Gymnastics update and grandma/grandpa visit

Ainsley's last meet was our only home meet and the parent group puts it all together, so Ryan and I were there for several hours setting up and the next day working stations and then putting everything back the way it was supposed to go.  We really found out how dirty the gym was :o(.  Things went very well and Ainsley continues to improve each time she competes, but the judges were scoring very, very low.  That isn't good for qualifying for state, but somehow she managed to squeak it out and was very excited for that.  She placed 2nd on beam and floor, 4th on vault, 3rd on bars and 3rd all-around!  We did trophies for the all-around, so she got her first one.  She told me the other day how much she loves the meets!  When Ainsley's session was over, she wanted to go back to watch the older girls and she was in heaven.  I wasn't supposed to stay and clean up, but I couldn't get her to leave.  She was having so much fun and I remember those times, so I let her stay for awhile :o).
Thank goodness for Kierra's mom...she takes beautiful pictures of the girls.  I have tried, but mine never turn out, so I have been downloading hers!

Bar routine:

Floor routine:

The timing was great because my parents were in town and could see her in action.  Their visit went really quick this year, probably because we were running around all the time to get the kids where they needed to be!  The kids had conference week, so they had a couple days off and it was nice that they got to spend a little extra time with grandma and grandpa.  They arrived the afternoon of Sophia's birthday party, so we started out partying right away!!  We also had the babysitter Sunday afternoon, so we went out to dinner and saw the race car movie which was surprisingly good :o).  Downtown Livermore is a really lively place!
Little odds and ends were done in the Casita during their week and a half visit and the finishing touches are all wrapped up.  The biggest challenge was getting the heater installed and messing around with changing it from propane to natural gas and getting the gas hooked up.  I have to say, I am very impressed with Ryan's gas skills, but sadly the furnace kicked on, but the blower seems to be broken and probably isn't worth it to fix since they didn't have the heat on the entire visit!  The weather was very nice and warm :o).  I found one of those infrared heaters at the thrift store for $12, so we are going to give that a try!
The kids went out to visit grandma and grandpa every morning and they really loved having them here.  We went and saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and grandma got sucked into helping Reggie with his Minion costume.  He is very persistent!  They did a stained glass art project which ended up decorating the Casita door very nicely.  I'm not sure what all they did out there, but I know they had cinnamon rolls, baked cookies, ate candy, played board games and had all kinds of fun!  I took some pictures, but they are on mom's camera, so I realized when I looked to post some that I don't have any!  I have been really bad lately with remembering to take pictures :o(.  Mom, maybe I can walk you through how to upload to the blog??  We'll give it a try soon, so check back for more pictures.