Elisabeth performed in the Sandy Music Festival and got third place in her division and was awarded $30. I like competitions because they force you to really work hard on a piece, polishing it, memorizing it, and the money was a bonus for Elisabeth.
Elisabeth with her piano teacher of the past three years, Bridget. Bridget is amazing and brilliant and we have so appreciated our time with her! Come the New Year, Elisabeth will be moving to the same piano teacher as Annabelle and Jane...Elisabeth has gotten really busy with AP classes and dance team and tumbling and so she's trying simplify and cut things back. We didn't want her to discontinue piano completely, she has a gift, but for now, she'd like to scale back and be with a teacher who does shorter lessons and expects a little less when it comes to practice time. And this new piano teacher only lives a few minutes away which will be a big change from the 25 minutes we were driving each way for her lesson with Bridget.
I often find many, many selfies on my phone. I don't mind that much :).
Elisabeth had her Young Women in Excellence night in November. They asked me to come and talk for 5 minutes, sharing a few thoughts on Personal Progress since I recently completed mine (I know, 35 is a bit old, but better late than never! And I loved working on it with Elisabeth...she's almost done!)
We went on a double date with my roommate from BYU April, and her husband Elliot. We had dinner at a Thai food restaurant in Midvale called Chabaar. It was delicious!
This vitamix went on sale in November so I picked one up. I'd been wanting to try one out for awhile...especially since my replacement Blendtec is a bit loud, and the warranty has expired. I am loving the vitamix so far.
Elisabeth with her 9th grader friends...fuzzy socks and slides is the cool thing.
Charles got this major bruise while he was biking with his scout troop. yikes! It's looking much better now.
At the 4D movie (3D plus air and water that sprays at you)
We lost Charles near the end of our Aquarium trip, we were separated for about 10 or 15 minutes before I decided to enlist the help of the staff (mostly because we needed to get home for someone's dance lesson). They asked me to describe what he was wearing...I couldn't remember exactly but I thought a bright blue short sleeved shirt. As you can tell from the pictures, that wasn't exactly correct. I did remember his hair was dark brown and that he was just a little shorter than me, so that's good! Luckily, after a couple of minutes of their team searching, I remembered I had taken some pictures so I showed them to a couple of staff and they sent a walkie talkie message to their coworkers that was a lot more specific (ace bandage on right hand/wrist, long sleeved, dark blue shirt with white football on front etc). After about five minutes, one of their volunteers radioed in on the walkie talkie saying "I found Nemo". I thought it was pretty clever and hilarious; and we were of course grateful for their help. In Charles' defense, he had stayed in the area where we had last been together, but after me and the girls looped around that area twice and couldn't find him (there were a lot of people there as it was a deeply discounted day), we thought to wait in the lobby area.
Scott's work recently took photos of their employees. I like the way it turned out. He's one handsome man!
