Happy 5th Birthday Halle!

5 going on 20! Please don't be in such a hurry to grow up!!! But other than that - keep it all up... you've got a great life ahead of you. Happy Birthday Sweetheart.

Thank you for a very Happy Birthday!!

Wow! I am feeling the L-O-V-E.

My kids trying so hard all day not to argue.

An awesome swim party with 12 friends and our 48 kids (see... I'm not the only crazy one).

100+ texts/emails/facebook messages/happy birthdays sung to my voicemail. Every single one of them made me smile!

The totally raw "dessert" I was craving delivered to my door by very thoughtful friends. I'll link to the recipe soon.

Grandparent babysitters

XMEN + a great dinner with my hubby

And these very... what's the word... "bright" shoes from Jared. Do you think I can pull them off? I'm still trying to decide :)

Thanks for a great birthday!!

More Video...

DANCE RECITAL:

A friend from church put together the best run dance program we have been a part of. And she did it out of her house! My girls learned more this year from Ms. Heidi than the three years of dance we've done before combined! I loved this recital she did at our church because it was short, I was invested in every dance because each group had girls I loved in them, and the dances were longer and so polished. And it turned out to be a good thing that scheduling conflicts put Taylor and Halle in a dance class together so look for both of them in the videos.

Ballet: Colors of the Wind





Tap: Everlasting Love



TALENT SHOW:

Every morning before school, my kids wanted to listen to "Seize the Day" from Newsies. I guess it got them into their day - ha ha! It turned into wanting to do something with it for the talent show and so we put together this with a group of Colby's friends. It is never easy to get in front of 1200 peers and perform and we were super proud of all these boys!

Introducing our Caboose...