Intrigue Convention

This is a little out of order but Paige went to another Intrigue convention a few weeks ago. This time we traveled to Troy, Michigan which ended up being a really cute city with a great mall and lots of food options! It was a typical convention with two days of classes and then Paige got to be in the showcase performance at the end of the last day. I love anytime I get to see her on stage! I had a lot of time to fill while Paige took classes so I caught up on some reading, visited the hotel gym, and found a cute coffee shop/bakery! In the evenings we explored the mall and hung out with friends!

Relaxing the night before

Paige and Miley ready to descend from our room on the 12th floor

Cute coffee shop called Wildflour

Paige is in the red shirt in the middle!

All of the ATB dancers that attended

Teen and Senior dancers during lunch break

All done!

 

Partytime!

We got to celebrate Owen again a couple days after his birthday with family! We didn't have a really obvious theme like other years and I forgot to take more pictures of the decorations. It was more of a blue and silver "18" theme and we had a big banner with information about the year Owen was born! I forgot to take a picture of the food but we ordered Jimmy John's and had pasta salad, macaroni salad, chips fruit and veggies and Owen opted for strawberry cake this time. We played Power Hungry Pets and watched some football too!

 

Birthday!

Owen's birthday was on a Friday so he had to start his day with school but we don't feel too bad for him since he's always home before 1! I made him some sprinkle pancakes when he got home and Pat brought him some mozzarella snacks then he took a nap before we went to dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse. We actually meant to go to Texas Roadhouse but got our restaurants confused! We owe Owen another dinner! Then we came home  and had a very chocolatey cake (some would say too chocolatey...) and opened presents. Owen has been asking for years for a monitor and we finally got him one this year, he was very excited!

Good morning!

After school snack

Nap!

Binx was not happy about participating in this picture but let it happen anyway

Dinner!

Other side of the table

18!

Opening Paige's present

Owen's scratch-off was not a winner!

Time for cake!

Family selfie

 

18!

Happy Birthday to this still young kid/official adult!!

Intrigue

Intrigue time! Paige's studio always hosts an Intrigue competition/convention at the studio at the beginning of January. It's a great time to compete your solo for the first time and we don't have to drive far! The competition was Friday and Paige's solo was absolutely beautiful! The girls did such a great job with the trio too! Costumes weren't in yet so pictures will look a little different for the next competition. Saturday and Sunday are full of convention classes and then a showcase and awards. Paige had a great weekend, she got called out in a lot of her classes, placed 6th in improv, 1st for her trio and also placed 1st in all teen solos!!  

 

Wrap up

Lemon Blueberry Ricotta Crepe and salted caramel latte I had at a new coffee shop

Paige's solo practice

Playing the saran wrap ball game again!

Checking out Lane's slinky

Bonding with Griffin

We decorated Christmas cookies

Griffin watched for Santa with us

Playing games

Cutest little napper

Binx in a box