She got her groove on!

I have the most beautiful niece, even when she's not dressed up and dancing. Lily had her Christmas recital on Tuesday night at Ridgmar Mall. When I told the kids we were going to go watch Lily dance Grace says "Mommy I can't wait to see her moves!" And boy did she have some. They were all adorable, but especially Lily. I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted because my camera was flippin' out on me but here's a few good ones. Enjoy...(and make sure you tap, tap, tap in your head as you watch the pics)

After, we went to Olive Garden for dinner. It was taking forever to get seated. They kept calling "..... party of two ..... party of two.....party of two...." After a while CJ says "I remember those days." But, what about us? Oh yeah, our two families are now a party of 8! (and soon to be 9!) WOW! How did that happen? As we were leaving I was walking toward the back of the group and as the kids held hands and skipped through the parking lot I thought to myself "wow, look at our clan!" It made me smile and gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Life is good. It's kind of weird to be able to step back and see reality from an outside perspective. To sort of take yourself out of the moment and not be so caught up in the middle of everything that you can't appreciate it. Things have certainly changed a lot in 10 years. 10 years from now they'll be even more different. I can't wait to see.