Cheer Nationals at Opryland Hotel

Last Monday, Dec. 27th the kids and I loaded up the car and headed for Nashville.
We spent a day south of Nashville with a good friend. Shannon and her husband moved to Nashville several years ago. Although I have never made it to Nashville before we had kept in touch and she had come her a few times. The kids and I spent the night at their house, met their adorable son, Carter, often called Cater. We saw the town of Franklin and went to a build your own sundae shop. We even saw Shannon's school. It really made me jealous and want all the technology that her school has. The next day we went to Opryland and Katherine's cheer competition. She practiced the first day and then competed the next two days. She competed with her level 3 Jr Excel team and with her Youth Elite Level 5 team. The first day Katherine did great although each team had a few mistakes in their routines. The second day both of her teams did great and made us all so proud. Katherine's youth elite was in its own division so we knew they had to take 1st place. They went ahead and did Youth Elite's awards early in the day, so many teams members could head back home. Jr. Excel was up against 5 other teams and they won... 1st place for Jr Level 3. After the very end of the competition they announced best out of all Level 3, Cheer Extreme Jr Excel won. Then they announced best for all Level 5 teams, including seniors, and Youth Elite won. Unfortunately, part of the team already left at that point. Wow... so proud of those girls. To top off the week we met a coach from UNC and saw several players for UNC and UT before their big bowl game, which of course UNC won.