Last night Jeff and I took Lindsay on a date. We got a babysitter for Logan and we spent some quality time with just Lindsay. Lindsay is currently in a gymnastics class at The Little Gym and she absolutely LOVES it!! She has so much fun tumbling and running and just being silly. Lately, I have been recording the news at night and then watching it the next morning and every time they have something about gymnastics on the sports section, Lindsay has to/needs to watch it over and over again. Thank goodness for TiVo! She just can’t get enough of them and loves to see them flip and bounce around. So, after that I thought she would enjoy going to see it in person and so Jeffy and I got us all tickets to the Utah vs. BYU gymnastics meet last night up at the U. So, we took Lindsay to dinner first at The Olive Garden (obviously not her choice) and then we headed on up there.

The seats we had were perfect! We could see all the equipment really well and we weren’t too high. We thought maybe we wanted to be in the first 10 rows or so so that she could see it really well, but row 25 was perfect.

We got there a little late because apparently the U doesn’t have a parking garage for the sports arena so Jeffy had to drive around to find a parking spot, but all we missed were them introducing the girls. So, the first two things they did were the uneven bars and the vault and Lindsay was so excited she couldn’t sit still!! She was amazed at how fast they were running and flipping and landing on two feet. At her gymnastics class they pretend they have sticky tape on the bottom of their feet to help them land on both feet and so she kept saying, “Look, mommy! She had sticky tape!”


She would clap really hard for each girl and got really concerned when one girl hurt her knee when landing from the vault. After they did the uneven bars and the vault they switched to the beam and the floor routines and Lindsay was bored. I knew she would like the uneven bars the best because that’s her favorite part of gymnastics so when she got bored we knew it was time to leave. We did watch a few beam routines and floor routines but then we left. We stayed for about an hour. On our way home we stopped at Cold Stone and got some ice cream and Lindsay got the cotton candy flavor. She said it tasted like blueberry.

It was a really fun night and Jeffy and I had a lot of fun just focusing on Lindsay. She had a blast and will probably talk about the “big girls doing flips” for a long time. We love you Lindsay!