Ginnie Springs

This past weekend we finally made our trip to Ginnie Springs in Florida. Lynsey planned this trip for months and it turned out to be great!!! Mitch and I left Thursday night and met John, Lynsey, Hal and Laura down there. All weekend we floated down the river, swam in the springs, cooked over a bon-fire and hung out. I laughed so much my stomach was actually hurting! It was really nice to go on a trip with good friends and have nothing to worry about (although we did see two alligators and a snake!!) 

This is a picture of the river and some of the floaters. Off of this river is about 6 different inlets that go into beautiful, crystal clear springs. 

 

Daddy tent(Lynsey and John), mommy tent (Laura and Hal) and baby tent(Lesley and Mitch.)

Ours did end up being the best tent! You wouldn't have thought it though!   :) 

We also had the best spot on the river (thanks to Lynsey)! 

 

This was probably the most fun and relaxing trip we have had in a while and we decided it is going to be an annual event!!!

Summer is over and school is starting

For a few weeks now, my mom and I have been working in my classroom getting ready for the new year. I think I am finally ready!! I wanted to share a few pictures of my circus themed classroom.

This is on the wall outside of my room.

"Jumping into Mrs. Thorn's Class"

The birthday Clown.

A.R. Big Top Tent

Reading Tent and "Roaring Student"

Panama City Beach Cheer Camp

This past weekend, my 12 Varsity cheerleaders and I traveled to Panama City Beach for cheer camp. I was worried, knowing that something would happen between the girls. (This is 12 high schoolers.) But thank God, I was wrong!! We arrived Thursday and registered, right then the lady said we won the cutest award!  They did look very cute!

This picture was taken Thursday before we left.

When we got to PCB, they started cheering right away. Next, we had our home pom evaluation. (That is a dance we bring from home and perform for everyone.) We did great on the dance, but during it, one of the cheerleaders twisted her ankle very badly. That was a BIG bummer and thankfully was the worst incident that happened.

This is before we went on for our Home Pom Dance!

Friday we won the first award, the SPIRIT STICK!!

 We were so excited!!!

Friday night, UCA held a jump off. I had to nominate 3 cheerleaders to participate. This was very hard considering all of the cheerleaders have wonderful jumps. Kaitlin Holley, Cambrie Barnes and Jamie Park got to jump. They were competing against about 80 other girls and all three of them made it to the next round!!! They did great! 

The girls before they competed in the jump off.

Saturday they had a "Hero's Rally" where we chose a hero we wanted to recognize. We chose the army!! There were a lot of of cute ideas; firefighters, superman, batman, wonder woman, UCA staff and a bunch of others.

"Hero's Rally"

Also on Saturday, UCA had a luau where the girls got to dress up, play games, dance, and eat.

Finally on Sunday UCA handed out awards! Andalusia won 1st place in dance competition, 2nd place in cheer competition and all superior ribbons. 

Also, we had 3 all american cheerleaders.

Overall we did WONDERFUL!!! I am so proud to be the coach of this great squad......

As you can tell!!!