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Dance Recital

May 16, 2018

Samantha’s recital was at last a week ago Friday and she was just as excited as could be! Susan and GJ went on up to save seats while I got her all ready in her costume, a bit of hairspray, and a little blush and lipgloss too! I think she was most excited about the hairspray and blush! 🙂

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Taking a bow!

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Showing off her makeup to GJ…

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We took a few pictures on the stage before the show and she was the eating up all the attention!

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She did not like it when her brothers were trying to steal her spotlight! ha!

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It was so fun to be dressed up with our dance buddies!

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The performance was adorable. The other class was the rain and Samantha’s class was the sun. After they danced separately they then did a little bit together as a rainbow! too cute!

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Samantha’s wasn’t nervous on the stage at all and did great following directions and lining up where she was supposed to be! She was adorable!!

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I’m not sure who loved it all more – me or her!

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We were all so proud of our sunshine!!

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Can’t wait for the big stage next year!

My little sunshine

May 15, 2018

Oh, happy day! Samantha had her very first dance recital last week and it was just perfect! I took dance as a little girl and always loved the recitals, the costumes, the makeup and all of it. I have dreamed of doing it with my own little girl someday and the day did not disappoint!!

The class got their costumes several weeks ago and looked so cute trying them all on…

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They were supposed to be the sun and they were very bright and happy!

They then also took their official pictures several weeks ago. My smiley sunshine was ready to go that day!!

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Let’s just say she NAILED her photo!!

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Aaaah!! It does not get any cuter than that. Nope, it does not.

Here’s her whole class with Smiley Samantha Sunshine in the back!

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Recital pics to come…yay!

Spectators

May 9, 2018

Of course, I have to recognize the very best spectators of the baseball season! Spencer and Samantha were troopers going to all of Maxwell’s games and, often, practices too. Maxwell was a good helper at all of Spencer’s games.

They were there in good weather…

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and bad!

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Thankfully they had some friends to play with at many of the games.

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Spencer loved to go “climb the mountain” at Maxwell’s games and did that just about every week. He rarely actually watched Maxwell’s game! Samantha wanted to climb the mountain as well but after I had to go get her off the mountain once, I told her you had to be 5 years old to climb the mountain from now on! ha! After that she tended to hang with me in the stands and play with any toys that she brought.

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Of course, I think they mostly liked going to Maxwell’s games because they knew they’d get an Icee! Whatever it takes!

As crazy as it was, I’m going to miss these days at the ball park this summer!

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Pretty sure they’re just going to miss the Icees! 🙂

Go Red Sox!

May 8, 2018

Not only did Maxwell have a great baseball season, but Spencer had a great t-ball season as well! He loved it and would get so excited for every practice and every game. He’s a good hitter off that T and has an excellent arm! T-ball is awesome – everyone wins! Can’t beat that! Again, I took my camera to two of the games and got some fun photos…

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Spencer had a bad habit of throwing the bat after he hit and this time it just about hit Maxwell in the head! See it flying towards unsuspecting Maxwell back there? ha!

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High five from sister!

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What a cute group of kids!

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Of course, everyone gets a trophy! Yay!

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Go Spencey and Go Red Sox!

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See you tomorrow!

Go Pirates!

May 7, 2018

What a FUN baseball season we had this year! The Pirates might not have been on the winning side too often but I wouldn’t trade anything about this season. Maxwell improved leaps and bounds and truly became a ball player. He went from striking out all the time to being the 4th batter in the lineup! From playing outfield every game to playing first base! Most importantly, he LOVED it. He couldn’t wait to get to practice, was (and still is!) constantly asking to go hit and throw on days when there was no practice, and was always the first to arrive for games ready to get warmed up to play. He was dedicated and committed! I loved going to watch him play and was usually the loudest mom in the stands – I just can’t help it!

I also have to commend Robert too – he was a huge help to the team and pretty much had himself an assistant coach job by the end of the season! He was always willing to take Maxwell to hit and throw and that made the biggest difference in Maxwell’s improvement.

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