My group of dancers recently put on a special show for their parents. The older girls created their own choreography dances as well as performing the more traditional dances. It was extremely fun and we look forward to doing it again!

The Slide

Little Kid Style

Big Kid Style

Park picnic

Sleeping Siblings

Every night I tuck the kids into their own beds and later, when I check on them, I always find this.

Easter Girls

A visit for Papa and Gigi

I woke up on Friday missing my grandparents. It has been six months since I have seen them and with the changes in our life it will be many more months before I am able to travel down and see them again. I realized that my family is the smallest it will ever be and my belly is the smallest it will be for a while too! I enlisted the help of my Mom and we came to a final decision Friday night. We would travel to Vancouver and surprise Gigi and Papa for Easter. We left early Saturday morning and arrived home last night. It was wonderful, exhausting, and everything that traveling with small children entails, yet most importantly, wonderful!

Kisses for papa.

A dancer and her great-grandpa.

A special dance performance.

Giggles galore.

Found Easter eggs.

Disappointed with empty easter eggs.

As Aiden would say, "lego of course!"

The frenzy of it all.

Family togetherness.

I love children's art. There is evidence all over our house of my little one's creativity.

Imagine my delight when the older two went to a birthday party last week at a local art studio. Each child was able to create their own 8/10 canvas painting to bring home and experiement with different materials. There lacked the usual frenzy of a party and the atmosphere was calm, and creative. I enjoyed this time so much that I would definitely consider hosting a party there and will be putting my older two in art classes. Now if I could just start selling their art work, we would have it made!!

The final products.

Caileigh

Aiden

As Aiden was painting he kept commenting on how much he enjoyed being an artist. He was explaining to me that different people have different ideas and do things in different ways. He paused and then commented, "but I think my ideas are best."

Don't we all........don't we all.