First Competition of the Year

We now have the first competition of the year under our belts. It is an exciting, long, exhausting weekend. But good none the less.

Kayla did her first solo this year to TROUBLE by Travis Tritt. She did a great job! Every time she does it more of her personality comes through and she steps out of her comfort zone a little more. She received a third place trophy and was happy.

We are use to seeing the girls judge against a standard but this competition didn't do that. So there were a lot of girls walking away with nothing. It was a jolt and honestly just having the 1-3 places doesn't tell you much even for the girls that placed.

Our groups did awesome. All the groups received 2nd place with exception of contemporary that received 1st and Best of Showmanship...awesome!! It is "America" with costumes that are camo.

As soon as we walked in the door this evening, Kayla said I like KC for the weekend but I am so glad to be home, me too!

Last of the holiday break

The girl's have been busy with friends as the last few day's fo the break slip by. Ysterday Emily went to Brianna's house to play and ended up being invited back to spend the night and play all day today.

Yesterday Kayla and Peyton worked on their sceince fair project which is extracting DNA from strawberries. They worked from 9-1:30 and still have more to do. Then Kayla was off to dance practice. Emily M ended up coming home with us to spend the night and hang out with Kayla today.

Christmas decoration are half down but not put away. Not sure when that will happen this week and not sure I am ready to take down the tree anyway.

Today is my first day back at work and I told Tim last night, he really needs to invent something or win the lottery because I did not want to come back to work today.

I am not a fan of snow but we were talking here at work and think in about 3-4 weeks we will be ready for a break, so we will be praying for a 4 foot blizzard about that time. :)

Happy New Year

Well, I haven't blogged in forever. I have thought about it several times but picking back up in the middle of the year seemed odd too, not sure why. So, since it is a new year I have no excuse.

Last night the girl's had friends over for our annual New Year's Eve Party. Kayla had Peyton, Emily M and Abby over and Emily had Rowan over to spend the night. Abby ended up going home at 1:00 and I think the rest stayed up until 3:00 am. However, everyone did make it to church today.

So New Year's Resolutions for the year?

Read the bible is a year
Eat supper at the table
Exercise more and eat better

I'm sure there are others I should have but we will start with these and see how we do.

This week is filled with getting ready for Kayla's first dance competition of the season. This one is early and a tough one, it will be interesting to see how we do.