2016-2017 Cheer Banquet

Even though the cheer season hasn't quite come to an end for Team Boom, we still attended the Waxhaw Flyers All Star Cheer End of Season Banquet today.  Most of the other teams finished the season yesterday, but since Boom received a bid to the D2 Summit in Disney, we have a few more weeks to go.

It was so nice to give the girls a little party for all the hard work they put in this year.  Arabella and her team have worked incredibly hard this year and they deserve all the cheers (no pun intended) and love they received today.

Coach Susan gave a speech and the gave the girls each an award.  Arabella received one for "Best Facials" - which is no surprise!  She really does have great ones!  And it has taken 4 years for her to perfect them!

Great job this year Boom!  Keep it up!  You are in the home stretch and I can't wait to see it all pay off in Disney at the D2 Summit!

Living Museum

Ever since Arabella was in first grade and she attended the third grade Living Museum event at school she knew who she wanted to be when it was her turn.  I remember her coming home, being so excited, and proclaiming that she was going to be Amelia Earhart!  So when the topic came up this year at school, she was so excited that it was finally her turn to participate.  Again, she came home, so very excited and proclaimed that she once again was going to be Amelia Earhart!  She has worked so hard researching her character and learning all about her life.  She has been reading about her, finding details and creating a poster board and speech about her character.  Once part of the project involves actually dressing in character for the program - I started looking and found a great costume on Amazon.  It fit her perfectly and as soon as we added her tall brown riding boots, Amelia came to life!

All of the kids did a great job! She had Michael Jackson, King Tut, Helen Keller, Steve Jobs, babe Ruth, Anne Frank, Shakesphere, Marie Curie and Steve Jobs among others, in her class. I am so proud of Arabella! She worked hard and it paid off. I loved being able to join her class today and hear all about these wonderful historical figures!

I'm A Slacker

Just call me a slacker....it has been WAY TOO LONG since I last updated.  I feel like I am missing out on memories for Max and Arabella.  So I will  be back at.  I will be catching up from the past 2 years - seriously - how did I let it get this far behind?!?!?

We have done so much, grown way more than I like to admit and it's high time I get caught up.  So say tuned - more to come - ASAP!

Caught You

The weather had warmed up a bit and we had a bit of rain.  Max loves to be outside and I just couldn't keep him in.  He had kept busy playing and jumping in the water that was on Arabella's tumbling mat this morning.  He was adorable.  I love you Max!

February Randomness

We had a fun February.  And like January, the month seemed to go by pretty darn fast!  Why is that happening?  I'm not sure, but I wish the months would slow down!

Grampie and Heather surprised Max and Arabella with some Valentine's Day surprises!

Someone little guy was very excited to get into the chocolate!

Arabella received a special Valentine from a fellow preemie who is her age but can't go to a traditional school. She also sent a Valentine to Evan and was so excited to receive his!

She also exchanged Valentine's at school.  Check out this loot!

She had a sleepover with Chaselyn!  They had fun watching movies and baked cookies!

And this might be TMI...but we found a ton...and I mean a ton...of rabbit poop in the backyard!  Have you ever seen so much???

Spirit Solutions - Cheer Competition

Were were back at Cabarrus Arena again this morning for another cheer competition...just not as early.  The girls were super excited again and gave it all they had.  Their hard work is paying off and they came in 3rd place which was great.  Their routine was clean and they hit things on time.  Great job girls!  I am super proud of you Arabella.  Go Team Zing!

                                                   Sassy girls - Arabella & Elena!

                                                    Stretching it out!

                                                            Super cute treats for the girls!

                                                    So proud of all their hard work!

Snow Day - Take 2!

So a week ago, was the first "snow" day and they hyped up this storm too.  At least when we woke up this morning, there was snow on the ground.  It was actually still snowing a bit when we woke up.  We were able to sleep in and didn't have to get the call early this morning since they called for the snow day yesterday...so silly in my book...even before there was any precipitation.

Arabella and Max were happy to finally see the real white stuff this round.  It was so cute to see the wonder and joy in their expressions.

They tried so hard to build a snowman and make snow angels.  And Max wanted to push the snow with this track-type tractor, but it didn't work to good.

At least we were able to get out and play in a bit of snow.  We have to take what we can get...right???