Ella's Ballet Recital

Ella did a wonderful job at her ballet recital. She did two separate dances, one was ballet and the other was tap. Alot of girls from her preschool class are in dance with her. Their preschool teachers came to watch the recital and brought each of them a rose....they're so sweet!! Stevie, one of the boys from her class, whose dad is also in the band, brought Ella 6 roses and Tim and I gave her mini roses. Needless to say she had ALOT of flowers to bring home:-) All of the dancers received a certificate at the end of the performance. They all did a great job!!

The Army Field Band

On April 2nd Tim had the honor of being a guest conductor for the United States Army Field Band. They are based out of the Washington DC area, but were on tour in our area. I managed to get a nice picture of Tim in his dress blues with Connor and Ella. Laney isn't in the picture because she just finished having dinner....can you imagine him conducting in that nice uniform with spit up down the front:-)

As quoted from their website, The United States Army Field Band is considered by music critics to be one of the most versatile and inspiring musical organizations in the world. Its members, selected by highly-competitive audition, represents some of the finest musical talent in America. More than six decades as the military's most traveled musicians have earned them the title, "The Musical Ambassadors of the Army".

The Wallace Children

Connor ~ AKA Con Man

We just celebrated Connor's 7th birthday last month. We took him and a couple of friends out to CiCi's Pizza and Swader's. Swader's has miniature golf, batting cages, and best of all, go-carts. We ALL had a blast!!! Do you think Mom and Dad remembered the camera? Unfortunately not!! Ella and I made cupcakes for his actual birthday....we did manage to get a picture of him blowing out the candles:-)

Connor is doing very well in the 1st grade. He has adjusted well to the new area and has made alot of new friends. His favorite past times are riding his bike, going to the park, and playing his Nintendo DS or Wii:-)




Ella ~ AKA The Ninia

Ella, 4 1/2, is currently going to preschool three days a week from 9:00 - 2:00. Unlike her brother, she LOVES school!! April is "Month of the Military Child". They had Ethnic Day last week and had to dress like a certain culture. Since we didn't have an offical Wallace Clan outfit...we made do:-) She also has ballet and tap every Friday. Her dance recital is April 18th...hopefully she won't do as much free style as she did last year:-)

Ella has adjusted well to the area, but unfortunately there are no girls in our neighborhood. She has a little girl in her preschool class named Katie that we do play dates with. Ella's favorite past times include coloring, riding her bike, playing dress up, and painting her nails:-)





Laney ~ AKA Bubba

Little Laney, 9 months, has decided to learn everything over the past month. She went from the G.I. Joe crawl to the full hands and knees crawl. Then she added sitting up and pulling up to her knees, all within one week. Not too long after we started giving her finger foods which she LOVES, but as you can see, it's hard work! Now, her most recent accomplishment is standing against things...she has even let go and stood by herself a couple of times!! Her vocabulary includes Da Da, Ma Ma, Ba Ba, and Nigh Nigh. Her favorite past times include crawling where she shouldn't, growling, clicking her tongue, and sucking her thumb. Overall she is a VERY happy baby!!!!

Change of Command

Tim officially became the Commander of 392nd Army Band on January 25th. So far so good:-) Hopefully I'll be posting some pictures soon!!

Fort Lee, Virginia

We arrived at Fort Lee, Virginia, (2 hours north of Virginia Beach) on December 19, and spent the first couple of days in a hotel. Friday, December 21st we signed for housing at 9:00 am and our household goods were delivered at 9:30....talk about cutting it close:-) We unpacked as much as we could over the weekend so we could have somewhat of a normal Christmas. The kids and I put up the Christmas tree and some decorations on Christmas Eve. Tim went out Christmas Eve night to supposedly find an open grocery store to get a couple things....he came back with my parents:-) They flew in to surprise us. I wish you could have saw the look on the kids faces when they came walking into the livingroom Christmas morning!! My mom told them "Grandpa and Grandma hitched a ride with Santa Claus":-) They were a HUGE help getting our house fairly straight. As always, we hated to see them go.