Piano Duet

I had my first official piano recital this past weekend. I have 16 students (including 3 of my own kids) and it went very well! The theme was "Songs from the Movies" and I found a great Pirates of the Caribbean duet book for me and Ashley. We played "The Curse of the Black Pearl". Neither of us is brilliant on the piano, but we sure had a great time with this song! It's flipped on it's side because Melissa was filming with the camera turned, and while I can view it normally on my camera, I can't seem to get it upright for this post. Also, blogger won't allow more than 100MB video clips, so there is a lot of the song missing! This is all you get.

Goods from the Garden

This little one is growing, but not in my garden. Just had to throw in a cute picture of my Emily, now 5 months old.

This, however, is straight from the garden! We had a fantastic amount of enormous radishes. Melissa thought this was a tomato when she first saw it. Yummy! Excuse my very dirty hand. I had just finished pulling weeds.
Here's a small amount of our own home grown strawberries that Sara can't get enough of. We have picked about two cups of strawberries each day for the last week, and they just keep coming! They are so delicious!!! Sara is covered in chocolate from her chocolate milkshake we had with dinner tonight. She's still way cute.

Ashley's 5th Grade Concert

Ashley is three weeks away from being a middle schooler! That's crazy. Her entire 5th grade (which is 9 different classes, about 180 kids) had their end of the year choir/band concert this week. Jason was unable to go, so I had four girls with me and there was standing room only in the auditorium. I was standing next to the wall holding a baby and a camera, and did any young, healthy man offer me his seat? Nope. Chivalry is dead. So forgive the background noise (mostly Sara whining--a 3 year old should not have to stand in the aisle for two hours). Here is Ashley's duet.

And this is poor, tired Sara. Luckily she found a nice big spot of aisle to lay down in. No one offers a seat after seeing this? People have no hearts. I'll spare you all the video of the band. It is, after all, a 5th grade band, and I couldn't even see Ashley in the flute section, anyway. She did great, though!

Four Months Old

Finally a smile caught on camera, and she's covered in rice cereal!! I'll take what I can get. This picture was actually taken about two weeks ago. It's Emily's first taste of something solid, and as you can see, she loved it. She especially loved putting her hand in her mouth right after having a spoonful of cereal put in. I guess it was very fun to play with.