Ballet, Berries, & Jenn's Baby!

It has been a busy couple of weeks!  Cortney has started ballet, which is adorable to watch.  We have been picking berries and finding delicious ones at a growers market.  And we went to visit Jenn and Spencer with their new baby Aniston!

First Ballet!
First Day of Ballet!  Cortney was the youngest of all the girls, half of which had already had a class, so between that and her being so excited, lets just say she was a little wiggly, but she looked darling!  There are also some pictures of the second class as well.  Right now she is in a 6 week program for the summer, still deciding whether or not to put her in it for the school year too.  She did do much better listening in the second class!

There is a little lounge we can sit in to watch the girls do ballet it is Disney themed - it even has a little castle thing the girls loved playing in!  Also without knowing it 3 people from our ward signed up for the same class - kind of fun to have all the girls in there together.  Cortney is at the bottom of the picture showing me a book.

Here are some of the fun things they get to do! (This is the view I have when I watch her!)

First they sit and stretch on this parachute

She has a great teacher, Miss Melissa, who is very good with the girls!  The older girl in the pictures is her daughter Anna.

She looks a little bored in this one, but the class in the in morning, I think she was just a little tired still.

Then they get to play!

This is one of those times Cort had a hard time listening, luckily the next class was much better!

She is doing better in this picture though - still learning how to point her toes out!

They also do this thing where they pretend they sleep, then they wake up and dance around, it is cute to watch them all lay down and pretend to sleep!

At the end they do this little course the teacher sets up - this is Cortneys favorite part.  They call it the princess dance, and they play Ariel music with it, so she loves it!  Again - props to the teacher, she is so good!

Cortney was so tired after the first day she feel asleep right in the middle of lunch!  In case you are wondering what is on her plate it is a quesadilla, made with a green wrap tortilla.

Pictures from ballet class #2
Cortney is on the very far side, which is why it is hard to see her in this one.

Berries!  The other day we went blueberry picking!  Fun and yummy!

Caught in the act!  (PS - the little boy is Blake, and the girl behind her is Audrey - She is in Corts ballet class, they have become fast friends!

We picked about 14 cups of blueberries!  So yummy - I put the apple in to give you a sense of scale:

We also went to a growers market where I found the most amazing strawberries I have ever eaten!  They are completely juicy and sweet - almost no tart at all.  They are red all the way through instead of white like the ones you buy at the store.  I bought 3 little baskets worth and we are already into the last basket the next day!  I will be going back next week for sure!





Jenn's Baby!
Cortney and I went to Idaho to visit with baby Aniston!  This is Cort's first cousin so it was pretty exciting!  I also took newborn pictures which turned out great!

Aniston has the chubbiest little baby checks ever!  She also eats just like Cortney used to.  Cortney had a lot of fun looking at and helping with the baby.  She has this obsession with baby hands, and loved to look at them:  Here are a couple pictures of them together.   PS - Aniston has Jaundice - she is doing better now but I'm afraid in these pictures she is a little orange - just wanted to make sure you knew why she was that color.

It was a fun trip!  And exciting that Cortney finally has a cousin to share at least one of her grandparents with!  Still the only grandchild on the Nield side.  We will being seeing them again at the begining of september for Anistons baby blessing in Utah!