Wasatch Talent Show

This morning Dan and I headed to Wasatch to watch the annual Talent Show.

Julia and Maude determined several weeks ago that they were going to try out for it.

Thanks to Maude's extremely creative mom, they had a dance choreographed and matching shirts and headphones for the performance. (I love the knitted headphone covers!)

 The back of their shirts displayed the name of the song they danced to,

Girl Put Your Record On.

You wouldn't know it from looking at these two, but they are even related
...thanks to Anson Call.

Pocahontas

The last few weeks Julia has been preparing for the 5th Grade "Wax Museum" at school. Each fifth grader chooses an American to learn about. Their learning culminates in a day and an evening of the kids dressing up like their selected American and talking in the first person about them. After much deliberation, Julia decided on the famous Native American, Pocahontas.

 Her designated area of the classroom looked like this...

I loved watching Julia interact with those who came by her to listen to her talk.

It was pretty tiring speaking for sooooo long!

It was very impressive seeing all the costumes and displays.  I could have spent hours at the school visiting each fifth grader's display and listening to their presentations.

I have to say, my girl makes one very pretty Pocahontas!

June 11...It's Official

Dan and I are registered to run the half-marathon.

This will be my first and I hope I'm ready in time...yikes!

Bieber Fever

The temperature has gone up in our house...

thanks to Justin Bieber.

 I'm still trying to understand it

and maybe I never will.

I tell Hilary that I think she really discovered him way before people had ever heard of him, when you could download his music on i-tunes for free.

These girls loved the movie and now I think the youngest female in the house wants in on the action too.

Who knows, maybe seeing the movie will enlighten me!

Love this Dog

Lately, I think our family has taken advantage of the fact that 

we have an awesome dog.

From the day we got her, she has been sooooo good, easy to train, and incredibly loyal.

This is the face that we see when she is ready to play, go on a walk, or go on a ride in the car.

No one is more excited to see you walk through the door and no one whines more when they see you walk out the front door without them.

This is the face I see when I pull out of the garage and her face is looking out the window by our front door. And it's true what they say about dogs, they sense when someone is upset or sad. If there's a sad countenance in our house, Scout runs to the person and immediately sets out to make them feel better.

While I never in a million years thought I would ever have a dog, let alone allow it in the house...
I have to say that life is so much better with her. So thank you kids for being persuasive and talking this stubborn, reluctant mom in to getting a dog!

High School History

Yesterday Hilary and Hannah's American history teacher gave them an unusual assignment.

I had nothing to do with this because I was at my Stats class.

So, if my neighbors are wondering what in the world these two were up to while I was gone,

 here is the explanation.

If I understood the assignment correctly, they were to dress up like people from the Great Depression and then photograph themselves in black and white. Hannah wore a pioneer skirt and bonnet and sat in the middle of our cul de sac for some of her pictures.

Hilary's interpretation of Great Depression attire led her to my closet for a plaid shirt and a signed Utah Jazz baseball cap. Perhaps I should get rid of that shirt?!

 These last two pictures are my favorite...Hannah, with a large trash bag full of aluminum cans that needs to be recycled, standing in her bare feet in the COLD!

And Hilary, who told me our messy garage was the perfect backdrop for photos.

These two crack me up every single day!

Mr. Incredible

No, I'm not talking about the guy above... rather my main man...Dan.

This is a shout out to him for all he does for me and our family.

We had tickets Saturday night to the Jazz game. I love going to Jazz games and I love being together as a family even more. However, I have a few research papers looming and a deadline.

Couple this with a brain block and I knew I needed a long stretch of uninterrupted alone time.

One hour at the public library earlier in the day was one creepy encounter after another.

So, I opted out of the game. The twins invited a family friend and I spent over five hours mulling over and pinpointing my research thesis for paper number one. I'm excited and enthusiastic about my topic (sounds strange, I know).

 My desk is piled high with books and papers, my family listens around the clock to my ideas, research, and concerns. Especially, Mr. Incredible... he travels a lot but he is a phone call away.always.

 It feels so good to be so close to putting a period at the end of my formal academic studies...and I know I couldn't be doing it without him.