Riley's Recital

Riley ended her ballet and tap class with a recital on Saturday, May 11th.  The theme of the recital was "It's a Zoo in Here".  Riley's class was elephants.  Riley wasn't too excited about being an elephant until she got a peek of the costumes a couple of weeks ago.  Once she saw the sparkled leotard, she was sold.  She was definitely the cutest elephant I have ever seen. 

 

Riley completely enjoyed ballet this year.  She looked forward to class every Monday evening.  I thought for sure she would want to do it again next year.  Instead, she says she wants to try gymnastics next year and beauty pageants the year after that.  Ha!  One thing I will never be is a pageant mom.  Gymnastics I can support though.  At least she won't be expecting me to teach her how to do a cartwheel.

Kings Island Kick Off

We had another successful year at Jace's garage sale in New Bremen.  We made $870.  That is the most we ever made.  Didn't expect that considering the weather was rainy and cold.  I took the garage sale leftovers to Once Upon A Child and made another $90 there.  Since the majority of what we sell is the kids clothes and a few toys, I always try to do something for them with some of the money.  This year they wanted season passes to Kings Island again.  We didn't have passes last year but had them the year before.  The kids were excited to go back.

Kings Island opened on Saturday, April 27th.  That day was nice but we purposefully didn't go.  We figured opening day would be crowded.  Steve and Cole had to work yesterday (Saturday, May 4th).  The weather looked nice so the three younger kids and I headed down to Kings Island.

We arrived around 9:30 a.m.  We bought our season passes and were in the park right when they opened at 10:00 a.m.  The lines were really short for the first few hours.  We got a lot of rides in.  We took a break for lunch and rode some more.  Around 4:00, we headed for home.  The park was getting a lot more crowded and we were wore out.  Looking forward to many more fun days at Kings Island this year!

Franklin

Charlie Brown

Snoopy

Lucy