Lily's fist dance recital

Last week on Thursday and Saturday Lily had her first dance recital!  It went very well, and she had a great time.  I didn't get to watch, as there had to be a supervising adult attending the child in the dressing room, but Greg and Oliver watched on Thursday night and said it was a wonderful performance.  I will buy the DVD so I can see it.  We were very proud of her.  I expected a few nerves or even for her to want to back out, but there was nothing like that.  The dance organization does a really good job with the kids, and it has lifted her confidence even more.  The hardest part of the whole thing for me was doing her hair!  Those little buns were hard to get right!

Greg gave Lily some roses before her dance on Thursday, she felt so special! 

 Lily in her dance costume, minus her ballet slippers!  She was an owl for the show.

Lily with her brother, they are growing up fast! 

Spring in Scotland

Well, Spring has officially sprung, and here is Scotland that seems to mean that the weather can be either beautiful and warm, where you don't even need a jacket, or freezing to where you need all your winter gear back on.  Or some days you can have all the seasons in the space of two hours!  It takes some getting used to, and a bit of organizing to make sure you have the appropriate clothes on the kids before sending them off to school. 

Not too long ago the field across from our driveway was empty and we took walks around it, but now the farmer has moved in a flock of sheep.  This makes me ridiculously happy to look out the window and see the sheep in the morning!  They are big fat sheep, I am hoping they will have lambs for us to look at before long.

 This is a picture of our house with the daffodils in front of the windows.  It is a very nice place to live, and I am very happy to live out of town a bit for the space and character of the place.

 A close up of our daffodils.  They look so happy and spring like.  There are plots of daffodils and other flowers popping up all over the city, like little fairies went around and just decided that under this tree, and in the middle of that field… would be good spots for flowers.  They are in the most peculiar places sometimes, but it does put a smile on your face when you see them pop up with all their color.

 This morning we woke up to a very frosty and foggy morning.  Can you spy the sheep?  They were so still this morning trying to stay warm.  Hopefully we won't have too many more mornings like this.

Have a great springy week everyone!