Mckenna and those amazing Pointe Shoes

Once Upon a Time there was a beautiful dancer who hated Ballet...
Then one day she was told by the most amazing ballet teachers Lisa and Erin that she could go on Pointe and those days of the dreaded Ballet were no more!

In these pictures Mckenna is showing a little bit of her polar opposite personalities, she loves being a tom boy when it comes to playing sports, (she thinks she wants to play Powder Puff football- I know weird...) but then she absolutely loves to dance and is the most girlie girl that I know of all her friends. So, I love these pictures because it reminds me of Kenna, Maddie and Kyleigh sides all at once!!!

Mckenna is working so hard and these pictures are her very first time on Pointe, so I probably should take more pictures to show how much she has improved. Mckenna told me that she needs me to take Professional Pictures at the studio and not in our Living Room because it ruins the pictures but this is what we have right now and this is how it is going to be. Maybe in January when the studio isn't so busy with Christmas performance Practices we can get into a studio practice room and shoot some more amazing pics, but until that happens I hope you enjoy these little highlights of Mckenna and her Toe shoes.



Beautiful Mckenna The tongue sticking out does not fit her beautiful Moods.

See Beautiful and then crazy

I love this face, she was working so hard!

Many Happy Birthday's with Many Happy Returns

The delicious Cake and the sweetest Parents in the world!

My dad and My Aunt Mary during our combined birthday/4th of July party!

Our New Home!

Here is a peek at the house that we are moving into on July 15th! That is 14 days from now!

We are so excited!!!

House we are moving into in July

Driveway to backyard

Just beyond the driveway gate

Oh, boy, it's a jungle out here~

Pool area with hottub

House we are moving into on July 15th!

Front of House- sorry it is dark out.

Right side of house

Left side of house

Better view of front of house

Some more scenes from Alice

Here are some more scences from Alice.
Most of these are put on from the Acting division of PAC.
I wanted to give everyone a little taste of what was going on...



The Queen of hearts and playing cards

Kyler who was watching Alia

Cute little tea party girls

Mad Hare, Alice and the Mad Hatter

Performing Arts Conservatory of Ocala presents ALICE

Mckenna dances at the Performing Art Conservatory of Ocala
It not only has dance, but also, Acting, guitar, flute, piano,
voice, tumbling and Ettiquite classes.
What was really fun about their recital is that the whole thing was done in production numbers
so that it includes ALL their classes not just the Dancing part of the studio.

It was a really fun Production. The girls and guys did great and the sets were amazing!
It truly took a lot of people to pull this Production number off and I am in awe of the talent
of the parents here!

I even got great compliments about Mckenna from 3 of her dance teachers. One of which used to
teach at Center Stage in Orem!

I love what Mckenna has learned here and we are hoping to find out soon if she made the
Competition Team. Good luck Mckenna and Great Job on your dance Numbers tonight!
Love ya, Little Angel!


wow- look at those legs

Her Jazz group- senior and jr.

look at those toes!

Pretty Ballerina

Mckenna's Award Ceremony

Okay so I am a little late with this one, but I wanted to show you what an amazing last part of the year Mckenna had a school and also introduce you to two of her friends.

At Osceola Middle school, they have students in grades 6th through 8th. Mckenna is a 6th grader here.

In their BRAVO classes (sortof like a lifeskills class,) they teach 11 life values: each year they award 2 students from each Value with the prestigious award of a Golden Binder. This year Mckenna won (with one other student,) for Most adaptable. So this means that next school year for the first Semester she will be able to carry around a Golden Binder instead of the required blue binder for 7th graders and all the students will know she is special.

She also got a Honor Roll shout out and for those awards they give an Osceola "O". It is just like a letterman's jacket letter. Next year if she gets on the Honor roll, she will recieve a Silver bar and then the next year (her last at that school before High School,) if she gets on the Honor Roll she will get a gold bar all to put on her Letter...

She was so excited about me meeting her friends. I met Heather and Sam. Heather lives in the neighborhood that we wanted to move in but now will be moving into a different one away from Both Heather AND Sam.

Sam is probably the closest of the two friends. Mckenna has gone to an end of the year lake party/sleepover and then just hung out at Lake Weir at Sam's beach cottage for another the day.
All of Mckenna's friends here are blonde except for a 2 girls at Church- Maggie and Elle. The rest Blonde, which to me is very interesting. And do you think that Mckenna and Sam could be sisters? All the kids at school think they do!


Osceola Middle School Auditorium


being awarded the Golden Binder for Adaptability

Recieving the Osceola "O"

Mckenna and Sam

Mckenna and Heather

What our new couch will look like!

So, we bought our very first NEW couch! We had a Sofa Sleeper, but it decided to go kaput on us after our last visit from Sharon and Rich's family. But, I guess it is okay since I never liked the couch color anyway. We initially bought the sofa sleeper for the office in our Rainbow Home and then had to move it to our Canyon View home as our main couch!

We had a totally different couch picked out, we brough Devin with us for the final looksee and this is the couch he picked. When you sit down in it you literally sink into the cushions they are so SOFT!!

Too bad we can't get the rest of the matching furniture. Maybe some day.

(to see couch click on title link!)

Another house we looked at

So this is another house that we looked at today.
We don't love it as much as we did the Yellow house, but it does have a great pool, backyard, and masterbed room.
This house Matt was drawn to, but not after looking at it today.

The kitchen had water troubles so that they had to put in all new cabinets and flooring, i liked the old cabinets better and they are putting in formica counter tops, not such a great selling point!!

love this home Pt.4

A messy view of the Master bedroom (definetly not as big as the house in S.C. But bathroom is really nice... The family room is really long, this is only half. The t.v. wall unit is covering french doors to the backyard!


Side yard and garage. Side yard to next door neighbors. We would be getting rid of the hedges in the front around palm trees and planting flowers instead.

So, now that you have seen the house- What do you think?

Love this home Pt.3

bedroom #4 or Kyler's room. These rooms really are a great size! And a View from the staircase landing...

Diningroom/office/formal living room- we would also use it as an office for Matt. A view from the doorway of the Master bedroom into the Kitchen and Breakfast room.

love this house pt. 2

bedroom #2. Kyler would like this to be his room, but it is huge so we would use it as a hangout spot for the kids. Mckenna's bathroom (or so she says.)

Boys bathroom and Devin's room (bedroom #3) It is a little smaller, but Devin has never hung out in his room!