Olivia's 1st Dance Recital

This Saturday, we had Olivia's 1st dance recital! Olivia takes "dance classes" through a company that comes to her school every Tuesday. They have a dance recital every year and it's optional but you have to at least buy a costume. I signed her up for the show in hopes that she'd wow us with her dancing skills.....I think it'll be a few years before those skills are known! Haha! For the last week we had been asking her to show us her dance and all she would do is point a toe....I had a feeling it wasn't going to be what I was hoping.

Her group had a time slot of 4-5pm. She went down early for a nap and we were out the door on time. Once we got to the auditorium, we had to buy our tickets (?!) and then I dropped Olivia off with the teachers. Duane and I grabbed our seats and the good ole Daddy set up the video camera. We watched 4 other groups of dancers "perform" and then it was Liv's group's turn. They all walked out holding hands and then she was instructed to stand on a taped "x." Duane and I waved and waved and waved but Liv never saw us - she was looking hard, though - her face had the cutest frown while she scanned the crowd searching for us. She took her "x" very seriously and did not move off of it the entire time. She kind of danced but mostly just looked around at the girls around her. During the last song, her tiara came off so she stood there and kept trying to fix it. I laughed so hard, I had a headache by the time it was all over. They brought everyone out at the end to do one last dance and it was funny again. We bought flowers for our little dancer and gave them to her at the end - she was pretty proud of herself.

Here they come!

Stand on the "x"

fixing her tiara

"oh no! where's my x?!"

"thank you, thank you!"

the group dance - she clapped at the right time here!

After her hard work, we met up with the Bowe's at a drive-in and all enjoyed burgers, fries and ice cream. It was a really fun way to end our night!

The weather on Sunday was absolutely beautiful! Duane and Olivia spent their morning outside and I stayed in and cleaned the house. We had lunch outside and then it was time for Liv's nap. Before she took a nap, she went to the bathroom. While I was getting ready to clean her up, I noticed a tick on her back. I can't handle ticks so I calmly told her to wait a minute, I ran outside and yelled for Duane to come in and get the tick off Liv. He walked in like it was no big deal, picked it off, and had enough sense to put it in a plastic baggie. (Meanwhile I'm standing in the kitchen gagging. I'm serious, I can't handle ticks!) Shortly after that, Liv ran outside to get something and accidentally slammed the patio door on her middle finger. Whoa - major tears! She finally settled down and took a long nap. Duane kept cleaning up the yard and I took a little time to lay in the sun. Surprisingly, 2 hours of this wimpy MN sun and my cheeks were pink! Well, either the sun is wimpy or I've lost my Indiana skin and have become wimpy....

We enjoyed dinner outside on the patio and then it was time to clean up and head to bed. Today it poured all day but the rest of the week is supposed to be sunny - tomorrow may be our first 80* day! Have a great week, everyone!