#London2012

okay, I know I'm about a week and 2 days late on this post, but I am obsessed with the Olympics. my favs are swimming, track+field, beach volleyball, and the love of my life, gymnastics.  it brings back so many memories of the happiest days of my life. the 25-30 hours a week in the gym practicing with the dream that I'd be an olympian one day (clearly we all know how that turned out). it did bring back memories of meets and new leos/warm ups, the competitiveness between teammates who were my best friends, the intense training and russian coaches yelling at me to "point feet! point feet!"...ahhh the good ole' days. since I never got there, here's some of my fav highlights from the 2012 games...

• the fact that it was in London, my favorite city (I'm choosing to forget the travesty that was the opening ceremony...i can describe it in two words. Epic fail.)
• my future husband, Ryan Lochte, beating Michael Phelps in his first race...which btw, all of y'all will be invited to the wedding
• Phelps breaking the record most medals won and becoming the most decorated olympian of all time
• Misty May and Kerri going out on top. they look like they would be so much fun to hang out with!
• Usain Bolt striking all gold again...he's not human, I tell ya
• Allyson Felix + Sonya Richards-Ross getting the golds they deserve...and the relay team (yay Carmelita Jeter!!) breaking the world record
• Missy Franklin for just being her and hopefully becoming the future face of USA swimming...how can you not just love her?! and all her accomplishments at her first Olympics!
• seeing USA basketball back on top, and in a respectable fashion
• the spice girls
• and last, but not least, of course the #FIERCE FIVE! we swept the competition. and how can anyone's jaw not drop at McKayla Maroney's vault in the team comp??? i have to say, while I love Gabby and am beyond excited for her, all respect goes to Jordyn Wieber. i've been following her for a couple years now and she is just an amazing talent who got robbed. her scores were not reflective of her routines (just ask Bela). all five of these girls should be beyond proud of themselves for their performance, but most of all for their conduct. they acted as a team on and off the floor and deserve the utmost respect. 

i do wish they'd worn these leos in the team finals

i'm so bummed they are over (and that the closing ceremony wasn't the opening ceremony. it was much better).  and we have 4 years to wait for Rio...which I'm not so excited about after watching their portion of the closing ceremony. however, I can finally clean up my dvr and go to bed again at a decent hour. 

all in all, London was no Beijing, but the Americans rocked it. and who didn't love seeing Wills and Kate everywhere?!