Ballerina Buddies

Emily, Paige & Alyssa posing in their "Sleeping Beauty" ballet recital costumes. Their big performance is next week and the girls are getting very excited!


Gwenavere, Alex, Emily, Paige, Carrick & Alyssa posing in their costumes. "Princes and Princesses: Royalty"

Alyssa is very focused during her creative scarf dance...twasn't that long ago that I was doing the same scarf dance with the same teacher in the same dance studio...ohhh, fine - so it was SUPER long ago, but at least I can still remember it...for now at least. We are so proud of our 'lil ballerina.

1SG Evershed!

We are SO SOOO proud of Jay - he got "frocked" 1SG (First Sgt) on Thursday!!! He is now in charge of approximately 180 soldiers. It was a very nice ceremony, that of course brought a few tears to my eyes. Ashton helped me "pin" on his new rank during it (it's really Velcro now, but it's still called pinning). Of course, I'm the only one smiling - they all stay SOOO serious and he didn't even look at me during it! Not sure if I'll ever get the hang of all of these "Army wife" mannerisms and such...??? oh well. It was a great day and in true patriotic fashion I had both of the girls dressed in all red, white, and blue...probably another Army wife faux pas - again, oh well...

Unfortunately, the very next day at 'O dark thirty - Jason was out the door and gone to Fort Polk, Louisiana for training. Gotta love the Army...talk about a roller coaster of emotions: beaming pride, nervousness, happy tears, sad good-byes, crying kids missing their Daddy all in a 24 hour period - whew! Still, we are very proud of 1SG Evershed - Congrats!