Rockwood Fall Festival 2012

The Rockwood Fall Festival was October 6, 2012 in the middle of Rockwood. Addison was in the Baby Pageant and this one was definitely not as organized as they usually are. They didn't have a stage or anything to stand on and she got so confused. (Maybe that's why this one was so much cheaper. LOL) It lasted much longer than the others too and crammed about 200 people in a room that shouldn't have held more than 75 maybe. She got a trophy for "Pixy Award" and she posed for a good picture so we're good. I do these little side ones to get her good practice and to keep her ok being in front of a crowd. I'm terrified doing anything in front of a crowd and have changed my major several times in college to reflect this so I do these pageants with Addison so she is comfortable with it and uses that in school eventually. Plus I don't ever want her being insecure about what she looks like when she gets older like 99% of girls now days are. She loves getting trophies like Jacob and Mommy so when she comes home with one she always has to show it off to everyone. :) Love her!

Cinderella prelim - Knoxville kick off

Saturday September 29th was Addison's first Cinderella pageant of the new year. We found the ticket to making her behave as well as smile and wave for the judges...GUM! Before I took her on stage I told her if she waved at the judges then I'd let her have some gum (she was begging for it but I couldn't let her have it till we got off stage.) It worked! She went on stage and waved THE WHOLE time and even blew kisses. She was even having fun and got so excited that she "did good" as she said. She ended up winning a trophy, crown, sash, and the Cinderella Personality title. So proud! :)

Finding Nemo in 3D

I took the kids and Blake to go see Finding Nemo in 3D. Addison likes that movie and will actually watch it so we went for it. She wore the glasses for the first little bit but then didn't want anything to do with them. Go figure. Actually, the movie wasn't worth paying the $11.50 PER PERSON to see it in 3D because it didn't look any different to me but I guess the more Addison goes the more she'll get used to sitting and watching (quietly) instead of running around and playing.

Tennessee Valley Fair Baby Pageant

I'll eventually get around to adding the pictures with all these posts but I'm trying to go ahead and type everything out so I don't forget dates and stuff. On September 8th Addison was in the Tennessee Valley Fair's Baby Pageant. She was pumped and ready. She had on a dress that I absolutely love and she likes it too so that makes it 10 times better. Tia went with us and Addison was saying that she was going to wave and blow kisses and smile. So what did she do? She froze like a deer in headlights. LOL I even asked her what was the matter after we got off stage and she smiled and shrugged her shoulders. Then I asked her if she froze and she nodded her head like she actually knew what I was asking. :) She had fun though and got a ribbon so that's all we care about. It gets her practice so it's a win win. I promise I'll post pictures soon. :)

KPC softball tournament

KPC (Knoxville Pediatric Cardiology) helped to sponsor a softball tournament for the American Heart Association. They do this every year and Children's Hospital always participates. We had one team for Children's Hospital in general and one team for KPC (which I was on.) This is my 2nd year playing and my 2nd year as catcher. 2 days later and I see why they always want me to play catcher. I'm the only one stupid enough to play it for 6 hours straight and I'm HURTING! I can't move my legs without wanting to growl and complain. LOL But it was so much fun and totally worth it. The people that play are usually the same people and they are a great bunch of people. We won our first 2 games and then lost the last 2 so I think that had us coming out in 3rd place. Much better than last year. I'll eventually get this picture thing taken care of and be able to post pictures of everything. For now you have to go on my word. :)

Cayman Island/Cozumel cruise July 2012

I've finally got all the pictures uploaded on the computer so I can write about our vacation. It was awesome! We left out around 11pm on July 13th and headed to Tampa, Florida. It was actually a really easy drive. Tia and Justin tried staying awake with me for the most part since I have to drive most of the time (I get sick.) We made several bathroom stops, eating stops, and even a Walmart stop and still made it to Tampa around 11am. It was perfect timing! Our luggage didn't arrive in our room for a couple hours after the boat left the dock and of course my motion sickness patches were in my suit case. Go figure. But after that it was smooth sailing. :) Our first actual day was a day at sea so we got to hang around the boat, do several trivias, swim, eat, eat more, and more. LOL Day 2 - Then the next day we went to Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. We didn't plan on an excursion because apparently the Cayman Islands are way expensive so that means all the excursions were more expensive too. Plus there wasn't really much we were interested in and the Cayman Islands are all about sting rays and turtles. Whoo hoo! (I'm being sarcastic by the way.) We went to the beach and shopped at the little tourist places and that's about it. But that was actually really fun and simple. Gas there was $5.67/gallon! Day 3 - Cozumel! Cozumel was AWESOME! We got off the boat and went straight to our excursion which was swimming with the dolphins at Dolphinaris and lunch there. We got to touch a dolphin, have a dolphin pull us in the water (which I totally did not want to do), and of course have our pictures taken several times with the dolphins doing other random things. Then we got an "authentic" Mexican meal of fajitas. It was actually dry because they didn't have the salsa and stuff like we do here so we were ready to eat again by the time we got on the boat. But of course before we went back we HAD to go find some Coach purses and Oakley's! We racked up! Then we went to an outside restaurant and had some margaritas and cokes and watched people dance. It was fun and we will DEFINATELY be going there again. By the way, EVERYONE spoke English. So what's up with them not speaking it here in the US?!?Day 4 - Another day at sea and basically sleeping in and eating a lot of food. LOL We had an awesome time though and spent too much money and are already talking about our next trip. :)

Some help they were keeping me awake. LOL

Our boat!

Our one-legged friend

Ready to swim!

Comedy show time

Obviously people in the Cayman Islands don't know how to spell

Cozumel

Random summer photos

Me and Tia are addicted to trying new things right now. She saw something on how to dye your hair with pastel chalks so of course we had to try it...on Addison. :)Addison was more than ok to be the guinea pig for this. LOL

New play jewelry and high heels. :)

Pool time