didgeridoo

Today we met a man who plays the didgeridoo. I was able to try it out. I didn'ty-doo very well.

Here he is playing it for us.

The Start to our "Freedom" weekend

On Saturday, 3 July, we started out on an adventure. We went to the airport here in town and had a pancake breakfast sponsored by the Austin Morning Lions. We met some friends there. We had pancakes, sausage, spam (remember we live in Spamtown USA), juice, & milk. Then we were able to go out and see the airplanes.

This is our group at the "fly-in" breakfast.

After breakfast, the children had to prepare for a performance. Brett & a friend went to a movie, and I took the children to the dance studio to do a run through of their dances (they haven't dance these since the end of May). After the run through, we went to the bandshell for the performance.

Emily tapping.

You will come "to this conclusion." Emily is really a ham up on stage. She is a lot of fun to watch.

Emily being a carriage - she danced to "Love & Marriage."

Eli & his partner getting ready to start. He danced to "Let's Hear if for the Boy," and he had to be a "bad-boy."

money on the mind

I think this is called a K-kick.

begging

The End!

Claire's class (only about 1/4 of the dancers were there).

My pretty posing princess.

We're off to see the Wizard

We started off our freedom celebration by having a dance performance on Friday, July 2. The three younger children were in a dance production of "The Wizard of Oz." They had a two week dance camp, and then at the end of the camp, they had a performance. It was about thirty minutes long, and it was fun to watch.

Claire was a mini-munchkin.

Emily was a munchkin and one of the emerald city people.

Eli was the wizard.

The children all did a great job. It was a ton of fun to watch. It was also fun to have friends come and watch. After the performance, we had some friends come over (they will be moving out of state soon - so it was the last time to see them before they go). We grilled and had pork ribs for dinner, however, the highlight of our time together Friday evening was roasting (and eating) the giant marshmallows. First we did s'mores and then Brett & our friend stuffed candy in the giant marshmallows, roasted them, and ate them. (Just a note - these marshmallows are = to 4 large mallows).

Our friend's giant s'more, and the first candy roasted mallow.

Our friends eating the treasures.

Brett eating his candy mallow.

Me & my giant s'more.

This was a great start to a fabulous week end. Thanks friends for playing with us.