A Glimpse

So I went to efy this last week, if you haven't figured it out by now. There will DEFINITELY be more coming, but for now I wanted to post this funny video of the guys in my company playing a song for us on my "dad" Archie's ukulele! It was pretty funny! I love you my brothers and cousins!

My First Summer Job!

I'm so excited! I have a summer babysitting job!!!!! It's two boys...I'll ask them what they want their code names to be tomorrow when I go back. But tonight, I went up to get to know them, and they are the sweetest, nicest, funniest boys ever. So sweet! I can't wait to get started with them! Tell you how it goes!

Piano Recital...Piano Recital...Piano Recital...Piano Recital!

So yesterday was my Spring Piano recital. My teacher and I had a two piano duet (I don't know if you remember me talking about it), and we performed it for one of my SSA concerts during the school year. It died. That's all I'll say. So now we were more than ready to perform it, and I actually performed at all her recitals at Piano Gallery! I got praise (while also being put on the spot with my sob story, and give an example to the other students about making and learning from mistakes) from both parents and employees (who were slightly curious about why I had been there for four and a half hours, and also wanted to sell me stuff...), and got a new Lord of the Rings piano book (the third one to finish my collection). Tons and tons of fun!

Pretties!

Last Sunday, I started doing nails with the girls. That's all it took to get Emily and Rachel going on each other...and on Ben and Daniel. They asked Stephen to let them do his nails to, but he OBVIOUSLY said no. Same with Michael. He's a little boy, unlike Ben and Daniel who are daddies, and we don't want to emotionally scar him. But, it was a fun little activity!

Girls's Night Out!

After we took the pictures, all the (adult) girls went for a night out. We went to eat at Applebee's, and got really yummy frozen yogurt at a place called Red Mango. After that, they decided to go to Target to let me be their project. They knew how badly I needed clothes, and how much I hate clothes shopping with my mom. After an hour of trying on everything they had exuberantly found for me, we came home with two full bags of new clothes for me! WHOO!

Family Pics

With ten kids running around, and nine parents/grandparents/great-grandparents hanging about, it's been pretty crazy around here. But it's also been lots of fun, especially since this will probably be the first time that all the ten cousins have been together. It's so fun to be around them, realizing how close they're getting. And of course, it's been pretty fun to be with Stephen and Laura Beth. Last Saturday, we all took the opportunity of our all being here to take family pictures. They aren't ready for us yet, but Dad took a couple of me and Mom.

It's Official!

Okay, well...it's...been official. Dan and Steph have moved in, Grandma visited and Stephen and Laura came from Ohio. They're going to come back soon, but for now, I need to make some updates on what we've been doing!