Friday, December 5, 2014

Junior Olympics

On our drive to Des Moines, we saw a lot of windmills.

We stopped at the Winter Quarters Temple in Nebraska





The Mormon Trail Center is right next to the temple





We stopped at the Cabelas headquarters

The Pony Express monument

This is in Little America, Wyoming

Pony Express
We made it to the Olympics!


warming up the first night

Dad's happy we made it!

He's so happy we're here!

This is Jeremy's relay team. Luke Jones, from St. Louis, Missouri is standing next to Jeremy.  He is also Jeremy's doubles partner.  In the front is Zake Tinney, who is from Des Moines, and Aiden Jones, Luke's brother.

The awards stage

all the medals

They had these cups to entertain the kids not competing

Luke and Jeremy in the doubles competition

warm up

opening ceremonies



first preliminary competition

preliminary results







relay competition

This is Luke and Aiden's mom Gina Jones. She also acted as the coordinator for their relay team.

finals


award ceremonies












City of Des Moines




State Capital








We drove down to visit Uncle Lynar and Aunt Jen and their family in Arkansas.  We met the twins for the first time.


We went to a fun museum while we were there

We also went swimming



Jeremy and Kaitlyn




We saw the Kansas City temple on our drive down

We also stopped at the Liberty jail monument




On our way home, we went to a Colorado Rockies game in Denver.







This is the trip into Bentonville, Arkansas before we left Arkansas.  Jeremy came here when he was about 3 years old. Look how he has grown!



We also stopped at this cool fish place




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