Sisters, Weekend and Dance

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If you came over from Kelly's Korner, I have two girls - Mackenzie is 14 (and will be 15 very soon) and is in 9th grade, and Peyton is 11 and is in 5th grade.  I love being the Mom to two girls and am very lucky that they love each other and that so far the teenage years and preteen years have been good to me (knock on wood!).  I often joke that when I'm around boys that I find myself doing that head tilt thing since there are some things boys do that are so different than girls!  

One of the things I love about having two girls is seeing the different mix of their personalities - some things are very similar and some things are complete opposite.  One is definitely more like me and one more like her Dad, but with a crazy combination of the other parent mixed in, too. They are three years, three months apart in age but four years apart in school so in our district they've only had one year where they were at the same school. 

They are kind to still let me blog about them because in my mind they are still 1 and 4 or maybe 3 and 6 ,but, no way are they really 11 and 14!  It all goes by too quickly!

This past weekend we kicked off summer.  In March.  Crazy!  I've enjoyed the cooler temperatures we've had this week!  Mackenzie had a few friends over to swim before we kicked off a busy dance competition.

 Peyton can now do her own HAIR and MAKEUP for competitions!  This makes me so happy because I am so bad at it!  I really don't know which I'm worse at.  Just when I do a bun or a poof and think I'm worse at the hair, I have to do a smokey eye and think I'm worse at make-up.  Thank goodness for the other Dance Moms and Peyton for helping with hair and makeup!

A few pictures from competitions, this Mackenzie in "Black & Gold" (jazz):

 Mackenzie in her hip hop dance, "Don't Stop the Party":

 Peyton, in her hip hop dance "Money":

 Peyton in her jazz dance "Heartburn":

 The girls were in a few dances together, this was from a tap that I LOVED! "Heads Will Roll", Mackenzie:

 And, Peyton:

 This is a lyrical, "Grenade", that Peyton's in.  Amazing dance!:

 Every year the girls get a "lil sis" at the dance studio and this year Mackenzie had two!  She hit the lil sis jackpot because they are so great, we love them. Mackenzie with Chloe and Olivia:

 We LOVE Peyton's "lil sis", too!  Peyton is holding Abby, here.  That's Chloe and Abby's real life sister, Bella in the picture with them. Can you keep up?  There's a quiz later!

Instagram on my iPhone is one of my favorite apps (also available for Android users this week!), I thought it was so sweet when I went on Instagram and found this picture that Bella (in the picture above) had posted:

Made my heart so happy!