I'M A WINNER!

there is a blog that i follow on a regular basis and on every tuesday i think it is, she runs a list of blogs that are having give-aways. so i usually check them out. i don't enter all of them.....just the ones that i like what they are giving away. so, basically the only thing you have to do is leave a comment to have a chance of winning. this week i entered for a chance at six of them. so far two have had their drawings and of those two i've won one of them!! yippee! more fabric!!

i have won three charm packs!! here is the link to what i won. LA Quilter: Charm Square Give-Away

DANCE CLASS

last night was parent observation night at aubrey's dance class.....this is the part of the post that i puff my chest out and proclaim that i am the proudest parent on the planet!!!!!

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some of you know already that aubrey has had issues in the past getting up in front of people and preforming.......we have come a long way indeed! she made it her entire class with a smile on her face and a bounce in her step.....and wasn't shy at all.

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i thought it was cute.....the teacher would hold up a CD jacket of Justin Bieber if she wanted the girls to behave.....i guess Justin Bieber is the latest greatest tween star there is.....so i ask you....who is Justin Bieber? i'll have to ask aubrey! getting to dance to his music was to be the girls reward for behaving......it worked.

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aubrey and the other girls are excited for their recitel. they do a tap number to "dancing in the rain" and they get to use umbrellas during the show. they practiced both there tap routine and the ballet routine last night. WOW! it should be a wonderful recital!

IOWA vs IOWA STATE

where is my UNI panther quilt? can't find the fabric......

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the Iowa State quilt is not making it's home in our house. aubrey has informed us that it needs to go and it needs to go quickly!!!

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those that know me know that the ONLY reason i would make something so vile would be if it was only fiscally sound. in other words.....the check is in the mail! cha-ching.

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edit: if anyone has come across some northern iowa fabric let me know! i would love to make a panther quilt for myself!!! GO PANTHERS!!

EGGS

decorated easter eggs.....

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aubrey and i made these earlier this week.....i'm not sure if it was more fun decorating the eggs or picking off the modge podge from our hands when we were finished.

FIELD TRIPPING

two weeks ago aubrey was able to go on a field trip with the entire first grade from her school. the school buses five classes to the "Wapsi Environmental Learning Center". there they got to learn about wild animals and birds in our area. but i would have to say the highlight of the trip was learning to walk with snow shoes. one of the other moms went along an snapped some pictures of her class. the first is of aubrey after she fell into the snow.....the second looks like her class getting there instructions on how to put the snow shoes on.

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the second field trip aubrey went on was last week.....the went to the high school to see Ballet Quad Cities in a preformence of "The Ugly Duckling." she loved it!

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at the end of the month she will get to go to the Putnam Museum and see the egyptian exhibit. she can't wait to go on that trip as well.

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last year she only got to go on one trip.....thanks to some extra funding and a couple grants the school is able to do a bit more this year.