Lambourne Loop: Feis & Friends!

SO!  I have been putting off blogging for so long because I can't seem to find the time to sit down and blog all about our trip to Germany.... There are SOOOOOOO many pictures and stories it's very overwhelming.

While I'm working on that I just wanted to put up a post about things that are happening now!! :)

SO yesterday was our first time running our very first Irish Dance Competition (Feis, pronouced fesh) Utah Legacy Open Feis, was the first WIDA feis in the USA.  It was truly historic and was a pioneering event in our organization!  It was truly amazing!!! :D We had so much fun with our sister school in the USA came and participated and all of the kids had such a good time!  A good friend and former dancer judged the feis for us and it was soooo great to see her after so long! We were really close when I was younger and it was so nice to finally be reunited and have such an amazing time! Marion if you're reading this I LOVE YOU!!!:)

The event was truly amazing and had such a positive, calm and encouraging atmosphere that in my opinion was lacking in the previous organization I used to be a part of.  It was amazing to see the joy in the kids and to see them grow like I did this weekend it was awesome! :)

 Here is on of the little ones showing off her ribbon!! :)

 1st and 2nd place in the Intermediate premiership!

 My little ones again in 1st and 2nd! With a bunch of other medals around their necks! :)

Family of dancers! Big sister was extra happy winning her championship!!

 These girls have been dancing with me for a long time!! :) They are seriously amazing girls! It makes me tear up seeing how big they've gotten!

 Two more of our intermediate dancers :) in the under 25 and over 30 age groups!

Another one of my girls in 3rd Place! Everyone who came to compete were so amazing! They were beautiful, talented, sweet and very positive!

 Here is one of my girls winning 1st in her championship! She has been working so hard it was really exciting to see her win!

Here are some of us after the feis!! :)

Such a great weekend!

In other news, Danny is still taking classes over the summer but he's taking less credits and it seems much more manageable this semester than previous ones.  But have no fear she's taking triple the credits next semester so things will be back to crazy.  He's trying to finish his 4 year Masters Degree in a year and a half, so he's on track to graduate in December.

Also, one of my best friends Lisa is moving to Oklahoma!!! :( Her husband got accepted to vet school there and they are moving in July.  I'm really sad to see her leave, but I'm really excited for them and their new adventure...but I sure am going to miss them when they are gone so we're trying to get in as much time as we can before they leave!!!

Well, that's the update for this week!

Lambourne Loop

Just a jumble of things going on lately! Mostly getting ready for our trip to Germany soon! :)

Teddy has been his usual self! When he wants attention he decided to lay across grandma's puzzle till she pays attention! :)

My little sister had a project for school where they bring home a baby for a few days.... kind of weird.. They have sensors in them and they know what happens to the baby and it reflects in their grade. So they have to feed them and all this  stuff it's pretty interesting.  Here is my Mom holding her "grand baby"

St. Patricks Day show is over it went really well all of my dancers did amazing and the costuming all worked out and the world kept spinning! :) :P  Here is a picture of two of my little dancers stretching at the end of class before the performance!

We also had the final championships for church ball a couple weeks ago!:P Danny is such a good player it's really fun to watch him... even on his "bad" days!  This game they blew the other team out of the water!

The score was like 60- 40 but they took the score off the scoreboard right as I was taking a picture of it!

Danny and I went out for a Sunday drive to try and find some of the school houses he saw when he got lost in a neighborhood... we didn't find them but we found all these dear! It was so quiet and really cool to see them all out grazing!

 I got my hair done this week! It was time... :P I also cut my bangs which I don't have a picture of but I'm sure a lot of the Germany pictures will have my new bangs in them! :P This was a picture I took for Lisa :P

 Took this picture on my phone I just really liked it!  Keeps me remembering what I need to do to make sure that I'm infusing love, kindness and happiness into our marriage. I love quotes like this are there any quotes that you've been loving lately?

XOXO

Lambourne Loop: Birthdays,Vanity Searching and Teddy!

SO we were just driving along searching for furniture stores to fine me a better vanity, and suddenly came upon this sign and had to take a picture!!

Here is Danny being.... Danny...

So March is a big birthday month in our family lots and lots of birthdays!  Grandpa's birthday as well as my younger siblings who are twins birthdays' were all last week!

We took grandpa out to Red Robin, which I'm pretty sure he picked because he knows Danny likes it and we don't go there as much because Grandma doesn't like it:P But here he is enjoying is Birthday dessert!

We also went to a Brazilian Restaurant for their birthday with the whole family! We even facetimed my sister who is away at college!

Danny and my Dad

 Danny and me.... looking at Danny through the camera! :P

 Posing for the camera

 Here is the rest of the table, at least the one side!

 Other than that a pretty mellow week! And Teddy hasn't been feeling great but here he is chillin on the couch!

 And giving Kitty kisses!!!

XOXO

Where Have All the Children Gone?

An interesting article came up on facebook today, and for some reason I have felt very compelled to speak out about it!

The article is quite interesting and I recommend reading it!

When someone asked me why the article was so sad I just felt that it needed some exaplaination and I figured I would post it hear on my blog just to remember my thoughts and feelings at the time.

I just think it's sad that society as a whole doesn't see the joy that comes from having a family and especially kids. I feel that some women are not having children, when it's such a wonderful blessing and experience, just to be able to "do their own thing" or they don't want the responsibility that comes with it... I guess I'm just really blessed to see strong, independent women who have beautiful families with children and I see the happiness their children bring them. I just feel sad for those women who give all that up for something they think is better. They'll never know the selfless joy that comes from having another human be completely reliant on them, or the heartache that comes from a child that is their own flesh and blood tasting of life's failures. They'll never have that intimate connection with a spouse that only comes from raising a child together. Everyone has to make their own choice, that's right for them...but it's sad to me that the choice for so many women is to forego this joy for other things.

Now in saying this I don't think woman should never have careers or never have other hobbies or you should force woman to have children.  I just feel sad that more and more woman avoiding the wonderful opportunity of having children.  It's probably one of the most difficult things we as woman will ever be entrusted.  The emotional, physical and psychological difficulties last far beyond the infant stages but there is no other experience that can compare with that of raising a child...

Just my thoughts and opinions :)

XOXO

Lambourne Loop: Babies, Finals and Friends!

So I didn't do an update last week so this is from the last two weeks! :) Nothing really major has gone on but lots of little things here and there!

This was a clinic that I held at dance with all the dancers we did a lot of stregthening and thera-band work I had a lot of fun and I think the kids did too! :)

So Danny plays basketball on Wednesday nights so this particular day was a relaxing escape for me! Hot coco, my favorite candle EVER ( Marshmallow Fireside from B&BW) and Tuesdays with Morrie which I actually finished this night!! Such a great great book! Loved it!

 Danny loves Gerber Daisies so be brought some home  for Flower Friday!

 THEY FINALLY ARRIVED! Danny was having a lot of trouble with his feet and so we ordered him special Basketball shoes for his birthday that we got costume made they took about a month and a half to get here but he is soooo excited!!! I should've taken a picture of the shoe!! I will for a later post! They have his initials on them and his nickname on the tongue and stuff it's pretty cool!

 Makeup haul!!! I really haven't bought much makeup recently but I picked up a few things and I LOVE the sonia kashuk palette!!! It's from target, I think it's the only eye makeup I will bring to Germany with me! It has EVERYTHING I need for my makeup... I use this for my brows and eye liner too!! LOVE IT!

So this last week was the dreaded finals week for Danny so I figured I should try and stay busy and out of his hair while he got everything done!  I lots of time for girl time!!! I've been visiting with Lisa on Tuesday nights which has been so freaking amazing I love it, and I went down to Harriman to see the two little ones!!! I hadn't seen baby Alaina ever!! So I jumped at the chance to go down and join the baby play day. It was sooooo great to see Ashley and Chelsea.  I miss our gang of girls (Cheals, Ash, Alice, and Shelli) so much when we don't get to see each other.  And I also got to spend the evening at the Cooks with Riot and Annie this week too and play and have dinner.  All these girls are so amazing! I'm so incredibly lucky to have such amazing friends, who are wonderful examples and strong loving girls!!! :')

And Riot wanted to cuddle with me after his bath while mommy and I chatted!

Amidst everything Danny and I were able to squeeze in a game of Hand and Foot with grandma and grandpa, it's a card game my family plays ALL the time.... Needless to say... we smoked them!!!



This week grandpa and I went to get veggie dogs from the mall! :P Grandma is on Jenny Craig so she won't go anywhere so grandpa and I go! :)

 Here is grandpa and some creepy lady who photo bombed my picture!!! Well kind of! :P

 Here is grandpa spinning the wheel to see what prize he wins!

 FREE FRENCH FRIES!! Those are grandpa's favorite!! He always steals everyones french fries but insists he doesn't want his own! He only wants them if he can sneak them from some else!

 Other than that just hanging around and getting things done! Danny is now serving as the 16-17 year old Sunday school teacher at church which is a great calling for him! March is upon us... and that means the crazy St. Patrick's Day rush for me! :P I'm going to need a lot of chocolate, and candles this month :P

Lambourne Loop: Valentine's Day!

So before I get to the Valentine's post on Friday night grandpa, Danny and I (grandma is on Jenny Craig so she didn't come) went to brick oven pizza for dinner.  Afterward, we went to the mall the boys went to Dick's and I stopped in Sephora to look at new stuff and try out foundations and get lots of free samples:) so as we were leaving grandpa was looking at some golf clubs and I snapped a few shots of him "testing" out the products! :P

  So this year we both had work and school on Valentine's so we opted to celebrate on Saturday!
Here's right before we left they are a bit blurry :/ but this was the beginning of our day!

 We always have to have one good picture and then one of  Danny being goofy!

I decided we should go and have a spa day so we booked a "Couples Retreat" We got massages and then pedicures with treats (and since it's the weekend we could have them) :)

 Here is Danny finding his center before our massages!

 and this is our pedicure room.. Danny soaking his toes! :)

 And here is our platter of treats! Which I admittedly ate most of! :) :P

 My feet and little rose petals!

After our spa treatment we went and got lunch at Red Robin! YUMMMM!:P

Here is Danny enjoying his wrap!

And after Danny took me to see Safe Haven!! :) awwwww such a cute movie! So glad we saw it!

 and here are our little Valentine's monkeys! :)

After everything we came home and watched the All-Star.... stuff... the skills contest and three point contest and such which was fun... although the dunk contest was not all that impressive if you ask me!

We are so blessed and I'm so grateful I got to spend the Day of Love with the one I love!! It was such a fun day with just the two of us! :) 

XOXO