Madison cheering--She is a mess! She mostly lethargically does the cheers and chants, UNLESS, there's some booty shaking in the cheer or routine. Then, she lights up like a Christmas tree and shakes it! We had homecoming yesterday, and Patrick was her escort. Also, they have been using pink pom poms this month for breast cancer awareness month...the girls love it.
Her buddy, Gavin
Her best buddy, Libby, with Bella
Here's a few pics of the first night of gymnastics/dance...Bella loves to dance and loves the outfit/shoes, BUT does not like structured class dance!! So....we pulled her out of ballet and tap, but she's still in gymnastics. She would do gymnastics all night if we let her :) Madison is taking gymnastics, ballet, and tap and loves them all! So, we don't have to drive to Oxford multiple times during the week for classes, we load up on Monday, so by the time we leave the place, we are EXHAUSTED!! Bella has gymnastics at 3:30, Madison tap at 4:15, ballet at 5, gymnastics at 6, and then we are home. Bella has started ballet at her preschool, where a teacher comes in once a week...it's a little less serious, so she seems to be doing well with that :)
My online store is SWANK (www.shop-swank.com / facebook.com/shopswank). I had originally planned on just doing this from our house, but it has grown a little more than expected, so we went ahead and decided, as a family, to take on an actual store! It opens October 24th!! It's a nerve-wracking, scaring, and exciting thing to start a new business, so we are hoping it does well!
We took our first trip to the pumpkin patch, Bennett Farms, last Sunday. This has become a little tradition with us, so we will likely go back again to pick our pumpkins before Halloween.
At Disney on Ice, we were on the front row, about 6-7 feet from the platform where the characters would all sit or stand when performing certain parts of show. Girls were sooooo excited to be that close to the characters and get looked at and waved at each time. Being the emotional one that I am, I teared up pretty good throughout the night...just so happy that we can do things like that for the girls and seeing their faces light up. I sure hope they appreciate it as much as I do. Also, to be sitting there as a "whole" family makes me feel very blessed. No zoom lens needed on these pics...they were that close!! :)
