Dance Recital

January brought Olivia's 3rd recital, and the first this year. She lives for these days full of primping and makeup and treats. She has already started asking when she gets to wear mascara again...is she a girl or what?

Recital days are pretty busy, with a dress rehearsal in the morning, home for lunch and back for the recital in the afternoon. The kids love waiting backstage, because Moms are all too willing to give them treats and movies and crafts...whatever they want to keep them clean and happy!

As with last year, the dress rehearsal was full of staring around with a blank look on their faces. I figure if you have five 4-year-olds on the stage, they are going to look cute no matter what, so I just pull out the camera, snap away, and don't worry about it.

Between the rehearsal and the actual recital, we went home for lunch.  We also had a mini photo shoot. I'm always amazed by this girl and her gorgeous face. It's almost good that she won't smile sweetly, because the pictures turn out beautiful anyway.

This time, O was dancing to 'My Favorite Things' from The Sound of Music. One of my favorite movies of all time, and the music is amazing. The whole show was Broadway themes, it was great!

After the show pictures turned out a little goofy. By the end of the show, we had one infant who was hungry, two VERY poopy kids, and a little dancer who was tired, hungry, and not feeling the photos :). We made it through with only a few tears, got the diapers changed in the car (thanks Amber!) and made it to dinner. That being said, my camera had the flash turned off, so I tried to edit the pics but they turned out goofy colored.

After the recital, we went to the Village to try some of the permanent food trucks. I think The Village has the best collection of restaurants of any place I've been. We have tried about half of them, and not been disappointed yet. Walking in, we happened to see a huge truck with a special license plate! He was so cute about posing, I don't think he had any idea what it said :).

Some fun pictures from the rest of Mary and Gary's visit. The kids were into getting swaddled and cradled just like Kenzie. Naturally this turned into Grandpa holding Olivia holding Carter holding Kenzie :).

Carter LOVES carrots. I just never want to forget the 5 day span when he always had to be carrying around a couple baby carrots and would slowly eat them throughout the day. He also ate about half a pound of carrots one day when I wasn't paying attention...silly kid!

One night everyone worked together to give me the night off when Alex was working! It was so nice of Mary and Gary to not only make dinner, but also accept the 'help' that is so overabundent in our house :)

We try to do an outing every time we have visitors in town. This time we checked out the Boise Aquarium! It was really fun, and the kids are getting so much more adventurous! They still wouldn't feed the fish, but Carter touched a sting ray, and Olivia...was grumpy the entire time :)

We know it's time to go when the belly button makes an appearance :)

We had a great visit, and can't wait for the next one!