Emma's Birthday & Baby Animal Days

I found photos from a few recent events to share.

Emma's 6th Birthday!

Baby Animal Days Field Trip

Dance Pictures 2012

 Jazz- "Fame" by David Bowie

Lyrical- "Pretty" by The Cranberries

We are missing the copy of Isabelle's clogging photo, but I will add it when I get it.

Isabelle took a break from jazz for a couple of years, but gave it a try again this year and really enjoyed it.

Ballet- "When You Wish Upon a Star"

Clogging- "Splish Splash, I Was Taking a Bath"

Tumbling- "ABC"

Emma did so well at the recital this year. She went on stage without any problems and was very serious about doing her dances.

Ballet- "Send in the Clowns"

Tumbling- "We Like to Party"

Jazz- "Heaven Hop"

Clogging- "You've Got a Friend in Me" Spanish version (Toy Story 3)

Zoe is great about smiling both when she is on stage and for her pictures.

Tumbling- "We Like to Party"

Ballet- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

Clogging- "Old Time Rock n' Roll"

Claire gets very excited about any upcoming events, including our recital. She has her own calendar that she uses to count down to every event.

These are the many faces of Zachary. He acts like he doesn't like getting his picture taken, but he really does, as you can see by his posing here. His favorite photos are the ones with his female dance partners, but I didn't post those here.

Ballroom- "Jewish Town"

Ballroom- "Mercy"

Clogging- "Precision"

Clogging- "Sing, Sing, Sing"

This year our recital theme was "Dancing Through the Decades." We started with the 1900s and went through the last century with music from every decade. It was a fun recital with lots of variety and it turned out fantastic.

Our baby is 5 years old!

Yesterday was Emma's birthday. She was so excited about her birthday. When we would ask her how old she was she would hold up 5 fingers. Then I would ask her how old that was and she would say, "April 28th."

Here are a few birthday photos.

She couldn't wait for the "Happy Birthday" song to be finished to blow out her candles.

She wanted to open her cards first. She loved this card from Justine with a princess memory game in it.

A $2 bill!

It's a rare library trip that one of the girls doesn't pick out a Curious George book so now she has 8 to keep.

All of her birthday goodies.

The most exciting birthday present- her new bike.

Bear Lake

Our recent outing to Bear Lake. 

We found a nice shallow spot for the kids to play in and spent the entire day.

Claire is the rock collector. 

She also liked to stay close to shore.

Emma catching some rays.

They loved playing in the sand.

 Zoe loved getting out in the water.

 The girls thought Charlie needed a life jacket too.

Isabelle spent most of the day floating in the lake with her friends and tried to stay away from the camera.