Digging Out!

Well, it's the day after and now it is time to dig out after the storm. We went out this morning and took these pictures. People were out shoveling and trying to get their vehicles out of snow drifts. We saw lots of 4 Wheel drive trucks stuck on the roads by our house. I have no idea how or when I will get out of my garage.

We still aren't sure what Miley is looking for in the snow banks, but she sure does love to play in the snow!

Spring Blizzard 2009!

Well, our annual Spring Blizzard is upon us today. This storm has been forecasted since last week, and they sure got this one right! The weekend was beautiful: 70 degrees and sunny. What a difference a day makes! School was cancelled and Brad's office was also closed for the day. We have enjoyed our day home together; we made chilli and cinnamon rolls.

Brad's garage door opener is broken so he couldn't park his truck in the garage which made for some big drifts on my side of the driveway.

Miley went outside with us and had some fun trying to crawl over the drifts. She kept sticking her head in the snow banks, too, and I have no idea what she thought she might find.

We have a blizzard warning in effect until noon tomorrow; so, we will see what tomorrow brings. Here are some pictures I just took this afternoon.

Casper Spotlight

This weekend we went to Casper for the Spotlight Dance Competition. The girls did really well! We left Friday after school and got home Sunday night around 5pm. Alanna's first dance on Saturday was at 11am and Makenna's final awards ceremony didn't get over until around 11:15pm. It was a long weekend, but well worth it.

Alanna was in 9 dances:

Jazz

Tap

Ballet

Hip Hop

Solo

Interpretive solo

Daddy/Daughter

Production

Trio

Makenna was in 8 dances:

Jazz

Tap

Ballet

Lyrical

Production

Teen Jazz

Solo

Interpretive solo

Brad was in 1 dance:

Daddy/daughter

I was busy running back and forth to the dressing room between the girls dances.

Makenna competed in the Miss Junior Spotlight competion. This is a competition where each contestant must perform a solo, give her bio, anwer a question and do a dance combo on stage in front of the judges. And..................................................................................................................

SHE WON!!!!! Out of 8 contestants she won the title of Miss Junior Spotlight. The look on her face when they played her solo music to say that she had won was absolutely priceless!

So I Finally Decided to Blog

Well, I finally decided to blog. Sorry it took me so long. So here are some pictures from last weekend when we went to Billings for dance competition. Both of the girls performed their solos and they both did interpretive solos. For those of you who don't know, an interpretive solo is a one minute dance performed after the dancer listens to the song only one time before going on stage. They both did very well and had a lot of fun.

Unfortunately and unintentionally, I only got pictures of Alanna while she was in her dance costume. I think my reason for this was that Alanna's dances were earlier in the day and Makenna didn't dance until about 8pm Saturday night. And, in my defense, it was a really long day because I had been awake since about 4:45am. (Not sure why I was up that early, but at 6 I did go down and use the elliptical in the motel fitness room)

Anyways, I promise to get pics of Makenna in her full costume and makeup at the next competition!

Now It's Your Turn

If you are reading this then you've been tagged. Go to the file where your photos are stored, open the fourth file and then post the fourth picture in that file explaining when and why it was taken. Have fun!

Every year there is a Gingerbread house building contest where anyone from the community can build one and then donate it for a charity auction. Then, individuals and businesses can bid on them. This is one of the houses Brad's company bid on and won.

He was sooo excited to finally have won a raffle at work. However, he was in for a surprise when he went to pick up the Gingerbread house. It was sitting on a big board (not sure of the dimensions because I can never guess things like that) that was covered with big sugar granules that looked like snow. Now when I said big, I mean too big to fit through our door to get it in the house. We had to turn it sideways and all of the sugar fell off the board. What a mess! I had to do alot of vacuuming. Once we got it inside we had to figure out where to put it. Originally, we thought it would be a cute little house we could set on the coffee table, but that certainly wasn't going to work. Finally, we decided to set it above the closet in our entryway. Brad had to stand on a chair while I tried to help lift it up into place. It was very heavy. After all of this Brad said, "Well, looks like it will still be here for next Christmas." And, yes, as of now it is still sitting up there. I barely even notice it anymore. Someday we will have to take it down because it is starting to crack.