Future Cheerleader?

McKenna attended a cheer camp this week for several days. Well, last night they got to perform at half-time of the Lovell/Rocky varsity girls game. They performed 3 cheers and simple stunts. It was so fun to watch and was amazing to me what these little girls learned in such a short amount of time!
She is such a poser!

McKenna enjoyed learning different cheers and stunts that the cheerleaders perform.

They received a T-shirt, pom-poms, necklaces, bracelet, tattoo, and a megaphone!

McKenna is such a cutie and I enjoy watching her grow and learn new things. She may possibly be a future cheerleader!:)

Help!

I'm not sure how to change the middle part of my blog to match the background border. If any of you could tell me how that would be great.

Halloween Parties and Spooks!

Cleopatra and her fellow spooks!

Cleopatra, Punky Pirate, and Twisted Witch

Lil' Witch

Lil' Miss Punky

The Queen of Egypt

The Spooky Crew ready for Trick or Treatin'


This year for Halloween, Whitney and some of her 5th grade friends went Trick or Treating all by themselves. They are getting too old for moms to tag a long. :( They had a blast! Candida and I took the four younger ones around to collect their loot. I usually get pictures of the HUGE amount of candy they get but of course I forgot. I also forgot to take pictures of McKenna and her class at school during their halloween party. Oh well, can't capture everything. After everyone was done walking from house to house, we went back to The Jones' and had mummy dogs, apples and caramel, vegies, and icecream treats. Thanks Candida for the cool food! The girls were exhausted by the end of the night. That's the night that Whitney started to get sick. She was out of school the entire next week. SWINE FLU!! Poor Whitney! She was so sick.
Whitney and I are the only ones that have had it bad. McKenna was sick for two days. So I am waiting for Ruben and Abby to get it now. I'm crossing my fingers that they don't. But with our luck and all the germs going around, you never know. I hope that we are all well through the holidays!

Carving Pumpkins!

Dad helping carve the pumpkins.

McKenna cleaning out her pumpkin.

OOEY GOOEY!!!!

Whitney carving away at her pumpkin!

Pumpkin Carving Time!

Bike Safety!

The girls got to participate in a Bike Safety class given by the Lovell Police Department. It was held the morning of Halloween. They were really excited to attend although it was a very cold and windy day, they still enjoyed it. They also received a free bike helmet! They are not wearing them in these pics though. There were several volunteers there and different coarses that were taught to the kids about riding their bikes safely. They served cookies and hot chocolate. The LPD gave away 4 bikes. Two for the Elementary and two for the Middle School. All of the kids that participated in the bike safety that day got put into the drawing. The girls enjoyed it very much! Thanks to all of the people who helped put this together. More activities like this should happen more often.

Coming soon...

...I will actually be blogging about something! I know it's been 3 months and people are wondering why I haven't blogged in so long. Basically, "LIFE" has been it. It has been busy ever since school started. I will start back logging everything since August! I got a new laptop for my birthday and it is fast! My other computer just wasn't cutting it. It is very ssslllooowwwww. That is another reason why I gave it up for awhile. It would take forever for a picture to download and then half of the time it didn't work. So my awesome husband bought me a new one and I love it! So stay tuned cause I'm back in business!

sPiDeR BiTeS?

My poor little Abby got bit by something 2 weeks ago! This one on her face was as big as a quarter, puffy and hot to the touch. These pictures don't do them justice, they looked a lot worse!!:(
This one was bad. It was as big as a softball or baseball! It was very hot to the touch and it was welted up. In the middle was a cluster of small blisters and the center of it was hard.

The bite was on the inside of her right leg above her knee.
As it healed, the redness started to go away, the welt was getting smaller, and all that was left was the small cluster of blisters in the middle. Finally, after 2 weeks, it is all healed. You can still see a faint outline where the biggest part of the sore was.

My oldest daughter Whitney had a bite similar to this a couple of years ago, and it lightly scarred her leg. I had taken her to the doctor and he said to just put cortizone cream on it and watch it closely.