Leah's 7th Birthday in New York!!

We celebrated Leah's birthday this weekend in New York! Leah was able to celebrate with her friends from school and gymnastics Friday night. We set off for New York Saturday morning...Leah fell in love with American Girl dolls after our first visit to New York, 2 years ago. We spent most of Saturday at the American Girl Store,what an experience!! It was little girl heaven (actually I was pretty excited myself, lol!).

Katie fell asleep for some of our visit (I have a lot more pictures of Katie sleeping, this little girl can sleep,lol!).

First Leah was off to the salon! Her doll got a facial, ears peirced and her hair done...

Too cute!!

Then Leah did some shopping around the store, I tried to get reservations for the cafe a couple of weeks ago and they were booked. But I thought I'd try and see if there were any cancellations...and we got lucky!!!!

WOW, so fun and girly!!! We ate in the Daisy Room, I had to take a lot of pictures! I loved the decorations and could see a great bedroom for Leah done in this color scheme!

This picture is to give you a feel for the "girly" details put into everything they sent out...

Katie got her second wind by this picture!

After dinner we found the Rockefeller Center...

After an exciting day Leah and her doll get into their matching p.j.'s...meanwhile Katie is jumping on dad!

The next morning we set off to find breakfast and a 1/2 marathon was going on, what a great place to have a race!! Katie knocked out again...

Katie woke up just in time to spot a horse and carriage!

We took a ride through Central Park...

It was pretty chilly as you can probably tell...

We also visited FAO Schwartz...

We LOVE candy!! You would think we don't let them have sugar!

Katie reading, she loves books! (I wish I could buy the chair)

The drive home...two wiped out little girls, hopefully dreaming of thier adventures in New York!

Hip Hop Class

So Leah has been taking a Hip Hop class once a week! I attempted to take some pictures but they didn't turn out to great because they are dancing and constantly moving, lol!

Leah LOVES to dance and it's so much fun to watch her!

Fun with friends

Leah celebrated Ginger and Allie's birthday after gymnastics practice...Leah has been with this group of girls since we moved to Maryland 2 1/2 years ago!

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Katie is such a big part of the gymnastics family as well...

Ballet

Today was Katie's first day of Ballet!!! Of course I had so much fun getting her dressed!

Even her hair had to be perfect...

Her teacher was wonderful with her...

Katie did a great job were so proud of her!

*Leah starts her hip hop class next Wednesday, fun fun! I love that the girls are active and involved!

It's a new year!

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by! Katie finished her first year of gymnastics...here she is with her best friend Amy and her favorite event, trampoline! I had to include this picture of Katie's signature face!

Katie with her first medal! She earned it for completing The Fledging class...She was so proud of her medal, she wore it to school everyday last week, lol!

Leah and Jayda are friends from Kindergarten. Girls just wanna have fun-The girls went shopping, played games at Dave and Busters. They ended the night with dinner at Chilli's and begging the mom's for a sleep over!

We have an exciting year of long hours at the gym, teeth falling out, Katie no longer needing night time pull-ups, Katie having a boyfriend, snow days...fun, fun!!

Christmas Break!!!

It's so nice to be off...I go back to work on Jan. 3rd. The girls and I have been enjoying our time together! We've been doing all kinds of crafts, these were my two favorites:

We made mini cupcake jewelry boxes

They turned out so cute!

We also made Letter Art...

I'm going to make a set for Katie, her's will be in green, yellow and brown to match her room. I can't wait to put them up in their rooms....

Christmas Spirit

I love this time of year! Neal and I really wanted the girls to have great memories of the holidays and feel the spirit of Christmas...we've been trying to involve them in some great activities to help them realize how blessed we are and how important it is to serve others.

We had a fun weekend...We had our ward Christmas party and ward program. We also took the girls to the temple to see the lights and various displays... The girls loved all the lights!

It's amazing how fast the girls are growing...the temple is so beautiful, Leah told me she loves how she feels when she visits the temple and she can't wait to go inside!

The trees were beautiful...this one was my favorite. I'm so greatful for all of my blessings, my family and friends. I have so much gratitude and love for my Savior.

End of the Season

(Leah was the Bar Champion with a 9.2)

Ok,this is the last blog about Leah's meets, for awhile...I can't help it I'm so proud of her! She had her last meet of the season last weekend. She had a great season and she looks forward to going to the next level. Leah took 1st place on bars with a 9.2

She took 3rd place on beam with an 8.8

Over all she placed 2nd!!!!

Results are in...I won my first door decorating contest!!!

Door Decorating Contest

Were having a door decorating contest at school! We had to include Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah...it's hard to see in this picture but everything is 3-D on the door, I painted the earth and snow in the window. I painted the lights around the window and had the kids tell me if they had one wish what it would be and I put them on the big lights. It was lot's of fun! The judging will be this Wednesday!