Update

 I took Ella to a trial class at the Little Gym.  She loved it!

1st haircut at a hair salon (not by us).  Emily was so scared, but ended up loving it.

 Memorial Day with their cousin Ava.

Ella's end of the year program.

 Emily's dance recital was June 4th.  She was in three dances this year.  She did a tap dance to Glee's "Express Yourself", jazz dance to "Freak-A-Zoid", and a very pretty ballet dance to a Miley Cyrus song.  She did SO good this year and was asked to join the Teenie Team dance team for next year.  We are going to the informational meeting about it this summer.

We have been very busy the months of May and June!  Whoo!  I'm hoping to get back to update now. 

Today is Emily's SIXth birthday!  I can't believe how much the years have flown by and I don't want to miss a second of it.  I hope to get better at updating the blog so I don't forget even the little things.

Easter Dresses

Emily's Girl Scout Troop had a fun Tea Party at the Botanical Gardens.  Since it was rainy and yucky on Easter day, I decided to dress them up in the Easter outfits to take some pictures that day.  It's such a beautiful place for pictures!

St. Louis Trip

The Magic House!

We went on a weekend trip to St. Louis a couple of weeks ago.  We got Emily out of school early on Friday, then headed to St. Louis.  We stopped at the Magic House once we got into town because they were open late.  Emily and Ella had a BLAST!  They hardly stopped to take pictures.  We went there last time we went to St. Louis, but Ella was less than a year old a couldn't do much there. 
Saturday morning we took the girls to the zoo.  It is one of my favorite zoos and they had a blast!  A highlight was seeing the elephant they are sponsoring as a Zoo Parent (gift Uncle Jeff gave them for Christmas).  Then, my mom and aunt picked me up and we went the Jessica's wedding shower (Jeff's fiancee).  I didn't take many pictures of the shower, but it was very lovely.  We took my Aunt Barbara around Forest Park area where we stopped at this area where hundreds of tulips were in bloom.
We met Jessica's family for dinner that night.  If you look closely at the picture above, you can see the arch.  We didn't go see the arch up close this time.  We did that last time and we were pressed for time.  We did have a wonderful time seeing Uncle Jeff.  He is moving to Boston this summer, so it is probably the last time we'll be there except for the wedding in Sept where I doubt we'll have time to do any tourist things.

Kennedy's Birthday

My SIL had her baby today at around 1pm.  Kennedy is adorable and looks just like her daddy.  This is the cake from the shower I helped host the end of Feb.  I am trying to get caught up on my blog and will hopefully download pictures of Kennedy this weekend.   Emily loved holding her cousin!

Gymbacks

100th Day of School

Dance and Cheer Clinics

Emily did a dance clinic with a local JH dance team and also a cheer clinic for the FHS a couple of months ago.  The actual performance at the games kept being postponed due to the snow, but she finally got to perform right around Valentine's Day.  She did a great job both times!  She really liked being out on the court dancing and cheering with her friends.