What a busy month we've had! Still living in the hotel, but we are supposed to move back into the house this weekend. It has been difficult living in these two rooms for so long, and we've managed to accumulate a lot of stuff, so moving back to the house is going to be somewhat of an ordeal! It will be nice to be home though, and our house has gotten quite a face lift! We have brand new hard wood floors, the carpets have been re stretched and cleaned, and all of the wallpaper in Anna's bathroom, the downstairs living room, downstairs hallway, Kindra's bedroom and Kindra's bathroom has been removed and the walls have been painted. Anna's bathroom is a burgundy color, Kindra's bedroom and bathroom are a cotton candy pink, and the downstairs hallway and living room are a color called "latte"...a light brown, sandy color. It all looks great. For now Anna's bathroom doesn't have any flooring and the downstairs toyroom is missing about half of it's carpet, which was sacrificed to replace ruined carpet in other places downstairs. Anna's flooring should be in within the next week, and we have ordered carpet that will just about match the rest of the downstairs carpet for the toy room.
Anna has had a busy and very exciting last month. She has competed in two gymnastics meets, and did awesome at both. At the meet in Marshfield (November 18th) she walked away with 2nd place on bars, 2nd place on beam, and 3rd place on all around (which is when they add together all four of their scores...bars, beam, floor, vault). In Antigo (December 2nd) she blew us away with 2nd place on vault, 1st place on bars, 3rd place on beam, 3rd place on floor, and 1st place on all around!! And to top it all off, she has been advanced to level 5!! It's all very exciting, but we are at the point where we have to decide how far we are willing to go with this. Rhinelander only trains for 4 sessions a year, plus the competition session. That leaves huge gaps in training. For example, tonight is her last practice for the winter session. They will not start up again until April, a four month gap in training. So, we are looking at other places Anna can train while Rhinelander is not holding sessions. The two choices are Antigo and Weston, Antigo is about an hour away, Weston is a little farther than that.
We've also celebrated a few birthdays this last month. Kindra turned 13 on November 14th, Noah turned 5 on November 22nd, and I turned 29 (again!! haha) on December 2nd.
Gotta run, will take me awhile to get these pictures uploaded.
More later,
Rebecca
