A Princess and a Rockstar

My two little dancers did an amazing job at their recital - they always have so much fun and love performing!  

Up first, was Jillian - she did a cute little ballet dance to "Every Girl Can Be a Princess." She loved everything about this dance from the costume to the song to dancing with lots of her sweet friends!

How's that for a princess? 

Meredith took Jazz for the first time this year and got to do a Jazz number at the recital - she danced to "The Way That You Do" from one of her favorite shows, Austin and Ally! They had these cute costumes and sparkly mics!

Sisters!

After doing dress rehearsal in the morning, heading to Meredith's t-ball in the afternoon and then doing her dance, Jillian slept through almost all of the first act!

Proud mama and daddy with our girls

Daddy actually took part in 2 numbers this year!  First, the dads surprised everyone with a ballet number they learned - it was priceless and the girls thought it was awesome!

Then, of course, there was the Daddy Daughter dance!  This year's theme was Grease.  Neal and the girls did The Hand Jive song and dressed like they were at the Grease prom.  Aunt Sandy came to the rescue with these great custom dresses - purple and green, of course!

 The girls and their fan club!

 And, of course, the presidents of the fan club, too! 

Rainbow Luau

For Jillian's last day as a Rainbow, their class had a Luau!  She was so excited for her end of the year party!  

 She loved all the cute Hawaii stuff!

 Love that Limbo face!

Jillian was so excited about this ring toss game!  She got one on and was convinced that meant that she "won." She told EVERYONE we saw for weeks that she won the game (and then also told everyone that Landry won the Limbo).  I didn't have the heart to tell her that one on didn't actually make her win!

 Jillian and her friend Landry

Her two sweet teachers, Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Melear

Kindergarten awards and party

As cliche as it sounds, how did we already get to Kindergarten awards time?  How is this little girl ready to end her first year in big kid school? This has been an amazing year and her awards and end of the year party were just icing on the cake!

Waiting for the awards and posing with her buddy, Abby

Jillian took the waiting time as an opportunity to be silly with Daddy!

Can you tell this girl is proud to be recognized? She got to stand up as an AR reader, for her Reflections contest entry, and for participating in the Six Flags Reading challenge

Her teacher, Mrs. Hoelscher, announced each kindergartner and told what they want to be when they grow up.  Meredith wants to be a Hawaiian Hula girl because she loves to tell stories with her hands!

Shaking Mr. Day's hand - he even tried to do a Hula dance with her!

 Look at that happy girl!

Wow. Class of 2025!

 After the ceremony, it was time for fun at their party!  Each class had a fun activity set up - I only have pictures from the one that I was in charge of, but they had tons of fun doing them all!

Eating a powdered donut can be kind of challenging!

And a little messy, but oh-so-tasty!

 The kids also got in a little time at the park before it started to storm - we made it inside just in time and the kids loved spending the rest of their party time watching a movie!

WAM singers

To finish up the year of WAM (Worship and Missions) at church, the girls took part in a musical called The Three Friends.  I loved getting to hear about this musical week-to-week as Jillian tried to confirm the three friends names.  It would usually include her mumbling a couple "shacks" and then the third, most popular, "Aminuteago" (or you might know him as Abednego).  These musical also had them learning the 10 Commandments.  They have learned so much - in case you can't tell, we love our church!  

Unexplainably, the week before the performance, Jillian got really nervous and started crying and she had a tough time every time we went to church after.  We had lots of talks about not being upset that night - luckily the teachers were super sweet and facilitated the lineup so Jillian could hold her Sissy's hand when she got a little scared.

 Jillian takes "putting a bubble in your mouth" to keep from talking seriously!

 Sisters holding hands

 The Ten Commandments