Baseball, Ballerinas, & Buck

I'm a little stressed out, y'all. We've got a lot going on - even w/o considering the super secret thing I still can't talk about for two more weeks, the silence of which is utterly torturing me on its own!!! May schedules have become INSANE. Somehow, baseball, dance, each child's end-of-year school programs & parties, Junior League, & Zumba are all suddenly overlapping, and JB has to travel away on business for a chunk of it = argh! Example: Annelise had her Dance Picture Day on Friday ♥, but I almost missed picking Will up off the bus, b/c I had to get her dressed at the dance studio right after school; then I almost missed her pics trying to fly back there after I had Will, all before teaching Zumba. The rest of May until the 24th (when school, dance, & baseball all end) is no different. Trying to keep breathing deeply and not lose my mind... :-P

Focusing on the GOOD STUFF! :-D

Coach Jamie had the boys run together holding hands for teamwork Thursday night at baseball practice - here's to L.C. Dixie Brewer's Baseball being tighter than ever! :-)

Candid at Annelise's Dance Picture Day Friday! After TWO YEARS now of missing out on her recitals b/c of us moving, I am so excited she's finally getting to be in one, again!!! It's a *BIG* deal to her and me. :-) Her actual recital is Wednesday night, the 23rd.

Drum roll, please: I PICKED THE KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER!!!!! JB can confirm!!!!! [Seriously: why don't I *actually* bet on these?! My track record is stellar!!!] Cookies to celebrate, right? ;-)

I made AWESOME homemade chicken hot pockets for dinner:

I did get to Gelish my toes (much faster than hands: you can cure all 5 toes at the same time, unlike having to do 4 fingers, 4 fingers, 2 thumbs; and you can go back & forth b/t feet - polishing one while the other cures, so half is always under the light.) I Frenched my toes for the very first time! I wasn't sure if I'd have the dexterity to get my foot close enough & be able to freehand my white lines nicely enough, but I'm pretty pleased with my initial attempt...(and extra glad that it won't look dingy in just a few days!)

OK - so this last one isn't "good news", but Annelise's view of it is: our family's beagle patriarch, Buck, has gone to Heaven, [one of my mom & Hershel's 2 dogs.] Annelise keeps saying, "I'm a little sad for us & LaLa & Grandaddo, but now he can hear, again, and his legs all work, and he's an angel, right?" Exactly, Baby Doll. ♥
Thank you for watching over her from the start, Buckster. :') Now go frolic in a field with Jesus!

[Buck & 8-month-old Sis, December 2006]