Dance, Dance!

The month of May always brings the girls spring dance recital. The girls did a great job dancing this year!

Lilli had two dances and did a great job.

Ava also had two dances and worked really hard to remember her smile while dancing. She did great!

Vivien's class got to be the very first dance number. The class did a fabulous job, including Vivi who got to help lead the class off stage.  Fun times! 

We all enjoyed getting to watch our girls perform. Lexi and Nicolette, Dad and Owen, Grandma and Grandpa, and mom and Lilli's friend Sammie were the spectators. 

Thanks for a fun night of dancing! Nicolette is ready to be on stage and finally this September her dream will come true.

School Store

Every fifth grader in Ms. Hansen's class gets to experience the class store. Every student has the opportunity to figure out what they would like to sell at their own store in the classroom. This is no easy undertaking. Every student must apply for a loan and meet the proper expectations if they want their loan approved. Once the paper work is accomplished, the student can then set into work and get their product ready for sale. The entire school is invited to attend the store and buy what they wish. (in Hansenville currency of course:).

Lilli decided that she would like a cupcake store. Now, normally this would be fine, but between me being 9 months pregnant and the store taking place a few weeks before Christmas...it was a tad on the difficult side. We set to work though and it all turned out terrific. We made these very fun snowflake cupcakes. We made tons and tons of cupcakes 3 Fridays in a row! I wish I had more pictures. We also made lots of mini cupcakes which we figured were a bigger profit margin. (store is every Friday for 3 weeks). I am happy to report that Lilli's cupcake store was a huge success! She sold out of cupcakes in the first 10 minutes and had earned enough money to pay back her loan. Good work Lilli!

Congrats to the President!

 

The President of Hansenville that is.

Lilli was nominated and elected as president of Mrs. Hansen's 5th grade class!

She will do a great job.

We had cake to celebrate.

Congratulations Lilli, we love you!

Fourth Grade Fun!

Lilli and friends from the fourth grade. This school year was a great one for Lilli. Fourth grade at our school is filled with lots of fun, activities, field trips, and work:)

Night of Notables

This picture of Lilli is from her "Night of Notables". Each child in Mrs. Peter's class got to pick someone from our state that was "Notable". There was reports, research and lots of fun digging around to find out as much as they could about their person.

Dad and Lilli after the show.

Lilli and mom enjoying all of the hard work done for this night.

Lilli waiting for her turn to give her speech. Lilli was ready to perform as Minerva Teichert, famous artist.

Mrs. Peter's Pioneer Play

Mrs. Peter's class put on a wonderful Pioneer play.
Grandma, Nicolette, Vivi, and mom were all there. Dad and Ava were there at the first showing.

This was during the play. I love all the costumes:)

Lilli giving her part in the play.

There was also a very big entire fourth grade program. This is what Nicolette was doing during the program. She had a bit of a hard time.

She did find some distraction with my sunglasses and seeing where they would fit.

Here is the entire fourth grade during one of the last songs.

Lilli and one of her good friends from class.

The Mountain Man Rendezvous

The Mountain Man Rendezvous was a great time. I got to help and it was a ton of fun!
The kids were divided into groups and got to rotate through different stations doing different pioneer activities.

Look at the view of this mountain from the park! It was a gorgeous day.

The three legged race.

The girls showing me their sand art jars they had just made.

Each child got to "make their own butter" using whip cream. A really fun and tasty activity!
There was also, leather molding, dutch oven cooking, pioneer stories, and pie-eating contests.
Fourth grade was a good one...look out fifth grade here she comes:)

Everybody Dance Now

Vivien, Ava and Lilli after the big spring dance recital.

Here is Vivi and her all time best friend. They got to watch all the dancing until it was their turn.
Grandma came to watch...thank you Grandma:)

Vivien was posing for the camera, this is one of a myriad of photos from my Vivi:)
Vivien is a fun dancer. She knows exactly what to do and every move to make.

This is Ava on the stage. Ava is such a graceful and beautiful dancer. She is a delight to watch.

Lilli is full of great dancing energy! She has not danced as long as the other girls her age, but she definitely can hold her own:)

Ava after the concert with her flowers.

Lilli after with her flowers.

Of course we had to celebrate the great dancing at B&R:)

Ava picked a chocolate sprinkle cone with lots of mint chip ice cream.

Vivi ate her treat pretty quick and was then feeling very tired!

I even caught her with her eyes shut for a minute:)

She did muster this cute smile in the end:)
Good job dancing girls! Another fun and great performance...I love these little dancing queens.

Details- Aladdin

So, it sounds like my school play post left a little wanting?
The school play was Aladdin and Lilli was a "harem girl". I suppose I was kindly leaving out that detail...ya, anyway, she did a fabulous job:)
This was her last night that she performed the play. She has both sets of grandparents there! A real treat:)

School Play Time!

We were all so excited for the school play to start it's run. Lilli has been practicing since January. I so love to watch her dedication for something that she enjoys so much. She did not miss one practice, practiced at home and gave her entire heart and soul to this play!
We all enjoyed getting to watch her and she did a fabulous job in her part...yea, Lilli. Way to go!

Vivien was so excited to get to go up on the stage after the show was over. Perhaps another actress in the family?

Payton and Lilli, in costumes:)

We all enjoyed getting to watch her and she did a fabulous job in her part...yea, Lilli. Way to go!

Here lies Goldy

We said goodbye to our first real pet...Goldy the gold fish. He lived a fine life. He was admired by some, loathed by others. He did his part as good as any gold fish could have done.

Doug had the honors of sending Goldy on to another place... Doug was reluctant to any pictures being taken at this time.
I felt we needed the record..."we did have a pet once".

I will confess, Goldy sat on the counter covered up with paper towels for a good day and a half. I didn't have it in me to help Goldy "move on" and it's been a busy work week for Doug. Hence, he stayed on the counter...ewww...

The tank is pretty empty now. I really did feel bad that we couldn't keep him alive longer. I told Doug I just can't have pets because I have guilt over Goldy's death. We could have done more... a bigger tank, perhaps? Cleaner water more often? We could of had someone feed him when we had to leave town? I know some of you have witnessed our fish, and he had some neurotic tendancies, but it just helped him fit into our household all the better;)

Let's reflect on Goldy's life for a moment...This is when he was brand new from the July 4th carnival. Lilli was thrilled to have him...me, not so much. Most of the girls couldn't leave him alone, for the first three days...Lexi, not so much.

Here is a cute family picture Ava did at school. Notice she even has Goldy as part of the family!
He really will be missed...by some more than others.