Christmas in March Dance Recital and Primary Talent Show!

Due to illness, hospitalizations, and surgeries, Megan's Dancers were unable to perform at Christmas 2011, SO the celebrated "Christmas in March"!  Once again, Megan has prepared these girls so well!  I am amazed at their ability!

Their ballet was to "Where Are You Christmas?"

Erica has such grace and beauty!  She wants to begin learning point!  

I wish I had put Natty in gymnastics!  She has a lot of spunk and energy and shows fantastic talent for tumbling!

Miss Natty performed a SOLO!  She did such an amazing job!  She is planning on competing this spring!

Megan's mom, Terry, had all of the younger children come up on stage to sing "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" during one of the costume changes.  Lydia and Jason got up on stage, but didn't sing...Lydia was TICKED that she didn't get to do a solo... 

I never gave Erica permission to grow up!  Just look at her!!!

The day before the dance recital, our Primary children put on a talent show. 

Natty performed with some girls from her Activity Days group.  Megan taught them the dance just about a week and a half before...

Jason played the drums.

 Kinsey sang the flower song from "Tangled" and her "Puppy Song" that she made up.  I could not believe she got up to do it!!!

I'm Jammin'

Peach jam, is there anything sweeter?  

Probably not since it took SIX cups of sugar and only FOUR cup of fruit to make this delicious fruit spread.

And homemade jam goes along perfectly with homemade bread.

And homemade bread and jam does a body good when we get the first cold spell of the season!

I'm "Livin' my Dream!!!

Canning!

There is just a satisfying feeling of a job well-done, and my first attempt at canning on my own was just that...sastisfying and a job well-done!  I was more than a little intimidated, but just a bit of organization, and the busywork of peeling the peaches, when I heard the 'pop' of the lids sealing, I was smiling ear to ear!!!  Thanks, Mom, for walking me through the process! 

Now on to jam!

Spring/Summer 2011

I haven't been to consistent with blogging...Here's some of what we've been up to.

 Here is the first egg we got from our chickens.


Swimming/fishing at Deer Creek Reservoir

 Fishing at Utah Lake

Pizza baked in the mud oven Daniel and Andres made in the backyard.

Erica went to an Owl City concert

Jason found a penguin driftwood at Jordanelle Reservoir

 Kinsey found a treasure, too.

We've been eating from our garden...

Here are the chickens.(Penny's the black one, Sariah's the barred rock, Kessie is the red hen)

Andres caught a bunch of bass this year.

Sariah

Some of my garden

We've had storms

We have ducks too (Talo and Malon)

Girls performed beautifully in their spring recital.

 Sydney

 Megan

Spring Dance Recital 2010

My beautiful girls participated in another wonderful dance recital in May.  They have the opportunity to perform at the awesome Covey Center for the Arts.  Their super cute teacher, Megan, dances with Confidance club and the instructor allows Megan to bring her dancers and perform!  They were in four dances: a ballet, two jazz, and a hip-hop.  They just love to dance, and are constantly dancing around the house. 

Here are a couple photos of their hair.  I had to have proof that I can actually do something with hair!!

It turned out gorgeous!(even if I do say so myself)

They first performed their ballet number to "A Dream is a Wish".  This was such a terrific number, not only because my girls were in it, but they had learned the dance just one week prior to this performance!

Natty is on the far left in this photo

Erica is on the left.  I tried to catch her in mid-air, but, instead caught her friend, Chanel.

This was one of their jazz numbers choreographed to one of the songs from the Disney movie "Hercules"

I caught Natty at the end of her round-off during the hip-hop number.  They danced to the song "Witch Doctor" sung by the Chipmunks(Alvin and the Chipmunks-the Squeakual)

Their last jazz number with the song, "Something About the Sunshine"

Here are the girls with their WONDERFUL teacher, Megan.  Not only did Megan choreograph and dance in all four numbers, but she also danced with her Teen Group and performed five solos!

Erica and Natty absolutely love dance!  They performed beautifully!