Ballet Pictures

This Monday I start DANCE CAMP!
I am super duper excited, especially because my friend, Bella will be doing it too! I just bought new dance clothes that fit the guidelines: black leotard, black dance skirt, white leggings, and new ballet shoes. I AM SO READY TO START TODAY, but it doesn't start till monday :( I thought I would post about the basics of ballet: positions, proper atire, and just normal pictures of Anna and I :)

Peeking from the plants :)

Anna striking an 'attitude pose'

A Tripod+camera timer= self shots!

Anna in an adorable pose :)

You need to know the 5 basic positions (By the way, my friend Bella would know alot more about this then me, but ya'll are stuck with me. D-E-A-L)

FIRST POSITION


SECOND POSITION

THIRD POSITION

FOURTH POSITION

FIFTH POSITION

~Right now I am going to walk over to McDonalds and have a cool treat... then do 40 crunches, 60 leg ups, and Walk Away The Pounds to work it all off :) Ciao!

The Start of Summer Fun

This week has been busy, but very fun! Since it is thunderstorming right now, I am focusing on the happy sunny parts of the week :)Havin tons of fun at Pleasant Kingdom Playground

Squished Little Man

Swingin Up to the Sky! (I love her face)

Monkey Boy Ronnie

Anna+Ronnie= Best Friends!
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Ty with his little 'lawn mower'
Thats all for now, have to go make dinner: GLUTEN FREE PIZZA! If it turns out well, I'll post about it. If not... I'll still post about it :)

Nature Pictures

Today it was beautiful outside, so I took advantage of the weather to snap some shots of Ronnie and Anna. Here are some of the best:Anna and I had just finished 'dance class' and I had to take some pictures of her in her leotard! HOW CUTE! She has on her angelic smile, adorable!

I have a 'thing' for pictures with trees :o) Ronnie with his Blue Bear... he was leaning on a car by the way :) Without even trying, I made Ronnie blurry, but the background more focused... hmmm A hunk of log fell down into our yard a week or two ago and provided us with great picture seats!I love the brick! I needed a change of scenery (so to speak) from trees and leaves.

Well, those are the best; email me if you want to see the others... more pictures soon!

A Spot of Tea

Today we went over our friend Bella's house to have a fun afternoon of crafts, slot car racing, and dressup clothes. Our mothers got to talk while Meghan, Bella, and I made cards. I am telling you, card making is really fun and I made two cool cards: one in a standard card style and another flower style. You use scrap book paper and templates and the cards turn out super well!

Anna had her very first real tea party at her first playdate! She and Sophia played baby-dolls, doll house, ballet class, and of course princesses. Everything a little girl should do! Ronnie had a blast with his friend Dominic playing cars, legos, and watching Lego movies. My mom and Mrs. Porcari talked until it was time for the tea to begin! Everything was set up beautifully, from the teacups to the candles and centerpiece. They served delicious gluten free apple spice cake that was so yummy! Anna and Sophia were pleased to be included, and they even had their own namecards in a decorative way: This was the place setting: little mirrors with the name written using special marker. Lovely!

Even if my name is spelled wrong, it is still lovely!
When we made cards, we talked and observed the little girls playing and chattering. They were adorable when they were playing together!

Mrs. Porcari and Mum (Below)

Well, I need to go finish cleaning up dinner and the the Duggar's will be on at 8:00 PM! You all know how much we like the Duggars :)

More time spent with wonderful friends

Since Sara blogged about our wonderfully fun time with our friend Dani yesterday evening, I will blog about our time spent yesterday afternoon with our friends Michaela and Morgan.

Morgan and Michaela

It was so much fun! We took lots of pictures, laughed and teased a bunch and overall, had a swell time! As you can see by our laughing faces in the picture below. :)

Me, Michaela, Arianna and Morgs

Sara took the picture. :)

Tess taking a picture. :) She's so sweet!

Michaela and Morgan thinking and talking. "Awkwa-turtle!" :) (Inside joke) :)

Arianna and Tess (Michaela and Morgan's younger sisters) played so nicely with Anna!

Left to right: Tess, Anna and Arianna

We all hung out together and played Balderdash near the end of our visit. That was interesting and hilarious! :)

Michaela and Tess playing Balderdash-they were a team!

Our visits with all our friends never, ever seem long enough. :) Michaela and Morgan's younger brothers, Seth, Colton and Titus, played Legos with Ronnie-which he loved! Poor Ronnie usually plays Legos with one of his sisters. :( Playing with boys was a refreshing change. :)

Michaela and I spent some time by ourselves looking through her beautiful hopechest! I read her VERY FIRST short story that she wrote when she was ten. Apparently (humph!) she'd never shared it with me! :) We talked about how weird it seems to be thinking of when we're married living with our husbands. Randomness is a blessed quality in our friendship! :) I then pointed out how weird it'll be that for the majority of our lives we'd be married-and not with our moms and dads and siblings. She showed me her beautiful placemats she sewed, her (ahem, matching) crocheted pot holders, and some old pictures, among other things. She had some antique photos of her grandparents in there and I verbally pounced on them with a squeal saying, "OOhh! Old pictures! Is there any wedding ones?" :) It was really neat to see all her childhood mementos, treasures and gifts. When we were looking through some of her old letters to me that I had saved, I found some adorable 'doll letters.' When we (sniff sniff!) still played with our dolls, we had them write letters to one another. So, Michaela's (doll) daughter Jess would write letters to my (doll) daughter Samantha, and so on and so forth with the rest of our dolls. :) On more than a few envelopes it said, "Meghan, Maggie and Samantha Gorecki." Those were the days! :) Just a random thought, does getting older mean you get more reminiscent? Like I've seem to be doing. :)

We all had such a wonderful time! Mothers included! :)

I am so, so grateful for our friendship-it feels just like we're family. :) Love you guys!

Super fun before the Super Bowl

This sunday was very fun. After going to church with my cousin, Tina and my family, Meghan and I went out to lunch with our dear friends fir Dani's birthday: Dani, Lane, and Sarah C. Our purchases of food were examples of how differen from eachother we are:

Dani: Oriental chicken plate (two different types of chicken with rice)

Meghan: Subway lunch wrap

Sarah: soft Taco Bell burrito

Lane: Taco Bell Wacko Taco (Not really, but I like calling it that!)

Me: New Orleans Chicken with fried rice and a egg roll. Yummmm!

(Here we are at the food court!)

After chowing down on un-healthy goodness, we were off on our girly mall crawl. Dani's brother, Dillon, came with us (he had to go home with Dani) and we all had a good time. First stop (A little weird) was the American Greetings store to look at Valentine's Day stuff. Then we walked down to Macys and headed upstairs to try on dresses. Poor Dillon walked around and finally went down to Aeropostale to look around. After we tried on tons of dresses, we made out way down to Aeropostale to meet Dillon. That is one of my favorite stores! My favorite style of jacket is a hoodie, and I have four of them so Aeropostale is a great place to get hoodies on clearance! Then we made our way down to American Eagle, where everything was so expensive! I much prefer the clearance rack at Aero. Anyway, back to AE, after contemplating many purchases (and ending up buying nothing) we decided to make one last stop at Claires. By the way, my other love is hats so when I saw a purple rainbow fedora, I almost died! I tried one on, fit perfectly. However, it was $16, so I immedietly put it back. There were also purses and fingerless gloves (which I also love, don't ask why), earrings and notebooks galore. Before we could get any tempting offers, we walked back up to the food court where our final stop was Dairy Queen to get Ice Cream. Oh my goodness gracious, whenever you find yourself at a Dairy Queen, try a Chocolate Xtreme blizzard, it's to die for.

So all in all, it was super fun before the super bowl. I can't tell you how many Steeler jersies I saw people wearing! It was a bunch of fun and I hope we do it again soon. Happy Birthday Dani!

Be A Clown!

Well, the title says it all: Anna and I were clowns tonight. I was feeling kinda bored, and I knew we had some white face paint, so my mom said, "Go for it!" I put my hair in a crazy style, put white face paint on my entire face, and made a red nose and a puppet mouth using washable markers. Anna wanted face paint too, so I painted her face after putting her hair into three tootsie rolls (ponytails tucked under) and her bangs into a poof. Then came the costumes: my nightshirt and pants for her, and a guys Harvard t-shirt and baggy pants for me! It was soooo much fun and she loved it! It was very fun to shirk my jeune femme responsabilités and act like a clown...by the way, the above french statement means 'young lady responsibilities'.

This was Anna's costume and you can see mine if you scroll down to the last picture. She wanted to wear my fuzzy scarf, so she wrapped it around and off she went! She is so adorable, n'est-ce pas?

We played runaway horse (as you can see from the picture above), clown wars (don't ask), and even walked the tightrope!We had so much fun and she even sang a special song for me and mum at the end, (Lyrics below):

Little Heart, little Heart,

where have you been?

I love you so so very much

You are my bestest friend.

I love to play games with you

I love to giggle and sing too

Little Heart, Little Heart,

you're my awesome best friend.

(Copyright Anna L. Gorecki, Age 4)

How cute is that????? Here is our final picture of us right after we finished our 'concert'.

We are now watching the movie Madeline and muching on some peanuts and rice chex, so I have to go. But as Donald O' Connor said in Singin in the Rain, "Make em laugh, Make em Laugh, MAKE EM LAUGH!"