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Well, busy as usual around the King household these days and its only just beginning with the summer months kicking into gear. The last month has been full of soccer practice, games, dance practice and another competition last weekend. Ohh and of course Mother's Day!! I had a great day with the family starting out with brunch at Rotary Gardens here in Janesville. We enjoyed an enormous spread of food and then were able to walk around the beautiful Gardens and take some great photos of the kids. I swear Grace gets more photogenic every year. She looked so beautiful today! I spent the rest of the afternoon getting my flowers planted while Dad re-dug our landscape blocks, lucky him!
On Saturday Grace and I took the day and went down to St. Charles IL for a competition by Midwest Stars. It was a real fun and relaxed competition. Before the awards they put on some music and let the kids dance on stage to Macarena and other such songs with incorporated dance moves, what a hoot to see they all up there just a groovin! Grace's group did really well and earned a gold award with a trophy for the team and individual ribbons. It was a long day waiting around for the awards. Afterwards Grace and I stopped at Gino's East for pizza on the way out of town and didn't arrive home till about 9:30pm.

This last Wednesday had her reconciliation for her first communion with Father Jim and she seemed to take it in stride. She had to answer a couple of questions to make sure she understood what she has been learning then Mom and Dad stepped out of the room for her to do her confession. She is so excited to have her first communion and will have the oppurtunity to do it along with a good friend and classmate!
This Saturday Mom and Grace attended High School Musical on stage at the Fireside Theatre in Ft. Atkinson thanks in part to Grandma Holly and Grandpa Jack, part of Grace's Christmas gift. It was a really nice Mommy Daughter night with dinner, shopping and the show. I have never seen Grace so wide eyed in my life!! She was so mesmerized by how close the actors were at the performance and was on the edge of her seat the whole time! The Fireside has a small intimate setting where the stage is in the middle of the theatre and there isn't a bad seat in the house. We were up in the balcony first row and it was perfect! Afterwards Grace got to meet some of the actors and got signed autographed photos!
So now going into summer we have a lot of fun times to look forward to including a camping trip with 4 other couple friends and 15 KIDS, yikes!! We are also getting a season pass to the Ft. Atkinson pool to enjoy this summers nice weather. Owen will start swimming lessons in June. Grace will have summer school and swimming lessons. Whew, it should be another summer to remember!!