Skating in Vegas

 

Skating is HARD and Even the best skaters have off days. Khloe is a rock star who practices for hours and hours to be a champion skater. The Vegas competition was the first time she’s fallen during a performance since she was 4. She had a block and forgot the program she has spent at least 100 hours practicing but she stayed with it and did all her required skills and still placed third. She was so disappointed that she forgot something she has done perfectly a hundred times. She was standing next to Don quietly crying and a teenage skater that none of us knew came over and gave her the sweetest pep talk. I’m so proud of these girls and the kindness of the other skaters. Vally didn’t skate in Vegas and Connor did not play the slots.

While she was standing next to Don being sad a lady came over and asked if she was Khloe and said "come with me." She then told Khloe she had placed third and she felt better. The girl who got first was amazing, I don't know who placed second. I know the last girl who skated had to have placed 6th. These girls are amazing with how much time and energy they put into skating.

Since we were driving to Vegas for a 2 minute performance we decided to leave a day early and spend the night at Brians Head. Don and Sean had never skied there. They skied in the morning and then we drove the rest of the way to Vegas that afternoon.

Little Baby Bird and a bunch of Big Kids

 

How cute is this little bird.

Kylie and Brie showed up at 10 pm on Friday night for an impromptu sleepover. They both have their drivers license. Again, how did this happen? They are all grown up. Kylie will be a senior next year.

Sean is 15

How can this be? How is time going so fast and Sean is almost grown up! 

Sean hung out with his plethora of friends on his birthday but he did make time to have dinner and a cake with us.

Shoe situation when Sean's friends are here. Literally he has so many new friends I can't keep track of them. He still has the same old friends but he has a dozen new ones as well.

Halloween

 

Last Halloween in Tallahassee seems like a long time ago. The kids were pretty darn cute.

Connor loves bananas so instead of a candy I gave him a banana. Cutest baby shark ever.

 

We took Connor up to trunk or treat the other night and we saw this cute ghost car.

Sean and his friends had no plans for Halloween. They decided to go to Farmington Station and work out at the gym there. Then they came back to the house after for pizza. At 7 they decided they wanted to dress up. They had no costumes so Don took them over to the McBrides where Angela dug out a bunch of costumes and off they went. About 9 they showed up again and then watched movies. Teenagers can be so silly.

Helping Grandpa

Connor is an exceptionally helpful 18 month old. He has quit throwing all the DVD's on the floor and now brings them over one by one and hands them to me. Note: the only reason we still keep the DVD's is so Connor can mess with them. We don't even have a DVD player.

We had to buy a new dishwasher AGAIN. Hopefully this one will last longer as Connor helped install it.

Connor also helped set up the new TV.

He did a quality control check before we put it up.