My little ballerina

Emma just keeps surprising us. At dancing last night, her teacher asked me what we do on Monday nights. I looked at him and rolled my eyes and said, that is the only night of the week we have nothing to do........... He wanted to know if Emma would like to join his advanced ballet class. SIGH!!!!!! I am so proud of her. We told him yes of course, once cheerleading finishes in 2 weeks. I don't think I could take one more night on the run......... So we are now dancing 2 nights a week starting in November. Monday nights ballet and Wednesday nights tap and jazz.

Every time I hear a stay at home mom complain how tired they are, I roll my eyes and bite my tongue (which we all know is hard for me) as I think of our schedule. Emmie has been so busy, but loving every minute of it. And she has been doing really well in school this year. Her papers are coming home with great grades and she is finally enjoying reading and writing (never thought I would see that day).

So we are ready to close out the week. Cheerleading practice tonight, tomorrow night, and Saturday afternoon, a game on Saturday night, and cheerleading competition on Sunday. Only 2 games left, and 2 competitions left after this week. Not sure what we will do when we can actually come home at night.

Oh wait I know, I'll be preparing for trial!!!!!!!!!

Homecoming 2008

So Homecoming 2008 came and went. We had a beautiful day for the game and festivities. The girls put on a great show. Unfortunately our team lost (again) 0-12. Our little men just keep getting shoved around. Hannah was chosen as Homecoming Queen for the Minors (Em was a little disappointed). But otherwise they had a ball. She has now learned how to do a full with her stunt group and we are getting ready for competition.

Welcome October

Can't believe that we are already a month into school. It is just flying by this year. Em is having a really good year, and seems to be surging ahead with her reading and language skills. Her social life is abound with play dates and phone calls. She has been doing awesome in cheerleading, she is the littlest one with the most volume. We had one cheerleader drop off the squad so she is going to do the competitions this year. So we are back to practices on Thursday and Thursday and dance class on Wednesday. This week is exciting as we have our homecoming game on Friday night. The boys FINALLY won a game this week, so their record moves to 2-4 (the other win was a forfeit!!!)

We decorated for Halloween this weekend, and Em has some friends sleep over after the football game. Life is crazy but great.

Hugs

It's a great pumpkin

We had my family picnic from work this weekend. I didn't feel to great, but let Scott and Em convinence me to go with them. We had a great time picking pumpkins. Em got 4 great ones. We actaully got to pick them off of the plants because it was still early in the season.

Em won a pie at the cake walk, and tried oh so hard to win a goldfish (thankfully she didn't). She met some new friends, and had a grea time.

Fall is coming?

We are in the home stretch of cheerleading practices. Tonight is the last practice. Then we only have games from there on out. Work is a little crazy for me, I am gearing up for a trial November 10 in Brunswick County North Carolina. Why couldn't it be in the summer, to be down in Holden Beach.............. but just my luck. It is going to require a lot of hours from me for the next month or so.

We are getting ready for Halloween. Hopefully, next weekend we can start decorating. Emma has picked out her costume. It is a red and white costume, and she is half devil and half angel (very appropriate).

The weather has cooled down some, hopefully we can finally turnoff the air conditioning. We have also been busy planning our vacation for next summer. We are going to try the Outer Banks again, hopefully this time, there will be no hurricanes and we can actually finish our vacation!!!!!!

The heat is still on in VA

After Hurricane Hanna ruined the first football game of the season. We finally had our first game last Saturday. And boy was it HOT!!!!!!!! The temp was near 95 degrees. The girls were sweating but they kept right on cheering along. Even though our team was decimated 36-6. I am not sure what is in the water in Matoaca, but those boys were HUGE. Including the cheerleaders. Our girls did great, they did a half time show with a dance and chants, and all the stunts went up. No one got dropped and Em loves being a flyer.

Momma in turn (for those of you who have been to a practice can understand why) has been conned (by Emma and the girls) into being an Assistant Coach. They all said they would come back next year if I was the coach.......... Can you hear Scottie rolling his eyes and groaning.

We have been pretty busy. Hopefully things will slow down soon. The game this week is cancelled, the other team has forfeited, so YEAH Chester will have at least 1 win this year. Next week is their first night game which should be fun. I will try and post some pictures.

Hugs

Whew

What a week it has been. Back from a week vacation, back to school, back to homework, back to dancing....... Oh and wait, lets not forget Tropical Storm Hanna that is threatening Emma's first football game. It has been a whirlwind. School started off with a bang. We managed to get on the right bus this year, and no problems. She has had an exciting week. On Wednesday she had her first dance class at her new studio, and she did great. The teacher said she is a beautiful ballerina, but her tap dancing....... lol. It was a great class, and even better to see her giggling and having a ball. What a difference a studio makes. I hope this will bring the joy back to her dancing. Although she was pretty comical as there is a boy in her class :)

On Thursday this week, the YMCA shot a commercial and some footage. Emma (of course) got chosen to be in it. She thought the whole thing was awesome as they got instructions from the director, got to say lines and perform little skits. Hopefully, they will give me a copy of the DVD, and I will try and post it.

Cheerleading is going great, the first game is this Saturday, which looks like it will be rained out, but we will see. The girls will be so disappointed if it is.

Scott's knee is doing better. And I am done with my crazy projects. I painted all the furniture in Em's room to match her bed, painted the walls, put in a new area rug, and redecorated the walls with Hannah Montana stuff. I also got a bug and tore down the nasty wallpaper in the master bathroom.

Mom and dad's visit was great last week. We discovered the Russell Stover candy outlet (YUM) and took Em and one of her friends to the beach for the day. Minus a complete down pour, the girls had a great time, and the surf was fun. There were tons of jelly fish and seaweed due to the storms.

So we are bracing for this weekend, and probably the next couple weeks, it looks like the storms are heading our way this year...........................