As if the beginning of May wasn't crazy enough for us, the rest of May certainly brought no reprieve from the onslaught of perpetually activity. The end of the school year is always Lem's busiest time of the year and all my pageant preparations made for an extra active month for us. Lem participated in the usual end of year festivities for school: baccalaureate, graduation, staff BBQ, etc. This year he somehow amazingly managed to have all his grading done the second to last day and spent on part of his last morning tidying up his room so that he was able to leave school immediately after their staff party, and got summer started a few hours early with us girls. He's also had softball each week and just played his last hockey game for the season this Friday night.
I've had my usual schedule of skating lessons, Governor's picnic meetings and the like. I also coached some skaters for our spring show. We also had a sign making party for the pageant-a fun excuse for us girls to get crafty. I had my headshots done. Many of you know, they turned out BEAUTIFUL and it was beyond difficult trying to choose only ONE to submit! We also did some mock interviews with a panel of three judges. That went really well and I received high scores in all four judging areas-hair and makeup, wardrobe, introduction and response to questions. That's real encouraging for the real pageant which is now only 6 DAYS AWAY! AHHHHHHHH! On that note, I'm pretty much prepared and feeling pretty good about things. I'm spending some time practicing strutting around in my wardrobe to be ultra comfortable in each piece and I'm getting my hair done tomorrow, but other than that, it's just a matter of gathering up all my gear and being ready for pageant day! For those of you who might not know there is an online photogenic poll on the Mrs Alaska website. You're able to vote once a day (until this Friday) for your favorite contestant, so feel free to cast your vote if you get the chance. You can also see the pics of the other contestants. http://www.mrsak.com/2009_pageant.html I was also featured in a series of articles for an online journal last week. You can read about that here: http://www.examiner.com/x-7080-Anchorage-Family-Examiner~y2009m5d29-Introducing-the-contestants-to-the-Mrs-Alaska-United-States-pageant-2009-Part-2
Other than pageant prepping and wrapping up school we've been enjoying some sunshine and making good use of our deck and yard. We had a beautiful Memorial weekend and we were able to get our garden ready, do some flower planting and have our first cookout of the year. We had another family over last weekend for a cookout as well-nothing says summer like roasted a dog on the campfire and washing it down with s'mores! We've already been to Saturday market this season already as well. Lem and I enjoyed a fancy dress-up date to celebrate the end of the school year while Sycely got to have a sleepover at Nanny's.
Sycely's antics continue to keep us entertained daily. Between her and Ella (and the two of them together) they're rarely a laugh free moment around here. Since Lem's been off the last week we've had lots of time together as a family and been making some fun summer memories. Those with those two in the picture, EVERY occasion is memorable! Sycely starts "ballet school" tomorrow and couldn't be any more excited. I took her on a Mommy Date to get all her gear and it was so stinkin' fun-she's just tickled to be doing a real ballet class. I made the mistake of taking her to her ballet school's spring performance of Alice and Wonderland. As if it wasn't bad enough with her continually offering ballet instruction and performance, now it's "Mommy, NOW guess who I am on Alice and Wonderland...NOW guess which part of Alice and Wonderland I am doing?" I can't wait to see her with all the other pink-clad ballerinas tomorrow.
Ella is doing her thing-which pretty much mirrors just about anything her sister is doing. She's quite the jabberjaw these days (don't know WHERE she gets that!) and she's pretty entertaining in her own right. The other night she laughed hysterically for a full minute at a pea-apparently it was the funnies pea she'd ever seen. She's really expanded her diet in the last couple of weeks and she's now eating both wheat and dairy so far without any adverse reaction. That is not only encouraging allergy-wise but it certainly makes meal times A LOT easier on me! She pretty much refuses anything she can't feed herself though so our days spoon feeding rice cereal are coming to a close.
Ella's 10 month picture
This next week is busy with the Aces (our pro hockey team) in the Kelly Cup finals, Lem taking a class three days, Sycely starting ballet, and of course, the long awaited Mrs Alaska Pageant on Sunday. The rest of the month won't be wanting for excitement either, though. June will bring more softball, another skating competition, our 8 year wedding anniversary on the 25th and our 10 year high school reunion the following weekend. Hopefully, June will bring more sunshine as well-to our family and yours! We'll be seeing some of you at the reunion (we can't wait!) and wish all of you a happy summer!
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