Performance

This week I was excited to get our performance pictures.  A big "thank you" to the wonderful Robilyn Lake and Angie Wilson for taking the photos for us.  The top few are the class pictures, below are candids from rehearsal.  (There's a lot there of me pointing with a funny look on my face.)

BUMBLEBEES

This was my biggest class, and my favorite costume.  They were pretty hilarious on stage too.

BLUEBIRDS

FLOWERS

I loved this picture of them, because it really shows the personality of the girls.

RAINBOWS

Two of my dancers for this class couldn't join us, but they still did a great job.

REHEARSAL PHOTOS

For those of you who have done this with me before... I decided to do pictures during rehearsal.  It was good because I didn't have enough people at the Performance to run pictures backstage while we danced, but it was also really hard to practice those parts of the show we all did together.

This is Wynne, who did a Personal Progress Project and danced with us.

It went better than I thought, and we had a great time.

Bossy Computer

Last night I was feeling irritable.  It was after 10:00, and I get that way then.  I turned off my computer and it said:

"Do not power off or unplug.  Downloading updates."

First of all, updates are my arch enemy because they change things on the computer that you know how to do, and replace them with stupid things that don't work (Microsoft Word, anyone?).

Second of all, I really am annoyed when people tell me what to do.

So, I shut the computer (powered off) and unplugged it to be spiteful.

Yes, I am an adult.  And yes, it made me feel much better.

And we wonder how M turned out so contrary?

The Real Petting Zoo

Last week we visited the petting zoo.  I actually wasn't too impressed.  Not very many animals.  Not very much petting.  Oh well.  The kids were more than pleased, and that's all that matters.

Spring Concert

Last week was our ballet performance.  I don't have any real pictures yet because I had someone else take them... but I do have the "all dressed up and ready to go" pictures.  Look at those tight buns.  Justin said the girls smelled like some kids he knew in highschool who used too much hair product.

Since I was running the performance this year, I was a little nervous.  It seemed to go well though... I had one dancer who wouldn't go on stage, one who wouldn't dance once she was on stage, and one that wouldn't come off when her turn was over.  And that is pretty much a PreBallet show in a nutshell.

M was fairly certain everyone in the audience came just to see her.  She had no idea they were just the other dancers' parents.  I don't think she'd believe me if I told her.

Should we take Quasimodo to the Doctor?

Wow.  This is even bigger in person.  Talk about your goose egg.  He only stops grinning when we try to put ice on it.  Poor guy.

Unrelated

Today, while eating lunch, E and M were trying to explain to me what the priesthood was.  (No, it was not quiz time, E and M just come up with interesting lunch topics all on their own.  One of M's favorites goes like this:  "Mom, is warm, warm?  Is cold, cold?  Is hot, hot?")  Anyway, as I was saying, they were both trying to tell me what the priesthood was.

Said E:  The priesthood is something that makes prayers go faster.

*****

In the car, while running errands at 1:00 pm (dangerous since nap-time is at 2:00 pm) GQ pulled his now famous trick.

He asks for a book.

He holds it up in front of him so that I can't see him in the rearview mirror.

And then he goes to sleep.

He does this often on Sundays after Church, and he totally did it to me today.

The little trickster.

*****

Yesterday at rehearsal (2 hours and 15 minutes long) M decided the best way to close out the time there was to take off her leotard and tights and run around the room naked.

Yep, that's my child.

Hop-Scotch

Grandma sent hoppy taws for Lucky Lilacs.  It was so rainy on Saturday that we didn't get to play until Monday.  M thought I made a huge mistake when I used our chalk to draw the hop-scotch's instead of the chalk Grandma sent.  And, actually, I did draw both hop-scotch's wrong.  Talent, I tell you.  The girls had a lot of fun.  I didn't think they would get it, but E definitely did and M enjoyed jumping.  GQ kept drawing in their hop-scotch's - which only made them mad.  Pretty funny though.

Camping... sort of...

Last weekend our family went camping.... at least, we planned on going camping.  The ward was having their annual camp-out, and E was soooo excited.  Unfortunately, it was very rainy that weekend - and the temperatures dipped down again - so I said "no thanks."  (I also realized I only had 3 sleeping bags for 5 people, and that I no longer live in the land of "let's call Laura and ask if can borrow more.")  We did go to dinner, and E did get to run around in the trees... so I think she forgave us a little.

GQ picked up rocks like a good little boy.

M mostly followed me around.  She pretends to be brave, but is really quite frightened of new things.

E played in the trees (which we learned often drop ticks on people's heads... we did a tick check when we got home and didn't find anything.)

Back at home, we set up the tent in the living room and let the children sleep there.

Eventually GQ got sent to his crib.  But before that happened the giggles were some of the cutest ever.