Wordless Wednesday - Friends :)

More water park

I couldn't stop with one post :), I had too many good pictures! So, here are.....
More pictures from the water park trip!

Another of Kelse on the body board. She just cracks me up.

Keegan looking so pretty. And so TALL! Kelsey having a ball in the wave pool.

One of my favorite pictures - Caitlyn and Rayonna

Hahaha, they're so funny :-).

Sweet Kelsey-poo.

Pizza timeWhee - Paige and Keegan

Bedtime = Nintendo time. Doesn't everyone know that ;)?

Keegan and Sophia

Balancing on the floating snake

Keegan and Paige again. How cute are they???

Another favorite of mine - Silly Band trading now in session!

Ready to hit it the second day

What a fun time :))))

We were glad to get to help celebrate the birthday of an old friend. Keegan, Peter, and Kelsey play so well together. He is such a sweet boy and a good friend. Peter is one month younger than Keegan, and they have known each other since they were babies :). Everyone had fun skating and scooting. Keegan said, "I was actually skating." :) (We only skate when someone has a party, so this is not a well-developed skill in my girls :-).

Our cup of tea

These people are precisely our cup of tea! The best part of a show is the people -

Angela, aka "Anna" - her first time in one of these productions and she earned the lea0 with her beautiful voice - the wonderful people involved in the show -

Lun Tah and our special friends and family who come and support the girls (including our wonderfully sweet church friends of whom I never seem to take a picture!)
Miss Marilyn is awesome! She is the amazing director behind all of this. She is positive, uplifting, patient, in-control, determined, and able to bring out the talent in every member of her casts. We adore her!!!!!!!!Miss Barbara - the sweet, talented, creative lady in charge of costumes. She always does a wonderful job!!!!!!The snowflake group :0)Caitlyn and her good buddy, Rayonna, who was a scientific dog. She has an awfully pretty smile for a ferocious scientific dog, doesn't she?These make-up folks turned Keegan and Kelsey white and Caitlyn tan and white! Our precious, adorable great-niece/cousin Brooklin stole the show the night she came :) She was so cute and well-behaved. The only problem with her visit was that she wanted her Mamaw instead of her Aunt Cindy when it was time to fall asleep :(. We loved seeing Mamaw, Aunt Lisa, and Uncle Marty, too, but didn't take their pictures :-).

The girls with Elizabeth, aka "Eliza," as in , "Run, Eliza, run. Run from Simon!" Elizabeth was the person we hoped would get cast as Eliza. She did, and did a wonderful job! With Caitlyn's oldest friend, Rebekah Lindsay - It worked out at the last minute for her to come to the show and spend the night with Caitlyn. We were so glad! Notice how dark Caitlyn's feet are? "Tanning" over 90 people took a lot of time and work!

There were many other special people, too (I know you thought I posted every single person there, but truly, I didn't ;-).

I can't believe it's over. Can't wait until next year.

Now on to birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, then the ballet!

Water park fun!!!!!!

We recently had a great adventure, taking Caitlyn, Keegan, Kelsey, and 3 of their friends to an indoor waterpark and overnight stay at the hotel there.

Keegan, Paige, Sophia, and Kelsey

Aren't they cute?It was so fun!!!!! Everyone was brave trying the slides. The Storm Chaser with it's 7 foot drop and huge funnel sides was the big favorite.

Rayonna and Caitlyn :)In the wave pool - love this picture of the 4 younger girls :) Kelsey on the bodyboard. The girls were so brave to try this tricky surfing ride!

I love her holding-her-breath face, again! Wheeeeeeeeee! - coming out of the Storm Chaser.

That is A LOT of steps to climb (70 to the lower slides and 91 to the higher ones,) and it feels like even more!

Under the giant dumping bucket :-)

The girls with some friends. Hee, hee, hee.

Sophia and Kelsey Kelsey and Keegan - I love Keegan's piggy face :-).

Paige and Kelsey

Girls' weekend

Although Caitlyn had been sick, she, her friend Rayonna, Rayonna's mom, and I took a weekend trip to Nashville for the Tennessee Association of Dance's annual conference. I was concerned she would not feel well enough to enjoy it. She was a bit tired, but felt good, took all her classes, and had a great time!
She and I enjoyed having some time together, plus she enjoyed getting to go somewhere with her friend. Bill took great care of Keegan and Kelsey at home. Whenever I called to check in (which was pretty frequently :-) they were reading, playing games, cooking, or cleaning up from eating(!!!) I was surprised by how much I could miss them in only a couple of days.
Caitlyn enjoyed classes in ballet, pointe, pilates, floor barre, and improv. OK, she didn't really enjoy the improv, but she took it, anyway :-). She really liked the ballet and floor barre teachers and took 2 classes from each. She and Rayonna are going to teach the floor barre work at their studio this week. We all enjoyed the cafeteria ;-).
PLUS, there was a raffle, and Caitlyn won it! A t-shirt (in the picture,) tote bag, year's subscription to Dance magazine, AND free registration to next year's conference! WOOT!
AND, while Caitlyn was in class, I went Christmas shopping. Not often I hit a Toys R Us alone!

Lizzie, Maggie, Keegan, Kelsey

Four of the five "King and I" snowflakes. They're so cute :-).

Sleepover

Giggling

Squealing

Screaming

Water balloons

Squealing

Trivial Pursuit

Sleeping bags

Giggling

Silly Bandz

Squealing

Silliness

Pictureka

Toy castle

Giggling

Pancakes and sausage

Squealing

Very little sleep

And did I mention Squealing and Giggling?

= SLEEPOVER!