Finally made it

She finally made it to the top of the rope!  

 

Solar Eclipse

My goal for viewing the solar eclipse was to avoid crowds and traffic jams so we stayed at our pool and had our own viewing party.  Caitlin invited a few friends and we just chilled.

 

Getting closer to totality.  You can see it getting darker. 

Almost totality, the pool lights came on.

It was such a neat experience to get to share together! 

Cross Country - first meet

When school started Caitlin kept saying she wanted to try out for cross country.  I think she might have even asked about it at the end of last year.  I just blew her off because she doesn't run.  She had jogged a little at girls camp with a group of girls and had enjoyed that but I thought cross country was long distances.

 

Caitlin kept asking, so I did some research and ran it by Rusty.  Turns out middle school cross country is only 2 miles.  Rusty said why not let her try out? So we rushed to get her paperwork filled out and a physical done so she could try out on Monday.  Coach said she had to run 2 miles without stopping to make the team.  She had ZERO conditioning. But she did it and was SO excited!  Immediately, practices every day after school started.  She came home exhausted each day but loving it.  Then we find out her first meet will be Saturday (5 days after she tried out initially)!  And she has to be in Macon County (1.5 hour away) at 6:45am.  UGH!!

 

But we made it and the weather was nice at that time!

Warming up with her team.  They didn't even have time to all have uniforms yet.

 

This is the finish line.  I'm not sure you can tell, but this course started and ended on a steep hill.  It was brutal!

 

Before the race - Caitlin's goal was just to finish.

 

 The starting lineup -

 

And they are off -

 

Finish line -

She threw up on the course but she finished.  She was so proud of herself for the week of hard work.  She has no grand aspirations of winning a race or even being in the top of the pack.  She just wants to set a baseline and improve throughout the season. 

Learning Routines

Starting to learn her floor routine -

 

And getting better on the rope -

First Day of School

2nd grade

 

8th grade

Lara's Visit - Sunday

Ready for church on Sunday!

 

After church, we were hanging out in the bonus room and noticed this guy riding down the sidewalk! So we went out for pictures.

 

More play!

Lara's Visit - Saturday

Saturday, Lara went to the temple and we went to play at the park.

 

Then we all went to the pool again.