Recital

The big day!  Ashley and Brian came down with their boys and Madi was so excited to dance on the big stage.  I’m so proud of her!  She did a great job.  She’s going to take a break from ballet this summer and do tumbling.  Then, next fall, I think I’m going to switch her to Clytie Adams for ballet.  It’s a lot closer and they do the Nutcracker every year!  Yay!  It’s by audition only, so I don’t know if Madi will get to dance in it or not, but it will just be fun to be part of a program that does it yearly!  She’s never been at a studio that does the Nutcracker.  Crazy if you ask me!  It’s tradition! :)

Make-up and hair done.  Ready to go!

All the Murray grandkids!  LOVE Andrew in this :)

Trying to get a picture of her in the car was impossible.  Haha!  All we got were silly faces. 

She starts on the back row, left.  Once she gets dancing she’s kind of right behind someone, but you can see her feet.  :) 

Dress Rehearsal

Madi’s recital this year was Sea Fantasy.  She was a sea horse and had such a cute little costume.  She did great!  Love my girl. 

Love her class all sitting there watching the big girls.  They can’t come out during the recital, so it was their only time to watch it.  Madi was really into it!

All done with her part!

68th Anniversary

Mike’s aunt put on a great party to celebrate Grandma and Grandpa Dickson’s 68th wedding anniversary.  68 years!!  So awesome.  It was great visiting with everyone we don’t see often, and the kids had fun playing. 

Max with his grandpa Max who he was named after.  I know I’ve said it before, but they also share a birthday.  Pretty neat!

Max enjoying his watermelon.  They had the best idea and put the wedges on popsicle sticks!  Basically watermelon popsicles.  My kids loved it. 

Back?

It’s been forever since I’ve posted.  It’s hard to get back into the swing of things, because I have so much to catch up on.  So maybe I’ll just cover the basics. 

We moved!  We bought a new house and we’re so happy here.  It really does feel like home. The kids are loving the neighborhood and it's fun to see them playing outside everyday with friends.  I even have to give them a bath every night because they're covered in dirt and filthy.  Which is nice because I know they're having lots of fun :).  Madi loves going in the fields and catching tiny frogs.  Those poor frogs...they should run for their lives!  Let's just say, Madi loves them to death.  Literally.  Haha! 

I had to get one of those tall orange flags for the back of Max's bike.  That kid gives me a heart attack on that thing!  He's like speedy gonzalez and he has a really hard time following the "stay out of the road" rule.  We'll keep working on it with him, but hopefully the flag will make him more visible.  And he's also learned how to ride without training wheels, so he's happy to think he's a BIG kid!

Madi loves her new school and is sad that Kindergarten will be over soon.  Then I remind her that’s because it will be SUMMER and then she’s excited!  I can’t believe she’ll be in first grade this fall.  She’s gonna be gone all day!  So sad.  I’m gonna miss her.  She’s just excited that she’ll have three recesses and get to eat lunch at school.  I’m glad that she’s so happy there. 

SIX YEARS OLD!

Brick oven and she got a lollipop sundae!

Madi got two birthday cakes!

EASTER

Madi’s looking sleepy :)

While my mom was here, Madi slept in Max’s room with him.  My mom went to check on them and this is how she found Madi, sound asleep.  SO funny!!

Kind of Easter Sunday pictures?  Mike and I were supposed to speak on Easter Sunday.  And…that Saturday Max started puking.  He was SO sick.  So I had to drop out and stay home with Max.  Which meant no Easter Sunday pictures all dressed up.  So this was a couple weeks later.  And I didn’t even know we’d be taking pictures or I would have actually done my hair and make-up.  Haha

We got grass!!  This was about 1/6 of the sod they brought.  We needed 12,000 sq feet of sod.  I about died when he told me that; that’s A LOT of grass!  Sheesh.

I didn’t take an after picture, but it’s looking really good!!  Hopefully Mike will be able to mow it this weekend. 

Max learning the 2-wheeler!  He did great and was so brave. 

This was so sweet.  After one of his wipe-outs Madi ran over and was comforting him.  I love how much my kids love each other :)

Well, there’s what we’ve been up to.  Mike is taking Max to the Jazz game tonight and then Madi to a Bee’s game tomorrow. They can’t wait for their night’s out with dad.  We’re excited for this summer!  Swimming, bbq’s, late nights playing outside.  It’ll be so nice.  Bring it on! 

Christmas

Christmas day was fun.  We got up, let the kids open their Santa stuff, and then headed to church.  It was nice having Christmas on a Sunday.  When we got home we did the presents under the tree and breakfast.  Later that afternoon Mike’s family came up and we had a yummy ham dinner and Grandma and Grandpa Murray spoiled us all with presents.  So good to be with family!

Talking on the walkie talkies.  It was funny trying to teach them how to use them.  All Madi would say for the first couple days was “Come in Max, Come in…”.  And he was so confused, “I’m in Madi!?”.  Hahaha

Max made this at school for us.  I LOVE it!

Max’s FAVORITE present.  His Sonic shirt!

Madi had been dying for some ear muffs.  She looks so cute walking into school with them on :)

Um, CHEESY.  Haha, but I was excited about my Toms! 

He’s doing the pose that Sonic is doing on his shirt.  Can you see it?  Even the crooked smile.  HAHA!! 

I don’t know why these are dark, but they were so excited for their gifts from Grandma and Grandpa Murray