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Thursday night, after spending a few hours on the beach we went to eat at Hammerhead Fred's.
After Kaylyn devoured 3 entire clusters of crab legs BY HERSELF, we went to Pier Park to walk around.

*Side Note* We had only ordered Kaylyn 1 cluster of crab claws as a side item to one of our meals, but when our meal came the waitress had a surprise for her and there were 3 clusters on her plate. You would have thought Kaylyn had found gold!

Okay, back to the point of this post. While we were walking around Pier Park we came across this Super Jump thing. After watching several other children and one grown man jump, (and live to tell about it) I decided the bungees would hold my 40 and 50 pound children just fine and allowed them to take a turn jumping. The kids loved it! They jumped and flipped over and over.

Getting all strapped in! "Hey Mister, be sure those are extra tight....No cracks in your bungees....Okay, you're ready to go!"

My little acrobat! He loved flipping!

This one.....Notsomuch! I couldn't believe my little daredevil was afraid to flip. She had fun jumping though!

And he continued to flip!

And she was content to just jump REALLY high!

Here was an attempt at a flip, but she chickened out before she could complete the flip!

And here's another attempt

More pics to come!

We Took A Little Trip...

...down to good 'ol PCB this past weekend. Although this was a trip intended for Kaylyn's second dance competition, we were able to squeeze in a couple of extra days at the beach. We left early Thursday morning and got to the beach in the early afternoon. The kids had a blast playing on the beach and even played in the freezing water!

He loved digging in the sand with all of his new sand toys, compliments of the Easter Bunny.

She had just been hit by a cold wave!!

Stay tuned for more pics...

Competition #1

Yesterday was THE LONGEST day! The day started bright and early with the first of Luke's ball games. His team won...thank goodness they won quickly because Kaylyn and I flew home to get ready for her dance competition at the Alabama Theater, were we spent the next 10, yes T-E-N HOURS! Now, don't get me wrong, I love the Alabama Theater. It's beautiful and there are lots of cool things to look at, but around hour 5 of sitting and waiting and running backstage for costume changes, up and down stairs about 32 times, I was a bit stir-crazy! Speaking of backstage, I'm not sure if any of you have ever been backstage at the Alabama Theater, but let me tell you a little bit about it. It's old, and dusty, and stuffy and CREEPY with it's dark and narrow hallways and winding stairs. After our first song, we were stuck back there for about 45 minutes awaiting the awards ceremony! Not a pleasant experience! Anyway, the day is over now, and the girls did great!

The first dance was "You Know You Want Me..." In this dance all 4 competition teams are dancing together, for a total of 50 dancers, ages 6-18 all on the same stage. No easy task!
This dance received a ranking of "high gold" and won second over-all!

Waiting backstage!

Our next song was "Freakazoid" In this song the girls were robots. This song received a "gold" ranking. Yeah, it needs some work!

A little robot action!

Kaylyn and Kensley waiting between songs...4 hours!

Ready to take stage.

The next song was "Proud Mary." A very cute dance. This dance received "high gold" ranking.

Next week we're headed for Panama City for our next competition.

Easter 2010

I hope everyone had a Happy Easter. We sure did! A very busy, fun-filled day. The day started bright and early at 6:00, with the kids up checking to see what the Easter Bunny had brought them.

Next we got all dressed up and went to church.

Handsome fella in his VERY first tie! He was so proud!

Pretty girl, hamming it up for the camera!

I asked her for a pose and this is what I got!

And, this is what he gave me! I have no idea....

The Easter Lilly Tree at church

The Living Cross, full of flowers from church members' yards

The sanctuary was absolutely gorgeous today.

Next, it was home to dye eggs.

They had a blast!

After the big egg-dying event, we went to my parents' house for dinner and it was time to hunt the eggs we had dyed.

The End!