Bella Bella Ballerina

Norah is our dancer this year - Grace has decided she would like to play T-Ball instead...

So, Norah solely is our ballerina. And she is totally excited!

She went in, no problem, and listened and followed directions. When she came out, she tried to cover the smile on her face - but it was hard to do!

At the end, the teacher (the same teacher Gracie had last year) asked me, "Is her name Norah?"

I said, "Yes."

The teacher said, "Ok, when I asked her what her name was, she said something like, 'Noyrah'? I just wanted to make sure I had her name right."

I told her, "It's Norah - she just doesn't say those R's yet..." :)

We came home from dance and got dressed to go swimming. After swimming, Norah put the leotard and tights back on.

This morning, I woke up and she was already putting the tights and leotard on.

I love this girl.

Wordless Wednesday

Lake Livingston - 2010

While April & Bela were here visiting, we headed to Lake Livingston for a couple of days. We stayed in a lake house and rented a boat for a day. It was a lot of fun and we were so glad to have a mini-vacation with our favorite Romanians.

our European

our captain

our cruise director

our entertainment

our dare devil

our boy

our fearless

our fearful

our cowabunga girl

our mommie(s)

our loves

A Wordy Wordless Wednesday

My sister JoAnna does a post on Wednesdays called, Wordless Wednesdays. I love them cause the pictures she uses hardly ever need words. And a bonus for the reader is you know you'll always get pictures of the family once a week. I think it is a brilliant idea and so now I'm gonna (try!!) to copy her.

Here is my first Wordless Wednesday post (except there are words on this Wednesday post... but you get the idea).

Achoo

Norah woke up yesterday with the sniffles.

She has a stuffy nose and has been sneezing a lot today.

I gave her some medicine tonight before she went to bed.

While tucking her in, she said, "Mommy, i don't have anymore bless you's."

Grace Turned 5!!

For Grace's birthday she wanted a Beach Party. So we adapted... We bought a few pools, one for sand and buckets, and lots of beach balls were floating around.

We made our beach picnic standby, Rice Salad with Grilled Chicken for the adults & Hot Dogs and Watermelon for the kids!

We had lots of friends over to celebrate our little girl

her buddies, Colin and Haley

Caroline playing in the sand

Susanna movin' fast

Carson getting in on the fun

we had ice cream cone/cupcakes for her 'birthday cake' -- the bottom half is cake with a scoop of ice cream on top. I was able to make them ahead of time, so it was the easiest thing to serve.

Mason is cheering Grace on

Everyone hard at work, eating those cones!

i can't believe she's 5...

We had a blast, celebrating and partying with our Grace.

trampoline fun

Brynlee and Caleb - making sand castles