A Break From Dancing...

After the girls danced in their first competition, they were released for the rest of the day.  I think we were released around 4 pm. My friend Lori and her daughter Ella were staying at a beautiful resort, on the beach, about 20 minutes from our hotel, called the Cavalier . She invited us to join them at the resort's poolside BBQ. I was excited for my kids because they said they would NOT leave Virginia Beach without seeing the beach. Even though we live in Virginia, my kids have never been to Virginia Beach before (minus Ty, but he was like 2 months old when we took him.).  

Virginia Beach Nationals!

... Continued... (I'm only two months behind in the blogging world, SIGH). After Tyson's Nationals in Myrtle Beach, we loaded up our vehicles.  Darren and the dogs returned to Roanoke. The kids and I went to Virginia Beach for Lilah's Nationals.  Lilah is SOOOOO not used to use being a divided family that departing from her daddy was so hard. She cried herself into a nap.

Annie- Practices

Here is proof that we did a ton of ANNIE practicing.  MOST of it was just goofing around, as you can see, but we did have a blast in the process. P.S. We are NOT singers in our family.  LOL!!!!

Disney Lego Gift Idea!

One of my best friend's, Ashely Harris, has been planning a trip to Disney for TWO YEARS! Her husband works for Interstate Batteries and every two years the entire company goes somewhere. Two years ago, it was San Fransisco.  This time, it's DISNEY! Her oldest, Cohen, has literally been saving his allowance and birthday money for two years.  Today is the day, and praise God they are still going. They got a HORRIBLE stomach bug about 4 days ago and everyone has been so ill.  Can you imagine? At least the Lord has healed them about 90% and they are driving to Orlando as we speak.

A few weeks ago, I found Disney Mini Lego Figurines at Five Below! I HAD TO BUY THEM for the Harris kids.  Last night, I quickly created a printable and attached it to each of their packs.  Feel free to snag this idea, using my free printable.

I used my Mickey Mouse icon punch, that I bought 3 years ago, for our Disney Trip and made a small punch in the bottom of the printable, just to give the "tag" more of a Disney feel. OH... and I downloaded the "Waltograph" free font online!!

I love the way the entire thing turned out AND I think the Harris kids did too!

I requested a photo of the figurines and this is what I got.  LOL! I am going to see if Ashely can resend me a close up, so my viewers can see what these legos look like "in person".

Ashely said that 2/3 kids received Mickey Mouse (so cool...HE IS DISNEY) and 1/3 kids received Aladin! Ashely took a video RIGHT BEFORE they opened their gifts. 

Looking for other ways to be creative with legos? Check out this link, "Top 10 Ways Legos Are educational for Your Child: Learning with LEGO -Brick Dave".

Almost 29,000 HITS!

Darren did a "party jam" video of Ty's 7th Birthday Party, two years ago.  Just recently, it must have been added to some website because the views went from 500 to over 28,000 views in the last 4 weeks.  It's CRAAAAZY and exciting!!!!  Enjoy watching it and reminiscing on this amazing party!!!!

It's time to add adsense to this video for SURE!!!!