Victoria's 1st competition

Tori had her first dance competition for the year. They did really good and took 1st place. Now, apparantly a lot of groups took 1st in their category...they go off of how many points you get and then place you in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on. So out of like 5 groups, 4 of them took 1st! Kind of different from when I was growing up and competing. Tori has been taking 6 one hour classes per week PLUS an hour and a half of private instruction once a week to get her technique down. She has improved SO much in the last two months, I can't wait to see how she is by the end of the year! Here's a few pics from her competition and a pic of Lexie's "thanksgiving" outfit from pre-school. (that's what she called it)

The last few weeks haven't been buckets of fun, but I guess that comes with the territory (of having 5 kids and a busy schedule!). I ended up getting pretty sick for over a week, then the twins and Lexie have colds/coughs and Tori was sick for a day too. We are supposed to be going to Idaho this next week, so hopefully everyone is better by Monday morning! UGH, I don't know...thinking about being in the car with these stinkers for 16-17 hrs isn't sounding real appealing right now! No, seriously...it should be fun. I can't wait to see my new nephew, Tanner, and visit with Sariah and her family. I wish we lived closer.

Tori got straight A's on her progress report. She got straight A's on her report card last quarter. I keep forgetting to ask Blake for his report...must not be too good if he hasn't offered it up! haha

Sienna just started shaking her head no, and she'll do it over and over and over with the straightest face! It's hilarious. She has been taking quite a few steps on her own, she just looks so adorable when she's doing it, with her arms stretched out in front of her. She just needs a tad bit more confidence, because she's already got the balance down. I can't believe they're going to be one this week. They still seem like babies to me. Kaelsy has started throwing "fits" and is quite fiesty! If she has something in her mouth and I start digging around, she'll get really mad and push my hand away, arch her back and then spaz out and try to bite me! I swear, she thinks she's a boy sometimes. It's so fun to watch them develope and grow and interact with each other. I could just sit and watch them all day!

More Halloween pics

Happy Halloween

The pics from left to right...
Kaelsy & Sienna, the "ducks" fighting with Kaelsy on top, Lexie as cinderella, Kaelsy with her pumpkin and Sienna with hers. James made the pumpkins with the tooth on the correct side for each of the twins. They both only have one tooth on top and they are on opposite sides of each other. Kind of funny. Maybe they will turn out to be what they call "mirror twins". They are identical, but one would be left handed, one would be right, one would have a freckle or something on one side, the other twin would have one on the opposite etc. The kids had a lot of fun for halloween. We carved pumpkins the night before and that night we took the girls out. Blake didn't dress up because none of his friends did. He came out with us for a bit and then went to a friends to hang out and they went through the neighborhood and got some candy without even dressing up! Tori was a "spider countess"...which we're still not really sure what that is! The twins had fun trick or treating. We had them in their double stroller, the side by side one, and they had death grips on their buckets and were digging around to see what they got! They've never had candy before, but they sure seemed to know that whatever was in their bucket was fantastic! We gave them each a sucker when we got home and they were in heaven!! They were the hit of the neighborhood, all 4 of our beautiful girls. (I am allowed to say that right, even though they are my kids???)