DARWIN is on his 12th year of teaching, currently at Springville High School teaching astronomy, geology, environmental science, and physics. He also teaches physics at UVU for a 7 week STEM summer school program for junior high students. He also teaches teenagers in our church ward. He's super busy, but still makes time to be an awesome dad and husband.
Aurora is getting old enough that she can start participating in extra-curricular activities. It's kind of fun and exciting!
In January we signed her up for a 6 week gymnastics class. It was only once a week but she always looked forward to going and loved it while she was there!
Every week she told her coach that she wanted to learn how to do flips :)
She kind of got bossed around by a couple of the older girls in her class, got out of the line a lot and missed her turn a couple of times. She met some new friends (mostly became friends with the only boy in the class, Ashton) and learned why personal space is important.
Overall, gymnastics was a great experience for her and it was fun for me to watch her learn new things! Darwin wasn't able to be there so I took lots of pictures and short video clips so he could see what she was learning.
1st Class
Warming up by doing "butterfly wings" with her legs
Happy and excited to be at gymnastics!
Learning how to walk with pointed toes on the balance beam
"Ta-da!" arms! :)
Learning the proper way to hang from the bar
This picture is pretty dark (the lighting was really bad in the room) but here she was learning the right way to do a somersault
Savannah got a little bored sometimes, but she was really well behaved and patient. She was too young to participate this year.
One of Aurora's favorite things was playing with the parachute at the end of each class. All the kids loved it, actually :)
On our way home after her first week we saw this funny Stop sign at the end of my in-laws street and I couldn't resist taking a picture. Who has time for that? Haha!
Other Weeks
Showing off her strong arm muscles :)
Running around the room doing "high knees"
Talking to her friend, Ashton
(he's 6 months younger than her, but look how big he is!)
Good form, girlie!
Balance beam
Backwards somersault
Savannah was very patient in watching the other kids and such a good sport!
We thought about signing her up for gymnastics full time, but ended up deciding against it. I think she'd really be good at it and would love it too, but we're trying to sign her up for different activities right now to find out for sure what she wants to do.
She was so sad when the class was over, but I'm glad she got to try out gymnastics!
Learning how to walk with pointed toes on the balance beam
"Ta-da!" arms! :)
Learning the proper way to hang from the bar
This picture is pretty dark (the lighting was really bad in the room) but here she was learning the right way to do a somersault
Savannah got a little bored sometimes, but she was really well behaved and patient. She was too young to participate this year.
One of Aurora's favorite things was playing with the parachute at the end of each class. All the kids loved it, actually :)
On our way home after her first week we saw this funny Stop sign at the end of my in-laws street and I couldn't resist taking a picture. Who has time for that? Haha!
Other Weeks
Showing off her strong arm muscles :)
Running around the room doing "high knees"
Talking to her friend, Ashton
(he's 6 months younger than her, but look how big he is!)
Good form, girlie!
Balance beam
Backwards somersault
Savannah was very patient in watching the other kids and such a good sport!
We thought about signing her up for gymnastics full time, but ended up deciding against it. I think she'd really be good at it and would love it too, but we're trying to sign her up for different activities right now to find out for sure what she wants to do.
She was so sad when the class was over, but I'm glad she got to try out gymnastics!
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