Best Day EVER (this week) #16

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Sunday is Father's Day . . . are you ready?   We kind of, sort of already gave our Father's Day presents to 2 of the 3 fathers we are planning on giving gifts to.  I'm HORRIBLE at keeping presents once I get them.  I swear it is a disease or something!  Once I have the present ready, I want to just GIVE IT to the person it is for.  I get soooo excited about seeing them happy!


So . . . my best day this week was when my sister and I made the Father's Day presents that I presented to my dad and my DH yesterday . . . since I couldn't wait.  Wanna see them?

This is the one for Jerry - he's going to take it to his office!

This is the one that we gave to Nunnu - I'm sure it will find a special place in his house soon!  

The kids had a blast making them and were REALLY excited to give them to the recipients, too!  There is something about giving a present that you really thought about and put a lot of love into that just makes the giving almost better than getting something yourself!


Hope you all have a fabulous Friday - and Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there!

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It's been a whirlwind week around here.  It felt like it was moving super slow and yet, I can't believe it's Friday!  Besides it being my birthday week, the best day, by far, was Sunday.  The three older girls had their dance recital.  They each danced beautifully in a way that totally captured their personalities.       

Livi got to dance twice because the first time around the little ones got hung up on one side of the stage and were all jumbled together and no one could see. 

 Ava was the little "big bad wolf" in one of her dances and I could tell she really enjoyed the fact that she got to howl at the end of the performance and she made me smile with her "Choo Choo Chaboogie" tap dance--even though her feet were a little slow, her hand motions where on point and she looked so cute up there (the shortest in her class). 

And I got a tear in my eye when I watched Jordan dance her ballet to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".  It's hard to believe that three years ago she was begging me for fairy lessons (that's what she called dance class back then.)  

I had a proud mommy moment at the end of the show when the studio stood on stage for the finale.  The senior dancers where introduced and the instructors where named on stage. Each year they choose one dancer from the studio who they feel showed a love for dance, and leadership and a special sparkle.  They call it the "star quality" award and it comes with a scholarship to the studio next year.  Jordan was the recipient this year--out of probably over 100 young ladies.  I am so incredibly proud and happy for her. She loves to dance and winning this award is such a boost to her spirit and confidence. I cannot wait to see where this takes her!

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