Oh Joy

We spent today at Madeline's cheerleading competition. Luckily we weren't there alone. The three Madeline's are on the same team so we hung with the Kohne's and saw the Wheelocks. I ran into B-Rad Wheelock at the event, who is in high school, but looks a lot older. The funniest part of the whole event was when B-Rad explained to how he needed to hang with his Mom throughout the whole event in order not be confused with a predator at the event (see predator picture below)

There was a lot of hard core positioning at the event for video taping, so Mark Kohne and I accidently went up during the wrong group, so we decided to stay there and pretended to tape the team before in order to optimize our position for taping our team.

This place was huge. I'd figured this was going to be three teams at an elementary school gym. Instead, there were 22 teams and thousands of people, just for our division. The Kohne's had kids in two divisions and had to stay around for 6 hours. Sucks to be them.

The theme for Maddie's team was Fire and Ice, and Cathie had to get creative enough to make the costume herself, which was impressive to me. Maddie's team didn't place and she was pretty bummed out about it. Competition is a great way for kids to learn all sorts of great things, including losing, but it's painful to watch them deal with it on the back end.


You can see more pictures of the event in the Kurt Family Photo Gallery here. I uploaded the video of the competition here.