What We've Been Up To: 2014-06-22

Friday, June 27, 2014

Buddies

Because we do a lot of traveling, we were gone the day that they took "buddy pictures" at school. So our little princess did not get her picture in the yearbook with one of her little girlfriends. So instead, her friend's mom took a picture of them on their recent playdate and now they have the picture to frame in their rooms. Aren't they adorable?

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Pointers from a Pro

My husband's dear cousin got married right after we got back from Hawaii and my daughter was her flower girl. Since the bride was very active in ballet growing up and throughout college, she asked my little ballerina to perform some dance moves down the aisle. Of course, my princess was thrilled to get to perform and especially to get some pointers from the beautiful bride.

Monday, June 23, 2014

Pictures from Our Hawaii Trip

There's just too much to tell in a blog. Next time you are at my house then ask to see the scrapbook I made of the trip. It was AWESOME!

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
-Theodore Roosevelt