Dance Competition 2011

Here a few pics of Ava's latest dance solo. She won 3rd Attendant I don't have video yet because I used my VHS recorder, and I need to buy the converter to make it a DVD. I think Ava did great, she has practiced hard and I am always amazed that she is brave enough to go out there all by herself! Thanks to Chrystal for all of her patience! And thanks to everyone who was able to come out and support her!

Have you seen this girl...?

       I want to first thank everyone so far who has helped us out with flat Ava. When I first got the instructions home from school, I will admit that I was a bit more that irritated. But thanks to all of you, it has been really fun for me, and even more fun for Ava. Here are just a few of the things that flat Ava has done..

First she went to Buffalo NY where she played the game of 'Trouble' with cousin Liv and Uncle Nate... of course Uncle Nate won!

Flat Ava helped cousin Liv take care of her tortoise George, he loves to eat red leaf lettuce.

Flat Ava came to work with Aunt Angie at the Doctors office one day and just had to have a check up. We checked her ears and her heart and reminded Flat Ava to eat healthy foods and get some exercise everyday!

 

 Next she went to sunny Florida to vist Grandma Kayt and Grandpa Mike. They sent the pics to school, they did a lot of fun stuff on the beach

Flat Ava went hiking with Jen and shady up Baer Canyon and she also got a hug fom Bode and Jen's work

Then she was off to ride Jake at Rock E with Dee!

She then took a flight to Phoenix.....who knew they let Beavers on the plane?!

Always check your feet for TP after leaving the bathroom,  how embarrassing!

 And now......we're not sure where she's at! Thanks again, and if you see this girl, please send her along with a pic or two! How nice would it be if we could all travel through the mail for a couple of bucks!

The Valentines Box

Ok, honestly this post is for Angela. She had the awkward pleasure of talking with me on the phone while I was at Michael's Craft Store. We got the dreaded flier that kids get to make their Valentines boxes at home.....what?! So I have the wishful thinking that I am going to walk into the craft store, and they are going to have "basically made" boxes. NO! I was so wrong! I wandered aimlessly and frustrated through the store, getting hostile towards poor Ang. I bought a bunch of random stuff finally, I was not happy with anything that I got. Well I have to say....BOO YAH, I rocked this box! So here it is, I'm not going to lie that I am pretty impressed with myself (and Ava's help).

Dancing Fool

         Almost one year after Ava's dance solo, I get a random email that this is my last chance to purchase action pics that were taken at the competition. Not the greatest ever pictures, but they were only $4 for a 5x7, and I did not yet have my new amazing camera yet. So I thought, why not?

         This year Ava signed up for a cheer babes class and tumbling. The cheer class was small from the get go, but after only three months, Ava is the last "man" standing. Everyone has dropped the class, and her teacher is sweet enough to continue teaching Ava solo lessons for the same price. So here we are getting ready for our next solo. It still amazes me that this little gal is willing to get up there all by herself and shake her thing in front of so many people!She will be performing on Friday, April 29th at Roy High School. I will not have a time until about one or two weeks before, but anyone is welcome to come. For those of you who can't, I will be posting my own fab pics and a video.

What we've been up to...

Ok, we all know that I've been back on line for a while, and yet I continue to slack. So here is a random post of some of the things that we have been doing for the last little bit. We went over to the school to play in the snow. The first obsession was to clear all the snow off of the ice under the playground.

The "best method" was to lick a small amount of snow, melt it in your mouth, spit it out, and then rub the spit into the snow on the ground. Needless to say that got tiring and they were running out of spit. So we moved on to bigger and better things. There is a small hill on one side of the field that was great butt sledding.

Yes Ashlyn is bawling. She spent the entire time crying because she was scared and the other girls wouldn't go down with her. When I gave them the "5 more times each" warning, she continued to cry. The best part was, that she was going so slow, that she had to use her feet to scoot forward! On her very last slide down she realized it was fun and then cried because it was time to leave. Sometimes you can't win!

On another day.....

They dressed in anything black that I owned, we made cup phones, and the played "Charlies Angels".

Can you hear me now.....

And we had a sleepover with Ava's friend Kambria. I bribed them to go to sleep by telling them I would take them swimming tomorrow...Well, I had to deliver. We picked up Kambria's little sister Averi and headed to Clearfield Aquatic.

And now I must go and and get the girls ready to go to horse riding lessons with our very own Denise!