Mothers' Day and Dance Performance

We had a great weekend with Grandma and Grandpa! They got to see M3's dance performance (pics below); we ate, we biked...thanks for so much fun, G2! Here is a Mother's Day pic:
I am having some problems loading the videos from the kids' concerts, so here are some pictures from M3's dance performance. The piece was choreographed by a college student who was studying community dance, and it was called "Woven Stories."
M3 is making a very Markish mouth in this last pic!! Weird to think there is a gene for that sort of thing!

Spring Concerts

This makes me laugh. M4 is in the blue vest.



(I posted this before, but Blogger has been having some "issues" I think. ARgh!)

Party!!

So we let M3 have a big party this year. After all, she was 11 on the 11th in 2011. I was trying to think of something fun to do, and painting pottery just didn't seem like it. So I asked my fellow yogi, Jenny, owner of Studio Z and Zink Photography, if she could do a photo shoot with M and some of her friends. We took over the studio; I hauled a bunch of dress-up clothes there; the girls brought some of their own; pizza was consumed; we cranked the tunes (no Bieber, thank you very much); and it was a hit!! It was really a fun night!! The girls had a blast, and they got out their ya-yas before we headed back home for a slumber party.

These aren't Jenny's pics; just some I snapped throughout the evening. I can't wait to see Jenny's!! M4 was there early in the evening for a few pics...a tiger in a bomber jacket...go figure:

There was dancing:

And Mark worked his usual magic in the cake department:

I took a few videos, too. I'll try to get some posted.

Talent in the family

I always look forward to summer laziness...and then summer always ends up being busy! Mostly because we take time to visit people or they take time to visit us. And that is the best kind of busy-ness, but it doesn't lend itself to spending time on the computer (not such a bad thing, in my case!!). So herewith, I will take a few days to try to get up-to-date with some of our summer highlights.

Up first, our first trip to Music in the Park all summer was to see cousin Aaron play!! How cool is that? He played acoustic guitar in a an Irish (Scottish?) music trio. It was possibly the first rain-free, truly beautiful Thursday night we've had, so it was extra special to be able to sit with Gina and Mitch and listen to Aaron. The kids had fun running amok with their friends, and then we all went to La Cabana for dinner. We rode the bikes home after dark trying not to get fireflies in our teeth.
Sadly, I didn't get a picture of Aaron playing because he was behind the music stand. I didn't want to make him nervous by stalking around the gazebo trying to get a good shot!

Ring around the rosy!
M4's hair's a-flyin'!!

International Student Cultural Evening

The official show:



The unofficial show: