Dance recital

Well, dance recitals are over for one more year! We had a great weekend, and the shows were awesome! The recitals for Dorinda's Dance Studio are like a Broadway production, they are just amazing! I guess that's what keeps us going back year after year, even though it's an hour drive from our house to the dance studio. Kindra, Anna, and Noah did such a great job on their dances. I was worried Noah would refuse to go on stage, but he loved it! Actually, today he's been harassing me to go to dance recital again. When I told him it was over until next year, he got pretty upset with me! SO, in the end, all four of the kids are signed up for dance classes next year. Kindra has decided to do Hip Hop again, Anna is going to stick with Tap and Ballet, Noah and Amaya will each be doing tap. SO....if you are interested, mark your calendars for next May. Recital is usually the weekend before Memorial Day weekend, there are 3 shows on Saturday and 2 shows on Sunday, so just plan on staying the entire weekend, because we won't know for certain which show all four children will dance in until a few weeks before the recital.

I want to say a big thank you to my Dad and Margaret for making the long trip to Merrill to see the children dance on Sunday afternoon. Would you believe they left Liberty, MO Saturday morning, stayed overnight in Merrill, watched the noon show on Sunday, and then turned right back around and headed back to Liberty Sunday afternoon!!!! We're talking a 1200 mile road trip, just to see the kids dance! What awesome grandparents! Of course, my mom is here too. She will be here until Wednesday afternoon, and we even get to attend a special poetry reading in Anna's class before she leaves, Poetry Parents and Pie is what they are calling it, should be a lot of fun!

Enjoy the pictures, and be sure to check out the kids dances on You Tube. Just search for videos from BeccaKC.

More later,

Rebeca

Anna's Baptism

I just wanted to get online real quick to share the pictures of Anna's baptism with you all. It went great, Anna was so beautiful!!

Mom got here last night, flew into Rhinelander just after 10PM. She will be here until next Wednesday.

Tonight is another dress rehearsal (our 3rd one this week!) in Merrill. Last night Kindra and Noah had dress rehearsal. They both did awesome!! I couldn't believe Noah did such a great job. I was worried about him even going out on stage, but he went out AND ended up on a top platform to dance! I know the pictures are blury, it was so dark in there and without a tripod I wasn't able to hold the camera still enough to get a clear picture. HOWEVER....I am going to put a couple of videos on YouTube when I am done with the journal entry. One of Noah's dance, and one of Kindra's hip hop dance. Noah is pretty easy to find, he's on the top right side of the screen. Kindra is right in the middle, back row on the stage (not on a riser), she is one of the only ones wearing a black hat.

More later!

Rebecca

Busy!

Just a quick note to let you all know that we are doing great, but things are so busy around here right now! I'm sorry I've not been adding entries more frequently, I hope that will change once school is out and things calm down a bit! There's something about this time of year, these last few weeks of school are like a mad dash to the finish line!

This week is an especially busy one. Dance recitals are this Saturday and Sunday. Three shows on Saturday, two shows on Sunday. Kindra is in all five shows, Anna is in three shows, Noah is in two shows. Add up all those costume, hair, and makeup changes, whew! It's exhausting! We have dress rehearsals four nights this week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Friday and Saturday nights we will stay at a hotel in Merrill. It's so much easier that way, since it's an hour drive from our house.

My mom will be flying into Rhinelander on Wednesday night...she moved her ticket up one day so she would be here for Anna's baptism. Like I said before, Anna will be baptized Thursday at the 915 AM mass. She is so excited! Since Mom and Kindra will be there, they can take pictures of the baptism. I will be sure to get them on here for you all to see ASAP. My dad and Margaret are also coming up for the recital, they will drive up on Saturday, watch the noon show on Sunday, and leave that night. Whew!

Speaking of Anna....she had an unusual accident two weekends ago (on the 5th). They were cleaning out the garage, and Anna fell down...and SOMEHOW ripped one of her fingernails out! It was so horrible! Kindra went back out into the garage and found the nail, and I swear it was ripped out by the roots. I don't know if it will ever grow back, and the process of it healing is just so slow and painful for Anna. It's been a difficult time for her, and for all of us...trying to figure out what to do to reduce the pain, but also allow it to heal.

Anna was supposed to start soccer last week, but we found out the games would be on Monday nights. She has gymnastics on Monday nights...and it didn't take her any time at all to decide she wanted to give 100% to gymnastics. So she dropped soccer. I'm sure we could have made it work, but it would have been difficult and crazy. It was a little sad to see her give up soccer, since she's so good at it, but I was very proud of her for realizing she couldn't do everything, and prioritizing her activities! She had her last chorus performance on Sunday morning (for a special Mother's Day mass), so that's over for the year. After this weekend dance will be over until the fall. That leaves her with swim and gymnastics, which is perfect!

Ok I really better get going. Enjoy the pictures. Check out YouTube later today, I am planning to add a couple more videos in a few minutes. One is of Anna's solo performance during the 2nd grade Friendship Play, and one is of Noah singing a song at the Mother's Day tea this morning at his preschool class. Very cute! 

Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day, as you can see by the pictures, mine was wonderful. Special mass in the morning, time alone to read a book, Pavan cooked dinner, lots of wonderful presents, and then a movie with Kindra in the evening!

More later,

Rebecca