Arizona State Cinderella Finals 2010

On our way...

Frist night there...Gracie wins Charm Girl!

Gracie, Sydnee & Kaylee

Orientation Morning

My East Valley MOMS!

First Day of Competition-Interview

Prince Gilbert Party

Goody Bags!

Western Hoe Down

Kaylee, Mom & Gracie

Welcome Banquet

Emma & Gracie

Tot Fun Coloring Party

Kaylee, Danielle & Emma

Casualwear Presentations

Awards Breakfast

(Gracie won Miss Manners...what?!?)

Kaylee was crowned the Arizona State Cinderella Ambassador!

She gets to represent the State of Arizona! What a great year we will have!

We had great luck at the Arizona State Finals this year. My girls LOVE wearing crowns, however, this program is not about crowns, trophies or glam. It is about making new friends, developing your talent and self-esteem, and doing better every year. We are grateful that Kaylee will have this wonderful opportunity this year, to travel around and meet new people, and continue to develop her talent. This year was our favorite ever because of the awesome East Valley group that we brought to the State Finals. Being a Director has blessed my life as I have so many new friendships. We had a blast and love you all! Looking forward to 2010-2011!!!

2010-2011 Arizona State Cinderella Royalty

Tot-Cassilyn Hernandez

Mini-Miss-Katherine Dahl

Miss-Alyssa Penney

Teen-Danielle Bracamonte

Woman-D'adra Sites

Ambassador-Kaylee Glover

International Mini-Miss (2009-2010)-Madison Curtis

Baby Hale arrived May 24th, 2010

Luke Bauer Hale

arrived at 11:28am! He was 8lbs. 4oz. and 22 inches long!

Ahhh...Noah loves Luke!

TJ is really a Daddy!
Ryal loves Luke too!

And what would one of my posts be without pictures of Gracie?

Gracie's new thing is..."I'm a Fashion Girl!"

Harlee is NOT a "Fashion Girl"

But Gracie is obsessed with posing for the camera

This is her new princess swimming suit

Yes! We did a swimwear photo shoot! LOL

She told me later that she was modeling her HAIR!

BE OBEDIENT

New Theme of the Month:

Tonight we made cookies. Team A: Ryal & Gracie, followed the instructions the way they wanted to and put way too much of everything in their cookies.

Team B: Kaylee, Ethan & Noah, followed the instructions perfectly. We baked both, I made the kids try both, and we talked about being "perfectly" Obedient and following directions.

Easter Basket clothes

What would I do if I didn't have this girl to dress up everyday?!?

Saturday, April 24th, our studio competed in the ENCORE Dance Competition!

Kaylee's solo: ALWAYS

Gracie's solo: JUMP IN LINE

My PERFORMANCE Cloggers: Cliffs of Dover

I teach the Mini's this year: BABY JUNE

Our Junior Divas took 1st place Overall in their Divison for Cha Cha Heels, and 5th place Overall in their Division for Newsies

BOLLYWOOD

Elite Company (Kaylee's Company)

Thank you Eleanor for Harlee's new dress!

And this past Saturday, I put on a Cinderella pageant...39 girls!

This is our new East Valley Cinderella Royalty for 2010-2011.

Cinderella Tot-Amy Dubin

Cinderella Mini-Miss-Sydnee Coddington

Cinderella Miss-Delaney Buck

Cinderella Teen-Danielle Urness

A new month

The Glover's have started a new tradition in our home! Our family now has a monthly theme which is the center of our Family Home Evening for the month. April's theme has been,

"BE HONEST".

I had the idea to make a darling decorative poster, but then 4:30pm came, and this is what they got! I let them glue gems and stones all over it, it did the job!

It hangs on an open wall in the middle of our home.

The kids took strips of paper and wrote sayings and drew pictures that reminded them to

BE HONEST.

Then we taped those strips all over the house. And every Monday this month has been a new lesson on Honesty.

It's worked, Gracie is definately "more" Honest in April.

Easter was great...lots of fun parties!

Ms. Christina, Gracie's preschool teacher, put on an awesome Easter party! Noah got to come too!

Egg Hunt, bounce house, egg coloring, cookie decorating, face painting, it was fun!

Then we had our Ward Easter Egg Hunt, (the same day as my studio peformance for a nursing home and opening day baseball games for both Ethan & Ryal...save for another post)

And what would one of my posts be without a posed picture from Gracie?

She looks like a princess, but let me give you some of her funniest moments this week:

1. (up the stairs crying), "Mom! Ryal kicked me in the NUTS!"

2. ( as Noah whines) "Mom, I have to hold Noah because he has an allergic."

3. (being bossy as always) "Noah! Shhh! You have to be quiet because the pretend Jesus is sleeping." (she's referring to the picture of Jesus)

4. ( as I was doing her hair, she brought in the scriptures and pretended to read along with her finger) " And God will do, and even shall them, We are family, and all should find joy, and if you don't, I don't care, I'll pull down your underwear!"

She's crazy folks!