Swimming!

Hannah and Griffin started swim lessons today.  They LOVED it.  Hannah could hardly keep still through the lesson she was so excited.  Enjoy the pictures......


Meeting their teacher, Tiffany.

Showing Tiffany their monkey cheeks

 Bubbles!

 Kicks

 Go Griff Go!

 Go Hannah Go!

 Patiently waiting his turn

 She's ready!

 Rocketship jump!

Singing Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall and then jumping into the water

Signs of Spring

Ah, warmer weather. You know what that means......bikes, bubbles, chalk, rain boots, and lots of smiles and laughter. Felt good to be out today, even if you could still feel the chill in the air. The chill didn't seem to bother anyone in the neighborhood, as everyone was out. We saw neighbors we hadn't seen all winter ;-)   H&G were having a good time playing with each other, and Abby spent the entire afternoon at the end of the cul-de-sac playing kickball with all the neighborhood kids.  Yes, there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Griff trying to shovel snow into the new neighbor's yard :-)

 Hannah's flower

 "this is a monkey and these are his ears"

 Hannah adding a picture of me to her flower....

 ...she added a dog, too, but I don't have that picture. She is quite the little artist. Loves to draw and color.  She really takes her time and stays within all the lines.

 All the chalk artwork

And since I didn't have any pictures of Abby outside, here she is after coming in from a long afternoon of kickball. She got into her favorite chair and picked up a book.

Hannah

She's been on her own this week for school and has been LOVIN' it.  Griff had a 48 hour bug that he has finally beat, so he'll be back next week.  Hannah has loved telling Griff about all he has missed at school :-)

Ice Show Video

Attached is a video of Abby's ice show on Saturday night. Can someone leave a comment or send me an email and let me know if this works?  If so, I have a video of her karate tourney from the other week to post, too.......Thanks!

Ice Show Success!

Abby and her troupe did a great job at the ice show this evening.   They really looked like they were having a great time.  The pictures below aren't much different from the dress rehearsal, but I figured you'd want to see them anyway :-)  Mike took a video and he promises to upload it tomorrow to the MAC so hopefully I'll have the video to post tomorrow.


Lunging, top left corner....

 Third girl in facing front...

 Third girl gliding....

 Second girl spinning....

 Second girl spinning....

Sneak Peak

Big ice show tonight......Abby had a dress rehearsal last night and I was able to get few pictures. I won't be able to take any tonight, so these are it!  We'll see if the video works tonight...it's pretty dark in there, but we'll give it a whirl.  Abby is super excited and her troupe looks really good out there.  They are doing their routine to I Feel Pretty from West Side Story - it's cute!


Waiting and reading (HP, book 6) before going out onto the ice....

Warming up - she's in the purple jacket, lower right side

Abby and her friend Reese doing a spin during their routine

Another spin

Bunny hops on the ice...she is the first one in the first row of girls, leading the pack

doing a lunge...the spotlight is on her....and she looks a little tippy!

 Doing a one foot glide

 A spin....second girl in

 Another spin shot.....hard to get her face on those!