January Misc.

January brought back cheer season...

Cheer bows for every occasion. 

Always heading out the door to cheer at a game, wrestling match or practice!

Wrestling

Basketball

Both Girls and Boys

 

 Halftime shows at all the home games

 Always the center of attention!

 Gentry eating pears and Nutella...Calli would be so proud!

 Another temple date night and picture for Calli

 We've reached a pivotal moment...222 Days she's been gone! 

This poor guy is so overworked,  he can fall asleep anywhere. 

 Pack Meeting! Everyone was taking pictures of their scouts, so I took one of mine! H is one good looking cubmaster!

 Newest toy at the Peterson household!! Adam helped a buddy put in a pool so he didn't need the hot tub anymore. He gave it to Adam for payment. After a new cover, some plumbing and a pump it is as good as new and the girls... and Adam haven't got out of it since. 

Mission Life!

Mission is flying by so fast! Literally can't believe it! Mati is doing amazing, literally our best friend! He hasn't smoked once and is just as amazed as we are! Every time he meets with us he brings us so much food, pizza, ice cream, chocolate, ect. Love that man. He will be getting baptized this Saturday!!!!! We are so so excited for him, he will be baptized by his best friend, on his birthday which I was told the other day is the same day I received my mission call. I told Mati that and he thought it was pretty special! So lately I have been obsessed with my ukulele and have been playing it every night, also my companion has become obsessed with it as well and bought herself one. We have been taking them a lot of places with us and singing hymns with families. Everyone in the ward wants one now! Haha We even sang for 2 women who are special needs at a members house and they loved It! We got asked to teach a mutual activity literally the night of and so we taught them how to play a song on the ukulele and that they can do a personal progress with it. It has been really fun! Well, it was... until I lent mine to Mati to keep him busy at night so he doesn't have the temptation to smoke, it's being used for a better cause. And he is learning to! Haha We found a women in area book who was our miracles this week, we met with her and she loves the missionaries and has so so much faith. Her name is Yedira and we are so excited to meet with her and see what comes of that! The past two days I was sick and then my companion got crazy sick and we had to spend the day inside, my first time ever doing that it was fun trying to come up with things to do in our apartment. I called every single person in area book😂😂 Anyways all is well here in Beautiful Barcelona Spain! I feel so blessed to be able to be here! I have really seen blessings lately in just simply reading and studying the Book of Mormon every morning. I know that it is true and that there is so much strength and comfort in it. That it truly does testify of Christ and that he is our Savior, Redeemer and older brother, that he loves us and we are never ever alone, his love is always there. My testimony has really grown in that this week that no matter what our Heavenly Father loves us, he is our dad and he wants us home. No matter if we feel we deserve his love or not it is always simply there. Love you all!!!! Oh and Happy Birthday Grandma, Tyson, and Trasen love you all so so much! Thanks for everything! Love, Hermana Peterson

Never a dull moment with Mati around

 Pizza and ice cream with Mati 

 Mutual 

The ukes 

State Cheer Competition!

State was on Saturday, January 27, 2018 

And they are off!!!

Each of the girls gave a treat to the other 25 girls on the team. This is what Sadie gave.  

Fusion Pharmacy made these for all the girls! So cute!

 We drove to Payson Friday night to watch Austin in his school play of Les Mis. They did a fantastic job. It was really good and "Bring Him Home" made me cry. Mostly because I was thinking about Calli and how much she loves Les Mis and would have loved to have been there. 

 Saturday...all day 9:00-9:00 was the competition. We stayed at Thanksgiving Point and just had a 20 minute drive to the competition.  Besides a break for a couple hours to go eat lunch we were at the comp all day!

This was Sadie's ride for the weekend! 

 Gentry entertained herself the whole time watching episode after episode of Supernatural. 

Before each team takes the floor, they do "Shout Outs" to individuals on that team. Parents, family, friends can pay to have a shout-out announced. They are usually "good luck, we love you etc."  We gave Sadie a Shout -Out that said "This shout-out is to Sadie From Spain. Love you Sis" Her whole team said "Awwwwwe" It made me pretty emotional that even though Calli couldn't be there, she was still there rooting her on! Sadie said it made her sad but she loved it!

 The first half of the comp they did amazing! They nailed all 4 of their routines bringing home three 1st place and one 2nd.  They went into their last routine (Show Cheer) feeling pretty good. To win a state ring you must win Show Cheer, even if you get 1st in all other routines, it really comes down to Show Cheer.  Desert Hills came out and did awesome. They were the first team to not drop. We knew right then that we had to have a perfect routine to win.  They did great but in the end had a couple of drops. 

 Award Time! SC placed 4th in Show Cheer and it was devastating. But with their first 3 wins they were still State Champs and could be proud of themselves. 

 They were all pretty sad. 

 Sadie took it so hard! She just cried and cried. I think having lost to Desert Hills after being region champs added to the sting.  Thank goodness for friends!!

Kirk

 Ben

 Jackson

 Ally

 Daisy

 Kada

 The Juniors

 The three musketeers and trouble makers of the squad. Sadie, Ally and Kell

SC Cheer~2018 State Champs!! We'll see what Sadie decides to do next year. If she tries out again, she'll have another shot.  Congrats Girls!!! Sadie wanted to ride the bus with her team mates so she headed home and to spend the night at Ally's while we stayed one more night.

 We went and visited Stacy and Ben! Trasen and Gentry discovered Stacy's old typewrite and had a ball...

they then soon learned they could make pictures with it too!! What a fun weekend!

A few days later this article came out in St. George News!!!

Region 9 cheer squads excel at state competition

Photo courtesy Kayshia Roemer

ST. GEORGE – The region and state cheerleader competitions were held last weekend for high school cheer teams, with southern Utah teams doing very well.

Snow Canyon emerged as a powerhouse with first-place finishes in five disciplines at region (show cheer – all girl, Pom, timeout dance, timeout cheer and fight song) held at Maple Mountain High School.

The Warriors then parlayed that success into first-place finishes in the state competition (held at Salt Lake Community College) in timeout dance, timeout cheer and fight song, plus a second in Pom and a fourth place in show cheer – all girl.

“Overall, the southern region teams rocked region and state,” said Kayshia Roemer, coach of the Snow Canyon team. “It was a great weekend for all teams and (they) represented southern Utah with pride.”

At the state competition, Canyon View placed first in show cheer (non-tumbling category) after also winning that category at region.  

Desert Hills placed first in show cheer (all girl) at the state competition after taking third in that category at the region competition.

Pine View also did well at state, placing second in show cheer (coed). The Panthers were the region champs in that category.

Those four teams were the only ones from Region 9 to compete in the region and state contests.

Photo courtesy Kayshia Roemer