White Rabbit

Last night Peyton's school had a performance. Their Ballet Company and Children's Choir presented Alice in Wonderland. Peyton sang a few songs with her school's choir. This was the only picture we were able to get where it didn't look like she was eating that girl's hair bow:

Look at this great picture:
This was when the choir was leaving the stage BUT, it really was like this during the entire performance. I gave up on recording because all I had were silhouettes of people standing and walking. There was also A LOT of talking throughout the night. I understand young children talking but there were older children talking (and parents weren't asking them to stop). I guess you can't expect them to understand manners when there were parents having full conversations in regular voices. I loved hearing the parent - very far away from me - asking their child if they wanted to go potty. Of course they do, they want to be a black silhouette on everyone's video recordings. Even Mackenzie was so annoyed at a Nintendo being played with full volume. Okay...rant over...

After the choir performance the ballet started. A woman at the school teaches ballet at no cost to any of the students who want to participate. Peyton didn't take it because she is so busy with her regular dance classes but I really wished she did while watching the performance! First off, Mr. Havner, Peyton's principal is the best - he had the role of the White Rabbit.
The set was amazing! And the performers were wonderful.

This is Peyton's friend, Wells:
More friends:
And, the end:
After the show:

Dance America/Dance Olympus - Kansas City

Friday we headed to Kansas City for a dance competition. We checked into the hotel and raced over to the Music Hall for Peyton's solo. We watched some dances, then grabbed dinner at Cosentino's Market (Downtown location) - I had to post a link because Cheyenne was sooooo nice to fire bake our pizzas even though they were shutting down.

Some girls came over to play Apples to Apples during Mackenzie's treatment and after she was done, a few girls tried it out. Little Molly was the cutest thing, she was laughing so much and making the most hilarious sounds while she was vibrating. The front desk had to ask us to turn the "music" down.

Peyton's first group dance on Saturday was Blessed (Lyrical).
Second group dance was Tea Party (Hip Hop).
The girls were both in Funhouse (Jazz).

This is Mackenzie and her KDA Little Sis, Alyssa:

Peyton and one of her dance teachers, Arissa.
Peyton and her KDA Big Sis, Cori.
Mackenzie's second group dance, Girl Talk ( Hip Hop).
Mackenzie's third group dance, Love & Hate (Lyrical).
Mackenzie and Peyton with their actual sister. Ha!:
After a looooooong 12 hour day we finally got to eat. Fran's was yummy!

Today the girls spent the day learning a lot at the dance convention and I got to shop at all the stores we don't have.

We had a great girls weekend. I'm even looking forward to getting on the scale tomorrow after all the walking and stair climbing I did. I may have to market the Dance Mom Diet (for optimal results leave your husband at home, that makes for even more trips back and forth hauling lots of things!).

Next weekend they have another competition but it's here in our town.

NWA Wine Opener for the CFF

On the phone with a friend on Friday and she says "Do you know what tomorrow is?", "No, what?", "It's the day AFTER the Wine Opener". That was the perfect thing to say as I was crazy helping set up the silent auction!

It ended up being such a fun, fun, FUN event! Fun and SUCCESSFUL!! We raised $100,000. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS for the CFF! To help find a cure for cystic fibrosis! Our goal was $65,000. Can you believe we went OVER our goal by $35,000? AND we were SOLD OUT! This is only the 4th year for the event. Seriously, we have four events for the CFF in NWA and every committee has the best people! And, my friends - I could not be surrounded by better, more supportive people. Thanks to everyone for your help, donations, attendance and friendship!

A new addition this year was custom wine labels on bottles to use as decoration. Here is the beginning of that process, delabeling the bottles. This was about 75 of the over 100 we did:

Here are the labels I created. Several of our local CF patients sent pics of their kiddos with a little quote or blurb. I had a great time creating them. (Jason suggested I make them all in sepia tone, that was a great idea.)

Finished product, all ready for guests:

I really wish I had been better at taking more photos at set up (and I was so bad to take NONE at the actual event), but I did get a picture of some of our awesome volunteers from Kohl's putting together some of of silent auction items:

These went two of our live auction items - a Labradoodle and a Yorkie:
Some of our 200+ silent auction items (we had 4 rooms of items):
We "won" the Razorback chairs (below), and a television for my office, and an autographed baseball (? - still trying to figure out why Jason bid on that one):
And this was a huge shock to me - I won this:
This was one of our raffle items (along with a Michael Oher signed and framed jersey). I did not even plan to purchase any tickets because I was going to spend my money on silent auction. We had some great salesmen working the raffle table and they would not let me NOT buy tickets so I purchased the first four tickets of the night, I put two in for the autographed Dierks Bently guitar and two in for the jersey. I was so shocked I won, I had to let the person drawing the winning tickets read the number twice because I did not believe it!

It was such a wonderful night! Can't wait for next year's event!