Our family!

Our family!

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas Day


Aubrey opening her dance gear

Megan got an ipod

Jungle Fury Mission Helmet

Zac our Eagles fan

We had a great Christmas Day. Slept in until 8:30am and then got to open presents with the kids. Alan gave me a great gift, all of the movies and books for Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Anne of Green Gables (the who series). I loved it!!!! We then had all of the family from both sides over for dinner. What a great holiday!

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve

Alan's nephew Michael

Meg

Garrett

Zac

Aubrey
We spent Christmas Eve with Alan's sister Marlene and her family. They have dinner, perform a talent show (piano numbers from the girls) and then Santa visits, This was great since I had neglected to get the kids picture done with Santa this year. Thanks for the lifesaver Mar!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Childhood friends


I have a friend named Jen who who I lived by when I was three years old in California. My family moved to Utah right before Kindergarten. Our parents have stayed friends all these years. Jen's family eventually moved to Utah so we were close again. Since getting married she moved back to Cali and comes to visit all the time. Our sisters are also close. The dads, and all four girls went out to Cheesecake Factory for a night out tonight. It was great catching up. The lighting in the restuarant is awful. You can kind of see Jen and Kristin (or as we call Kay since we both have the same name).

Friday, December 19, 2008

Activity Days



This turned out to be my last Activity Day activity with my girls I have since been released. I now get to teach teenagers in Sunday School. Scarey I know! We had a Christmas treat taste test and had a great time. The girls then got themselves tangled up. I will miss that calling!

Monday, December 15, 2008

Recital Recording

Piano Recital


Christmas Piano Recital
The girls played Christmas songs in a group and as a single at their recital.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Dance Recital






Meg and Aubrey had a dance recital. They did a great job. I did have to however complain about the people leaving constantly during the performance. A big pet peeve of mine, story for another time.
Way to go Megan and Aubrey and the Production class!!!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

My Soapbox Moment

I apologize if I offend anyone with my opinion here, but stuff at our elementary school has gotten out of hand and I am frustrated. My blog is mine so I can vent right? I don't know who heard about this but our school did a Christmas musical called "Santa Goes Green". What do you think this would be about? The name says it all and my kids had been singing their class songs so I could tell it was about recycling. It was made to be humorous and funny. When the time came so many people showed up that it was a fire hazard since so many people were standing in the aisles and hallways. The principal did something that I thought was the only fair thing to do. She had to ask the people standing to leave the room (it is law) and she held another showing right after the first one just for them. It was inconvenient for all families since those who saw the first one waited after for their kids to perform the second show. I personally didn't see another way out of the situation and applaud Ms. Strauss for doing what she could. That was the first hurdle. Apparently some people had expected the program to be only traditional Christmas music and were furious that it was not, some had referred to it as a Pageant which it was never to be. It went to furious parents calling the school and one even took it to family value talk radio who then called our teachers and staff and community a godless community. Now to my opinion-I am sorry but if you were paying attention you should have known what the play was about, I was. Also, the kids were so excited and had a lot of fun. Shouldn't it be about them? The play was based around the curriculum so it fit for the year. Those out there believed the school was trying to push a political agenda. I am so sad that it was taken this far. Now the school is talking about pulling several programs like our Shakespearean Festival due to a few parents voicing their nasty opinion. I am really frustrated because my daughter was one of those to be involved in the Shakespearean Festival this year. I am sorry but how should all this get taken away because someone decided they didn't like a musical? Sorry, thank you for letting me vent. It helped get it out of my system.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Santa Goes Green Pics

Aubrey

Megan

For those who know Garrett he does not perform, he refuses. He sang out loud and did all the actions for this performance, I was thrilled!!!!


Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Proud our my Star Student

Aubrey and Aubree R. who got the award for Nov.
Today was the monthly Star Student assembly for the school. Aubrey was nominated by her teacherfor December as most generous. Good job Aubrey!