Thanksgiving

This is what my Thanksgiving will look like....50+ people in the desert....


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Opinions/help needed....please...

Ok, here is the deal...we are going camping over Thanksgiving and we are having a wonderful feast on that day....I am making yams. I got the "recipe" (if you can even call it that) from one of the girls in my bunco group- her grandmother gave it to her like this...."use a little bit of this and put in some of that" - type thing....

So my question is this...can I bake the yams on Tuesday, place them in the cassarole dish for the final baking on Wednesday? Or will that make them yucky? I have to slice the yams into "hockey pucks" & remove the skin....

What do you all think?

They are going to Vegas...baby!

The girls competed in a Jamz cheer competition and they placed 2nd! With the same routine (mostly) that they used for the Pop Warner cheer comp and we beat out a team that beat us at the first competition! Go figure..

Needless to say the girls were VERY EXCITED....and if all works according to plan we will be going to Vegas in February...now if my money tree would just sprout some more branches.....

2nd grade Play

Amazing, I know, that I completed a layout- especially since this was a layout kit from Scrapbook Oasis, that I got, oh about 6+ months ago. I tweaked it just a little bit, but for the most part- I made the layout exactly as the kit showed....sad that it took me about 3 weeks to finish it, when I had everything at my fingertips to use, already cut, etc. Oh well...at least I scrapped...

I need this to be my mantra....

She makes me...

very proud! :) The top photo looks like she is sitting on the grass...but she isnt'. Her jumps have gotten really good. The second picture is her being dropped into a cradle - she has learned to keep her legs straighter...She loves cheerleading and I am so glad she wants to keep doing it, because she is good... :)

"Crazy"

That was the girls cheer competition theme...You can't really tell here, but the girls had their hair in high pig-tails and then the hair was ratted out. It looked really cute. I have to say, I am going to be one of "those" moms and say - THEY SHOULD HAVE WON!!! Seriously! They did so well- their stunts, jumps everything...but they didn't even place. Several other coaches made comments like- "wow, they nailed it"- "you guys have it for sure". What happened? We don't know yet, but our Cheer coordinator is going to get the score sheets to see what happened. There is speculation that because the girls were in the novice group (beginner) and their routine was so hard (& very fast) that our coaches were trying to represent our girls as beginners when they weren't. How about alot of long practices??? Maybe? I mean more than half of our squad had never cheered before!! Oh well, move on stage mother, right? ;)

Riley is the short one...if you couldn't tell with their hair all funky! :)