Rapunzel, Rapunzel-let down your long hair

We already have a fairly entrenched summer entertainment schedule. Monday: Gymnastics for Samantha and Tommy. Tuesday: Movie Morning, Friday: Splash park play date.

We decided to mix it up and add something else. Thursdays the library offers different shows and programs. This past Thursday they had the Great Arizona Puppet Theater performing Rapunzel. We have seen them in the past performing Cinderella so I was excited to go.

It starts at 10:00 but I knew you had to be there at 9:00 and then wait in line for an hour to be seated. Kind of a cruel way to start off a performance that kids should be quiet for-but oh well-it was actually fine.

The two oldest loved it. Eliza and I hung out in the back. I was glad we got to do something out of the ordinary.

Waterfall Trail

Two Saturday's ago it was actually a nice day (only got in the 80's). We got kind of crazy and decided to go on a hike as a family. The closest and easiest is the waterfall trail in the White Tank Mountains. I have been when there is actually a waterfall, though not this time. There was stagnant, disease-breeding water at the bottom but alas....no waterfall. It was an easy hike, only 1.8 miles round trip and paved at least half the way (and thus we could use the stroller). The kids enjoyed themselves. Ruffie enjoyed herself more.

Rocking Robin

I am way, way behind on posts. We've been doing a lot of stuff, but I'm not too terribly busy. I just wanted to post things chronologically and I could not figure out (even Tom couldn't do it) how to post Samantha's dance videos. We've done it before so I don't know what the problem is. Though he thinks it might be that they're cracking down on copyrighted music in video and there is the song "Rocking Robin" in the video. Just a theory, it may be that we lost all of our compute knowledge overnight. Sorry no video.

Anyway.

The first week of June was Samantha's 4th dance recital. She has gotten so much better in a year and knew most of the steps really well. I love to watch my little cutie dance and enjoy herself.

Something about this costume was really a hit with Samantha. You should have seen the way she pranced around the house in it. I think it was the feathers/sequins combo.

Daddy and Daughter. They did the dance again this time-so cute. Urgh-stupid videos.

Samantha got to take the class with one of her close friends, Emma. That made it extra special.