Monday, May 18, 2009

My Dancing Queens

McKenna and Morgan had their dance recital this weekend. All their hard work paid off! It was a great show, a tribute to Broadway. This is Morgan's 6th full year of dancing, boy she shines on the stage! McKenna has been dancing for four years and has made great improvements too. They were lucky to be able to dance in two dances together. They opened the show with the song "One"
This is a shot of Morgan's dance group.
Morgan did a jazz dance to "Dancing Queen!" How appropriate, the costume was great! McKenna danced to "The Wiz" for her jazz routine.
This was my favorite dance of McKenna's, "I want to be an Angel."
She was so beautiful and graceful!
The finale of the show was "Memories" from Cats. There were 3 different classes doing this dance. It was really cool! This is a group picture of a lift that they did! This was Morgan's group at the curtain call. She is on the right end. I joked with my friends that I could always tell which one was Morgan because she is the shortest one on the stage. HAHA
This is Mrs. Shannon, the girls dance instructor. She has known them since McKenna was 2 years old. She has a lot of talent and is so patient and great with the kids! Thanks for a great year of dance.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Happy Mother's Day!

How blessed I am! We had a wonderful Mother's day together. Tony helped preach at the church services this morning, so the girls helped me take these photos! Morgan took this one and did a great job!
McKenna even zoomed in on us!
We had the gang over for barbecue ribs. They turned out great. It's hard to believe how big all the girls are getting.
Tony had a a business meeting in Myrtle Beach and invited me to go too. We stayed in a great room with a beautiful view of the ocean. Tony played his first real game of golf and loved it. He now wants to take it up as a hobby... God help us!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Aquatica Fun!

We had a great time at the water park! This is the way to spend the day in the hot Florida weather.
This is one of the kid areas. It was huge!
The water was heated so it wasn't too cold. Just the way I like it.
This was the roaring rapids. You wore a life jacket and it pulled you through the rapid waters. So cool!
They had a huge beach area.
I had to put this picture in because when I first saw it I thought it was Amy! Can you see the resemblance?
They even smile under the water!
This was an aquarium along the lazy river!
We all rode this slide. It was very fast!!!
Maya loved the slides too!
They do love each other!
Morgan and Tony on the way down!
We had a great time. There was one slide that we rode that went under the ground through a tank with Commerson dolphins in it. They swam by you as you shot through the tube. It was too fast to get pictures.

Our big adventure continues!

After our Animal Kingdom adventures, we went to Epcot for lunch and ate in Mexico! We rode Soaring, and Test track. The Finding Nemo attraction was really cool. We saw all the fish that were in the movie. Sharks, stingrays, turtles, jellies, and big manatees.
After our afternoon in Epcot we went back to Magic Kingdom to do a few things we missed the day before. We got to have one on one time with the princesses. Maya was beaming with joy when she talked with them.
They were so sweet and loving! What a once in a lifetime experience! Belle is her favorite princess at the moment! I think she was in shock when we first got up to her.
She warmed up very quickly! Maya loved Minnie and Mickey's Houses!
We finished up our very long day watching the Spectro Magic parade and the fireworks! They were exhausted!

Our Big Adventure!

The last full day of our vacation we pushed our limits! The morning started out at Animal Kingdom. The girls road the Twirl -a- Whirl roller coaster. It was great!
Maya loved Goofy! He kissed her on the nose, she thought that was funny.
We used this leash to keep up with Maya. She loved it, she thought she was a puppy! We saw the Lon King Show. The dancing, singing, and scenery was amazing! We also went on the African Safari and had a great view of cool animals.
Daddy's girl!
We joined the bugs in the show "Tough to be a Bug"
Maya was scared again!!!
This was the Toy story ride at MGM
More characters!
What a great day!