Ice Skating Competition

Lizzy's skating club had its annual competition today. She wore a fancy skating dress loaned by another teammate and dazzled the very biased huddle of fans at Berlin's newest ice stadium. From getting up this morning until after going to bed tonight she has been excited about the competition. She loved it. Its usually hard to photograph Lizzy with a heartfelt smile since it doesn't linger on her face. During the 5 minutes of showtime Lizzy was beaming. And when she got her gold medal (as she had anticipated) she was, if possible, even happier.

Before (first time skating in the dress and tights)

During the competition (isn't this great?) 

I am an ice princess

Scooping up a teddy tossed onto the ice after her performance (a smile for the adoring fans)

 I couldn't get both girls smiling at the same time. But here you see as soon as they were released from the podium they had to look down and check out their medals and certificates.

Red carpet time...

Check out our gold medals.