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No pics of this one, crazy but true but just wanted to add a bit about our trip away for those that don't know about it.
I am lucky to have two families that Dave and I swap out weekend with every now and again so we can get away and get a break from the kids and recharge our love for each other, (hehehe) how romantic does that sound (hehehe) !!!
This year I decided you know we always go at least 3 - 4 hours away and spend so much time travelling in the car that we were not going to go far this time around and there was so much on locally that we could go to that even though Dave did not buy into it int he beginning it landed up being a really good idea in the end.
We actually stayed in a hotel in Concord, about an hour from home. We left while Amber napped on the Friday and spent the evening at Northlake Mall since it was really cold outside and rainy so anything indoors was good. We did dinner and a late movie and just shopped around then back to the hotel.
Saturday morning we went car shopping, yep I am getting a new van at some stage, I am very excited about that !!! So without the kids it was a great opportunity to go and do some shopping around :-) Then later the morning we went to Birkdale Village which is the quaint little shopping area but it was so bitterly cold outside we decided to head to Concord Mills rather, we hung out there for the afternoon till it was time to go to the Stock Car Track ... Oh my gosh it was cold, bitterly cold but yep we went to the stock car track for the first time here in NC and if you could get past the cold and dust like I have never experienced it was great fun. A nice treat for Dave I am sure and well I enjoyed it too but think I will be coughing for a good while after all that dust and wind, gosh !!!
Sunday morning after checkout we went to the Renaissance Festival which when I told Jade that daddy and I did that alone this year, she was so upset with me but it was so nice to do that on our own, to hang out and watch the more adult shows and to eat and drink without all the mess that goes with doing that with kids, it was so nice and the weather could not have been better. We had a great time !!!
And yeah we headed home around 5 ish, so thankful to our neighbors that we had this opportunity and the girls were good so all went well.
Now to start planning the next trip !!!
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Jades Second Competition.
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Ok so behind again :-( so need to play catch up here, sadly so much has gone on the past while that I am sure I will forget something :-( But this is the crazy time of the year for me so ... let's see how much I can remember and we will go on from there.
This is Jade second cheer competition, you can tell from seeing the last video that they have added more stuff, there were a bunch of mistakes but in all honesty I think they did great and can only go on from here.
They competed against two teams with girls that are so much older than our girls that really I just didn't see how our girls could have been in the same division but they were and well came third on the day of the competition, which is still good but compared to their first, shame they were disappointed. Anyway in the week that followed points got disputed and our girls actually came second which is amazing !!! If you had seen the other squads that competed you will understand what I mean.
Anyway here is the video ... Jade is the slow poke that joins the group at the very end, she got hurt in practice and was very teary eyed shame :-( but she did great. She is on the right hand side most of the time and does her back handsprings from the right too. She was supposed to do three but because she got hurt she did only two to take the strain off her wrist ... anyways more for next time right :-)
Thought I had some other pics but can't find them now :-( ok then ... our next competition is on the 10th of December so hold thumbs for us.
Ok so behind again :-( so need to play catch up here, sadly so much has gone on the past while that I am sure I will forget something :-( But this is the crazy time of the year for me so ... let's see how much I can remember and we will go on from there.
This is Jade second cheer competition, you can tell from seeing the last video that they have added more stuff, there were a bunch of mistakes but in all honesty I think they did great and can only go on from here.
They competed against two teams with girls that are so much older than our girls that really I just didn't see how our girls could have been in the same division but they were and well came third on the day of the competition, which is still good but compared to their first, shame they were disappointed. Anyway in the week that followed points got disputed and our girls actually came second which is amazing !!! If you had seen the other squads that competed you will understand what I mean.
Anyway here is the video ... Jade is the slow poke that joins the group at the very end, she got hurt in practice and was very teary eyed shame :-( but she did great. She is on the right hand side most of the time and does her back handsprings from the right too. She was supposed to do three but because she got hurt she did only two to take the strain off her wrist ... anyways more for next time right :-)
Thought I had some other pics but can't find them now :-( ok then ... our next competition is on the 10th of December so hold thumbs for us.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Amber As Minnie Mouse - Halloween 2011.
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Man I can not tell you the fight I had to get her to keep those ears on, she wanted nothing to do with them, I thought this was one Minnie that was going out without ears that day, but when I told her she would get lots of chocolate with the ears on she tried it and I was right :-)
The lighting was not good, sorry but she looked so cute, her first real Halloween I think, didn't think she would get into it this year but she so did and went up to most doors alone which amazed me as she is the more cautious one out of she and Jade.
Still not loving the ears.
Out with the neighborhood, very good turnout this year, better than any year before this I think, so many adults got kitted out in costume too, was fun to see.
She loved this stuff till it got darker and then so much she would point to and say 'scary mom, scary mom' but she did so well.
She wanted to carry her own candy, she caught Dave trying to lighten the load, not to eat it but transfer it into another bag to make it lighter for her, she just about had a fit and wouldn't let him have anything to do with her candy from there on out, nice to know she trusted mom with her candy more (hehehe) !!!
Not so scary one :-)
Yep, that's what 7 pounds of candy looks like ... and I think she ate about another pound on route !!!
Done with Halloween 2011, yay and I am up to date ... kinda :-)
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Man I can not tell you the fight I had to get her to keep those ears on, she wanted nothing to do with them, I thought this was one Minnie that was going out without ears that day, but when I told her she would get lots of chocolate with the ears on she tried it and I was right :-)
The lighting was not good, sorry but she looked so cute, her first real Halloween I think, didn't think she would get into it this year but she so did and went up to most doors alone which amazed me as she is the more cautious one out of she and Jade.
Still not loving the ears.
Out with the neighborhood, very good turnout this year, better than any year before this I think, so many adults got kitted out in costume too, was fun to see.
She loved this stuff till it got darker and then so much she would point to and say 'scary mom, scary mom' but she did so well.
She wanted to carry her own candy, she caught Dave trying to lighten the load, not to eat it but transfer it into another bag to make it lighter for her, she just about had a fit and wouldn't let him have anything to do with her candy from there on out, nice to know she trusted mom with her candy more (hehehe) !!!
Not so scary one :-)
Yep, that's what 7 pounds of candy looks like ... and I think she ate about another pound on route !!!
Done with Halloween 2011, yay and I am up to date ... kinda :-)
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Jade as Repunzel - Halloween 2011
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The dress was not the actual Repunzel dress ... that was crazy expensive so this is a night dress which Jade loved and I knew she would use more and she was very happy in it. The hair we bought at the Disney On Ice Show, at the time it was very close to her actual hair color but when we dressed her up this day, her hair was considerably darker but it still worked, I braided her own hair into the this braid, looked really cute :-)
These pics were actually not taken just before Trick And Treating like I normally do, this was just before a Halloween dance at her school, the only difference was that I put a long sleeve top under the dress and she wore stockings to keep warm then actually night they went hunting for candy :-)
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The dress was not the actual Repunzel dress ... that was crazy expensive so this is a night dress which Jade loved and I knew she would use more and she was very happy in it. The hair we bought at the Disney On Ice Show, at the time it was very close to her actual hair color but when we dressed her up this day, her hair was considerably darker but it still worked, I braided her own hair into the this braid, looked really cute :-)
These pics were actually not taken just before Trick And Treating like I normally do, this was just before a Halloween dance at her school, the only difference was that I put a long sleeve top under the dress and she wore stockings to keep warm then actually night they went hunting for candy :-)
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Blew Amber Hair Straight !!!
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We have all been sick with colds so this day I decided to blow dry Ambers hair, first time ... and well we kept it for Trick and Treating too ... it looked cute but man I love the curly tops more, even though it's really not that curly anymore. Look how light it is though, maybe she won't have brown hair after all ... nah I think it's brown :-)
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We have all been sick with colds so this day I decided to blow dry Ambers hair, first time ... and well we kept it for Trick and Treating too ... it looked cute but man I love the curly tops more, even though it's really not that curly anymore. Look how light it is though, maybe she won't have brown hair after all ... nah I think it's brown :-)
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Two Fall Pics Of Jade :-)
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Just Jade one Fall afternoon, she looked so pretty in her Fall top she was wearing, so here you go :-)
Growing her hair again, best for cheer right now, what is a cheerleader without a ponytail right :-)
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Just Jade one Fall afternoon, she looked so pretty in her Fall top she was wearing, so here you go :-)
Growing her hair again, best for cheer right now, what is a cheerleader without a ponytail right :-)
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Amber Having Some Fall Fun !!!
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She is growing up so fast :-)
She was in such a good mood, this morning before school.
Not a great picture but look at the Fall colors out my window behind Amber :-)
I actually took some nice Fall pictures out back but have so much to catch up on here :-( just don't have the time to post it all.
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She is growing up so fast :-)
She was in such a good mood, this morning before school.
Not a great picture but look at the Fall colors out my window behind Amber :-)
I actually took some nice Fall pictures out back but have so much to catch up on here :-( just don't have the time to post it all.
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My Little Moo Cow :-)
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The Winter hat that Leanda sent Amber from Canada, she has cute gloves to match but she loves it and wouldn't take it off this afternoon.
Thank you my dear friend, you are so special :-)
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The Winter hat that Leanda sent Amber from Canada, she has cute gloves to match but she loves it and wouldn't take it off this afternoon.
Thank you my dear friend, you are so special :-)
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Jades Halloween Pumpkin
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Took her the entire Sunday afternoon, with some of dads help but apparently she did most of it by herself. Amazing right ?
Can't believe some people didn't know who it was ???
Sad part is, it only burnt for two or three nights and then it had to be trashed coz it was carved the week before Halloween and it really just doesn't last that long :-(
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Took her the entire Sunday afternoon, with some of dads help but apparently she did most of it by herself. Amazing right ?
Can't believe some people didn't know who it was ???
Sad part is, it only burnt for two or three nights and then it had to be trashed coz it was carved the week before Halloween and it really just doesn't last that long :-(
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Cheer Competition !!!
Ok trying to play catch up again ... here are three pics from their cheer competition that was held a month ago already, gosh has it really been that long ago, sorry I just cannot keep up.
This was before the competition and a great pic of all the girls, what Jade was doing with her arms I don't know she looks deformed, weird kid that I have !!! These are the Shooting Stars WAA Team.
This was their first competition and a very small competition, they really didn't have any competition so came home with the first place trophy, this weekend they have another competition and this is a big one so ... let's see how well they do this time around. This is all three competition teams, all got first place trophies.
This is Jade with Dani, the coaches daughter :-)
And Jade with Coach Barbs, one of the coaches but she pretty much runs so much of WAA, very thankful for all she does for the sport.
For those of you that have not seen the video yet, here is the link, they will pretty much do this same routine throughout the year only they will add stuff with more difficulty, you will already see the huge difference after I add the one that I will take this weekend. Jade has more to do, she is so excited, just hold thumbs she can pull it all off under pressure :-)
If it doesn't open the whole thing on your screen, copy the link and open it in Youtube, it will be way better to view it there, also will play faster.
Ok that's me for this one ... more to come, so remember to scroll.
This was before the competition and a great pic of all the girls, what Jade was doing with her arms I don't know she looks deformed, weird kid that I have !!! These are the Shooting Stars WAA Team.
This was their first competition and a very small competition, they really didn't have any competition so came home with the first place trophy, this weekend they have another competition and this is a big one so ... let's see how well they do this time around. This is all three competition teams, all got first place trophies.
This is Jade with Dani, the coaches daughter :-)
And Jade with Coach Barbs, one of the coaches but she pretty much runs so much of WAA, very thankful for all she does for the sport.
For those of you that have not seen the video yet, here is the link, they will pretty much do this same routine throughout the year only they will add stuff with more difficulty, you will already see the huge difference after I add the one that I will take this weekend. Jade has more to do, she is so excited, just hold thumbs she can pull it all off under pressure :-)
If it doesn't open the whole thing on your screen, copy the link and open it in Youtube, it will be way better to view it there, also will play faster.
Ok that's me for this one ... more to come, so remember to scroll.
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