Ballet Awards

Emily recieved her 5th year ballet award and a pewter goblet. They get the goblet once they've been dancing there for 3 years and each year after. Emily has 3 plus I bought them each one a while back. That gives us a total of 5 goblets. Lol.

The class minus a couple of people who left before the picture was taken.

Emily is not the oldest in this picture. Not even close.

Girls Night

Eva's friend, Abigail, had a birthday last weekend. She invited a bunch of girls to go see the new Beauty and the Beast movie followed by dinner (pizza). They all had a great time and look pretty cute, too.

Discovery Bash

The company David works for is a major supporter of the Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy. They had a fundraiser gala Saturday night that we went to with some of his coworkers. It was a nice night and we had a good time. It's always nice to get dressed up and go out every now and then.

They had one of those dress up photo booths. In the top picture, I didn't realize it was about to take the photo, hence my stare...

Artsonia

The girls' school is an IB school, as I've mentioned before. Their school has a performing arts foundation. Each grade through 5th grade has one pull-out class with rotates every 6 weeks. It rotates between Spanish, PE, music, performing arts, computers and art. Once they get to 6th grade, they start a block schedule where one semester they take one class and change in the next semester.

Eva is in 7th grade, and has a block schedule like the high school. The first half of this year she took art, and this half she is taking music. During art class, they did a number of drawings, learning a specific style or whatever the teacher was teaching at that time. Her teacher puts all of their work on a website controlled by the parent or guardian (me).  The website is www.artsonia.com. You can see Eva's work at this link.

Her latest drawing was supposed to support a cause. You can see that she chose abandoned animals.

I love this drawing, but she didn't sign it! She definitely got better over the semester, and I love her teacher. She was a favorite among the students.

Softball Begins!

Softball officially started with their first tournament of the season. They had 4 games Saturday and 2 on Sunday.

  Cleats and softballs. (Eva's are orange.)

 The team! 

They lost their first 2 pool games (used for ranking for the bracket games), but came back and won their first 2 bracket games.  They brought in a new pitcher this season, who has worked out great. In their 2nd bracket game, with only 5 minutes left to play, she stole home and ended up breaking both bones in one of her legs, right at the ankle. Needless to say, she's out for a while. The rest of the team finished that game with a win, but lost the next game, leaving them with 3rd place in the tournament. This is much improvement over last year win only one win all season.

Saturday was a gorgeous day, but Sunday brought unusually cold weather. It was in the 40s to start and windy!

 Cold!

 Team (minus one pitcher) showing the plaque and their bling!

 Goofy pic!

Showing her bling!

Eva had a good tournament - good at-bats and a great pop-up catch in center in their last game. Next tournament set for April.

David and I had a night out with some friends this weekend. We started with dinner at Sukho Thai in the Marigny - delicious. We followed up with drinks at the Sarerac Bar, which is in the Roosevelt Hotel.

 Kristin and me in the Roosevelt.

After drinks, we headed across the street to the Orpheum Theater to see Southern Soul Assembly. The Orpheum is awesome, and we had great seats.

Drinks at the Sazerac.

 They had to have a shirt.

 Waiting for the band. Awesome seats.

 Show's over

 The show was awesome. The members are JJ Grey, Anders Osborne, Luther Dickinson, and Marc Broussard. It's an acoustic show where they take turns playing one of their songs and the rest back that person up. The other two in last picture are 2 other musicians that came out in the middle of the show. I was in the bathroom when they were introduced, so I don't know who they are. Lol.

Mardi Gras Mambo 10k

David and I ran the Mardi Gras Mambo 10k in Baton Rouge Saturday. It was a nice run through Baton Rouge, which was different for us. It was warm for this time of year, so the run was a little rough, plus there is an overpass we had to run over in the beginning and end of the race.

This is another race, like the Crescent City Classic, that puts the race on streets that are too small for the amount of people they allow to enter. I doubt I'll run this one again, just like I don't run the Classic any longer for that reason.

We did get a nice medal at the end, though.

 Before

After

Shrek Jr. The Musical

This is the only picture I got of Emily. She was one of the Duloc people in Shrek. Because she was the tallest, she was in the back and very hard to see. I knew where her spot was from working backstage that week, so I knew where to look, otherwise, I'd have never seen her.

Fall

While running last Monday, at the very, very end of my run, I fell. Hard. On my knee. The top picture is right after it happened (after I cleaned the blood off) and the bottom picture is 3 days later. Don't let the bottom picture fool you, it was still nasty and painful. In fact, it's now a week later and only looks a little better and still hurts like crazy. 

Catch-Up

I know I've neglected the blog for some time now, but life's been a little crazy. This is a summary of what's gone on since October (my last post).

Halloween - Eva was the Queen of Hearts, Eva was the Snow Queen, David was Goose and I was Maverick from Top Gun.

Volleyball ended and softball took over until Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving in Colorado. So many pictures to choose from; these are just a few:

 

Emily was a Party Girl in the Traveling Nutcracker, which did 7 performances in 2 days. She loved it, and got out of school for a day.

Christmas piano recital

Fulton Street with family to shop, hang out, drink hot chocolate in Santa's boots, listen to Benny Grunch and the Bunch.

Christmas with lots of family visiting. We all went to Christmas in the Oaks this year.

 Emily turned 10 in January! Skate party!

Winter formal for Eva. So grown up!

Art Gala - they each had a number of pieces, this is the only picture I took. 

That pretty much sums up the last 4 months.

Softball has started back. Eva went to a college softball camp last month for a weekend, tried out for an older team but will stay with her current team thru the summer for more play time. She has to move up in the fall, and the team she tried out for wants her to practice with them whenever she can, and they will take her in the fall when she has to move up.

This Friday Emily will be in her school's performance of Shrek Jr. She is one of the Duloc people. I'll take pictures and post them after the weekend.

On Saturday, David and I are running the Mardi Gras Mambo 10k in Baton Rouge. I'll do my best to get a picture of that, but no promises.

:)