DC Picnic

Chelsea is a Junior on the DC Dance Factory dance competition team. Every year, the entire studio gets together for a picnic at Crockett Park. It is always a lot of fun, but this year was even more fun than usual!! A spirit war was started last week by 2 of the younger teams. Well, the Juniors couldn't be shown up by a bunch of younger kids, so they had a "spirit parade" at the picnic. I'll post video of that once I learn how to!! Needless to say, our girls have won the war....for now anyway. The older girls were none too please by the parade! A true spirit war has begun at DC!!!

Ravenwood Dance Clinic

On Saturday, Chelsea was able to attend a dance clinic at Ravenwood High School in Brentwood, TN. She was really excited about the opportunity. She knows many of the girls on the Ravenwood Dance Team and their choreographer is one of her dance teachers. It was a really cool clinic. The girls will get to perform their routine at Friday nights football game!! Pretty fun! Here is a picture from the clinic.

Trio

Congratulations are in order for Chelsea!! She just found out that she was chosen for a dance trio!! She is on a competition dance team at DC Dance Factory in Franklin, TN. This will be her first year doing a trio. It is a huge honor!! I couldn't be more proud of her. I just had to post this to let everyone know her exciting news!!

Big Kayla

This is our cousin Kayla. She is a freshman at Western Kentucky (but she is wearing an Alabama hat). She was in town yesterday, so we all went out to dinner. She just made the dance team, and we are sooo proud of her. She gets on my nerves. haha. But my mom says to say "but I love her very much". If she reads this, next time she comes in town I'll be a goner!!
by, Chelsea

TGIF!

Finally, Friday is here!! Chelsea is going to her dad's this weekend, so I am pretty much just gonna sit around the house. I really don't do much while she is gone. Since our house is on the market, I may clean a little. For the most part, Chelsea and I keep our part of the house pretty clean, but it won't hurt to do a little more. Plus, I always have laundry to do. For those of you that know me, you will know that I truly despise laundry! I put it off until the last possible moment! Anyway, I hope Chelsea has fun at her dad's. She enjoys spending that time with them and with her brothers. They mean the world to her. I will miss her, though!

My brothers

These are my brothers, my dad, and my step mom. The oldest one is Gavin, and he is 3. The youngest one is Gaige, and he is 1 and a half. They are the best thing!!!! I love them sooooooooo much!!

Dance

Here are some cute dance pictures of Chelsea.

Gymnastics

Well, congrats are in order for Chelsea!! She finally landed her back handspring last night without a spot!!! She was able to do it about a year ago, but then she got hurt and lost it. She is such little walking accident...for those of you that don't know her! Let's see, she got her first cast about 3 years ago when she broke the growth plate in her elbow. This happened when she tripped over a girl at dance. Then she got her first full leg cast that same year when she fell up the metal steps at school. That resulted in another broken growth plate, but this time in her leg. Then, last December, she dislocated her knee (same one she injured before) while taking off her dance shoe!! So, that meant another full leg cast! That's when she lost her back handspring. Sooo, long story short...congrats to Chelsea for finally mastering it! She had to overcome a lot, but she stuck with it! I'm so proud of her!!

Since Halloween will be here soon, I decided to upload some pictures from last year's Halloween. Once I figure out how to do a slide show, I'll add more.

My First Blog

Okay, so this is my first official blog! I have really no idea what I'm doing...so this should really be interesting. I've read a few blogs on this site, and I really enjoy them, so I thought it would be cool to have one for Chelsea and me. We do so many cool things, that I have decided to share them! Unfortunately, I have no pictures on the computer I use at work, so I will only be able to add them from my laptop. Plus, I haven't got a clue as to how to upload photos onto this page anyhow!! Soo, for now our page will look pretty boring until I can learn how to do things better. Perhaps I'll get Chelsea to help me. She is becoming a real computer whiz...so she will probably know how to do it.