January started off with some early spring cleaning in the works. Deciding what stays and goes is getting easier and easier each time I have to do it. I can be such a pack rat, but I am finding with military and moving every few years, there are just some things you have to let go.
January was also the time to see the girls' progress in their dance classes, other than Elizabeth's ballet class we got to see the girls practice for a day.
3 weeks away now to recital time! I can't wait to get pictures of them in their costumes and for the break in dance classes four days a week! This will be the first time that John is not deployed during recital time! YEA! Help with one of the craziest days of the year!
Than I spent a couple of weeks in February and March making 6 smock aprons, with sleeves, for Jennifer's daycare, which was a little tricky at times....
Here is Lexie trying to model them for me.... LOL I am not sure what kind of fashion shoot she thought this was.... LOL
Easter this year... girls Easter egg hunting at the new church we are attending now. Our Chaplain retired in January from the military church we were attending, so we decided it was time to look for a new church.....
I have also decided this fall to head back to school and work on my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography.
Elizabeth who continues to bring home honor roll grades every nine weeks, made straight A's this last time and also won the spirit award this year. Her guidance counselor was so inspired by her attitude towards her future goals and things that she does, like her willingness to help others, after school extra curricular activities, doing Odyssey of the Mind, helping out with the KICK program at her school and her dancing, that she thought Elizabeth should get the spirit award for this year, which was out of all of the 5th graders at her school. They had a nice luncheon for all of Newport News school district. A child is selected from each school, from 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. They hold a very nice luncheon and the kids are presented with medals with their names inscribed on the back.
Well, I think that gets me all caught up. Just crossing my fingers that Anthony passes the SOL's and trying to teach him the importance of his grades these final 3 years of high school. He has goals, just needs to learn that sometimes you do have to work for them.
