Swim Meet #2

The girls getting ready for their 100 freestyle.
I was so stinking hot! Please remind me to wear my string bikini next time.

Hunter and Halle

Getting ready . . .

A close-up of the finish.

This is Hunter swimming the breast stroke. She is so funny. She smiles the entire race. She was super excited to swim this race and not be disqualified. I guess you can be disqualified if you do something wrong. Who knew?

Halle is an awesome swimmer, but she gets a little stressed out before she swims. Jason was giving her a pep talk.

This is after Hunter competed her 1st race. She was super excited that she improved by 30 seconds. The girls are doing awesome. I can't believe they are swimmers! GOOD JOB!

Halle's B-Day and Camping

Miss Halle turned 7 last week. She decided that she would like to go camping.
Halle is a great daughter. She is always energetic and happy. She is a great dancer, gymnast and swimmer. Halle wakes up every morning and loves to get her jobs done. . . FAST. I never have to ask her to do her jobs. She is a great reader and has a great memory. I always have to ask her where I put "things" and she usually knows exactly where they are.

She is a super duper daughter! We love her a ton.

Fisher is a PYRO maniac. He was crazy! Fisher was making all sorts of faces while he was playing in the fire. I bet he burned off his eyebrows. He was so entertaining. We loved it. My dad would have gone nuts with him playing in the fire. My dad was all about fire safety.

The girls watching Fisher play in the fire.

The girls getting smoked out by Fisher playing in the fire.

Hunter breathing in fresh air. (Fisher was on a break.)

Jason posing with the Birthday Girl.

Aleyda picked some flowers for Halle. What a bunch of sweet girls.

The girls waiting for breakfast.

The girls had to make their own breakfast. Am I living the dream or what.

Hunter and Lauren thankful to be camping together.

YES- More Dance Recital Pictures!

By the end of the dance day from . . . We were super tired. If you can't tell in this picture Halle has already had a break down. We left that morning at 9:00 am and we arrived home around 9:45 pm. Let's just say we had, had A LOT of dance that day.

Jason and my mom arrived for only the last 4 hours so, they were still smiling for the camera!

The little girls were DELIRIOUS!

Hunter is still smiling for the camera.

Halle is now in her second wind. She had a few ups and downs that day, but she did great performing on the stage.

Dance Recital 2010

Ballet Performance

Halle-Pixie

Hunter-Fairy

Gotta Get Through This
The cutest teacher in the world-JAMIE!
She is moving to New Mexico with her little family. She is the BEST teacher and the best example for my girls. We already miss her. We love her so much. This was taken at Hunter's first dance recital when she was 4 years old.

This is Hunter and Jamie today. Thanks for teaching my girls to love dance and how to be a great person.

Miss Halle has had Jamie for the last 2 years. We wish that Halle could have had her longer but we wont complain. (OK, we will only complain a little)

Hunter and Lauren

Halle and Micaela

Hunter eating a Subway sandwich in between dances.

Halle being sweet and quiet. AHHHH!

Emily Kennadi Hunter Bailey

Oh yeah- We are swimmers

Hunter and Halle's came home from school a few weeks ago and said their friends were trying out for swim team. So, the girls decided to try out too! Yeah, they made the swim team.

Hunter's friends

The girls were very nervous about the meet, but they did awesome.

Hunter even dove off the starting block. The fact that she couldn't even get across the pool 2 weeks ago and now she is jumping in the pool is a major miracle. Hallelujah

Halle has a hidden talent that we just found last night, she is an awesome swimmer. She placed 2nd in all of her races. WOW!

Jason thinks that we should quit dancing, gymnastics, and piano and focus on swimming. Whatever!

Going out on the town

These are the fun ladies I hang out with. We like to splurge every once in a while and go out to lunch and get .49 cent tacos. Margot printed off some coupons for free tacos at Dell Taco so we went there and partied. It was fun!

Jason goes out to lunch with Margot's husband (Terri) and Shirlene's husband (Matt) every once in awhile, do you think they go to Dell Taco? I don't think so!

Last days of school!

Hunter received her "Reading Across America" awards. Lets just say we crammed the last two weeks of the month. We were on a first name basis with the Librarian. This is not the Highland City Librarian that helped Hunter receive her award, this is Mrs. Baker her 4th grade teacher. She was a great teacher. Why- because she loved all the same TV shows as me. JK. She really was a great teacher.

This is Hunter receiving her award. What a proud moment, for the Hawkins family and the Highland City Librarian.

This is Miss Halle waiting to perform at the dance festival. Having the video camera around my neck and my other camera on my arm can be kind of embarrassing for a cute 1st grader, when her mom is yelling "smile for the camera baby".

Hunter waiting for her performance.
I was running around the field trying to get the best shot. I had 2 command post- one on the North side of the soccer field and one on the South side. I didn't want to miss a shot.

Connor -Easton -Hunter -Mckynlie

They did a cute square dancing number.

Getting ready for the big show!

"All for One"

Halle was practicing her moves.