I can't feel my fingers

What I learned this is week is brought to you by JoLynn at Musings of a Housewife (gotta love her!)

This weeks edition is appropriately called "I can't feel my fingers" and to be honest my feet are on their way out too!

What I learned this week:

1. I could NEVER be one of those beach-side braiders in the Caribbean

2. My little feets can't handle 4 days of standing, walking and climbing several flights of theater steps repeatedly

3. Oh and family game night is not all fun and games...

If you missed it see the Peter Pan pictures below! It was a great show - just a bit hard on my body!

A ballerina in the making...

12 mini Braids (8 times)

Lipstick application and re-application

All those braids tucked neatly under the mermaid wig (secured with an ace bandage)

Those precious braids helped to create this adorable Fairy look each and every time!

Flowers, flowers and more flowers - our Mantel is full

One Happy 8 year old Ballerina

All worn out...

Peter Pan was FANTASTIC! The show was amazing, Lauren did beautifully - Her little arms are so graceful it brings tears to my eyes thinking about it...

A great big thanks to all our friends and family who came out to see Peter Pan (planned and the surprises too!) and to "He" and Grams for keeping Hailey busy while Lauren and I were living in Never Land!

What a week!

I DO believe in Fairy's

I DO! I got see a part of the Ballet tonight I had not seen yet, the only speaking part and OMG it gave me chills. I can't wait to see the whole show!!

Peter Pan is almost here. Tomorrow is Dress Rehearsal pretty much all day...(Friday) and then the shows start on Sunday! I am hoping to take lots of pictures at Dress rehearsal because we can't at the shows!

Lauren is getting very excited and it is super fun to watch her feel this way! If you have time swing by her blog and wish her luck~

In the meantime, I have had lots of emails from fellow bloggers asking where I am and even (ahem) saying they miss me this week! THANK YOU! Rest assured...I am reading your posts in my reader just don't have the time to buzz over and comment -

PS - TO all those that wondered the Dresses below are from ZaZa Couture and I can not remember where Grandma bought them but I know they came in the mail! They are great - Machine wash, Hang Dry - several times...no iron needed and they still look new!

Hailey gets puzzled

On our most recent trip to Beaver Creek Hailey joined in the puzzle fun! She has always had her own 60 piece puzzles to do but hasn't been ready to help "us" yet. This trip she not only helped she helped a lot! She put together part of the edge, the entire green spot you see below and helped in many other places! She scouted out her own pieces and really had a great time and a great attitude.

It was really fun for me to see Hailey get Puzzling with us!

This is the finished product

What a yummy puzzle!

PS - Hailey is doing ok since the surgery - she is not back to 100% yet but she is hanging tough and we are knee deep in Peter Pan this week so I am a bit absent to say the least and yes, I changed the header on the blog...I will be moving it soon if technology ever cooperates...

Snow?

Snowing?

Nope! Just a bunch a Crab Apple Trees -

How did such a pretty tree get such a crabby name?
Perhaps it is because of it's allergy inducing powers?
Regardless - they are very nice to look at.

Dam It - Part Duex

Dam, Grandpa's Damn Broke

If you haven't seen the original Dam It - you should take a peak...

Things I do for me

Anita at A wife, a woman, a mom has is starting a new series - Things I do for ME! I like the idea behind this series and plan to join in when I can!

Feel free to Join in, or at least go and Anita and see what she does for her!

To kick it off I decided to write about writing. I write for me. I have always loved to write. Way back when I was 5 I started with poems (one is framed in triplicate and resides at multiple family homes). As a teen writing became an outlet - and has been ever since.

I write poems, short stories, blog posts and more. Writing keeps me sane, writing gets things out of my brain and into my computer and this makes my brain much happier. Sometimes I even send myself emails just to get stuff out of my brain.

I also make lists, I write a lot of lists. The above list is a list of blog posts and this post is on this list and I can't wait to cross it off!

When Lauren was born, back in 2000, I started a website, on that website I kept a journal and lots and lots of photos - in 2004 when I was pregnant with Hailey life got in my way and I couldn't spend the time updating the site that I used to. It was hard, it was sad and it went on for almost 4 years. In February 2008 I plunged into blogging - I kept my blog private at first only going public in October of 2008 - I am so glad I did! I love having my blog as a writing outlet. It has been fantastic for me and all my lovely readers make it even better!

So there you have it - I write, I write for me - I write a lot and who knows maybe someday I will get the courage to pull the trigger and try to publish some of my stories. Maybe. Someday.