Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Magic of Disney

We surprised the princess with a weekend at Disney World. Her response when I told her we were going was priceless! She literally looked around the car as if to say "where's the camera?" or "is anyone else hearing this?" Needless to say she was NOT upset about missing ballet on Saturday!
Pluto was a little weird and kept going nose to nose with the princess.
She mastered chopsticks when we lunched at Nine Dragons in Epcot's world Showcase.
She was actually quite dangerous with them!
Sneaky too!!
She HAD to have a full Chinese ensemble to do pictures in China! LOL!
She is a precious little China doll!
Mulan was a definite hit!
As was Snow White...........although she did think she SOUNDED like Giselle!
How she has grown!! I took a picture in this same spot on her first visit to Disney when she was 2 and her head didn't even come up to the edge of the fence!
How cute is she??
My favorite Nemo character and my favorite princess!
Day two began with a wonderful character breakfast at the Disney Hilton. Those Mickey waffles were DELISH!!
Pluto is SO silly!!
Minnie's house was awesome BUT she definitely needs some AC installed!! Come on Mickey help her out!! We all KNOW you can afford it!
Mickey's house on the other hand was a MESS!! Now we know why Minnie wont marry him!
We took a spin on the teacups!
Met Pocahontas
Went to the Conservation Station and in general just had a blast!! We didn't get to stay long enough to do everything we wanted to but that's okay! There is always next time!! Olivia wanted to do Hollywood Studios and of course the "HELL" of Presidents!! LOL!! That's the Bush administration right??

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Final Parent Observation of the Year


She's a happy ballerina!
A sassy one too!
Miss Erin is always on the look out!!
Beginning the barre.

Well today was Olivia's LAST parent observation for the 08-09 ballet school year. We were both very excited since the girls VERY recently began on the barre!! Its a little sad also though since she is moving up from pre-ballet and going into intro to ballet with the "big girls." I am very proud to see how much she is learning and loving ballet BUT it's just another reminder that she is growing up SO very fast! I guess I am just having a mommy moment and feeling like she is going to be grown so soon and I'm JUST not ready for it quite yet.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Recital 2009

Here's Olivia! Ready to go to her recital!
Backstage just waiting to go on stage!
The star of the show! Well in MY opinion anyway!!
Olivia and a very proud Gangan!
Olivia and Miss Erin
Olivia and some of the girls!
The GRAND FINALE!!

Take a bow girls!

Easter with the Hooligans

Olivia made the potato salad with only a little help from me. : )

Trying to get a picture without the tongue in the gap left by the missing teeth is impossible!! LOL!

The "official" Easter portrait

Three amigos!
I'm not even going to tell you how many shots it took to get all of them looking at the camera AND smiling at the same time!

Ally has quite a haul!

Joe found another one!

Liv knows that speed is of the essence when hunting for eggs! Hurry baby before Ally and Joe find them all!

Easter princesses

Ally is a LITTLE intense about her egg hunt

The GOLDEN EGG!!

Joe is too busy eating eggs to worry about looking for the golden egg!

After much searching, and a few hints from Sam and Shanon, Olivia found the golden egg!!

Ally was a LITTLE upset even though she found it last year!

Taking inventory of her haul!