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<\/a>She is a graceful little dancer and I love that she is so good at dance.\u00a0 And sweet thing, she thinks the recital is a complete singing and<\/em> dancing performance.\u00a0 I tried to tell her she doesn’t have<\/em> to sing, that it’s a DANCE recital, but she said, “No.\u00a0 We’re supposed to sing AND dance.”\u00a0 She sang at the top of her lungs the whole time, with a smile that could light up the room.<\/p>\nLK rocked her angel wings!\u00a0 Well, she rocked them for the first half of the dance.\u00a0 She was perfect and graceful.\u00a0 The second half, we may have had a few moments of…um…confusion.\u00a0 She never stopped smiling, and she kept right on going.\u00a0 As her mother, I was sweating a little, but they were priceless Lilly Katherine moments that will make me laugh for years to come.<\/p>\n Of course we all told her she did a fabulous job, and she really did.\u00a0 And if you ask her how she did (even after she has watched the video), she responds with an enthusiastic “Great!”\u00a0 At the age of 6, that’s what matters!<\/p>\n And now for the pics…<\/p>\n Before the recital, her daddy surprised her with flowers…Lilies, of course.<\/p>\n After the performance, I got a few pics of LK with her friends and fans.<\/p>\n Almost all of my maniacs.<\/p>\n Granddear and Nana<\/p>\n A group of beautiful kids from Africa performed, and this little girl asked to take her pic with Lilly Katherine.<\/p>\n This is LK’s friend Sara.\u00a0 They are the same age.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n Well, another recital behind us, and I hope I get to see my baby girl dance for many more years.\u00a0 Just as Brad is so thankful to share his love of all things sports with Preston, I am so thankful to share the love of dance with MY child!<\/p>\n This Psalm just makes me think of Lilly Katherine – her love of dancing, singing, and her heart for the Lord.\u00a0 I love you, beautiful dancing baby!<\/p>\n 1\u00a0<\/sup>Shout for joy to the Lord<\/span>, all the earth.<\/span><\/em> 4\u00a0<\/sup>Enter his gates with thanksgiving<\/span><\/em> .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lilly Katherine had a dance recital this past weekend.\u00a0 The theme was Remember When…and her dance was “Remember When…You were born,” with the song “Sent From Above.” It was the sweetest little dance with 20 precious angels on stage.\u00a0 My baby girl was absolutely beautiful…if I do say so myself. She is a graceful little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>She was THRILLED!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Our cute friend, Katelynn and LK<\/p>\n<\/a>Sweet Aunt Sugar (Anne) drove in to see LK.\u00a0 Plus she brought cookies!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>This is AnnaLeigh (with her new “cute smile” as she calls it) and her friend Ella (Sara’s sister).\u00a0 They are also the same age.<\/p>\n<\/a>These are some of our very good friends.\u00a0 We are with this family every week!\u00a0 After taking both pictures of the girls, I decided I wanted a FAMILY pic so we could see the height difference in our whole family (minus Georgia).\u00a0 Scott and Elicia are tall.\u00a0 We are short.\u00a0 Our kids all match exactly in terms of gender, age, and grade…not height!\u00a0 They are all a head taller than our not-so-tall crew.\u00a0 Too funny!<\/p>\n<\/a>Elicia and I decided we would take many more pics like this as our kids grow, so we can see how they change…and how the 4 adults stay the same, I’m sure. :)<\/p>\nPsalm 100<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
A psalm. For giving grateful praise.<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Worship the Lord<\/span> with gladness;<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>come before him with joyful songs.<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>Know that the Lord<\/span> is God.<\/span><\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is he who made us, and we are his[a<\/a>]<\/sup>;<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>and his courts with praise;<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>give thanks to him and praise his name.<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>For the Lord<\/span> is good and his love endures forever;<\/span><\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>his faithfulness continues through all generations.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n-kate<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n