed it down to 1st and 2nd, and those 2 teams had to go another round. Tierra's team performed, and half of them forgot to tumble this time, but still took 1st!! Morgan's team only had one other team in their division so, unfortunately, they did not get an opportunity to redo their performance. Morgan was very distraught with not getting 1st, but the good news is they only missed it by 1/2 a point. She really wanted to bring home a Championship jacket. All the teams that took 1st got these jackets. What she doesn't realize, is they were so amazing, the other team were 2-3 years older than them, and like 2 times the size of their team. It's incredible that they can even compete in this division. I wish I could express how absolutely incredible these cheer teams are. After awards, we went to lunch with Todd and then went back to the hotel to swim. Todd finished with his meeting and then we went to dinner. Yes, we ate a lot. Todd and Trevan left to come back to Idaho, and believe it or not, we went back to the hotel for some more swim time. My kids are like fish. The girls had a couple of kids from the team that they spent the entire time in the pool-cheering. We had a great weekend!!