Vista Ridge Holiday Spectacular!

What a busy week! Kaci has been dancing all week morning, noon and night! Finally tonight was her big performance in the Vista Ridge Holiday Spectacular!  

 The high school puts on an AMAZING holiday show and invites several of the middle schools to participate in the fun. 

 I wish the girls got to be in more than one dance....but we will take what we can get. It was a great show!

  Thank you for coming to be a part of the audience with me 

- Mom and Dad!

Let the countdown to Christmas break begin!

Only 5 days ....and COUNTING!

Chocolate Pretzels

It has been a crazy busy week. There is so much to do and not enough time in the day! Kaci has her Golden Spark dance team holiday party this Friday. She is in charge of bringing a "sweet". 

 She decided on chocolate, candy covered pretzel sticks. 

 Look at these 2.....actually getting along and laughing....Wow! Must be a Christmas Miracle! LOL!

  I must say with the help of Bailey- they turned out delicious and beautiful! 

Here they are...all ready to be eaten.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So much to be thankful for! 

Had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day 

celebration at my sister, Amber's house!

 Loved the whole day! 

THIS GIRL!

So proud of my Golden Spark! 

She made competition team.

She has been fighting a terrible stuffy nose and cough all week. 

I assume it is allergies- but not sure! 

BUT- as usual...nothing stops her....

Not even her crazy blood sugar last night. 

She went to bed at 9:30- but coughed until well after 10:30

- Just as she was starting to settle down after some cough syrup...

her low alarm sounded around 11:20.

 You will see on her CGM graph that her sugar went all the way down to 40~ SCARY! 

After about 30 minutes....we got it back up to a safe sleeping number only to be awoken again around 1:00 with another low reading. More juice, more missed sleep and the alarm awoke us again at 5:30 to get ready for tryouts at 7. 

This girl was tired. 

This girl was determined.

I am so proud of THIS GIRL~

Jack O Lanterns!

One of our favorite things to do as a family.....

carve, paint and decorate our pumpkins. 

Kind of sad that the kids are so big now ...

they don't really need our help anymore. 

Clint and I made sure we got to decorate our own pumpkins too! 

Clint decided to go the Mr. Potato Head route...

It turned out pretty cute!

Bailey used the lumps and bumps on his pumpkin to his advantage. He painted the sunken part black for two eyes and used the big bump for his nose.

 I painted my pumpkin teal- as part of the Teal Pumpkin Project.

 Kaci spent a little time on her phone googling images to make sure her's was just right!

 Bailey cut out a scary mouth and used 

"pumpkin guts" as throw up!

 Kaci has become a master of the pumpkin knife.

 Here is Bailey enjoying his finished product and taking a few pictures to post on his Instagram account.

 I love the blood he added!

 Here is Kaci's pumpkin complete! Wow! Looks amazing!

 Way to go kiddos! 

The Jack o Lanterns are ready for Halloween night!

 Spooky!

 If you are interested in learning more about the Teal Pumpkin Project - please click the link below. It is our second year to participate and the kids love it! We plan to give out rubber duckies ....and candy as well.   

http://www.foodallergy.org/teal-pumpkin-project#.Vj0QGberSM8

Good Day Austin!

Here are a few things I learned this morning after our Good Day Austin interview (In no particular order)

* Kaci is AMAZING!

* I am thankful for a husband who knows I can't drive (or park) downtown.

*I sounded more intelligent than I thought I would (yeah me!)

* Kaci is AMAZING!
(did I already say this?)

* We LOVE JDRF and their 

full time commitment to a CURE!

*Bailey's smile can light up a room!

....and last but not least- T.V. can add 30+ pounds to an old mom body! LOL!

#Thankful  #Blessed (This old mom doesn't know how to use these hashtags things....but it sounds cute when you read it....hashtag thankful, hashtag blessed! LOL)

http://www.fox7austin.com/good-day/39700250-story#.Vi-fxZ9uya8.facebook

So much fun! Can't wait for the walk on Sunday!

Good Day Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the BIG DAY!

Kaci and I have been invited to appear on Good Day Austin (Fox 7) at 9:15a.m  to talk about The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the upcoming JDRF One Walk on November 1st.

It is  our 7th annual walk -  our team name is Kaci's Krushers.... As we plan to Krush Diabetes!!  

As nervous as we are.....we can not pass up this amazing opportunity to show how much we care about this organization and it's mission!! Please plan to set your dvr's! We are very excited to be a part of this television event.