Lijee Rocks!

After about a year of lessons, Lijee had his very first guitar recital!

 Mr. Joseph and Eli are talking shop before things got underway.

 He nailed it!

He played Aura Lee (same tune as Elvis' Love Me Tender) and Cockels and Mussels.

 He makes me proud! By the looks of his face he was not as impressed as I was.

Adventure 56 With DanFam5 (Minus One)

Serving does the heart good. Serving hand-in-hand with your people does the heart even more good. This year our church decided to give the fifth and sixth their very own adventure camp in place of Kids Kamp. DanFam5 (Minus One) jumped on the opportunity to attend and serve. Since every other school in Ft. Worth was out by June 4th and 5th, Daisy got to skip school to attend, which is why the little brother did not get to come with us.

Abe Daniels was needed for facilities/security. He looked very professional with his ear piece. Almost secret service-like.

There were a lot of 5th and 6th grade kiddos here.

 I found our Daisy in the mass of kids.

 We also found our Zekers. It's self-less serving when your face is all red and sweaty but you're still smiling.

 This guy was hanging out by where I was manning the water jugs. He called out to tell me hi. Bittersweet because it reminded me of Steve's Paco and Pedro.

 Zeke was hard at work...

most of the time.

 The Daiser was playing a game.

She wasn't too busy to take a time out with her Daddy.

Small group time for Daisy.

DanFam5 (Minus One)

 My favorite girl.

 There was a chalkboard car to write on. Here's some true love for ya.

Russian Olaf

Our church has the best music department around. Our children's music ministry has been such a blessing to our family. The orchestra performed Around The World With Disney and Daisy and I both got to perform special parts.

MusicPraise got to sing a medley with the orchestra.

 Daisy auditioned for a special Russian dance.

 Not only did they dance with a live orchestra, but there were adult 'sailors' who danced with them.

I was able to cross something off my bucket list that I didn't even know was on my bucket list: I got to be Olaf.

Olaf danced to a song on stage and then took photos.

 I haven't ever really desired to be a character, but I love costumes so it was fun!

These two were Olaf's favorites!

Of course Olaf posed with his buddies Anna and Elsa.

Daddy wouldn't miss his girls performing.

Under The Sea Is The Life For Me

Daisy loves manta rays and adventures.

 So I got her the perfect birthday gift--snorkeling with the rays at SeaQuest.

Diving in...

to 10!

 Getting pumped for our snorkel.

 See how many of these there are, all swimming right up to the edge of the glass? They were like that in the water. The instructor said they were like puppies, and they were. Very much like the dogs at our dinner table, trying to grab everything that Eli drops.

 Wasting time before our instructor arrived.

 You know, just hanging out, holding a scorpion. No biggy.

 Here is Daisy being silly. During the snorkel, she was silly, but not on purpose. She was a little scared to breath underwater, which I get. It is a little scary the first time you do it. Once a horseshoe crab swam right between her legs and it freaked her out. 

 We couldn't get pictures in the water, so here is our boat picture after.