Orchestra Halloween Concert

Deanna had her Halloween concert for Orchestra on Wednesday. She did a great job. Can you see her pointed hat? She's in the middle of this picture: The orchestra played 4 songs in the concert and they also had the other bands, the award winning Shakespeare team and the choir. It was fun to see, in part because each time Deanna's teacher came out she was wearing a new costume. One of them was Jack Skellington, one was a spider and one was the evil Queen from Disney's Sleeping Beauty. They also had the stage decorated, and of course I had to get a picture of her with the decorations. By the way, she's decided that she is a bride that is so upset about getting married that she wears black and carries black flowers :)

Cake Number 2

This is my second cake. She taught us all about making the cute little clown and the flowers. We also worked on scallop edges. I did pretty good with the clown and the flowers, but I got really frustrated with the scallop edges, so I'm not sure I'll be using that very much. Katrina's cake turned out so cute! We borrowed the clown heads from Suzy (thanks!) and she put two clowns sitting together on top of her cake, then put a good scallop border around the top and cute dots all over the cake.

Oh the trauma!

Okay, bad mommy confession: I totally forgot to get Deanna's 7th Grade shots. So as of last Wednesday she was banned from school until we got them done. Jason wasn't able to get her over to get the doctor, so we ended up doing it on my day off on Tuesday. Turns out it was probably a good thing that I was there. It took both Jason and I holding her down to get the one shot she needed. In addition to having both of us holding her, she was screaming bloody murder and I'm sure EVERYONE in the clinic heard her! Thank heaven that is over for another 10 years or so.

Later that day I had an appointment with our favorite uncle to have a couple of fillings taken care of. Can I just say, I hope our girl never gets a cavity. They will have to sedate her for sure!

My first attempt

Tada! My first attempt at cake decorating! I think I have a future in cake decorating, don't you? (LOL!!!) Luckily my family doesn't care what it looked like. Apparently it still tasted okay, it was gone by the next evening. Look for more exciting cakes coming up in the next couple weeks.

Busy Days

Fall is a busy time in our house: football (of course!), extra cheer practices, Girl Scouts starting up and swimming. To top all that off, I decided to take a cake decorating class and get back into scrapbooking. And my girls are wanting to go to all the fun Halloween/Fall events that are going on around town. Is there any way we can get more hours in the day?

First Swim Meet

Deanna had her first swim meet on October 3rd and 4th. She competed in 6 different events. They were 100 freestyle, 50 butterfly, 100 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 butterfly, and 50 backstroke. She did great!

She ended up being DQ (disqualified) from 100IM and 50 backstoke for stupid reasons. In the 200 freestyle, she made a bug mistake. The 200 freestyle is 8 laps. After six, she stopped! At the wall, she took off her goggles, thinking she was all done. When she relized she was wrong, she jumped off the wall and swam the fastest 50 meters she had ever done. Her total time: over four minutes! (More then 30 seconds per lap...thats pitiful.)

The Many Faces of Mom...

Otherwise titled: Why you should never let your daughter have the camera!!!