Bailey Family

(even if they spend the first week fighting) We finished the school year with an impromptu family visit (since the original family visit was postponed/cancelled), our annual spring/summer recital, memorial day time with friends, and school awards.  Saba and Nonny came Saturday afternoon and we hung out and played Saturday afternoon/evening, and again Sunday afternoon, and they left when Rob had to go to Seminary Graduation Sunday evening. (He's in charge of that.) This was probably one of my favorite recitals. We decided to go patriotic and held it on Memorial Day. We started with solos (arranged by the kids from a lead sheet) of the songs representing the 5 branches of the armed services. Then, we did many other patriotic songs as duets. If you missed it (or loved it so much you want to see it again) - we have videos on YouTube ! Or watch them right here! (Those links are to the individual recordings put together in a playlist- I uploaded whiche...

Ahhh...we've finished extra curricular for the school year! We went last Thursday to dance class (last one - just for pictures) and to PTA (yep, the same night, of course, and overlapping in time too). The PTA we attended because they've started doing a film festival at the end of the year to award students with some of the best video projects in each subject. The twins were both nominated in a class project and Kaitlyn was also nominated for a small group project. Alee was bored to death the 30 minutes we were there and complained often because she wasn't going to be getting anything and it was close to bedtime. The class group project got a runner up (ribbons), and Kaitlyn's small group project won in its category. (She got this cheap little plastic trophy the everyone wants to win.) I wish we could have entered Natalie's butterfly video from last summer - it would definitely have won an award in a school video competition. Since we had to be dressed up for...