What we've been up to.... in no particular order.

So my goal is to try and stay on top of posting on this. So far I have failed miserably....

The past few months have been very busy for us. Lot's of ice skating, Mike traveling more than he has in the past, and I'm still trying to adjust to my new shift. I thought it would be a quick transition, but it hasn't happened yet.

We celebrated St. Patty's day by making our own kilts for our annual party at the Moffitt's. I think they turned out pretty well. The girls looked adorable in theirs. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Paige, she was too busy playing with the kids.

Paige had a fun sleepover at the rink with Miss Emma.

We made a trip to the zoo..

Delivered lots of Girl Scout Cookies....

Attended a Girl Scout Thinking Day program....

Mike and I went on a Valentine's Day cruise with Mike and Robin. We ate steak and lobster out on their sail boat....

The girls and their Valentine Boxes...

Winter Games 2011

Paige had a great competition this year at the Winter Games. She competed two programs at the Freeskate 2 level. This year it was up in Logan and since she had a program both days and a early practice time we decided to stay up there. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express and I was actually impressed with the hotel (which is not always easy because I am really critical of hotels after working in one for so long.) Our friends Greg and Carly came up and spent the night with us and we had Grandma and Great Grandma too. The kids were able to swim for a bit in the hotel and had a great time.

On Friday Paige skated her Artistic Program and got the Gold. She forgot a little bit of the program, but pulled it off! :) The next day she skated her Freestyle Program and took the Silver. Great job Paige, we are so proud of you!

She has now qualified to go to the State Games of America in San Diego. Now we have to figure out how to make that happen.

Catching up...

So I have been horrible with keeping up with the blog, but it has been a busy holiday season. I decided to compile the pics into a movie because it is faster than uploading them to the site. So here's my attempt at catching up....

We unfortunately lost Great Grandpa Art late last year. We will really miss him! He was such a sweet man. We has a lot of family in for the funeral and although it wasn't for a great reason it was nice to see everyone and we took some quick group photos.

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year and I think it turned out pretty well. We were just missing Grandma Holt, but I'm glad she was in St. George with the family. Christmas Eve was at my mom's and as always it was great. We had a great dinner and then opened presents. Christmas morning the kids woke up to a ton of presents. Paige was happy to get her American Girl doll she wanted and Allison got a Baby All Gone. After presents we went to my brothers for brunch and then lounged at his house all day. The day after Christmas we went to Mike's dad's house and had another great dinner and more presents. New Years was at our house again this year. We love our New Years sleepovers. Mike prepared an awesome breakfast the following morning.

Here are some of the other things we have done....

-Paige won the school Reflections contest. We find out tomorrow how she did at the next level.
-Paige and I attended a fancy tea party for Girl Scouts.
-Allison started Preschool and absolutely loves it. She loves her "packpack" and her teacher Ms. Katie.
-I got a new job at the hospital. My new hours are 11-730 so I will be able to spend some time with Mike and the kids.
-We made cookies, candy, gingerbread houses, and decorated the house.
-Mike and I went antique shopping and found a couple pieces of furniture for the house.
-We went to Zoolights.
-We saw Tangled. Both girls loved it and Allison actually sat through it. Woo hoo! We can go to movies again.
-The girls loved playing in the snow.
-Paige had her first ski lesson and went to Snowbird with her school.
-Lots of ice skating.
-Paige had a school program and each grade sang two songs. She did great!

Wasatch Freedom Classic

We are so proud of Paige! She competed yesterday at the Wasatch Freedom Classic and took first place!! She was doing a new program and competed at a higher level against four other girls. She was so amazing! She had to be on the ice at 730 am and because it was in Ogden we had to get up a lot earlier. She had her practice session and fell more times than I have ever seen her fall. It was so crazy and it rattled her confidence quite a bit. However, she took the ice just after 1000 am and nailed it. Way to go Paige!! We love you!

Halloween Show and Reflections 2010

Paige has been a very busy girl. She had her Halloween show on Saturday. It was really cute this year. She loves the costume and wears it all the time. She is entering Reflections this year. She choreographed an ice skating program. I like the song she chose and she did an awesome job coming up with the program. We were at the rink at 730 this morning to record it, ouch! On our way home she told me that we should go there every day before school. Not so sure I could handle every day, but maybe once in awhile.

Here are her programs....

Love this little girl....

Yesterday we were at Petco and a Black Eyed Peas song came on. Alli just started dancing around the store and I had to get it on video. I wish I was more carefree like that and could just start dancing in public just because a good song came on. I love at the end of the video how excited she is to see the fish. I'm not sure why we got the Zoo membership when she is just as excited going to the pet store.

In the next few days I will catch up on some other photos. We went up Millcreek Canyon a few weeks ago and made breakfast with Mike's family. The girls loved it, especially the river. That scares me to death though, I have flashbacks to all the Search and Rescue missions that I used to go on. They usually did not end well. I also need to post some pictures of Trafalga. We know the manager and were lucky enough to be able to go there last Sunday. They are actually closed on Sunday and we had the whole place to ourselves. It was so much fun! The kids had a blast and I can say that the adults did too.

You can't hear the music very well, but here are Alli's moves....

Murray Nature Center

Today I went on a field trip with Paige's class to the Murray Nature Center. It was a pretty cool place, and I didn't even know it was there. The lady teaching them was great. They learned about the local birds and dissected owl pellets. They were grossed out, but thought that it was so cool too. Thanks mom for watching Alli so I could go with Paige. I love being able to go on these school outings with her.