PattisBlessedFamily: Ellie's Dance Recital and Last Soccer Game

Saturday was a busy day for us. Ellie went from star soccer player in the morning to dancer by the afternoon! Her team had their last soccer game of the season and they played well. We are losing a few players from our team so we are sad about that but excited for another fun soccer season in the Fall. We have the end of year soccer party this week so we are looking forward to that as well! Also, last Saturday was Ellie's dance recital. I couldn't believe it when I realized this was her 5th dance recital. How can that be? I thoroughly remember her 1st recital in her red polka-dot "Minnie" costume and now she is wearing "big girl" costumes....sigh! This year she chose to take Tap/Jazz instead of Ballet. She ended up really liking it even though she likes ballet. The studio where she takes for now makes the Tap/Jazz class a little more laid back than the Tap/Ballet class so it ended up working out great! She did two dances....Stray Cats and Crocodile Rock. She had a green-black leapord-like costume complete with dance pants. She looked so grown up on stage and knew both dances very well! I love that she takes dance. I don't know that she will stick with it forever but I am going to enjoy it while it lasts because it is so fun to watch and I love what it teaches them! She was lucky enough to have her Grandma Stephanie at the recital and Grandpa Mike--this was the first recital he has been to since he just moved back to Omaha from AZ so she was excited that he would be there! Grandma Janet was still in Romania and Grandpa Joe has a hard time sitting through recitals so he stayed home this year. After getting flowers after the recital we met Grandpa Joe at Hectors for a nice dinner! Then we ended up at the snow-cone place which is our new favorite past time! All in all it was a fun day for Ellie and we are anxiously awaiting her 8th birthda (YIKES!!) coming up very soon!!!