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Originally uploaded by jewele76

Another from Kenzie's concert.

Kenzie Violin

Kenzie Violin
Originally uploaded by jewele76

Yesterday MacKenzie had her first violin concert. She takes her lessons during school for free! The only thing we had to provide is the violin and accessories. Can't beat that. So here is a my favorite video of the evening. My big camcorder's battery died so I had to use my digital camera. I was really impressed with her. She was extremely focused and serious. And if you know MacKenzie focus is a huge problem with her right now. Enjoy.

New Cakes

I know that i am way behind on posting here. But with Rob gone the computer is the last thing I have time for.  I am lucky enough to be able to check my email and facebook from my Blackberry.  But for now check out my cake blog www.sweetestthingsbyjulie.blogspot.com I just added my latest three cakes.  And for happier news less than 2 weeks till Rob finally comes home.  It has been a long trip and we are very anxiously waiting for him to come back.  I am sure that when he does there will be a flood of posts since I won't have to worry what Cameron is up to.

5th Grader!

Sorry for taking so long to post a picture of MacKenzie's first day of 5th grade (mom!).  With Rob being away and missing out on things I wanted him to see the pictures first before I shared her day with anyone else. 





This year is going to new and exciting because they are changing classes.  They only have two teachers but it is still something new.  MacKenzie starts out in the morning with Ms. Stugill homeroom, Math and Science.  And then before lunch the switch to  Mrs. Prondzikski in the afternoon for Language Arts, Geography, and Specials.  MacKenzie will also still be attending the Gifted school once a week.  We are not sure what day that will be but the bus will pick her up at her home school and take her to SIGNET and return her to home school before the end of the day.  We will know more about the schedule for SIGNET later in the month since they don't start there until two weeks after regular school starts. 

 

Teaser

Here are a couple of pictures from our day down the shore in Jersey.  I will hopefully load more very soon.

Very cool discovery

Where do I start I am so behind it isn't funny. I guess the best thing is to start backward and keep going till I catch up. So here we go......

This last week I made a very cool discovery. Don't ask me why it took me so long to figure this out but it did. Since January MacKenzie has been taking ice skating lessons. She has taken four sessions the last that just ended this week. I was looking at the schedule to see when it would start up again and what time the classes would be. While on the website I went over to the coaches page to see what it said about the three coaches that MacKenzie had, when I got a very plesant suprise. Below is the blurb from the rinks site:

Tatyana Malinina U.S. Junior National Coach, 25 years skating experience, 2 time Olympic and 10 time world competitor. 3rd place in World Championship free skating.

Then I did a little more searching and found out even more on her. Tatyana is a very serious coach. Not mean but you can see that she is out there to teach the kids and wants to see them succeed. This makes so much more sense now. She is a really good coach and we liked her alot. After googleing her name I found some stuff on Youtube of her. It isn't the best quiality but it is from 1999. You can also see more about here and here.

tatiana malinina montage

And the coach that MacKenzie had the session before was her husband Roman Skorniakov. We really liked him too. Below is video of him at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake. He also skated in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. You can read more about him here and here. Here is the description the rinks site of Roman:Roman Skornyakov Figure Skating and Hockey Skating Coach. U.S. Junior National Coach, 2 time Olympic and 7 time World Competitor, numerous International competitions, Coaching degree in Physical Education in Figure Skating.

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Roman Skorniakov 02 Olympics LP UZB

We have been very very happy with all of the coaches that MacKenzie has had at the rink and plan to keep her going there for as long as she is interested. This just makes us realized that we are definitely getting the best training around.

Jersey

Hello from New Jersey. I know that I haven't posted in a while but with everything happening in our house the blog got a little neglected. So I thought I would do a little bit while I was here in New Jersey. Last Saturday that kids and I hit the road for the drive to Jersey. I figured they could use a little time away from home and that they would enjoy a few fun adventures. So after a little bit of a late start and four hours we arrived in New Egypt. It really isn't that bad of a drive only about 4 hours. Kenzie usually reads or messes with her Ipod and Cameron will usually sleep for a couple of hours and then watches a movie on the portable DVD player. Once we got up here the only thing we had to do was run to PetsMart to get crickets for Fred. Yes I brought the frog with me. I figured that my neighbor already had her hands full with two cats and the fish so bringing Fred was the best choice. Things here have been good. We have been trying to fit in as much fun as we can. Each kid got to have their own day with something special for them. Kenzie even got two days because Poppie made arrangements for a very fun surprise just for her. I took Kenzie to Six Flags and Cameron to Elmo's House (aka Sesame Place). We got to go swimming in two big pools first with my sister Meg's best friend Kelly and then with my Aunt Kate. We were lucky because we also got to see Aunt Mary and Maryanne while at Aunt Kate's. Maryanne and I had our first "Great Cousin Cake Swap" and the kids swam thier little hearts out. There was also a trip to Columbus Farmers Market where we got some great candles (thanks for the tip Kelly) and had Pete's Pizza (the best Siciallian pizza you will ever have) And right before we went home I took the kids to one of my all time favorite places in New Jersey, the Jersey Shore. I have so many great memories there that it is great to be able to share them with the kids. To my suprise neither of the kids were afaraid of the the ocean and waves. I really should have taken another adult with me because both kids contiunally ran into the ocean in different directions. I finally had to just hold Cam so I could keep an eye on MacKenzie. I am glad that they enjoyed it as much as I do. I promise to post pictures later.

(I am home now and just forgot to add this post. I am trying to get stuff up here. Things are hectic and we are trying to find out grove minus one very important person. I promise to start getting things up here very soon. It is just that right now the computer is not where I am spending my time. I am trying to figure out how to post from my Blackberry since that is the main way I see the Internet these days. Hang in there and I will soon catch up. *~*~Julie*~*~)