SFHS Dance Comp. 2010

Beautiful dance gals...Syd, Bailey & McKell

Had to include these "SFHS rock" photos. Mainly because this is totally Kel...she's a funny kid and also to show all the SFHS alumni they are still painting that rock in front of your school...the tradition has continued :)

Each time I watch my girls do something - especially dance - I am just amazed they are my kid! :) I just was not a dancer in HS, I loved it and I loved my dance class, but I was just one to have fun and be with my friends. This year Kel danced, Aspen took a break. I really missed watching Aspen dance because I think she's just an amazing little dancer. We got to watch our Kel dance and she's just so cute & loves, loves, loves dancing. She had a lot of fun this year - it was tough at times, but she made it! Each day she showed us a new dance move, or another part of her dance she was working on, or her creepy Michael Jackson moves :) she's just a girl who dances everywhere and we love it! She performed a bunch this year and each time we are so proud of her and love to watch how great of a dancer she has become.

topaz mountain

Melissa & Jessie

Clint was so great to show us what to do & brought
a big bucket of hammers and picks and stuff so we could find the topaz.

Bri & Kel

What posers!!

Another fun day, during spring break, was our trek to Topaz Mountain. Our dear friends & neighbors invited us to go to this place I had heard of, but never had been. So we packed our lunches and drove West. There are some lonely areas in Utah and this was for sure one of them! Once we got there I was surprised there were actually other people there too! Our friends said they were surprised too because last time they went there was nobody. So we shared this little mountain with several other families and began looking for Topaz. I had no idea what we were to do, but we quickly caught on. Basically you wack at the mountain with picks, or hammers or whatever until this rock gives way and then you look at the rock for these little crystals or what they call topaz. They are a little more tricky to find than I realized, but our kids & dads had a lot of fun! We felt like the dwarfs in Snow White :) So we wacked at the mountain, laughed, climbed around and of course ate. It was fun and fun to try something new and see a new little place in Utah we've never been to before. We did find Topaz & we brought our treasures home with us - the girls have loved showing off their tiny treasure.

church museum

Jess & I checking out the Angel Moroni statue.

This is what it would be like to speak at the pulpit in the conference center.

The girls loved the "family" part where they played with these dolls that looks so real! Syd was a proud mom of a sheep :)

Our sweet neighbors & friends & Grandma Anita.

One day of our spring break - I know I am slow at getting this stuff on my blog - we went to the Church History Museum. We were able to meet up with the Jensen family & we just had fun wandering around & looking at stuff. I was shocked we spent over 3 hours there, mostly because we have been there several times before, but it was fun to just wander around & spend time together. Brian was a great sport and hung out with a herd of women ...9 to be exact :) He had fun & loved watching his girls play in the museum. It was a really fun afternoon & a great memory!