Thursday, August 07, 2008

Dance, dance, dance!

Time for Princess Dance Camp again! I went back to my favorite dance studio, Saundra Lee's Dancing Starlets, the last week of July for four nights of awesome princess crafts, dance routines and fun.


I stood out from the group of pink and purple on performance night in my sparkly red costume...it's one of my favorites from my cousin Charity.

We performed dances as Angelina Ballerina, Lilo from Lilo & Stitch, Dora in Fairytale Land, and Princess Belle. This is from our Belle routine. For each dance we had a prop that we had made as a craft...here we are holding our beautiful hand-mirrors.

It was just a really fun week and I LOVED it!

Swim Time!

We went swimming with some of our friends yesterday. As you can see, we had a pretty good time!

L to R: Jessi, Kai, Elena, Blake

Friday, August 01, 2008

Summer Fun '08

Wheee! It's one of our favorite times of the year again...summer! Here are a bunch of snapshots from some of the fun things we've been doing.


We got this AWESOME go cart (ya know, with the big battery that we get to DRIVE) a few weeks ago...Mommy is teaching us much resourcefullness...she found it on the side of the road! (Mom must add that the previous owner helped us load it into the trunk and gave us the charger...awesome.)
We love to read together and Mom took this one of us reading one of my "My Little Pony" books together. Kai is showing his "strong elbows" here.


We spent a week in Wichita enjoying time with our cousins. It was really hot, but we spent one evening at the zoo...Grandma J and our aunts and uncles came too. (Me, Naomi, & Kai walking in).

Kai's favorite was the rhino exhibit! We even saw a baby one...it was still huge!


We posed on these lion statues with all our cousins! L to R: Elena, Annalise, Naomi, Stella & Kai.


Blueberry picking is an annual adventure around here...we were excited on the way!

Walking in with a few of our friends:


The Berry Patch even has this cool train thing we got to ride:

On the fourth of July we had a bunch of friends over to party! This was part of our parade down the block!


Sparklers with Daddy:

Admiring our new baby cousin, William (Will) Allen at the hospital with Aunt Chrissy:


Goofing off at a wedding:

Cutting a rug together at the wedding dance:


Our first lemonade stand! It was a hit and we made about $6!! That's our friend Caden who was one of our favorite customers.

And, of course, time with our best babysitter ever, Maddie Jones! She let us have a picnic lunch this day out under our tree.