Emily's play

Yes...we have a future star on our hands. Thursday Emily and all the 2nd grade classes put on a play for all the school and another that evening for all the parents and families. It was adorable.

Now you would have thought we were watching a Broadway show, the way Emily fussed and talked NONSTOP for a week about it. And you would have thought she was the star of the show as you were watching.

I might have mentioned before...that Emily has this thing for music. Singing and dancing to music in fact. I really could not tell you where she gets it from. I mean, it's not like her Mom and Dad go to a lot of Concerts and always have music playing around the house. It's not like we dance around with Emily in our PJ's on a Saturday Morning. What? What's that your saying? We do dance? We do go to Sammy Hagar Concerts like we're Stalkers? Oh...ok then...where were we?

So the play was called Life Cycles. It's about how plant's and critters grow. And the classes were mixed up into groups of Butterflies, Snakes, Fish, Tadpoles, Farmers, Gardener's, Plants and forest animals, and people. And it was a musical, lots of singing. It was very precious.

Can you see her? She is the second row from the right, third person back. Just look for the huge smile and pig tails. It's dark because I was all the way in the back and had to zoom in and flash couldn't reach that far. Sorry.

Remember that part about Emily being the star of the show? Yea...she not only played her part of the Gardner, she played everyone else's parts too. She sang along with each part, danced the parts of each step...it was hilarious. Everyone was commenting how cute she was. And she was having so much fun. She was clueless to the 500 people sitting there watching her. She bounced around and sang her little heart out.

I would of had more pics and video to show, but the vibration of my cell phone going off and DH calling to tell me his truck died (2 months after we paid it off!) and he was waiting for a tow truck pretty much ruined the moment. It turned out to just be a dead battery, thank goodness! He missed the evening play. But we had taken time off work earlier and caught the 2pm play they did for the school kids too, so at least he did get to see it.

And can I please make a suggestion to parents out there. When you are attending a school function, or any function for that matter, and you want to record it for future matters, can you please kindly stand in the back with the other video recording parents and not sit in the seats in front of hundreds of other parents wanting to see their kids perform and hold a video camera straight in the air with both hands and record the WHOLE FREAKIN PLAY while zooming in and out and fussing about and blocking the whole stage viewing area??? Thank you to the several parents who blocked our line of view of our own children just so you could sit on your butts and lazily record your own with no consideration of others. My parents and I finally had to get up and stand on the side just so we could see thanks to you.

Thank you for letting me get that off my chest...

Have a great weekend!

XOXO

Happy Friday Quote...

*The Little Things*

It really is the little things

That mean the most of all...

The "let me help you with that" things

That may seem very small

The "I'll be glad to do it" things

That make your cares much lighter,

The "laugh with me, it's funny" things

That make your outlook brighter...

The "never mind the trouble" things,

The "yes, I understand,"

The interest and encouragement

In everything you've planned

It really is the little things,

The friendly word or smile,

That add such happiness to life

And make it more worth while.

~Mary Dawson Hughes

Spring Pictures...

Spring Time always brings with it School Pictures. The Spring Pics are way different then the Fall ones. The Fall ones are much more official and formal. It is the picture that goes in the yearbooks, that goes out in the Christmas cards, that goes on their student ID cards. The Spring ones are much more fun. You get to wear new spring clothes, and pick fun backgrounds.

Emily's pictures came home today. I somehow have a feeling her class had theirs taken at the end of the day due to her appearance. I hate school pictures for that reason. You have to pay an astronomical fee for a picture you have no idea how it's going to turn out and your stuck with it.

For the most part...I have been mostly happy with what has come home. Now this one...I'm not quite sure how I feel. Do you see her slouching? Her tired eyes? Her messy hair? Her cute little Capri's cut out of the picture. And what is up with that background?? THAT is the "Beach Theme" I picked?

Well, I at least have a token of their school age years to show them when they are older. That's really what it's all about, right?

P.S. Happy Birthday Melinda!

XOXO

Baseball...

We had another late night of baseball last night (thus the lack of a new post first thing this morning) plus I had to work in the snack bar most of the night. Our Yankees lost their game, but we were playing the #2 team so we knew it would be tough. We have two injured players out so that already hurt us. But we made many errors on the field that cost us dearly. The boys always do this. When they know they are playing a team they can't beat, they just play half hearted and heads down. Us parents try our best to rally them, but if they don't take their eyes out of the dirt, they can't play the game.

Snack bar duty ~ Have you had to do this yet? I like the opportunity it gives you to mingle and visit with the other players parents while in there, but it is so mundane. I always get the Soda and Snow Cone machine area. So i come home covered in syrup! ;o) And when it's 98 degrees outside, can you guess what the #1 item was we sold all night??? Yep - Snow Cones. Do you have any idea how many times I had to shave ice and pump syrup? LOL...

DH is the field dad - which means before each home game, he chalks the fields and makes sure the bases get put out and hoses the dirt down. When we are the visiting team, he has to stay late and put the bases away, rake the whole field and lock all the equipment up. So I get the snack duty. But let me see...this is the first year he's been field dad, and we've played baseball 8 years, times 2x snack bar duty a year, and he has never served in there...hmm...I think i'm getting the short end here! LOL ~ DH says I'm the socializer, so I get to do it.

Emily was completely happy last night because I let her get a snow cone. It was so hot - and she was so good sitting waiting for me while i worked. She worked the snow cone for an hour! Quietest hour ever! LOL

So Monday after practice, the coaches surprised the team with water balloons! It was Memorial Day, and they wanted to have a little fun for the players that came out to practice. 11 players, 3 coaches and 500 water balloons! Yep, 500!

So after the water fight was over, coach tells them their is a prize for the one who picks up the most balloon pieces! Let me just say...I have never seen so many pre-teen boys move so fast in my life! And guess who won???? Austin! He won $20!

I said to the coach - "Hey, If I knew money was on the line, I would have knocked the kids out of the way and picked them up myself!" :o)

So imagine my heart bursting with pride as Austin and I are walking back to the car afterwards and he says to me "Mom, can we bake Coach some cookies? After all, he did just give me $20 and he didn't have too."

Yes Austin...we will bake coach some cookies...

XOXO

It is time for...

This is the part where I may or may not tell on myself and the imperfections I may have so that you can see I am not nearly as perfect as I like to think I am. Please take the idea and share on your blog. We all love sharing in each other's guilt. :o)

*I absolutely cried my eyes out at the end of the movie, Marley and Me on Friday. But I wasn't the only one...

*I had the best time at a friends wedding on Saturday. It was a lovely day for an outside wedding and the location was perfect.

*I did envision my own wedding as I watched theirs and how differently I would have changed things.

*I did not secretly wish I could go through the buffet line again because the food was so delish that I still get goosebumps thinking about it.

*But I did thoroughly enjoy watching Emily out on the dance floor by herself getting her jiggy on and giggling at herself.

*At our family BBQ on Sunday, I just may have been a little excited over spending time with everyone and enjoying home cooked food from each.

*And the Strawberry Swirl Cake I brought was so Yummy, I did not have a devilish thought that no one else would take any so I could bring it home and finish it! ;o)

*The weather was so nice this weekend that I wished I was on vacation so I could enjoy more of it.

*I may or may not have felt a great deal of sadness when I realized we only have 6 Baseball games left of the season and then tournament week.

*And I was extremely happy when Emily asked to take swim lessons this summer as I have yet to get her in them because of her fears.

*I am excited about my 2 nephews staying three days with me this coming weekend, but I also may have felt a little worrisome about keeping 4 kids entertained and happy during that time.

*I really do miss our swimming pool from our first house and am wishing so much DH would let us put one in.

*I may or may not have taken a one hour nap Monday that was just what I needed to refresh me for the rest of the day.