Monday, June 23, 2014

Dance Recital 2014

Alyvia's dance recital was the weekend of June 6th and 7th.  It was her second recital and she is now an old pro at it ;)  She still is doing ballet and tap.  Her first dance was tap this year and I LOVED her costume!  Her class danced to "I Wanna Be a Radio City Rockette"-and they sang along to it, adorable!

Ready for rehearsal!

I just LOVE the costume...the little girl wearing it too!

Livi and her friends, Makaya and Morgan
 A little back story....my brother's girlfriend, Lindsey, danced at Kim's for many years through high school.  That's the reason we picked Kim's.  Lindsey came back and danced for fun this year and she was part of the opening number!  Livi loved that Aunt Lindsey danced with her!


Her second dance was "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins.  It was so cute with their big pink spoons and Livi did awesome with her ballet!




On rehearsal night, Mamaw and Grandma Annetta happened to be at the Civic Center and stopped to see Livi!

Saturday night was the actual recital and Livi was super excited for her family to come and watch her perform :)

Dancing Girls-Livi and Lindsey

Uncle Shane and Livi

Flowers from Nana and Papa

Nana, Papa and Livi
Our oldest baby girl <3

She did such a good job and I love watching her perform!  By the time the end of May rolls around, we are feeling done with 9 months of dance.  BUT, I have so much fun at the recital.  It's exciting to dress up and perform on such a big stage-it's so fun that Livi loves to do this!  We are taking the summer off, but we'll be back in the fall!

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

A couple of Sundays ago, Livi and I volunteered for the Peoria Marathon.  We were assigned an intersection and were supposed to direct traffic...which was kind of silly because there was a police officer there doing it. But we cheered the runners on instead!



Then we met Daddy, Colson and Kendall at Dozer Park for Cowser Family Fun!  I'm not sure how much of the game we watched, but the kids had fun eating snacks and meeting a few Disney princesses :)








It was a lot of fun and I hope we get to go to more baseball games this summer!

Last Days of School

Colson's last day of school/Mother's Day Out was May 15th.  I'm so proud of how far he came this year!


He was so nervous at the beginning of the year and by the end of the year he looked forward to school!  He made friends and did so well!  I'm so glad we did this for Colson, I think he will do so much better in pre-school next year.

Alyvia's last day of school was May 30th.  She had a fabulous first grade year!  Her teacher, Mr. Melick, was great and she is ready for 2nd grade!



I am super excited for us to be home together this summer!  It's the first summer where I'm working only part time and I feel like I get to spend so much more quality time with them.  Livi is already listing off all the things we should do!  Here we go!