Glencoe Dance Team 2010

It is finally over. March 17th & 18th was the State dance competition. This is what I have been working on for many many months and it is finally over! The girls did really well even though we didn't place how we thought but that's just how it goes I guess. I am so proud of them and all the work they had put into this dream of mine to make it a reality. This is the first year I have been involved this much and I must say I am exhausted. I have all this free time now that I can't remember what I was meaning to do with once this was all over. Thank goodness for todo lists, but I know I'm forgetting a lot of things/projects.

In the next 4 months I have a lot I need to think about and get done. Lots more advice to ask for, more and more preparations. I'm hoping to get a good start on painting the nursery tonight with some help from friends.

I'll try again later to put up the video. I've tried twice and it keeps disappearing

While I was gone...

One of the nights Tim and I talked on the phone he informed me that the last chicken and duck have disapeared. I wonder if that fox came back. Ether way, time to really start buying eggs again.... after we finish the 3 dozen that are in the fridge. We plan to get some chicks this spring anyway but they won't lay for at least 6 months but that's ok. I really do like having chickens.

I think the duck just hated us anyway and had been planning to break out of this joint and convinced the chicken to break out with him and the chicken was all like "yeah ok. I think they are just using me anyway". So the duck, always known how to fly, taught the chicken how and they flew over the fence together. Probably only to find that they would have to find their own food and shelter. While camping out to plot how they would strategically come back, they got eaten by the fox.
The end.

Back from Ohio

I just got back from my trip to Ohio visiting my sister Cassie and her family with her newest addition, Morgan. He is so small and precious and James was a sweet heart...most of the time. I was glad I was able to help her and I hope I did enough. I couldn't tell you how Columbus was because I didn't see much of it. I got out of the house once to go to Costco and get an oil change for her after I dropped Josh off at school. I really enjoyed observing a new born. I have been reading this really great book that has really opened my eyes about our newest family members and how they talk to us with out talking with words. I was surprised by how much I could pick out what he was trying to say he needed and wanted from each different cry and body language. My infant may be quite different but I feel like I "get it" a little better. My sister is so good and gutsy to do the things she does. She doesn't do disposable diapers, which aren't foren to me, but she is trying this diaper-less method. I'm not sure I could do it but in other countries, that's what you do. Pay attention to when your baby is about to go and hold them over a bucket or toilet or sink. She got him to pee in the sink once already! Kudos to her.