Recital, 2013 part B

The recital was awesome!  The girls pulled it together and performed really well ---no stage fright (and no Quincy-waving-to-me-in-the-middle-of-the-performance....which is another sign of her growing up and makes me kind of sad). 

 

Two of Tim's students are in the big-kid classes (read that as super good in all areas of dance) and the girls were thrilled to be able to have their picture taken with them after the show. 

 

After the show we came back home and had our typical post-recital meal of tacos (with Uncle Mike and Uncle Eric, of course!)

 

Recital, 2013

The pictures say it all....
..sweet.

 

 

Piano?

I walked into the office the other day and this is how they were practicing piano---Ellie was upside-down calling the notes out to Quincy so she could play them.  I love them sooo much....

Summer's here! (and I have a new 300 mm lens!)

  Last weekend we did a quick trip to Savannah for Patrick's HS graduation and had a blast! (eventhough we only saw Patrick for about 30 minutes...)

And the day after we got home Ellie was diagnosed with Strep.  Huh.



The above photo of Jill's mom set the mood for the weekend :)

 

 I LOVE my new lens...I took the above picture just because I could.

    

 A trip to the beach wouldn't be complete without saving at least one jellyfish.

  

Uncle Joe and Uncle Bill getting the boards ready to play the roles of Super Uncles (which they are :)

 

   

   



We are re-watching all the episodes of Avatar:  The Last Airbender.  The above photo is Ellie waterbending.  She wants to be Katara :)



 

 Ellie was on Motrin the whole weekend to keep her (really high) fever down...but the fever didn't keep her down!  This girl was not going to miss playing on the beach.

 

Quincy is in her element in any body of water.  We keep a super-supply of sunscreen on-hand due to this...

 

If you look hard you can see her lack of teeth in the above photo.   They all fell out in the time span of one week! 

 

 Even when she wipes-out she is happy....as long as she is in the water all is good.

 

 

Love love love Jack.  He's goofy.

 

I think these (sleeping) photos were taken at noon! 

Ellie's 7th Birthday Party

 
Ellie wanted a Kermit cake this year.  I wasn't really sure how I could make a Kermit-shaped cake large enough to feed 20 kids plus their parents so I made an edible Kermit and stuck it on top of a 10-layer-super-yummy-but-super-fattening cake.  It turned out really well!

 

 
Quincy and Ali
They are identical in every way except appearance.
 

 

 

 

 

We used one of our last two exploding-candles-that-sing-Happy-Birthday (which we got in China six years ago!).  When the kids saw/heard it their jaws hit the floor. The only problem was we had to stick it in Kermit's head in order for it to open up :(
 

 

 

Remember making forts?