Fun and Busy Weekend

Our busyness started on Thursday with recital rehearsals. Meyers's was Thursday and Emery's was Friday. The place where they hold the recital is like 30 minutes away so driving out there three days in a row was no fun. By Friday night, I was more than ready for a girls' dinner. 

Sidenote: God sure does work in crazy ways. The very first people I met when we moved to North Carolina was Paige and her family and her best friend, Liz. Liz is my friend, Lauren's, sister in law. And Liz doesn't live in NC, but HER friend, Paige does. It's pretty confusing, but it was so nice that first weekend to be with people that already felt familiar because they know somebody you know back home. Paige and I get together probably once a month and I am often on a group text with Liz and Lauren. So when Liz was coming in town this past week, she made sure we all got together. 

Liz didn't tell Paige I was coming with them to dinner. She just acted like they were casually coming by my house on the way to dinner, so that was fun. Liz had me pick a restaurant (Glenwood Grill), and I was happy that I picked a good place (it was on mine and John's list to go next) and that Paige had never been. When we sat down, our waitress brought us a bottle of wine and said it was from Lauren. And I started crying! I was blown away at how thoughtful she was to find out the restaurant we were going to and call and buy us a bottle of wine. I've got sweet friends and I miss them! Dinner was so fun and so yummy.

We took this picture for Lauren:)

me, Liz and Paige

On Saturday morning, we were up early for the recital. I signed up to be a backstage mom for Meyers's class. That was a lot more work, stress and difficult that I anticipated. They had two routines in the recital which meant a wardrobe change including costume, tights, shoes, bow, etc. They were really sweet, but we also needed to keep nine 5 and 6 year olds entertained between numbers with non messy activities. I brought pipe cleaners and beads for them to make bracelets with.

making bracelets

Right before Meyers's ballet routine to "Part of Your World" from the Little Mermaid. I hated to blur their pretty faces, but I don't know all of their moms well.

Right before their tap routine to "Sugar, Sugar". Our family has been singing and dancing to this song for a couple of months now. So fun!

Emery's creative movement (ballet) class danced to "Moving Day". I had never heard of it, but it's a really cute song.

I barely got pictures!  Emery sat with John for the first part of the recital, while Meyers and I were backstage. Emery and Meyers's classes performed almost back to back during the second part of the show and that was a whirlwind so that was a little crazy for me.

Do I look exhausted because I was after all of that? Ha! The girls did great and they had SO much fun "dancing at the big show" as Emery keeps saying.

Lunch after their "big show"

Emery took a pretty decent picture of us:)

Emery would not stop kissing Meyers at lunch:)

The girls (who don't nap anymore) and I took a 2+ hour nap after we got home! Then we hung out on our porch while John finished mulching. Since they napped so late, we stayed up late and watched the Little Mermaid with popcorn in the playroom. They think this is always super special:)

sweet girls

And a picture of our porch that we just finished decorating. We have LOVED this screened in porch (now that we have furniture) even more than we thought we would.

We went to church Sunday morning and then lunch. I wanted the girls to take a picture with me because they are wearing tops that were dresses that they've been wearing for 3 years. I get so excited about that! But E was super grumpy and didn't want to cooperate. So me and Meyers took one together.

Here are the girls at 3 years and 4 months wearing them:)