Salt Lake City Memories - Junior Nationals Competition 2011

As 2010 draws to a close, our family will never forget how hard the kids worked all year long towards competing in Salt Lake City. I've put together photos and videos to help us remember that experience. Who would have thought a few years ago that ALL THREE Schneider-Farris kids would compete at one Junior Nationals!?!?

For those of you who read this who don't "know figure skating," doing this meant skating 6 days a week from two to four hours a day. It meant waking up at 5 or 5:30 AM most mornings. It meant a lot of driving on Jo Ann and Dan's part.

It meant sometimes missing drama club at Mountain Vista Homeschool Academy so the kids could perform in many, many Fire and Ice exhibitions on Fridays evenings. It meant getting a lot of costumes made. It meant fixing the girls' hair and make-up over and over again.

It meant passing several figure skating tests. It meant doing run-through after run-through of competition programs and pattern dances. It meant a lot of falling down and trying moves that seemed impossible over and over.

Most of all, it meant loving one another.

That's what figure skating IS! Happy 2011!