trumpet, dancing and kites

Well its been a whirlwind week of the kids activities coming to an end. On Thursday we had Emma's band concert. Emma took up the trumpet towards the end of March. (same instrument I took in school!) . She's only been at it for 6 weeks with private lessons. She went from not being able to make a sound on the trumpet to being able to play jingle bells and learning 5 different notes. Its been fun having a trumpet in the house. I've picked it up a couple of times and brought down the house with TAPS! haha The concert had the newly formed 4th grade, 5th grade and 6th grade bands. It was amazing seeing the difference a year and make when we listened to the 5th grade band.

Saturday was our next finale . All year Katelyn has been practicing her dance moves at a local dance studio. She loves getting all dressed up in her leotard with her hair up and of course the ballet slippers and tap shoes. This weekend was her dance recital and she could finally wear those two costumes that have been hanging in her room for the past 3 months. All the grandparents came and she was so excited to perform for them. She did awesome. Its the first time she's been on stage and we couldn't be prouder. She knew it was her day and was beaming at all the attention. When we picked her up after the recital I caught a moment where she was surrounded by family and she was just looking up at everyone and smiling with excitement and pride that everyone was there for her. Thanks everyone for coming and sharing her special day. She wore her pink costume out to dinner with us at Red Lobster and asked if she could wear it to bed too!

The next day was a windy one, perfect for flying the new kites Grandma and Grandpa Hawley gave the girls this weekend. We went down to the new development where there is lots of room and no trees. We also ran into Katelyn's good friend Sydney who helped Katelyn fly her kite. Amazingly they were able to get the kites up and loved every minute of it. Katelyn of course was still wearing her pink dance costume!