IN STEP WITH CAPE BRETON DANCE FESTIVAL!

AMANDA DID IT!

She has worked so hard to reach her goal taking it one week at a time and getting on the treadmill but it paid off. Amanda has reached her weight loss goal of 30 pounds! Way to go Amanda, You did it! She's not finished yet...Amanda has just set a new goal of an additional 12 lbs that she would like to lose. Keep up the hard work, you will be there again before you know it!

MOVING ROOMS AROUND...

MOTHER'S DAY BASEBALL GAME (Saturday afternoon)

NEW WINDOWS!

I forgot to post some pictures of our new windows. Not all the work is done yet but the front is finished for now, we still want to add burgundy shutters to add some color and I have no idea what to do about the green in the front porch window(I'm sure I will think of something). This week we should have the siding finished on the outside of the house where our bedroom now is!

BEFORE

AFTER

Go Fish - The Mom Song

IT'S MOTHER'S DAY!

Dear Lord, it's such a hectic day With little time to stop and pray For life's been anything but calm Since You called on me to be a mom Running errands, matching socks Building dreams with building blocks Cooking, cleaning, and finding shoesAnd other stuff that children lose Fitting lids on bottled bugs Wiping tears and giving hugs A stack of last weeks mail to read So where's the quiet time I need? Yet when I steal a minute, Lord Just at the sink or ironing board To ask the blessings of Your grace I see then, in my small one's face That you have blessed me All the while And I stop to kiss That precious smile

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT #2

Friday and Saturday kept us busy with lots of basketball and I managed to help coach the team with Nadine and keep an eye on Kohl and Blake. I am so proud at how well they listened! The Jaguars played hard all weekend and finished with a 3rd place win and during the second game Jay was award MVP for the game. Unfortunately I missed that part because I was quickly running to pick Trinity up at a birthday party. He was so proud and so was I he played hard :0)
Now it looks like basketball will be finishing up soon with a season end party for the players!

Jay is #6!

MVP!

HIP HOP DRESS REHEARSAL...

Trinity and Kohl are both competing "You can't touch this" with this hip hop dance in a couple of weeks. This will be Kohl first dance competition and I think he is doing great keeping up with the girls. He is having a great time dancing and will definitely make the judges smile!

This first video is the dance they will be competing...

(Trinity and Kohl are in the front row)

YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS...

In this video the class was divided into two groups

Trinity's group (the girls that take tap, jazz and ballet classes)

YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS....

In this video it is Kohl's group and they are dancing to a different song...

WHAT THEY GONNA THINK

ANOTHER DRESS REHEARSAL

IN STEP DANCE COMPETITON IN CAPE BRETON

Trinity is getting ready for another dance competition on May 17th. She will be doing tap, jazz, ballet and hip hop with Kohl. This week has been so crazy with getting back from Halifax and visiting and having 3 kids with colds and now both Matt and I are getting run down ourselves.

The dress rehearsal went pretty good last night with Trinity's classes but as you will probably see in the videos how excited she is to be there. Don't get me wrong it's not the dancing just the class. These are the dances she has been doing before moving up to the harder class and it just isn't challenging enough for her and she is getting bored with it and she is still tired from being away. September will bring a lot more challenges for her and she will be busier then ever. Also in the videos you will see the difference in dedication with the girls. At least half of them forgot their costumes and all the girls messed up the ending to their tap dance but they still have 2 more classes to get it together.

ENJOY THE VIDEOS!

TAP - BOOGIE SHOES

JAZZ - BOOGIE WONDERLAND

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!

Today Matt turned 33!

This pictures was taking our Trinity's dance competition on the weekend during our Millennium Birthday Blast where we dance along with the other dance students from Trinity's school. We had a great time...Matt played James Bond and had all the moms and teachers, yes me included, dancing around him. In the picture with Matt is Jacqueline and Katie (teachers) getting in on the action with James Bond!

It is sounding like we will be doing this dance in the dance show at the end of the month!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DADDY / MATT!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Love always Carebear, Jay, Trinity, Kohl and Blakie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH!

Hannah just turned 3 years old! I hope you had a great party Hannah!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HANNAH...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Love from Carrie, Matt, Jay, Trinity, Kohl and Blake

WEIGH IN TUESDAY!

Dance Competition!

ANOTHER DAY OF DANCE....

What a day but I don't have any pictures to show you for today. Trinity wasn't dancing so I didn't take the camera along with us. One less thing to not worry about. Matt took Kohl and Blake swimming around noon and they had a great time and I was able to walk across the hallway to watch them swim through the window then back across to watch more dancing. What a great set up. We took a break from dancing around 4 pm and went to the BIG mall (Mic Mac) Trinity and Heidi (sitter) had a great time shopping and I think they spend most of their money! Girls! LOL Kohl and Blake each bought some power ranger things at the Disney Store, they had a great time shooting their toy rangers guns going through the mall (they were quiet). We headed back to the sportsplex again around 6:30pm for another swim, this time I went along with them and Trinity and Heidi had a blast on at pirates cove on the water slides. I can't believe I didn't have the camera but again something else to worry about....but I do have a picture of the pool that I will post later.
Matt then took the boys across the street to McDonalds for ice cream and to play at the playpark while we watched more dancing!

Tomorrow is Trinity's big day and we will be heading to the sportsplex for 8:00am for their turn in the spotlight and we should be finished there around 9:30am then heading to Moncton to visit with family before heading home on Sunday.

I was just talking to Jay and he is having fun also and will be going to a birthday sleepover for one of his friends. His mom is surprising them by taking them to a nearby hotel for the night with the boys and letting them swim in the pool. He went bowling tonight with his friend Matthew with his bowling league and Jay bowled 3 strikes. Not bad for not bowling. Looks like he is going to bowl on the youth league in the fall. So all is well with Jay and I can't wait to get back to have him with us again...it's just not the same without him around even if he complains about all the dancing he has to see. Love ya Jay! See you soon. Love mom :0)

DANCE WORKSHOP

We arrived here in Halifax around 12:30pm, just in time for Trinity's dance workshop. The workshop went from 1 until 4 pm and she had a great time. Two of the dancers that each taught an hour of dance were in the top ten of season 3 on "So you think you can dance" and the third one was the winner of season 3!

We took a break and ordered pizza for supper and headed back to the hotel which is just down the street from the sportsplex so we are quite handing to things. At around 7:00pm we got ready and headed back for our big dance show and Blake stayed here at the hotel with Heidi. We had fun at the dance blast and the kids were super excited but also getting tired.

We are back at the hotel and I am in bed watching Grey's Anatomy and updating this blog while everyone is sleeping, I think I will do the same in a couple of minutes. Tomorrow Matt will take the kids swimming and Me, Heidi and Trinity will spend the morning watching the competition then enjoy the free day. Trinity doesn't compete with her tap dance until Saturday morning....

I will post more again tomorrow.

NEW WINDOWS (GARAGE)

MONDAY MORNING

WEDNESDAY { 10:30AM}

All the windows are finished all I have to do is get the rooms cleaned up and take some pictures of them and today we will finally have our new window in the family room but the siding won't be finished until sometime next week because they needed to order it. So back again to do the finishing touches. What a difference the new windows make! Love them :0)

Framing for the window {12:30pm}

Closing in the wall...

next comes the window! {1:15 pm}

The window is in! { 3:00pm}

(siding next week)

View from the inside...

BEFORE

I will update throughout the day as the renovation progresses....

Things are busy around with getting the new windows installed and I forgot to weigh in this morning so I will go with my weight loss results from both Sunday and Monday of another 1.2 lbs for the week. I am not looking forward to my results next week with being away and not having my treadmill. I will see what happens then but for now I will enjoy my success for this week! Finally under 140 lbs. I haven't seen this in almost 3 years!

Matt forgot to weigh today also so we will see what his results are tomorrow. I do know that with being so busy with inventory and everything else at work that he hasn't had a lot of time on the treadmill but he should see some weight loss results. I'll post his tomorrow.

Have a great day and we will see some of you real soon!

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT!

JUBILLE JAGUARS

Saturday was the boys basketball tournament which was held at Cape Smokey here in Cape Breton. The boys had to say goodbye to their other coach last week as he was moving for work so I stepped in to help Nadine coach the boys. It was a long drive yesterday but the boys kept busy with their PSP's and DS game systems but when we got their they weren't ready to play. Jay and Matthew weren't feeling all that great but fortunately after having some water and sitting back for a minute they were ok and ready to play. It took the team the first half of their first game to get going but after some orange slices at half time they came back and played awesome and had brought the score to a 8 point difference towards then end but not enough to win.

After the game they had a break for lunch but we didn't want the boys to fill up on greasy burgers and fries just before playing again so we let them have a few snacks and a drink of juice . Back to the second game! Boy what a game this one was...they played like they were on fire and the points sure did show it! If only they could have played the first half of the first game the way the were playing they would have made the finales but wow they sure played a great second game which gave them 3rd place medals. Way to go boys!

The boys warming up for their first game. The boys had a hard time getting started after sitting in the van for the long drive but when we got their it was game time so off they went...

Award line up after their second game. The won 3rd place and Sam won MVP for the first game and Brandon won MVP for the second game!

It was different not having the other kids around at Jays game but Matt kept them busy! They went down by the ferry terminal to the wooden playpark then home and took the tarp off the garage door (getting new windows tomorrow!) then they spent the rest of the day putting up the trampoline and that is where I found the kids when I got home. They were dirty but having fun!

Today is our last dance rehearsal so it could be interesting. It is actually a dress rehearsal so I will try to get some pictures of everyone because we won't be able to get any at the show. I will get them post later on.

PUTTING THE KIDS TO WORK....

Last weekend the kids and I helped Matt out at work with some of the A-Z events that were going on throughout the store and it was the weekend to give away free sample of their mini z burgers that they now sell in the restaurant and samples of different varieties of chips and free bottles of water! The kids all had on their zellers t shirts and help Zeddy bear pass out samples of gum and other goodies and Jay had the honor to wear the bear suit and liked doing it so much that he went back again on Sunday before we had our dance recital. Thank God we went down with Matt sunday and ended up helping out because they were short on staff and had no one to offer out the free burgers so we did it for him. I did the burgers, Trinity offered the chips and Kohl was in charge of the water bottles while Blake sat back on the patio furniture playing his v smile and helping out from time to time.

Tomorrow I will be away with Jays basketball tournament but I think Matt is planning on taking the boys down to Zellers with him to hand out burgers again but Zeddy will have to wait for another day to make his appearance.

WORKOUT JOURNAL DAY 3

WEEK 4 - DAY 3

# of times on treadmill (1)

Time - 71 minutes
Fat calories burned - 254
Calories burned - 815
Distance - 5.01 m

WEIGH IN TUESDAY!

GETTING READY FOR THE DANCE COMPETITION!

Thursday was dress rehearsal for Trinity's tap class to make sure that things are worked out before heading to Halifax for their dance competition. They have been working so hard this past month (along with the rest of the year) and it was nice to be able to sit back and watch them go through their dances in costume.

Sunday was another rehearsal for the parents and dancers for the bash dance and we did so well we got to leave early. Next Sunday is dress rehearsal so I am hoping to get more pictures... but for now here is a video of Trinity's tap dance (some girls are missing - first communion) She is on the end to your left....

BASKETBALL AND YOUTH GROUP....

LET THE FUN BEGIN....

The boys basketball team have been having a great couple of weeks and next weekend will be heading off to Cape Smokey for their basketball tournament. Matt is going to stay home with the kids and I will travel and take along some of the players. I am not looking forward to the long drive myself but I'm sure we will all have a great time away. Now on the bad side to this is that the boys just had to say goodbye to one of their coaches. Ken is leaving but not just his team, he has joined military ministries and will be taking his family and moving to Winnipeg. He will be missed and the boys are determined to win the tournament for him.

Not only did the boys lose a good coach but also the church and the youth group has lost a great minister and enjoyed their last event together Swimming at the Kiwanis pool followed by a pool party. We were all invited to go along and join in the fun and we all had a great time. Jay was off with his friends and Trinity swan around with a group of girls and Kohl spent most of his time jumping off the diving board. Matt had to work but I was able to manage the two younger boys no problem. Nadine had fun with Kohl on the diving boards while I floated around in the deep end with Blake. Then the pizza party. That was the best darn tasting pizza I ever had! Needless to say I had a good size piece (extra running on the treadmill) and Blake ate two large pieces and Trinity and Jay scarfed down a few themselves. The kids were so excited to have been invited to join the youth on one of their events. It didn't take them long to fall asleep...out like a light!

WORKOUT DAY 5

WEEK 3 - DAY 5

Ok so I didn't get a whole lot of running done on the treadmill today but I am working through an injury to the back of my knee. Hopefully by taking the night off I will be back on in the morning...so what am I doing tonight instead...shhhh....keep it a secret now LOL I am going to have chinese food. I deserve a treat don't I?!!!! Back to it tomorrow :0)

AFTER EATING CHINESE FOOD MOM CALLED AND THE ALREADY FEELING GUILTY ME WENT AND GOT ON THAT TREADMILL (mom coaches me along until I burned 320 calories!)

# of times on treadmill (3)

Time - 92 minutes
Fat calories burned - 304.6
Calories burned - 975
Distance - 6.19m

WORKOUT DAY 4

WEEK 3 - DAY 4

# of times on treadmill (2)

Total numbers for the day (treadmill)

Time - 120.30 minutes
Fat Calories - 383
Calories burned-1210!
Distance -8.05m

WORKOUT JOURNAL DAY 3

WEEK 3 DAY 3

# of times on the treadmill (4)

Total numbers for the day!

Time - 140 minutes
Fat calories burned - 451.6
Calories burned - 1446!
Distance - 9.49m

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

TODAY DESTINY TURNED 6 YEARS OLD!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DESTINY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Love from Aunt Carrie, Uncle Matt, Jay, Trinity, Kohl and Blake!

JUST A COLD....

This morning we spent many many hours waiting at the hospital to have Trinity's throat checked. She woke up this morning with a sore throat and had white spots at the back of her throat so we wanted to have it looked out in case it was strep throat...nope just a cold. That was well worth the 4 hours we waited.

Jay had another basketball game today in Florence and almost half of the players didn't show up so that put more playing time on the players and tired them out. They didn't win the game but they played awesome and Jay was on fire...I don't know what got into him?!

Today was an overall busy day and I beat and getting ready to head off to bed.

I will try to update some more tomorrow.

Nighty Night

WORKOUT JOURNAL - DAY 1

WEEK 3 - DAY 1

142 lbs

# of times on treadmill.... (3)

Time - 30 minutes
Fat calories burned -97.1
Calories burned -311
Distance - 2.03 m

Time - 60 minutes
Fat Calories burned - 207
Calories burned - 665
Distance - 4.16 m

(sister called and got me back on...)
Time - 30 minutes..............................=...................120 minutes
Fat Calories burned - 70.5.................=...................374.6
Calories burned - 225.........................=...................1201!
Distance 1.75 m....................................=...................7.94m