Emily's Photo Opportunities

Over the course of the last few weeks, Emily has had many professional pictures taken for one reason or another. Thought I would share them.

This first picture is from casual picture day. For some reason, getting your picture taken in the fall at school is not enough these days. Now they have spring pictures taken too and they are allowed to bring in props. Emily's theme this year was her frogs. We tried to follow thru with her clothing too.

The next picture was from dance pictures. She is in her bridal costume for recital. This picture is a candid shot, we won't get the actual pictures back until recital day.Finally we have a picture that was actually not scheduled but we happened to be at the church when they were doing them. This was another fundraiser for Ted & Kim Treadway, our missionaries to Guatamala. They did a similar one back in July of last year when we had the old fashioned photos taken.

ENJOY!

Have a blessed day,

Hey Baby Let's Go to Vegas!!!

THE CHAPEL OF LOVE (Dixie Cups)

Spring is here

The sky is blue (whoa-whoa-whoa)

Birds all sing

As if they knew

Today's the day

We'll say I do

And we'll never be lonely anymore

Because we're

Goin' to the chapel and we're

Gonna get married

Goin' to the chapel and we're

Gonna get married

Gee, I really love you and we're

Gonna get married

Goin' to the chapel of love

Bells will ring

The sun will shine (whoa-whoa-whoa)

I'll be his and

He'll be mine

We'll love until

The end of time

And we'll never be lonely anymore

Because we're

Goin' to the chapel and we're

Gonna get married

Goin' to the chapel and we're

Gonna get married

Gee, I really love you and we're

Gonna get married

Goin' to the chapel of love

On Saturday, Emily and I went to Heyworth to pick up her costume for the dance recital. As you may have guessed, this year's theme is "Hey Baby Let's Go To Vegas". Emily's class will be dancing a tap routine to The Chapel of Love. Click here if you want to hear the song. Just click on the gray/black music player in the upper right hand corner of the page. Enjoy!!!!

Have a blessed day,

Emily's Dance Christmas Party

Unfortunately, Delmar and I neither one were able to be at the dance Christmas party this year but thanks to the blessings of a good friend like Jenny, Emily was able to go and we were able to see pictures of the great time they all had!

Emily & her bff, Lilly:

Emily's dance class and one of the teachers, Miss Sarah:

Have a blessed day,

Feelin' Like A Yo-Yo

In another blog that I frequent, the lady said that she feels like a yo-yo. One day she is up and the next she is down. While I pray that I never experience her type of yo-yo (her daughter drowned in a swimming accident last July-see "Life With Hannah and Lily" blog on the right), I can still relate to the up and down thing. Last night and this morning we are on a yo going up.

These next two days are ALL thing recital. Last night we practiced the hair. Emily sat perfectly still while I rolled her hair on these really cool spongy type rollers that look nothing like a roller at all. Thought I'd take a picture and show you:

Here is her hair "on rollers":

She started out sleeping on her tummy, saying the rollers hurt her head. But, by the time I went to bed she was comfortably laying on her back.

I thought this picture turned out cool. I didn't use a flash and it was actually completely dark when I downloaded it onto the computer. I went into my photo editing software and fixed the levels and contrast and came up with this....kinda cool I think!

As I usually do on the eve of important events, I had a dream. This one was about the hair. In this dream, we took the rollers out and her hair was still stick straight.

This morning she got up about 3o min. early wondering when we were going to see her curly hair. So here is the end result.

I sprayed it with hair spray 3 times and we shall see how it looks for dress rehearsal tonight. Tomorrow, I'll wait until we are just ready to leave to take it down and hopefully it will last for the two shows at 2 & 7 PM.

Also today, I must fix her costume. I have been procrastinating for over a week. All I have to do is tack the tassel to the costume in two spots. The way I've been putting it off, you would think I was having to make the whole silly costume!