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Yippy single digits. Hope it so cute. My SIL is a dance judge and choreographer; we go to a few of her performances a year. When she has a class of the little ones it is so cute.
Great photos! Hope looks adorable in her dance outfit.
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Won't be much longer now! Glad the tap recital went well!
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WOW single digits that is great!. Love the recital pictures she looked so cute in her costume.
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Single Digits are the best Hope looks so cute in her dance outfit!
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Congrats on single digits! Great pictures of Hope!
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Congrats on single digits! Hope looks beautiful in her dance outfit.
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Congrats in single digits! Hope looked so cute in her dance costume! I loved it when my DD used to dance!
Thanks everyone!
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Single digits?! Yea!
I think you are totally in the right to have Hope have her own celebration - even if it wasn't on her actual birthday. She deserves some special attention too!
Shoot! I make a spreadsheet for every trip - I can't live/plan without it! At least now I have your input on the FP+ before I have to worry about it myself.
You're going to have such a great time!
I love Hope in her dance outfit and seeing her grow before our eyes. I can't believe my baby is going to be a 1st grader in a few months?! He seems to grow a few inches every day too!
I guess you'll always be one grade ahead of me, but at least you have another little one to help ease the heartache just a bit.
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Hope looks so cute in her dance outfit! I am glad she ended up liking tap. Just wait as she grows up dancing. My oldest DD Lauren has been doing it since she was 3 and she is going to be 14!
I hope the Mine Train has a soft opening while you are there. I told the girls the other day that if we were still going in May as originally planned we would probably have missed it. Hope you get lucky!!!
I hope we don't miss it, but if it happens it still won't ruin the trip, I'll just be disappointed. First it was the FOTLK that closed down and now the Mine Train...what's next?
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Congratulations on finding the Frozen merchandise! That's a real coup. Hope looks wonderful in her tap outfit. So satisfying when you see them stick with something that's hard and master it. A huge life lesson!
Plus, I bought that swimsuit with my Disney Visa discount.
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Single digits are the BEST!!! :the wave:
And Miss Hope looks adorable in her dance costume!!! Glad that she performed even though she had a bit of stage fright! They are so darn cute at that age! My daughter dances, and it is crazy rehearsal schedule right now, and I still love watching all the younger ones, some of them totally ham it up, and others just stand there like a deer in headlights!
There were a few little ones that just stood there. But once the music started playing, I think she forgot she was standing in front of so many people and just did what she was suppposed to do.
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Your busy weekend sounds a bit like ours as we spread 21 bags of mulch over our landscaping and flower beds. Hope is so adorable in her tap costume. Only 5 days now!
All we did was the mulch, you outdid me by actually planting flowers in the flower beds.
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Yippy single digits. Hope it so cute. My SIL is a dance judge and choreographer; we go to a few of her performances a year. When she has a class of the little ones it is so cute.
Thanks. The little ones are definitely cute to watch, but it was a real treat watching the older dancers who actually know what they're doing.
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I forgot to add some big news in my last update...I bought a new camera!
I finally upgraded, and although it wasn't the camera I really wanted to upgrade too, it is a HUGE improvement from what I've been using. It's the Nikon D7100, and I bought a refurbished camera body in order to save myself a little money. It was shipped to me last week, and I haven't really had the time to spend on it like I would really like too. Which means, I'm not 100% if it's coming with me to Disney.
The last thing I want to do on vacation is get frustrated with another camera. Been there done that. And even though I know how to use a DSLR, the button placement is different and the dynamics of this camera is in a completely different league than what I'm used too.
I actually brought it to work with me, so I can focus on it during my lunch break, but forgetful me forgot to take the memory card out of my old Nikon and insert it into my new one. Guess I'll have to wait a little bit longer to figure this monster out.
I do have one question for all of you. Since Photobucket is going to start charging for more storage space, are there any photo sharing sites that you prefer now, besides Shutterfly (Kelly )? Just wondering what I'm going to do when it does come time to upload all of these vacation photos. Is flickr compatible on here?
congrats on the new camera, single digits and getting the birthday all squared away. OK don't hate me but I have to agree with your mom. perhaps because I have the absolute worst birthday of the entire year - christmas day! I mean come on for a child is that just the worst? I never had anything special ON my birthday - EVER. I was lucky to get Happy Birthday so I'm very used to celebrting my birthday early or late but never on my birthday. Besides that Evan shares a birthday with hsi cousin and they have been having joint parties since they were babies. I don't think kids even know all that much about what day it is anyway. It just us parents that go crazy. Kids are just so much more adaptable I guess.
Congrats on the new camera! Have fun using it! I know some folks here have used flickr as I see it at the bottom of their pictures. I've been wondering the same thing as I already pay some additional for storage on Photobucket, but I've very close to using all that up, too.
congrats on the new camera!!! That's the same one I currently have and I it!!!
Thanks! Was it hard to learn?
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congrats on the new camera, single digits and getting the birthday all squared away. OK don't hate me but I have to agree with your mom. perhaps because I have the absolute worst birthday of the entire year - christmas day! I mean come on for a child is that just the worst? I never had anything special ON my birthday - EVER. I was lucky to get Happy Birthday so I'm very used to celebrting my birthday early or late but never on my birthday. Besides that Evan shares a birthday with hsi cousin and they have been having joint parties since they were babies. I don't think kids even know all that much about what day it is anyway. It just us parents that go crazy. Kids are just so much more adaptable I guess.
All is good, and I understand about your birthday day. My best friend's birthday is on Christmas Eve, and she's always had issues with Christmas gifts taking the place of birthday gifts. However, if that were my child, I would do something extra special just for her birthday. Just because you never had it, doesn't mean that no one should. You know? Also, Evan shares his birthday with his cousin, but Hope was born first, on a compeletely different day, in a competely different month.
Trust me, I'm happy not to be worrying about throwing her a birthday party, but because Trinity already had a little birthday party, it's only fair that Hope have one too, that's not shared with someone else. That's all I'm saying.
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Congrats on the new camera. Hope you get to play with it some this weekend.
Thanks...me too!
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Congrats on the new camera! Have fun using it! I know some folks here have used flickr as I see it at the bottom of their pictures. I've been wondering the same thing as I already pay some additional for storage on Photobucket, but I've very close to using all that up, too.
Everybody's charging for everything lately. Goes with my FB status that you saw earlier. I just don't want to do it anymore.
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Congrats on the new camera! I've paid for storage on Photobucket for years now, so I can't help on that...
Thanksk Cheryl!
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Congrats on the camera. Make sure you resize your pictures before uploading them to Photobucket, so you can get more out of the storage limits!
I've done that. And I'm still almost too my limit. I had to delete a few old albums.
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Congrats on the new camera!! I like Snapfish and as far as I know, I don't think they have a limit of storage. I usually store all my pictures on Flickr, but I pay for the extra storage space.
Holly, my DH's birthday is on Christmas Day, too. But he thinks it is a great day for a birthday. One of his close friends has the same birthday, only a year later.
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But once the music started playing, I think she forgot she was standing in front of so many people and just did what she was suppposed to do. 
And even though I know how to use a DSLR, the button placement is different and the dynamics of this camera is in a completely different league than what I'm used too. 
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Holly: 
I know some folks here have used flickr as I see it at the bottom of their pictures. I've been wondering the same thing as I already pay some additional for storage on Photobucket, but I've very close to using all that up, too.
And I'm still almost too my limit. I had to delete a few old albums. 
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