Christianna's Americanna Recital

What a fun evening! We all attended Christianna's Ballet Recital this evening. My Dad was even able to come up to see it. (We will excuse Mom, she was in NY enjoying a sister's weekend and celebrating Grandma's 80th birthday.)

Christianna was a horseshoe. She is the one on the far left side. Boy was she excited to get her costume! Shiny gold with black - totally awesome! (Even though it was a bit itchy for her.)

She did such a great job and didn't have to look to the sides too often to watch her teachers. She was so nervous that she would forget everything but she was wonderful!

Chris and I got her a lovely bouquet of flowers. Turns out I was on the wrong side of them to get a good picture...but her face says it all!

The family all together.

Aunt Holly was also able to join us.

Christianna with Grandpa.

Uncle David and Heather also came.

It meant so much to me to have everyone come and support her tonight.

After pictures, I went with Christianna to collect her things only to find that she was missing a shoe! Seriously? What the heck? We did find a random brown shoe that wasn't a match - so we figure that someone just threw on 2 shoes not knowing they didn't match and then left! CRAZY!! I am so hoping there is a lost and found when summer classes begin - they were a stinking cute pair of brown shoes.

(I will be adding a video of her performance once I can figure out how to edit it to only her dance.)

What a fun day! I was able to go along with Christianna's 1st Grade class on their field trip to Red Butte Gardens. The class was split into 2 groups, so I spent the morning with half of them. It was really nice having a guide too. She taught the kids all about plants and their parts. It was funny all the things I had forgotten!

They each got little magnifying glasses so they could really check out the different plant parts.

I love going to the gardens. It was nice to spend some time with Christianna too. Not sure how many more field trips I will be able to go on after the baby comes - so I was grateful for the opportunity.

Christianna's Photos

The day Chris & I returned from Vegas, Christianna had my camera and went about my parents home taking tons of pictures. (Sorry, not extreme close-ups of runny dog noses this time.) I am sharing some of my favorites. I think we have a little photographer in the making here!

This is a dormant wasps nest in a barrel.

A dead bug????

The back window of the van with the team number for the Baker to Vegas Relay Run. (The reason we were in Vegas.)


Cambria - tech. my brother's dog...but he left him here with my parents when he moved out.

That would be the mama.

Their other dog - the jealous one...Sadie.

The following were obviously not taken by Christianna...but I thought I would share a little glimpse into the personality of the photographer so I included them!

Fashionista Christianna

Seriously, this kid cracks me up!

We were getting ready to head to Cedar City and the girls got all ready for bed since we would be arriving a little late. I had just bought these rain boots for her to wear since it was really muddy at my parents house. I about fell over laughing when I saw this outfit.

Hair tied back nicely and the stray bangs back with a sparkly blue headband.

Pajama dress.

High knee socks with fashionable skulls & crossbones on them.

The finishing touch - cow rain boots.

Can someone pass the....mud?

I got a call from the school today. It was Christianna. She asked if I could bring her some clothes...a clean shirt, pants and shoes. She told me she fell in mud but I figured, how bad can it be? So I gathered the necessary things and headed over. When I walked into the office, I so wanted to turn around, go back to the house and grab my camera! But I resisted that urge and we headed to the bathroom. Man, when she took off her shirt, her belly was coated in mud too!

I tried my best to wash it off with wet paper towels and we got her all changed and presentable. I was glad that she didn't have her jacket on correctly or I would have been washing that too.

For my lack of camera and a brain, I saved her clothes in a little pile for after school and made her put them on for a picture. I just couldn't miss out on this one!

By the way, the mud never came out of her white shirt entirely. We'll count that as a loss. But, I don't know...I think it was worth it!!

Mutual Ice Skating

Tonight we spent my birthday having a blast ice skating with the young men and women. We took everyone up to the University of Utah rink. Some may think I was a little crazy for skating while pregnant - but I love to skate and didn't want to sit this fun activity out! That is one thing about me - just hate to be left out. (Just ask Chris, he'll tell you!)

This here is a picture of some of the leaders.

This is our awesome Bishop! (He didn't skate though...party pooper!)

(Don't let this picture fool you - Liz had a good time and wasn't on her phone all night.)

My girls just LOVE to skate! They were so excited to be able to come with us on this activity. They both have only skated a few times in their lives, but they picked it up so fast.

Once Christianna and I took a couple trips around together, she had enough confidence to just go at it alone!

I think this was taken right after I had fallen on mybackside.

It wasn't my fault - entirely! I was skating in the direction we were supposed to be going and I had my camera out taking some pictures of the youth. Well, these 3 younger kids came from the wrong direction and totally cut me off! I tried to stop, but instead fell. Hey - it was the first and ONLY time I fell too. My little camera totally broke. As I was looking at it, a couple YW came up and told me that that little group of kids went off the ice chatting with themselves and said "You totally made that old lady fall!"

NICE!!! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! Do you think 32 is "old?"

Anyway - they came up and apologized to me later on about the old lady comment. I am still bugged that my camera broke.

Here I am with Liz and Jessica - the most wonderful counselor EVER!!!

I may be explaing to Jazzen that his head gear isn't appropriate and that he should put it back on the ice....

....what do you think?

Looking at these pictures totally made me cackle - LOUDLY.

Chris getting ready for his big move...

...ooops!!!!!

Isn't it great that he can laugh at himself??? (That's why I didn't feel too bad laughing too.)

I just had to include this picture of Christianna's backside. In learning to skate without me, she fell a few times. She just got a little wet :-)

Here are a few of our fearless leaders. Peter, Sylvia and Nelson.

Not sure what really happened here - when I went to investigate, the story sounded a little fishy.

And thus ends another fantastic activity with our youth!