Hey everyone!

Sorry it's been soooooo long. I have been really busy! First off...CONGRATULATIONS TO CARLY!! Yeah Olympic Champion! It was so exciting for the whole gym. That day we all didn't want to know the results because we were all going to the restaurant, Austin Avenue, to watch it. But that didn't last long because Sergei, one of the guys coaches at our gym, screamed it out to the whole gym. It was fun that way too though, Everyone was running around calling people that they knew and telling them. After workout that night we still went to Austin Avenue to watch it. It was really fun we were all screaming every time she came on the TV. During the awards ceremony a lot of us cried because we were just so happy that she did it. When Carly came back a whole huge group of people went to meet her at the airport. We really didn't get to see her that much because she had to give a press conference and there was so much security. We got to say a quick hello and they she left. There have been lots of activities for Carly including a party at the Plano Center with lots of fun and then we finally got to really see Carly! She's just the same old Carly. The city of Allen also had a parade for her with thousands of people there. Most of us WOGA kids got to ride in one of the three WOGA floats in the parade, so that was fun. Anyways...I got my drivers license! It is so awesome having my own car, I can go pick up one of my friends and we can just go to the movies! Like, I went and picked up Andrea the other night and we went to go see Cellular (which by the way is really good) with Steph, Tim, and Bart. It was so fun. Ok, moving on...With all of this going on, I started school! It's harder this year, but I like it and there are around 160 kids at our school now. Ummm, WOGA had their 10th Anniversary party. It was really nice, and everyone had a lot of fun celebrating 10 years of gymnastics. Lindsey gave a really nice speech, which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. In the gym I've just been putting routines together. I learned my yurchenko double full. It just kinda came out of nowhere! Valeri said try double and I just did it right away. It was really exciting. On bars I have gone back to doing shaposhnikova instead of Hindorff. I think I will save Hindorff for next year. I've been doing routines on bars and they are going well. On beam I now do switch leap back tuck instead of switch leap wolf full. I put my wolf full after my front flip. On floor, I have been doing double arabians as my first pass, front layout double full as my second pass, and double pike as my last pass. So everything is coming together, I hope I will be healthy for next year! I will really try to write again soon!