O.K. so you'll actually be looking at the photos in backwards order. This is right after her performance. The beautiful flowers are from Nana and Pawpaw.
Gidgi with her girls!
Isn't she beautiful!
On the phone with Nana and Pawpaw!
Tink and Emma!
I love this one! Daddy getting her off the stage after the performance and giving her the flowers.
It's been a while since I've posted. A lot has been happening and I hope to soon be able to catch everyone up on everything. But for now these are the only new pics that I have and they are actually Dee Dee's pics from her girls' birthday parties this past weekend. Thanks Dee Dee! We have a new computer and DH still has a few things to show me...including how to download pics and where to save them. Oh, and we're networking with our old computer (I sound like I know what I'm talking about don't I! Yeah right!) so that's tricky in itself. 
Tink has been begging to get her ears pierced for months now. DH and I decided before she was born that we would not get her ears pierced while she was a baby. We would wait until she asked and until we thought she was old enough to be responsible for helping to take care of her ears. Well she's ready...or so we thought!
After her Veritas graduastion we went to the mall since Daddy and Gidgi were both with us. I knew they both wanted to be there. Tink was excited. She picked out little pink flowers for her earrings. Then she got nervous. We had to talk her down, get her calmer, and we were able to get one ear pierced. After that she didn't want any more to do with it. No way was she getting another ear done. Since we couldn't back out now Jeremy and I had to hold her down while the entire mall heard her get her second ear pierced. It was HORRIBLE!
Notice this happy shot was taken moments after the second ear was pierced. It wasn't that it hurt...it was just the thought...the emotions. We said right then....we're getting Princess' done NOW! No more waiting...no more drama. Princess was great. She didn't know what was going on and the only time she cried was when we held her hands away from her ears. She wanted to feel what was going on.
This is her before the ears were pierced.
This is her right after. No real drama here. DH and I were both glad to have both of the girls done. No more piercings for this family. After an hour and a half in Claire's Man-Man is too scared to do anything that stupid!
Jill
These are pictures of two of Tink's end of the school year performances. In this first few she is performing in her musical at her friday school, Friday's at Veritas. It's a one day a week enrichment school for homeschoolers. She loves it and it kind of gives her the best of both worlds. She's homeschooled by me but is able to participate in choir, art, science projects, recess, etc. while at Veritas.
This is Josie, one of Tink's good friends from dance and Veritas. Her brother, Stephen, is in Tink's Veritas class.
This is Mrs. Blaha, Tink's Veritas teacher. She has been so wonderful this year. She even made each child a beautiful book with copies of pictures she took of the kids throughout the year.
This is Stephen, Josie's brother. He and Tink have been great friends this year and they live right around the corner. We've been getting together at the park to let the kids play.
This is at a performance put on by one of the Veritas moms where the kids were able to recite a Bible verse and sing a solo on stage in front of a crowd. Of course my child was so excited about this. She was the youngest child up there and she was brilliant....of course!! I was so proud.
Daddy and Man-Man watching Sissy.
No nerves here! She couldn't wait for her turn in the program!!
These are the kids involved in the Scripture reading program.
Here she is saying her Bible verse. It was actually 4 Bible verses...see if you could do this at age 5...
"D" and Nana came to visit us a couple of weeks ago. The kids were so excited because it had been a while since they had both been able to visit. Of course they were spoiled rotten the whole visit. We had just gotten through some very bad weather the day before...our power had been out for most of the day and other parts of Jackson had severe tornado damage....long story. I'll put pics up of all that later. So anyway, the weather was bad so we couldn't play outside. "D" and Nana didn't mind though. They were just ready to see those babies. I'm so glad they were able to come visit. It's hard not living close to family. Mom's only here part of the week and she's the only family we have close by. So we treasure the moments we get to spend with our family!!
With soccer ending it's time for t-ball to start up. Man-Man is playing his first sport this Spring. He thinks it's so cool that we're coming to see him play ball instead of Tink. This was her first organized sport also. He really loves it. And doesn't he look cute in his uniform!!?? They're the "Green Giants".
Spring also brought one of our final field trips with our homeschool group. We took a tour of our fire station and the kids learned all about fire safety. The best part, of course, was sitting in the fire truck.
There are many end of the year events taking place and as soon as I get some more pics downloaded I'll post them. That's it for now. Love you all!