Let the Dancing Begin!

This week kicked off dance competition season for real!  Brooke got to perform her dances at whatever this expo is that we went to last year as well.  Her company only did one of their dances, but they did a fantastic job.  It's also nice that it's local and only 10-ish minutes away.

Here are the planter boxes all ready to go in the backyard.  Now we just need to fill them.  Monica is looking for branches and leaves, etc. to start filling the bottom so we don't have to get quite so much dirt.

Here's Brooke at Toadstools.  I believe they made birds nests, though I believe the nests are actually meant to provide easy materials for birds to make their own nests.  Also, there's been lots of talk about different birds that live in the area and the calls we're hearing etc.  It seems like we're starting to become bird watchers here.

At activity days they did Olympics, and the kids won Oreo medals.  Yum!

The kids really needed to go to Bahama Bucks to get snow cones one night.  I think the reason why was because there had been a potty emergency on the way home one evening and they stopped there to use the bathroom there. Then the kids just couldn't get Bahama Bucks out of their minds and had to go back one day after dinner. So I took them.  We played a lot of connect 4 and enjoyed our snow cones.

Grayson got invited to a birthday party on Saturday, and I took him.  It was pretty apparent to me that most kids at his preschool go to the church it's associated with, and ALL the parents seemed to know each other and were having great conversations.  That said, the party wasn't about me knowing everyone, and Grayson had a great time playing with his friends and enjoying the festivities like the pinata.  We only stayed for about 2 hours, and the party didn't seem to be winding down.  I just thought maybe they planned too much, but when I got home I found out there wasn't actually an end time.

Sunday morning the kids were reading blog books while waiting to go to church, and I figured it was worth taking a picture.  It's nice to see my hard work writing this is being enjoyed, and they really do love looking back over the last year as soon as it's available.  They also really love looking through their birth years, or the year after as well and seeing themselves as babies.  It's definitely been worth the effort.

And that's all I've got for this week.  Here's to another great one ahead.