Parent Day

Every year the girls' dance classes have a parent day where we get to go watch them and see what they have learned. It's always fun to watch the girls dance and show off! Bree and Keighlee had back to back parent days a few weeks ago. Keighlee hasn't had hers yet, but I'll post pics of her cuteness when she does! Here are my beautiful dancers:

Bree and her teacher Jenn

Cute curtsey

Tiaree and Jenn

Beautiful girl

The last post for the day is about Tiaree's science fair project! I'm pretty proud of her!

Tiaree's Science Fair

So this year Tiaree had to do a science fair project. She decided what she wanted to do and it sounded really interesting. We were going to try to make sedimentary rock. We took different samples of dirt/sand/rocks from the yard and mixed them together. Then we put the mixture into 3 different bottles and added water. We shook the bottles and mixed everything up and then left them alone for the dirt to settle and the water to evaporate. We were supposed to be able to see layers when we cut the bottles in half, but all that happened with her is they crumbled. I thought, that's ok, we tried and it didn't work. So she took all her stuff to school and her teacher judged them. Her teacher chose 5 kids from her class to compete with the whole 4th grade and Tiaree was chosen. At that point I thought, ok, her teacher must really like her! :D So the day of the whole 4th grade fair I went up and saw her finished project and looked at all the others. I realized then that hers was good. Even though it didn't "work" like we wanted it to, she still did the experiment. She knew what she was talking about and how she could have made it better and I think that really helped. She was able to show her knowledge of her project when asked direct questions about how and why she did it! I was so proud of her, but I still thought that would be the end! She came home from school with a 1st place ribbon and the news that she'd been chosen to move onto district! The district fair is on the 16th of April. All she can take is her tri-fold and her science fair journal. Tracy and I get to go with her but we can't be with her when they interview her. I'm so excited for her and also a little nervous :D Here are some pics of her and her project!In front of her tri-fold
Her samples and the one bottle that you could sort of see a layer in
Her participation ribbon for winning from her class

Beautiful Day

I just have to say what a beautiful Sunday it is! The sun is out, the sky is blue, it's not too cold and I'm listening to The Mormon Tabernacle Choir. What a way to bring the spirit into our house! All of these things are making me very happy today! I've been feeling really tired and blah and a little sick for a while and today things are feeling better! I'm still a little tired this morning, but I don't feel yucky so Yay!! Anyway, have a wonderful Sunday!! Here is a picture of the mountains out my front window. Isn't it just so beautiful!

Great Month

So this month has been a lot of fun! We had a great trip to St. George and then we've just been living life! After St. George, I got to go to see Swan Lake with my Mom, Caitlin, Emily and Ali. It was so much fun! The dancing was so amazing! After we saw the ballet we went to Olive Garden for dinner. Yummy, yummy Olive Garden :) It was fun to hang out with the girls!! Me, Mom, Emily, Caitlin and Ali at Olive Garden

The weekend after that, I got to go have a sleepover with all my Twisters!! (Twilight Sisters) I have the best, best friends ever! We got to go to Midway and stay in this awesome cabin/condo. We stayed up until 4 and played games and did nails and watched movies and talked and talked. It was such a blast! I love being able to get away for a while and just be me, aside from being Mommy and wife. Not that I don't like being mommy and wife, but dang it's nice to get away sometimes! It's the whole "a happy wife, a happy life" concept :D I feel like I love them more and can be a better mom when I have some time off! I forgot to take any pictures, but I have a bunch of me tagged on facebook!

The night after I got back from my sleepover, I got to go with Tracy to an awards dinner for scouting. He earned the District Award of Merit. It was a really nice night and I was so proud of him. He kept saying other people deserved it more than him, but they chose him and he did deserve it! All the award winners
Keighlee was sad that she couldn't go up with us, so she ran up as soon as she could.
Getting his award

On Saturday the 6th of March, Tracy's brother got married. It was a nice day and everyone was so happy! He gets two new kids along with his new wife! They are a cute family! I don't have any pictures on my camera, but Tracy took all their pictures for them so I'm sure I'll get some on here soon!

Last weekend I went to a midnight showing of the movie Remember Me, again with my Twisters. We went mostly for the Eclipse trailer at the beginning :D It was a good movie until the very end. I hated the ending! It was bad. Robert Patterson did a good job though. The ending was so bad that it ruined the whole thing for me! Twisters in the theater! The funnest part of the whole night was the party in the theater for the hour or so before the movie started!

I also got to have a date night with my hubby and some awesome friends, the Gowans'. We went to dinner at Training Table (so love the cheese fries) and then we got to go see Brian Regan. That man is awesome. I was laughing so hard my cheeks hurt the next morning when I was singing in church! He is a clean, funny comedian! It was so much fun to get out with Tracy. We need to have more dates! Such a goof!
Self portrait. Notice the couple posing behind us :)
Tracy, Me, Camilla and Sam

It's really been a fun month! We have a busy month coming up too. Jarik turns 8 on the 27th and will be baptised on the 10th of April. Tiaree turns 10 on the 18th of April too. It's just crazy how time flies!!

St. George

Well we are here in St. George for the long weekend. It's a much needed vacation and so far it's been a lot of fun! We went around town today to look at a bunch of places and take pictures for a county report Tairee has to do for school. It was fun to visit Jacob Hamblin's home, and take pictures of Tuacan, the Temple, the Tabernacle, Brigham Youngs home, and Dixie rock. I got some fun pictures of the little girls while Tracy took Jarik and Tiaree up on top. Here they are, sorry they are from my phone, so they aren't the best!

Grandmas, Bree's, KK's and my shadows

Bree and Keighlee in their special hole

Cute girls

After the big kids got down we took some more pictures. We found a hole big enough for all of them!



After we got back from our "tour" we decided to walk to some geocaches that were close. There was one we thought was really close ended up being up the side of a mountain!!!

See the rock clear up almost to the top,where the arrow is? Probably not, but that's where the cache was and we all climbed up there, including Keighlee. Yeah, that was fun! NOT!! Looking back now, it was, but while we were up there it was a little scary!

Anyway, it's been a nice day so far, and maybe later I'll catch y'all up with what we've done during the last month or so!

Wow!

Wow, wow, wow! What a slacker I've been! November and December were such whirlwind months that I feel like I didn't have time to even breathe. I feel like I lost track of friends and what they were doing and going through. I didn't have time to spend with my kids like I wanted. I hope next Holiday season, I can relax and enjoy family and friends a little more! Well I'm going to catch up on everything that's happened in our family in the past few months with a few highlights!! Keep reading :D

December

December is always such a fun month filled with Christmas traditions. We spend a lot of time with family and friends enjoying eachother and remembering the reason for Christmas. The month started out with the Tabernacle Choir concert on Thursday the 10th. This year we got to take Jarik and Tairee with us. They loved it! It is always fun for the kids to see their Grammy and Papa singing. This was my dad's last Christmas concert. He has to retire in April, he's too old now ;) He is sad and we are sad and so we took Jarik so that he'd be able to see his Papa sing live. It was a great concert with Natalie Cole as a guest. She sangs some fun songs and we really felt the spirit. Sam and Camilla Gowans were able to come with us too.

The next week on Wednesday the 16th, we got to go see Voice Male with my brother and sister and their spouses. This is always such a fun concert! We are going to make sure and save enough money to take all the kids with us next year. They are such great entertainers and they can have fun but also sing beautiful, sacred songs with such great feeling. Voice Male is such a great acapella group! It was fun to spend time with my hubby and have a date night too!

The next night, the 17th, was the school choir's Christmas program. They sang for the school during the day and for parents at night. Jarik and Bree were in the choir and Tiaree had a speaking part. Aunt Emily made the best nightgown ever for her in less than 2 hours! Thanks again Ems! I help direct the choir and I got to be the rag doll to help the Kindergarteners and 1st graders on their song/dance. Ems let me borrow her awesome nightgown and Tracy made me a red yarn wig. It was fun!!

On the 19th we had a progressive dinner with my family. So much fun!! I think it will be a new tradition. We got to see everyone's houses all decorated and we had a little something to eat at each place, ending with dinner at our house. The only house we didn't see was Jared and Em's because they had awful downstairs neighbors who smoked all the time and their apartment was filled with 2nd hand smoke. They were getting ready to move the day we had our dinner, so that was a bummer.

I got to help in Jarik's class for their Christmas party on the 23rd. It was a lot of fun! 2nd graders are all crazy!! LOL!! I'm so glad I get to stay home so I can help with parties and choirs and all that fun stuff. I'm so very lucky! Here's a slide show of December.