Some more catching up!

Bob and I left all five kids with the amazing Auntie Meg for an overnight and headed off to my cousin, Christoper's wedding. It was easily one of the best weddings I have ever been to - the music was terrific, the dancing was constant, everyone was wonderful and I got to hang out with my Harding cousins! 

Sweetie Pie, Nora was the best flower girl.

Sam and Nora!

The Harding cousins waiting for the wedding to start.

Chris waiting for his big moment.

Fun with my cousins!

Uncle Chuck was a charming host!

Auntie LuAnn is putting a hard press on Bob to head out to Las Vegas this summer.

The love of my life!

My wonderful parents! They look so young!

Auntie LuAnn and her brother - so cute!

Auntie Peggy and Uncle Chuck looked wonderful!

The first dance!

Gary and Shannon

Patrick and Karla

Wendy and Joe

Michelle and Todd

My brother and I having a blast at the wedding.

I love this picture of all of us.

Trying to get a serious picture of my brother is useless!

Gary and Todd .......and Patrick

Auntie Peggy and my dad got the dancing started with some irish music.

Auntie Peggy and Uncle Chuck

My parents were at the "old" table so all of their friends left really early - it was just them and the cannolis!

The Harding cousins!

The wedding was so much fun and sleeping in a bit in the morning wasn't so bad either! Thank you, Auntie Meg for making it possible for us to have a great time and get some extra sleep!

GNM - ILY

I can't believe how long it has been since I updated this blog! Where is the time going? The kids have all been really sick with that awful cold/virus that has been going around so we made the decision to cancel the twins birthday party and cancel our big trip to Washington, DC. I have to admit that I LOVE being in Washington with Bob and the kids - we always have so much fun and find such awesome things to do. That being said - Molly and Peter have both missed so much school already that I didn't feel like we could responsibly pull them out of school for another full week. 

In September the twins started their very first dance classes. I'm sure all moms are like this (I hope) but there is this part of me that can not stop smiling when I watch them dance. We knew Ellie would love dance class but I was not sure how Lizzie would take to it - the little girls absolutely love dance calss. They smile, hold hands, laugh and dance their little hearts out. We had our first parent observation and Bob and I loved every second of it. Lizzie was so serious while Ellie kept looking over and laughing at us.

The veteran dancers watching their sisters - Molly was so affirming and loving with the littles - I loved hearing her with them.

I just love those sweet little dancing bodies.

Doing "across the floor" with Miss Meghan.

Turns out that Miss Elizabeth is a pretty graceful little monkey

Lizzie is just amazing - she keeps her head up straight and does exactly what they tell her to.

So much fun!

Putting their tap shoes on and getting to work.

I seriously think I could eat these little munchkins up - they are so sweet!

My camera ran out of batteries for Annie's class - big frown! So I went to get more before Molly's class. I'll catch Annie at her Christmas observation class.

Once again, I am sure every mom thinks this about her kid but Molly is simply amazing when it comes to her dance. Every time I see her dance I am shocked by what she has learned and how incredibly beautiful she dances. Her smile makes me want to get out and take dance lessons myself!

Molly is competing in Irish dance now so we got her a new pair of hard shoes (YIKES!) and her very first pair of gillies. One of the things I love about Griffith is that they believe in keeping it simple so the girls can just wear hand me down ballet slippers until they start competing - now that we are headed to a feis(and, yes, WE are headed there) we needed the shoes they require.

I love to watch this kid dance.

I'm posting some video of Molly dancing!

I love this one! 

GNM - ILY!