Studio A Awards Night

Have we mentioned that we love our dance studio.  Our is truly a very family oriented studio and we enjoy all the extras throughout the year that they plan for us.  We had a family cookout and Awards Night the weekend before the recital.  The girls were awarded with Excellence in Dance Certificates and then each dancer got a specialized award.  Mallary got the Fantastic Listener Award and Gracie got the Beautiful Back Bend Award for achieving her standing back bend and kickover in Acro class. 

Blasters Finale

The Blasters have had a great season and Gracie's improvement this year has been outstanding! Since the last post about softball - she has become a consistent 2-3 hits per game and some BIG hits like doubles and triples!  She has played so well this year - we are so proud of her!  The Blasters hard work has paid off because they were the League Champs again this year!  They only lost 2 games all season.  I'm so proud of them.

Tournament - We lost our 1st game in the tournament after a 1st round bye.  The girls played an awesome game in 99 degree weather.  They went to extra innings and almost and extra hour of play for a final score of 16-13.  It was fun, but since the heat is here, we're glad to be done!

Pictures from Closing Ceremonies #1

 Getting their trophies!

 So proud of her hard work!  She definitely earned her trophy!

Coach Daddy and Gracie

 Team Party Celebration

 All the girls (and siblings) waiting to get some cake!

Huntsville Fun Day

The girls and I headed to a fun day in Huntsville.  We started out at the Monaco for the Free Movie Morning.  We saw Alvin and Chipmunks.  Both girls loved it and watched it pretty good.  Mallary was a little antsy, but we made it through the whole thing.  We have a membership to the Huntsville Botanical Gardens and they have children's activities on Wednesdays so we headed over there for some fun.  The girls got to make a Sundae and do crafts.  Then we visited some of their favorite areas like the Butterfly Garden.  Afterwards we ate lunch at their garden cafe. 

There were people making balloon animals.  We got ladybugs!

 Popcorn is good (especially for breakfast!)

 We love the Butterfly Garden

 Playing with the turtles.

Hot Air Balloons

Every year Decatur has a Hot Air Balloon Festival.  We have never been.  One year Alan and I said Oh yea let's go see the balloons that will fly in about 30 minutes and we attempted to go.  I'm sure all the people who are from Decatur are laughing to themselves.  It's a big deal - ha!  I knew the girls would love to see them so on Saturday night we headed over so we could see the balloons and the balloon glow.  The girls loved them.

Fishing with Daddy

Tree Climber

We have the best Crepe Myrtle for climbing.  If I look out and can't find one of the girls, they are usually in the tree.

First Day of Summer Vacation

We had to run an errand for Daddy over in Huntsville so what better way to celebrate the 1st day of summer vacation then getting ice cream.  We went to Baskin Robbins which Mallary so cutely referred to it as "Basketball Robbins".  Their ice cream choices never cease to amaze me and fit their personalities so well.

Gracie chose Lemon Custard.  

Very simple.  She usually chooses unusual flavors

and ALWAYS tries something new.

This one chose the "clown cone"

Complete with tons of icing 

and had to include some pink on it.

 After a while she only wanted to eat the cone with most

of the ice cream still on top...and not let me help. 

 

And yes, I let her wear her plastic high heels to our 

errand and for ice cream just because she wanted to so bad.

(and most days she HAS to wear a dress

AND sleep in a terry cloth bathing suit cover up)