Twin Cities Feile 2010

Me in Set (1st place): corda mor top 3!! (And me in my BRAND NEW dress)
Selena: 3rd place in everything except Softshoe, she tied for 1st!
Maria, Me & Quinn, trying on sunglasses....XD
Cecilia, Sonja, Quinn, Maria
Twins Treble Reel: Miranda tie for 5th, Izzy 2nd

We had a good day last Saturday. Selena placed 3rd in Hardshoe, 1st (tie) in Softshoe, 3rd in Set dance, and 3rd overall. :) I got 2nd in Softshoe, tie for 3rd in Hardshoe, 1st in Set, and 2nd Overall. Miranda got three seconds and a fourth, and Izzy got one third, two seconds, and one first, not counting their treble reel placements. It was Izzy's first time to wear Selena's old solo dress, as you can tell from the picture! More pics of my dress coming soon!

~Sonja~

Dragonfly photo...

Hey everyone! I've been really busy lately-- we had a feis last weekend, I got a new dress, and we're leaving for Nationals in Orlando in 3 days! o_O wow! I'll post some pics of my BEAUTIFUL new costume soon but I thought you would enjoy seeing this cool pic of a dragonfly I saw earlier this morning. More coming soon!

~Sonja~

Cats on the deck

Enjoy!

~Sonja~

Ceili video...

Hello everybody! Here's a video of the little four-hand I made up a few days ago! :) We have a long ways to go on perfecting (cough, cough) but I had just made it up that morning and we had only done it about four times through. Please excuse our messy background-we were playing Barbies, Dollhouse, and Polly's all mixed together. Enjoy!

~Sonja~

(And my school doesn't do ceili/teams. Just to let you people who don't really know me know. :P)

(PS- please excuse the talking, etc!!!)

Lilacs

I took some pictures of our lilacs today! Hope you enjoy!

~*Sonja*~

It's my 13th Birthday today!

Me and my loving parents...^
Me at one of my favorite places in the world...^
Me and my loving sisters...^

Today was my 13th Birthday! :-o I can't believe I'm a teenager already...heehee. :) This morning mom gave me some new shoes, two books and some new Calligraphy pens, and later we went to the AG store! (which is always a good thing. :D) I just put an album up of the pictures I took HERE. Thank you everyone who wished my happy birthday on their blogs, the doll Message board, in sending cards or calling me! :) I really appreciated it...I think it's been one of my best birthdays so far!

Love,

~*Sonja*~

Milwaukee Spring Feis review

I know I haven't posted in forever, and I'm planning on doing some catch-up stuff in a while-

This last weekend we drove to Milwaukee for the first feis of the season. We got there super early to grab a camping spot, and the twins started dancing right away. I did my set pretty early...then both Selena and I had a lot of waiting around. Everyone did well for the first feis since last fall- Isabel got 3rd in Slip Jig but the rest of her dances were with very big groups- she's in Prizewinner now for everything except Jig and Slip Jig. Miranda got 2nd in Treble Jig (our hard work paid off...Selena & I 'coach' the twins mostly every day), 3rd in Hornpipe, 4th in Slip Jig, & 5th in Reel. Sese did very well in her PC competition, she got 4th overall and 2nd in Hardshoe- nothing in Set, but there was only 3 placements for that...

I won my set, but there weren't very many people for that. I know, you say "still that's pretty good!!" I suppose I'm just being dumb...for my PC competition I got 8th out of 24, which I wasn't extremely happy about...because at Oireachtas, I basically beat everyone I competed against yesterday. And that didn't happen again. MORE PRACTICE!! I know it was still good I placed...and it was only the first feis of the season, and I haven't had that much time to get a lot of style into the *really hard* steps I got in January. Anyway it was a pretty good day! We got home at about 11:00 last night. ZzzzzZZzzZZZ. The picture is from when we stopped in Wisconsin Dells yesterday and were just strolling around, not aware of our surroundings. :O ;)

I'll be putting up a 'What I've been doing the last month' post pretty soon! :) (Oh and my dad has more pictures from the feis on his blog.)

~*Sonja*~