Steve and me watching in the grand stands.
The boys before the race.
Conner running the 400M leg of the Medley Relay
After beating the school record by 5 seconds.
Lorenzo Silva, Nephi Meono, Conner, and Colin Arave
After the races, we talked Jessica into letting us take Avery home for the night. We knew we would be back in the morning to watch Conner take on the long jump.
We had a lot of fun with Avery.
She loves to walk around my yard, picking all the pretty flowers.
Then we went shopping, needed the bare necessities, like a binkie, or she wouldn't sleep for me.
It was a fun night. Avery went to sleep around 11:00, then at 12:30 we got a call from church security asking Steve to go check out a building that was alarming. Which got my adrenaline flowing, and I wasn't able to get to sleep for several hours. Avery got up the next morning by 6:30, but she decided to snuggle in my bed watching cartoons, so I got another hour of sleep.
Then it was time to get back to the track meet. Steve had other commitments, so I met Jessica there, and we had a very exciting day!!
Conner was in the first flight, and wasn't expected to go to the finals at all. His distance going into the meet was 19.08 feet. He jumped 20.07! The furthest he has ever jumped, and it put him in the finals!
On his first try, he was running down the track and a kid ran toward the judges, and almost crossed in front of Conner. Everybody screamed, and the people in the stands said he should get another try, but Conner didn't let it get to him, he jumped farther than he had all day, and got 21 feet! (We think maybe it gave him a rush of adrenaline to almost run into that kid) He only gets 3 tries, and the next two tries he stepped over the line, and scratched. But his 21 foot jump put him on the medal stand! He took 5th place!
A very, very good day!
