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!

February's Over?!

What?!  I didn't post in February either?  Man, I'm not doing well with this.  In my defense, I got a new cover for my phone and I can't get it off-Alan has to do it for me!  It is childproof and mommy-proof apparently-ha! 
So, what has been going on with our family?  We still were stuck inside A LOT due to the cold, snowy weather.  I can't remember another winter so terrible.  The kids have played so nice together!

I took Colson & Kendall to McDonald's to just play and burn some energy!

A little Ring-Around-the-Rosy after dinner

Cheeeeese!

 

 

 

I had been wanting to take the kids sledding all winter and we finally got the chance!  We went to Nana and Papa's house on February 8th to take advantage of the couple inches of snow.  It took us awhile to get everybody dressed, but then we were ready to go!

These kids LOVED sledding!  Each time Alyvia and Colson went down the hill without Kendall, she would dive for the ground and yell, she wanted to go to!  I'm so glad that we got the chance to go sledding, the kids had so much fun....but now the snow and cold can leave :)

Valentine's day started off so quietly for us.  The kids got their Valentine's day presents that morning and Livi got all dressed up for school.

Then we decided to go out for dinner at Avanti's.  It was such a nice little family dinner and on our way home, Alyvia started screaming bloody murder out of the blue.  "I'm choking, I'm choking, it's stuck-AHHHHH!"  She was apparently chewing on a metal charm from her purse and...........swallowed it.  So we ended up at the hospital. 

Luckily the charm went straight on through.  Oh Alyvia, always keeping us on our toes!

The next weekend, we got to have a little more fun.  Since October, we have had tickets to see Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line with our friends.  The week before the concert, our plans almost got derailed.  Poor Kendall and Colson got sick.....again.  Colson got terrible croup and Kendall had a runny nose and cough too :(

I finally took Colson to the doctor.  Knowing its a virus, they are so unlikely to treat him, but I couldn't stand the thought of him being sick for another 4 weeks.  Our pediatrician said due to his history, we could go ahead and treat him with steroids.  He also had an ear infection (one of his tubes fell out) so we got an antibiotic for that.  Treatment made such a difference-he was so much better after just 3 days!  Poor Kendall ended up with an ear infection too.  Thanks to Alan's cousin Shelli and her husband Jim, who didn't mind watching our sick kiddos, we got to go to our concert!  We felt like this when we got to go....

It was such a great concert!  And it was nice to get away for an evening and be out with our friends, we've missed that!

The concert was on Friday night and on Saturday night, Alyvia danced with the Bravettes dance team at the Bradley game.

She did the camp with our friend Landrie and both girls did a great job!  The rest of February was calmer around our house, well a little.  Colson had some crazy steroid energy!

Lots of hanging out with Kendall and Colson when Livi is in school and dance or gymanstics :)

We miss Livi when she's in school, Colson especially because she always plays with him when she's home.  She's has her moments, but our Livi is usually so caring and sweet.  She is really into recognizing how hard everyone works and appreciative of that too.  She wrote Alan and I both notes one night while we were cleaning up dinner.  Love her <3

My Poor Neglected Blog :(

It's so hard to blog these days!  I have so much stuff I want to write down and not forget, but apparently we are too busy-ha!  I am so stinking tired by the time the kids are in bed, I have no energy to even blog.  But, I can play catch up, so here goes....

On May 19th Anne, Lindsey, Amanda and I ran in the inaugural River City Marathon Relay.  It was a beatiful, sunny and HUMID day!  I ran the 2nd leg of the race and went 6.9 miles in about an hour and 20 minutes.  I was good until about mile 5 and then I thought I might throw up....but I didn't :)  Poor Anne ran the last leg, 7.1 miles in the heat of the day :(  We all ran the last 0.3 miles together and finished our marathon in under 5 hours!

Alyvia had her last day of school as a kindergartener...

We celebrated Memorial Day by just looking our cutest :)

The first weekend in June was Alyvia's dance recital.  I was terribly nervous being a first time "dance mom". There were so many rules and instructions on how exactly the girls were supposed to look!  It ended up going great though, it was obvious this wasn't the studios first "rodeo".  Alyvia did her ballet dance first to "A Whole New World" from Aladdin. 

Then we had to do a costume and hair change for her sassy tap dance to "Personality". 

Rehearsal night was great so we were prepared the night of the actual recital.   Alyvia was a little nervous before and after the first dance, but once we found each other after her performance she was good to go for the rest of the night! Uncle Chris, Aunt Anne, Finn, Uncle Shane and Lindsey came and watched on rehearsal night. 

Aunt Lindsey used to dance at Kim's too & gave Livi flowers after her performances! 

The morning of recital night was Alyvia's first t-ball game too!

Little brother was excited to go cheer sister on....until we got there, then he wanted to go home!



She hit the ball every time up!

That afternoon we went to Shannon's bridal shower and then it was recital time!

Mehala, Mekaya, Kaitlyn, Ilah, Ava, Alyvia, Morgan

Emily, Ni, Kaitlyn & Alyvia

Nana, Papa, Mamaw and Daddy were there for recital night. 

Daddy and Mamaw both gave Livi flowers after her show!

Alyvia was so excited after the recital.  She is set on doing dance again next year!  And more catching up for my next post!