A Little Tricycle Ride!

Elli on Ice ~ Beginner 1 Class Sept. 2 (Videos!)

After the four-week Tots ice skating session, Elli moved on to Beginner 1!

Beginner 1 skills include: fall and stand up unassisted, forward one foot glide, march forward, backward wiggles, backward swizzles, forward two foot glide, forward pumps on a circle, forward swizzles, and snowplow stop.

Here are pictures from the first class of Beginner 1!

 Working on the one foot glide.

Skating with a trainer during the public skate session after the lesson.

Video ~ skating with a trainer.

Video ~ skating without a trainer.

Video!

Video!

A little pose to send to JieJie.  :)

Switchfoot Concert ~ Sept. 2014 (Videos!)

Kaitlyn and her best friend, Hailey, got to see Switchfoot in concert last month!  This was the ninth time they have seen them in concert!

The lineup at the concert was: J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Switchfoot, Capital Cities, and Bastille!

Kaitlyn's Instagram of Switchfoot on stage.

Video ~ Switchfoot!

Video ~ Bastille! 

Football Game and First Pride Band Competition!

Marching band season is in full swing!  Brady plays the tenor drums in both the Traditions Band and the Pride Band!

The Traditions Band performs the national anthem before the Friday home football games.

Popcorn.

Ring pop!

The Pride Band performed their African-themed field show titled "Maskhara" after the football game!  Brady ~ tenor drums (left).

Three large African masks are revealed during the different movements of the piece and then come together to form Africa!

Then on Saturday (Sept. 20), the Pride Band had their first competition!

 Brady ~ tenor drums (left)

Kaitlyn drove from college to see Brady!  Here are some of her pictures from the competition.

Mama's Little Helper…Making Supper

 Getting lettuce ready for a salad.

Making meatloaf and dancing to One Direction!  Kaitlyn would be proud. :)

 Washing and scrubbing potatoes.

 Making chocolate chip cookies!

China Trip Pic…Coming Home to America!

For Homecoming Spirit Week 'Merica Day, here's a picture of our precious Elliana coming home to America!!!

July 20, 2011

Elli on Ice ~ Tots Class Week 4 (Videos!)

Here are pictures from Elli's fourth ice skating lesson!

August 26, 2014

Video ~ testing of skills during the last week of the 4-week tots session.  Elli is pretty competitive!

Video ~ skills test.

Video ~ skills test.

Elli passed the Tots ice skating class and moved to Beginner 1! 

Video ~ skating without a trainer during the public skating session.

First Preschool Homework!

Elli has a homework booklet each week at preschool that has pictures to color that start with the letter of the week.  She is happy to do her homework and is excited to get a little reward like stickers or a small pen when she returns it to school!

 Elli doing her very first school homework. :)

Reading Phonics Books! (Video!)

We have been practicing reading Hooked on Phonics level one books.  Elli is reading at four just like Kaitlyn and Brady were!

Video!

First School Picture Day!

"Happy and HOME" New Day Video!

New Day Foster Home put together a "Happy and HOME" video to celebrate the adoption of 256 children since 2002!  The video includes over thirty "happy" video clips of children who were once orphans at New Day, but who are now home!!  Watch closely, the video begins with a little clip of Elliana's first ice skating lesson!

Click on the link below to see the video!
http://newdayfosterhome.blogspot.com/2014/08/happy-and-home.html

One Direction Concert!

Kaitlyn and some of her friends saw One Direction in concert last month!!

Kaitlyn and her best friend, Hailey, on their way to the concert!

 There were over 50,000 people there!

Everyone holding up their phones during "Little Things".

Kaitlyn said the concert was amazing!