Willy Wonka

Each year at Avery's elementary school they have auditions for the school play for the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. Avery was so excited to try out. I was a little nervous because over 100 children try out for the play and they only keep 25-30 kids. We worked really hard on her audition song and I knew she would do her best, but would her best be good enough? They don't keep many 3rd graders so I wasn't sure how it would go. Luckily, she made it! She was in the chorus and we were ecstatic! I had so much fun helping with the play and loved that she could be apart of it. The kids were amazing and Ms Jacobacci was a fabulous director. I was amazed at what a talented bunch of kids there were. They blew me away! Way to go Avery! You were awesome!

Eac

Utah and Vegas

This year I flew in to Utah to see my sister Jen star in "Romeo and Juliet" as no other than "Juliet". For those of you who have seen Jen dance know what a treat it is to watch her dance. She has always amazed me as a performer and I loved watching her on stage. Jen is just one of those dancers that catches your eye. There's just something about her. She's got the "it" factor. The night after her performance we stayed up in SLC and I think I kept her up a little too long but it was so much fun to just laugh and chat into the wee hour of the night. We don't get very many of those these days so it was fun to be able to do it again. I love you Jenny Boo!

I also had the opportunity to go skiing with Kevin's brother, Shane and my nephew Josh. We had a great time. We almost got to ski free. You see, I went to the gas station to buy discount passes and they handed me these passes that go around your neck. I was a little confused and asked the gas station workers how I was supposed to use them. They told me to just take them to the resort. When we got there the owner of the gas station had called the resort upset and said that one of his workers had given me the wrong passes. I was actually given some kind of business season pass. Technically we could have skied free because the passes were fully transferable and they were GIVEN to me, I didn't steal them. If I were mean, I probably could have kept them and there would be nothing they could do about it, but I thought I would stay nice and honest :) I was just happy to be skiing at Sundance and to get a discount was an added bonus. They charged us $20 instead of $40. We had a blast. I love skiing and it was so fun to watch Joshy ski. He's grown up so much and because we aren't in Utah very much it was fun to spend a day with him and Shane.

After Utah I flew to Vegas to meet Kevin. Thanks to Shane, we went to watch BYU in the tournament they were playing in and saw one of the greatest games ever. It was amazing to watch Jimmer exploded for a career-high 52 points — shattering the career school scoring record (surpassing legend Danny Ainge ), and the school single-game scoring record in the same game — to lead the No. 8 Cougars to an emotional 87-76 triumph over their nemesis, New Mexico, in the semifinals of the Mountain West Conference Tournament. To see it happen live was unbelievable!
We lived it up in Vegas thanks to Shane. I saw a side of Vegas I have never seen before, but that's a whole other post :)
We were also able to go to lunch with some of our best friends who live in Vegas- Tyler and Kacee Allred.

Co-op at Celebration Presbyterian Church

Van has such a great time at his preschool in Celebration. His friends are absolutely adorable.

Van and Ethan

Van and Molly

Van and Ryn

Van and his one and only Morgan. We hear about Morgan everyday. Van absolutely adores Morgan. it's so cute to hear him talk about her, his girlfriend. He is smitten.