Here we go again....

Am I a glutton for punishment or what?

Cheerleader sign ups were yesterday.

We all knew Belle was going to cheer next season; she's only been talking about it since...well, since last season.

The unknown was whether or not Hayden was going to cheer. A little recap for those of you who don't remember last season, although frankly it is burned in my memory forever. Hayden wanted to cheer last season and half way through the season decided she no longer wanted to cheer. I'm a big believer in "you made this decision and this commitment to your squad so you have to see it through". I'm guessing you can see where this is going. We spent the last half of the season with a griping, groaning, complaining, bitter cheerleader. And her parents weren't much happier!!! We saw the season through and she said, and I quote "I AM NEVER going to cheer again!" end quote. And we were fine with that believe you me!

Apparently "never" only extends to next season. Because she has decided she wants to cheer, wait she doesn't, wait she does, no she doesn't, yes she does...... you get the picture.

As of 9:00am Saturday morning I wasn't sure what the decision would be.

As I walked out the door at 10:00am I got the final decision: "I want to cheer next year." Of course this lead to the "If you decide to cheer, we don't want to hear what we heard last season" and the "This is your decision, not ours so we don't want to hear it" and the "No you don't get a lizard if you're good all season" discussions.

Yeah, I'm sure this is going to be fun.

On the upside, Belle is super excited and we only have to buy one uniform.

I'm being a cup half full kinda girl today!!! ;-)

Yay!!!!!

Hayden won!

Her story was picked to represent the 3rd grade at the state competition!!!

Not sure what all that entails but she is super excited just to be going! I've got to figure out how to scan and post it so you can all check it out. It's very cute and soooo Hayden! Have a great weekend!

DWTS and TBL

Okay, I don't know if you're a Dancing with the Stars or The Biggest Loser fan but I have to admit that I enjoy both of them. It's a guilty pleasure!!! With that being said and since I was able to watch the episodes last night I just have to say a few things:

1) Seriously? Steve Wozniak is still on the show? He scored a 10 people! Not as in a gymnastic score of 10; a 10 out of 30. As in THE LOWEST SCORE EVER ON THE SHOW!! The guy invented Apple, has he figured out how to rig voting? Cause there is NO WAY he should still be on there!

2) Ty is doing so much better than he did on his first dance. Still looks scared to death when talking to the judges though. It would help if his partner didn't fall once and trip another time. But I digress....

3) SOOOOO glad to see Denise Richards go. Not a fan. Plus she dances like a puppet. I'm just saying.

4) Holly better step it up if she wants to stay out of the bottom two.

5) Everybody else makes ballroom dancing fun and easy! I wonder if I could talk hubby-man into a few classes? Probably not, but who knows. He does do the western dancing classes with me in Arizona. And yes, he would probably kill me if he knew I wrote this!! ;-)

6) On to TBL. How cool to watch that girl pull her car (yes a 2,000lb car) loaded up with all the extra weight that everybody gave her (257lbs) and BEAT the boys pulling their cars with less weight added!!! The boys were actually quite mean laughing and cutting up as they were adding all the weight to her and one other girl's cars. Well, who's laughing now boys? And you weren't laughing so hard when one of you ended up below the yellow line now were you???

7) I'm glad the girl who fell below the yellow line was voted off. Although I wish both of the ones below the yellow line could have gone. She was a wee bit of a snot. And she was all about the boys being mean to the other girl THAT WON THE CHALLENGE!!! Not that I'm picking favorites but I would think you would want to encourage each other. I know its a contest but does that mean you have to be a mean person?

8) How cool to have a girl lose 100lbs on the campus? That's awesome!

9) Gotta say that show inspires me and makes me proud of those people for being there and giving it there all. Also impresses me that they talk about how hard it is to do it at home yet still get it done.

10) Not that I'm on the show but I have barrelled into a new decade with my weight and am really close to the next one! I think watching that show helps me because I think if they can do it..... well you know the rest!

I can't believe it's Tuesday!

After working Saturday night and Sunday night:
- I had to get up early Monday morning (so I could shower and get ready),
- Take the girls to school (like I do everyday but there was no crawling back into bed this morning!!!),
- Go to a meeting (where we picked out some awesome new spirit wear for the school!),
- Go to another meeting (to get said spirit wear approved by the principal),
- Head to work (there was a call in and I was a fill in),
- Pick up the girls from my mom (who picked them up from school),
- And go Workateer (like Volunteering but where working is also involved) at the school's spirit night hosted by yours truly and the rest of the PTO gang (giving refills, busing tables, giving away prizes).
- Got home at 8:45 and put the kids to bed (totally later than normal) and was actually able to watch the entire episode of DWTS before I passed out in mid sentence of a conversation with hubby-man.

Oh yeah I'm good on 3 hours of sleep!!

Oh Well!!

I was supposed to go to Karaoke last night.

I was ready to belt out a few songs.

Plans changed.

No one could go out.

I cleaned my room.

Oh well. I wonder if they'll have karaoke in Arizona? Hmmmmm........

Gotta Brag!

Georgia has a writing contest through out the state.

Buford Academy participates in this contest. Each kid writes a story. They select 2 kids from each class. They then select one of those kids. After that each kid from each class competes for the grade. If they win their grade they go to the Georgia state competition.

Wellllll.....Hayden found out today that she won in her class and is going to be in the 3rd grade competition against 12 other kids! At least I think that's how many classes there are. Anyway....YEAH HAYDEN!!

We find out next Friday how she did so I'll keep you updated!

Today's the day

My house is clean.

I kicked some house butt and took some dust bunnies names!

And now we wait......

Because in less than an hour Hayden will be leaving to go spend the night.....

And in one hour 6 little girls will descend upon my clean house for a pretend pajama party....

And in 4 hours my house will no longer be clean.

C'est la vie!!