Meet the Teacher Night!
1st Day of School: Emily
1st Day of Pre-K3 (Ella at First School) T/TH
Dance Team tryouts.
1st Day of Sonshine School MWF
Cheer Clinic at WJHS
Dance Clinic at FHS and she performed during Halftime. Here she is with Miss Courtney from dance team.
Emily was selected as a model in the American Girl Fashion Show. She was SO excited about this. She wore Bitty Baby's birthday outfit.
Pumpkin patch with the cousins
Hiking at Crystal Bridges
Ella started soccer (First Touch)
Girls at the pumpkin patch farm
Annual hiking trip (Devil's Den)
Halloween. Snow White and Supergirl
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Ella started taking dance this year! She misses gymnastics sometimes, but really loves to dance too.
SDC with Cita and Poppy!
Dixie Stampede with Cita and Poppy!
Polar Express!!
I was one of the Homeroom moms this year. We planned a great Christmas party for the class!
Emily started taking piano this year. This was at her piano recital at Christmas. She played Away in a Manger.
Angels at the Christmas Children's Mass
Snow on Christmas day at Cita and Poppy's house!
New Year's Eve playdate
American Girl store in Kansas City. We were there for a dance convention, JUMP!
At the dance convention. There were a lot of classes for 2 days, but it was a good experience.
Emily LOVED this instructor (and so did I), Melanie Moore with won SYTYCD a couple of years ago. She was very sweet!
Ella's 4th Birthday!!!!
Her actual birthday, we took her to Fun City.
Birthday party weekend. First, Ella had her Jitterbugs performance, so cute!!!
All decorated!
1st competition: Bentonville. These girls did great!
Sleepover playdate with all of Emily's besties.
Cheer Clinic at FHS
Valentine's parties
Gymbacks with some great friends!
2nd Competition in Tulsa. They did VERY well here! Her small group ensemble won a Special Judges Award "Mini Divas" and she had to answer questions on the microphone. They were the Overall champions for their age group at this competition!!!
Lots of trophies!
3rd competition: Little Rock. They still did very well and won High Gold, 1st place for all dances. Her small group got selected again for a Special Judges Award, "Most Fun to Watch". I think I'm more excited about these special judges award b/c the judges only selected about 4 groups to create a special award.
80's dance at school!
Fundraiser at school: Flying Burrito!
As you can see, we have been VERY busy since the summer. A little too busy for my liking, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Emily has kept her grades up and is doing very well in school. It's hard to be so committed to dance at an early age. She goes to dance 3 days a week for 2 hours each day. She is very passionate about dance and has talent. She also is in Girl Scouts, Brownies this year. She loves all her Brownie Troop and tries very hard to fit it in our busy schedule. I think it's important for her to learn everything she is learning from the girl scouts, so I am trying to fit it in. I think we only missed a couple meetings b/c 1)sick or 2) at the dance convention. She really likes piano. It took a little adjusting at first, but she gets it now pretty quickly. Ella is trying out soccer this year. She likes it, not loving it. We will see! I need one of my girls to be into sports. haha! I think she'll be a dancer or gymnast, but trying to expose her to all things. Emily might try out softball this Spring IF I can fit it in. LOL
I was sick for over a month. I think I had the flu, then had a never-ending cough that turned into an infection. I finally got on antibiotics for a second time and it finally got rid of it. I also have been taking allergy medicine every day b/c the dr. thinks I have bad allergies. Spring hurry up! It's supposed to snow tomorrow, the last day of Spring Break!
