Another haul of medals

Today was a floor and vault competition between three clubs: Doha's Gym Academy, Oman's GyMuscat, and Dubai's DuGym.Isabelle's floor routine.
Nice.Really not sure why these photos PERSIST on being sideways... help me out, just turn your heads :)

Isabelle's division resting between rotations.Now, for the vault. First, 7 minute warm-up.Waiting her turn.#48, here she goes.Nice straight legs, strong body... squeeeeze!It's over, she can relax. Chatting to Tori.Chatting to her mates.Isabelle won a bronze for her floor routine.Gold for her vault performance!Plus, overall champion in her division.Jessica and Isabelle with 4 medals each. It's been a good day! Well done girls for all your hard training and fantastic performance on the day.Isabelle with her coach and choreographer Patricia.

Celebrating Mimi's Birthday

It's Matilda's BFF's (aka Mimi) birthday today, so we're taking her out for some ice cream and shopping at Landmark.

Pinkberry. Yum.Mimi selects a couple of Peeps with crazy eyes for her gift.

Best friends from the first day at DESS Nursery together.

Silver lining???

Some of you may have heard our sad news, that Tessa, our bestest mutt dog ever, died a few weeks ago. Very sad. At the time, we were also fostering a beautiful Saluki/Collie puppy, who has now kind of moved up the ranks. Her name is Maya and she's probably about 9 months old.Just this weekend, we also inherited a chubby (putting it nicely) chocolate labrador. Her owners are leaving Doha for good and can't take her with them. Her name is Lily and she is 6 years old. This photo makes her look slim... So, we're back to being a two dog family :)

Svenska Skolavslutning 2011

Svenska skolbarnen i Qatar.Systrarna White.

Har visar Matilda en poster som hon har gjort denna terminen.Isabelle hasr gjort en om Svenska djur.Matilda vann tipspromenaden och fick ett jattefint halsband!Bra tjejer!

The Stars Ballet Gala 2011 @ Sheraton

Matilda with Madame Isabelle Mojansky (teacher and choreographer)Dance #1 "The Stars"

Dance #2 "Chinese Dance"Dance #3 "Puppet's Show"

Dance #4 "Party Time"

A few photos of the older dancers.

Such talent from dancers aged 5 to 23.

Final curtsy to the audience.

Thank you Matilda, you did a fabulous job!

Fairy Tale Day

Matilda goes as Little Red Riding Hood.