Here is Lexy Jo with the ice behind her. She is still sporting her medal from ice skating earlier in the day.
We had a great view of the ice...
The kids got a minute on the bench..
Chris was nice enough to take a picture of the three of us and texted to me. I hope that you can tell we were having a great time.
We had a great weekend in Pittsburgh for Lexy's figure skating competition. She got a 3rd place in Free Skate and a 5th in Interpretive. She did fantastic.
I have a lot to blog about and lots of pictures to post, but here is a start and I am tired tonight.
Lexy and Ms Mischa.
Her is Lexy just after she got off the ice on Saturday. With her new flowers.
This is a shot taken my the professional photographer on site. I stole the snap shot with my phone. LOOK how HIGH she JUMPED...!!!
Lexy on the podium. 
Lexy and her friend Maddy.
More to follow.
BIG weekend ahead... Stay tuned...!!!
My, my it is soooo PINK...!!! 
I posted a version of this cake that we had on her birthday. But this is the one that we had at the party. Nice and small, it was all gone by the end of the party. Huh, Helper C...???
Look at all the people that came to Lexy's party. There were two more that showed up late. Being such an early time of day and the 'off season', there were only 2 or 3 other skaters one the ice the whole time. So, we kept control of the music and such. Fun time for the kids. 
We played two games in addition to skating. Pin the Stuff on Lexy and a version of hot potato with a Stink-eez. The Pin the Stuff on Lexy was fun. We had skates, hair bows, a crown, ear rings, a necklace. It was pretty fun, and she just happened to pick the skating dress to wear to the party that was the same as the poster I had printed for the game.
After the party we went to a pho-Mexican place for dinner. It was pretty much a goodbye to the Barker's dinner with the Payne's. The kids all had so much fun. I'm pretty sure the adults enjoyed the visit as well. I know that I did. Still kind of sad that the Barker's bailed on us. They had all lined up the restaurant up to sing Happy Birthday in Lexy in Mexican. They brought out this giant sombrero and two fried ice creams. At the end of the song one of the guys picked up the treat and held it in front of Lexy, she thought it was to try the treat... Nope, they pushed in in her face... Hahaha...!!! Just a little, it was so fun, she loved it. She talked and talked about how fun that was.
Turned out to be a fantastic evening. Thank you so much for all the help, Helper C, Butch, Zoey, Jess, Andrew, Cam, Jen, and all the others that helped me pull this off. Thanks to all the parents that brought your kids. You all helped me make a WONDERFUL memory for my little Princess.
So, Lexy wanted to borrow this dress from her friend Camryn. I found one at Target (upon the prompting of Camryn's mother) and got one for her birthday. She wore it to school the next day. So, this is a day after her birthday dress. And her new shoes that Amy got her.
She is wearing the bows that Aunt Lyn made her for her birthday. The ribbon actually says, "Happy Birthday". Super fun.
Last night she got a package from grandma with this hat inside (and lots of other stuff). She loves this hat, she can't wait to wear it to school and the ice rink.
I started making her birthday cake, take one. I am making this one for today, just me and the kids. Then we will make another one later in the week to take to her party. I still have some work to do on this one. Laces, her name, touch ups, etc. I got the main base together and called in a night. Yep, those are rice crispy treat blades, with silver food coloring spray paint. It looks cool, but it tastes NASTY.
I can't hardly wait to post pictures of presents and her party.
If you see this blog your girl is invited. Please let me know if you plan to come so that I can plan for the right amount.
Isaac drew these Dragon Ball Z suits of armor.
Lexy got some new shoes this weekend on her trip to Virginia Beach with Amy and Isaac. She loves these new shoes. They are SOOOO pink. Plus she loves that they are tall.
She wore them to school today, she is so very pink today... We love it.
(Yes, this picture was altered with ColorSplash)
It's so easy to just have them printed and the WalMart closest to you. No one has to pay for shipping or anything. Plus, you can do fun collages like the one above. Thank you so much Annie...!!!
...for the first day, when they were still "fresh", once the white soles got a few scuffs he was kind of bummed.
I bid just for fun. When we were the high bidder we were stoked. So, they ended up at our house..
Yes, that is the Dragon Ball Z crew guarding the shoes. No scuffs on these. He wore them to school today. I hope that he has fun with his newest diggers.
Yes, I had to look up what a group of turkeys is called. Several places have slightly different answers but most of them used 'rafter'. Of course I am going to give you the link to the MOST scientific reference know to the World Wide interWeb. (c) Jruss.
I know there are some turkey hunters out there that look at this blog from time to time. You could harvest these with an BB gun, they are so close.
Just right there for the taking...
I have had some much fun with this ColorSplash App. I had my sis-in-law send me the photo of her kids on the first day of school this week and quickly turned the back ground to black and white. (Side note: You can't even see the carpet, girl.)
Enjoy.
