Not Going Bonkers today

Yesterday, Kinsey & I decided to take Sawyer and Tucker to a place called "Going Bonkers" in Lewisville. Her friend had taken her 1 -year old there and said it was great. So, we decided to try it out! To make a long story short, we only stayed at Going Bonkers for a grand total of about 20 minutes. It was way too loud, crowded and crazy for our boys. We decided we will take them back there when they are 3 or 4 years old. To salvage the play date, we went back to Kinsey & Tuckers house and let the boys play. They had a blast! Probably the most fun they have ever had playing together. Lots of laughter was had by all. It turned into a great day! Sawyer and Tucker looking out the door at Tuckers doggie, Maui.

Maui had to stay outside the door because Sawyer was chasing her and she ran and hid behind the couch! Then Sawyer tried to go behind the couch! So Maui had to stay outside.

The boys played with all of Tucker's toys. At one point they had a little band going with a piano, guitar and drums!

Thanks Kinsey and Tucker for having us over! It was so much fun!!!!

Summer Fun

Here is Sawyer on Friday, riding in the car in his new big boy car seat! He likes it!We decided to make a stop at Beth Maries, which is a really fun ice cream shop in downtown Denton! Sawyer got a tiny taste!
Yum!

A visit to Dr Day

Sawyer visited Dr Day this morning for his one-year check up. Sawyer did very well. He now weighs 21 pounds, which puts him in the 25th percentile for weight. He is now 30 inches long, which puts him in the 55th percentile for height. He is doing perfectly! Sawyer had to get several shots today, and he cried very loudly. But he calmed down soon afterwards. Sawyer was a happy baby and showed off his baby babbling for all of the nurses. But again, when Dr Day came into the room, Sawyer got stonefaced. He would not crack a smile. He just stared at him. After the doctors visit, we made a trip to Babies R Us to buy Sawyer a big-boy carseat. Dr Day said it is time for Sawyer to get a forward facing seat. We got Sawyer a really nice carseat. Mommy wants to know why all the girl car seats are so much prettier than the boy ones? They need to make more stylish seats for boys! We will post pictures of Sawyer in his new carseat very soon!

Happy Boy

Sawyer has been having so much fun lately. He is always entertaining everyone in the room. We are so lucky!

Nationals Results

The Dance Company that I am the Director of attended the Showstopper Mid America Nationals this past week in Galveston. We did an AMAZING job! So many awards and cash prizes! We won $1800 in cash! WOW! The girls danced their hearts out and did great! I am so proud! Hanas's solo. Her Musical Theatre Solo won Double Platinum and 1st OVERALL Junior Solos. WOW!

Teachers with Hana, the 1st Overall Solo Winner. I told her not to forget me when she is famous.
The teachers with Meredith. Her solo won Platinum! It was great!

The teachers with Taylor. Her solo won Platinum. She danced awesome!

Sarah, Cara, Tara, Brian

Senior Lyrical. They won Double Platinum and 4th Overall Teen Small Groups.

Senior Jazz. They won Double Platinum and 2nd Overall Teen Small Groups. They also qualified for Sundays Finals, where they recompeted against the Top Ten groups and took 2nd Overall in the Nation! And there were some awesome dances! They did great!

Seniors with the teachers

Cara, Alicia, Brian, Sarah

Petite Jazz. They won Double Platinum and 2nd Overall Mini Small Groups. They were against some really good dances! They also qualified for Sundays Finals and recompeted and took home 2nd in the Nation! They were so excited!

Petites with some of their trophies

Cara and my Barbie Girls

Junior Jazz. They got Double Platinum and 7th Overall Junior Small Groups.

Cara, Brian, Lauren, Sarah

Junior Lyrical. They won Double Platinum and 6th Overall Junior Small Groups. They qualified for Sundays Finals and recompeted and ended up getting 2nd Overall in the Nation! They really made a comeback!!!

Juniors

Brian, Bella, Cara, Madi, Sarah

Mini Lyrical. They won Double Platinum and got 3rd Overall Junior Large Groups. Very impressive!!!

Mini Jazz. They got Double Platinum and 2nd Overall Junior Large Groups. They also qualified for Sundays Finals and recompeted and got 3rd Overall in the Nation. They were the youngest dancers in their final group- so that is extremely impressive!

Minis and the teachers

Minis with some of their trophies

Fancy Footwork. They got Platinum and got 4th Overall Teen Large Groups. The qualified for Sundays Finals and did AMAZING and ended up getting 2nd Overall in the Nation! They were against the Super Groups in the Finals too and beat all of them!

Petites in the Top Ten Finals (2nd from the right)

Winning 2nd in the Finals

Petites and Cara

Super impressive! These girls have an average age of only 8 years old! They are amazing!

Seniors before Finals

Seniors in the Finals (3rd from left)

Seniors with their 2nd Place finish. WOW!

Juniors in the Finals (back center)

Juniors 2nd Place Finish. They were awesome!!!

Fancy Footwork right before they danced in Finals. They rocked!

Fancy Footwork in Finals (on the left)

With the 2nd Place win in the Finals. WOW!!!!

Minis before they danced in Finals

Minis with their 3rd Place Finals win. They were great!

Lifesong did an amazing job. There were over 50 studios from 7 States. We definately were one of the elite studios there. I could not be prouder. Go Lifesong!

Galveston Trip

Sawyer took his first big trip this past week to Galveston, Texas. Mommy's dancers were attending Showstoppers MidAmerica Nationals, so Sawyer and Daddy decided to come along for the week! Sawyer had a great time. Here are some pictures from his big trip.

Sawyer on his first night in Galveston, in the hotel room.

He liked having a new place to explore!

Eating dinner in the hotel restaurant on our first night (Tuesday).

Wednesday, we visited the Aquarium at Moody Gardens. There were lots of neat things to see.

Sawyer looking at some penquins!

Sawyer looking at a scary fish/shark

Although he did look at alot of the fish, Sawyer was more into "people watching" rather than "fish watching".

A scary friend swam right up to visit Sawyer.

Sawyer definately saw that one.

Sawyer, Daddy and Mommy at the Aquarium

Brian and Sawyer. They were good buddies on the trip.

Sawyer, Aaron, Cara, Brian, Sarah and Paula in front of the Shark Mouth at the Aquarium

We took Sawyer swimming twice during the trip. Our hotel had a nice pool. Here he is getting ready to swim in the pool.

Daddy and Sawyer under a cool waterfall in the pool

Sawyer really does like the water

Thursday was Sawyers actual birthday. He turned 1 year old! We celebrated by having dinner at the Rainforest Cafe in Galveston.

Sawyer and Taya, one of my Petite Company Dancers

The Petites all love Sawyer. They got him some birthday gifts, it was so sweet!

I dont think Sawyer will have any trouble meeting any pretty girls in his lifetime.

They helped him open his gifts

Alicia and Taya helping Sawyer

Sawyer really liked Taya

Hugging her

More hugs

Sawyer and Mommy at the Rainforest Cafe on his 1st Birthday

They sang Happy Birthday to him. He smiled and liked it.

They brought out an Ice Cream Sundae with a candle. Mommy let Sawyer eat some of the ice cream, he enjoyed it!

Mommy and Sawyer

Sawyer and Sarah

Sawyer and Brian

Saturday we went to the beach for a little while. Here is Daddy and Sawyer on some rocks on the beach in Galveston.

Daddy, Sawyer and Mommy at the beach. Sawyer put his feet in the sand and let the waves rush up and get him wet. He liked it!

Sawyer and Mommy at the beach

It was very humid, but nice.

After the beach, we all went to Joes Crab Shack on Saturday night. Sawyer had a great time and was dancing to the music in his high chair and cracking up everyone at the table. Here he is sucking his thumb?

Sawyer had a great time on his trip! Ill post pictures from the dance competition later today.