Easter

This is the first year that I bought Easter dresses for the girls, they have been made or given to me by other people, but I was on my own this year.

For some reason it is hard to get Megan to smile in pictures all the time.
Megan was quick but grandpa was quicker.








I tried to take a single picture of Alyssa but she ran away crying so I just got Megan.
Here is a project I did, they are just plastic eggs covered with none other than cross stitching thread, I really liked how they turned out.

Dance Recital!!

After three months of practicing the day is finally here!! The first class that I tried to sign alyssa up for filled up within a few hours but the older class of 5-7 year olds had openings so I lied on the form and said her birthday was december 28 because she needed to be 5 by January 3 and she didn't turn 5 till january 11, but I'm really glad it worked out this way because she would have been the oldest in the younger class and the older class was a full hour so she got to dance more. Anyway, there will definatly be more dance classes to come but the first is always special.

If you want to see videos go to

http://gallery.me.com/williamjameshamblin/100043

And to see Megan dance go to

http://gallery.me.com/williamjameshamblin/100057

Practicing in front of our apartment

Of course Megan had to do it too!
Two super stars!!

She stood up there waving for the first few minutes until the music started and then it was all business from there.


She prefored two dances with a costume change inbetween, and she even let me do her hair which is a battle just to get it brushed.

Dance Class

Alyssa has been in a dance class and has really enjoyed it. It has been twice a week since January so the girls have gotten to know each other really well and the moms have too. Here is Alyssa showing of her mad dancing skills. My Aunt Lisa knitted the entire dress and it is so cute.

Megan was rather sad that she couldn't dance the first few times, but I would read books with her and try to make it fun.
For some reason whenever I ask Alyssa to smile for the camera, this is the pose she does.
Silly girls

Toothless!!!

Alyssa has had a loose tooth for over a month now and it finally came out!! She was sooo excited and proudly showed everyone at church. You can even see a new tooth growing in, she kept the tooth in her heart box and the tooth fairy came for a visit.

I made this headband and I love how it turned out because I really don't like those giant bows but unfortunatly the girls won't wear them for more than 2 minutes, oh well, that is enough to take a picture.

Zoo trip

I found out there was a free day at the zoo on Wednesday and since it was february I thought it wouldn't be too crowded, but I was wrong, There were tons of people but we had fun anyway. This is a classic Hogle zoo picture. Alyssa is the size of a female gorilla and megan is the size of an child, except for the arms.

They were yelling at the peacock to make his tail big, but he wouldn't listen.
This was the smallest gorilla so I told Megan that it was the baby and the lady next to me turns and says, "thats not the baby that's coco (or whatever its name was)." Seriously, I don't care what the monkeys name is and I don't care that it isn't a baby, and it doesn't make you cool to know the monkeys name it makes you crazy.
The train was closed because of the weather so we had to make due with a merry go round. (they are only called carousells if they have just horses, if they have lots of different animals they are merry go rounds-I thought that was interesting)

With all the different animals at the zoo, alyssa liked this cat best. Even after I told ther the snow lepord was the bad guy from kung foo panda
found out the giraffs have 25 lb hearts, the human heart doesn't even weigh one pound.

bowling

We've been getting cabin fever just sitting around the house because of the cold weather so we decided to go bowling for Martin Luther King Day. The kids love it and unfortunatly I'm terrible at it so it is rather embarrasing for me, but anything for the kids right?

They have little tripods shaped like dragons, the kids can put the ball on the dragons head and push it down its back and off its tail, the ball doesn't go very fast but Alyssa got a stirke and a few spares.
jumping for joy!
I think the tiny bowling shoes are cute.

projects

I have been feeling rather crafty lately and found this project online. It is called specimen art and it is just fancy stickers, but I really like it and it was fun to shop for the stickers.

I thought it would be fun to have a page for every holiday, so here is valentines day
I know christmas has come and gone but these were 80% off so it was worth the whole 60 cents.
Here is a notebook cover I made for Alyssa, she has decided that blue and white are her favorite colors she tells me "when I was a baby I liked pink, but now I'm a big girl and like blue and white."
There are pencil slots on one side and then a sticker pocket on the other side.

When i was taking pictures of my projects Alyssa wanted me to take a picture of her coloring page.
I realized that I made the dress she was wearing also, it is just a t-shirt with a skirt sewn on, but she likes it because it sparkles.