My Sunday Six plus two

I have had much to smile about this week. I think that the pictures are self evident but I will add a little dialogue for clarification.

We just got home from St. George Utah. We went to cheer on our grandson Johnny who was in a Gymnastics competition there yesterday.
Lynell, Johnny and Loni drove down from Northern Utah. We drove up from Southern CA and we met in the middle which was St. George. It was great to spend 1 1/2 days with them...it was way too short a time but special all the same.

Smile # 1 was the high bar


Johnny got 1st place
Lynell was taping each event while I took these photos.
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Smile # 2 the parallel bars



Johnny got 1st place.

Scoring goes up to 16 now.... Johnny is in level 7 and was competing against boys who were older. It is very good for a boy his age to score this high.
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Smile # 3 the floor exercise

I couldn't get a good picture because he was flipping around too fast and he was too far away most of the time.

Johnny got 1st place

15.20 YEAH!!!

Of course Grammy had to give her boy some love and encouragement.
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Smile # 4 the rings

This is Johnny's favorite apparatus....and....
...mine too

Again Johnny got 1st place
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Smile # 5 the pommel horse

This is Johnny's hardest apparatus. It is very hard to do the skills when you are young and your legs and arms are short.

This was the first time in competition that Johnny did not fall off the pommel horse. It was his lowest score of the day....12.00....but that was higher than the other boys got and high enough to give him 1st place again.

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Smile # 6 the vault

This is not a great picture but he did a great vault.

This was his last event. Loni got to hold up his 1st place score.

At the award ceremony he stood in the middle 1st place spot for every event.

Notice how much shorter and smaller Johnny is compared to the older boys he was competing against. He may be small but he is mighty.

So he ended up with 7 first place medals. One for each event and one for over-all

Actually he got 8 medals because Loni made him this gold medal out of her sticky bar things...

(I forgot their real name but they are surely fun to play with. Do you know what they are called? )

Loni was so happy for her big 12 year old brother.

And so were his Grammy and Grampy

This bike was sitting outside of the gym. Johnny hopped on and said he wanted a bike like that some day. I hope he forgets about that with time.... but he may not... my John still wants a bike like that... and I keep saying ...no...no...no
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Now for my extra smiles...

Smile #7 meeting our blog friend Kelsi

Kelsi is Lynell's, Erin's and my blog friend. When she found out we were coming to St. George she invited us to stay with her. I already had booked a motel room for Fri. and Sat. but John and I did plan to stay there tonight. We were hoping to visit with our friends Sherri, Nancy and Sil this afternoon and tomorrow..... unfortunately.... my tummy was really hurting and acting up and we decided that I had better get home to my own bed. So we left a day earlier than we planned.

Kelsi also invited us to go to church with her family before we left for home. We appreciated that because it is always nicer to attend church with someone you know. Then after church Kelsi invited us to her home for a nice lunch. We visited with her darling family, changed out of our Sunday clothes, ate a delicious lunch and then headed down the freeway for our homes.

Thank you Kelsi for your kindness and hospitality. We enjoyed going to your ward for church and getting to have lunch at your house and not having to go out to eat on the Sabbath. Getting to meet you in person made me smile. Thanks again.

Smile # 8 is for Marie

I am so happy that my friend from England, Marie, gets to come to the USA to see her daughter compete in the Special Olympics in Idaho. I am thrilled for her. I am going to get to meet her. I can hardly wait. Smile....smile....smile.

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I hope that you have had lots to smile about too. Have a good week. Love, Lura