Uncle Dan's Beautiful Song

Dance, Dance, Dance

Our Little Lady's dance recital was at the begining of June. And what else can I say then that they did a wonderful job had a great time and looked adorible.

I have been trying to upload the videos for a couple days now and can't get it. So I will post them later! Sorry Susan.

My little tree!

First off I am way behind on this blog and will hopefuly be getting it up to date soon. But for right now I just wanted to post up the pictures I took last month of our little Tree.

This is last September

And below are the ones taken in the beginning of June!

Disney Train Tour

This week we went to see the Disney Train Tour that they are hosting around the country as a promo for The Christmas Carol movie they are making. It was free so of course we had to go. And just to make it extra fun we rode the FrontRunner (our local commuter train) up to Ogden for the event, and I have to say I loved riding on the train with my kids. We talked and looked around and I even got to read. What a better use of my hour then just pushing the gas pedal down.

The line was ridiculasly long but we ran into some friends and were able to take turns in line so it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. Once we were finaly inside the train I found out that it was far more interesting to me then the kids. However they did like making themselves into caracters from the movie but I think they would have liked it more if they could have been a girl.

Renaissance Festival

On May 16th I took advantage of Jon being gone for the weekend and took my girls to the Renaissance and Fantasy Festival for some good old fashioned 16th century fun.

The main attraction was the full contact jousting by the Knights of Mayhem. Full contact jousting with a dramatized set up for fun. We where assigned to be from Scotland and were routing for Sir Killem (note how well the name makes for chanting while he chargers toward the other night in an attempt to knock him to the ground KILL-EM KILL-EM!) It was more fun then I thought it would be. But my favorite was a loud mouth audience member who kept spouting off in a Scottish accent taunting the Irish. She was not part of the show but really should have been. The only let down was the tournament ending in a draw, but I guess if you want to watch someone really joust that has to include the possibility of no one winning.

The girls dancing with some local gypsies!

The fairies who kept sneaking up on us.Old fashioned puppet show

Magicians

And what could be more 16th century then a styrofoam sword battle?This is a local group that gets together to battle for fun, and believe it or not it actually did look fun. Not the Princesses leg in the air-that is because it was cut off already. Jocelyn's favorite part was watching the archers shoot the others with arrows (again styrofoam).

It was a great day and I am so glad that Jon saw the signs for it and called to tell me I should go. It was the perfect girls activity. And I even got to dress up for the day. They even gave me a good excuse to be such a geek. 50% off!!

THE almost MIDNIGHT MASQUERADE

Josie's Princess Party
I am not sure why but I can't seem to bring myself to host a strait from your local Disney store Princess Party. Tressa's turned into a Nights and Ladies jousting tournament and Josie's ended up being a dance. Neither of which ever had a single mention of a Disney Princess. Oh well, maybe with Aspen I will be able to conquer my phobia of all things pop-culture.

With that being said, Josie's party had to be the best children's party I have ever been to. Not because of my great party planning skills but simply because the kids made it so great. The played, laughed, screamed, and generally had a ball with absolutely no tears (at least not until their rides showed up to take them home). They listened and participated, they cheered for each other and never complained about anything. About half way through the night I was began to wonder if it was the calm before the storm, but it never came. Not to say that it wasn't crazy and chaotic-but it was happy and fun craziness, which is so much fun. So to all of our little princess guests and their wonderful parents who taught them to behave so splendidly. THANK YOU!

And one more huge Thank You to Krista who stopped by to say hi and stayed to help with , well everything. I really don't think it would have gone so well without her.

And finally some pictures of our

Almost Midnight Masquerade
All the little Princesses running out to meet each new arrival.

The beautiful corsages that one of the Mom's brought for each girl Wish I had thought of it myself. They were such a hit and looked absolutely darling on their little arms.

The girls dancing

Making the masks (which they didn't get to wear because the glue wouldn't dry in time).

Aspen's mask that had so much glue it didn't dry for a week! She loves glitter glue.

Presents and Cake

The Prince

Josie reading the cards her friends made her.

Little girls screaming over presents (be glad it is a picture and not a video)

Loving Aunt Krista in her beautiful mask.

(Which I still have if you want it Krista)

Jojo Turned 6 Today

It really is hard to believe how fast time passes at times. I think I still see all of my girls in my mind as they were when they were 2, which isn't so hard to believe since they are all stay so conveniently small. All the same though I couldn't help but become more then a bit nostalgic and pull out all of her old baby pictures and wonder at how big she has grown. Each day I wish she could stay small forever and at the same time want time to pass more quickly just so I can see what she will do in her next stages of her life. But since I can have neither, I am just grateful that I live when I do, it would be so sad not to be able to record her life with pictures and movies as she grows.

Jocelyn's Birthday Video