WOODLANDS ELITE

Calli's home team Green Berets is a Level 4 Junior Small Team. This means there are 20 girls doing level 4 skills ages 14 years and younger. The girls are mostly in the 12 to 14 year range except the flyers....they are usually in the 9 year old range since they need to be tinier to stunt them. 

Green Berets was rumored amongst the coaches to be one of the best in the gym. Obviously they aren't they highest level of skills because there is one level higher but in terms of skills with what they are allowed to do, cleanness, jumps, tumbling, etc the team is really good. But then we haven't really lived up to that expectation. We had a little hiccup when 2 hours before our first competition....I said hours not days.....Calli's flyer who is center flyer texted our coach and said she quit the team. That really set us back 2 competitions. There was no way to win that competition because we were down a whole stunt that couldn't go up at all because we had no flyer. Then the next week was the next competition and we spent our entire practice teaching the new flyer the routine instead of being able to clean it. And since then we've had a different stunt fall every competition. The only one that hasn't fallen is Calli's....I hope I didn't just jinx her. 

I think we've won one competition. Hoping to have a better Nationals season. Luckily she is double teaming for Regionals (and maybe the rest of the season) for Majors, the large team, level 4 Junior team. They have a girl out with back problems so Calli has taken her spot since the first competition. And they've won several. Here are some pics from the Regional season so far...

COLSON GOT RUN OVER BY A TRACTOR

On Wes' watch, Colson broke his collarbone. How? He had a fight with a tractor and the tractor won. He was playing with his friend  and was running backwards. When he turned around to run full speed, there was a tractor sitting there that didn’t get out of his way. Not moving. No one on it. Parked tractor. He may have dented the tractor but the tractor also dented him. I took him that night to get an X Ray not thinking it was broken because you can never tell when he’s hurt. He tries to act all tough with Wes because he thinks he’ll get mad at him for crying. And the second he sees me he falls to the ground in pain. Really kid? How am I supposed to know if you are pulling my leg or not. He does it every time he gets hurt. So I thought I would take him to find out for sure so that he couldn’t milk it with me or I could tell Wes to lay off him. The xray showed a no break. They gave him a sling and said to take it easy for a few days. The kids at school would sing "Colson got run over by a tractor" to the tune of Grandma got run over by a reindeer. He tried to tell them that HE ran over the tractor but it was too late, the lyrics had stuck already.

On Friday we were at John and Brookes and he was playing dodge ball. He came and told me something popped but wasn't crying or anything....and then went out and played dodge ball again.

So we leave for Vegas on Sunday and as I'm standing in line checking into the MGM, I get a text from Grandma Schubert asking me to call her. Ves had felt Colson's shoulder at church and had made a special visit over to the house to feel it again and he felt the break in the collarbone. So they headed to get an X-ray on Monday and sure enough it was broken.  So he's out of baseball (which we were mostly done until the Spring) and we had to resign from basketball.  A little disappointing but I'm sure I'll enjoy the taxi break of not having to run him to all the practices. 

VIVA LAS VEGAS

Wes and I headed to Vegas for 4 days in early December and what a nice break that was. Vegas is one of those places where there is always something going on. We went to watch the NFR…National Finals Rodeo and had tickets to 3 nights. We actually had a friend that made the finals and was roping in it….kinda cool. We sold our tickets one night and instead went to a Cirque De Sol….Mystere. Wow! That was impressive! Massive skill, athleticism. I have no idea what the “story line” was nor did I try and figure it out. Besides the random 300 pound 40 year old man that kept coming out dressed as a baby in diapers and a bottle, it was amazing....again, you don't try and figure the story lines out in these shows. It was really good! 

I was only down $35 in the gambling hole. Pretty good huh? Well it's not so good considering I only gambled $35. Wes put $25 on black twice and won both times so we made a whopping $50 on Roulette. We stayed at the MGM which was my LEAST favorite place to stay. This is like our 4^th time to Vegas and were trying to stay somewhere different every year but I did not like the MGM.

John and Brooke (who was 4 mos pregnant) went with us so we had a great time. I even found the Michael Jackson shrine and had some flashbacks of my childhood when I went with my friend Wendy to the MJ concert by RV.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ALL ABOUT COLSON

 People like me because I'm nice

 I'm happy when I make people laugh

 My favorite memory is going to Florida

 Three things that scare me are spiders, sharks, snakes

 A funny thing I have done is gotten in a tomato suit and danced in the road

 I am proud of my baseball

 My goal for 4th grade is to pass the Star test

When I grow up I will be a pro baseball player