The Berlinguet Bunch

The Berlinguet Bunch
My beautiful family

Friday, May 10, 2013

Savanna's Birthday

I just can't get over the fact that I have a 15 year old.  The time has flown by.  Savanna requested fried chicken, mashed potatoes for dinner and "those cookies with colored frosting, the kind from the store."  So we filled her birthday wishes.  They are good cookies.  Hallie was feeling neglected in the birthday treat and was wanting store bought white cake since she was out of town on her birthday.  So we had cake and cookies. 
Happy Birthday Savanna.
 
 

 Hallie is hugging her cake like it is a prize possession. She is silly.
Savanna is blowing out pretend candles.  None of us wanted to go hunt for candles.  I am such a party pooper in the candle department. 

Utah Dance Festival

Utah Dance Festival
Savanna, Hallie, Aleena, Livee and myself drove to Logan, Utah.  We left Friday evening and stayed overnight.  We had to be ready to dance by 9 am Saturday and so I didn't want to wake up and drive in the wee hours of the morning.  It was a nice girls weekend. 
Here we are at competition.  We stayed at the University Inn in Logan.  The University Inn is actually on campus and was pretty close to the building we performed in.  We stayed there so we could walk because parking is so crammed at the dance place.  It just so happed to be a drizzly day.  We walked anyways.  It was just a mist coming down.  So Aleena put her hood on so we didn't ruin her curls.  It was fine. 
 
 
 
The glitter station.  They get red glitter lips and a little fairy dust on their costume.
 
Everyone hanging out in our dressing area.
 
Aleena tends to get very independant at these things.  She doesn't want me to help her with anything.  The first time she did it I thought I was going to wring her neck, but I have learned to let her get dressed and I just help her hang things up and fix her accessories because she is good at just throwing her stuff everywhere in between costume changes. I am trying to embrace her idea of being a big girl, but sometimes she gets quite the sassy attitude with it.  We survived and didn't collide too much.
Warming up
"Frogs"
 


The Sassy Bumblebees
 
 Silly cowgirls
 All the girls worked real hard.  I am so proud of Hallie and Aleena.
They actually had 2 other dances but I somehow missed pictures for those 2.

 
 Livee danced and jumped off this platform for hours.  Watching dancers gets Livee in the dancing mood and she just twirls, wirls, leaps and cartwheels everywhere.
Our Hotel Room.  Yes, our stuff is everywhere. I was on vacation. Hallie is in the background covering her face. 

Chocolate Strawberries

A couple weeks ago I had gotten a big thing of strawberries.  They are so yummy this time of year.  We decided to have us a chocolate strawberry party.  I have had a box of fancy Coverture chocolate I had ordered in February that I wanted to try out.  It was so divine.  They were so so yummy and the kids thought it was so fun.