So you think you can dance...

Ava took ballet this Spring at an awesome place called Hearts in Step. It was a Christian dance school and every week they learned a bible verse along with their sweet moves. :)

This is Ava and her friend Gabi on their first day in January...

And this is the day of the big recital! Ava was excited for MONTHS for the "peach dance"...(I guess she got wind that their costumes were peach? I don't know.) 

I, on the other hand, was quite concerned. Our last encounter with public performance, albeit it 2 years ago, was ugly. 

 This was the dress rehearsal, but to my pleasant surprise, Ava was all over it.

 Or at least standing on the stage and not screaming.

 But on the day of-she really did fabulous! She even made sure to keep others in line by "shh-shing" another girl. She was serious about this dance business.

 Her adoring fans.

 Hutchkin was a total doll through the TWO HOUR recital. So was everyone else that came. Thanks for loving our girl enough to sit through two hours!

 Ava and Daddy.

So thankful for a place that taught our kiddos to be more like Christ and to honor him in their dance. And thankful for two years of maturity on our sweet girl so we could watch her. :)

If it's the last thing I do....

I will get caught up on this blog and my reader.

I don't really get that phrase though. Like, if I was dying it would be the last thing I would do before I died so it was done? Or I will do it even if it kills me? Hopefully this won't be the last thing I do, because I have a lot of kids. Here I go.

Little.

 Big.

 Bigger.

 Biggest.

Thanks to my super talented friend Mandy for making these awesome shirts!

Viva la vida

The little mamas are really into holding Hutch. 

 I don't even want to know what's going through this crazy girls head in this picture. Also: I should dust my headboard.

 One day a few weeks ago I went to the mailbox. I retrieved this from it. That's my husband and daughter on the flyer from the local pool/gym complex place. We visited one day last summer and they must have had a camera out! We had no clue they would be on it so it was quite baffling to just find it in the mail. I've always want to be married to a swimsuit model. (just kidding. i think i just threw up a little in my mouth :))

 an oldie. but a sweetie.

 They have figured out that sitting quietly and happily at bedtime gets them off my radar. Smart girls. Also, they were those pajamas because every night they slide down the stairs multiple times and discovered their stomachs don't get burned.

 Friends!

 His first tie...

 This is the ceremonial last picture of Mark mowing before he remembered he hates mowing. :) At least the girls got a tractor ride out of it!