Dance Recital Pics

Here is my prima ballerina in her final dance recital performance. She has decided to go into cheer instead. She has a better chance making the dance team later with no training, but I have learned with Ashley that to make cheer you must know how to tumble. So I am putting her in tumbling at Powerhouse with Ashley. Brooke loves to watch Ashley and she can't wait to be able to tumble too. I just hope she isn't as daring as I was growing up. I took gymnastics and wasn't afraid of anything. I ended up breaking me arm in 6 places and my collar bone trying new gymnastic moves that I watched on the olympics. After my broken arm I never could trust my arm again so I had to quit gymnastics. I also made the KitKat & Dandylion dance teams with no dance training at all.

Brooke was part of the clocks in the Beauty & The Beast Missy Crain dance recital. I just love her ballet costume. Don't you.

Here is her tap costume and ending pose. She loves to pose. You'll see in future pictures I post of her. I usually have to tell her not to pose so I can get a more natural picture. She danced to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".
Here is her jazz routine. She was a batt girl. She danced to "Swing Batter Batter Swing" which Ashley tells me is a High School Musical song. I wouldn't know I haven't seen it. Teen musicals aren't really my thing. I can watch movies like Cars, and Shrek, but not High School Musical. Ughhhh!!!! Does that make me a bad mom? I doubt it. Here is Ashley and Brooke before the reciatl. I found some really cool flowers with glitter on the tips of the roses at Brookshire's for Brooke. She loved them. I also let her pick out her dance prize kind of. I tricked her into thinking it was for Ashley's best friend Kaitlyn. She picked her out a ballerina bear backpack and a ballerina statue. Do you really think I would have bought Kaitlyn (age 14) a ballerina bear backpack? Thank goodness Brooke is only 7 and I can still trick her.
Here is a picture of Brooke & Jarrett being sweet for the moment.
Ashley's best friend is in the burgoney dance costume. Her goal in life is to be professional dancer. There are lots of weekends where they can't hang out b/c she is at a dacne workshop in dallas, tx. This is the Kaitlyn you'll hear me talk about. She is Mrs. Missy's niece, and she is an absolutley gorgeous dancer. I love to watch her. My brother Ryan came in town for Memorial Day weekend. We celebrated with him since he served in the Navy during the "War on Terror" war aboard the U.S.S Ronald Regan aircraft carrier. He got out of the military to get married and he is pretty much a homebody. He missed us a little. (P.S. His marriage didn't work out and that was for the best believe me.)
ASHLEY NEWS: VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!
She will be on the 10 o'clock KNOE channell 8 news Wednesday night.!!!!
Heather Parker (who is very supportive of Girl Scouts) interviewed several high school age Girl Scout about their views on several important subjects like: politics, teen druguse, teen suicide, etc. Ashley said Mrs. Parker was very impressed by Ashley's goals in life. Ash wants to go to school in Tennessee in Meterological Atmopsheric Science. She doesn't want to be a broadcast meterorologist she want to be the one that studies the weather and tells them what to say. You know when kids go to sleep with the TV on it is usually on cartoons. Well Ash has always watched the weather channel since she was 3 yrs old. She is afraid of the weather, but that doesn't stop her dreams. She's kind of dreading moving away from her family b/c the main place to work for is in Atlanta Georgia. I told her she'll change her mind in the future. Leaving home will be easier later. In case some you don't know her... She is the one in the pink shirt with long hair. She is getting it cut for locks of love tomarrow. I'll miss her long hair. I really like it, but in cheer when she does her back handspring she lands on her hair and it hurts really bad so she needs it shorter.



Here is Brooke getting her cookie award for selling around 800 boxes of cookies. She sold more, but we gave some to the other girl's to bump them up to the next prize catagory.
Well I better go for now. It is really hard to typr with a pounding headache. I seem to be getting one everyday, and the majority of them make me sick. I guess it's time for another trip to the doctor for my prescriptions refilled. He has me on a muscle relaxor & tension pill & pain pill when they are really bad. Somehow my prescriptions weren't even b/c I've been out of pain pills for a long while now and have been using the muscle relaxor and tesion pill for them. Well they have stopped working. He may have to switch to another one or up the dose. I just will try hard not to cry (B/c of the pain) when I go in his office, b/c the last time I did he said I was depressed. I was just in severe pain. Just imagine having a severe nauseation headache for about a month or more straight. It'll make you cry too. Well let me get off my pitty party and go surf the net.
Talk to you all later.

p.s. We loved First West Church this weekend. (For those that don't know me and the kids are church hunting.) Dropping off and picking up the kids was a little confusing and time consuming, but at least they have a system that keeps our kids safe.