Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. There 23 people at our home for dinner and we enjoyed having a houseful of relatives. Here is a picture of cousins from Dave's mom's side of the family. We're missing a few, but it is fun to have this picture. :-)

Spielberg's Montage

I made a montage for Spielberg. I need to tweak it some still, but I wanted to post something about my boys! Ice Princess has been monolpolizing this blog, so I figured it was time to post something about the boys. So, here's his montage.

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Something Fun

I created this video of Ice Princess. I need to put some together of the boys too!

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Ice Princess competes again!

On November 8th, Ice Princess competed again. She skated 3 levels higher then the last time she competed. She did very well. She placed 3rd in her Freeskate and 2nd in her Improv. For improv, she had to make up her own routine on the spot! The music was plyed twice before the contestants skated to it. She did a great job for her very first improv!

Here are some pictures from that day!



Ice Princess and some of her friends in her skating club.


Ice Princess with her medals. She is so proud of herself!



Ice Princess on the podium with her medal from her Improv number.


Ice Princess on the podium with her Freeskate medal.



IP's beautiful catch-foot spiral! I absolutely love this picture!!



Doing her edges during her Freeskate program



A spiral during her freeskate program.



Another spiral during her improv program.

There will be more pics to come later... I hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Fall Snow

For the better part of last week, the weather forecast predicted a big storm would come into the area and leave snow behind. Last night approximently 4-6 inches of snow accumilated in our area! It is early October and we have snow! Oh and not only do we have snow but we may get up to another 6 inches of snow before this is over! I guess this means summer is offically over? I feel like we've skipped fall and have moved directly into winter! Just last week we had tempratures in the 80's! Darn that global warming... I want fall. I'm not ready for winter just yet. :-(

Anyway... if I get around to it, I will take a picture and post it.

Edited to add this picture. This is not a picture of my house, but one a resident in our area took. I'll use this photo as an example of how much snow we recieved! I'm hoping it melts so that we can enjoy the FALL before winter sets in. :-)

And the Winner Is....

ICE PRINCESS! She did a fabulous job and won a first place medal at her competition yesterday! She is on cloud nine and is so very proud of herself! She worked very hard and managed to pull it off and place 1st in her group. WTG, Ice Princess! This is not something we expect will happen all of the time, but boy did it feel great when the results came in and we saw she came in first! Not only did she come in first, but all of the judges unanimously agreed! Anyone who understands figure skating will understand what I mean by that. LOL! I don't have any video to share just yet, but I do have a lot of pictures to share! As soon as I have video, I will share it. :-)



Her 1st spin.



Ending her spin.



Her lunge.



Her spiral.



Bunny hops.



One foot glide while smiling at the judges. Yup...one must charm those judges!! LOL!



Another spiral. This one isn't as pretty as the first one, but it is still notably good for her level! Her coach has said with practice and stretching, her spiral will continue to get higher!




Another lunge. This was her last minute lunge. She deviated from her program since she was ending a little early and would have ended before her music ended. She threw this lunge in which helped her to end on time! :-)



A podium picture. Unfortunarely, there was a lot of confusion when the awards were given out. Because of that confusion, the other girls in her group were not available for podium pictures. The gal taking the podium pictures didn't do that great of a job anyway, so who knows how the group pics would have turned out! LOL





Ice Princess and Drama Ice Queen(IP's best bud...lol). Both girls came in first place in their events! This obviously was after they were both finished skating. :-)

Ice Princess showing us how flexible she is!



Anyway, Ice Princess is a happy girl and we are so proud of her! Thanks for looking!

Skating Videos

We took the kids skating yesterday and Ice Princess practiced her routine as well as other things. Here are a couple videos of her skating. They are kinds of dark since one end of the rink did not have all the lights on! I tried to get better shots of her spirals since they look SOO much better then they did a couple of months ago. Those videos did not turn out, but hopefully I will get better video when she competes on Friday. :-) One of these videos show her doing spirals, but the distance I was standing from her, made it hard for me to get a decent shot of her doing them.

Anyway... enjoy!




Here she is, running through her program on public ice. I cut off the begining of it and my camera cut off the end. I ran out of memory space! OOPS.



Her waltz jump combined with my bad video skills! EEK!



Her 1 foot spin. She kinda loses it at the end... :-)

Anyway, there is a skating update for anyone interested! Hopefully, come Friday night, I will have better video and pictures to post!