Snapshots from the past week

I am trying my hand at adding pictures into my blog. Here are a few snapshots from our past week or so.

This is Alyssa trying her hand at no training wheels with her Grandpa helping her out. She REALLY wanted to try it. I was surprised at how well she did. Since that picture (taken Memorial Day weekend) she went home and has really mastered riding her bike without training wheels. She totally amazed me with how quickly she's picked it up and how brave she's been about learning.

Here is Alyssa at her dance recital last Friday. She's been taking dance classes at Celebrate Dance Academy in North Heights Lutheran Church. I highly recommend it. It was a bit crazy with the rehearsal for the recital and then the recital but it was so well done and the look on Alyssa's face when she was finished with her song, it was pretty amazing. The look of pride and happiness was so cool. I happened to be looking through the video camera zoomed in on her face and got it all on tape.

Saturday we hung out at Lake Nokomis while Gregg played softball. We didn't bring swimsuits but all the kids were in the water before the day was over. This is a classic picture of Josh flinging sand on himself just as I was taking a picture. The next picture is of Alyssa & Matthew holding hands out as they walked out in the lake. Just to finish the lake story, I had extra clothes for Josh & Matt but not for Alyssa. Alyssa was going to go home with no clothes on and we were going to miss watching Gregg play a game because she was all wet - and she doesn't do wet. We were turning around to go home and happened to see a garage sale down the street. I thought, "what's the chance they would have clothes in Alyssa's size? We stopped, they did have clothes in her size and for $1.50 she got a swim suit and shirt, we ended up staying to watch Gregg play softball and it was fun to talk to Alyssa about how God supplied our need that day in a fun way.