Warning: I'm One Of Those...A Mother Who Brags About Her Kids!

After having non-stop sickness in the house for 2 weeks straight, we finally made it through a week with NO SICKNESS! It's a good thing too. Between Ashley's pageant last weekend, the start of Robbie's baseball season this week and Mike's birthday tomorrow...we don't have time for any more sickness in the Berry house. Now, please indulge me while I brag on my kids a bit.

Ashley had a pageant last weekend that was actually 2 pageants in one. After weeks of practice, wardrobe prep and training, I knew that she was as prepared as she could possibly be. With my own illness the entire week leading up to the pageant, I found comfort in the fact that she was well prepared and we would just go and have fun. Boy did she have fun! Not only did she make a great new friend, but she SWEPT all of the awards in both pageants for her age division and then tied for the Grand Supreme title! What is Grand Supreme, you ask? It's only the TOP award for the girl who places highest above ALL of the girls in every age division! She may not have won the tie-breaker for Grand Supreme, but the fact that she tied with a 16 year old with years of experience made us burst with pride for her. Now it's time for us to prepare for the upcoming Miss CO Outstanding Sweetheart pageant April 9th and then the state Miss CO American Coed Preteen pageant in June. These competitions will also include talent and interview so we have some new things to focus on right now. Ashley will also have the opportunity to be recognized for her volunteer work in the community, as well as her academic achievements. Speaking of academic achievement, I would like to wrap up my Ashley bragging by sharing that she brought home her report card today with 30 A's and made Honor Roll for the 5th time in a row. One more trimester and she'll have made Honor Roll every trimester for 2 years straight!

Holiday Wear Outfit AKA Christmas
Winning Holiday Wear
2 Titles...Miss Holiday Coed and Miss Valentine Beauty!
Being crowned Miss Holiday Coed.

Now onto Robbie bragging. Robbie LOVES sports. He doesn't just love sports...he lives, breathes, sleeps and eats sports! Football season wrapped up in November, but we are now in the first week of baseball season. Robbie has always been a natural when it comes to baseball and it took us a few years to find an organization where we didn't feel like he wasn't being challenged and learning. Last year we joined Ken Caryl Little League and finally found a good fit. This year Robbie had to try out for his placement on a Minor League team and also tried out for a Select Tournament Team and made it. This means, 2 teams with 2 practice schedules and weekly games for one team and tournaments for the other but we love it because Robbie loves it. Mike is helping to coach the Minor League team (and possibly helping with the Select Team as well) and at a coach's meeting earlier this week he listened as the other coaches (who are also dad's with their own children on the team) talked about Robbie being one of the two best players in all of KCLL! Now I know I'm not being completely biased when I say that he's our future MLB player:-)

Tomorrow we will celebrate Mike's 37th birthday and I'll once again be able to make fun of him for being older than me, at least for 10 months out of the year!