Piano Recital

Tonight was Kiley's first piano recital. She started taking lessons 9 months ago and is really enjoying it. Her teacher is great and she looks forward to her lessons. Mrs. Littauer hosted the recital in her condo on her grand piano, so it was a real treat. (I continue to get an error message whenever I upload video, so I only have the pictures now. Maybe later it will work).

Could it be true???

Today, was Ashlyn's first soccer practice! Could it be we may have an athlete in the family? Too soon to tell, but the fact that she has an interest in soccer is a good sign, right? Kiley has always wanted to have nothing to do with any type of ball, but Ashlyn has wanted to play soccer for a year or so now (although sometimes she calls the ball a football, well I guess technically she is right in all other countries)

She hopped around the field with a smile on her face the whole time. We've really taught her nothing about soccer, but she did a great job getting after the ball and even make 2 goals while they had a practice game.

Check out the smile in these pictures..she kept turning to us with a smile and high five....and what's with the Charlie Brown hop / dance???

My helper....

Ashlyn loves to help. Always asking to help me do something, wash dishes, make dinner, etc. This day she was watering the tomatoes, cucumber and zucchini for me and found a caterpillar. A caterpillar that borred a hole through my tomato! After a little while to enjoy him, I insisted it goes back outside. The next day it rained, and the caterpillar was in the jar outside, so it ended up being caterpillar soup! Opps! One of many reasons we don't have pets....poor guy!

Our Summer...

I can't believe it's almost over. We start back to school next week! We had a more relaxed summer than last. The only planned week was at VBS. Both girls had a great time. Other than that, we went to the pool some and the free movies each week. Ashlyn now can swim! Although she would prefer to stay in water where she can touch. She's not afraid, it's just a lot of work. The day she really started swimming well she was in 8ft. of water and she was worn out! Oh yeah...they also spent a week at my parents.

I think we are ready to start back, although I'm not sure the girls would admit it! Somehow I didn't take any pictures this summer...how did that happen?

It makes it easier to start back to school knowing our vacation is in September, so we have a break really soon! More later...I'll try and take more pictures!