Dancing Divas!

You know it's Spring when the dance costumes come out! My little dancing divas gave everyone a recital preview at a local business exposition as they do every year. Here are my beauties modeling this year's costumes! Adorable as always! (And the costumes are pretty cute, too!)

Once there, they mingled with hordes of other little girls from the dance studio. Here, they pose with little Brynn. Dean used to work with her father and they've remained friends through the years. When we arrived home from China with Drew, they came to the house to meet her and the seed was planted in their hearts to do the same! She's the teeniest little thing...her mom and I compare her to Drew. You can see the height difference between Luci and Brynn and there is only a year and 3 month difference between them! Yep, she's 4! What a little doll, she is SOOO beautiful!

Here's Brynn on stage with her group.

Max has the best seat in the house!

I'm sure glad I got pictures of Luci before she started dancing...her hair fell all over the place and Daddy didn't know enough to fix it! (I could not be there as I was preparing for my chorus' annual show that evening!)

Speaking of height differences...there's only a year difference between Drew and Hannah who is standing right behind Drew! Hannah's Daddy (Jim) is really TALL!

Every year, the school district holds an art show. They renovated a drafting lab into a beautiful world class art gallery several years ago and began holding art shows featuring the artwork of the district's K-12 students. This year, one of Drew's works was chosen to be included! She's SO proud of herself and we are, too! Here she poses in front of her beautiful masterpiece! Way to go, our little artiste!

Luci, as Mona Lisa!

In other news, Drew has FINALLY popped through her first adult tooth!!! This may not seem like such an extraordinary thing until you realize that she never even got her first baby tooth until she was 16 months old and in just 2 months she'll be 8! Unfortunately, the baby tooth this adult tooth is meant to replace is still intact in its original position! It is a bit wiggly and you can see how it is being pushed out of place by the emerging adult tooth, so it shouldn't be too long before that sucker pops out. We've told her to work on making it extra wiggly so she doesn't have to go back to the dentist to have him remove it! I keep forgetting to snap a picture of it, but when I do, I'll be sure to post it here!

As mentioned above, my Sweet Adeline chorus held our annual show this past Saturday and it was a rousing success! When I get a few photos of our entire chorus (taken by one of our directors who also happens to be a photographer) I'll post more about this. Now that the show is over, we'll concentrate on our regional competition coming up next month in Syracuse! This is the highlight of my Sweet Adeline year whether we win or not, but our tiny little chorus always does exceedingly well for our chorus size! I'll keep you posted!

Still loving life sans glasses! Things are going very well in this area!

Yesterday, we drove up to a plot of wooded land owned by Dan and Tina (Dean's brother and his wife). The object was to cut up some dead wood and clear a few standing trees in preparation for making campsites and roads. They already have a small cabin in a clearing and while Tina and I chatted about everything under the sun, (politics, religion, weather, psycho's we know, etc.) the kids played together and we watched as the boys got to work. We spent several hours up there. At one point, we heard Dean say something and when we looked over at him, we saw a large "rip" in his chainsaw-chaps on his upper thigh. Chainsaw-chaps are Kevlar lined chaps worn specifically when using chainsaws to protect the wearer's legs from bounceback from the chainsaw. They did their job perfectly this day and Dean, I am happy to say, has perfectly intact legs!! (Though he now needs a new pair of chainsaw-chaps!) I'm so glad he takes these precautions, because the day could have turned out much differently if he hadn't!

Today's quote:

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there. ~Unknown (to me)