Here is Natalie’s vault at the Tumble in the Bluegrass. She scored a 9.0 and earned 1st place in the 8 JR age group.
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Gymnastics – Beam
Here is Natalie’s beam routine at the Tumble in the Bluegrass. She scored a 8.8 and earned 5th place in the 8 JR age group.
Gymnastics – Floor Exercise
Here is Natalie’s floor routine at the Tumble in the Bluegrass. She scored a 8.4 and earned 4th place in the 8 JR age group.
1st Annual Wykleville Book
In an effort to continue documenting the life and times of the Wykles, I decided to take a stab at producing my own “blog book”. I wanted to take some of the more important post from the Wykleville site and document them in a book form. I also wanted this to be a surprise for the Shelley as a Christmas gift. After seeing some very neat samples online, I went and researched the different companies that provide book production. I settled on using Blurb after reading many positive reviews and a one week turn around. Blurb has their own free software that is required in order to upload the book. It also has simple production tools and upload the book. I found the software a bit limiting and not allowing me to achieve the effects that I was after. So I expanded my search and found FotoFusion. It is a nice piece of software that met my needs. After a free trial, I found that it was quite powerful and easy to use. It allows you to easily crop, rotate, and re-size the photos. It also has many different photo frames allowing you to create different looks for each of the pictures that you drop in. Finally, the front and back cover was created with a Microsoft Autocollege product that takes a folder and creates a nice college of pictures.
I created each page in FotoFusion and then drop them into the Blurb software in order to upload the finished product.
You can check out the finished product here.
The Wykles are Elfed
Disco Elf
County Elf
Classic Elf
Gymnastics – Vault Video
Here is the practice vault. I mistakenly didn’t get the “judged” version.
Gymnastics – Floor Exercise Video
Here is the judged version of her floor exercise routine.
Gymnastics – Balance Beam Video
Here is the judged version of Natalie’s balance beam routine.
Gymnastics – Bar Video
Here is the judged version of Natalie’s bar routine.
Level 3 – Gymnastics Mock Meet
This past weekend (11/22/08) was the first public display of all the sweat and hard work expended by the Level 3 team from 5-Star Gymnastics. They had their first “mock meet” at the 5-Star facility in order to give the girls a chance to perform in front of a crowd. Parents and family friends attended to cheer on the Level 3 and Level 4 teams in preparation of the upcoming competitions.
I will have videos of each of Natalie’s routines posted separately. You can find each here: Vault, Bars, Balance beam, and Floor exercise.
WOW! 2nd Grade?
Here we are again…school is in session for the 2008 school year. Natalie has just completed her first full week in Ms. Owen’s second grade class at Goodridge Elementary. Needless to say she was very excited to get back to school and hang with many of the same students that she befriended in Ms. Clark’s first grade class. Natalie already has taken to her new teacher Ms. Owen and is look forward to learning science (a new class) and continuing her reading skills development.
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Natalie’s Yard Gymnastics
The kids were watching the US gymnastics competitions today and it spurred them into action in the front yard. Natalie was demonstrating her improvisational skills and interpretive dance. You can also hear mom directing from back stage.
This video was the conclusion of the exhibition. As you can see Natalie was giving thanks to everyone who had helped her to achieve her talents.