End of the year Dance Concert!

Studio One presented the end of the year concert starring Sid and Nik. It's always amazing to me how much growth takes place over a year in these girls lives. Sidney especially the past two years has become a beautiful dancer. Both the girls work hard and have so much talent. Jess did choreography for the studio this year. She had 7 dances in the show and that was fun to see too. Sidney is moving on next year to Senior Company. She said it was the best thing that had ever happened to her. Nikki is staying on Jr. Prep on more year. She was disappointed because she wanted to be on Jr. Company but I can't say I was. I love her being my little buddy at home and wasn't ready for her to be fully committed to the studio yet! I have been trying to download some of their dances. The only one I can get to work is Jessi's teacher dance!

Gateway with the cousins!

A few weeks ago I met Stephanie and her kids at the Gateway for the afternoon. We ate lunch, played at Borders, ate cookies and ran through the fountain. It was a little cold but the kids still had a blast. Ben and Rachael were especially die hards. They wouldn't get out of the fountain. My kids were a little wussy ( I guess thats not a word) Most of all it was so great to spend the day with my little sissy! I love you!

We love Sidney and her friends.

It is becoming a tradition that we take Sid and her friends boating for her birthday! We had so much fun with them. Sidney is now 14! I can not believe how quickly she is growing up! She is fun, talented and beautiful. She is always thinking of others and is quick to defend all her brother and sisters always. Usually when I'm getting after someone...haha! We love you Sid and we are excited for the upcoming year and watching you grow-up!

Girls Camp and Sid and Sandi

This year girls camp turned out to be a real testimony builder for me. I was DREADING it! I did not want to go camp in the rain, snow, sleet and hail! AND COLD! I started having a really bad attitude about it for weeks in March! It was hard to plan because I just couldn't enjoy thinking about camp! (Luckily I had already done a ton of stuff in Jan and Feb) At the start of April I decided I had to change my tune and only think positively about the situation. I started praying every night for each girl individually and thinking about what they needed from girls camp. Wow did that pay off! I've had a lot of girls tell me that even though it was hard and was not fun sometimes, they felt the spirit more than any other year! That's all you can ask for. Camp was COLD but was still a great success story, for me and my girls!

Windsor Field Day!

My kids have always loved field day.  They don't always win the blue ribbon but they love trying!  We have a tradition of putting football black marks under eyes, Mom always works at one or more of the races and we seem to always win the three-legged race.  Nikki wasn't with her favorite partner this year and missed out on the grand prize.  Sidney and her friend Brooke won every year and even raced the boy winners in 6th grade and won!  Sid still brags about it every year.  This was Conners first year to race and he thought it was really fun.

Learning the ropes of becoming a man!

Conner has been helping out a lot at home lately while Scott has been working out of town.  He takes the garbage out, tucks me in sometimes, and asks if I need anything all the time.  This morning he got the weed eater out put his glasses on and started weed eating.  It was so cute that he noticed that we needed the lawn finished.  He didn't come and ask for any help.  We just heard him out there working! What a cutie!

The triathalon!

So I know all you that read my blog have been dying for me to post about the tri!  haha  Well it came and it was really fun.  Jess, Sid, Mer and I ran it together.  After a few mishaps before the race all went really well.  I was proud of my girls for finishing it with little or no training.  (Sid)  My time was better than I had expected.  Jess is getting sick of me telling people she only beat me by a minute and half  but it makes me feel good about my oldness! haha!  Here are our pics! Thanks everyone for supporting!