Dance Recital

 Yesterday morning Alice had her rehearsal for her dance recital.

 They looked great!

 In the evening we got her makeup on...

 ...and it was time for the real show!

 Backstage!

 A poorly lit picture of her audience...

 They did such a great job!

(Here is the video from the rehearsal!)

After the show!  We went to IHOP for a late dinner and then all slept in this morning!

The Jungle Book

 Back in March, we read The Jungle Book so we could go see the movie when it came out.  We've had so much going on lately that we just saw it Tuesday!

 Thursday we went to the Children's Garden, which is done in a Jungle Book theme right now.

 They had different characters from the book/movie like Kaa...

 ...Baloo...

 ...and King Louie.

 The Lost City

 They spent a while putting this elephant puzzle together--it looked easy until they took it apart!

 Finished!

 Making music!

When we were finished, we had sno cones and then went to the inside gardens--more pictures from there later!

 

It was a great day!

Be the Dinosaur

Yesterday we took a road trip for a couple of fun events.

 

We went to the Be the Dinosaur exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum.

 

There is information all around the room.

 

And there are some cool displays, too!

 

The more information you have, the better you'll do with the interactive exhibits where you are a dinosaur trying to stay alive--getting food and water and staying away from predators.

 

It was fun!

Birds of Prey

 This week a group came to 4H to talk about birds of prey.

 They had several different kinds of owls and hawks.

 Jack got to be part of the presentation!

 He had to put on the special glove and everything!

 And the hawk flew to him!  It was really cool!  

Click here to watch the video!

22 Years

 Did you know that the traditional gift for the 22nd anniversary is shelving?  Yesterday we celebrated by checking out the most recent house progress, like the pantry.

 Upstairs hall closet

 Jack's closet

 Alice's closet

 Our closet

 We also spent the evening shopping for furniture!

 I can't wait to see this in the kitchen!  We took pretty much no furniture from the old house, so there's still a lot to do, but it was fun to get started.

I'm looking forward to finally settling down after 22 years!  Happy anniversary!