PrimeTime Dance Competition

This past weekend Camryn had another dance competition. This one was spread out a little more.

Friday Night - Solo "I'm Cute" - 1st Place award - Here are the pictures captured by the local newspaper photographer that covered the event on Friday night. She nailed this performance. She did not have any nervousness and she did great! The judges comments were very complementary and gave her some technical pointers to work on.

Saturday - Trio "Chocolatte" - 1st Place award - Good critques from the judges. One judge said “Ms. Blue is getting with it..she really knows this dance…y’all need to stick with her” then later when Cam moves up he said “Ahhhh, putting Ms. Blue in front”.

Sunday -

"Chapel of Love" - Large Group Tap - 1st Place award and #4 out of the Top 5 for Petite Large Group

"Ice Ice Baby" - Large Group Hip-Hop - 1st Place award and #2 out fo the Top 5 for Petite Large Group

Here are a few pictures of Camryn in her Ice Ice Baby costume.

Another competition in St Louis in 3 weeks. I will not be attending but if there are pictures, I'll post them here on the blog.

Life Trumps Choice

This is an issue that is very highly debated. I found this link to BlogHer site from Rocks In My Dryer (another blog I check daily). Wow! Shannon does a great job stating why she is Pro-Life.
Check it out!
http://www.blogher.com/why-im-pro-life#readmore

Showbiz Dance Competition

This is Camryn's second year to dance as a Company Dancer at Ms. Karen's Dance Studio. This year she is in two large group numbers, a trio and a solo. Here are some pictures of the little dancer from the competition this weekend.

Trio "Chocolatte" - the girls (Addie Gracie in lime; Tess in hot pink; Camryn in tourquoise) won a 1st place trophy and were 7th overall of their age group in duets/trios.

Large Group - "Chapel of Love"




"Ice Ice Baby" - No photos available. I'm not sure why we didn't get a picture of her in that outfit, because it is the cutest of all! Oh well, she has another competition in 3 weeks and I'll try to get a picture then.


Solo - "I'm Cute" - 1st Place trophy
I call this "Dance Competition Wipeout" - What happens after spending 13 hours at a dance competition on Saturday (including dancing 3 numbers), not getting but about 5-6 hours of sleep, getting up and dancing a solo for the first time on Sunday morning:

Her entourage (Momma, Nana, Pawpaw, Aunt Alison and Uncle John) felt like this but most of us had to drive home!

Birthday Party Pictures

Camryn at school on her birthday!

Camryn had her birthday party last Thursday at a Pizza place in town. She had several friends come and they had a good time eating pizza and cake.

My Neice Turned 6

Well this past week my neice turned 6 years old. It is so hard to believe! We had a birthday party for her last night at a pizza place. There were about 10 of her friends there and they all had a good time eating pizza and cake, watching Camryn open her gifts and then playing a few arcade games.
This weekend our family is headed to Hot Springs to watch Camryn in her 1st dance competition of this year. She is in two large group numbers (tap - "Going to the Chapel" and hip-hop "Ice, Ice Baby"), a trio and a solo. I'll post pictures early next week!

Enjoy your weekend!

New Home Owner

For a while now, my sister has been wanting to buy a house. However, her ex-husband basically screwed her credit up really good, so she thought buying a house was out of the question. She decided before Thanksgiving to really start looking into this next step in her life. She found a cute little house and then got approved for a home loan! She was excited.


I will get my hands on the before pictures of this house so you will be able to appreciate the updates. Beginning December 17th, we started painting and making some needed updates to her house. I went over last night and took pictures. She is just about all unpacked and settled. She is wanting to buy a bedroom suite for herself and then she will re-do her master bedroom and 1/2 bath. For now, everything else is pretty much complete.


When you see these pictures of her kitchen, think back about 12 years ago when jewel tones, fruit and plaid wallpaper were in. This kitchen had plaid marroon and cream wallpaper on the bottom part of the wall, fruit/vine wallpaper on the top part and HUNTER GREEN cabinets with cream and marron valances above the green cabinets. HIDEOUS!!! Check it out now:
The Living room had white walls and two of the wall had paneling that didn't even go all the way to the ceiling. So with some paint and a little crown molding - Viloa! A modern looking Living room:
Camryn's Room - This room is SO Camryn. Bright and girly!
Computer/Reading/TV Room (a.k.a. - the Safari Room)
Bathroom - This is not complete, but it is painted the color Andrea wanted. She is going to have brown and slate blue in this bathroom. She bought some tile for this bathroom as well. So as soon as that gets put in, I'll take more photos.
I'll go by sometime when it is light outside so that you can see the outside of the house. Andrea and Camryn are really excited to be in their own little house. I am so proud of her!

New Year's Eve

Well there have only been a few New Year's Eve's that have have not spent with the Overstreet's in the 9 years we have known each other. This year, we decided at the last minute to make sure we were together for the New Year. We had Chinesse Cashew Chicken and had Horn Toads (aka Mock Peanut Brittle) and Reindeer Poop (aka Almost Blitzens) for dessert. This year's celebration apparently had a Cowboy theme...check out the pictures (see Our Photos link on the side for more pictures):