My journey to Charlotte

I was again informed that it had been a long time since I'd updated my blog. Well, then I better get to it. :-) Since we returned from Florida we experienced no real Spring and then I was wondering if we'd ever have Summer. Well what we have had is either rain/storms or severe heat. Not a great Summer. Charli had her first ever dance recital, has gone strawberry picking and spent time with her family and friends. Here are a few pictures to catch you up.

This is Charli over at Izzy and Maddie's house for their 5th birthday party.
Pre-recital photo out in the hallway.

Charli singing and dancing....

More ballet

the finale'

with me and her flowers...

The after recital attitude

On our way to the strawberry field

heading out to the patch with Papa

"Mama, look at this one."

"I can carry the box, mama."

Fourth of July. I always take some pix at my folks house as my mom usually has these gorgeous red geraniums.

I love her "salute" in this one

and tooling around in her mustang

She even is workin' her parade wave

out back again with a flag

"cheese"

Her friend Ava had a Princess Birthday party. Here's Ava, Charli , Snow White and Pocahontas.

Charli and the princesses

And then they played on the water slide

She loved it.

Izzy, Maddie, Tony and Dani came over for a visit and we went to the castle park as she called it.

she loves to swing.

Here are the three princesses in their castle, Izzy, Maddie and Charli


Being that we live in the St. Croix River Valley area, we are fortunate to see hot air balloons a lot. One night last week, we followed this one most of the way home. It was fun

And last weekend we had a Walker Family get together and Charli was really excited to see her cousins Emma and Jake. Unfortunately, I only got a pix of her with Jake. Gotta get one with Emma soon.

I have now got photos up to date. It actually feels pretty good. I can say that as much as I mean to keep this more current doing so just doesn't happen as often as I'd like. Being a single mom is pretty time consuming. But I do love it. I'll just get things posted when I can. :-) Hope you enjoy the rest of your summer, I know we're going to try to.