The Party is over...

Dance recital is over for another year and summer actually begins! The girls were amazing! The Princess was so adorable. She knew her dance very well and did a great job including a curtsey at the end which none of the other girls remembered to do. That made it even cuter of course!

SB is such a great dancer. She's beautiful doing ballet, very graceful. She's adorable doing tap. She really just has this great natural easy way about her on stage.
But hip hop? That girl can DANCE! She has so much energy and is really very good. Good enough that someone we didn't even know stopped her to say how great she was. And good enough that someone we do know whose daughter dances in the Performing group at the same studio stopped SB once and her dad twice to talk about how talented SB is. This is definitely her thing!
The girls each got huge bouquets of roses from their dad and I. Hot pink for the Princess (surprise!) and a gorgeous orange color for SB. They also were blessed with myriad other gifts from family and friends, including the cutest tiara hair comb from Karin for the princess. The Princess actually told me we would need to go get her a new dress to wear with it. She wants to wear it for her Bubba's (the teenager) birthday on Wednesday. She's not getting a new dress as she has nine million pink outfits and I'm sure we'll find something adorable for her to wear with the comb. She also got this Hollywood Hair Barbie from her aunt. She would not put it down and SB said she wanted one of those too!

Swim lessons start tonight for the youngest two. They were both swimming at the end of last summer, but a year away from the water is always hard so we'll see how they are doing tonight. And today I've got to start getting the house ready for the teenager's birthday party on Wednesday night. He's leaving (on a jet plane) on Friday to go to Texas to visit the girlfriend. He paid for his own ticket. I've talked to the parents about all the little details. They'll be picking him up at the airport and they have a little apartment over the garage where he will stay. He'll be driving back with the older sister in two weeks. I'm sure he'll be fine. It's me who might have a nervous breakdown!