Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Hey Ya'll! I wanted to give you all a little update. Time certainly flys in this life of mine! I know one day I will miss all the craziness of having three little girls running around my house. I do look forward to having TONS of grand babies to spoil completely rotten and then sending them home to their parents ;) It is my duty as a future grandma to plan for this, right?
Well my house is almost done remodeling. We have been putting all the finishing touches on, between cheer life and my husband doing his schooling. It is looking better and better each day and it is really starting to feel like ours now. I knew when we moved in that this house would be a dream come true... one day. I do see the day approaching! It is less of a pain in my butt each day!
So I know you are all wondering about this beautiful picture below..... This is my cheer squad. Aren't they pretty? These girls are The Future Firebirds 5th grade squad. We attended the Cheer for a Cure competition this past Sunday. It was waaay intense. The squads were amazing, flipping and jumping and doing all sorts of tricks that I cant even imagine in my head. We were up against FIVE other teams. The pressure was so high in the whole school. It was so hot in there I could feel the heat when I was blinking. Have you ever been that stressed? I'm sure you know what I'm talking about if you have ever been to a cheer competition! We worked on our routine for approximately two months. We completed it on the past Friday before comp. When you are a coach you go to a room with all the other coaches and have a briefing on the rules and so on of what is going to happen for the day. I talked to some other coaches that had told me they had begun their routine in October. Huh? Excuse me? Way to take my nerves to a whole new level! We have only had two months and you are telling me you have been practicing over five. Man alive! To say the least, I was stressed out. I prepared my girls that we had done our very best in the time we had. Sure I would love a few more weeks, what coach wouldn't? But we had what we had and in the end this whole competition was about supporting breast cancer! It was a win win situation. There are no losers when you are supporting a good cause. So we get ready to go on, the girls looked so nervous yet very focused. My husband made a comment that no other team looked as nice and refined as we did while waiting to go on and entering the mats. The girls went out and Rocked those mats. We had the loudest audience reply, and they perfected the routine. I had to push back my tears. It is a hard job being a coach and watch your everything you had worked for be over in less than three minutes!
On to the good stuff....
We go out to the mats with all the other teams to wait for awards. They start with fourth grade and Bam, we were at 5th grade. I think my heart was pounding through my chest. My eyes are barely coming back open, because my eyelid heat situation is starting again. They call fifth place, it isn't us. Thank you Jesus! We aren't dead last!!! Fourth place, not us. Huh? No way! We got third..... Third place called, Nope not us again. WHAT? I think I went into shock at this point. Second place.. Kettering 5th grade!! i swear, I think we all about fell over at this point. We didn't know what to do. About two seconds of an eternity passed of all of us looking at each other in complete denial. No way! We got SECOND PLACE!! OMG! We went crazy. Throwing each other around, hugs, kisses, and a few tears! It was sweet beautiful victory. Our hard worked really did pay off. Just think what could of happened if we would of had practiced since October? I have never been so proud in my life. I was so happy as a coach to know the pure joy of winning. Seeing my girls, my team, my coaches so happy was the most unbelievable feeling.
Needless to say, it has been a nice few days. I cant wait to start again next season. I have such higher confidence in my coaching now. I CAN do this. I just started coaching for those of you that don't know. I coached one season of football and then was asked to coach the select basketball team. I was more than scared, but i did it! I coach with another wonderful lady, it was her first year coaching bball too. So this was just a wonderful season for us.
Congratulations 5th Grade Future Firebirds!
You did it!!!!!!!
SECOND PLACE WINNERS, baby!