Last weekend Cora, Olivia, and I traveled down to Santa Cruz for cousin Dana's 3rd birthday party in Santa Cruz. Cora had been especially excited to attend Dana's party and both girls were in "birthday" mode, talking about birthdays, parties, and presents, singing and acting out birthday activities, etc. We spent the night at Aunt CC & Dave's house, something especially exciting for the girls as well. They were both awake unusually early on Saturday morning and couldn't go back to sleep because they were so excited about sleeping over and the upcoming party! Cora helped take Luka for a walk with Aunt CC and we all had time to go the park before the party. The party was fun with lots of crafts to do, and we all enjoyed ourselves immensely. After the party, we headed off to Roseville to Grandma Sandy and Grandpa Tim's house, where Uncle Lance & Aunt Barbara joined us for dinner. We had an enjoyable Sunday relaxing (me) and playing (Cora & Olivia) with Grandma & Grandpa.
On May 21st, a Sunday, at 5 pm Cora will have her first ballet recital. The theme is "Into the Garden" or something like that, and Cora's class will be sunbeams. The performance is at the Paradise Performing Arts Center. If anyone is interested in attending, please let me know. We have to purchase tickets for anyone attending and if we want to be able to sit together we need to purchase the tickets by March 18th. We can probably still get tickets later if needed, but they will start assigning seats on March 18th. There will be a DVD of the performance available, so if you can't make it, but want to see it we'll have something to show you.