High Tea!

It had been a little over a year since we'd gone to tea so it was time to make some reservations! The place we went last year was accommodating with special requests and we had a whole room to ourselves so we decided to go back. It wasn't the same experience as last year so we might venture somewhere new next time but we still had fun! The food looked delicious and most of it was pretty good but we were crammed in the front without much room, especially when the food came out! Afterwards we walked around to some of the shops and Paige picked out some taffy at the popcorn shop because she clearly didn't get enough dessert. The taffy was surprisingly so delicious and we'll be going back for more sometime!

Three teas and a root beer

Food for the three adults 

Sandwiches

Desserts

Scones and banana bread

Tea!

Paige ordered a kids high tea, the only difference was instead of sandwiches she got pizza, mac and cheese and chicken tenders

This is a picture of half of the taffy options! So much to choose from!

 

Rainbow Action Shots

 

Rainbow!

Paige had her first group dance competition of the season! This year she is doing a total of 14 dances and she ended up performing 12 of them in one day! Day one of the competition was production in the morning and then we had a lot of time to waste until Paige performed her solo in the evening. I think we were there for about twelve hours each day. This was my first time seeing a lot of her dances so it was super fun to watch because I didn't know what to expect or what kind of parts Paige had in the dances. No matter what kind of preparation they do there is always some last minute craziness that pops up! This time-Paige's group was struggling to complete a lift in Wild Things before taking the stage but pulled it off during the performance, the wrong cut of music was submitted for We Are the Ones (goggle dance) so no one quite knew how to end the dance. To the untrained eye (me) everything usually looks flawless so it's fun to hear about what goes on backstage.

Fooling around waiting for production-Bohemian Rhapsody

Silly pic after performing

Ready for solos!

Izzy, Paige, Mikayla

Ready for hip hop!-High Maintenance

We Are the Ones-Contemporary with these crazy goggles

We had time to be silly too

Waiting to perform Wild Things

Paige needed a break from the stress:)

Practicing contemporary-Find Me

I'll Be There For You

Sing with Ms Eri

Picture of I'll Be There For You after they won 1st overall!

Lately

Griffin fell asleep holding Owen's arm. Then started play-biting him soon after this photo

Pat tested out the ice while out for a walk in the park

Find Owen!

Mini fort for Binx

Tried out a new coffee shop!

Getting close to the end of orthodontist appointments!!

Photo shoot!

Never get tired of watching Owen play soccer!

 

Christmas 2/Party

 

It took us about a month but we finally got around to celebrating Christmas with Pat's family!! Jeff had Covid Christmas Eve so we postponed the get together and this was really the first time we had time to celebrate together. After we opened presents, my side of the family came over and we celebrated Owen's birthday! We had pretty typical party food-pizza, veggie tray, fruit tray, salad, pasta salad, chips. Dessert was Oreos, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate donuts, strawberry cupcakes. 

It was a big day of celebrating! 

It's Christmas!

Opening presents

Group photo

It's Owen's birthday!!

"Photo bomb"

A sparkler candle on a cupcake is a little dangerous:)

Giant bag of candy

Owen and Laney

Food!